skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your parallel to the search warrant on Trump's residence hardly seems at all relevant.

It establishes that search warrants usually come before indictments in the investigation process, not after them.

> The problem is that people believe that a 6am surprise raid using flash grenades and dragging people out by their hair is equivalent to a 9am search warrant executed with warning at the residence of an ex-President, with his lawyers present.

Yes, that is the difference between a domestic terrorism investigation and a mishandling-classified-documents investigation.
I was also confused about the talk about surface area, its not clear what they mean by that here, nor how reducing it improves aero. Cross-section maybe? My expectation would be that true surface-area minimization would not result optimal aero, as it would be closer to just having circular tube construction?
I completely agree with you. My wife and I made many lifestyle "sacrifices" in order to have kids. I put "sacrifices" in quotes, because driving in a cheaper car than your professional peers is only a sacrifice if you you are consumerist.
I am the writer of the article.

First point, being transformative doesn't mean making money. Absolutely, that is a massive layer that people seem to completely miss. (Blind spot?)

As for OpenAI's monopoly - no I don't think they can keep it. Everyone and their grandma is trying to raise funding for LLMs and chatbots. What is the bottleneck or moat keeping OpenAI immune from competition? Not much.

For the last point - yes, at some point LLMs could become local and change everything. The space is so dynamic, virtually guaranteeing that everyone will become unseated over a long enough period of time.
The average home square footage has increased considerably over the past 50 years, while the average number of people in a household has decreased.
All languages have "actual spelling rules". What makes English more complex is that it borrows from various different types of languages, so inherits different sets of rules. And of course, many English speakers are unaware of whether a particular word has Germanic or Latin roots.

As for whether phonics-based instruction is better than alternative systems for any language, I wouldn't be so bold as to make that claim (I work in literacy). It is quite possible that in some languages, the phonological rules are sufficiently simple that it isn't necessary to spend much time on phonics, and instead to do more of a "balanced-literacy" type approach. This does not work well with English, but it's possible the tradeoffs are significantly different in other languages.
OP suggests using "built-in GA4->BQ transfer [to send] ALL the data".

This seems like an extremely small endeavor.
IN the 60s and 70s there were ideas of using actual ponds as computers
>Whatever the one is for my cousin's kids.

Cousins once removed. Second cousins are your parent's cousins. And your cousin situation sounds a lot like mine and my children - not a lot of cousins happening.
Why execute the search warrant at 6am? Why use a flash grenade on sleeping people?

Any raid that early must expect to find naked people sleeping as a lot of Americans sleep naked. (I see numbers including 8%, 12%, 17%, 28.5%, and "58 percent of Millennials"). The numbers are higher if you include partially clothed.

Why do the police have no procedures in place for what must surely be a common occurrence, like a blanket or robe they can provide to a detained half-naked woman?

I agree that it comes across like the psychological torment of the occupants of the residences is part of the reason for executing the search warrant this way.

Just because it's a domestic terrorism case does not mean the suspects - who may well be innocent - should be treated this way.
Yes they can. People are just too selfish and think of kids as costing lattes and ruining their free time. Believe it or not, kids don't have to be expensive as reports have you believe. They can go to public school, wear hand me downs or walmart clothes, and eat what would have been leftovers.

Most coworkers with kids I've spoken with complain about costs of daycare, babysitting, and Montessori schools. We pay for none of those as they aren't necessary. If even one parent works from home, it's a solved problem. If both do not, evaluate the costs. Many times, you actually lose money by both parents working.

I have a child and we do fine on one salary. Would love more, but either my aging body or god one has determined that would be decidedly more expensive.

ETA: Anyone on the fence who wants a kid - go for it. Don't try to keep up with the Jones' or try to budget them out. Kids are awesome. They're little blank slates who don't need much more than love, attention, education, and sustainance. If you keep waiting for when it's right, it'll never happen.
As I sat down at my desk to start the work day and finish a dreaded task, my mind of course immediately drifted away and felt the urge to check some news on reddit or HW. I opened HW and this is the first title.

"It can be done".

Thanks for the motivation!

P.S. Of course, I also read the article :).
Ask HN: Has anyone switched from Sublime to Zed?
Thinking of switching. It's a big decision, so I would love to hear some experiences. The good and the bad parts. Thanks!
Ramen and pho isn't that good though. I've had gross ramen. I don't understand your analogy.
Thanks for clarifying! You’re a good writer, I hope you know. As someone who grew up with a sickle-shaped milk bottle I disagree, but I’m sure you’re used to that on the internet.

