skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why PPP is so great.

When using it, it doesn't matter if the person makes 150 euros an hour if it costs them that much for a meal but the person in Italy only has to work half as long for a meal.
Our local cinema removed plastic straws before any ban came in, it was a market led thing thanks to public concern, politicians eventually followed what the market and public already demanded. Difficult to blame them.

I have a bag of 1000 plastic straws, at current consumption that will last me about 200 years.
There’s actual science on this. Evolution wired our brains to place a VERY high value on novel information. Something out of the ordinary could mean you were about to get attacked by a lion. Or, could be something useful to your survival. Technology places novelty at our fingertips, and can be very alluring. Also, the more time we spend multitasking — something we’re not actually capable of doing in a truly parallel sense — the more energy we expend, weakening our ability to focus, making the lazy cycle of endless scrolling even more appealing.

There’s a pretty simple way to break the cycle: go for a walk, spend time in nature, have an old fashioned phone call with a friend…

Source: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distracted-mind
Yup, I agree with this. Plus not just in Japan, but other culturally similar East Asian countries such as China and Korea too.

There is lot of pressure to conform to the generally accepted social norms.
>> or even just a high number of rounds of SHA-512

> Please god no :-)

Heh I didn't mean it as a recommendation per say, but I'm pretty sure Linux uses repeated SHA-512 on at least some common distros. At least on my Ubuntu Focal machine my /etc/shadow appears to be using SHA-512.
Sorry, this is just completely wrong, at least regarding Moldbug.

> I remember his moldbug persona from the blog-o-sphere back in the mid/late aughts as someone who would write long meandering posts in the comment section of pickup artist blog

He got his start on the 2blowhards blog, which was not about pickup artistry at all. While I suppose it's possible he left comments on pickup artist blogs, he never wrote about pickup artistry on his own blog except to dunk on them (e.g. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/06/civil-liber...).

> the intellectual scaffolding for this new authoritarian political philosophy is a at its root a visceral reaction to feelings of powerlessness and lack of agency in dating women

During the entire time of "Unqualified reservations" existing he was happily married. Moldbug has never written about women's rights at all (neither for nor against). It's simply not a focus of his work. I challenge you to find one written sentence of his that indicates that he is a misogynist.
In most European airlines short haul business class is just economy seats with the middle blocked off and slightly better food.

This means they can dynamically adjust the size of business class on a per flight basis. So "a huge business class cabin" is misleading here.
Well sure, the name of the continent is still "America", but the actual country, the United States of America, did not exist before European colonists.

So no, it's not the same country now.
An inconsequential sum, and they settled, so Frontier will keep saying they did nothing wrong. Business as usual
typo. intended to type $10000
Worth noting that Astra is owned by Gillette and manufactured in Russia.
I think that's the correct term. I don't think there's such a thing as cultural homogeneity. If ethnic japanese start doing weird stuff as judged by "japanese culture", this weird stuff will immediately be considered "japanese culture", thus making "japanese culture" impossible to define precisely.
Sweden, one of the best places to live? Hell yeah dude!
Canada, also one of the best places to live? Also hell yeah dude!
Their peak looks like it was 128.6 in 2009, and they're at their lowest since 1993.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/japan-population

I do think the WPR's projection is a little weird though. They see almost no change in the birth rate until about 2078... not sure how they concluded that.
The main objection to this kind of arguments is that the earth is enough for everyone but the problem is that the wealth is not distributed. Thus this kind of argument is viewed as a way for wealthy nations to deflect blame.

And while I personally don’t share the more optimistic side of the argument, I’m definitely sympathetic to the second part, specially when I see the moralistic arguments against poor nations trying to create wealth, by those who already depleted their own, and are also mostly enjoying the fruits of poor nations resources in form of cheap goods.
For bars often, most often close to US military bases.
It means "too many brown people."
ACT is pretty well established scientifically at this point. There are controversies but not more than other things and they tend to be focused on the novelty of ACT concepts.

