skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Japan is a case study, as they are a little bit further down the "Fall of Rome" timeline, while also facing the population plateau.

They have combated it with a strong national identity, and cultural retention, but time will tell in the next decade how it ends up.

20 years down the line, the Western world, then Africa.

China and Islamic countries aren't having this issue, as their (opposite) approach seems to be working in the short term.
I thought companies were loaded to the hilt with debt?
France has also developed the OpenFisca framework [1] for tax and benefit rules as code, and its OpenFisca France [2] model is widely used (I think significantly more than mlang). We've extended it to the UK [3] and the US [4].

[1] https://openfisca.org

[2] https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france

[3] https://github.com/policyengine/openfisca-uk

[4] https://github.com/policyengine/openfisca-us
Is there a way to do a simulated annealing approach that lets me put as much compute as I want into it for some marginal gains?
> I assume you mean "out of countries that are actually in a position to do something about it"...The evidence is pretty hard to ignore though - nobody who can really do anything about it is going to give a shit until it's all too late.

Yes, one of our founders is an anthropologist and she has been doing field work in underrepresented communities. Rich countries (think they) can afford to pretend there's no such thing as climate change but nobody outside these wealthy enclaves has any doubt.

The reason we spend effort on this is that the atmosphere touches everyone, so we should try to figure out the interests and concerns of as many people as possible to make sure we do our best to do things that help everyone.

It's interesting that the biggest opponents of climate repair seem to come from Germany, USA, UK, and Canada.

> OTOH I'm not that convinced northern Europe gives a shit about it, given how much oil/gas Norway is drilling and how reluctant Germany has been to reduce its fossil fuel dependence (and now geo-politics has forced its hand on oil, it's ramping up coal usage again!).

Yes, it's frustrating that in the face of a war the convo switches immediately back to "drill" rather than "windmill". A big part of that is that corporations speak in terms of benefits, and tailor their messages to specific customer groups (this topic is probably 15% of HN posts and comments) while the conversations of governments and NGOs focus on features and risks.

But I do think it's a top of mind issue in europe, and the continued expansion of the scope of the ETS is a good example. See a long reply I wrote to "tito" to see why there's a complex combination of repairs and continued damage that is unavoidable (point 1 in my comment)

But one way or another it's the OECD who'll have to pay for the cleanup.
I like having hair but recently noticed mine is thinning now, it kind of sucks but we made it into our 40s so I think we got pretty lucky because at our age nobody is ever going to really care if we have hair or not. It doesn't even really disadvantage us, especially compared to the changes other people have to endure like obesity, amputation, heart attacks, strokes etc.
> The Universe will be a better place when we're all gone.

No, it won't.
Exposing SARS-CoV-2 to low doses of nirmatrelvir (active ingredient in Paxlovid) generates resistant strains.

The preprints: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.06.494921v1.... and https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.07.495116v1....

But did we really need to do these experiments? It seems very foolish to intentionally generate these resistance mutations.
0. Congrats on shipping.

1. This is really cool. Also scary. I think I might be the target market for this, I've long known that communication is my greatest professional weakness at this point, and within that, brevity is something I gotta learn.

2. I did one of the games (CVS, pharmacy, chemistry) and it was terrifying! By which I mean "I think I might be exactly the sort of person who needs to be FORCED to do this, and I did so, and it was DIFFICULT AND UNCOMFORTABLE", which means your thing works. :D

3. I had to copy the original text to a side buffer so I could refer to it while I was writing. It would have been better if I could see it, and the required words, on one part of the screen (left? top?) while I entered my new text somewhere else.

4. The timer didn't seem to work for me (firefox, linux), but that's fine, there's no way I could have gotten it done in time, and seeing the numbers decrease would have made it even harder. ^_^;;

5. I understand that "grading" in any sense is hard (you need a human), so I appreciate offering the example "correct" response, but you know what would have been even better? several "valid" rewrites, and perhaps a few that aren't! What I mean to say is, as an admittedly poor writer, seeing both an example of what to do and what not to do could be of use.

6. I wish there were a way to spend 1/20th as much for 1/50th of the paid product first, before committing to buy the whole thing. There's a large psychological difference between $5 and $100 and I'd pay $5 right now to test out the paid version 10 times, even though I'll probably pay $100 for it, later. I might not though! I might forget! But that made my brain hurt so hard I'd drop $5 without a thought.

7. A difficulty level for each game would be FANTASTIC! Can you do that? Perhaps just 3 levels. That way people like me who are looking to take their writing ability from "completely horrible" to "acceptable" can have an easier time.
Seems to be worldwide.
Ryugu was born an asteroid, became a comet, and died an asteroid
Docker is a way of taking fragile, non-deterministic things like package installations, and make them less fragile, in very practically-useful ways.

