skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It mentions the high cost of housing, but I feel like that gets largely overlooked as a factor. It lists it as just one thing of many and I can't help but feel some of the other stuff is related.

Women pursuing "fulfilling" careers: One possible reason is greater financial need rather than desire for some kind of self fulfillment.

Student loans: We get told we need education to have well-paid careers.

Contraception: Cool, but you can also just not have sex as one strategy for trying to not have kids. (Granted women can get raped so it's not necessarily a perfect answer.)

For most Americans, housing is the single biggest budget item and homelessness is a horrifying scenario that is tough to escape once there. The best answer is just don't end up homeless to begin with, so I think a lot of people are doing their best to run faster to stay in place.

And children are a burden that would slow them down and have them fall off this treadmill.
Are there specific parts of the DOS API that existing emulators like DOSBOX don't handle accurately enough?

I don't understand if this source can be usefully integrated into modern DOS preservation projects.
2025 Toyota Camry First Drive Review: The Best 'Boring' Car Keeps Getting Better
There should be some kind of reciprocity though. If Idaho didn’t allow drivers holding California drivers license to drive in Idaho, I’m sure California will swiftly ban drivers with Idaho licenses in California as well.

If U.S. companies can’t operate in China PR, China PR companies should not have any expectation of unfettered access to U.S. markets.

Also, corporations are NOT people, no matter what SCOTUS says.
Your whataboutism leads the USA to the bottom, which, coincidentally, the USA is winning anyway.
I don't think VPNs are the future of privacy in this context since whatever VPN tool you use or the service provider where you host your concentrator will always have to answer to a subpoena, right?
You already pay in by working during your productive years. You’re arguing for a pyramid scheme where you pay for both generations before you and the ones who come after. Better to simply opt out if you’re going to be squeezed economically for a suboptimal socioeconomic system. You’re just livestock that didn’t consent to be here.
Show HN: I made a project template generator/loader
This is a simple tool I made to generate project templates and load them from git repositories or local directories. I still have ideas for improving it, but I'm happy to have released a first draft of it.
This mostly an assessment at scale. By volume, irrespective of genre, and even accounting for subjectivity, most of the material that gets published isn’t very good.

That being said, I generally don’t agree with conclusions like “culture is frozen”. You are correct that there is _more_ high quality material available than ever before. The challenge is just that it’s harder than ever to find it.
Eh, Firefox is blazing fast and readily available. Avoiding ReCaptcha on the other hand...
Google has been doing stock buybacks for years. Why are they pivoting to also doing a dividend? Bigger short term stock bump?
When you say moved on can you share what you're using when you want/need to buy something online? Understand you moving on for information, but just curious what you're using these days for a specific product.
I remember when I was a kid one of my friends telling me he hated his parents. How old are you in the 8th grade? 13, 14? That's how old we were. I'm sure I didn't say anything - what could I say? - but it seemed totally incomprehensible to me. It would be as if he had said he hated himself. How could you?

My parents aren't saints. They're no less human then I am. Like my wife and my kid they're people that are so easy to forgive. It's so easy to rationalize away anything they do. It's just tiny bit easier to forgive myself then them and I don't see how it could be otherwise.
I appreciate the thorough read!

For deprecations we're lucky in that the underlying systems don't change very much (the Input Message Accountability Data isn't going anywhere). But we'll run into collisions when we, for example, start issuing cards on Mastercard as well as Visa.

We have experimented with a couple of, um, abstractions, and may do so there. One rule we've stuck to, and likely would as well, is to keep the "substrate objects" un-abstracted but to introduce higher-level compositions for convenience. For example, there is no such thing as a "Card Payment" (https://increase.com/documentation/api#card-payments) - it's just a way to cluster related card authorization and settlement messages. But it's extremely useful for users and nontrivial to do the reconciliation, so we tried it. But we think it's essential that the underlying network messages (the "substrate objects") are also accessible in the API, along with all the underlying fields etc.

Unfortunately 100% of the public APIs I have worked on are in payments. I wish I had another lens!
AI music isn't going away. Here are 4 big questions about what's next
"Dependable relationships as they age" and "someone to ensure they're cared for" aren't things potential parents should assume any offspring will be willing and able to provide.
I don't think RPN lost. It was not the dominant solution, but it was mainstream. I'd say the situation was more similar to Android vs iOS.

Many engineering students of all disciplines used HPs during the 1980-2000s. At some point, the HP 48 was everywhere in campus.
A Renault is kinda irrelevant, I have both a Rivian R1T and R1S. They both behave the same.

It's really up to the manufacturer how active they want the system to be when it's sitting in park. I'm sure they could improve it, but as another poster mentioned, maybe it's in a sentry mode or similar.

I have an e-bike that I almost never plug in and it holds its charge just fine with almost no depletion after several months of sitting.

