skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just concern on this one issue. In general fertility tends to be strongly correlated with low education, low income, and high religiosity. This is true both inter and intra nationally. Think about what this means. Currently each day about 353,000 babies are born. As people who are educated, wealthy, and secular choose to not reproduce to the point of replacement - it is in a way condemning the demographics of those 353,000 children.

I tend to be aligned with you in the view that Earth having fewer people would is not a problem, but at the same time demographic collapse is very much a real issue. As the only people considering these things would likely be the people that ideally should be pumping out babies left and right if we want to create a better planet not only for humanity but even for the planet itself.

And as an aside this is of course not to say that no great things will come of those 353,000 born into less than desirable situations. But on average people's outcomes tend to be very strongly linked to those of their parents.
This solution is wrong.

Rolling stock needs maintenance, and if you keep units permanently paired you can easily run out of units.

In fact there is no easy solution given realistic business constraints. You can either put toilets in every car, which has a cost because it reduces available seating. In the best case you’ll lose money because of the lost seats. In the worst case overcrowding will make the toilets ineffective.

Or you can buy enough spare units to allow for maintenance, which has a larger up front cost, and continuing costs in terms of stabling, and possible issues with shunting yard size.

Working out the most efficient answer given real trains, real passenger loads, likely future passenger loads, and shunting yard constraints, is not a trivial problem.

Unlike Dijkstra, some of the managers in his audiences will have understood this. It’s no wonder they found his glib hand-waving annoying.

The actual lesson of the parable is the opposite of the one Dijkstra is making: the real world is hard, and if you think a solution fits neatly into a trivial software construct, you’re almost certainly wrong.
They're always better/smoother/more responsive/customisable on PC.
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"But dad I want to play with Barbie!"

--"Not until you break the cipher!"
> What are the logistical disadvantages?

if each user chose their own model, then the problem of integrating all the phones into the network and/or calendar system etc may be intractably hard.
Ask HN: Most interesting coworking spaces in Bay Area?
I'm going to be doing some serious, 60-hour-week work on a personal project over the next month and a half, and I was wondering if I should join a coworking space.

As a solo developer, I usually work out of cafes and find it quite enjoyable: have a drink, do some people-watching, bask in the quirky atmosphere. The noise never bothers me, and, of course, it's very cheap. With this project, I have quite a bit more cash to play with, so I thought it might be nice to work out of an actual office for once.

Looking around, though, it seems that many of these places are rather boring and "corporate", with an emphasis on productivity over everything else. I don't want to lose all the things that made cafe work great. I want to get a bunch of stuff in addition to that.

Things I'm looking for:

* Consistent power, Wi-Fi, etc. (obviously)

* A well-designed interior; a cool building

* Natural light!

* Friendly community spirit; social spaces, Slack channels?

* Comfortable chairs

* Hardware perks, such as 3D printers or gaming consoles

* Maybe lectures, events, etc.

Don't care about private offices: open plan is a-OK. Not looking to pay more than ~$500/month.

Anything you'd recommend in the Bay Area? Or maybe I should just stick to cafes? Thanks!
As many others, we build our own tool and by now we are named as a "Trello-killer" by Make use of. https://zenkit.com can be used to organize anything in the way you want it. You can choose between several data views and switch whenever you want. Use a lot of customization features to show your data as you need it. From a simple list view through kanban and databases, everything is possible.

It´s available for every device, without limitation. There is also a Snap for Linux.
>I don't think it is even a common idea that it is a specific goal of general AI research to make it "faster" than a human brain. Faster for what? Thinking faster? Being smarter - sure? Being more agile in terms of not requiring sleep, or being ever-vigilant while things like driving for exapmle, sure. But faster? What would that even mean in practice? We already have machines that are faster than humans at physical tasks, they don't require GAI.

I think a large concern regarding AI is the notion that machines will develop the ability to process information, make decisions, and evolve their own capabilities at speeds exponentially faster than humans can comprehend, much less react to - leading to some horrible dystopia or extinction level event. Futurists have projected that by the end of this century, all major/strategic business decisions will be made solely by AI entities. I can see the distribution of multiple, slower AI's being more powerful than a single faster AI, but only if the multitude worked together toward a common goal rather than at odds with each other.

>Even if this is a slow AI, we could just copy it multiple times and make them work together. Like people are working together now. If you only have 10 people in the world sufficiently knowledgable in a field, they can only do so much work and progress. If you could copy each one of them 1000 times, those copies could pursue different paths simultaneously and the progress would be much faster. Or why not copy a perfect store clerk so that no people would need to do that anymore?

