skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like population growth will not continue indefinitely, neither will population decline.

Below-replacement levels signal that there are a lot of individuals in the pool who are not pre-disposed to reproduce in their current environment.

Over time, this will be selected against, those individuals who are pre-disposed to reproduce will produce more individuals similar to them.

That pre-disposition is genetic to some degree, but it is also cultural. Our society tells women that it's okay to defer birth or to not have children at all. Other societies pressure women to be married with children by the age of 25, before their fertility declines.

From a moral perspective, the former may be preferable, but from a population maintenance perspective, obviously the latter is advantageous.

As for social welfare, obviously there's a looming crisis of elderly care, but it can be mitigated to some degree by immigration.
Both of those factions (and others) continue to exist and participate.
Trump Signs Executive Orders on Drug Prices
Yes, you're completely right. Thank you for pointing that out. That was poorly phrased on my side. Whether one will figure these things out or not is indeed a consequence of the underlying biological and social conditioning, i.e. inherent to the predetermined circumstances of our lives.
Also, most gas stations don't make significant profits on gas. They make more profit on the attached convenience store.

There are exceptions (e.g. near airport rental car returns, or in places where drivers aren't paying for their own gas — there used to be a Shell near San Mateo City Hall that always got on the front page of newspapers)
There has to be a clever way of doing this that isn’t super invasive. Having businesses record their customers and retain the only copy seems like a good compromise except something like personal phone numbers would be abused.

Maybe best would be something identifiable only to the authorities but recorded and held only by businesses. Something like driver’s license date of issuance and first name. In theory that would be meaningless to my local coffee shop or grocer; but if I tested positive contact tracers could go there and get that info (maybe just the day of my visit, or afternoon, etc.) and then correlate and contact others who visited during that time.
Could be that nobody just cares much about weed, aiming to reduce consumption of more harmful stuff like heroin, alcohol or tobacco.
Cell location is already available to criminal investigation by law enforcement agency under warrant. It's a simple matter of legislating to make it available to epidemic investigation by health agency under warrant-like procedure. South Korea made such law after 2015 MERS epidemic. It does not enable NSA-like mass surveillance. Just do it now, so you can use it the next time.
"mAh FrEeSpeCh" is why we have the mouse problem, or more accurately why his concerns aren't addressed.

I honestly don't know how this link could be explained any more, so shrug.

In the same interview he explains the whole mask debacle, which it seem the USA has 100% reversed months after this interview, as he predicted. "mAh FrEeSpeCh" I guess.
We probably would've already been taken out in that case. If this is about aliens, maybe they're chill dudes just observing. Maybe they're on vacation or doing research on the evolution of various civilizations across the galaxy/universe. Who knows? I just hope the reptilian scenario isn't the reality we face.

In any case, whatever we find out will likely be interesting, extraterrestrials or not.
How is that any different from when nypd is effecting an arrest in a similar scenario?
both work for me

- incognito tab in chrome

- delete the medium or in this case itnext.io cookie
Allegedly they used Markus Wolf (ex-Stasi chief) as a consultant in the formative days. Hard to track down a reliable source for this.
Facebook 2020 Diversity How Charts Lie
This is political content. Every other news aggregation site on the planet covers this stuff. It detracts from hacker news.
I know [Russia|China|SpaceX] exists and could prove it if pressed.

I have no evidence that extraterrestrial aliens exist and do not know of anyone else who does either. I could not prove that they did if my life depended on it.

That kinda places it in the build-by-humans camp for me. Heck it might not be a country, SpaceX builds its own rockets and that's a private corporation. Musk isn't the only sickeningly-rich person with space on their mind.
This would be a backwards incompatible and massively breaking change on most systems that define a minimum page size. These minimum page sizes are generally treated as or are explicitly architecturally guaranteed.
Single transferable vote is actually quite archaic. Here are a variety of modern PR methods.

https://www.rangevoting.org/CanadaOverview

Proportional representation is of questionable value.
https://www.rangevoting.org/PropRep

STV is especially bad in single winner elections though. STAR voting and approval voting are simpler and much better than IRV ("RCV").

https://www.equal.vote/star-vs-irv

https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-vers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyBm_Hcu4DI&t=487
Not to be pedantic, but if anything it's probably the other way around. The fees are the things specifically for academic resources, and the core tuition is what's wasted on administrative bloat.
Guild AI 0.7 released – open-source experiment tracking
Being exempt doesn't help in practice when consular offices are closed.
STAR voting and approval voting are simpler and much better than IRV ("RCV").

https://www.equal.vote/star-vs-irv

https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-vers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyBm_Hcu4DI&t=487
Use Nix to make experimenting with Haskell easier
What is the justification and are people accepting this increase
That is included in the readme
Every so often, I look at a headline and think to myself before clicking:

To VPN, or not VPN: that is the question.
He extended stem educational visas
Elon Musk doesn't think the government should bail out the American people
What part of "Hacker" in "Hacker News" did you not notice? Hackers have always been involved in politics.

