skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a software engineer interested in trying out woodworking, but don't want to invest in a lot of bulky and expensive machinery, I can heartily recommend balsa glider development as fun and small-scale evening hobby. I learned how to do this in pandemic lockdown, and it is a really relaxing but also intellectually demanding form of woodwork. Basically all you need to start are two large sheets of balsa wood (2mm and 10mm), a box-cutter type knife with a very sharp blade, a cutting mat, hot glue gun with glue, and a box of A3 size laminating sheets as used for laminating paper notices etc. Total cost less than GBP or USD 100, with ongoing costs being only the cost of new balsa sheets, glue sticks and spare blades for the knife. Then you need to learn a bit about aerodynamics, where the centre of gravity of a glide should be, optimal dimensions of wings to body, etc. Then you can start to design and test your own designs, starting with something easy, and graduating up to designs with 1 metre plus wingspans. Last summer I managed to get one of my designs to fly over 150 metres from the top of a 25metre hill. Best part is that if you have a hill nearby, you can spend a nice summer evening flying it until it breaks.
While evolution might be a stretch here, this definitely is natural selection, just not as obvious as in other species.

The number of infants globally peaked around 2014-2017 and most of the future population growth will be due to larger generations replacing smaller ones.

The decline in population already started, but we're not seeing it thanks to how long we live.
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
> In your system of morality

GP didn't write a moral judgement, but a practical one. People who don't have/care for kids don't have long-term skin in the game, therefore their influence on the shape of future society should be downweighed. There is a logic to that.

> some guy who's condom broke

Yes, this is how a lot of families are made. Unplanned != unwanted != unloved.

> or a rapist are more moral than someone who is infertile

Again, not about morality. GP's logic isn't about whether one's good or bad, but whether one has skin in the game of continued improvement of society and civilization.

But I guess a better way of scoping it is whether or not the person is a parent (EDIT: or in legal terms, caregiver?). Infertile people can become parents too (and that could be an indication of extra special caring about the future generation). And then people can be biological parents, but not actual parents, e.g. if they give their child away.
I bought an old used server with 24 CPU cores way too much RAM. I use it to self host a number of things (torrent box, NAS, unifi controller, DNS server). I recently added freshrss.

I love it. It halved my social media use, and it my news paper has feeds for subjects that interest me, meaning most of my internet usage can be found in one place.
Why should the burden of the next generation fall entirely on new parents? It's not like they're the only beneficiaries of our country having another generation. Seems like they're just being rationally "selfish" in response to the rest of the nation being equally, if not more selfish.
That’s fair enough. Complaints are valid, I do feel that things have become too unaffordable.

I lived in a rental which was sold in 2019 for $580k and I remember people thinking that was high, now that house is worth $760k.

Looking at suburb medium prices skyrocking in only 3 years does put a dampener on things
The maps on openstreetmap are nice of course. But most websites using openstreetmap don't get their maps from there but from companies like mapbox, maptiler, and others that typically already provided vector maps. Openstreetmap itself has been lagging behind a bit.

Protomaps, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is awesome for self hosting vector maps. The way it works is that you upload a single large pbf (protobuf) file with all map content and then use lambda functions to extract vector tiles from there. Put a CDN in front of it and you have cheap map hosting. Amazing stuff. I met Brandon Liu, the person that built this, some time ago at a meetup. Well worth checking out his stuff.

There's also https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=47.5933049&lon=12.1748491&zoom=1..., which is a 3D rendering engine filled with openstreetmap data. Pretty nice stuff and be sure to fiddle with the options to change the time of day, turn on the moving ships, etc.
What math problems can be attacked using DeepMind's breakthroughs?
While you have reason to be proud about setting up the monitoring, your most unique and valuable skill in that moment was that you gave a shit.
Not sure how you could think that the ongoing Boeing situation or the way of the New West has to do with nostalgia of the past.

If you mean that focusing on the truly important things is about nostalgia, so be it.
> It really bothers me when people say "oh you're missing out, that's such a shame"

Do you have any friends or relatives who refuse to try ramen or pho, no matter how many times you tell them that it's the best food ever, and that you also thought it seemed weird to put steak in a broth with noodles until you finally gave it a try and then you couldn't believe how delicious it was and you wish you'd tried it years earlier... but they still think it sounds gross?

It's exactly like that. :-)
I can attest to this with N=1 datapoint here. My best friend postponed having kids till they could afford a SFH, but kept pushing it further as the supply dwindled and rates shot up (tier-1 city residents). I can imagine how the number of planned kids could be directly proportional to the number of bedrooms a couple can afford to have.
You can sense the first tremors of a shakeup in cars though: the interior of a Tesla Model 3 is very far from conventional, and there's a lot more room for play now on the exterior as well since you no longer need to devote the first third to the internal combination engine.
Software Engineer by trade. My hobbies are playing music (clarinet and trumpet), woodworking (as a medieval reenactor on ren faires) and climbing (indoor bouldering). I also own two cats.

