skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are painting with a very broad brush. In general Wall St keeps very close tabs on every big streamer and is pushing them all to be profitable yesterday. There was a time when investors were happy to subsidize customer acquisition, but that time is over and I think you haven't updated your outlook. That said, there is still some room to run.
I just don't think I'd be all that happy as a father. I feel like I'm in a constant struggle to claim as much time as I can for things that aren't paid work and sleep that interest me, and a kid has never been on that list of interests so I don't want to have one and then resent it consuming more of my time.

I just like to think and make stuff while I listen to music, I don't want to be responsible for picking a child up or dropping it off or feeding it. And, I'm not particularly concerned with how long we perpetuate our human nonsense.

I don't hate life, but I don't know that I'd have picked it for myself and I don't feel strongly about forcing it on anybody else.
The "Do it for you" concept means that people use tools to achieve a certain goal, so providing them with the result directly is much better than giving them a tool. For example, those who buy servers are actually not looking for servers.
I think they're right to complain that cities should be fixing that by building the public transportation more?
Tom Cruise, too (or shorter... allegedly)
I mean, I love a tax cut too, but I don't think taxes per se are the reason why people aren't having kids.

This data is somewhat stale, but here's a graph of taxes as a % of GDP vs birthrate. Color and size are both tied to income here. But there's basically no relationship, and there are countries with high tax rates and high birth rates, and low tax rate countries with low birth rates. And if you play with the time slider, you can see that countries move left and right in terms of taxes relatively quickly, but across countries most data point are drifting slowly down in birth rate.

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$bubble$encod...
Avalara didn't seem to be overtly ageist. Plenty of kids in their 30s. Smattering of tech workers in their 50s. They seem to be off-shoring most of their tech work though.
It’s available on Android and Samsung TVs.
Negative income tax? Does that mean the government pays me to work?
Even if Microsoft rolls out eBPF and mainstreams it - it will be years before everything is ported over and it still won't address legacy windows versions (which appear to be a good chunk of what was impacted).

It's a move in the right direction but it probably won't fully mitigate issues like this for another 5+ years.
https://archive.ph/gLsEI
Imaging colliding with this guy. Like shouldering a locomotive
Which could only be because “no one wants to work anymore.” /s
Talking about a "decision" only makes sense if there's a reasonable alternative.

Do you think "actually fixing" OS threads was a reasonable alternative? What would you prefer for a high performance abstraction instead of async?
But overall this is good. Why should we complain? Why would I rather have VCs hoarding their capital?
> vast majority of investment is inside of public firms into themselves for ai

FAANG spent $114bn on R&D in 2022 [1]. VC funded nearly 4x that amount [2]. There are valid complaints about the state of venture capital. Lack of money isn't one of them.

[1] https://www.calcbench.com/blog/post/676274365248274432/chart...

[2] https://www.wipo.int/global_innovation_index/en/gii-insights...
Love this! So important to give tools to maintainers to make sure these impactful tools can stay open!
Having kids often meant you have more free labour. Then it was just an affordable nice to have. Now it's a huge expense.
This is cool, but I feel like I need a more descriptive title and an ELI5 :)
Are you talking about lining up the pipeline symbols for columns? If it is, have you tried the AlignTab package?
Ask HN: Preferred SMS API Provider?
I'm looking to replace Twilio, because I've never had a good experience with them. I'm looking for an API that is simple to get working and doesn't require a bunch of hoops to jump through (manual reviews, paying for verification and paying for every re-submission is not okay).
No woman can "require" a man to have a child.
I am not sure that's a fair thing to say. Because people have no problem spending tons of money on other things, so what it really comes down to is people value material possessions more than having babies.

What is kind of baffling to me is a lot of people are still not having kids, but anthropomortising their pets, paying 10s of thousands a year in health insurance and bills for their pets, taking them to day care, and not traveling when they can't find sitters, etc.
No, this has more to do with uploading your sheets to the cloud. "It's so the Assistant can see it! No other reason! Honest!!! We wouldn't dare do anything else with your sheet."

More seriously, making spreadsheet formatted data more easily consumable by curve fitting ML algorithms actually can be useful. I would just would want total control of where that data goes, and unless you roll your own, or have a contract to purchase your own, you don't get that.
Pretending there is no difference between men and women is a total dead end.

Emotions and social games are a lot trickier to navigate for men, who didn't have umpteen years of evolution to practice.

In a lot of ways, we're expecting men to be more like women, and women more like men, while hating each other for it. Divide and conquer, the oldest game in the book.
Maybe, but your neighbors won’t be cool about it
For years (most recently 2021) Nokia’s threat assessment reports have android malware infection rates at over 50x iOS. iOS malware exists but it’s largely state-level actors going after dissidents or journalists (and apple provides tools to help fight that too, if you think you’re that kind of target).

