skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source on the 100,00 to 400,000 deaths from bombings? The bombings were in border areas with little to no population. The US even sent troops in for damage assessment and they often found nothing not even North Vietnamese soldiers or even dwellings.

Not to saying thousands didn't die, or even tens of thousands, but 500,000? That's like 7% of the entire population of Cambodia.
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Why would I pay at least 450 euro per month for something I have to run myself? I appreciate that support and maintenance costs are certainly something to pay for, but a high monthly charge when I'm taking all the risk, and paying for the hosting immediately turns me off.

Especially considering the 4 hour SLA on phone support for the enterprise version. If the password management system is down, work stops. I'd rather not have to break the glass on the emergency god account at all.
I mean... are they dumb, or just playing dumb to bully you?
Both are PRISM partners so meh.
Lithographer's tape switches the light to very dim, but visible red.
Because the truth is painful. People don't want to believe things are bad. People will fight tooth and nail to hold onto their perception that we are living in some sort of utopia and that everything is sunshine and rainbows.

I don't blame people that want to look the other way...it's not a pleasant sight.
I prefer to just tell the client to go with the guy who says they can do it in a week. Often, the client returns to me in a few months' time, having wasted a lot of time and money on the other guy and equipped with a better understanding of why they require my services.
IMO a greater magic trick is convincing folks like you that these rich people are actually powerful enough to control fundamental behaviors like sex and reproduction.

It's a profoundly dis-empowering and anti-democratic message, which is of course why a lot of those rich people are happy for you to believe it.

The reality is this: in every instance we know of, making education and birth control available to women (not forcing, just giving them the option) has resulted in declining birth rates and increasing standards of living.

It's really quite inconvenient to be pregnant, to parent a newborn, and to be responsible for a child for 2+ decades. It's very rewarding, but it's also really hard. You don't need a global conspiracy to explain why many women limit or opt against it if given the chance.
I have read about it, but never read the actual datasheet til now. In some ways it looks like it fixes some of the 816's problems in that there would be 32-bit accumulator and index registers, so you could put a full address and do pointer arithmetic in there etc.

But it still has the problem of futzing around between modes for the registers, modal instruction set... terrifying. And the program counter is still inexplicably 16-bits, so have fun writing a compiler for programs bigger than 64k, you have to manually manage the bank register when you move between banks.

And looks like direct page and stack still stuck in the bottom bank? At least I think I read that?

And for god's sake, why multiplex the databus still, like the 816?! Why wouldn't they just make a 64-pin DIP version like Motorola did with the 68000?

Anyways, it never made it to production. But basically looks like an 816 x 2, which isn't terrible in that having double the size on those registers makes doing a lot of things a lot easier.
What's terrifying is that just as we face all of this pressure from falling fertility rates, we have the technology to implement massive state-sponsored breeding programs to "fix" the problem...
> It's outright Constitutionally prohibited, even by Constitutional amendment, for the Senate.

Not quite true. It can be changed with consent of the state, so it would require 100% of the states to ratify it.
> Possibly not true. Low-birth Westerners are already the #1 emitters of Co2 by a margin, so it's not so linear.

That is one of the most egregious example of not controlling for confounding factors i can think of.

People with high carbon emissions are in the group having less children. It doesnt follow they would emit less CO2 if they happened to have children.
I don't want kids because it means I'm legally tied to a woman who can take the majority of my income. The bias against men in the court system is a huge turn off.

Not to mention that there is no shortage of people who want to give you parenting advice, especially in schools. I deal with enough politics at work. The last thing I want is to double my burden.
You are right. Have no affiliation and just found the site interesting, the politicisation of workplaces/hiring is a concerning development and shouldn't be the norm. Think it's intended to stir the pot a bit. When there's HR managers in CA who openly say they won't hire those they politically disagree with, these sorts of things are a response. By law you can't discriminate based on political affiliation in the state yet some seem happy to proudly state otherwise.

The overuse of the word Nazi is really problematic also and I'd suggest using alternatives. It's loses meaning when directed at large swathes of people who have never hurt a person in their life, it's quite disrespectful to the memory of those actually affected by Nazis.
Pretty much every western civilization on Earth is fully capable of providing a minimum standard of living to its entire population today, let alone just a larger chunk of the pie elder group in half a century.

Its an active and intentional decision not to do so. Unless society collapses and the knowledge of how modern mass production works to produce so much plenty evaporates it will continue to take a tiny percentage of the whole population to provide the resources needed to survive to the rest.

We should be expecting a technological singularity before 2100, not some dystopia where all wealth evaporates and the only people with money left are under 30s who get to work 80 hours a week farming rice for grandma.
Hope you let the site operator know, or filed a bug on their github
One of the most fascinating books I read is Pricing the Priceless Children by Viviana A. Zelizer (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0691034591).

