skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but also because the final outcome is the same regardless of the reasons behind it.

I disagree the outcome is the same, for the reason suggested by your second point.

> Unlike 1950s America it is very difficult to achieve middle class status without a university education (and even then it is not a given), these factors serve as strong incentives too reducing the number of children in these countries.

European countries have found it difficult to increase their birth rates, despite robust incentives and social services, because in their post-religion society people don’t view child rearing as a moral obligation.

Bangladesh, by contrast, hasn’t experienced the same religious and cultural changes. Thus, the population could respond differently in the event the economic and resource pressures are removed. That’s why the reason for the decline in birth rate matters.

Over the remainder of the century, Bangladesh and India are going to suffer a severe demographic inversion even as it becomes a middle income country. Thats’s a recipe for a reversal in family planning targets, as evidenced by China’s three child policy. Bangladeshis are going to need much less persuasion to have more kids than Germans.

Moreover, there is going to be strong migration out of this part of the world to Europe due to population decline in the former and climate change pressures in the latter. The fertility rate of Muslim immigrants to Europe remains robustly above that of native Europeans. Indeed, several projections show the world becoming more religious over the next century: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/is...
Fair point. For car charging the algorithm can be relatively simple (if suboptimal due to imperfect assumptions like "fully liquid"), but for stationary batteries + solar it gets much more complex.

I still suspect more sophisticated players will find easy ways to "game" such an algorithm (eg pre-bidding). Whenever you have a large herd of predictable sheep, it's an opportunity for a wolf.
I remember reading recently about a new professor starting a nonprofit college/university to cut out as much admin bloat as possible, is that one of the ones you're talking about?

I ask because I can't remember what the name of the school was and I haven't been able to locate information even though I tried. Does anyone here remember what I'm talking about? I actually thought j read about it here on HN.

Yes, I tried the search function :)
> its degree program is pretty overtly not a traditional academic degree program (not even in theology), but a religio-political indoctrination program designed to create warriors for a particular political viewpoint on behalf of a theocratic faction within Catholicism

Do these bits:

The college aims at a revived citizen class of educated workers who can hold the powerful forces of our society to account"

and

The American separation of religion from public life [...] is an error[...]. This error must be overcome

form the basis of your conclusion?
It's not necessarily because masks don't work, medical professionals use them to great success.

Mask usage at the community level does not follow the same strict policies related to mask usage that medical professionals do, like discarding them between operations.

Wearing the same mask over and over every day and removing it when you sit down to eat is a very ineffective policy.

And it's kind of an abuse of power for the government to mandate something with such weak science.
Being thinking about the question of time and death for some time :p
If ever consciousness still exist after death (that is termination of physical body functions), then it would be out of our material dimension, thus out of time.
So there is no "life after death", because there can be no "after" when out of this dimension.
It could be like consciousness being "disconnected" from the time conveyor belt.
Need another beer...
I once read a bunch of accounts of near-death experiences. Descriptions run the gamut, but the one that stuck with me described it as “turning off a light switch.”

Shout out to Peter F. Hamilton’s Reality Dysfunction trilogy, in which an interstellar humanity is threatened by the discovery that souls persist after death. Recommended for my fellow sci-fi aficionados.
Who cares, why would Tesla be beholden for the actions of its largest shareholder? Musk is acting in a capacity completely outside of Tesla. To think that Tesla is somehow connected is disinformation.
Brazil (I am assuming). Here, mainstream media (use Google translate to read it):

https://g1.globo.com/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2010/07/imagens-...

The police officer quote mentions a series of similar attacks. There used to be a video of the act, but probably link rotted.
> meanwhile, if my own government has access to this same data, i suffer direct consequences. my odds of getting arrested for nonviolent crime (e.g. political activism; buying drugs online) go way up when my govt surveils me

It seems like an error to assume these two forms of surveillance are mutually exclusive.

At any of

> the Starbucks you’re using for free wifi

> the ISP your endpoint is using for internet access

> the data centers in which Tiktok is serving you data

> the device on which you didn’t write the OS or any background programs written on it

Presumably anyone with the power and inclination to listen or influence the design of the above can intercept any non-encrypted or not-yet-encrypted data you’re exchanging (and if they’re a state actor, probably get access to whatever information they’d need to perform decryption) - including your government.
I am not linked in the sense of my having provided only minimal information. I do follow people, of course; however, the fun part of TikTok is the random awesome people that pop up.

