skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll explain it in a convoluted way. There is a saying that "knives don't kill people, other people do", which is statistically correct. Meaning that a vast majority of knives are utilized for benign purposes. And it is quite hard in multiple aspects to kill a person with a knife. Same saying can be used for guns, and suddenly not all agree with it. Because guns facilitate easier killing than a knife and simultaneously have smaller amount of benign purposes. And we can also use this saying for example for anthrax. Sure "anthrax" doesn't kill people, other people do. Despite that we don't allow people to buy anthrax freely, because there are no benign uses for it and killing ability is off the charts.

Tokens-as-a-currency is an example of this saying. Sure, they theoretically can be used for some benign legal uses, but technology and implementation is so bad that in practice it is never used as such (I repeat - for completely legal purposes). Most of the people using it are breaking some regulation or laws. Some people break laws in absurd amounts, stealing real money from the governments and funneling illicit gains into offshores.

So while most people can't formulate their aversion to the tokens, I think this is the subconscious reason for it - we are observing an unregulated anthrax in the financial world. The world which is corrupt and dysfunctional as is, but tokens destabilize and corrupt it even more now, making live of people shittier on average globally. And of course environmental aspect too.
How much time you spend reading the news?

It this point, I would probably invest some time into automating it even more. Download all articles, and save them into PDF. Create full text search over them. Use LLM for sentiment analysis...

We did something like that at bitcoin boom.
I can attest to this. Once, a college teacher gave us a programming exercise, and then went on to suggest how we might go about solving it.

While he was talking, I started outlining a solution on a piece of paper. At school, I couldn't use a computer during class, so I'd gotten used to programming (and debugging!) on paper.

When I arrived at home, I typed it in and tried it out. Could I possibly reproduce that Multics story I'd read about?

It didn't compile the first time, but after correcting a variable name, it worked perfectly.
> Real estate is expensive but people keep buying homes

This is such a mystery, why would people buy homes, I just can’t figure it out.

If it weren’t for housing costs, I would have 4 kids right now
Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car
Have fun staying rich :)
And most electricity eventually turns into heat. So there's a limit there too.
Well, robots _will_ put people out of work; I am wholeheartedly for this.

However the difference, is that in the utopia inside my head, we start taxing the rich/corporations and provide UBI to people, our goal should be to mechanise/automate everyone out of jobs where possible and allow them to do whatever they want to with their lives.

The sad truth of the world is smart people invented a machine that can make 10,000 widgets per hour instead of 1 per hour by hand, but did that mean the price of widgets went down? No, and all of the benefits of this machine were reaped solely by a bunch of parasites in suits and ties, who contribute nothing to the world.
If you know what a floppy is, you might need a funeral home soon
Yes. Architectural bloat is probably an underlying cause.

I remember this joke chain mail about C++ being a job creation scheme by Strausrup (his name is impossible to spell correctly ...).

Modern distributed apps certainly are, in most cases.

Security is only a problem if you expose your app to the webs, in the first place.
Just had my first kid at 33 /shrug
Name it "Funky Jon" to make it more international than Czkawka. Given that it deals with useless, dusty, files, I looked at things related to bureaucracy concepts in Polish. "Funkcjonariusz publiczny" (public official/servant), which in turn can be made into Funky Jon.

"Funky Jon" is a funky public servant/official who dusts off cabinet files, removes clutter, and makes the organization run smoothly.

It's "international" without losing the Polish roots.
One of the Authelia principle maintainers here. If there's anything we can do to help with the configuration of Angular we'd be more than happy to via the GitHub discussions.
As a descendant of a long line of professional clowns I'm afraid I have to disagree with you here
Unfortunately, I'm the only child in my family.

I do have 7 cousins, though. And 2 of them (the ones raised by my grandmother that lived next to my house and that I saw almost everyday during my childhood) are the family closer to siblings that I've got.
Huawei had achieved phones with a really strong hardware+software combination. Before sanctions, it had surpassed 20% market share in Europe (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1232281/huawei-smartphon...).

Then the US sanctions, supposedly unrelated to the mobile phone market, hit Huawei hard making it pretty much undesirable to buy their phones in the Western market, and its market share in Europe plunged to near zero. How convenient.

Spanish forums and social networks are still full of "Huawei orphans" who can't find any Android phone in the current market that can match the quality of the pre-sanctions Huawei P20/P30/P20 Pro/P30 Pro flagships. It's a recurrent post topic. I'm one of them, and I'm even considering switching to Apple. My current phone (Pixel 6 Pro) doesn't even come close to my previous Huawei P30 Pro in battery life, signal reliability, heating issues, etc. and it's the same for every other Android model I've seen from family/friends. While it does have great camera and software, in many respects it feels like more of a downgrade than an upgrade. At least I can keep using my Huawei smartwatch which gives me two weeks of battery life, rather than a few days like most of the competition.

