skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know Winston (VoiceDream developer) personally, but there a bunch of things that impress me about both his product and himself.
On the product side - it's long been a well established app in the space. I think it's been out for 10+ years, offers a lot of voice options, handles a lot of input document formats, has good support for offline playback, and has been well featured in a bunch of publications.
I was also very impressed when I read this : https://www.voicedream.com/macos-reader-subscription/
I really admire Winston for bootstrapping VoiceDream for so long - his initial users bought the iOS app for $2 and he has held true to continuing to provide them with the feature set that grew considerably since the app's origins.
His blog post also details how he was on vacation when VoiceDream had a P0/downtime issue and he caught the first flight back to address this, motivated by many users who really depended on the app (such as students studying for exams).
There is a ton to admire here.
I have been obsessed with this balancing cube forever now
Well it combines website lookup + bittorrent client + viewer. If you're happy with apps that you use for that then popcorn time doesn't really bring anything to the table except the all-in-one solution.
We had an application engine come in and run an ML project.

The first thing he did was remove real data from training, as he was shocked to see that development wasn’t done against dummy data.

And once the dev environment is running on real data, the changes in how you develop and operationalize just seems to cascade in my experience.
I agree, I especially liked that they guy asked if they were still making the normal peanut butter cups. No need to repeat the debacle of 'New Coke' aka Pepsi.
Average life expectancy is a very bad number to compare across such vast amounts of time, especially when you're looking at a disease that only happens in advanced age.

Infant mortality rates were dramatically higher in the past and drag that average way down, for instance, say I have a 1 day old infant, and a 100 year old person and they both die, they have a combined 'average life expectancy' of 50 years old. But, once you made it out of the 'childhood illness' mortality stage, most folks could expect to see 70 years old.

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-n...
I dig your optimism!
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/11/06/marriag...

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/09/14/public-...
Historically as in recent history or more distant?

In more distant history, yes most women had children and many men did not.

In recent history (in the west), I believe the ratio was much more equal due to culturally enforced monogamy. Obviously it was never 100% followed but I believe it made a very large impact on this metric.
Yes, well....
I have fond memories of these books, particularly Write Your Own Adventure Programs[0]. If the number of times these get bought up of this website is any indication, a whole generation of programmers were taught by cartoon ghosts and robots putting numbers into boxes.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/2/usborne_computer_books.html
Australia has strong labour laws, but my impression is that its culture is losing its historic comradery, possibly in response to density beyond what its cities can handle, and the housing crisis.

This news is a welcome win for labour laws.
False, folks just choose to live in places they cannot afford. Plenty of small towns in the US dying for new blood. You could buy a block's worth of houses for what one in SF, Austin, Seattle, NYC, LA, etc. goes for. Remote work + starlink makes this possible.
Depression isn't always treatable, although it's worth a shot.

But it's a serious mistake to think it's a fact about the world. It isn't. It's a fact about you.
A fire has no cortex whatsoever, and yet if fire did not continue doing what fire does in order to stay fire - turn things that are "not fire" into itself- it would cease to exist altogether. That's all there is to it. There is no big picture.

edit: I expected apathy at best from a comment this deep in a thread. Now, granted, HN does not stand for Hard Nihilism, but four downvotes with zero explanations in under an hour suggests there is an incurious hostility toward the view that people (myself included) are, like fire, essentially just echoes of thermodynamics.
Increasingly people feel pressure or obligation to go to college and spend their 20s getting established in a career. By the time they feel ready to have kids it's more likely they'll have trouble.
Probably. But some percentage of people who buy into what the company is doing are willing to take lower pay to work there because the pay is "enough" or whatever.
For me it is the second worst thing. I'm trying to look for jobs that can be done from NZ. I don't care where the company is based.

Searching for remote jobs brings up jobs that can only be done by people living in [UK, US, NL, DE, etc]. There just doesn't seem to be a way to filter jobs by "will they employ people in my location".

Infuriating!
I feel bad for the illustrators of three-armed, seventeen-fingered mutants, document summarizers, and fact-hallucinating management consultants who've been replaced by AI this year.
The average American owns a home. Current homeownership rate it 66%. Some states such as Iowa and Minnesota are particularly high.

If you're referring to people of child bearing age though the rate is lower.
I'm baffled my peers, who absolutely could afford to, still have no interest. These are people making 150-200k (and at my prior job, 200-400k).
> Only in the Western first world is this now normal

It ain't just us, my friend. Births Per Woman:

1.64 USA
1.34 Japan
1.28 China
0.84 Korea

> we've just been raised softly and do not value children

Now that women are part of the formal economy and everyone has options for entertainment other than unprotected sex, the mechanism by which the formal economy used to offload the entire cost of child rearing while reaping all of the benefits no longer functions.

