skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on were you live

In Europe it makes a lot of difference

In Italy, were I come from, streets history can go back centuries, some of them are thousands years old and many span across regions from South to North uninterrupted

Via Aurelia, started in 250 b.c. with a length of approximately 700 Kms is not gonna be replace by a triplet of random words anytime soon, I can guarantee it
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Is the main reason for this is that crawlers could figure out and index more by themselves?
Not obvious to me, but it means Total Fertility Rate. From wikipedia, TFR of a population is basically the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime.
TFR (total fertility rate) plummets because it used to be necessary that it was way higher when the child mortality rate was higher - and indeed a decreased in fertility rate follows a decrease in child mortality with a few years of delay.

Having a child used to be a random experiment and you needed to make sure that one makes it through to care for you when you will be old or sick. Pensions, health and welfare systems and much better child mortality rates make it unnecessary to have many children. A replacement fertility rate of slightly over 2.0-2.1 is/would be fine in developed countries.
Just a consideration: for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story, while love marriage are a quite modern invention.

Perhaps if dating is too time-intensive for these people, they should (somewhat) go back to arranged marriages. Also, if one otherwise has to go on many dates, arranged dates/marriages are probably less expensive. Finally, this should also increase the safety aspects that, according to the article, many young people fear.
I hear you, but they recently did a lot of work to simplify their UI and make it less "enterprisey", which I think makes it more usable to smaller teams.

For me Jira is a good compromise since I can easily create custom dashboards, work with Kanban or sprint boards (Trello-style) and see how work is progressing and if we're still on track. In addition we can manage non-software projects with it too, which allows me to use a single tool for all team members and projects. Getting a team to use any kind of formal project management is hard though.
Ah a kickstarter project. Why am I not surprised...

Still, the corolary of "the unsafest projects will be the ones with the most amount of overblown claims" seem to stand.
China, Russia and the return of the civilisational state
It is interesting that the majority of these young adults’ spare time is spent looking for better jobs and certificate training, with no time to pursue romantic relationships.
The Librem guys are making hardware with power switches for camera, GPS, etc. [1]

1: https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h...
Indeed. In fact the aim of controlling population is also to improve well being.

But realistically currently controlling population is the aspect that is most important so improving well being should be done in a way that does not result in a higher birth rate.
Makes sense until you look at the energy intensity of plastic bottle recycling. The most surprising part is discovering the washing stage of recycling is far more intense than for reuse. It's trying to wash and agitate the glue, ink and labels from the outside, not just dried remnants of drink or food.

A truck has to go back to the factory with plastic pellets, and to collect the product, so you're only left with the weight differential. Given the amount of corporate lobbying and marketing pushing away from reuse and towards recycling I think it likely that reuse is the winner in terms of sustainability. Recycling is an externality creation exercise to reduce costs for the business, not overall.
> which goes directly against modern feminism.

Not sure about what "modern feminism" is about, but the goal is fairness, which means treating women as women and not requiring male characteristics. Basically, detaching personality traits more common in one population (eg gender) from actual job requirements.
I would imagine on most new construction you could find little things like that if you look hard enough. They should be noted and fixed by the contractors but such items don’t constitute the whole complex being “built poorly.” That seems a bit of a stretch with an alternative agenda.
FYI, Matomo used to be called Piwik, for anyone more familiar with their old name.

https://matomo.org/blog/2018/01/piwik-is-now-matomo/
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But, in South Korea, the replacement fertility rate is already lower than 1, and it keeps decreasing every year.
> for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story

For men, yes.
Popular science books are not meant to be purely educational, it's a type of books designed for entertainment where the learning is just a byproduct.
This article make so many generalizations and assumptions that I can hardly take it seriously. Lectures do work if they are made to reinforce the textbook materials, though by itself it simply isn't enough and you need to have other forms of learning - active ones where the students solve the puzzles, work in group on problem solving, building toy projects, etc.
Partly yes. The end goal is most likely to merge everything. An assistant led ambient web. Completely device- and platform-agnostic. Domains and source of information will move to the background and fluid visual and voice information will appear where and when it‘s requested or guessed.

Further away I can see devices completely disappearing. Surfaces of all kinds, contact lenses serve as information overlays. Eventually the physical world and that information layer might become indistinguishable and just sort of combine to create the new reality.

