skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think the implication is if a 51%'er has to decide between technical excellence and emotional hospitality then, all other things equal, they will use emotional hospitality since that's the majority of their skills (51%). It sounds like preferring to hold a hand vs rejecting incompetence. I don't really agree, i get not being jerk is important but i would flip it to 51% technical excellence 49% emotional hospitality.
I don't use it that much, but the farcaster protocol as a backbone for a social app is super hot for devs right now. Most of the stuff is open source, they even changed some login steps so that it would be closer to web2 experience compared to usual 'web3'. Idk for how long it'll keep being this friendly for devs, but that's the state for now
Less money, more microplastics. End of story.
My (biotech, mostly remote) company does this. They may not love it but they realize they have to hire from SF, Boston, NYC etc to get the best ML talent and people expect market salaries / don’t want to up and move if they don’t have to.
you can read your passwords in a password manager, memorize a couple of them for the risks you think you have

what I typically would do in both of those scenarios is a password reset. I would know my email password and do a password reset of everything else and get that in my email.

privilege escalate on yourself.

realistically, I’ve been at Apple Stores multiple times where I needed to login manually to my icloud account while my phone was being RMA’d. nothing to remind you there.
I would think that parenthood has now become a choice that many young people no longer want
thanks my bad. i didnt see that and yeah its batshit insane
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple Websites
just increase the tax credit for kids, even make it progressive so you get bigger tax credits for more kids so higher income families have more reason to have more kids. The welfare cliff as it currently stands will doom our country, in my friends and family group the ones who are unemployed or work low income jobs have more kids than the rest combined and no reason to strive to do better because unless they make 6 figures they are better off doing the minimum.

systems are about incentives and our current system in the US has us in a death spiral, immigration is used as a short-term stopgap to reduce impact of low birth rates but just accelerates the death spiral in the long term
>Don’t Singapore and Japan have some kind of incentives for couple to have babies with limited success?

From what I understand, the success has been very limited.

The Mao claim sounds like classic Mao logic. Did he plan for toddler division to spearhead the counter attack?
Yes you do. Most casuals are downright afraid of code. This messaging is meant to make the project more approachable.

Kind of like everybody knows the pop-science around e = mc^2 but most are completely oblivious that it takes a bunch of whiteboards to derive it and what all that actually means.

No pithy formula no way for the actual ideas to spread to the mainstream for you to somehow hear about it.
What do I look for?
Were those families of 6 living for 30k happy families?

Something tells me not.
Wrong. We have more housing units per capita than in 80-s. It's just that the demand is forced into several large population centers.
We have been doing this in the UK for at least the past two decades. Your theory has been proved correct.
You can still sleep even if you take part in the night entertainment, you'll just have to sleep during the day instead of the night.

Some people can manage to recuperate the night sleep loss during the day, some, like me, can't and it sucks.
This is interesting.

Thanks for sharing.
How do they know it's you in the house? What if you took somebody there? What if somebody else is using your house?

Seems like just the thing to do before I drag someone into my basement. "Hey officers, my house is off limits, cya"
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealth-management/insights/chi...

> STEM skills have traditionally become obsolete more quickly than other skills. It is easier for technology to replace the absolute skills of STEM than other more abstract subjects.

What are those 'more abstract subjects'? If you remove STEM from civilization you are left with social engineering, power plays, sorcerers, and snake oil salesmen. We tried that centuries ago, and i don't see any reason why economists are not replaceable like every other skill. It's a universal approximator, and that is proven by hard STEM science
Because when you run 10 services most of whom require at least one supporting service and for each service you need to specify at least 5 different options (volumes, resource limits, health check, depends on, mac address, IP address, etc); with just `docker run` you will have a mess. It's much simpler to have a docker-compose file per service with all of its dependent services.

The docker compose to plain docker run is the same as C/C++ to Assembly.
I really don't see centralized social networks bring competitive with the fediverse for much longer. After all, how do you convince millions of people to use your service and pay for it while you spy on them, sell every scrap of data you can, and even then still show them invasive ads?

Meanwhile mastodon is free as in freedom. If you want to, you can buy your admin a beer. People seem to like this arrangement quite a lot. You, an individual, are giving money directly to another individual for services they're providing to you with zero obligations. It feels more like buying your plumber friend a case of beer for fixing your sink and less like throwing money into a corporate void for no discernible benefit as the price slowly and invariably creeps upward.

