skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Nobody has died from a tax bill" is nonsense. If you give it more than a moment's thought, you'll realize that there's probably plenty of people who have in fact died as a side effect of any type of unexpected bill, and that can include tax bill.

Don't be ridiculous. That is just plain ridiculous.

> If you don't get the vaccine, you will catch COVID at one point or another

Vaccinated people also continue to catch COVID. The vaccine doesn't shut the entry points, just helps your body to fight it off when it enters you.

> And if you catch it, it's just a roll of the die whether you suffer side effects from it or not.

A roll of the die means 50% chance and that is just ridiculous again. The vast majority of people and close to 100% of young healthy people have no lasting effects whatsoever of an infection. I agree the effects are different for different people, but it's not a roll of the die. That statement is just complete stupid nonsense.

> Regardless on whether you suffer side effects, you will be a transmission vector.

Only people with enough viral load will have enough virus to spill it. This is why asymptomatic or minor infections like those of vaccinated people have a near zero chance of transmission. This is precisely why double vaccinated people don't need to quarantine in many countries anymore.

> And if you do suffer side effects, you'll be a burden on society.

This is the biggest idiot statement I have ever read. Young healthy people who want to work, live life and socialise ARE NOT a burden on society.

Do you know who is a burden on society? People who can't stop eating McDonalds, cake and drink Coca Cola and therefore need protection from a mild virus and who cost us so much public money with all their health issues being treated by our free health service. Smokers are a burden on society. People driving polluting cars are a burden on society. Facebook is a burden on society. Not young healthy innocent people who just want to go about life, enjoy their time on this planet, work and socialise.

If normal healthy people are a danger to other people by just walking normally through life and breathing air normally is putting others in danger, maybe those "others" are the burden on society.
Yet, the poorest countries have the highest birth rates. People used to have bigger families when times were actually hard.
Same experience. Great piece of software, been using it for a long time as well. THANK YOU SO MUCH !
I think we already know how to build secure tech, we just don't because of the cost, which is not 2x or 10x but way higher to the point that is deemed not worth/feasible both for private companies and governments, so it affects everyone and we are not getting out of it anytime soon (if anything sometimes we go in the opposite direction following the goal of money and calling it innovation). Heck, I think it would take a book just to even explain all the components of this argument. Go figure do something meaningful about it. Safe/unsafe languages is just one piece of this thing, and frankly a quite easy one to wrap one's head around: we already have so much stuff we use everywhere written when memory-safety was not really cared for and no-one wants to rewrite / catch up / surpass (there you go: because of the cost). So we get on with it, because meanwhile life goes on, bread needs to put on the table, people want to play with their shiny phones and whatnot, etc.
my brother just had twins and he told me it was gonna be $1000/month for daycare once they are 1-2 years old. and thats just for daycare...if you want to know why people aren't having kids, its because they are too expensive.
I think IRC vs. Matrix does not exist.
There is a certain decision what is going to be the main communication source, but then you are going to bridge whatever you have on IRC to whatever you have on matrix.
I think Libera is (and only intends to be) restricted to catering to the pre-existing Freenode community; their sights are not particularly set on expanding/competing with newer platforms any more than the Freenode community's were. They just cater to people who like & want to stick to IRC, for whatever variety of reasons. I don't see any "growth" (nor "shrinkage") happening here beyond migration of users from Freenode.

Discord is not open-source, so I don't see how it's relevant; it's "communities" are primarily gamers & streamers. While there are some open-source communities based on Discord, the same goes for other closed-source platforms such as Slack & Telegram, and I'm sure the number of software development communities on Slack is (sadly) much larger than on Discord.

Of actual open-source options: Gitter, Discourse, Rocket, Mattermost, etc. - Matrix would seem to be competing relatively well.
Many people use Libera & Matrix interchangeably (although the bridge hasn't been perfect so far, but we're working on improving it). You can get to #foo on libera as #foo:libera.chat on Matrix and it should Just Work™.

Discord is... for folks who have got lost.
> Remember "Finlandisation" precluding the WW2, and how it ended.

Finlandization means strong country affecting a small neighbour, not applicable to pre-WW2 appeasement policies.
"Gen Z and Millennials are two of the least religious generations ever in the US, with Gen Z being roughly 50% irreligious."

Thank God!
> This has a huge impact because the birth rates for irreligious people are very low.

It seems irreligious people are slightly more rational about these things. Raising a kid is a huge undertaking, and a lot of work.