We have two paths: dust off the shitty exploitative playbook of yesterday, or build a new playbook for tomorrow.
Are you Australian?

Union membership is at an all time low

Workchoices in 2006 and Murdoch’s associated anti-union campaigning really did a number on the Union movement here in Aus
I've changed the formatting to do that above - I hope it's better now!

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Well then this is a great time to buy if you believe in SMIC and China because they have not been doing great https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ch...
In a world where "this" means what exactly?

That's what the line is for.
There's also https://recalendar.me/ that does something similar and is open source. It does struggle with larger documents, but everything happens locally.
It hallucinated. Nothing new or unexpected.
If you wanna give it a another shot and you like Zelda, check out my profile. We'll be kinder.
There’s not a lot to be charitable about in the parent comment. Some poorly researched race replacement bs?

You personally are right, it has never been safer health wise to have children. It has never been more expensive either, win some, lose some.
This is very well written and the last paragraph really drives home what a disaster this is
So wait its not good for cops to execute people at will or what? Now I'm confused...
Unfortunately not from woodworking yet, but I’m hopeful. I have some rental income, some savings, and I still do some consulting a few months out of the year.

Dining tables seem to be the best margins, but I don’t have enough work to do commissions, so I’m going out of pocket to build on spec. The good news is a lot of high end furniture is very simple. I good sense of design goes a long way.
The headline didn’t say “reshaping the cousin experience”. It said “childhood”. Unless we’re ready to say any change is dramatic, this is the type of unprovable puffery in a headline that Betteridge’s Law was made for.

FWIW, it’s true of my kids too. But growing up, my cousins were in a different country and I wasn’t close. So my kids didn’t have an experience much different than mine.
My father is 14 years younger than the next oldest sibling. My mother is 12 years younger than the next oldest sibling. Because of this my cousins were all much older than me and not people I interacted with. My little brother, my only sibling, is 14 years younger than me. My oldest is 11 and by the time my brother does have kids, if he has kids, my children will be probably be close to adults.

Fortunately my ex-wife has a lot of cousins she is close to and her sister has a daughter right in the middle of my 2 kids so they have 1 first cousin they are very close with but they have no interactions with second cousins outside of seeing them every few years at holidays.

Regardless, having no real interaction with my cousins growing up, I can't say if my life would have been better if I had.
Technically still from Finland, I was already physically there. But legally, from the US.
it has it's arms collaborating with it's wheels
Since we're being pedantic here, it's just over half an order of magnitude, and could be rounded up to 1.

log(95)-log(30)=0.5006
Related:

How SSH got port number 22 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33363795 - Oct 2022 (2 comments)

How SSH Port Became 22 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21350246 - Oct 2019 (81 comments)

How SSH port became 22 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552100 - July 2018 (95 comments)

How SSH got port number 22 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178091 - April 2017 (207 comments)
> It's really awesome for search

Is it good for anything other than search? I don't need search that much.
I did not understand the post.
Because you’re assuming just from the name or photo thay someone knows the language and have job permit.

This means children from immigrant families growing up in Europe would be discriminated against simply because of how they look and what their last name is.

That’s classic discrimination.
Yes.

TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorkChoices
I don’t think they are mistaken though? Housing and childcare are multiples more expensive than a generation ago, makes sense people need to feel established.
I loved my RM2 but the pencil broke and without a warranty, it felt hard pressed to by another one. I replaced tips regularly, but the "tip-holding" piece shifted so it couldn't be reliably used any more. I wonder if any other folks hit this or if I just had a one-offf bad experience?
I would be shocked if copies shared with third parties did not contain obvious and hidden fingerprint watermarks through the film. If the leak can be traced back to a particular studio, they are going to be black balled forever.
The WKS record type was, at one point, a record listing all network services available on a host. It consisted of a bitmap where each bit represented a port number, counting from 0 (!), where a bit being set indicated that the host offered a service on that port. This scheme only worked for low port numbers; it also inappropriately conflated DNS names with hosts. (The latter was perhaps a reasonable assumption when WKS was created sometime in the '70s or '80s, but it certainly isn't anymore.)

The most definitive references to WKS are probably:

* RFC 1035 (1987), which defines the record format.

* RFC 1912 (1996), which noted that "[WKS records] serve no known useful function, except internally among LISP machines. Don't use them."
The authors are talking about a counterfactual of companies building software internally, not buying it from a publisher.
Hello, thank you for your reply. There is an working executable which can be downloaded from my personal website. I omitted to make it more visible. Now I've added a link in the Readme file from repository.
What distemper? Also, your second sentence contradicts your first one, just FYI.
Does it not strike you as strange though that so many different nations / cultures are all seeing the same downward trend at the same time? There is something about it that feels like a biological imperative.
> I think something that'd increase birthrates in urbanized society would "simply" be arranging things such that raising a family isn't so exclusionary.