If you ever scroll back and find this, I have one refutation/followup/confusion: cultural Marxism isn’t a theory proposed by marxists, it’s a term that anti-marxists used. Eg https://www.breitbart.com/tag/cultural-marxism/. So in that context it’s a little justified to have a wiki page on it.
Google Shareholders to Receive $350M in Privacy Lawsuit Settlement
> ”while on curves it's not staying horizontal by design”

Worth noting that modern tilting trains do this quite successfully (on two rails!), in order to run faster on tracks with tight curves. By “leaning in” to curves, you make the ride more comfortable, not less.

Tilting trains are used extensively on the UK’s West Coast Main Line, for example.
South Korea has entered the chat..

Seriously, it's wild visiting South Korea and having a tour guide jokingly beg people to immigrate and make babies.

#JokingNotJoking
Tunecore is a distributor - artists upload their music there to get put in stores like Apple itunes, deezer, Spotify, soundcloud and other platforms.
There is not enough time in the day to do everything and I am building stuff that is very complex with my small team. We make some money but we all have side jobs while there is enough work to do to fill 20 people’s days. So we decided to go raise now as this is not sustainable; without this work the product cannot grow and we don’t have time to be clowns on social media etc.
That's true — it seems like they're engineered to be able to be reused maybe 5-10 times. But I pretty much always just use them once, as a trash bag. For my purposes (and those of many others here), it seems like it's a waste to make a fairly sturdy bag when it's only going to have one more use.
Reminds me of a traditional harpsichord builder I heard of. When starting a new instrument, he defines the "inch" for that instrument which is the width of the key. He sets his calibers for that, measures 8 inches for the width of an octave. And so on, everything is done geometrically, like they used to do in the "good old days" before this fixation of numeric methods. His instruments are of very good quality.
Probably there are some costs involved after publishing the movie. Some minimum guarantee royalty commitment to some people involved, like actors etc.
The Youth Of Today(TM) just can’t get a break with these stereotypes. Going around, shyly setting fire to cars.
> Without OSS, there would be much more duplicate work available across companies.

That sounds very much like bullshit job + NIH syndrome twisted into an employment rate political play, creating an artificial source of work that duplicates effort and overall wasteful energy expenditure. A close argument to "automation is killing factory jobs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Depends on the use case. I would argue promising capabilities that are not there yet and can’t be developed by the supplier themselves (for example they just fine tune an existing model) in a reasonable timeframe are practically just as useless.

Other promises like predicting the future or magically solving security are pretty comparable to NFTs.
Yeah, wanting a secular natalist movement is where I was for a while. But then the truth of it hits you at some point: it will never exist. The secular way of life exalts the individual, but raising a large family is about subduing your own desires and devoting yourself to something more important than yourself. Well, guess who already does that: religious people.
Seems like in many cities, a Japanese garden is the best bet for a quiet spot!
>The avg American is completely priced out of owning a home right now.

But this is always the case... ~20 years ago when I bought my first home, interest rates were close to 8%, it took a big chunk of my income, and we had to move way out to the sticks in order to afford anything. People are always having to make compromises if they want to buy a home, save for retirement, start a business, have kids, and all the other high-risk things that people want to do in order to seek a better life. Yes house prices are higher today than they were 20 years ago -- and incomes aren't necessarily better -- but if someone absolutely wants to buy a home, there will be options and tradeoffs.
This thing is awesome! In the city I live in (outside the US!) you have special renderings for sky scrapers and even a crane where one is being built right now: https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=50.1134349&lon=8.6709344&zoom=19
Awesome!

Although it's lagging behind. Four is almost finished but you only see cranes here: https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=50.1121791&lon=8.6738090&zoom=18...
Sergey Platonov, Xinnor's VP of Product Strategy, brings a deep understanding of RAID technologies to the table. Throughout the interview, Sergey discusses the significant challenges and limitations inherent in hardware RAID solutions, from the constraints of PCI-Express lanes to logistical issues highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This conversation offers a thoughtful exploration into the future of RAID, guided by Sergey's expertise in the field.
I guess this is airline and route specific.

Toronto to Paris has planes that look like this on air Canada:

https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Air_Canada/Air_Canada_Boei...

(Supposedly seatguru is out of date, just still!)
UML was an abomination, and it's a relief it's completely dead.
Yeah maybe I should have worded this better. "Forcing (potential) mothers to have a job" would probably have been more clear.
>mailman

Is a bad counterexample, as that's still a good, high-paying (union!!!) job. But aside from that tiny gripe you're not wrong about the rest.
Many years ago before a demo we discovered that a program failed to run properly but it did run successfully the next time. We couldn't figure why and the clock was ticking. We made a script to run it twice, fail then success, and the demo was good. Then we debugged the issue, which was something trivial (I can't remember the details) but proper debugging and fixing under time pressure is never trivial.

