skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 bedrooms plus a bath on 55 sq/m sounds pretty tightly packed huh, mind sharing a listing? I’m quite curious as to the layout.

I’m in Belgium where we’ve historically built larger than necessary apartments (and houses) so there’s a decent amount of housing stock to raise a family in, but the tides have turned and new apartments are also mostly smaller 1 and 2 bedrooms targeting singles. The latter sucks because if you’re a young family looking for an affordable but modern place (read: energy efficient) your options are slim.
I think I would word it differently, but I more or less agree. Skin in the game is important.

Particularly with people who are old with no kids, I don't think they are totally cynical, but they do seem to have an incentive to vote society into schemes where they are taken care of by younger people, at no cost to themselves or their descendants. For instance they could decide the government needs to take out a massive 30 year loan to pay for care homes to be built.

But I also think that just because you have kids, that doesn't mean you're completely aligned with a longer term future. There's going to be a lot of desperate older people needing help from the few young people who are left, and that goes regardless of whether they made any of those young people. I mean sure, if you have kids you are less likely to be as short-termist as a childless old person.

I think it's a major issue that doesn't get talked about enough. People are happy to say "oh but plenty of old people care about society" which is true, but there's also plenty of foreigners who care about society, who can't vote. And it ignores the actual problem that we will be facing, which is that there will be fewer working people supporting older, non-working people. We need a system for equitable power sharing between generations.
Both address sanitizer and UB sanitizer work for me (macOS-13.6, Intel). You have to add a library search path and the appropriate `libclang_rt.*` library to your build.

Library search path is `/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/lib/clang/1[4-9].[0-9].[0-9]/lib/darwin`.
These days there are too many information published as newsletter and will require some tools to reverse publish it as RSS. RSS is not dead, but half way there sadly.
> We're about to hit increasingly aggressive competition both to hold on to people, and to attract immigrants as more and more countries start getting bitten by demographic shifts.

This has an implied assumption that either more population is always better or that for all of the countries the current population is below the optimum level.

What if for some countries the best population size - the one that provides the best quality of life for its citizens - is close to the current one, not larger? What if for some countries the most favorable population size is below the one they currently have?
Bet on Love: The Prediction Market Dating Show (Ft Aella)
Midwest ain’t the best metric mate
Very bizarre. It seems that anybody wanting a few minutes of fame is trying to ride Sam's coattails. This read like an incoherent, unhinged rant of someone with a mental illness, not a supposed distinguished scientist and author.
I've often thought why not dam a whole estuary or bay and use hydro to collect the energy on the the fall and rise of the tide. I know the environmental impact wouldake it unpalatable but are there any reasons it wouldn't work?
> Sometimes all you need is a summary, you're not a chemist

Certainly. However a text summary is still much more efficient (unless you’re watching the video mainly for entertainment).
Organ Donation Law: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
Absolutely well said. I agree a 100%. If someone wants to be selfish, let him be, but don’t expect the rest of us to give much credence to his opinions since he very well doesn’t care about our society.
I’m going out on a whim here but surely putting $7t towards solving something like food poverty in the undeveloped world, or subsidising renewable energy for the average person, would be of a much greater benefit to humanity than further lining the already bursting pockets of entitled individuals.

Call me old fashioned but having living, healthy humans is more valuable to humanity than an, albeit impressive, text generator
I fully agree with the sentiment, but I am bit... confused? with the section that raises possible concerns about the negatives of LLMs. In particular the "women" mention, without any ellaboration.

Am I missing something? It feels pretty lazy. Like an enumeration of things we are supposed to care about, rather than an effort to build a solid argumentation against Sam Altman's fundraising effort.

And I have other issues with how these potential problems are framed, as if something that happens kind of organically and not a symptom of an increasingly plutocratic system. But admittedly maybe that's me being uncharitable to the author.
> 0... second cousins? Cousins-once-removed? Whatever the one is for my cousin's kids.

Your cousins are theirs once-removed, i.e. 'cousin but one generation up'.