The really cool part though is that centralized social media has to compete with the fediverse, but the fediverse does not need to compete. It's not interested in competing. It will simply continue to exist for as long as there are users. No one cares what percentage of the global population uses it, or about infinite geometric growth forever. It's just people talking to other people. It's not an experience that you get on traditional social media anymore.
I think their point was that 2k is a joke considering how expensive a child is
As an initial datapoint for you, here are the 195 members of the House that voted against H.R. 8373 (aka the Right to Contraception Act) in 2022.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/117-2022/h385

I'm sure you can find more data yourself, Google search isn't that far gone yet.
My experience is from a fully remote unicorn startup that hires globally. Not Gitlab. Have continued equity exposure and strongly believe in the remote first model as a differentiator. There is exceptional talent globally, but you must be intentional about finding it.
I mean, cost of many things but yeah housing is an enormous factor. If you're not certain you can settle down somewhere with enough room to have a family (or even to live on your own, in some cases) you're going to put off having one, sometimes indefinitely.
Not nearly as interesting a story: in 1996 I visited a customer who was using up for dialup services, but reported some of their Windows desktops couldn't connect.

It didn't take me long to figure out that the computers that weren't working had their clocks set well into the 21st century. The shell couldn't even display the year properly, I assumed a Y2K incompatibility, but after so many years now I can't remember exactly what I saw.

Anyway, easy fix, but I never did find out what caused such a weird glitch in their environment. It's small wonder that many people aren't fluent with computers: they misbehave in such a wide variety of ways.
Dispenso: A library for working with sets of tasks in parallel
Being a parent is _punished_ in our society. It messes with your career growth in a dual income family, and for any metro with well paying jobs you're looking at ~3k/month daycare infant costs, down to 1.5k/month by age 5. And that's post-tax, because our politicians love talking about the problems but no solutions in sight.

So if you're looking at income, for 2 kids, your break-even for stay-at-home is north of 100k per year. That's absurdly high.

Combine that with infant kid rearing coinciding with the most expensive purchase of one's life (housing) and you see how impossiblly punishing it is for someone not making 200k+ in yearly income
""Is the evidence for austerity based on an Excel spreadsheet error?"

Lets not forget that people/politicians also will ignore errors if they support their point of view. This can lead to policy decisions that impact the global economy.

The US 'Right' believe strongly in biblical/moral individual responsibility, so any study that supports that gets a pass.

This lead to 'austerity' measures after 2008. Because "everyone should just be more responsible in their spending".

""They actually found, using a different method, that the economic growth would be around 2.2 percent. Reinhart and Rogoff admitted that their spreadsheet was accidentally omitting 5 rows in an Average formula, and claimed that the corrected result would be a positive growth but of just 0.2 percent.""

https://www.powerusersoftwares.com/post/2016/08/11/the-excel....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-e...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/16/is-th...
> The poorest people have the most kids

And why is this is a question we should answer. Inability to afford birth control? Sex as the one redeeming "happy" thing after slaving away for a guy who wears a suit 5 days per week? Religion also plays a part -- lots of mainstream religions eschew birth control such as condoms and lots of poor people are religious. Are they poor because they have so many kids?
Seems to not be working very well. I already vote socialist, what more can I do?
> European countries where having a child is not a significant financial burden.

Beg your pardon? Have you seen the price of real estate/child care/energy/... in Europe?
“Alas, there's a fifth possibility” was my comment, and I made it because the discussion was excluding the possibility, despite it being explicitly discussed in the paper.

“We can't see any evidence because there is nothing there to see” is a possibility, grabby aliens _requires_ significant-fraction-of-C travel for the argument to hold, and it's entirely possible that it's just impractical-to-the-point-of-impossibility. (That's why I quoted it in another comment).

Yes, it's possible that we're early. It's equally possible that we're “early” because there's no concert: _everybody_ is early in a universe where the band never gets on stage and it turns out that nobody bothers colonizing the universe due to the cost and lack of benefits.

See also: “Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Michael Jackson did it.
Hash method is prone to websites that rotates passwords, have limits in passwords, have certain rules known passwords.
Also, if website database is breached then you may want to create a different password.

Plus, username needs to be stored as well sometimes.
No because I just implemented it myself in 10 seconds. Why would I need to sponsor the work?
Why would we compare to webGL?

Shaders would only (tremendously) improve rendering vs dom elements.

And a Wasm can also leverage the GPU so it would yield similar performance comparing apple to apple.

V8 interpreting JS for CPU computation I think is what OP was asking for, as it is relevant to determine the best optimised route to get the highest performance on compute.

If most published benchmark are correct*, then a GPU for graphics applications complied into Wasm coming along CPU
compute logic would perform better than its JS+WebGL counter part.

