skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody look at that graph and say...

WTF?! The data says nothing like what the headline says!

Yes, the projection goes down sharply... but the best estimator of tomorrow is yesterday, and the last few years of data are saying nothing like what the projection is showing!
It's important to note that in Germany, at least, day care is provided by the state at no cost, starting from the age of 3mo or so. You also get 300 euros a month per child. German society has made a concerted effort to encourage that people have children in Germany. It's an idea worth copying, IMHO.
Important: Write in English. (or maybe Chinese?)
You two might enjoy this short story:

https://www.guernicamag.com/gay_10_1_10/

The term zombie comes from Haiti and there might be a partly medical process involved. Here is a link I found with a quick search (that mentions at the end that there is some criticism of this theory):

https://sites.duke.edu/ginalisgh323/zombie-project/

But mostly I wanted to share that short story.
they can also be solved by cutting back benefits. and higher wages isn't neccesarily a "bad thing" that needs to be solved unless you're a major corporation, which is why they are desperate for immigration.
I've done this on quite a few occasions as well. It isn't necessarily time wasted, as you evoke a positive view from the client (progress towards the solution) and often get valuable feedback.

The alternative is that they think you are done, adding more pressure, and requiring more wasted time later explaining the mis-aligned expectations.
The Bank of Korea to move the country’s financial system to blockchain
You should really check out Visible. Unlimited 4G data, even on the hotspot.

$25 per month if you join a party, which takes about 5 minutes after searching for "Visible Party".
Please give it a shot and let us know!
>Glad to see my technical debt has gone full circle, and become the bleeding edge

This exact cycle is why I'm starting to feel serious burnout in this industry. Even when I look to other related branches of data analysis, everything just feels to be a gigantic cesspit of corporate ignorance feeding on itself, fueled by new buzzwords.

I wonder if anyone's done studies on the cycle time of technology adoption in corporate life; I swear it's getting faster.
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It's not just different interface, but different workflow.

In traditional ML you need to
a) define model to do prediction A -> B
b) train the model, which may take minutes
c) then do the predictions form A -> B, which takes (1, 10, 100) microseconds

With predictive queries, you:
a) Ask prediction for any X based on any A, B and C and expect answers in (1, 10, 100) milliseconds

You basically trade throughput and latency to get higher productivity, faster iteration and simplified overall sysstem
Where can i read googles ranking policies then?
I call that one "Proof by Reference to Pay Walled Article".

That article could say absolutely anything for all I can see....
I understand. It’s only on the help page :)

It’s written by some of the brightest people I’m AWS - so
Don’t worry about that.
"Now I can just grab a generated client in a language of my choice."
Except when you can't because no client is available in your favorite language. Then it is a lot harder than a rest api would have been.
Volkswagen’s Top Software Guy Is Dropped
Great summary -- for anyone interested in the kernel side, there's a talk from 2019 called "A year of Container Kernel Work Past, Present, and Future of Container Kernel Features"[0] which goes into the timeline and future work being done. I'm not sure where it is today but it's a good watch.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnArHYRYT3U
I'm sure Dijkstra could get away with saying that, but how would you phrase something equivalent to someone above you in the food chain without getting nuked from orbit in response? I can just see how the conversation would go:

PHB: You've only added two lines - why did that take two days!

Dev: Because it took that long to understand the requirements, understand the code, find the root cause, write a test to verify the root cause, and then 2 minutes to write the code to fix it. The resulting code verifiably fixes the root problem for at least reasonable inputs, with minimal code and thus minimal chance of a bug.

PHB: Why not add 50 lines of code and be done in an hour?

Dev: Because that would be enormously more likely to be buggy.

PHB: But it would fix the symptom, right? Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good!

Dev: 50 lines would not to be "good", it would be crap. And we would have to revisit that code in a week or a month.

PHB: But in the meantime we will have delivered, dammit! We're on a deadline, with three managers and five customer representatives breathing down my neck, and you're telling me you want to spend two days on something you admit could be fixed in an hour?

Dev: I never said I could, only that 50 lines would be a crap solution.

PHB: Are you calling me a liar? Or just an idiot?

[Continue until the developer is fired or gives in, loses hope in humanity, and starts planning their exit.]

Thankfully I have never worked with someone like that, but if the starting point is as bad as the first sentence above then it's only going to go downhill from there.
So Linus is fine with it, and FreeBSD fed it into yarrow/fortuna which is the kernel boot time initialized entropy pool.
This is the most weirdly anecdotal and vacuous statements I've ever read.
You can't store medical workers in a silo for later. That's the big problem. Older people don't need to eat more but they do need more attention from nurses and doctors.
If declining birth rate is a matter of what people can afford, we should look for some sort of correlation between wealth and birth rate.