With this I mean... China is very capable of developing high-quality products like California, but California can leverage its political and military power to tilt things in their favor. At least at the moment.
So what? If people think that their children's future will be worse than their own, it doesn't really matter what people experienced 500 years ago. A common sentiment among parents is giving their children more opportunities and a better life than they had. If some people don't feel like they can do that (regardless of whether it's true or not), I imagine that's a powerful demotivator around having kids.
They pay their employees (partially) with said stocks, so they kinda need to optimise for the stock price, in some sense.

And who would order them to do this? How would that even work?
If you'd like a newer build of the pre-release they are available. Feel free to reach out on GitHub Discussions (may not see it here but see how we go).
So why bring Trump into a Law 101 topic?

My point is you prima facie should not compare them as the two search warrants are issued with a very different level of scrutiny, and with very different levels of potential physical and emotional harm.

A mishandling-classified-documents investigation does not require a higher level of scrutiny than a domestic terrorism investigation. Trump's search warrant had a higher level of scrutiny because he was President, not because of the type of case.

We can see what the government has done in other stolen document cases, like the Harold T. Martin III case: "The FBI originally believed Martin to be the source of the Shadow Brokers thefts of NSA hacking tools, and used the information provided by Kaspersky researchers to execute a search warrant on Martin's modest residence in suburban Glen Burnie, Maryland, deploying a SWAT team, setting up roadblocks, breaking down the front door with a battering ram, and deploying flash bangs inside the house before removing Martin at gunpoint". (Quoting Wikipedia.) Yes, he mishandled classified documents but no, he was not part of the Shadow Brokers. He may have been simply a data hoarder as "he appeared not to have ever accessed any of the files once he removed them from government facilities".

The level of force used in his search warrant does not seem much different than these Georgia raids.

Or a comparison with Jack Teixiera, also arrested on espionage charges, where the search warrant was executed by heavily armed police using an armored vehicle. At least that one took place in the afternoon when Teixiera and his family were awake and dressed. Here's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eMrlJUeBYU

Again, not much different, but showing it is possible to be a bit more humane in executing this sort of warrant.

We can also look at the Wen Ho Lee case to see what the government does to someone who they wrongly believe to be a spy, when the only evidence they had was his mishandling of "Protect As Restricted Data" work - which they retroactively classified to "Secret" so they could charge him.

Trump called the very calm and non-violent raid on Mar-a-Lago an act of political persecution. Surely these Georgia search warrants may also be viewed as an act of political persecution.
This is pure conjecture (and probably the 2,897th such "article" this year carrying this empty premise).

The chart provided by the article even shows that this year's lay-offs have been significantly lower than last year's, when the AI train was running with less steam...
Even more fun when you are doing ssh, scp and throw in some random nmap in there as well, where -P and -p are both used.
I don't think that's a good way of looking at it. The increase in school shootings is independent of car crash rates.

While it's still unlikely that any given person's kid will be killed in a school shooting, the idea of it is heartbreaking enough that I can understand why it's a part of someone's calculus.
But don't we have that trait already in some form? Some people want kids, others don't. The traits that make a person more likely to want kids will become more common.

If we don't have such a trait and the decision to have kids is based entirely on the environment, then this evolution will be cultural instead of biological. Cultures that have more kids will replace those that don't.
It's just the number of housing units owned versus rented. The occupancy is ignored in both ownership [even if joinly owned] and rental.

As per the definition: "The householder refers to the person (or one of the persons) in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented"
This is almost a solved problem; institutions are capable of sustaining intentions for insane periods of time. The major organised religious institutes have been pushing some basic standards for ethical living for millennia. There aren't a lot of projects that humans have considered worth a millenium of effort. Due to the limited abilities of humans that long ago they are all philosophical projects. But we can do it.

And on a smaller scale, institutions can keep grinding away far longer than makes any sense. A grant and a trust fund can last centuries. Look at the educational institutions like Oxford for interesting examples of maintaining a culture. It is pretty easy to imagine a group like that sustaining long term technical projects.

