skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although much of the sentiment of the article is correct, the author seems to be trying really hard to push a narrative (suicide by being attacked by social media followers, really?). Also, less desire to marry is certainly not exclusive to Korea. Same thing in the U.S., and probably most of the rest of the developed world as well. I'd still bet that the average Korean is more interested in marriage than the average westernized feminist American, but that's just me guessing.

In any case, it's most certainly true that life is hard in Korea if you're not in the top 10% or so. They've got among the most competitive (pre-college) education systems in the world that in my opinion is more tantamount to torture because 11 year kids are literally at cram schools until 10-11pm at night. Getting into the right university is extraordinarily competitive and basically determines your future.

And then the job market is extremely competitive, with probably among the longest hours and worst working conditions as far as office jobs go. If you're only working 9:30am-5:30pm, you're considered lucky and probably working at a foreign company. You've got to be completely subservient to your boss, and there's always some upper manager who makes the atmosphere toxic. If you're a woman, you'll basically get pressured to leave as soon as you have a baby. And buying a home - a prerequisite for a man to marry in Korean culture - has gotten unaffordable unless your parents can subsidize you. And of course tack on 2 years of military service, so most Korean men don't even start their first job until their 27 or so.

It's no surprise to me that Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world, and that people are choosing to drop out of this cutthroat rat race. I spoke to an expat with kids who's lived here in Korea for the last 20+ years who told me the younger generation has basically given up on finding a good job and buying a home, focusing more on travel and experiences. Perhaps an exaggeration, but not completely removed from reality.

In Korea's defense, I see the same pattern in the U.S. (thanks baby boomers), just maybe not as extreme. Although university is perhaps getting more expensive in Korea, it's certainly nowhere near the extreme that it is in the U.S. And at least Korea has a very good universal healthcare system. Similar to the U.S., I think the only hope of real change is for the baby boomers to retire or get out of politics and for the younger generation to take over. Let's call a spade for a spade here - baby boomers created this mess (whether we're talking the U.S. or Korea), and they're not going to bring us out.
I fail to see how "per capita per square mile" is a useful measure.

_Anything_ measured in that way would show densely populated area vastly outnumbering rural areas, perhaps with the exclusion of things that essentially don't exist in cites, such as "number of farms per capita per square mile".

The measure appears to be concocted specifically for Lying With Statistics™.
Yeah, people are in touch with each other. I’m glued to my phone on transit because I’m catching up with my friends who I haven’t seen in days, something I can’t do at work. Fucking insufferable, the paternalism.
>Countries are not defined exclusively by biological descent,

Perhaps not exclusively, but in the main? If you are in the U.S., do you count yourself as a member of whichever indigenous people lived where you are before you? Would they? Would this change if you adopted their customs?
Didn't Google just publish an article where their researchers pwned iPhone 10 different ways? Now granted, those bugs are all patched now, but who's to say they were the last ones?
The transformed version. It looks very uncanny valley to me.
> Despite the obvious privacy concerns, Kain pitches his invention primarily as a helpful tool for Tesla owners who rate above average on the paranoia spectrum.

"I'm paranoid about being surveilled, which is why I own a car which sends every detail about my driving back home to a corporate mothership."
This is next level helicopter parenting in action. Kids these days are twice the age of millennials when they start roaming their surrounding environment without supervision. When I grew up we had a comedy movie called the Truman Show and we were actually laughing about a similar situation. This is guaranteed to set up a generation for failure if kids are never exposed to any risk taking activities.
> Do you often go into a pizza place and witness a card present transaction to pay for a delivery order? :-)

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, almost all the pizza/goods delivery/taxi/whatever are card-present transactions; whenever I order something like a pizza for delivery, the delivery dude arrives at my door with a wireless card terminal and I pay with my card present (chip+pin or contactless if the amount is small) upon receiving the pizza, and this has beeen this way for so many years now already that I don't remember when they switched from the earlier model, now businesses such as these usually don't have card-not-present acquiring contracts, possibly for cost or fraud reasons as both these things are worse if you have card-not-present permitted.
Good point.

>A jury verdict that is contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it. However, if a pattern of acquittals develops in response to repeated attempts to prosecute a particular offence, this can have the de facto effect of invalidating the law.

-Wikipedia
Of he understood basic statistics he would have controlled for age, sex, neighborhood and car type.
Most of the CO2 emissions are natural, but they aren't the main concern. In the Northern hemisphere growing season, atmospheric CO2 declines sharply. In the fall and winter, the leaves fall off of trees and decompose, and that CO2 goes right back into the atmosphere. We don't worry about that CO2 because it's part of a natural cycle that absorbs and emits roughly equal amounts of carbon dioxide.