/complete guesswork
Digging a magnificent trench using spoons and a chisel is also possible. The precision of using that method would be unmatched even using shovels, and definitely beat the precision of the trench dug using a Caterpillar equipment.
Becoming inhospitable to humans because of overpopulation in certain areas and skewed economic, political and ecological practices in all areas. This won't be fixed by forcing people to reproduce more. Each region's problems must be tackled differently. For example in India's case it would be madness to encourage even more fertility. This may not be the case in other areas. As a whole the planet has quite enough humans at 7 billion. We don't need so many unless we're planning on settling other worlds which is still more than a century away.
> A replacement fertility rate of slightly over 2.0-2.1 is/would be fine in developed countries.

Yeah, but that's now what we're having. My country sits at 1.4, and the only subpopulations with above replacement rate TFR are non-indigenous, so to speak.

South Korea has a TFR of below 1.

Japan has a TFR of ~1.4.

Most European countries are somewhere between 1.4 and ~1.7.

The US is below 2.

The West is dying out, and has been for a while.
> The author makes some good points, but does not propose his own criteria for what distinguishes a good theory from a bad theory, which seems like a cop-out to be frank.

That's not the purpose of the article, though. The purpose is to show that the most popular purported solution to the problem (naive falsificationism) is so severely limited as to be untenable, and that's really useful in itself. The title is "Why falsificationism is false", not "What should replace falsificationism".
I don’t think there is a widespread consesus within Feminism for the idea that women and men aren’t different — and honestly, everybody who says so didn’t bother to inform themselves.

Different genders/races/cultural backgrounds/educational backgrounds are connected to having different experiences in life. Of course you can imagine what e.g. sexism looks like, but when it happens to you every other day as a woman you will have it much more present than a man. Same thing with other aspects, people who have different racial/educational/cultural backgrounds bring different experiences with them and they might offer them precisely at the point where you didn’t think about it, not because you are a bad person, but because emulating all other perspectives your self is exhausting.

The variance between individuals of both genders and within races/nationalities/etc is big enough for you to look on the individual level. When you say “women are statistically on average better caregivers” and hire only women, not only are you missing out on very talented men, but the functionality of your team is reduced as well. E.g. because in some situation a male caregiver might be a better fit for a given client. Not because they are better or worse at their job, but because beeing male brings a whole set of experiences, cultural expectations etc with itself. The same apparently goes for other traits your employee might have.

Most jobs require teams to react to new and unpredictable challanges and having a broad range of backgrounds, helps them to always have a team member whi knows how to deal with it, because of their background ans life experience.

When you hire a team where you have a monoculture, it is hit or miss. It might work well for a certain job at a certain time, but if anything changes, your team might be less resilent, flexible and able to solve problems compared to a more diverse team.
> A replacement fertility rate of slightly over 2.0-2.1 is/would be fine in developed countries.

And many developed countries are far below that. That's what I read the parent to write about, not the shift from pre-industrial to industrial times.
For a project like this to be considered secure, it should have an open, public design to begin with. That's even more important given the fact that they used Kickstarter.
There are also related fields, e.g. identify people based on what they type (not how they type it).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4771293/can-an-authors-u...
Usually here are two numbers for each address (there are even more specialized but it's not common): landmark - blue background and descriptive - red background (see [1]).
"Blue" ones are better for orientation, they are in sequences, counted from 1, which start on the end of the street which is closer to some remarkable point in particular city (e.g. river at Prague). On one side of the street are odd numbers and on the other side are even numbers.
Red ones are more "administrative" so they are not suitable for orientation. But at some smaller towns/villages or some parts of the cities are the only ones.

[1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozna%C4%8Dov%C3%A1n%C3%AD_dom%...
I would say take the Facebook offer esp. if you are considering MBA/MS in next 1-2 years. That brand will help immensely. One thing is not clear. You joined this company 2 months ago and graduated 6 months ago. Is this your second job? If yes then by the time you apply for MBA in 1-2 years with 2 job changes that may cause issue but am not sure in which schools.
How do you know the plane model before you board? It's not shown when buying the ticket, it's not written on the ticket either.
The business use that immediately comes to mind is tracking, such as for vehicles. Often cars are stolen in Europe and moved between countries.
I prefer to say, merges should only flow one way. (And always rebase before a merge.)

If you are merging master into a feature branch that has ongoing work and continues without merging back to master, that's the problem.

If your feature branch is short-lived, it can be easily rebased.

If your other branch is more like a release branch, with lots of work that can't be rebased easily, some times you can't really avoid a merge from master without communicating it first. If your team is large or distributed it might not be practical to say "release has moved to (rebased ref), please catch up"

In that case you should treat merges to release the same as merges to master (they should be finished bits of work that are considered published) and any unmerged features for the release, are kept on feature branches that are based on the release. They can be rebased after the point where master is merged back into release to avoid the nasty merge conflicts.
Is this a nice way to finally catch up on physics for someone who never got much of it in high school? Or would Khan Academy still be preferable?
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By the way: if someone wants to look up (total) fertility rates, Our World In Data has you covered, of course:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tab...