I didn't think I'd be that predictable...
Modern devs are frustrated. They don't do anything of importance or significance anymore. They're not the guy designing a virtual memory manager for a novel OS. They're just some cog in a machine converting SQL queries into HTML to show ads to kids and old people.

One can only become cynical and bitter.
There was(?) an awesome app Sas.Planet that worked with lots of map providers [0] and provided much more features, than just a map viewer. For example, I successfully used it to create offline satellite maps of remote areas.
The team seems to still work on the project, but I wasn't able to find the site I was using a while ago, so giving a link to github.

A few word of caution:

- the app was a bit buggy (but usable)

- might not be well optimized in terms of amount of http requests sent, so some map providers don't like it [1]

[0] https://github.com/sasgis/sas.planet.src

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SAS.Planet
GPG? (:
There’s also late stage socialism. It’s called communism. It too relies on the right kind of growth just like capitalism. Socialism also tends to fail faster than capitalism because power is centralized from the start, so corruption spreads faster and is more malevolent.
A similar design (although it balances on the reaction wheel rather than corner after the initial startup jump) has been made for less than 1000 euros and open-sourced:

https://sites.google.com/view/wheelbot
> Have you noticed that much, much poorer places often have a much higher birth rate?

In those places, the older kids help raise the younger ones, and can also help the parents with their labor/begging/crime/prostitution.
Every support system, from the "family home" where the grandparents have a bed, to the woman not working and taking care of the kids, has been systematically destroyed. Now everyone is expected to work and live alone/as a couple, and they have basically no physical support for raising a child.
> ”Certainly home ownership is rarer even for millennials and Genz is likely going to have even lower rates”

Looking at the data, certainly not:
https://x.com/noahpinion/status/1649492485968891904?s=46&t=C...
I have 30% in S&P500 for a reason. Maybe you think it's too low?

I do want to consider your scenario:

1. If we hit a limit on chip node tech as you said, all stocks would suffer since advancements in computer chips contributes to all industries.

2. If we face another AI winter, then my job is more safe? Even if I get laid off in my current job, I assume that AI isn't good enough to completely replace me based on your scenario so I at least can find another job.
Not directly related but Disney has a YouTube channel that irregularly posts interesting developments in animation and human tracking. (for animation hopefully)

https://www.youtube.com/@DisneyResearchHub
Quite a lot of the design inspiration comes from top riders and their coaches - the level of technical knowledge they have is astonishing. We work with bikes like these, covering them with sensors and loadcells (we've had something like 20 ARM processors on a bike at a time, communicating wirelessly), and while the bike is part of the equation most of the drag comes from the rider's body. So a lot of effort also goes into comfort and fit, in order to get the rider into an aero position that they can hold for a period of time (the most aero position may not be possible to hold for very long) so it rapidly becomes an area-under-the-curve thing. We spend a lot of time in the lab, in wind tunnels and in velodromes sorting it all out (now with AI, vision systems, rider position tracking - it's getting really complicated).

Also these bikes are not generally roadworthy - every so often we hear a multi-thousand-dollar 'crack!' indicating another frame has had enough.
The accurate headline would be incomplete data falsified.

The tools have nothing to do with it, and the same could have been done with paper and pencil. Autocomplete is the problem, it just repeats a single number or a series, and when using it you see exactly what the results were.

This was not done by mistake or in ignorance or because the tool encouraged them, it was done to knowingly falsify incomplete data so that they could finish their paper and publish.
> There's little evidence to support the theory that at some point in the future, little girls will all suddenly decide to buck the trend set by their mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and all the adult women they see around them in the world, and have 2.1 children themselves.

There is some speculation - and some data which may or may not support it - that fertility may follow a "J" curve where it declines sharply with increased development and then slowly rises again above a certain level.

There is also some data to suggest that within a population, if a subset sees an increase in wealth, it can predict an increase in fertility within that subset.

Combined, a suggestion that does not seem unreasonable is that we develop certain expectations based on societal expectations, and as they increase it becomes harder and harder to justify additional children, but when people find themselves able to meet those expectations, the number of children goes up.

