skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latvia has a large Russian population that was mostly not given citizenship[1]. What you see in the demographics is that the ethnic Latvian population is in slow decline, and it's _mostly_ this ethnically Russian population that causes the steep decline, down 50% since 1990.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Latvia#/media/...
How much force reduction through a lack of volunteers will have to happen before the political class decides it's in their interest to re-institute a draft?
So are you still unsure? Since you said from where you use C headers would absolutely top a reason for me. I hate that bs gruntwork
Darn rabbits got my tuberosa. If you don't have Mountain Mint[0] (Pycnanthemum muticum) it drives all the non-butterfly pollinators nuts. I'm hoping to find some Winged Sumac[1] as it's also a big draw.

[0] https://njaes.rutgers.edu/plant-of-the-month/pycnanthemum.ph...

[1] https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=RHCO
I empathize, but there are terrible hotels too, right? It sounds to me like you're better at distinguishing decent hotels from fleabags than you are at distinguishing good rentals from bad ones.
I think most people would agree that a photographer can, let's say, photograph houses on a residential street. Setting up a long time-lapse on the sidewalk might attract a few questions and some conversation, but I'd guess most people would be cool with it, and it's probably also pretty clearly within the spirit of the law(s).

But pointing it directly across the street at a particular house and leaving it there for days, weeks, months on end would probably attract some kind of negative attention from the homeowner, especially if you told them you were live-streaming to the internet (password-protected/encrypted or not).

I'm no lawyer, but, to me, that feels closer to sitting outside their house for days like a detective in an 80's movie than photographing public happenings.
> there are certain atomic-scale materials that do resist your horrible off-beat drumming

whoa.
Write everything in Rust :)
I didn't even touch the cause of the inflation. It's beside my point. The cause of the abortion rights disaster is my point.
You can't both ban it and respect human rights as we understand them today.

But that a ban must fail doesn't follow. E.g., requiring passports for travel was a WWI development, and supposed to be a temporary restriction on freedom; the practice was supposed to end after the war, and they had some kind of international meetings about it, and nothing ever happened. Now this has become obscure history that people hardly ever think about.
The "spreadsheet mentality" is ignorant of the reality and values of intangibles.

The prime example is bringing the global team together once per year for team meetings and partying together. Such an initiative is priceless, as everyone knows who has ever witnessed one such event. People still talk about such events a decade later, but the accountants see them as waste and cut them.

In fact, giving accountants and lawyers too much power in an organization compared to engineers is one of the major mistakes that leads to the "spreadsheet mentality": as they are non-technical, and many general managers might be, too, organizations tend to not trust their own judgment, so they start bringing in external consultants. Guess what, cutting spending that leads to intangible benefits is the first thing they do, calling it "low hanging fruit" of the "transformation".
Devops and web designer (relatively non-programmer jobs) listings also might list Javascript, Python, and Java, also maybe Ruby for Chef.

And there's a ton of those job listings.

Github repos might be a better source of penetration and use.
I haven't read a technical book cover-to-cover ever again since I got internet access in the late 90's. I remember that, before that, the books were my only source of information and I'd read everything. Nowadays it's more a compilation of dozens of different sources.
Have you thought about why it's tricky? Maybe because each person on this thread has a different perception of what the word 'value' even means. If you start with an unclear definition, you cannot hope to arrive at a clear answer.
In the PS2 era I considering buying it and using the "linux kit" instead of buying a desktop. I was prepared for the differences in performance but then I knew that sony didn't release all the drivers or specs and graphic acceleration was not available. Just gave up the idea.

The PS3 could be used as a computer, this allowed sony to pay less taxes in the EU. Since it is such a closed platform the "install other OS" feature could be disable remotely by the vendor automatically and, I think, without any user intervention. When it became economically "better" for sony, they disable the feature.

These are good examples of the problems with such closed systems.
I grep commit history from time to time to find when something was done. It is not useless. I also compose the pull request description from concatenation and editing of the multiple commit messages. Good PR description is essential for... good code reviews. So that the reviewer knows where you are coming from.

Sure, there is also code comments, but have a good PR message preps you to read the code., And that good intro comes from commit messages.
"Information stored in the phase is far more protected against errors than with alternative setups currently used in quantum computers. As a result, the information can exist without getting garbled for much longer, an important milestone for making quantum computing viable"
> The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you.

Ummm... the fact that most people prefer Airbnb to anything else seems to directly contradict your statement.

