skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sync that up with Apple Watch 8's ability to estimate ovulation, and poof, declining birth rate problem solved!

Will never happen. Children are expensive, and once you have them, you'll never ever again be able to afford most of the Apple products.

Obviously, the incentive for Apple (and Google) is that you don't have children, which can explain the low birth rates in developed (rich) markets.

> I'm scared.

Now I'm also scared.
Misdirection is the name of the game....

Tesla shares dip more than 8% after third-quarter deliveries report" - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/03/tesla-stock-down-after-third...
Same thing happened to my wife (but not eye drops). She was also in a rush. When I pointed out it said homeopathic on the back she was furious.
A wise psych once told me, "Find me a perfect pill, and I will show you a pill that does nothing."

Medications very well may alleviate your focus issues too, and you might have entirely different results than I have, but do what you think is right.

I hope my comment did not persuade you not to seek treatment, I just felt it would be dishonest to not share some of the less than favorable aspects.
have you read his current draft of fascicle 7a (7.2.2.3 Constraint Satisfaction)? it is currently 145 pages and is available at https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc7a.ps.gz
I'm guessing your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but as someone who used to not like running, I'd like to share my experience.

What made it click for me is not pushing myself too hard. I used to run at an intensity I realize in retrospect I could just barely sustain. This worked, in that my fitness increased and I got faster, but it always felt horrible. This was the case when I ran alone, or with my partner - when we run together, we tend to subconsciously push each other to go a little faster.

Then, we started running with a much more extroverted friend who likes to talk a fair bit. This put a natural limit on the intensity, and apart from enjoying the socializing, I also felt physically better. It also worked fine for fitness, and I got a PR on a 10K race while training this way.

Now I find that even when I run on my own, I'm much better at finding a pace I can sustain comfortably, and I enjoy it!

As a casual runner, I'm very happy I've come to this realization, but I'm sure the experience is very different for someone who is either very unfit and finds any speed uncomfortable, or for someone who's training seriously and needs to push hard to attain their goals.
I think you understate the value of the placebo effect in medical treatment, especially for certain types of treatments, i.e. pain and psychological treatment. I'm not saying we should treat infectious diseases that way, but the placebo affect is probably most of the power of many of "real" treatments. If the goal is to feel better, it seems a lot safer than using addictive opiods and other drugs. It may also be ultimately more efficacious:

For anti-depressants, "a 2009 meta-analysis of anti-depressant trials concluded: The placebo effect accounted for 68% of the effect in the drug groups. Whereas clinical trials need to control the placebo effect, clinical practice should attempt to use its full power."

https://theconversation.com/are-over-the-counter-painkillers....
My take on it: https://www.2uo.de/Books/316-bible-texts-illuminated/
They don't look like "real" medications though because they are clearly labeled with "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."

We allow gas stations to have diesel pumps right next to gasoline ones. We just require that they be labeled appropriately and its expected that people read the label and not make assumptions based off proximity.
You'll never convince them of that.

Or if you do it'll just change their tack from “we think you might want X, have a look at our X” to “we hear you don't want X, but let us tell you about our X and see if we can't change your mind”.
It creates some more e-waste now but will reduce e-waste by a lot in the future.
Spending 4 days in jail is very different from having one of your FB posts removed.
this is an excellent explanation for why this kind of public regulation is necessary. of course they didn't stop buying them. and this is exactly why regulating businesses by consumer behaviour is so so unwise

multiple standards may well be easily avoidable, inconvenient and bad for the environment, but people aren't going to change their behaviour, solely because they like Apple's UX
Completely agree with everything you're saying. I hesitated writing this because predictions of any sort are so hilariously wrong so much of the time.

Could be that Copilot achieves sentience tomorrow we hit singularity and all SWEs will be out of job.

Trucking industry has been slowly automating itself, if I was a truck driver I might start looking for something else (if I was young) but at least they can see it coming.
Which also means that the number people where >1k people know them also increases. The question is about proportions and locality. I feel pretty confident in saying that the rate of non-local celebrities has dramatically increased faster than population. I would also wager that the number of total celebrities (as defined above) has also increased faster than population and accelerated through the instagram and even more through the tiktok age. We have far more ways to communicate than previously, especially non-local. I can talk to someone in Japan without a HAM radio nor an expensive long distance phone call. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if someone living in Japan reads this comment.
And why do I have to click on the stupid popup on cookies for every freaking website. Thank you EU...
This is a totally uninformed question. Are you sure the bad quality from the discs is the fault of the discs rather than your blu-ray reader? I'm assuming you've had good quality from the reader for other discs??
US automotive lemon law for example doesn’t specifically benefit the wealthy or large corporations.

