skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a person responsible for maintaining a harbor in Lake Michigan, I am allowed to move 1 cubic yard of material a year, by hand, with a shovel

looking at the picture he could have made a smaller channel moving the legal limit letting the water enlarge it over time.
We Americans have simply accepted that the price on the menu bears only token resemblance to the price paid.

Laws like this make great talking points on the campaign trail, but I doubt anyone thinks there’s a path to enforcement…especially since almost no Americans care enough to change their behavior on these fees.
This is so sad. If I ever had to get paid 5 figures after 30 years I worked literally switch careers.
Could be rounded, but couldn't be converted into "almost"
Small internal combustion engines .. cars rolling coal will be collectors items for some time .. but fossil fuel scooters, small motorcycles, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, etc will very likely disapear first.

Big asian cities are already seeing iSwap battery stations for electric scooters | bikes, and the handyman market is rapidly turning electric.
No, I mean that all mainland Chinese ports could be mined to wreck their economy. This possibility is a fairly effective deterrent. Land routes through Russia can't compensate for that.
If only there was a fully public system of secure transactional payments where everything was open source and viewable by anyone.

Update: classic HN to downvote something like this
I'm subscribed to a YouTube playlist RSS feed and it last updated on Saturday.
Thanks. I found this article on Paul's blog which answers my question:
https://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2024/01/minutely-updated-tile...
I was lucky that my wife convinced me to move close to her family (it would have never occurred to me.) Now we live just a few doors down from her brother who's got 4 kids, and we have 2. Watching the cousins intermingle is an amazing and unique experience.

It's kinda sad but it's also obvious that people are majorly missing out. On having kids, on living close to family, on all of it.

Ironically, this is evolution in action. The folks that "remember" how to have a family and raise kids have an uncontested claim to the future. The "it's too hard to have kids" crew is selecting against themselves, evolutionary speaking. That won't last.
Interesting to hear this. My personal experience is the complete opposite. My sister has 2 kids, my wife’s sister and husband have 2 kids, my wife’s brother has 3 kids with one on the way, and we’re having our first in about 3 weeks.

That’s 12 cousins just in our little circle.
That opinion itself is reflective of a bubble. The people not having kids are all well-off; the lower class is still having lots of kids, whether they own houses or not (and most do - the only places unaffordable are the centers of big cities). You drop below 2.0 kids somewhere around the 40th percentile of income, and pass 50% homeownership around the 20th.
Why do I have to "register for" and "purchase" a free, self-paced course?
Multitudinous numbers do, via zoning laws. Many expect apartments or houses to be separate from businesses.
How is it selfish to not have kids? Selfishness implies another party; if the kid doesn’t even exist, what is selfish?
In the past, if you could not afford to feed your family, you could literally starve to death. And people saved money by doing things like crafting clothes out of feed sacks. [1] It became common enough that companies would start selling their feed in sacks with floral designs, specifically with the intent of then being reused as clothing.

And that's just one among a vast array of lifestyle differences. Now a days the worst case scenario is that you end up on government assistance and have a less pleasant life. As for Asia, don't make the mistake of conflating Asia with just China/Hong Kong/Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Asia's big, and those places are outliers in terms of fertility, with China's issues being entirely self inflicted. The average fertility rate across Asia is 2.3 [2], which is not great - but at least sustainable.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_sack_dress

[2] - https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/c416afed-en/index.html?i...
>> The new law also requires the surcharge passed on to customers using credit cards to the exact amount charged by credit card companies.

Yikes! I'm not in NY, but this seems tricky to implement. I process credit cards and frankly I'm never sure of the "exact amount" they charge. Firstly, different cards have different rates, the issuing bank can play a part, and foreign cards come with another set of rules. (Fortunately the use of foreign cards in NY is, um, very rare...? )
I take my bosses calls after work because I like her, and she is very busy and I know it is a convenient time for her.

She wouldn’t mind if I ignored her call after hours because I was at the pub :)
Maybe They haven't found the one who they want and or wants them ..too maybe they aren't into women. With society being more accepting of same sex situations I'm pretty sure I read the number of those who identify something other then straight has increased.
Statistics I've seen have the pedestrian being inebriated in 40-50% of incidents. I know some scatter-brained people who have been hit multiple times while crossing intersections/parking lots/driveways - they just don't pay attention or look both ways. Self driving won't necessarily prevent those.
Detached from reality is selling something way below its value and being mad that it gets resold at the correct price. This is basic economics. It's also easily avoidable by holding an auction with the correct ruleset for the outcome you want.