Your mileage will vary :)
Although "wide" data is touted as a optimization guideline for Nimble, how well does it fare against "normal"(?) data, i.e. with just a few to tens of columns?

Also, are there any preliminary benchmarks?
In Norway we have two different "not guilty" outcomes:

- "frifunnet på grunn av bevisets stilling" (~"acquitted because of the situation with the evidence" my best translation at 00:02 in the night) which I think in practice means it wasn't proven that the person did it and so (s)he is acquitted.

- "henlagt som intet straffbart forhold" (~"acquitted as no punishable offense" my best translation at 00:04 in the night) which I think means the investigation not only failed to prove guilt but also proved that a person was not guilty.

I tried to find better translations but wasn't able to. Feel free to fill in.
I think this is a naming thing, canola is an English word for a variety of rapeseed, and IIUC Germany uses the same food-safe version.
Leading from behind.
I enjoy the somewhat irreverent takes. They seem appropriate when directed at the often entirely inappropriate use of some modern frontend frameworks.

I've worked with some newish developers that know of no other way than to bring in a frontend framework for the simplest of things. E.g. adding a carousel (don't ask) to an existing site that has no need for a build step and the first thing they want to do is bring in node and react.
Can you imagine the public angst around the OJ trial if THAT was what happened?
China said "American companies not welcome in China's internet", well they didn't say it, they just made that the truth. America saying "Chinese companies not welcome in America's internet" 10 years later isn't going to raise many eyebrows abroad. For the most part, people are wondering why it took so long.

> I guess also if we really don't have any principles anymore, we'll have devolved back to survival of the fittest principles.

China has been very clear that the principle should be tit for tat. All of their economic and foreign policy is based on that, from the visas they issue to visitors, the tariffs we exchange on vehicle production, and the foreigners they throw in prison when one of their own is put on house arrest in Canada. This is just a very late counter-reaction to a policy China has held for awhile.
ah https://techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/subvert-and-profit-unapolo...
I went to Mint (and Fedora on a machine that needed newer packages).

Now that the LTS has been updated, probably all machines can use Mint again.
I think many proposed solutions to the creator compensation problem end up glossing over a fundamental difficulty: once an easily-distributed work (like anything digital) is in a consumable state (and thus copy-able), it becomes basically free.

The idea that $10 for a digital copy of an album that is already on youtube (or a friend's harddrive) should be a viable business model is weird to me in this day and age.

I have recently been wondering about a threshold-based "media economy" where creators don't actually show us anything (except for clips or samples or low-res versions, etc) until they are guaranteed a certain amount of income. It's basically kickstarter. A musician makes an album, goes on kickstarter and asks for $10,000 to release it. Once $10k is reached, the songs go up on a server, or are released on bandcamp, spotify, or any of the usual channels. Additional money beyond the threshold can be made, but it will be as difficult as it is now. But they have already reached $10k (set by them) so everyone can feel good that the musician has earned what they feel they deserve.

I'm sure there are many problems with this. For one, many artists aren't creating just for money. They want to show us their creations, and with a threshold, they would have to hold back until it is reached (in the case of musicians, they might not even be able to play a new song at a show until the threshold is reached, b/c smartphones).

There may be a critical mass problem, too. If two artists are similar and one releases immediately while the other waits for the threshold payment, the latter may drift into obscurity. There must be some allure to the withholding, though?

What other problems kill this approach?

Could it work for open source software, too? Make your thing, don't share it. Demo it, ask for the release payment, then put it on github.
> But they really can’t due to economic circumstances.

I don't think this can be the entire situation. Anecdotally, both my wife and I have grandparents who lived for extended periods of time with three kids in mini camper trailers because they couldn't get into any other housing. They really wanted children, and it was a high enough value for them that they sacrificed a lot to have them.

Additionally, economic prosperity and higher living standards are typically correlated with lower birth rates. People who technically can most afford children, are less likely to have them. This is the opposite of what I would expect if finances are what prevent people from having children.

Having children now, I cannot fathom living in a camper trailer with them, and I am not saying that people should be doing that. My point is that different people (across different economic situations and different time-periods) have varying priority levels around having children. And that is ultimately what determines how many children are born.
Above a certain level of income, fertility rate is at or above replacement rate.

Elsewhere, the relationship is inverse. Earning more decreases fertility rate, such as in the US.
There is abstraction there's just not an additional layer of abstractions on top of it.

Which to be honest is quite good, there's lots of things you can solve with an additional layer of abstraction but not having too many layers of abstraction. It's also rare to be able to identify an abstraction that correctly cuts things off at the right layer.
In fact they announced the same-sized buyback authorization exactly 1 year ago.
> ; Check for presence of \dev\ (Dam multiplan!) [0]

I assume this refers to the spreadsheet application.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/DOS/D...

