skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People live for many years, so there's a long lag between when total fertility rate drops below replacement and when total population actually declines.

For example, Japan's total fertility rate remained below replacement since 1974, but its total population has been consistently shrinking only since 2007:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Vital_st...
There's an open-source replacement app called gadgetbridge. (I'm not sure it works with the exact model you mention, but I did use it with a cheap Android watch from, iirc, Amazfit.)
I'd say it's the other way around - the videos are kinda supplemental to the book. The book has a lot more content, but doesn't have the interactive explanations in the course. Also the book is a couple of years old so is missing the more recent developments (but the principles haven't changed).
Me neither. I think there's a pretty big gulf between "no-frills 1BR in a major city" type rentals and "cutesy 3BR getaway near hiking trails" type rentals. The former are cheap to set up and have a lot of dodgy hosts, and the latter involve a lot more capital to set up.
They're refusing despite all my insistence.
Until Apple decides to lower their prices for the Air M2, I'll wait with my upgrade from M1. I own an Air M1 with 8GB and I was thinking to buy the newer version until I saw the pricing.

Heck, the difference between the M1 with 16GB RAM and 512 GB storage and a M1 14" MPB with the same amount of RAM and storage is around 60 euros (from a local reseller). I haven't bought the MBP PRO because I find it too heavy for my personal usage (I also have a company MBP 16" Intel that will be replaced next month with an M1 Max version).
The parent isn't speaking about paying someone else for their manual labor. They're speaking about administrative overhead required to operate a business.

Think the accountant that your clothes washer has to hire just to stay out of jail. (theoretically, of course)
I wonder if that political emotional polarization will burn itself out in the next five years or however long it takes for most people to inoculate themselves to a modified form of information. Back in the mid `90's when the internet was a new thing for most people there was real exhaustion from the information overload of hours spent 'surfing the information superhighway'. But now no one is really affected by that specifically. If we adapted to that then I am hopeful we will adapt to the new political ragebait making the rounds.
And this is why I closed my PayPal and Venmo accounts and will never do business with this awful company again. I had the same experience. Only lost $600 but lesson learned.
Meet the Covid Super-Dodgers
I played some sports growing up, but I also really strongly disliked a lot of sports that I didn't play (which I now don't mind watching at all), and I think if you like anything competitive, it's possible to at least get interested enough in some sports to use them as a conversation starter.

One thing that helps me get interested in sports I don't otherwise care about is to think of them like a board-game, thinking through the math of various possibilities and optimal strategies.

Another thing, if you live in a state that's amenable, is to bet small amounts on the outcomes of games. Betting $20 on a game makes it way more entertaining (for me anyway), and when I lose, it was worth the money just to enjoy the game more.

The last thing that helps is to think of it as a purely physical performance. Going to watch live sports can help with this - but for people who haven't spent much time in the sporting world, it's hard to understand how big, how fast, how strong, how coordinated, professional athletes are, and it's possible to just enjoy watching people running and jumping and throwing the same way you'd enjoy watching people dance or play music or esports or whatever, just people with exceptional skills doing exceptional things.

At this point in my life, I emphatically do not enjoy sports for their own sake, I pay attention to them for the social aspect and for the reasons mentioned above, but I couldn't care less about the outcomes of anything. It's a far cry from how I felt about them as a young person, but it's evidence, perhaps, that not being interested in them doesn't mean I can't still connect with people over them.
I've had the same experience of commenting with a correction and being completely ignored. I mostly gave up.
OK, I'll humour you for a minute since I'm waiting for CI... (I am from London and live in the US, and do not agree it is more multicultural, but OK, whatever).

Let's take a single state: Texas. Population in 2017 was 28.29 million. Per the CDC [1], there were 3513 gun deaths in Texas that year. I believe this includes suicides, so let's take a conservative rate here and assume that 40% were homicides and 60% were suicide (I believe that this is over-estimating suicide).

So, 1405 gun-related homicides in Texas that year. But, Texas only has around half the population of England and Wales. I'm sure you can do the rest of the math yourself.

But, maybe Texas isn't to your liking because it's so big by land area - so let's also look at Alabama, which is approximately the same size. 1124 gun related deaths there per [1] in 2017, and conservatively assuming 40% of those were homicides, that is approximately 450. However, the population of Alabama was less than _just Greater London_ - only 4.87 million people.

But, maybe Alabama isn't to your liking either because it's conservative. So let's look at New Jersey - only just larger than Wales by land area, and substantially smaller than England, but trending "liberal" by US standards.

In NJ, there were 478 firearm-related deaths in 2017. Again if we conservatively assume 40% homicide, that's around 191 - finally a state where the absolute number is less than knife-related deaths in England and Wales! But, one where the population was only 8.8 million...