(You can change the countries displayed by clicking the (+) sign on the right hand side of the graph. I preselected UK, US, Germany, Iran and South Korea here.)
Exactly this, but it's also why, whilst we should all be conscious of what we're doing to the planet, I'm not so despondent about our future and population endlessly spiraling out of control. It's been shown that once a country achieves a GDP of somewhere around $6-7k they begin to take a bigger interest in issues like climate change, more efficient energy sources and population control more seriously (China is about there now; India, Indonesia, Thailand and other large population Asian countries are getting there pretty quickly). As a planet with finite resources in terms of food and energy we can support a global population of about 10-11 billion. If it's becoming such that once societies advance to a level of development we see in places like S Korea and Japan that population begins to balance out or even slightly decrease, is that such a bad thing?
Count one more please. Searched for flight, saw Boing 737, no thank you! Paid premium for Airbus. That’s for three passengers.
Some airlines do! Qatar and Emirates, I think.
major debt can chase you for a long long time
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Again, "toxic masculinity" is dropped in the article.

The press is in the hands of women.
True, but isn't it the same with the IDs? You still have the problem of honoring previously-issued URI templates when you change the format.
Related question: why does Netflix provide a so much better video streaming service than a short-distance VoIP session? (I say short-distance because Netflix obviously uses a content distribution network of some kind; not taking this into account would make the comparison unfair).
Melbourne is a mecca of coffee snobbery, and most locals wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks. (Although you need to try pretty hard even to find one.)
Presumably it costs more to collect, clean, sort/organize, and deliver to the point of next filling with enough certainty of availability. (No oil producer wants their line shut down because they’re short of barrels.)
That actually sounds great
http://spritesmods.com/?art=bioslimdisk

http://spritesmods.com/?art=diskgenie

http://spritesmods.com/?art=biostick

http://spritesmods.com/?art=securehd

http://spritesmods.com/?art=secustick

There's some patterns with 'secure USB storage', notably that none of them are anything besides a toy.
This is when evolution kicks in. Those that can pair up and have children are more likely to be selected for in future generations

Medicine has improved such that it is far less of an evolutionary pressure. I imagine psychological well being, and wealth are more of an issue. It would be interesting to look at the correlation between mental health and wealth, or if there’s a key point between them.

Or there could be a selection pressure for more social groups of humans, a eusocial society, I can’t remember who suggested that.
Why "for men". You think men are happier than women in arranged marriages?!
> This won't be fixed by forcing people to reproduce more.

I don't think that was the idea, rather: fix the circumstances and the people will do the rest themselves.

> For example in India's case it would be madness to encourage even more fertility.

And fertility rates there haven't dropped as they did in the developed world, so it's really not the same issue.
Noticed a similar thing earlier this year, while I was crossing the border from a non-Schengen area country into the Schengen territory. The owner of a new Audi Q5 or Q7 just in front of me received all sorts of questions from the customs guards, while me and my gf passed the border in a breeze. We were driving our 12-year old small 1.4 liter hatchback, which has scratches on all its four corners, I said to myself that were we to transport anything illegal nobody would have suspected us.
but they rotate them quite a lot, don’t they?

i booked a boeing 787 dreamliner but ended up in a crummy 777 from a decade ago.
> Erdős never married and had no children
I’m more interested in how it can be suppressed.
Overpopulation Is a Myth
hudson vs. housing shortage anti-development politics of west coast.

the west mentality is to bitch aboit liberal issues and then with personal action burn as much gasoline as texans while voting to institutionalize relatively predictable green scams which destroy resources , resource production, and the environment, such as fake high speed trains, and shutting down nuclear plants, while creating artificial scarcity resulting from idiocy like requiring all new homes built have solar rooftops. solar and batteries still are entirely produced in china asia and their mfg pollute like crazy.

you want the future, you gotta take risks and let people build. the results might not be perfect but you get a better oitcome than californication embracing consumer culture.
The Indiana Jones of Climate Science
"It's the economy, stupid." -- Bill Clinton's major campaign slogan.

To reiterate from the article: unemployment is high. Wages are low. Prices are high.

Improve the economic well-being of the median person, and what will happen? People will be more confident in their futures, have more leisure time, and will be happier.