EDT:

That one policy hadn't quite gone into effect yet ;-) [1]

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/CMD/C...

For posterity...

> RESEARCH:

> invoke path_search ; find the mother (result in execpath)
> or AX, AX ; did we find anything?

> je badcomj45 ; null means no (sob)

> cmp AX, 04H ; 04H and 08H are .exe and .com

> jl rsrch_br1 ; fuckin' sixteen-bit machine ought

> jmp execute ; to be able to handle a SIXTEEN-BIT
By the man who said "Goto considered harmful"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
Most of my open source contributions were because I was a user and had a problem to solve. Usually in the course of doing my paid job, but not always.
An appliance used to be a machine. Now it's a bureaucracy
> I certainly do not understand the free market ideology.

You aren't expected to understand it, you are being asked to accept it as true without questioning.

If an idea can be clearly understood, say like "you need clouds to get rain" then you don't need an ideology to sustain the idea. But if you are selling "rain dances make rain", relying mere rational thinking to propel the idea into the mainstream isn't going get you very far.
Content providers are stealing their own TikTok videos, although I'm sure some providers are stealing other people's TikTok videos to make money on Reels and Shorts, especially the Chinese ones I've seen (probably ripped off by other Chinese wanting to make some quick money).
I think it’s not just housing. Childcare, pediatrics (medical care for children) and social acceptance could be better.

Finding a spot for your child in a kindergarten in a big city is really challenging.

Phoning every pharmacy in town to find the prescribed drug for your child (simple things like antibiotics).

Leaving work 14:30 because you have to pickup your child from Kindergarten („can’t your wife pick him up“)

Being a parent is still great, but sometimes it feels harder than it should be.

Note: I live in Germany - might be different somewhere else.
N95s will definitely help in this situation.
Exact same level of authorization in April '22 and '23
I smell a rat
Oh, you said Reuters couldn't type out the full name of Google's competitor. Were you thinking of Tutanota? If so, they officially shortened their name to just Tuta and moved their site to tuta.com.
> And there’s locomotion challenges that are hard to overcome imho.

I think this is the biggest hurdle: getting your VR legs nice and strong. It took me about two weeks of reasonable use before smooth locomotion was possible. I know other people that tried it once, felt sick, and were done with it. I think this is one of the reasons why there's such a big youngster population on Quest games; they don't seem to be affected as much.
OT: if the author of the article sees this, there's an error in a quote. You quote HN user skywhopper as saying

> HashiCorp already did a great job pre-draining all their flavor

but their quote actually says [1]

> HashiCorp has done a good job of pre-draining any flavor it once had

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135686
A look at the early impact of Meta Llama 3
A year or so ago I, a tourist in America, went to a pharmacy in Boston to get some headache tablets (ibuprofen). This was somewhere in the city center, very close to Boston Common, and felt a modern, safe neighborhood so far as a foreigner could judge.

Every single item on every single shelf was behind glass. I had to get help to get myself a pack of cheap non-prescription painkillers.

This article focuses on the phenomenon, but it misses the key point that struck me that day. I could only imagine such precautions were due to endemic theft. And petty theft for essentials such as medicines doesn’t speak to stealing for profit, but to desperation, like stealing food. I was left wondering: what is going on in America?
Quality still matters. Ask anybody with a Tesla.

I think Honda will be fine. Toyota has lots of time as well I think as car buyers have a certain amount of brand loyalty.

If it were not for brand loyalty and emotional bias, BYD would probably be storming the world with their inexpensive EV options.

Tesla is in the biggest trouble I think. They have been a luxury brand despite a total lack of luxury. Once everybody catches up on EV range, what do they have? The charging network is the biggest advantage. Perhaps they should pivot to dominating that. Probably harder to avoid regulatory break-up on that front though I suppose.

There is not much battery risk these days though and less all the time. At some point, the problem for car makers is going to be that the batteries last too long.

With mechanical parts, nobody faults you if things start to fail after a decade or two. What will the car market look like when cars start maintaining peak performance for decades?
I have a similar theory about car accidents. I get in one every couple of years because I think that I'll be able react more quickly to them if I'd never experienced it at all. :-).

Slightly more seriously, I hope your cigarette plan works out for you.
Not particularly picky. Needs to be atleast a 6 superficially. I’m not attractive, probably a 4 or 3 and not white/black. But I am tall and if I can speak to a person I’ve often been called charming with a booming voice. I’m talking about the past (5-7 years ago), I’m happily married now.
> Why do programmers always need a library between them and the API?

You do know that libraries present an API, right? Very few people program on Linux or other OSes without using libc or the OS/distribution equivalent, and for good reason. Those libraries provide a degree of compatibility across hardware systems and operating systems (and even the same OS but different versions).