None of these include knife crime in the US, either. While you can make all the excuses you like for this, the numbers don't look very good regardless of how you cut (or shoot) it.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/...
Someone needs to tell these govt fools that the cat is out of the bag on encryption, you can go on github and download libraries that would allow anyone to make an encrypted messenger.
>I wasn't optimizing for lower costs which most travelers are probably doing

I suspect that, as with many other marketplaces with suppliers of widely differing quality (e.g. Amazon), there are a lot of people who optimize for price and then are surprised when they get burned on deals that seem too good to be true.
To me, Lobsang and Sister Agnes (even as they appeared in The Long Cosmos) felt much more Discworld-y than did almost any part of Raising Steam.

I have fond memories of the ascendant of the Discworld series, Strata, which is IMO better than the book it’s riffing on (Ringworld). Likewise I enjoyed The Dark Side of the Sun, which riffs off a different theme from Known Space (though I don’t recall any of that theme ending as a theme in Discworld).

Good Omens was also another fantastic collaboration, between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
I find your description vague and don't understand what happened.

How was OVH able to pull €1200 from your PayPal account? Did you go to PayPal's website (for example via a popup triggered by the OVH website) and told PayPal to let them pull €1200?

Now that they got the money, how is Paypal still part of it? Do you expect Paypal to go to OVH, knock down their door and demand the money back?

I would think that if you want your money back, you need to involve the authorities. The government has a monopoly on violence. If you want somebody to go and knock down OVH's door, thats a job of the authorities. Obviously, OVH would probably already give you your money back if the authorities demand that. Nobody likes to get their door knocked down.
How dangerous though? As someone who has persistent back pain, Ibuprofen seems a lot safer than Codamol
Does anyone know if there's real human review in these cases, or are they just an automated response?
Try your credit card dispute, if you charged it.

I know we submitted evidence that a car we rented was a minorly damaged vehicle (it was marked on the sheet during the checkout) and then tried to bill us for the repair after taking the car back.
We submitted pictures of the damaged car in the rental lot, the paper work indicating the damage. The car company rejected our dispute. The credit card company didn't.
I even enlisted our french intern (native speaker) to call said company and ask what is going on. They got the run around ("French bureaucracy is the worst")

They even blocked when said car company tried to charge again after the rejection. Good times.
Had to do this too. Worked out great. Considering doing it again against another company which is a year past providing payment promised.
My girlfriend went to Italy a couple of years back with her kid, kid's friend and kid's friend's mom. They rented something they thought would be nice (according to reviews) in Italy. Two women, two girls - it was worse than a hostel. I ended up having to use booking.com to find them somewhere reasonable yet nice because they didn't feel safe. Airbnb ended up crediting them back the stay.
Personally, I think most people know their job is largely bullshit and they kind of like it that way. Or are just fearful of what the alternative would mean.
We use localstack for as much of our integration tests as we can, and have multiple paid licenses. When we started using it I was skeptical that it could reliably mimic all the AWS services we use, and I was right. Don’t get me wrong it’s a valiant effort and it lets us run tests much faster (and obviously cheaper) than the real thing, but those same tests need to pass on live AWS too before we have any confidence in our code.

If any of the localstack authors are reading this, thank you for your tireless efforts!
That's not a mystery, even to Keynesians (which is why it's the Keynesian response to a particular condition, and not the Keynesian approach to, well, everything), and isn't the issue of confusion the article is addressing.
>an over-the-top Irish accent

Hah! I just went through the first page like that and the cadence of an Irish lilt and pronunciation and it did in fact help. I've been through the first page enough times, though none too recently, that doing this really made things click together in my head a bit more.

As I said, it's a fascinating book. As a linguistic accomplishment I cannot quickly think of a rival.
Ian Stevenson’s Case for the Afterlife (2013)
I was supposed to stay at an Airbnb last weekend. I had booked it 3 months in advance, but then 2 weeks before the booking, the host canceled and relisted the place at a higher price. When I messaged the host about it, they said it was Airbnb's fault and gave a confusing explanation that I didn't really believe.

Airbnb refunded the money, but their support only provided me a link to other listings. The prices 2 weeks before my trip were significantly higher than they were 3 months before, but Airbnb wouldn't make any accommodations. I repeatedly called customer support, and every time they would tell me that the case had been escalated and I would receive another call within 24 hours. They never called back, and after spending hours on the phone I eventually got a credit for $170 towards a future listing. The place I ended up booking for the trip cost $1000 more than the original listing.
https://archive.ph/705gn
I think can explain one possible reason. tl;dr: For long stays, as hotels typically don't offer home-like experience.

I have two typical modes of travel.