Second cousins are their children, i.e. same generation but up and across first.
It could be partly due to normal harmful random mutations reducing the mother/baby's fitness, which are now being allowed into the gene pool more than before.
I think there will be an A380 again, unless you think air traffic will go down, and I don't see any trend of that. Number of runways is a much tougher constraint to expand than plane size, so the segment of point to point occupied by A330/350 and B787/777 will ultimately be also saturated and require bigger planes.
BookmarkManager.com [self-promotion]

The solution I was looking for:
- browser independent
- works on desktop AND mobile
- has tags (more specifically EXCLUSIVE tagging)
- low friction / integrates with my workflow (easy to add and find bookmarks)

It's a personal bookmark manager. So everything is private. You cannot share collections.
I don’t get your point. If you run a business, money that you spend is subtracted from your earnings.

Are you alleging that they made the money for fun?
That they never intended to release it?

That’s they spent 10 dollars to save 3 dollars in taxes?

And then you pay taxes on earnings.

That’s not cheating and it makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
If it’s just static content it wouldn’t really be that expensive. In reality egress traffic is extremely cheap compared to what Azure/AWS etc. are charging.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/1-severn-tidal-po...
"Brussels is allegedly very nice, however I’m not a big fan of the way trash is handled"

Politicians also invented orange bags, full of smelly compost. Hopefully FOSDEM is not organized in August.

The HSBXL party was the last one (la "der des der"), they gonna destroy the building. They ran out of beers at midnight, organizors had to rush to the nearby pakistanis shop to buy the stock of beers :-)
Free market is a kind of natural selection. People with inner desire to procreate will spread themselves, people without it won't. Pro-natalist cultures (e. g. orthodox jews) will procreate as well.

This inner desire wasn't selected for strongly in the past because there were other mechanisms to nudge people to procreate (social norms, lack of birth control), but I expect it will play a much bigger role in the following generations.
Use ~/.ssh/config to add per host or wildcard values for port :)
Sending encrypted email in the US was NOT illegal. Sharing encryption libraries was.
Nope, read it on my Kindle Oasis (I believe 2nd gen but not sure), and it was perfectly fine.
Capitalism does not tell us we should live our best life. I think there are strong arguments that capitalism (particularly concentrated private investment in housing) causes low birth rates, but I don’t think capitalism itself causes some kind of consumption-fueled decadence causing us to prioritize fun over children.
I'm not sure how to respond to comments like this, because they obviously aren't made in good faith.

Potential parents today aren't choosing between "having kids and sending them to slave away in a factory" and "perfect childhood with every toy imaginable and no financial need."

The contemporary Western world is immensely wealthy on a material and informational basis, orders of magnitude beyond even a half century ago. I don't think people understand this at any level, mostly because they don't know much history.
I remember the news telling us that all sorts of unexpected devices had computers in them these days and computer=Y2K bug risk. Microwaves certainly did so fridges would be an easy leap to make.
Sam Altman:

A man who can't seem to help out his own sister, is now going to save the world with a 7 trillion dollar LLM fund.

Thats 10 years of the us military budget.

Thats the GDP of Japan and India Combined.

Sam Altman is to tech what late 80's telivanglishts were to religion.
Two Times in a row i got home from fosdem absolutely sick. It's always cold, rainy, the campus is an order of magnitude to small for the amount of people in attendance and the lecture rooms windows aren't opened long enough to deal with all the People Smells that accumulate. If you go there, were a Mask at all times and desinfect your hands frequently or you will end up sick.
Oh, and drinks are cheapest from the vending machines because they are from the university, not from the commercial vendors.
Visualization of a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters
It's been done. Biggest one is Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station[1] and France had a 240MW tidal plant since the 60s [2].

This type of project has been few and far between and I would guess they might be very costly to build and maintain compared to the harvested energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihwa_Lake_Tidal_Power_Station
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station
This whole discussion is kind of silly. 7T is 8% of global gdp. If your thing needs 7T of investment to happen, then it’s not going to happen.
I have a similar setup (32TB NAS + Jellyfin). I use three different Radarr instances (1080p/4k/Anime). Every movie that I've liked on LetterBoxd gets downloaded automatically in 1080p / 4k (1080p for streaming outside my home). Jellyseer allows me to give access to friends and they're able to request stuff easily that's not on streaming. I also use Infuse on AppleTV which has support for Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision. Absolutely amazing once you get it setup, I've been slowly rebuilding my blu-ray collection digitally too.
Yeah, that's definitely not a Rails-specific problem.
It's just peanuts compared to having one less job for a while.