Android is actually an outright majority of all malware in the wild... 50.31% of all malware infestions, which includes windows, OSX, IOT, and all other sources (ie ios).

https://vpnoverview.com/wp-content/uploads/nokia_threat_inte...

(see also page 17-19 which discusses key threats and mitigation strategies, particularly surrounding the play store and the android ecosystem.)

Pretty sure stalkerware is openly carried in the play store, it definitely is carried in some of the seedier stores.

If you have actual data that contradicts this, fire away, but every time it's objectively measured android comes out way way way worse on the malware front.
Not really - cancellation being objectively as easy as signing up is still much harder to actually do for people with ADHD.

Signing up is something exciting and fun and something such person may do impulsively in a moment of weakness. Cancelling is boring and scary (what if dark patterns?) and a chore you don't look forward to, but rather try to not forget. It's not positively rewarding, but merely stops a penalty.

This might seem like an exaggerated difference, but it actually hits the exact points that are affected by executive dysfunction.
I would also be concerned, but my concern would take this form: "what on earth did I do to make everyone so worried about me?"
Honestly, this would be a great efficiency boost if you could figure out how to manage distributed access, even in the existing model. Content servers in the CDN could act like origins/seedboxes, and pieces could be streamed from other clients based on what's currently contained in their content cache or downloaded episodes bucket. I'd love to see Netflix do something like this as long as it was only for non-mobile clients (e.g. Xbox, AppleTV, et al). I don't mind sharing my upstream with others if it helps smooth delivery for myself.

You'd think this wouldn't work well, but if done properly it'd be at worst equivalent to the current experience (e.g. your entire stream comes only from the closest content server), but Netflix shows tend to have popularity trends so may actually perform better than the current experience because you might be watching the same show as your neighbor, just 20-30 minutes later, and this reduces load on the content servers and raises the overall throughput availability of the total network.
Graybeard Consulting, LLC

edit: there are actually similar named companies that exist.
Actual reasoning is widespread usage of birth control and family planning?
I think that might have been Yo, which I actually enjoyed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

super dystopian channels got setup on there like get a yo everytime a missle alert came in Israel
This reminds me of a comment someone made during the craze of XMLs in the mid 2000s. In the comment the author suspected that so many organizations chose XML to implement their domain-specific languages, configuration languages included, only because XML offers a parser, while most organizations didn't want to bother with writing their own parser.

It beats me why people didn't want to write parsers, though. Writing parsers is not that hard, and is quite fun.
My cousins in France each have 3-5 children, because they have free daycare, socialized health care, etc. I plan on having none, because I can't afford it.

Every wealthy nation sees a declining birthrate that falls below the replacement rate. The economy of every wealthy nation depends on immigration. This is a fact.

If the nationalist right want people to have more babies to combat depopulation, they should be proposing and funding social support programs, not reproductive rights like abortion, IVF, contraception, etc.
I believe this is 100% correct.

Reminds me of England in the Middle Ages. Someone told me most people in England (and maybe W Europe) has a ancestor that was a King or Queen.

If true, seems we may be heading in this direction with our "Aristocracy". Seems only the very wealthy can afford more than 1 child.

I do remember Musk is trying to get rich people to have many Children. He had a WEB site about it but I cannot find it. The site has a picture of Blond Blue-eyed parents and their children. But a search did come up with this:

https://people.com/elon-musk-wants-smart-people-to-have-kids...
But might they also be like acid in that they could be a life-changing experience that cannot be adequately described unless personally tried?
AI helps to produce breakthrough in weather and climate forecasting
> startup world is just a massive pump and dump scheme, and so it moves from field to field finding the next hotness

But we retain the solutions that work. A slime mold tries a bunch of useless paths in a maze before it finds the right one. Then it trims and reinforces. Most start-ups failing isn't a sure sign of wasted work.
> factoring in costs of daycare

the cost of an "ok" daycare can be higher than someone's entire paycheck.
This is not true. There is an Android app.
I've read that Apple TV+'s higher than average bitrate can cause a lot of streaming boxes to struggle, not sure if that's what's happening here though.

It's been solid for me, to the point that I subscribe to other services through the built-in channels feature in order to be able to avoid generally worse streaming apps (like Paramount+) but I always watch using Apple stuff.
This! ^^^ The powers-that-be have watched commuter times and experiences go to shit and real estate costs skyrocket (forcing people to live further and further from offices) in the last 25 years. Best case, they've done nothing, completely ignoring people's concerns. Worst case, they've actively enabled this situation in order to support the local commercial and residential real estate markets.
Apple TV+ is the most cross-platform Apple has. Android, Roku, whatever rando TV OS, Playstation, Xbox, etc.
Buses also are useless. Thry routinely waste you hours due to their slowness and inconsistency.