You can be a nobody in the middle of nowhere with no followers and if you have a cool concept it will spread out.
Putting the cult in culture since 6000bce
> If a religion fails to retain its adherents' children, but it recruits adults at a greater rate, it will still grow despite failing to transfer beliefs to offspring.

The problem with conversion, is there is only a limited pool of converts. It is easy for small groups to grow rapidly by conversion, but soon they start to run out of potential targets for recruitment. In the long run, the "breed-your-own" strategy, if it can be sustained, will vastly outperform conversion. One does occasionally observe a new religion take over a society by conversion (much as Christianity did to the Roman Empire, or Islam to 7th century Arabia), but those are rare historical exceptions, which the vast majority of religious groups have no hope of ever achieving.

> Which groups, exactly? The fastest-growing major religion appears to be Islam, which is likely a consequence of its presence in many economically depressed countries with high birth rates, low security, and low education.

The right level of looking at this isn't religions, but rather much lower in the taxonomic hierarchy. Consider Catholics – despite Catholicism's immense size (over 1 billion adherents), Catholics have (on the whole) a rather low and declining birth rate, and do a pretty poor job of retaining their children – in many countries today, the biggest religion is "ex-Catholic". But, on the other hand, if you look at the conservative fringes of Catholicism, you find groups such as Opus Dei and SSPX, both of whom I believe do a far better job at retaining their (often large) broods in the parental faith than mainstream Catholicism does. Similarly, if you look at Judaism, non-Orthodox Judaism has low birth rates and high rates of assimilation and intermarriage, while Modern Orthodoxy does much better in those areas, and Traditional Orthodoxy does very well. I know less about Islam, but I'd be surprised if Salafists and Khomeinists didn't do a better job of retaining their children than more mainstream Muslims do.
Checked my Samsung 970 Evo 2TB and it says 487 even though it’s been on continuously for years.
California has worse income inequality than 47 states, and Prop 13 is at the root of it. It ensures that only rich people can move to our cities.
Maybe it is "marginally better" where you come from. Uber and their ill have always been always parity priced or more expensive in the markets I have lived in. The killer value proposition is the car actually turns up in a timely manner and actually takes passengers to where they want to go. Taxis often simply were eother not available to call, rarely showed up even if called and would often refuse to go where passengers want. Uber and its competitors literally makes it possible to live in the cities i live in without owning a car because even if you regularly commute by public transport, for those occasions where you need a car, you know you will get one reliably. In the past that was not an option and you would have to own a car.

Hopefully a good reminder to not extrapolate personal experiences or propaganda of the circle one may be a part of to the whole world.
Probably because there was no web to surf...
PS5 uses BDXL discs which support 100GB each. Xbox allegedly does too. Games have also shipped on multiple discs for a long time.
The founding of Islam is quite an important date in Arabian archeology, because it was illegal to excavate pre-Islamic sites until the 1960s and even today there's less funding and support for these kinds of sites.
Eh, I wanna say money. You gotta pay someone to get that patch working. And then tested. And testing, based on my limited experience, invariably creates unexpected issues and costs money companies are not willing to part with.

I initially wanted to say it is a little cynical, but I am starting to think it is just fiscal prudence ( and customer can stuff itself really ).
circular buffer

The infamous Seagate firmware bug was due to the same thing.
Uber was better than taxi because it had an app and taxis did not. However, taxis in many cities now have some taxi-hailing app. Once the app became available, I began to prefer taxis over "ride sharing" services like Uber and Lyft.
If someone thinks inclusive language is a sign of hostility, then I think they have misunderstood the situation. I’m happy to have open source contributions from anyone, but I do share my pronouns in posts and on videos and I can tell you that the very small number of people who have gotten upset by that were angry unhelpful people who were more interested in complaining about language than contributing to the community.
Agreed.

If US or EU companies can’t operate similarly in China, I see no reason to allow it the other way.
In my mind the 286 surpassed high end machines in DEC's PDP-11 line and the 386 surpassed DEC's VAX (a 32-bit minicomputers)

The 286 was "brain damaged" for implementing operating systems according to Bill Gates for two reasons: (1) you could not get back to real mode without doing a terrible hack resetting the whole machine, (2) you could not write to segment registers at all from user mode so writing programs that use more than a 64k data segment and 64 k code segment means doing an OS call.

The 386 on the other hand took forever to get to the point where a 32-bit OS was mainstream, from 1985 release of the 386 to 1995. Some of us (me) were using Linux before then, but that was it.

