skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're starting out, you just need a server to run your application and a database.

It literally doesn't matter what service you're using at that point.

I don't see how you need to be "doing things their way" when that's all you have.
You don't need demographic studies. These were people's parents, grandparents. Part of their lived life. Enough random diaries are sufficient.
It seems odd to me that they would describe folks with impairments like dementia as witches or oracles. Do dementia patients make prognostications along with their problems with memory, incontinence, temper?

But I suppose if the dementia appears as an acquired condition then having some ominous description for the victim would help avoid the spread of whatever contamination or infection that could have been an explanation.
07-01-2013, never forget.
Nothing stops like-minded employees from banding together, and forming a collective. Indeed these exist.

As you feel strongly about this, might I suggest you post an ad to find other like-minded individuals to align with and start said collective. (Seriously, I'm not being sarcastic. Collectives exist and do well.)

On the other hand you gloss over the role that owners play - perhaps because you've not been an owner? The obvious one of course being capital - developers like to be paid -while- creating, and not just "maybe later if it sells".

What you call "profit", some owners might call "return on investment". If your collective is prepared to invest time, or money, then indeed they should share in the return (if there is one.)

For better or worse, owners also have responsibilities. As much fun as collective decision making is, decisions do need to be made. What to build. When to hire. When to fire. Who to sell to. How to reach them. How much to spend reaching them. It takes a lot of right decisions to make a success, and only a couple of bad ones to sink the whole enterprise.

But, and this is my point, there are lots of models to choose, and everyone should pick thd one that suits them best. Employer or employee or man-alone. Open Source or Commercial. Hierarchical business or collective.

With software (unlike say, building roads) anything goes. Your future is the one you choose.
You have to be religious, right?

This is the dream for us. We reverted to Catholicism after it became apparent that the secular world was incompatible with us, then eventually found our way to a high fertility parish. It’s incredible. Kids everywhere. Average family size is 5-6 kids. Really hoping our kids choose to remain in this lifestyle and we get to enjoy dozens of grandkids.
>It baffles me.

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. Kids are excited by things adults find painfully dull. Having a weird little person around who is overjoyed playing with a stick is a pretty great thing in a world where there isn't much else to do.

Today people often seem to regard interacting with children to be a form of work. I don't think that our ancestors saw it that way. The kids certainly don't seem to see it that way; they're confused and disappointed when their parents don't want to play with them.

Many of the sociopolitical explanations of falling birth rates have been refuted by the present trends. Birth rates are now below replacement in most of Latin America and Asia, even where economic development is well below the level it was when they started falling in the rich world, and in spite of the persistence of traditional gender roles. Only Africa and the poorest parts of Asia are above replacement, and even then much less than before. Some of the highest birth rates today are in Afghanistan and Palestine. Not exactly paradise.
I believe it's commentary on a mission like No Russian in Modern Warfare 2. It does let you go through the mission without killing anyone, but it strongly encourages that.nthis game has like 5 scenes that mess with such player interactions. Really good way to make us reflect.
Jesus that’s unbelievable. How do you not just read your legislation and what can we sneak into Australian law without them watching?
> It doesn't make any sense to claim that, starting now, the expenses to release are higher than the revenue they would get.

Why not? Distribution isn't free. Contracts that specify payment on gross revenue aren't free. Just because the movie itself is manufactured doesn't mean there aren't still more expenses to be realized in release any more than just because your program compiles it means that your company can deploy it for no additional costs.
This complete fallacy that "people didn't live that long" can't die soon enough. Mortality numbers are horribly skewed by high birth and infancy mortality rates and a spike for military-aged individuals, but people that made it to forty didn't wait to turn fifty then keel over and die.
Love this. I had a bunch of these books I got second hand with some old computer equipment when I was a kid, around 2000 or 2001. I found them all super interesting, and the 'Practical Things to do with a Microcomputer' one especially just fascinated me, as well as the robots one and the 'Experiments with your Computer', even though we had a machine running Windows 98 and dial-up internet by this time and much of the stuff in the books was technically obsolete. But it all seemed super cool what you could do with all these machines, and I was a bit sad that I didn't really understand at that point how to do the same kind of thing (like hardware interfacing to electronics through a parallel port) with more modern computers and operating systems.

I think it probably set me up with the kind of fascination to start doing electronics engineering over just software.
The corollary to that is that narrower (maternal) hips are also not being weeded out of the gene pool.
Post author here! We’re going to reuse a lot of existing bricks like osm2pgsql, postgis’s ST_AsMVT, and the shortbread schema to start with. Tilekiln, the project Paul is working on, is python to orchestrate it all, and regenerate tiles on database updates.
It is still important to a lot of kids that live close by and even those that rarely saw each other (like mine due to similar isolation) still learned from the experience when we were together.