The choices really are two: subway (or any dedicated rail thing) or car.
I agree with that theory, and something I found fascinating is the etymology of animus:

"temper" (usually in a hostile sense), from Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, mental powers, consciousness, sensibility; courage, desire," related to anima "living being, soul, mind, disposition, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling," from PIE root *ane- "to breathe."

For sense development in Latin, compare Old Norse andi "breath, breathing; current of air; aspiration in speech;"
- https://www.etymonline.com/word/animus

If you consider a wave function as a cycle above and below a unity linel, then a full-cycle oscillation could be considered a breath. So in my opinion, taking the two into account, I'd say "if it moves, it has a consciousness." (by the definition of animus)
The really interesting question is why such diverse nations as Portuguese, Scots, Poles, Greeks, Iranians, Mexicans, Singaporeans, Japanese, Thais, Koreans and Chileans experienced similar drops in fertility.

Even frankly unexpected places like Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are dropping towards 2.0 or less.
And how many of these companies' customers are just other VC funded startups burning money and buying services adjacent to their own? Like a bigger circle.
Some Meteorite Realities
Could it be that in 2023, both parents were more likely to return to work than in 1995? (Probably because it was essential for the family's economic survival, but perhaps just because that was more the expected norm.)
Neural general circulation models for weather and climate
> There are plenty of poor countries (and folks) having children.

Actually, worldwide population trends suggest that childbirth rates are dropping across the board. Poverty does have a direct correlation with how many kids you have because access to healthcare, education and financial stability all contribute to you having fewer kids. But as globally those things change for the better, child birth rates will continue to drop.
Ask Y Combinator, they specialize in this garbage.
2) holds sway here mainly to the extent that it applies to young women. Last time I looked hard at the literature the only conclusion that replicated was that more women in the workforce and higher education => lower TFR. Countries like Russia, Hungary, and some East Asian democracies have tried subsidizing childrearing, reducing the cost of housing, making healthcare free, etc. Those measures have an impact, but it is small. The only thing that works long-term is making it high status again to have children and raise a family.
Maybe it's cheaper or has health benefits?
You're thinking of Pippin[0], and yours is about the most uncharitable take I can imagine, and I wasn't even a fan of the idea.

[0] https://spencerburleigh.com/blog/2022/12/21/shutdown/
Hey! We might be able to help, built prelude.so for exactly that reason and many other (fraud prevention, multi-routing...). We had to built an internal solution for this back at Zenly which pushed us to create this tool!

What is your main use case?
First results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1k/month
The problem is two wrongs is worse than one; you're never going to solve discrimination against one group by discriminating against another, for example.
At the airport though it's not hard to believe Starbucks might actually be the best option.
The green revolution was not only a result of the Haber-Bosch process, although that's an aspect I wasn't thinking about.

Hybridization of crop plants increased the calories per hectare per year produced. Again, I don't know if the plants were actually producing more edible nutrients per pound of fertilizer.
That’s the thing. If the office was actually a place where people could feel comfortable and collaborate, I would consider going there. But going to an open space noisy office talking on Teams to people all over the world doesn’t make much sense.
You might be interested in language/text diffusion model research.
Swan Bitcoin Drops IPO Plan, Cuts Staff and Will Shut Managed Mining Unit
I was surprised not to see any mention of derailing hazard. I really expected to see some kind of (possibly interesting or surprising) discussion of how this design solves it. Maybe I missed it?
It can even vary within a city, and within a zip code - see TID's, NID's, and CID's.
The UBI folks were cursed by the pandemic and inflation. You cannot deal with that confounder.

They’re not the only ones. Remember Green New Deal? That also evaporated with the end of ZIRP.

You can complain relentlessly about these guys, or offer alternative solution with nothing but vibes to vouch for them. The truth is, as long as interest rates are high, the economic contraction is making everyone too scared to try anything in case things “get worse.” Sadly, the best time to make great social change was between 2009 and 2022 and it’s officially over now.
You don't have to go back to the 19th century to make your point things are different today. Just go back to the 20th century - what did the Boomers do?

- They had latchkey children - no daycare required!

- "Free range" children was a thing and nobody got arrested for it!

- There were such things as "Block Parents", people in the neighborhood who looked out for all the kids. Obviously this was before "stranger danger."

- Everybody looked after everybody else's kids, even in tenement buildings.

- People lived close to where the grew up and generally had relatives nearby to help out when all of the above failed.

