skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a sick little comment. The world is a lot larger than the rich West and historically children were what we have - in some wealthy places - a social security system for. But in many places where the state is barely functional and family ties are strong children tend to take care of their elders, because that's how it's been traditionally. The best way to reduce that factor in how many children people have is to up the standard of living, which more or less automatically reduces the number of children people will have because they no longer need to worry that much about their old age.

On another note: those societies have - of necessity - much stronger family ties than that same rich West, so something valuable is lost along with the social needs.
Extremely expensive. Or overpriced?
If an existing talent-pool is located there, why exactly should they move? Is a small inefficiency a failing of a non-profit? No company is a perfectly efficient profit-making machine (even though for-profits like to drop morals for profit), why are we feeling tricked by a non-profit wasting some negligible percentage of donations, especially that 100% efficiency is frankly impossible?
All this when contemporary genetic counseling could drastically reduce the number of cases of CF.
I can't live without the face / object detection. It's been so useful
A simple library to add cryptographic attestation to patches sent via email
> Why does it have to be first priority in order to matter a lot?

That is it: it doesn't matter to the regular Joe. At all. Because it was made first priority by throwing it into his face as the first experience when visiting a new website by this insane regulation.

> several tens of percents of people are worried about technological tracking

Are they truly worried about it or they are just saying that? Because there were ways to avoid tracking even before GDPR but what percent of those people used them? And are they worried enough to pay some membership or simply stop visiting the offending website?!

> happily stream your bathroom to the public

Are you really equating cookie tracking with bathroom privacy?! That's quite a stretch. Even then, I am not sure if there are laws protecting my bathroom privacy, but if there were I am sure they don't require me so sign some sort of waiver every time I take a dump in my own damn house!

> It's protecting you from the trackers!

Well now I can sleep so much better. I was quite worried about those awful trackers and their... tracking habits. Good thing those Brussels bureaucrats, in their infinite wisdom, thought to protect me against such a horrifying danger, a danger I was completely helpless to protect myself from. What other things are endangering me right now and I have no idea? Somebody call the politicians for help!
Trondheim, being the home of Norway's largest technical university actually has a pretty good number of tech companies and startups.
English usage of the term "Scandinavia" is a bit unclear that way - it often is used to mean what locally would be called Nordic countries (i.e. including Finland, Iceland, ...)
Building an SRE Team? How to Hire, Assess, & Manage SREs
Yah... indeed, it's just a straw in the wind sort of poll. Nothing robust or scientific. Just for kicks really.
> Your coming at it from an end user or armchair quarterback point of view, not someone who actually does development in that space

The slow transition away from “mass adoption soon!” is extremely entertaining to me.

Why, pray tell, for a currency would developers matter more than end users?
There was a us navy ship (Bonneham Richard) that burned in the San Diego naval shipyard last year. From 30 miles away the stench of burning plastic was intense and nauseating. It lasted days before they could extinguish it. In that case they had all the resources of the navy to deal with it. I can imagine it's much worse in Sri lanka.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)
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Sounds like albums are just tags, which is in general superior to folders.
I did not feel like I was spending much less money in Copenhagen than I did in NYC. Can't say I was excited to pay $8 for a beer again.
No doubt winter in Helsinki can be beautiful but it is bloody cold. I always loved going there but how a city with an extreme climate made #1 is puzzling.
Review of “Microservices: The Big Picture” on Pluralsight by Antonio Goncalves
Man, they totally have Sydney wrong. I moved out of Sydney to Melbourne because it was so expensive, it's a never-ending rat race and most of the companies are pretty corporate (meaning a lot of unpaid overtime).
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To be fair, the article is tagged "racism", and you explicitly refer to the design as "bigotry".

> They just designed, built, or perpetuated a system which was exclusionary.

I understand that this is an accepted definition for racism these days. But bigotry still implies intent, doesn't it? 'Rude', as you put it later on, seems like a reasonable description, but I'm not really seeing any 'bigotry'.
Did you mean to say trash?
What most people do not understand, cryptocurrencies do only define the technology itself.

It does (and can) not define how it is used and also abused.

It is, eg. obvious that Bitcoin was made with the idea of representing a coin, a mean of payment. However, it is clear by now, that Bitcoin will never be a mean of payment. In contrast, it is mostly used as investment.

Also, you can not simply ban any cryptocurrency. The technology can not be 'stopped'. The lawmaker could only disallow it for this and that use.
Interesting how the assertion that Chinese people kill infant girls en masse goes completely unchallenged without nuance on this site.
In Canada you'd assume insurance is lower because you get basically nothing for emotional damages, whereas in US the vast majority awarded is for emotional, however Canada being relatively rich means we get fleeced more and also the arguable excuse due to economies of scale - being 1/10th the population of the US.

