skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we should all be skeptical of any 'expert' views given the recent election being so disastrously misunderstood and unpredicted. In particular, I feel when it comes to these social issues, so much time is spent 'researching' that no one thinks to do the obvious and ask people who do have large families what made them do that. In particular, the book 'Hannah's children' comes to very different conclusions than the sorts of things you see here, and better matches my own understandings of those with large families, as well as my own motivations to have a larger family.

https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?537667-16/hannahs-children

To summarize:

> While not all of the women she interviewed cited religious reasons or motivations for their choice to defy the birth dearth, most did. So faith, while not a prerequisite for the choice to have more children, is at least a catalyst. Greater religious liberty, especially with respect to educational choice, would allow for competing narratives of womanhood to re-enter the educational environment and allow women to choose narratives of self that more accurately account for the reciprocal opportunity cost of motherhood and career. I could not agree more.

Every large family I know eschews the public school system FWIW.
Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
I noticed the black bar is up today and I don't see any death posts. Is there an easy way to see who this is honoring? It would be nice to have a feature that on hover said who it was or something of the like.
Clearly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_methods_aga...
Musk seems quite well meaning. Neuralink, the early Starlink donated to Ukraine, trying to move the world to Solar/electric etc.

Trump... dunno.
I first read it the wrong way, as if I had to bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume, strange headline.
Disc Dye Tracker – Never forget how you made that dye
They're a government department. This is literally something which should be coordinated by the government.

I.e. police.gov should just dashboard this for you using location services.
Realistically I think all social media should have been operating on an open standard years ago.
I have had to combine files into a zipped file on demand before. It is hard to avoid the inherent slowness of that.
Jawboning in Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated by the DMCA
Odin will take your jobs
I don't think you're getting what I'm saying here. If an email provider is throwing away wanted messages from legitimate senders because of some "trust" metric, then it is that email provider's reponsibility, not the sender's, to make damned sure that doesn't cause the loss of desired email.

You are of course correct that neither GMail nor Microsoft 365 or Hotmail or whatever they call it this week is suitable for any serious use.
It was burned down twice, in 1914 and 1940
> Next time Democrats are in control he may be looking at an antitrust lawsuit.

The rule of law looks pretty ineffectual at that level. Only one of the various trials against Donald Trump got a verdict in the 4 years that he was out of office. Everything else ran out the clock and at this point is dead in the water.

That dog has no teeth anymore, and it likely won't in better health after Trump's people restructure the FTC and the Justice Department - considering Trump and Musk's respective run-ins with financial regulations I think it's safe to say those won't be stronger in 2028.
We're losing the art of bash
```
find -type f -iname '*.go' | xargs -r -n1 sed -i 's,foo,foobar,g'
```
a lot of the alternative product packaging looks very similar to traditional dairy butter packaging
Black Plastic Kitchen Tools Might Expose You to Toxic Chemicals
Using the Ubuntu experimental image on the T14s Gen 6, the screen brightness is not adjustable, so for me it is stuck on high. Nevertheless, Gnome claims 12+ hours remaining when near 100%. In Windows where I can adjust the brightness, the battery lasts longer. Battery life is much better than any other x86 Thinkpad I've ever owned.

The CPU is pretty fast as well. I did no real benchmarks, but C++ std::sort() on the Snapdragon runs just 10-20% slower than on my 4 year old Ryzen 5 5600X desktop. Also, the base model T14s comes with 32G of memory, which is very nice.

On the other hand, I dropped mine in the street, damaging the upper right corner of the display (physically intact, but dead pixels in the corner). Even though the case material is nice, the laptop seems to be more fragile than older Thinkpads. (I've dropped my T480 and T450 numerous times, and never had issues other than cosmetic.) So the $35 accidental damage protection was worth it.
I think by control you mean observability?

I get that they're different, but the whole point is optimization here. They're not gathering performance metrics just to hang them up on a wall and marvel at the number of decimal points, right? They presumably invested all the effort into this infrastructure because they think this much precision has significant ROI on the optimization side.
Engineers should not ask reality to adapt to their designs; they should adapt their designs to reality.
And Twitter is just a spiritual clone of .plan
Literally no one cares. This is not a major concern when deciding to have a child. Why don't we just ask the people that do have lots of kids. Not a single one, regardless of income (not everyone is rich), seems to really care. Truly we live in a rich country. No one who is not mentally challenged is going houseless. I recommend the book 'Hannah's children'.
ragebait.
I have this one and use it with my Chamberlain opener. You just wire it to button trigger and stick the rees switch on the door. It works great.
I'm in the same camp. I was 5 or 6 when I was reading books full of code and typing them into our C64. And writing wonderful programs like:

10 PRINT "My sister is dumb"
20 PRINT "I am cool!!"
30 GOTO 10
I agree, that would be a good feature.

Thomas E. Kurtz has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary [video]
I get that this seems like an overreach, but America is incredibly safe for people with allergies and it's because of enforcement like this. In my 36 years of being alive, I've never once had an allergic reaction in the US due to mislabeling (although I've had them in South America and Asia).

