skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we brought women into the formal economy, we didn't reduce men's hours and meet in the middle, we just doubled the labor supply. Of course the proceeds went to capital. The market-induced-labor-quota (cost of living / hourly wage) now says a married couple has to devote 80 hours per week instead of 40 to the formal economy in order to afford the same house and suddenly nobody has the time/money to afford kids. How could it be?

The solution isn't to go back to oppressing women, the solution is to put downwards pressure on formal economy hours/week until people have time to raise their own kids again. This can be done in a gradual and non-sexist way with overtime policy.

Health care and education are important sidekicks in this drama. Our policies to individualize and increase the costs (and yes, that's policy: everyone knows what happens if you train too few doctors, everyone knows who loses if John Smith, BCBS North Dakota, and Canada are bargaining against each other for drug prices, and everyone knows what happens if you flood a competitive market with debt) also provide steep disincentives to raising children. Start fixing these problems, you start fixing the birth rate.

Of course, you should expect to be fought tooth and nail at every turn by those who profit from the problem, but what else is new?
where’s the line between buying something on amazon, ordering a ride on uber, and patreon?

why do some purchases get exempt and not others?
I deal with many cars on a daily basis and, for me, almost all the UX have become bewildering, especially in the last four or five model years.

One particularly vexing thing: the splitting of vehicle settings between the instrument cluster and center stack displays. At least Tesla puts it all on one screen. Audi, for example, has it spread across three screens.
The consequence of this is that kakoune forks for _everything_. In practice maybe this is fine but it seems wasteful
> I need to expand my mind more to understand why secrets are good and not evil.

Can you explain why you think they're evil now? That seems like an awfully strong position.
Funny to read because Musk famously said "Any product that needs a manual to work is broken." It's a mantra that has guided my work in UX and my design thinking overall. It was even a quote I had on my personal website many years ago, back when Musk had credibility.
I'm a poor citizen of the internet today. Thanks for the callout, you're right.
Subscriptions I expect....
This, unironically, is entirely correct. Some people spend way too much time configuring stuff that doesn't matter.

"If you've never spent hours ricing your OS, you have no heart. If you still do, you have no brain."
OpenAI used this when they launched ChatGPT. I recall answering these questions.
The title definitely needs to say is "What unicorn startup founders have in common". There are plenty of 'successful' startup founders who never become household names and make billions of dollars.

Bootstrapping a simple startup that eventually generates enough revenue to sustain the founders and perhaps a small team of ICs, is much more common than unicorn companies (they call them unicorns for a reason). Those companies are successful in my book.
Whatever you get as a Patreon patron isn't typically a physical product, unlike something you buy on Amazon (generally speaking) or a physical car ride. It's closer to a Netflix or a newspaper subscription, and Apple wants 30% of those too.
I live in NYC and have raised capital/am part of social networks of founders in NYC. I have first hand experience with this, I understand the game really well.

The schools absolutely are gatekeepers.
The concern isn't that the country hosting the Olympics won't be able to afford a bowling alley, it's that competing in the sport would be economically out of reach for much of the world.
Honestly the last one needs to be a thing for so many reasons. I had an experience in the Florida keys a number of years ago that has stuck with me. I was on a snorkeling charter and some foreigners were aboard [of Asian decent]. (I've included their race here just for context, not racism, as formal swimming lessons overseas are not nearly as common as they are in the USA). I was near the front of the boat on the second level when I saw someone splashing. I had a small flashback of what a swim coach had told me at 13 years old: Drowning does not look like drowning in the movies. I yelled that captain who was setting an anchor, and the first mate who was helping tourists put their fins on. Both looked confused what I was trying to signal through the bussle, so I dove off the second deck and swam to the person. He was under before I got behind him, so I yanked him above water by his un-inflated vest and tipped his head back over my shoulder. He rapidly tried to pull me under so I had to restrain his arms with one hand and inflate his vest with my other hand and mouth, while treading with just my legs. Scariest 10s of my life, but it was over that quick once I got a little positive buoyancy into his vest. The current had pulled us about 35 yards from the boat at that point so I had to swim towards the boat a bit to grab the rescue line. Captain and first mate thanked me profusely. The guy couldn't speak english and didn't realize he needed to wait in line for the first mate to check everything (including vest inflation). Instead he just jumped in off another part of the boat. The tour company gave us a refund and bought us dinner.
> Accidentally making a bridge too safe means setting money on fire, and we can't have that.

There's a quote I've seen various versions of: anyone can build a bridge that is safe. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that is just barely safe.
Robotics Env Without Hardware or ROS, Just Python
Seems it can use both, if available.
I honestly believe the ux mistakes of Tesla are more the reason for the consistent -50% yoy earnings drops than anything to do with musk directly.