To the best of my knowledge, the correlation is somewhat negative--that is, rich people have lower average birth rates than poor people.

How can it be economics "plain and simple" if even people who can easily afford to raise large families choose not to? Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan could afford more kids than the Duggars. But they have two.
https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i1...

You probably abused API limits searching for your two letter username
Capitalists want to increase their wealth. They have a well defined role in society. Our government is supposed to be a counterbalance to them...but the two have become intertwined, hence the problem.

In my view, the will of the people is not being reflected in the government due to corruption.
You create a short position by selling borrowed shares.
Hiya! My team is also the team that writes and maintains the CDK construct you linked to.

I think it’s different approach - that’s all. Copilot
Is more focused around a full developer experience including setting up CI/CD, deployment environments and operational tooling like logs, stats, etc.
I find them a lot here when I go to mountain biking resorts with my family. I don’t do the biking, so I take my toddler hiking instead. Mount Washington on Vancouver Island is a great spot for berries. Even the trails heading up the hill directly from the resort are absolutely loaded with blueberries and black huckleberries. Whistler has heaps of good berry trails too.

I think it’s because so much of the earth has been dug up and disturbed for the resorts and trails, and the plants are such effective pioneer species.
Whistleblowers who out US Gov wrongdoing, get a different sort of reward from US Gov.
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> Unfair B2B market practices can be tackled, but only if game developers and publishers talk about them. EGDF calls all game developers and publishers to report any unfair treatment they receive

Report then where?
I guess, because compared with other systems programming languages since the early 60's, C grew out of language used to bootstrap compilers and its authors were happy with it being a kind of friendlier macro Assembler.
Birth control is not the overwhelming #1 issue other than at the tail end. TFR plummeted continually from from 1800 to 1920 (from 7 to 3) in the US (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033027/fertility-rate-u...).

The primary issues were first increased probability of survival to adulthood (shift focus to raising fewer kids better) and then higher opportunity cost (especially for women who gained opportunities).
For me, the purpose of the "demo" is to get agreement on specifications and to remove ambiguities. This can also be used to reassure that the requirements of the client have been well understood.
The person who promoted them doesn’t care which, as long as they are consistent.

I think we spend too much time focused on the trigger man. Whatever person in your org is making your life difficult, there’s a person above them who knows and hasn’t done a goddamn thing about it. Who is the real problem?
In that case, if these technologies become so successful to eliminate the need for young people, they will basically become our successor species and all this is moot anyways.

Obviously that won’t happen overnight, but it could definitely happen gradually.
Absolutely first rule of engineering, Dont fix something that works.
Heh, ok. I know when I'm getting trolled. What was that main account of yours, again?
Most immigrants from developing countries migrate for economic reasons, not to escape genital mutiliation, acid attacks or honor killings which aren't very common in most developing countries. The developing world and immigrants aren't as scary as you seem to imagine them to be.
Thanks for doing this! I too have a lot of nostalgia for this game, which had a depth to it beyond most of the other stuff I was playing at the time.

What was the porting process like? Use any tools to assist with it?
And if you are that familiar, why are you building instead of buying?
Nope! The original group will sue you for trademark infringement, despite that they're the ones peddling a broken knockoff version. (See, eg Python, Firefox, GIMP, etc; I don't pay much attention to webapp-related stuff, so I don't have more proximate examples.)
I don't think loneliness will be massive issue. Considering the population of young adults and adults already suffering from it. Nothing will be different for us. And the communications are likely to improve so this is one thing that technology can solve.
It's two statements. 1) childlessness is a selfish choice. 2) this is sad and misguided. That second statement, without evidence or argument, is arrogant and patronizing. Non-inclusive even.
That's a browser feature.
I really wish crimes not causing direct 'physical' harm were weighted appropriately.

Execs and doctors driving the bulk of opioid deaths should absolutely be held accountable, especially for continuing after the outcome of their action was clear.

Loan sharks, predatory colleges, quick eviction landlords, and so many other bad practices cause physical and mental stresses that destroy countless individuals' entire lives, and repeat.
Apparently in the trade "Cinder blocks" are referred to as CMU's (concrete masonry units). Just an FYI for anyone who wants to do more research.
It's not unsupported if you support it yourself or hire/contract someone to support it for you
Children have become assets of the socio-economic-intellectual monopolies that run countries today; they are barely entities that have any real familial roles or indeed any parochial roles at all.

To paraphrase that kid from Boyhood: who needs robots when you can program humans ?
Same applies to the Speccy, but learning anything but what came in the box was a challenge.

By the time I finally started seeing some Assembly books and the Input magazines on a couple of stores, the 16 bit home chapter was already into its way.

