skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exponentiation also has defined precedence, does it not? (Everyone who has passed algebra agrees that y is squared before being multiplied by 2 in your example.)
'"Giving birth is troublesome," — say others — "why still give birth? One beareth only the unfortunate!" And they also are preachers of death.'
It's a not-insignificant fraction of the global GDP in 2024.

He's betting that it's an insignificant fraction of the global GDP of 2030 (assuming we give him the $7T so that he can 10x or 1000x the global GDP by then).
This is pretty surreal, and feels like the beginning of a script for a Hollywood movie.
> Democracy is funny that way.

Democracy is just a tyranny of the masses.

Through the good advertising it's now usually understood as 'we vote => we are in control => values', except democracy is clearly has nothing with social and humanitarian values.
Even if it was true, put this way, the argument is insanely hostile to women, basically saying "Your freedom means we, as a society, are declining".
And project management. They basically turned the PO role into a PM role.
Payroll, Accounts Receivable, etc. feels much more dignified than figuring how to deliver more brain-damaging ads.

Also, the whole extreme programming style was prototyped around hilariously big (for reasons called "USA" not bad code) payroll software for Chrysler.
The US does have unit pricing, but this is mandated at the state level by our Constitution. Interstate commerce is regulated by the federal government, not labels on store shelves.
I have 2 siblings. We have over 30 cousins on one side of the family and 2 on the other side.

Only 1 of the 3 of us has kids, so my niblings don't have any cousins on my side of the family, and they only have a few on the other side. I haven't thought about how different that is compared to what I grew up with until seeing this post
You can get away with much less state with minimal JS like HTMX
So yes, for a small business that just drops a GA snippet into the bottom of their app it is inexpensive. I’m not sure that this qualifies as the “modern data stack”.

That’s also not what happens when a larger company integrates Segment into their applications! That takes many engineering months to set up and then maintain for the lifetime of the app.

If the full costs are analyzed, is the money spent well?

There’s sone irony here in that much effort is put towards analysis of user behavior but very little effort put towards accounting for where the money is spent internally.

That is why there is a slowdown in customers using these MDS products, not what the author of the article claims, rather that when feet are put to the fire, expensive services that haven’t paid off their debt are given the axe.
Ask them after they have their first child.

BTW: 2.1 is still quite good.
Here in Poland (a formerly pretty much catholic country), we are at birthrate = 1.3 now and still going down.
If they spent $100M and get an asset out that is worth $30M then they have a loss of $70M. Lighting the $30M shouldn't count as additional loss that they can write off, IMO.
It isn't entirely independent if a change in your backend can completely break your frontend.

Your using coupling as if it is a dirty word that means you've failed.
If you were to have children in affordable manner nowadays you would soon find yourself without said children and in prison possibly.
> I am asking myself what would I need to hear and get from a past generation to convince me to complete a project they began?

For me a language, culture, sexual arousal.
> The catch? Those credits expire in one year if unused. They do not accumulate.

That's kinda fucked up. But well, for my friend in the South, where winters are miserably cold and houses have no heating infrastructure, using the accumulated energy credits during the winter is easy. Heck, there are even crypto-mining heaters available these days, so it kinda works best for him I guess?
Claiming a legitimate argument is from "the algorithm" is flimsy, unprovable, unfalsifiable, and does nothing except discredit the person rather than the idea. I could claim your argument is from living a life of privilege, but then I'd be addressing the person rather than the argument.
The thinking I used to invest in Duolingo two years ago when everyone thought it was too expensive. Hint: This is a new-age business model, not a classic/old one.
> If most Homo sapiens had the same attitude, the species would have gone extinct since forever lol.

And maybe Earth would be a better place.
The reason why this expression shouldn't compile has nothing to do with precedences (C has some odd choices here to be sure), but because of mixing incompatible types. Arithmetic integers, bitvector integers, Booleans, and possibly even floats. Conversions to appropriate types should have to be explicit. But C's type system is weak as all hell and this shit actually compiles there. (I'm only mentioning C because your example looks like it.)
Scams and ad-pushing? Persistent Invigilation by ad-serving companies also surprisingly started out in commercial space, not military, from what I know.
programmers a choosing a language because of syntax are like house buyers choosing a house because of the color it's painted
That twitter link sounds like it's the start of the thread, but the thread is not visible. Probably due to Musk's changes to twitter. Is there a way to see the entire thread? Otherwise I think people should stop posting threads on twitter and linking to them.
I'm not sure those considerations are applicable. There is no "ecosystem" that depends on the rate of slowdown of Earth's rotation - we do need to leave some rotation to keep flora and fauna alive, but that's a "reservoir" problem, to use the OP's formulation, not an intensity one.