One is a short (1-2 week) trip somewhere, for some business (work or personal). A hotel is totally fine, but I still check both hotels and Airbnb for price and feature comparison. In this scenario I don't need a proper kitchen but I still want a microwave, a proper table, a decent chair, and good Internet connectivity - which sound like some basics but aren't exactly common. But, yeah, a hotel is typically a good option. Airbnb quality seem to degrade, so I'm typically looking at the hotels those days. E.g. my last trip was to San Diego, CA and Airbnb offerings I've seen were much worse (based on my personal preferences) than similarly priced hotels.

The other mode is multiple months of living somewhere else - like as in "digital nomad". Hotels typically cease to work for this purpose. For those scenario I want a full apartment (or a house) to myself, I don't need any room service (I can wipe dust and vacuum on my own, thank you), but I want something comparable to home. A full kitchen (with a dishwasher and an oven), a good working area (separate area - ideally a dedicated room, with favorable lighting conditions, normal height sturdy table, an ergonomic chair, etc.), a separate rest area (comfy non-leather couch and a correctly placed big TV with an accessible HDMI input), proximity to a grocery store, etc. It is very hard to find merely a suitable place - I spend multiple days, sometimes weeks, going through the listings, looking at the photos, checking neighborhoods etc. - but at least there's a chance to find something. I do check hotels (because why not) but most of the time they're simply not an option at all - they're tailored for very different use cases and simply don't offer this kind of service. And, well, my other alternatives are local classifieds and searching Google Maps for advertised rentals (which I do), but at least Airbnb has some standards so it's my first option. Last year I had a 2-month trip to Tbilisi, Georgia and the apartments I've found on Airbnb were almost perfect - I'm sure my experience would've been worse (and significantly costlier) if we would've stayed in a hotel.

Best kind of Airbnb is when a host had a place for themselves to live, but their circumstances had changed (e.g. they bought a second property) and now they're renting it out. Such places are simply made for living. Worst kind is a property bought specifically for renting out.
Wow, this response really resonated with me. Especially your last point.

> Because I care so deeply about these topics, there is indeed a tendency to overcommunicate / not realize that I need to police my speech and boil things down to a more "human" level. I also spend most of my time in the areas of the internet where people are similarly obsessive about a single topic, and communicating this way is actually my normal.

The other critical feedback I receive from people relatively often is that I "talk too much" and that I "never answer their question" because I grew up, for the most part, on the Internet in circles of people who are highly engaged and educated. In most cases my communication is focused on establishing context first, and then making a statement, assertion, or answer. A lot of people tend towards just skipping the context, which I think is sometimes reasonable if you can assume context is shared, but my experience in work/business is that /most/ miscommunication is due to lack of shared context. I often get interrupted when answering someone's question, where they came to me /specifically/ because I'm an expert on the topic, because they think I'm not answering their question, where from my perspective to be able to truly answer their question I first need to establish shared context, and teach them a deeper level of understanding of the topic so they can even understand my eventual answer.

What's interesting is I am now in a role not as an engineer, but as a product manager, in part because I've gotten very good at distilling complex topics down to be understandable to others and teaching other people (I also guest lecture, give conference talks, and do internal classes at companies I work at), and most of my life has been focused on reading and writing, so I am very good at writing, which at least in business matters as much or maybe more than talking. So, obviously I've adapted in some way that's successful to perform my job function successfully, but I still face these challenges primarily in personal relationships. It's not really clear to me that my methodology is inferior to the alternative, and I mostly think that other people simply lack any reasonable attention span because of the current situation with social media / our distraction economy. If someone wants to learn something from an expert, they should be prepared to listen to the answer, but I have friends who've told me this is arrogance on my part to believe this way. I see it as a two-way street though, and despite preferring reading to listening/watching, I've spent hours listening to experts when they've been willing to give me their time.
Getting other people to do something — at all, let alone correctly — is actually a huge task. You should not dismiss the efforts of a manager who orchestrated four datacenters, that's very impressive.
"This is also why I've never once booked with AirBNB"

You're admitting you have zero experience with the service you spent several paragraphs attacking.
You're paying many times the mortgage payment to rent these homes in violation of zoning laws prohibiting them from operating as commercial properties and you're angry at the result?
I don't know. How much habitat has been destroyed for farming, resource extraction, and other industrial purposes like waste storage?
>> You can't normally hard link directories.

> That's only to avoid loops, as far as I understand

Later HFS+ does support directory hard links, a feature introduced for Time Machine IIRC, but generally unavailable to the user.
This was my take as well.. I was scrolling through the bottom of the comments to see if anyone had mentioned before I did. Hope OP sees this and considers it.
Thank you for the very valuable in-depth insight!