If you wanted to appear less greedy, you could also do something similar to what the government does for bonds: everyone submits the highest price they're willing to pay. Take the top N offers, and all of those people get tickets at the lowest price out of the top N. So you're encouraged to bid what the ticket is worth to you because you almost certainly will end up paying less than that. If 50,000 people (modulo subdivisions for seat distance) agree a ticket is worth at least that much, then ipso facto that's what it's worth. Again it's scalper resistant because anyone you could resell to already got a ticket at the same price you did.

Point is there are plenty of documented auction styles to choose from depending on exactly what properties they want. It isn't hard. They obviously prefer scalpers exist.
>but that's not the same thing as claiming the resulting loss as a deduction on your income tax

which you can also do. If you knock down your house, then sell it, you will have a pretty heafty capital loss, which you can then use as a income deduction for up to 8 years, or until it runs out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_Kiptum
That's closer to an abridged history of "World Wide Web" search engines.

The internet was decades old when Infoseek appeared.
This sounds familiar, perhaps you and I have discussed it before.

My life matters to me as a vehicle for what truly matters: if my descendants are thriving, and my values are upheld, whether I am physically here once I've contributed to it, is completely irrelevant to me.

I will fight to live as long and as well as I can, but only because that increases my opportunity to contribute what I want. Merely "existing" is not my highest value and therefore is not the thing I worry about solely.

Hard to explain if you don't get it.
That's exactly the age I have the most experience with. Your mileage may vary I suppose.
Yes it still works, I use it daily. They have had a couple of instances of downtime in the last year, a lot more the Youtube itself, but still very reliable.

They removed the OPML export from the subscription manager unfortunately.
Who is living in those rentals?
Claiming? That's talk. Taking it then allows indeed begs pushback that need not recognize any normality or consistency in any russian claims. Russia also decided Ukraine should be its own country then changed their mind. So ... so much for that
OSMF chairperson here. The osmbuildings situation is unfortunate. They never asked to use the trademark, didn’t participate in community discussions, and used OSM + a very generic term for their project name. Cesium asked for our permission to use the same words, and simultaneously, but not in exchange for any permission, joined as a member to support the foundation. That money went to paying for the infrastructure that runs the project.

We never asked osmbuildings to stop using the name. We’ve never granted exclusive trademark permission to anyone - if you wanted to launch a product called “neomantra OSM buildings”, we’d find it cool.

If you start an interesting project, pick a non-generic name.
> You're baffled people aren't having kids? What bubble do you live in? People straight up can't afford housing much less children.

This is incoherent; children are not expensive.
In the same vein:

"Before becoming the founder of Walmart, Sam Walton owned a small chain of variety stores"
why do activists act like credit cards don't provide value for which the fee pays?
And when estimating the effort required, multiply by pi. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28667174
The Russian's don't have enough troops to invade and hold Ukraine, they'd need twice as much to invade and hold Poland. The US should have had at least 300k soldiers on the ground to prevent the chaos that enveloped Iraq after the dissolution of the Iraqi government.
There wares have to meet the needs of a diverse customer base. Custom software developed for in house use only needs to implement the features you need.

Though without OSS, I suspect a lot of companies would opt for purchasing off the shelf solutions, which would quite possibly be a worse fit than the OSS solutions.

Or, they may just go without.
I always figured FTP is port 21, SFTP/SSH is port 22
That’s a fairly big omission for such an attention grabbing performance comparison
There's this wiki page that's pretty cool https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_num...
Having the ability to have customers pay the fee encourages them to use lower cost options when available (debit cards and cash today, FedNow instant payment rails soon).

Why should we pay 3% of the economy to middlemen because they were lucky to position themselves appropriately? If someone wants to use credit card rails, certainly offer them, just have the customer pay instead of all of us. I don’t want to pay for someone else’s reward points, ~21-30 day float, or chargeback capability.

(“The new rule does not apply to debit cards.”)
> a declining culture

Would love to hear the elaboration on what the hell you mean by that.
When you're poorer, especially in countries with less well enforced legal systems, you're not as negatively affected by having more children. Your priority is simply being able to stay fed and taking what work you can get, not buying a home in an area conducive to your highly specialized career. More kids are just another mouth to feed until they become capable of contributing to the family finances (typically at much younger ages than in the West).
Yes they, and especially women, had absolutely no choice due to lack of birth control and various repressions. A relevant and useful comparison.
Here is another study they did that is phthalate and they link a PDF of their methodology: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the...
Just do the thing
i don't really think there is _anything_ that comes even close to tracy https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy.

on top of this, given google's penchant for dumping projects aka abandonware, this would be an easy pass.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39318792

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39332606

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39307172

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39299779

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39295599
The Isle of Doctor Seaborg (2013)
Seems the opposite of selfish from the point of view of “world does not exactly look good and getting better”.
I confess, living outside the US, laws around hidden costs simplify my life a lot.
In short, with very few exceptions [1], the advertised price is what I pay. In the grocery store taxes are included, online the advertised price has to include-everything- and so on.