I don't think a millenium of sustained technological effort is actually that hard to achieve. We've obviously never done it before because industrial society is less than 1,000 years old. But assuming we don't self-immolate as seems likely then setting up ultra-long-term-projects isn't that hard to see.
I’m not 100% sure but I think there are some fundamental differences between wide-body and narrow-body aircraft (things aren’t just a different size but different shapes) that mean you couldn’t just shrink it down and change the seat pattern, but I expect they definitely could base a new aircraft on the same materials tech, avionics, etc. as the 787.
HUD and state/local counterparts should invest in real estate with the sole purpose of lowering housing costs. They should aim to break-even on their investments. They should also directly build and sell houses for profit to compete against commercial entities and drive down new housing cost.
I think you're on the right track. We collectively have an inflated sense of what qualifies as being in an appropriate financial/lifestyle position to have children (I know, because I do it too), but it's not necessarily the same as what qualified decades back. If you have an extra bedroom to fit bunks and can afford a bit more food, public schooling is fairly affordable and a lot of the rest is optional. We just got the bills for our kids' school year and it is nothing dramatic. The extra-curricular stuff (music, sport, etc) is what adds up. Holidays, especially overseas, are expensive. Interior design fit-outs for showy rooms are expensive.

Growing up, I didn't have a console until late teens. My children are 5-11yo and we would have 5+ consoles in the house. Last week, my mother (born in the 50s) was saying that she can't recall having an actual toy of her own while growing up. Now many of us plan to have a bedroom per child, study nooks, a second living room and/or parents' retreat, a dressing room, en suites, pool, and so on.
Exactly, this is why scalpers exist. People have tried to disintermediate them many times unsuccessfully.

If I had to guess, it is that event companies / hospitality / ect. are not in the business of beating scalpers at their own game and as long as they price below the scalpers, scalpers will take this risk for them, if tickets are released at prices above scalpers, they are taking the risk of not selling to anyone.

Perhaps more AI/ML accessibility will beat this, but it will only threaten scalper profits as there will always be a margin of error.
The inherent difficulty in raising kids plays a significant role in my decision. Additionally, I feel we are no longer glamorising parenthood as we once did. I remember when I was a kid, before the internet was a thing, it was pretty standard to see ads that claimed parenthood was an experience filled with joy and no challenges. For the past decade or so, though, I feel that parents are much more honest when discussing parenthood's challenges. We heard about post-labour depression, financial struggles, sleepless nights, end of careers and so on. It's a radical life change, and most of us do not want to commit.
Yes there most certainly is a worldwide convention. Please read the article before commenting. Just because you don't happen to follow the convention does not mean it doesn't exist and isn't worldwide.
Yes, here married men are about 3.5 years older on average than their wives, and average age of mothers has been rising. So, a significant percentage of those men will become fathers after 35, reducing the gap between genders. I think you're right about the second point as well. 87% of single parents in Finland are women, and it's probably easier for the men to remarry and have more children at that point.

Nevertheless, it's also notable that the majority of long-term unemployed are men by a significant margin. Average educational outcomes of women are better than for men these days. There's a much higher incidence of young men than young women dropping out of education and work. These men are statistically much less likely to have children than others.
Pretty much. I used to live in a mid-sized mid-West city in the US and still keep in touch. Most everyone I know bought a house, even with the modest wages they had. Why? Because there are plenty of homes in the $100-$200k range, even now.
I agree, just that I haven't used nor developed for Windows for quite some time, so can't use it. For games it's a natural environment, of course.
Internet investment advice... If the writer was any good, they would quietly invest their money based on their predictions (such as shorting the "bubble" stocks) rather than provide advice for free to everybody else.
They did use metal fasteners, just sparingly, because iron was expensive and often of poor quality. Later on even when quality and availability improved, laws were introduced to limit the use of metal fasteners, largely for political and economic reasons.

One of the big factors in wood selection in Japan is rot and insect resistance. Japan has very high humidity and buildings were open much of the time, demanding resistance to mold, termites, etc.

Another big factor was time. Fast growing species allowed quicker processing, which was helpful considering Japanese buildings have historically not been built to last. Some do last a long time, but most famous Japanese buildings have actually burned down many times, sometimes dozens. Edo (Tokyo) was well known for basically the whole city catching on fire fairly often.

They did use hardwoods, too, but where hard wood was necessary or useful, like in certain beams or components that needed hard wearing.
I am an Engineer and have done things both ways throughout my career. What is easy to miss in digital are the overall holistic design and the way it all fits together, because you are always zoomed in on a particular piece of the puzzle and rarely see the whole thing on screen in a meaningful way. There is just something about seeing a full design laid out on paper, spread out on the table, that lets many little things jump out at you.

If it's important print it out, in large format.
> The chief hurdle in constructing a Death Star is not the energy, materials, or even knowledge needed.

Any proof for that? Death Star is big as a Moon, it has energy of several millions of Suns (it can blow up entire planet to pieces in seconds, just calculate energy needed to overcome gravity well). The only thing we know that could even remotely theoretically approach it, are impacts with asteroids at almost light speed.

Saying the only thing preventing us from building it, is unstable political system, is just delusional! We really need to get away from this "technology will solve anything" mentality!
If you fail an interview because the interviewer was unreasonable, sometimes you should be thankful and think of it as a bullet dodged.

