skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be sad for the social/economical future, but it’s really not sad for people who are not having kids in their 20s. They might regret it in the future, but as of now, their decisions are pretty solid and logical, if you think about the opportunity loss.

Within my circles, especially my girl friends, are having one child around mid-30s as they don’t want to give up on their careers. Even worse to be completely depended on their partners as that gives them less choices in life. Cannot blame them, it’s easy for me to want a child, but imagining to go through 3 pregnancies (basically to increase the population) in their 20s is giving up on everything that everyone else gets to do at that age.
Nearly all of that growth is in sub-saharan Africa and Afghanistan.

An extinction in Europe is still an extinction.
This used to work, but Windows/Intel have this new thing called Modern Standby that just doesn't do what anyone wants. It's on purpose. It's very frustrating.
What are the advantages and potential challenges of combining dense vectors, sparse vectors, and full-text search in a hybrid retrieval method, as implemented in Infinity v0.2, and how does this approach compare to traditional vector search or other retrieval methods?
Same, and another great thing I have been using since ChatGPT made it trivial to do so is systemd. I was using pm2 quite a bit for running scripts but high quality bash (or python or php or whatever really) plus systemd is really killer.

I’ve also been doing way more with google cloud shell. I was always such a point and click guy when it came to setting stuff up in GCP but automating and scripting with bash in cloud shell using ChatGPT is so much faster and repeatable.
I think his point is that it is not clear why every microstate is equally probable.
Sticks of butter are also labeled in tablespoons here. One stick is 1/2c, and the paper it is wrapped in also has markings for 1-8 tbsp. So it's pretty common to see that in US recipes as well.

As far as flour goes, it's incredibly common to have both cups and measuring spoons in a US kitchen. So if a recipe says "1 cup and 2 tablespoons" or something, it's really easy to measure that.

By contrast, I hate recipes which use weight measurements. It takes a ton of faffing about to get exactly 300g (or whatever weight) of flour weighed out. Add a bit... watch scale... add a bit more... watch scale ad nauseam. And then I often wind up overshooting anyways, so then I have to try to scoop some back out! Whereas with volume measurements I just dip a cup/spoon in, level it off, and I'm done in a couple of seconds.
You’ve intrigued me! Can you provide a link to such a hosting option? I’ve got some side projects I’d like to explore! Thanks in advance
This sounds really good! If the largest population and probably the largest manufacturer in the world goes green, that is going to be really good for climate change.

I hope India follows suit.
I'd give the journalist a C+ if they were in school.

Good intent but you're comparing a dictatorship with 1.4 billion people to a mostly conservative, sparsely populated island with 26 million people.

Australia's biggest problem is it needs to find a way to deal with its mining lobbies and political revolving doors hamstringing every attempt to move forward.

If that ever gets dealt with we would move incredibly quickly.
It isn't misleading at all.

A hexadecimal digit has 4 bits of entropy. You can guess it correctly by chance one in sixteen times. Calling that a four-bit digit is correct. Same with a 30 bit digit, all that changes is the magnitude.

The "storage bits" aren't a detail, they're an essential property. Stored in balanced ternary it would still have 30 bits of entropy.
> A report by Sydney-based think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) said China was installing renewables so rapidly it would meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month — or 6.5 years early.

> "They have clear targets and every part of their government is harnessed to deliver the plan," he said.

Do they? The fact that this is off-plan and happening very quickly makes me think that we've probably crossed a threshold and people are just building the things because they are cheap. I never understood why these conversations always seem to have the frame that the governments of the world have to be so deeply involved in constructing power plants. It is only really a factor in nuclear power because the west keeps regulating new plants out of the picture. Free markets love renewables, they have low capital costs and are very modular.

I'd love to see Australia take up China's strategy of building everything. Harmonising our nuclear policy to mimic China's appears superficially to be an extremely clever idea.
Europe will have less people, but no extinction.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/04/04/china-sees-first-po...
Given that China produces most of the batteries the world uses as well, it seems like they have a clear path for baseline power supply to augment the renewables as opposed to the coal plants they’re still building (and nuclear for that matter). I guess those batteries fetch a better price on the global market for other use cases than grid energy storage, or the sheer scale is just too big still?

I wonder how long until smoggy Chinese cities are a thing of the past.
The UX and concept are both quite good.

Aber, aber -- do we have to tarnish this app's reputation by drawing attention to the fact that it is somehow AI-connected? Given what we know about its rather poor sense of accuracy for such things (compared to, you know, stodgy old things like dictionaries, grammar textbooks and the like):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40931790
They already do. If only the branding disturbs you otherwise would like the widget, I'm happy to make a custom embed for you.
I don't really sit comfortably with the tone and phrasing. Giving it a cutesy name does not change what this would be referred to if done by other companies.

