skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> higher birth rates equal more economic growth

The empirical data doesn't support this. The nations with the strongest economies are also the nations with among the lowest birth rates, and it has been that way for decades. To highlight one specific example, China's birth rate fell even as its economy took off over the past 30 years. And they did not experience high rates of immigration either.
Remember folks: pack it in, pack it out. Let’s keep our Parks clean, especially when the Park Service has had budget cuts.
In this way, what the hell is the difference between an AI and any other system, like a government or corporation?
For something to have true value, it must be limited in supply and also people must have a common agreement that it is valuable.

Money used to be like this before the Gold Standard was removed. When that happened, money lost its true value. Off course, money people could get creative then.

Now the whole system relies on the population simply "believing" that fictional and unlimited entities (dollars) are valuable.

Side Note: The reason why humanity has chosen gold to obsess over as an ultimate form of money, is not relevant to the fact that it has been, is, and always will be. See: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-china-and-russia-are-b..., for one of numerous reports of governments buying up as much gold as they can.
"video is different than GIF" != "proof of cherry-picking with the intention to deceive"
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It’s temporary. The humans of the future will be the descendants of the people having lots of kids right now. You should basically never extrapolate out any trends that are driven by people with below replacement fertility rates.
Well to be fair the reddit app is wayyyyyy better than the web interface and works amazingly well.
I also used to run DR DOS decades ago to avoid MS then, too.
Also, there tends to be assortative mating in terms of attractiveness.
Ask HN: Why is engagement on Twitter so unbelievably low?
Example: Ycombinator has 1 million followers. But their tweets get about 20 likes. How can that be?

How do users consume those tweets so that not even one in ten thousand is tempted to click the like button?
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When the grocery store accounts for 80% of profits, and about 70% of revenues in it's category [1] (mobile app store), it stops being legal, and falls into the category of anti-trust.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...
Humans are the first species ever produced on the Earth with the potential ability to save it from the periodic, asteroid induced mass extinction event.

As bad as we are, eventually most species larger than a mouse will get wiped out anyway. The only thing standing between that and inevitability is us.
This may be of interest to you, the GP's story about the coworker reminded me of this: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/blind-since-b...
Legacy code is always frustrating. I had to pick up Delphi at one point to fix a bug in an application who's only job was to relay specific windows messages (essentially a broker).

5 sold days getting the environment setup (every dependency had to be in the PATH), 20 min to make the change then another 3 days getting the installer build environment setup.
The wall has just become like Instagram: you post things and people like/comment.

That this commenter is asking people if they communicate via wall messages shows how out of touch they are, if "nobody uses Facebook anymore" wasn't the first hint.
If we don’t allow the weak to perish then they will reproduce and the genetic quality of our species will steadily decline.
Again, it's not about the topic. It's not about who else supports it. It's not about the benefits of a product. It's not about Iceland's policy on palm oil, or the virtues thereof.

The problem is taking, wholesale, content from a political organisation and using it in a realm that has laws about political content.

Removing the logo is, if anything, worse - it hides the origin of the video and ads dishonesty to the mix.

If Iceland made their own video about the consequences of the palm oil industry and advertised it, I'd be interested to see if ClearCast approved it.
I watched a Nova about it, where the did experiments. Had to be 5+ years ago.
There's a lot to be said for Flash. It's a good visual design environment. It certainly beats the horror of CSS/Javascript/WebAssembly/WebGL we have now.

(Giving page designers total control over scrolling was a huge mistake.)
Interesting. Does your ranking algorithm work like Reddit[0] or HN[1] or is it something different?

[0]: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algo...

[1]: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...
> My question is why would I want to run an unmodified application on this?

Complete straw-man here, but this is what I envision:

Ignorant businessmen buys a new silver bullet from a (potentially ignorant or malicious) salesperson or idea broker then wants you to "make it work" on the "serverless cloud".

Most B2B software provides no reasonable method of determining if their product(s) actually work. So changing the amalgamation of your boss's silver bullets (your business application) requires the rebuilding of a hard won set of folk knowledge. This task is terrifying, unproductive, potentially impossible (non-permissive licenses), and something that most developers in this situation would like to avoid.

