skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the "known eugenicist" is who I think it is, then he isn't.

The general idea, as explained by the late Hans Rosling, is that if you educate people (including girls) and help them to lead better lives then they will naturally have fewer children. They do this of their own free will.

Rosling says: "only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth". [1]

If there is a very high probability that half your children will die before they grow up, then it makes sense to have twice as many children. If you expect every child to grow up and thrive, you won't do that.

This has already happened in most developed countries, with no eugenics and no eugenicists involved. Most people in the west now have fewer children than their grandparents had.

I really don't see a problem with less-developed countries enjoying exactly the same sort of progress as we've already had.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_global_population_gro...
Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer
Right now, if you want async/await, you either have warp or tide.

Hopefully gotham or rocket gets around to updating.
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Chinese tech companies have a vast internal market to grow within (similar to the U.S.), but contrary to the U.S, once they reach a certain size the government actively helps them rather than hinders them. Once they reach this scale they are selling in international markets, and it becomes apparent to Western countries that they should try to fight and at least regain their own domestic market power.

Huawei threatening to become the global standard 5G telecommunications equipment manufacturer is a good example.

China's formula of state capitalism is likely to win in winner-take-all markets. Tearing U.S. giants into pieces would only hurt our competitive position.
Or we could stagnate for 30 years, like Japan, and be forced to start drawing down before it has a chance to grow. You don't get a Mulligan.

The current fetishisation of index funds - which I am entirely complicit in - seems to be based on drawing long-term extrapolations from a relatively short timescale in a relatively narrow market which didn't actually have funds that tracked indices, saw the rise of modern computing, and followed the most destructive wars in the Western world.
I'm curious by how you define being 'poor' since you say you had savings as a teen.

When I was a teen, being poor meant that even if you put that $12 away for another day, it'll just be used the next day to fill your tank. It's not really saving money if you're just putting off buying gas for your car.
Years ago I sat through presentations by three or so consulting companies proposing to manage an implementation of Peoplesoft. At the end, I reviewed the notes, and found that all of them essentially said, "We're going to fit your processes in Peoplesoft's way of doing things."

The implementation was painful enough even so.
Can you cite any instance of these terms actually being problematic in practice? This is usually a political statement dressed in concern troll clothing.
yes another, dev.to is cool but is a blog not a microblog.

twitcode is the first dev focused microblog I've ever seen.
I have written a lot of Go (hundreds of thousands of LOC), and appreciate Go's approach to both of these. I disagree that these are major issues.

A bigger issue, IMO, is that people coming to Go from other languages expect it to have similar features to what they're used to. Go is small and conceptually simple, but its ideas and philosophy are pretty different from most mainstream languages.
Both time and location based encryption frequently appear as plot devices in fiction, but both are not really the subject of cryptography. At the core both of these simply require measurement of a physical quantity (position, time elapsed) to release some bits of information. This is something cryptography inherently can't do. You either end up changing the problem (unlocks not before X => unlocks after spending X amount of time computing) or relying on someone/somethey to proxy the measurement in a trustworthy manner to you (the blockchain-blackbox approach).

(You can't do "location based encryption" even if you bring your own trusted computing enviroment plus GNSS receiver, because GNSS emulators exist)
FWIW, this is basically my take as a DO employee. They could be lying to us and saying it's primarily reorganization so that we don't worry, but that's not my read on it.
Could you please post this somewhere else too, site is blocked for me here.
> I dont know why they did not do that when it got to that point.

I think most people kept hoping they weren't at that point, and could actually move forward without forking.
> About 90% of reporters are left of center

How would one even go about defining what center is? And when we say "left of center," how far to the left are we talking about?
> It has been argued that an interstellar mission that cannot be completed within 50 years should not be started at all. Instead, assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity and not yet having reached the limit, the resources should be invested in designing a better propulsion system. This is because a slow spacecraft would probably be passed by another mission sent later with more advanced propulsion (the incessant obsolescence postulate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
This is something JavaScript does better than Rust. I like the JS community because it's way more sympathetic on average. They have lots of code quality issues to solve in some of the hardest ways... But people are working on that, and I think they will succeed eventually, if they haven't already fixed much with npm audit.
FYI - California teachers do not pay into SocialSecurity. Their pension is 100% on the backs of the tax payers of CA. Market performance is irrelevant as their pensions are paid regardless of performance.
In my experience it's the more conservative/less fashionable/less well remunerated entities that care about certs. They serve as something of an insurance policy for managers that don't trust their ability to discern good from bad when hiring.