My conclusion about the 286 being pivotal came from my own experience (switched in 1987) and also looking at old issues of Byte magazine circa 1987 and seeing that all the advertisers were in a state of turmoil. For instance some firms like Cromeco who sold S-100 bus and CP/M machines to OEM's to put, say, a cash register system in a supermarket were giving up the ghost because PC's were crushing them. Similarly there were ads for PC clone makers all over the place but anything associated with the 8-bits was vanished. The original IBM PC was much more expensive than 8-bit machines but not much better in terms of power, PC AT clones were still more expensive but they were so much more powerful that it was worth it.
Yes, some more than others, many degrees are just elaborate hazing rituals.
The US judiciary is far too friendly to personal injury lawsuits.

The prevailing atmosphere is it's never the injured person who is at fault, it's always somebody nearby who has money.
We also did not have data on the types of masks being worn or on masking adherence rates in the two school districts

It is known that this is an aerosolized pandemic. Airborne. Cloth and surgical masks do not work.

Source – there are many to choose from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067362...

The posted study on mandates has effectively no meaning. Closed FFP2/N95-style masks work. This is fact. A mandate does not make such
masks magically appear on people’s faces. Therefore it is obvious that there is no effective correlation between the word “mandate” and what SARS-CoV-2 does.
> can't do really anything in US

Can you elaborate?
I guess 46th in the nation wasn't good enough. What problem is this actually trying to address?
no, eth is not changing the proof of work algorithm, it is moving to proof of stake.
> What's wrong with aspiring to have zero accidents in a work place?

The same thing that's wrong with aspiring to have "zero bugs" in a codebase. You can have zero open issues (redefining "bug"), or zero known bugs at release (JPL-level quality metrics, at a huge cost), but any reasonable software developer knows that bugs must be accepted as part of the process of coding. Similarly, humans must accept that "accidents" are part of living. Things are not and never will be perfect, no matter how many rules or systems or metrics you put in place.
Please remove the query parameter from the link. The map fails to load with it in the url.
A lot of concerns are focusing on (person) -> (tiktok) -> (CCP) data flow.
What about the reverse information flow?

A foreign political party tuning the algorithm to affect public opinions? I think this is even more impactful than data snooping. It's also a lot harder to detect and prevent.
Thank you for sharing this kind of grid. I've worked with that tiling before but didn't know the name of it. I like that it allows embedding a variety of shapes within the grid, but one drawback for use in a game is that the cells have more orientations and less symmetry than an equilateral tri-grid. So it may be most suitable for stylized art (see Hexels for a drawing tool that supports it).

I've prototyped the 3D equivalent, which is composed of tetrahedrons and 13 axes (I wonder if that 3D tiling has a name). The tetrahedrons aren't the same size, so it's a bit awkward to work with but might be suitable for 3D models/art.
Sure, sure, but I find difficult to believe that an industrial superpower such as Germany can't find a solution in a couple of months.

The the usual politicians' way of speaking. If there was the political will of having the nuclear power plants works, they would go and find the spare parts in a second. There's no political will (thank you Greens!) so they make up excuses.
Lack of support for Chinese or French is disappointing.
"shown to outperform existing methods on several benchmark datasets"
Like a lot of other papers, its SOTA!

Also checkout https://text-generator.io ... not SOTA.. as its not using hyper large language models, but does a excellent job for basically price/performance vs OpenAI which is very pricey. Also generates code without having to go on a waitlist for codex.
I think it's more than that. It's a factor of:

1. Having bad actors in the social group that will behave selfishly to the group's overall detriment.
2. Having ineffective mechanisms for punishing bad behavior.

I've been at a few different startup where we had a shortage of office space because of our growth. But instead of some reservation system and official corporate guidelines we all managed to share effectively.

I don't remember anyone hoarding the short space but even if they had I imagine that someone would have pulled them aside and pointed out their behavior.
This is a common misconception. The blame lies squarely on a grand failure of delivery of public health information.

Outside an industrialized hospital sanitization chain, it’s actually fine to reuse a mask – as long as it’s a mask that works against SARS-CoV-2 aerosol to begin with.

I can provide sources.
Lifestyles
It's a religion that was worshipped by a peoples who covered the area of modern day Poland. Cults are lead by a single, charismatic leader (sometimes a couple)... like Jesus, or Jim and Tammy Faye Baker or Jim Jones. There have been many Christian cults, but Christianity is not, itself a cult (any longer). Cults do not have large social influence, like this one obviously did. Calling this a cult is like calling the religion of the Maya or the pre-Christian Romans a cult.

