skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the beginning, most developers in history wrote payroll and accounts software. Now they do cat photos sharing apps. If anything, I consider this an improvement.
"it takes a village to raise a kid"

Yet the message sent to potential parents is so far from that, I won't blame people foregoing having kids.

There's a strong movement pushing for smaller governments and less public and social expenses in general, that directly makes it worse (kids are sick all the time, they need schools, public transportation, libraries, public services in general). You're arguing for giving up on daycare when so many companies are pushing back to office rules.

To your point, if a couple is at the point they couldn't afford lattes if they had kids, I don't see them properly raising that kid without a ton of aid, and looking at the comments we usually have here, most will point the finger at them for not being responsible enough instead.
Companies hired too many people but that does not mean they cant afford to pay them. This many people creates friction and makes it harder to manage and allocate resources.

Especially money printing machines (Meta,Google) should be ordered to spend as much money as possible on potential innovation and therefore should have internal "startups/VC" culture and not optimize for stocks.
List of all known IBM PC games/edutainment titles 1981-2024
The problem isn't in the stock market, the problem is the excess production. Trying to boost the economy has the exact opposite effect, and makes everything even worse. You need to slow it down, and boost spending instead.
It has more to do with the high interest rates, large amount of hiring during the cheap money period, and the bleak economic outlook (especially outside of the USA).

I mean there are entire companies whose business model basically depended on low interest rates.
We can hope the MBAs realize this AI stuff is crap, just like they did with outsourcing. Hopefully some of them also realize that investing in talent is good for the industry as a whole but I'm not holding my breath.
If you are in the minority on HN, it's almost more likely you are in the majority outside HN.
lots of bad articles that won’t stand the test of lowered interest rates the next years
I think a little bit could be an understatement. Based on current progress it's quite possible it could be progress by leaps and bounds each year.
Anecdata: I am 22 and I have a bunch of cousins but they are all from generations older than me, so while my half-siblings had a bunch of cousins to hang out with - I don't really have any. The closest I have that are my age are 3 2nd cousins (cousin's children), and we see each other once every 2-3 years. Every time we see each other we end up complaining about how few people are in our family in our generation.

On the other hand, all of my actual cousins are now having children, so it seems the next generation won't be having this problem (in my family).
Spin top is definitely mechanical though.
Don't forget about the additional 1 billion dollar debt payment he added to the company's expenses.
It's me and two others though I'm definitely the most active. We put a lot of effort into security best practices and one of my co-developers is currently reviewing the 4.38.0 release. It's a fairly major release with a lot of important code paths that have been improved for the future.

Our official docs can be found at https://www.authelia.com and you can find docs for a particular PR in the relevant PR. We've also linked the pre-release docs in the pre-release discussions which can be found here: https://github.com/authelia/authelia/discussions/categories/...
Why 22 was available is also interesting. Network Control Protocol was the precursor to TCP and used different ports for inbound and outbound traffic, typically even for outbound and odd for inbound.

If you look in /etc/services you'll notice that all the older protocols listen on odd numbered ports.

Some of this still survives today. In active mode FTP servers listen on 21, ACK the inbound request and then connect to the client from 20.
> Well, those other companies paid taxes as well.

How do you know? At this scale tax avoidance schemes often completely prevent this.
Fantastic. It would be nice if there was a column for the track, so I can more easily filter.
That's not how evolution works, and it's not at all clear that a desire or lack of desire to have children is genetic or hereditary.

Yes, people who don't have kids are ending their genetic line when they die. But that doesn't mean that people who have kids are necessarily increasing the pool of people who want kids, percentage-wise.
What the ubiquitous prescriptions of college education as a panacea for mass unemployment seem to miss is that, for most, a college degree is primarily a signalling mechanism intended to keep their resume in consideration long enough for it to reach human eyes. Jobs that were formerly held (and performed adequately) by non-degree holders now inexplicably require a degree (or multiple degrees!).

If we could simply flip a switch and grant all American adults a college degree (and the general knowledge that supposedly accompanies it), it seems far more likely that the average job's "requirements" would simply inflate to account for this increase than that we'd see a huge drop in unemployment.
A formal description of SYSTEM/360 (1964) [pdf]
making the images less visible as you hover is QUITE annoying.
I think he means AI-generated porn, e.g. the Taylor Swift case. I still think it's a silly argument against AI.
Altman is affiliated with whom? Not OpenAI anymore. Rumours floating around
Altman is now collabing with Canva. Canva, themselves a +3000 employee
business, have made the league of bigtechs. They are still hiring. What for?
They are extremely big on AI, just like Altman. There have been numerous
allusions to Altman and Canva collabing something together during internal
meetings at Canva.
I've been going to FOSDEM since 2011 and you folks impress me every year! Outstanding work!
Given the input, the correct data structure, you can.
You're not reading or comprehending the multiple correct replies. I won't repeat them because apparently that won't get through to you, but you should go back and read them again and again until you understand, or at least stop repeating the same incorrect information, if not finally understanding the correct information people keep trying to tell you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
The more hilarious one is Apple.