That it is given a euphemism is tacit support of this behaviour: platform abuse.
Steam on Linux is nice, and handles a lot more games than you think. I dual boot windows but rarely ever do so.
A surprisingly capable RPN calculator in about 100 lines of Zig code (2021)
I don't know that anyone has ever used "doggy bag" to mean/imply an actual bag for dogs in my lifetime (I'm 39), but yes it's still common to get the rest of your food in a container to take home. These days your waiter/waitress will usually ask "do you want a box" instead of referring to a doggy bag, but everyone knows what you mean if you ask for a doggy bag.
To a first approximation, fat won't kill you. There's no reliable evidence that a diet relatively higher in fat causes worse health outcomes, as long as you maintain energy balance. Salt won't kill you either, unless you're genetically susceptible to hypertension and don't drink enough water. The sugar is more problematic.
You are conflating "curing" with "preventing through abstinence via social means". Both are good, but they're also very different.
Honestly Australia is a rounding error compared to China in this regard, and the article only seems to mention it because it’s an Australian source. The news here is China’s ramp up.
"I like small programs with few dependencies. I will write my own I/O to avoid dependencies. And tokio is to dependencies what god objects are to object-oriented programming."

This is what is preventing me from using Rust. It is so tightly integrated with a package manager for libraries that trying to avoid crates.io and dependencies is like paddling against the current.
This is a great response. The shady operators can ruin simple services like these :( I’m now curious how you’d ever practically deal with this. How does iCloud deal with encrypted illegal content? Surely they can’t penalize Apple in these situations?
Eh, I think it's like media reviews. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and a lot of times what professional critics think has nothing in common with what the average person actually wants. The high end restaurant world is much like the professional art world in that it gets really pretentious and out of touch. It just is what it is.
Ugh that is stupid. Outlook/Exchange already add a bunch of custom headers - you'd think they could use those to opt-in clients that are known to support this feature instead of making the rest of the world opt-out. That approach would provide a better experience for both Outlook users (since they would always know who could actually receive their reactions) and non-Outlook users (who wouldn't have to put up with the annoying reaction spam).
16 months over 12 years is not care time, it's something to use up on errands and occasional R&R. Right or left, subsidizing childcare sounds less about affecting sex balance in the workplace, and more about increasing the amount of two-income families.

(Which is a ratchet and arguably a mistake, but that's another topic.)

In Poland, there is proposed legislation (or did it pass already?) for the govt to pay for babysitters XOR babysitting grandparents. The idea is to allow parents to work. I imagine Sweden is going for the same thing.
In the US at least, parental leave and other care obligations is what creates the gender wage gap [1] [2] [3]. Ergo, women being the gender to shoulder the care burden in Sweden, even with generous leave, still incurs an equality penalty. Interestingly, in Spain, when parental leave for men was made equal to women, men's desire for children declined [4]. The data also shows men desire children more than women in the US [5] and Finland [6].

Hot take thesis is that women still incur most of the cost of children, even in the most progressive socioeconomic systems. They know it, and it is a material contributing factor in the fertility rate decline. They obtain equality by opting out of reproduction, eliminating opportunity cost and other expensive penalties reproduction incurs. The cost of children is simply too damn high.

Bonus comment from PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi:

On Monday, PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about her work-life balance. “The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict,” she observed. Just as women are reaching middle management, kids need the most parenting and attention. Then when women move up the corporate ladder, they must turn their attention to aging parents. “We’re screwed. We cannot have it all.” [7]

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/is-parental-leave-to-blame-for-th...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/12/20/the-link-...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2018/2/19/17018380/gender-wage-gap-child...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/paid-paternity...

[5] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-you...

[6] https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/2...

[7] https://time.com/2954893/pepsico-ceo-women-cant-have-it-all/
Zig isn't quite arbitrary precision, but it supports integer widths up to u65536. I've found this quite handy.
Why do you think there won't be any more people in Europe?
Why is it a catastrophe?
it is 1975, not 2000.
> A 45 yr old grandparent is an able-bodied helper. A 65 yr old is a dependent....

