skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is only in the eye of the "feminist of language" do words fail to have contextual meanings;

I don't disagree with your conclusion (though I'm not sure I agree with it either) but this is a dubious claim. This phenomenon is not unique to feminism. See, e.g. the singular "they" which many people in recent years claim to be entirely unable to understand.
Shipping to europe is free? Also, just a word of caution here: this product is regulated by the EU Novel Foods directive, and has not had a safety assessment to date. Which basically means selling it in the EU for consumption would be illegal...

and the only vendor in Germany says it is intended to be used as incense. OTOH it is only made of corn starch and dried berry, so I guess that's their workaround. lol.
From a quantitative perspective it will likely not be worth it.
Tell that to Fauci and our governors please.
2020 also had extremely cheap oil...
SCSS isn't a methodology, it's a tool for reducing repetition and capturing syntactic complexity in CSS.
The article notes that in South Korea, "from next year, cash bonuses of 2m won (£1,320) will be paid to every couple expecting a child, on top of existing child benefit payments".

These cash awards for having children being paid by developed countries are laughably far too little, too late in their intention. Looking at the issue in financial terms, having a child and bringing them up well is an enormous cost both in money and time. The most significant being the opportunity cost of at least one parent's ability to participate economically being severely reduced for years. Brian Tomasik estimated that having a child may cost over $300k when measured in those terms, although there is some USA slant in his analysis (https://reducing-suffering.org/the-cost-of-kids/).

Now, Tomasik does mention that having children cannot be judged economically, it's a special and important experience that you can't place a price on. On the other hand, there's no denying that raising a child in today's world is simply unthinkable for many young adults who are struggling with insecurity in housing, careers, and a bleaker outlook on the future. Many commodities are historically cheap today but property is extremely less affordable, and most prospective parents would rather delay having children until they can achieve career stability and afford a reasonably-sized house, which is happening very late in life (if at all) compared to previous generations.

If governments were really serious about reversing the decline in birth rates, they should be looking at pursuing better policies for ensuring more people can afford a home, or providing free childcare at scale - tackling the underlying societal reasons why this trend is occurring rather than adding a hopelessly insufficient cash bandaid. Furthermore, a cash bonus creates a perverse incentive where some people may grab the short term reward without necessarily considering the long term sacrifice involved in having kids.
Sure. But let's talk about the true costs of fossil fuels: Climate change is pretty damn expensive. Leaving out the costs of the wars fought for oil.
> The “I read headlines only” problem

This remains true for most platforms, not just those in the fediverse. HN is one example!

I am reading this article with great interest. I've recently started exploring fediverse platforms with much excitement. I'm more interested in building a community at the moment, and although this can be achieved with a classic bulletin board system, the fediverse had me curious.
> Why do the x's keep getting fewer? Is the crisis a lack of x's?

Yeah. I ran out of ink.
So I think it would come down to a few things then.

certainly I think the ethics is important. Mostly because highly homogenous groups tend not to be inviting for outsiders to the group. It may be intentionally done, but undetected due to lack of diversity, but even harder to discover is implicit biases that form stronger in homogenous groups. So even if you're not actively pushing out minorities, you may be passively doing so which is IMHO unethical when knowingly allowed to fester.

But from a business perspective, this means you're dramatically reducing your hiring pool, even if unintentionally done. So you may be missing out on a lot of people who may improve your product.

Now of course hypothetical value is hard to quantify, but you can quantify how many people you're potentially excluding. A good way to do this is see how many percentage points your makeup is versus college graduates, especially local. It doesn't need to be a match but it also shouldn't be dramatically off.

Then repeat through each tier of your company. A lot of companies struggle with turnover even if their hiring is adequately diverse. This is potentially due to years of forming homogenous in crowds that promote within themselves.

Therefore diversity can help identify procedural issues in your company that could result in better hiring and promotion practices, even if it doesn't lead to diversity itself.

The best thing to do here is collect data. A good analogy may be that you shouldn't test your software with low variance data sets. So why would you test your company with low variance data sets? It would highlight bugs in the system that is your company
SpaceX launches a record 143 satellites on one rocket, aces landing
They joined mastadon not the "fediverse". Like saying you used the internet but then only visited Facebook.

Point 2 and 3 are identical on Twitter BTW.
For someone to not understand this without a study, I think they would need to be oblivious to the state of the economy, the cost of living in the average metropolitan area where the average American lives, and social dynamics / cultural issues in America.

Also, if you've experienced significantly different levels of salary then this is obvious.
"America First" is just the principle that the US government should prioritize US interests over the interests of other nations and people. It's about nationality, not race.