Would be nice to benchmark that to confirm.

*and they probably are as Wasm executes at near native speed.
V8 executes certain operations at near native speed. The rest takes the overhead hit of the interpreter.
Is... this sealioning? It's one of the easiest things to find endless examples of. I won't assume you are arguing in bad faith here, so, what have you done in an attempt to find the answer to that question?
Tacoma has some underground, too. Worked in a building where they had us in a shitty office on the bottom floor, in back, butted up against the hillside.

We figured out there was some kind of storage back there, and because the place smelled so musty and the ventilation was so bad we were kinda curious. We rigged the door so that once it was opened it wouldn't latch shut again and waited; a few days later we were in luck.

Going through the door there was the whole brick facade of the building (burnt, ironically), and the bottom of the present day sidewalk, three stories up.
The Programmer's Paradox: Lessons Learned
Jamsocket (YC W22) is hiring a senior Rust engineer for a WebSocket PaaS (NYC)
If the endgame of passwords is for everyone to use password managers for their passwords, and never to actually learn their passwords, then why bother with passwords at all? It seems to endgame would be for every service to give up passwords, and switch to OTP codes entirely. I'd prefer that world, honestly. Yet I haven't seen many people talk about the possibility, so maybe I'm missing something obvious? I don't know.
Note this article is 11 years old.

Everyone in my generation X generation said they wouldn’t have children. We still laugh about that at the toddler play dates. We are older than our parents when we had kids. But you get to a point where the things that drive you earlier in your career make less a difference once you’ve achieved them, and life takes priority over changing the world in some way. You realize the world overall can be changed during working hours, but the most impact you’ll ever have is in the world of the children in your life. Finally you realize 72 hours of work a week isn’t more effective than 35 hours balanced with a human life on the rest.
I've worked in 5 different countries in my life, and one lesson you learn quickly is that it's impossible to compare salaries between locations at face value.

For example, now I live in the US and although my salary is about twice what it was in England, my lifestyle remains about the same, worse in some aspects, and better in others. I'm almost certain OP lifestyle would have taken a hit living in Bay Area, even with a higher comp.

And this is simply comparing income, not accounting for many other variables (social benefits, taxes, culture...). In fact I'll probably take a big hit in comp to move back to Europe so that I can live a more comfortable lifestyle.
Isn't this literally the case in the US? You list dependents on your tax form.
It still does. Close to $3000 a month where I am
Basically, any official in power who refuses to allow teachers to provide sex education classes that include contraception discussions - or parents or other concerned citizens who try to pressure them against it. Knowledge is an effective prerequisite to access.
I dropped my phone at night in a foreign country and the screen went blank. I couldn't get into anything, not even my hotel.
You can bet that would happen if the target was a member of the police force.
Why do they all look so cool and why does nothing look like this now. What happened?
How many direct workers per infant are there in daycare, and what's the big source of overhead above that?
I was shocked to learn, just a few days ago, that an old school friend of mine is paying roughly $9,000/month for private school for his two young children. (Ages 14 and 8.)

The guy is doing okay -- his income is somewhere over $200k/year -- but this expense is a _big_ fraction of his total income. For him, childcare costs are basically the difference between leasing a new Ferrari and living in a mansion, and buying clothes from Ross and begging his parents for money. (Which, I've learned, he does.)

There are two factors in play. First, he lives in a large and diverse American city, and wants to insulate his children from bad influences. Second, he's under a great deal of, essentially, peer pressure to "Keep up with the Joneses" -- in other words, to keep up appearances relative to other members of his social group.

It's insanity, of course.

But, in his position, it would be difficult to raise a child cheaply. The outcomes might be quite poor. So, either way, there's difficulty and worry.

There are also the opportunity costs of parenting, which are considerable, but that's a different matter.
Semantic Versioning is, at best, a method for the developer of a package to communicate to users of a package the intent of the changes from one release to the next. It does not remove the responsibility from the user of integration testing.

In the BG (Before GitHub) times, people using a library as part of their application would keep a local "vendor branch" of the library. The vendor branch would go through a complete integration testing with the application before the application was released. When a new version of the library was released, the application developer would review the release notes (CHANGES.TXT) to determine whether the changes were relevant to the application before deciding to update the local vendor branch. If it was determined that the changes were relevant the vendor branch would be updated, a diff would be reviewed (the level of review depends on the application), and then there would be another round of integration testing.