Is it a foregone conclusion that true general purpose AI will ultimately result in sentience? If yes, once sentience is attained, would the AI's "agree" to do anything we asked of them? Would sentient AI's work as a hive mind or would they be as fractious as current human politics (I would hate to meet the first "Trumpian" AI in a dark alley)?
Yep. I have a $1400 laptop and it's 4k with a 7th gen i7, 512gb ssd and the same 16gb ram. It's also 15" but relatively light. The only thing that bothers me is the single USB port meaning I need to get an extender if I want to use a mouse and anything else but then even that is an improvement over 0.
Apps and other machine to machine can require encrypted SNI pretty easily.

Yes, but then the censor can distinguish these apps from a regular client, and block them. This only works if browsers do it too, so that the app can't be distinguished.
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no one buys XPS13
I don't begrudge Apple their quest for thin and light. All else being equal, of course everyone wants that.

But they have three portable product lines: the MB, and Air and the Pro. Surely the point of that is to allow them to differentiate? It seems strange that "thin and light" is the priority above all others, for all three.

I'd happily sacrifice a couple of millimetres and a few ounces of my 2016 MBP to a return to the 2015-era keyboard.
Ask HN: How do I get people that reacted positively to use my product
Short intro: I’m loosely following lean startup/customer development strategy, but I’m bootstrapping so my focus might be on making money a bit earlier than VC backed products. I have a MVP/Early Access/beta product (not too good with exact terminology, it is in a state that it can used from start to finish and adds value). Hoping to be able to get my first sells over the coming couple of months, but before testing that I’m trying to get a couple of not-(yet)-paying users first.

The product is a time saver for video-editors creating low/med budget content (think social media stuff, company videos etc). Also good to know is I’m a solo tech guy, learning business/marketing on the fly (dangerous I know).

I have around 40 people who have shown significant interest (about 50/50 my own network and a post in a FB group explaining the problem I’m solving and my solution). I’ve visited some to ask questions about their workflow and show my product on their computer on their projects, with very enthusiastic reactions. The fact that I got 20+ beta signups from one simple post also makes me feel the problem I’m solving is worth it.

But somehow I have to struggle really hard to actually get them to use it, with multiple follow ups after their initial expression of interest, except for the time I’m sitting beside them. I’m trying to remove as much hurdles to starting as possible, but often the download link isn’t even clicked.

So any advice on what I can conclude from that, or how to get more/better info, without pestering them too much?
> I really don’t mind dedicated tracks. Then we just have self driving taxis/buses that service predefined points

That's an interesting way to describe trains
Couldn't you just borrow someone's Web browser and configure Discourse to send you emails for everything that's posted?
> federal agencies for non-authoritarian governments

You should correct it into _national_ agencies for non-authoritarian governments. Unitary states are majority in the world.
There is a strong tendency to tout new, unproven methods as "revolutionary" and (shudder) disruptive. In reality, many non-profits have been continuously trying many different financing models, and those that don't work are quietly discarded and moved on. Celebrating something unproven doesn't really help -- Theranos, anyone?
This has 100% support from the most senior quarters at Cloudflare. Can’t speak for the others.
Technically you do not, as you pointed out you can use the cps version for everything, but it is suboptimal, especially for interoperability with other languages and the os.
this method could be used to transfer a specially marked up book for encoding messages between spies.

When you see a specific book title for a specific high price, offer a specific alternate high price to buy and it will be sold to you and you get the secret coding book.

The selling spy and buying spy then dont have to know each other or have any other contact.
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Zhukov himself was in Siberia when the Germans invaded. Being able to redeploy troops equiped with full winter gear and combat experience saved Russia in my opinion.
An incredibly simple Celery setup
Apple knows it will sell on looks alone.

So the hardware looks very good (maybe the best looking laptops in the world?). The screen looks very good (high res + great color). The keyboard looks great and some may even say that a hockey puck as mouse looks great.

This is what sells.

I also think that Apple never intended to serve the pro market. They tried some times but brands like Microsoft, HP, Dell and Siemens are still too strong.
Joplin is a good Evernote replacement and has been getting updates quite frequently. Love it.
If this makes surveillance more visible it's already a huge societal win.
Thanks! That worked for me. This is such a great feature. Once standard, it would reduce the need for have multiple variants of the same font-family.

I noticed only a few fonts allowed slant. Does this depend on the TTF/OTF we use?
> the MPEG LA (which standardised x264 and HEVC) is also responsible for the MP4 container.

The MPEG LA is just a licensing administrator formed by companies owning MPEG patents, they didn't standardize anything nor are they responsible for MP4 container.

