skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I link 3 meta analysises accounting ~150-200 scientific papers AKA more than you've read in your entire life and you call me pseudoscientist and conspirational?
I understand starting to questions the safety of things you have always assumed to be safe can be mentally scary but that does not justify empty dismissals.
It's true though that this is not a scientific forum and it often shows.
BTW did you know that human brains including yours loose 10% of their axons every decade? Take this fact as a reward for your low-effort.

edit: oicU00: Your thymus involute quickly.
I have skin that doesn't like a close shave, and I've used a professional trimmer for the last 15 years or so.

It's perfect for my skin, and a super fast shave. Just enough stubble to look good.

Lapped the blades once, just put a new one in. Hard to beat the ROI on that!
Social media, gamed by political clickbait merchants
No, they are called Hafu. Half Japanese.
Make a lot of money and buy stocks. This is the easiest approach.
Thought I recognized the author! That is qntm of "There is no antimemetic division" fame.
That's a very Western view of what a country is. The current immigration policies of Japan suggest that "they" do not see it that way.
Elon Musk has repeatedly said the greatest threat to civilization is population decline [0]. It's such a diametrically opposed narrative compared to what world governments and leaders have been saying over decades now namely that over population is what we should fear.

Surely both those statements cannot be true.

It seems like the answer is of great importance since potentially the fate of humanity depends on it, yet I seldom see it discussed seriously or at least as seriously as anything else like climate change.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1483484932961972227?lang...
I think this is demonstrated.

We have a global climate and environmental crisis in a world where most human beings are still quite poor and with population still increasing.

We're being told that we should travel less, eat less meat, this, that, when most people on Earth actually still struggle to afford these things (I.e. consumption per capita is increasing as people leave abject poverty worldwide)

Believing that global population level is fine is not even an article of faith, it simply is denial of reality because it is something some people somehow simply refuse to hear.

Lastly, no-one here suggests that we should kill people or whatnot. In Japan and other developed countries population is decreasing naturally, let's just let it instead of panicking.
> We aren't close to carrying capacity.

Yet I have no trust in any governing body that exists when we do.
Well, 30% more is exactly what you can save month by month and get to retirement with some tranquility.
I could probably use this. My muscle memory still reaches for “ifconfig”.
If you replace a country’s culture, it’s still the same country?
https://youtu.be/dXBsFfnCOks
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/immigration_and_...

More than 20% of people living in Canada are immigrants.

Immigration rates have increased since the data above.
Not just that, they will have ability to monitor what you are playing and also listen to ambient sounds, fingerprint voices and also sense how many people are in the room.
Most individuals in such places don’t have the power to change the entire society as a whole. You would leave too
It is not just welfare, but also the healthcare systems.

Older people are, on average, much less healthy and need more medical attention. IDK if this can be solved by medical/nursing robots, but we almost certainly do not have enough living medical professionals to care for countries whose average age climbs over 50.
They actually have "no foreigners" signs, or is that more metaphorical?

Are they for jobs, or even for shops/businesses?
I did this style to mimick modern framework code — taking the state (todos) and render the state of the world every time. If the browser had a DOM diffing api this would be more efficient and we would be there. So for a larger project I might using something like Lit’s html stand-alone package or fastdom to get the DOM digging functionality without much dependency code.
And apparently China is more 'liveable' than Ireland and Finland according to USNews.com.
A lot of the immigrants to Europe are ill behaved. No one has problems with Japanese immigrants in Europe.
Sweden had problems integrating large swaths of their refugee populations who now live in newly high crime enclaves. I don’t think refugees are comparable to a well thought out professional immigration system though.
>Why are they only superficially convenient? They seem pretty convenient to me.

how can anything that produces a worse quality of a productivity enhancing stimulant than you would have using another method ever be truly convenient in comparison to that other method?
A country is literally a boundary set by a group of people that other groups of people (largely) agree on. It is, by definition, a social construction. There’s no interpretation to be had tbh.

Now the Japanese’s own sense of identity/culture? It’s a deeply personal and subjective matter. But national boundaries? Not at all.
That’s a great link. The truth is there are many studies showing how diversity leads to a flourishing and betterment / advancement of culture.
everyone experiences discrimination in Japan - it is a pressure society
Japan's population is actually relatively small for it's size, especially when you consider how densely populated it is.
I like the saying that people overestimate what will happen in a short time and underestimate what will happen in a long time. 50 years or longer would be a more interesting period of time to measure changes.
What about DO App Platform? I was thinking of trying that next. I’ve read a lot about slow build times and random build failures, but at the same time they at least seem to be actively developing the service.
On a positive note, they will have a bit more space to live in the cities. Apartments tend to be very small and stacked together.
Some past HN comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20972574
The name is irrelevant. It’s certainly not the set of cultures it was before that event happened, no.
Ooo fastdom looks great! Thanks for the link.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/swedens-failed...
This is the modern equivalent of a Royal Road.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road
I've found that having 2 electric shavers around - one for a beard trimming style shave (I use a Wahl) and one for a close shave (I use a Braun) - is optimal for me.
I also use electric. Bought a very cheap one in college and now a decade later only now needed to replace it because the battery stopped holding a charge and had to keep it plugged in while using it. About annually I would put a drop of oil on it and that’s all.

