skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wholly think this is a purely western / consumerist perspective on Japan's current societal trends as it pertains to their country's population.

Another way to look at this "reduction" in population growth is that now their infrastructure has reached a natural upper bounds of sustainability and is now adjusting. What is really negative about no longer needing to grow at exceeding rates to provide housing, healthcare and other basic services to their population?

History has shown us that the Japanese welcome radical change with open arms and are willing to change their ways drastically if it benefits their nation. Both societally and economically. It's hard to say that Japanese culture has not made huge positive change from the time after WWII to current.

They're using technology to solve these issues and may have to make more cultural change to continue operating a prosperous nation. I think it's disingenuous to see a slowing in growth or think that a nation that isn't embracing every single young person having kids is somehow deeply flawed and "doomed".
And the original memory-safe language: Lisp.
Epigenetic factor LIN‐53 needed for normal C elegans lifespan&muscle integrity
dragonwriter is a laywer? Must have graduated recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171225
This sounds is/ought-y? What is the prevalence of running sprints right in the real world? "As practiced" was the important part of my question/observation.
It can be also out of country purchases: go to Canada, buy the gun, come back. The situation is not different in any way, especially because if you buy the gun in Vermont or Canada you are still not allowed to get it in California. Do you want to regulate guns in Canada?
Behaving differently on an empty list than on no list is a huge smell. That's really weird and unexpected behavior. Doing it for testing is even weirder.

If you're fetching an element from a dictionary and want not-present to be the same as some false value, fetch with a default value (in Python, pass a second parameter to get()) that you want to see when there's nothing present. Or just extract the value and check for nil or empty separately, nothing wrong with being explicit.
I have no knowledge here, but it seems like you're saying that journalists should out people who aren't out to their families? Doing that without having clear evidence of the person's intent seems it might be an invasion of privacy?
About 50% of the equities market is owned by households and mutual funds.
Some of it is people driving down the railway track. It may be confusing at night (all the incidents I could find mentioned in the bottom happened at night), particularly if there is a road junction immediately following the railway crossing, that you were supposed to turn on. Then an indicator to 'cross the railway, and then turn right' would be nice.

Although, I wonder whether US railway crossings can be hard to see at night.
Nim has something similar in the works, barely implemented.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#taint-mod...
For reference, this is the crash referenced by the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Oxnard_train_derailment

Apparently a driver drove onto the railroad tracks after confusing them with a road at night.
Able? No. Willing? Possibly. Maybe the desire to not cause suffering is so common in moral frameworks because it is hardwired into us and into other animals, almost like an instinct-based universal morality.

We inject a lot of assumptions about the nature of non-human animals in these discussions in what I think is an attempt to keep them as mentally distinct from ourselves as possible.
This reminds me a bit about Christopher Alexander’s work on architecture and designing living spaces — as places that shape the potential of human social and emotional interaction.

Alexander’s pattern language work in architecture came to greatly influence human interaction design and object oriented programming pattern designs.
You do realize that personal gun ownership was always banned in the UK, like, since ever, right? That "statistic" you just tried to pass about how knife attacks increased when the UK banned guns, was completely made up.
I explained Liskov substitution like this:

Nicholas Cage is an actor, Tom Hanks is an actor however you can’t substitute a Nic Cage performance for a Tom Hanks performance. Therefore Nic Cage is a Liskov Substitution Violation.
Same topic a day ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20654625
Here in Italy, the self-injecting adreanaline same as the Epipen in the US is normally "free" (its cost except maybe a "ticket" of 4 € is paid by the equivalent of the NHS in the UK) if prescribed by an authorized doctor or in the hospital.

But any doctor can prescribe it and the "full" price is around € 80 for the single pack or 140 for the two pack, so it is around 1/4th if the US $600 cited in the article.

BTW here a "normal" adrenaline 0.5 mg vial is around 1 or maybe 2 €, so all the prize must be in the auto-injection mechanism and not in the actual drug.
I am confused by this as well. The only thing I can imagine is "the matter falling into the hole at the event horizon moves at near the speed of light, relative to the center of the black hole". But I'm not 100% sure.

The angular momentum inside the black hole should then also reflect this, but I don't know if physicists are too confident about what the matter inside a black hole looks like.
This is maybe the only response to a heinous act like a mass shooting that is more despicable and pathetic than wrapping an event like this around a politically charged baseball bat.

More so than even using this event to claim that "guns are the problem" or the sole factor in this issue.

We all know the FBI can access the information on this phone, they're just playing into the hands of emotional trauma and emotionally driven people who are ill informed to de-value the perceived sanctity of privacy and data security...
More efficient for drivers. But it results in much less efficient land use overall, because more space is now taken up by cars.
Jails are worse. Often you have lots of people in the same jail not broken out by offense as its a holding pen for the locality. Which means you have minor drug offenses in the same facility with armed burglars and rapists.

