skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My daughter is an only child but has eight cousins (that I know of, most are in her age range) but barely spends time with them. She's not missing out on anything because she has a large circle of friends her age, be it from the public playground when they only started walking, kindergarden or now the first three years in school. It takes some effort as a parent and tbh dumping-the-child-at-her-friends-and-vice-versa but she's got a much better social life than I had at her age and she'll continue that even though she'll move 4hrs away to the country-side this summer. Her best friend actually moved away two years ago, we still make sure they meet up and have sleep-overs and such.

Lots of people here write about the number of cousins, but those are often of a different age, it was the same with my two cousins. Also missing from the article: Kids being pushed into extra-curricula after school, be it soccer or music, those might not necessarily lead to friendships? Lastly, our environment has changed a lot. It's just not safe to let kids run wild outside with all those cars. The number of kids killed by cars didn't sink over the past 40 years because cars got safe, it sunk because kids get basically locked in. In my city (in Austria) we have quite a lot of older and newer building complexes where cars are kept outside, those are much better for kids.
Yes, but programming is more akin to copywriting than mathematical notation most of the time.

Math has very well-defined, well-trod conventions that are densely packed into the notation. When people try to write code like this though, it’s hard to read.

All else equal, I’ll take a snippet of code with more characters in it but less work to unpack those characters. Reading linearly is cheap; I get tired reading formulas faster than reading technical prose. Precedence makes the mental parsing nonlinear.
Perhaps. But then again, its reason for success and its charm comes from being given access to the University for free because it's being run by a university-associated team. Messing with that would almost certainly destroy the character of the conference.
I think it's fine to download those things. I still do sometimes. I just don't do anything to preserve them and I'm not buying a bunch of hard drives just to ensure that I can hold onto every anime I've ever watched on disk just in case I want to watch something again. If it's something that I do find myself going back to more than once, then I will try to keep it.

Digital hoarders are great to have. The hoarders are the ones that often have been the source of otherwise lost media. I just don't think it's all that different from hoarding of physical items. As someone whose natural inclination is to hoard, I've taken measures to prevent that (both in the physical and digital realm).
I agree with the conclusion, but would like to add that it should be obvious what the current state is, and what the state will change to when the toggle is changed; too often I have to change it in order to work out that I didn't need to change it.

The point about play/pause is really interesting because it goes against the conclusion. However, it's following physical precedent that's well understood. It's also (usually) obvious when music or a movie is playing, so the button icon wouldn't even need to change for the user to understand what pressing it will do. This stands it separately to the toggle question, I think.

Back to toggles and UIs, changing the colour of the toggle from light grey to slightly lighter grey is unhelpful in the extreme. Give me labels. If labels don't fit your motif then get better designers.
The story of Signature Plastics
And the money in the temple thing, too.
How would you be able to charge an additional amount but not be able to show it beforehand?

I get how calculating the fees can be challenging. But I assumed that shops could calculate if they were adding it as a surcharge.
Weddings are emotional events, even at the best of times. But also a lot of effort and planning and stress.
OTOH there's a case to be made for keeping florida diluted.
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I am building a StartPage for me to keep up to date latest tech news.
For the UI, would like to take a challenge to see whether can apply "glassmorphism" style to resemble the Spatial UI in Vision Pro with css in web app. Still WIP, any feedback are welcome :)
Maybe just having a friend; as I've said elsewhere in the thread, I never really got the whole marriage/kids idea myself, but perhaps now that I'm also aging out of childbearing age, dating will be less complicated once any expectation of children are out of the picture.
I think it’s the _average_ (3-4%) fee.
What insider information/expertise do you have to say OpenAI valued at $100b is ridiculous?

Do you have their financial information? Growth rate? Roadmap? Customer pipeline? Have you tested GPT5? Are you a leading AI expert? Have you worked at OpenAI before?

I'm not saying that you're wrong. It's just silly to say its valuation is ridiculous when it's a private company.
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This seems like it is a consequence of shrinking family size and people not having extended family. See the discussion today on HN about lack of cousins:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340501

In the past, you had more relatives than spots. Now many people have more spots than relatives.
OMG, this is brilliant! How have i never heard this one before!?! Thanks for sharing! :-D
Excellent question!

How does it work when you’re touching the screen? Obviously that will distort the sound by some amount…
> LLMs aren't that expensive to train for big organizations like Google and Meta that have the capital to train foundation models. Gpt-4 cost $100 million and Google makes 18b in profit a quarter and already has massive pools of computational capital.

