skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no "high fertility subpopulations" that maintain fertility rate irrespective of external situations. Research on immigration for example consistently show that immigrant populations adapt to local fertility levels within 1-2 generations. If anything, increasing immigration to developed countries would likely accelerate the reversal of population growth because of this effect.

Furthermore, fertility drops as education increases and poverty decreases. This trend is consistent in every population where we can correlate economic development. E.g. here's the fertility rate for Niger [1], one of the poorest countries in the world. Even that has taken a sharp downturn as economic growth has started decoupling from uranium export (which previously dominated Niger's GDP, but provided very little benefit to the population).

Niger, incidentally, has the highest fertility rate in the world, and is one of only 10 remaining countries with fertility rate above 5.

As such such "high fertility subpopulations" are really high poverty, low education populations - currently countries categorised as "Least Developed Countries" by the UN have a fertility rate of 4. Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world that remains above 4, but that too is dropping fast as most of the countries in the region are seeing solid economic growth.

As poverty drops and education increases, fertility rates are dropping across the board, just not at the same rate. But even sub-Saharan African is headed for reversal.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
Here's an interesting performance comparison of PostgreSQL with PostGIS and MongoDB. PostgreSQL outperformed MongoDB in almost all their cases. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10707-020-00407-w

I've decided to use PostgreSQL in my projects.
"Continues"? Why would it get worse?

So sad that we live in an era of tech where basically everything is expected to severely degrade after 2 years and be essentially unusable after 5.
And now imagine all of this logic has to be implemented in the form of silicon transistors that cannot be changed without incurring many millions of $ in losses if a tiny bug slips through. And the tiniest bug will most likely make every application under the sun crash within a few seconds, or at least deliver wrong results.

That's basically what happens today in bleeding-edge CPU architecture development.
You’re right. Wow, that’s annoying – when you copy and paste the value from developer tools in Safari it strips those characters, so you only get the printable characters.
I actually blame apple. Essentially every one of those manufacturers wanted to replicate apples success in creating a walled garden instead of taking a different open approach. Essentially lack of visionary thinking.
And progressive DAs in certain cities have decided to legalize crime.
I can't decide if Elon Musk and Tesla believe the claims he's been saying, or knows that he can't deliver anytime soon but has some end game planned. Surely the AI developers understand the issues that still have be resolved for safe driverless operation. They must have seen their own and the customer test videos that look terrifying. There's a 1000 fold increase in ability needed from 'intelligent lane assist' to your car dropping your kids off at hockey practice then picking you up from work by itself.

Will the definition of FSD be slowly reworded, or are they careful to never state the delivery date for it in contracts. Or will Tesla rely on traffic authorities not approving the technology, so they can say that they've delivered but government won't let customers use it.
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The problem with this logic is that with millions of people, everything can happen.

When someone says "never/no one" in a casual conversation, they don't mean "it's physically and mathematically impossible for this to happen, I'm sure the chance of this is 0%". They mean: "the vast majority of people".

Techie communities can be tiresome with all the nitpicking.

I swear that if I posted a comment saying "nobody puts their dick in the vacuum cleaner shaft" while discussing the best vacuum cleaner design, somebody would feel the need to object and say they did it.

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
>nftables (like iptables before it) is rule based and not bucket based.

What does this even mean? Do you have any documentation to explain?

>So high numbers of rules will not affect pf’s performance like it does with nftables.

This is wrong. From OpenBSD documentation:

"More lines being evaluated for each packet will result in slower performance."

[0]https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html

It's not 2001 any more. Nftables and Linux have left the BSDs in the dust.
In my country my phone number is associated with everything from my electronic identification to bank transactions. It is part of a multi factor authentication. Giving up my phone number would weaken one of those factors. I don’t like it but the system is like that I don’t have much choice.

If my phone number could be linked to my Facebook data then I am giving away a lot more information than just my phone number.
> Who keeps buying California's scarce water?

tldr; the vicious lizard people of course
Possibly because 36k doesn't even make it into top 10 [1].
And it's not that we're (humans) are not trying. The technology to make this happen (CPU, GPU and whatnot) wasn't there ~10 years ago AFAIK. And even today, what we have might not be good enough for full autonomous driving, regardless if you'd threw another 10.000 scientists at it (point in case: empty words from Elon Musk).

[1]
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Recently I wanted to try out a new launcher on my phone. I've installed 3-4 different launchers and they all had a huge privacy policy page about the large amount of data they would exfiltrate from the phone.

So your experience definitely doesn't come as a surprise.
Thanks. I feel lucky that my work is flexible enough so that I can do this without any issues. Especially now that everyone is working from home.

