skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Birth rates are extremely low even in countries that paid parents to stay at home with kids and generally have good work culture.

I'll still bet that there's a significant career opportunity cost to leaving the workforce for a while like that.

> You would also expect birth rates to be lowest among people working 2-3 low-wage jobs, which is also not true.

If anything, aren't these the people for whom the opportunity cost is lowest? A gap on your "resume" after "McDonald's fry cook" to care for your kids doesn't require much explanation when you later apply for "Starbucks barista". If on the other hand you're a lawyer, maybe you didn't make Partner.

> In short, children were (and sometimes are) a social safety net.

I agree with this, and think it applies not just to children, but also to many adults, who can be helpful to their families but who might be unemployable in the larger market. The destruction of family businesses and informal employment is a problem, because society turns into, "get a job with formal compensation from one of these ten monopolies, or else you are worthless". And there are a lot of people who can't meet that standard.

For example, say your family member has mental illness that makes it hard for him to keep a job. If you owned a farm, you could still find something useful for him to do, and put up with him, and he'd be able to earn his keep, more or less.

Or say you meet a woman who, though creative and intelligent in many ways, also has unrealistic ideas about her "career", and who has never really had a proper job. So she's never going to make money, but she naturally tends to the house and does some cooking and contributes to the social life of the people around her. And say she wants to marry you. Do you do it? In a world of small family businesses, surely she'd help out somehow. In a world of FAANG-employed DINKs, she's worthless. And if she insists on living in California? "Sorry, I can't do this single-handed."

What this whole structure of society forces on people is cruelty. "Can you make money or can you not?" becomes the only important question to ask about another human being. It's horrible. At some level, Jeff Bezos' calculations of human worth enter our own calculations.

I'm not at all sure that the subjection of all things to the market has been progress. A world in which more "wealth" was in social/family networks, and where not all labor were so formal, might be a better one.
We have a litany of much bigger ecosystems than Go’s, that are much more friendly to guest languages, what advantage would targeting Go bring?
A simple practical example: my dishwasher start heating water is +2kW in an instance, my solar inverter take 2-3" to ramp up to +2kW. The home microgrid need or the national grid or a battery inverter to avoid collapsing due to a too big frequency drop. The dishwasher have finished heating water, again a sudden -2kW, again I need to divert extra energy to the grid or a battery to avoid a frequency peak big enough to make the inverter disconnect.

That doesn't really answer my question.

If I have a home solar installation that can send up to 10KW into the grid, how is that any different than an EV battery that can send the same amount of power into the grid?

I could see the problem if people were sending 100's of KW into the grid with EV batteries, but that's not the case, they're sending a similar amount of power that a home would use.

3kW slow charge is simply too low for most vehicles, they recharge but the battery might suffer

I charge my EV at 1KW (9 amps at 120V), it's enough to recharge my 30 mile commute overnight. I'm not aware of any cars (in the USA) that have a minimum charge rate.
> largest force they'll ever be able to muster

PLA is still massively modernizing and expanding with barely ~2% of GDP. It doesn't take that many bodies to man modern military, even worst case combination of South Korea tier TFR (<1) and cold war ear spending (6%+) enables PRC to field a military multiple times larger than current size. This is without considering unmanned autonomous platforms that PRC defense industry is heavily focusing on. Need to properly conceptualize how fast/large PLA has grown last decade relative to how modest the amount of resources has actually been devoted.
Sorry, should have been more clear. It was a reply to this part of your comment:

> Also - shouldn't the web be full off vurnurable database servers then?

You can search for open database servers there, which should answer your question.
This is why "climate change" is a better term than "global warming."

Weather is really really complicated. More greenhouse gases in the air results in more of the sun's energy staying in our atmosphere as heat, but how that affects the ground-level temperature in a specific city can be very, very complicated. Some areas might even become significantly cooler as climate change affects the weather. Plus, many of the worst effects of rising greenhouse gas levels (droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, algal blooms) are not a direct result of rising temperatures.

A climate change indicator with fewer confounding factors than "ASOS temperatures for pseudo-random airports" is ocean acidity level [1] [2] (CO2 gets dissolved in our oceans and changes the pH, affecting marine life). Another one is sea level [3].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

[2] https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/ocean-acidification

[3] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
The annual report does not have this info as far as i can tell.

That article is about the endowment not WMF itself. It might all be connected, but the endowment is removed enough that i think the argument that the donation gives google any control is silly.

It also says that there was a 1.1 million donation to WMF proper, based on a vote of google staff. Really not seeing the potential control there, given that it wasnt really directed by google executive. Regardless, i dont think a donation that is only ~1% of the annual budget is enough to give google any control
This.

