skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean countries like France ?

Just implement a repartition retirement system and small incentive per child which diminish after the third, boom, 2.1 fertility rate for most of the 21rst century.

At least for now, the destruction of our retirement system and our current trend towards capitalization is already killing our fertility rate, and the idiots pushing this will once again realize this too late, because this is what they do.
That statement is contradictory.
This is exactly how I feel streaming 4k. One stupid little black square and it breaks my immersion. I stick with UHD discs and 4k files on a usb drive.
Once JPEG XL is widely supported those photos could be significantly smaller.
It is all of those things together.
Strange, I had a 9700 Pro and played BF1942 more hours than any other game in my life. Big 1600x1200 CRT and it held an okay frame rate.
> When it's brought up people are like "ooh yeah that's like really really bad, but what about [tiny useless feature than one user asked about]?we don't have the time to fix that!"
I think that Intellectual Ventures started out as a defense against patent trolls, but after gathering enough of a patent portfolio, they started playing offense in a way that looks like patent trolling.
Not exactly GeForce Now, but you'd be surprised with streaming games that require timing.

I stream Elden Ring from my place in LA to my family's place in ATL using Steam and I manage to do well. Just beat a tough boss tonight.
pretty misleading title. the bokeh is kinda outta whack, that grass pic is pretty terrible...but a couple of the other example shots are appealing in my opinion. it's too bad the whole premise of the article is kind of dishonest.
I done photos larger than that at closer to 50KB with AVIF. 100KB with JPEG should be doable.
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There are cables that can handle that kind of power. They're pretty big. Here's a picture of one: https://i.imgur.com/OlGx0.jpg
This should be the GP link instead of blogpost. Original iFixit post is fair but 9to5mac post makes it sensational.
This is a good start but not fully there. Ideally you would like a bigger published technical description of that electronic stop device, so you can map the device onto the claims to show that a claimed device existed before the patent was filed.
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Sampling is highly effective. With a large population for most distributions it takes only a fairly small sample before the sampling noise falls under the process noise: the number of active spammers isn't a constant, so even if you could count every one of them the number would be constantly changing, there is usually little point in knowing the count with more accuracy than the random/shot-noise component of that time-to-time variation. In so far as there could be said to exist a number at all, sampling will usually get you there when dealing with a large population. And often much better, because with sampling you can often put in place processes to better control bias sources than you could in an effort to just count everything (e.g. by better characterizing your samples).

When it comes to addressing the problem instead of measuring it, hitting a small percentage of it would have an insignificant effect. So it's just not correct to say that being able to measure the proportion spam with high precision would automatically mean that they were able to solve it.

Nor is it necessarily the case that they'd want to-- the argument that they're incentivized to stop it from being "too great" doesn't mean that the spam isn't irrelevant to or even beneficial to the company or its employees at lower levels than that. Particularly to the extent that the tolerable level of too greatness depends on the degree to which they can conceal the true level of spammers from advertisers and investors.

Imagine that the MAU figure is calculated in part by tracking clickthroughs and then some spammers figure out that they can reduce their odds of being banned by making their spambots click ads. Suddenly spam (or that portion of it, at least) is in twitters interest up until the point that it visibly hurts conversion rates and considering that conversion is a much smaller and noisy figure and that many campaigns can't track conversion at all... But only so long as they can maintain plausible blindness to this activity and keep it secret.
Spam is totally email’s fault. They should have had disposable email addresses built into the protocol so they would be easy to support. Then when an address starts getting spam, run the spam filter more aggressively on emails to that address or block it entirely. Or they should have included PoW so it takes a little bit of CPU time to send an email (wouldn’t do anything about botnets, but not every spammer has a botnet handy.) I can’t think of any other ideas off the top of my head, but it’s absolutely true that there are ways that email could have been designed to be less of a problem
If you start at 1, how do you answer the question "how many apples are in the basket", when the basket is empty?

Or do you believe that the answer "none" or "zero" is then given without the activity of counting having taken place?

What do we call the meta-activity then: the procedure that results either in the "empty" answer or "one", "two"? Whatever that activity is called, it starts with a concept of zero. Let's call that activity "quanting". Quanting starts with a motivation to enumerate items, and an initially empty result. When no items are present, quanting terminates, reporting that zero/nothing/none result. Otherwise quanting branches into a subprocedure called counting, and that begins at 1.
>I bought the games. What does a publisher have to say about where and or how I play them afterwards?

That's where you're wrong: You never "bought" the game, you only bought a license to use the game in so-and-so location under so-and-so conditions as dictated by whoever published and "sold" you the game.

We can have an entire discussion on the merits of buying a product vs. buying a license granting you rights to use a product, but point of the matter is you never bought the game. Not even back during the CD-ROM In A Physical Box days.
If it’s an illustrative photo for an article, sure.