Of course there are decent ways to avoid and/or address situations like the one described, but this seems close to what I've witnessed in industry.
There are some interesting social pressure group dynamics at play (e.g. go out in public and start staring at the sky and a people will start trying to see what you are looking at and glance at the sky-- literally monkey see monkey do?)
Depending on where you live, I imagine plenty of folks will be kept away by the cold.
It was more that the environment (Facebook, in this case) has allowed toxic situations where less scrupulous patrons were taking advantage of the social network to spread falsehoods for an attempt at personal gain by viral traction. Basically tell the lie fast and hard enough that the targeted party was helpless to defend themselves.

Thankfully it didn't play out that way. The company has a decent amount of respect in this town, and the situation was well documented in advance.
They can't and don't fly runway to runway by themselves because even the smallest problem/perturbation/deviation from the norm knocks the plane out of the higher levels of automation and requires a human to intervene. The automation is great at making small adjustments to keep a plane flying stable, but give it a complicated, unknown airframe and it would fail miserably
https://www.scambusters.org/chatbot.html

>>“Chatbots” — computer programs that use artificial intelligence to strike up conversations with dating site users — enable scammers to “talk” with multiple potential victims at once. They’re particularly active on the Tinder dating app, which employs users’ locations and Facebook profiles to try to link them with nearby online romance seekers.

The big takeaway from the Ashley Madison hack was that nobody was actually having any affairs. All those men were paying for a dream. There were next to zero real women on the site. It was all bots and fake accounts. And that company, ironically a Canadian company, was being called a potential pre-IPO unicorn.
The only redeemable feature on Yelp that I come to often (from Google Maps) is Open Now, where I can fill in a time and it filters for that time. If its close to closing time, its rare that I want to know what's open right now given I've to drive to that location.

Other than that, I get the same value prop else where.
Also worldwide they have 2.27 billion monthly active users. Which is roughly a third of the human race.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing that!
Shame on me for looking. But this is a account that post only from fritz.ai -- might be nonsense spam.
Agreed. Humans have the ability to alter that with technology.

Hunter gatherers can't exist in density like modern agricultural/industrial societies.
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If memory serves, "fire fighting" as we know it now didn't really exist at the time. He would negotiate to buy the land. Once he did, his slaves would basically tear down the building and potentially any nearby ones to contain the fire.
Here you go:

https://financetrain.com/why-lognormal-distribution-is-used-...
Well, that gets to the question of how we define materialism. Broadly enough, then a nonphysical soul can also be a new materialistic cause, so we do not have a disagreement.

The fundamental issue is whether the new theory, materialistic or not, can be quantitatively and empirically tested in some way. I propose the notion of the mind as a halting oracle is such a thing. And we can call it a materialistic halting oracle so we don't violate the need for purely materialistic explanations.

https://am-nat.org/site/halting-oracles-as-intelligent-agent...
They even come stock from the manufacturer on many like the Porsche 911.
If you’re so scared of the outside world then you ought to never let your child leave the house. Our rights don’t end where your mental illness begins.
They were talking about reimplementing isolates and a similar multi tenant cloud computing environment in go.
Thanks so much for your response! #4 in particular is something I hadn’t considered, except in the context of how to display error messages in an editor, but now it seems obvious that the most relevant information should be closest to your focus.

As for #3, my compiler is intended to be all-in-one: there’s a single executable that acts as a front-end for an internal library, which handles everything: compilation, syntax highlighting, dependency management, documentation generation, you name it. So all the language tooling should just work in a consistent way.
> All the regulation in the world won't do any good against a highly corrupt government

It doesn't help to add arrows to their quiver. GDPR is a good law when a government can be trusted. It throws petrol on the fire in over-reaching states.
> Unfortunately, it's not a single problem, and certainly does not have a single cause.

Did they claim that? They didn't even use the word capitalism once. They simply mentioned that greed is also a problem, and you talk about how they supposedly blame it all on capitalism, and how that's just a convenient strawman to slap down.

> Nobody "pushed" people to use Tinder.

Yeah, because that's a simplification of a whole lot of stuff. It can be unpacked, but why even bother when you're not working along, and just go by a silly literal interpretation and point out how silly that is.

> They don't do that because they don't want to.

That's the start of the discussion, the comment was talking about why that is. And you just end with "it's fine that it is so because it is so", basically.
It's really crazy how crowded national parks are. In a lot of ways, I feel like charging a fee to enter adds to the problem. Sure they need the money to help maintain all of that area, but they also use that money to advertise so more people buy passes. They use that money to advertise their volunteer programs to get volunteers to work on trails.