If you look at an atmospheric CO2 plot over time, you'll notice that it's a sawtooth, for the reasons I just described. However, this sawtooth has an upward slant. That's the part we're worried about, and that's the part that humans are responsible for. We're pulling carbon out of the ground and burning it, and there isn't any natural process to cancel that out on the scale of what we're doing. So far, atmospheric CO2 has gone from about 280 parts per million before the industrial revolution to about 420 or so now. That's a pretty big change, and it's happening faster than ecosystems can adapt to it. It is also having an increasing impact on human life.

Here's something to put the current rate of change into historical context: https://xkcd.com/1732/
I've seen the term 'market socialism' used when describing China's system.
> I very much think socioeconomic status is more likely a better fit.

Believe it or not, this exact question has been studied pretty intensively for decades.

The predictive value of race is much higher than the predictive value of socioeconomic status.
It just looks like more saturated colors, but still similar texture detail. Was this done using standard color tools?
Regardless of the legal ownership structure (I believe the SSRN perspective), it is effectively
"state directed when needed." That's not a xenophobic perspective, that's a reality of being a company in China and it'd be hard for someone to push back on that based on the last 20 years of game film for Internet related businesses in China.
Don't ask me, I don't know, as I'm asking the same question. I'm waiting for some answers to my question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20659004
I've heard a similar observation phrased slightly differently to describe Russia. If you're looking at a large Russian company, it goes, you're by definition looking at a company that has come to some kind of accommodation with the state -- because if they hadn't, the state would never have permitted them to get large.
Primitive Technology: Hut burned down, built new one [video]
Doing what? The parent is gone. Just so you know, I'll also try not to do "this" … whatever "this" might be.
Ah, I was hoping to see it the other way around.
However in other counties you can be denied care completely for experimental or even low percentage treatment. That little boy in the UK that had an Italian hospital willing to treat him was denied the right to leave the UK. Freedom has its upsides too.
Considering that organization behind this (Greenpeace) is also protesting against nuclear energy, the most realistic alternative to fossil energy, i will not take my hat off.
Ok thanks for that. So 500 nm today, moving to 250 nm by the end of the year or early next year.

So your 12.5mm wafer can have a 8.8 x 8.8 mm square inside of it, or 78.125 mm^2. If I did the math right that is on the order of 156M transistors given a 4t ram cell that is about 39 million bits of RAM. So basically a pretty useful amount of space for "jelly bean" type applications. A synchronized fab line with a median processing time of 1 minute can produce 60 dice per hour. Assuming a physical plant cost of $8M US (that is "several million Euros + the office space to hold it) and a depreciation cycle of 12 years that is about $500 / day for the machinery we can add another $500 / day for staff + electricity, figuring 8 hour days, that's $125/hour to operate for 60 chips is a bit more than $2/dice.

Well the pencil math works (with all of those assumptions) but even assuming its off by an order of magnitude, $20/dice isn't a deal breaker for your own custom chip that does your special thing. You'll also notice that the 50 weeks a year 40 hours a week assumption. I'm guessing you can get better utilization than that which would offset your depreciation costs.
Slashdot karma affects ranking? Good to know.
> "these can be lifted on November 1st (if required), and would radically change the economics of the UK's generation market"

How so? Coal-fired power plants are already uneconomic in the UK, and the ones that continue to operate do so with a government subsidy, the "Capacity Market", which essentially pays them to remain on standby in case they are needed.

The European Commission actually ruled recently that the CM was illegal state aid, so if anything, Brexit just means that the CM can continue operating.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/electricity-market...
This is old news BUT hasn't reached it's Apex by a long shot. Candidates that are aggressively transparent, speak with brutal truth, and accept it may cost them an election... They will ironically be hard to beat long haul in this environment.
the start of the end? nice. what a scummy company...
"Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back"

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. In many ways tradition is disappearing, at least where I'm from, and I can't yet tell if it is for better or worse.
A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US [pdf]
I disagree. I think you are used to Western Companies where the default is private ownership. All major Chinese companies began as state owned enterprises, and it is usually necessary to get investment from one to get a charter. So ostensibly private companies have a big state investment.

Plus a trade union committee implies a government structure.
And recently Reddit too, right?
Not necessarily about China specifically, but why is corporate ownership so hard in general to deduce? Is it the case that public, queryable records simply do not exist, or they do exist but they require, say, manual steps to process through?
Here’s an interesting podcast ep about flight data: https://www.kassenzone.de/2019/08/04/wer-gewinnt-bei-flugsuc...

Intro text is German, audio and transcription are English
I had to go to the ER yesterday. I was taken to the closest ER. You bring up geographic monopolies without any irony and yet healthcare has huge and very obvious geographical monopolies.

At the ER I was made to sign something on the way in in a state in which I couldn’t really tell what I was signing. I was given various drugs and sent through a CT scan. I had no idea what was going on. I certainly was in no position, with symptoms of a life threatening condition on top of being incapacitated to say “hey hold up, I think the Safeway has cheaper CT scans can you guys transfer me there!”