If it’s a gallery photo for a site promoting a photographers skill or library, nah…
Webp could be worth trying. Stripping metadata also. If staying with jpg - Jpgoptim could help.
I agree with you in many ways, but I think humanity has never had this level of capability to destroy the earth. We'll either be unable to breathe freely or lose most of civilization in a nuclear war by the end of the century.
In this context, it's probably more of a matter of personal and familial pride and honor rather than promoting the benefit of humankind.
Wow, thank you for the link. Somewhat disappointed that the Razer Viper Ultimate, which advertises lower than wired latiences, is on the low end of overpriced mice, but as a new owner, the lightness of it is night and day with every other mouse I've used.

It's good but not worth 160 USD. I'd recommend the Razer Deathadder or V2 Mini. Just my 2 cents.
For important things you have to take the initiative. Take a couple hours every day for however long. Just get it done.
The database will be always using utc, but according periods will be always local. Hence was my question, why emphasize this that is?
It looks like it is designed to be a sidebar.
Why not the tires? New cars come with tire pressure sensors and tire pressure plays a big role in fuel efficiency as well as safety. It's just a few more bits of info.

Anything that has a remote chance of making more profit than the competitor will be attempted. Even if it's morally questionable... moral != legal. Heck, VW even threw legality out the window with emissions shenanigans a few years ago.

I'm not arguing that it's wrong or right... it's just the entrepreneur's duty to try and the consumer's obligation to keep things in check.

Caveat emptor.
Speak for yourself. I take it very seriously myself.
I thought about this a lot, it's possible, but you aren't ignoring 90% of all the sounds in the gym. Without a predictive system or an instant computer you can't get all the noises cancelled correctly, just the music. The music also bounces off walls, so if you remove the Avici direct from the speaker, you'll hear echos from the reflection.
You are demanding a lot from the type system.

Search for OffsetArrays in https://yuri.is/not-julia/ for practical problems encountered in trying to make this feature work in a language whose compiler does try to be smart.
This is all true… but GeForce now let’s you bring your own gaming library. If you ever decide you don’t want to stream - you can build a gaming PC like people already do.

Those games that come out to $1500 over a decade? Don’t forget that a decade is probably 2x $2000 for building gaming PCs.
It also feel ripe for confounding factors. It seems likely that popular games will both sell well and be aggressively pirated. I'm not sure how obw could control this well enough to tease out cause and effect.
Billboards in LA and SF warn against moving to Texas by invoking Uvalde shooting
Evidently the invites sent to the media included an RSVP to an in-person component:

> The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, and there will be an in-person component with members of the media invited to Apple's campus."

from https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/24/apple-announces-septemb...
I want a play by play dramatic court room drama depp heard style, i want the world to see what it looks like to set a patent troll on fire in real-time
I tried it and works very well
That is exactly what I am saying. I not talking trash about Go. But if one isn't using Python for what it is good at, don't use it, use the language you are actually using.
If you or your spouse don’t always agree on purchases the other makes, this is the way to go. Having just a single joint account only works well if both of you are always on the same page about everything you purchase, but many (most?) couples are not like this.

It’s great to be able to blow money on something your spouse would consider stupid or frivolous without needing to come to a consensus on it. I once asked a friend who’s a big foodie (and whose spouse couldn’t care less about pretentious molecular gastronomy restaurants) to try a new fancy restaurant with me, and they said “I’d love to, but isn’t that place like $200 a plate? I need to run that by my spouse first.” My friend ended up joining me, but I could tell their spouse was extremely resentful about it. I just can’t imagine living like that. If I want to blow the entirety of my individual account on something my spouse finds silly, I am free to do so without any consequence.
If the book merely said that the cause was hopeless, I would not recommend it.

We are surrounded by successful examples of collective action. But they also tend to be interestingly suboptimal in lots of ways. The book provides a framework through which you can understand why this happens.
The camera tells truth better than our eyes do. It can't represent color or especially dynamic range that well, and framing has a way of bending truth, but our eyes are far worse.

Everything we think we see is biased by the viewer, subject to hundreds of unconcious filters and processing steps, and colored by our also imperfect memory. And then we're also biased to ignore all of that and think our vision and memories are objective and faultless truth.

The proofs of this are everywhere, but the most obvious are optical illusions, youtube videos on visual attention, studies on unreliability of witness statements, etc.

Our eyes lie their fucking pants off.
I suppose I agree for the narrower claim that a protocol which allows anyone to message anyone is going to inevitably have spam.

That said I can count on my fingers and toes the number of spam messages (via hijacked accounts) that have reached my Facebook Messenger/Instagram inboxes and have received zero spam in several years on Snapchat.