Under the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, there's 8 groups that MUST be labeled: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybeans.

Everyone with an allergy knows to check that section of the packaging (it comes after the long list of ingredients), and you can trust it to be accurate. It can't just be right most of the time... it has to always be right.

If that trust is broken, America will be a much less safe place.
All these advantages are only due to the fact that it has less users and thus it is cheaper to run it and less need to monetize it.
100% this. The fact that teams does not have an easy voice channel is a disgrace.
No, we need more SNL trump impressions, Trump pundits, and corny jokes
How could you possibly know what a million users are "basically" like?
Yeah but is it good gatekeeping or bad gatekeeping? Because having to agree to a code of conduct is a gate, but I don't think we want to remove that one. And anyway, when did gatekeeping pick up such a negative, pejorative tone? The gatekeeper is the one who kept people out of the gate. Some people were kept out for good reasons, others were kept out for bad reasons. Depending on the gate and country politics, nobody or everybody was let in through the gate. That doesn't make gatekeeping inherently bad. Doctors gatekeep who can call themselves a doctor, and while there are broader problems with that, fundamentally, some random fraudster shouldn't be able to call themselves a doctor sell rat poison in a pretty box as cure for cancer. There are some kinds of gatekeeping that are bad, but it's not inherently so.
I wonder if it’s because there’s more passengers per model Y on average than a two-door sports car!

One fatal model Y accident might cause half a dozen gas fatalities, but a Porsche wrapped around a tree might kill just the lone driver.
I can appreciate the thinking here, but it not ideal. Different details are relevant to different people. And async is inefficient for many situations. Yes publish findings/results, but overcommunicating has a cost.

Better to create different channels (sync, async, 1:1, broadcast), provide guidance and trust workers.
Can't be much more worse than an off topic comment.
Legal here. I do about 600 miles a few times per month. Takes me 9-10 hours.
> I think the real answer is that now people are faced with the choice and many are simply choosing not to.

Moreover... many people are living very interesting engaging lives without kids that would have been impossible before due to the previous centrality of children to the social scene. In the past, not having kids was met with suspicion. Having children opened doors, economically, socially, and professionally, for better or worse.

Today, you are probably going to have more opportunities without kids. Indeed having kids limits you, versus someone who does not.
This almost reads as satire, but I assume it’s low quality ai or just auto-generated content sourced from an FDA recall.
So in theory one could publish into the ATP network (or whatever it's called) and a bunch of ATP clients could receive it?

And Bluesky is a publisher and a client?
The magic header is probably X-Accel-Redirect
> By the early and especially mid 90s it was incredibly common for the users to have a graphics card.

Well yes, if you were lucky enough to have a new entry-level PC in 1994, you'd have a 486SX with just enough VRAM to run WFW at 800x600.

But, at least as late as Obtober 1992, the cheapest new PCs I see in PCMag are PC/AT clones running a 16MHz 286 (it probably had a VGA card, but come on). You could buy a cheap modem, plug it into your AT clone, and yank down some Gopher stuff.

Some folks didn't have a PC, but still had a computer. One of my old machines is a TRS-80 that was being used almost daily as late as 2013.
> The problem is that departments want to put the news in front of people, and people want interactivity.

Views exceed interactions by orders of magnitude.
Straightforward capitulation to authoritarians by obeying in advance.

Do not obey in advance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3w80
Please ELI5... I know there's a joke in there, but I'm missing it.
people still pray to personal gods to this day, expecting them to prioritise their petty little lives while others are suffering/dying of things that could be trivially solved with a bit of knowledge and technology.
Mastodon reminds me of the internet before people started doing dumb shit with social graphs.

You follow people because they will show you a cool rock, not because its a slot machine that pays out massive amounts of dopamine.
I also got a Meross garage door opener, primarily so the kids could get in and out of the house without having to shuffle our two physical clickers around every day (depending on who would be home first).

My wife commented that it's the only useful technology I've ever implemented.

Like you, and haven't yet done the "make it work locally" hijack thing yet - but I haven't needed to because it works well.

Knowing that the door has been left up has also come in handy a couple of times. Also been able to open the garage door to let people into the house to feed the pets while we're away.

Only issue I had is that the WiFi range on the single unit is woeful. I had to put a WiFi repeater within the garage for it to see the signal.
What in the world is the Honda CR-V Hybrid doing so high on this list?! That doesn't seem to fit any of the theories I've seen spun up so far.
1987 predates D by about 15 years!