The cost of training of the last generation of LLM models was ~$100 million, but companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta still need to buy the GPUs to build out their data centres. Unlike big tech OpenAI just had to pay for the compute, not for the physical GPUs which have rocketed in price. Plus, next gen models are likely to cost even more to train and big tech companies are not just working on one or two of next gen models, but many of them. The cost is easily in the billions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/18/mark-zuckerberg-indicates-me...

> That these still hugely profitable systems will continue to exist but that the only people allowed to realize the value of them might be shareholders deeply disgusts me and makes me think if this gets worse, we should nationalize a lot of these firms.

If I had to guess we'll see regulators get increasingly aggressive with big tech companies. My guess is that they will continue to grow more profitable in the coming years, but also increasingly likely to be broken up.

This isn't tech specific, but the future in general worries me in regards to equality. Many people naively think that the reason workers grew richer in the 20th century was because workers realised for the first time in history they could protest for worker's rights. Similarly people naively think the reason women entered the work force was because of similar protests.

In reality technology made reduced the physical requirements of work, and each worker become far more productive through technology so companies could compensate them increasingly more. At the end of the day it only ever makes sense for a company to compensate you equal or less than your productivity as a worker, and prior to the 20th century worker productivity had little changed since the development of agriculture.

Today technological advancements aren't making us that much more productive as workers, but it is making companies far more productivity through automation. I don't see this trend changing and it's only going to accelerate with AI. There really is no way to stop the rich growing richer, and trying to stop this by giving that power to the government is risky for other reasons.
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> I designed SSH to replace both telnet (port 23) and ftp (port 21).

As I have written here previously¹, that’s actually a bit of revisionist history, or at least a significant omission. Speaking as someone who was actually using Unix systems when this happened, the "ssh" command was replacing the rsh command, and also still ships an "slogin" command, replacing rsh’s companion command, "rlogin" (and "scp" replaced "rcp"). Where I was, nobody was even using telnet or FTP internally; everybody was using rsh, rlogin and rcp! This also better explains the naming; going from "rsh" to "ssh" is easier.

If someone had wanted to make telnet encrypted, they would just have had to implement the standard telnet protocol and add another option in the protocol; it has a bunch already, and even one for encryption, IIRC.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178333>
That's a huge amount of marketing effort with very little actual answers to basic questions such as "why is this the future of video game preservation?" Seems like a hype-based product
We can look at mining towns to see projected growth. Mining towns have to start where the ore is, and they generally can pay a lot more than average to attract people. However such towns tend to die when the mine closes unless there is some other reason for the town to exist. That other reason is not how nice the town is, but geography. Note that I said town above not city.

Cities exist for geographical reasons, if you don't have the great port (either ocean or river) to attract people 300 years ago to settle there you won't get people today.
not to shine too much light on to this, i wonder why does sony act on license agreements so much differently from steam?

why is a conglomorate unable to negotiate the right for existing rights owner to continue watching their media and just pull out from the store?
I can somewhat be categorized at software engineer and the only thing that prevent my fingers to be cut by a table saw is that I live in an apartment.
But what if the two houses are otherwise identical? Even a small convenience will tip decisionmaking
From what I'm able to find, it was through vibrating the metal frame, not the screen, and it was removed in later revisions.
I’d like to see a national law, or addition to state Uniform Commercial Code laws or something, that the price shown is the price charged, inclusive of everything.

This is actually two “common sense” laws that I feel are unambiguous enough that I’d probably vote for a candidate if they supported this. The other being no daylight savings.
I can’t find it but one of my favourite designs was a switch with a “light” beside it that lit up when the state was “on.”

The best thing was that it also solved the latency of an async operation. You’d click the switch which toggled, and then some moment later the light came on. It felt incredibly satisfying and gave confidence that yes, this interaction has done something.
Argh yeah people who use their phone on speakerphone mode all the time drive me up the wall.
Alien archeologists from the future: "Earthlings caused a catastrophe by trying to suck every bit of tidal energy. Via tidal acceleration[^1], they made their natural satellite fall into their planet. The curious thing is that the kind of planetary technology level they deployed to extract energy from the tides was more than enough to build huge rotating habitats, which they even knew of and called O'Neill cylinders[^2]. But Earthlings called names anybody proposing the idea, and it never really took off before their moon fell on their heads. This is a textbook case of how a civilization's culture affects their development."

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
They don't provide value equal to a 3% tax on every transaction in everyone's entire life. Holy stunning gobsmack fuck.
That feels a bit like throwing the baby with the bathwater. Ethereum provides a global, permissionless public key infrastructure. Then on top of that it has the token for payments, and the smart contract functionality to build whatever.

