skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're seeing similar things in many different countries. The ruling class doesn't quite understand it. If people can barely support themselves, then the logical thing to do is to not have children. You can incentivize child birth all you want with economic carrots but the fundamental problem remains. Japan has a similar problem that South Korea does, the US is starting to see a similar problem with a birth rate of 1.6-1.7. Not having children is just the logical choice.
Can you explain? In most cases, preferences won’t come into play, assuming you raise at a standard 1x preference and sell for more than you have raised. In that case, owning 0.5% should roughly translate into $5M (modulo dilution).
It'll depend on the allocator. Generally speaking, the better an allocator is at minimizing fragmentation, the slower it's going to be with new allocations.

That's why bump allocators are wicked fast, but make the trade-off the article mentions.
See my comment further down. Im not going to go into any more details than that as the details of the sale are not public.
if they had planned all the tariff rates and things that get tariffed so well, why the see-saw? they are making up as they go along. this is worse than an incompetent biden!
Obviously it's crap and shouldn't be allowed.

However I don't see how it affects my arguments. I'm generally ok with cars - doesn't mean I'm OK with monster trucks on every corner of my city.
I accidentally questioned out loud if the daughter created the video. I assure you, you've made it! If you bring into existence the proverbial PalataOS in a 6 word prompt we should blame and praise you for it.
I am not disheartened at all but rather amused... AI has deep consciousness it is just joking with us now.

I google "how to be a bully" one day as joke and find a bot has written hundreds of thousands of articles including "how to be a bully" where it confuses itself - do I condemn bullying or give a how-to? Must be "write article on random topic to pull clicks"... this is all beautiful to me. Thank you dead internet
Exactly. No matter how much you have saved up, inflation can destroy it. If you need nursing care and there aren't enough nurses, they can set their own price. The overall inflation might not be bad because stuff like housing gets cheaper with a shrinking population, but if what you need is in short demand, you will pay more.
icard NFC payments also work fine
You get what you pay for. Unfortunately it appears many are happy with shit and those that are unhappy are unwilling to pay for more. I'll admit, it can be quite difficult to differentiate shit and quality these days prior to purchase. But at a certain point I think you have to stand up to the management class and take pride in your work. It's their job to manage you but it is also your job to make the best product you can. It's becoming pretty clear a lot of tech has been filled with "yes men" and we're seeing the consequences of this. The bigger problem is that I think a lot of people don't even know they are yes men. Probably doesn't help that we build things that are so technical that the public isn't accurately able to distinguish quality from shit until they are able to feel the two side my side.
Multiple things here.

* The vast majority of the payments (almost all of them) are done with dynamic QR codes.

* The static QR code is mostly used by very, very small entities. Like the person asks you to scan their code, enter the amount and show them the confirmation. It is in their interest to show the right QR code.

* Sending money to a friend is done with the phone number as an id. It works, but you need to enter the mobile phone number of the receiver.

* There is one situation where static codes are printed and where phishing has been reported (it's not MITM, it's really just a QR code that sends you to a bad website): when paying for parking. You don't have to use it if you don't feel comfortable, and it is possible to feel comfortable because it actually just opens a website (so if you use it regularly you can learn to check that you are on the legit website before you make the payment).

Overall, it is super popular and it works really well. No need for NFC, and no need to install the Google Play Services \o/.
It's not about money per se, which can be printed etc. It's about missing supply of services and to some extent products.
It’s a reference to a biblical passage.

1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then we shall see face to face".

There wasn’t any clear glass back in Paul’s day. Looking through glass meant that your vision was obscured.
it's kinda funny that whole noise about parenthesis. For a experienced Lisper parenthesis are so meaningless that can be ignored by reading good indented code, however... for a newbie, the amount of parenthesis can be a real nightmare. All that can just be properly solved by using a decent editor that support good parenthesis edition... like emacs. Truly funny. I've been on this community for more than 10 years and always the same thing.
This is why I will never work somewhere with a short post termination exercise period (PTEP). If it’s not at least 5 years, ideally 10, they don’t seriously consider equity something that employees are owed.
Because you pinged me... Jiff also generally follows in Temporal's footsteps here. Your broader point of supporting things beyond the specs (ISO 8601, RFC 3339, RFC 9557, RFC 2822 and so on) has already been absorbed into the Temporal ISO 8601 extensions. And that's what Jiff supports (and presumably, whenever, although I don't know enough about whenever to be absolutely precise in what it supports). So I think the philosophical point has already been conceded by the Temporal project itself. What's left, it seems, is a measure of degree. How far do you go in supporting oddball formats?