A dedicated offline switch is so much simpler than VLANs, both to configure, use and understand.

I'd use the same software stack on either a linux machine that's on that LAN, or just use a raspberry pi.
I'd basically run the entire network part with dnsmasq.. You don't need anything else for DHCP and DNS. You don't even need to mess with iptables since you don't want packets leaving that LAN.
I didn't mention anything about oxalates and general kidney health or kidney disease, only kidney stones. I haven't seen a reason for avoiding oxalates unless you're at risk for kidney stones, so I'm not sure what point you're making.

> For stone prevention, a reasonable goal is below 100 mg of oxalate daily. An ideal would be about 50 mg daily if that can be accomplished.

> POTATOES
These are Trouble! I put them into their own separate group even though they are vegetables.

> From french fries to baked potatoes they are very high oxalate items.

https://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/how-to-eat-a-low-oxalate-d...

To your question, yes. I drink tons of water and avoid salt as much as I can.
I think the training data is just image/caption pairs. I don't think there's any notion of localizing or detecting specific objects in the training images.
Fair enough. But why not, say, Austin and Wichita, Kansas? Is it too hard to find people outside the big cities?

When you hired in Colombia, and when you hire in Latam now for Astro customers, do you bring a bunch of people together in a physical office, or do they work from home?
>you can still put the word "the" on clothing so long as consumers are not likely to mistake your products as originating from Ohio State University

It feels like half the people replying here have never been the victim of over-zealous patent and/or trademark lawyers before.

OSU just needs to sue whoever puts "THE" on whatever they want, claim that it will confuse people, and then the poor bloke who put "THE" on his coffee mug or whatever has to spend thousands of dollars proving to the courts that a coffee mug wont be confused with a football team. And of course it would never be confused for a football team. Yet, they still have to go through the motions, spend the money, or cease & desist. It happens frequently, frequently enough that there are lawyers specifically known for patent and trademark trolling!
Sure, the current population would shrink as is, but what about immigration? The US is a country built on that. Surely this would be a factor in preventing depopulation.
If you go used on LTO you can get a drive a few generations back for not insane prices, but it's still not entirely competitive with additional spinning rust.
I do have 4 years of commercial experience and I'll be getting masters next year.

That's because I've been working full time since 2nd semester

But I still do believe that it's weird.

Maybe people think about experience in general instead of commercial, full time?
> Nation states resorting to seizing each other’s ships (see Greece-Iran issue recently).

The US Navy is a major player here, having recently seized Venezuelan and Iranian tankers on the basis of violating sanctions. Only in retaliation did Iran begin seizing boats. This undermines the thesis that the US Navy is somehow protecting the stability of global trade. They're actively destabilizing to advance Washington's hegemonic interests.

> The thing about Zeihan’s arguments is that you can’t really argue against demographics.

You can absolutely argue against this. It's called automation. Needing millions of young healthy bodies to push machines around is increasingly outdated. A highly technical population with "bad demographics" will easily outperform a 20th century population with "good demographics" in the 21st century. Not to mention high population growth (required for "good demographics") is increasingly unsustainable due to natural resource limitations.

Zeihan is frankly a crock. He makes pretty maps and bold claims, but his evidence-based analysis is incredibly shallow. His MO is selling books: geopolitics as entertainment, not providing useful analysis.

You are much better served by listening to experienced realists like John Mearsheimer or Michael Hudson, rather than Zeihan's pop-geopol junk.
The only people I've ever met that use brave are evangelical republicans who are basically Qnuts. I'd rather tailor my own version of chromium than use what Q suggested.
I said consumer grade because I knew comments like this are coming.

Ungoogled chromium doesn't have ad block by default, and its default options are extreme.

Librwolf is even worse than UG, they disable WebGL, IPv6, WebRTC, Sync, and many other options that will break many websites, and you can't even change these options without a manual override file!

It really unusable for any normal consumer, even as an advanced user i don't use them, hardened Firefox is extremely slow, and UG doesn't have sync or advanced privacy protections from Brave like De-amp and Emphermal storage.
Look at Russia's attempts since ~2006 to basically throw money at their fertility problem and see how well it has worked out for them. There is just no actual need like there used to be (farm labor) for kids these days. Unless house prices crash such that people on minimum wage can afford a large house and still have lots of disposable income to put towards children I don't see how this can be solved with money.