Additionally, a lot of times it makes sense for someone awaiting trial to push the date back as far as possible, in the hopes that witnesses or the prosecution decide not to show at trial or forget the offense. Maybe you can then get off with time served and without a conviction.

Which means jails are "how long can you survive in the worst possible place so your life is not ruined more than it already is". Because America is a fucking shitshow and we just don't give two tugs of a dead dogs dick about basic human rights.

I really hate this country.
There is nothing like a 20 round barrel, the most barrels in an gun is around 7 or 8 on platform mounts and the weight it in thousands of pounds.
A barrel is not a unit of measure for rounds. Learn something about what you want to discuss if you want to have any valid point, being clueless and talking is not a good idea.
The alternative is paying for the software you're using. If you don't want to pay for for-pay software, there's plenty of no-cost Linux distros available.
I love Ted Chiang. My favourite is "Hell is the absence of God" from the collection "Stories of your life". It drew me in.
They are usually well marked, but only higher traffic ones have barriers.

Many don't have lights.
Oh, and as a follow-up, if you want to indirectly help make the recognition better, especially for non-English speakers or minority accents, contributing voice samples here is a great way help (no coding/technical skills, so share it with family and friends if you like!)

https://voice.mozilla.org/en
I think the technology is ready. There are some games exploiting the concept, "I expect you to die" is more or less an escape room.

We can make it a cooperative multi-player game to get the teamwork effect of real escape rooms. An existing example would be "keep talking and nobody explodes", a cooperative, semi-VR game.

The thing is, as fun as it is might be, it is an entirely different experience. On one side you won't get the feedback of real life items and people. On the other side you can do things that would be too expensive, too dangerous or simply impossible to do in real life.
Just a fun sidenote.

I've been watching the count of up/down votes.

Folks are actually downvoting my comment; please carry on. But why I'm the hell do you want the government to be able to have unwarranted access to your devices?

Previously any letter you sent was not copied,read and stored in a searchable format by the FBI/via/nsa. Maybe if you were targeted but not wholesale dragnet. Now it is and even more accessibility is being asked. This is a kgb dream machine.
Oh red hat is the only player in town that can do that? Now you know why IBM bought them!
Sounds like they are getting low-balled. I'd shop around as $100k total comp seems fairly low (although it buys more at the moment considering the GBP is so low right now) for anyone with more than 5-8 years experience.
This is great for big cities. I live in a medium sized city and GPS works pretty good in most places. I was surprised just how bad it is in NYC (with much taller and denser buildings), unless you can orientate yourself manually with a business the location is not accurate.

This does the work for you.
Rotating black holes have a ring singularity, not a point singularity.
In many places in the US, there are only flashing lights to indicate a train. Where I grew up in the rural midwest, this was very common on county roads routinely with speed limits over 50mph. Even if aggressively starting the flashing lights early, there are just extremely common situations where you’re going 50mph just to keep safe with the flow of traffic and the light flashes at the wrong time and you can’t stop. It could easily result in accidents even for people who are very cautious of train crossings.

In a lot of cases, the lack of an actual automated barrier is just down to budget & maintenance costs. The sparse communities can’t afford to pay to install them or maintain them, and there are too many train crossings that are too spread out rurally for the state to maintain them. If one of them malfunctioned there could be lawsuits, or it could block road traffic on critical county roads where the nearest possible alternate route might be tens of miles away, and the road is needed for school buses, emergencg vehicles, snow removal, etc.

So in total these communities just accept the risk because it’s logistically intractable otherwise.
While motor efficiency is 90%, drivetrain is less than that because of gearbox. This motor claims to remove this inefficiency.
Awesome. But I bet you didn’t know dogecoin did! (Which was the reason of my post)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey
This seems over-confident. Other people might have been involved. If so, there could be a case to build. Hard to say without investigating?
In linear single player games lowering the cost of failure is a powerful way to encourage aggressive play. Games like Super Meatboy don't even make the player wait after death, encouraging the player to keep trying immediately.

In multiplayer games, looping maps discourage tentative play. Remain in one space too long and get flanked.

I like the way World of Tanks discourages cautious play with scouting and artillery
> force content owners to make their content available to 80% of the paying streaming watchers, or lose the right to the content.