What muddles the picture is people do benefit from economies of scale. So, if you make the law actually hostile for large companies both the general public and corporations are worse off.
What part of a streaming movie is a physical item? It is even further removed and a worse analogy than my concert ticket is like a streaming movie license. With one you physically have a few thousand-pound piece of metal in your garage with a title from the government of ownership, the other you have a limited license on an account maintained by the service provider.

If you "buy" a car, and don't get a title, then yeah sure I guess the title holder can take it away. You didn't own it; you never had the title for it.
Yes. That is the scam.

It's no different to the rest of them. If Stadia hasn't already taught anyone that it is a scam then I don't know what will.
By today's standards it was slow, but the video looked slow to me too. I remember it as faster and I know the last time I typed at one (at the LCM about five or six years ago) it didn't seem that slow to me.

If you read Butler Lampson's paper on the design of the Alto you'll see it was an amazing machine. Super screen-oriented (i.e. human-oriented): the bus clock was 3/2 the screen refresh speed, so the majority of the bus bandwidth was spent refreshing the screen! Absurd and crazy at its time, but of course now we realize that it was brilliant. All built out of a handful of MSI and SSI TTL parts IIRC.

Actually the paper is by Thacker, McCreight, Lampson and Sproull. Really a great read.
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- over priced

- not powerful enough for PC games

Gameified version of this phone: https://www.smartprix.com/mobiles/razer-edge-5g-ppd1qctpa9v8

700-800 USD..

Just get a steam deck at this point, or an Odin for 250 USD https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/odin-the-ultimate-gaming-...
There is no negotiating, he agreed to buy it at $54.20

LOL!

Yes --- exactly as he agreed to do before.

But he didn't do it then --- and there is no guarantee he will do it after this latest offer either. And if he doesn't?

As I said, it is nothing more than an open invitation to stop the lawsuit and go back to negotiating. Let's see if Twitter takes the bait.
When I had a 28.8k and eventually 56k modem and had to download individual songs off of Napster and then Kazaa, of course it made sense to have a local download because that was the only viable option. I could download music while using AIM or IRC, but that would eat heavily into the limited bandwidth that I had.

I eventually convinced my parents to upgrade to a 1.5Mbps cable connection when I was a senior in high school. That was when Oink's Pink Palace was a thing. I downloaded tons and tons of music and basically filled up the what was at the time absolutely massive 500gb hard drive with music. If something had a lot of people leeching I'd download it just to get my seed:leech ratio up. If I liked a single song from an artist I'd go and download their entire discography.

Unfortunately that all came crashing down when that hard drive failed and I had no backup (maybe smarter/richer kids had backup drives, but I did not). I realized then that the whole thing was silly. I hadn't listened to half the music I downloaded. It was more an addiction to collecting music rather than listening to it.

Eventually Spotify came around and that basically killed my desire to hoard music. I currently use Apple Music for the majority of my music listening needs. If there is something that I cannot find on there I might still download it. I've even added some songs with Apple's service to host your files on the cloud so I can listen to it on all my devices. I feel much freer to explore music rather than spend my time figuring out how to download and store it which is wonderful.

I know that movies are not the same as music and the services are frankly much worse. It doesn't take nearly as much bandwidth to stream high quality music than it does to stream movies, especially with all the various technologies like Dolby and what not. Still, I do think that it is unnecessary to maintain massive collections of them in formats that are degrading sitting on your shelf or as digital versions taking up a ton of space and care to ensure data integrity. I know there are people that download movies and shows onto their home servers just to have them or just in case someone who has access to their plex wants to watch it.

DVDs, CDs and Blu-Rays have a limited shelf life. If you take care of them they may last long enough for you to pass them on to your children, but you're just placing a burden of leaving behind a ton of things that aren't really important to you or them. Having recently gone through trying to clear my grandparents' house full of junk, I would not want to place that burden on my future children. If they are really meaningful to you then by all means, keep them. But I don't think most of them are. Maintain a small collection of the genuinely important ones. Make sure to get copies that aren't beholden to the whims of licensors/distributors... but maybe don't stress too much about the rest.
I use https://mercury.com/

Not sure if it's directly related to what you're asking, but it's fantastic business banking.
Clever use of persistent_term
If I was in a situation where I had to have a code of conduct for the people involved, it would have to be:

1. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
2. Don't be a dick.
Is the detective being charged with lying to a grand jury?
I suspect there's a strong correlation in this case between "Closed to outside contribution" and SQLite being one of if not the most robust pieces of software out there.
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> Take a look at the long history of “like cures like.”

I did. It has nothing to do with the claim that homeopathy was only ever meant to be a mental effect. If you claim that then you're doing God-of-the-gaps but with homeopathy.