If that holds, then that would suggest the rate can be brought back up with sufficient societal assistance, which may or may not come as fertility rates becomes enough of a political issue. Whether that will actually work remains to be seen - we've already of course seen some pretty significant attempts, such as the escalating Hungarian family support scheme (total support for 3+ children amounts to over 300k Euro, of which about 1/3 is a non-refundable grant and the rest subsidized house loans), so we should start to get an idea of what a realistic cost to drive the rates back up will be, if it is viable, over the coming couple of decades as more countries experiment.
> Unless your company provide automatic backup management with straightforward recovery for your employees

You make this sound like some kind of pipe dream. I don't know what companies you've been at, but for a lot of large corporations today it's completely normal to store all your data in the cloud, from documents at O365 to bespoke SaaS services like gitlab or book-keeping or whatever -- and the ones that don't do it for whatever reasons usually do something very similar, just internally via self-hosting.

If every single employee needs to back up their unique snowflake workstation, then something is fundamentally wrong with how data is handled in the first place.

> your most cautious employees will backup their device in order not to lose their work

The reason employees do this in the first place is because they don't trust the company to ensure the data doesn't disappear. That's the problem right there. I've seen it many times and it's always in chaotic companies filled with shadow IT, which of course are the most vulnerable companies for the same reason.
If you ever get to that point, by all means buy the chisels. But make the mallet(s) yourself.
> And I ask, who am I to be so conceited that all of that history, that fourth of a fraction of the universe, should end with me?

Nobody will remember us in just 100 years. Nobody.

> Maybe you've been raised softly, and don't know how to set yourself aside to rear and participate in a family that is spiritually worth more than just yourself.

Is it really worth more, though? I always wondered if having kids is just so that somebody finally listens to you at an age where your peers really only listen if they're deep friends, or if you have something actually exceptional to say. And to relive childhood, and then again when you have grandchildren. You don't get these two things if you don't have children. But they're not that deep, you can e.g. teach to actually intelligent peers, research deep topics, and relive childhood curiosity in different ways. For the benefit of all of society, not just your little gang.
That is bizarre. Someone disagrees with you so all their political rights should be removed? What?
For a person who is not a techie, we find it really difficult to navigate and use RSS
Checking the press releases for the latest batch of iPhones

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-debuts-iphone-1...

"For the first time in a smartphone, color is infused throughout the back glass"

"the Ceramic Shield front cover continues to be tougher than any other smartphone glass"

"iPhone lasts and holds its value longer than any other smartphone"

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-...

"Continuing Apple’s leadership in smartphone silicon"

"console titles never before seen on a smartphone"

"The best quality video in a smartphone"

"The preferred smartphone for creative pros and filmmakers"

"the first Thread-enabled smartphones"
Having babies is not the only form of productive work one can do in society
I create multiple movies, one works well and I think to myself I pay too much taxes this year. I sell the next one for 0 dollars to my cousin so I can write it off immediately. If the movie works, money stays in the family, if it doesn't I already got deductions and it was a no-op for my cousin.
In my opinion:

- Social media. We're already seeing a backlash towards it due to the effects it has on people's mental health, and I've noticed a large drop in usage from non celebrity/influencers too. Based on this, I suspect it going the same way as smoking; still used by some overly addicted people (and in this case, also those whose job depends on it), but perhaps shunned by much of society.

- Most internet forum scripts. On the other end, I also suspect the likes of vBulletin and Invision Power Board are probably on borrowed time. There's already been a depressing drop in forum usage and new communities of that type being opened, and I question how long these business models will be sustainable.

- Phone calls. Phones themselves are taking over the world, but less and less people are actually calling people on them. Given how much of a mess the system is for spam and scams, and how much other communication software has caught on, I kinda wonder how long we'll even call smartphones 'phones'.

- Television. At least in terms of 'normal' TV, now that streaming seems to be the main way younger people watch TV shows. I suspect a lot of this industry is going to collapse when the older generations start dying off, since many traditional channels and shows are mostly propped up by boomers and older in terms of demographics.

- Physical copies of video games and most other media. As someone who always prefers buying physical copies of everything, I hate this change with a passion. Alas, the numbers don't lie, and many people seem to have switched over to digital/download only/streaming media near entirely. Plus many stores (including major brands) have said they'll stop stocking them too, meaning that eventually it'll come down to whether companies want to distribute in this format solely so their work can be sold on Amazon and their own websites.
I once listened to a (human-made) audiobook where the narrator read all the mathematical notation as names of symbols ("open parenthesis open parenthesis" etc, in a discussion of lambda calculus!) So knowing how to convert the notation into natural language requires some domain knowledge beyond that of regular TTS. Maybe LLMs could help, but it's a problem to use an LLM for something where 100% accuracy is important, and there's no easy way to validate the output.
This is one of the most selfish arguments you can make for having kids. You just want someone to take care of you when you are old. If we'll ever have capable robots, you people can stop having children.
Seems like the requirement for gyroscopes in every car would be a deal breaker.
Maybe I should have stated "companies that are actually hiring outside America".
Show HN: Database browsing tool with sophisticated and animated Java Swing UI
> "Are you a rock climbing mathematician or a cat mathematician?"