Edit: they're also used by some organisations to contain salary growth, i.e., even though you're worth x to the company and learnt y and z this year, you don't get a pay rise without a certificate.
Spinlaunch raises another 35m to build its space catapult
You are correct in general. I'll just add the nuance that when an open-source project gets beyond a certain popularity and usage threshold I'd expect the project's governance to take a stance that's more responsive to PRs.

That doesn't include any money incentives and that is likely the problem here.

Maybe `actix-web`'s author should apply for GitHub sponsorship. Maybe small sums of money every month will motivate him to take PRs more seriously.
That is mostly true but not categorically so. I'm in tech and have one, albeit from an older company that's no longer around.
People keep calling for breaking up Big Tech, but they refuse to look at ISPs like Comcast and network carriers like AT&T!

Those monopolies do more to stifle competition than Big Tech.
There's two things I see going on here. Firstly, there's the question of whether it's even possible for someone to be an effective politician without lying. There's also the possibility that America is so disinterested and morally bankrupt that politicians know they can get away with saying one thing and doing another. To make things even worse, the amount of scrutiny politicians are now under for even the most minor of things creates such a filter that only the politicians who are willing to spew PR bullcrap or are bulletproof to bad press will make it. It's a complicated issue because, let's say that political theater is far more effective at winning votes than telling the truth or actually helping the voters; an honest person is stuck in a sort of prisoner's dilemma where their most practical choice is to betray any sort of principles they have.
See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statisti...

"The aggregation of particles in the same state, which is a characteristic of particles obeying Bose–Einstein statistics, accounts for the cohesive streaming of laser light"

Fermi statistics mean that you can't put two electrons in the same state, but photons want to dogpile into the same state, that's what stimulated emission is all about.
Sucks. Hope it's not financial. I run a bunch of projects on DO, much prefer it over AWS. It's easier to use and straight to the point.
https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

was the guide I used
So that others can pick the pieces they need, if they care to. It's an offer to the world, not a sales pitch.
Pretty sure I saw it on HN but not finding it now. It was a link to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
You can't REALLY believe that only the top 10% of wage earners in the United States own stocks, right?

Please tell me you're just parroting something you heard and you don't actually think that.
> It might be me getting older/grouchier but watching a dev use black or prettier because they don’t know how/are too lazy to indent their code properly is frustrating for me.

> Or when I see new devs pick up User.find(id) in rails and sticking to the ORM without learning a lick of SQL - I think to myself how they’re selling themselves short.

I think those are very different cases. Knowing SQL is a valuable skill which I'm pretty sure almost all developers end up using at some point in their careers, whereas there's no value in being able to format code. Maybe that will change once we start seeing people who learnt to code with automatic formatters and didn't develop any sense for what good syntax looks like, but I don't think we're there yet.
I think what I want is something like the AOPA or AMA, but for consumers / citizens.
Because, electronic voting is still a bad idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
This is the beauty of carbon taxes - in addition to creating incentives to avoid carbon emissions, they raise revenue. That raised revenue can then be directly given back to people. Wether you do so according to 1/(number of people) or some means-adjusted distribution is an exercise i will leave to the voter.
Well, it also means you just have to test your web app on one browser. No more compatibility issues!
Unemployment drops during an expansion, then rises heading into a recession. It turns out you can quantify this relationship as a recession predictor:

> According to LaVorgna, since 1948, the economy has always entered or been in a recession when the unemployment rate increases 50 basis points (or 0.50 percentage point) from its trailing cyclical low.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/a-recession-indicator-with-a...

Taken with the yield curve inversion in 2019, and other leading indicators, it appears the US economy is headed for the first recession in over 10 years. If previous trends hold, it's within 12-18 months away.

Oddly enough, the stock market typically rallies from the yield curve inversion right into the next recession. So there's money to be made, but it's kind of like trying to gather nickels on the tracks as the locomotive barreling down on you blows its whistle.

However, policymakers will continue to tout the relatively low unemployment rate and booming stock market right into the recession (which can only be declared months after its start).
I think it's a bad idea because if this legislation had been in place in, say, 2001, we'd all be stuck with terrible USB-mini connectors, not even terrible USB-micro connectors. If 2007, we'd be stuck with terrible USB-micro connectors instead. Now, post-2014, USB-C seems like a winner (too bad they didn't do this in 2012, when it could have been Lightning with a forced-free license!).

So now it's USB-C, and... that's it? Forever? No point in innovation in the cable space, because nobody will be allowed to use anything else.

And "all small appliances < 100w?" So either I'm paying for a cable capable of carrying data at high speed to power a lamp, or I have separate cables for lamps and phones, but using the same connector, and how do I tell the difference?

