skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it makes me feel bad (though not too bad at this point) that I have to log off at quittin' time, sharp, to go relieve my wife of some childcare and make a family dinner.

Nah, this part shouldn't be related to having kids or not. Even as a single person I have to log off to live my life, and overworking is not cool or hip.
200tb is little, depending on your constraints you can even fit it on a hard drive array within your office. There are so many options, if you would list your requirements, constraints or the problem you're trying to solve exactly, that would help come up with a proper advice.
If 25% of your code is boilerplate, then I'd think it's time to invest in better tools, libraries and abstraction. What happened to "don't repeat yourself?"

However writing the code is just such a minor component of developers' time, if an 25% improvement in efficiency is desired, I'd think no time at all can be spent anymore on writing the code.
> It depends… on operator precedence

I think implementing operator precedence in ANY programming language is a mistake. `1 + 1 * 2` should be a syntax error. In C, in Python, in Java.
Current NVIDIA stock is a classic example of a gamma squeeze. If a market maker is short a call/put, he is hedging with stock in the direction of the movement. If you buy out of the money calls(i.e NVDA stock is at 500 and you are buying a 520 call), especially shorter dated ones, then the market maker will end up supporting a rally if it comes around via hedging(this is also exacerbated by the fact that retail, which is the segment of the market usually "aping" into OTMs, doesn't actually trade the vol component of options, meaning that they don't sell short stock as it goes higher).
Yep. I mostly meant for or rather caused by this kite. I wouldn't expect it intuitively, as it's just a big object in the water, not moving erratically or obstructing anything.
> But in this case, the "napkin" math of 95 years would be off by 200 years!

Which is fine, because 300 and 100 are the same order of magnitude ;).

> Still confused where you come up with 105 years as an order of magnitude from 30.

30 ≈ 10^1

105 ≈ 10^2

Here you go.
It's not due to a move to AI-enhanced workflows. The article speculates that it's caused by companies wanting to develop AI-related products, moving some workforce and culling the unwilling, just like my employer.
I'm currently in the middle of finishing a degree in CS. Do you think this will help me in terms of employment knowledge? I know they are completely different fields, but would base knowledge of the fabrication process not demonstrate a wide breadth of knowledge in CS to some degree due to its adjacency ?
I think this is the main issue right here. The others being increased housing cost (you need space for kids) and increasing costs (daycare, kindergarten, nappies etc.).
I specified Android/NDK for a reason, the NDK has all the same C, C++, SDL, OpenGL, Vulkan stuff that you will find on GNU/Linux.
It's about 1/11 scale of the real one, so the next size up from what Blondiehacks is building, and a bit more complicated and detailed. But essentially the same thing, a steam loco that runs on coal & water and works just like the real thing in every respect. See https://i.imgur.com/GuHR2j6.jpg

It can haul me and about 8 or 10 other people. It's a pretty popular hobby - look for live steam on YouTube.
As long as regulation drives the market towards oligopoly, breaking up companies does nothing. What is needed is for conditions to change such that competition becomes viable again. In some cases this will be impossible due to financial constraints.
woah I'm so glad he did it, I now got better picture of twitter altogether.
> Multics operating system at Honeywell in Cambridge

Still surprising how much entrenched the computer industry was (and probably still is) within the military complex.

I'm curious if there is a list somewhere with big, consequential IT/computer programming stuff that has NOT had any direct connection with the military.
> The point is that "I don't want to have children because I'm worried about the impact of climate change" (social) or "I don't want to have children because I think it'll be too expensive" (economic) is not caused by biology

How do you know that? Are those really the reasons, or is the underlying reason "I don't really feel an urge to want kids, so I'm using this reason to justify it"?

Evolution works slowly, but that's because most traits have fairly minimal benefits. Marginally better eyesight might mean a 2% better chance of procreating. Assuming there's some genetic factor for "emotional desire to have children regardless of the circumstances", the chance of procreation rate for that is rapidly approaching 100%.

It's obviously far more complicated than that - it will be an interesting question for future biologists - if there are any!
Poor people always existed and they always had kids. I wouldn't be here replying you if that was not the case.
The fact that "..pretty much all games i play are Windows games..." is the proof it won't last.

It suffices for Game Pass and Epic Store to be more appealing to studios targeting Windows, plus all Microsoft owned studios being taken out of Steam.
> 15 engineers

I'm pretty sure engineers can still afford kids, it's just very time consuming and you'll have to settle for less in term of vacations/neighbourhood/purchasing power/carrier/&c.

But yes, most people can't afford having kids that's a given
I had an ok career in software engineering (Android/iOS -> backend -> engineering management) before getting MS in Bioinformatics and starting a PhD in Medicine.

For me, the pain points are often the same as in business. Biologists with no data analysis experience want something done without understanding constraints. Requirements are often not understood and there isn’t a good plan.