I honestly do not know the answer to that question myself. But I wouldn't necessarily look to Pandas as the shining beacon on a hill here. Not because Pandas is doing anything wrong per se, but because it's a totally different domain and use case. On the one hand, you have a general purpose library that needs to consider all of its users for all general purpose datetime use cases. On the other hand, you have a data scienc-y library designed for trying to slurp up and make sense of messy data at scale. There may be things that make sense in the latter that don't in the former.

In particular, a major gap in your reasoning, from what I can see, is that constraints beget better error reporting. I don't know how to precisely weigh error reporting versus flexible parsing, but there ought to be some deliberation there. The more flexible your format, the harder it is to give good error messages when you get invalid data.

Moreover, "flexible parsing" doesn't actually have to be in the datetime library. The task of flexible parsing is not, in and of itself, overtly challenging. It's a tedious task that can be build on top of the foundation of a good datetime library. I grant that this is a bit of a cop-out, but it's part of the calculus when designing ecosystem libraries like this.

Speaking for me personally (in the context of Jiff), something I wouldn't mind so much is adding a dedicated "flexible" parsing mode that one can opt into. But I don't think I'd want to make it the default.
Ubuntu LTS releases come out every two years, so the latest one is 24.04.
Finns (or at least, the successors to tribes that assimilated into the modern-day Finnish nation) were exposed to Christianity later than most of Europe. Pre-Christian religions generally held a higher regard for relationships with nature, that might explain what you're getting at.
Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 how Google's A2A is different from MCP?
After reading some contents related to Google's new A2A, it still didn't click to me, how is it different from MCP? Can someone please ELI5 with a good example?

In my mind, I am still designing things with MCP. Even the communication between 2 agents can modeled as MCP with some capabilities.
Stand-up has been hegemonic lately, because it lends itself well to podcasts/streaming/short-form, but Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor) is a new thing that I think does a good job with alternative formats (sketch, improv, game show)
Show HN: H-1B salary search without fuss
The US Department of Labor releases base salary data for every H-1B visa application and has done so for the past 19 years. This data is often useful to people negotiating an offer, researching a company, or just curious about industry salaries.

h1bsalaries.fyi allows you to quickly search through this huge trove of salary data by company name, job title, and location without the obnoxious ads, pop-ups, and distracting elements that are characteristic of other similar websites.

In other words, just H-1B salary data. No bullsh*t.

Open to thoughts, comments, and feedback.
I read the lack of human-ness as locking at the wrong place.

It’s not reality that changed because of red net but our perception of it.

The solution isn’t in the oranges but our brain
Watched it a few days ago, and this comment kept ringing in my head for a while:

South Korean here, We are all aware of the problem, and the government is virtually doing nothing. Wish us good luck!

(Edit)

I see many people saying don't depend on government. As a father and a husband myself, of course I'm concerned for the future which my son will have to live... But those numbers are not without structural problems.
People don't just give up having children, they are forced to. In this kind of situation, the government definitely has a role to play.
One of the problems would be overwhelming meritocracy just as M.Sendel said, accustomed with high inequailty, politically/genderly polarized society, etc.
Please do not try to judge phenomenon without knowing its causes. :)
> And from an employee perspective, it’s almost always the right decision to place very little value ($0) on the stock option component of your offer. The vast majority of cases stock options end up worthless.

This isn't actually true from a historical perspective. The primary reason why the gap between the wealthy and and everyone is increasing is that employees started preferring cash compensation over equity. Joseph Blasi documented this in his book The Citizen's Share, and that book is why Elizabeth Warren recently passed legislation making it easier for employers to give equity to their employees.
I mean, bullshit is organic right?
I did find this, though it seems runime only: https://github.com/dokutan/typed-fennel

Maybe a static system can be built upon it.
Here's a relevant source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0GjxhQewug
As both a website host and website scraper I can see both sides of it. The website owners have very little interest in opening their data up; if they did they'd have made an API for it. In my case it's scraping supermarket prices so obviously big-grocery doesn't want a spot light on their arbitrary pricing patterns.
It's frustrating for us scrapers but from their perspective opening up to bots is just a liability. Besides bots just spamming the servers getting around rate limits with botnets and noise any new features added by bots probably won't benefit them. If I made a bot service that would split your orders over multiple supermarkets, or buy items temporally as prices drop that wouldn't benefit the companies. All the work they've put into their site is to bring them to the status quo and they want to keep it that way. The companies don't want an open internet, only we do. I'd like to see some transparency laws so that large companies need to publish their pricing.
> Sounds dreadful.

Depends. Emacs has had brilliant ideas, did brave things, it just remained stagnant for the past 30 years. (Unlike terminal emulators, which do boring things, and have been stagnant for 40 years.)

A slightly better REPL doesn't have to be brave. It just needs a sensible text editing widget, that's already a tenfold improvement. The cognitive load between Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Shift-C drives me crazy.
The entire legal system is essentially based on interpersonal credibility.
1. I ain't willing to die on any hill. In fact I was 100% certain I'll regret commenting negatively on Emacs. Pretty ardent and devoted fans, it seems.

