skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite frankly, I see a lot of text in this post and no numbers.

For something to be production-ready I'd expect you to at least cover major things like "latency to serve x in Elixir instead of lang y is k% better" or "EMFU we got when training x in Elixir was comparable to lang y".

These are two random metrics that are of course biased to my experience but the article just feels empty without numbers.
I was not talking about eating, I was talking about living conditions.

Furthermore (again regarding living conditions): Still no, because those humans likely have loved ones or family and additionally no because of what this would do to the other humans who housed them so.
I spent a little time googling around but even wayback machine is only showing results in 2024 for the domain.

Was there a different project that was being worked on previously? Or is this the only product being launched since YC S19?
Assuming this is true, how do we deliver family friendly housing in the city? It seems that we would need to get rid of most cars to make space for more voluminous housing within cities.
I didn't say what you quoted
What they should / could have done: Through the Looking Glass:

Start with an extreme close-up on the implements of human creativity. Pan across the paints, the instruments, canvas, start to zoom out... You keep zooming out until your viewpoint moves away back out through the surface of the screen. The screen tilts away from the viewer until it shows the iPad edge on.

Hmmm... Matrix references aside, that might be creepier. Captivity instead of creativity compressed.
Also, let's not forget RT promoting the burning and drowning of Ukrainian children: https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/russian-tv-presenter-says-ukra...

That's surely a message that's allowed to be promoted on Western media, right?
I hope this means that people actually start curating their training sets. The quality control is horrible on all of the datasets I've looked through. Especially image captions.

Yes sheer quantity has a quality of its own but that won't produce optimal results.
Those videos are fake the glasses don't do very much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY-NF_7R-pk&t=559
I'm not an expert, but I see some major flaws in this post doesn't make sense to me. Please feel free to correct me if I've misunderstood any concept.

>At 22,870 inhabitants per km², Macau is the densest jurisdiction in the world, denser than Singapore which itself suffers ultra-low fertility. Virtually everyone in Macau lives in an apartment tower. Studies (see below for a thread reviewing the literature) find that density is linked to low fertility, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised if the densest place on Earth also has the lowest birthrates.

Exteremly high density will obviously lead to lower fertility since most residents barely have space for themselves. This is not what most people are talking about when asking for higher density housing. Looking at extreme cases does not mean moderate density will have the same outlook.

> Tokyo, Japan, provides a great natural experiment. What happens when you build urban high-rise towers in abundance? We once thought of Tokyo as expensive, but that is no longer true. Apartment towers have been added to the Tokyo skyline at a rapid clip, making it eminently affordable for young people.

This statement ignores a lot of the socio-economic problems in Japan. Problems such as decades economic stagnation, the extreme work culture, younger people being straddled with the burden of caring for older generations. These and many other problems combined are the reason for low fertility.

> Australia, where the pricey suburbs are much more fertile

I wonder who can afford to move to expensive suburbs ? Oh right its wealthy people.
I wonder who can afford to have enough free time to take care of children and also afford expensive child care services ? Oh right its wealthy people.

The problem isn't density, the problem is that people in child bearing age cannot afford to have children.

> New Zealand may not show what people think it does

Similar problems to Australia, people in child bearing age cannot afford to have children.

> After the war, Korea saw a housing crisis and resolved to build huge apartment towers as fast as possible. China too has gone the path of ultra-dense apartment blocks. Now both countries are stuck in an ultra-low fertility regime. They desperately try to pivot to higher birth rates, but their built housing stock dooms them. Young people in both countries are drawn to low fertility city life, and the depopulation conveyor belt runs hot.

These countries have problems similar to Japan, extreme work culture, lack of free time, lack of affordable housing, younger people being constantly burnt out. Mostly wealthy people with free time are having children.
Same in many countries in Europe. Also see France's South American forests in French Guyana. Much better managed than Brazil's. Incomparable, actually.
What is the point of this whataboutism?

Yes there are some metrics where you can find a bigger killer of Muslims then Israel. There are other metrics where Israel is larger. But even still, Israel is killing a lot of people. Being top 5 in killing Muslim is not something you can be proud of by saying, “look at the top 4 muslim killers here”.
I'm excited to see possible parallel applications of this therapy for other hearing-loss related gene mutations such as GJB2.

From what I can tell from a press release from Regeneron themselves, they're also working on GJB2 and STRC therapies.
cynically, one possibility is the intent to be able to sue open-source cas authors and distributors who had access to it and then wrote substantially similar code. charitably, it's intended to allow users to resolve whatever problems they have with the system, by debugging and, if necessary, patching it
Once someone told me that the only people that will remember that you were working hard and for longer hours will be your spouse and your kids.

Stop working overtime and over weekends. A company demanding working on weekends and cancel holidays is a huge red flag
Yes, since Java 21.