It's be interesting to look at visitor data for parks that went from free to paid (if they even collected such data years ago) and see if charging for parks and the business around them has actually made them more crowded.

Personally, I don't think there should be a fee for entering a National Park. It should be paid for by our taxes. Just skim off a tiny bit from those billions used for defence and parks could be fully funded for years.
Thanks! We have a fair bit of a punny humor in our Gothenburg-Sweden engineering office where the information retrieval and big data magic happens. One of our plugins for Elasticsearch that significantly improves GC pressure and performance is called the "Greased Pig" plugin, because it makes Elasticsearch all slippery so it doesn't get stuck in GC hell ;)
They don't like Intel or Nvidia, but their facts tend to be mostly accurate. I wouldn't listen to any of their financial or market-share predictions since the market has remarkable inertia that disconnects it from technical factors.
Really? Masturbation? Come on.
Still having trouble following. They're saying that:

"If you host someone's information for public view on a website, under the GPDR, you have to say where you got it. Therefore, if someone leaks our (the government's) information and you're hosting it, you must say who the leaker was."

Do I have that right?
Just FYI, this is controlled by the ATM itself and your language choice isn’t stored nor passed onto your bank.
If you’re planning to forego reproduction, I offer you my wholehearted thanks for making life easier for my descendants.
> and instead the loans offered were normally dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Well yes, when you can legally steal money, it logically follows that it becomes much easier to spend said money.
Scott McCloud defined it thus in "Understanding Comics":
“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
Question, why is DRAM still packed separately?
Pretty sure you need clearance from the tower to take off in the US, assuming a controlled airport; en-route controllers for the Atlantic also have a say in an international flight even if you're going to argue that they took off from an uncontrolled airspace.
Once you set it to boot from an external SSD, it will happily continue doing so.

What happens when the soldered-on SSD fails? Can you alter a setting in the PRAM or SMC to let the system completely disregard the failed SSD?
>I don't think you can make any connection between a lack of flight plan and the safety of a flight

Part of proper flight plans are taking the steps to mark out your emergency procedures and landing places for failures in several portions of the trip, including a few different failures during takeoff. Sure, it might just be "Turn into that field there and cross your fingers", but you've at least thought about it and planned before hand
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Agreed that Hanson focuses on primary education in that article. I could've sworn he has written similarly about higher education but couldn't find anything relevant by quick googling.
What irks me in articles like this is the term observer. Define observer. Sure, a human is an observer. But can a dog be an observer? A plasmodium? A virus bumping into a molecule and changing its course? Is observing shorthand for any interaction that can collapse a wave function? In that case it seems highly unlikely to me that a photon can travel billions of light years unperturbed.
The survey they reference (Global Burden of Disease 17) is a lot more alarming:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> GBD 2017 is disturbing. Not only do the amalgamated global figures show a worrying slowdown in progress but the more granular data unearths exactly how patchy progress has been. GBD 2017 is a reminder that, without vigilance and constant effort, progress can easily be reversed. But the GBD is also an encouragement to think differently in this time of crisis. By cataloguing inequalities in health-care delivery and patterns of disease geography, this iteration of the GBD presents an opportunity to move away from the generic application of UHC and towards a more tailored precision approach to UHC. GBD 2017 should be an electric shock, galvanising national governments and international agencies not only to redouble their efforts to avoid the imminent loss of hard-won gains but also to adopt a fresh approach to growing threats.
You need to read the comments. The whole point is that it was not necessarily a success because subsequent tests showed it didn't work, there are several reasons why Ms Giese might have survived including the reasons why previous survivors who didn't get the protocol also survived.
You could make a humorous extension to that theory re: a priorly flat earth.
> Why is it that in over a century of writing—much of it explicitly obsessed with questions of nationhood and identity—we have only a handful of novels that come close to representing the full sweep of Canadian life?

Being from Northern Ontario, I'd say the question kinda answers itself if you simply follow it by asking: which Canada?

Although Canada tends to be viewed as a homogeneously multicultural society (we all have our ideas of what any given country is like), Canada is (pardon my language) fucking huge. To ask for a novel to capture "the full sweep of Canadian life" is like asking for an American novel to somehow captures the essence of American life spanning California, Florida, New York, Texas, Utah, etc etc etc. America is best understood as union of otherwise unique states (you could call it... a united states). Canada is similar.