As for the addition of energy (heat) to the planet, sure, but there's nothing specific about tidal energy here. All energy sources except solar (and wind/hydro which are direct solar derivatives) add heat to the planet that would otherwise have stayed sequestered. But it's many orders of magnitude less than the heating from solar energy, which is why increasing Earth's absorption factor by a few points is an infinitely bigger problem than all the energy we are directly producing or can hope to directly produce in the next few centuries.
~~What does helping his sister have to do with it? There are many good reason why not to help your immediate family, many of them personal and difficult to judge objectively. Or is there some known drama that is public and where it's clear that Sam was in the wrong?~~

Edit: looks like there are abuse allegations, so it's not only about helping; what I wrote above is not that relevant.
Or, in British English, brackets(()), curly brackets({}), square brackets ([]).
Well, when I started, it was the waning days of "big iron."

In Ye Olde Days, "programmers," were usually little more than data entry clerks (often, women). The people who wrote the software would be in offices, filled with smoke, writing the programs on paper.

Compute time was expensive and precious. If you got a bug during your run, you wouldn't get a chance to fix it, until you could schedule another data entry session, and another CPU run.

It encouraged a "measure twice, cut once" approach. Since most software, in those days, was fairly humble, compared to the de rigueur, these days, it was easier to do. Also, software usually had extremely restricted I/O. UI was not even a term, and peripheral connection was a big deal.

These days, I often "throw stuff at the wall, and see what sticks," when writing software. It's easier for me to write some half-baked crap, and debug it in the IDE.

My software development tends to be "iterative." I write about that, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...
The immediate question is: if they are more efficient, why aren't all disciplines using these?

The article doesn't say! It suggests in passing that Triathlon has different rules because it doesn't allow "drafting" (Which I'm guessing is something related to team-riding to reduce air resistance, but the article doesn't explain what it is). Are there any rules prescribing (say) that a tour de France bike must use a normal (double triangle) design? Or is that just used because a traditional frame is optimal for weight rather than aerodynamics?
Whats the point of marriage then if being able you refuse kids? It's designed as a secure hub to build greater things like children bearing family. Why to subject yourself to lonely elderly life, tied to aging partner? Be like gay/bachelor people and enjoy hundreds of partners, why try to mimic family being afraid for full experience?
Sundial Mottos
Should they stop paying taxes too? Why should they subside the common good that your children will benefit of?

This argument cuts both ways.
I gave up renting in London to live nomadically – it's dramatically enriching
> The real questions here is why people given opportunity to not have children jumps at it.

Point taken, but that opportunity was not there until about 60 years ago.
I don't think people unwillingness to have kids changed, they didn't have much real choice back then. Well, their willingness to have sex was stronger than willingness to not have kids ;)
How about *paste Linux source code here*? Should the language C allow it? It's long and complicated, you don't even have enough time to read it, let alone to comprehend it.
You are presuming intentions that are absent from my comment. And it doesn't state any "argument".

I am not saying there that it is wrong to give women such freedom, nor that it is right. Maybe there is an alternative cultural setting where women emancipation doesn't bear such consequences. Maybe not. Maybe it is an unavoidable result of our societal progress. Or maybe a flourishing of the society cannot, and shouldn't, be measured in births-to-deaths ratio.

These things I consider unknown. But the cause of the current state of affairs is as stated.
It needs a new venue. My first FOSDEM was immediately before COIVD-19 broke out and it was the last time I travelled for 2 years straight. If someone would have had COVID at that conference probably lots of OSS devs would have died.

FOSDEM doesn't fit in its venue anymore, which is great in a way. It's been incredibly successful, but now it's time to find a bigger venue.
You probably need to be logged in to see the full thread. That said, here's a mirror without that requirement: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1750952860131729544.html
This works for me:

import hid

VID = 0x046D
HID = 0xB023 # 0xB35B

if __name__ == "__main__":
h = hid.device()
h.open(VID, HID)
h.set_nonblocking(1)

# this works for keyboard
# h.write([0x11, 0x01, 0x09, 0x1F, 0x01] + [0] * 15)

# this works for mouse
h.write([0x11, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x1E, 0x01] + [0] * 15)
h.close()
I think it's more a problem of visible disabilities or just not looking attractive, than of a dress code.
Hoo boy, is this a wild take.

With an attitude like that you will get your lunch eaten so fast, by people who are suffering losses of various sorts in order to get to make their creation their way, the way it's supposed to be made.

That's universal. I don't care whether it's zombie movies or pop music or any sort of thing you think hollow and worthless.

I don't know what industry you're in (tech?) but in the glamour professions where people compete savagely to get to where they're not losing money at the game, those 'hired hands' may be scornful of the director, but it's because they've got their own script that's not being picked up, and their suggestions aren't being followed. And the actor refuses to see the final film because he will lose his mind watching every little fumble of a line, imagining how he should have done it. Surviving this is the inner game of these creative industries.