Example:

sealed interface BinaryTree {
record Leaf(int value) implements BinaryTree {}
record Node(BinaryTree lhs,
BinaryTree rhs,
int value) implements BinaryTree {}
}

public class Hello {
static int sum(BinaryTree tree) {
return switch (tree) {
case BinaryTree.Leaf(var value) -> value;
case BinaryTree.Node(var lhs, var rhs, var value) -> sum(lhs) + value + sum(rhs);
};
}

public static void main(String... args) {
var tree = new BinaryTree.Node(
new BinaryTree.Leaf(1),
new BinaryTree.Node(
new BinaryTree.Leaf(2),
new BinaryTree.Leaf(3),
4),
5);
System.out.println(tree);
System.out.println("Sum: " + sum(tree));
}
}

If you added a new subtype to BinaryTree you would need to fix the switch.

EDIT: I didn't handle the `null` case above... so it would be a NullPointerException if someone passed null... apparently, Java decided to make handling `null` optional. More information: https://www.baeldung.com/java-lts-21-new-features
1) it doesn’t appear search links are shareable or have the query terms are in it

2) are you embedding the search phrases word by word? And using the same model as the documents used? Because I searched for „lead generation“ which any decent non-unigram embedding should understand, but I got results for lead poisoning.
> This makes sense to anyone who has been a parent trying to raise children in an apartment. It feels awful as a parent when your noisy children are bothering the neighbors through the walls at all hours. It is difficult to entertain young kids all day when there is no yard for them to play in. It is nerve racking knowing the ever-present danger of a high balcony for little ones.

This feels like a lot of assumptions. I'm not convinced that every parent would classify apartment living as awful, and many seem happy to trade the quiet backyard for the bustling city below. That said, this stands out to me

> your noisy children are bothering the neighbors through the walls at all hours

Among other causes, I think in the US there's been a growing negative attitude towards young children - they're seen as nuisances to be endured. A friend of mine is a military wife with 4 children. She said in Italy the difference was striking - she'd get on a bus or train with the kids and everyone smiled cheerfully, happy to see young family out and about. In the US everyone grimaced and avoided eye contact, probably hoping the kids sat far away.

The root cause is doubtless debatable - are Italians better at raising obedient kids or are Italians more tolerant towards normal kid behavior?

Reddit is my usual source of the attitudes of young people and I see "I can't afford kids" much less often than I see "Kids are awful and why would anyone want them?"

The other strong factor appears to be for all the trending 'trad wife' cosplay going on, a lot of women don't want to be full time wives and moms. Men often have rosy memories of growing up with someone taking care of them, women often have mixed memories of a mom who had few intellectually challenging tasks, no time of, and very little respect from society in general.
You say that as if this has happened before ("many kinds of these inventions always start as..."), but what conditions have actually had this happen?

I can't think of anything that started as something to help bring people up to a median level, to then end up bringing median people into a super-human level. Everything we've done so far have all been ultimately limited by the human body, so things that bring people up to the median level ultimately have diminishing returns such that they don't benefit median people so much.
Thanks for the quick answer! I had only looked at the python API docs, so I missed that. I’ve just been wrapping up learning a bunch of Lie theory and will keep symbolica in mind next time I want to play with some big nasty expressions!

> Non-commutativity can be emulated by adding an extra argument that determines the ordering or by giving them different names.

Would you mind giving an example? (or just tell me it’s in the docs and i’ll look deeper)
Unfortunately most of those videos about the glasses are basically staged. Some of those companies have gotten in trouble for making false claims.
> and children do a lot of mimetic

Do you mean they learn by osmosis from their parents? That's a known thing already and it's very obvious.
The high-end version of this is Synthstrom Deluge. I love that piece of gear.

Even the wood on the sides aesthetic is the same.
Not sure what to make of this. If the authorization is basically not being used, then it's a decent question to ask why they are so interested in renewing it.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a reasonable way to answer this question that doesn't rely on people's pre-existing biases. I'm sure everyone on this board knows what the 'real' reasons for the FBI wanting section 702 are.
April fool's at xkcd is a special occasion where external folks join xkcd to build an experimental interactive comic.

Edit: I've updated the first para of the post to hopefully clarify this better
The feature for sending messaging and posting comments to a tab is some pretty clever and creative UX. Seriously next level future stuff and congrats for just coming up with the concept.

I like that it's all timeline based. For my use case, we currently use Front email thread and then link to a Shared Dropbox where we post everything (including links to like a Google Doc or webpage). I think having chronological bookmarks like you do would be clearly better. I also know many people who use Google Groups and Google Doc to document progress too -- which I think would be insane / nightmare but teams do it. You all definitely would solve that automatically.