What I had in mind was actual, demonstratable instances of being wrong. Such as assuming a parameter in a function of a library works a certain way based on how it's named, and what _should_ be the _correct_ way such a parameter should work leading to a subtle bug that I then helped to debug. And then the uphill battle being trying to convince the person to try to use the parameter the way its documented, going against their understanding of how it _should_ work.
Build an effective solution for remote work for developers. Then expand the solution to other employees that are not 'hands on' in a particular place.
Something better than zoom and slack. Use multiple displays, cameras, speakers. The most environmentally friendly commute is no commute. The most environmentally friendly office building is no office building.
Just telling the story because I thought it fitted into the conversation, I don't really agree with his decision or would call him a friend haha.
OP ordered a 1200 euro service and then cancelled before it was delivered. Instead of a refund, OVH gave him a 1200 euro "credit".
I still have a screen cap of my Twitter feed when he posted that.
I'm disappointed that Google shut down the Swift for Tensorflow project, because I do think Swift is a great option for deep learning.

In some ways Jax is almost "non-python deep learning" since it's treating Python more like a DSL for the XLA backend. Normal Python code doesn't work in Jax. It's a pretty reasonable compromise since you still get all the benefits of the Python ecosystem.

Julia seems like it has the best foundations for deep learning, since everything can be written directly in Julia. But it doesn't have a great ecosystem as a general programming tool.

F# might turn out to be a good option.
I have autistic people in my family, and that paper resonates with my experiences with them in a way that no other description of autism ever has.
I somehow feel like the royals and other people in power - whose names haven't been released - are the ones both responsible for, and being covered for, by the establishment/media.

Blaming it on <immigrants> is really quite a stretch. I've never heard of a refugee with a private island flying other refugees there to do drugs and kids, but I don't always get all of the news so I'm willing to be proven wrong here.
How I've marketed to devs successfully (former YC head of growth, currently work in paid media):

1. Paid search.

If someone is searching, give them a good product and good reason to sign up. Be relevant, be clear, and offer a no-risk way for someone to get started with your product.

2. Reddit

If there is a subreddit _already_ talking about the problem your products solves, you've got a goldmine. Keep your ad simple. Keep comments on. Respond to comments.

3. Organic Search

Have the best content on a specific topic related to your product. Add in CTA's in your content while being respectful.

4. Follow trends

Monitor keywords on Hacker News/Reddit and see what's going on. I hit the top of HN twice in a row doing this.

--

General notes:

1. Understand your customer's problems. Lead with benefits then explain with features. Read books like "Breakthrough Advertising" by Eugene Schwartz or "Reality in Advertising by Rosser Reeves.

2. Talk to people who make it work. The more people you can talk to, the better.

3. Focus on testing messages. Find what resonates and scale that
Ultimately it's a recursive thing:

If I buy or purchase something from FB marketplace, it's because I desire the real or perceived assurance of a real permanent public identity. Or to put it another way, I want their stake in the game to be comparable to mine.

If somebody is contacting me on FB marketplace in an anonymous fashion with no history or traceability, to me, they're voiding the benefit of FB marketplace. It becomes an uncomfortable asymmetric situation, and I see no benefit, and multiple drawbacks, of engaging with them with my full public, historic, traceable personality, against their black box.

There is nothing wrong with the anonymous mode, in fact it's great - as long as it's symmetric.

If my SugahHoney2001 meets your RoosterBooster17 in a parking lot via Kijiji to exchange some cameras, cool.

If my John Smith meets your Jane Doe at my doorstep with full identity on FB or Linked in to buy some synths, cool.

But if my Tom Jones, 57, Brampton, working for Microsoft, 845 public photos, hobbies of square dancing and kite gliding, is approached by your ___ from ___ and ____, I'm not going to respond - it's placing all the risk and commitment on one side of transaction.

Hope that elaborates my personal perspective somewhat :)
Linode seemed really good about that, what changed?
Probably one of the top reasons.

I listened to a podcast the other day on Spotify on my phone. Last time I did podcasts was maybe 10 years ago. I was properly confused when an ad block appeared. I had forgotten what ads even were like, and there was no skip button! (For example, for YouTube there’s Sponsorblock)
Every hotel has 'good' and 'bad' rooms in this sense, and they will absolutely prefer putting their loyal/higher-paying/most-likely to complain[1] guests into the 'good' ones. The 'bad' ones are often the last on the list to get filled.

[1] That's because if the front-desk guy/gal has any agency in this, they will absolutely not try to put a Karen into a bad room. Because they don't want to deal with his/her freakout over the noise of the vending machine, or the elevator, or some other factor that they can't control, but will get the guest to complain to management.