Healthcare is entirely different from buying groceries. It does not and will never operate like a typical market for typical commodity items.
Cl ions are fine; dissolved table salt consists of them, plus some cations. The copper is more of a problem, and I don't know the official answer. I'd think that if you could oxidize it to copper monosulfide (covellite), cupric oxide (tenorite), or even fully hydrated copper carbonate (malachite) if you don't have acid rain, that would adequately protect it from weathering and thus allow you to dispose of it safely. But it might be more practical, as well as legally safer, to electrolytically reduce it back to copper and sell it for recycling. Copper, as a semi-precious and semi-noble metal, is recycled actively everywhere the humans live.

I think the biggest problems for chip fabrication waste (not circuit board etching) are HF and nonpolar organic solvents. I'd think neutralizing HF with chalk would yield fluorspar, which is resistant to weathering even over geological timescales. But again I don't know what the official answer is. Maybe dumping fluorspar in your yard will get you arrested.
1 pixel gradient is an old games/graphics trick.. Define an array of pixels, but only one "row".. match the length of the array to the dimension desired, then use the graphics primitives in the window to stretch and fill.. (here, a picture is worth a thousand words) think of a To-Be-Defined rectangular area, and a gradient that is mapped to either the x or Y dimension, and "stretched" across to make the rectangular fill.
Americans have a real problem with proportions.

If you put a million people in a city and 100 of them die of a flu, everyone screams epidemic. You spread those same people out over all the small towns in a state, and 200 of them die, it's just fine.

Because, I suspect, we often associate statistics with a location rather than a cross section of society. We think "someone in my town was murdered", not "the murder rate is 1/250,000".
I routinely find both better routes and prices using Kayak, and it has far more powerful filtering. Mostly intercontinental flights though. I wouldn't be surprised if Google is better tuned to US domestic flights.
You’re completely correct, the earth will be fine. We, however, will not.
> It's the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Username+PW is obsolete and insecure at least 20 years now.

That does not imply that banks must implement 2FA with their proprietary applications.

Banks could just implement TOTP (Time-based One-time Passwords, RFC 6238) or HOTP (HMAC-based One-time Passwords, RFC 4226) and let me choose how I generate my OTP. For example with an hardware OTP generator or an open source application.

Most banks are using PSD2 as a occasion to force their privacy-invading apps on their users.
That twitter thread is awesome and sums it up pretty well. Half the posts are Winnie the Pooh gifs and if you go 1 - 2 followers deep on the other half, you're in a weird bot circle network.
It looks like they don't offer M2M plans, and their cheapest plan appears to be ~$20/month(I guess? I don't see a recurring billing option). Maybe it's the cheapest if you are sending 500+MB of data per month but it seems hologram(or some other M2M sim provider) would be cheaper.
I've been a major critic of China and Huawei, especially as of late and I am served SO many clearly propaganda posts from Huawei now. It's insane.
I'm not even sure what they would charge you with. Disturbing the peace?
Suicide is a one-and-done deal. Population decline is gradual and reversible.
The headline on reddit mentioned it was deepfaked.
> state directed when needed

Isn't it the same in here in the US? The president said "hey companies, you cannot trade with Huawei" and every company has to follow.

My point is every government has some degree of influence on their companies. How much is another question. However in my opinion Huawei cannot be as innovative as they are with as much influence from their government as people here often suggest.
Complete with spyware!
How about:

The more regulation the more ownership of the state. Private lives are mostly an illusion these days as you can't do whatever you want with "your" life. Ironically just as in communist countries, in democratic countries people are more or less owned by the ruling parties.
I think I'm hung up on the same thing, chief.

Why per capita per square mile instead of per capita? Why do the miles enter into it? Because of more interactions? I'd like to see just the numbers per capita. I suspect they're fairly close.
What is a mobile OS that is doomed to fail? Alex
IMO,

1) early users feel the most connected with your technology and are the most hurt when you screw them over. At that stage, it can sink your company.
2) fixing this when you have 10k users prevents you from leaking the data of the next 1.49m users.
Your local rubbish service will point you in the right direction.
SSRN: Social Science Research Network

I had to search that acronym.
HTH
Watch the documentary dude. Safechuck and Robson are legit. In addition to the other accusers. MJ was guilty as hell.

They only testified on Michael’s defense team under pressure and duress and witness tampering. Safechuck and Robson are definitely legit.
Belgium also does this
Papa John's Is Down
> Then that can be coupled with a typical solar cell with bandgap matched precisely to the emitter wavelength. So your solar cell is near ideally efficient for the photons it receives.

