skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities have always been population reducers: below replacement fertility, with migrants from the countryside increasing the population. This was true 2000 years ago and it's true now. It's hard to say for sure why this is, but I'd imagine it's that urban people have more awareness of economic inequality. Rural people suffer from it, but they don't see it on a daily basis, so they aren't constantly reminded of the disadvantages that 99% of them will inherit in the way urban people are.

These days, not only is the world population more urban, but people are also more consistently aware of the inequality problem. People are realizing they have no hope of providing the best opportunities for their children, and are deciding not to have them. I don't see that as a bad thing. Voluntary population decline might be the best outcome for humanity at this point, at least until we get our political, economic, and ecological shit together. We don't need 10 billion humans to be on the planet; we need to get through this era of war and capitalism without making ourselves extinct.
Fact is, if you want to build a megaproject (highway, HSR, whatever), you have to step on someone's toes. In the past, America did this by stepping on the toes of people with no political power, resulting in the excesses of 1960s destroying of historic areas in favor of unfortunate highway interchanges.

Now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction -- no project can be built because no one is willing to step on anyone's toes.
Same. As another Firefox user and Apple non-user, I'm grateful to Safari for keeping web devs in check so that their shit runs on Firefox.
While I can't speak to TPB, there are many private trackers solely dedicated to maintaining obscure content.
2005: your infrastructure powers a webshop with $1m annual revenue

2022: your infrastructure powers a $5b startup
2FA is not in fact the industry standard process for account recovery (it's the industry standard problem that causes us to have to spend time on account recovery!), and account recovery is the problem this part of the consent agreement addresses.
I’m installing this just to play Minesweeper.
There has never been a case where a manufacture couldn’t have what they wanted on their own hardware. That’s like saying TVs can’t bundle their pen apps and must allow any third party app.

There is a gross misunderstanding of what the MS case involved and how little came out of the case.
In my degoogling journey Google Sheets is one of the last remainders. Does anyone know a good online alternative? Paid is fine.
Based on experiences with 72hp Suzuki SV650 all you need to do is grip the front brake and give it some gas. Digs asphalt at about 5mm/sec just fine. The tire gets totalled pretty fast too. So it's not rubber being too soft.
"Don't repeat yourself (DRY)."
Capitalism doesn't require for constant population growth. But public pension schemes do. And there are geopolitical advantages to being bigger than your foes.

Look at Japan. Japan's population has been on the decline for about 1.5 generations. They still get as much food, shelter, and entertainment as any other developed economy. They have hobbies, travel, discretionary income... The worries there aren't about capitalism failing.

Demographic collapse just has a lot of nasty social consequences in general. An inverted pyramid spells pain for future generations.
This article compares the CPU times of every site using Angular/React/Vue/jQuery known by the HTTP Archive and comes to a very different conclusion: https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javas...
You say you've always wondered why that is, but it doesn't seem like you're prepared to consider the possibility that America, in its current state, actually is a desirable place to live for a majority of the world's population.

If stats tell you one story but reality tells you a different one, then you should ask why that is, and not say the numbers are right and reality is wrong, or vice versa. There are more possibilities than just the world is getting bamboozled by brainwashed Americans online.
There are enough people criticizing both current language models and the overall "quest" towards AGI that come from a non-political (unless you subscribe to an aristotelian everything-is-politics) perspective.
I personally don't think any of the companies with significant AI research is actually doing anything meaningful in terms of safety. Also, from their public "utterings", it's quite clear to me that both Altman and Hassabis (not to mention Lecun) don't actually care about safety or consequences.
Ok! You're probably right and we're probably just talking past each other.
Curious to what degree and how you think web of trust idea could help here? Assume you could use it to prove whether an article was signed or not by a real person. I think this would solve the problem of articles being published with a false author attribution. However, it would not work to prevent actual people from publishing AI written articles using their own identity. It would also not (directly) do anything to establish if the facts in an article are correct or not.
Never gotten the flu vaccine before. Biggest fear in life is alzheimers. Guess I will get the flu vaccine annually going forward.
The EU's Digital Markets Act will stop Apples browser ban.

So hopefully we will get done with the new IE that is WebKIT soon.

https://twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/15271019882567229...

More resources on how Safari hurts the web:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/23/opinion_column/

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/14/telegram_safari/

Several institutions talking about Safari's monopoly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31896281
Sri Lankan taxes are collected in Sri Lankan ruppees, not in USD dollars. The Sri Lankan state does not have a lack of Sri Lankan rupees, and indeed it can print as many as it wants.

Sri Lankan ruppees are not used in international trade, which is core to the current crisis.