Compared to the old way of doing these things (which would likely be a shell script that would run those exact same apt-get/pip/yum/npm install commands), Dockerfiles give you:

- a much more predictable starting state, which lets you remove a bunch of complexity from your installation script. The old style of installation script might need to detect which OS it's running on, which version of Python is installed, whether you're using GCC or clang, whether libgomp or lzma or whatever is installed, whether or not the script is running as root, whether or not there are existing sites configured in the local nginx install. With a Dockerfile built on a slow-moving image, you can know exactly where everything is, what version is installed, and whether there are any other conflicting applications.
- limiting side effects (As a user, you can be fairly sure that a `docker build` isn't going to clobber your nginx configs.)

Containers have a whole pile of downsides, but making builds _more_ fragile is not really one of them.
This is an intelligent and informed response.
If I was worried about security then I think I'd probably move to using the web client (or a web wrapper) instead of switching to a third party native application.
That's a common refrain I hear that Electron apps aren't secure. It was more true in the past and less-so now. I've been maintaining a secure Electron template for 2 years that's got traction in the community, if you are interested - https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template.
I had a lot of interaction and using the product, as it was a Show HN. There were some weird bots, too.
And for all the complexity of the tax code, it often pales in comparison to the version of the tax code we subject low-income families to: rules for means-tested benefits.
Yep agree. Always be aware of simple solutions to complex problems. Economics as you say is a great example of this. There are more than 9 major schools of economics. All of them disagreeing with each other and with people promoting each one with the dogmatic frenzy of religious fanatics.
I don't think so. They're already doing some things that Apple is not very happy with. Like high tariffs on imported electronics meaning Apple had to build a factory in Brazil to be able to sell them at normal prices.
That is true. IDE plugins are a nightmare to write and VSCode is by far the worst to write. Still, JetBrains is remarkably extensible and mature, I was able to integrate things very deeply in the editor. The downside is writing in Swing which is pretty long in the tooth by now.
> use of any obscure words

It even doesn't need to be an obscure one, it just can be "not PC enough".

Can you guess what word got my post shadowbanned from r/powershell?
I think some programmers were paid that way back in the 80's, with companies such as Broderbund and Penguin Software acting as publishers (although not all programs sold by these companies were royalty-based as some were built in-house).

In some ways, today's app stores act as publishers, where indy programmers can get paid roughly 70-80% royalty (or where the programmers pay a 20-30% publishing fee). Difference is back then, there were many publishers, but today there is only one publisher for iPhone, and effectively only one publisher for Android.

In today's royalty model, the indy developer takes all the risk. I think back in the 80's, one could sometimes get an advance from the publisher (like with authoring books).
Better than the algae system described is capturing the carbon in plants that are later used in such ways as to keep the carbon sequestered.

Trees whose wood is used as a building material, animal feed where the manure is then used as fertilizer, are 2 very accessible examples.

No need to make this more complicated than it has to be.
One awesome UI feature of slack is that if you paste a url onto selected test it will automatically create a hyperlink. GitHub markdown does this too. Once you use, it is frustrating when clients don’t implement it. Looking at you, Jira.
Isn't this like the 3rd time? and the general public is still salivating over tiktok lol
Well, unless you're implementing malloc using e.g. sbrk().
Not so much I think as some devices with USB-C have higher waterproofing ratings than iPhones.
No one is sure, including the author of the article.
The phone company is the sole-source provider and you couldn't opt for another platform. The more relevant analogy is soda fountains in a restaurant - the provider chose Coke, but I want Pepsi. (My OSS founder wanted Slack, I want discord.)
If they're not solving the crimes, how do you know they're "predominantly killed by other blacks"?

Also, why is there resistance to supporting police in those communities?
If you want more adoption of the language, probably best to leave a copy on the website for free. I think I saw some statistics that it doesn’t really reduce sale of the hard copies that much.
Phone companies are different in that they were monopolies with special legal status. Slack, on the other hand, is just one of many private companies offering roughly equivalent services.

You can still argue your case, of course, but phone companies are a bad analogy here.
It may be true that there was a pull factor, but your comment appears to be trying to let the NYT staff off the hook for what would be considered abusive behavior in any other circumstance.

Reference, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

Quote:

> My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.

This is one person's statement, but it's consistent with the way many people have written about the NYT's internal culture and internal cultural shift over the last 5-10 years.
Thanks for good resources about Assembly, I’m learning source code of AsmBB [1] - a forum written in assembly x86 :D

[1] https://board.asm32.info/
Could someone please share some articles on what data TikTok actually collects? In the last year or two, I've seen a lot of concerned commenters, a fair number of news articles have popped up on the topic stating the bad state of affairs, but nothing explaining what exactly this is all about.

