skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to shout out to whimsical.com, I am so happy to use it every time.

I tried Linear, the interface is bit too bland to my taste. I am going to give it another try since there are so many good words about it in comments.
> Declining birthrates are not equal across all demographics. I believe that because liberal and secular have the lowest birthrates it means the future of the world is religious and conservative, no?

Poor, non and under developed nations with poor living standards are the only ones that still have persistently neutral to positive replacement birth rates. And, yes, this has many consequences, which his why I hope S. America, Africa and South E. Asia are the benefactors of a weaker China and they too begin to modernize as the whole Species stands to benefit from that and we decouple from the CCP's violent and belligerent stance against the World.

I agree that in the immediate sense a lower population is net boon to allow the Planet to heal itself from myopic Human action/pollution/over consumption, but as we're getting closer to becoming a multi-planetary species we will have to increase this population size significantly to meet the demand of those efforts and I think their is a significant lag time if the culture of having 2 kids per married couple and has been reduced to 2 dogs per married family for my generation and likely those to come and has become the norm in order to remain relevant in the ever shrinking labour market.
Bringing people that share none of your values/cultural background? Thanks but no thanks

Which doesn't mean it couldn't be done, but not the way it is done currently.
While some population decline is probably for the best, we need to stabilize the population at some point. Otherwise there's no foundation for a sustainable civilization.
If you are smart, dry facts are enough to persuade you and this kind of emotional 'manipulation' might actually deter you (it did me a bit). If you are on opposite spectrum, this might help to get story through. Obvious on whom it was aimed at
Religious behaviour and attitudes are declining rapidly world wide. It turns out having religious parents doesn’t guarantee you will be religious. The same goes for political views.

I don’t know where politics is going in the short term, but I suspect it goes in cycles. Conservatism might be winning at the moment, but it will reach its limits, mistakes will be made and there will be a resurgence of liberalism.
> I believe that because liberal and secular have the lowest birthrates it means the future of the world is religious and conservative, no?

No. There is a lot of conversion from religious/conservative backgrounds to liberal/secular affiliations. Religious/conservative demographics having birthrates several times higher than the mainstream is a phenomenon that's been going on for centuries.
The README should explain everything pretty well, but basically this is fastmod (regex search-and-replace) with some non-regex extensions and implicit matching on whitespace. I've been using it instead of my editor's search-and-replace for a while now and am pretty happy with how it behaves (with some flaws noted in gh issues).

Let me know if you find this useful. If you're looking for other CLI refactoring tools there's a link list at the bottom of the README.
Identity, Unlocked Explained – Episode 3
Pamela Dingle joins the show to discuss how standard organizations operate, and how the industry is evolving.
Migration across the world and across history was and is generally about unskilled workers. The skilled people are less incentivized to move (the in-demand skills guarantee somewhat decent living in most places on Earth), while for unskilled people from poorest countries migrating can be about baseline survival, so the motivation is very strong. Also, the unskilled people are more welcome in the target country, as they do the worst jobs for the least money [1], which basically increases everybody's standard of living.

[1] For example, there would be serious problems in the German society if not for Eastern European immigrants who take care of millions of older people for pennies. If these immigrants were not there, the older people and their families would have to pay 3-4x times the amount for German caretakers, which would of course break the budget of many.
Committed experts are basically activists, they are people with grandiose delusions who think that particular thing is so important that they committed their lives to it.

Our bodies are full of "toxins". For example, our bones are made up of calcium and phosphorus. Yet, if you eat a pinch of powdered phosphorus, you die.
Based on the history of “Linux on the desktop”: no

There’s tons of boring work required to make a polished product (documentation, compatibility work, UX design and testing, global design consistency, etc.) that you simply have to pay people to get done.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/1512847
I learned something, thank you! Considering how performant modern phones are I hope all adhere to SBSA or similar so I can install any OS on my phone just like I could on my 100Mhz PC way back.
I might be naive but I was expecting that someone would read it and catch things like this. It's a trade deal, not a high school homework.

If it's too long to be read, then are all those details really necessary?

It just like contracts, most privacy policies, etc that are written in gibberish, are extremely verbose, yet everyone is afraid to simplify it because "there must be a reason why legal documents are not written in plain English". Sometimes there is no good reason.
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With a locked down OS like iOS I don't know.

On Android there's plenty of choice. NewPipe is a dream[1]. Firefox with uBlock Origin works well. There's Kiwi (Chromium) with uBlock Origin too.

[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/
A problem in some ways yes, but also an opportunity. A fantastic opportunity for the environment and to solve the housing crisis.