Yes, headlines are meant to grab your attention, but equating this one with the garbage that usually gets a quick Betteridge Law link is a bit drastic.

People pondering the societal implications of rapid population decline is very relevant. I'm not going to get too upset over the title.
The Modern Data Stack / MLOps product space was succinctly described by one actually-technical CEO as "vending into ignorance"; the author corroborates this with a commendably candid take:

>Imagine it’s 2021, peak MDS, and you meet the CDO of a large bank. “Oh cool,” she says, “you’re the CEO of a tech company. What does your product do?” What do you say?

>“We build a tool that leverages the power of the cloud to apply standard SQL and software engineering best practices to the historically mundane (but critical!) job of data transformation.”

>“We’re the standard for data transformation in the modern data stack.”

>I will tell you that, empirically, option #2 is more effective.

This tallies with what I've seen from a lot of enterprise CxOs and their teams as technology hype moved from big data and block chain and onto data science/machine learning.

There is so much to write about this, but I'll just recommend "Life Cycle of a Silver Bullet" http://freyr.websages.com/Life_Cycle_of_a_Silver_Bullet.pdf, which deserves more attention than it's had on HN.
As a quiet introverted engineer who went out on many dates and got married I couldn’t disagree more. Maybe it depends on age. What you say is probably true at age 21, by 29 most of the women I met were very set on meeting a serious life partner, not a bro. I found that actually talking to them about their interests and engaging with that did wonders, even if my introverted instincts didn’t tell me to.
Every living being exists because of the innate drive of its direct ancestors to procreate.
So Planet X could be a large quasi-moon, not only undetectable or merely undetected with our current technology, but orbiting multiple objects at once, throwing off our assumptions of what exists in the oort cloud
It takes a specific kind of person to replace employees with ones who work longer and harder. Normal and actually good employers care about stability.

I assure you, the asshole wont give raises to people who already do whatever they say. I mean why? What would be the point to give people money for no reason?

I have this picture in my head of a programmer failing to be productive because they are constantly interrupted by their boss. Then, in the middle of the night he calls to ask something stupid that could have waited till the morning.
The next morning they sit at their desk all zoned out, trying to gather the monumental will needed to start the same task for the 15th time. They gaze at the wall for 30 min and the phone rings again. Now he wants to know when it will be finished. They want to tell him to leave them the fuck alone but in stead they say 1-2 weeks knowing the task should take about a day.
They hang up the phone and casually browse the web looking for a new job. Oh? open floor plan, nope, this one is not for me either...
The boss is like, I'm going to replace this guy with someone better!, fluffs his pillow and turns over.
More from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333081 (93 comments)
I think this is a naive view.

I didn't have a sense that my grandmother's generation (and all children prior to that) were perceived by their parents as unwelcome consequences of their unrestrained hornyness.

Old literature starting with the bible is full of examples of people lamenting infertility, they clearly wanted kids.

Also, today the only people who have children are the religious, which are also people that have objectively got the greatest control and ability to restrain their sexuality, which kind of goes against what you're saying.

And finally, people forever back had ways to not get pregnant if they didn't want to.
Waymo car vandalized, set on fire during Lunar New Year celebration in Chinatown
Thanks for sharing your experience! That is similar to what I heard from others too. I wish you the best of luck with building the business!
It is a classic.
I dunno, I grew up in a family of 5 kids, and it just never really occurred to me to not have them. I think my greatest regret in life is going to be having only one :/

However, I have no issues with people that don’t want them. To each their own.
> There’s nothing here for startups is there?

Why do you say that?
That was for creating and using ActiveX from C++, I wouldn't count that as UI framework.
Because software developers overseas make barely more than 6 figures usd. Basically everywhere in the US beats that so if you do a "global wage" youd get no one from the us.
When it ends, it ends, and that's it regardless of how many others you created who will now go on to face their own ends. I get that somehow people are able to live in denial of the ultimate extinction of their being, but I never really seemed to be able to get the hang of that. To each their own.
> You can simply ask yourself "do I want to live in a world where this happens" - and any decent person would say "no".

I think any decent person would say yes.

I'm sure it is a bummer for those people, but they were paid to do a job, and don't own the film.
I suspect we'll see a broad slow down in classic ML approaches. If I just need a basic classifier -> GPT-4 can do an OK job. Spending an afternoon prompt tuning is vastly cheaper than a dedicated team of scientists and engineers curating datasets and running experiments. For many SMBs, this effectively eliminates the ML function.
Both sides have good points. Things could easily be improved to facilitate more child-rearing. Most metro areas should get a bump in salaries and hourly rates. I think 30 to 50 percent to cover inflation is doable.