Now I recently purchased a very expensive version (comparatively) and it does the same job.
An easy compromise is for the default behavior to be to drop cookies when the session ends and to disallow third-party cookies. That gets you most of the privacy benefits while breaking a low percentage of sites.
I’d be willing to immigrate somewhere at least for a while, but ofc, despite being a valued professional I lack the required papers.
Flap disc…
https://www.amazon.com/Flap-Grinding-Disc-Assorted-Pack/dp/B...
Seconding toomuchtodo's comment, I also take issue with

> saying we need fewer people and enacting policies to achieve that seems dangerous: you’re trying to destroy other people’s families for no reason but your religious beliefs

Trying to conflate a natural (or at least unintended [1]) population drop with some deliberate policy of "family destruction" is the height of dishonesty.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/10/18/national/social... Japan’s total fertility rate [..] stood at 1.36 [..] The government aims to raise the rate to 1.8.
Single quotes are more popular in British English.
Stupid poor people am I right
I think it's preference. I started out using electric when I first started shaving when I was like 16 or something. As soon as I tried actual razors I couldn't go back. Been like 26 years now.
Yes it is a challenge but ultimately less costly than the alternative...

Moreover, if you accept that population cannot increase infinitely in a finite world, the transition will have to happen one day. So the sooner the better and rich, developed countries are equipped to deal with it.
I do. If, and only if, you build up the exact same thing. Once engineers band together for a rewrite that changes project architectural, conceptual, and engineering principles, then you're looking at a runaway deadline.
Absolutely. 30% is not small at all. It's just small when compared with the 500% to 2000% claimed in the parent comment.

Also note that the difference between the US and Germany is also about 30%. Again, nothing to scoff at, but at the same time not remotely high enough to depopulate Germany.
That's just called changing culture. This happens at each generation at least.
> Qshave Adjustable

This looks awesome; never heard of it. Anyway to get something like this with a textured handle?
Closer to an ethnostate.
Europe, I suppose. For example, the De'Longhi Magnifica S ECAM 22.110 is an entry-level machine for 279 EUR (routinely available for <250 EUR).

Here's a review: https://coffeeblog.co.uk/delonghi-magnifica-s/

https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/2416409...
Small File Optimization for Object Storage
Comes down to the culture and ideology of the country.

Is the culture thinking being a X is race based or is it based on a way of life, or both?

At least back in the 80s and 90s, my US education and history books say that America is the melting pot of the world, and ideally not race based, but based on the idea of personal and religious freedom. USA as we know now began as a country of immigrants - so by definition, yes, USA still stands regardless of race and ethnicity.

Whereas, the older countries having a more homogeneous race, ethnicity, and culture, that question is a lot fuzzier.
Up until recently I owned a Pixelbook, and the Linux layer (Crostini) made ChromeOS a very viable development platform. The one thing I missed was the ability to start virtual machines (and I believe this may have been addressed on newer ChromeOS hardware)
A shell is just how you interact with the underlying system.
The gui is also a shell.
Confusing I know!
It’s common to see it everywhere. It’s very common to hear blood and soil rhetoric wrt black people or Native Americans, but it’s called progressive and liberal but not xenophobic for some reasons.
There's massive labour shortage in JP. There's more foreign workers from Asia than ever. But I wager JP will adopt foreign worker model like ME petro states versus immigration model.
All year graduate students can't afford to pay rent in much of CA. Even with what is considered a "good" stipend rent is eating your takehome up unless you split a bedroom. Kinda ridiculous considering all the responsibility and expertise required of grad students who are conducting research, designing experiments, writing manuscripts, grant proposals, or designing and teaching college coursework to undergraduates. The fact that your salary might quadruple or more the day you graduate and walk into industry just shows how wage depressed these necessary skills are within academia.
Location: Malaysia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React.js, React Native, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Postgresql

Résumé/CV: harithzahid.com

Email: mharith.dev@gmail.com
Have you ever in your life tried to use an angle grinder for this sort of thing? It’s one of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

If i had a cast iron pan I had to flatten, I’d dog it down on my CNC router, set up a 1/4” endmill, whip up some code for 33% overlapping passes in Fusion 360, and take off .005” layers until it was flat.
11. Google Calendar still exists and you still use it
It's an interesting idea. Some personalities will only have children if they're forced by circumstances. This was the norm back when contraceptives didn't exist, and cultures (probably out of necessity), structured themselves to compel people to have children.