Should there be more laws requiring that others get access things you paid for? If you don’t use a corner of your back yard should you be forced to lease it to someone? If you haven’t used your workout equipment for 90 days should you be forced to let members of the public come in and make better use of it?
Microcracks undermined San Francisco's new bus terminal
It's surprising, but people are still debating whether animals actually experience something or they are actually just complex robots that appear (incredibly convincingly) to experience things.
Old-style railway crossings often included gates that closed across the tracks to prevent this happening. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3VF4hWvjC3g/maxresdefault.jpg

Is it really that hard for the railways to fix this problem with better modern automated gates?
> "Gun deaths are traumatic beyond the impact of just the death."

I don't think you've ever lost a loved one. If you had, you'd understand that what you're saying is completely bonkers and is extremely insulting to those of us who have lost loved ones.
Among other things, it enriches private prison operators through exploitation of indentured labour, disproportionately incarcerates low-income / racialized people on non-violent drug offenses, costs the average US household nearly $1700/year, leads to high recidivism rates, and dovetails with the growing militarization of police forces. [1]

But hey, at least it feels good to some people on a visceral level! Those world-leading incarceration rates won't maintain themselves, you know.

As a non-American, I'll never understand the cultural cognitive dissonance in simultaneously trusting the government to be "tough on crime" - despite all evidence that this approach backfires strongly - and distrusting their intervention in just about anything else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
The author's solutions involved making the open arena more inviting, but another possibility is instead making the hallway less inviting. Maybe an enemy that appears behind you in the hallway, pushing you forward. Or damaging floors, or a laser, or conveyor belt, or something.
This is totally my fear of what might happen to me. Not specifically the ailment that the author has, but I am worried what will happen to me if/when I no longer can type, in my case possibly due to rheumatism.

My mother has severely swollen finger joints due to rheumatism, my grandmother on my father's side (Farmor in Norwegian, so much easier to explain) also suffered with it, and my older sister is now complaining of painful fingers. My paranoid hypochondriac traits are certain I am genetically guaranteed to suffer from rheumatic fingers.

I depend on typing fast not just for my job but also my hobby and how I perform a lot of tasks in real life. (As I expect it is for many on HN).

Not being able to type much in the future seemed terrible. However, this article and comments have made me realise I might be able to work around it. But still daunting. (If it ever becomes an actual problem).

I already suffer from some RSI tinges due to my mouse which has led me to now own a plethora of different Kensington and Elecom trackerballs and a penguin mouse. And I own two MS Sculpt ergonomic keyboards and plan to buy a Keyboard.io split keyboard soon, to prevent typing RSI.

Guess I can further buy myself out of tomorrow's typing problems with some eye-trackers, microphones, foot paddles, VR goggles etc.
I'm pretty sure typing for even just 4 hours a day is not going to end well for anybody.

I should try to measure the time I spent typing, but in fact I'm not sure I could even find a way to just have enough things to type for 4 hours, every (or just most) days.

On the rare occasions I've typed e.g. ~ 1000 LOC per day during a few days, I sometimes ended up with temporary RSI. But, at least for me, this is not a sustainable rate for other reasons, anyway.

If some people manage to type huge loads of code (or doc or whatever) in a sustainable way, I'm curious to know how they do it? For example do they only ever work on new code and with low rate of interaction with other people? How much is their typing vs. code review ratio (on my side I think is roughly 50/50 and if I could change things I would probably do even more / longer reviews)?
What makes this primarily a US thing though? One would imagine that even if you manage to turn onto a railroad track accidentally, wouldn't driving on it immediately tell you that you left the comparatively smooth road surface?
cvdazzle is several years old, is that style still effective?
> "I really hate this country."

Try enacting positive change or leave. You won't be missed.
how does this help unless the license plates are valid? And multiple people have your plate on their shirt and are walking in front of readers all across the country?
Shame I can't upvote this more.
As soon as I read this I thought it sounded suspicious.

He’s got too many powerful friends, some of whom are bound to be involved, some of whom he’d probably turn on if it got him a reduced sentence.
How's the experience? Is the steps are clear? Did you understand what you doing?

In fact, I am trying to create a bootstrap program using Python (and Django).
I've only seen those kinds of gates in Europe. Mind, I have not seen all US railway crossings, but I have seen a few, and none of them had gates like that. Plus, I think there is too little money in the railway network's budget to implement those gates, so asking navigation apps to do it for them is the cheap option.
Check out Dazzle, it might interest you.

https://cvdazzle.com/
Just force air in with a big fan or jet engine to simulate forward motion?
> It's been shown that it's very hard to prove that you're not mentally ill if you're labeled as such.

But what if you do have a condition that requires therapy? You're unlikely to recognize it yourself. Would you always refuse treatment and just go with painkillers instead?

> Getting treatment just means you'll be put on essentially random psychiatric medications (which have their own side-effects) or have to spend years in useless therapy (while your actual disease may progress).

