skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In therapy circles and attachment theory land, this is exactly what's supposed to happen when you receive "good enough parenting". Good enough parenting means your parents actually tried and either worked through any of their issues preventing them from giving care to their children, or didn't have those issues in the first place. So the idea goes, you end up developing a relationship based on mutual respect, love, and level-headedness.

The problem is, not everyone is lucky enough to receive that kind of childhood care, even though it seems like it should be universal. Lots of people are massively fucked up and still have kids anyway, either accidentally or otherwise. And then their kids are put at a massive disadvantage in life and in human relationships.

It's usually difficult for people with decent upbringings to even conceptualize why a child might willingly remain estranged from their family. But there are a lot of people out there with really good reasons to do that.
Go nuts. I already linked the DOE page, and here is another useful one - https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
I see it more as con self-involvement than empathy.
Viral marketing for The Foundation is kicking into high gear already I see (I kid, I kid).
Children. Or grown children. Or offspring.
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But population growth rate isn't fixed and currently going down. Half of the the world's countries are below the replacement fertility rate, and would be in exponential population decay if it wasn't for increasing life expectancy.

China is a great example of this if you want to look into their demographic information
The beginning of infinity — knowledge created ex-nihilo.
Inflated FB video numbers have been known for a long while now - references to it in Sep 2016 https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...
Yes, just talking about the language isn't enough.

Solving somewhat complex problems with standard data structures (maps, trees, hashtables, etc.) and doing it in the modern, efficient way is the kind of thing I'm really looking for.

In Python it's easy (which isn't to say everything should use Python) because you don't have to do anything but use the builtin datastructures and solve your problem.

Maybe modern C++ works the same way but if it does, I still need someone to show it since that isn't how it used to be (to my knowledge).
So far, the power of the invisible hand has brought not much more besides suffering for the average person.
Human ingenuity is irrelevant if there isn't popular support for solving the problem. Look at climate change, there's plenty of evidence for its dire effects and plenty of ways we could be addressing it, but we're doing nothing because enough people believe it's a leftist conspiracy. Human ingenuity will always lose to human selfishness.
By "the government" do you mean every government in the world?

I don't agree with censorship in other countries but I also think it's weird to expect transnational companies to push western laws and values in places where the ruling government doesn't want them.
Hah - I was hoping I wasn't the only one doing this. In addition to just not being good at "viral twitter", I never have any followers because I nuke-and-pave probably one a year with a new account.

As you called out, most of what I follow is infosec twitter. And the drama ratio is high. I'll follow someone because they do genuinely create a couple excellent technical posts or links, only to find out they are trash and I spend the next month hearing about it.
Are the technologies used to "beat" these predictions sustainable? There's no evidence that our current population level is even sustainable.

"Which is all to say, that this statement has been proven demonstrably false more often in the past than it has been proven true"

This is a very complex system, and like the saying goes for another well-known complex system "past performance is not a guarantee of future performance".
+1 Lospinoso is the real deal
I hope HTTPS-First mode would become the default, so that the full page warning can finally convince my classmate to adopt HTTPS on their website that "does not contain any private info so it doesn't need encryption".
> Do you not see the absolutism and extremism in your statement?

You mean, like this statement:

> Your parents will never be your equals.

Sounds pretty extreme and absolutist to me. Are you saying that the mere act of procreation entitles a person to eternal deference from their children regardless of the nature of their relationship to those children?

> Parents have looked after you since you were a baby, they're always going to want to give advice, always going to want to help, and always going to remember you as the helpless little infant who needed their bum washed.

No, many parents have not "looked after" their children in any significant way. And who are you to assert that everyone's parents are motivated by loving memories of their infancy? Are you merely extrapolating from your own experience and applying it to everyone else?
Thanks Brendan!

We've been following fig and are excited to see more innovation in this area!
Hah, fair enough. Ya I find volume adjust useful but everything else I can do without.
Nice, merci!
Huge agreement on including abuse.

It's hard to make this question grounded in data, but here's an anecdote I do think is accurate.

My grandfather was a horrific man. He died of complications due to alcoholism before I was born. That said, I've heard a lot about just what he was like, including from people outside the family. I've also seen 16mm film footage of him at family holidays, and it's shockingly clear every single other person in the room is straight up terrified of his potential temper. I'm not exaggerating on this point. I think he must have had something going very, very, wrong inside that skull.

My grandmother, who otherwise was a fiercely independent woman, stayed with him despite the abuse. My Dad, hitchhiked to Mexico one summer to escape him, but otherwise still tried to be the good son.

Why? Why not just divorce/disown the asshole?