There's only so much you can do. You can introduce as much subsidised childcare, parental leave, flexible working conditions, free higher education, etc, policies as you like – those things can alleviate the disadvantage to other life goals of having kids, but are unlikely to ever be able to reduce it to a level at which it ceases to be significant.

Then, there is what some rich people do, outsourcing the rearing of their children to nannies, tutors and boarding schools, such that they rarely see them – but, that's not a recipe for raising well-adjusted kids, and economically is unlikely to be scalable beyond a very small rich minority

I think it is inevitable that cultures in which reproducing is just one option on the menu are always going to have significantly lower TFR than those in which reproducing is viewed as a religious duty, with those who reject it risking ostracism in this life, and the threat of punishment in the next
Poorer places haven't financialized housing usually.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/childfree-study-confirmed...
Can often be justified by the fact you know the correct form is aX+b, so you only need to get it right at two points to make it right everywhere.
Appreciate the mini-guide here, inspired me to give nnw and rss in general a place in my day again rather than just checking the sites manually.
Anybody have any experience on using the "Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra" to read books/papers and take notes on?

It is pricey but seems to have all the needed functionality, specifically; the large 14.6 inch screen helps you deal with A4 size properly.
Leaded gas is still not banned today. I have a car which only consumes leaded race gas and while it is surely expensive it is definitely not illegal.
How is it expected to be enforced? Or is it more symbolic?
> Can it handle large pdf of a book

It very much can; however, the iOS app has a limit of 50 pages and an hourly limit of 5 uploads in our 'free tier'.
I didn't want to rush to monetize the iOS app so I could really learn from users like yourself, and subsequently work hard to really make the app great to use.
Currently, to sign up for a subscription you can go to the 'Subscription' setting on our web app : http://oration.app/accounts/login/
Subscribing for an account will bypass the upload page limit and hourly limit.

> would it be possible to specify pages of a large pdf?

This is definitely something that I'm aiming to ship soon - I'm trying to both deliver something where a user can have a simple upload experience and an enjoyable Audiobook output, but also provide some more fine-grained handles (like specifying what pages to use, among other things)

> I'll get back to you with a list after using it for a few weeks.

Definitely eagerly looking forward to this!
Please don't hesitate to email us at support [at] TruRecord.com (there is also a support e-mail link within the app). We'd be more than happy to also meet with yourself over Zoom to learn from our experience and work towards delivering great functionality.
The most consistent predictor of the decline of the birth rate in a society is increased levels of wealth, which indicates it's in no way that simple.

Personally, I think it is that expectations rise, both for your own life and for that of children once your purchasing power increases. It's harder to give it up than to not have it in the first place. Having children increasingly has to compete with a lot of other rewarding things that require far less commitment and far lower costs.
That doesn't make any sense to me. What do you mean by "on the network"? Is your claim that using UDP will somehow saturate a shared circuit between multiple subscribers? What's stopping the switch from just dropping excess packets for one destination?
Maybe, but it looks your data is stored on their servers. I consider data that's not stored on my machine with my encryption key to be essentially public data since any company, even one I trust, can be bought and the terms changed without warning.
Notes on conciseness
I wrote this autobiographical essay about some of my difficulties with sensitive online discussions. Among other things, I discuss neurodiversity, social mishaps, nuance, the principle of charity, compassion, and discursive recursion. I conclude by stating changes in my online behavior that might improve those situations.
Your bike is different than mine. Shrug. It is not beyond my imagination to imagine the free-spinning mechanism you have described, so I cannot imagine that it is beyond yours to imagine a bumper. Try, and you will succeed.
Of course it’s not good for cops to “execute people at will.” What are you confused about?
If you consider why it’s only good advice for lesbians you’ll be on the path of understanding.
Is it not totally obvious that the low birth rate is directly caused by availability and social acceptance of contraceptives and related technologies?

People didn’t really “choose” to have that many kids in the past. It turns out that even if you don’t really want to have kids, not having sex is a very, very hard thing to do.