I understand that statists like you like to pretend like the cause of every problem is lack of government, but I can assure you, that is not the case, not here, not in almost every other situation.
Christianity's own scriptures and holy men called for the return of slaves to their masters.

Just because other cultures also supported slavery doesn't mean Christianity didn't contribute to that horror.
Even with humans driving remotely, it's not very profitable. Drone racing is about as successful as RC racing has become. People don't take sports seriously without humans being directly involved.
There is a benefit to 1099 income that you did not mention -- when my physician wife gets 1099 income she is able to contribute more to a SEP-IRA than when the same income comes with a W-2.
> But no - the second anyone mentions protected bike lanes, a handful of NIMBYs write in with "but muh cars" and the politicians throw up their hands and surrender.

That is a damn shame. As a driver and also cyclist, I hate seeing bicycles on the car roads; I also hate being on the road when I cycle, as there are too many inattentive drivers.

And please, keep pedestrians off of cyclists lanes. Ticket them if you must.
Apple and Google are 99% of the smartphone market. Together they set an unreasonable set of rules for mobile application development and distribution. They control search, advertising, and web technology, and there's little control individuals or other companies - even big ones - can exert against them.

They both need to be stripped of their extraordinary powers so that user freedom and proper capitalistic competition can be restored.

It's likely that any regulatory action taken against Apple and Google will force the companies to innovate more and become healthier themselves.
SQL has that actually

select * from a natural join b

(not based on fk constraints though, it will join on all attributes with the same name in the relations)
> Being anti-competitive is not a crime unless one is doing it as a monopoly

But as the person you are replying to was trying to explain this is not true. Being anticompetitive is always a crime. Regulators don’t go after small players because it’s hard to show they significantly harm the market but it is illegal at any size.
Fortunately, we have real judges and real lawyers who have argued the case in a real court of law during the Epic trial. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly according to the judge. It definitely doesn’t have a monopoly in the phone market with 60% share.

Epic lawyers tried your argument that Apple had a monopoly on their own hardware and she immediately threw the argument out as nonsensical. Every manufacturer has a “monopoly” on their own product. No one would argue that Spotify is monopolistic because they own their own platform.
I would argue that the risk:reward is still very heavily weighted toward reward.

I would happily spend a year in jail for $1bn+
People who get yearly flu vaccines probably go to the doctor more regularly than those who do not. I would expect that people who more regularly go to the doctor are also more concerned about their health. I'd expect people who are concerned with their health to behave in ways that limit disease.

Without a proposed method of action, I suspect this is just noise.
This article has very few details and is rather questionable, at best. Correlation does not imply causation. It could very well be that people who choose to get flu vaccines are more health-conscious and live a healthier lifestyle so they are less likely to get Alzheimers.
There's some interesting work going on in this field.

UCSD is trying to power some of their buildings using a solar array and a parking lot of cheap/donated Nissan Leafs with "dead" batteries. The cars can't be driven anywhere useful, but the batteries still hold some charge, which they're trying to create an aggregate power-storage array from as a POC.

The economical solution may well be distributed power storage. Like BitTorrent, but for electricity ;)
I agree that team interaction can be productive. (I might even be a bit cynical in saying that most team interaction is not, but that might be a digression). I think the distinction is in how the work culture manages those interactions. My previous job wanted open-door policies; what that turned into was a poorly managed ad-hoc set of interactions. Open door interaction tended to foster unproductive venting and it can become like corralling cats to refocus that energy into solving problems. That may be fine for a supervisor; it's probably not the best use of time for front line production person.

I think I may disagree about the "somewhat weird obsession" with uninterrupted work. (I'm assuming your '8 hours' was hyperbole). The research seems pretty clear that interruptions are more detrimental to highly focused work. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect certain blocks of uninterrupted time if the type of work requires it, but that shouldn't be conflated to someone expected to simply be left alone all day.
That makes me realize another aspect I hate about modern movies. In the first Die Hard, McClain was suffering. That scene where he walks across broken glass, and then limps around the rest of the movie. It might not have been realistic, but at least it conveyed how hard and tiring it is to fight. That is totally absent from modern action movies.
No one ever said a VPS with a shell script is terrible. You think of scale the wrong way. Scaling is not only about increasing from 10 requests / second to 1000 requests / second. Scaling is about organizational scale too, i.e. how do you ensure going from 2 to 20 developers increases productivity by at least 20x and not 1.5x?

Tools like Docker, Kubernetes and whatever absolutely help in that regard.
And the account/2FA reset procedure is always the weak point - most of my accounts with 2FA enabled let me reset it with access to email or SMS.

(Which is good for some of them, as they're notoriously flaky).
It's sad that the extent of your dialog is just name calling. Perhaps you should look in the mirror when you do it, just to make sure you aren't projecting.