As far as "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object"... You just described Christianity. The worship of Jesus... while that might not be what the point was supposed to have been, you might want to send a memo out. There are a lot of folks who are idolatrous to that cross.
There's a teacher shortage because of poor working conditions and poor pay, but rather than fix that they would rather broaden the worker pool.
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Would you prefer an employer who didn't give a shit about your well-being and treated you like a lump of labour to be wrung of all economic value and tossed aside when there's no more to get from you?

Like is it really so grating that someone tells you to do something good for yourself, even if their reason is because it's good for them?

Really?
8-11 year old me made the time because after the sticker shock of two video games, my parents learned about and got me a subscription to Compute! I also spent the summer gathering up bottles and doing odd tasks so that I could afford to get a disk drive because my siblings kept stealing my tapes to record songs off the radio.
How is it not social media? It’s literally media that is distributed in a social way.
I don't think you've described the problem adequately. A REST api implies a server... is this program supposed to implement the server locally, or connect to the cloud?

There are multiple cross platform environments, including Lazarus/Free Pascal if you want a GUI that can connect to the internet as a back end. (That's my decidedly minority favorite)

If you just need command line functionality, It's really hard to ignore Justine's work on actually portable executables.

Python is cross platform, but don't count on the scripts working without support/updates in 2 years.. they tend to change things and break compatibility.
> The reminders to be safe are to ensure that people don't grow complacent about things that are dangerous.

Which doesn’t work, since now everyone gets complacent about the training instead.
Every EV already has this API, it’s just exposed to the “charger” not the internet.

Because all EV need to negotiate with the charger their plugged into to determine if they can charge, and how fast. It pretty easy to build a charger compatible with any EV that simply caps the cars charging rate until electricity is cheap.

Here in Europe at least, there are already several companies that make these chargers, including ones that just MitM the cable between your car and your normal charger, and allow you get better rates though aggregation with other owners.
9. Does your Infrastructure as Code live alongside the service it hosts?

No, the IaC is configuration, and configuration should be separated from the application.

in organizations that implemented GitOps, the IaC files in git are not only a copy of the configuration, it is the source of truth from which the configuration is copied to the systems. Unless all the developers who can commit code should have permission to change production configuration, the IaC repo should be separated from the code repo.
> they would rather broaden the worker pool.

That was a strange way to say lower their educator standards.
Agree. If I could see the cursor moving it would be relaxing and clever. Without seeing the cursor it is maddening and frustrating.
Do we really need people with masters degrees teaching 8 year olds how to multiply? Maybe elementary teaching should be seen as more vocational than professional. There's no reason someone of average intelligence with a few months training couldn't effectively teach kids.
The solution is simple - ban algorithmic feeds (yes FB and Twitter too). It is the 21st century nicotine.
In general, people don't want to become teachers because they don't get paid enough for the amount of work they do and the amount of bullshit they have to endure. I wouldn't be surprised if this was an attempt to increase the pool of people willing to be teachers.
Agree. Remote work requires you to be more disciplined about separating work from non-work.
This is a preprint study, also worth noting that the collection data for how they determined if the masks were being worn, was self-reported by the parents and school administrators.
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the terms of service don't override the law

the consumer rights directive in the Uk/EU specifically states remedy (i.e.: refund) if vendors remove features from a purchased digital service
There was at least one consumer SSD with a similar failure mode, the Crucial M4 SATA drive, unless you updated the firmware it would crash after 5200 cumulative power on hours.

That drive launched in 2011 though so there probably aren't that many still in active use which still haven't reached ~7 months of uptime.
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I went to Vegas earlier this year. The taxis were far better and cheaper than the Uber. Uber's are also a lot more expensive now.

I think UberPool was going to be Uber's killer feature. It made taking Uber's more regularly affordable for different groups of people, but COVID sadly ruined it.
Imagine a timeline from left to right. On the left is where there's the least knowledge about the project, and on the right the most (when the project is done). Estimates are made at the far left, when the developers know the least.
So as you move along the timeline and more knowledge is discovered, you need to reset expectations frequently.
Thanks for the suggestions! I'm working on it. 'tis a bit trickier than I expected.

EDIT: Have added a visible cursor now (with the ability to toggle it on or off to preserve the initial feel)! You should see it if you refresh.

Wasn't too complicated in the end, and did some fun calibration target practice with "x"s to make sure it was positioned nicely.

Thanks for the feedback josephcsible and Apreche!