And I don't know, this crap is so sad, this all is such a misdirected effort. The operating systems must provide the users means to regulate the access to data and device functions instead of laws and committees deciding what apps are not hostile enough to be distributed. What laws and committees must enforce is properly equipped operating systems. Legally enforce full control of the devices, sand-fucking-box everything. Not on this planet, huh?
I'd love to have multiple windows. At some point in the last few months Slack broke the command-up/command-down shortcuts that would take you to the next conversation with an unread message -- if you restart it'll work for a short while and then break again. Having multiple windows would resolve this and other annoyances.
It has been unable to log in for the last year: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/issues/844
there are plenty of replacements for tiktok. The government should blanket ban it if apple and google won't do it.
I still use Ripcord at work every day, and it's fantastic.
Exactly what I was thinking. If the optical illusion looks the same from multiple different viewing angles, is it not then exactly what you see and not an illusion? Versus other illusions, once the perspective changes, the illusion is revealed. This shit is getting way meta.
Technosignature
An air burst don't produce much fallout. And the really dangerous fallout from a ground burst don't reach that far, and it lasts only a few hours.

Russia may suffer some fallout, maybe enough to slightly increase cancer rates in some areas, but I guess that after using nuclear weapons, Russia will have more pressing problems than a couple of people getting sick.
https://gathering.tweakers.net (mainly tech but also general discussion) is still huge in the Netherlands. And https://boards.ie (general) is in Ireland. In Spain I know https://forocoches.com (cars) is big. https://xda-developers.com is the absolute authority on Android ROMs. They're not all gone.

The time that everyone started a forum is gone. Many smaller ones have shut down. But some are still thriving.
It's because trumpet players are assholes.
I would also expect the authors are going to have a hard time keeping up with Slack. One of Slack's goals in picking their architecture was to allow for experimentation, iteration, and expansion. Reverse-engineering an API inevitably means being behind. And given the number of engineers Slack has, it could well mean being further and further behind over time.
> pretty much untouchable by anything adjacent to any sort of business which employs lawyers

Darn
Nim gives you like 85% of the performance of Rust without having to worry about a borrow checker. It also solves concurrency problems via its use of Channels, like Go.

So it's just hard to justify using Rust, for me. Unless you're writing a DB or something where a GC is a no go. But Nim's memory management seems pretty good, and many things are stack allocated.
If they can’t see when the sleight of hand occurs or when a swap happens then they might have an idea of how to perform the trick but not exactly sure when the person performed it. That’s them being fooled.

I’ve watched many of the acts on YouTube and you can slow them down to see when it occured.

There’s one with a ring where he appears to move the ring from finger to finger. Then at the very end he appears to pull the ring off his finger. When you slow it down you can see his finger bend down at a very unnatural position that is borderline dislocated. But he then hands the ring over. Now we know he’s using a retractable ring. But he swapped it prior to the end of the act so it appears that he used a solid ring the whole time. P&T don’t know when he swapped it. Slowing it down you can see when he pockets it tho.
ah thank you :)
Oh, so let me try to follow your lead and lets imagine that it's not going to bend anytime soon... How about we start thinking in terms of big scale disaster preparation in stead of inventing pseudo solutions? In the past underground dwellings have been popular, I imagine these will be more resilient to heat... as for flooding, not so much... so how about we do some calculations on how to become less vulnerable to flooding, etc? Just saying...

IMHO, it's very easy to jump the tech fetish bandwaggon but all the ingenious inventions likely may turn out to matter less than little when nature applies force...
Companies issue corporate bonds, which are basically loans broken up and sold on the open market. So with a near 0% interest rate, many companies took advantage by issuing billions of dollars of bonds at low rates, so much so that even at rates of like 2-3% the companies are struggling to pay the interest on these bonds.

Maybe someone can enlighten with hard numbers, but last I looked dead-man-walking companies like Macy's and TJMaxx have billions and billions of bonds outstanding while their annual revenue is a fraction that.

Now as rates rise they can't go to the well again and all these bonds will end in default. Who gets hurt? Pension plans, mutual funds, all the "safe" funds... so buyer beware with corporate bonds right now.
If I got banned, I don't know what I'd do first -- open a bottle of champagne or dance a little jig?
That would be perfect for a driver of a Land Rover Defender.
> effective monopoly over distribution

Around 50-60% of US e-commerce isn’t a very effective monopoly.

