skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you very much for this. I had to do the same to complete my notes to share within the company (condition for using the learning budget).

What is the criteria for selecting a session? These are not all the sessions, because there are some missing that interest me, for example: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1652--new... and https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1651-data...
He is no more parasite than you are.

He is working, creating value for society, capturing only a portion of the value he creates, and deploying that value through consumption of experiences and services.

The fact that you would prefer he spent his money on children, instead of on other experiences, is irrelevant. Your desire to control other peoples spending, and to vilify them, for it, shows only that you are an immoral, authoritarian, asshole, and that you do not respect other people.

It is somewhat sad, that an immoral, authoritarian, freedom, hating, asshole, such as yourself might have children. I only hope that women are able to recognize that you are a monster, and that you do not respect other people.
I don’t know about Los Angeles, but in Orange County our concrete flood channels occasionally fill up with water. When that happens, I feel like maybe they weren’t such a bad solution after all.

They are terrible, but I think the alternative was probably not to build in places like Huntington Beach (population 200,000).
some animals that live in groups where the leader gets to do all the mating, if a new leader emerges, he will kill all the offsprings of the old leader.

i'd say that this is a clear sign that animals do have strong biological drive to care about continuing their bloodline
We haven't escaped any biological imperative. We still have sex. The desire to have sex is the biological imperative that produces offspring, and we haven't lost that. It's because we invented birth control that now the desire to have sex is not enough. We need a desire to have kids. Natural selection will make that desire stronger over time.
Okay so that's the same thing you can do with TCP or any other transport atop IP, so not sure what QUIC is doing special here. Congestion control is handled at the transport layer.
That's irrelevant to some extent. It still means that those who could better resist illness and famine had a better chance to live, which is likely to have some genetic correlation. Even when the famine is extreme, it still selects for the families cold hearted enough to be able to consciously feed only those who have a chance to survive instead of trying to spread their resources to all their children, which itself may have some genetic source that can be selected by this pressure.

Not that either of these are good or necessary for a healthy species, mind you. We will always adapt to our environment and the selective pressures that match it, even when it's one of our own making. If that means fewer children die young, that is an excellent outcome - evolution is never goal oriented anyway.
Are you aware that other people have provided everything you have in life, or have you really drunk the "self-made" Koolaid. Work the farm? Excellent, now one must purchase and run a farm in order to have children. How much do those cost? Oh, millions you say!? Wonderful.
Isn’t this how game companies operate often? They guard their brand by not putting out mediocre products.
See: the United States since 1970. I think “inequality is destabilizing” should be a pretty tame non-controversial take, hopefully
FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips
I would add: disproportionately so in higher bureaucracy higher tax environments.

Your money just goes a lot less further as a business owner and as a result it’s harder to have a small business, such an environment heavily favors large corporations that have the funds and man hours to throw at the problem and come out on top.
If ycombinator hires 3 engineers to rewrite hacker news 2.0, pays them for a year, writes off their salary as an expense, and then later decides that actually 2.0 is way worse than what’s currently out and trashes it, should ycombinator not be allowed to write off the investment?
One fun list is in the default NetComm router software which still has a huge list of pre-saved port forwarding info for multiplayer PC Games that hasn't been updated since around 2001. That's quite a fun nostalgic list to browse.[1]

[1] Here's A-D: https://i.imgur.com/tCn2FBB.png
As useless trivia-- one of Sanders' relatives founded Lee's Famous Recipe once Sanders essentially exited KFC. Subjectively, it is better than modern day KFC.

The Corbin KFC/museum draws tons of tourists-- especially from China (I think they have more locations there than in the US.) If anyone happens to go there, Corbin also has a pretty good pinball arcade with ~60 tables and a redemption game section.
I suspect wealth is the causal agent for lack of religion - not just wealth concentrated in a few and the rest in extreme poverty. Being an opiate for the masses, it’s important to have god when life is essentially not worth living. As the median wealth increases opiates are less necessary to forestall abject misery. Likewise, the need to have many children decreases.

But, there is nothing quite like raising a new life, one that for whom you loom as large as your parents loom for you, for better or worse. Your choice as to which. Maybe your parents were worse. But you can be better. That’s powerful stuff man, and worth it.

I am profoundly sorry to hear about your struggles. I have had my own that are enough to curl anyone’s hair. A king once called a Buddhist monk and ordered him to give him the most valuable treasure that can be. The monk took the crown off his head and inscribed in it “this too shall pass.”
They can't decide that the value is zero if they got public offers from Amazon, Netflix etc

It's clear that the loophole is to ask Amazon and Netflix to make a secret offer.