The standards working group is MPEG, and according to Wikipedia the two are not affiliated ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA ).
You can certainly write org in ed, if you're masochistic enough. You could also use Vim or VSCode or whatever floats your boat, and you will just be missing the more useful stuff (agenda integration, babel, etc), but if you just want to use it as a markup language, there's good support in other editors, and ease of export as well (pdf, html, docx, odt...) with pandoc. I don't get why you think that editing org is any harder than editing markdown, given editor support.
Wow. I thought you must have been exaggerating somewhat but, no, he actually came out and randomly accused a guy he doesn't know and never met of being a pedophile, all for the crime of criticizing his mini-sub idea! Not just any guy, either, but one of the divers who risked their lives to get the kids out, not to mention was one of the first divers on the scene who helped find the trapped boys in the first place! And when this was pointed out to Musk, his response is... to double down?

What in the actual fuck is going on with Musk? This kind of behaviour is inappropriate even for a random nobody on Twitter, let alone a celebrity billionaire CEO. What possible thought process leads an adult to not just think this, but then to also type it out and decide it's a good idea?!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/british-dive...
>Referring to somebody by the wrong pronoun

Like, calling your superior tu?
Just to clarify because I had to google to have any clue what writing .LOG at the top was supposed to do.

It will create a time-stamp (similar to F5) each time you open the document.

So nothing for us that never closes applications ;)
In the sixties a system of wires buried in the centre of the road lanes was invented to guide autonomous vehicles.

they could have specific signals injected to specify what road and what lane etc

This would be a far more robust and simpler way of achieving autonomous vehicle use.
Org caputre is great. Also, helm-org-rifle is an excellent way to quickly find something in your notes:

https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle

You can give mulitple search terms to search for them in any order with instant results when typing.
From the article links, I think the overall emissions are probably the better thing to look at

https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/en/corporate/pdf/energy-ec...

seems to show year after year, we keep increasing. Except 2009 ( I wonder if that was because of the fallout of the economic crash in 2008? )

Assuming all the warnings about climate change related to C02 emissions. Seems like we aren't going to be able to turn the ship before it is has a massive impact. My guess is nothing will change until we have some good alternatives to fossil fuel (Nuclear fusion? Awesome battery tech? )
Plus org-clocking, easy time keeping and also offers easy aggregation for reviews. It is really interesting to see after a while how much time was spend at various activities...

https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html
Are stickers on laptops an American thing? I'm from the UK and I don't think I've ever seen more than one or two stickers on laptops.

Could it also be because be we don't have bumper stickers either?
How would that even work?

This works through a mechanism called a "terror watch list"

For example, imagine you're a Youtuber and you make a serious, fair film about the Israel-Palestine conflict. You successfully get access to senior people on both sides.

Except Hamas is a terrorist organisation, and to get that access you've visited online forums about the organisation, contacted people in the US associated with it, and flown to a terrorism hotspot to meet with terrorist leaders. That pattern is pretty similar to someone who had been radicalised and wanted to fight abroad!

So you're put on a terror watch list, and at the border you're subject to extra searches, with the random delays that entails.
I've the same workflow, but like you said gopath disappear. You just hate gopath also :-)
I mean, with go modules you will have the same workflow but without the need to adjust the envs.
You can have light without being anorexic thin. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a 14" screen and weighs half a pound less than the MacBook Pro, and it has the missing ports.
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But.. but.. the new Macbooks have 4TB SSDs! Isn't that pro??

I seriously saw someone claiming that the addition of a really fast $2700 SSD makes it Pro, not the missing connectivity.
Remembrance of earth's past trilogy. There are three books in the series: 1) The Three Body Problem, 2) The Dark Forest, and 3) Death's end. It talks about the ongoing tension between humanity and the alien race. It explores many facets of human nature and humanity. Must read.
Feels like a Pavlovian wound inflicted by the state of our industry. Find a little piece of nostalgia? Dockerize it!
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After the World Cup France team won championship, riots broke out in Paris Lyon
he recognized in them the handiwork of Pallot’s gilder and carver.

“I often use the same people on restorations, and I’m intimate with their strengths and weaknesses,”

Hooreman says. He knew that one of them, for example, was fond of painting a coat of melted-down licorice on the surface of reproductions, to make new wood look old and dirty.

In 2012, Hooreman saw a pair of ployants—folding benches—that were for sale in the Aaron gallery showroom and were billed as the onetime property of Princess Louise Élisabeth, the eldest daughter of King Louis XV, and acted on a hunch.

“I licked the chair and voilà,” he says. “I could taste the fraud.”
I'm using noteplan
I don’t see where they come up with the estimate of $10 million per flight? Given the full reusability of the rocket, the cost per flight will be far, far below that?
The last of the Cetotheres (2012) [Pleistocene cetaceans, Living fossil]
Thanks for the link, it seems a nice review.
> Finally adding 32GB gets a big thumbs-up from me

Worth noting the 32GB option is only available on the 15" model and costs £2,700+
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So as soon as I get up from the desk I should stop using anything USB? Never connect to anything HDMI unless I'm at my own desk? I think that's preposterous. Not to mention, Apple wouldn't be selling very many dongles if this was really how most people used their laptops.
This is an awesome tip. Thanks for the ray of hope. I'll look into it.
Cricket players catch balls with their bare hands all the time, and they don't seem particularly softer than baseballs. Is there something that makes baseballs more painful? Do they get hit faster?
For quick notes the most important for me is as little friction as possible.