But a huge part of the problem with low fertility is religion. Western religions advocate for a fixed family structure: one man, one woman. Even most irreligious people still abide by that precept, we haven't been free from dogma for long enough. The end result is that the work of raising a kid falls into a family which is way too small and stretched, living alone and relatively isolated in a suburb. If a couple needs to commit 95% of their time together to their kid, it's going to be a hard sell for those two people. Grandparents can help, and they do, but the generational divide makes it so that most grown-ups don't want to live with their parents.
V-Nova (LCEVC) raises €33M in latest funding round
He should be the only true billionaire, known for making such a positive impact to the world and community..
Thanks for sharing. My company ain't so big (less than 150), so I guess they just don't match to us.
> The drive to have a child has nothing to do with economic stability and access to affordable housing, health care, food, schooling and the ability to have a good enough work/life balance that allows a parent to actually participate to the children’s education and development.

It doesn't though; its been the consistent finding for many decades that, in the developed world, better economic security and stronger public social support networks predict lower fertility.

Children are a (unreliable, though, so it takes several to have a good chance of success if they are used this way) private old-age & disability support system.
Linus is not getting stock options from the Linux Foundation, so the cash pay must compensate for that.

Senior VP's at Google earned little over $600,000, but their total compensation was over $50 million in 2020. Linus is giving up extra zero to work for the foundation.

(Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for Github. That business was born from a side project he quickly whipped up.)
What I also dislike is I can't install Safari on my OS to test and debug Safari only issues. I will not buy Apple hardware so I am sorry Apple users, I will have to tell you to use Firefox or Chrome because that is the only stuff I can test.
Hard for me to get worked up over this. How much were people like steve jobs or bill gates paid?

If anything he deserves more.
> If there is one thing politicians are surely better at it than programmers is making decisions about what programming languages should be used! /s

Programmers aren't that good at it either.
CircuBoost Review, Legit or a Scam?
I think he's referring to the standard, non-hidden microphones.
He could incorporate and become a deca-billionaire overnight.
I think PWA is a good concept and interesting, but I don't really use them myself. I also noticed that very few people use PWA's - especially in cases where you have to pay for the apps, which makes me think that developers like them because they are cool, but because they make business sense.
Alternatively, we may become an interstellar species and circumvent these problems for an entirely different set. I find it unfortunate that our milieu's become so thoroughly pessimistic as to the continued, unbounded prosperity of our race--I feel as though it engenders a sort of defeatism.
The writers you're most likely to want to read – the top-earning writers – have already demonstrated (through Substack) that they can easily acquire an audience of tens of thousands of subscribers by charging $5-10 dollars per month for themselves. Why would they participate in the bundle you're suggesting?
And Poland 1.46 - Poland being more religious.
The first Zune was released in November 2006, just over 5 years after the first iPod. So, it wasn’t hard for him to not compare it with a Zune. It also isn’t surprising that that Zune was better than the 2001 Nomad.
> Hopefully they also improve the UX

They're making great progress! There's still more work to do, but I've been very impressed by the improvements made by the Element team over the past year, ranging from many small details to large usability features like the UI for spaces as an easier way to organize communities
> If anything he deserves more.

+1
I agree. I was hoping for a much larger amount and yet expected a much lower amount.
'Walking by one, talking by two'
Discord in particular, is an example of Electron done right. It's super performant and low impact on resources. MS Teams, made by a vastly richer company, is an example of the opposite.

It's not Electron that's eating your RAM.
You hint at it, but causation is a fuzzy concept even with a RCT.

Causation is "established" in the usual sense by having a causal model of a data generating process. Such model may or may not identify causal parameters given the data. That is, it is not the "randomized control trial" itself that establishes causation, rather it is a more general concept of statistical identification.

Case in point, there are instances where a RCT fails. For example, even if you can assign treatments, you might find that treatment and control groups influence each other or whatever else can go wrong in a RCT.

By contrast, there are instances where we do not control the causal switch, but we can observe "natural experiments" nonetheless. Usually, causation is fuzzy, since there are at least some assumptions which need to be made for us to believe the analysis to be causal. However, really, the same is true for an RCT.

For example, if you observe an engineer sometimes purging the cache, and sometimes not purging the cache, you do not actually control the assignment of treatment. However, it is easy to think of a mental model where observations of this engineer, and the state of the cluster, gives you high confidence to proclaim: "Purging the cache makes the cluster start!"

So, this is just to expand on what you wrote: Causation is not a precise concept, because it depends on our model of the DGP and the data we actually have. Identification of causal parameters depend on these factors, and thereby on assumptions - this is true for RCTs where I control the treatment, just as much for observational studies where I do not. Even if I assign treatments, I have to make the assumption that my assignment is truly random, and that there is no non-random factors influencing my observations (etc).

In quite a broad sense, causation as a scientific concept depends on assumptions I need to make.
If I get to control the treatment variable (or variable of interest), it is typically easier to create "exogenous" variation that identifies causal parameters... in English: Allows me to establish causation.

