skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole idea of this seems cool but I don't really get the value of it as a Spotify replacement. Though I haven't tried. Spotify to me is a source of music I don't already have. I don't understand the value of putting my existing music on a website. I mean I guess there's some, but not a ton.

Given the social/federation aspects, it seems like it's a much better replacement for Soundcloud. You could use it to distribute freely licensed stuff (assuming you're respecting copyrights) or more importantly your own music as a musician (which I am not). I could see a lot of value in interoperating with Mastodon. You "boost" a new song by a musician you follow. Some of your Mastodon followers see it and listen and comment directly on the song. Others look at the person's Funkwhale profile for a better catalogue view to explore further. Etc. Could be a great future.
China Overtakes US as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
Bobbies are less trigger happy, true, however there are quite a few that will happily hit someone on their head repeatedly. I guess that's common for law enforcement anywhere.
I wonder what impact this has on Japanese students willingness to take risks and express themselves once they leave the educational system.
> Facebook image identifier misclassifying black people as monkeys

Tangential, but it’s interesting that facebook’s reputation is now so bad, it’s become a black hole that distorts responsibility enough that google’s bugs are pinned on them too :P
An amendment in the Indian Constitution is an act/law/bill in itself. It does modify the core document (the constitution) but it has an independent existence.

In that sense, one could argue that every "amendment" is a bugfix, feature-request of sorts.

Debatable both ways.

I personally like the idea of independent commits better as the "git browse" UIs handle individual commits better.
I never understood this logic. It's two characters, and it's a pain to port once you go from print statements to actual logging. Also coming from C I'm used to print functions.
Some of the greatest scientific work of all time was done on paper. Doing algorithm design on paper really brings home that you’re working with a mathematical object that just happens to have a mechanical interpretation.
The vast majority of fertile-age, opposite-sex couples can conceive fairly quickly if they try, and people in the upper half of the global income distribution now have access to medical care if they run into any issues. Infant mortality is also way down compared to past centuries.

https://www.parents.com/getting-pregnant/trying-to-conceive/...
Especially look at the restrictions on courts!
You haven't outlined where you consider the extents of "being homogeneous".

Otherwise homogeneous is whatever demographic you prescribe to and is entirely a self serving concept.
The problem with that is that we can't be sure that it is their code.

And let's be honest, it doesn't really work for designers either. Because the problems of hiring programmers isn't unique to programmers. Hiring gets harder the more you need out of your workers.

Take any reasonably skilled position, hiring is incredibly difficult because it's hard to evaluate a person's skill in the blind. Hell, it can be difficult even when we do have ways to evaluate skill.

Take any major sports league. The draft is essentially teams hiring players. And they've spent the entire year evaluating hundreds, if not thousands of players to find out which ones are good enough to be hired. They have games to look at, stats to pore over, people to talk to about these players. And they get it wrong often.

Finding good people is a hard problem to solve.
Insurrection is not war. Insurrection is a violent uprising against a government, which is exactly what happened. The fact that explosive devices were not used, but were present, was likely a matter of luck, not intent. Besides these things are not required for something to be an insurrection. They could have been armed with screwdrivers and hammers and it would still be an insurrection, albeit a less extreme insurrection.
Have you ever looked at a blocklist? It’s literally thousands upon thousands of rules. And you blocking something shouldn’t add it to a list because what you block may not be what someone else wants blocked.
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Some people like living in nature. With utilities already built out or alternatives like solar power for electricity and starlink for internet, people could untether themselves from urban areas all together.
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When I was a teenager my family decided to dedicate one of our preciously few vacation to visiting my father's hometown. It was a town that was built and existed for two things: farming and oil. The oil dried up two generations ago and it threw the town into poverty and disrepair. My father escaped to "the city", the Army, college and a better life. His siblings and other relatives held on for as long as they could until eventually the entire clan of dozens had left or passed away. For decades they refused to contact or talk to my father, thinking him a "traitor to the family" with his fancy college degree and overseas adventures. From time to time two of his brothers would keep in touch, the common thread to their story was time spent in the military and overseas as well.

The town was a ruin. Beautiful turn of the 20th century facades were crumbling, what was once a bustling town square was overgrown and had an abandoned truck left in the middle of it. The roads were in disrepair. All commerce of any kind had moved to another town a few miles away and existed solely of a couple eateries, a drug store, a small bank, and some farm supply stores.

We drove aimlessly around as my father explained what this piece of abandoned oil pumping equipment was for or about some childhood adventure he had had pushing one of his polio paralyzed brothers around in his wheelchair or how they had engaged in minor industry to make the $.05 for an ice cream. Rather than a fond trip through nostalgia, the crumbling and abandoned state of the area was hard on him.