Well, back in the day at our mathematics institute that had been "either smoking cigars (you could do that in the offices at that time) or doing sports" I don't know if the smokers all had cats. Of course, being in Austria "doing sports" almost universally included climbing.

Oh, and I don't have a cat but live in the mountains ;)
Poorer places have worse education. Worse education corresponds with having more babies. Smart people are more likely to know not to have babies.
you don't need a lambda function if it can use the range header to get what it needs, also it is an aggregated pbf on a pyramid of space filling hilbert curve.
Because you have to replicate the same complicated mechanism for all the cars. Moreover, if a gyro in one of cars malfunctions the whole train is at risk.

Another problem is that the system is reactive, meaning that there is a lot of shaking and balancing that is quite unacceptable - think about drinking a cup of tea in such a wobbly train even on straight lines, while on curves it's not staying horizontal by design.

Yet another problem is that it can't share the current infrastructure without major switch changes while sharing the infrastructure the other way around is impossible.

And in the end all of this effort for trying to fix a problem that doesn't really exist, at least not in Europe where most of the rail infrastructure was already built 100 years ago.
Throwing Molotov cocktails during a riot is a crime, and the people who do it are real criminals. In this case, it was a crime that seems to have been planned and coordinated ahead of time, which makes it organized crime under Georgia’s RICO statute. Dozens of people have already been charged. I don’t know if they’re going to end up charging the people who got raided in this instance; it probably depends on what they found during the search.
Companies invest money to create products. Some turn into a profit, some don't, some don't even make it to the market. At the end of the year they sum revenues and expenses and either a profit or a loss. If a movie makes zero money it's only an expense and that already reduces the taxes on the revenues. SO why do studios have that tax write-off on top of normal tax on the revenues - expenses figure?
Ask HN: How to study ML as a software engineer?
My background: I am getting a software engineer job where ML is part of the recommended skillset. I want to learn ML to help the product or company. How should I start?

I studied Economics and had some statistics knowledge. I also had several years of experience as a data analyst.

Every day I have about 1~1.5 hours. My new job starts in 1.5 months.

What is the best action I should take?

BTW, I don't mind paying for good content.
I am the writer of the article.

I do consider the dynamics of the businesses involved - when I Write about a single company I consider it very deeply, when I write about a basket of stocks, I adjust my message to provide for that. I have written tons about differentiating between business models, and have spoken about that on my recent podcast interview with Value Hive.

To get to the punch, Open AI being valued at $100bln may not be ridiculous to you, but it is to me. What is your risk/reward? Abysmal. Even if you hit your targets, no biggie.

I have written about Duolingo, which was (and is) considered extremely overvalued, and similarly has a complicated business model. I broke down my rationalisation in this essay here: https://www.philoinvestor.com/p/duolingo-platformizing-learn...
Change the rule so destroying in purpose no longer qualify for tax break and someone will accidentally the only hard drive.
The 30% figure is not all that strange internationally.

That divorce question was a shorthand way of saying that not everything that you plan to do ends up running to completion. In general I think the answer is 'life happens' and not everything you start gets finished. People get disillusioned, they might see the future of the field they started to study in as imperiled or they might simply find that they do not see an advantage to completing the study. They might not have the self discipline to complete the run or they might have other needs or changing circumstances. They might simply get ill. They may find an opportunity that short-circuits the need for a degree.

Lots of people do graduate but to assume up front that over a period of four years of someone's life things are so stable that you will always be able to graduate is to ignore the reality of the circumstances of a large number of people.
This...doesn't make sense? The expenses of producing the movie can already be offset against their profits. That's how business works: you only pay taxes on money you earn after expenses.

So how, exactly, do they get an additional write-off for destroying the film? If you deliberately destroy something of value, why should you get to write that off your taxes? Consider: They certainly own a lot of computers. If the CEO walks through the building smashing all the computers with a sledgehammer, the IRS is not going to let them write off the destruction. That would be stupid.

So why can they do this with a movie?
You totally can. This video [1] someone linked below comes with a github repo [2], it seems pretty straight forward to build this with access to a 3d printer and some basic electronics/soldering skills. Probably a <100$ for parts project? You also need a soldering iron and learn how to use it, but nothing of this is too hard for anyone technically inclined, especially if you have a hackerspace nearby where you can get a bit of help.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQZFHJzwt4
[2] https://github.com/remrc/Self-Balancing-Cube