Public auction is the solution if they do it for tax reasons and not for artistic integrity.
Might be due to some of us growing up really poor. I’m from a third world and I remember lack of water and electricity, five plus people crammed into a home the size of my current apartments living room. We used to use kerosene lamps and heat water and I grew up in the 90s. Even today my parents don’t own a home yet and they have rented their whole lives. They still work. It’s really up to me to resolve all our issues. And that’s my duty as their child, everyone has their circumstances.

My parents pushed me to get educated. Now I’m in my early 30s and honestly I’m not in a rush to have kids. Do I want kids? Definitely. But right now I’m trying to build family wealth so I can give my kids a great childhood. I’m on track to meet my goals in the next 5 years or so.

Most of the people my age who are situated with kids and family are well to do. They have well off parents who own at least one home. Somehow these people send their kids to private school or can afford to buy homes in great public school districts.

I’ve noticed the people in my situation more often than not are from a similar background. We grew up poor and we are trying to build our wealth. I work in tech so I can’t speak for people from other socioeconomic backgrounds. But this is what I experience.

Most of my friends are other Asians. I don’t know it seems like Americans are mostly well off.
Samsung has tried to push this a bit in The last few years. It hasn’t really caught on in the us, but I think that is partly because most people spend most of their desk computing time at work, and our phones are more often our personal devices than they are our work devices.
Yeah my guess would also be that weight is the reason they fell out of favour. Aerodynamics are important, but weight is also, especially if you are outside and the route isn't perfectly flat.
Setting cars on fire in SF seems to be new. Though in some other cities it happens more often, of course.
Yeah, that makes sense. I feel like I can talk my way out of anything, but if there's a correct answer that exists without thinking, I'd love to know it. Not for interviews, but for In Real Life performance ;)
As much as I lament the status of native encryption in OpenZFS, and think it would have been better to merge it with more testing, I think what I find to be really more problematic is the lack of enough fixing afterward.

Software is buggy, and it's going to have bugs you don't find no matter how much you tested it. The problem was that (AFAIR) one developer at the company that developed this contributed fixes, and then he left, and then almost nobody did.
> Humans aren't about to go extinct but it's high time their population numbers stabilised, perhaps even reduced a bit.

There's little evidence to support the theory that at some point in the future, little girls will all suddenly decide to buck the trend set by their mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and all the adult women they see around them in the world, and have 2.1 children themselves.

But, if they do not all do this, if only some of them decide to buck the trend, they those girls would need to have 3 or 5 or 8 to make up for those who do not.

If neither of these things happen, population cannot stabilize. Mathematically, there has to be an average of 2.1.

Fertility rate declines are future extinction. They've run the experiments, and the results are always the same... despite having all the food and water and entertainment they might want, the mice either do not fuck or they just murder whatever offspring they do (rarely) have. And it happens more quickly than one might expect, because the rate of decline increases with each generation.

> the human branch be pruned the remaining mass of the tree of life on earth might very well thrive and surge in breadth and depth after a rather large number of other prunings at the hands of humankind.

And why should any human ever give a shit about whether these non-human organisms thrive, especially when hypothesizing a future where humans no longer exist? Sounds like some death cult nonsense. Will you be one of those lamenting how you think the most beautiful planets of all are those with no life whatsoever to "mar their beauty"?
To a point, weight is less of a concern in the modern era because aerodynamics dominate at almost all speeds.

I’ve always found NDD bikes interesting but I suspect the advantages are overstated given the top pros are moving away from them. LCB and Sam Laidlow both rode “classic” TT-style bikes to win the Ironman WC last year.
> which companies delusionally believe will take 2 hours, despite being often inadequately scoped or otherwise poorly presented; while quite often expecting a nitpick-proof solution

I have to go on a rant about this one cause it happened to me recently.

I applied for a Sr. Frontend position, and they have me do a takehome where I recreate some small component with some time-travelling functionality. It was actually quite fun to do and I enjoyed building it, but the feedback afterwards was maddening.

One of the points of feedback they gave me was that what I implemented wasn't 1:1 aligned with the design they gave me... The design they gave me was a blurry JPG with compression artifacts that was maybe 300x300 embedded into a random Notion document they sent me with an extremely vague list of requirements. I even explicitly asked them if they could give me a higher quality version of it so I could match it more closely, but they said that was the only document they could give me.

When I tried to somewhat align the picture to the actual design I was implementing, the border-radii of the elements was so blurry from the compression that it was literally impossible to know whether I got it exactly right or not. They also gave me no notes on specific fonts used (the one on their marketing site was a licensed font that cost money), specific brand colors (I had to go to their marketing website and hope the green I saw on the buttons there was the one they were expecting) or anything else of the sort.