Hard pass.
Without furniture, how exactly do you propose that I use a computer workstation with 3 large monitors? Sit it all on the floor? That sounds like an ergonomics nightmare.

Some of the furniture we have now is because pre-technological humans simply didn't do many things we do now.
You cannot change other people, you can only change how _you_ react to other people and the world around you.

If Actix is that important to so many people, eventually there will be a person and/or organization that will step up, fork the projects, apply the patches, set the principles and code of conduct (or not), keep as much "unsafe" code as they deem necessary and try to rally the community around it.

The open source creators and maintainers gave you something and asked for nothing. They are people with their weaknesses, faults, insecurities, and other passions and commitments, like we all are. Get the best of what they are willing to give, give them the best you are willing to give and they are willing to accept, and move on.
Keep Saturdays Sacred
Just as you shouldn't eat everything you just picked up from the sidewalk, you shouldn't just use any code thats available out there.

check, check and check again...
> bear the blunt

It's "bear the brunt".
Here's another one.

1. Someone writes a library

2. Library becomes insanely popular

3. Users receive value out of library

4. One day, users stop receiving value from library

Is the author not responsible for the value generated by this library? At what point does the author become required to continue providing value?

"Just fork it" is an excellent response to (4), anything else is what entitlement looks like.
I'm pretty skeptical of any IT cert after having a few really bad experiences with "AWS certified" devs. It doesn't seem to certify competence at all. We had a dev with tons of certs struggle to understand and setup a load balancer.

What's the point of accreditation if there's no actual expectation or understanding of skill?
> It sounds like you're not replacing the Python ML code so why is this such a big deal?

How would you write an article about moving to a hipster language then? :-)
What I Learned from Making Dozens of Public Records Requests for Police Data
You might have more engagement from more people with larger, more prominent images.
I thought that seemed rather unlikely so I searched around a bit. Apparently it's at least partially true, https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...

>Although the installation of cameras might be justified for security purposes, the timely and automatic deletion of footage is essential. The EDPS requires all EU institutions to have clear policies regarding the use of video surveillance on their premises including on potential storage.
Why is this getting so much drama?
There is an interesting theory that I sometimes read about. It states that the more contempt and animosity that a group shows to outsiders, the more cooperative and cohesive the group becomes.

I think that if you really want to overcome the language bias you need to first address and make people aware that initially there may be some instability in group cohesion. It may also be helpful to learn the fine art of self-deprecating humor.
Yes, CTCSS/DCS is a control tone. Definitely. The first HT I had had a CTCSS board added to it, and could only be set for a single tone! Things have changed since then.

I've always thought that the beeps at the end of a user-initiated (not repeater) transmission would be cool, but they are indeed frowned upon. They aren't necessary, anyway. I'm sure if they became necessary for any reason, hams would be on the cutting edge.

Interestingly a digital mode called JS8Call uses framed transmissions, linked together, to send text over HF. At the end of a frame set, an ascii diamond is transmitted to signify EOL. Otherwise the receiving station doesn't know if they are done, or if they dropped a frame, or what. Not audible of course.
If this cutoffs are made for the sake of increasing profitability of an already profitable company, they are a bad sign in terms of management style and quality - it will affect morale, creativity and enthusiasm of remaining employees.
hypothetical number - chosen for the sake of argument
I write a lot of code in golang, and if anything, my views before using the language were even further cemented by even more flaws I found while using it.
Thank you very much for the list!
GDPR binds an operator of a service. The developer can do as he likes.
Nice goalpost shift. The original poster claimed that only 10% benefited. How did it change to 50%?
Yes, and they've trained neurons to do tasks successfully. But the way they trained them is very different to how they naturally work. I don't think we know how to train a collection of neurons the "natural" way.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6573-brain-cells-in-a...
Also Kim Zetter, she's been reporting on this with a greater level of technical expertise and less activism for at least a dozen years. In fact she was the one that scooped this last night https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1046429196182941696
I’ll defer to you on this, but I definitely know I’ve come across subs where this has been happening for years and they’re not shut down.
Cargo pivots to car-top advertising, does layoffs
Forking is an act of love. If you fork a project of mine, you show that you care enough about it to maintain it yourself, but your time and energy into my "original" code.

Forking can be aggressive if you write deprecating things into the forked project's readme, but of course you don't have to do that.