If insurance was kept honest, if it was a true free market system where there was an immutable ledger where all insurance companies in real time had to post every action/response they make as to who/what they approve/deny/delay etc, then competitors could come in when they notice how many billions of profits there are each year - meaning that more people or procedures could be covered.

But yes, there are multiple industrial complexes playing together to maintain the status quo.
Ask HN: What are the problems of Fiverr and Upwork?
I would like to know about particular problems that people face in freelancing platforms like Fiverr and Upwork. So if you can share your experience I would really appreciate it.
I would guess that most orbital debris is aluminum, titanium, paint, or some sort of plastic or plastic composite (e.g. epoxy/carbon fiber composite). Even a powerful magnet would not likely do much to attract these materials. For example, titanium medical implants are considered safe for MRI imaging, which uses a powerful magnetic field.
heck, 90& of Sydneysiders live in Western Sydney. Its a trek to even get to the CBD.
> If this user is the “root”, then these files will not be accessible from web server or the CGI server, except if the server is running as root

Wait, what? Why not install the immutable files as root and let them be readable to everyone?
I've been to Tibet, and the endless barrage of slogans and posters celebrating 和谐 and 西藏各族人民的幸福生活 are there for a reason.
I've read somewhere that banks use blockchain internally. I mean levels of trust can be different within a company. Maybe you don't want anybody to be able to modify the ledger's history.
Yes because this is part of a narrative re space debris. Lots of people are looking into debris/junk removal. Those projects are being given serious funding. If the impact risk from natural objects far outweighs the risk from space junk, those projects are pointless. We should then focus on hardening spacecraft against inevitable collision rather than attempting to remove existing debris. The debate is relevant to which risk mitigation strategy is most effective.
Similar story here. Perhaps arts degrees are different, but I could not relate this piece to any of my experiences from when I was studying for a CS degree. It felt as though the author was writing about a different country.
Dennis Hopper Reads Kipling's Poem 'If' on the Johnny Cash Show (1970)
Friends of mine created a popular video game that was run on live TV around the world ("Hugo the TV Troll").

The first version was made for the Amiga. They didn't want the networks to know this because it would not have been accepted as a tv-quality signal, so they got a big flight case on wheels, put the Amiga in there, put a lock and break-out panel on the back, saying that this was a corporate secrecy measure. Networks bought it :-)
Something might be done by me. To your car. ;)
Yeah, however, the young generation is putting off their marriage year by year as in developed world. I can see the trend where people choose not to marry someone and/or not to have kids is
picking up though may not be the mainstream any time soon.

Partly because costs have been high, but also people find their interests elsewhere other than the traditional path.
>the power of a government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

>Robert Hinrichs Bates argues that the state itself has no violent power; rather, the people hold all the power of coercion to ensure that order and other equilibriums hold up.

Should we be discussing this?
It’s important to realize a major reason they won is because existing shareholders were kind of miffed at the board for a while. The board didn’t really engage with shareholders very much if they could help it, and there weren’t actually any energy industry experts on it, shocking for a company named Exxon.

Even Vanguard, hardly a hotbed of investment-as-activism, voted for two of the Engine candidates:

> “Over the years, we have shared with Exxon our concerns about the lack of energy sector expertise in its boardroom and questions about board independence. And for years, we did not witness sufficient progress on either front.”

(Source: the WSJ write up at https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-give-exxon-payback-fo... )
Sure, but on the other hand, it is maybe not helpful to oversimplify.

Because then your actions will not lead to more peace and just complicate things further.

Territorial integrity is often at odds with self-determination. In the case of Georgia and Ukraine the west argued with sacred territorial integrity - and in the case of Kosovo with self-determination. And russia argued reverse.

I have not been in all those areas, so I don't want to judge, but I do know that there was lots and lots of propaganda going on and allmost nobody really asked the actual people living there, what they actually want - which is what I prefer to apply in most conflicts. But this not so easy either, because ... does the vote of a person living there since only 2 years count the same as one whose family has been there since centuries? Where to draw the line?

Otherwise it gets ridiculed when for example occupying russian soldiers in chechenya gets the same vote as the people who actually lived there.
i just close the website with shady popups, it is that simple now
Are there any other explanations for the massive male surplus?
I wrote the previous comment with respect to the link provided by the original post. It linked the 2019 Indian Test which was done in a manner that the debris would burn in the atmosphere itself within few weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Shakti

> According to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, some debris might persist for a year, but most should burn up in the atmosphere within several weeks.