Walled gardens have many downsides, but there are upsides as well.
A fascinating article. I suppose we can add "inspires biology" and turn it around as more and more things emerge from nano- and bio-tech.
Actually in 5G network there is almost nothing that isn't encrypted. What Karsten decribes is that cloud installations very often trust the infrastructure, but that's no special 5G problem.
People are lowering their aspirations because being ambitious risks failure and we have educated a society of perfectionists unable to cope with the mere thought of failure, let alone risking it in practice. Europe has been quiet quitting the economic game for centuries. We are all hoping that the people that didn't go to College keep digging useful things out of the ground so we can keep burning it to keep the illusion of progress going a bit longer. These people probably spend their evenings watching Netflix. Any self motivated artist worth their salt is already doing that.
That's an elaborate portrait and narrative you've painted there. Do you have sources for that?
Someone might build scale model drones of a few of those. But manned aircraft would be suicide weapons outside of a carefully controlled flight test program. There are just so many failure modes.
Basically, that's my theory. Back in the "old days", women didn't get to choose their jobs, or when (or if) they had children. Basically, women were little better than slaves.

Now that women have freedom, society is imploding in a way, at least in terms of population.

So to get back to replacement levels of fertility, we either need to 1) turn women into slaves again, or 2) look at some other way of running the society. #1 doesn't sound very good if you value human rights.
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Sure, maybe a percentage or two could be explained by this, but 60% in 50 years? Natural selection takes millions of years to accomplish a feat like that.
Thanks, will take a look out for that.
It's not extremely silly. It's absolutely a code word among antisemites. And, once again: Rayiner isn't using the word that way, so there's no need to deploy ESR-speak against me. Please take it somewhere else. You asked what the subtext of the word is, and I provided it.
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I've driven a manual for many years, and I never got this complaint. I always found it perfectly straightforward to get moving on a steep uphill with just a little clutch control. Maybe you roll backwards a few inches if you're a little slow, but so what? Despite appearances, you're never actually that close to anything.
Interestingly enough in Korea the mortality rate in 1955 was the same as in 2005. It increased in the 60s, peaked in the 80s, and has been declining again since the 90s

(It's now even lower than in both 2005/1955)
Good news for who?

While developed nations are below replacement rate, many developing nations are having over half a dozen children per family. The aging population of developed countries is not conducive to production and a healthy economy. This will lead to immigration. If this trend continues, people from the developing nations will eventually inherit the developed world. Until they too fall below replacement rate.
I took advantage of one of those deals a year+ ago that amounted to a few bucks a month (3 or 4 I think) and when it comes time to renew, 15 USD is a steal for the value of games. Wholly agree, Game Pass is a game changer. With the studio partnerships and purchases (Bethesda, Activision etc. along with EA Play). It's probably going to have more expensive tiers down the line, but for now I'll gladly pay the tax.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is the best starting point.
I was sent this the other day. Haven’t had a chance to dig deeper. Free for companies under $10M in revenue? (If I remember).

https://lotnet.com/sem/
Congratulations. Every founder remembers their first patent troll. It's just a right of passage in tech.
It's always interesting to look at what these numbers exactly mean because it's deeply counter-intuitive. For the sake of simple modeling, imagine we have a society with 100 people with a fertility rate of 1, that give birth at 20 and die at 80. Here is how that looks:

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Year 0: 100 newborns

Year 20: 100 twenties, 50 newborns

Year 40: 100 forties, 50 twenties, 25 newborns

Year 60: 100 sixties, 50 forties, 25 twenties, 12 newborns

Year 80: 50 sixties, 25 forties, 12 twenties, 6 newborns

Year 100: 25 sixties, 12 forties, 6 twenties, 3 newborns

Year 120: 12 sixties, 6 forties, 3 twenties, 1 newborn

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In spite of having an extinction level fertility rate, the population nearly doubled in the first 60 years, going from 100 to 187. And it took 80 years to even see the population begin to decline. But then suddenly over the second 60 years, the population exponentially declined going from 187 to 22. This is very akin to the scenario in Korea, because they went from a fertility rate of 6+ to < 1. So they're starting with a large "newborn" population.

Because of the fact that we live much longer than we are fertile, it really damages any idea of "Well we'll just solve this when it becomes a problem." When it starts to become obvious there's a problem, the decline is already coming at an exponential rate. And it's entirely possible that such a small youth population supporting a suddenly massive elderly population will drive fertility rates even lower.