Anti-gun-control and pro-Christianity are just popular subjects for conservatives. Again, not about race. In fact, those are principles that you just claimed they don't talk about.

How are those "dog whistles for those types of people"?

Isn't that like saying "defund the police" and "black lives matter" are dog whistles for communists?
Python code with this absence of begin/end {} block statements is easy to read and looks beautiful. This additional () in print takes away some part of that beauty.
The logical extrapolation of your argument also says that there’s no such thing as a bug—just software that doesn’t do what you in particular, or perhaps everyone, wanted and expected it to do.

Also you suggest that there’s no such thing as a design mistake, yet that opinions can be categorically wrong or right. These seem to me to be mutually incompatible. At the very least, the first part necessarily restricts the type of opinions that can be categorically wrong, so that the designer of something can’t correctly declare something a mistake.

One popular list of design mistakes in a language is https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/. Many of them can be quibbled over, but many of them are unequivocally at the very least suboptimal, where the behaviour that was complained of was quite indefensible—and commonly has been fixed since, because in many cases it was considered a bug. (And so you see how the line between a design mistake and a bug can be fairly arbitrary.)

Another example I’d use of an unequivocally bad design is MySQL’s Unicode charsets: that you had utf8, then utf8mb3 and finally utf8mb4. utf8 and utf8mb3 were both stupidly broken from the very start, utterly unfit for purpose. They should probably never have been invented, but at the very least they should have been named differently—tens or hundreds of thousands have learned the hard way that “utf8” is dangerously broken, and that “utf8mb4” is what they need.
es40 works just fine for me with OpenVMS, but I will take a look at this one to see if I can add it to my library of emulators. Kudos.
Median household income in the US is below that number.
Hi HN!

A lot more people have started to work remotely(4.7 Million people) due to the pandemic and as the covid situations is getting normal, A lot more could enter the world of becoming a digital nomad and working remotely.

I developed an app for those people who want to travel around the world and pick a destination that would best suit their need once they are ready

GapSoup - https://gapsoup.web.app
helps one to decide on picking a location based on various costs associated with it and safety to travel
To avoid mistakes I always do “lsblk” (on Linux) or “diskutil list” (on macOS) or “gpart show” (on FreeBSD) and carefully read the output before I do the dd to something.

Usually on Linux I only use /dev/disk/by-id/foo in scripts and config files. But using it when doing routine stuff with dd is a pretty good idea too.

It’s too bad that macOS and FreeBSD hasn’t anything similar to my knowledge. And since I use both of these operating systems so much, and so often for things involving dd, I think in my case I don’t gain much from doing by-id for dd on Linux unfortunately.
Sorry, what?

There are plenty of societies and organisations that embrace diversity or deviation.

Am I reading your post wrong?
Along these lines - I've always wanted a cheap, universal usb wireless adapter. Something dumb, that just reads the signals off the usb device, transmits them wirelessly to a dumb reciever that uses the info. to reconstruct the data stream on a usb cable.

By 'dumb' I mean it shouldn't care at all about the usb data/protocol. It should just bang 0/1s across the wireless connection.
There is a deep irony to it. DEC basically created the minicomputer market by eating away at the low end of the mainframe industry. They would later be myopic when the same was done to them. They almost completely missed the PC revolution. They never quite grasped that the future was in commodity silicon and the desktop form factor.

The VAX was a processor-on-a-chip by 1985, several months before the Intel 386 came out. A complete 32-bit machine that could fit in a desktop form factor. It never really happened. In the late 80s they would weakly pursue the high-end workstation market. But a cheap, mass-produced VAX was anathema.

Alpha would follow the same pattern, and by then PCs were already the established architecture. It would have been too late to veer into the consumer market, probably.
Veterinarians have boards and licenses, right? I can't hang a shingle as a vet on a whim. That's a very clear filter. All the vetting of whether or not someone can perform the job is done before they even get to you.

However, anyone can call themselves a programmer and apply to programming jobs and there's no way to tell if they're capable or not until they're at it.

And even previous job experience isn't a strong signal of competence. I've inherited code bases from people who left for other programming jobs where the code they left behind was just a mess inside.
Two things that work great with me: smoking weed & wearing a sleeping mask (a bit of light can really fuck w/ my sleep and for some reasons no US apartments seems to have real blinds).
That's what most people don't understand regarding high spec laptops. Then they will start talking about remote streaming... desktop + cheap laptop = 18-wheeler + bicycle.
Where I live it's the 80th percentile. Not everyone in the US lives on the coasts.
Fanboy's Annoyance should already have what Fanboy's Cookiemonster List has. And, it's one of the default, but not activated, lists in uBlock Origin.