The perceived tone of the original post made me comment the previous comment (which is not only true about ASAT missiles but literally everything else). I'm sorry if my judgement of the original post was wrong.
This is amazing! I had no idea the nyt paywall was all javascript.
This is the "Top 10 Hottest Women in the World" list. Someone just threw it together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
Lemme know when you've outcompeted a free product advertised on Google home page that Google considers a strategic priority, then I'll listen to everything you have to say about how it's Mozilla's mismanagement that caused the decline of Firefox. Once Chrome was a priority for Google, Firefox stood no chance no matter the funding.
One Child Policy prevented ~300M births. Currently PRC with 1.4B has 150-200M surplus / idle workers, 600M trapped in low(er)-middle income. PRC has too many people to elevate to upper-middle or high income status within reasonable time and simply not enough resources. Any policy to reduce population was "beneficial". 1.4B is already too much. PRC with population of 1.7B people would fall apart. Crassly, a more severe Great Leap Forward that suppressed current population to "only" 1B would alleviate a lot of strategic stressors. Family planning was completely necessary but came too late and arguably enforced too softly.
The Peano axioms are much older. We teach them in school. Let's hope that those falsehoods will also be taught in school. (In a different school, of course -- where people learn software development.)
Maybe because it's an operating system you pay for, and it's more aggressive than competitors.

> MS is looking at other tech companies that do this without any backlash and keeps wondering why they are singled out ... Why shouldn't they try if evey other company gets away woth it?

Since when is MS late to the party on this one? They lost a huge anti-trust action for privileging their own browser decades ago. If anything MS invented this.

on a side note, it does not make sense to anthropomorphize a corporation, and a corporation does not deserve consideration on fairness grounds.
In the UK most homes don't have a hot water tank. We have a wall mounted gas boiler, that heats water on demand. These are often located in the kitchen.
…at MP3 quality.

This is fine if you like that sort of thing. I would note that latency is very important here: it's not going to be nice to play through if it's incurring any significant latency.
Should you try to overcome your survival instinct?
I'm 'competing' plenty by staying afloat and providing for my family every single day, thank you very much. And yes, sure. Call it what you want, but I don't want myself or anyone to have to 'compete' to prove their worth.
Can be solved with reverse payments (yes, there are things to consider!).

That a transaction is final is not a flaw but one of the main features.
I totally agree if intentional it would be scummy.

The details are kind of irrelevant so I had left them out. I was going home from the airport, with a stop on the way to drop off a friend. I had a 10am call I needed to take in private, and the pickup and first stop took too long, so I re-routed my final destination to a co-working space nearby to be able to take the call.

I didn’t feel bad at all because the new drop-off point is a hugely busy spot for Uber. Driver already had another fare on queue. The original destination was out in the sticks and driver would have had to come back to the city for their next fare. It definitely worked out better for the driver with the change!
Peter Zeihan has an interesting take on it:

https://zeihan.com/video-dispatch-chinas-demographic-decline...
I replaced a brand new Frigidaire refrigerator (internet reviews said it was quiet) with a new LG unit (which is actually quiet) and removed a lot of stress from my life.
Interesting data, but I think that the "Best Work-Life Balance" is misleading in this context. Good social security or city livability add greatly to quality of life, sure. But it is kind of perpendicular to the topic of work-life balance.

Out of these statistics "% population overworked" or de facto vacation days taken are a better metric. BTW: does this >48h/week bases on the official contract or an actual state of matter (e.g. expected overtime, paid or not). The later is likely greater in some places. We all know that in many jobs (startups, academia, game industry, a lot of consulting) we often hear "nobody here works 8h for 5 days a week" - as a direct expectation.
> Many Europeans see it more as "The US pay a bigger part than we do in bolstering American control of the western world", which is exactly as it should be. IMO the US should pay exactly 100% of the bill for its own defense and enforcement of its power projection.

You're not wrong, but NATO members have also agreed to spend 2% of their GDP on defence. Which few do.

> In 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defence spending to continue to ensure the Alliance’s military readiness.

* https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm

If anyone wants to spend more than that, like the US does, that's something else.
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But perhaps it would have been the right thing to do for governments to limit population growth and not let us breed our way to destruction so fast, unsustainably stripping the earth of its resources and accelerating climate change.

Personally, a one-child limit a few decades ago would have been much more tolerable than face being told in the near future that we can no longer eat meat, drive a car, or travel internationally, amongst other things.
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When I was first married, we were paying about $350/mo for my wife's antidepressants. With insurance. That made our financial situation extremely difficult.