Most of the spectrum books that I own have been bought when hunting for old books.
Thanks, will edit.
Do you mean cockpit?
That does sound easier, is there a higher birth rate in that area?
Do we need more people?
What would natural even look like in this context?

It was only in the recent history that it was the expectation that your child would live and go on to have greater than replacement number of children. That is evident by the fact that for most of our species history the total population was fairly static.

Pulling nitrogen out of the air and sprinkling it on domestic crops was real "unnatural" but it got us past ~3B
Power of Compounding Interest
Apples to oranges. There's a huge difference between an individual journalist numerously reporting on something they feel strongly about vs. the most influential newspaper in the world turning into a hyper-partisan (left-wing) propaganda machine.
Two lines ? Bah, a one line fix took me 5 weeks once!

(issue deep in the storage stack with exotic hardware only available at a customer with all debugging going ping-pong over an issue tracker between me and a customer engineer)
2 lines of code? Where's the test cases?
This trend among other things is one of the inspirations for writing this essay that was well received on here a few weeks ago. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/the-defaults-dont-...

I really feel like we don't have any effective model for how to integrate parenthood in our lives anymore, and so having kids has become almost an affectation or a hobby, rather than something that everyone bases their life around as a matter of course.
I see no denial in his quote. Instead, I see warnings not to take US-centric accounts of the events without a ton of salt, because the US had interests in portraying them in a specific way in order to further an agenda.
A lot of people are building big systems these days and in many cases we have a guess at what is a reasonable amount if time for all of the steps in the process to take if we want an answer in 600 ms.

While your trick makes you look good, setting the times to match the budget might be more honest. And when the app slows down you can blame the people who take 250ms to do their part when we agreed to 100ms.
We can all fit in San Junipero.
I've posted it before, but it's such a great story, I'm posting it again.

If you're a drug company and you provide physicians financial incentives to use your drug that falls under the False Claims Act if Medicare/Medicaid are paying (there are some Safe Harbor areas, but not many). Same thing with charging the gov't the incorrect price (there are a ton of rules around what you can charge - the Medicaid Best Price rules are a good example).

So anyways, this pharmacy down in the Florida Keys started to loss a lot of business back in the 80's. So the pharmacist started looking at what was driving that (he has visibility into both the pharmacy cost and the gov't reimbursement). Turns out drug companies were telling Medicaid the price was $X, but they were charging pharmacies $X*10% and the pharmacies pocketed the difference. That's a bit of a simplification as the price differential existed for a long time, but basically drug companies pushed it so far that they got the smack down.

Ven-a-care launched a whistleblower lawsuit, the Federal gov't joined and they won, so Ven-a-care got a nice payout. Then they found another example and got another payout, then another and another. By 2011, they had received several hundred million in pay outs.[1] In 2013, they received a $597M payout.[2]

Keep in mind this was a team of a few pharmacists and some lawyers. They basically turned whistleblowing into a business.

They were even involved in the Epipen settlement in 2017.[3] I've never seen the total payouts they've received but it must be over $1B by now.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2011/02/10/how-four-men-got-rich-exposi...
[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-13/florida-p...
[3]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/grassley-says-mylans-465m-ep...
EDIT: I was concerned this might prevent malware from getting weeded out, but there are rational carve-outs if you dig a little deeper in:

> The various exceptions to the 30-day notice period can in particular arise in connection with illicit or inappropriate content, the safety of a good or service, counterfeiting, fraud, malware, spam, data breaches, other cybersecurity risks or suitability of the good or service to minors.

Original Post

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I'm a bit concerned that "Article 4" will protect malware and fraudulent software from being removed:

> Platforms will have to provide 30 days notice to publishers before removing content from stores, allowing them time to appeal or make changes to their software. So no immediate and opaque bans (article 4).

Minimizing malware is one of the selling points of App Stores, and this seems to kneecap that to some extent.
It took me a minute to get what you’re saying but indeed the graph is quite deceptive. The time scale isn’t consistent.
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Here's a top down global conspiracy theory: micro plastics carried by the air and water are ingested and cause hormone disruption leading to less sex and therefore less children.
On my iOS virtual keyboard that would be all of them. Heck, the Mac laptop's touch strip also features a selection.

But that wasn't my point. It was that we get a ton of BS cosmetic/fun items on the Unicode standards, and we can't get a few simple glyph additions on our hardware keyboards that would seriously help programmers for decades to come...
TABERT no longer on the Spider leaderboard? - https://yale-lily.github.io/spider . The top is "RATSQL v2 + BERT" testing at 65.6 for exact matches.
> Old calculus: "I need to have lots of children so they support me in my old age. No matter the cost."

You forget that old calculus also included "Eh it's barely worth learning their names until they're 5 years old".