Also, why would you say guests are not their moneymakers? It is the guest that pays the money that ultimately land in Airbnb's pockets.
(Meanwhile, on other threads, there are discussions about the lamentable fraud that may have tainted Alzheimer/“brain plaque” research for the past 20 years, another thread about recent studies showing seratonin may have squat to do with depression, and you can always count on occasional thread regarding the Theranos debacle that deluded some very educated people. Greater harm, it seems, comes from lack of skepticism than too much of it.)
Yeah it was a hit and run at 3am. Do you watch your car at all times?
Yeah, no, I'm happy in Newton's world thank you very much.
The fact that hosts can leave reviews for customers provides a disincentive to leave a bad review.

I’ve stayed in two places in the last two weeks.

First wasn’t like the pictures at all. Rammed with furniture and had no way to put garbage out.

Second stunk of mould on the first floor, AC was useless; and the washer/dryer was broken (actually dismantled causing the mould smell). We had to use a laundrette.

They both got glowing reviews because I can’t risk not being able to use the platform as they’ve swallowed the entire short term rental market.
There's real value to going "huh, yeah, this isn't a good fit for you right now", too. Honestly's valuable. I've had potential customers come back later when the thing I was working on was a better fit for their needs because I'd been up-front with them.
My take on this (as ND):

Why concede if the topic is not a topic of taste? And who should concede to whom? I personally can't tell you that you are right if I think you are wrong. That is lying and disingenuous.

I have learned to just walk away.
Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter
good bbc show with Terry Pratchett on the right to pick when to exit this world.
I think the problem is that a handful of very large companies have found ways to extract a lot of money from the economy whilst providing essentially no economic value in return. The economy has become so manipulated and schematized, in certain sectors, it's essentially all fake at this stage. All money through the economy just flows to people based on where they fit within the grand financial scheme. This scheme is not connected to fundamentals like supply and demand of consumers.

It almost seems as though some companies have literally found a way to print themselves unlimited money and other economic participants won't figure it out for another decade... They're still playing by the rules.
Thanks, I'd never seen the article and I will add it to my pool.
The biggest antidepressant effect of SSRIs and SNRIs comes from the upregulation of BDNF, not serotonin.

Serotonin rises beginning on the first dose, but BDNF takes longer, which is why you have to take them for at least 4-6 weeks, sometimes longer, before noticing benefits.
It's also one of the reasons why exercise is antidepressive, and many other things. But antidepressants increase BDNF more consistently than exercise, so for some, exercise is not enough.

Antidepressants are effective for lots of people. Those saying otherwise in the article...I have no clue where their comments came from...do they have any clinical experience?

Also worth noting: psylocibin and LSD are microdosed to give an antidepressant effect, and they both do two similar things: activate serotonin receptors (psylocibin and LSD I think mainly activate 5HT3, and probably other serotonin receptors) as well as increase neuronal rewiring/growth (one through BDNF, the others through a change in perspective and other mechanisms I'm not versed in).
Id love to. Getting work visas for 2 is not easy.
SpaceX breaks launch record as it sends 46 Starlink satellites into space Friday
Nobody has yet explained to me how platypuses can be a "missing link" (I'm aware that that's not a real concept) when the last common ancestor between birds and mammals is so far back -- I continue to believe that monotremata are the result of a very aberrant mating.
It's not about healthcare access or education, both of which are free and ignored in the case of vaccines.

It's about the increasing ideological fracturing of this country.

It's probably natural too. Without an actual enemy threatening our way of life, we've turned inwards against ourselves. Like an under stimulated immune system attacking itself.

Emotions are easy to manipulate with political subjects. Partisan narratives sell, they're mimetic, and they spread like wildfire. It turns into a religious war, and each side distrusts the other, stops listening.
Arguably much of those services are to try to recover a portion of value that we lose by default due to bad decisions beyond our control.

You pay for an Uber, or you pay for a car and all of its associated costs, and pay with your time sitting in soul-crushing traffic either way, because your municipality responded to population growth by building incredible sprawl and dangerous roads with no alternatives instead of a development and transit infrastructure that scales. Or you pay premiums and copays and various fees as tribute to the insane byzantine healthcare system that the U.S. has because there is no simple public option or sane way for providers to communicate information to each other. Or you pay 4x the cost for 1/4 the speed for Internet because $TELCO_GIANT has a monopoly and lobbied the municipality not to compete.

We have incredible, jaw-dropping amounts of misallocated value, with expensive services willing to sell you back a fraction of that value at an outrageous price. I don't think I would call that economically productive.
I thought this article would also mention ring species, which is a species where geographically adjacent members can mate with each other, but sufficiently far-away members cannot. The "ring" occurs when the habitat goes around the globe and two "incompatible" populations meet. In isolation, they would be separate species, but considering the existence of the ring connecting them, they are deemed to be a single species. Gene flow can happen between the two incompatible populations through the ring connecting them.