As to any particular implementation, that's a different issue.
I always found it interesting people are obsessed with the camera and being watched. Me sitting and typing at my computer couldn’t possibly be interesting for anyone to watch. It’s directional so I’m confident the worst they can do is catch me looking particularly stupid or picking my nose. The microphone however captures all sounds in my environment - and there’s tons of things I don’t want folks to overhear, let alone derive like key strokes. Yet, there’s no effective way to ensure the microphone is physically disabled or ineffective. I couldn’t even tell you where the microphone is on most devices and as Google recently demonstrated whether a microphone is a part of my varied connected devices.
Bikes shouldn't be sharing the grade anyhow with traffic.
That nonsense powers lot of companies where dbas can quickly ramp-up applications, in the same vein as VB and macros filled Excel documents.
>"I get that they have some downsides, but if we’re talking about the expense/waste of straight razors, then it would make sense to consider electric razors."

I've tried using electric, even expensive ones few times in my life but had always ended up with skin irritation starting to develop. No soup for me ;(
That's how Macron just got re-elected in France.
Carrying capacity? We are already well beyond the “carrying capacity” in some very basic resources like carbon emissions
This code reminds me of Backbone. I think we all started here and then abstracted event handling and reactivity into a tiny framework like Backbone.

React and other declarative approaches are inherently different. In React I hardly think of when my component renders. In Backbone days, I remember having to debug why some part of code is not running when I'm expecting it to run. React does this really well.
Plenty of first-world countries have birth rates comparable to Japan’s or even lower. The unique thing about Japan among developed countries isn’t its low birth rate, but its lack of mass immigration.
Yes, I understand that can be one reason. I guess I'm curious if it's the reason. There can be negative economic incentives, cultural norms, lack of infrastructure to support larger child populations, etc.

I also know there's a tendency in more developed (or at least wealthier) countries that as they become more prosperous their populations have fewer children. I'm sure there's multiple reasons, but in the US it can be difficult to have children and support them in a single income. Yet at early ages daycare alone can eat into a significant part of someone's takehome salary. That economic equation puts some downward pressure on the # of kids.
> Nearly two-thirds of the plane is business class

Why is European business class so absolutely terrible?
This is really nice, I like the graphs and the layout overall. How do you manage adding new books, JS?
If two cohorts have a different mortality rate you need to control for that. The author specifics does not control for it.

Do you also believe bandages cause death or injury? It’s weird. People who are hurt often wear bandages. You would argue band-aids cause injury?
You do have some good points there.
Probably, random orbital sander would do the trick, but slower and chew through a lot of sanding discs. It took me years to finally acquire a grinder - just no real need between sanders and saws. Once I started working on concrete and metal it became necessary, and now it seems like a luxury for all the little things which I probably should have been enjoying a long time ago. But IME, most people under 40 don’t have an angle grinder laying about. So borrow one from a 40+ friend before making the ROS do the work, IMO.
While I believe that many things stated in this post are correct, this still has that hard 'old man yelling at the internet' odor.

If you are to compare stuff, stuff like modern razor cartridges and double-edged razors, you ought to mention the convenience side of the things. I hate being the devil's advocate, but shaving with 4-blade cartridge designed for easy shaving is still 'miles' ahead compared to shaving with double-edged razor. Miiiles ahead. And I use a double-edged razor 9 out of 10 times, so I would know a thing or two about it.

And that's not to say that are overly pricey. They are. Plus, if you account for different prices in different regions, the price difference is even more concerning.

The same is also true for some other appliances/services mentioned - tea bags and coffee machines are not just 'superficially convenient' they are wildly more convenient.