I'll give it a little while longer before reintroducing melatonin into it.
I mean links like this: https://majkinetor.github.io/mm-docs-template/#quick-start

If you go there, I can grab it hovering over header (↵ symbol to get permalink). It also shows nicely in the URL by combining words instead of generating sequence.
> It's not mentioned which model format the viewer supports.

It's mentioned[0] in `README.md`:

> scop can load Wavefront .obj files

[0] https://github.com/cledant/scop_vulkan#features
True, hashes would be completely trivial to reverse, I didn't think that through :D

And you're right, the only way to build a HN-friendly version would probably be to basically do the checking client-side, since any additional information you send to the server could be directly used to narrow the search space.

I think I read that there are some email addresses in the leak though; wasn't HaveIBeenPwned searching only for those, but not for numbers?
The raw consumption of resources is tiny: remember that semiconductors are tiny objects!

Of more concern are the energy and clean water input, and the ability to cleanly dispose of used solvent. Much of the old silicon valley factories are now "superfund" cleanup sites because of this.
I mean, that slowness is the reason we moved to computers.

That said this is certainly interesting, I wonder if there has already been an exploration of this topic. Could definitely make an interesting startup idea :)
What games taught her multiplication?
I wonder if there was a quiet decision across police departments to reduce presence in light of the riots and widespread lash back.

Certainly these departments won’t announce the official policy, the same way they didn’t for all their other polices.
He has written and uses (at least for the last edition) a Racket library / language for this book that also automatically adds unicode soft hyphens where appropriate in words, so I assume this is one of them
He's charging 10k today with countless promises of 'its coming soon!', though. For us random Joe's to over-promise is one thing. To do it on a Musk level is something else. He takes the adage 'under-promise and over-deliver' and spins it on it's head.
I don't want to deny the successes at all. But everything SpaceX has achieved so far was possible before. I guess the statement that Starship is getting closer to its promise can be expressed that way, but it almost sounds like it's already close and in reality it's far from being ready.

Also consider that it took NASA about 9 years to fully develop the Space Shuttle from ground up and they didn't lose a single vehicle during testing - 50 years ago!
That’s optional, and opt-in -- it asks you during phone setup whether to enable Siri.

It does try to nudge you into enabling it, but if someone kept pressing that button and invoking Siri accidentally, they could open Settings and search for “siri” to disable it, which I think is reasonably discoverable.
Unlikely. Police mostly deal with consequences, they can’t stop everyone from doing what they have intended to do. And why would police suddenly become hesitant?

It is more likely that it is caused by pandemic situation where many people have lost jobs and homes. Also social conditions changed. All of that could attribute to agressive and reckless behaviour.
Here's one small data point that popped up in my feed the other day. I haven't fact-checked this with any other sources though.

"No one has been murdered in Norway so far this year"

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-norway-year.amp
It's beautiful!

Also it shows the power of publishing documentation in an easily-parsable format.
Exfat is not good for the kinds of ssd’s that go into computers. Flash drives yes though.

Imo it depends on what’s important to you but from purely a data recovery standpoint I’d say pick NTFS & use tuxera on the Mac & Linux has write support built in. This way you can have a 3rd partition w/ data shared btwn the 2 OS’s. Of course if your against that you can use hfs or ext4 & figure out how to mount those. NTFS will of course not work w/ the permission structure of either well.
Paul SIMON breaks down just how ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ came to be
We have the same idiom in Lithuanian, literal translation from the French: "Po mūsų nors ir tvanas".
I taught myself to code, started in 2010 after 10 years in IT infra/networking. I’m not a professional developer and it’s a hobby for me - I did a humanities degree with no comp/sci background.

Initially I built a simple crud app to track water changes for my aquarium. For a while there I had it online as a free SaaS app too. It was using Ruby on Rails, and I had no idea how to use JavaScript to make the UX better.

Fast forward a few years and I was getting fed up with voicemail, so I read up on APIs and figured out how to use GCPs transcription service, pointing to audio files in twilio (I diverted my mobile to twilio to act as my voicemail). Actually pretty simple even though it might sound complicated.

Fast forward to last year and I built a free directory to raise the profile of primary producers who were missing out on foot traffic as a result of COVID, closely followed by another project I’m close to launching. These last two projects were in nodejs as I figured I had better finally figure out JavaScript.

When I was completely stuck on something I did a lot of googleing and watching YouTube - that happened a lot, particularly when trying to get my head around promises.