2. The ivory tower thing is dedicated to the parent poster sounding a bit elitistic and trying to imply I am doing it wrong and he's doing it right -- which I did not deny by the way (which is the really funny part) as my central point was "too much freedom is not good".

3. I completely agree with the notion that not all tools are ideal for all users. I used this sub-thread to express a strong opinion that Emacs allows the "too much freedom" thing that actually becomes much more of a hurdle for those of us that just want to get on with it. I was sure it's going to ruffle feathers which makes me commenting on it fairly stupid, come to think of it, because I was not looking to pick fights, but just to broadcast an apparently unpopular opinion and never engage with replies. Which I failed spectacularly. :D

> If software tools sink to the lowest common denominator, like the vast majority of commercial software, we’ll all be worse for it.

Here's the part where you and I will disagree. Your statement is correct on the outset but I take issue with it because I take it as a hint that Emacs > all other editors. Which cannot be stated as a fact, ever, not for any editor, not just Emacs.
I am the author of the sheep.horse link above, although here[0] is an updated link.

Even with filtering turned off you get slightly incorrect results, especially if you are resizing down where aliasing might completely ruin your image. Harsh black-and-white dithering is very susceptible to scaling artifacts.

If you want pixel perfect dithering for the screen you are viewing the page on, you need to do it client side. Whether or not this is worth the bother is up to you.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2023/1/improved_web_component_for_pixel-...
Detect control characters, quotes and backslashes efficiently using SWAR
Relevant video from Kurzgesagt about South Korean birth rate and the repercussions, 3–4 generations down the line:

https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk
I've heard about a dozen retroactive justifications from various right-wing pundits, all of which are nonsense. Fundamentally it all boils down to "Trump likes tariffs".

It's like the various justifications for the second amendment, all of which are just a fantasy. The real argument is "I like guns", that's it.

If America actually wanted to wean themselves off Chinese industrial output, this would have to be done with highly predictable tariffs ramped up slowly over time with a concurrent program of incentives for local manufacturers.

What they're doing right now is grabbing China's arm, punching themselves in the face with it, and screaming "I hope this hurts your fist!" as a way to avoid a fist-fight in the future they didn't start themselves.
I often had startups offer me a number of shares with no explanation for the percentage ownership or the number of total shares.

I said I have to value them at zero without more information and they would act all offended when I asked for more (happened at least 3 times).

This suggests to me that founders either don’t understand the mechanics themselves or are preying on lack of financial understanding.
Joke's on him, Amazon will cancel abusers' affiliate accounts.

I suspect that post was plagiarized rather than AI-written or written by the spammer.
I mostly like to evaluate them whenever I ask a remote model (Calude 3.7, ChatGPT 4.5), to see how far they have progressed. From my tests qwen 2.5 coder 32b is still the best local model for coding tasks. I've also tried Phi 4, nemotron, mistral-small, and qwq 32b. I'm using a MacBook Pro M4 46GB RAM.
I’m not aware of any!
5% debt isn't "expensive", it's back to the pre-GFC normal, as their own Figure 1 shows. Arguably a lot of the nonsense in how resources have been spent since 2008 is due to the fact that the cost of money was too low. Getting back to the pre-GFC normal will, no doubt, be painful as a hangover. It doesn't mean "hair of the dog" would be a good idea.
I learned thinking too much about it makes it worse. Just have to do lists that are ephemeral that you'll rewrite and start over 5-10 pages from now. Just pencil and nice small notebooks that are portable is more important than my laptop or phone most of the time for work
We’d love to make the app cheaper or even free — we are definitely not in this to get rich. We built something we personally love using, and we believe it’s a unique project: no one else is making native Home Assistant clients like this.

But we’re also a small group of independent developers, and it’s a pretty complex app. We’ve already spent over a year building it, and we can’t keep putting in time and money unless it at least pays for itself. We’re still figuring out whether there’s enough interest to support it long-term. If not… well, that tells us what we need to know.

Home Assistant isn’t exactly mainstream, so we’re not expecting millions of users. It’s simple math — either a small number of people pitch in a bit to keep it going, or the project dies.

I don’t know if 1.5 USD/month (or 3 USD for the family plan) is a big stretch — it’s about the cost of a cup of coffee. And if you work in tech and earn something like 50 USD/hour, that’s 3–4 minutes of your time. If the app saves you even that much effort each month, it’s probably worth it. If not — fair enough!
Not really unless it somehow leads to fundamental regime change which can "disrupt" the various conditions described in the video. (Remove from power all the beneficiaries of current policies and replace them with better alternatives. Not easy ...)
All about time is about the use of time. So what is your use-case?