Note that neither Safari nor Chrome are good choices if you want an effective adblocker these days.

Firefox, use it.
It's not about being dispatchable or not, it' about the volatility renewable generation and the problem this generates... and how other non-renewables need to be called by the TSO.
I would go far as to say it's obfuscation. But I don't think the CSS people feel the same. At this point I've chalked it up to a difference in philosophy and ideology.

Brevity, explicitness, obviousness, conciseness, and symmetry all contribute to the simplicity and order of a language, which minimizes the learning curve and maximizes ease of utility.

If that were the goal, there are tons of things that could and would have been done differently.

Most lists such as that of the OP and most criticism of CSS I find to be about users from a user standpoint criticising something about CSS that is either obfuscating or obstructive to their experience and productivity.
No reason knowledge workers can't or shouldn't unionize!
Who cares. I went to an elite university on par with nyu. Half my professors were idiots.
It might be the cheapest if you factor in the costs of climate change, as responsible economists have insisted for decades & the fossil fuel industry has spent billions fighting
Things can be good on net but still have severe downsides you can't just ignore, and I think that's the case here. You're brushing a whole lot under the carpet with "will cause problems": falling populations mean that everything which relies on a demographic pyramid-- pensions, socialized health care, saving for retirement via the stock market, spending on municipal infrastructure-- falls apart. You can't just brush that off.
The last commit is from Mar 2017. Much of the activity in Issues also ends at that time. Looks abandoned rather than matured.
What's the best medium to filter out these crap chemicals from municipal water to your kitchen tap?

I use a ceramic gravity drip filter and a carbon-charcoal filter (NSF 44 or 45? rated).

Is this enough?
so you didn't like a particular implementation of activitypub designed for a specific ux not aligned with you, and some people you didn't like tried to argue with you on the internet.

these are problems you will have in any social media.

open source and federation give you the chance to find or design an implementation you do like.

people are much harder but at least you're not beholden to dictated rules from a large american corporation, and you aren't waiting on some unknown entity to moderate.

issues you raise with privacy are generally understood. public things are of course public. but there is also a lot of fediverse happening in places you can't see, and users in that space can satisfy themselves knowing those conversations aren't likely to live forever.

publishing and consuming rss is a good conclusion since you're oriented to longform content and less casual discussion.
So you follow your initial argument that the exodus is covid-driven with a list of reasons not related to covid at all. So, we agree? People who are moving are those who can afford to.

And if you knew how SF schools worked, you wouldn't have written your last sentence. You leave SF schools to escape diversity - its a lottery system.
I was hoping both purposes would be served, at this mandatory level.

I would adore any engineer who writes more blog posts walking through what they're up to more technically.

How do you feel about every-day stand ups as a means for managers/PMs to check in on employees? My own impression has been that this is at least 50%+ of the reason for stand up, and to me, I'd far prefer periodic write-ins, rather than ephemeral, undetailed, synchronous communication.
Cities do scale, but the low-density "Suburb City" that describes large parts of the US doesn't scale feasibly because the property tax / sales tax per square foot of property is insufficient to cover the city infrastructure to maintain it. The answer, unfortunately, is more growth, in an almost ponzi-scheme like fashion; new property tax revenue covers the cost of replacing roads and sewers from much older districts of the city and so forth.

You can see this in how cities tend to go full blight very quickly after the jig is up (e.g. Detroit, probably the largest example, but many midwest rust belt towns too).

I live in a "semi-rural" part of a European country between two major cities and I'm surprised at how immaculate the arterial road is that I live on, between the cities (kind of a "country road" that parallels the highway). Where I lived in the US before, similar roads were full of wheel-eating potholes. But then again, property prices here are through the roof because the government heavily regulates growth, so that's where they get the revenue.
I think even with reduced sex drive, the chances are that you would still be able to have sex successfully at least 3 times in your fertile life.

The "issue" – and lets face it, a gradual, managed decline in population is just what the Earth ordered – is that we have collectively decided we would like fewer kids and are deploying birth control.
There's actually more to the story than what I intended to share to begin with.

I usually get along well with teachers and have enough tact to make do when I don't. But this person was such an extreme case. He was always grumpy, would regularly take several minutes out of lectures to call out and belittle any student who was late or he didn't think was paying attention. The only times he wasn't sour was when he was describing unethical and torturous experiments on animals. Then he was overly excited and giddy.

The exam was, as was common at that university, essentially an essay which was then reviewed by the examiner who would ask for any clarifications or push with further questions. This exam asked us to describe a system solving a fairly standard AI task using neural networks. My answer was a few pages split into a few sections: a brief overview of the whole system, followed by detailed descriptions of each part. Wherever I skipped details in the overview I'd written "(see p. X)". It took a bit of planning to get those numbers in there when writing that by hand with limited time.