EDIT: As one person said in the comments down below, "What this article completely misses, is that there are more than two options.". That was my whole point, and I'm sorry if it came out the wrong way. Shaving is a personal preference, and you are free to do it however you like; but saying 'Shaving is too expensive and is a demonstrative example of how most consumer products are designed to extract more money from you rather than to improve your life, or the world, or to be in any way remotely good.' is just incorrect and insane.
Tell them not to use your razor, and then hand them a copy of Sweeney Todd.
ACT is generally considered a form of CBT, fwiw, with some extra experiential components.
"Apps" and "app stores" only exist to facilitate rent-seeking behavior. It's hard to make money when people don't need what you're selling... These walled gardens are not in any way an organic choice, they were foisted on the masses by big tech monopolists.
To put this in perspective, the fact that the OP is the type of person who can and will pivot is why YC values people over ideas.
Just wanted to say thanks for sharing leafshave.com.

I was using a standard safety razor for a while, but I started shaving my head and quickly abandoned the safety razor for obvious reasons.

This looks like a great product that's both eco-friendly and affordable.
Still using my 300 euro Asus 1215B from 2009.
This looks impressive, and something we (America) should copy.

Man, I can't help wishing that if we had to have a dictator why couldn't it be someone (mostly) reasonable like Lee Kwan Yew.
Seed your development database with real data
I understand temperature affects the frequency of some oscillators as well. Is that a possible explanation as well? (I assume for crystal-based oscillators that would not be the case, but for musical/analog oscillators I assume these are not crystal derived).
just tap the post and click on translate
This shows how hard it is to make such a search engine.

I tried "indie makers" and "digital nomad" in the directory and both listed only one blog: Pieter Levels. And that one is dead for quite a while and just redirects to his Twitter.
It appears to be axiomatic that Japan's ageing population is necessarily "a bad thing", and that this can be tackled by immigration.

However, Japan's GDP growth is not too different from that of similar OECD countries that have much greater rates of immigration. Many European countries also have similarly ageing populations, but their more relaxed immigration rules don't seem to make a big difference to economic growth.

So if Japan's productivity is maintained, I don't really see that a falling population is a major concern. In fact, it could even conceivably have a pay-off in terms of reduced environmental burdens and cheaper housing.
Cool hardware hack but not necessary for most computers to run Windows 11. Most BIOS have a software emulation of TPM that Windows is happy to use.
> Thus this kind of argument is viewed as a way for wealthy nations to deflect blame.

But it's the wealthy nations that are the ones undergoing population decline. And instead of being praised for their responsible family planning, they are told "No! You must grow! And by 'grow' we mean import people from abroad."
becoz they are spammers.
Tibetan scholar in rare meditative state after death
This flight seems very slow. I’ve just compared it to some short haul flights locally - 1hr 10 mins gets me 650km.

The flight in the article takes 55 minutes to go 178km. Short flights will have proportionally more time taxing etc, but this alone wouldn’t appear to explain it.
Then there's the time with David Blaine and George W. Bush:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vzuDkjtDOY
By not caring what caste a person is, the US is specifically not caring about caste.

In terms of immigration, even in Canada (very open to other cultures, more tolerant of them than the US), to become a citizen, there are tests to be passed, including either french or english literacy.

This is to ensure that all citizens can communication with one another, and also, to understand local laws. And, essentially, local customs.

In Canada (and the US), this means people are expected to not be racist, or biased, and there are laws against this.

One may debate the effectiveness of these laws, however my point is that once here? People caught behaving if there is a caste system here, will be prosecuted.

Beyond this, public schools, TV, movies, etc teach that all are equal. Sometimes, it takes a third generation immigrant to be "fully" localized, but eventually the parent culture is but a distant memory.

This is reinforced by the surrounding culture, which doesn't care about caste systems.

So my point is, we don't care, and we should not care. What we should do, is simply take applicants and be done with it.

You do not have to apply through your government, you can get a job and apply directly.

Now, are there Indian immigrants in the US, with consulting firms or companies, only accepting applications based upon caste?

