skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cousins are great if you stay close, but generally as you get older you drift apart and then you're left with no one again.

Anecdotally: as someone who was the youngest by 5+ years in a family of dozens of cousins, I feel like I got a little bit of both worlds. It was fantastic as a kid to be running around with the posse, but as I entered late-childhood that pretty much dissolved. Now, as an adult, I no longer see my cousins on a regular basis. We don't have much history beyond my 7th/8th year and they're not the type of people I would want to be friends with by choice. This estrangement was a big source of mental struggle for me throughout my early 20s, especially since I lost my actual sibling and didn't feel like I had anyone to relate to in my "supposed" family.

I almost think it's better to start off life with not much extended family, because it's not easy to make friends that you consider family when you're already a fully-fledged adult.
I've got over 30 first cousins. Not joking. My mom was 1 of 12 children and my father was 1 of 8 children. They were born in India during the 1930's to 1950's when modern medicine was saving people's lives but modern birth control wasn't widespread.

Most of them had 2 children so that's over 30. We have 2 huge WhatsApp group chats and every week it is someone's birthday or anniversary.

It's cool having so many relatives and places to stay for free when you travel but it can be a little exhausting too!
> he very evidence you seek is right here, right now, all about us - a world in which men and women have a reproduction rate lower than than their grandparents and great grandparents. They have clearly bucked the trend of those in times past. Q.E.D.

Are you daft? If fertility rates were high in the past, if they were 6 or 8 or 9.7... they could fall for a long time with no decline in population.

But once they dip below the magic number of 2.1, then population declines. That's how this works. That's the number of children a woman (every woman, on average) must have for population to remain the same from one generation to the next.

I don't know any other way to explain it. You probably think you're intelligent. You followed the teacher's instructions and got an A on math, but you never really understood it. If you follow the recipe, it just poops out correct answers... but here we have a novel problem, and you just can't get it.

> Only if the world is to return to the present 8+ billion after a fall below.

No. For the population to plateau out and stay the same, they'd need that many. It's how fucking averages work.

Either all of them have 2.1, or if only half have children, then they need to have 4.2.

And this isn't for the population to grow again. It's for it to plateau out and remain the same as it is.

> Should numbers slowly decline down to, say, 1950s world population levels and mean reproduction rates go to 2.1 then things will stabilise.

That's the fucking point. If population declines, it's already below 2.1

And if it's below 2.1, that becomes the norm and it never goes back above 2.1. No little girl grows up in a world of childless adults, of the rare "only child", and "only child" herself and says "I think I will do what ever woman I ever knew wouldn't do, and have 2.1".

It's a simple fucking idea.

> You might perhaps ask yourself why you do not.

Because I don't belong to a death cult that hates humanity. I mean, I shouldn't have to say it out loud, but there it is.
Assuming that the causes of death have been correctly identified (because wolves will not hesitate to eat the body of an already dead human), that list contains only 2 attacks in North America during the last century (not counting rabid or captive wolves).

While this supports the supposition that the wolves from Alaska and Canada might be more aggressive than those from Europe, when starved during cold winters, this still shows that an attack from wolves is one of the least probable dangerous events that can happen.
By the standards of a K programmer, Lisp is quite verbose and excessively nested.
Hello! Been a long time since I was at Canonical!

CueCam has a "Teleprompter Window" that you could adapt to this purpose. You can "Include Camera Feed in Teleprompter Window" and then whatever you're sharing will come through. Although it does have window chrome so maybe not ideal. Another option is to fire up a QuickTime window and use "New Movie Recording" and use that as your sharing source window.

You definitely want "Original Sound for Musicians" switched on in Zoom if you're doing any audio sharing with CueCam.
AMD truly deserves its misfortune in the GPU market.
Most companies dont pay many taxes either.
I know two things.