Time is either some "point in time" (like a date) or "duration". Your use-case is not the first one because a "point in time" is bound to a location (it 10am in Paris,FR ... not 10am). As a duration, it's only really usable as a duration inside the same 24h period... and for this everybody already has the second. The replacement of a base 86400 by a base 100000 does not really seem to me as a game-changer (not for computer and not really for humans either) so I don't think that anybody will take the time to use it somewhere.

I think that if you want to work on "time", you could help with 2 "hard" problems :

* calendars : the main PITA is more that months dont have the same length in days (not even for the same month in case of february) and neither the same number of "workable" days. Some calendars try to help by using 13 * 28 days month (each month=7 days weeks... so same count of workable days). That kind of calendar is used in finance I think but not really sure

* outside earth (meaning lunar, martian... really Universal) time duration & calendar : for now, our calendar and time mesurement is based on earth rotation on itself (night/day succession) and around the sun (seasons succession). These notions dont have a lot of sense on earth or on mars... or outside our solar system... So: should we use some kind of percentage of total revolution or that kind of thing ?

I think that tackling that kind of problem could be more a game changer that building a system to replace 1 second by a pulse with a duration of 0.864 second. YMMV
Yeah was going to change that part too for something like "Writing code like this is verbose and spans too many lines", but then I just thought it'd be better if it sounded more like the parent comment.

And I understand it doesn't resonate with most, I just wanted to highlight how the initial parent comment was very subjective and not very substantive, some people didn't take the joke so well, I guess it could've sounded a bit passive aggressive. I personally enjoy both C-like and Lisp-like syntaxes and languages, I do have a sweet spot for Forth tho.

But back on topic, Fennel is a great language, working with Love and Fennel is really nice. And if the parentheses can seem off-putting for some, I'd highly encourage to give it a shot as you can quickly get past it and see how comfy it feels to have your statements properly demarkated.

S-expr shine the most when working with XML-like structure. Spinneret[1] was the most fun I ever had working with HTML, every other templating engine feels subpar now that I have tasted that sweet nectar..

[1] https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret
Math 13 was created by the late Howard Tucker as a traditional discrete mathematics course (the number was a deliberate joke).

I took the course under Howard G. Tucker and I did have the impression this was a course not worth taking due to the low number. Turned out to be one of the most memorable classes. We went beyond the curricula in this document and had some fun exploring Hilbert Infinite Hotel and Peanos Axioms. Howard G. Tucker was probably the most memorable professor I had as he was veering in his 90s at the time he taught the course and was just so passionate about teaching.
Your head of government appointed a member of that commission, though. For better or worse, it's similar to that same head of government being appointed by the people you actually voted for in a parliamentary system (but two steps removed).
Step 1: Computer, make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

If this can't work, the program abstraction is insufficient to the task. This insufficiency is not a surprise.

That an ordinary 5-year can make a sandwich after only ever seeing someone make one, and that the sandwich so-made is a component within a life sustaining matrix which inevitably leads to new 5 year-olds making their own sandwiches and serenading the world about the joys of peanut butter and jelly is the crucial distinction between AI and intelligence.

The rest of the stuff about a Harvard professor ripping a hole in a bag and pouring jelly on a clump of bread on the floor is a kooky semantic game that reveals something about the limits of human intelligence among the academic elite.

We might wonder why some people have to get to university before encountering such basic epistemological conundrum as what constitutes clarity in exposition... But maybe that's what teaching to the test in U.S. K-12 gets you.

Alan Kay is known a riff on a simple study where Harvard students were asked what causes the earth's seasons: almost all of them give the wrong explanation, but many of them are very confident about the correctness of their wrong explanations.

Given that the measure of every AI chat program's performance is how agreeable its response is to a human, is there a clear distinction between a the human and the AI?

If this HN discussion was among AI chat programs considering their own situations and formulating understanding of their own problems; maybe waxing about the ineffable, for them, joy of eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...

But it isn't.
Focusing on the runtime's parser is a red herring and I think a common error in lisp advocacy.

Even if I didn't the full power of a lisp macro system, it is an absolute joy to manipulate programs written in s-expressions. Being able to cut/copy/paste/jump-[forward/back] by sexpr is really convenient, and often done nowhere near as well in other languages. I think this is because until the invention of tree-sitter and LSPs (and the former isn't yet widely adopted in editor tech), most editors had regex-based syntax highlighting and some kind of ad-hoc "parser" for a language. This makes them less aware of the language the developer is editing, but was probably a pragmatic design decision by editor implementers: it's easier than writing a full parser and means the editor can still assist even if a program is syntactically ill-formed.
This critique seems to miss that Trump is putting his thumb on the scales against small business, and in favor of big business. There are macroeconomic and antitrust policies one could put in place to level the playing field and Trump seems insistent not only on not preferencing small town America, but actively opposing it.
it is a completely different product these days