These areas that are both economically depressed and depopulating slide into poverty, drug dependency, and most recently pointless, embarrassing, and dangerous political radicalization. Industry is not coming back to these place, the oil is dried up, the mill has shut down, the mine is all dug out, and so on. People stay because of memories and family and sometimes "history and heritage". In the case of my father they chose to shame him for decades for abandoning them. It's kind of cult-like in a way.

It seems simple to solve, move! Migrate to where the jobs are. But beyond these emotional circumstances that nail people to these failing areas, there is a difficult monetary restraint. It's expensive to move elsewhere, especially with an established multigenerational family. It means abandoning functioning domiciles, maybe vehicles or even business relationships with no guarantee of success.

We pay people to stay where they are, even if there's no long-term prospect, but I would support a "Move America!" program that offered some kind of incentive for people to move to areas with better economic outlook. This means cities for the most part.

Both parties don't want this because this means a massive transformation in the politics of the urban/rural divide.
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This is actually one of the reasons that anime characters have colourful hair. It helps serve as a creative outlet and an escape from the conformity, rather than to depict it.

(Conformity at work and school, that is. Walk through somewhere like Harajuku, and even anime hair might start to seem tame).
my comment makes as much sense as yours.
As always, it depends on the point of view.

When you look at a country from the outside (or as a whole), you'll mostly compare it to other countries and thus will focus on what makes that country similar to itself (and different to other countries).

When you look at a country by itself, or internally, then you'll start making divisions to see what different groups there are.

Homogeneity is mostly a relative measure - the article seems to be trying to make (Japanese) internal homogeneity a universally (between countries) comparable measure.
> On the bright side, the threat of overpopulation is lessened

That's a significant bright side. Personally, as someone who enjoys spending time in nature, I would much rather deal with the problems of underpopulation than overpopulation.
This the one I have, it's been running for 13 years, with only filter maintenance. I highly recommend it.
https://airwaterice.com/drinking-water-system/ed-extra-duty-...
SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched
267,955 people on government websites now
As the DNT header history shows, the only solution is privacy laws
It's just a different culture. Societal harmony is more important then individuality.
I think saying that living away from the office is a choice is an incredibly privileged worldview.

I live only 40 min away from the office but will rent forever and never own property. Yes that’s a “choice” — a forced one given my preference to avoid an insanely long commute in one of the largest cities in the U.S.

If I could I’d work remotely and buy a house, possibly in a different city and maybe even country.

Permanent wfh would be the real amazing choice that opens so many possibilities.
Wow. I totally misremembered that. Good catch!
Soooo...golang?

I write python kinda like go. So easy to debug and refactor. It's quite nice.
I wonder what is the utility of this library?
BECAUSE is a great reason to do it.
So you discount the idea that when people have the choice not to have large numbers of children (good healthcare to provide for old age, easily accessible contraception) they prefer to have fewer children?

Also, the central premise of the article seems to be in dispute:

Professor David Coleman from the University of Oxford said: 'Much has been written about the 'Death of the West', with its threatened demise reportedly due to the low level of reproduction in Western countries. We show that this so-called decline has been exaggerated and trends in European fertility have been misunderstood.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150427211644.h...
Yeah, this is a fishy correlation. While I believe that some people may soothe their bad feelings with food, we don't observe any sort of obesity epidemics in the cohorts of survivors of serious crises (Yugoslav civil wars etc.)
True. But I don't think he's talking about that. I don't particularly care if you prefer tabs over spaces, or if you do brace on the line or on the next line, or one of the many other trivial details that don't affect the code quality.

I do care that you have a preference though. I do care that you're consistent in applying that preference and have reasons where you break with that preference.

I have my own preferences, but if I were in a shop where the style guide was to do the opposite of them, I'd do the opposite of them because it's not worth fighting over. It's more important for the code to be uniformly styled so it's easier to read and maintain rather than it to be styled in a way I prefer.
This has implications that the candidate has code they can bring in. 99% of the code I have written over the last few years has been for work and therefore can’t be shared. The little code I have written outside of work falls into 2 categories, minor tweaks to existing code bases or experimental bits of code to try something out. Neither of those are really useful to this situation. If I was looking for code that I fully wrote myself that would work for this I’d have to look at projects from a number of years ago which means my ability to answer questions would be significantly diminished as I don’t remember why/how I made the choices I made.
It doesn't need to be approved by Apple. The app can download a new list directly. Or run in background and update the list when needed.
The key word in the quote is "some"
China has already sunk in billions into RISC-V. So they are working on it. And it would not suspires me they will weaponise it against ARM.
There's a difference between not valuing heterogeneous work forces versus valuing homogenous ones. The parents comment is the latter.