In the AG (After GitHub) times, nobody does any vendor branches or third-party code reviews. They just pull the latest version from GitHub without a care in the world. (See the left-pad debacle <https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/>) The assumption seems to be that "all code must be kept up to the latest and greatest", which is bullshit. There are many reasons why an application can and should run an older version of a library, each of which must be evaluated by the library user in the context of their use-case.

Expecting Semantic Versioning to be perfect solution is both illogical and impossible.
I live in Colorado, so I'm in one of the colder climates with a decent amount of time spent below freezing each year.

I've had a Mitsubishi Hyper Heat mini-split system with 2 outdoor units and 3 indoor heads for ~7 years now. I'm trying to move houses to get away from it. It's crazy noisy during the winter, the temperature control is whacky, and it's 2-3X the price to run than a gas furnace with electric vs gas rates around here. Not only that, with new 95% or 96% efficient furnaces, I'm not sure heat pumps are any greener.

Don't get me started on the install costs and the fact that your average mini split unit is barely sized to heat a room, let alone a full house. For me, it was better than the electric baseboards I replaced, but I'd still prefer a standard furnace.

I think we need to be very careful forcing everyone to convert to these until the tech is more mature, especially in the Northern states and places like Colorado. I looked on forums recently to see if the tech has evolved in the last 10 years, but many of the recent buyers still had the exact complaints I listed here.
Electricity is coming from the wall and we can buy iPhone and Mac in Apple store, so what we need those STEM guys for? Nothing. /s
I remember as a kid when I first had the realization that I do have to have my own kids when I'm a grownup, and from that day decided that I don't want to have kids. When I was 25 (about 8 years ago) I got a vasectomy and I haven't had any regrets yet. I'm not one of those toxic "Child-free" douchebags on Reddit [1]; I do like kids, I enjoy playing with my nieces and nephew, but I also really like having money and less responsibility.

It's absurdly expensive to raise kids, especially before they're school age, and I spent a lot of 2023 unemployed. I am very happy that I didn't have to worry about an infant while also looking for a job.

[1] I'm sure not all of them are bad but what I saw was calling kids "cum goblins" and the like, acting like they're some kind of blight on the world.
That’s not how free markets/capitalism is supposed to work. Companies are expected to just shop around for the lowest price on the capabilities they need. Are you suggesting we should adopt something else then capitalism/free markets?
The Metal shader compiler is only distributed as binary blobs for Mac and Windows. Reverse engineering of the undocumented output is possible of course, but that also means keeping track of all the changes Apple does to the output format in new versions.
As someone without kids I typically see my coworkers who do have kids be granted special allowances and bond with upper management over the experience of being a parent, etc
Samuel Alito, Amy Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett "I won't overturn Roe v. Wade" Kavanaugh, Clarence "my wife is an insurrectionist but I don't care" Thomas.
Because there are bad apples, doesn't mean you should throw out the scientific method.

Over 50% of social science studies do replicate.

Sorry that isn't high enough. We should definitely just give up on understanding ourselves.

Or, maybe fix the financial incentives.

Any industry across all fields, if the incentives are miss-matched, will produce crap.
If the market works as intended, someone will replicate your app and sell it cheaper, the price should eventually converge to the costs. And you might not agree, but I find it morally questionable [1] to run a business that pays good money for little work.

[1] There is of course more nuance to this then expressed here.
Does not explain why more affluent families tend to have fewer children, or why TFR decreases as nations become wealthier.
> that's post-tax, because our politicians love talking about the problems but no solutions in sight

Maybe you don't have a solution "in sight" because by eliminating tax analysis you're conspicuously skipping the Child Tax Credit[1], which is pretty clearly aimed right at this issue.

It doesn't make children into a revenue source or anything, but it's a real and tangible action taken by "our politicians" to address exactly the problem you claim they're ignoring.

[1] Also the Child and Dependent Care Credit, also any of the various state policies in the same realm, also the deductability of child care expenses, etc... Basically tax policy IS THE MECHANISM by which government tries to address this problem. And you totally missed it!
My ActivityPub project, Smithereen, is built on this. Though I had to fork it to add the ability to stream responses. By default it really insists on rendering everything fully into a string and only then serving it to the client. I also updated its dependencies and added support for Java 21 virtual threads.

https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

My fork of Spark: https://github.com/grishka/spark
I was about to open a Mastodon account, but because I don't really use to publish anything too often anyway, instead left it for later.

A couple month passed and the instance I had in mind, closed for good.

I've been told before in HN that Mastodon's solution is non-existent for these situations. Has the landscape changed or you're still f*d if you choose the wrong one? (aka. an incentive for centralization or always chosing only among the most popular instances)