What would more competition do? Drive down already thin margins?
Isn’t this most tech companies until a certain point that are unicorns now?
Canadian admits to hacking spree with Russian cyber-gang
Amazon is not even the biggest US retailer (though it’s forecast to pass Walmart within a few years).

Online commerce is only 19-ish percent of total retail sales.

Amazon is a formidable competitor, but it’s hard for me to conclude they have an effective monopoly on distribution in their retail business.
The commissioner points out how they are breaking privacy law around the world and damaging US security. This is not the same as facebook or twitter. Please don't equate them. Also CCP doesn't have free access to user data on either of those.
Yet the short interest etf was approved last week https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-21/wall-stre...

I feel like I’m missing something.
10% doesn't sound much worse than my Alexas' 30%...
I haven’t heard much about JAI for a few years, is this idea catching on?

I don’t know why not both, is it maybe because one of the two layouts will almost always have worse performance for any given access pattern? I can see uses for having both for the non-critical-path parts, though maybe once you’re indexing it in the awkward but perf-friendly way, you’ve already done the hard work and there’s little point to proving the other style of indexing? (Isn’t the best perf always found using whatever layout & indexing is the most difficult… there must be some eponymous law for this, right?) I guess it is possible to have multiple critical paths each favoring a different layout. Not sure how often I’ve ever seen that in practice, I would guess it’s probably rather rare.
Very important line from the FAQ:

Q: Is this still developed?

Yes, it is used and developed. Just not very actively. Most importantly Shrugs does not yet support “XOXC” tokens, which are often required by company Slack installations. We are interested in adding this feature, but there is no timeline yet.
Oh man, that's literally the only thing holding me back from thunderbird. I used it years ago and would love to go back!
See the commissioners twitter answer and you will see. It's right there in the article.
Isn't one of the big problems with Tesla vehicles that they use COTS hardware?

I'm sure I saw something about how they used commercial-grade touch screen instead of automotive grade, so they feel far nicer / more responsive than other cars but fail much faster as they aren't designed to handle repeated heating/cooling cycles that cars experience.
Sort of tangentially, I'm working with other contributors on https://ustaxes.org, an open source tax filing webapp https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes.

Currently, many Federal tax forms are supported, as well as tax filing for the state of Illinois. Filing for Oregon and California is under development!
Then contact the authors and pay for licensing, easy peasy!
> Do you end up sending messages in the wrong chat often?

Yup. It’s probably my most frequent mistake (and can be embarrassing). I make the same mistake with messages.

What I have done to mitigate the issue, is give each workspace a different color theme. At least, it helps me to avoid crosstalk between organizations.

I’m not a “native slacker,” so I’m probably not a particularly good candidate for a focus group.
The transitions never get press or notice, unless they are bad. Then you get comments about how it looked "unprofessional". Apple keynotes are a great example -- they will never have a slide without a transition of some sort (the instant replace that you mention).

I get paid to make presentations, I've worked with other paid speakers, and I've seen 1000s of presentations. All the people who get paid to make presentations use transitions (and almost all of them use Keynote too), and there is a reason. Because it just looks "unprofessional" when you don't.

This book really upped my presentation game, and using transitions is in it with more explanation, if you're really interested:

https://nealford.com/books/presentationpatterns.html
Claims that Amazon has a monopoly on anything need at a bare minimum to engage carefully with antitrust literature on market definition.

If you are going to say they monopolize X, then X needs to be a plausibly defined market.

Example: they have a 40% share of online retail and you want to assert that that constitutes a monopoly. Is “online retail” a relevant market as consumers see it? (Probably not, bc they retain the ability to go to stores in person!) Is it a relevant market in the sense that Amazon has the ability to exert upward pressure on prices in that market? (Surely not. The search costs in online goods markets are zero.)

You are going to have a very hard time arguing that they monopolize that market (or any other) if you can’t at least define it, show that your definition is credible, and show that they exert some market power in that market.

When you fail to engage with the issue of market definition seriously, you run into the problem the government did recently when they made a monopolization claim against Facebook. The judge specifically called them out for failing to define the market they were going to accuse Facebook of monopolizing. That was in this field an embarrassingly basic error to make. (They did file an amended complaint but I still expect they will lose this case.)

Needless to say this author is totally ignorant of this literature.

Source: economics professor who teaches antitrust to undergrads and grads.
> In this case, extreme levels of COVID-related fiscal and monetary stimulus pumped money into households and investment markets, contributing to inflation and driving speculation in financial assets

This is common wisdom but I wonder how true it is. A majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [1] so it stands to reason the stimulus paid about a month's rent and groceries. I'm having trouble understanding how this stimulus is responsible for today's inflation.

[1] What percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck?

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+percent+of+american+liv...