That document lists a great number of like-cures-like cures from long before Hahnemann. However of note is that they don't claim that dilution makes medicine stronger. Chemo and radiation make you sick as a dog but they cure cancer. If we allow "like cures like" to be the only meaning of homeopathy (its name itself a synecdoche for the dual claims of homeopathy) then tons of real medicine is homeopathy.

I get the impression that you're in this field. I once worked at a military contractor where my job was either to waste the tax dollars of productive members of society or enforce a global hegemony that will end human life on earth. There was a path out of there for me, and I'm sure there's a path out of there for you.
I just love that the brief's core argument is summarized in the table of contents, under ARGUMENT.
A lot of software development is just bricklaying. Issue tho is that reading on a forum about a design pattern or good practice doesnt make you a good engineer. Neither does a pdf certificate issued by a “bootcamp”. Thats why the webdev world has ended up with tons of poorly designed libraries and frameworks and each day there’s a new library coming out. Folks have no clue what they are doing, they just follow trends.
I wasn't aware of this! Thanks for the info. I'll give it a lookthrough.

Its not exactly an easy subject, so I'll need some time to digest the material. Especially if its written in Knuth's famous "difficult, but terse" style.
>purely for personal preference and convenience reasons

Those are not the reasons.
Every time somebody says to "vote with your wallet", there is an implicit command to shut up and stop complaining about the product. The argument goes that the only legitimate way to respond to a product you don't like is to "vote with your wallet" (not buy it), implying that voting against the corporation's practices at the ballot box or on a soap box aren't legitimate. "vote with your wallet" is a fundamentally anti-democratic utterance that attempts to de-legitimize dissenters' participation in government and public discussion.
Although we have more websites now than ever it feels like the internet of today is much smaller, since people are increasingly funneled into the same popular websites that control most of the market share. I used to visit new websites daily in the old days, now I just loop between a few big destinations.

I don’t think most people even know how to search for websites anymore that are not blessed by algorithms. Manual search skills have atrophied. The concept of websites having a dedicated section of links to similar sites of interest is extinct, perhaps even penalized by big search engines. Only a small subset of users still share hidden gems amongst themselves, speaking in hushed tones. Purveyors of the old web.
You're dead-on-arrival. I vouched cause it was a respectful answer.

You probably should abandon this account and create a new one that isn't "dead" on post.

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> Probably around 7-10 years, which is the time limit it originally had.

Samuel Clemens stated that if copyright was shortened to this long or shorter, then he would not issue books. Instead he'd public chapters as to restart the clock for each. And naturally, would arbitrarily lengthen copyright to however long he'd string readers by.

As for me, I have no answers. This problem is larger than I think anyone can view.
So all of the bots, mDAU, Zatko talk in court - all of that was bluff, huh?
In this analogy, it is the case that the store won't let you take the pliers home, or only lets you take the pliers home under the supervision of an employee, and also that if you want to take the pliers with you on a road trip to Mexico, that isn't allowed, even if the hardware store has a branch in Mexico.

Oh, and if the hardware store goes out of business you can never access the pliers again because it turns out they were leased from the plier manufacturer.

Frequently when streaming content providers say "download" it is more accurately described as downloading a pre-cached version of the stream that only works on proprietary software which is reliant on a semi-regular internet connection. For example, you can "download" netflix/amazon/youtube content, but it can only be viewed on the app, and the app must be periodically reconnected to the internet.
I think the right question is: are they free cash flow-positive? I don't know the numbers off the top of my head. "Operating at a loss" means different things to different people.

Profit is an irrelevant metric for a company like YT that would reinvest every dollar of FCF into growth. (See Amazon for the well-fleshed out reasoning as to why this is so.)
An open source project's license is the only thing 99% of corporations care about when deciding whether or not to use some open source project.

And for me in my personal coding, lack of a code of conduct is a positive to me.
> However, if you look very carefully you can find mistakes.

Opened the book, thought "no, it can't be". Agonized for days and weeks if I'm making a fool of myself.

Sent the bug report.

First word in first sentence in first paragraph in first chapter was wrong. Got my cheque. ;-)
How does this tool go from a vuln. in a library to -> a set of affected functions/control paths? My understanding was that the CVE format is unustructed which makes an analysis like this difficult
This is a similar mechanism as govulncheck (https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck), which has been quite nice to use in practice. Because it only cares about vulnerable code that is actually possible to call, it's quiet enough to use as a presubmit check without annoying people. Nice to see this for other languages.
You don't by the streaming movie but a license for an indefinite time.