What are you even talking about? My mother's parents were 74 and 76 when I was born and they were routinely my caregivers several times a week (while my parents were working) until I was about 6, and occasionally after that. That wouldn't work in every family, but the idea that "a 65 yr old is a dependent" is utterly unfounded as a general rule.
How does it change the network owners ability to decide who gets to join their network?
Isn't much or most of the smog from their barely regulated fields of factories?
If only women take parental leave, then employer attitudes will, consciously or not, consider parental leave an extra 'cost' attached to hiring women. Sweden found that this remained true even when the parental leave was explicitly made available for both parents to take. Among other reasons, making some parental leave only available for fathers is intended to further encourage fathers to take leave, until in theory people think of parental leave as a gender-neutral option.

https://freepolicybriefs.org/2024/02/05/fathers-parental-lea...).
Looks like a great service - kudos! Hope it succeeds and competes with imgur!
You learned about rational functions in high school or middle school (most likely given your use of “maths”). I can tell you have very little experience with teaching. Most students who know that x + 5/3 x is 8/3 x have trouble, initially, with understanding that 2xy+ay is (2x + a)y. There is a reason for the order in which topics are taught.
This project employs a Darwinian approach. Initially, it was an experiment in traditional program and user interface generation that incorporated evolutionary feedback into the mutation process. A combination of PG and AL. It has achieved some success with small programs and is now exploring the potential combination of LLMs

https://youtu.be/sqvHjXfbI8o?si=7qwpc15Gn42mUnKQ&t=513
Equally was my mistake, I should have used the word evenly. Trying to tease out some new information so I understand the world better. Being more careful with my own wording is just one lesson
> Saying that actually customers don't need to be able to make plans, or marketing doesn't need to be able to advertise, is effectively saying that your employer doesn't need to make any money.

That's not at all what I said. I said, if you choose to make management more efficient to the detriment of the people making the thing your company sells, you've made a bad choice. Bad managers like story points because it usually doesn't hurt their heads too much to add and compare scalar values. But a story point doesn't come anywhere close to representing the complexity of building any product. I've had one or two bad managers who wanted to make all things subservient to their precious Excel file. The productivity of that team (when the manager and story points process were introduced) plummeted and the entire team quit within a month of each other leaving.

The best managers I have had have worked by discussing customer and business needs with engineering and walking away with a richer picture of the tasks involved and an estimated timeline. It is very hard work to do this—it usually takes someone with a little knowledge of how software engineering works. I've had good product managers like this and I've been able to deliver some of the highest-value code I've written (measured strictly monetarily) thanks to managers who took a rich, nuanced view of the process.

I am not advocating for no management or no planning. I am advocating for management not requiring over-simplified metrics because it makes their life easier. Management does not exist to make its own tasks easier. It exists to make it easier for the people making the product to build the right thing at the right time and sell it. You can make plans without story points.
What is the virtual thread / event loop pattern seeking to optimize? Is it context switching?

A number of years ago I remember trying to have a sane discussion about “non blocking” and I remember saying “something” will block eventually no matter what… anything from the buffer being full on the NIC to your cpu being at anything less than 100%. Does it shake out to any real advantage?
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I am one of the persons bought AllTrails for a year just to see a single trail(i am not a hiking person),the prompt to subscribe is everywhere and so attempting thus I fell for it.

“Reviews, routes reports of trail conditions” is probably the biggest scam of AllTrails for me, there was literally nothing for the one I was looking at. Ironically, there are better information on Washington Trails Association website.
Reading this was very valuable. I really appreciate the Vespa mention and introduction to their Multi-Vector HNSW Indexing - I’ve recently thought a lot about how difficult chunking is and this seems like a promising avenue.
Show HN: Tlsfp – run a HTTPS server that returns client TLS fingerprint data
This is very interesting. Would you be able to point to sources where we can learn more about these capabilities? A friend who is usually quite rational has lately been insisting this is happening to them (remote monitoring, harassment via search results and anything with an algorithmic feed). They haven't done anything wrong, but may have gotten on the wrong side of well-connected people, and are now concerned things could escalate (e.g. framing). If there were any indicators on their devices or elsewhere that they could look for, it could be helpful.
It is the focus of my long-term crazy side project. https://youtu.be/sqvHjXfbI8o?si=7qwpc15Gn42mUnKQ&t=513
Presumably Europe is working on robots that can enforce their immigration policies long after the population behind the policies is gone?
Andreessen Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Trump
This is a really interesting theory and I agree with everything you said about taking care of your health.

I think that your theory could be very easily tested with simple survey methods. Find grandparents, ask their age, and ask if they regularly care for their grandchildren. It doesn't really matter the age of their own children because we can basically infer it with the grandchildren being under 12.

Such a survey could be improved by asking people their country. My anecdotal observation is that German grandparents provide much more childcare than their American counterparts, despite comparable generational gaps. Another anecdotal observation is the Filipino grandparents also provide more childcare with a smaller generational gap.