It's pretty obvious you are trying to sound intelligent by claiming to be an "actual libertarian," (is there a certification for that by chance? Social or economic?) and using a cliché, but the content of your dialog is pretty thin.

Here's the summary: you asked a question, I answered, you went into a mindless rant and starting name calling. I'll bet you even started to type "LINO" then thought better of it. I don't even know what your position is, your dialog was so thin. Maybe take a deep breath and take time to collect your thoughts. Who's the one suffering fools again?

I'll give you the last word, make it count.
Physics (as far as we know) is calculable and can be simulated with a Turing machine. Humans reside within the domain of physics.

Basically, either humans operate like Turing machines, or we're magic.
California to send out inflation “relief” checks
How do you use OpenBSD?
As an OpenBSD desktop user I'm simply interested in how and where other people are using it. Especially I would like to hear if there are any scientists (biology, archaeology etc.) using it? Or journalists.
People seem to have this idea that a single page app is something else, in particular an app with little to no server generated pages

what are you trying to say?

not generating pages on the server is the primary benefit for SPAs in my eyes. that's why i prefer to build SPAs even for trivial sites. because it drastically simplifies the backend. i don't have any site specific logic in my backend anymore. it's just a data storage. CRUD. i can reuse my backend for almost any site without modification.

sure, you can build SPAs while still generating html on the server, but for me that completely misses the point. the only html that is coming from my servers is user submitted static content.
I would argue that it is profitable, as it is far less expensive than the current shitshow. In particular for smaller companies. I have seen team of "unicorns" and you can do the equivalent of 100 devs organisation with a couple team. WhatsApp or Discord come to mind.

Also that tooling could be opensourced and shared you know :D It does not have to be a price paid by everyone building their owns.

But it would indeed have to handle the real problem. Not like the current tooling that our ops people force down everyone throat :cough: K8s :cough:
Probably thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)

If acceleration were an instantaneous off-on step, that would be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function
So does spellcheck contain a gigantic array of the English language?
CRISPR Gene Editing Teach-Out
I doubt your claim about stablecoins like Tether will age very well.
Since it seems the suspicion is it being a Chinese booster, two craters makes me wonder if the booster blew up during it’s active mission but remained tethered together. Not like explosions are known to routinely follow expectations.
A Civ VI fan, I see.
> If you install Ubuntu or any other user friendly distro you might not ever use any of them.

Maybe if you install Ubuntu and then never use any program other than your browser to check email and whatever the built-in office suite is, and also never change any settings.

But then again that type of user will never Google for "advanced Linux commands" in the first place. They're just going to ask the person who installed Ubuntu for them.
Correlation is not causation. Ice cream sales don’t cause drowning.
It's not straightforward to do polymorphic joins: one common pattern is to have child tables for each case of the union, but there's no integrity constraint such that each parent must only have one child, e.g.

CREATE TABLE schools (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY);
CREATE TABLE colleges (id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES schools (id));
CREATE TABLE high_schools (id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES schools (id));

How can you ensure that a school is either a college or high_school but not both?

Another alternative is to make one big table with check constraints but that's also hairy in its own right:

CREATE TYPE school_type AS ENUM ('college', 'high_school');
CREATE TABLE schools (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
type school_type,
/* college columns */,
/* high school columns */,
CHECK (type = 'college' AND /* college column constraints */),
CHECK (type = 'high_school' AND /* high school column constraints */)
);

The other thing in the grandparent's comment that's a constant pain in SQL is representing an ordered list: how do you insert items into the middle of the list? Depending on your database, it can also be painful to renumber the other items.
I mean yes. . . premature abstraction driven by premature optimization. Or more simply, solving a problem you don't have now, and might not ever have.

Everyone talks FAANG scale on day 1. It's common and absurd.
> Ok, so you're just trolling, got it.

Not really, I really mean it.

> Like, look at the audiobook section... it's basically Harry Potter and a lot of "self help" psuedo-cultists.

I agree, piracy hasn't done well when it comes to audiobooks.
I put as little as humanly possible on my CV to reduce the chance of getting asked about stuff I have pretty much completely forgotten about.

I hate preparing for interviews and don't want to brush on my past. For example, I spent a year writing an LLVM backend for a DSP but I'm pretty sure I couldn't write more than a fizzbuzz in C++ now. Nor do I remember much about LLVM. I don't want to come across an LLVM enthusiast and have him start grilling me on details I have long forgotten.