Also you have to view the concept of heterogeneous work forces relative to the make up of the countries demographics makeup.

A diverse country having a non diverse work force make up is odd statistically.
Lowering gear is a strong belief tightly held. I don’t think I’ll change my mind on that. :)
100% Amazon.

The walk to your mailbox is shorter than the walk from your parking spot into your store (and back).
I tried the online version and it's really neat. I really like the idea of having a commandline but also an editor you can easily switch to. I have only seen this implemented once before (the BASIC that is shipped with RiscOS).

I understand the author is not working on this for fame, but BASIC is really underrated as a learning language these days. This could be a pretty good playground for teaching kids programming.

I'm going to be so selfish as to give two suggestions/requests. The first is to have a way to switch to a white background in the editor (I managed to do it in the commandline), since it's hard to use for someone with astigmatism like myself.

The other is some graphics features. They may exist but I didn't find any. Something that I really enjoyed as a kid, learning to program, was to use commands such as LINE, CIRCLE, RECTANGLE etc to draw things on the screen. Being a Commodore 64 user, I didn't hey much opportunity to do that until I got a BASIC extension that supported graphics.
I couldn't disagree with you more, fortunately. You can never remove all stressors but you have way more control over your reaction than you think.

One example - people's natural emotional reaction to work deadlines is something like "I'll die if I don't make it" which is almost never literally true, but your body and mind torment you as if it was. Everyone can learn to reframe it to something more healthy like "I am a hard-working processional and I am driving myself to achieve this deadline as a matter of achievement and pride". Then you can engage with it fully and then still go to sleep at night.

Here's the key thing: whether you are able to change how you react depends on whether you try, and whether you try depends on whether you believe that you can. So at the start, you must believe that introspection will empower you to make changes, or you are doomed to be stuck forever.

The pit that many people fall into is that they take themselves very seriously and believe that how they feel about something is an objective representation of the severity of that thing. My example with deadlines above is one example. Another simple one is social anxiety. Someone can really believe and feel that "if I go to drinks with coworkers, they will judge and laugh at me and I will make an ass out of myself somehow" - that feels super real to them but objectively it's not real at all. So they spend hours of torment and lots of sleepless nights fearing and dreading and avoiding something that objectively is nothing. If they can reframe it (over the course of years, with a lot of help and work) the whole thing reduces to "it's just drinks who cares.". Same situation, but the person turner a stressor into a neutral or maybe even positive.

Don't be stuck where you are, and don't think you can't change or feel differently unless the world does. And then expect the change to be hard work but worth it.
Not sure if this
helps the dual-screen desire, but to make more use of it, couldn't you install linux directly on the iMac? I did that (install pop os) recently with a Macbook Air 2012, and it works flawlessly as far as I can see. All special keyboard buttons, sound, sleep/wake, battery, trackpad (minus gestures), etc. etc.
I think you're assuming too much based on the stereotype of Americans being sugar fiends. Fruit juice typically doesn't have added sugar. Soda brands are comparably sugary between locations.

It's true that sugar is added to things that typically wouldn't contain them elsewhere, e.g. bread and pasta sauce, but I'd argue not in amounts that are nutritionally meaningful.

The issue we have is over-consumption.
It has:

a) a racial subtext, through maybe unintended

b) damages your hair, potentially permanent

c) tells you you are less good because you don't have
natural black hair
xxx = Mass migration?

Depends on where you live, it is already happening. And it is sometimes caused by long droughts, actually.
The effects of climate change absolutely have to be taken into account when modelling population dynamics around the world, but this is almost never done.

I would really like to see a model that as a minimum includes the effects of all of the following:

* Water stress

* Effects of a prolonged forest fire season in Southern Europe

* Temperature increases

* Climate change effects on coastal communities

Also ease of migration between places should be taken into account. The population models I see usually are limited to "birthrate in this country is projected to be this number, therefore population is projected to change in this way". Which seems to be much too simplistic to me.
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> With abundant energy we could simply boil sea water to get drinkable water.

That still leaves you with either solid salt that needs to be disposed of (preferably, somewhere where it can't eventually leach out into groundwater) or highly concentrated brine which will kill anything near it.
Dog catches Covid, sniffs and passes it to person of interest, smells on Covid said person.
Yes, but submitting a new version is what the dev is doing, at least right now. https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues/13#issuecomment-76639...
Dark skies, peace, quiet. All these make me enjoy being away from conurbations. I especially dislike the lack of darkness in winter.
It doesn't matter that much, if you learn one, you have learned 99% of the other.