It was obvious they expected me to spend at least 6 hours on it considering the feedback, but they explicitly said 2 hours and didn't give nearly enough reference for me to go off of to know what they truly expected from me. Absolutely ridiculous process
This will be useful once it works properly. I tried it but didn’t write a review to not tank your score this early. The app needs some more time in the oven: Menu options aren’t responsive, swiping back brings you to views you shouldn’t be able to go to, all my uploads failed due to timeouts and 50 pages is not a lot for something that advertises turning PDFs into audio books.
I'll keep it installed and see where you’ll go with this because the idea is great.
Availability is another big issue. You find a daycare that's great for your kid and safe. Then some staff turnover and you're not thrilled with it anymore.

In my area, the wait is around 18 months for a slot in a different daycare center. In-home daycare offers a lower price and some better availability, but are often unlicensed. You are best off signing up for a couple waitlists before you plan to have a kid and hope the one you choose works out well.

And of course, switching childcare providers is way harder than switching grocery stores. Your kid has feelings, grows attached to the caregivers, and make friends. There's a huge risk making a switch, and you most likely can't undo it if the new provider isn't a good fit.
Imo dbt sits in the analysts space. SQL is the language they know and dbt is the best solution to scale that.

In that sense it should only be used for last mile data transformations. Not for wrangling raw data into neat tables.
I encourage you to Kagi Image search “San Francisco Chinatown Chinese new years”.

Besides one or two main thoroughfares, the streets are absolutely narrow considering how many people are there during these events. Or hell just during a Sunday. Driving in downtown/chinatown yesterday would be extremely stressful and ill advised for the best of human drivers. IMO.

EDIT: actually you’re probably just remarking that parking sucks which hell yeah wtf, get those cars outta there. Street parking in sf is already so bad that they need to bite the bullet city-wide and commit to transit.
Around here, newspaper articles in respectable outlets typically carry a notice if they are written with the help of AI tools.

I cannot guarantee that this one is written using one, but I certainly looked for that line towards the end.
As the author suggests, "The loss of things I took for granted"

Like the cognitive/emotional benefits of being able to read and write.

Never would have imagined anyone could question such things.

You don't miss your water. Till your well runs dry.
An article about small heat pumps and why they aren't very available yet in the US, it lists the few current models:

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/renters-you-...

Ones sold in the US won't work below 41F temperature. Two new units that will work at lower temperatures are going to be introduced this year, but will be stupidly expensive.
Got the term from ChatGPT. Basically studies have shown attractive people (usually those that make video content) have an easier time to get a job.
Raids without any indictment for a crime are a way to punish people outside of the legal system. It can easily ruin lives from the actual damage to property, to paying for a lawyer, to spurious fines, social problems (ie, couldn't make it to work, couldn't pick up kids, landlord kicks you out, etc), and emotional damage from the physical attacks and threats to life from people pointing firearms at you and your family. It is a tool systematically in use by nearly all police departments and used constantly by the FBI.

There should be consequences like job loss for police and agents and judges when their raids are not correlated with any accusation of a crime (ie, indictment).
Also: http://mendelweb.org/
There is an argument for large planes on long-haul flights: the money comes from people who are willing to pay for comfort.

I fly a few times a year across the Atlantic. On those flights, economy class is typically only 30-40% of the cabin. Then there is a small premium economy section, and the remaining half of the plane is dedicated for business class and first class.
I made a Pi Zero into a game console emulator, and stuffed it in an old Nintendo cartridge.

An RPi 3 runs my Halloween and Christmas displays.
This has me wondering. When I was in school about 2 decades ago they were using names of Greek or Roman gods for servers. Part of me wonders if many campuses even have many servers worth naming now, since all the services I used at that time have now been outsourced to Google or Microsoft long ago. I’m guessing there must still be a few servers in a rack even in a cloud-centric school, but the days of connecting to like “hermes.university.edu” to get email/FTP/web hosting must be gone basically everywhere by now.
The places with above-replacement fertility are seeing theirs decline too.

We convert them to childlessness faster than they can replace the children we're not having. Less than 25 years away from universal below-replacement fertility.
Not owning a house is not a reason people don’t have kids. After WW II the birth rates in Poland were crazy high despite obviously huge problems with housing - often 2 families had to live in one small 2-room apartment (not a house). Now most people own or can afford to rent yet the birthrate plummeted.

The primary reason for low birth rate is availability of cheap and effective contraception (and cultural changes that led to most people being ok with using it). Change my mind.
When law enforcement is raiding a residence, they never just let people hang around inside unsupervised. They get them outside and detained. The primary concern is making sure no one has an opportunity to grab a weapon and put people in danger. And since this is literally a domestic terrorism investigation I think that’s a very reasonable precaution.
I never got this TBH.

In Germany and Europe it's simple: the price on the item is what you pay at the cashier, at least of you pick the cheapest payment option (cash).

Most don't bother to charge for other payment methods, a surprise price basically never happens.

Credit card payments are capped at 0.3% of the transaction value.

Large credit card cashbacks don't exist for that particular reason.
But it's dead simple to know the price.
> 49% of people aged 30-34 aren't homeowners, 49% of us are homeowners or renters.

Wait, this is saying less than 50% of people aged 30-34 live in a home that is owned or rented by them (or their spouse)? I can't imagine a region where this is close to true, since probably near 100% where I live either own or rent. Is there a regional breakdown for this? And where do these people live? With their parents or in a shelter?
I have another anecdata for you. As a gay man living in a country that has very few children for adoption and bans surrogacy, I have given up on having kids.
Yes, only males have ever sought or enjoyed power
Kids as a retirement investment - makes sense in countries that lack safe investments (safe from over-taxation, theft, inflation). Built in interest/growth rate due to breeding next generation.

Unfortunately I have shorted the children market by not breeding when younger. What's the appropriate way to invest in 2.5 children? I presume they are a very illiquid investment.

The other problem with cousins is that brothers and sisters move to distant locations so cousins are often inaccessible even if you have them.
There are plenty of people who work until they’re able to take a risk without destroying their family’s well being.

We don’t hear about the failures because it’s a tragedy. But I’ve worked with a lot of failed entrepreneurs in their 40s. It’s clear they aren’t happy in their jobs but also have no choice now.
There is nothing stopping the OSM Foundation from say, offering a complete SQLite (or PMTiles) tileset download on planet.openstreetmap.org, technically, legally or otherwise. Creating and archiving the tiles shown on osm.org would be at least a couple terabytes once you get to around zoom level 16.

The key distinction is "official" - the only "official" data product of OpenStreetMap are its XML and PBF data dumps at planet.openstreetmap.org. The frequently-updated tiles you see on osm.org are "quasi-official", they're created by a separate project called OpenStreetMap Carto. These tiles have a special status within the OSM ecosystem for historical reasons; by virtue of OSM being map data, it should probably show something for human eyeballs on the website.

The design goals of OSM Carto are to show feedback to map editors; the linked vector tiles project is intended as a successor, or at least complement, to OSM Carto. The consumption of the tiles by third-party sites is a side-effect tolerated by OSMF; the general consensus within OSM seems to be that a consumable tile service for third parties is outside the scope of the project.
And my taxes go towards (in most countries) supporting that. Also, the children are not obligated to take care of me. They can choose it as a profession and I will gladly pay them for it, just as I gladly pay any professional in my life for cutting my hair or helping my children if they have trouble at school (even though they themselves do not have to have children and are helping them instead of the other way around). Are the people providing services also selfish for providing them?
I can tell you we have rules that supersede for ambulance drivers and such.

We have had many cases where a thief have been caught by the store owner and the store owner is the one going to jail for entrapment.
Go one step further with the car, you salvage the car, they say it’s worth $100, does the insurance company have to sell it to me if I offer $101?
> Historically children would provide for their elders, but that role is fulfilled now more by technology, so in practical terms, they are less needed.

You weren't watching the magician's hands closely enough.

The role is fulfilled by tax dollars that come from the youngest working generation. Might be tech involved, but the revenue still pays for the tech.
“Where do we draw the line” is the most common argument for inaction on a complex dilemma.

Society can always choose to draw the line. We always draw the line - criminal code, taxation, copyright.

The answer is - you gather a work group legitimized by democratic process and figure it out.
The only question left to ask is… anyone want to give me view access to their movie tv server?
Self-Reflective, Hierarchical Agents for Large-Scale API Calls
".. also had a tendency to listen more to complaints on Hacker News than internal complaints"

This all sounds too familiar.
The question is irrelevant til a car has a self.
I think Jack Dorsey would. The more we learn about him, the more he seems like a clueless idiot who got very lucky.
It feels like there’s an interesting parallel to tease out between photography and woodworking for software engineers. I’m an avid and reasonably accomplished photographer, and an absolute n00b at woodworking.

I own a MILC digital camera and mostly make photographs with my iPhone these days, but greatly prefer making photographs on film with medium and large format cameras. They’re not necessarily better per se, but the physical connection I get to my work from shooting on film, and then processing and printing by hand is what really matters to me.

I think there’s a time and place for digital (I love being able to send photos and videos of my toddler to the grandparents in near real time), but I find making physical artifacts to be a much more fulfilling outcome than having another couple hundred DNGs to delete in Lightroom.
I would suggest they mean to say front-facing surface area, which this bikes would indeed achieve over a standard design bicycle. One post in front of another will likely have a bigger impact on aero than a single deeper post. Could be phrased for better clarity I guess, but in an aerodynamic mindset, I think it's sufficient.