In 1900 child mortality under 5 was 35%! In 1800 it was almost 40%. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_mortality#/media/File:Gl...

You needed 3 babies just to make 2 toddlers. Let alone adults.
It also causes people to wait longer and longer to have children. My twins, my first children, came when I was 38 years old. My wife was 35. Most of our friends and family were also well into their 30s before having their first kid. This is not a winning strategy...
Just a thought, but why doesn't the EU (and only the EU has the will for this) have a government funded storefront for all apps. Then make Google and Apple add this storefront as an app on par with Play Store and App Store on all their devices. Sounds much more efficient than creating regulation after regulation
This is great!

I first learned the general ideas from this Computerphile video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uNPbdenRs

While we're on it does anyone know of articles/videos that go into similar detail for HEVC?
> Remember purity rings? They worked.

Yeah... I'm not so sure about that. My bet would be on easy access to porn, entertainment, and social media resulting in less in person social interaction.
People that work in life sciences.

Might seem a surprise to many HNers, but there are people using Excel for their research, instead of R, Python, Julia,....

I guess it helps that plenty of data readers are Windows only and provide COM/DLL automation interfaces.

So when their Excel macros + VBA outgrown themselves, they get IT to install them VB.NET and carry on.

So that medicine one is taking might have had its reaction curve analysis done in VB.
>> Not if you are on an H1B visa ;-)

But one must also 100% expect themselves to evaluate thoroughly T&C, pros and cons before signing up for anything, including a visa.
How much brownfield work have you done?

People can hide the fact that they have a big ball of mud fir a very long time, and they only want to talk about improvement after hunts have gotten miserable.
On the other hand, programmers don't always pick which languages they get to work with.

If I'm forced to use a language, it might as well have Generics than not...
I'm glad to see that others remember this fondly as well.

The Pascal to C translation was a bit gruelling. I'd like to say that I'd written a fancy transpiler for it, but it came down to a 20 line ruby script, some vim macros and a ton of elbow grease.

I added the functions to emulate the Turbo Pascal library as I went. This was a bit more fun, because I got to play around with implementing line drawing, circle drawing and flood filling, and really low level stuff like that.

The final stages, adding in threading to handle emulating the keyboard buffer, framebuffer and PC speaker was also a lot of fun.

I plan to cover at least some of these things in part two.
I do understand your point. There are definately tons of hard data science problems, which are simply not suitable for the predictive query kind of approach.

At the same time there are tons of ML problems e.g. in process automation or user interaction, which have extremely strong patterns and very easy to treat with sophisticated enough ML model.

Regarding your list of items. Feature engineering is greatly managed by the user selecting relevant facts in the query, by analyzers, by MDL based feature learning and by information theory based feature selection. I feel this approach is pretty robust for many problems, all thought not complete. There are special queries like $on for making conditional variables of form A|B, and $numeric to deal numeric data, that can be used manually.

Model debugging can be partly done with $why explanations, that are easy to create with the Bayesian approach. I feel that model debugging has been good enough.

Latency requirements and constant updates are more about software/database engineering and they are solvable, but right now we do recommend batch updates and applications, that can deal with sparsely occurring multi second latency. And OFC if you have limited data sets (less than 100k), there shouldn't be such problems.

I feel that all the problems you listed are solvable, but they are of course hard problems and we are still on the roadmap on fully solving those issues for larger set of applications. For many applications (like RPA, internal tools, analytics) these are not real issues, while the benefits (easiness, speed) are extremely concrete and relevant.
There's still a downside, in that it takes more resources and more energy to get that water than just shipping it.

Pipes are very, very efficient.
My point is that many Americans, self included, never heard of FGM until immigrants brought it into to our country.

> you seem to think that everyone in these countries is the same

Your words, not mine. Everyone is an individual. I think many of these individuals should fix their own countries before fleeing to mine. They are not the meek and downtrodden. Every one at the university has blown through at least $125K on immigration attorneys for the student visa alone.

> smart, well-educated, and generally "good" people

There is more to being good than calculus and not murdering people. Given the immense purchasing power they would have in their own countries, why aren't they raising up their own instead of fleeing? So many brahmins blowing through half a mil on a 3rd-rate US compsci degree, while people back home don't even have clean water.
That isn't how the math works out for an ISP. You can serve on the order of 50k customers on a 20gbit/sec uplink.
Besides the Jupiter Ace pointed about, I used to see ads in YourSinclair and Crash about Forth units to plug into expansion ports.
To the EGDF for starters...

And if this law passes, to EU authorities...
nojs: http://archive.is/UamqH
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Yeah, thats exactly it, it allows filtering incoming messages into folders based on what I tell a shop and it makes it easier to remember what alias i used where
Perhaps adapt something like https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome to run in a scripted headless environment?