skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way overdue. OpenStreetMap's website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced three years ago) are not rendered there because the maintainers can no longer be bothered, or dislike the tag personally despite broad community backing.

What worries me for this new effort is that Paul Norman is one of the two remaining Carto sometimes-active maintainers who refuse to merge contributed PRs or even provide alternative minimal support for features like highway=busway, leading to awkward gaps on the baseline map shown on openstreetmap.org.

I would love to be surprised in a positive way about this new effort, but I'm not holding my hopes up. Thankfully OpenStreetMap can be thoroughly useful in apps like OsmAnd and OrganicMaps, and the tile-based Tracestrack Topo layer on openstreetmap.org is getting quite decent:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#layers=P
I notice that this isn't even close to the claim GP quotes you making. It's wild to me that you're out here telling the other guy to just own up to their "misunderstanding" while furiously backpedaling your own.

There is subtlety of the "renters are probably systematically undercounted due to the vagaries of householding" variety, but that is neither a straightforward effect (a homeowning married couple with 2 of their parents and 3 adult children under the same roof and 1 single renter in an apartment = 50%!) nor is it remotely what you were saying to begin with.
You (as a US citizen or company) would acquire one from a US vendor. Exporting outside the US was illegal, using it within the US was not.
Average day care in bay area is already 2500, before feeding and clothing the kids, or any after school activities.
Many animals are extremely social - they'll attack you for taking the group's resources, they won't necessarily have any individual resources. At the extreme end you have things like ants with no individuality, but you also have social mammals that are more group-oriented than individual-oriented.

If you look at anthropology pre-modern humans were extremely family/tribe oriented. Resources were generally the property of the tribe as a whole. I don't think that the modern understanding of personal property would translate well to someone from such a culture, which makes me sceptical of the idea that personal property is an innate element of human nature.
"The amount of work".... oh dear. As if caring for other people is only work. From what will you get distracted by having other people around you (kids)? From Instragram? Cycling? Reading books? What intensely important things do you have to do that deserve no distraction?
Having kids is not work. It is not only joy either. It is just the natural way of being a human.

The - natural - way - of - being - a - human!!!

Natural, like sleeping. Eating.
Sure, sometimes kids stress you. But then, nature has made sure that you'll mostly remember the good moments. You don't have to be overly perfect to have kids. Just don't be an overly bad person and talk to them often. Whatever environment they get born in: they will be ok with it. You don't need to be grandiose. Do what you naturally can, what you enjoy. And they'll enjoy it.

Humans are made to adapt to having kids. Kids are made to adapt to non-perfect parents. Just avoid the obviously bad stuff and all is good. Your life is good. You looking back on your life will be good.
I imagine we're also at the point with these kinds of bikes where whatever marginal weight shaving you might achieve is lost in the noise of variation in rider weight?

I'm just speculating really though, I ride a Dawes tourer that's older than I am.
As someone who has managed to accidentally and completely fry a Windows install with an unchecked C programme when I started to learn programming - there's still you can screw up using just code.
You can also make them in the shape of a mighty cheese:

https://youtu.be/BTrgdhq0vTw?t=72
Oof, my experience is the exact opposite. I was raised Catholic, and my family attended mass every week. I realized I didn't believe in god in my early teens. For many years after that I really wished I could believe, tried to believe. My parents had me enrolled in CCD (for those of you not Catholic, that's basically the Catholic version of what's colloquially known as "Sunday School") through 8th grade. I participated in some of my church's youth groups, and was friends with quite a few religious people.

But it just didn't work. I wasn't a militant atheist; I just questioned things, and was frustrated when my elders would shut me down and hand-wave my questions away.

I gave up in my early 20s. That was 20+ years ago. I'm still an atheist. I don't have a problem with religious people, unless they try to force their beliefs on others (especially when they try to use the political and legal process to do so). But most folks seem to just want to live and let live. But I no longer think there's something wrong with me, or long to be "normal" like my peers and believe in a god. I can't imagine ever believing, regardless of what communities I find myself a member of.
That's nothing to do with number of engineers you have.
Tidal energy comes from the moon (and the sun) pulling the oceans as the Earth spins. Extracting energy from this effectively increases the drag between the ocean and the land, which slows down the rotation of the Earth. This effect even occurs without extracting tidal energy, and some of the dinosaurs (IIRC) had 19 hour days.