Moral of the story, don’t be put off with CRUD apps, they are very rewarding. Just build stuff you enjoy when you have spare time (for me evenings after child in bed).
I think the bigger reason here is that devs jump directly into Frameworks rather than understanding the basics of web development itself.
Both are cuboidal & I don't think it would make any difference without the case in a pocket
6 year olds watch a lot of TV/YouTube, and see a ton of advertising
That fertility rates have been consistently dropping in line with recent models for a long time [1]. Global fertility rates are already below 2.4, with ~2.1 the replacement rate.

China is currently set to face a reversal somewhere from the middle of this decade to 1-2 decades away depending on who you believe. India is set to follow. Many smaller countries are also reversing around now, but those two for obvious reasons have a huge impact.

The last holdouts with high fertility are a handful of sub-Saharan states, with Niger by far the worst (Somalia second - the two are the only countries in the world left with fertility rates above 6), but even Niger is seeing fertility rates plummet as it's economic growth have sped up.

The estimates varies massively based on various scenarios. E.g. on a current trajectory, China will see its population halve by 2100. It's likely you'll see the Chinese government do a lot to prevent the decline from being that steep because it will be an economic nightmare to manage, and so we can't assume the trajectories will remain unchanged.

But nobody is actively trying to get much above-replacement fertility rates, so any political interference is likely to moderate delay the peak not prevent it.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53409521
I think for Samsung the key was to build a loyal customer base by copying the iPhone at a lower price point. Thier designs have now departed significantly from those of Apple but the core customers have stuck around.
Some people can end up living at airports for months or years at a time
At least the Samsung Gallery app works just fine if you block the network access with a firewall. The Google Gallery app does strange things and is not usable at all behind a firewall.
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Sounds reasonable. I'll try it a little bit longer without melatonin, but if the issues with falling asleep persist, I'll probably start taking small amounts of melatonin again. It definitely helped a ton with falling asleep over the past few years, but I'm actually not sure how much of that is placebo.
My point is treating humans like numbers is not a way to get people to overcome a fear that this shot can potentially have a life threatening blood clot or other undocumented adverse effects being it’s so new.

The numbers at large only matter when you’re the one who lands on the other side of fence without harm.

Now, This wouldn’t be an issue if the world wasn’t moving to require a vaccination certificate since that person can make the choice themselves to balance the risk of the shot vs the adverse effects.

But it’s becoming increasingly real that they risk being a second class citizen. It’s just plain wrong and completely anti freedom.
I didn't read the article, but I suddenly have an urge to go back out and pick up the garbage. Hopefully not in the snow.
Foot paths, bicycle paths and trains are much more friendly to humans and also cheaper.
"Separate infrastructure" means it's separate. GPS is not separate, you can use it no matter which road you are on. Streets and rails are (usually) separate, a vehicle for one can't use the other. That's what may be necessary for fully autonomous vehicles.
The only thing I can recommend off hand is to try and simplify your geometries a bit for searching if they’re complex. Searching along the border of a complicated shape is much harder than searching around a square, it has to do a lot more calculations.
Went over the yellow line as it tried to change lanes into the concrete barrier before i yanked the wheel back. Most times it tries to change lanes into the barrier i disable it when the signal comes on for the impending lane change.

Dont get me started up on autopilot not detecting stalled cars in car pool lane.
Well, youtube is getting severely criticised for removing dislikes from Biden videos. I guess they have decided (correctly) to simply remove the options for dislikes altogether. Frankly, I think this is FAR more honest than removing dislikes.
Wow that link has been super informative, thank you! I knew that the transmission risk was actually lower than commonly thought but wasn't aware that it was direction- and sexual act-dependent, nor that condoms were of great but still limited effect. Thanks!
I don't think he does, like the "Mars by 2024" thing. He is good at hype, not judging, but not buting it either.
You’re missing something. Samsung has a large enterprise customer base. Apart from Google’s semi-working enterprise stuff, theirs is probably the only successful Android enterprise solution to date. Samsung Knox is not to be underestimated. They really did a marvelous job there and Google borrowed a lot of ideas from the Knox standard.

I agree about the UI stuff though.
Yeah, but the averages don't matter as much as the max in this case. The total carrying capacity between 8-10 and 4-6 is what's important, as traditionally, this is when most of the people moving occurred. It doesn't really matter if the buses are less efficient than cars the rest of the time, as long as they take enough of the overall journeys at peak times that the whole city traffic system moves quicker.
It would still lend itself to some interesting games, such as Mech Battles or Warcraft with oversized vessels or hordes of leming-sized people in these environments.
is it necessary to understand the subtext or messages when reading a book the first time? isn't it enough for the kids to enjoy the story at the level they can understand it?

sure, teenage romance novels are inappropriate for a 10 year old, but there are plenty of adult adventure stories that do make sense to a 10 year old even if they don't understand every detail in it.