1. We are now already using heat mask measures, even when we are very young civ in terms of Kardashev scale. We already use simple slit heat emitters in military tech (many Stealth planes have slit nozzles and for example, Leopard tanks also use slit exhaust for same reason).

2. Even we now know about possibility of laser heat, which could emit heat directly with very high focus.

In conclusion, idea is, to surround whole civ with heat mask blanket, and make all heat exhausts directly focused on directions, where no observer expected. BTW this could be evidence of mature Civilization, when see strange space objects, which looks like Black Hole in most directions and extremely bright in some "featured" directions.

Second, looks like our development now is very slow, because it should be on early stages (Kardashev scale), and old civ's should know this.

And I now support theory, that we are fortunate to be far enough, so stronger civ's are not interested in spending resources to limit our development.

I even consider might be exists some preservation pact between old Big civ's, to avoid touch young civ's, for some purposes like scientific, or arts. So yes, basically, I support Zoo theory.
50B in stolen wages is an estimate. The devil is in the details, on how they came up with that number.

There is a power imbalance, there should be more done to take employers to court.
I'd be more interested in the effect on long-term low waged employees, than temporary high-schoolers.
> if it were happening, then it would not be happening.

Note that this is US law enforcement in general. The "if middle america were using drugs at the same rate of inner cities then we'd see arrest rates at the same levels" argument we here. While studies show that drug use is similar between these groups, enforcement in cities, specifically against minority groups is much higher.
While I doubt anyone at Apple wants to keep the notch forever, I imagine the engineers justified the notch as adding screen real estate, and rightly so. The display's size ratio is 1728:1117, which is slightly taller than the 16:10 of the older displays—taller by exactly the size of the notch, in fact. So while it's a bit unsightly, it does serve the functional purpose of allowing them to raise the "ears" of the monitor about the size of the menu bar[1].

Prior to owning this Mac, I always set the menu bar to autohide, which wasn't the greatest UX but gave me some extra screen space. Now I can keep the same space and have the menu bar always visible. Seems like a win to me.

[1] Yes, they could have just made the top bezel bigger and had no notch, but that would have have meant having a smaller screen or a larger footprint for the laptop. I don't like the notch one bit, but I think they made the correct choice.
It is perfectly acceptable to provide a zero-cost, command-line focused solution to a single, specific user-interface constraint, while, at the same time, providing additional parametric insight to macOS user preferences.
I've got this theory that what people actually don't like about Lisp parentheses is not the amount of nesting, nor the opening paren's prefix location, but rather that parentheses always include a hard nesting apply (or really, the syntax layer equivalent of a hard nesting list). In other words - most programmers are used to having an assertion that ((foo)) (foo) and foo are all equivalent, and also assume the basic top-level production is already some kind of list (not a single expression). Lisp breaks these long-loved assumptions.

Writing Haskell feels quite Lispy in that the basic syntax is quite generic, but you can nest parentheses all day long without changing the meaning, or even use some generic operators ($, .) to write out a structure in a clearer way. I'd love to see an attempt at a Lisp syntax that felt similarly. (And yes, I know there have been 2^37 attempts at different Lisp syntaxes, but I still haven't found one in line with this idea)
I would agree with OP, especially if your goal is to be a good parent. If you want do just basics of parenting, then it is not hard to pursue other goals.

I got young kids who definitely need a lot of personal attention, got appointments, playdates, driving around, etc. I could cut out a lot of these activities but then they end up watching tons of TV. I keep thinking once they are older, then I will have more time for personal projects but my friends with older kids are just as busy. If their kid is in sports, then forget about any freetime. They are always driving them to trainings, games, etc. One friend wakes up 3 in the morning to drive their kid to swim practice. They sleep in the car for 2-3 hours, then take their kid to school.

If your kids are not in the sports, then it does not look as bad but it seems they are always doing driving for their kids.

But I also think part of being a great parent is to teach your kids to pursue their dreams. And the best way to teach that is by showing them how you pursue your own dreams. Now how to do it all without burning out, I am still trying to figure out. (Or maybe I need to accept that it is not possible to do so)
Verbs, not nouns.