The amount of energy in the rotation of the Earth is so huge that this basically doesn't matter, 10
TW for 660 million years, which is into the realm of "will too much carbon be subducted for photosynthesis to continue?" timescales.
I would love a more systematic approach to this none-coding part of coding. I mean I doodle little diagrams and write notes on scrap paper but nothing so rigorous as what Andre is doing.
Probably reasonable to label as a shenanigan if they try to differentiate with a emoji file extension.
Metamaterials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial

- "Temporal chirp, temporal lensing and temporal routing via space-time interfaces" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162149 :

- > "APL special topic: Time modulated metamaterials" (2023) https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/123/16/160401/2916954

- "Incandescent Temporal Metamaterials" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162302
Indeed! Carry burn about 4% per hour a pilot friend mentioned last week. Flying is more like space flight than driving in this respect.
For what it's worth, I got politely turned away at the PostgreSQL devroom doors when I was about 10 minutes late to a session. Perhaps this is not something that got passed along to all volunteers.
People who cite interest rates and economy are coping hard. It's all of a sudden a factor now but never was before. Apart from dotcom specific crash, tech has seen relentless growth, until recent years where it was shown firing people had no negative effect.
I don’t think that’s because of the layoffs though so the original comment is still valid.
Well, those other companies paid taxes as well.

Plus you can only save taxes if you’re paying taxes in the first place. A company that only loses money isn’t going to get paid.

I’m not sure that scheme works work out another trick.
For those wondering how they transfer the generated energy from the tidal kite to the shore:

> The turbine shaft turns the [onboard] generator which outputs electricity to the grid via a power cable in the tether and a seabed umbilical to the shore.
> Despite working in big/small orgs I always reacted with massive surprise whenever a team/company said they have X employees, X being an order of magnitude higher than what I expected.

Ye it is silly since I too never seem to stop being surprised. The programmer bloat is insane. And ye I know everyone need 50 programmers for Antarctica fishing law compliance.

I work at a machine industry company now, and programmer RnD is probably just twice as many as "needed". You probably want about that to have any chance of keeping continuance.

The prior automotive company I worked for suddenly increased my department of programmers like 5 fold, forced Agile processes etc, for no reason at all with less output due to programming being the future etc.

The programmer market have to be a bubble? Programmers in the 90s seemed to have been about 5 to 10 times more efficient (as measured by headcount), than nowadays.
> One could argue that women being part of the formal economy is also out of an exploitative playbook.

That's the whole point. Now we have two solutions:

- make the playbook less exploitative, leaving to time and resources being shared more equally among people

- get back to a caste system where half of mankind is barred from non-family-related activities.
> The secular way of life exalts the individual

Wow, that is not my experience at all. I think in some ways that's perhaps a very US-centric view, even though I'd still consider that a flawed way at looking at secularism in the US. Most of the developed world is fairly secular (even among those with religious beliefs), and extreme individualism is not as common as you seem to think.

I do wonder how common your attitude is among religious people, though. If it's common, that would explain a few things...
You're naive if you think that in the richest moment in the world history people are not making children in the richest regions for financial reasons.

That's nonsense. Poor people always had kids, still do. What changed is that people aren't able anymore to make sacrifices, huge in time and money for kids.
I'm sorry but the line of business software most of us work on is not more impressive than writing a major component of a file system from scratch.
https://brisk.news/read/articles:heodjj4z8no00m96ssh0
Fine, if that's your argument that childless people are leeches and shouldn't have a voice then give me back the tax money I pay to subsidize you.
Yeah I read a bit further and realized it's tied to Ethereum. But there seems to be an on-chain and off-chain design that I don't get.

Either way I'm staying away from anything that's tied to a crypto coin. I know Ethereum is also contracts, but I just feel that crypto is tainted with scams. If a technology wants to use a block chain, fine, but why tie it to a monetary value? That's when you start stepping over the line of tech and into people's life savings.
So these companies exist in a different reality where they draw their resources and labor from somewhere else? Where else would labor come from if not the public?
A significant fractions of this layoffs weren't engineers but instead worked on moderation. When moderation was gone, antisemitic tweets (among others) became ubiquitous, which drove advertisers away.
I also worked with a 60+ woman who once said at the lunch table "if you're a 35 year old guy and single there's something seriously wrong with you". Maybe you would have hit it off with her.
Of my friends, 35+ something in Italy, only a handful has kids.

The others gave up or don't care or haven't met anyone (which they also kind of gave up a long time ago).
I used the word "symbiotic" and not "parasitic", in a symbiosis there are mutual benefits: while labour is exploited and I only get a portion of the generated value I also get the benefit of not risking myself going solo, nor having all the stresses of having to cover sales, marketing, product development, and so on.

It is still the same: the value extracted is only possible to exist because of many like me, doing labour to create added value which can be sold, without this there's no management class, there's no administrative tasks to perform around the work.

My comment is a retort to this mindset:

> and they're also the people who pay you.