If open source didn't exist then NeXT would've still been able to build the Mach kernel but would not have the resources for the rest of the stack. So the only option would have been BeOS.

Which means no Steve Jobs at Apple, no iPod, iPhone etc. The whole industry would look very different.
That's not a biological reason to make kids. That's just people who decide they want them. It's not at all clear that's a hereditary trait. If it's not, evolution has nothing to do with it.
Programs were a lot simpler, and probably a lot less secure, in the 90s. A lot fewer distributed systems.
Reminds me of the wolves vote in Colorado. Rural locations (which will actually come into contact with wolves) voted against but were outvoted by the more populous urban locations (who probably won't encounter a wolf).

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2023/1211/Denver-voted...
Maybe we don't even care if barnacles grow on it since it's kind of a water catcher anyway.

Or if not this design, maybe one could be designed to either not care or even benefit from barnacles.

Remove the whole problem of fighting it.
come on, any change in the environment that can happen by one guy with a shovel over a few days, could happen by any random weather event anyway, that could have happened by the wind blowing just the right way..
It's good that you are aware it's a crazy thought :) Nothing wrong with looking into it though. Wikipedia offers:

> Movement of tides causes a loss of mechanical energy in the Earth-Moon system: this results from pumping of water through natural restrictions around coastlines and consequent viscous dissipation at the seabed and in turbulence. This loss of energy has caused the rotation of the Earth to slow in the 4.5 billion years since its formation. During the last 620 million years the period of rotation of the Earth (length of a day) has increased from 21.9 hours to 24 hours;[10] in this period the Earth-Moon system has lost 17% of its rotational energy. While tidal power will take additional energy from the system, the effect is negligible and would not be noticeable in the foreseeable future.

and there is some simple math in the [Tidal acceleration] page [0] that you may want to read. Basically, the tides slow the rotation of the Earth, with some of the energy being transferred to the Moon but most of it going into friction. The natural friction is estimated at a (surprisingly low, IMO) 3.64 TW, and at this rate the Earth will stop rotating in 50 billion years, long after the Sun has blown up.

So if we want to keep the Earth spinning (albeit slowly) until the Sun goes red giant, we can afford to cut that time down to a tenth, meaning we can produce 36 TW (before conversion to electricity, i.e. ignoring efficiency).

If we are being reckless and just want to use power until we figure out nuclear fusion or something better, let's say a million years or so, we can make some 180 PW from tides. But since it would almost all turn to heat, and since that is more energy than the Earth gets from the Sun, that would probably be unwise unless we find a way to get it off-planet with very high efficiency.

(Global electrical energy production is currectly about 28 PWh per year, equivalent to a constant 3TW or so.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration
Hmm... I don't really understand what pmtiles adds in that setup. I thought you'd need to have a pmtiles basemap in order to efficiently extract tiles in a Lambda function. Or are you generating much small pmtiles files from the pbf on demand? Do you need an initial sweep of the whole world to make this performant on first hit of each region?
"This is not what my mother says"

Yup, they did it again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6m2zuICRE
In answer to why you're out of the loop, there have already been multiple threads about this on HN but none of them have remained on the front page for more than a few minutes.
CEOs must constantly pretend that their companies are into the new trend, so they prioritize things & invest money into things that might never turn into a profit.

They do this to say the current buzzword in board and shareholder meetings (this time: "AI").

This satisfies shareholders or board members cluelessly because then it looks like the company is "future-proof."

The reality is that it's mostly likely that any money to be made in that space will be by 1-2 players(OpenAI, NVidia?) and a few Startups competing for the scraps.

The average company won't win that much. Even Meta.

Since Apple changed iOS, advertising businesses have been more difficult (Meta, Google). Their Ads haven't been improved solely by AI; they've also found new ways to collect user data.

It's all a fugazi.
At the very least HN needs to downvote these clickbait articles. This is like the 4th I’ve seen this month on here.

There is no evidence the layoffs are at all related to AI, workers are not being replaced by AI and companies aren’t letting people go because they want to build AI products. All the layoffs are because low interest gravy train is now gone and the R&D tax benefits are gone.
Do e-scooters and the like self-balance in this way?

It would be cool to have self-balancing rollerblades.
Totally agree on the Lotus. Although I prefer the original 108 design to the 110.

Seeing Chris Boardman win on it at the Barcelona Olympics was like seeing something arrive from another planet. It left quite an impression on a young me.