I’ve starting seeing newer teslas indicate the complete opposite direction than they are turning many times in recent history. They no longer have an indicator stalk (as of 2024 model 3) but instead two small buttons on the wheel close enough that I’m not surprised this happens. I don’t think they should be allowed on the road as-is. I’m surprised they pass safety standards. No indicator stalk is definitely a bridge too far.

The auto wipers not working is another. It’d be ok if there was a wiper stalk. There isn’t.

In much of the world you can buy better electric cars for less. Electric cars which don’t have an overly minimalist interface. The USA has high tariffs so Tesla will survive here but they are giving away their international market share with their designs.
Sounds like maybe they're also suggesting, "Perhaps we don't need an environmental catastrophe, maybe it's more like what happened to Detroit."

Which seems pretty parsimonious to me? Without so much fixed infrastructure such as harbors and paved highways and the Ford Rouge factory, there's less to keep pulling people back to an urban lifestyle if that's not what they're after.
This is FUD. Even with the worst entity running nuclear (The Soviets), the death toll is lower than for other sources.
And there the contestant from Belgium strikes the one knee bent backwards pose, immediately followed by thoughtful face with sunglasses profile glance in the distance, which makes for ten poses in the first 60 seconds.
I struggled for a long time to remember what I lost last (I don’t have many things, so I don’t lose them often). An umbrella. I left it at the bus stop. I hope it helped someone.
Hello from Houston! I personally use a small backpack that I leave my keys, wallet, extra charging cords and a dedicated set of diabetes things and anything that comes out of that bag goes straight back when I'm fine with it. Works pretty well
This is a consumer protection law that California has simply nailed. A simply copy/paste of the CA law to a Federal level would be a serious win. The experience of trying to cancel subscriptions/servies in say New York is outrageous by comparison.
Blackberry is wildly invasive in the Pacific Northwest. It forms dense thickets that choke hillsides and watercourses, and interfere with the movement of wildlife.

It's a small perk that you can head out with a few bowls and fill them up with delicious berries in record time to make pies with. Besides that, they really do suck.
Maybe it changed recently, but using Google on non-chrome will pester you about being chrome. So it's not exactly hidden either.

>what convenience are you talking about?

Largest extension support, built in integrations for stuff like casting, translation, image search, etc. It also just seems to have less quirks than Firefox. Not anything game breaking, but fiddling with video calls or tab groups or a half dozen more small features is a lot more intuitive on chrome than Firefox. Even if some of it is just outright incompetence (or malice), like abusing user agents.

It's no single thing, but they all add up.

>And iOS/Mac analogy isn’t holding here, because Firefox is a drop in replacement for Chrome.

In the superficial sense, sure. If you just need to go to 10 websites and need maybe 3 key extentions you'll be fine. Power users will see many subtle differences overtime. You can technically use both, but typically you will spend most time on a selected browser of choice.
cool idea, but I don't like how i need to use two separate api keys to connect to this api. can you make it simpler?
That's really awesome! As they support Groovy and Kotlin, they basically support most JVM languages too, so you can probably use this with Scala, Clojure etc.

I may give it a spin myself as I am pretty heavy user of IntelliJ.

By the way, I think Fleet, the new "Beta" editor by Jetbrains, is currently designing a custom plugin system to make it "nicer" to write plugins than for IntelliJ, but apparently it's not yet open for trials: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/managing-plugins.html
Having owned a Tesla for over ten years now, I’ve lived the real pain of being at the mercy of the manufacturer who can completely change how your car works overnight. Annoying in Figma, dangerous in a Tesla.

Some comments dismiss this author as a new driver with a learning curve but Tesla has impacted muscle memory several times now. Why did they change this row of icons anyway? I don’t think they take the responsibility seriously.
I have worked closely over the years with people from Ivy League/Oxbridge schools to small universities from developing countries and I would not put the people from the elite institutions at the top of the rankings of discipline or ability from my experience.
Allow me to explain the ponzi.

1) Minimally support raising children through some token property tax etc to pretend you support the children

2) Praise children

3) Have none yourself

4) Offload most costs of raising and make childhood appropriate independence illegal so they won't be in your way, narc to CPS if they're in public without a parent and you find it a nuisance.

5) Wait for kid to be raised, tax shit out of the kid

6) Collect a full share of the social security revenue from the tax generators who's raising you mostly offloaded to everyone else.
As a joke goes, an entrepreneur is someone who is willing to work unlimited hours, with no clearly specified days off, for wildly unsure income figures, just so they don't have to work 8 hours 5 days a week with 28 paid vacation days and a stable pay check.
CosineAI coding agent tops software engineering bench
Absolutely right!