They are only able to pay me because of the work done by many like me, their power can only exist through this conduit so bending over to view the ones in control of capital as "above me" being the "who pay you" is absurd in my worldview. They have their reason to exist but need to respect that without us they are nothing, absolutely nothing. Just like me without people taking care of a business would be in a less comfortable place.

Again, it's symbiotic and I'm just fighting the notion that someone should shut up or think of themselves as lesser because they are being paid by someone, that's only possible through a mutual relationship.
That is true but aluminium requires less energy to recycle when you're finished with it.

I have bikes made of steel, aluminium and carbon fibre. I don't worry about the longevity of any of them.

Hydro-formed aluminium is cheap, relatively light and easy to live with IMHO. Horses for courses.

I also think geometry of a frame is far more important than frame material for things like comfort but that's a different story. i.e. how much can the seat post flex.
I'm more worried about pollution and all the "lifestyle disease" that fuck up our gene pool personally (diabetes, obesity, hormone disruptors, &c.)
No, the hypothesized planet X would have a mass of on the order of 10 Earth's, and would therefore be too heavy for that.

A quasi-moon is a relatively lightweight object which shares an orbit with a host planet, but doesn't (noticeably) disturb the orbit of that host planet.
Well, that was the most annoying commercial break ever.
You're edging on the laws of thermodynamics there: on a long enough time scale all energy is non-renewable, every little bit of consumption gets you that much closer to the heat death of the universe. But given the vast reserve in that system for once humans won't be able to meaningfully affect it unless we start consuming far more than we do today. Interesting aside: that momentum is a giant energy reserve and conceivably you could rob some of it to create a means of escaping the gravity well even if there had not been any other.
Are the gravy days of tech over?

WFH, as much as I love it, has opened the eyes to more remote work. AI/ML tools means senior workers don't need as many interns to do tedious boilerplate work.

AI/ML tools can also break down language barriers, and other things between companies and remote/foreign work.

Of course, you still need experts and top talent if you're trying to be a market leader - but what about junior workers? Fresh grads?

If these people have to compete against low-salaried competition from abroad AND AI/ML "assistants", what will their moat be?

I've seen a lot of experienced workers dismiss the threats of cheaper competition and AI/ML, but juniors obviously do not have the same leverage...

EDIT: And obviously the end of ZIRP means that startups etc. can't simply try to out-pay their (profitable and cash strong) competition, if they're not flush with investor money. I'm excited to see how the largest tech companies will set the course, when it comes to talent management and comp policies.
But you don't understand, I once had to replace chart.js 3 with chart.js 4 and the documentation didn't cover all of the changes. This man would have collapsed into a heap if he'd had to face the challenges I've faced.
Some numbers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power#Principle (last paragraph). Tidal energy is wasted by natural coastlines all the time, being converted into heat and erosion. If this effect is constant, it looks like the day gets longer by 7 minutes 12 seconds every 36.5 million years. (I calculated that because it's a 1% reduction in rotational energy.) Human extraction of tidal energy is much smaller than the energy wasted by tides acting on all the world's coastlines, I assume. To some extent it takes energy away from coastal erosion, which also seems fairly benign.
https://archive.ph/2024.02.09-014705/https://www.nationalgeo...
I was in a similar boat but did end up having a son recently with my wife. I am still pretty sure that I would be happy without kids but I am also happy with a kid. One thing I think people do tend to overestimate is how much work kids will be in the long term. Yes, short term is crazy, the first couple of years are very intense. But they become more and more independent each year and grow into an equal member of your family. Think about your own parents. I don't think mine were significantly constrained in their life after we turned 10. I mean if you think you'd want to go one month long solo travels each years that's a different story but otherwise kids can be pretty independent. I stayed home alone for a week because I didn't want to go on family holiday when I was 15.

If kids stay one year olds forever no one would have kids, you'd go insane. But that's not the case.
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You don't have to think of this as replacement, but as a multiplier. If AI can make 1000 engineers 1.25x more productive - with good auto-complete, boilerplate gen, auto-generated docs, faq bots, then you can do what you already did with 800 engineers.

Although looked at another way, it will give you more for the same money, so maybe it will make some projects more worth to work on than they were previously so you'd rather hire even more people, because more projects would cross the threshold of "being worth for the investment".

So there's multiple forces acting on this, it's unclear how exactly it would play out.

In addition just standards and competition for existing things may rise, and the productivity gains will just go there, because you have to build 1.25x better products to compete.
> Now back to the show,

The original claim was that with go, doing certain pattern "[...] guarantees that you can never forget to validate the username through any codepath". Which is not true. It is not true, because go has its own billion-dollar-mistake called zero values.
Hey one of the Authelia developers here. We're very actively working on a very large release (it's just going through the peer review process and it should be good to go) and we currently have a pre-release for users to dive into.