However, the whole concept does not depend on controlling or not controlling treatment. RCTs can fail, or there are instances in which I can establish and measure causation even without controlling the treatment.
Or: https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-american-women-delaying...
Developers must have this skill because you need to design for tests in order to do them properly.

Forbidding is nonsense. A. test is also form of documentation. Nothing stops you to add more tests on top of those by different person.
IMO the main disadvantage of Robinhood is not their execution quality (which is relatively low) but complete absence of any helpful tools to make a well-informed decision.

You cannot easily see what options are over or under-priced IV-wise. It also does not notify of any important events that might affect your options positions.

For example, when someone owns a deep ITM call and ex-dividend date is approaching, it might make sense to exercise that call and buy an identical OTM put. But most retail traders are unaware of such technicalities and therefore in the long run sustain losses caused primarily by such basic mistakes..
That’s the first I’ve heard someone call Android an inherently more secure OS than iOS. Could you substantiate that?
>it doesn’t really make sense on Apple devices where it would be far inferior to native

Yeah, I get that it doesn't make sense for Apple, business wise -- which is why they are not doing it. But it sure would make sense to developers.
Meh that is a pretty terrible place to try and make money. The only thing worse may be trying to sell to schools.
Why would it? If faced with the choice of taking liability for using Linux or rebuilding Amazon shop + AWS + Kindle + Echo on Windows I'd guess Amazon would do the former, wouldn't you?
Seeing the Rust-lang zulip has absolutely ruined slack for me.
Metaverse: Timeline of virtual environments inspired by the concept
So of course double-clicking Band.of.Brothers.mkv.exe will cause you to have a bad time. But I'm curious why just having a torrent client downloading something would cause anyone to get compromised. I haven't heard of this.
> child care (could be better)

Dresden child care is specifically good and affordable, probably due to Eastern German (Socialist) heritage.

It's also has one of the highest number of kids per family.
I don't think that is the whole story because the shape of that pyramid varies considerably from country to country.
Too much of "planning-orientation" clashes with kids anyway.
Element sells business plans. [1]

In addition, Matrix has been chosen for quite a few large deployments by governments, so there presumably are large-ish support contracts associated with those.

If that's enough to justify a 30 Million round is another question.

> there are no plans to use cryptocurrency incentives in Matrix or Element any time soon

Note the wording here... "any time soon" is quite different from "no plans, period".

[1] https://element.io/pricing
Virtual reality has real problems–Here’s how game developers seek to delete them
You are right. Not pruning may be the solution.
Have you ever been to Scandinavia? If not, maybe consider to visit it would proof you wrong. Secular educated societies always have a smaller birth rate, but not all of them are created equal. Family friendly, social societies with humanist values at heart are simply a better environment to have kids in than religious, family-hostile, anti-humanist and/or anti-social societies.

Maybe this is why some hardcore fundamentalists are against birth control? Because deep down they inherently recognize that given a free choice nobody would like to have kids in their dream world?

One cannot on the one hand claim to be for "family values" and on the other hand take every political decision that makes it harder to plan a family: social security, health care, liveable wages, state paid day-care centers, birth control — these are all things that increase the number of families being created, yet coincidentally they are all things a significant number of (american) christians hate.
Exactly. I'm happy to see comments like yours. He gave Linux to the world for free and made sure it couldn't be turned into a corporate product. The guy is as close to a hero as we get in tech.
Young people today are vastly better off than young people were in 1950, when food insecurity was higher and things like Medicaid, the ACA, etc., didn’t exist. And birth rates are even lower in European countries with robust safety nets.

“Hedonistic godless culture” seems like a good candidate for the problem, or maybe BPA or phenols or something like that.
How do you feel about an entity committing war crimes and pretend to get involved in humanitarian efforts inside the US? Do think it's suspicious? Or genuine efforts, killing in one part and aiding in another. Seriously, I am curious to know. Do you think it's just about helping or more about the media campaign? And how do you consider war crimes nonsensical inflammatory thing? Well, at least it is not a "thing".
> but electric cars seem vastly simpler from a mechanical perspective.

The electric motor is simpler than an ICE, yes.

OTOH, a modern (and by modern I mean anything in the last ~30 years) ICE engine is supremely reliable, so it's a wash.

Most repair time isn't from having to fix the engine or motor anyway, it's the whole rest of the car.

We have a a Fiat 500e (EV) now sitting it's fourth week (not continuous) at the dealer to get window regulator problems fixed. Those types of problems have nothing to do with whether the car was an EV model or the ICE model.
> many browsers already forbidding third-party cookies

1) this doesn't prevent marketing parasites from hoping that some people don't block them and attempt to set them anyway

2) data processing consent covers more than just cookies

> many people using only essential cookies

See 1) above - until marketing people accept their defeat and adapt, they will push for implementing a consent management solution to allow people to opt into more than just essential cookies even though nobody in their right mind would do so unless forced

> many others removing cookies with extensions such as Cookie Autodelete

That wouldn't be valid as per the GDPR. You can't rely on an optional browser extension to make your site GDPR compliant.