The central theme is that modern children are "economically useless" and "emotionally priceless".
Immigration from the same countries that are rapidly improving their own standard of living, and at the same time experiencing their own demographic crashes?
When pension systems run dry or hyperinflation occurs to prop it up (a mathematical certainty), the result is massive depression and an unprecedented decline in progress. When times are tight, nobody is going to care if their power is green or not because they're focused on survival.

Without the young, the house of cards collapses.
I would say, there is some complexity in reading (and writing) the thing. But there is probably not as much complexity in using it. And you are explicitly codifying the complexity in one place, that would presumably still exist in a dynamically typed language, just implicitly, and likely spread out across the code. This looks pretty nice to me at a glance, just like anything once you write a few of them and come across a few in the wild and take the time to pick them apart they no longer seem so scary.
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Its never been "sustainable", its just a question of when society wants to bring the proverbial chickens home to roost.
I noticed IBM does this too.
I think another factor is traditionalist religious minorities – ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Amish, Latin Mass Catholics, etc – many of these minorities still have big families, and are sustaining those big families generation after generation. (Even though some people who grow up in those kinds of communities defect to mainstream society, something like 80% choose to stay.)

Those religious minorities are quite small right now, but if they manage to sustain their current growth into the coming decades, they may end up being a much more substantial component of the population.
imho, https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ is a better option than paper in a safe.

your house could burn down or someone might not be able to open your safe (easily).

pgp encrypt a message that gets sent to someone with instructions for how to access your things if you don't check in.
The laws may have passed on the same date, but they were not the same laws. In functioning democracies, laws passed in response to health and economic emergencies have something to do with health and economics. In USA, Congress just unanimously (well, except for Thomas Massie) gave rich people trillions of dollars.
Python 3 upgrade was a complete disaster that took over a decade. They should have just called it a different language name and started at 1.0.

Edit: And, if Go doesn’t learn from Perl and Python’s mistakes it is going to suffer greatly.
Very valid points:
1) Agree that Snowflake is far easier to use than Spark.
2) Agree that DBT is a great tool.

ETL workflows normally processing 10s of TBs and workflows with large and complex business logic is the context. With Spark code, you can break down your code into smaller pieces, see data flow across them, write unit tests, and have the entire thing still execute as a single SQL query.

Don't large SQL scripts become really gnarly for complex stuff - nothing short of magical incantations. I can't see data flow from a subquery for debugging without changing code.

Prophecy as a company is focused on making Spark significantly easier to use!
Fun fact, gay people have existed for a while now.
The planet is of finite size, so unlimited growth was clearly never an option. The question is, what is the best population size, and how do we get to that level?
Google Cloud’s new BigQuery Omni will let devs query data in GCP, AWS and Azure
This article is about global birth rates falling, which is true. But your comment is about conditions specific to the US. Yet birth rates are falling in countries which don't have the warped incentives you point out in the states, and where having children is supported (see Europe, much of Asia, etc.). So although you accurately point out that there are downsides, if not disincentives, to having kids in the US, that cannot be the driving cause of falling birth rates in the rest of the world. And therefore there's no indication of any kind of "top-down" force there either.
People may believe that they fear for the "future of our species," but at a meta level, is it not merely an expression of the same innate human desire that caused us to build up civilization and medicine to the point that we're facing the aforementioned issues?

Without getting into a long spiel, human intelligence appears to actually be extremely limited, compared to a theoretical perfect intelligence, and any explicit actions we may take to enforce "quality over quantity" could end up doing more "harm" than "good" as soon as 1 "move" beyond the furthest move that we're capable of calculating.

IMO, there is no "saving" humankind. We're all doomed in some way. Life is just a way of postponing death.
Unfortunately "comparable" is not an interface, and the default implementation (which you can't opt out of) sometimes panics.
A 'news' article is different than an 'opinion' article.

Most news reports contains statements backed by verifiable sources/references/evidence. In general, a 'news' article is and should be neutral.

A good news outlet maintains that difference. Blurring the lines between the two is an indicator of the organization's bias.

IMO, NYT is one such good organization. That was my point if I wasn't clear!
What about the people who are already here but living in crushing poverty?
Its working completely as intended. The stratification of class is a measure to maximize profit. The disconnect of markets from actual human wellbeing feeds into a perpetual profit loop that makes capitalists numbers bigger without actually being based on anything real.