It increasingly seems that the future of our planet will not be decided by politics, ideology, or anything of the sort. It will simply be decided by whichever groups have children at healthy rates.
Those are also very popular in Taiwan. They are essentially the pickup trucks equivalent. The nickname for these cars is “Make A Fortune Car” (or make money car).
Thanks, that makes much more sense. I was visualizing the problem vehicle as a stick shift with the neutral in any of position but the center (aka in an "in gear" position), which in hindsight wouldn't work.
So the last time I looked I only found one person complaining that their ER-X runs hot to the touch (plenty of "it seems kind of flakey" comments tho). Mine become unstable once the ambient temp gets much past 75 °F. The ER-L is well known to run hot to the touch at idle.

When I opened up one of my ER-Xs to get a the serial header I noticed that it had a much sloppier application of thermal compound than the one pictured in the instructions I looked at. I'd totally believe some units will be more reliable than others.
Okay so apparently you have beef about concealed carry permits and want more gun freedom. Any other examples that don’t involve gun ownership as that issue is way too debatable?
The fact that we all need such advanced filtering to make email usable at all should be the canary in the coal mine that we’ve lost our way.
I'm not sure what inequality has to do with it. To me, it sounds more like chasing the joneses.

There are plenty of free activities.
Both informations are abstract identifiers and are decoded in a database to 'real' values only, PHY doesn't care about your decrypted ID. If the operator keeps that database closed, a reasonable privacy of who and where can be done.
Humans may naturally be monogamous, at least to a degree. It is a common occurrence in the animal kingdom, in many bird species for example. Monogamosity is therefore a very unlikely candidate for fertility drop.
Apple is too late to implement battery protection feature (limit max charging%) for always AC connected machine. It's implemented in 2019 meanwhile 2000s ThinkPads supported that.
> Have you tried talking to the TikTok generation? They don't do email.

And before that it was Snapchat! Met some young people who wanted to keep in touch with me a few years ago and had this funny conversation about email after me saying I didn't have Snapchat or Facebook or Instagram or WhatsApp. Oh, you can text me with SMS (that still works!) or email me!
Maybe my thinking is just warped by the language, but I think 0 indexing is the right thing most-- but not all-- of the time. Looking at my code I have relatively few places where I need to -1 to convert a natural 1 index into a zero index.

It would be easy for languages to offer two array access syntaxes, one for 0 and one for 1 like array[i] for 0 index and array{i} for 1 index access, then the accessing code could use the right tool for the job. Unlike defining the indexing type as a property of an array you shouldn't have problems with accidentally using the wrong one at time of use.

... but to really know if it's a good idea you'd have to test it, and sadly very few concepts in programming are subjected to any kind of rigorous scientific study.
I didn’t down or upvote it because I didn’t understand it. I didn’t say it lacked substance. It might be profound but whooshed over my head.
Do you get the benefits if your HTML and CSS are under 14kb, but your images and JS requests aren't?
> “I think the telco industry is very much aware that this can be a big issue,” he says. “It’s critical for survival, so I don’t think it’s taken lightly at all.”

It's always been critical but telco's history of preventing security issues in the design stages doesn't inspire confidence. Wasn't SS7 notoriously insecure for decades? I should probably say "isn't" because I'm still finding articles written in 2022 on the topic. LTE too was called out some years ago IIRC.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to record external APIs/microservices response times?
I wonder if it will be a good idea to record the external APIs or microservices response time as part of application metrics.

I do capture the response time of my API. But while analyzing a performance or latency related issues I think it will help to know the performance of the external systems as well. This can quickly point out any issues due to a downstream system or even a DB. I understand that these systems will also have these metrics available but they don't always paint the complete picture. For instance they will not include network latencies.

But on the flip side I wonder will this mean generating a lot data and maybe as well lead to increasing latency of the current API.

I wonder if this is a practice in the industry? What are your thoughts?
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I think you are sending exactly the kind of email the parent is trying to block — transactional email.
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I mean, with the networks and processing speed of computers back when email was standardized, sending the email itself would be proof of work, no?
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Yup, about the same for me (maybe slightly faster).

Sometimes games have assets that compress really well, and then I end up downloading at 400mbps and maxing out my SSD writing.
You can look for M. Bairoch's research for instance ("Révolution Industrielle et Sous-Développement")

Some other put the "start" of industrialization way before, at the end of the Renaissance.

As I understand it, there was a progressive flow of industrialization that was clearly visible in Belgium/Netherland, and also started brewing in the other surrounding countries, but the "Industrial Revolution" term was coined by a British author for a specific point happening first in England, then in Belgium/France/the US etc. afterwards.

It kinda comes down to where you set the stake of what is meant by "industriailzed", a bit like where you set the beginning of the "space conquest" and thus decide who was first to reach the critical milestone.
For reference, average web page size today is 3MB.
It's an interesting idea, but I doubt it could work well in the real world, where any angle or distance errors would likely throw it off.

In a production line environment with known objects, on the other hand... it could be great.
No notice in the US yet…
It's great for robotics. Designing/printing parts of various shapes.