The times when a crew wears 'I'm just crew and don't care about anything' are sarcasm, protest against a fanatical director who is making them depart from their usual workmanlike habits that they think are how you make a great film that is perfectly fine. They're not advocating for bad so much as they're insisting that they're already the apex of good, that the director is insane and unreasonable. (which can be part of the job description, for advancing the state of the art…)

Nobody who is content to be a hired hand stays in such an industry. You can make more pumping gas, half the time.
Rise of the Solopreneur
The families of my father and mother each have nine siblings. Most of their siblings married and had children. Some of those sibling usually the oldest ones had six children. I grew up knowing at least 40 cousins.

I'm not married or in a relations ship and I don't have any children. My sister is married but no children. I see much of my generation (GenX) are in a similar state.
You are just as selfish as your friends. You just have a different idea about what life you want (and also probably higher income, I bet).

Would you have another kid if you knew it would make your current kid significantly worse off? It's the same argument as that, except that you count the spouse as part of the equation.

If you make conscious choices to keep having kids even though

1. You don't need them to help on your farm or to support you in your old age,
2. Each additional kid further immiserates your spouse and the older kids

aren't you the selfish one?
> Today’s Catholic Church would be viewed by its founders as some kind of uber-hippy bunch of democratic maniacs out to destroy civilisation.

Are you sure? It seems to me that Jesus would be dismayed by how establishment they've become and not nearly radical enough.
I don't think that's the important distinction, lots of ongoing costs are outsourced.

Amazon may have their own shipping fleet, most retailers of smaller scale pay someone else to do it for profit.
I'm curious where that question was asked? Because the odds of getting 3/5 is probably higher if asking a group of people in, Boulder, CO than it would be if you asked a group in Lincoln, NE.
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp

And it's a book of his articles.
Is the EFF offering pro bono legal representation when the NFL sues you?

Otherwise, the NFL can drown you in legal fees.
It's true that many many places overextended themselves while under the influence of ZIRP. However, I think it's giving the execs/boards too much credit to say they're reluctant to do layoffs because the tech isn't there yet. Everyone is eager to get on the AI train because they want to pay fewer employees.
I have created a project for easily writing this type of test with YAML:

https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory

I dont think that this type of task is really appropriate for an LLM though. It is better to use hard, prewritten abstractions for the truly deterministic stuff (e.g. click).

For other situations where you may need to do subtle trade offs (e.g. choosing an HTML selector for the search bar) an LLM will generally do a bad job.
Google "My car is allergic to vanilla ice cream". I can only find rehashes of it, not the actual source, so I didn't link to it, but the basic story is easy to find.
https://archive.ph/2024.02.10-192012/https://www.wsj.com/pol...
Do you really think that situation when one decides "it's too hard to have kids" never has hereditary, biological causes (including indirect)?

I think in vast majority of such situations hereditary factors are involved. It is really hard for me to imagine such situation that is completely independent from such factors.
The gyroscopic effect of wheels has a minimal impact on the tendency of things like bicycles to remain balanced; the majority of the effect comes from the rake of the front wheel (i.e. that the point where it touches the ground is ahead of the pivot point of the front post).

That gyroscopic effect of the wheel works well when the whole device is wheel (think hoop rolling), but when you start adding weight that's not spinning (like someone riding a scooter), the effect falls off.

Edit: it seems that neither the gyroscopic effect nor rake are sufficient to explain bicycles' self-stability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-mass-skate_bicycle
Has anyone sequenced Ed Viesturs' EPAS1?
I don't think we need to talk about parentheses?

I doubt there is anything nontrivial but useful to say about them?

Anyone found anything in the article?
Personally I have no idea. But I guess an experienced car mechanic can know more.
Thanks for sharing your tool!

I think it would be best to illustrate the readme with a problem it tries to solve: currently I don't understand why a simple set of INSERT operations wouldn't suffice.

Also, the phrase "ingest data into Postgres" sounds wrong: it would be postgres, not your tool that would ingest data (if it could), your tool should be described as the one "putting data into Postgres".
And thus you probably have named your tool wrong...
China however can drive over-arching visions for the future more organized than most countries can (due to the nature of the party there, the abilities to coordinate, set policy, give incentives, but also because of millenia old ideas of Confucianism).

So they could perhaps pull a 'national drive' for more babies, if they get serious about it. Doesn't have to be very different from western programs (like in Europe) to promote families having more children with tax cuts, incentives, and
such. Just more effective.

>A Moscow-trained missile scientist led the push for China’s policy, based on tables of calculations that applied mathematical models used to calculate rocket trajectories to population growth.

When you read about such bullshit, you kind of get right away that it was the most basic and naive interpolation.