If anything it is a mercy that todays kids will go childless because any children they would have will just be even more thoroughly screwed by economic mandates placed upon them by long dead barons of industry.
I don't disagree (someone does though :-)) The argument is that given an expected pool of available wealth K to a couple, and a predicted cost p per offspring. Is O = K / p variable? or constant?

More simply, if you change one and not the other, does the value of O go up and down? The article was trying to look at that question by evaluating K and p and comparing O for different values.
If by “from the top” you mean women entering the workforce, perhaps. But to me that didn’t seem dictated by anyone.
Yeah, I'm sure the CCP is going to let the citizens decide...
ByteDance pays INSANE compensation. Significantly more than any of the FAANG. You should consider it.
I think you're trying to very generously interpret a conspiracy theory that doesn't stand up to a moment's scrutiny. Access to contraception, and a rise in women's education and employment, are not a message imposed on society by the wealthy, inadvertently or otherwise, nor have they occurred on the timeline of concerns such as climate change and resource exhaustion. They are social consequences of the Enlightenment.
> it will be a positive for the environment

It certainly would improve our chances and reduce the rate at which conditions diverge from the baseline we've experienced for the last ~10,000 years, but it's important to recognize that we would not see meaningful total population reduction until at least 2100 even if the birth rate continued to drop dramatically and disasters claimed several billion lives[0]. There is too much inertia.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1410465111
Society can only support you in old age if there are enough younger people around. Unfortunately, even though kids are needed for society to function and keep going, not much of the cost of raising kids is socialized, at least in the states. Day care for one kid where I live is $1700/month and rising, you have to be rich to afford it.
Nonsense.

Anecdotally: I've had multiple discussions with employed, unburdened men and women (particularly women) in their mid 20s who have decided not to have children for one reason: Climate change.

The planet is collapsing. Our children are likely to die of hunger, disease, or warfare as things become more destabilized over the next 50 years.

We don't believe their lives will be better than ours, and we don't want to further deplete humanity's scant resources.

From this perspective, having children is selfish.
TikTok is already mainstream.
Right, but the difference is that we don't admit that we're not willing to or can't take on the burden of raising children.

Instead it's "oh, I'm doing what's right for the environment."

One of these two behaviors is intellectually dishonest. Which one do you think it is?

Aside: Most of the parents that I know are extremely involved in their kids lives, even if they pay for help.
US tech groups resist Hong Kong data-sharing proposal
I'm actually in the middle of moving some apps to ECS/Fargate. Here are a few of our requirements, it'd be great if you could share if copilot meets or does not meet them.

1. Production and Staging in separate accounts
2. A new environment provisioned per github PR with setup/teardown - ideally within the same VPC/Subnet ranges, so they can utilise shared databases
3. Secrets stored in Secrets Manager or Parameter Store
4. Blue/Green deploys for production with a manual cutover step (manual step optional)
5. Deployment of 2 services (app, background tasks) from the same dockerfile/commit
I hear you; I've got three copies, two physically distant safes, and a deposit-box -- it's a habit I got doing SysOps for a bank back in the day.
That's not the bottleneck. At present consumption levels, doubling the population of the United States would be disastrous.
Children inherently cost money. Someone has to pay it. You're trying to pretend like the system is designed to screw parents by burdening them with this cost source that is a child when simply put, children cost money.

> How many people do you know that had to keep working to put their kids through college?

College costs money. The incentives with government backed student debt has inflated that cost dramatically. This wasn't some scheme to tax parents. It was a moral hazard of a bad policy intended to make college accessible but in turn caused massive tuition inflation.

> Why does it cost employees to add children to employer-sponsored health insurance?

Again, because insuring more people costs more money. Whether you're adding a child or a spouse, more insurance coverage ought to equate to higher premiums. That the economics of how insurance works. Again if there are higher costs, someone has to pay them.

> The system is very much set up to disincentive having kids.