It isn't really clear that fundamental and drastic changes to lifestyle is needed. It just needs some investment in climate friendly energy technologies. On the order of 100-200 trillion USD. Which is roughly 100-200% of global yearly GDP. Or 2-5% of yearly GDP until 2050. This could well be provided by printing money at all the federal reserve banks.

This investment will likely bring in a positive return on investment because it reduces the negative climate impacts.

Without such investments the downstream costs in climate change adaptation will be very expensive.
You're right - I misremembered; I last actually read the report when it came out. I thought GM's Super Cruise came out on top, but it seems like Comma did!
Hmm, I wonder if the cost is worth it vs in-browser tts.
From my understanding: no.

> If you have not switched to subscription billing by this November, your fans will not be able to purchase new memberships in the iOS app.

Basically, you just won't be able to make purchases via the iOS app. Which is just really not great for creators.

The per-creation billing is where this really stinks. I much prefer to have this all managed in Patreon rather than Apple. I'll be able to manage just fine, but this is going to cause confusion. Honestly, this is why the web is so important. At least you can still use the website to get around paying for this.
Please explain to me, why individual sacrifice is not a solution to the problem. I really am interested what people are thinking here. Naively it would seem that individual sacrifice is surely one possible (though certainly not the only) solution or at least an important contributor. Simply because less consumption directly translates into less greenhouse gas emissions. However, a lot of people dismiss this out of hand. I never fully get why.
Yes, I know that's what everyone wants/thinks, but you actually can't do it. Because at the end of the day, you chose the vendor. So you are still liable for all of it.
#1 - People who haven't read The Grapes of Wrath recently (or ever) really should pick it up again.

#2 - While it is still possible, people need to put effort into getting food freedom laws passed.

https://ij.org/issues/economic-liberty/homemade-food/

https://civileats.com/2022/08/20/two-states-right-to-garden-...
I have been writing Go code for many years, the fact that I don’t need to think about things unrelated to the problem I am trying to solve is why I love Go. I definitely learned a lot about Go and I am thinking more about certain aspects than before, but usually only in the context of API design.
Moisture barrier: it traps the humidity in places you potentially don't want to

Structural strength: yeahhhh... no

Longevity: not more than anything else, a pain in the ass to replace though

Improved air quality: The petrol derivate foam that leaves a god awful nasty smell for days/weeks and can offgas for years is good for air quality ? rock or better sheep wool is much better in that regard

In the end of the day people do whatever they want but I'd rather build smaller and spend more on rockwool than have extra space and nasty ass foam all around my house
WTF does anyone give these people the time of day?

This is a patently ridiculous project with an unobtainable goal that is designed purely to vacuum up VC funds and make them disappear.
https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/dramatic-drop-fertility-acr...
Is there a reason why Patreon doesn't just pull out of the App Store? Whenever I got Patreon rewards, I'd just get them in an email notification and the link there took me to the website. Worked great without having to download an app.
Who the hell is this David Lewis guy? Everyone else on the top 10 is kinda obvious to me but I have zero clue who this dude is.
A recent favourite of mine was trying to find the odometer reading on my humble Skoda - couldn't find it on any screen, nothing helpful in manual. I eventually realised that the odometer and the speed setting for the cruise control share the same area on the screen so if the cruise control is turned on then you can't see the odometer.
This frequently happens with documentation. My browser language is German, English and French in that order, but that doesn't mean that I prefer a machine translation over the original in English. Doubly so if I clicked on an English-language search result and the language button is hidden at the bottom of the page.

The correct way is to show the version I came for and maybe inform me that an option in a preferred language exists.

Since I travel a lot, I must also repeat that my location does not inform which languages I speak, or which country's subsite I want to see. I might do Germany-related business while I'm visiting the family abroad. I don't speak Thai just because I'm in Thailand.
A GM at Ford absolutely will be paying this if they want a phone call. Joining our Discord is free however.
Never mind the cost!

As anyone with relatives who need care can attest, you can't really buy being treated like a human being when you're at your weakest.

Having children is of course no guarantee, but relationships overall are one's best bet to have at least one person giving a damn about you.
> If someone does something stupid and knocks you down, it's perfectly reasonable to distrust the help they offer, especially if that help requires giving them even more trust than what they've already burned.

Yeah it smacks of Experian offering you a year of "free identity theft protection" after having lost your personal data in a breach.
> Many jurisdictions are downright hostile and obstructionist for any renewable investment.

Right, as long as energy prices are not guaranteed no one is going to invest massively. No one want to be the one having to eat up a 8000$/mwh price like in Texas in the Winter. The 3 month mean volatility of energy prices in Europe is 350% (with peak of more than 1500% in 2009 and 2021). For comparison Bitcoin volatility is 54% in the last 10 years.
adding a few fun ones that I've used in the past:

TextAdept. The API is fully open to Lua and a bunch of stuff can be scripted in it. The author is super responsive on github and has a nice small welcoming community.