I’m still amazed how many politicians think a pyramid scheme of population increase is a good, sustainable way to pay for pensions and healthcare.
Yeah, no. There's no equilibrium. What we are currently doing is predatory ecosystem exploitation where we destroy our own life support system for the short gain. All that loss of habitats and of biodiversity? That's going come back to bite use hard and it's not waiting for the far future. This shit is happening within the next 25 years.

To think that we are in any kind of equilibrium is to delude yourself.
Obviously. No-one is suggesting to make our species extinct...

But let's remember that we were less than 1 billion not too long ago while we're on course to be 10 billion soon, with individual consumption massive increased on top of that. We won't solve climate and environmental problems unless this is tackled. The aim of civilization is to make people better off, not to squeeze them into a dystopian world of overpopulation and environmental collapse.
Here's the problem the commentor is probably getting at: people won't believe the narrative.

It's not hard to convince me that any type of plastic is bad. I dont use plastic containers for food. Only wood, metal and glass are in my kitchen when it contacts food. I dont even like plastic for anything else. If I can opt for something that's not made of plastic, I'd rather pay a premium than have it all if I can (obviously what I'm holding to type this flies in my belief's face, but right now the anti-plastic war I wage is a hill I will die on and it'll be a brutal death). Yet, after reading the article, I have doubts on what he's claiming.

Journalism used to be emotional only at very key, important points. The deadpan nature allowed for disciplined emotional tones to have extreme, nearly atomic impact on a subject. That used to move people. Now, everything is a life or death struggle. For fucks sake, figuring out what bathroom to use was and still is a "heated debate". 99% of people have zero issues figuring this out. Less than 1% are arguing yet everyone has to feel like THIS is what will collapse society if we dont fix it. The constant barrage of outlandish "passionate" claims to "save the world" along with the deep dark shady underworld of business, after a while, "yup, whatever". While I will always err on the side of "fuck plastic", I will also admit that I'm a casualty of the current "journalism" climate of ever increasing sense of doom around every corner. I dont believe the author even though I philosophically should knee jerk to being a cheerleader all because of the tone of the article. And given some other comments, I'm not alone.

And yes, my word choice is relevant to the theme I'm discussing.
> because liberal and secular have the lowest birthrates it means the future of the world is religious and conservative

Not necessarily. It depends on the environment too and can shift with new generations. For example Poland was nearly 100% catholic a few decades ago and there's still lots of that influence, but even the official number is trending down. (Which means the real one of people who actually care is likely below 90%)
Except everything is "poison" in a big enough dose if ingested.
Curious if they use even more dangerous replacements to keep stuff off the pan. Possibly dangerous to the person in the long run like plenty of oil.

At this sort of global scale these decisions really matter. What are the replacements?
Going by what the article says

>First it is combining two instructions into one through compression.

>Then it splits it into two through decompression.

>The combine them back into one operation through macro-op fusion.

The general pattern appears to be: load 8 32bit instructions (2 compressed instructions count as 1 32bit instruction), convert them to up to 16 32 bit instructions. Now your macro op fusion would only have to operate on 32bit instructions.

Although the decoder sounds trivial the macro op fusion still has a massive problem. x86 macro op fusion only needs to look at the first instruction to know which macro op fusion to apply because x86 does not fuse more than 2 instructions.

The type of macro op fusion that RISC-V needs to be competitive would span up to 6 instructions. At that point your instruction decoding problem is as complicated as a regex which means unbounded complexity compared to whatever x86 does. Solving this problem efficiently would require some sort of "hint prefix" on the first instruction. This is far more complicated than just adding a new instruction.
I really don't see why this is a "worry". The world could use less people.

It is only a worry for those that exploit poverty (both on the political left and the political right).
Then do your part and practice what you preach, reductionist, Orwellian, economic eugenicist: kill yourself.
I don't even know what should be done with people like this. Are there any appropriate deterrent measures? Do scammers on that level require psychotherapy? What can be done about all this?
Ok, saw "Sterman's Business Dynamics" in the other comment. :)

Any good tool suggestions?
I don't think you're lucky. We hear about (and people complain about) these issues because they are the exception. Apple has done a good job to the point where everyone thinks Apple products should just work. And, for the most part they do.

I think Apple's problem here is that when they don't just work, Apple has not optimized for that experience. And that lack of optimization is mostly around communication.

Lack of communication has bit Apple other times. In the battery slow down case for example. Slowing the phone down was the right move, but not communicating what was happening was the issue.
Less tolerance across the board and strong tendencies towards a theocracy?
the no plastics club would be amazing - plastics have invaded all forms of our life. it's nearly impossible to find anything that isn't made or wrapped in plastic these days.

even in clothes, every major brand I looked at has at least some or all of it's material based from polyester.
> Committed people have a psychological need to prove themselves right and to discount contrary evidence

This feels like an unfairly broad brush to paint committed people with. True commitment and expertise invariably results in truths indistinguishable from opinion to the outsider, they can offer considerable insight to those who will listen.