Another interesting idea, is that over the long-term, cultures that allow their members the freedom not to have children, may be overrun peacefully or forcefully by those that don't, or that at least, provide larger incentives to have children. Moreover, again over a long enough time horizon, people's who naturally don't have the inclination to have children, will disappear from the gene pool, making having children (all other things equals) the most common and culturally sensible option.
As someone who doesn't like cooking, guides with actual strict measures (and then tools to strictly measure) would be nice. I never know how much does a tiny bit of olive oil means.
Wow - Where to start?

Ok number 1 is their "Unfortunately we had not enough information in this dataset to recreate the actual score that Hacker News will use to rank your post" uhmm the algorithm is an open secret with a dash of secret sauce added.

#2 "Top Users" ... uhmm dang is a site moderator not a user. The fact that they don't recognise that makes the rest of the analysis laughable.

"But the original goal was to discover insights using Whaly and without using any SQL. A mission that was well accomplished !" Uhmm, I beg to differ on that conclusion.
The British convention used to be to use single quotes for the outermost level, then double inside. But I see that the main article follows the American practice of double quotes outside. So I don't know.
Yeah I feel like our manager is negative addition to our team and I was thinking of suggesting my CTO to try no manager policy. The manager just throws out random idea and then we have to make an effort in proving why the idea is not worth pursuing. Also we feel like some stuff gets lost middle way when going through the manager. I knew the manager didn't have necessary experience and wanted to give the manager benefit of doubt but it has been almost a year and I don't see much improvement.
I guess it's a bit of a curiosity. The charge of hypocrisy is to be expected, and not entirely wrong, although it suffers from the usual problem, namely that a doctor telling you that smoking is dangerous with a pack of Marlboros on his desk isn't necessarily wrong.
Working at an open core company with a little over a year of existence.

I think the open core model works, and is great marketing strategy.

Customers at the end of the day are willing to pay for polished finished products, but giving them an exit path-way should you fail and burn all your VC money, gives some ease vs going for a fully closed-source commercial product, even if some parts of the product aren't available (or only under enterprise edition)

YMMV, but I think it's a good think for open source to have found an hybrid model between free vs paid software dichotomy
They are probably not less worrying if they are in the same frequency range.
> the anti-Gillette marketing zeitgeist

Which is why it might as well be the pro-Gillette marketing zeitgeist. Too easy to turn away from something under the assumption you'll just get sucked into it and waste a lot of money. Another good example of this is the fountain pen community. As a total outsider, I was actually under the impression that a fountain pen cost well over $100 and was difficult to maintain and write with. I happened to randomly look into it one day only to discover that some very well regarded pens are only $30 or so, write well on almost everything, and will last for years of high quality writing.
I’m no linguist or Japanese scholar, but it has long been interesting to me that the full word “gaikokujin” translates to “foreigner” (kanji for “outside,” “country,” “person”), while “gaijin” removes the “country” part, leaving something that could be read more fundamentally as simply “outsider”.
It's easier to move (yourself and your family) to a more favorable country than to change an entire country to be more favorable, especially considering how large and complicated these nations are.

The downside is that the people leaving also tend to be the most capable of producing that change so the brain/skills-drain is self-perpetuating once it starts.
Some people just want open space, but that is far from being the most important factor of determining where people want to live. Otherwise we'd expect Africa to be a popular place for immigrants, comparable to the US. And Russia would be far better than either. And Singapore would be utter nonsense.

Actually, the very existence of cities and countrysides goes against this idea (and there is indeed open space in Japan.)
The United States is not an ethno-state though. Maybe during its founding and in the past it was, but it has long stopped being so, despite the recent desires of some factions to want to turn it into one again.

Multiculturalism has long become one of the defining characteristics of the US.

Japan (and frankly, many other countries) are indeed ethno-states.
Wink wink say no more say no more!
All reasonable until we slide over the custom plane config with extra business class...

I hope thats not a literal, we moved the seats for the aristocrats type of flight.
They had the option. Nobody ever forced European countries to accept mass immigration. They could have remained closed and avoided outside cultural influence if they had wanted to, but most of them didn’t.
I have a 20 year old Lodge and I also use some of my grandmother's old Lodge/Griswold pans which were polished. My pan is well seasoned and pretty smooth after constant use. I've never noticed any practical difference except that mine can easily be replaced
Play around with the Witch options; it seems very sensitive to which ones you choose.
My favorite trick is to buy imported Gillette cartridges from foreign countries. These cartridges have been discontinued in the U.S. market but remain my personal favorite brand. I get my cartridges for around $1/each. Not cheap, but half the price of contemporary cartridges, and with far less plastic waste than fully-disposable razors. (I’m willing to pay more to protect the environment.)