A cultural shift just won't occur in the span of a few years and would likely only be possible from the next generation onwards, but by then the damage has already been done. Maybe 50-100 years from now after "the end of the world" mindsets will change and we'll see a big repopulation.
EU is also technically slightly larger as an entity and Germany has long been more industrial in its focus and an economic leader.
Ah, I see. Does Eppo also manage the exposure part of setting up experiments?

At Lyft, we have an internal platform that helps us run and manage experiments. Seems like this is a SaaS equivalent. Do you have an idea of how it compares to other companies established experimentation platforms?
Except you would have to be on the same layer 2 network as the "victim" for this to work.
The point is that there is no "game". You opt-in for the ads, you receive the notification, you get paid for it. There is no downside for the users.

There could be a downside for the advertisers, if they were being forced to buy the token to place the ads, but even that is not possible, because the ad campaigns are priced and paid in USD.
The grid, even if its your connection between your mains and your car, needs to be set up to limit the output of the car's batteries. Or the car (powerwall, etc) does.

> if I have a 75KWh battery and am willing to give up 30% of my capacity to the grid, that's 25KWh, or around 2.5KW for 10 hours.

That depends on how much current you can push. The battery is quite capable of giving up that 25kWh in 10-20 minutes too.
This is really a social problem, not a technical problem. The technology for instant communication exists and it isn't going to disappear. Your coworkers need to learn to give people space to do their job. Sorry that's scant comfort if that's what your workplace is like.
That is why you usually secure your stuff by a hardware (or separate) firewall.

But I too found this feature weird when I found out about it.
That surely depends on the specifics. It's perfectly relevant if one side wishes to point out that Monsanto has lied in the past about the safety of its chemicals, or whether the company has prioritized human safety, etc. Obviously, if the point is a technical one about specific GMO crops, it's not relevant. Context, right?
> One of the interesting things about power is that the harder you try to hold on to power, the less of it you actually have. The harder you try to force your kids to do things, the less likely they are to do those things.

This is perhaps the most important thing that my dad didn't understand.

F U dad.
If that's true, you can then send packets to it, but not receive replies. That's still a problem.
Ah, forgot about forwarding table. These should fix that:

for tool in iptables ip6tables ; do
$tool -I DOCKER-USER 1 -i eth+ -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j DROP
$tool -I DOCKER-USER 1 -i wlan+ -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j DROP
done

If these are saved and loaded with the rest of networking, they will appear at the top of the FORWARD table before the DOCKER table jumps. Docker won't remove these rules, and they come first in the table, so they supersede Docker's rules. Any new connections forwarded from an external interface should drop.

edit: changed from FORWARD to DOCKER-USER table
It lets users search for misconfigured database instances that it has scraped - very relevant to the topic.
So, no evidence. Just FUD. Got it.
Why? Simple, it's called "cat" nip, that's why they love it!

Ok, ok... Bad joke...
Had to look it up, you’re right:

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/490

It’s required by docker, ugh.
Article kind of bums me out.

One loss prevention officer says:

> He finds the environment of loss prevention thrilling and takes pride in the training he’s received to track down and apprehend shoplifters. “That’s a huge adrenaline rush,” he says. “I think that’s a major factor in why people are in this field.”

But also says:

> “I don’t do this because I think shoplifting is wrong,” he says. “If I’m perfectly honest, I could not care less about that. I just do my job.”

Power is a hell of a drug.

Obviously these officers exercise discretion, because shoplifting happens all day long. Many stores build cases for repeat offenders before attempting to confront them. It's an interesting and complex issue, and one I'm glad I don't have to deal with 8 hours a day.
I don’t know, I understand most assembly line I see in isolation, yet often have no idea what the whole does. Sometimes too primitive primitives actually hinder readability/understanding.

I know many don’t feel that way, but functional stream manipulation is a very good example for that — I much rather deal with filter.map.reduce whatever, than 3 nested for loops with random breaks inside, even though the latter may be easier to reason about line-by-line
The first sentence of the page says the author is a woman.
It is a very uncommon setup, I've met installers that don't know about it. The new generation of microinverters enable this setup more easily, so it should become more common.
Could you explain this idea further? What's economic feudalism look like?
Dark Crystal (https://darkcrystal.pw/) provides a toolkit (a set of protocols, libraries and reference code) for using Shamir's Secret Sharing within different social fabrics.
Thanks. I couldn't not bring myself to explain what a median is.
If there is one given application for solar power I'd say it is to avoid these silly power peaks when the sun shows its power. Given that it is the presence of the sun which creates the (often imaginary) need for air conditioning it is a no-brainer to run that air conditioning off a bunch of PV panels. Now that these have gone down in price so much that their purchase price is but a fragment of that of an HVAC installation I see no reason to forego on this component. With electricity prices going up during periods of high use - if not now then in the not too distant future, where I live (Sweden) the price varies by the hour - this is an investment which will pay back for itself in less than a decade while PV panels last for at least 25 years.
I agree, it isn't perfect, but nothing really is.
Firefox has a unique key for every installer that can link people together, and runs Ads on the home page which is new (on brave its enable by default since brave ADs started)
My guess (as someone who hasn't used D) is that it looks/feels too much like C for people who want a better Java/C#/etc, and too much like Java for people looking for a better C, resting in the middle, not really being appealing for either use-case.