The system does disincentive having kids but that doesn't at all imply the system was intentionally designed to do so. (A) kids cost money and that is by definition a disincentive and (B) some policies like college loans were not setup to cause this disincentive. They instead just had adverse effects due to the moral hazard of incentivizing colleges to raise tuition since the government will back the loan and the student doesn't understand how to make an informed decision on cost tradeoffs at their age. But this isn't the system being designed to prevent people from having children.
Didn’t the same team do it twice?
I'm pretty skeptical that abstinence pushes and purity rings worked. I'm pretty sure that the slack was picked up by widely available pornography.
How does it stack up to Wings3D?
I think the attack vectors in Windows are so so large that fuzzing to find everything is close to impossible (or even physically impossible). However there are bugs found by fuzzing that were disclosed in Windows - for example https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/bugs-on-the-windshield-...
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There's a alternative implementation for the BW server that is much more lightweight than the original called bitwarden_rs.
Why would it? Do you imagine people enjoy raising four kids or more? Children used to be old-age insurance. You needed so many to be certain some of them would survive, thrive, and take care of you in old age. If your needs are met, either through a good pension or UBI, you can have as many kids as you prefer. And by all indications, for most people that's actually around the natural replacement level, or fewer.
Hi - I'm interested in using this to manage deployments on top of a Fargate cluster managed by Terraform. Is copilot able to import such a cluster or otherwise manage tasks in an existing cluster?
This absolutely must be reasoned about together with climate change projections. I don't see there's any chance in hell we can stop at a 2 degree world. That means though that large parts of the world will likely become inhospitable to human life as we know it. So, I'd expect either huge population transfers, wars, or both. The population decline will likely not be uniform then, as people will flock to the still hospitable parts of the planet. Provided 'native' populations don't go full lock-the-borders mode.
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The question is, are those people actually doing useful work which contributes to an increase of happiness or living standards for people?

I'd argue that many don't, and that many work on stuff that doesn't really matter. This includes many programmers, by the way. I've certainly done more than a fair share of meaningless "bullshit" programming work.
Perhaps my beef with your cadre is assuming that questioning its merits is AFS propaganda coming from someone who’s never set foot south of Embarcadero and assuming everyone who mentions principals has an axe to grind. You’ve painted a lovely caricature of who you think your opposition is, but you’re looking in entirely the wrong direction. Hint: Two FAANGs.

I don’t speak on the telephone with underhanded accusations, sorry.
Oh, that's actually also pretty reasonable (sorta): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44872

I discovered that bug report after our designer noticed at a glance walking behind me (I use Firefox) that the colors on our site were far darker than she intended, somewhere around 2017-2018 (that bug was opened in 2010).
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The way I read it, the type keyword would only be used in when declaring generic functions/types, but the angle brackets syntax has clashes when calling generic functions.
As many dimensions as you like, you would use one coordinate for each dimension.
Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China
There's been a sudden inrush in the last few days of tons sinophiles posting constantly. I wonder what's causing it.
"Purge of the needy and old", something like in the Bergamo area in Italy this March and April... and marginalization of the homeless and incarcerated like in the US.
If you understand JPEG then you already understand the important bits of MPEG. It's also fun to study scaling and colorspaces. See https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/printimage.html and https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/printvideo.html
Well, that’s in part true. You need to learn and practice your fundamentals if you want to improve your skills in a domain. In software development, learning your main tools is one of those.
Hospitals are to report data "through ONLY ONE of the methods" according to the document ( https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospit... ). Where the only viable option is a new federal system called TeleTracking™ & Palantir (funded by Peter Thiel by the way). For a hospital to continue to report to their state, both the hospital needs a written waiver from the state and the state needs a written waiver from the federal government. Considering this goes into effect tomorrow, that likely won't happen.
Why are they trying so hard to manufacture reasons why a lower population would be a bad thing?

Might see reduced populations by the end of the century?? We don’t even know if we’ll be immortal or off-planet by then.
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (John von Neumann) [pdf]
The state of the x87 stack was affected by code interleaved with the numerical code (there was a bit more going on than just number-crunching) causing the 80-bit representations to be copied to and from 64-bit registers (and hence rounded) at slightly different points in the computation.

The x87 can load/store 80-bit floats from/to memory, so it can definitely save intermediate results in full precision if asked to; I'd call that more of a compiler flaw than anything else.
well, 2 dimensions of 64 bits is 128 bits, while 3 dimensions of 64 bit precision is 192 bits... so mm precision to pluto is along 1 dimension I take. I just wasn't sure of the magnitude we were talking.
"Society can only support you in old age if there are enough younger people around."

I do not agree with that. In my opinion, technology advancements (say, driverless cars) will make reduce the amount of young people needed to support for older people.
Once they add generics, I will stop laughing at the language, but still probably won't use it. There's very little if anything it adds over C# or modern Java.
The smallsat market has to consolidate at some point. There's a lot of players now.

If Spacex entered the market I think it would be game over but they seem content to ignore it and focus on bigger payloads.

Last time I looked was blown away by the costs for a non-commercial 0.5U tubesat launch. $12,000 including all the hardware:

https://www.interorbital.com/Tubesat%20Kits
Jerry Seinfeld is almost a billionaire due to his eponymous sitcom. The starring cast of Big Bang Theory fame were earning nearly a million dollars an episode by the end of the series. Similar story with Two and a Half Men, Gilmore Girls.

Jamie and Adam were stars of a wildly popular television show that ran for 14 seasons, spawn numerous spin offs and runs in syndication even today. I'd expect them to have hit at least $500k per episode.