Well, that's discrimination, has nothing to do with immigration laws, instead employement laws, and can be prosecuted.

And yes, it can be proven.
I've been using ALE for years and even contributed to it: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
Fair enough. I had no idea I wasn't talking to "maxerickson". The 20s and the request for an apology thing was aimed at that person's initial comment that I responded directly to. Your contribution did not ask for that. I am sorry.

I do agree policy is the most important factor. But policy is not created in a complete vacuum. What the vast majority of people do and think is important. The outrageous amounts of perfectly good plastic that is thrown away is criminal. Just for food alone. Dear god.

Downplaying all this completely unnecessary waste because car fuel, tires and brakes pollute as well is odd. Especially given the fact that plastic waste is not just containers dumped in a landfill. Plastic bags are fucking disgusting and their remnants have be found virtually everywhere on the planet, including oceans, mountains, and jungles.
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen...
I thought TCB leveraged a UEFI featureset to start a chain of trust in the OS initialization. If the UEFI code itself isn't there, how is it going to run?
I'm going to piggyback off this.

1. Smartphones are ubiquitous, some are foldable.

2. Half the cars on the roads in the west are electric. Of those, Tesla is not even in the top 5. Self-driving is just lane-assist and adaptive cruise control rebranded.

3. You still cannot get a self-driving taxi from any major international airport (more than one terminal) to your hotel at any hour during the day.

4. Just-in-time grocery delivery services exists at 3 national grocers (e.g.: Whole Foods, Walmart, Costco).

5. Mass migration due to sea level rise is still 2 decades away. China and India to bear the brunt.

6. China, having hit peak population in 2023, struggles to grow the economy. Exacerbated by the aging population, cracks in the CPC begin to form.

7. Texas almost surpasses California for most populous state.

8. Latin American influence due to shifting demographics results in many "firsts" for Spanish songs at the Grammys.

9. No general AI but one AAA game is made where the quests/dialogue/storyline/world are generated by AI according to player inputs. Game becomes #1 meme generator within a month of launch.

10. No human has been on Mars. People are pushing for 2035 mission as Earth and Mars are at its closest.
Is there something similar to US Government.
America isn't a several millennia old, monoculture-ish country.

Edit: well, it was.
It seems EU politicians believe in climate change, until they have to catch a bus for a couple of hours…

BTW, I am a EU citizen worried about climate change and tired of recycling at home to sometimes see this kind of hypocrisy of some politicians.
Just like behind the iron curtain. People were free to share opinions. The party was free to send them to gulags.
I vaguely remember a similar thing with (Viking warrior?) skeletons. Everyone(?) assumed they were all male until they did DNA tests and realised they weren’t.
There has been two serious attempts at developing Covid vaccines with a cooperative "open source" model or at least with a more egalitarian model.

One was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVAX

From the wiki: """The continued shortage of COVID-19 vaccines delivered through COVAX is blamed on "vaccine nationalism" by richer nations ... """

The efforts were thwarted by investors prioritizing corporate profit.

People might like or dislike it, but this is 100% due to capitalism.

Regarding police brutality, its correlation with poverty is extensively documented by social scientists.
This is a tricky situation, because "European" culture is much more disseminated throughout the world. How many countries outside of Europe are majority Christian? How many speak Spanish, French and English? How many have large populations who are 1st or 2nd level descendants of people born in Europe?

You cannot influence without being influenced.
I think one of the problems of global air travel is that it has several externalities that are really not felt by its users. This is often tied to capitalism in the sense that it takes a capitalist system for the wealthy to be able to say "I don't care about these externalities and by my possessions I have a right to not care."

Not that I think it makes much difference in terms of a pandemic, but maybe if travel patterns had been different the pandemic would have played out differently in turn.
In 2018 people discovered that Twitter would recompress images but leave the embedded ICC profile, if present, intact, and used that to make a Twitter-surviving JPEG+ZIP polyglot[1], although that got patched out once someone used it as a C&C channel[2]. Apparently that still worked (and was utilized for the same purpose) on Steam user profiles in 2021[3].