Of course, there is nothing preventing such a ring from having more than two ends, so there could potentially even be ring species with branches or further sub-rings coming off them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ring_species
Ibuprofen has a really high LD50, at higher dosages it becomes anti-inflammatory.
Next time try lots of water, without adding the vitamin C. I got absolutely blasted at my brother's wedding a few months ago, blasted as in I lost an entire hour of dancing and attempting to win an auction of whiskey that I don't even drink. My parents and family were astonished when I woke up the next morning at like 10am, very very groggy but with no headache and actively shoveling greasy hotel breakfast into my stomach to prepare for a 6 hour drive home.

My secret? I was far too drunk to sleep when we got to the hotel so I stayed up drinking about 100oz of water over the course of an hour or so, while sobering up. Just drink water, you probably don't need the vitamin C, or if you somehow messed up your "electrolytes" or something, just sip gatorade.

Most of a hangover is dehydration, or not having enough excess water in your blood to easily expel the literal vinegar the metabolism of ethanol creates.
So what is "value" then? Seems like you're hinting that it's some subjective, personal impression more than anything else.
I was mostly responding to your point about agency and powerlessness; and the implicit assumption that 'car crash victim' ⊂ 'car driver'.

As for a hypothetical bicycle ban in a counterfactual universe, I find the premise too uninteresting to form an opinion about.

I'm far more interested in this world; and don't much care for vacuous syllogisms like 'killing is bad; X kills; therefore X is bad', when there's more to be gleaned from measurement, comparison and statistics. For example, off the top of my head:

- How many are killed by cars compared to bicycles (say, per person-km)?

- How likely is a car crash to kill someone compare to a bicycle crash?

- What is the impact on life-expectancy from driving versus cycling (e.g. sedentary activity versus exercise)?

- How does the throughput of bicycles compare to that of cars?

- How does the infrastructure cost of bicycles compare to that of cars?

- How does the environmental impact of bicycles compare to that of cars?

- etc.

I find these to be far more interesting questions than trivial binaries like 'do cars kill?' (yes; so what?), or 'do bicycles kill?' (yes; so what?).

Similarly, the statistics above can inform a whole spectrum of decisions and interventions that can be made; again, off the top of my head:

- The setting of speed limits

- The setting of road-worthiness criteria

- The setting of test and license requirements

- The layout and features of infrastructure (sight-lines, speed bumps, roundabouts, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights and their sequencing, etc.)

- The classification and permitted uses of roads (e.g. one-way systems, bus lanes, segregated or integrated cycle lanes, etc.)

- etc.

Again, these are seem far more interesting than strawman cliches like "should we ban X?" (which, as far as I can see, you're the one bringing up? I certainly never mentioned it)
China’s Nuclear Powered Super Long-Range Torpedo Concept Fits Concerning Pattern
Have they asked any non-Keynesian economist why printing and distributing large amounts of money do not lead to a large, sustained economic recovery?
Is this an accurate representation of the situation? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
It's not guaranteed to work, but I'm always extremely careful about choosing my rentals and I have been disappointed on very few occasions. Everyone has an occasional bad experience with a business (see: all of Yelp) but I'm not going to write off the thousands of highly-rated hosts I haven't interacted with because a few in the past have given me problems, especially if those ones did not have exceptionally high ratings and plenty of them.

But it is a risk/reward proposition, and a hotel is always going to be the lower risk option. But I like the "reward" that you can sometimes find in the form of unusual locations, interesting living spaces or just a cheap place to stay.
Yeah good luck with that considering inflation and chip shortages.
The effect of disfluency on memory for what was said
A filesystem can afford a very, very slow, mark and sweep.
The First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too (2012)
You're right, people don't care. Surely, we're at a point where more well-loved quotes are represented creatively in some way than not? That has been my recent experience.

I had a friend who corrected a celebrated Ivy League professor on a quote that appeared at the top of the syllabus of seminal class that was a requirement for all students for decades. That was almost 20 years ago, and the quote is still used. I don't think I'll ever get over that one.
> On the downside, it elevated the temperature of the backside aluminum to a high enough temperature to be able to cause burns (something like 80-90C). Not a huge issue if you always use it on a table or something

The bottom doesn't get that hot (90C would cause serious problems) but the additional heat is a downside to consider. Too many people are missing the point that Apple deliberately chose not to create a thermal bridge between the CPU and the case for this reason.

Apple made the right choice. The Air is designed for minimum size, maximum portability, and fanless operation. If you have use cases that benefit from extended 100% CPU load, get a larger MacBook Pro that has a cooling solution designed to sustain these thermal loads.
Investigating would require some resources, yes though obviously not "infinite" resources. That's why we fund police departments, hire investigators and officers, and give them authority to conduct investigations though.

