skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman.

the writer (who appears to be anonymous?) shamelessly omits citing or linking to any source for this, and i can't find it. there's a WaPo article [1] claiming a similar thing, where their assertion is backed up by a broken link. when i search "India fertility rate" the most relevant thing i can find suggests this to be 2.18 as of this year [2]. this source's numbers match the St Louis Fed's numbers [3] up to the point that the fed lacks data (2019).

help me out here. the claim that fertility rates are falling faster than predicted -- and that replacement rate has already been reached -- is central to this article. so on the surface, this article seems entirely untrustworthy.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/25/india-birth-...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/fertility-ra...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPDYNTFRTININD
> We now disable user-added PPAs, as they often cause upgrade issues for users.

Doesn't that eliminate a lot of software options? Just curious, I haven't used Linux or Ubuntu in a while so things could have changed or I might be misunderstanding something
I just tested on the dev branch and you can still use variables named `any`. The compiler is smart enough to tell variable names and types apart. You can even create a variable named any with type any with `var any any`
Some rich nations are having a hard time achieving 70%, 60% and so forth in many areas and vaccine availability and cost are not the limiting factor.
Nice website. I had a look at some of your posts. That design for the CBD honey company was great!
Probably because you paid them to let you.
The alternative story is what we are going back today, each OEM sells their vertical integrated experience.

In this alternative universe most likely Amiga, Atari ST and Archimedes would keep existing in some form and most businesses wouldn't have cared about IBM PC or eventually got sooner into some UNIX workstation clone.
> Inflation is not just prices going up

That is literally the definition of inflation.
> The majority of developers are extremely cautious of generics and found the status quo to be the best balance between readability and conciseness.

Most people who use Go have specifically chosen to use it though (or at least sought out opportunities, given that it's not something entrenched like Java being used due to inertia), so yes, most of them are fine with how Go is or they wouldn't be using it in the first place. If Go had generics from the start, I'd imagine most users would be fine with that too due to self-selection.
Indeed, I think I'm going to make the jump to Fedora from 20.04. Really hard decision too as I've been an Ubuntu guy for the majority of my computing life.

Agree on all points as well - Vanilla GNOME > Unity, Flatpaks > Snaps. The Snap Store is just GNOME Software with some plugins/tweaks FWIW, this is changing (has changed?) soon though. I learned this by investigating a memory leak https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/942
Birth control kills more women annually then any covid vaccine. If you engaged in non-procreative sex in the past year you've done something which has a greater risk for human life and health.
Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?
I find it interesting Russia has 5x their reserves of gold since 2008

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gold-reserves

and appears to be divesting form the dollar

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/russia-to-remove-dollar-asse...

China has also 4x the reserved gold since 2008

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/gold-reserves

That being said, I generally agree the "gold standard" has been shattered. That said, the future is likely something like crypto that can be tracked and monitored closely.
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You have that backwards, the gap actually increases. The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (EU-style inflation) for the US is sitting at 7.25% YoY.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP0000USM086NEST
Will you get this vaccine?

https://trialsitenews.com/fdas-forced-hand-drops-pfizers-bom...
I once ordered a large number of Compaq computers all identical for a credit union in Houston and found an esoteric combination of a specific hard drive firmware with a specific network card firmware that caused the machine to do very strange things when using an expensive piece of software (Hummingbird) to add a protocol to allow Windows 3.1 to be able to communicate with an IBM AS/400 to replace dumb terminals with terminal emulation on Windows. My memory may not be correct about everything I just said, but close enough. The point is that not every identical machine came with an identical hard drive or network card, but all considered comparable enough for Compaq to ship them to fulfill the order.

I was incredibly impressed at the speed that Compaq escalated the issue from a first line support person to having a couple engineers drive out to the credit union to see it with their own eyes to determine a fix (I had no pull or special access, and we're only talking 150 computers). It was convenient that this happened in Houston so the engineers were in close proximity.

This article makes me skeptical that HP would handle it the same way today that Compaq did at the time based on HPE's response to STH. I hate the buying process with both Dell and HP, but they are the brands I buy from when it is a server or workstation, because I love the build quality for both brands on their enterprise servers and high end workstations. I've never owned a consumer device from either brand, but I would not have the same expectations on a consumer device from them.
You're a data scientist and you can't use R or Python? Excuse my brashness, but what the fuck kind of shop is this?
Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy for Depression
Because UNIX won the same way people flock to 1 euro shops, quality has nothing to do with it, free beer is what counts.

Had UNIX been sold like every other OS from the same decade, and it would have been a footnote on the history of OS.