Which means making sure that the verb form doesn't sound like the noun form.
DirectX vs OpenGL.

This brings back memories of late 90s / early 00s of Microsoft pushing hard their proprietary graphic libraries (DirectX) vs open standards (OpenGL).

Fast forward 25-years and even today, Microsoft still dominates in PC gaming as a result.

There's a bad track record of open standard for GPUs.

Even Apple themselves gave up on OpenGL and has their own proprietary offering (Metal).
Somehow Sable reminds me of a wart. A big ugly wart with a few hairs and just as useless. It's not much of a problem but you would be better without it.
Sounds like you're the miserable one?
AI is 10x closer than it was six months ago. It's a quickly moving field. And without actual improvements in quality, you'll assemble pipelines to gradually refine quality before shipping, and every step of that pipeline could be staffed by inadequate AI. Why wouldn't Fordism and Taylorism work when we have intellectual machines?
I read the article when it came out and re-scimmed it just now. My understanding at the time and still was that the legal case revolved around the API and the exhibits entered into evidence I saw were all Java function names with their arguments and things of that sort. And I'm given to understand that the Dalvik Java implementation Google was using with Android was register based rather than than the stack based standard Java, which sounds to me like it would make actual binary compatibility impossible.
This is absolutely correct. Let’s assume a hypothetical 30 year old who bought a house at the absolute peak of 30 year fixed interest rates, 16.64%. The median US home price was $70,400. Assume 20% down.

Let’s also assume a hypothetical 30 year old buying a house in 2023. 30 year fixed rate is 7.00%. The median US home price is $417,700. Assume 20% down.

Looking up inflation, a 1981 dollar is 3.37 2023 dollars.

The 1981 homebuyer pays 57% of the 2023 homebuyer’s down payment, and only pays 19% more each month. And that’s cherry-picking the absolute worst time to buy for that generation.

Down payment 1981 (inflation adj.): $47,440.60

Monthly payment 1981 (inflation adj.): $2,650.50

Down payment 2023: $83,540.00

Monthly payment 2023: $2,223.17
Yea, the behaviour I want is always just to enhance not replace.

This is why I dislike smart bulbs with dumb switches and similar bad combos. Smart home appliances shouldn't hide any features behind an app either. But every manufacturer has perverse incentives to push their apps.
Yes, urban hellscape problems tends to spread to other urban hellscapes, but there exist places to live other than urban hellscapes.

There's a peculiar form of blindness that strikes the Urbanite, as if there are no other places to live.

The people who live in flyover country are barely even recognizable as human, so you might as well ask me to move to Mars! How the hell am I going to be seen in public drinking my $12 microbrews or pretending to appreciate the Moma so that other people know I'm the correct class of person? God, what would my parents think? I'd rather die than live there, so that place doesn't even exist for me.
What to do when you're feeling AI anxiety as a tech writer
I'm not totally sure what you're asking me. Pregnant person covers everyone who is a person and pregnant. That can be a cis woman, a trans man or a lesbian woman with a non-pregnant co-mother as a partner.
China conducts first nationwide review of retractions and research misconduct
if all job go away, because they are replaced by AI, it means that

* there is no longer a need for a working class

* there is no longer a need for a consumer class

If there is neither a worker class, neither a consumer class, there is no longer a need for an economy

There are just rich people waging war using drones to control access to resources to fullfil their own need. Most people would become utterly irrelevant here.
I _totally_ agree with your first comment about it being a humanitarian good, and damn near a right!

That said, heck no Starlink shouldn't be available to the Russian military. They are engaged in a war of unprovoked aggression and have drawn the conflict as a Russian vs. "The West" existential fight (lol).

Fine. Then you get no access to the technology, services or benefits that "The West" generates. Elon Musk didn't generate his wealth through participation in the Russian Oligarchy.