So, an interviewer might appreciate that balancing of signs if told that it is the fastest way make it work (and pass your demo,) only to fix it later. Once proven that the hacked code gives the right solution maybe you could have offered to send them the correct code on the next day or keep working on it if they wished so.
Indeed, you can use pmtiles files on a completely static site which is the main benefit for me. I wrote it up on my blog: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/hugo-static-site-maps/ I have since started making my own pmtiles from pbf extracts using planetiler, though. I should add that as an addendum...
Very long range is de facto inefficient because you have to bunker so much fuel.

Intermediate stop operations would be more efficient (stopping midway just to refuel, if not scramble passengers around to/from different destinations)
Great review.

I wonder how will these headsets affect eyesight?
> "The world as a whole is headed for a relatively gentle flattening of population growth"

You know something that's really weird to think about? In 1950 Africa's population was 227m! [1] The US at the time had about 160m, nearly as many people as the entire African continent! Fertility rates are hard to intuit because they're not only exponential, but systems where the effect is delayed from the cause by several decades, but then once it starts - it starts rocketing off uncontrollably, be that in loss or gain of population.

The world's population may start to level off at some point, but sub-replacement rates will cause Western nations to start losing population at an exponential rate. It will be the equal but opposite of what happened to Africa over the past century. And this doesn't level out or even slow down, except when people start having children again. So for instance many people know Japan now has > 10% of its population over 80, but I think a lot of us have this sort of concept that 'Well sure, but as they start to die off - then things will probably start to look a bit more sane.'

In reality, it's the exact opposite. As this group dies off, they're going to be replaced by an even larger group of 80+ year olds, leaving Japan in an even worse state, as one can immediately see just glancing at Japan's population pyramid. [2] Right now Japan's losing about 1 in 200 people per year, and this will never stop until either they go extinct or they start having children again. And it will actually get substantially worse until they hit their 'fertility equilibrium point' where all living generations have/had comparable fertility rates (picture the sides of the population pyramid having a constant slope). And that's what's waiting for the entirety of the Western world, if we don't turn things around.

And this is also likely a vicious cycle because as age ratios and demographics get all screwed up, economies will start to collapse, which will make it even more uncomfortable to have children.

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[1] - https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/africa-popula...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/F...
They are also considered critical companies for national security / capability reasons and neither will ever be allowed to fail by their respective governments, unless a local replacement exists.
Scientists give new insight into a molecular target of alcohol
Tell that to my grandfather, who at 73 is still adding onto his house that he built when he was like 20 :)
DEI does to society what the penny pushers at Boeing did to their business: chasing the wrong objectives in search of some theoretical goal leads both to ruin. If any DEI implementation is not 'stoopid' that is only by happenstance, not due to some kernel of truth lurking behind the discriminatory revolutionary synthetic-society ideological hodgepodge that DEI is. There is no truth to be had there, only ideology.
In addition to all the tangible results, the thing that draws me the most to my woodworking time is the lack of abstractions.
It is me, lumber and simple application of tools to get the result I imagined. No layers of abstractions to work through - everything is right there in front of your eyes.
Personally, I don't care about OpenAI's valuation. It's a private company. Who knows what's on their roadmap? For all we know, they're closer to AGI than anyone else and GPT5 is a huge leap in performance and cost, which would make $100b a bargain.

Trying to valuate a private company with little to no information is pointless.
Shell scripting with Elixir
I have two siblings, but most likely will be the only one with kids, as we're in our mid to late 30s and I'm already a parent.

Me and my SO made it happen by moving to a much smaller (albeit still 500k+ inhabitants) city, where real estate isn't as stupidly expensive as where we grew up in.

My co-worker has six children and all the people I've met who have four or more follow the same pattern: living in the middle of nowhere on a single income working remotely.

It appears that real estate is the biggest concern, because I've also settled on having two instead of three, since my daughters will be sharing a room anyway.
I live in Brussels. I can only agree about the trash pick-up. The biking situation has vastly improved in the last years but is still far from perfect. You can reach FOSDEM using a tram or - not mentioned in the article - by bus 71 (busiest public transport line in Brussels, expect some company).
I feel like the current meta on finetuning LLMs is random accounts at X/Twitter. Google results are littered with SEO garbage or some kind of guides that fail to work the moment you need something slightly different.
In the late 90's early 00's my family used OziExplorer on various laptops and devices. Our thinkpad 240 had a rough life in the bush and on the water.

A quick look suggests that it has some support for osm data but you would need to check more closely or use other sources.

https://www.oziexplorer4.com/w/
I made several arguments why search is interesting. Just repeating that it's not, is not really a counter-argument.