When one is thirsty any liquid goes down regardless of the taste.
The space shuttle was funded and designed to meet Department of Defense specifications. Its cargo bay designed to ferry satellites up and to potentially return them back to earth.

https://www.space.com/34522-secret-shuttle-missions.html

https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/nasas-space-shuttl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Department_of_Defense...

The Hubble design was remarkably close to Keyhole:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3448/was-hubble-re...

Keyhole satellites were seriously cool. Photos were taken on film, and the film reels were jettisoned over the ocean. C-130 transports would capture the payloads as they parachuted back to earth:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/us/declassified-spy-satellite...
Chesterton liked to be restricted, as his own adoption of Catholicism instead of looser Anglican faith attested. He also liked to restrict others, as with his abominable fence that we can't move or even stop talking about long after he's dead. I'm not philosophy kink shaming but it's just not right without consent.
Yes! It’s the sum of all these little details that makes the Mac implementation amazing. When I started using macOS I took for granted how much work had gone into making its touchpad experience possible, because it Just Worked. Now that I’ve been nudging this Linux project forward for a couple years, I can appreciate how much long-term coordinated effort is truly required to make the touchpad experience become so smooth it’s forgettable. :)
Now the question is when it's available with GitHub Actions.
> But are you happy to pay for better architecture that doesn't have shiny new features? Or support for new X (depending on the product this could be image formats, it could be architectures)? etc

Depends on what product, and my use case.

> To be clear I am not saying I want subscription based software, but I understand the business argument for it.

Has nothing to do with more supported X or better architecture, its just about money. In fact SaaS offerings are often compromised and worse of than when they were standalone (at least in my experience with software that made transition from standard releases to subscription).

Additionally in my experience with software that went that route (standard paid releases to subscription) that just signals that the customer milking has become, and pretty much any new feature is looked at from how can we milk it standpoint.
Not the OP, but for me, I'm led to believe that vaccine trials usually go for 7 years, so there's that hesitancy that yes, the sample size is huge, but the normal time hasn't elapsed. Also don't forget that at the beginning of the rollout, the rigour was much less. Thankfully so far so good (depending on who you talk to), but time makes things clearer, and down the road things will be even more clear.
Combined with:

* the perceived scaremongering and desperation of some governments and media;

* Being a cancer survivor and not having clear, trustworthy research on effects on this subgroup (they're using genetic instructions to hijack our own cells and produce a foreign protein? That sounds really clever but it also reminds me of cancer)...

alarm bells were ringing, right or wrong.
I'd welcome any information that helps with my concerns. It's a genuine wrestle.
1000% this. THE secret to productivity is not some magic skills (though that helps) but just the right tools used correctly. That gets you ~80% there.
I'm a staff/principal at a FAANG. My experience agrees with the other answers here that "it depends"—specifically, on what the larger org or team needs from me at the moment. There is a chunk of consistent work, though, which is somewhat of a mix between an engineering manager and an IC.

Like engineering managers, I am responsible for planning out a team's long term goals and reporting on them to senior management. Also like engineering managers I'm responsible for hiring and evaluating technical talent, particularly the senior software engineers in our org plus people who are under consideration for promotion or hiring into my level.

Unlike engineering managers, it's important that I do "hands on" work. This includes my own tech designs and coding, but much more reviewing the designs and code of others. I see my job as delivering technical artifacts through others. What's different between the principal/staff role and the senior eng/tech lead role is the levels of indirection. For a senior eng, you are generally owning the output of a team of people (roughly 3-7 people, though it varies).

At the staff/principal level you work at the level of a team of teams, so your job is really to develop and mentor the tech leads of those teams. Occasionally you might be called in as a tie-breaker or to assist on some cross-team issue, but ideally that doesn't happen too often because the tech leads know their stuff (and they'd better because there is no way you can know the details of multiple team's worth of systems).
Elixir 1.13 released: The developer’s point of view
Mac Meets Arm64 – PyPy
It also says the specifically did not adjust for previous infection when calculating severity.
> "aerosol risk can be >50 ft for hours after a spread event"

no, that's cringeworthy fearmongering. the virus is fragile and falls apart relatively quickly outside the body. the main risk behavior is having long conversations in close quarters where you're constantly exposed to a warm airstream of live virus.
I’ve used all those languages. It’s far easier to make sense of a non trivial go code base I’ve never seen before than any of those.
It doesn't really seem like his year in jail was related to any bugs in Boeing's software that he discovered [0]. Do you actually have anything that suggests that?

His site was archived. For example this [1], but I can't find anything about what you've suggested.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190326051854/http://www.warpli...
> Can you cite the legal authority that exempts game wardens from the restrictions imposed on the executive by the constitution?