>growing up under the one-child policy were raised in line with Beijing’s goals of a smaller but what it called “higher-quality” population: well-educated, savvy and independent.

The same idiotic idea is offered as consulation for westerm populations plummeting. "Why create more people? We get to consume and party more as child-less couples or individuals, and it's quality that matters, not quantity".

Then you get a society with 50% above the age of 40 or more, a huge percentage of older population that there's nobody to catter for, and measures like "let's bring in more immigrants to baby sit them and be the driving force for the economy".
The exec brought from McDonnell-Douglas, who was also an adviser to Phil Condit when certain changes (the 7E7 aka 787 program goals and planning, outsourcing strategy, HQ change) were done, and who later replaced Condit as CEO, was well known for being Jack Welch acolyte.

In fact, you can find Jack Welch "acolytes" all over 1990s execs and management and even later, because he was that influential.
> Business travelers make up 12% of airline passengers, but they pay higher rates than other customers and are typically twice as lucrative, accounting for as much as 75% of profits.

* https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041315/how-much-rev...
DPO is not RLHF.
Probably one of the best thing about the new "pythonized" Scala 3 syntax is that it doesn't require parentheses around if conditions.
that's certainly a plausible position; in lisp (or = x 1 = y 3) is generally an error; even if it's not an error it doesn't mean what you intend it to. having to write (x == 1) || (y == 3), similar analogous to the code you'd write in lisp, would be only a minor burden

in c, x == 1 || y == 3 works fine, but unfortunately the bitwise operators have the wrong precedence; x & 2 == 2 is parsed as x & (2 == 2), which is never what you meant. so even the best software designers have made terrible blunders in precedence design

math formulas are a bigger issue; 3*x**2 + x/2 + 1 is a lot better than the fully parenthesized version
Some of this is cultural. In the past, people would cram 12 kids (yes literally 12) into a 1,200 sq/ft rowhome. God knows where they all slept. I'm not suggesting this was good, people used to have kids and and have far less space.
That's not quite right. Lisps care a lot about the presence of whitespace, just not about their type or number. (foo bar baz) is very very different from (foobarbaz). They are identical in this respect to the C family of languages, in fact (the only difference is that they allow newlines in quoted strings, which C languages normally do not).
Short inter-city distances over land run into competition from high speed rail. Which I know is not a thing in the Americas, but is all over Europe and can compete with turboprop airliners on point-to-point time. (Remember, railway stations are almost all in the centre of the departure/arrival city and there's no security theatre to delay your boarding: also, service frequency on some high speed inter-city routes is as high as one departure every fifteen minutes, utterly unlike Amtrak.)

Scotland isn't really a market for short distance electric flights unless you're thinking of the Highlands and Islands, where less than 10% of the population is scattered across crinkle-cut fjords.

France/Netherlands to Sint Maarten/St. Martin is, IIRC, served by wide-body airliners because it's both legally part of France itself (at least the St. Martin half of the island) and it's a significant tourist resort.

And if you think the EU and UK have laxer safety/regulatory standards than the FAA, you might want to re-think your position ...
I'm one of those people.

I commute 50 mins each way on a Pendolino in the UK (into and out of London) and find that if I'm doing work on my laptop, or responding to emails on my phone as the train tilts I feel uncomfortable and dizzy.

The "slow" Desiro trains that don't tilt take 2 minutes longer to get into London, because whilst their top speed is 15Mph lower they accelerate faster.
And I’ve heard both “angle brackets” and “pointy brackets” (<>)
> The only real scarcity would be of a long attention span.

I get the author's drift, and broadly agree. But I don't think it's really a long attention span that would get in the way of (e.g.) a Mars colony, or interstellar travel; it's that people's views change from one generation to the next. My kids have been imbued with some of my attitudes, sure; but I've not had much of a hand in the raising of my grandchildren. And kids rebel against their parents' views, even if they're objectively less sensible than the latest kids' fashion.

The Death Star, to take the author's example, is the product of a particular hypothetical society that looks a lot like fascist authoritarianism: a Glorious Leader, militarization, and oppression. But how many societies like that have lasted 500 years? The Golden Horde lasted about 250 years; the Roman Empire lasted about 200 years. Chinese imperial rule lasted much longer, maybe 1,500 years? Egyptian pharoahs about the same, if you treat the Early, Middle and Late as distinct empires. But these empires changed their character as the centuries passed, and were not characterized by any particular continuity of social outlook or collective goals.

I have only a vague knowledge of what the attitudes of my grandparents and their generation were - too vague for me to either support them or to rebel against them. So I think it's not so much a matter of attention-span, and more a question of plain old memory; history lessons and books are no substitute for talking to the people who were there, and after 200 years there's nobody left who "was there".