> where do these companies get profit from?

Considering implementing consent-management is trivial for any Javscript developer (and I'm sure open-source solutions exist), the only remaining option would be of a legal "shield". The vast majority of these solutions aren't actually GDPR-compliant (the GDPR explicitly forbids dark patterns, pre-ticked checkboxes, etc) but actually complying with the GDPR would either destroy the client's (unethical) business model (if they are ad supported) or demonstrate the uselessness of their marketing department (as sales keep being made despite none of the tracking working), so shielding themselves behind such a company allows them to break the law while being able to blame it on the CMP should things go south.
Making people who need work sign a contract which might result in them getting cancer is not something that society has generally deemed ethical.

FYI - the harmful stuff in popcorn has been identified and removed too, because we don't let popcorn workers sign up to die either.
For analog/RF, Qualcomm would need a larger node than 7nm, as I doubt Intel has ready-made blocks for 7nm RF/analog.

The Qualcomm chip digital part would be manufactured by Intel, and the analog/RF part by TSMC? I don't understand how that would work...
Advertising? Have some articles be part of the bundle as a "preview", and most articles behind an individual subscription?

This idea of building your own newspaper sounds kind of interesting actually: a mix of authors you've picked and an automatically curated content from other authors to help you find new authors.
Like others have said, if have can afford it and find it interesting, then do it!

But maybe look at some other large cities and see if others might be a better fit…and it’s not like you can’t move around every 6-12 months either.

I’m a techie, love visiting the Bay Area, but it’s not for me.

I do love LA for the density of creative folk that live there + weather. NYC is great for having everything at your fingertips, insane diversity in every facet of life, and so many high achieving residents. Chicago has an awesome big city feel, lots of amenities for cheap, but lacks a certain reach to the higher levels and the weather is brutal.

I think most large cities offer a lot for anyone under 45 who isn’t settled and is willing to put in the work to build a life/friend-group. All have trade-offs, just figure out what sounds the best.

You can always do a 180 and head back to where you came from.
Seems logical to me. This was a privacy-based client for one of the biggest platforms ever made.

Anonymous browsing is antithetical to what Facebook and Instagram stand-for and profit off...
This brought back a thought I recently had: Is there any kind of public succession plan for when Linus eventually dies?
You contradict yourself. Less children born in one nation means less children at the global level but not necessarily at the national level because of immigration. My environmental commentary is about the global level.
Good for him. Hope his takeaway increases. He earned it.
Space has at most cubed resources relative to time (we can only explore a sphere assuming non arbitrary FTL travel). Population growth is exponential.

Even with space as a resource the math doesn't work out.

You'd just keep the pyramid scheme running for a few hundred years with the 1% elite inhabiting earth, and the current cheap workforce of the third world inhabiting the astroid belt.
I'm just a community college student working to get further into school. I love autonomous vehicles. I'd love to get a job in the autonomous vehicles industry. I don't care if you want to say that "Tesla owns it." I'd be perfectly content working for a company that doesn't "own it." I don't want to move to Pittsburgh, where many autonomous vehicles companies have locations. While the jobs that I want are in California, I have more of a personal desire to move to Vancouver Island.

Personally, I'm never going to get married because such a thing doesn't interest me. My plans to move to Vancouver Island will have me paying for many things that wouldn't exist if I'd move to California. Also, autonomous vehicles jobs don't exist in British Columbia. Still, it's something that I want to do.

What I'm trying to say is "Do what feels right to you."
Not explained at length in the article, Poe’s “Eureka” gives answer to Olbers' paradox, formulated in 1823, intuitively conjecturing the finite age of the universe more than a century before that the non steady-state model of cosmology was starting to be accepted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers'_paradox
Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues
Except birth rates are extremely low in some of the most prosperous places. My in laws in rural Oregon are having kids. My friends in NYC and DC are having few or none.
How do people connect to matrix?

I'm yet to find a TUI client for matrix. I've checked those weechat plugins but the python one needs libolm3 dependency which is a hassle to install on my system and the Rust one is not ready.

Element webapp is clunky and slow. Element desktop is an Electron resource-hog. There is a Go client (gomuks) which was very buggy. I've also tried a QT client which was alright but not on-par with the official Electron webapp in terms of features.
Measuring the fertility rate for Poland is a bit tricky since a lot of their most industrious young people leave the country. It's interesting to note for example that Polish immigrants to the UK have a fertility rate of 2.48 .