I try to write just enough to get an interview, anymore information makes you more likely to fail your interview in my book. Plus writing less makes you mysterious ;p.
I actually like the Foundation. Plot is slow and it is a huge pain point, but I enjoyed subtleties quite a lot. Especially the emperor's move against the religious order.
Dan Ingalls, ECOOP 2022, AITO Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize Keynote
As is most computer science lol
It's not news but opinion. Quoting the article:

'Describing an Alabama law making it a felony to provide gender-affirming care for those under 18, she slumped in her office chair and stared toward the camera. “They literally want these kids to f-----g kill themselves,” she said. “I don’t know what the future looks like.”'

The Alabama legislators do not want children with gender dysphoria to kill themselves.
> HN audience

The audience that by definition would go "What is that? Mh! Nice to know!".
Yes, genetic is implicated in the development of obesity.
As so as eating habits and level of physical activity
> You’re never going to check, are you?

I'm definitely going to ask probing questions about the tech. And the more familiar I am with it (and the more relevant it is to the job), the more detailed and discerning I will be.

It works too. The outcome is usually either, the interviewee is rattled and straight up admits that they don't know as much as their resume claims; or, we get to have a pretty in depth conversation about what the interviewee has actually done

The former is fine with me. I think most developers understand it's better to come clean early. When interviewing with me, that's the right call, because if I think you don't know you're stuff, you'll fail, but if you admit that you aren't so familiar with $technology, then I'll shift my questions to something else.

The latter is ideal though, since it segues well into the actual job requirements, and the interviewee gets real insight into what they are walking into.

The person who wrote this article is a-typical. I've interviewed people with github accounts, but most of the time they are full of college course work or cloned open source repos, so they aren't really worth investigating too deeply. But someone with an active open source project on github and a popular blog seems like an easy interview, but I've never had the opportunity to speak with anyone like that.
People generally call out NIMBY-ism as though it's just some sort of irrational bias that people have, but I don't think that always explains it. Sure, in a lot of cases, people are overprotective of their neighborhoods or communities. But where did that attitude come from? I'd argue it came from decades of corporate greed and government dysfunction that bred a general distrust of large institutions. It's not like people have no reason to feel like big business doesn't have their best interests in mind.

Another commenter gave the construction of highways as an example, saying that people used to look at large infrastructure projects like that with a positive attitude. Well, I'd say look where that got them. The way highways were built in this country completely wrecked communities (especially poor ones located in less desirable parts of town) and eventually led to the uniquely American aesthetic of the urban and suburban wasteland.

If large organizations in this country want to undertake large projects, they have to first work to regain the trust of the average person by acting like they actually give a damn and really want to the world to be a better place for their efforts.
A tiny, self-contained, configurable pastebin and URL shortener written in Rust
The researchers controlled for "number of routine well visits during the look-back period, and total number of health care encounters during the look-back period (as a proxy for overall healthcare utilization rate)" [1].

[1] https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
Thanks. I figured Sunny Cove was a post-Ice-Lake iteration, but for some reason wasn't being listed by itself in the .h.
I don't disagree. Solar is the cheaper option. But nuclear is still a viable option and can/should be deployed too. My point is "green" crowd has less than no credibility in people's minds when it comes to nuclear.

You people blew your load 30yr ago and other than baiting some people into debating with you online the general public doesn't really trust anything your crowd has to say on nuclear because you've shown your true colors.
It's the legal theory of "agree to these things or we're going to publicly try to nail your assets to the wall" - even if they actually can't do it, do you want to pay the costs of fighting it, or give the FTC their little PR moment.
Open Science: A Letter to a Friend
the details of that specific model they ended up with? Irreproducible, unless the system was carefully designed and every detail required to do a fully reproducible computation was recorded and replayed. But they could easily produce a bunch of models that all sort of end up in roughly the same place and perform the same, ideally reducing the number of things they needed to change ad-hoc during the training.
Plenty of teachers are willing to work in an environment where they feel they could make the biggest impact. My mother spent her whole career working in schools that could be classified as inner city with high percentages of new immigrants. Not everyone wants the easiest job possible in their field, some people see rewards in being able to make a bigger difference in people's lives.
You're right but in reality DevOps teams in 2022 are managing Kubernetes clusters and gatekeepers to all kinds of cloud services to facilitate development.
That’s higher than I expected.

Sounds like it’s not that far from a point where it’d be cheaper to just print a book on demand, mail it, and tell
‘em to just keep it or pass it on.
Why is low fertility rate seen as a bad thing?

It's mostly seen as a bad thing in the lens of ethnic nationalist ideology that low fertility rates will change the demographics of a country (see Great Replacement [0]).

After all, if Musk (and other capitalists) needed, they can get labor from other countries south of America's borders, but there is a push to not make these workers Americans! This isn't an issue only in America either.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement