skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a parent of 3 in Switzerland, I always laugh (sadly) at these threads. Cost of daycare? Make a sliding scale. Cost of housing? Accept smaller living space, but count on your community to give you other safe, comfortable and fun public spaces. Pay parents to have kids? Yup (1500 at birth, 200 a month until school is done, even up to bachelor degree). Cost of education? Free public universities.

If a society wants healthy familles it can choose to have them.
Next I want to see a pencil that balances itself on its tip.
The officer on the ground is indeed the one making a determination to kick the door in over nothing but a phone call. I don't see why they shouldn't be held accountable.

I'm tired of all the QI and associated bullshit. Violating someone's constitutional rights should come with consequences.
Multiple AYs is a different story.

You can approximate 12.5% and 25% duty cycle square waves by playing multiple tones at different octaves and a different volume level.
You can’t just magically have enough childcare workers willing to staff that abundance of childcare centers. It’s a free job market, and wages have to be competitive, given a tight labor market. We help run a preschool at the moment, and salaries are the vast majority of the budget, the facility is a very small part. It’s extremely hard to keep it staffed without blowing the budget.

If you want childcare to be cheaper for parents it must be subsidized, or we need higher unemployment to make childcare a more attractive field (though I’d argue you don’t want people caring for your kids out of desperation for a job), or we must make housing cheaper/less competitive so that people can afford to do this out of passion.
Happiest families I know. 2 of their sons now have phds from Ivy League.
Just to play an argument out:

Your future living situation may be in part dependent on the economic strength of the nation you're living in, and thus there's collective onus on ensuring that future. It's reasonable to believe that one ingredient in a vibrant economy is people, sufficiently many doing sufficiently interesting and valuable things. At the end of the day, the only way to have future people is to have children now. Thus, collectively, we should be interested in supporting the work of building future generations to be sufficiently populous, vibrant, and motivated, even if we are motivated only by our own future wellbeing.

And I suppose you can magnify this argument to the degree that you feel collective responsibility toward our shared civilizations. And negate it to the degree that you believe we'll someday within your practical lifespan achieve miraculous technology like functional and practical immortality.
Young people can do much better when it comes to less sleep or sleep cycle disruption. When I was a teenager I worked all nighters on the weekend and never had a problem with sleep.
People raising children now are raising your future retirement financial future, in the form of nurses, paramedics, social safety nets, and governmental tax basis. They are raising people who will be lifting you and bathing you when you cannot yourself.
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Russia demographics was terrible even 10 years ago because of all the past wars, starvation and past migration waves, etc. You can check out this video with subtitles from 6 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGfNZiCWW7c

It's in Russian, but subtitles with auto translation work great. And you can just check this website:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/russian-federation/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/

https://www.populationpyramid.net/india/

Even before current war Russia had almost 1,000,000 death tall to COVID-19 and now likely close to 1M people left the country in recent migration waves and a lot of them will never come back. And war loses just tip of the iceberg.
I largely agree, especially with the sentiment that there are two sides to any story.

I think one angle I'll nitpick though is this doesn't have to be related to whether or not the employee was a high performer or had particular leadership needs or whether they're adaptable to the current maturity level of the org. There can and likely are many other elements such as whether the manager/employee even get along, or agree on direction, strategy, problems, etc.

And the difficulty is, these types of issues can often show up as performance issues. In lots of cases, is the performance issue the employees fault or the leaders.

In my anecdotal experience where a job went from the best role I ever had to one of the worst happened over a very short week or two with the change in a manager. And I think to the point you're making, when I resigned I outright said... each of us is going to blame the other for my departure. The hard truth is the answer is likely if either of us had been different people I'd still be in that role doing work I really enjoyed, but in that particular leader/follower relationship we simply didn't get along well at all.

If I ever did a what it was like or why I left post, I'd probably have plenty of arguments for my side, because I think to your point, I'll be the hero in my own story.
> If you are actually amused then you're a bully.

Nah not a bully. If someone is acting in a particular way that doesn't really make sense and is kind of embarrassing, and that I can relate to, then amusement is a natural reaction. There is no malice necessary or implied in such a reaction.

> I don't think you're actually amused now. But we both know it's clear your intent on overtly displaying that you feel amusement.

Well you can believe whatever you like since clearly you're disregarding anything I claim, lol.

> Arrogance? You left out the part where I thanked you for leavingv

Because it was drowned out by you arrogantly giving orders.

> Now you want to stay and ignite the conflict even further?

This isn't really a conflict, this is just something interesting. You types of people who need to have the last word, I'm always fascinated how long you will keep it up for. How long until you get bored or give up? Will you still be here replying in a month? It's fascinating.

> I think it's the dominance game at play. You want to play it till you win. The problem is, I'm not playing the game. You're just playing it with yourself.v

Again you can believe what you like, but even if we go with your hypothesis...you are clearly trying to play the 'game', or you wouldn't keep replying.

> I don't hate you. But I do think your a malicious person. I think you're not moral nor a person I would trust ever with anything. But I don't hate you.

That's good. I don't hate you or think you are malicious, just deeply insecure and unable to handle being wrong.

> Im not sure what your implying here as the key sentence. Why don't you stop being vague ish and just spell it out so we can explicitly point by point examine every facet of our arguments.

Why should I have to spell out something for you that is clear? The only reason you don't know what I'm referring to is because you glossed over my comment. Here's a hint: "not enough evidence".

> Yeah. I'm not. But I will respond.

Of course you will. You have no choice.

> Would appreciate it also in your reply if you just stick with your point and not have to overtly display how "amused" or how "fascinated" you are at this whole thing. I already know your intent here so doing that is just repetitive on your part, thank you.

That's up to you. If you make a comment only sticking to the subject and facts, then so too will my reply.
Every assumption in this post sounds out of touch.
o horror. gun sight that assists to shoot down drones.

actually not new. Israel provided those sights to Ukraine last year
Huh you're both right, I hadn't checked carefully enough. I guess the Mastodon threads UX needs a bit more work.
>He was once swatted four times in one day.
> I used Jabberwocky: Tbatstdgag1tw! - according to security.org’s password-strength-checker [1] that will take a computer 200,000,000 years to crack, presumably on average

Or much less time because it's already been leaked three times according to haveibeenpwned.com, so it'll already be in a bunch of rainbow tables.

This is why clever isn't enough: not because you can't design one that's resilient to brute force attacks but because password reuse is the #1 threat to the password-oriented security model and you can't come up with hundreds of sufficiently strong clever passwords.
I imagine strategically they all think they got what they needed out of being an open platform and don't need to do it anymore. I guess we'll find out if that's true or if someone can take their bacon.
I'm curious what you suspect (or know) is the mechanism that makes sleep less effective now, than prior?
Big factor in rise of frameworks is outsourcing the architecture to it.

Lots of devs need the prebaked structure. It is honestly helpful in many cases, but can also be a frustrating maze at times to find the hook/extension point you need.
I hadn't heard about any of this and chased some details on Wikipedia; here's some more context for others:

In 1979, there was a referendum in which 92% of the voters were in favor of extending Seanad representation to graduates of other higher education institutions. This changed the constitution in a way that allowed laws to be passed to implement that, but no such laws have yet been passed. There was a ruling by the Supreme Court of Ireland in 2023 requiring a law to actually be passed, but the ruling is currently suspended until 26 May 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Amendment_of_the_Const...
their data?
You don’t need to lose access to the entire US talent pool.

The company I work for paid high-mid US salaries before going remote. It has continued paying high-mid US salaries after going remote, just expanded to hiring from more locations.

So before we had access to the talent pool of one metro area in the US. Now we have access to the talent pool of all of the US besides a few very HCOL locations (which we didn’t have access to before anyway), and also most of the rest of the world. Our costs are the same as before, but hiring is easier and we can often get a higher caliber employee to fill an opening.

As the guy you replied to said—it was about expanding the talent pool, not about saving money.
The public at large doesn't care about any of that at all. I don't think mastodon will ever grow that large due to how painful the signup process is. And that's fine! But we have to acknowledge that only a very small portion of people care about things like privacy to the point of uprooting their social media where their friends are.

AT Proto is more interesting than ActivityPub anyway, but I think BlueSky will eventually succeed because the signup is painless. You just sign up on bluesky, there's no need of discussion on which instance, etc. There's no worry about losing everything if the particular instance you're on goes down, or having to deal with migrations.
Because we really do live in a society. Believe it or not you were once someone's expensive and serious responsibility that others had to pay for. And in the future those expensive and serious responsibilities are going to be the tax base that's forced to pay for your care.
Why would they? If they're getting more value out of the Bay Area employees than it costs them, why would they do it?

Employees aren't interchangeable cogs. It's funny how HN will complain about outsourcing and offshoring as doomed endeavors when they imagine their own jobs going to someone in a lower cost of living location. Any company that fires an expensive employee to replace them with a cheaper employee in a different location is making a huge mistake! Employees aren't interchangeable cogs!

Then as soon as the roles are reversed we're supposed to believe that the people in the more expensive location are easily replaceable. Any company that pays people differently is making a huge mistake! Employees are interchangeable cogs!
That just means that whatever society believes that will go extinct, and other societies will take over their resources. But sure, some society can commit suicide if it wants.
What empire does the US have? Are you talking about Puerto Rico and Guam ?
Ludos: A site designed for playing online HTML games in the browser
This website was created by me. It includes a pretty small set of games, but the games can range from Minecraft in the browser to Super Mario 64 in the browser. I am a very new developer so feedback and improvements would be great to see here or in a Github issue.

Thank you for reading
- Mythical Trashcan
Personally I’d be more than happy to have my taxes go up to subsidize childcare. It’s probably what, max 10-20$ for me individually? I’d even happily pay 100$ annually. Probably way more is used to fund my government’s surveillance program :(
Probability courses would be funny with that thing.

Roll the dice.
I'd be worried about the skills of automotive software devs and about greed over quality. The flipper is the least of problems here.
Cool functionality aside, it looks beautiful.
Did this argument just come full circle back to literally what GitLab is doing by paying engineers in the Netherlands less?

Regardless, it's silly to propose that engineers are interchangeable cogs in a machine and you can find perfectly identical talent anywhere. If that was true, companies would ignore all of these locations and skip straight to the cheapest country they could find.

But network effects matter, and hiring out of the Bay Area taps you into a different set of experience and networks than almost anywhere else in the world. I'm not suggesting that every Bay Area engineer is better than every Netherlands engineer, but the Bay Area talent pool really is unique and well connected in a way that's hard to find elsewhere.
The increasingly toxic politics (arguably by design) emerging around school board elections is very recent addition to disincentives. I live in a Midwest city where suburban school districts that previously wooed young professionals away from urban core now frequently feature nasty culture war fights, book banning, etc. It's notable for impacting generally wealthier households that could bear the expense of relocating to suburban municipalities with higher cost of living/taxes to access better schools.
Another reason is they just get married earlier. Probably a plot of average age of first marriage and TFR would be negatively correlated.
This is a very weird answer but I liked reading it.
wow this hits very close to home. I live in Dallas, and my wife and I struggled with the private school question. If you live in an urban area you pretty much have to budget for private school or roll the dice on getting in to highly competitive magnet schools.

For elementary school we rented an apartment for 6 months to get an address in a decent school, it wasn't a guaranteed ticket but a risk we took because it was cheaper than private school. We were able to get in and worked closely with the school and our kids to make sure they were learning what they needed to get to the next school. They both got to a magnet middle school thankfully which was goal #2 but I mean even the magnet school is still like a zoo (sex in bathrooms, drugs, etc). Again, we work closely with the school and our boys, teaching them a lot of the skills they're not getting at school (it's very time consuming and basically a second job for me and my wife). My oldest is now in 8th grade and tested recently for the top magnet STEM HS in DFW. He feels pretty confident about it but we find out March 1 if he got it, that's goal number #3.

Looking back, my wife and I both strongly agree just moving 45 miles north to suburbs with actual functioning public schools would have been so much better. Yeah sure, we live in a hot neighborhood (north oak cliff), downtown, uptown, and deep ellum are < 3 miles away but we never go down there anymore anyway. Suburbs with good schools and other amenities geared toward families are where it's at.
Of course it isn't their data it is ours. But only worth anything in aggregate.

It was well known how much this stuff was worth before and that amount has been declining. With AI hype convincing people of unknown potential it becomes a speculative asset again.

Reddit was a financial failure and now it is trying to IPO again on the basis that your shit posts are the new NFTs. This issue will resolve itself I don't think devs are missing out.
Even with employer-subsidized daycare, it was more than our mortgage. Watching what people who couldn’t make that work had to do really pushed me solidly into the camp of seeing free government-provided daycare as a basic right. Even if you’re a total sociopath who doesn’t care about the stress, there’s like a century of research showing that things like stable & supportive early years set children up to be more successful for the rest of their lives, and the challenges of finding and paying for daycare put a ton of stress on most parents, hitting the poorest the hardest.
Well, they can just work until they drop.
> It's that they no longer want to make small ones.

Moralization of having kids (and birth control) also has a large impact on this—it's not uncommon to hear younger folks say they don't believe it's ethical to have kids.
that sort of movement is thankfully incredibly niche. anyone serious about that sort of crazy should start with themselves.
But the restrictions are on this very same group. They can’t sell or develop their property as they choose.

In practice it is governance by those with the most time on their hands. Why does this small group get to restrict property rights for the rest of the group?
Then the institutions need to change their approach yes.
> This argument falls apart when you consider that some projects have zero or negative value.

Null hypothesis would be that on average the null/negative value projects would be evenly distributed.
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My read is that he was one of those early employees that is a huge pain to manage. They want to do what they think is fun and interesting and they have strong opinions about shit that is ultimately inconsequential. It's a nightmare to manage an IC who is friends with the CEO and doesn't think you're making the right choices. But ultimately they don't accept accountability for any decisions, they just move bop around and cause problems.

One tell-tale sign is endpoint security and using his own device. It's the kind of permissive cultural thing that does not scale because of compliance issues and developer productivity overhead. But it's very hard to wrench these long-time devs away from their preferred Linux distribution which requires conditional build stuff everywhere to support. Use a work computer for work, let them monitor the updates and stuff, as long as they're not using the webcam to record you who cares?

The database backup story - my guy you were on the database team. Backing up the databases is job 1. You can't just passive-voice away "oh there were no backups". But of course he's more interested in fighting about sharding architecture than actually keeping the site running day-to-day.

His big takeaway is that Gitlab didn't spend enough time on performance for their hosted offering which was a huge money loser. Just because he thinks performance stuff is fun to do, if the hosted offering is a money pit of course they're not throwing more resources at it. You have to make an actual business case for why your thing is more important and makes money more than another project. You don't just engineer in a vacuum for the fun of it.
Also, the gender pay gap is a myth so there's no reason to consider it in the first place.
The rich can absolutely afford as many children as they want.

Whom you are talking about are upstart "upper middle" who have a good wage but no capital of their own, and the rich are generally happy to have them thrown under the bus rather than face them as equals.

The method of throwing under the bus is have them overwork for a wage and then second job to waste that wage on "fueling economic growth". Not turning these into anything permanent.
> if I were to say "I am really burnt out and want to take the day off to go skiing" once in a while, I become the team pariah.

Find a better team—that's not normal behavior.
Just that mine did. I couldn't effectively do new research if I didn't understand the latest research, and there often wasn't someone to teach it. I found my advisor would guide but rarely lecture. This is especially true as my research was cross disciplinary, so I had to know topics that had nothing to do with my own undergrad.
+1 data point here. I think the mechanism is simply getting me to think more about getting quality sleep whereas it before it was just whim or a crapshoot.
> if we offered longer parental leaves, child subsidies, state-run childcare, or whatever - but in every country such programs are implemented, they don't really make any difference

Exactly, countries like Sweden have implemented a lot of policies to help parents. The current fertility rate is 1.8 (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/fertility-r...).
So cool! Wondering if this technology can be used to control spacecraft attitude or does it require a fixed support? How heavy do the flywheels need to be in relation to the total weight?
It only relies on unit tests. The people can fail all day long and the unit tests will catch it every single time. Not special unit tests that attempt to seek out such issues, the same unit tests you are writing in languages that have a stricter type system.

If you forget to initialize a field and the tests don't notice, you didn't need the field in the first place, so it won't matter if it is left in an invalid state.

You just don't get the squiggly lines in your text editor. That's the tradeoff.
I can’t speak to the accuracy of this, as it was just something I was told from a co-worker (in the US), but he had 9 kids and told me he paid 0 income tax and got $15k back on his taxes, due to his kids.
Videos have extremely low information density as it is, and one where someone is just typing/typoing code for an hour is a huge time sink. I would rather spend the hour reading a chapter or two from a primary source on the matter
How is having kids necessarily going to change the world? Is there something totally unique about the way you're raising them, like training them from birth to be ninja assassins and infiltrating government institutions with them? Or are you just trying to change the world by doing the same thing as everybody else by raising them to be healthy and happy and educated and letting them grow up and make their own decisions, like sitting around all day playing video games and doom scrolling and social networking on their mobile phones?
But you won't as employeers go where the employees are.
I was once curious about this regarding breast size and breast cancer. Does more cells in the body simply correlate to more dice rolls each cell generation?

(Yes I’m sure this sounds woefully ignorant of how things work)
How many people do you think actually do that? Please cite sources.
Ooh, it looks really slick. Indeed, this is a far cry from the TTD way of placing each rail by hand.