Some people do indeed suffer from code being slow and this can be solved with better tools. I works with large datasets in single-cell genomics (over a million cells) and the model takes ~12 hrs to train on an entry-level GPU. So, most o my time is spent at trying to understand the results.
> No :)

That would be a bit surprising. Any statistics to back this up?

The TFA doesn't mention which gender it affects the most, but similar issues in Japan (taijin kyofusho / hikikomori) are more widespread among men. Also the quote from TFA

> "Parents give everything to their children to ensure them opportunities, and they also expect a lot from their children," she says. "They believe their children must inherit the wealth and social status that they have achieved."

Clearly applies to men first. In South Korea the culture is still very patriarchal and pressure on young men to deliver success/money/legacy is high while women traditionally are not seen in that role (and as a result are really discriminated in pay etc.)
I vigorously disagree.
A 3-minute motivational read for everyone interested in becoming a tech manager.
Yes, I actually published that shortly after this post. https://paulmcbride.com/posts/sunsetting-wecode-ni
Credit card companies are parasites that take their cut but offer no real value. They are cancer to the economy so should be destroyed.
Unison – Programming the cloud ought to be delightful
And some muslim comunities deliberately prohibid female education as a support for this theory.
Every time someone posts a counter argument, people pick on it. Please stop.

Oh really, don't: that's what the discussion should be about.

You are certainly right to a point, but a better way to redirect positively is to ask: how can we come to a state where similar feats are possible today in a company setting?
> which is about 25km west. This helped a tiny bit.

It would help a lot more if they added a zero to that number

> because he's being outbid by chinese "students" (lol) to the tune of +$500K over the expected price

I believe that’s a real problem but only in certain suburbs. If you are a well-off Chinese businessperson or government official, and you want to get your money out of China - in case Xi Jinping suddenly decides he doesn’t like you any more - splurging on a residence for your kid at uni in Australia is a good way to do so while complying with the laws of both countries. Still, while it is a real issue in some areas, at a national level I don’t think it makes a huge difference - there’s lots of housing in Australia which isn’t that close to a university campus
I'm a little interested in one of these as an option to eventually replace my Dell WD19 USB-C DP-alt mode dock for my Dell notebook and my Desktop PC which connects by HDMI cables.

One question I couldn't see an answer to is whether or not the I can make the network port "sticky" to my Dell notebook (plugged in over USB-C), or will it "move" to my Desktop PC when I switch to it?

I read last year how recent standard made higher wattage delivery over USB-C now standard (I think it was the latest Thunderbolt one), so I'm waiting until these monitors can do that.
Silly, but a good way to get across the point that you dont know what youre missing out on, or something
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> the average American lives in a home that they own by the time they're 35

According to [1] relative monthly fertility rates for women drop from 1.0 at age 30 to 0.65 at age 35 to 0.1 at age 40.

If your society wants to raise birth rates, you can't rely on 35-40 year olds to do it.

[1] https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/fei/at-what-age-d...
Doesn't this really only hold true if you handwave away the emergence of new denominations within those religions over time?
Affordability has rarely been a concern for having kids.

I grew up poor and people never "thought" about affording kids, just had them and figured things out along the way.

It seems it's a self-filtering mechanism in the upper classes, that put all kinds stops before having kids (e.g not ready/mature enough yet, not financially stable, etc) and usually end up having one at most.
Scientists Have Made a Record-Setting Fusion Energy Breakthrough
I think there’s a lot of gate keeping and having some formal degree is a pre-requisite. And be advised that pay isn’t great either.

But bioinformatics is an umbrella term. There’re so many different things people do. I started by identifying field I’m interested in (ageing and immunology) and backtracked from there.
Hypothetically, if 95% of code is from the company and 5% is from community, would it be possible for company to remove commits made by community, reimplement affected parts and move the project from AGPL to closed source?
Imagine a battery fire in flight - it would be devastating. However, since any sort of fire in current aircraft is still a very serious event, I'm not sure that would be a retrogression
An experimental AI wearable recognises objects
For that example, I agree, but how about

a | b || c >> d & e * f

? I think its reasonable to say that a language should not allow that
Hi, your first comment ("Life is a hellhole") makes me think that you don't seem to be in a great place mentally right now. It's definitely your choice, and your decisions, but I would advice to review those views with someone else other than the internet. Whatever works for you - a friend, a therapist, a family member or a priest.

Consider this: despite life being "a hellhole full of tragedies", hopefully you don't resent your parents for giving birth to you?

My view is that life is both: full of tragedies and hardship, yes. But also full of wonders and joy. It's a full package, you seem to be only seeing one half of it. And to be clear: children are the same. A package, with joy and love and laugther but also hard work and tiredness and effort.