I know a bike shop owner with one of the road versions in his private collection. Seeing it up close is... like being near a religious relic. Yep I am a cycling nerd! :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_108
"Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable": https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/pdf/tide.pdf

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383283
> Same for solar if pea counting, but solar is really endless until the end of the solar system

Imagine you wrap the Earth inside a sphere of perfectly efficient solar panels, that would be energetically troublesome! Every bit of solar panel we lay removes a bit of that overall energy flux; the question is then how much can we afford without detrimental impact.

Essentially we dampen tides with these devices. Windmills are slowing the wind. How much can we afford before it has an actual detrimental effect?

Also, pedantically, "renewable" is a fun word.

The question of "renewable" is whether the energy/matter somehow gets back in some way... Of course there's entropy and such.

Say you cut wood (CHO) and burn it. If you grow enough wood it'd recapture H2O+CO2 and you have a nice endless loop (plus entropy). That would presumably be renewable.

In that sense (again, pedantically):

- nuclear (and so the sun) is not renewable: reversing U/Pu/whatever fission is a teeny bit out of our league so someday the supply will dry out. Fusion as we do it (and the sun too, being main sequence) is H->He and we don't exactly know how we could reverse that so someday the supply will dry out.

- fossil fuel is renewable... on a geological timescale, which is not really practical; we can't exactly grow big enough forests and bury them for millions of years to get fuel back. So someday the supply of humans surviving will dry out.

- tides/wind is not renewable: we get mechanical energy but don't return it to the original place (or maybe extremely indirectly in the form of heat)

So it's all named backwards!

Or really there's no renewable... Essentially it all pans out because the Earth is not a closed system, there's loss in every transformation but it's balanced by the energy influx from our nearby star.

So I guess the "renewable" thing is not really, it's more like "capturing energy from an astoundingly immense and complex system in a way that doesn't throw it in a runaway catastrophe one way or another before the sun exits its main sequence".
https://github.com/janbar/osmin/

https://github.com/rinigus/pure-maps/ (makes use of OSM Scout Server)
> and even if they do it keeps changing because "agile".

Agile is precisely the response to the fact that requirements keep changing, not the cause of it.
Elon did not demonstrate anything. Any faceless entity especially at the top of the industry can function and print money out of thin air with a much smaller workforce.

The reason why companies are so big is that companies want to cover all these unprofitable business flows and use cases for vertical integration. So many people work on products and services that bring 0 revenue to the company and yet these are important.

It's just internally the valuation of these things had changed.
I generally don't accept the result of studies which claim "If we had replaced W with X, we would save Y amount of Z." IMO, there are too many variables involved to make such assertions. The models for coming to such conclusions are way too simplistic.

For the same reason, I don't even buy retrospective arguments like "We switched from W to X and ended up with Y fewer/more of Z."

It reminds me of TypeScript mania when companies where claiming "We switched from JavaScript to TypeScript and reduced bugs by X%."

It's nonsense. They could probably have reduced bugs by X% merely by rewriting the project, even if they stuck with JavaScript. Rewrites are almost always much better than the first iteration, simply because developers learned what the issues and pain points were and were better equipped to avoid them during the rewrite.
Yeah there are also these separate torque wheels without the housing: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002491212698.html

The brushless type looks interesting, since you get the flywheel, the motor, an integrated driver, and encoder board all in one piece. A bit pricey still, and the encoder documentation is lacking, otherwise I might've ordered one or two already.

Would be really cool to make a satelite model that hangs from the ceiling by hanging it at its center of mass on a ball joint, so it can rotate in all directions, then using these to orient it in specific ways, solar panels for charging, radio comms to give it commands, sonic humidifier as the rocket engine, etc. Maybe one day lol.
That absolutely is not natural selection at all. Natural selection is the result of a random process. People deciding to have or not have kids is a conscious decision based on their life experiences.

Put another way, someone choosing to have kids isn't necessarily changing the balance between the child-bearing and child-free population in the world. If we could freeze the conditions that cause people to not want kids and keep them constant, we won't see the child-free "die out" and be replaced by people who only or predominantly want to have children. We'll just continue to see roughly the same proportion of people wanting and not wanting to have kids.
AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune
Don’t forget synchronisation.
> If you find an infrared source but no associated visible star you’ve got a strong candidate for being a Dyson sphere

You mean like brown dwarfs?
https://archive.is/57wEx
I've been on a sickness streak for a large part of the last year - and for a change I was fine after this event :)
>country with a threadbare social safety-net

Sub-replacement fertility is still very much a thing even up here in Northern Europe, though, with our famously generous safety nets.