Couple other notes:

- Whenever I screenshare with a team or others I see 1000 bookmarks or tabs on their browser. I could not imagine the nightmare of how that would impact my workflow or the timeline. Trusting AI to clean stuff up or hunt is not for me.

- I can tell you all have been heads down blitzing (dog in video, phone ringing in background of another) but I think a separate "Solutions" page where you tackle specific examples would be nice to see or browse.

- Maybe too much or not really your goal, but right now need some sort of client integration for an outside person. I can't imagine giving access to a client on a whim and training them on this. Instead, maybe automatic email integration where their emails show up in the timeline and can respond directly from there. Would produce a really great timeline for where things left off and when things are being communicated. Being able to sub-comment and share files/updates/things on Front on email threads is one of the most killer features for productivity and a team. Mixing this with what you all have could be even more next level. Again though, might not be the goal.

Congrats and best of luck! Big fan of people trying to tackle PM stuff and think you all are doing a great job.
Only if they have a pool.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted either. I think your post is a better representation of some of the causes of low fertility than a lot of hand waving twitter posts.
Probably. Advancements in ML algorithms, like this one, have been outpacing advancements in hardware for awhile now, so both are converging on making ML faster and ubiquitous.
Most modern Ethernet LANs are effectively lossless. You're not going to see a single dropped packet unless you saturate the link.

> Which means that using something that can do UDP and manages it's own sequence ordering can do significantly better. This is why things like RDP, PCoIP, etc could do full frame rate HD video 15 years

No it isn't. It's because those things actually compress the video, and X-forwarding generally doesn't. The transport protocol is completely irrelevant, it's just a bandwidth problem.

I've X-forwarded Firefox between two desktops on 10G Ethernet. I can watch 4K video, and I genuinely can't tell the difference between local and remote.
I was hesitant to click on this Twitter post but it's actually a well written article on the topic. Thanks for sharing.

I wonder if being around so many people burns us out. Having a kid ensures there will be someone always at home, so after a day of swimming through strangers you don't get solitude at home.

While full automation has a low probability in our lives, the chances are much higher for the next generation. So in my potential child's life, they very likely wont be able to remain employed.

How do we currently treat people who aren't working right now? Terribly. This means (IMO) it's best for the child to not exist.

Perhaps you might think, "I'm smart and I will raise a smart healthy child, and that won't happen to them." Welp even if the stars align and nothing goes wrong, what kind of a future is that to leave them? Endlessly competing for the last few living wage jobs in existence? That doesn't sound like a free life to me.

Consent of the unborn is not given while creating life. Now that we have an option in weather or not we create life, we should exercise it with responsibility.
There's not enough human workers to validate that at scale.

If you want ML to do it... well that's a bit of a catch-22. How would an ML algorithm know if data is good enough to be trained on unless it has already been trained on that data?
I’m so tired of “people don’t want kids” being reported as “low fertility”.

Low fertility means “people wanting kids can’t have them”, not “people are choosing not to have them”.

The reality is the boomer and boomer+1 generations have made unending political choices that benefited them personally, and are now seeing that those choices are impacting their retirement plans, and realized their entire plan was dependent on having other tax payers look after them in a way they were unwilling to do when they were younger.

Now that they’re seeing that might not happen they’re again trying to make the predictable outcome of their choices be someone else’s problem.
I count security fixes with "bugs that you would hit in your use case".

I don't care about CVEs that only affect functions my app do not use.
https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter6/76-6-S112.html

I wasn't trying to distinguish between land and building, mostly just that they are about recording and specifically animal operations.

I'm almost certain Utah is not the only state that specifically has laws around recording and specifically for animal operations that go beyond just generic trespass, but I don't have time right now to dive in.
Great write-up! I've been using Elixir for a handful of years now, primarily working on solo/consulting projects and in micro teams. I'd like to think I have a pretty good grasp on the language and OTP fundamentals, but I'll admit that some the things you mentioned in your last paragraph about lacking knowledge of operational concepts resonated with me.

Over the years I've tried to learn more about releases, deployments, distributed applications, fault tolerance in environments with multiple nodes, and hot code upgrades; but none of the projects I've worked on have reached sufficient scale or complexity for those things to really matter. My impression is that it's difficult to learn about these topics without real hands-on experience (something that seems hard to replicate in small/solo projects).

Would you mind expanding on that last point? I'd be curious to learn more about these knowledge gaps that you observed, as well as any recommendations for "leveling up" past them, whether it be projects that one could build to learn more, books to read, etc.
I’m not sure what are the benefits for the micro service architecture. Do you expect other services/domains to connect to your database to listen for events? How does it scale if you have several micro services that need to publish events?

Or do you expect to a dedicated database to be maintained for this queue? Worth comparing it with other queue systems that persist messages and can help you to scale message processing like kafka with topic partitions.