> When weighing people's opinions, expertise should be rewarded but commitment should be penalized.

"Penalized" is too dismissive, and borderline bulverism. I would say it is important to listen to the committed while being critical and wary of any bias they may have.
How does the political left exploit poverty? Assuming you mean actually left and not just liberal.
I suspect it's a matter of time. However, from what I've read most of the soil in Siberia is very poor for farming, so I guess there won't be much food production coming from there even if the climate becomes warmer...
Yes, as I said, this doesn't work in the general case when your noise source is uncorrelated and not predictable. If you have a predictable noise source then you've solved the time travel problem and you can cancel it any way you want as long as you can obtain feedback from the location of the user's ears.

We're talking headrest ANC here (for use cases like consumer ANC headphones), not built-in noise reduction for industrial systems.
Bring back MySpace and ban Facebook!
Here is the page accompanying the video recording:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Session:P...
Cool. My family has a vineyard in the central part of Istria. In our case we do everything ourselves, but I know that professionals use hired hands, both documented and undocumented ones.
We stooped using the copper sulfate for the exactly reasons you describe. My dad (who does most of the work) has a somewhat allergic reaction to it so he tries to compensate with other stuff.
BTW, it seems that you have quite a nice success story there although the begging of it is quite familiar to many of us from Croatia. (low wage, s*ity bosses, shady working conditions)
I see your point with the greenhouse. You are right, thinking in terms of output per square meter, it doesn't makes sense to have anything that is dormant and doesn't produce a stable revenue, unless it's something very specific for which the market (customer) is prepared to pay a huge amount. Considering the region we are talking about, the thing that pops in my mind and falls in the super-high return category is the truffle. (and they are trying!)
There is obviously self promotion going on here - you submitted your own website here no?
It was desirable economically to the upper classes. It was, obviously, bad for workers (two-income trap). The only way it would be a net economic positive for them would be through their share of gains to the overall economy... but we know that the median person's proportional share of the economy has shrunk, so that's a bust.
Here comes the era (fad?) of voice / telephone social media.

Clubhouse (Twitterverse's current darling) [1], Capiche (featured on HN a few weeks ago [2]), and now Dialup...

What's old is new again.

How does this happen? Does one startup get enough attention and funding that competing VC firms throw money at anyone that says they'll clone it? As sibling comments suggest, this domain name couldn't have been cheap, which seems to imply VC funding.

It's a slightly different usage pattern than Clubhouse (serendipity), but it's the same tech. Clubhouse has a bunch of celebs using it, so they're in a good spot to win 1:n audio broadcasting.

I wonder if any of this will have staying power beyond the pandemic. It feels like a premier podcasting app (Spotify?) could add this feature. Or Facebook.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clubhouse-voice

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424103
Massively depends on the use case. Why waste board space, assembly complexity and power on PCIe when a SoC does just fine?
It is a worry for those thinking about need for a stable society. A rapidly ageing society puts great strain on social cohesion.
> But if you're going to draw a boundary and wrap it in a massive array of microphones... Aren't you better off just adding insulation material? :-)

Well, let's do the math here. I can't find the data sheet for the weight of an electret microphone cartridge, but let's assume 4 grams. A thousand microphones -- assuming we want 100 the length of the airplane and 10 around -- is around 4 kilos. Add another 2 kilos for computation, and a few more for wiring, and you've added the weight of a piece of luggage.

Now, let's say you want to add 2 inches of mineral wool sound insulation. I'm assuming 100 meters x 10 meter circumference (I have no idea, but the numbers scale the same). You've added (quite literally) half a metric ton to your airplane. And made it 2" thicker, either reducing cabin space or increasing drag.

Plus, sound insulation does very little for low frequencies, which is the majority of airplane noise.
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>QNX wouldn't run on something with <1MB RAM. Nothing POSIX compliant would* . The published minimum requirements for Neutrino 6.5 (which is already 10 years old) was 512MB. Double that if you want the recommended hardware specification.

An older QNX ran from a floppy with very few MB. With GUI and a browser with limited JS support.

>QNX wouldn't run on something with <1MB RAM. Nothing POSIX compliant would* .

You could run Linux under a TTY for i386 with 2MB with some swap about 24 years ago.
You're being very presumptuous and not using linear premises in your logic. You assume that government reduces human suffering and that people would be running wild without one. There's a lot more to society than government.

For example, why would I shoot you? I have no motive to do that regardless of what the laws may be. There is nothing the government has done to make it impossible for someone to shoot you. It's just that if some one does and gets caught, they go to prison.