[1] exceptions are usually some sort of limit. For example in a restaurant there may be a mandated service charge for large parties, that sort of thing. But 99% of the time if I see a price, I pay that number, to the penny.
Solar panels provide orders of magnitude more energy per area than corn and don't require fertilizer or pesticides.
I am very sorry to hear you’re at a total loss in trying to understand why the police would need guns. Do you live in the US?
It can be construed either way.

If you want kids, its selfish to bring the other party into existence. Life isn't all great, and you don't have a choice in whether or not you're born.

If you don't want kids, its selfish because you are not supporting the society (other party) that supports your existence. If we don't have kids above the replacement rate, society doesn't continue. If you are fine with that great, but its hypocritical if you plan to continue to benefit from society in your own life.
My hypothesis, which I rarely hear anyone else mention, is that we no longer look to our children for entertainment. Life used to be really boring.

while there is some truth to that with stories of a sudden baby boom 9 months after a significant power outage, i'd rather rephrase that as

"we no longer look to our children as the only thing we care about"

there are now so many other things (hobbies, causes) that we can put our energy into that they take away the focus from having kids. after all, once you have kids you will have to put aside some of your other activities for some years.

sociopolitical explanations of falling birth rates have been refuted by the present trends

i think birthrates don't so much correlate with wealth but with education. my guess is that education improves faster than wealth, so this could explain the development better.
I Read the Entire Neovim User Manual
Do you mean "The Abyss" perhaps?
Expensive relative to expectations. Not in terms of what most people could provide.

That's not bad. It's fine that people expect more and want to be able to provide more before having children (and I do agree the commenter who argued this is somehow confined to the Western world is way out there).

But we need to understand that across most of the developed world - there will be exceptions in pockets here and there - it is not the ability to afford children that has dropped, but that we're not willing to give up what we have to have children at a living standard that was considered good before.

E.g. when I grew up we always had food, but the food we had was dictated by cost in a way I never think about, and wouldn't want to deal with. We lived in less space, and I want more space, not less. Our living standard when I was a kid was fine; far above average for most of the world, about average for where I grew up. But if what it took to have more kids was to go back to that, I wouldn't.

The commenter above can call that soft all they want - I don't feel bad for wanting to enjoy life more than I want more children (I have one son; I might well have another child, but because I'm at a stage where my girlfriend and I can afford it without sacrificing our standard of living and that does place me in a privileged position)
Beavers are arguably beneficial to the bigger picture in their area, they don't make concreate waterways, they make large shallow lakes with lots of boggy areas.

Hellish for humans to walk about and navigate, sure.

Very good for temperature stabilisations, wetland life, water retention in areas that would otherwise drain and dry out, etc.
No, don't apologize, you're right. Frontend should be a junior's intro to backend, and I will advocate for this forever. Senior FE devs should be the competent ones who really like FE.

> the FE team has a dedicated QA team

What a headache. Should be unified.
Head of Microsoft Word Used the Apple Vision Pro
The first table shows staggering loss after staggering loss yet both Airbus and Boeing are still around. They are large, diversified companies with loads of defense business and all that implies.

The table also shows cost estimating is nuts in both the private and public sectors. Any honestly costed program will not make it past a Board of Directors or Congress. But something has to go forward and so overoptimism makes some careers in the near-term and kills others in the long-term.
There’s literally thousands of generations prior that have made someone’s life possible.

And then they wash their hands of the matter and say “nope, I’m not giving anyone else a chance at life. I’ll enjoy mine but it ends here”.

That is selfishness.
Because it’s impossible to tell if it’s in earnest or satire.

If earnest: why anyone would want a public record of everyone’s transactions is beyond me. The opposite of privacy

If in satire: people really do post comments like yours in earnest!
The societal norms and structures that promoted natalism are gone in western countries for much of the population.

Raising kids is hard work. Ideally you have them young and live close to your family so that you have grandparents to help with childcare.

But our society tells people to wait as long as possible to have kids, and to prioritize career over other things - so once people do have kids, if they ever do so, then often grandparents are too old or far away to fill that traditional role. So lots of people are stuck paying thousands a month for daycare.

Just one of many ways that our system finds innovative ways to extract money out of people for things that used to be free or part of being in a community.
I've been doing this math frequently of late. I'm 35, have one child and of my high school class ... maybe 25% have children? there is certainly a bias from polling social media. But the anecdata would say that we're closing on the point where millenials have chosen to simply not have children.
>For some reason

When you're talking about Google products, fragmentation comes built-in as expected. There is no reason for 3 versions of maps to exist within Google ecosystem but I don't think they really care
Use python and write my results in a CSV that I quickly import into R and do my fancy stats.