Lite XL is mostly written in Lua, less documentation than TextAdept but is not terribly hard to jump into the code and figure out how the editor works and modify it.

Micro uses Lua for plugins. It's a terminal only editor, which is a plus for some people, but still the mouse support is quite nice.
emacs is basicly a lisp machine running a descent text editor on top of it. you can't get much more scriptable than that.
If it's good enough for artists...
>> No one wants to sacrifice their standard of living

> Has no one explained that individual sacrifice is not the solution to the problem?

Not the OP, but I think the statement holds even when talking about systemic solutions.

We're reaching breakpoints with climate change faster than expected, and we only started to decouple _some_ country's economic growth from CO2 in the last 10 years or so. Even if we can in theory decouple growth from CO2 completely (or near completely) and in so doing maintain the standard of living we enjoy in the global north, in practice we aren't doing it fast enough.

If we want to get emissions under control fast enough to not hit 2 degrees of warming I think it's reasonable to say that the solution will involve a reduction in some standards of living, and that is something no one wants to say because of how hard a sell it is.
Why? If the prime minister wants to accomplish a goal, shouldn't they outright state it and shouldn't the public respond with the blockers to reaching that goal?
In my experience, with modern young people even incredibly slight differences is enough to ruin that compatibility. I'm talking the shoes you wear, maybe that one time you ate at your desk, etc.

It's a mindset thing. People start from a place where nobody is worthy, and then actively only notice/seek things that make them more unworthy. As in, people only notice the bad stuff, never the good stuff. You can have 99 points of compatibility but that 1 you're incompatible on tips it over - because you're only looking at that 1, the 99 are invisible.
The actual meta value is the twitter UX is design to produce pilling on of a comment to drive ad sales rather than an actual conversation thus replaying a UX designer walks into an Elon designed and run Social Media Platform....meta upon meta squared
Investing in creators (influencers, musicians, artists, etc.)
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No point in talking about the past. What is the best way forward today?

Investment in renewables seems to be the cheapest and best way to reduce Carbon emissions.
It sounds like a thorough approach, but having so many items might lead to clutter. But if it workd for you - it is good
Start with the New York Times, I like their paper, but not their subscriber retention policies.
I'm saying that someone looking to shift 300000 is going to go ahead and remove the unknown.

If the installation was done reasonably, they probably won't have further damage. I wasn't really meaning to ignore it, just wasn't speaking to it.
I don't think that these predictions will prove accurate, but they're absolutely riddled with the fallacy that what the author prefers and considers "fun" or "boring" are universal opinions. For instance:

> In the future, being an engineer will mean managing a fleet of AI agents. Instead of writing code, you'll delegate tasks, review PRs, and provide feedback. It will be like being the tech lead of hundreds of dev interns.

If this is actually the future, it sounds like a complete nightmare to me. "Hey, let's replace the parts of the job that are fun and fulfilling with being a manager!"

If that were the nature of the job at the start of my career, I would have run from the field as quickly as I could have.
Show HN: Ultra AI – AI command center for your product
Isn’t that more just any language not C or C++? Go, Rust, Java, Python, etc all abstract away significant OS specifics. There are always going to be some thorny differences, but any modern language makes cross compatibility possible in a way that is more challenging for C.
Somehow, I just managed to learn what SCP [0] is a couple of days ago. I've already started ~~stealing~~ working some of the ideas into a D&D campaign I'm running (on an improv basis.)

It's neat to see that SCP also resulted in some... reasonably novel thinking? Thanks for sharing, I'm going to pick this up.

[0] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
1. Because I like engineering more than programming. If a problem is best solved by, say, a mechanical system then I will do that instead. But even where programming provides the best solution, not all ecosystems are equal. If I have a problem best solved by, say, AI/ML, it is often impractical to avoid Python. Likewise, if I have a problem best solved in the web domain, it is often impractical to avoid Javsacript. SQL where databases are the best solution. So on and so forth.

2. Because I like to learn. In my younger days, I found a lot of value in exploring the different ways people live. In fairness, I've toured the programming world enough by now that I am less compelled to keep go on "programming language vacations" – at some point you start to feel like you've seen it all, but believe I would be a far worse programmer today had I not been able to take ideas from a wide range of different cultures over the years. There are some good ideas out there that don't seem to ever gain mass adoption outside of their originating ecosystem.
What makes it symbolic?
That's the reason why Kindle doesn't sell ebooks on iOS
Definitely VS Code. I’ve created 3 extensions and I really like it.
I also came here to try and convince folks to read "Ra" which I thought was fantastic.

Though that being said, I feel like we're flipped on which is more "out there" as Ra feels much less slippery of an idea.
The scientists accused of using 'flawed' research to tell you to stop drinking