No, I don't recall the name. It was a long time ago. Sorry.
I don't find it particularly interesting to argue about which analogy is more appropriate. My point is that it doesn't have the same degree of officialness as a report or some other public record, and it existing just invites to confusion on that matter.
>In the US at least, the top killer of drivers are trees on the side of the road.

A decade or so ago the Georgia Department of Transportation tried to do away with the trees between streets and sidewalks because of so many fatalities coming from collisions with trees. Clearing out an "automative recovery zone" as they called it likely would have saved lives of some people in vehicles but of course it would increase the danger to pedestrians, who might or might not be present at that moment. Lots of trade offs in these types of analysis and not all of them are always immediately obvious.
Your $previouslyUndefined thing as something that's changed, as far as I know, isn't true? Unless I've missed some very recent change.

If $a is true, that snippet will just execute with no errors. If $a is false you'll get a warning trying to check $previouslyUndefined in the second if. That behavior's been the same for a very long time. The blocks don't matter for scope but the fact that you never executed the line that would have defined the variable does.

Similarly, warnings on accessing array keys that don't exist, that's been a thing forever too. Pretty sure both go back with the same behavior to PHP 4, and probably earlier.
Based on looking at the games at the end of the post, it seems unlikely. Both sides play extremely poorly — gpt-instruct is just slightly less bad — and I don't see any reasonable engine outputting those moves.
> It feels like Twitter becoming a monoculture and others are having their monoculture somewhere else because Bluesky also doesn't feel diverse to me - more like the opposite of Twitter.

Generally, it seems to me that a lot of people are saying, basically, "I don't want to engage in a social network that isn't and echo chamber of my beliefs."

I find it incredibly sad. But it does feel like the direction society is moving toward.
(not try to troll, genuine question)

Do you believe milk should be labeled with "contains milk"
> brand that emphasizes safety or enjoyment of experience (like Hondas and Toyotas)

This is plausible on its face, and yet the Honda CR-V Hybrid ended up higher on the list than the Model Y. No idea how to explain that...
I checked a few pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-11-14

And didn't see anything stand out.

It would be a nice feature. If you feel strongly, email dang: hn@ycombinator.com

p.s. thanks @mtmail for sharing the submission for this case.
I'm pretty much all in on ESPHome in my house. Have all the lights, air conditioners and anything else that might be left on wired up.

Walking out my front door I hit "lights off" and "AC off" on my phone and everything turns off.

If my phone drops off home wifi for over an hour inger notifications if I've left the garage door open (and can close it remotely).

Open source IoT is great.
Whoa stop shoving your posts down my throat!
Why is this site so unbearably political now? Some of these takes are almost as bad as the stuff you find on the front page of Reddit...
As long as it helps get the fluoridated seed oil out of our nation's water supply, he's likely ok with it.
Elon Musk calls OpenAI compensation 'lavish'
Morality Makes for Bad Policy – By Asa Downs
Tech interview preparation mostly boils down to rote memorization not really what I would call “developing a skill”. You just cram enough until you can pattern match any kind of DSA or system design problem and apply the solution you memorized. Once you finally land the job, you’re free to forget everything. Then you begin to develop “real skill” on the job.
I had the same Problem. Had to check all the headlines until I found it one page back.

I would also like this feature.
Probably this is why MyQ/Chamberlin doesn’t support HomeKit.
That sounds like an issue for the alternative people to solve.
I don't think its common for people to try to "memorize leetcode."

Most interview loops at places that do algorithm interviews are 2-3 rounds and each round will have up to 2 questions. Its very very unlikely the interviewee will only encountered questions they have memorized.

More likely, the interviewee encounters questions similar to ones they have solved and they know the pattern around solving, then are able to apply their learned skill to the new problem.

Similar to your music analogy: you can absolutely be a strong guitar player in a band if you just memorize a few different chord shapes and can apply them up and down the fretboard to different keys (lookup the "CAGED system").
20k EUR for 10 kwp including 8 kwh battery seems a new normal for roof installations.

The batteries in particular are gotten much cheaper. < 2500 EUR for 8 kwh

https://geizhals.de/byd-battery-box-premium-lvs-8-0-a2948979...

Panels have reached incredible low prices. < 2000 EUR for 36 panels (16 kwp)

https://geizhals.de/trina-solar-vertex-s-tsm-440neg9r-28-a31...
I literally forget Threads exists for months at a time.

Nobody I know uses it, or has even acknowledged its existence. I see people on other social media talking about their Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and directing people there, but I have never seen anyone do it for Threads. I have never seen anyone share a link to Threads, I don't even remember what its domain name is. I have never seen Threads included in those little sets of social media icon links that all brand websites have.