As someone who fully shaves his head almost daily, closeness, speed, and minimal risk of injury are the most important factors for me. I’ve tried all the alternatives - electric shavers, old-school double edged blades with handles, etc. and found them either to not provide a close enough shave, or to be too high-maintenance or slow (too many passes required) to be worth the cost savings. Electric is out because I shave in the shower and they don’t cut close enough anyway. (Also, electric shaver blades dull over time, too.)
That can't be it.
Same in Poland, uk, turkey, USA…
surely the space of possible large-scale human social systems is so vast, and so pockmarked with local minima that its absurd to think there is a default, or two or three possible setups
You said yourself:

> Civilization is humans, who are animals, pretending they are not animals. This pretending is often very hard. — slibhb

Anti-humanism is the wrong characterization. It’s the lack of self awareness and self preservation in aggregate as a species that is repulsive imho.
Not much has really changed in Japan since the fuedal period, in fact, a lot of the policies from the feudal period play a direct role in modern day japan. Anyways Immigration is always an issue with many aspects of Japanese life, without a stable population growth in Japan the japanese people could easily disappear in a similar way that many ethnic groups in America have disappeared over generations or in east europe where several ethnic groups banded together to form larger nationalistic identities such as the creation of the russian "ethnic" group. Japan has suffered a similar fate with the designation of a Yamato people that does not have a true ancestry. Ethnic groups in Japan are unacknowledged as the Ainu people suffer from discrimination on a systemic level in the Hokkaido region. Comments like this show true ignorance on topics in relation to societies. By your logic should we all just die out and let the Indian and Chinese ethnic groups become the dominant and only groups in the world? Is everyone actually just Han Chinese?
125.5 MM is still a lot of people for a place like Japan with its group of relatively small-ish islands when compared to other places - 350 MM for US and 38 MM for Canada.
Personally, abiogenesis by itself looks like something on the 10^-60 to 10^-140 range, so it fully explains everything.

Anyway, there are indeed a few things in our past that look like a 10^-10 odds filter, like each time our genetic encoding changed to increase our codons and the oxygen catastrophe. There are more that look like merely "almost impossible to survive" (I'd guess some ~10^-4 filter) like large asteroid impacts, but not nearly enough to make a difference.
I lived in Japan for several years and found most people there to be open and friendly to other races. I had friends from India, Nigeria, China, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Brazil, US and Europe. I don't know that any of them felt particularly discriminated against because of their race. I certainly didn't, except perhaps once when a really old guy tried to hit me with his cane. But that's not to say that it doesn't exist. I just don't think it's rampant everywhere in Japan.
How often do you use straws? Maybe it's a cultural thing, but as far as I'm concerned, straws are for ages 1-10 and 75+.
I guess it’s hard to imagine the upsides of straight razors justifying the (apparent) downsides. I mean, other than a somewhat closer shave, it seems like everything else about them is worse (expense, waste, time/effort, mess, cuts/removing skin, ingrown hairs).
Japan's culture has arguably been almost completely replaced several times over. Is it still Japan?
All good points. But the biggest thread on this post isn’t about shaving at all, it’s about cast iron pans.
Do I really need? Are riots now supposed to be common and accepted?
Get a vintage cast iron skillet; before the race to the bottom resulted in unfinished junk like Lodge, manufacturers used to machine polish the surface of the skillet.

I can put a tiny amount of oil in my cast iron and fry eggs without sticking.

Over time, cooking oils polymerize from heat and form a smooth seal in the microsurfaces of the cast iron, resulting in a natural non stick surface which is resilient and replenish-able.

80% of my stovetop cooking is in a 70 year old cast iron skillet, the rest happens in stainless steel or enameled cast iron.
Growing a New Future for Farming
>the contrast, color and brightness/blacks won't be as good as a decent OLED TV unless you go for a very high end projector and screen

Not even that, I suspect that projectors would be defeated by mid-range VA-LED TVs, especially when you factor in that TVs have nifty tricks like FALD
I think the kick is most iconic with producers and people into electronic music, but the cowbell is most iconic with the general public.
I couldn't find in the link any mention of heap or stack-based storage. Where can I find more info about it?
You should have assumed the opposite. How many successful military operations are you aware of that were not planned, and/or that waited around and took their sweet time?
I remember when the internet used to scream at me.
I remember the proper name of a modem from my ancient CompTIA A+ classes I took as a teenager.
Driving is much more difficult than maybe pressing a button once in a year. Of course it’d pay less. Any lucid person can do it with little training.
One is constrained in resources, the other is plain faulty.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.05.03-230501/https://www.nytimes.com...