The norms against that half a century ago were so much stronger. I do think that's an important shift that's happened recently. There's still plenty of people that stay in a bad situation due to loyalty, but the stigma, in the sense of victim blaming, has definitely eroded within my lifetime.

This is a very good thing in my book, even if it looks like a decay of society to some idiots.
I think church is great for mixing up people who differ professionally and socioeconomically. But at least in the US it has also very much deepened the racial and (obviously) religious lines between people.
Human ingenuity can be applied to adaptation. Growing almonds in the desert beside golf courses in the desert doesn't really make sense, but engineering found a way.
At my old job, my manager was an ex-Amazonian. On my way out the door, he gave me one piece of advice - never work for Amazon. He left because of what they made him to do his reports.

You work for a company that negs its employees as part of its management playbook, and that’s bound to affect your mental health. If you can survive Amazon, you’re smart and can also hack it at other companies who treat their employees better. Don’t be obsessed with FANG. There are many many companies who pay as well as Amazon SDE2 but don’t systematically abuse their engineers.
100% guaranteed, cast-iron, watertight security is impossible - but VDIs could potentially prevent whole classes of attack. It's about increasing the barrier against realistic threat models.
Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest
Yeah. I guess my instinct would be this is something platforms have to do while they’re still considered cool? Like Snapchat could have done this seven years ago but couldn't pull it off now?
Yes, my first objection addresses that part directly. Of course you're still accountable, but you're accountable in totally different ways. It matters a lot even just in how one should be accountable. Even if the topic is limited to accountability, there's no possible way to say it doesn't matter. It informs every aspect of that discussion.
Wisdom is knowing how little you actually know
"EDIT: I cannot stop thinking about how ubiquitous YOLO as a philosophy has become in the last decade. Everything about life has become a binary of win or lose. Your stock market plays "won" if you are in the green, your tweet "lost" if you did not get effective engagement, your latest commit "won" if the established metrics succeeded after deployment. And then there are the implications in machine learning, where everything becomes a binary "correct or incorrect" assessment..."

Much of this is reinforced through perceived and real rampant income inequality. If people think they can't advance without taking disproportionate risks - and they're mostly correct here - you'll start to see that action, and then it gets amplified in the social media atmosphere that we live in today.
I don't really like International Fixed Calendar. One thing I like about the existing calendar is that the days of the week are not always the same. (There is not a good benefit to perennial calendars, in my opinion. You can't reuse the same calendar anyways since some things (equinoxes, solstices, moon, etc) may change; also the perennial calendar is not aligned with the Earth.)

A calendar that I like is the Solar Hijri calendar. It is aligned with the equinox.

Of names of days of the week, that can depend on the language; for English, the Germanic names is mostly good how it is, but I would suggest to change "Saturday" to "Lyeday" (abbreviated as "L"), and to abbreviate "Thursday" as "Þ" instead of "T" (the name written in full is still "Thursday"), so that they are now seven difference letter of abbreviation instead of being the same letters.

Of names of months, that can also depend on the language, although the existing names for the existing calendar are no good (due to the last four months being the numbers that are not the properly numbers of the months in the modern calendar, although changing the start of the year to the equinox will fix that anyways). Names based on seasons might be better, I think.

Of year numbering, I would propose a new scientific kind of "anno mundi" numbering. The year measurement is the Earth around the Sun, so we can start with 0 for when that started occurring at approximately the correct rate.
> So, what are the solutions? How do we make it better?

One of the interesting solutions I have heard: Board-level representation of workers. Currently all board members represent shareholders, and unsurprisingly the company is willing to sacrifice workers to satisfy shareholders. Make it so a third, or half the board has to be elected by workers.
The article seems to lay out quite plainly how the book could be considered “anti’: people tend not to appreciated being accused of mental illnesses when they consider themselves sane, and proof as much by having successful careers at Amazon corporate. Framing them as “undesirables’ reeks of “no, I’m breaking up with you”.

This ids of course just a rehash of 50+ years of trying to “cure” gay people, including a lot of hardship, occasional suicides, and the end result of just not doing that any more and everyone being happier.
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You can use any language that supports COM by creating an Excel add-in. But then you have to figure out how to distribute it to the users.

WSH is something quite different. It runs VBScript, which is a different language from VBA. VBA is the same language as Visual Basic 6 and uses the same IDE.
As others have already mentioned, no geometry is required for the definition of pi. Real numbers are enough, where of course the problematic infinity does come up - but there do exist quite simple approximations that will calculate pi to any degree of precision regardless of physical space.
They are though. Door closers offer some resistance on opening. Closers also close. Most closers are hydraulic and some use springs
The challenge is growth. Employees of so called "practical" startups, will compare compensation/wlb options of working at the startup vs fast growing unicorn. Without growth, it is hard to keep great talent (at least that has been my experience).