[1] https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1057042085029822464

[2] https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/18/l/cybercriminal...

[3] https://twitter.com/miltinh0c/status/1392944896760238080
Yep, I've had two electric razors in my adult life (now in my late 40's) and they do the job well enough for me. Need periodically washed out and regularly charged, but apart from that they're maintenance free.

Both Philips, only got rid of the first one as it got broken by being knocked off a high shelf.

The idea of shaving being expensive, just seems ... odd.
Curious about the term "1:1 mark:space ratio" since it was also in the article. I would have used the term "50% duty cycle".
Hey this doesn't mention the simplest trick of all: get them to do a bunch of useless operations, then multiply by 3, add all the digits, and you'll know the final number.
It's a 18 year long personal project where you get to build/train your own embodied AI, and then let it loose to wreak havoc on the world.
Is it like gringo in Spanish or bule in Indonesian?
In fact, they went around forcing their culture upon others. This is historically a fact. Let's see what the HN censors say.
What are some predictions you all have for 2032?
CVE-2022-123456: The specification doesn't require each new round to be dependent on the input from the previous round. This can allow unprivileged users to send arbitrary commands to the accelerator and breaking system.
I fail to see why this is an issue. What did we expect, for the human population to grow exponentially on a planet of finite resources? The question should not be "how to get birthrates back up" but how to ensure a decent quality of life for the aging population without also compromising the livelihood of the younger generations. Encouraging couples to have kids artificially is a band-aid solution ignoring a larger problem.
I am confused - could you explain your comment in greater detail?
More popular sure, but I’m not sure about distinctive. Almost any trap song I listen to has the 808 kick but a cowbell signifies a very specific subgenre/period (or at least and attempt to replicate it) to me.
Web Design; the New Look
Money don’t grow on trees.

If there was a magic way to make money without work, everyone would be doing it.
It’s “only” a problem because all societies and economies are built like a pyramid where the bottom (working age people) is always bigger than the top. It seems like inevitably that is going to invert as countries get richer
If you get vaccinated and then get hit by a car and die did the vaccine kill you?
Canada, most expensive housing on earth and 20% GDP per Capita decline in the last decade...

Sweden, constant riots and exponential increase in crime...

Edit - Canada is an OK place to live, it's definitely become far worse in my lifetime though (mainly because of affordability). The plus side is tons of nature, if you're into that (I live in a mountain town but if I leave this town it's for Europe, not anywhere else in Canada).
This is correct. I have a couple of analog oscillators in my modular rack and the case needs to heat up for a couple of minutes before they generate a stable pitch. Not familiar with the exact reasons to be honest.
Pretending we're not animals is the right thing to do! Civilization is good and we only have it as long as we pretend we aren't animals.

I don't think it's a serious analysis that predicts that mankind will go extinct due to overpopulation. People who have that view truly are anti-humanists. They view humans as rapacious monsters that inevitably exploit and harm other living things and the planet.

The truth is that we don't know what humans will make of the planet. Maybe the pessimists are right. But it's a higher form of behavior than pessimism to live your life in a way that confirms that mankind is good.
I don't think Base-N names should be given to encodings that haven't been IETF standardized. This could lead to incompatible encodings with the same name.
Exploring the Mysterious Allure of Mazes and Labyrinths
You'd be surprised how limited people's political horizons are.
Beginner’s Guide: Buying your first vintage synthesizer
While angle grinders are useful and all, wouldn't the right commonly available tool for this be something like an orbital sander?

Something like this: https://www.bunnings.com.au/bosch-blue-250w-random-orbital-s...

Or for a US version: https://www.milwaukeetool.com.au/power-tools/carpentry/sande...
Hehe, yes. And let's add: my most stable address is still my Gmail one.