Hopefully this comment does not sound condescending to you, I am really trying to help. Have a very nice day.
"Might" is doing a lot of lifting there. If you know what ChatGPT is you might also need a funeral home soon - people die at all ages.

I think whoever created that ad is too young. The ad clearly suggests a 3½-inch disk, which came out in 1983 and was still widespread until around 2000-2005. This means plenty of 35-40 year olds used them, who are still decades from likely needing a funeral home.

OTOH, there's probably some 80+ year olds who never used them.

The styling of a 1960s era transistor radio would seem a better fit, but perhaps too ancient for the creatives who came up with the ad.
> humans can’t immediately parse structure with a glance, and sometimes we have to count parentheses by hand.

This is why automatic indentation is important when working with Lisp. This is mentioned later in the article, but I consider it mandatory because of the multitude of problem this approach resolves.

For example, upon pasting the below snippet into emacs:

(let* ((foo 10)
(bar (+ foo 32))
(* foo bar))

The editor 1) notifies me that there is a missing paren somewhere, 2) automatically* reindents this code into:

(let* ((foo 10)
(bar (+ foo 32))
(* foo bar))

At this moment, it's obvious that we have three variable bindings, one of them malformed, and the programmer can correct this by planting a missing paren in the proper place. I wrote about this topic at length in https://mov.im/blog/phoe%40movim.eu/cd3577f6-fb1d-45f5-b881-... before.

* with aggressive-indent and electric-indent enabled in emacs, as soon as the missing paren is placed at the end
Many cathedrals took hundreds of years to build. The following around 500 years: Cologne Cathedral, St. Vitus Cathedral and Milan Cathedral. Sagrada Familia was started in 1882, and Gaudi is dead for 98 years. If the emperor demands, it will be built.
> Here’s the same code, but with all parentheses in place:

(define (fac x)
(if (<= x 0) 1
(* x
fac (- x 1))))

Still one pair missing.

Is it true that in normally formatted LISP code, every line should start with an opening parenthesis?

Btw, I prefer Haskell's syntax of

fac x = if x <= 0 then 1 else x * fac (x-1)
Kalman Filter Explained Simply
What is Temu, the website you keep seeing ads for during the Super Bowl?
There is value in notational simplicity.

For the same reason that math has defined precedence (and even omits multiplication signs entirely in many places), programming languages in some domains will choose to do the same.

It’s not a problem if you want to create a language that does not do this, but I think it is a problem if you want to ban others from doing it.
What baffles me is that even Brazil has the same rules: prices need to be displayed in standard units (per kg/g, or per roll of toilet paper, per unit inside a multi-unit package, etc.).

If a large developing country (almost on par in population and area size to the USA), with extremely messy bureaucracy and taxation system can do that, why can't the USA? I have to believe it's by design and choice, not from a lack of need or capability.
I hate making tools rather than models but I know tools is the hobby for many people and enjoy watching other people make them on YouTube.

I agree, being able to harden steel or anneal copper or cut threads is awesome :)

I love having the machines & tools. It's nice to know I can make something, and it's even come in handy for work a few times despite the fact I'm a software developer - brackets or adapters that must be metal and not 3D printed.

You will have saved money at some point... perhaps 40 years from now!

I'll never recoup what I spent on the machines, but other people spend that much on travel and hobbies (like motorcycles) every couple of years so it's not an outlandishly expensive hobby.
90k Years Ago, Humans Walked on a Moroccan Beach. We Found Their Footprints
The correct term is "per mil" or "per mille" (‰), equivalent to "per cent" (%).
I would go with two approaches. One in-cloud backup, maybe the same provider (to save traffic, but under different account).

Second low-tech offline onsite backup. You do not even need large server to plug all hdds at once, just swap harddrives like CDs or VHS tapes...
The vibe in this thread is so hostile, and the most vociferous posts are from the pro-children side of the debate. I have no deeper comment to make here, I just find it a little shocking how aggressive half the posts are.
Ah yes, the Romanian orphanage concept. I did wonder when Eastern bloc policies would see a resurgence.
Already went through the first few chapters on this one. Really good! Good pacing and structure
You can take any reasonable grammar and come up with unreasonably ugly/illegible code.
Isn't this a bit like claiming that main reason of drowning is water?

The real questions here is why people given opportunity to not have children jumps at it.

My personal opinion is that children are not that great - too much responsibility, too little support from society, too many of them behaves like little psychopaths most of the time (this can be probably cured with strict discipline but stress free upbringing seems to be in vogue). And the things that children "give" in return are rather questionable (especially for people with low emotional needs like me)

Most people probably like the "idea" of children but the practical side of having them is mostly boring ungrateful work that takes greater part of you life away and there is inherent risk that it can never end (I do not understand how anyone would not take into considetation the consequnce of having special needs child)
> This sounds really cool when you're young, especially if you write code, but it's an anti-democratic idea.