While you might reasonably expect a novel to capture the essence of living in France in a certain period of time, or in Spain, or in Italy, you could not reasonably expect a novel to capture all of the European experience. It's folly. And yet in Canada, we could fit most of Europe inside any one of our provinces or territories.

Canada may be a unified political entity, but it's not a unified cultural entity. There is a world of difference between the experience of growing up in Québec versus growing up in Alberta -- a difference as great as what I imagine it would be like to grow up in Utah versus New York, or Germany versus Britain.

It's a foolish idea to try and capture "the Canadian experience" because that experience doesn't exist. It's not a thing. Except maybe that it gets pretty cold in the winter and hockey is fairly universally liked for some reason.
Dating is an imprecise word that covers both more casual relationships and the process more rightly called courtship. I am not familiar with any sites that list themselves as courtship sites. (Sites offering that service are typically listed as dating sites, though some dating sites explicitly cater to either/both.) Courtship is the process of sorting out who is a good match for a long term relationship and forming that bond and so forth.

Courtship typically requires one to also sort out how you fit into the larger social fabric of each other's lives. In contrast, hookups or casual flings typically are looking to cut you out of the fabric of their social lives. People generally don't want to introduce casual sexual relationships to important people in their lives, thus expressions like "The kind you don't take home to mother."

Facebook is a social network. Their value position naturally readily aligns with the idea of courtship and they are apparently going with that.

I don't use either dating sites or hookup sites. I'm not the target market. I'm just making observations based on reading up on how asymmetrical markets work and this is a standard thing that you run across. I have read that it is why you see "Ladies night" at bars. The guys are going to be there anyway. You need to find some means to entice the women to show up.

(Disclaimer: I also don't drink, so this is just stuff I have read about working with asymmetrical markets and developing a service when you have a chicken-and-egg problem.)
Change doesn't always require people to change their behavior. See CFCs, leaded gasoline, others. I expect that electric cars will follow the same path.

And people have and will change their behavior, in response to regulations and market forces. Let meat, electricity, gasoline, etc. reflect their true prices, incorporating carbon externalities, and people will respond to that by adjusting their behavior.

We don't need collective action, we just need political will.
Not sure if you're actually unaware, but a large portion of the population here speaks French (1/5th) as their first language.
Bob Lutz, the car guy (senior positions at BMW, GM, Ford and Chrysler), once commented on this. He noted that his designers liked Bang and Olafson design, with black on black buttons and unusual form factors. This was all wrong for a car interior.
Would it be the same (valid) with percentage returns?
That wouldn’t work either as the population has increased dramatically since 1950.
But they were right in that case... I know it's a biased source but I've seen a lot of accurate info there in the past
Rebol family of languages (including Red) uses near equivalents of fexprs.

Here's a self-modifying function ;^)

>> foo: has [x][append body-of context? 'x [+ 1] 1]
== func [/local x][append body-of context? 'x [+ 1] 1]
>> loop 3 [probe foo]
1
2
3
== 3
>> ?? foo
foo: func [/local x][append body-of context? 'x [+ 1] 1 + 1 + 1 + 1]
>It seems to me that aircraft with a lot of automation should have a single big red button to turn it all off

737s have a big lever that can be smacked to shut off all autopilot function and return to a completely human controlled system. Most of the time even just using the Yoke to fight the autopilot will turn it off as well, after a few seconds

Also, in most automotive instruction manuals I've read, they specifically call out that you can simply press very hard on the brake pedal to overcome the forces produced by the ABS pump and lock up the brakes if need be
As Apple's customer, I don't see the "store" as so much a store as the way for me to install and update applications. After all, it shouldn't be legal for the owner of a store to break into my house and either take stuff or leave trash I don't want (something Apple is perfectly willing to do).

Apple has chosen to position itself as the only way to install apps, which I feel is generally fine, but as Apple's customer, I have every right to complain to them when they harm my experience with their product by denying me a product I want based purely on business decisions and that don't protect me.
> Interesting that the articles all talk about obesity, unknown chemicals, brief style underwear, and whatnot as a possible cause without stopping to consider that maybe societal attitudes towards masturbation may play a role.

First you deny that it exists at all, calling it wingnut paranoia.

When proven wrong, you suddenly suggest that it's so self-evident that you cannot fathom why nobody has considered societal views on masturbation as a culprit. And then you decide it's so obvious that no explanation is needed, leaving the connection as an exercise for the reader.