white fang, horatio hornblower, adventures of people traveling the world on bikes, horseback or other ways were among my favorites where i can't remember anything inappropriate for any age. i think huckleberry finn too, but i didn't read that one myself.

in fact i don't even remember reading anything that was targeted at a particular age. but even among childrens books i think there is plenty of choices with a wide age range. roald dahl, erich kästner and many other well known childrensbook authors have written stories that are enjoyable at a wide age range.

i find it hard to imagine that there wasn't anything enjoyable for your 2nd grader.
But one thing that separates BCI from everything is the implant itself. Sure, people have addictions but they also have that choice of stop doing that and focus on things that are important to that person (I know that overcoming addiction is way tougher than just writing about having choice as I'm still going through it at the moment, but one can surely get out this).
The thing that differentiates this from earlier technological advancements is that now there is some hardware directly wired in your brain whereas previous technology was outside of your body and I don't think that I would able to accept that without having an impending worry about implant having access to my brain directly.
I currently have Adobe's Creative Cloud All Apps, which includes Adobe Acrobat. I've bought tons of books on Java, Javascript, HTML, C++, etc.
> or is this another aspect of the US's unexpectedly high violence

That's a steep drop of context. The US doesn't have abnormally high violence overall, as your blanket statement would imply. The US has a lower rate of violent crime than Europe does and that has been consistently true for 50 years.

The US has an unexpectedly high murder rate due to the mass proliferation of easy to get handguns in its inner cities. If you remove that single factor, the US murder rate drops to something comparable to Canada. It's obvious that the murder problem in the US is a handgun problem and the stats always bear that out year after year.
35 year old. I make about the top 20% salary in my country, but don't have much disposable income. I think until I hit a salary cap somewhere, it's best to just invest in my own skills - things like books, classes, experiments and side projects. I've had an average of 21% salary increase year on year for the last 9 years, which is much higher than if I had put my non-existent savings on anything. Once it's unlikely I could make at least 10% more from a better job or freelance work, I might look into other forms of investment.
For my personal projects I find particularly satisfying using my own stack:

- https://h3rald.com/litestore if I need a RESTful searchable data store and some relatively simple middleware logic.

- https://h3.js.org if I need to write a single-page application and I just want to get things done fast.

- https://hastysite.h3rald.com if I need a static site generator.

- https://min-lang.org for more complex things. It took a bit to get used to it, but I managed to get quite productive with it in the end.

I do occasionally try out more traditional things or the latest stuff but... using my own code feels a lot more gratifying. If I needed something different, I found myself building it from scratch exactly like I wanted it.
> But now let’s look at the “mother’s” name: “Мария Григ.” (“Maria Grig.”). We know Gregory’s (and Moses’s) mother’s name was Maria/“Masha” Gertsovna Schönfinkel... My guess is that the “mother” is actually a mother-in-law, and that it was her apartment.

It's more likely that the mother Russianized her patronymic from Gertsovna to Grigorievna.
While my experience is mainly in digital hardware, my tinfoil hat theory as to why the hardware startup scene is so lackluster is because the EDA tools are expensive hot garbage. Not only are the dev tools cost prohibitive, but so are the necessary analog components like PLLs and PHYs (which are more or less required in pretty much every modern VLSI design.)

The same companies that make the EDA tools also make IP blocks that semiconductor companies purchase, so it's in their best interest to prevent an open source hardware scene from thriving. I get that making masks for a chip is expensive for a startup. But if the design, verification, and layout steps were cheaper and more streamlined, I would bet money that the fab costs would work their way down in clever and creative ways.
They watched soldiers marching by for months.
Ted Chiang's Exhalation is one of the very best I've read in this vein (also in the GP's sense of "life on different entropic timescales"). Highly recommended if you haven't read it yet.
Samsung always had better screens and cameras than anyone else. That's all they needed.

They still have the best screens today. They still have the best cameras besides apple today.
The list of examples reads like my browser bookmarks list.
I assume most sims have moved beyond vanilla Pacejka model by now, but they are generally still empirical models with their roots in Pajecka. The standard model doesn't account for dynamically changing pressures and temperatures, for example.

When tyre manufacturers provide data, it is usually in the form of coefficients for the Pacejka model or some variant thereof, the model being the de facto standard in the automotive industry.

But I admit I don't know the specifics about Forza 4 tyre model.

At least a few years ago, the iRacing tyre model developers said in their dev log videos that their model is unique in being physically based and not an empirical model. But that may have changed.

Empirical models are generally considered "better" feeling for sim racing, iRacing's model is criticized for being bad in handling extreme slip angles and ratios (read: drifting).
I didn't know about this, thanks. So it's already implemented. I'd just prefer if every breach was marked as sensitive.