If what you're saying is accurate -- $400-1000/week or two -- then that certainly is expensive. But it's not like mental health treatment is affordable in the first place. (Well, it's better now than in the mid-2000s, possibly due to my better insurance?)
The source for their cost of living numbers are Numbeo.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Vancouver?displayCu...

$1,342 USD per month is pretty expensive, but the countries ranked below it are even worse.
In a large city, with two kids, this is not an extravagant income. It's certainly a very good income, but a position like that deserves good compensation.
In the early 90s the "info channel" of my local Warner Cable system contained a request, written in strangely familar light blue 40 column text on a blue background, asking for anybody who knew how to format a floppy disk in an Atari 800 to call the local cable company office. I called and made arrangements to meet somebody there. I got my mother to drive me to the office at the appointed time. I met a man who showed us into a room with an Atari 800XL and a floppy drive.

The man explained that they used this computer to make "data disks" to be taken to the "head end", where another Atari 800XL ran the info channel. They'd run out of working disks. The engineer who'd set it up left on bad terms. They didn't know how to format more disks, but they knew that's what they needed because the manual for the software advised them so.

I showed the man how to format a disk. They comped a month of my family's cable bill (though their was some consternation when he found out we had the "premium" package). That may be the first time in my life I did "IT work" and received compensation, now that I think about it.
I was tired of fighting with my own computer and installed Debian. Could not be happier.
For that, I suspect a Twitter account would be more effective than an HN account!
Is adoption murder? Abortion?

Why is it easier to imagine that Chinese people murder infants than it is to imagine literally any other scenario?

Why is it easier to assume that a massive sex imbalance is the result members of a particular group of people being psychopaths rather than the result of some systemic cause? Hmm.
Any idea if the Wikipedia people getting those salaries are based in the US?
>Or you could see a country fed up with Russia's influence/politics that chose a different direction.

I would have seen that, if they haven't historically sized with Nazism, and the democratically elected government wasn't toppled by neonazis just now.

>Wtf is this supposed to mean? Should the US send an army of "patriots" and start a civil war in Tatarstan?

Does Tatarstan has some area with a large citizenry of American descent, and has an anti-American government that looks down on them have been established in the country? Was part of Tatarstan historically part of US too, for centuries even?

If so, they'd certainly be justified to do so, yes, especially in that area.

Then again, they they do it anyway, wherever they like, not in places they have actual borders with and a historical population of fellow ethnic Americans to protect, but 10s of thousands of miles away from their borders, where they have no history and no reason to be there, plundering and living hell-holes of civil war and destruction on their way out.
https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/chinas-hidden-children/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/30...

It's also China, where they put toxic stuff in watered down milk to make it look as foamy as protein-rich good milk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal , i.e. a place with a lot of corruption and where gaps are possible.
I'm not able to find an article now but a psychologist (I think?) that lived in Lebanon was interviewed on the quite high level of noise pollution. He said the effect is very real on anxiety, anger, unhappiness even if people don't realize it.

He also remarked that people think they are going to move here and adapt. And that's because, in his words, they haven't had the experience.

The idea that our lives could be adversely effected and we don't realize the cause? And if someone pointed it out we might disagree? That's scary to me.
> I must admit I like the idea of the WMF having a grand vision for the future and raising money for it

They're not raising money on their vision for the future though. Their fundraising ads imply that if you don't donate then Wikipedia.org will go offline
It is not unreasonable to speak of Europe as a whole. Credit card transactions are common where I live, but not in most of Europe.
It is though?
How is it possible US have less than 10 vacation days taken? Are schools and kindergartens open year around?
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Which part is ridiculous to you?
EU leaders are weak, they'll continue act like blind slaves

Makes me laugh everytime i think about how facebook stole europe's idea (libra), thanks weak leaders
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> No one gets left out due to lack of unicode.

Except people with names that don't fit into the ASCII character set, I guess?

What if this was a government site that you have to interact with for some reason? Something where using your full name is important?
Feel like this is all semantics. Sure the term "addiction" isn't fully applicable but the claim that because it's not addictive that there is nothing to the premise is spurious. I suggest everyone read the hacking of the American mind by Ronald lustig.
Not true at all, most Western Europe 100k$ (80k EUR) is barely above average, you'd still be firmly middle class even on two such incomes, sky high would be at least twice that much.
This is classic British understatement. It doesn't literally mean 'great', but depending on how it's said it can be interpreted as such.
Was what we know now available information for the CCP to make rational decisions. This policy occurred in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution which crippled this nation. I doubt the leadership made rational decisions even if the data was available.
Humans are both. Empathic and cooperative with their tribe, vicious and xenophobic towards other tribes. It's a perfectly cromulent survival strategy. Organized groups larger than some 200 members are a very modern thing.