And how do you know what the limits of the ticket or the license are? You read the document you're agreeing to when buying the ticket.
The states of Delaware or Wyoming.
When apps like Ulysses and 1Password went down the subscription route, I had no issue with it because Ulysses has continued to get better and better over time (by adding great new features), and I use 1Password's cloud sync service (and I think there's an argument to be made that password management apps need to continue evolving with the web to maintain usability).

I realize Spark is doing a bit more than your run-of-the-mill email client, but I see that as an implementation detail / architectural decision more than I see that as a feature as an end user.

The email client space is mostly commoditizated, and the feature set is mostly standardized. I think that's why putting some of these features behind a subscription tier feels so gross to me.

Syncing my contacts to some cloud service and doing something special with them? Sure, charge me for that. Running my emails through some special spam service? (not that this is necessary if you use a decent provider), sure, charge for that.

Mute Thread and Group by Sender cost $4.99/month? No thank you.

I've been a Spark user for a long time, but I have no intention of paying for "Group by Sender", thank you very much.
Then iPhone users will be stuck with Lightning's USB2 speeds.
>The ethics that Christianity teach don't have a backdoor because it's big corporate.

Did you not read what Jesus did to the moneychangers in the temple?
It's the dream of any software vendor to go subscription only. You need recurring revenue. Once off 'lifetime licenses' are not sustainable in the long run, and are subject to piracy and 'cracked' versions of your software distributed on underground warez sites.

Look at 1Password. I own a lifetime license of their (old) password manager software, but have since switched to their subscription based offering, since it's a service that does the job well and I want to support them, and I trust them to be a good steward of my data.
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I don't think we'd recreate film grain, but I think some form of artifacts would exist and people would eventually grow a taste for them.

Modern digital music can be completely clean and flawless. But it can also have some weird artifacts that can only exist digitally, like aliasing, stuttering from a corrupt file or skipping CD player, compression artifacts while streaming or from very low bitrate sources.

And nowadays we're seeing genres like Hyperpop, Glitch Hop, and Future Bass which all play with these artifacts.

Flume even has a song[0] where you can hear the distinctive whine of an improperly grounded USB audio interface. It's inserted into a silent part of the song, so it is 100% intentional and not an accident in the recording. I like to think he's giving a little wink-wink to other music producers.

It's on the "My Name is Flume Mixtape" album, which itself is a great example of intentional digital artifacts in a creative use. There's lots of aliasing on things that shouldn't, and things that "should" alias like square waves sliding into the 10khz range are perfectly alias free.

[0] Amber at 1:51. The ringing sound that comes in after the first bass hit is also some sort of ground noise, but very distorted.

https://youtu.be/RM2cNhVep40
So Apple is going wireless charging only in 2024, did I get that right?
How are you giving these additional, more specific tests? I would think that your acceptance rates would start dropping once you get past five rounds or so.

My personal experience is that people new to interviewing are the ones who think that making individual interviews more precise will improve the process, but my experience is that improvements to the overall interview process aren’t done by improving how good individual interviews are.
It seems OP wants to "shame" (*) the sqlite devs into supporting this fork. "You're going to miss the boat! History repeats itself!"

(*) the modern word for guilt-tripping.
Really nice idea to only show warnings if they are relevant. It's indeed annoying if you need to upgrade lodash only to make your audit tool not show critical warnings because of some function that is not used at all.

This is not open source, though? It does make a big difference for some whether you're able to run the check offline or you're forced to upload your code to some service.

One feature I'd love in such tool would be to be able to get the relevant parts of the changelog of the package that needs to be upgraded. It's not responsible to just run the upgrade command without checking the changelog for breaking or relevant changes. That's exactly why upgrades tend to be done very late, because there is a real risk of breaking something even if it's just a minor version.
I don't have enough data or insight, but the global trends seem like a good indicator.

More people are retiring than joining the workforce AND there's already a shortage, so my thinking is the shortage will continue to grow assuming the demand remains stable or grows.

In China, there are 10 people currently working for every retiree. By 2030 it will drop to 2 people per retiree.
It would be easy to reconcile it - just have a separate shelf clearly marked "Homeopathic remedies" and people who asked for it would have the easiest time finding it, while people asking for the real thing would not be confused.

The fact that it doesn't happen suggests that either they don't care - or they have some interest in maintaining the confusion.
Because the nearby Wi-Fi stations transmit on which country they’re configured also if you are not connected to them. Try to boot it in the middle of a countryside with your phone the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disabled and it should display the default country (I think is USA?! I don’t remember).

This is also the same cause why Apple is using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with the GPS to retrieve your precise location. And this is also you should turn OFF (not tap on the icon from the control center) the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: your privacy.
I typically use control+R to search. If not, I use `history | grep something`. I also rarely clear my shell history.

Lastly, not sure how I feel about your credit system.