Also, big tech/unicorn can just spin up a new product line to compete in the same market as the startup. In some situations, they might sell for loss to gain market share (e.g. microsoft teams vs slack).
All those "language market shares" are not very indicative of the multifaceted language landscape.

C++ is certainly not becoming the language of wannabe research data scientists that made Python grow so much, but of course there are fields where it is growing and there are fields where adoption is decreasing.

I doubt that HFT used Python before a C++ wave swept it, since speed has always been a concern, so I am skeptical of the article.

As to the "Rust is the C++ killer" crowd... show me a really big project using mainly Rust now, as there are uncountable using C++, a network simulator, a desktop application, a physical simulation engine, an operating system, a compiler, anything really big. You perhaps will find one or two, compared to thousands for C++. The best that you can hope is to see Rust seriously compete with Rust 15 years from now. And then overtaking it, perhaps. Best case scenario.
Your positivism is anachronistic. Humanity is incapable of putting ego aside for long-term survival. Look at the COVID epidemic, and how vast swaths of humanity has responded to it: denial, offense, pride in ignoring vaccines. Stupidity and narcissism.
Anything to reduce the number of people working in HR is a good thing. They’re a plague on the industry and on society.
Whats wrong with some people having many kids, if the average still remains low?
It depends how much standard of living is affected, and what nonlinear effects might go along with that. "Hurt food production", in the BAU2 scenario, means mass starvation as the food supply shrinks from feeding 7 billion to feeding less than 2 billion. Humanity hasn't seen that sort of contraction before. It is unlikely to be pretty.
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As you wrote "the right approach would be", I'll add: That's exactly what the code does.
If you want to play with the idea of having command output divided into blocks, you can go try it in my terminal Extraterm (https://extraterm.org/) which has had it for years. Or just have a look at the gifs on the features page to get an idea of what is possible: https://extraterm.org/features.html (halfway down page)
This is great advice and one that I'm using in my own side project.

I have a macOS/iOS app out in the App Store and spent several months of my spare time working on it. Once it was released, I've pulled back a bit on how much time I spend on it, but I do manage to spend a few hours here and there during the week to add more features to it and to fix up bugs. I don't have specific goals, like "must release new feature X by 7/20". I just tend to ship a new version every 2-4 weeks depending on how I'm feeling and how much work I've actually done.

I've been amazed at the steady progress of improvements I've made on it. This pace feels a lot better than when I was working hard just to ship the darn thing. I'm not burnt out on the project, and the lack of pressure gives me time and space to reflect on what to do next and how best to achieve it.
Society ending wouldn't mean everyone would die. I don't think society will end, but if someone truly believes it, there are tangible assets that could be viewed as investments. You could do the prepper stuff and build a secure compound, buy guns and ammunition and buy non perishable food. If society ends, those assets will be ridiculously good investments and appreciate a large multiple in value.
> That's fine and dandy, but we need to accept the fact that private organizations worked better than the government to immediately provide the service of education.

There's much wrong with what you have posted here and elsewhere, but I'll just focus on this one. There are numerous studies looking at private vs public schools, and public schools are just as good as private if you get rid of confounding factors (private school students tend to come from wealthier families, for instance).

There are many, many sources for this, here's a good start:

https://www.upworthy.com/public-versus-private-school-a-stud...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherrim/2019/07/03/why-w...

https://www.hepg.org/hel-home/issues/31_1/helarticle/turning...
> Oh and China is now suggesting 3 kids per couple will be to tolerated...

This phrasing, specifically "tolerated," implies a misunderstanding of the motivation behind the change in policy.

The CCP is not "tolerating" up to three children per family; it is doing its usual ham-handed best to encourage it. China has blasted right through stage 3 (thanks to one-child) into stage 4 of the Demographic Transition Model, and is staring down the precipice of stage 5, where the likes of Japan already find themselves.

If you're not familiar with the DTM: https://populationeducation.org/what-demographic-transition-...
*sowing

Also, you're bringing up the textual source of the term, not its general connotation. The connotation is when an abuser, cheater, or otherwise harm causing individual decides to try to rewrite history or attack the competence of the individual bringing the grievance rather than address the grievance in good faith. There is a big difference between disagreeing on the facts of a situation and trying to invalidate someone's perception of the situation in a manipulative way to avoid blame. If your first instinct when someone says "you hurt me" is to argue why it's not your fault, you should probably talk to a therapist about that. That is how a lot of families work, and will even couch it in terms of "tough love" despite it being frankly abusive behavior. To use the word of the day, that's toxic.
"The best and especially humane solution to curb overpopulation is to reduce poverty and increase healthcare - it has been shown that once people from a population get lifted in wealth so they don't need to have ten kids to have three survive to adulthood and one to take over their care in old age, child birth rate automatically drops!"