Ignoring, and tacitly permitting, crime results in more crime which in turn results in greater demand for effort. Thoroughly investigating and resolving crime may be more expensive than ignoring crime in the short term, but long term it pays off.
Big hotel brands often don’t own the hotel property that their names are on too.

The difference between “host” and “franchisee” seems to mostly be accountability and capital, not ownership by the brand on the booking site.

Amusingly enough, I once stayed in an Airbnb at a Wyndham.
There is a very easy way to find out who is in the wrong here. Using the statement you probably have seen before: If Ukraine stops fighting, they stop to exist. If Russia stops fighting, there is no more war.
> Now decades of an activist judiciary have distorted that concept as the legislative branch has chosen to abdicate their responsibility for their own gain, but the fact still stands, congress should be making the laws and the courts deciding if they are constitutional.

The Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality the first time. If it’s up to Congress to make the laws, then why did the Supreme Court intervene this time? They could have kicked this back to congress and said: “We already ruled on this. If you want a different outcome, do your job.” But they didn’t.
This reminds me of the comment I made yesterday that people will pay money to not have to read documentation :-)
Paypal has been literally doing stuff like this for over 20 years. paypalsucks.com was registered in 2000 but is apparently down now.

This isn't an excuse for their bad behavior but I don't understand why anyone continues to use them.
But the value created is artificial and the result of rent-seeking protectionism or industry-lobbied barriers to entry.
> If I was going to be disparaging, I'd say that their closest Christian analogue is the nakedly revisionist evangelical Christianity of the the American 1970s and forwards.

That would be disparaging to the evangelical community. Even if you find modern evangelicals to hold distasteful beliefs, and I personally do, I don't think that's an apt comparison.

A much closer analog would be the radical Mormon cults of southern Utah.

A radical version of a controversial branch of the religion.
I've semi-thought about that and edited the post but wish I actually edited the title instead(the option is gone now). I was thinking of pure as in no React etc., did not think that this could be interpreted in that way initially.
Relevant https://firebox.com/head-case-personalised-suitcase-cover
> If you couldn't be bothered to read, then watch the BBC mini series "Good Omens", it's on Prime. It's derived from a book of the same name written by Pratchett and Gaiman (though I think Terry did most of it, since it feels much more Pratchett than Gaiman to me). And they did a superb job of adapting and staying true to the book.

I'm not sure I agree. I find the book definitely has a clear signature of both authors, which makes it so great. I love Pratchett and some of Gaiman works are absolutely genius (although I find that unlike Pratchett reading a book from him is not guaranteed to appeal to me, even for his popular books), so this combination is just a dream team, the only way it could be topped is if their story was published in an anthology edited by George RR Martin).
> Joking aside

Good thing you mention or I fell for it (that you meant it seriously, not that I believed in the conspiracy). Poe's law in effect.

But that's the thing. People who believe in conspiracies are susceptible to them. For example, they could've lost their trust in society, or smoke a lot of pot, or have a friend or two who are into it. Very much like a cult.

And I am saying that as person who was into conspiracies, who lost faith in society, who used drugs (psychedelics, mostly), and had a severe psychosis (not at all related to the previously mentioned though but stress from another factor).
> The compiler does not work at that level of resolution. It’s unclear that it should

The correct solution is to never ever use rust. It's a failed experiment that noone noticed failed
https://archive.ph/9a9cO
> None of the single-word -ism ideologies work because the world is just too complex for us to reduce to a single way of thinking.

This shouldn't be a controversial comment. How could it even be argued otherwise?
IKEA Canada confirms data breach
What is ‘face blindness’ and why does Brad Pitt say people hate him cos of it?
It is valid insofar as the current socioeconomic systems depend on constant, infinite growth to continue existing.

The question here would be "is focusing on maintaining growth the best/most sensible approach?". We see it in the economy all the time—companies go to incredible lengths, and often end up engaging in deceptive, immoral, monopolistic, and predatory practices, in order to keep growing. When their numbers show that they're not growing they freak out, investors panic, and sometimes end up in a death spiral as a result.

In a world where resources are finite, the room to grow is also finite. Now, I've seen arguments to the effect that our current supply of resources, if well managed, would be able to sustain the current population without issues. That very well might be true, but I suspect our current systems are not at all suited for sustaining continuous, endless growth.

The cracks are already very visible in our current systems, I think. And I'd argue that there is a positive feedback loop in effect already when it comes to population decline—the system expects you to generate wealth and growth to sustain it, but you get less and less in return, which affects your ability and/or desire to contribute to increasing the population and taking on additional responsibilities and costs. This, in turn, leads to the system demanding more from the existing population, further impacting their ability/desire to reproduce, and so on.

I don't want to fall into the "rich people bad" meme, but it's much easier to worry about population decline when the existing socioeconomic structures are already in your favour.