Tbf python's stats implementations can be garbage; the last time I checked you can't do multiple levels for hierarchical regression.
They killed the user-facing product because by all accounts it was a flop. The tech is still there but they're pivoting to a game-streaming SaaS/middleware thing for B2B.
I am currently on a team of a dozen people, I am one of two who are married and who has children. It is challenging to say the least.
Having children when you're rebuilding/are going to your potential death, is a very different circumstance. It's a lot easier to have kids when you have nothing left to lose.

Indeed, such ignorance on HN these days.
It's certainly possible, but I've seen others here express the same sentiment. Another poster once posted a quite insightful comment about Nietzsche that really described a lot of the problems of nihilism that captured the feelings that I've had since realizing the unreality of religion at a young age, so I'm not exactly alone even if I am a bit of an outlier.
I thought the Christopher Walken one was very funny. Has anyone seen that gag used in a commercial before? I found it charming.
Disagree. It's never too late to start doing the right thing in matters of mother nature.

In this case, it's taking care of the riparian environment near the mouth of a river. It doesn't always have to be about human interests.

I looked at the pictures of Platt Beach, and I think the NPS chose correctly.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2tPE7JRPNCFL9Ys7?g_st=ic
You could be right. Although looking a few comments down the selfishness talk is ever present.
I was under the impression my speed was one unit distance per frame. That would mean the speed of the obstacles is irrelevant becuse either they are in my location in that one frame or they are not -- and it doesn't matter how fast they go.

Edit: actually thanks to their double thickness it does matter! I didn't think of that.
Glad to help! I should have added I started light, then added in some more stuff once I had a working system.

I had tried RSS years ago and my feed then was unwieldy enough I never checked it. This attempt is smaller and stuck
They seem to always leave off port 20 is also ftp.
Yay RSS :) A habit (useful one, i might add) i'll never get rid of :)

Quick PSA here: if you ever want (or need) to filter a RSS feed to get rid of adverts, random rants of a certain topic you don't want to read about - there's RSS Bridge [1] which lets you do that.

It also provides some bridges that let you subscribe to sites that don't even have an RSS feed via scraping, or YouTube channels or ....

It's pretty much a swiss army knife for RSS (no affiliation, just a happy, self-hosting, user!)

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
I've never felt as stuck in a job as I have this past year. I've been searching for about ten months so far. During the great resignation, it felt like there was so much career portability and possibility. Want that dream job in another state and to stay in the home you bought at 3% interest? No problem. Want a 40% pay bump? Sure, you should have asked for 50%.

Today, most roles in my field of expertise would be a pay cut to half of my total compensation if I am lucky. Sure, I can live on just a base salary number, but it's a mental hurdle to accept, especially with all the inflation and price increases everywhere. Also, most roles want you on-site or hybrid, many in HCOL areas. Making a move like that means giving up a 2020-era interest rate and completely uprooting my family for a 50% pay cut.

I'm in an engineering subspecialty at a FAANG. Our service is built on industry-standard tools and technology, so I hope my skills will be portable. But with the poor prospects in the market, I may be more inclined to start my own company vs. trying to get in with another BigCo. Plus, all of the FAANGs are fully succumbing to enshitification and aren't that interesting to work for anymore YMMV.
There are studies that show quote plainly that people with kids are unholier than those without. The difference is much later on life when the happiness “winner” switches to the group with children.

One theory aside from the obvious is that the brain makes sense of whatever might happen to it, over time. Like how you miss out on some big opportunity, but years later you say, “ah, that’s ok because it led me to where I am today.”

No idea if that was coherent as I’m a bit tired, but wanted to share
This is where the difference between affordability and safety come in.

Obviously someone making that much could afford to have kids, but assuming tech hub (e.g. SF) cost of living, it’ll take a few years of salary like that to accrue enough financial padding to be certain that a chain of unfortunate events won’t put them out on the street once the cost of raising a family is added in.

This is why you see a lot of high earners waiting until the last second to have kids, if they do. Financial security like you have while making good money without kids is hard to let go of.
Predictability depends primarily on the time scale, plus a few other factors. I have seen existence proofs of mature, disciplined organizations using stable technology consistently hitting >90% of commitments over periods of up to 3 months. Over longer periods or when more research is needed then predictability will necessarily be lower.

While perfect predictability is impossible, many organizations have lower predictability than they could. This usually comes down to lack of discipline, which is a fixable problem (much easier than beating the stock market). Insisting on high levels of discipline eliminates the need for "hero hustle".