Here in Finland, however, there's one group of note reproducing well above replacement: The Laestadian fundamentalists up north.
Can democracy survive this? I doubt it, not after free trade gutted all blue collar work.
Here's a script I use to strip out low quality discussions from the HN front page:

const boringDomains = [
"newyorker.com",
"nytimes.com",
"economist.com",
"wired.co.uk",
"bbc.com",
"aella.substack.com",
"hecolumn.substack.com",
"wsj.com",
"kqed",
"voanews.com",
"wusa9.com",
"noemamag.com",
"arstechnica.com",
"independent.co.uk",
"axios.com",
"southseattleemerald.com",
"eff.org",
"freep.com",
"ft.com"
]

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".titleline > a"))
.filter(elem => boringDomains.some(domain => elem.href.includes(domain)))
.map(elem => elem.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement)
.flatMap(elem => [elem, elem.nextElementSibling,
elem.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling])
.forEach(elem => elem.remove())
Would love if HN had a section like 'show hn' specifically for long-form, lone-hacker, impressive stuff like this. Not sure exactly what the metrics would be that qualify an article to belong there but every few months I see something like this that has that 'wow' factor, and wish there was an easy way to collect all of them.
(Well, correction to the above hyperbole: It has rules of spelling but a broken orthography so "spelling cannot be systematically derived from pronunciation, but it also has the more unusual problem that pronunciation cannot be systematically derived from spelling" (wikipedia).
How China Built BYD
This is impressive and actually looks like a real movie scene. And to think this only fits in 256 bytes makes you rethink how bloated the things we are using everyday are and also how powerful current browsers are.

I am however more impressed by the 8K demos such as "the Sheep and the Flower" [1] which was shared on HN recently or "One of those days" [2] which is a remake of an actual Youtube video [3] (granted not exactly the same video by the second but the style is immediately recognizable). They are way bigger than this 256 bytes movie but convey a lot more graphics and story.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121101

[2]: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75790 and YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8T_Um-cw0Wc

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NagZN2kjY
I like that idea. Hold an auction. If they still want to delete it, then the maximum deduction is (expenses - highest_bid), since clearly the studio is getting some value out of not releasing the film.
> interest rates are high

Interest rates are lower than they have been for most of my life, and close to the average interest rate over the last 700 years.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/11/06/guest-post-global-r...

People have simply gotten used to governments in the last twenty years trying to juice their economies by dropping interest rates more and more.
What a joke. Shareholders like the axing. They believe this makes companies more resilient against recession. CEO's push away workers, and then rehire with lower wages. But this is due to AI. Ok, computer.
The “in pivot to AI” part is speculation: https://layoffs.fyi/ says 141 tech companies laid off 34,250 in 2024.
The 10x programmer (2016): then vs. now
"... We had one new hire come on board with quite a bit of past experience and it took this person three full days (21 hours) to get the environment up and running.

We had a university intern come on board with some experience (a lot of experience for a university student) and it took this person the better part of a month to get the environment up and running (20 days x 7 hours = 140 hours)... "

My vision of a 10x programmer would be, that they build automation so that everyone spends equal 5 minutes, waiting for the environment to be set up and running, agree?
How on earth can such a small device generate so much energy? Wouldn't 1.2 MW of power make it very brittle just like a real kite? Or else why not scale it up and make one 100 times larger that generates 120 MW of power? Since tidal currents are much more reliable (I think) than offshore wind it almost seem to good to be true. There has to be a catch.
> Reminder that Dubbo (population of only ~40,000) had to have water shipped in on trucks during the recent drought

The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme pumps water over 560 km from Perth to Kalgoorlie; Dubbo is only 380 km from Newcastle. If you were serious about turning Dubbo into the state capital, you would have to give serious thought to building a pipeline to pump water from the Hunter, and then Dubbo would only run out of water if Newcastle was running out of water. (You could also build a pipeline from Sydney to Dubbo, which is only about 20km further, but much more mountainous terrain in the way.)

> I do think we should decentralise, but it will likely look more like Newcastle and Wollongong growing

Newcastle and Wollongong aren't really that much cheaper than Sydney. They are coastal, and everyone wants to live on the coast; also, Wollongong has physical growth limitations due to the Illawarra Escarpment. There's a lot more land on the other side of the Great Dividing Range, and water supply issues could be addressed with sufficient investment in water supply infrastructure.

> Also note, Canberra kind of fits your description - a regional "town", servicing the government. And it's also very expensive. As in, recently reported to be the second most expensive place in the country to buy a house, after Sydney.

Canberra is in some ways Australia's version of Washington DC. Although, DC has a very different social history – e.g. DC has historically (but as of last census no longer) had an African-American majority; and, DC is physically a lot smaller than the ACT is. But, what I am really talking about is an Australian analogue of Sacramento, Albany, Springfield (Illinois), Salem (Oregon), Carson City (Nevada), etc – which is something Australia doesn't have.

All that said, Queanbeyan's median house price is >$50K cheaper than Canberra's, by some measures beneath the average of Australian capital cities. And it is only 20 minutes drive from Canberra. In Sydney or Melbourne, that's what many would call an inner/middle suburb.