... and per capita consumption of resources increase, usually creating a large net increase in resource consumption based in the modern lifestyle.
Is this a different meaning of the word "complexity"?
I enjoy the prospect of finding out what novels you think are better or more suitable.
blocking scripts on this website with uBlock Origin probably works, then.
> 99.4 percent conviction rate?

There's commonly two cited reasons for that:

- Prosecutors won't even charge you unless they're completely convinced they've got an open-and-shut case.

- Because of this, judges are likely to assume you are guilty if charged.

Additionally, wrongful convictions are extremely embarrassing for judges, prosecutors, and their offices.
For this reason they are unlikely to admit mistakes and other judges are under extreme pressure not to overturn convictions.
I'd say that you really have to look back farther to the enlightenment for the source of basically all of those bulletpoints. It's not communism that came up with any of those ideas, it just happened to find them useful/worthwhile.
McGee's On Food and Cooking is a wonderful book, but I'm not sure I'd call it accessible. :)

For beginners I'd instead recommend his book Keys to Good Cooking. It takes all the information in On Food and Cooking and distills it down to the practical lessons a cook will need to improve their cooking.
Yes, but for many of us in the West, without the tradition common to East and South Asians of reciprocal obligation.

This used to be nigh unto a human universal: your parents raise you up from a helpless infant to adulthood, and this obliges you to love and care for them for the rest of their lives.

I'm as deracinated Westerner as it comes, and yet I'm fairly traditional in this regard. I can think of three acceptable reasons to estrange from parents: sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, and the parents disowning the child. Even the second one leaves a lot of room for reconciliation, since they can't hurt you anymore.

I mean, easy for me to say, my parents easily earned a B+ and I was able to work out my teen angst with my father by my mid twenties. Still: casually abandoning "honor thy father and thy mother" doesn't seem to be working out very well for us.
What's weird is some of these communities aren't even wrong, a lot of people do have parents with personality problems or whatever, it's just their nature to go off the rails and have unpleasant real world effects.
Anatomy of a .NET App
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Ask HN: What are your version control pain points?
Whether it's git or hg or p4... what do you wish your VCS could do differently? Do you feel constrained by size or scale? Do you wish it were less sluggish? More flexible or easy to use? Easier to customize for your team's processes or workflows?

To give one example, I've worked at multiple companies where the codebase was split across many git repos, and the slew of repos made everything harder to coordinate, develop, and understand. Maybe this resonates with you -- or maybe you have other problems?

(Context: I build developer tools, including currently a VCS. Nothing is more compelling to me than the day-to-day struggles of a developer who just wants to ship their code, god damn it.)
What is module bundler and how does it work?
Demographic Transition Model
I had a similar thought, although I do think the article is somewhat useful - I haven't come across many other people supporting the view that efficient and practical startups are a better investment and create higher quality and more useful tech than unicorns.

I do strongly wish the article had more data. Note that the article is labeled as an 'Idea' on the website. See https://restofworld.org/series/ideas/ . I don't think that label should prevent data from being included, though.
There are limits. If rainfall stops no amount of engineering will make the rivers flow or crops grow. If the ocean acidifies and fish stocks plummet, there is no engineering solution for that.

This faith people have in engineering just boggles my mind. Look to Venus. That is where our atmosphere is headed.
Rough rule of thumb: if you're in a temperate climate now, you're probably ok. Crops that will grow well will change, but as long as the water doesn't dry up, you'll be able to grow something.

If you're in a hot climate now, move.
Well, we are currently in the computer age which looks like it will be equal if not bigger than the previous industrial age. I believe when this paper was written, the computer age was in its infancy and the world was post industrial. As long as humans continue to innovate and explore into new areas, new ages will emerge and accelerate us forward. Maybe there will be some kind of physics breakthru which gives us easier access to space or some kind of human breakthru where we can alter our bodies. Who knows. Right, if we do nothing new, things will stagnate and eventually collapse.
This is the quintessential example of a pedantic Hacker News comment.
It's a VM running in their cloud.

Just a bit nicer to use (productized), which is important.
That question mark is confusing
How about speed comparison vs a free solution like Faiss?
Do you have any sources to support your claim?

The quote you give says this is the medium estimate. We would have to know the low and high to know if your estimate is "safe".
visa issue.