This thread is teaching me a lot too, so I can’t directly answer your question as it pertains to State game wardens, but something to keep in mind with the framing of your question is that the States are not covered by Article II of the US Constitution. Article II speaks to the authority of the Executive power of the United States, which is the President, but the States are not subordinate to the President and neither are their officers and employees.
This discussion is fascinating. The various participants describe their experience very differently, but I still have absolutely no idea whatsoever if their internal experiences differ at all, or just the verbalizations.
> pretty much any new feature is looked at from how can we milk it standpoint.

That’s how more or less all features are chosen? The alternative is going out of your way to spend time/money on features you know have minimal/no interest.
It's probably actually better than pattern matching when there are only two, as in those cases. But even at three, it becomes a mess. And more than three? Yuck.
> Go often works well for replacing shell scripts, even without generics.

That’s selling the language short. Way too short.
Advantages and disadvantages to i386 recursive page table mappings?
> The Parker probe crossed into the Sun’s atmosphere at 9:33 a.m. Universal Time on 28 April of this year. It took several months for mission scientists to download and analyse the data it collected, and to be sure that the spacecraft had indeed crossed the much-anticipated boundary

What an achievement this is! I can't imagine the build up and anticipation the team members endured for months on end to finally get to this point.
This is only the case for "checked" exceptions though; the important part about the Result type in Rust is that it won't implicitly propagate errors if you try to just use the success value but instead will give a compiler error. I don't code much Java, but my impression is that standard library methods throwing unchecked exceptions is far more common than panicking, the closest equivalent is in Rust.
Yep ...

https://twitter.com/wmiddelkoop/status/1470997851052429320

These companies that manipulate the commodity prices, they occasionally settle or are forced to pay some (relatively) small amount of money as punishment and then they continue business as usual. Because apparently the benefits outweigh the costs ...
Yes please? :)
Commercial Banks print money. Central banks dont do that. Commercial banks
create money with loans. If you pay back a loan, your money is removed from the system.

Read this: https://themacrocompass.substack.com/p/tmc-6-all-they-told-y...

Banks wont lend (=print) more because of risk/reward ratios. Credit worthiness and yields.

I like the terminology “inside money” and “outside money” as well.
Unfortunately, most of the alphabet soup compliance programs have perverse incentives - they encourage ticking check-boxes, while do nothing to improve the security as such.

I believe the real problem is effective security is hard, and most merely want to pretend than actually invest in doing it.
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Throwing ethical standards in the bin "for the greater good" is never a good idea.
And all the people who choose to live without electricity are weird.

Many groups have tried to live without government, which have succeeded at scale?
I always thought China was the world's largest bike user.

Oh nobody should talk good of China. I'm sorry to even mention China.
Or, the CEO is the kind of person who doesn’t think, “oh shit, we’re screwed,” but constantly labors for the path forward. The kind of person I would follow in an “oh shit” situation because “oh shit” is not a vector but a point of origin.

When leaders say and act a certain way that rallies people, what evidence suggests they’re being disingenuous?
and they are setup in a way which breaks compatibility with nvidia-docker, so beware of that.
Shutting down qanon snake oil like hydroxy-c and ivermectin was sensible and necessary. Also injecting clorox was a bad idea as well. I didn't see any successful "non mainstream" treatments come out there were worth a lick. Certainly acupuncture isn't going to work either.
the problem is that words we use are like well-worn tracks in the snow. We use them without pondering what they mean. It takes something like a crisis in our lives, or a psychedelic trip, can jolt us out of the same old mental rut.

The word "supernatural" is such a worn-out rut of a word. It invokes paranormal movies or Caspar the friendly ghost. The very dichotomy of supernatural/natural is a recent, post-Enlightenment invention.

What I'm trying to do in this conversation is take something that exists in many people's mental framework, and use it to point to something outside that framework.

"Large groups doing weird things" must have a cause, right? And in an example like Patriarchy, no one claims that there is some king Patriarch sitting on a throne somewhere calling the shots. No, the story goes, Patriarchy is in all of us, even in women, perhaps even professing feminists. Patriarchy has real world effects, it isn't consciously controlled by any one person or group, it lives beyond any individual. According to some versions, Patriarchy is more than an impersonal force, it almost has some kind of malicious agency or intent. So much so that we gave it a name, like we do for conscious agents such as dogs or people.

I'm not trying to suggest that Patriarchy is a spirit, or that religious views of spirituality are exactly the same as feminist interpretations of Patriarchy.