Also, the fact that AlphaZero has search is irrelevant. This is a completely different model architecture. Stockfish had search before AlphaZero, does that mean AlphaZero wasn't interesting either? Or hell, why not just say all computer chess developments are uninteresting because alpha-beta was invented in the 50s?
Can you recommend some resources for glider designs to a beginner?
It changes the experience of being human, from what once was a solitude for orphans, and refugees, to a common experience. There's no extended family (and increasingly, no base family either, e.g. no siblings, or divorced or indifferent narcissistic parents) to take refuge to, strengh from, and so on: you're on your own.

Even your friends, if you get to have any, will be a more shallow, and mostly online presence (what with the "loneliness epidemic" and everything), and will increasingly be people who have not learned the art of being with others, unless it's fully on their own terms (think spoiled single children vs children growing up with siblings).

You get to cling and bow to careers, employers, state, trends, peer groups, and so on, as a survival mechanism.

[1] We can spin it as a good thing, by cherry-picking families which did terrible things to their kids as representative of family life at large.
You can, but you'll have to deal with the consequences of violating conventions and the impact of that might matter very little or a whole lot depending on the situation. Running a random service over port 80 can be a good idea (lots of networks have that port open), but you'd better be willing to deal with the traffic from people/bots/crawlers looking for a webserver there. If you aren't careful you can break things on your own network or get yourself cut off from others. The rules and standards that exist are there to make everyone's lives easier and promote things working. Deviate from them at your own risk.
Yes there's a bit of slack and elasticity all the way including in metal parts, not just in tires. Still, even though the tire tread doesn't move right away the moving rims are immediately exerting force on the tire interior, and thus there's an instant converse force from the tire interior which resists the movement.

In any case, this vehicle has rims and tires; what's being discussed here only adds lag to the existing system, which appears to be several orders of magnitude higher than the above physical process.

But what's apparently worse here is that there's no link (whether physical or digital): the video shows the driver has moved the steering device all the way to lock yet the wheels are only halfway through and then continue moving towards lock in spite of the steering device being completely still.
past 50 years and past 10 years (home prices and interest rates raised twice each) are very different stories.
It seems that the tradeoff is not having kids.
As a BEV owner it is exactly this - a lot of normal Joes are sitting inside BEVs and they hold no punches back, because compared to ICE, their user experience with electric vehicle is inferior - be it infrastructure or price vs usability of BEV.
If we really want to go down this route we should do away with parenting. Children our are future therefore the government will be responsible for producing and raising children to meet our necessary societal workforce quotas. Parenting is a messy business that introduces too many quality control issues. Our glorious future means we must have only perfectly standard issue babies that conform to exact government measurements and standards. Men must donate sperm and women will be artificially impregnated until we can figure out how to grow test tube babies.

Glory to our future!
bpaf – Command line parser with applicative interface
Probably for the best.

If there was a moderately complicated bureaucratic process to be assured of getting one, it wouldn't be Redis or the next SSH that got assigned ports. It would be Oracle or HP or someone else incapable of pretending to be a good Internet citizen, who filled in 10,000 of the forms promising that they have 10,000 totally necessary well known enterprise services.
Hajnal himself was a refugee from Nazi Germany of Hungarian Jewish descent; it’s offensive and glib of you to dismiss him, of all people, as a Nazi.
That would have aged like milk if you'd said it when the stats were fresh.

The point here being the rate is actively crashing pretty much globally. The outliers would be anywhere it's not.
Naw, just a reverent parish. Mix of English and Latin. Somewhat conservative, but not super conservative.
Do you have any research you can point for that, its quite interesting.
That's why analogies are always wrong :)
Not really - there are various self-correction mechanisms which simply aren't active (yet?) because the low birth rate isn't actually resulting in a shrinking population (due to immigration) so there is not problem to fix (yet).

Many people mention housing and real estate as a problem, well, if there was a population problem, we'd see loads of available empty homes and falling prices of real estate - we're not, so this is a clear signal from the society truthfully voting with their wallets (no matter what they misleadingly signal verbally) that we have more than enough people.

It's similar to some industries saying that there aren't enough workers - if there was an actual shortage, we'd see loads of unfilled vacancies together with noticably rising salary offers for these positions, and if we aren't, that's a clear signal from that industry truthfully voting with their wallets (no matter what they misleadingly signal verbally) that they actually do have more than enough potential workers.
I lost a bit of respect for them when they did an episode about the placenta and had an apology at the start because the episode contained the word "mother" rather than "pregnant person".

I feel if you want to be a great science communicator you can't also insist on using postmodern language which will either confuse or put-off much of your audience.
Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser
I wish we had give the ability to push back on nonsense like even when making a web page, ok make this whole div clickable but inside this div, put another button that when you click the button something else happens.

Or at least spend the time to tell us why we are doing this nonsense and maybe I can come up with a less asinine solution.