"Musk is Bad" is a different conversation, and "Bad" is too damn simple to explain his impulsive recklessness AND the technical inspiration he has also reignited for a huge swath of techies.

If this was a service that was being used by Russian civilians to stay informed, and retain access to information without fear of being jailed/prosecuted - then you have an argument. This isn't that, it is leveraging Western technology to attack a Western ally.

Would you argue for AWS to allow all of its regions to participate in an attack on US infrastructure, knowing it was orchestrated by a foreign adversary to the United States? Would Russia let a now-nationalized Yandex to allow the same against their own national infrastructure? Would Alibaba?
If so, then it's sort of strange to think that everything else in their lives is going so well then, isn't it? Perhaps your KPIs aren't telling you the full story or maybe happy people want fewer children?
Sure, we are talking about averages, and on average, cousins of the past used to spend more time together than friends of today. And got along pretty well, especially in larger families where you can actually "choose your better family". Larger the family, more chances of having a "good cousin". What your daughter won't have is when those friends move away, she will be less likely to see them during summer / x-mas / thanksgiving, despite your best efforts. With cousins of the past, these were automatic.
> Fast forward to today where we've got the Tesla Gigafactory and you can see how far manufacturing automation has come.

Fast forward to today where we don't have the equivalent of the Tesla Gigafactory for software dev or any business operations at all.
Not really? There's a webcam, an indicator LED, an ambient light sensor, and a lot of empty space. As far as I can tell, the MacBook notch is wide just to make it look like the iPhone notch.

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/5JIdAqwLsxWAFAyZ
Great point. And then if one of those companies sold a patent that wasn't immediately licensable to an IP firm for an immediate infusion of funds should the IP firm be considered a patent troll?
Quantum physics: where the only certainty is that even scientists are uncertain, but don't worry, nobody understands it, not even the scientists themselves!
Yeah the closest your going to get to a restaurant cabal are owners gossiping at the local wholesaler while waiting for their purchase to be processed, and even then there's a 50/50 chance a member of them is lying in order to bait a competitor into making a bad hire
There are a number of ways to get this wrong. The shuffle button in Spotify on our Tesla is a grey color, and you have to wonder if it's dark ENOUGH a grey to indicate that it's on, or a light grey to indicate that it's off. So then you go to toggle it on and off to see the state change, but actually it's buggy so it doesn't do anything.

When you finally get it to toggle on, you realize the shuffle lines turn GREEN, not dark grey like most of the controls. facepalm
patents were intended to protect the little-guy, the inventor (meaning a person), with an artificial monopoly so he could make money.

Did that actually broadly happened over the history of patents? It sounds intuitive enough that patent protect the little guys, it's another if it actually happened for any period of time.

I remember reading that the Wright brothers spending time and money suing other inventors and pioneers over their patents. Ultimately, they weren't very successful at building a business and fell behind. That capital spent on a lawyer could be spent on their business or improving their machines.
Oh I mean you have an obligation to be a parent that your kids would want to take care of.

I don't talk to my parents and have no interest in taking care of them, because, like you said, they are horrendous people. I think you're right that the entitlement to your kids time is something that comes with poor parenting.

That doesn't mean that on-net people's kids won't take care of them. Like everything with your kids, it's a two way street.
Probabilistic Robotics covers Kalman Filter from a first principles probabilistic viewpoint, and its extension the EKF. It's quite readable for someone with basic understanding of linear algebra, probability, and calculus. I believe it also has a refresher on these basics in the introduction.