With how poised American infrastructure is for a huge wave of massive investment and upgrades, the economic boom following that will more than justify the increase now to fix what's left of the covid supply chain crunch.
Maybe a docking station for the phone with all the peripherals plugged into that. That's how I work now with my thinkpad and 3 monitors and other devices already plugged in ready to go.
it's only more difficult if you are paranoid.
Technically the US dollar is backed by the US government which includes a massive military to protect its interests. The government and military require enormous energy to do this. So the printing of the money by itself is not the only energy that paper money requires to work. By comparison, Bitcoin uses hardly any.
The opposite of OSS is not "write your own", it's "buy commercial".

And while (clearly) that would "cost more", the difference would be insignificant. In the sense that lots of companies already buy everything commercially, and the software budget is trivial compared to just about everything else. We buy a lot of software that we use, and our software budget is still smaller than our coffee budget.

OSS delivers many benefits, but I'd argue that "price" is not the primary one. (It just feels that way when you're a student.)
> Wang was a figure skater and journalist before entering the fashion industry.

“Accomplished nothing”
Oh you know, the big bad government just going after The Small Guy (oddly the one who openly flaunted laws)
> instead of paying for delivered value

Here's your mistake. Companies have never and will never pay for delivered value. They pay the least they can to get an acceptable candidate. The difference is important, and the mentality that companies are paying for delivered value rather than the minimum acceptable amount leads to these mistaken conclusions often.

As for why? Because their goal is to maximize profit of course. Why pay more when less will do? The overseas dev should be paid less because their opportunity costs are much lower, so they accept a lower wage.
> they defended privacy in a way Firefox never could

I have some familiarity with Brave. They use Chromium (or some components of it?) which is probably more secure from attackers. It has some built-in privacy, but how is it better than Firefox's?
I think that over time the usefulness of many such examples diminishes, but at least in the transition period to the new tech I see them very useful. We will see soon:).
That sounds good if you're an Aussie. I'm honestly confused why there's still so few options, but I guess most radically new standards got a comparatively slow start.
more expensive than when? people had nothing 150 years ago and still had kids, mind you
In my area these houses are snatched up by real estate companies and turned into rentals within a week of closing.
Distribution isn't free but it's pretty cheap for getting to sell tickets in major theaters.

And if it's that bad then why don't you sell to a streaming service for one million dollars? Then you only have to deliver a few files and nothing else.

Contracts based on revenue are fine in this situation, aren't they? If you only get moderately low revenue, then you don't pay much into them.
They tend to be used as a precautionary measure, where the risk of enforcement action causes the majority of bad actors to reign in their behaviour.

Then theres self reporting to the government department of fairwork (https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/compliance-and-enforcem...) which then leads to action being taken in a % of cases and sets an example.
We have better things to do than hump like rabbits? We don’t need kids to work the farm, or to provide net positive muscle power input to the economy. We have machines for that.
Their achievements don't just come out of nowhere one day. They spent much of their earlier lives compounding their skills, even if that meant failure.
Maybe a policy like this might work: for every child you have, you get a lifetime 10 percentage point reduction in income tax rates.

Suppose the top rate is 37%. Have one child, now for the rest of your life, your top rate is capped at 27%. Have a second child, now your lifetime top rate is capped at 17%. Third child, capped at 7%. Fourth child, never pay income tax ever again.

But, a lot of people will object to such a policy. Childless people will end up having to pay higher taxes as people with kids pay lower or no taxes–some may accept that as their personal sacrifice for the greater good, many likely won't. Others will object to the fact that the biggest benefit is going to be for the middle and upper classes – who are most likely to pay the higher tax rates – while having far less benefit for those on low incomes, who pay little or no tax already. There is the (difficult to quantify) risk that unsuitable parents may end up having kids just for the tax benefits, and then mistreat/abuse those kids. Given all these objections, I'd be surprised if it ever actually gets adopted. But, in terms of increasing TFR in wealthy countries, it might actually work.
> the religious, which are also people that have objectively got the greatest control and ability to restrain their sexuality

I cannot properly put into words how different the reality you live in must be different from the one I do.
Are you Pieter Levels from NomadList? :)
The early days of the internet were dominated by InfoSeek Net Search, then later on Alta Vista was the search engine of choice. Then later on, Google appeared and everyone else couldn't compete.
Fira Code supports stylistic sets, so you can actually configure whether == and === (and != and !==) do that, and leave weirder ligatures out of the defaults. In VS Code, for example, you would change editor.fontLigatures from true to "'ss08'" to make them still ligate together, but with breaks between the = signs. I use ss06 to make backslashes faded when they're used to escape other characters.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only part of the world where the fertility rate is still over replacement (~2.1 children per woman), and it's rapidly dropping there too. The first African country has dropped below replacement (Mauritius), with 10 more (of 55) having dropped below 3 already as of 2020.