Maybe that is what to do, give tax credits on the order of an income. That way you are basically tax free while having young children, but you'll still want a job when they are a little bit older.
People just want to be part of a community. Most of the time the only available open communities are church communities, so that's better than nothing.
First off, you shouldn't ever feel guilty about prioritizing your family over work. Please, never do that. I say that as a single 35 year old male. Secondly, I want you to understand that, though you may not realize it, you are in an extremely enviable position. To understand why people are not having children, you need to understand that in many places, it's not easy or convenient to have children.
If the market value was nonzero, why would they be scrapping it?

They could still count the delta between their production cost and the money they got as a loss and deduct that from their taxable income, no?

They have no incentive to underestimate the value of the final product.

Income - expenses = taxable earnings.

As a business, the money you get by earning a dollar is always bigger than the taxes you pay on it.

If they’re scrapping it, they are clearly deciding that the cost of finishing and marketing this movie is greater than the value of the movie.

What am I missing?
I have for years wanted to build a digital clock using water. I believe fluid gates and transistors are a thing, but they probably depend on a substantial flow/current, and I imagine they'd be hard to miniaturize. So you'd need a big header tank (corresponding to a high Vcc).

The display I envisaged would be a seven-segment dispay, made simply by pushing a dyed immiscible liquid in and out of transparent tubes in the display window.

I expect it would be messy; imagine waking up to the morning alarm, reaching for the snooze button, and getting a bucketful of cold water tipped over your head.
It's already been released and publicly available for free for almost a year.
I learned that OSS is actually worthless. If the code, as an artifact, had any value there would be all kinds of tax implications.

This is a weird point of view to me but still a valid one. I agree with it to some degree: Having the code is not as valuable as the capability (skills, knowledge, etc) to change it. In other words, the most valuable part of an OSS project is not the code but the core developers.
I see three reasons here in this thread:

1. The post is already about an alternative to the mainstream (Spring), so adding another alternative seems perfectly valid.

2. I know neither Spring nor this alternative, but want to add the one framework I know of. This gets increasingly popular after previous 1./2. responses.

3. My/my company's badly tested pet library, let me show you it.
s/HW/HN/?
> The "tightness" of the steering and the suspension varies drastically between vehicles

I could push your argument forward a bit more: the same vehicle can have tightness change as speeds goes up: electric power assistance progressively reduces as speed goes up. Why? because electric power steering is so powerful that it would be too easy to quickly turn wheels at speed. So the helper reduces, making it harder to turn the wheel in the same way that it became harder before power steering because physics.

I needs more force, but the lag doesn't change, and neither is the gear reduction ratio, nor the absolute angle of the steering wheel to the actual angle of the wheels relative to the body.

> I think it's very relevant to know that cars already take the direction of the tires/rims/wheel as more of a suggestion.

I see this vehicle as introducing a fundamental breaking change in how automobiles are being operated:

a) previously: you the driver physically control the car parts. You drive, operating the car by transforming high level intent to low level commands. You're the pilot sitting at the helm and your job is made easier with some helpful systems (ABS, ESP, cruise control, automated transmission, lane assist, what have you) that you can shunt.

b) this vehicle: you communicate intention "I want to go in this general direction" / "Set a course to Rigel VII. Maximum warp" and someone else follows your instruction and drives the car for you. The physics is abstracted away. You're not the pilot, you're the captain, and captains don't go to helm.

Up til now we've seen a) being progressively automated, working up towards full automation.

This vehicle instead appears to be designed to be designed downwards from full automation, offering a degraded mode of operation from full automation that looks like a) but is fundamentally different from a).

You can't shunt systems because that would prevent the actual pilot from operating the vehicle. In fact the pilot could very well do things that would be surprising and you would not be able to override it because your role is higher up.

I fully expect this design to lead to the cap'n turning the wheel slightly left but the pilot "refuses" to comply and slaloms around a bunch of pedestrians.
I am not so sure. France experienced its decline in fertility about a century earlier than its neighbors (see figure 1 in [0] for instance). Did they have better contraceptives?

Traditionnal methods such as marrying late (see: European Marriage Pattern), pulling out, timing are very effective at _reducing_ the number of children you will have (note: not effective at reducing it to zero - don't do this at home kids!).