One way or another, once you've converted sunlight to heat, you are limited by the Carnot efficiency. For the 80% efficiency they claim, if all of it comes from thermophotovoltaics, they need a hot side temperature at least 5x ambient, which is over 1000 C. I wish them luck getting anything resembling a solar panel up to 1000 C. (I'm not, in any respect, saying it's impossible -- I'm saying it's very hard. You'd need excellect spectrally or directionally specific absorption to avoid re-radiating all that heat out the top of your panel, and you'd need conventional transparent insulation to stop conduction.)

On top of that, super-Plankian emission or no, if it's limited to the near field, then the PV cell is very, very close to the hot surface. That PV cell needs to be kept near room temperature to get that efficiency.

This whole thing seems extraordinary complex for something that wants to be cost-effective.
hey, hopefully this doesn't come across as strange but you have an incredible talent for writing (or at least, writing HN comments)

best of luck and i hope things go as well as they can.
I agree. I upvoted this submission because, IMO, it's comically bad. It will be a long before a contraption like this is ready for prime time.

The video is only a minute long, worth watching for the yucks.

It's cringe-worthy the way the the razor whacks into the dummy's head. The concern is brushed off with "the force sensing isn't there yet". Yeah, just a small matter of hardware and programming. And, as someone else pointed out, there's the small matter of the hand around the dummy's neck.

Comedy gold.
> We need international economic planning

That would reduce meat consumption a lot. All other food consumption, too.
>Climate change is a hoax to increase taxes.

So you are saying all those scientists are being paid by corrupt polticians to produce fake research and at the same time they are populist abd deny the climate change at the same time to satisfy their ignorant population? That's not just pure distilled cognitive dissonance that is complete bullshit.

>if we dont act now we go into a “runaway” scenario we cannot recover from. If this is true why have we not already hit this runaway scenario.

Because predictions are by definition about events that haven't happened yet but will happen in the future. This means that if a future event is undesireable we can take action to avert it. If we merely wait for something to happen then it will be too late to take action.

>If we’re already in that state we’d be better of leaning into it and saving resources to deal with the changes.

So what do you propose? The largest producers of greenhouse gases will be the least affected. This means that billions of humans in Asia and Africa will require some sort of cooling technology to survive. Those people probably don't have access to an electric grid and they do not earn enough money so using airconditioning will not be feasable without foreign aid. Alternatively these people can migrate to places where the climate is still hospitable for human life. This could mean billions of climate refugees will come to europe and north america.

>Also the earth has natural feedback mechanisms to deal with higher temperatures - more clouds from increased water vapor.

>Also the earth has natural feedback mechanisms to deal with higher temperatures - more clouds from increased water vapor.

>Also is the runaway scenario purely a function of temperature ? If so why has the earth not locked into the runaway in the past when the earth was warmer than it is now ?

>Also, all of this C02 used to be i the air ! “Fossil fuels” is compressed plant matter from millions of years ago that pulled C02 out of the air via photosynthesis, what wrong with releasing it back in? Plants are thriving all over the world due to the increased C02 levels - feedback mechanisms at work !

You appear to be misunderstanding something. Those balancing effects do exist but they work at a far bigger timescale that exceed human fossil fuel activity by several orders of magnitude. For every year humanity burns fuel it will take tens of thousands of years for the planet to recover. Humanity won't persist that long and even if it did it would be extremely foolish to begin this cycle again and burn all the fossil fuels again. I am very surprised that you are only concerned about the planet and the plants that are living on it. Of course they will be fine. It's us humans who have to fear climate change.
Cartoon eyes and to a lesser extent mouths did a lot to display emotion. We are too caught up in making things photorealistic that we miss out on these things.
Trying to look at the menu, I'm hungry :)
WireGuard and Torrent on Linux
Automating Traffic Analysis with Machine Learning
I’m very happy that Disney went whole-warthog in making the models realistic. This halfway between cartoony-but-real look isn’t good. The new Lion King was visually stunning and reminded me of a Nat Geo film. The characters didn’t emote very well, and the voice actors had to carry the performance, but at least the animals looked good.

(That’s not to say the story was great... but that’s also not the point.)

Detective Pikachu almost fell into the uncanny valley with some characters (especially the ones with the “real” eyes) for the same reason.

For 3-D cartoon animals, IMO Zootopia’s style really hit the sweet spot of cartoony-but-recognizable species.

Wow, 5 downvotes in under an hour for stating my opinion. Would somebody who thinks otherwise like to share?
On the surface these state owned operations look similar but the results speak to the contrary.
I think Chinese corporations behave more like a beehive and Russians like a wolf pack.
The Kremlin chased out a lot Russians with academic papers. China on the other hand seems to be the place that facilitates the best startup opportunities.
Or Infinite Jest.

Disclosure: My (unfinished) copy of GEB was given to a friend as a gift, and my (unfinished) copy of IJ taunts me as I type.