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

(From the Hacker's Manifesto, 1986)
This is absolutely appalling, and really needs traction - clear censorship of off-message websites by liberal tech employees with incredible power to control access to news.

I'm damn sure this wasn't a brief glitch either.
Privacy invasion is usually a lose-lose anyway
FWIW, I'm not trying to suggest that front-end and back-end dev are the same and that no-one will have any preference for one or the other. Of course they feel different and some people will enjoy one thing or another more.

My objection is to the common arguments that front-end and back-end dev are fundamentally different on a technical level and/or that they should be done by different people or that the same person can't be good at both. Compared to other programming fields, such as traditional desktop applications or embedded real time systems, front- and back-end on the web are quite similar in the skills and technologies they use, and I don't think drawing a clear line between them is very helpful (that is, I agree with the original article that started this discussion on this point).
Ubuntu Touch (UBports) is one approach to security, but not the only one. I have no problem with a 'locked down' OS as long as I'm the one locking it down. Ubuntu Touch locks down the phone, under your control. iOS, and to a degree Android, lock you out of your phone. Having used the Pinephone with various distros for a couple weeks now vs the various unlocked bootloader/rooted/alternate Android installs I've used over the years, I can tell you that even a 'locked down' Linux phone still feels more like 'my' device than Android ever did. For those who don't like restrictions, even self-imposed ones, UBports probably won't make a lot of sense.

That said, Mobian is working better for me than UBports right now. Theoretically, I like what UBports should be able to offer. But right now in practice Mobian has the advantage. It will be interesting to see where things stand in 6 months.
> Bathrooms etc don’t need to be cleaned daily when not in use.

The university can save some money because it use less soap and bleach, but I hope they are still paying the cleaning crew.
GitHub Buries Open Source Code in Arctic Ice
First hyperloop project over promised and is under delivering
In that case then maybe the question "Where can I find news that requires the least amount of cognitive load to consume?" is more appropriate... this is also a little defeatist.
Every backend is someone else’s frontend.
Compiler from LLVM IR to Minecraft Datapacks
Update: Why Face Masks Don’t Work (2016)
You don't want to install a tracing app for "privacy reasons" fine.

Just make sure you don't have any of: Google's location history turned on, any FB app (FB/Instagram/Whatsapp), TikTok, 4sq/swarm, Tinder, Happn, or any app that has fine-grained location permissions.
True. The cans of denatured alcohol at Home Depot said methanol (or methylated spirits, whatever). But that's a sample size of one. They were also labeled "alcohol fuel" or something like that.

I'm not sure what legitimate purpose ethanol serves at a home improvement store. To improve my home, ethanol has to be drinkable. ;-)
Background Doesn't Matter
Then surely you agree that the many comments discussing the actions of the protesters without honestly discussing gross government overreach are, as well, intellectually dishonest.
What I don't understand about the whole education sector is these massive endowments.

If they're so big and managed so well, why is there a need to charge so much in the first place?
You should want (good) software in cars. It's one of the core drivers of safety improvements that reduce the rate of fatalities, and the only realistic method of continuing to make cars safer.
There is tale of disruption here unfolding. The legacy educational systems have failed to innovate, and provide online learning that can match or exceed their on-site delivery. While the Administration may be nitpicking to say that students applying for a visa to study on a campus must be able to go to the campus, the bigger issue and where we will see a sea change will be the organization(s) that can step in and provide the educational benefit via a virtual method. Spatialization, camaraderie and task based accomplishments are all demonstrated in AAA FPS games such as Call of Duty and Fortnite. These companies have demonstrated an ability to innovate and deliver this content EXCLUSIVELY online. If the Harvard endowment [1] wanted to guarantee their legacy they would buy a publicly traded gaming company.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/harvards-endowment-is-worth-...
I was looking at www.strava.com, not the /features page.

Even there, it's just this one image and the mention of "analyzing performance", the rest of the page describes the social network and location tracking aspects.

I'm not disputing that Strava offers services that analyze your health data. They clearly do and this wouldn't be a problem by itself. (If they don't pass on the data)

What I find disingenuous is that the marketing paints this as an optional feature that you could activate in addition to the main areas "location tracking" and "sports/health-focused social networking" - however, the actual sign-up flow (according to the OP) seems to go from a different premise: That analyzing health data is actually the core functionality of the site.

If they were marketing this as a site where you can analyze your health data, all would be fine. But then you could just make providing health data access a mandatory step of sign-up - users probably wouldn't be surprised since the service was obviously useless without access.