Your question is about as sensible as asking "Why do programmers always need a programming language between them and the machine code?" Because it improves portability, reusability, reasonability, and on and on. Though, since you hate abstractions, maybe you do only program in machine code.
I've heard good things about atuin

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
We built similar animation part of a product few years ago. The flow was something like - when a new user signs up and users our product for the first time and creates certain artifact, the confetti animation would be displayed. Product managers loved it and they would show it off to execs as playful, refreshing, etc. But later on after UX reviews, accessibility testing, the feature was ultimately removed from the product.

It was fun to present it in demos, but it can also be annoying to users.
The FTC chair and this honestly is the best reason to vote for the Biden Administration (I feel like at this point whose in office largely doesn't matter 98% of the time, they're too old and or self absorbed to be heavily involved). Really just voting for the people they put in charge of everything below them, which was always the case, just more so now.
Seconding this. It's very expensive to have a child in the US. It can easily cost thousands of dollars. And you'll have to spend a lot of time fighting different charges with the insurance company post birth because there is a 100% chance they'll deny something that should be covered. We could've fixed this with a single-payer system but instead we doubled down on the worst aspect of our health care system and enshrined private insurance companies into the law. Predictably, they are taking advantage of it.
This is current position in the US economic cycle imposed by the Fed. High interest rate, low investment. Return to safety.
"I don't use Facebook!" (goes off to check Instagram account)
But have you tried while rhyming it?
The knowing. I definitely don't want to live there. I have successfully unsubscribed my household from the Prime subscription. I haven't ordered anything from them in many years. And never will again if I can help it.
I've already made peace with the fact I likely will not - my income has gone up 8x in 10 years and I'm still barely keeping up with the cost of things, barely any real savings, etc. I'm just very lucky to have no real debt. Now, wages are kind of flatlining and stagnating at my current level. Prices always increasing at a savage pace. And I'm one of the ones that's doing well compared to my peers - I have friends that I am doubtful they will survive into older age without significant government intervention.

I am just trying to stay healthy enough to be able to stay sharp enough to work into my 70's. I think the system is "working as intended" honestly - if workers are constantly worried about basic survival, how can they ever organize? It keeps people in line far too often, all the while the wealthiest keep getting wealthier. I have a very hard time taking anyone seriously that says this system is working well (at least in the US).

I'm not even mentioning the fact that if you are <40 there is virtually no chance you are going to get social security benefits - the political elite nowadays don't even try to pretend like that's not a thing anymore.
So that they can sell a service?
Yes I agree, birth rates are down everywhere. Interestingly they are rapidly declining in countries where most of these legal migrants come from.

I do not agree with emigration controls. At least not in the next 50 years!
I have no idea which engine, but the minified source has this in it

https://www.balanc3dgame.com/assets/index-53e87cdf.js

* react-dom.production.min.js
* react-jsx-runtime.production.min.js
* react-reconciler-constants.production.min.js
* react-reconciler.production.min.js
* react.production.min.js
* scheduler.production.min.js
* use-sync-external-store-shim.production.min.js
* use-sync-external-store-shim/with-selector.production.min.js
There are some numbers in the youtube presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bISBNVtXZ6M

It seems to be optimized towards ML where sequential scan is the access pattern. so it wouldn't be suitable for analytical workloads yet, though they are planning on working on that.
yes, thank goodness Meta finally invented dividends.
I spent a few minutes trying to figure that out, but Reason is incredibly slanted, they just link to some even nuttier site, and even starting with news I couldn't find specifics of the one count he was convicted on.

But I'd be a little skeptical of Reason's handwave "properly reported to the government". Reported on taxes? To SEC? As part of disclosure for this trial?

One way it could be money laundering without being proceeds of a crime is if he took $1M from Pablo Escobar for a huge advertising commit and then refunded $900k to Able Paleo Bars, LLC for unused ad spend.
Most of the games are just tech demos without any depths or length. Many of the goods ones aren't even on Quest, but on PC. There is also no steady stream of new high quality content, every year or two something interesting comes out and then nothing for months. Ports of existing 2D games or franchises into VR are extremely rare. 3D and VR movies are still largely ignored by Meta as well. The promised "Metaverse" is nowhere to be seen.

The whole thing is just a bit "meh". If you dig deep enough, you can find some interesting stuff, but it feels so far less interesting than it could be.

Just look back at all the stuff that happened back when Oculus was still in charge, we had Oculus Medium and Quill for content creation, we had Oculus Story Studios, we had numerous good games released in short order and so on. It felt like VR was expanding, the last few years in contrast it felt like the thing was just shrinking down. And a lot of that was not by accident, but Meta's conscious effort to turn VR into "Metaverse" and move away from games. Which in turn was a flop, so Quest is back doing games, but it all feels very half-hearted.

VR has been hyped up since the 90s and when you look at what Quest delivers today, 35 later, it just doesn't feel like it's actually delivering on the potential of VR.