Most noticeable difference is package manager, and lesser noticeable differences are locations of some system files for which you will need to read documentation anyways.

I would recommend Arch-based Linux distributions like Manjaro, because package manager is way more user-friendly imo.
Ah yes, good point. I neglected to cover that. Well, in a nutshell:

* FunctionsFramework allows us to open-source the parts of the runtime not tied to the Google Cloud Functions hosting environment itself, meaning it should be possible to port it to other hosting, such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run, even FaaS products from other vendors.

* Procs work, but they're just objects. We'd still need some kind of interface to name them, load them, etc. Otherwise we'd be limited to, e.g., setting a special constant or global variable to the proc, which is messy, makes testing harder, etc.

* Speaking of which, a FunctionsFramework library gives us a place to put the unit testing library, tools to spin up a functions server locally for testing, and whatever tools developers might find useful in the future.

For reasons such as these, Google's overall Cloud Functions team decided to produce framework libraries for all supported languages. There's a contract and everything that our Ruby gem follows. (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework)
being a wealthy country often means:

nuclear families + rise in dual income households = greater GDP = greater inflation = push for knowledge economy = loss of unionized workplaces = reduced workplace benefits such as defined benefit pension = increase scrutiny of worker = more educated workforce = more competition at workplace = greater time commitment towards work and self knowledge upgrade = greater demands for expensive leisure activities

Not against any step of the process that I listed above. I am just stating the societal transformation as I see it for any xyz country out there that becomes wealthy over time.

However, this model ultimately ends up treating children and sometimes marriage (And even romantic relationships to an extent) as shackles and hurdles on the road to success. And for those who still want to get into relationship and have kid(s) unfortunately means you have to work and save for a lot longer time before making it economically feasible to have kid(s).

While this may still work out in case of males, for females, unfortunately, the more they wait to have kids (hey, I am not saying anything against this -- it is their body and their choice and their is nothing wrong with this and yes, all the power to them -- I get that, thx) - the more likely they won't have as many kids as in previous generations (Due to their biological clocks).

Of course, it is always going to be down to individual will power and personality, but I am stating from common person's perspective.
It’s best used for desktop apps and things like PowerPoint. It starts to lose frames and have tearing when doing video. I doubt it would be acceptable for any gaming.

It works well enough, but it’s not going to satisfy people who are concerned with things like benchmarks and FPS.
> 99% of the code I have written over the last few years has been for work and therefore can’t be shared. The little code I have written outside of work falls into 2 categories, minor tweaks to existing code bases or experimental bits of code to try something out

Agreed whole heartedly with this. When I'm writing code for fun, I'm not spending time thinking about spec coverage, architecture, or great data design. I'm just screwing around getting things working.
People who talk about productivity are often unproductive
I assumed they were just continuing a trend. But I looked at the US 1980 census and was surprised to find that the number of persons per household almost didn't change. 2.67 then vs 2.62 now.

Meanwhile in France, it dropped from 2.75 to 2.2, so I thought it was the same in the USA, hence my hypothesis. But it appears it isn't.
Greek yogurt with what, exactly?
Because donating billions is a morally neutral act, or what?
You can also extract uranium from seawater, and use it to fuel nuclear reactors, and use the nuclear reactors to power your desalination.
> Otherwise homogeneous is whatever demographic you prescribe to and is entirely a self serving concept

Whats wrong with this? I like working closely with people that understand me just by body language and completely frictionless communication. You'd be surprised how valuable that is when you're solving a P0 breakage at 3am.
A gradual decline in human population is surely a good thing? The change in demographics will cause problems. But significantly less than the problems caused by unending population growth, which could lead to rampant climate change, environmental collapse, mass migration and war.

Also different countries are in different situations. The rich, ageing countries can allow immigration from poorer countries whose populations are still growing.
So is this basically a powdered version of mBerry? That stuff has been around for years and is a fun party hack. Not sure I would make it a regular part of my diet though...
In a life sciences research center I worked with, the work was definitely not done after those scientists got their csv processed files out of the cell reader own data format, generated using their home made VB.NET tool.

It didn't matter, those files were done used as input data into Tableau for further processing, where they could carry on doing the work that actually mattered to them.
Want to also know my social security number and credit card number? How about my bank password and a copy of my house key? Anything you want, internet stranger.