Is it? Code was deemed free speech, after all. So suppressing it would be anti-democratic, not spreading it.
Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7T. That's, uh, a lot of dough
> People deciding to have or not have kids is a conscious decision based on their life experiences.

You're just looking at those who don't have children at all vs those who do, but that's not the whole story.

People don't decide these things in a vacuum - all over the western world statistics show that people have on average one child less than desired - mostly due to external pressures like availability of real estate and/or stable employment.

The environment simply doesn't support having more children, so those who do have them don't allow themselves to have more - much like animals which don't breed in captivity.

Countries like France largely staved off population decline because they decided to create an environment where people can have children as they naturally would.
Was my first FOSDEM too and I'm definetly planning to attend next year as well!
One thing I didn't like was how crowded some of the rooms were. I wanted to watch some talks in the rust devroom but it was so crowded I pretty much gave up watching the talks live and spent my time behind the codeberg stand.
Luckily theres recordings of the talks online ^^
Coming from Java, Scala, Javascript one nice benefit of Go, was no parantheses around if conditions. At first I thought an irrelevant change but now I do think it makes code more readable.
i was surprised to find that my natural-language notes from my electronics notebook from the last month total a quarter megabyte already. about 37000 words of markdown

a small fraction of that is urls for electronic parts, but nearly all (90%, say) is just english text. another 10% is stuff i quoted from other people (web pages, manufacturer app notes, books, etc.) it is a single file and will probably continue to be a single file forever, at least for the rest of the year. if i continue at the same pace, that will be 12 megabytes. there is nothing impossible about that at all

(if you're interested, git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/leatherdrink.git. it's currently almost 200 megs because i checked in the avr toolchain. there are also photos and videos and schematics and stuff)

in a programming language the growth would be fewer bytes per month, but perhaps by a factor of five
No not really. It's more for electrical or computer engineers. However there's nothing wrong with gaining more knowledge for the sake of it and it can be just nice knowing a bit about how your machine actually works.

Of course, maybe it is more useful if you're into some really low level programming. But for most CS hardware understanding isn't necessary.
musing over what might have been seems pointless and the only safe bet is probably that it would have gone a different way
Institutions sustain themselves or rather the jobs of the controlling minds of the institution. Today’s Catholic Church would be viewed by its founders as some kind of uber-hippy bunch of democratic maniacs out to destroy civilisation.

I think the difference here is we can view a company / institution as a machine to do a job, and between a company that has a controlling mind able to change its own machine “code” hence chnage its job.

Without software the two things are needed - but with software we can concieve of a programmable company that just does its tasks as assigned for as long as inputs occur. If those tasks involve say sending jobs out to gig workers the idea kind of works

It does mean you could build a Death Star using robots in place of gig workers (which is the obvious multi-generational solution)

But it does imply something about our companies - that once the whole company can be specified in code, splitting off the “controlling minds” bit (ie management, plus developers) into seperate location seems interesting

It also explicitly makes the issue of who decides what chnages and how come to the fore
Yep, just got mine sinking in after a week. In retrospect, going to a nearly 10k attendee event without a mask was not a smart idea...
Are atheists only "militant" in your point of view? As an atheist I can say that the only way for me to believe in gods is to simply fake it. This believing "at will" is rather interesting concept, but I honestly can't comprehend it.
maybe they were just more skilled or working in a better working environment

i mean they might just be smarter, but that's far from the only explanation. they could be working harder, or have better mentorship, or not have to deal with productivity sinks you do, etc.
That’s the kind of odd construction I frequently see from people shilling crypto.
Looking at hardware might be a good way to see how the "alternate universe" plays out. Hardware isn't free and can't be infinitely copied. So if you want to be a self-taught EE there's a certain minimum financial barrier to entry (like you have to buy FPGAs and breadboards and soldering irons and so on). There are far fewer hardware hackers around probably as a result.
As I said, when talking science it’s not “a preference”, rather just stating a fact. I’m not advocating for the usage of exactly the same terms in other settings.

Also, there’s a lot of getting offended on behalf of others these days. That’s not something I’m willing to entertain.
The Grey Dogs channel between the Scottish islands of Lunga and Scarba has a peak flow of about 15km/h with large standing waves - quite incredible to watch this up close and watch the sea shooting past!
Measuring Stack Usage the Hard Way (2023)
Indeed, I wonder what is the reason. The only explanation I can think of would be that the event is already widely advertised by "authorized" partnering media - who thus have an interest in preserving the aura of the event - and scaring everyone unauthorized of trying to mention the event might be a disguised way to avoid critics. If you cannot name the super bowl, you cannot write an article about its ecological impact, the commercial revenues, the working conditions, etc.

But I have absolutely no knowledge about the event, so if anyone has a more informed opinion, I would be very interested.