China is seeing a population decline not caused by famine for the first time in modern history.

India's fertility rate is at or below replacement at this point, and India is a couple of decades from population contraction unless they increase immigration.

Having 3 children at a young age is an outlier in the vast majority of the world at this point.
Is MLOps more or less of a thing than prompt engineer?
> There's only so much you can do. You can introduce as much subsidised childcare, parental leave, flexible working conditions, free higher education, etc, policies as you like – those things can alleviate the disadvantage to other life goals of having kids, but are unlikely to ever be able to reduce it to a level at which it ceases to be significant.

Reducing disadvantage to insignificance is indeed unlikely, but if things were structured such (for example) that working a part-time job paid a wage capable of supporting a family, that’d go a long way. It’d enable parents to work full-time for the extra cash for some period of time prior to starting a family to build substantial financial padding and then drop back to part-time once kids are in the picture, opening up time for parents to be both parents and be people.

We’ve seen incredible improvements in productivity in the past several decades, so there’s not really much reason why that shouldn’t be possible.
I can understand residents not wanting businesses right next door, but how many cities ban apartments on top of businesses? That seems pretty common IME, but maybe I've misunderstood what I was seeing.
> I get that somehow people are able to live in denial of the ultimate extinction of their being

Is that truly any more likely than the non-extinction of our being? It seems like a safe assumption as a default, but…
Didn't know Ollama was used in production. I use Ollama + the Ollama Raycast plugin as it's probably the quickest way to run an LLM locally
I don’t think it’s selfless or selfish to have or not have kids. It just is.

There’s no reason to say it’s selfish tbh.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108374

It is imminently within the realm of possibility that a smart watch can, with minimal human intervention, redirect the current driverless vehicle to an emergency room. I would not be surprised if the iWatch->phone->CarPlay integration were to expose this path in the next or second-to-next major iOS revision.
Technically yes, although it may not be respected.

> Elements from other namespaces may be included pretty much anywhere. This means that most RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 modules may be used in Atom.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html#extensibility

I believe this wasn't included because you can just set the Expires header on the web server to control cache times.
The faith was never there. AI might turn on us someday or become racist, etc. https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-...

The faith is in nature from which human beings created the technology to solve things and make life easier. AIs are basically toasters that can solve problems, not like a human being that has feelings or even a soul. Remember the Sci Fi warnings of Cylons, Terminators, where the AI becomes a Frankenstein's Monster and turns on its creator.
I’ve always wanted to see something like a common port dictionary or encyclopedia. Just a big list of all the ports, each with their common usage and the history behind it.
You need to find a way to release this product. I would pay to use it.
Your comments look pretty angry to me, with lots of extra punctuation, ridicule, and insults. It's too bad we can't connect right now. I think you have some good points, but not to the exclusion of others. Have a good one!
> I feel like no successful person would describe what they did before they became successful as "nothing"

My favorite life motto that I stole from who knows where: Do things that, if they succeed, make the rest of your life/career look like a footnote.
One simple issue would be if your object looks like

x = {"__proto__": {"foo": "bar"}}

now x.foo is "bar" if that's JS code, but undefined if you JSON.parse that same object definition from a string.
Seem needlessly harsh to humans, is there some less hubristic animal? The other animals don't even know the word, and they'd pave over rivers too if they even were capable of having bad ideas, I mean it's not like beavers or termites are exercising wise restraint.
Agreed. If it was "RLHF a LLM in <50 lines" I feel it would be clear, but "lines of Python" implies something different.
I am confused about what the guns are for if not for killing people.

It seems like you already said you dont believe in just circumventing due process and the judicial system so I am just at a total loss in trying to understand why the police would need guns. Maybe killing dogs?
This is unnecessarily confrontational and inaccurate. According to census.gov, the current national homeownership rate is hovering at about 66%, which is about the same rate that it's been (+/- 3%) since they started tracking in 1964 [0][1]. This isn't restricted to old people either: 49% of 30 to 34 year olds and 58% of 35 to 39 year olds owned a home in Q4 2023 [2].

There are certainly regional differences in housing affordability, but the average American lives in a home that they own by the time they're 35.

[0] https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/current/index.html

[1] edit since there's some confusion—here's the direct link to the table I'm citing from, entitled "Quarterly Homeownership Rates for the U.S. and Regions: 1964 to Present"—https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtab17.xlsx

[2] "Homeownership Rates by Age of Householder: Fourth Quarter 2022 and 2023"—https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/qtr423/tab7.xlsx