I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe Threads has actual users who care about it and aren't just clueless Facebook/Instagram users who were not-so-subtly encouraged to also use Threads by those apps.
Word of warning, I ended up getting a lot of strange compiler segfaults within xgcc when using when using `MKGCC=yes` instead `MKLLVM=yes` with NetBSD, specifically with floating point heavy code. I never did end up finding out why that happens.
That’s not stupid though. It might seem obvious, but then you have things like sun butter, which are specifically designed to imitate peanut butter while not having peanuts.

Sure, you can look at all the words on the package and ingredients and figure out if something probably contains allergens, but the point of the rule is that it gives you one standardized line of text that you can read and be 100% certain whether something is safe for you to eat or not.
Anecdote: In Portland, distribution is the most expensive component for peak time. The rest of the time, generation is usually more expensive. Transmission is the smallest component by far. The ratios between the three are not consistent between off/mid/on peak. I don't know what the flat rate ratios are, because my billing rate is time-of-use due to late night EV charging.
The recommendation to throw it out is crazy though. Couldn't they just offer exchanges for any households with a lactose intolerant person that rely on correct labeling.
Again, I totally understand your objection, and you're right about the potential abuses that exist. The reason I said it is better now than before, is that the abuses under the previous ownership were not potential, they were real and being perpetrated every day. So I see X as _currently_ a much better place than it has ever been in its history.

But I'm with you on the potential problems and would rather have a system that was immune to such issues. What i'm really arguing against is people who saw the previous regime as correct and just, and are looking to recreate their echo-chamber somewhere else.

Part of what it will take to create a healthy town-center, that is much better than X, is for more people to speak up for ideals of diversity and tolerance. And to fight against the very loud and angry segment of people who see censorship and authoritarian control as good things, as long as they're working in their own favor.
Wire Transfers are not undoable and instant, much like Zelle. So I always recommend people send $10 first, and confirm everything works, before sending real money. When doing the confirmation, try using a different channel of communication, to ensure you are getting the right person. i.e. call them directly from known good phone numbers or something.

Yes many banks charge $30 or more for a wire transfer, but I'd rather just pay the $60 than have a large sum wire transfer lost, stolen, etc.

Some banks/Brokerages are sane and do not charge extra for wire transfers. Fidelity is one such. BOA also(if you have enough assets there, $100k will do it).
In any lineup by height someone is tallest and someone is shortest, so what's significant about Tesla in this spread? If not them then another.

A significant aspect is that Telsa, as a harbinger of "progress", by this measure is making cars less safe. That's a surprising development as it's contrary to the promises and prognostications for the devices.

It's expected that the distribution of harm from cars would change with increasing automation, but the promise of the automation is to make the devices safer overall. So is this a key metric by which we find that the progress is actually a hazard, or is the changing distribution part of an overall trend of improvement with some hazardous edge cases?

All we have with this article is yet another headline with no useful information.

> “A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”

What does "focused and alert" mean for a robot? Does arriving safely allow a wake of carnage?

The Trump administration figures as a harbinger for such questions in that he is a well-known champion of disinformation in favor of his self interest, as are all of his cabinet picks and advisors. But this is in keeping with the modern history of the GOP.
Yeah. Maybe someone who got rubbed with snow got randomly better completely unrelated to the treatment and then superstition run wild with that coincidence.

Or maybe people understood initially that you should do the rubbing next to a fire. And then the rubbing only has positive efect because it lets the person administering it feel when the heat is too much, and naturally adjusts the distance to prevent burns or injury from too fast warming up.

Or maybe someone told people to do it because they thought it might help and never bothered to check if it does anything or not.

Or maybe people did know it does nothing but there was no other option and doing something about the injury felt better than doing nothing.

Maybe it was doing mechanically nothing but the care and personal touch had a beneficial effect due to placebo.

Maybe it made the injury worse, thus more likely that they amputated and paradoxically that saved the injured from worse outcomes like gangrene.

There is so many other possibility than “if they did it it must have worked”. Who knows.
Do you know if "I can't believe it's not butter" contains butter?
The rational thing to do for someone who (1) thinks of themselves as a human being first and something else second is to join mastodon.social and (2) cares about visibility (why else are you on social?) is to join the biggest instance you can find.

Most notably people can only follow hashtags from accounts that are on their server so if you insist on joining some micro server please save yourself the hassle of putting hashtags on things.
The midwest has fewer people than the country writ large.
Our tortoise, even though he's in a very comfortable climate controlled indoor pen, tries to dig a hole every year to do the same.

He's not very smart but he tries hard.
Where precisely did I go wrong here? We know it's butter, but a consumer might not, therefore a "contains whatever" label is not totally unjustified. Once you accept that as a rule, you have to enforce it. You don't just enforce it where it's ambiguous, you enforce it on all brands.