[0] https://www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/Blanc_secularizat...
> It was a very interesting point to make.

I didn't find it interesting.

Every game has things you must to do make progress, and with every game you always have the option to stop playing.

Contrary to your comment, Spec Ops: The Line actively denies the player agency. Some commentators suggest this is part of "the point". It seems far more likely to me the developers simply didn't have the budget for a branching storyline.
Meet project Atlantropa, a proposed plan to dam the Mediterranean (or more accurately the atlantic ocean) at the strait of Gibraltar. A project so absurd and gigantic it would deserve its own thread really.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
This is a lie and has been debunked.
I have a variation of this as well. Boring is good. Docker for deploying whatever means I can deploy to any docker capable platform, which is typically some kind of set of vms with a load balancer in front of it. Our setup runs in two separate and very different cloud environments. One of our customers insisted on this. Same stuff but provisioned differently.

We don't use terraform on purpose because it is overkill to automate something that only comes up less than once a year. Doing it manually and documenting that is good enough. And with these kind of intervals, the automation tends to break down anyway due to changes. You get funny issues like "the last time I ran this script is two lts versions of Ubuntu ago".

We do have quite a bit of build and deploy automation via github actions. That pays itself back because we use it every day.

Otherwise, the choice is between managed and self hosted databases, search clusters, etc. Managed is more expensive. But it massively frees up my time which is more valuable to me. So in one of our data centers we do managed and in the other one we self host because the cloud platform in question is just not great (obsolete, unmaintained versions of all the stuff I care about).

You might conclude based on the above that I know nothing about devops and have never worked in teams where it is done properly. The opposite is true. I've been there and seen it all. The reason I do this is that I don't have the budget to do this properly so I'm literally trading off my own time here. It's a calculated choice. So no teraform because it doesn't make sense at our scale. No Kubernetes because the idle cluster cost with nothing in it is larger than the total cost of my current setup. And I have a monolith so kubernetes is just a really convoluted way to run a single service.
It is even more fun for folks writing window managers, they have literal edge cases to deal with xD
A century ago it was also normal to have two pairs of parents living near you to help with childcare.

I don't know how common it is today, but it's certainly much less common than it was a century ago.

I've decided not to have kids, but quite a few people I know have been having them, and there's a stark difference in costs between the friends who have family nearby and those who don't. Several new parents I know even decided to move to be near at least one set of parents, at least for the first few years of their kids' lives.

I don't really know anyone who has decided to not have kids primarily because of cost, though. But I don't know if the child-free people I know are typical.
Cruiser (proprietary but free of charge): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cruiser
Easier to hide the secret electric engines when the frames are thick /s
I shall call him, "Mini-moon"
OTOH, there were practically no examples to draw from. There was no virtual memory class in their OS-101 course. These people pioneered OS design.
Is the theoretical cost to reproduce what OSS has created even the important metric here? The benefit to society seems like it has been many many times greater than the value of the labor contributed to open source software.
"Rock climbing is the new golf": I never thought about it in this way, but it makes a lot of sense. In both sports, most of the time is spent waiting/resting. This makes golf clubs and climbing gyms as much places for social contact as places where you go to train.
I think it's a really cool idea. How To Invent Everything (by Ryan North) describes a water logic gate that works as either AND or XOR gate depending on which drain you look at.

I have my doubts about pulling it off as he describes, though. It depends on two streams of water flowing out of angled pipes such that such that when they both flow, they collide and combine into one stream falling straight down. That seems pretty finicky to get right.

Edit: Someone did it! The AND gate worked great, the XOR not so much. So they made it out of greedy siphons instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw
Great addition. I remember that I also looked at Obligator and saved it to my bookmarks. But I decided against it because IMHO the project was just a bit too young. Normally I tend to ignore that, but I really didn't want to switch auth/SSO solutions in a couple of months time because of a lack of maintenance or something like that.
This is crazy.

Kids born today will have the best material, educational, medical wellbeing in the whole human history.
You've also made the case for railway travel, except the last mile car. But that last mile car is an impediment in a proper (dense) city with proper transit.
You can develop a database schema for your application on dummy data, and test your business logic on dummy data. But you can't develop a machine learning model on dummy data.

It is best practice to keep live data out of your development environment for normal software development, but it is impossible for machine learning projects.