Farcaster simply taps onto the PKI part, to assign an identity that the user can own. That seems to be pretty legitimate use case. And you don't get any exposure to a token. In fact, you don't need to know any of those technicalities. Besides knowing that your identity and social graph (who you follow, who follows you, likes, etc...) cannot be rugpulled from you. Which seems pretty neat.
There's a pretty big gap between the bikes in this post and the kind of carbon road bike most people ride eg, a Giant Defy
I'm sure that there's a good reason to do it this way but I was wondering what would the benefits of doing it this way instead of installing openwatcom using whisky.

A few weeks ago I gave it a chance out of curiosity because I wanted to run total comander and was pleasantly surprised of how well it worked which makes me think that it should be able to run openwatcom perfectly.

Side note: in the end, even though TC worked great I just crossed that item from my ToDo and continued using double commander (although the search feature is much better in TC).
agile is a cancer just like cloud.
2013-07-01 ISO
07/01/2013 US
01.07.2013 Rest

Pick one, but not the abomination you posted, thanks.
Are mechanical breaks necessary for cube jumping up?

What are the limits of electronic breaking of those motors?
Cologne cathedral didn’t actually take 500 years to build — construction was restarted after a 250+ year halt.

“Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but was halted in the years around 1560, unfinished. Attempts to complete the construction began around 1814 but the project was not properly funded until the 1840s.”
then all we need is to figure out what to do with these slabs of high-tech glass beyond serving ads
There is no Internet Police that will give a fine for using the 'wrong' ports.

(In fact, not running SSH on port 22 is an industry best practice in 2024, sadly.)
I do wonder how crazy the deep dive they will have in future
Revealed: The 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet
So, what happens if this particular FPGA no longer can be bought?

Isn’t it more likely it will be possible to compile and run current C code on 22nd century hardware (possibly on some virtualization solution) than that it will be possible to compile and run FPGA code on 22nd century hardware?
(2022) - I don't think there is anything new here since this was announced two years ago.

FWIW, OpenFPGA on the Analogue Pocket works pretty well. Many of the most popular MiSTer cores were ported over and there are some nice desktop tools to make it easy to configure [1].

[1] https://github.com/neil-morrison44/pocket-sync
This is a mistake. AI isn't ready to replace some of these jobs. Duolingo's AI lessons are horrible.
Smooth, squiggly, hard, and pointy are my gotos
My wife's mother was very keen on a large wedding, my wife wasn't - we were watching a holiday program on TV and they had weddings in Mauritius and she announced "we're doing that!".

Anyway, we ended up getting married in the Seychelles and it was blissful and zero stress... and cost a lot less than a normal marriage. That was 34 years ago so something must have worked.
Precedence rules always apply to a specific textual notation. There is no precedence between division and addition, there is a precedence between the / and the + operators.

People are generally bad at remembering arbitrary operator precedence rules. That is why most math notation doesn't rely on precedence rules to be unambiguous, it uses other kinds of textual clues. For example, the / operator is virtually never used in algebra. Instead, division is indicated by fractions, which explicitly group their operands and separate them from other adjacent operations. Exponentiation relies on super scripts to separate its arguments, making it extremely unambiguous at least which operations are part of the exponent and which the total. Roots use the radical symbol which extends over the entire expression you're taking the root of, and again rely on a kind of superscript for indicating which root you are taking. Limits and sums use subscripts to separate the iteration direction from the expression. Integrals use both sub and superscripts.
They already have been. Tell me what other industry has as much oversight. The FFA exist with the sole intent of regulating anything to do with air travel. Imagine if the USDA decided that McDonalds had to stop selling Big Mac's because they found 1 that contained listeria, and had to inspect Millions of pounds of meat prior to letting them resume sale. Car recalls exist, but you don't see us stop driving when brakes fail or hackers can hijack your CAN system.
I grew up with a fair few cousins but I can't really say that I think it would be missing out if I didn't. I'm ambivalent to the whole thing
No one has a problem understanding what "pregnant person" means, all of these new terms are 100% clear; you just don't Like Them. It's worth interrogating personally why you feel that way.
That's an urban legend, as you suspect, at least in the US and UK - there's nothing in the law requiring to maximise profits.

https://legislate.ai/blog/does-the-law-require-public-compan...
British EV maker, once valued at $13B, has gone into bankruptcy
As a consumer, I use credit cards almost exclusively. I pay the balance every month.