I'm just using something from inside your framework to try to explain something outside your framework, because all the words designed for this purpose are worn out and no longer convey the meaning that they once did.
I'd argue it's more a symptom of the Java ecosystem than anything, and probably a lot more to come. From my brief tenure with it, it seemed to be 'add everything, deprecate nothing'. I remember when writing my first Java code from reference, it all worked, then my coworkers grilled me for using some -builtin- libraries because 'nobody uses that anymore.'

That, and Java does everything their own way. From bouncycastle crypto to db connectors to freakin JKS, it was very much NIH all the way down to an outsider. I actually worked for a time where half my job was converting JKS to PEM for customers.

Java isn't all bad, but could have used much stronger and much more conservative governance.
This article is blatantly following the same bland pattern. It doesn't take an ML Engineer to know why women in EU, AUS and whatever similar country have disparate pattern of complaints when it comes to this category. After all, these countries are very much similar to USA in terms of dating culture, culture of inappropriateness, legality, efficiency of law and order, etc.

I feel like giving up on US-feminism. Look at the comments of HN, reading transcripts after transcripts of women detailing their stories at the courts and on internet, courts dismissing the case with "but this is not harassment at all!" and embarrassingly saying myself the same.

And then I have to feel guilty myself for just being a male with phrases like "bro culture", "scrotes", "casual misogyny", "masculinity, ew!" and so on. There is a separate book when it comes to workplace jargon.

When I see many careers ending dead on track in my personal life, Reddit, 4chan and Quora...

Edit: proofreading
It makes sense, but I never realized how much my brain resources has wasted for finding the remotes for lights and an air conditioner before I tried alexa.
LiveJournal, it seems. It'll drop some hints in that direction if you run it enough times. It's an informal fanfic blogging format.
I am not talking about incarceration, just simple policing. Not letting homeless build tents or sleep at entrances of business or buildings is a good start. Making sure people feel safe should be no. 1 priority of any government.
If you’re curious why it won’t melt: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-s...
" They buy these bonds with newly created money. "

They buy the bonds with different bonds.

One bond is a (say) 25 year bond at 2.5%, the other is a perpetual bond at federal funds rate that can only be held by those with a Federal Reserve account.

And all that does is change the composition of the asset side of a bank meaning they get less free income.
I think patent licensing is a bit of a concern. As I understand it, a lot of the big battery manufacturers in China have an agreement that the don't need to pay licensing fees for batteries used domestically, but if a major car manufacturer wanted to import LFP cells to, say, the U.S. they might have to pay the licensing fees or risk getting sued. (That might not be 100% correct, I'm kind of piecing things together from random Internet sources.) That may be moot soon as the relevant patents expire, which could change the battery landscape hugely (I hope).

Another thing is that not all LFPs are necessarily ideal for automotive use. For instance, batteries that can only safely discharge at 1C might be a bad idea to use unless the vehicle has a large enough battery pack that the load is spread out over a lot of cells. So, price isn't everything. Obviously, high energy density is also much desired for use in cars.

That said, I think LFPs are probably the ideal technology right now for replacing most of the world's combustion-engine ground transportation infrastructure with battery-electric vehicles. We just need to manufacture them at the necessary scale, and right now it's only China that's doing it. (It's like if Saudi Arabia discovered oil and the rest of the world said, "Well, I guess Saudi Arabia just owns the whole oil market. No reason to invest in it ourselves, because we can just get it from KSA." In the 20th century that would have obviously been a strategic blunder, but that's what the world is basically doing now with batteries. Whoever can make batteries cheaper than everyone else can use that to dominate the energy industry going forward. Fortunately there are fewer moats; anyone can make batteries if they can get the ingredients, and LFP ingredients are mostly not that rare except maybe lithium and copper.)
interesting, I did not know this is a thing before read this.
The most important function my Alexa serves is acting as the alarm that isn't my phone/requires a separate skill set to disable. Simultaneously talking and manipulating a phone is a magnitude harder to sleep through than just the phone.
Well in Netherlands we also do have cars similar to kei-cars called brommobielen (micro cars). Canta is a good example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canta_(vehicle)

These things are allowed on some bike paths too.
`io_uring` library and runtime for Go
Of course they want. But then they should be the one footing the computational bill.
i can't seem to find any cheap battery sellers in india. $275/KWh is being sold on retail, someone even quoted me $450/KWh for 5kwh. this is absurd because the rates are nowhere near that, anyway to acquire like 20-30 or even 50kwh for my home at sane rates in india?
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Meanwhile a 1kW/h battery for an e-bike can still retail for $2000 (thinking of the Stromer BQ983).

Surprises me how long it takes for these prices to tickle down into normal consumer goods. But they will, the true revolution of electric assisted urban transport has only just begun. Really exciting to see all the wacky new transport modes that are created left and right, I wonder which ones will stick
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