GC makes it look like you won't do low-level things (e.g. pointer tagging or very-hand-optimized hot loops which might need to temporarily discard any and all safety), and being called a "systems language" makes it look like not very high-level either. Emphasis on "looks like" - not many will get to the point of actually looking for the options (especially when in a more opinionated language you don't even need to, as there either is an obvious way, or there's none).

Rust managed to stay distant enough from Java-likes (mostly due to manual memory management), and Go is pretty distant from C all things considered (but I'm not too sure why it's so popular. Probably more just being backed by Google?)
Because if the only reason is to impersonate or antagonize[*] Ohio State, the trademark makes sense!

[*]: Fair use nonwidthstanding
What's wrong with linking to your blog? Twitter was once explained to me as short form blogging which I thought at the time was absurd but I kind of get it now.

The problem is when you try to be all things to all people you fail. I'd so much like someone like Elon Musk to take over Twitter. In the case of Musk I trust his judgement over the team running Twitter now. Can you imagine a group of two dozen people working a year trying to reinvent blogging? Knowing Twitter, sadly I can.
Not in America. In America there’s not enough workers for regular jobs. And academic studies should be taken with a grain of salt in this context. For one, sex workers are known to lie about their motivations. And two, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that a middle aged woman would rather not perform oral sex on a stranger in a back alley for 20 bucks. They only do it for a fast fix.
... unless you're running Windows containers (on Windows).
"I've always been under the impression that science is descriptive, it answers how?"

And yet, that "how" is relative to actual knowledge that is shaping with time or even point of view.
I wanted to reply since that NYT article is so damming and it's absurd for me to be parent comment about Juul and not reply (since obviously I saw your comment and have thoughts) and was thinking about how best to, I am not sure of the details of this but:

* I cannot reiterate enough just how incompetent Juul was in 2017. Everyone was running around with their hair on fire and had zero of the skills or experience to deal with these issues

* I believe that Juul did a lot of really really really stupid things like going into schools and trying to hamfistedly state that vaping was bad but safe — again, Juul had a lot of very inexperienced executives who were obsessed with doing things they thought were really smart but were just plain stupid

* It's worth noting that these actions didn't actually contribute to making youths vape. Vaping was exploding amongst teens because of social media and being a meme — in what world would going to a school and talking about Juul make youths want to use that product? that is what makes all this so hilarious - Juul did a stupid thing, has to live with the consequences, and the underlying thesis of why they did it in the first place was totally ridiculous.

Again, I was a Juul employee - I do not believe Juul consciously or explicitly wanted youths to use Juul, but I am sure that their incompetence meant that their communication and actions blurred their dreadful attempts at dealing with the issues.

The very fact this NYT article exists without a clear rebuttal and explanation from Juul says it all, really.
I think developers using the Arduino platform on the ESP32 are mostly just using one core. Developers using the Espressif's SDK are more likely to use both cores.
>> That's all government has ever been and will always be: a protection racket.

> In the European tradition, the number 1 thing government protects is private property. There's a reason that deeds are recorded with the county amd that you must pay tax on real estate and that these are fundamental things local government does in even in the most backwater province where they may not even have a library system.

Most (but not all) people who make sweeping statements like the GP's are ideological capitalists, but capitalism fails without the government record-keeping and enforcement systems you bring up:

https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-E...
Because you get community policed if you do.
I actually ran a private DSLAM to get internet between upstairs and downstairs in my house only a few years ago (not a joke, G.fast).
>By now these researchers could show me a deep learning model that accurately predicts the future, and I'd shrug my shoulders and say "so what?".

So what? Are you just taking the piss? You are saying a literal Oracle wouldn't be impressive because the "learning rate schedules" are black magic??
> What the hell do you consider a bad trademark, if not just the word "the"?

Someone successfully trademarking an already established generic term. Someone trademarking a web framework called REST for example.
I'm skeptical of those numbers although they may be wholly true, they may only be technically true because final "huge value add" simple assembly is done onshore while all the base parts are produced offshore.