On the subject of dissolving the government, you are completely wrong. There is nothing stopping me from non-violently overthrowing the government. The Constitution even states that if the people want to dissolve the government, they can. So I could try to convince people to elect myself and others who would change or even dissolve it.

"Also surely with better technology we will be able to transform prisons into rehabilitation centers and thus reduce our countries prison populations and thus become a FREER country, albeit one with less rights?"

This is completely nonsensical. Technology isn't holding back prison reform - social and political powers are the main drivers. Why would the number of rights be reduced? You've laid out no premise to connect nor support that statement.
As others pointed out, it's explicitly marked as an opinion. By someone who campaigns to solve the problem. It is not a journalistic article.

Think of it more like an extensive comment on HN, by someone well-informed and a strong opinion on the subject.
But that would require proper, diligent scrutiny. I mean, it's only a deal that will affect hundreds of billions in trade every year and numerous other foreign relations issues, indefinitely, and it's only around 1,200 pages long. What could possibly go wrong asking elected representatives of 28 states to approve it with less than a week to even see it and, in the UK's case, a single day of Parliamentary debate? (For comparison, the news today mentioned that Maastricht got more like a month.)
Regular recursion however is.
Research is an incremental process and even if their proposal has no practical application right at this very second, it's still a new idea that hadn't been tried before they did it.

Instead of focusing on the fact that these researchers didn't singlehandly revolutionise ANC in a single study, how about we focus on what they did do?
It's an obvious mistake but macro op fusion is a "good enough" solution for x86. The type of macro op fusion that RISC-V needs is far more complicated.
I don't get how Gatsby, Github Pages are content management systems?

Also, this looks like a bleak picture for the JAMStack if Wordpress keeps growing no?
Funnily enough, at the bottom is the following:

> Dialup.com has been parked since 1994!
Unless the alert is managed by a downstream automated system, I don't see the point of having an internal that is smaller than 1 minute -- 1 second or 1 minute won't differ much for a human interaction, right? Am I missing something?
strlcpy always NUL terminates the string (that is it's big selling point). So it copies up to n-1 bytes from src to destination. If src was bigger then destination it is truncated and n-th byte is set to NUL.
A redesign does not have to be ambitious. There are so many things that can be incrementally improved in HN you'll be busy without ever touching the core of the UI like Reddit did. The bar is literally on the floor.

A reason those HN readers look like entire rewrites (besides being rewrites) is because they are not dangerous rollouts, and because they have to provide strong reasons to use them as third party sites over the "real" HN.
UK-EU trade deal recommends SHA-1 and calls Netscape modern
Because that's fundamentally what the EU does - it comes up with long, detailed agreements that specify the exact technical details of things that will sometimes go out of date soon. That is what it, as an institution with a whole bunch of well-paid employees, exists to do. As I understand it, this is just extending an agreement the UK was already a part of when it was part of the EU to the country after it leaves, complete with SHA-1, 1024-bit RSA, and references to Netscape Navigator 4.

Also, I reckon that if these same issues came up in the context of the in-EU version of the agreement, this would be widely portrayed as an example of cynical Euroskeptics taking advantage of people's cluelessness and making a big fuss about nothing, like bendy bananas. It'd be one of the things people relied on to argue that Brexit supporters had just been tricked by the press. Can't see that happening with its use as an anti-Brexit talking point, even though that's substantially more misleading. The entire mainstream narrative around Brexit is just so cynical...
Which document is this from? They do appear in quite a few articles from 2008:

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/616/annex/chapter/1...

- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/

- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

- https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9152-2008-A...
It depends on the meaning of "from the ground up".
Oh sorry. My previous iteration had a block about me. It still does but only after your comment I realized that's in the draft, forgot to publish it. I might have thought that it'll increase the page length. The landing page is quite length already.

Anyways, thank you so much for your feedback. I really appreciate that though you're not into this, you took your time to help out! Enjoy the rest of your day.
As far as chemicals that don't directly kill you go, PFOA is probably one of the most harmful/poisonous chemicals you could think of.
Solar panels are ~20% efficient, photosynthesis is around 2% efficient. You can also put solar panels on land that is not suitable for agriculture.
Presumably you want every country to be developed. So what happens when every country in the world has a shrinking population?
Not a single source or methodology linked on the page means it's not even worth arguing about.
And? People ran FVWM and rxvt on 4MB of RAM for i386. Slow, but with 8MB it was usable, and with 16MB FVWM ran much faster than CDE itself, not to mention rxvt vs dtterm or even xterm.
Don’t eat microwave popcorn (PFOAs have been replaced there with other PFCs, which might not be an improvement). Avoid other similarly non-stick heated disposable packaging. Avoid overheating non-stick pans (or don’t use them at all). Use a filter if it’s appreciably in the groundwater.