Nature’s solution to making humans have kids despite being able to reason themselves out of it is to make them incredibly horny compared to most other animals. Or, put another way, the less horny humans were filtered out along the way since they didn’t produce enough offspring and were outcompeted by the more horny.
Feature bits in shared memory and if accessed less frequently in redis is a staple solution. The system I used was managed by an internal group had a solid api, life cycle management, plus propagation of flags wuth defaults. It worked at serious scale. New code could be enabled and disabled independent of code. Removal of code and deletion of old code paths lagged by devs, but on the whole it served custs well.
Eh? If we’re in a “tech is a bubble” conversation then “the average American” conversation is out of the window. Tech workers earn way above the average. If you’re accepting that tech parents have the money to raise kids it stands to reason the OP would wonder why their peers aren’t also raising kids.
Your salary is a negotiation. Your company wants to pay each employee as little as possible. If you are unhappy with your salary you should look somewhere else. In fact, that is why companies pay people in expensive areas more. Those expensive areas have more available jobs so employees are more likely to leave. If you want those employees to stay you need to pay them more than employees who have a harder time leaving.
> This law isn’t going to make me stop...

It should. I'd expect that unreasonable after-hours work is already not an option (which is why I think this law is stupid, I'm pretty sure we're just adding administrative red tape to ban something that is already illegal - it isn't reasonable to expect someone to work when they aren't being paid). In practice you're planning on tolerating an illegal activity in an attempt to get an advantage over your workmates.

People are a bit weird about the law. You aren't supposed to use one comment to simultaneously advocate legally banning a practice and suggest you will be engaging in it.
> to impose manifest destiny on whatever part of nature that happened to irk us that day.

To use available technology and information of the day in an attempt to improve outcomes for millions of people.

> It killed more than 100 people

I guess that doesn't "irk" some people. I suppose they've adopted a mindset that the dead somehow "deserved" it for some imagined choice they made, or that humanity as a whole "deserves" to be doomed.

> as a testament to the hubris of man

Engineering is an act of compromise. One that has mostly worked in our favor. You can either give up because we are incapable of perfection or you can dig in and try to make the next incremental improvement.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-08/lives-s...
Thank you. I do feel lucky. I cold-emailed him two years ago asking if I can come sand or sweep and he invited me up. He and his family have been great and I’ve met amazing people there.

His workshops are my favorite weekends of the year, and I’m working during them, so I highly recommend it if you can swing it.
Post author here! Yes, most apps have to create their own tile or download server at the moment. We’re hoping that our tiles will be useful to the greater ecosystem, in the same way that our current raster tiles get used everywhere.

The nice people at https://download.geofabrik.de provide daily country-level OpenStreetMap extracts in the Shortbread schema, which is the same schema that we are going to use for our live tiles.
Poorer is a relative term here. The income/birth rate discrepancy is probably happening within your local community.
This isn't enough of an explanation, because surviving is still harder in such places than it is in wealthy countries with low birth rates. Birth rates are inversely correlated with wealth regardless of housing affordability.
Extremely important work. Maybe one day it will replace C.
What's the drawback of a 16 sample buffer over 128 samples?
I'm not sure "bad" is required.

As a person responsible for maintaining a harbor in Lake Michigan, I am allowed to move 1 cubic yard of material a year, by hand, with a shovel (last time I checked, the rules change). Anything else requires a detailed permitting process with lots of limitations on what is even possible.

You are looking at a body of rules built up to prevent draining large wetlands without permission, destroying your neighbors waterfront, dredging huge plumes of PCB contaminated sediment into the active water zones, wiping out a regional spawning bed, or casting an intermittent shadow on a patch of lake bed of the great state of redacted. This is administered by a staff who will be held accountable for unforeseen damage and has limited resources.

So you do the paperwork, wait for your permits, only work during the weeks of the year when work is allowed, and try to generally make do with less than you wanted.
Warner Brothers has not only intent, but a demonstrated profit margin, which they are deducting the movie from.

Why shouldn't they be able to deduct there very real losses.
It's the simplest answer. I find life to be worth living, I am grateful I have life and it's the most meaningful to me to be able to give life to someone else and try to make it as good and meaningful for them as possible.

And it can be so fun. I just taught my 3 year old to ride a bike and for the first time today we went for a bike ride along the boardwalk, each on our bikes. I had a pretty amazing single life but I would be hard-pressed to think of anything that matched how much fun this was for me.

I suppose we come at life from very different perspectives, shaped by our culture and our family. It is very hard for me imagine how someone must feel about their life and the world to say "nope, it ends with me." I know people do it but... I don't envy that starting point.
It would be really nice if we had autonomous Forrest expanding machines as well.
I’m fairly certain this is just misaligned expectations. You can absolutely live in a 30sqm (or less) space with 5 children, raising them on plain rice, and send them to whatever public school you can get for free. And they’d very likely still have a better life than just 100 years ago. It’s just that nobody wants to do so because the standards are so much higher.
> I also kind of resent the implication that pops up in these threads that people without kids are living some kind of immoral, selfish life

I don’t see that implication in OP’s post at all, I’m sorry. This feels like projection.