Every school of economics agrees on this. They differ in what they recommend to achieve it.
No, civilization is not becoming inhospitable to humans, this is literally the best time in history to be alive, civilization has never been more hospitable than it is today.

We really do not need more humans, we are not an endangered species. The only reason we think we do is because many societies have essentially created Ponzi schemes where the welfare of the elderly generation relies on ever increasing numbers of younger generations, which will inevitably become unsustainable.
Most (all?) states with bottle deposits also charge that on cans of soda/beer as well.
With streaming platforms, even fans (as measured by various analytics) are fake.
Well, not all the rest. There's neon, and the liquid air itself will have nonzero vapor pressure. So it will depend on how far below the boiling point of nitrogen the air is cooled.

EDIT: actually, it will depend on the solubility of helium in the liquid air.
Agreed. Create audio samples of all relevant phonemes and listen to them 10x per day for a week or two. That should be enough to discriminate them -- or I'll eat my hat.

'Course it would then take further training to be actually able to speak them.
>aluminum and thinner plastic bottles [...] can be crushed

These schemes are common in Germany as well, often side by side with the glass bottles. But cans really only come in single serving sizes, and some people are wary about plastic bottles.
It is up since 2010 and thus it predates Surge and Netlify by four years.
Isn't a bigger problem, what's the point of marriage, if it can be easily dissolved (with various, often completely unpredictable, risks for one or both parties)? Part of the idea of marriage, family, etc. is some concept (or at least illusion) of long-term safety, sustainability, predictability, stability. This illusion is slowly shattering, for different kind of reasons (divorce, problems with pensions, job security, chilling effects on free speech, gloomy outlook on climate change, ...). We probably need to start looking at these reasons, and start fixing them, i.e. address the underlying causes, not just fix the symptoms (less long-term relationships and marriage).

Edit: that is not to say, that sometimes relationships don't dissolve for good reasons... but even then, more could be done to make things fair, predictable, etc. as opposed to incentivizing both parties, and their lawyers, to fight and be as mean and nasty to each other as possible.
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Men and women tend to be happier in arranged marriages. It is one of the best ways to find a high quality mate quickly.
It's well established that people (nations and groups within nations) have fewer children as their circumstances improve. Fixing circumstances will lead to fewer children, not more.
I've always been a bit undecided on this. I can see some obvious upsides, but on the other hand (apart from the downsides mentioned in the article and elsewhere) you've added 500 bytes to this entity for functionality that's only useful to the developer. Is the ability to click around in a HAL browser instead of a Swagger document worth the verbosity? Is there an argument that we might produce clients that can meaningfully deal with new links being presented without a developer being involved? I'd be surprised if that was realistic.
>No, civilization is not becoming inhospitable to humans, this is literally the best time in history to be alive, civilization has never been more hospitable than it is today.

According to the dictionary "inhospitable" means "Unfavorable to life or growth", and it's much harder for me to have one children than it was for my grandparents to have five.
> Why "for men". You think men are happier than women in arranged marriages?!

As long as they have all the money and can have lovers, how is that even a question?
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Puerto Rico is a territory owned by the United States, not a state. The Democratic Party officially wants to make it a state; the Republican Party does not. PR has voted for statehood in two referenda, but voter turnout was low.

It is certainly true that FEMA is terrible at its job.
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Do you even notice that you speak like a breeder?
And even then the result can be mindblowing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PyYcnXQZJY

Not exactly a classical orchestra, but it serves well to illustrate the point.
They do want to date alright. When you interview a random person on the street they're lying both to the interviewer and themselves.

The problem for men is that the women generally don't think the average man is good enough.

The problem for women is that they're mostly lusting after and eventually, in the long run, sharing the same top 20% men.

If you're a man, it's a winner takes all market. Either almost all women desire you, or not a single one does.

Arranged marriage used to solve this.
Men and women have the potential to be equally unhappy when you force a partner on them.

Also, giving women free reign is causing great inequality between men and women in their chances of having a partner and forming a family, which I believe will be problematic in the future. Very well explained by this other user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19891412
To me the problem is keeping volume down (lessen packaging, make things last longer, lessen fads or in-fashion), and minimize toxicity (heavy metals, leach prone chemicals, etc.) Aluminum, wood, or steel accumulating in landfills isn’t that detrimental. Batteries, household and industrial chemicals are bad.
This has only been true generally in the West since ~1800 or so. Charles Darwin had fewer grandchildren than children. It’s also not universally true even in the West. Sub populations with higher fertility for the wealthy exist, Mormons and Hasidim for two. Culture beats biology, see Hutterites and the Amish in the US.