I do this because:

1) don’t like carrying cash

2) like the security of never giving merchants direct access to my bank

3) chargeback in rare times I need it

4) don’t like having to worry about overdrawing checking

5) benefits like insurance, warranty

Basically it’s a useful buffer. I don’t think I’d pay 3% extra everywhere for the privilege, but since it’s usually baked in, I like it.

So I don’t think they are “parasites” but I think there’s a discussion around whether their fees are worth it for merchants.
The world is bigger than the USA.
I like the iOS client Unread for this. You can set it feed by feed to either display the feed content as-is or have it parse each article reader-mode slash Instapaper style and show that instead of the feed text

I imagine others do this too, keep an eye out for it as a feature! Very handy :)
I hadn't considered that. Thanks for pointing that out to me :)
Ok ye that's some.

Given the amount of comments I would still not say the topic is particularly hostile? Or am I desensitised maybe?

I mean, if the question is React frameworks, there is way less risk for philosophical fistfights and outbreaks, rather than a discussion about how people live their lifes.
3. The police are employees following policy and their boss has more incentive to go by the book than to achieve reasonable outcomes.
Acceptance Networks for Self-Sovereign Identity
You could replace "t+=.1" with "t+=.01" and 9986 with 9e3, then you'll have a ~45 second loop still within 256 bytes, though a bit of the bottom part of the screen will be cut off.
My dad was one of 5 and my mom was one of 6.

I grew up with 20+ cousins ranging from 10 years older than me to almost 30 years younger than me. It was simultaneously like having lots of older brothers and sisters but also having multiple siblings only a couple months older or younger than me. It also meant I got a LOT of experience being around small children which carried over well to being a parent.

On the flip side, my father-in-law has 7 grandkids and they were all born in a 5 year window.

I also worked with woman from China and due to the "1 child" policy, the first baby she ever held was her own baby b/c she had no cousins, nieces/nephews etc.
Can't go wrong with spindump and sample.
Enhancing Factorio with SAT solvers
Any thoughts about making it lay itself back down on a qi charger (or pogo pins) when its battery is getting low, or its reaction control wheels get saturated? I assume that would wait until after it has brakes to pick itself up.
> I regret not coming in my original post armed with evidence.

This site is full of liars and sophists, among other scum. It frankly doesn’t matter whether you bring evidence or not.
I think what it needs is simple direct neural network controller quickly trained and tested for cheap motors and high tolerances so it can sort of work if done cheaply.

Recently there was a post here about researchers training NN to fly a chepish very small drone. No messing with PID adjustment.
that's true but it is very probable that people with these kind of disease were dying much earlier than nowaday also
> Free market is a kind of natural selection. People with inner desire to procreate will spread themselves,

What does free market have to with it?
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Simplifying communication in high context environments
I doubt it, just incompetent editors and/or writers.
There's an entire culture of "incels" who seem to have trouble with this.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with "folding in my pocket." My understanding is that the current push for thinness is about getting a folding phone into that 7mm optimum
That second one is just gorgeous. That guy has every reason to look as smug as he does!
The existence of the levels was previously known; what they discovered was just how bad some of them are.
Wow... Where to start...

Assuming that you're not trolling:
1. Plenty of gay people have stable monogamous relationships/marriages.
2. Marriage isn't only for children. Marriage has legal and tax implications.
3. I like having a stable relationship, I don't like dating and switching partners. I like deeper connections with my partners.
Github stars used to be a signal of quality, and velocity of those stars indicated a winning product. But like all rating systems, they are for sale to the nearest Mechanical Turk or GenAI.
People always seem to be scoffing when they say stuff like this, like it's a bad thing. But I don't get that attitude at all. I don't want to work on things where the whole shape of the project is known up front. To me, that feels like doing art with a stencil. I love the process of seeking the most valuable next step to take while we feel our way through a dark room with an ambiguous destination.

Now, the (common) version of this that I don't like is when there is no way to know whether a sequence of steps ended up in a better place than where it began. So feedback is very important to me, but there are lots of ways to get it; there are quantitative measures of growth in usage or revenue and there are qualitative measures like surveys or for things like internal platforms, seeing the roadmaps of other teams be unblocked or accelerated by your work.

But I find significantly less joy in being told "we need this exact specific thing, please go build it and report back", and I have rarely seen it be the case that what they needed was actually that exact specific thing.
Is this generally an advertisement to drive traffic to the personal blog?

It doesn't seem to be a comprehensive set of stat and ML tools.