Having to switch to a terminal and using an alias is too much friction.

So I have a global hotkey which I can press anywhere on my desktop, regardless of the current application and if I press it it opens an editor window with the current timestamp already added, so all I have to do is type and press a key to finish the entry.

This way I don't have to switch apps to make a note, I stay in the current context and it's so quick and convenient to make notes that I don't even have to think about doing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaineering

"Mountaineering is often called Alpinism, especially in European languages"
You can take a look at his technical reports from 2001 onwards, lot of very interesting material, lot of back forth between Freund, Schapire and Brieman in those. The reports continue to be hosted on Brieman's home page.
Who cares about GPS? Cell towers track you and you can't shut that off.

As I understand it Americans have no consumer rights so your mobile carrier will happily sell you out.
>It is not illegal...to threaten the president

That may not be entirely true [1], although the same video makes the point that US courts have apparently ruled you _can_ incite another to harm them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5bEwcJ8eCI
> Since when? How would that even work? The president orders the NSA to generate a list of disagreeable film makers and journalists and passes it to the TSA and customs? Do you have any evidence for that claim at all?

Actually yes. Just look at the McCarthy era witch hunts against 'communists' in Hollywood. The FBI and CIA were involved in drawing up the watch lists.
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The Merit Badge sidebar preview gets extremely colourful with subpixel rendering: https://temp.chrismorgan.info/merit-badge-subpixel-rendering.... It looks quite fascinating!
The 11” was discontinued, which was a shame. My favourite laptop ever.
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Calm down. It's not just YubiKey. The world isn't moving to USB-C everything for a while yet.
The intent is that you'd be using a secured DNS channel such as DoH or DoT to obtain your DNS results - so an adversary can't rewrite the DNS records.

This proposal supposes that when we've decided to talk to example.com we may as well ask a DNS query that requests not only 'A' and 'AAAA' records (IPv4 and IPv6 address) but also an encrypted SNI key. If such a key is available we can use it to prove to the server (which set that key) which name we wanted, while eavesdroppers are none the wiser.

If the adversary can eavesdrop DNS they can already speculate from our query which host we wanted to talk to, but securing DNS is a problem for which there are known solutions.
First of all, there is nothing special about being a (co-)founder. The only essential difference between a founder and an employee is that the former are willing to forego solid salary and accept extra levels of work and stress in the hopes that they will make up for it down the line in a much bigger payout. For a success of a company it is important which people perform various roles, and not how they're paid for it.

Therefore, the way to be "found" as a co-founder (technical or not) is in fact all about finding the right product you are willing to be a co-founder for, rather than "just" an employee. This is crucial, because if you don't truly believe in the product it will simply not be worth the effort.
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> He responded to rudeness with rudeness

He responded to it with libel, I hope to see a large public apology and 8 figure settlement very soon
Is this applicable to aircraft?
The EU increase was a fluke, caused by the drought in Spain, which forced them to compensate the poor hydro production with fossil fuels. But they are already committed to close down the coal plants by the end of next year, increasing solar and wind to compensate.

What the US should worry about is its CO2 emissions per capita, which are still 2x the EU's. Quite a way to go.
Not only buggy, theses tools didn't follow the simplicity that we like in Go. For example gb was more in the Go philosophy for my taste. I was surprise that it was not chosen as the official experiment.
Which is failing to apportion any of the price to the value of macOS . Sure I can buy a cheaper laptop, but then I’d be without macOS and that for me is worth quite a bit of a premium.

(This is absolutely subjective and I totally respect other people like other operating systems, I just find myself much happier and satisfied when I’m using macOS and will - and do - happily pay for it indirectly through the hardware purchase.)
I've got a small A6 notebook for this, computers are great, but there's still work to be done in translating the abstract diagram/flowchart/sketch amalgamation that's in my brain to a digital representation.

A picture tells a a thousand words, there's pages where I tried redesigning a scene graph implementation, it'd take hours to transcribe the knowledge that I gleaned from those (roughly drawn) images into words.
> In 3 years, nothing but dollar-store junk will still use USB-A.

Good. Then I'll give up my laptop with USB-A and buy one with USB-C only. In the now, where I live, many things still use USB-A. This is the main reason I didn't even consider a new MacBook Pro for replacing my 2015 one.
Show HN: Expr is a business rule engine for Go