A fourth useful question might be to ask why grandparents are raising kids. I speculate that in rich countries, it is because they want to, but in poor countries, it is because the 20/30-somethings are financially providing for both the children and the grandparents.
The hardware served two purposes, as I see it:

1. It was obviously a "toy"/"educational tool" making it less desirable to divert from the intended use case. If you had a charity unload pallets of refurbished Thinkpads to the Global South, plenty of them won't end up in the classrooms. If you visit the local petty functionary and he has a bright green toylike machine on his desk, it's obviously been misallocated.

2. A standard reference platform provides a uniform target for third party devs. Think about developing for the C64, versus a contemporary PC which could have one of four or five different video cards and a dozen memory sizes.
I looked at it and what I noticed:

It assumes home prices will rise equal to inflation which hasn’t been true in recent years

It doesn’t allow you to add monthly utilities for renting but assumes 100$/month for buying. I personally have never rented a place where all utilities were covered

It assumes quite high property taxes compared to what I pay

It assumes market returns of 4.5% which is true in a long term sense but not really in the short term

It assumes rents will increase 3% per year, configurable but not true in recent years

It factors in closing costs so I guess it’s assuming you will sell at the end of the period? This is a somewhat strange assumption to me. At the end of the period I could borrow against the value of the house without selling it for instance.

I think it’s a really good tool though I wish it had just a few more options to tweak, and that the defaults got updated to reflect current rates perhaps
“Which is not a queue” why not a queue?
>And because we have not agreed yet, those changes would be more a power play then a right-idea (say positive) play.

So I'm not missed out understanding you, are you saying that right/good ideas require consensus before they can be that?

> Marx is bad has been proved beyond doubt in practice.

a) How?

b) Proven, technically?

c) Beyond whose doubt?

> Still because it is all about power and change, it is a bad idea.

What is this?
Thank you for this, eye opening - IMO it adds more weight to the quote (I misquoted). Found this:

"According to water accessibility nonprofit DigDeep, there are 2.2 million people in the U.S. without running water inside their homes—no sinks, bathtubs, or toilets. An additional 44 million Americans may have indoor plumbing, but their water systems have been in violation of the Safe Water Drinking Act."
A noticeble work to demostrate the effectiveness of hybrid search is blended rag by IBM research (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07220), which has shown that 3-way hybrid search could achieve STOA over multiple evaluation datasets.
And also, we've reproduced the results of blended rag, as shown in this article. Additionally, blended rag + colbert based reranker could have a much better results.

The major challenges are how to implement and manage such many indices within single database. That's why we build this database start from scratch. Infinity is actually a kind of "indexing" database, based on a columnar store. The executor also requires refined design to fuse these hybrid search approaches effectively.
is this only for Mac? is the UI a native app or web based technologies and running on like electron? just curious
Having gone through this recently with grandparents in their late 60s and 70s, it is absolutely a problem for new parents now. Both my dad and I had our first kids in our late 30s, and now he really struggles to do much of anything helpful for child care, despite wanting to. He has no energy, his poor eyesight and attention to detail make him untrustworthy for anything but "keep the kid in the playpen and let us know if anything happens". Similarly, my wife's parents struggled to take care of one relatively easy 1 year old between the two of them.

Meanwhile some of our friends with late 50s/low 60s parents are able to fully entrust their kid to one of the grandparents and go out for date nights/weekends. My wife and I are able to somewhat compensate for the lack of family help by throwing vast sums of money at the problem, but not many parents can do what we do.

Society messed up big time by allowing late parenthood to become the norm. It's really going to hurt future generations, but it's already making my generation shy away from having kids.
And this is one of the best researched books on the subject. I read it while I was locked up :)

https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-History-Prison-Practice-Punish...

It lays out how much of a modern punishment imprisonment is. Historically it was rarely used beyond pretrial. Other punishments were much more common. Fines were good because they put money into the hands of government folks. Beyond that, a few lashings, maybe a missing finger, an eye popped out if you were very naughty, and of course, banishment.

Tip: don't try pulling anyone apart with horses. It is hard to make the horses do what you want, and some people don't come apart as easily as you'd hope. The crowd will turn on you if you make the death too grisly or drawn-out.
* However, a taxpayer’s trade or business must be considered. For example, a theatrical performance, which would normally be considered an entertainment expense, would not be an entertainment expense for a professional theater critic attending the performance in a professional capacity (Regs. Secs. 1.274-11(b)(1)(iii), 1.274-12(a)(1), and 1.274-12(b)(3)).*

This seems to support what I’m suggesting
Apple's iCloud attempted to do CSAM scanning, but ultimately they backed off due to large public backlash. In the United States, there are lawmakers trying to require it, but there is still a lot of advocacy from privacy right activists, such as the EFF.