But pretending you're a general health/sporting portal with optional analysis functionality, then nagging the user into giving you access is shady.

Note: I didn't verify that the sign-up flow is still like this, so they might have shifted from being health focused when OP tried to sign up to being located focused now, I don't know. This would be better, even though it's not clear to me why they would have needed to nag in the first place.
"Hard to track down a reliable source" sounds like a perfectly valid reason not to post an idea.
Defund higher education.
it’s true it indicates a failure of imagination, but i wouldn’t be so quick to make a personal indictment.

i, too, have been financially independent for the past year. past employer IPO. modest take.

for the past couple months, i’ve struggled with the same issue described by the OP.

for me, it’s a challenge of community. i spent so long living the silicon valley engineer lifestyle, along with others on that same track.

now, i find myself without community. in college, i dated liberal arts majors who live in co-ops, prioritize relationships, etc. i know they’re all out there in the world living out the type of life that remains a projection for me.

it just feels challenging to jump out of my self and my habits to start living a very different type of life.

this is my daily task. i understand it’s in my hands. my responsibility.

but feeling the acute challenge on a daily basis, i understand where the OP is coming from.
I mean Apple would have to be open eventually right? To attract and retain talent, if everyone else is doing it?

It's like Microsoft under Satya Nadella, really understood that Open Source is a way to actually win developers, rather than Steve Ballmers "Developers! Developers!" chant that was just marketing speak.

So if you want to be in the same league as Deep Mind, MSR, FAIR, Google Research, then you gotta play like them.
I like this and, eventually, want to get my homelab/homeprod stuff to that level. The only thing that seems to be missing, which is an unfortunate limitation of the free ESXi, is the ability to create the VMs.

My ideal solution would be to create configuration for a VM and its applications and run a command to have the VM created, OS installed, applications installed, etc. Taking it a step further, being able to regenerate my reverse-proxy configuration, certificates, and DNS configuration would make lighting up new services incredibly easy.

Right now I'm running my VMs on FreeBSD and managing them with vm-bhyve. There are possibilities for automation here, and I've done a little bit of it (at work) using Kickstart to install CentOS VMs and shell scripts to do the rest. Unfortunately, this is all very purpose-built - if I were to do it again, I'd probably scrap it in favour of Ansible or something similar.

Obviously I've got a long way to go to get to my ideal.
Yep I just said above I’ve started opening any non cheap purchase in front of a Ring doorbell. Have a scissor in a hidden spot above front door on the outside so I don’t get too lazy and bring the unopened box inside.

I’ve only done it twice so far after getting really bad luck and back to back swapped items in May.

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On the other hand, my friend who sells on eBay frequently said even if I film myself packing up, sealing, and giving the same box to UPS or post office, EBay and PayPal (if they’re still doing eBay stuff) probably won’t care and side with buyer still.
As a blanket of mental health issues arise during the pandemic. This is a reminder of how communities can enable lasting social change.
There are plenty of very competent fullstack engineers, one man army people around the world.

I think you just haven't seen them yet.
Hidden in Plain Sight (2006)
South Korea already solved this problem: https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-korea-to-use-qr-codes-to...

There is QR code provider and QR code scanner. QR code provider includes Naver (Google in South Korea) and Kakao (WhatsApp in South Korea). QR code scanner is mandatory at venues. QR code is a random UUID. Venues keep UUID (but do not know real world identity), providers keep UUID-to-identity mapping (but do not know real world activity), KCDC gets feed from both venues and providers, join them, and do the contact tracing. In particular, it is legally mandated that only KCDC can do the join.
I wouldn't say I "write software" but I have a computing job in the field of animal/landscape ecology research with a pure CS background. I guess I'd say it's part scripting ETL type jobs, some parallel processing stuff, and ... I guess I'll call it DevOps to keep it short.

Make friends with people in national-level government organizations (whatever would be most like USGS wherever you live) or university "geomatics" type people. A good start would be those involved with remote sensing (satellite [radar or optical]/drone/other sensors). These are the people that know of or are sitting in these types of jobs.