http://www.probabilistic-robotics.org/
I have anecdata on the contrary. I'm 25 and with my wife have a household income of ~150k. We own a house in a Midwestern major city, and so does 80% of our friend group. I realize it's an outlier, as should you, because most of the country doesn't have 800k minimum starter houses.
Not sure if it was renamed but today the setting is called “Eye Contact”
Indonesia: Manhattan or Pulau Rhun? In 1667 Nutmeg Made the Choice a No-Brainer
You either die a hero or you live long enough to become a villain.
Interesting, why do you say that about the mallets?
Can someone explain to me what are we seeing in the short film? I see some black and white animation with boxes moving and some noisy lines on it. But I'm not sure I understand what it means. Anyone can help me understand?
In most other OECD states the actual and risk-factor costs of child and maternal healthcare are a ton lower than ours, too. Mine is a US perspective. Healthcare for kids eats a lot of money, here, and exposes you to a ton of risk of very-high medical spending.
https://archive.ph/iN6He
If you look at, say, https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/luxembourg.html you'll see a link for "experimental vector tile package conforming to Shortbread schema for use with MapLibre and other MVT capable software".
Now I'm not exactly sure what the Vietnam war was supposed to achieve, and insofar as it fizzled out we need to define what, exactly, the aim was. I suspect it was pointless and fizzled out due to pointlessness eventually overwhelming the ability of the Americans to fight.

However, if it was to combat communism/the USSR, which is my hazy understanding of the official justification, note communism has largely been expunged as a political ideology. All the communist states failed. The majors (USSR & China) have moved to capitalism. Well, China did. The USSR was removed from the map.
Most recreational riders should lose 10kg or more according to their doctor. However they will instead pay thousands of $$$ to save 150g.
> only a company that has gone bananas would do that.

There are plenty of companies that have, indeed, gone bananas.

There was a story on HN last year about a tech writer who lost their lost job and was being replaced by ChatGPT. They argued to their boss "but I'm 10x as good as ChatGPT, you aren't going to get writing nearly as good once I'm gone!" The boss replied "I know you're 10x as good but you're 10,000x as expensive. The company is okay with the drop in quality."
I had a bit of the opposite experience when an ex-colleague passed end of last year. About 25 of us from one company he worked at showed up to the wake and it was slightly awkward to tell the family and friends who we were and what connection we had (he hadn’t worked there for about 9 years and I was the only person who still worked at the company, but we all turned out because we genuinely cared about him).

But talking to his wife and family in the receiving line was super-awkward. I hope they found it at least epsilon comforting.
Board game rules fall under patents. It has an example of the garage process, patent, infringement, and win.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2012/11/26/271633...

> A company headed by a Colorado professor who invented a strategy board game has won a $1.6 million patent infringement verdict.

> ...

> Innovention prevailed in a patent infringement against MGA, Wal-Mart Stores and Toys R Us. A federal court in New Orleans found that MGA’s Laser Battle game, sold through the two retailers, infringed on Innovention’s patent for Khet.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16991/khet-laser-game

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7264242

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Note the rarity of this happening that it makes the news compared to how often patents are thrown around in courts.
If falling in love with God conveys truth/reality, then how do you reconcile two people who are both "in love with God" but have incompatible beliefs about God?

I know a person who fell in love with a woman that didn't exist. Person A (my friend) was straight. Person B was gay and fell in love with Person A, and then created Person C (fictitious person) with the hopes that Person A would grow to love Person C, and eventually Person B would tell the truth but that Person A's love was pure enough that he didn't care about the deception and wanted to be with Person B.

Hell of a story, but the reason I mention it is because Person A falling in love with Person C didn't make Person C real. How does that work with God?
Newegg was famous for doing this as well. Glad to see Cloudflare keeping the "Don't be evil" concept alive.
I would very much like to adopt Zigbee at home since it has the privacy and reliability features I want. The problem is the market: there just aren’t enough equipment options out there, and the few that are available are nontrivial to acquire (and who knows how long the vendors will survive). Sure, I can get some light switches, but not at my local home supply. And light switches are just one type of controller. I’ve got shades, door locks, thermostats, and more. The choices are so few. Sure, maybe an example exists, but if I don’t like the ergonomics or style, well, too bad. It’s like shopping in the former Soviet Union.