The patient in this case would not see a psychiatrist since he's not depressed or mentally ill.

Instead he would be sent to a psychologist who can only recommend further therapy. Ofcourse if the symptoms become worse you should immediately see the GP and not wait for therapy.

> If a doctor isn't willing to do the proper testing or evaluation the first time then they won't do it a second time either

If your symptoms become worse the doctor will definitely recommend testing. Therapy is something to do as part of diagnosing your ailment.
> Epstein just didn't seem like a guy who would have a guilty conscience and decide he couldn't handle all any more.

He did seem to me like a guy who would take the prospect of a life sentence very badly, though. Based on recent reporting, he seemingly believed that he was going to usher in a new stage of human development through a combination of spreading his own DNA (i.e. impregnating dozens of women) and funding research into genetic engineering, AI, and maybe even ESP. The near-certainty of recent events dooming that project could have been a fatal blow to his ego.
Like Dazzle? https://cvdazzle.com/
Isn't Watson already a tired marketing device whose existence as a meaningful product/system is debatable? Not sure how much more damage would be done.
Ha oops. I missed that. Thanks for the background
If safety is really what people value, sure. But I am not sure I want to have an architectural space that reminds me of living in fear all the time.

Besides, architects have been studying this stuff before there were video games. Christopher Alexander made a study of traditional and modern architecture to develop “living architecture”. He defined architecture as spaces that shaped human interaction and emotions. Fear, safety, and security are only one part of the spectrum of human emotional states and concerns. I think I would rather send my child to a school whose spaces are designed towards learning and exploration.
This is just proof that we allow the rich to have sex with children because they are rich, and if you are rich you get to play by whatever rules you want.

Mark my words all of sticky fingers Jeff's dirt file is going to get "mysteriously lost in a fire".
> The price is driven up by "demand" but the demand is not "real" because it wasn't due to the business actually _innovating_ but actually just "stock changing hands"?

The demand is real, but the fundamentals do not support it. Fundamentals include things like price vs. earnings or debt vs. assets, dividend yields, etc.

If you like at this graph of price vs. earnings, you can can see dramatic rises relating to stock market bubbles:

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

> When/how does that happen?

It has already happened and we're in the middle of it. When the markets tanked in late 2018, the Fed stopped hiking. When the markets tanked again in May, the Fed announced a rate cut. Now that the rate cut is in place, the markets are tanking again, perhaps because a bigger rate cut was priced in. We'll see what happens in the coming months.

> There is no way for it to "not" right? It's sort of like measuring volume of action, but the action didn't actually produce any real "value"?

I guess that's a fair way of looking at it.

> Is there a better measure that _does_ reflect it?

Of course there are indicators that you can use to show that this kind of inflation is taking place, like the S&P 500 PE ratio I showed earlier, or rent income vs. property prices.
It’s what seems to make sense.

Lower relative interest rates creating the overabundant demand doesn’t seem to carry as much explanatory power when you consider that interest rates were also relatively lower before the hyper-inflationary period. What changed is not just the interest rates being lower. True lower rates have some effect, it’s just not enough when you consider that the investments will also be lower growth.

Supply side economics has a hand to play here, already mentioned in deregulation, lobbying by corporate interests, decreasing tax-rates on corporations and the wealthy, financial sophistication and technology of said parties to avoid taxation and capture more of the economic progress. I guess the issue is with supply side... that it is very much USA centrist and is not entirely explanatory globally. The USA does have the world’s reserve currency though. But take Japan for instance, it started the trend of low interest rates and QE forever because of globalization issues with currencies and economies, not supply side economics.

I think supply side movement isn’t really incompatible with my explanation and it actually fits inside it instead of my explanation fitting inside supply side changes. I think it is helpful to remember that the neoliberal economic and libertarian agendas are responsible for all of this in any event.

Income inequality is another issue... economic progress for the laborers being incremental at best while the progress of capital owners has been explosive. There is a tie-in possibly, that the income share of labor is being hallowed (or crowded) out by capital. That the economy is making laborer and consumer activity highly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The economy is more concerned now about retaining capital that be can pulled out en mass on a whim and major investments can be postponed on an indefinite basis for years until the conditions are capital-perfect again.

The relevance of consumption is diminishing and laborers and consumers are increasingly living in an economy that is not concerned with balancing the affordability of housing and education and health care with how the rest of the economy is performing... especially the items that are rather inelastic and you require to live or progress.
Here's the FRA's interactive map:

https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/

They have extended information about the crossings.
The Resurrection of the Marlboro Man
True but I would say the bigger problem is strict anti-building regulations in these areas where demand is high. Why aren't we building 20+ story tall buildings and massive underground structures?
Most likely they'd be violating their contract.