If you want a web dev type job find a way to get experience with scripting for ArcGIS Portal.
Depends whether it weakens 'you' or the cancer and which succumbs first!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6938162/

Quick take from the abstract:
"The vulnerability of cancer cells to nutrient deprivation and their dependency on specific metabolites are emerging hallmarks of cancer. Fasting or fasting-mimicking diets (FMDs) lead to wide alterations in growth factors and in metabolite levels, generating environments that can reduce the capability of cancer cells to adapt and survive and thus improving the effects of cancer therapies. In addition, fasting or FMDs increase resistance to chemotherapy in normal but not cancer cells and promote regeneration in normal tissues, which could help prevent detrimental and potentially life-threatening side effects of treatments. While fasting is hardly tolerated by patients, both animal and clinical studies show that cycles of low-calorie FMDs are feasible and overall safe. "
So are cushy military jobs. But some people have morals.
I do, and I wouldn't be surprised if more people here do so as well. Then again, I also wouldn't be surprised at people here not doing so and expecting URL classifier to strip trailing punctuation even though the spec allows it.
hacking is a political act.
Surveillance, information security, close enough, I'll allow it.
Cryptography is not magic
It’s understandable why a regular member of society would feel that way - but as someone recently wanting to go the entrepreneurship route I have a different take

I wish I could live on the bare minimum and not mind doing things like living off food stamps and clipping coupons, and had a partner in the same mindset. That would open up so many options and increase my runway so much!

But as it is, I’ve never had to go through that and would never want to put my partner through that, so I have to make do with a higher minimum bar
I imagine that for such a threat model as you imply, a VPN would do rather little.
Research suggests Machu Picchu purposely built atop intersecting fault lines
We should have strict price controls on university tuition and fees. Roll them back a couple decades, and cap compensation at $250k a year for all employees and contractors.
Bridgecrew: All These Misconfigured Terraform Modules Are a Security Issue
So, theoretical attack relying on non-existing deployments to get a person's past position, even with several other ways of obtaining the same information (for example: cell tower tracing, collecting info from cameras, cctv, card purchases, etc)

Thanks I think I'll keep using the app
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/machu-picchu-was-p...
If Osama bin Laden “hated our freedom” as Bush said, then mission accomplished.
And being a natural upgrade from the super hit c64.
It works now - and it is awesome and fast. Will definitely try this more.
Scoubidou
This should be illegal https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/employee-rights-and-resour...

My wife had the same experience during our green card process when she was on an EAD and a company said they couldn't proceed until she got her green card. Now, I don't think it was on purpose. The person she was talking to was young and, while most Americans know what a green card is, probably very few know what EAD is so they'll just default to the safe answer.

Your wife should probably answer with "I have legal work authorization in the US" and leave it at that. Really, this is what the recruiters should be asking as well, not whether or not she has a green card.
Another interesting thing is that Eidos Interactive started off producing non-linear editing and video compression software for the Acorn Archimedes.

If you do musical composition, Sibelius started off on the Archimedes and was one of its killer apps for a long time. I suspect that it was originally inspired by !Maestro, which came bundled with with RISC OS. I can't recall who wrote !Maestro, but I suspect it may have been Sophie Wilson.

If you've ever seen Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the production made heavy use of RISC OS based machine to run everything, including produce the on-screen graphics.
IMO, yes, because there is nothing holding the country together besides the perception that the US constitution protects & ensures our freedom. If that perception falls, then there could substantially greater political unrest, even moreso than what we have experienced this summer

And LSD and other psychedelics definitely make you rethink the validity of government, period. Let alone the efficacy of the powers that be to ensure safety and prosperity
That would make it difficult to discuss theories for which reliable sources don't yet exist. A lot of truth first exists as rumor; how would you suggest that rumors be discussed?
That one stings hard.
> Harvey Milkman

Heh what a name
Of course it was. I've even referred to it as the "Department of Motherland Security" since its inception.
IFIR the Archimedes was marketed in Germany only after the Amiga was already established, and by then it was too little too late. All the games and productivity software was on the Amiga.

There wasn't even a place as the "underdog alternative" for the Archimedes, since that position was already taken by the Atari ST.
Because remote classes have higher costs. It's always been that way.
> Ironically, you're more representative of the "we'll need Hadoop" crowd.

That seems an especially odd assertion to make. What is your basis for this comment? I'd suggest it makes clear you know nothing about me.
Images are now supported in cells. Global key handlers for copy paste is now optional, you can pass a prop to enable it.

https://rowsncolumns.app/demo
Because it makes since to keep an emergency fund, even a small amount, say 10-15k, will earn 125-150 (obviously more or less depending on rate) in a savings account is better than roughly 0 in a checking account.
The Rise of Microblogging
imagine if there was a place you could ask other people if they had heard this same thing.

oh wait, there is!
Unrelated, but there are plenty of people having above average knowledge that's good for real world use. Say 80% (if you define mastery as above 95%)

Aside from being a software engineer. I also have various hobbies that I cultivate with above average level, graduated from 3 degrees in unrelated field, and know three languages.

And I know there are plenty of people who do more than me.

It isn't a stretch by any means. I believe plenty of people are very capable than what they think they can do. Human capabilities are more able than you think. Little by little knowledge compounds. i.e. if you can play guitar well most likely you can pickup bass quickly.