When I finally gave the answer the professor skimmed through the overview and then proceeded to berate me for having neglected to write about some important detail. I politely pointed out that it was in the following section and that I'd included a page reference for things which I referred to before defining. He grumbled and kept skimming. After a while he complained about another thing he thought I really should have explained which was missing. I told him on which page he could find it and politely reminded him that he was reading the overview and that the details were in the next part.

This went on for a while and I got a bit more annoyed and a bit less polite each time, because it was getting ridiculous. After the tenth or so time I flat out told him that if he'd read past the overview, like I kept telling him, he'd find all the details there and if he didn't want to I'd be willing to describe any part of it orally but really, it is all there if he would just read it instead of complaining.

That's when he asked the question about a third network and I, still very frustrated, was relieved to get an actual question, and I was certain it was a trick question trying to get me to say I didn't think of it and then he'd call me an idiot and explain why it was unnecessary. I was really surprised it wasn't a trick and frankly a bit delighted at inadvertently insulting him.

When I told my wife (well, girlfriend at the time) she was a bit shocked that I'd been rude to a professor, but I didn't need those points and while it was very out of character for me I never regretted it.
Why does this non-sense get constantly rehashed all the time?

You cannot compare the cost of an electricity generation system solely based on the cost of the plant technology itself, you always have to take the whole system costs into account.

Solar panels might be cheap, but they are unable to provide a reliable electricity source without backup or storage systems which is what drives the actual costs.

France has 70% nuclear and their kWh costs around 17 Euro cents and causes greenhouse gas emissions of 50 grams of CO2 on average.

Germany has 50% renewables with the kWh at over 31 Euro cents and 400 grams of CO2 on average.

The French energy sector is responsible for 50 million tons of CO2 each year while Germany’s energy sector causes over 350 million tons of CO2 each year.

So, no, large scale solar power is neither cheap nor clean.
Right. That makes it ideal for baseload. It can produce more than enough for regular loads. If necessary it can be augmented by solar and other power generation.
Does that ever work reliably? I've tried it on a number of different systems, and half the time it just does nothing, and when it does, the screen updating is quite choppy to the point of being unusable.
I remember there being a project during the Iraq War that sought to duplicate the effectiveness of bomb sniffing dogs with some kind of chemical device.

Long story short: millions spent and it was concluded that dogs are still both the best and most cost effective method for sniffing explosives.
This actually wouldn’t be a problem as long as headlines are descriptive and accurately summarize the content of the article.
>the problem for crypto is that it its use as a currency mostly is criminal.

On what data are you basing this conclusion?
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And the right to NOT dye your hair, apparently.
How do you sanitize the lines? I heard people inject bleach and stuff which sounds like too much to deal with monthly
I can’t find the white paper, but the decline in fertility rate takes into account social changes such as contraception. In fact, if I remember it correctly, social changes masked the decline
Great work. Datagrids are an underrated way to give your users more flexibility in how they interact with data. I'll be trying RevoGrid out next chance I get.
Solar panels productions reject more co2 than nuclear plants.
Except that solar power isn’t an effective measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector. Nuclear is far more effective as the comparison between France and Germany shows with Germany emitting _seven_ times the emissions as France in their energy sector.
Nuclear has a lot of hidden costs too such as waste disposal or reprocessing, insurance (whether private or effectively public and socialized), and remediation.

If you look at the whole picture including capacity factor, flexibility, engineering overhead, etc., coal and gas are still very cheap... provided you ignore long term externalities. This is the problem.
We’re switching to TMDB as the primary data source for TV shows
>Fossil fuel and nuclear power don't have these associated costs.

because those cost have been socialized to the rest of us. We are all paying for higher cancer rates, temps, etc but these companies get to keep the difference as profit.
As a regular fediverse user, the main detail I'd be curious about is: Which server was the experiment done on and which servers were federated with?

I don't have anything against this article per se, but it's worth noting every fediverse encounter is different.

My main take on this article is that it's like walking into a McDonald's and being upset they don't serve pizza and then condemning all fast-food as being terrible because it's not all pizza.
951 are currently in orbit. I thought they only wanted 3000-7000, but I was incredibly wrong. They want 42,000 total?

30,000+12,000 satellites - 951 in orbit = 41,049 / 143 per launch = 287 more launches

Source of that is from wikipedia:

> On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on SpaceX's behalf to arrange spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites to supplement the 12,000 Starlink satellites already approved by the FCC.[16]