Yes, an otherwise good company might have a bad interviewer, but if they don't have some feedback loop to catch it, chances are there are other things they also don't catch.
One of my grandmothers, raised 3 children in a 1 bedroom house, alone (my grandfather died right after the youngest one was born).

I see people now-a-days complaining that they don't have money, or space, or time and I just scoff at them. We aren't having children because society stopped seeing laziness as a negative trait. Everyone around us keeps telling us "you need to take time to focus on yourself": which usually translates to spending the day browsing through Netflix and ordering food because you can't even be bothered to cook.

This is making for very unhappy, empty lives.
OP is definitely Mormon. Many, many friends of mine come from Mormon families (for better or for worse)
I’m so bored and tired by the afternoon and ready to go outside or do something stimulating that I’d never get anything down
Hey, it's just like in the plot of GTA V :D

I thought it's something absurd Rockstar made just for the plot, but apparently it's a common thing.
Wow, the name Watcom takes me back 30+ years. My first job was porting actuarial valuation software in FORTRAN from System370 to PCs. We used Watcom for the FORTRAN and the C orchestration part, hosted on OS/2. Probably the top C compiler for PCs back then IIRC.
You realize the wealthier a society, the fewer kids?

It’s 100% a cultural norm issue. I was raised in Canada but have lived in Israel for the past 20 years. The vast majority of my Canadian friends have no kids, and the ones that do have at most 2. In Israel, all of my friends (secular/non-religious) have kids, usually 3 or more. The idea of whether you can or can’t afford a kid does not cross people’s minds. You get married, and you have a kid. If you don’t get married, and you can, you still have a kid. It’s just what’s expected. I have numerous friends who are single and made the choice to have multiple kids via donors. When it is the norm in society, it’s just something you do. I am sure social pressure has an effect. You see your friends having kids, then you want to have kids too, and then your kids become friends with your friends’ kids, and it expands from there.

Financially, life in Canada is much easier as a parent when compared to here, but socially, life in Canada as a parent is much harder when I compare it to here.

I have 3 kids - for me personally it was the best choice I have ever made, but I accept that I no longer have my own life. I live for my kids and I wouldn’t change it for the world. It probably helps that most of my friends are in the same situation.
Unless he is gods gift to salary negotiation, if he can afford kids probably one of the 23 coworkers he has had could afford kids
Ask HN: Best practices for backing up object storage?
Our company has about 200 TiB of mission-critical data stored in regional Google Cloud buckets. We are currently planning for better protection of this data and are wondering about any best practices for backups of object storage out there.

Object versioning: our data is mostly written only once, so we plan to enable object versioning to prevent overwrite attacks (or accidental overwrites).

Regional redundancy: we are considering moving all data to multi-regional buckets. This would help protect against natural disasters, fires, etc. It would not protect against systematic errors in Google Cloud Storage, though, so we are also considering an offsite backup (for example to AWS S3 Deep Glacier). Both options would come with significant upfront cost (15_000$ each). We are unsure whether we should choose both of these options, or only one (and which one).

Archival for external backup: about half of our data consists of frames extracted from videos (approx 300KiB each), and the other half are the original videos. Some of the frames have additional processing applied to them and reproduction from the videos is not fully deterministic, so we would prefer to keep the extracted files in the backup instead of recreating them if lost. However, the huge amount of small files (currently 200 Mio) causes significant cost for operations during backup, so we are considering adding a compression worker. This worker would take all the frames for a video and put them in a shared archive, which would then be sent to the backup bucket. This mechanism introduces an additional risk of failure, though, so we are also unsure about doing this.

Syncing between Google Cloud buckets and AWS S3: if we decide to go with backups to AWS S3, we would have to put in place a mechanism that keeps the original buckets in sync with the mirror on S3. Are there any good tools for this out there? If we had to roll our own, we would probably go for some sort of event-triggered serverless function to copy files when they are created / changed on the original bucket, combined with a regular full sync of files (similar to gsutil rsync).

Finally, disaster recovery should be quick but doesn't need to be instant (e.g. within 24 hours).

We're thankful for any input based on your experience!
Honestly, it’s a relief when there’s other kids to play with him. I love having 3 kids in the house at the same time and to just guide them in their play, instead of having to _be_ the playmate. I’m pretty young, but I do not have the kind of imagination required to keep that up for a day :P

If he’s been outside running around the street with his friends all day it hasn’t cost me anything and the evenings are so much easier/relaxed.

I remember that being the same for me, except that I always had people to play with around, because they were living in the same house.
There's a good comment from account jrd259, who worked with Andre, in the previous HN thread about this article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415231). It relates the importance of a private work space with large desks and no notifications.