Found this article on how Revolut uses Postgres for events processing: https://medium.com/revolut/recording-more-events-but-where-w...
Teams should use both Copilot (synchronous code generation) and Ellipsis (async code gen).

Sure, Copilot speeds up human dev productivity, but our take is that humans should only be spending their time on the highest value code changes and use products like Ellipsis to handle the rest.

The downside of async code gen is that Ellipsis workflows take a few minutes to run because Ellipsis is actually building the project, running the tests, fixing it's mistakes, etc. The upside is that a developer can have multiple workflows running at once, and each workflow delivers higher quality code because it's guaranteed to be working + tested.

I'm super bullish on async code gen. I think there's a whole category of tedious development tasks with unambiguous solutions that can be automated to the point where a human just needs to give it a LGTM.
>However, the efficacy of RTO mandates is questionable. An examination of 457 companies on the S&P 500 list released in February concluded that RTO mandates don't drive company value but instead negatively affect worker morale. Analysis of survey data from more than 18,000 working Americans released in March found that flexible workplace policies, including the ability to work remotely completely or part-time and flexible schedules, can help employees' mental health.

One possible translation: the company does not care about you.
This is the time to switch to Linux for PC gaming. Seriously. Steam on Linux with Proton is really good. I've even played Halo on it.

The anti-cheat stuff is even coming around, though there's still work on that front.
The M4 laptops prices would go parabolic, stock up?
Yes I agree - I’m just saying that there’s good things to be done at home and at work and the two must be in balance over the course of a lifetime, or else society decays.
If all that existed in those now dead downtown neighbourhoods were offices then of course they’d be dead with a significant disruption to work. What’s missing are still third places, and probably first places too.
That's because `exit` will never work in a script, but `exit()` can.
Nice! Friend of mine loves knitting!

But in the example in your Github, was does "2K KFB 6K WYIF 3SLP" mean?
The explanation is "The rest are the steps for this row.". I don't understand.
Can somebody explain?
Actually I hardly ever spend time on Twitter. I prefer reading original sources and trying to decipher biases that are less subtle than the biases on Wikipedia, and therefore more easily read between the lines. But most importantly I’m neither right nor left. I’m non ideological, which means I think all ideologies have at least some truth and many have good ideas, but I’m not going to subscribe to any specific one. I invite you to expand your mental model to include more than just two ways of thinking, left vs. right.
Isn't that already the case? Genetically the average Olympian is definitely super human compared to the population. Unless we start adding novel genetic data to humans I wouldn't be too worried.
Okay that's better than I expected!
OK - a big problem for starters - how to get people off of their screens and focus on something else - like life in general?

Given the way digital infrastructure exists as is today, this is a freakishly difficult problem.

In other words - how'd you make digital systems all around you "attention-enhancing" rather than "attention-diluting"
This is terrible reporting. I don’t support the warrantless monitoring of citizens via Section 702, but the email displayed shows zero nefariousness as far as I can tell. It is just the FBI deputy director encouraging FBI agents to lawfully (at least according to FISA) use the tools at their disposal to demonstrate their use to the FBI.
The government took two swings at legislating outcomes during the Obama administration, first when Congress considered some climate bills like Waxman-Markey, and then the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The bills failed and the CPP was stayed by the courts then gutted during the Trump administration.

The law is what can get through the process. Unfortunately that may not always result in the best approach.
You read that in a blog post from 2019.

Java has had comprehensive pattern matching since Java 21, like one year ago (current Java version is 22).

I posted an answer to the same parent comment with the C example written in Java...

You can read more about it here: https://www.baeldung.com/java-lts-21-new-features
> so you can't change the variant without creating a new instance.

Isn't that true of ADTs in all languages? I can't think of a single language with ADTs that lets you change the tag/variant of an existing value.
> 2)timezones should be completely abolished. They also cause confusion. If you live in California, instead of getting up at say 8am you get up at say 3pm. There is never any confusion with anyone globally about scheduling anything.

Good luck selling a large swaithe of humanity that Tuesday will turn into Wednesday at some point during their working day.
> “To continue to demonstrate why tools like this are essential to our mission, we need to use them, while also holding ourselves accountable for doing so properly and in compliance with legal requirements,”

Not sure why this is news.
I've had success with the ElixirLS language server. It should work with most editors I assume, but I use it with Neovim. Autocomplete, diagnostics, goto definition work as expected.
If that database update is well know to be every August or that product launch is something like Apple's WWDC then sure, that's the distinction people are making.

If it's just we want to launch our latest product in the second week of June, because that's the one-off date we came up with when we started the project, that's different. It's not seasonality it's just failing to account for staff availablity/unrealistic planning.
Symmetries in Nature strike again! It's just like in Noether's theorem.