I can understand the security concerns but we are regularly taking measures to ensure no zero-day vulnerabilities exist, there are no known vulnerabilities with Authelia at the present time either directly or via the code-paths of dependencies we actually use.
Because it hasn't started to bite enough yet for the most desirable targets, coupled with politicians that have painted themselves into corners and are struggling to find ways out.

E.g. in the UK, the last several Conservative governments have on one hand presented themselves as tough on immigration, with deals to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (a few hours worth of applicants is all the deal can accommodate), putting them on barges (another few hours worth), turning back boat refugees, etc., while at the same time presiding over the largest increase in net migration in British history.

Predictably the conflict between that image and reality is starting to cause problems for them, and while immigration numbers are still high enough despite a process that is intentionally hostile, eventually the supply of people wanting to come will dip below the numbers that still allow the UK to be selective about whom to accept.

We've already gotten a slight taste of that with the sharp dip in EU/EEA migrants, who, as it turns out don't feel the UK is worth it enough to go through the immigration process vs. just showing up the way we could before (I'm in the UK with EU/EEA Settled status), and it's caused assorted groups complaining..

It will take until you have broader labour shortages before you see the real pressure though - especially countries buffered by unemployment will be able to put it off a bit longer, but when it hits, it will hit hard and just raising fertility rates won't be sufficient, because it has a lag of 2 decades of worsening conditions before it even starts reversing the drop in the labour supply.
To me this FOSDEM (my first one) was nice, but nowhere near the level of spectacle I'm used to from Chaos Events (I didn't expect it, but maybe a bit more would've been nice). It felt a bit dull - mostly people wandering around in narrow hallways, with talks hidden away in small rooms. There weren't many fun gizmos or nice places to make the experience ... comfortable. Every once in a while someone would play on the piano, which was nice.

Of course the people were great. Lots of nice conversations to be had. This is why I'll probably return for the next one.

A lot of the fun I had happened during Byte Night, where, during a break from partying, I stumbled upon a buch of people doing a Typescript CTF, which evolved into quite a few nice conversations.

I was pretty tired on day 2.
I didn't realise Bitwarden had taken VC. That's sad. I'm not going to transition away immediately, but I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it.
While overinflated headcount is a thing, Twitter isn't an example that anyone would want to follow unless they wanted to destroy their reputation, tank their revenues and allow competitors to appear in what was previously an untouchable monopoly.
> This is a weird point of view to me but still a valid one.

definitely rather weird than valid
I would add to this is that the social pressures for having children have significantly diminished. I see a lot of people commenting on the side that having kids has become more difficult, which there may be some truth to but what people seem to ignore is that it has gotten a lot easier and more enjoyable to be a single person without kids. Society has adapted to this new cohort of childless adults and are catering to them in new ways.
Apparently even Paul Norman is tired of contributing at openstreetmap-carto.

Honestly of the maintainers imagico is the one I'd say is impossible to reason with.
Simplest might be a classic spin top toy with a paper cube shell.
It might be. He fired a whole lot of moderators who would oversee the removal of content which, among other things, would be distasteful to advertisers. It’s possible that before Musk joined Media Matters would not have been able to find anti-semitic posts next to Apple advertisements due to their removal by moderators.
Front and rear lights seem to have diverged in design recently. They don’t look similar at all when illuminated. It gives some sort of character to the otherwise sameness. To me, half of them look like Angry Birds. Presumably replacing them costs a limb.
Fwiw my parents grew up poorer than me and had a lot of siblings. Listening to one of them, they had to refrain from flushing the toilet to save on water, shared beds, dropped out of high school to get a job etc. It was a totally different world but rightly or wrongly lots of child bearing. Among the older gen siblings (6) about half had kids.. no more than two each. In the subsequent generation again some had kids but only one or two. I have kids, wanted more but wife didn't. In this pace of things the birthrate clearly is going down. If two people have at most two kids then population is going to decline.
This little footnote made the obituary of RSS even more hilarious:

> As it happens, Dixon's very own website has a functioning RSS feed. He may not even realize this, as RSS is so ubiquitous that many website and blog software products either build it in by default, or make it easy to add with simple plugins.
Has far more to do with interest rates than AI.
> his job is OpenAI

And it's society's job to hold him to account. That $7T isn't coming from nowhere: it's ultimately sourced from the graft and economic contribution of millions of people. However small their individual contributions might be perceived as, they're real. Society has every right to scrutinise and challenge plans: the bigger the plan, the bigger the societal impact, the more it should be scrutinised.