Nowadays, most of this is gone. In short, in just a mere 40 to 50 years, the cost of having children has skyrocketed. Add in the cost-of-living expenses have skyrocketed for younger people and you get the result that fewer people are having children and those who are having children are having them much later.
Shorter version

javascript:(()=> {document.querySelectorAll("relative-time").forEach((el)=> el.format="datetime")})()

based on docs at https://github.com/github/relative-time-element

you can also do other formats like

document.querySelectorAll("relative-time").forEach((el)=> {el.format= "datetime"; el.year ="numeric"; el.weekday=undefined;})
It is frankly just Freudian horseshit.
...because they're the creators. They could have created anything, and they created this.
Give me my own office and flexible hours. That’s what I have at home.
It's such a small amount of money per person that it is hard to see what effects one would expect. I think for the majority of people reading hacker news $1000 per month would be barely noticeable in their bank account (obviously some people out there would notice it, but for say a lowly software dev making $150k it's not going to change much about their lifestyle). So to think it would fundamentally change someones life is a stretch. I mean it's not enough to not have to earn money (and so have the financial security to start a company or restart education) and it's not enough to purchase accommodation (especially cause it's limited to 3 years). Most I would expect is people could pay down some of their debt - so they can tread water a little easier for a few years.
This becoming viable would do to high-status men what white lead makeup did to high status women in the 19th century. Being tall isn’t as important as being taller than average, so you’d create an arms race among those who could afford the treatment. Which itself would strengthen the association between being short and being poor. And we all know how this ends, with a 7 foot tall millionaires dying of heart attacks as their circulatory system doesn’t naturally scale with their height.
Nice, are there plans to notarize the mac app?

I built something similar here: https://bigwav.app
There's also so much good existing content across all the streaming services that a typical adult with a job and responsibilities has enough to watch right now for the next several years, without watching anything "new".

When I had a mail-by-DVD Netflix account, I don't think my queue ever dropped below 20. I have a sizeable watchlist / saved list on every streaming service I have used, and it also never goes down to zero.
You misunderstood my comment; we probably agree. If something isn't open source, it shouldn't be labeled as open source.

I'm saying that there ought to be a more descriptive term for this license to differentiate from the usual proprietary "source available" licenses. ezekg's comment gives an appropriately descriptive label, "Fair Source".
It's not the expense that is scary but the risk.

Most of what children need, healthcare, food, shelter, supervision. Is directly tied to employment of the adults.

If an adult loses employment you lose all pillars to support your child.

The social safety net in the US is not sufficient for people to feel safe in having children.

Further, the argument of why people should have children so the economy is supported is very shallow.
I am not raising children so the economy can have more consumers.

As a society we should have larger goals then the next quarter results of publicly traded companies.
capital is a market

you can bootstrap

any other ideas?

main problem is that startup equity is not a good deal for anyone at all until after PMF
Honestly I find that heated water feels worse, because it feels almost like having diarrhea (a hot liquid right on your interface).

I have an unpowered one with cold water and I agree that it's not an issue at all. It's even refreshing!
then it's not about economics it's something else
This simply isn't true. Micron is expected to start construction in 2025.

https://www.micron.com/manufacturing-expansion/ny
For the longest time, we tech workers have convinced ourselves we're special. We believe we can act on our own behalf against our employer on equal footing. We start to believe in the myth of meritocracy.

Remember the "Day in the Life" vidoes? When was the last time you saw someone showing their amazing workspace, the free food, the amentities and all that? A few years ago they were everywhere. Now? Nowhere.

We are now in permanent layoff culture. Some of us still believe this is companies trimming the fat. It is not. It is wage suppression. If you get rid of 5% of your staff and just make the remaining 95% do what the 5% were doing then you've saved money. Even better, the reamining 95% won't be asking for or demanding raises. After all, aren't you luck to have your job?

But severance packages cost money. You know what's cheaper? Return to office mandates. A certain percentage of people will quit. That's a cheap layoff.

Now some of you think your WFH status is safe. You may even take a pay cut to continue WFH (even though it's objectively cheaper to employ people remotely).

Trust me when I tell you that the flood waters are rising. You're just temporarily on the high ground. Your remote status won't last. For a handful it might but for the vast majority, you will be faced with the choice of losing your job or going back to the office.

This is more wage suppression. It is employers forcing their will on you so they can walk around the cubicle farm and see what you're doing. It's the compliance of having you there regardless of whether you need to be or not.

As a tech worker, you are just like any other worker. You are not immune. The only effective counter is to act collectively with your fellow employees. Unfortunately we've spent the last 50+ years completely dismantling any kind of collectivism.
You need at least two leading spaces to get that to render as code and preserve the layout, like:

Out of office:
[John Doe]
[Stacy]
Release:
[code freeze]
[Staging date]
[Release!]
Hey there, it's working fine for me on Firefox. Can you share more about your browser version/other details?
Remote work for developers is a viable option. We are rapidly moving the majority of our software development to India, and only keeping product leads in Europe and the US.