You could also talk to the old maintainer before forking; maybe they are happy to give up some responsibility, or maybe they even endorse a fork.
Surely Microsoft has done their homework: researched everything and weigh the pros & cons. This is a big thing and the next step in their browser strategy. We can only guess their reasons, but clearly in their eyes, Chromium codebase is the better choice.
Sounds like a good model for a computer hardware business.

Extending that to restaurants may be a bit of a stretch.
More than one-third of Americans who work full-time have no access to pensions or retirement accounts such as 401(k)s that derive their value from financial assets like stocks and bonds. The percentage of workers covered by generous defined-benefit pension plans has declined from 62% in 1983 to 17% by 2016. While some economists consider an increase in the stock market to have a "wealth effect" that increases economic growth, economists like Former Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher believe those effects are limited. Make no mistake the stock market only benefits the upper class, and quite disproportionately so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/opinion/bull-stock-market...
Not him but the company I work for has moved most of our ML pipelines away from Python and over to Swift. We started the move after Google announced support for Swift for TF. Before the move over to Swift, we were rewriting a lot of the data paths in C++ but were generally unhappy with the state of TF for C++ libraries. The move to Swift hasn't been without hiccups, however, but the community has been extremely helpful and it was worth it overall. State of Swift for TF libraries today is quite good.

We looked at Go early on but quickly dismissed it because with the move from Python to Go, it didn't seem like we were getting enough benefits to warrant the amount of work that would be required.
How to Get a Job as a Product Manager When You Don't Have 2 Years of Experience
Except for they didn't simply push a commit which replaces the code with a readme that tells people to go maintain it themselves or fuck off, they emptied it, rewrote their history and did a git push --force.

And frankly I don't buy the story that they wanted to put the code on their own repository anyways, seems more like a concession because the other contributors also hold some copyright.
You’re also forgetting all the people without pensions, but with IRAs and/or 401ks. And then the many more with brokerage accounts. And young people seem to have jumped headlong into Robinhood.
I'll take "alive" over "laudable" any day of the week.

I understand the desire to dig into intentions here but we're not losing if we invest less in coal.
https://xkcd.com/2030/

[Summary to remind you: "Don't trust voting software and don't listen to anyone who tells you it's safe.]
The median 401k balance for 40-49 year olds is $36,000 [0]. These are adults who, for the most part, have never had access to pensions, only to 401k plans. They are about midway between entering the workforce and retirement. They, as a group, are nowhere near prepared to retire. Ever.

A booming stock market is irrelevant to most Americans.

[0]: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/the-average-401...
We're essentially living under techno-feudalist system. I don't see breaking up Big Tech's monopoly as fixing this. There needs to be a fundamental shift away from centralized platforms to decentralized p2p platforms. That's the only real way to rebel against the current system of exploitation.
Fire is a natural part of many ecosystems. However, magnitude matters. Natural forest fires that creep along the forest floor and don’t turn into raging, out of control wildfires, can help certain seeds germinate and keep invasive plants under control. But when the fires burn out of control, they can push ecosystems totally out of whack to the point where they become something else entirely.
Maybe you do, I'm sure people would appreciate that, but it's not necessary. The nature of these things is that the users are already "following the herd" to a degree. So if the maintainer becomes inactive and a fork picks up the interest, they will just move to that. No ceremony required.
Why Goldman Sachs is playing catch-up with JPMorgan
It's one thing to reject consensus and another to withdraw consensus.

The companies can make the rejection difficult as long as the withdrawal is as easy as the giving.
I’ve seen leader and follower on some motor controllers that I’ve used.
Back then Rust did not have editions. I think it would be worth exploring renaming `unsafe` blocks to "sound", because when one writes `sound { ... }` what one is actually stating is that the code in the block has been proven sound.

The `unsafe` function type modifier can be left as unsafe, or renamed to unsound, since that what that is doing is stating that a particular function is not always sound to call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_API
That had to do with certain outlets like Bloomberg and Reuters getting market data before everyone else. Nothing nefarious that I can tell.
It was advertised as a production-ready web-framework, and it was very popular. When do people get to complain? "Oh, my credit card information was stolen due to memory issues in this web-service, it's fine though, we didn't pay the guy, so we can't blame him.". Web-frameworks are cornerstones for security, and if you write one, advertise one, you need to care about security. Features, code-style, ad-hoc PRs, bug-fixes: little responsibility there, but security is something that can hurt a lot of people if done wrong. The use-after-free bug this was about could've been exploited in the right circumstances.

If I build a playground for free and it gets popular in my neighbourhood, and then collapses on some poor kid, I'm still responsible, even if I did it for free.

The way it was handled was definitely NOT productive though, the guy didn't deserve the flames.