skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our infrastructure is constrained because of systemic policy decisions, not because we can't practically grow it fast enough. These policy constraints would become significantly more painful under a declining, aging population.

For healthcare, we don't pay our GPs enough and we overwork them. Physicians have been either leaving the profession or moving into non-GP roles (specialists, etc). Since healthcare is taxpayer funded, reducing the number of working age tax payers and increasing the number of aging people in need of health care is going to make this worse.

For housing, we allow too much control of housing at the municipal layer and it's become a complex, bureaucratic mess to build anything anywhere. The dirty secret is that no federal government wants to step in and be the one to fix this because then it would cause housing prices to decrease and a terrifying large percentage of aging, voting population has the majority of their net worth in their house with "downsizing" forming the majority of their retirement plan. Reducing the population isn't going to fix this, we'll end up with less people who can build houses and more people who are either dependent on high house prices for their retirement or poor and in need of taxpayer programs (of which there will be less tax payers to fund) to support themselves.

These are obviously complex issues and I'm simplifying to some degree, but those are at least two key relationships worth really calling out here with respect to population. There's others, but my core point is that simplify cutting off population growth is not going to fix either of these -- it'd probably make them worse.
Berlin has improved a lot too. I spent the whole summer on my bicycle, even with the 9€ monthly public transit pass. The bike routes are just nicer.

They added wide cycling path all the way to the edge of the city, and there are increasingly aggressive plans to keep cars out of the city. At the same time I see more and more ebikes on the roads.

I'm truly impressed. Things are changing fast.
In the first-boot-on-HDD scenario, why would latency make the program fail to start at all? I'd expect it to just start slowly.
You clearly have some sort of axe to grind so I’ll leave it here.
Perhaps but it's the extremity of the conditions and the stresses they put on your body that makes it dangerous and I would think a good deal more difficult than climbing a 2000m peak in a temperate climate.
It's all where you live, and your home network. I had about 15 to 20ms latency to nearest POP, and Stadia honestly played just as well as a PS5 or such.

Moved to a different city, and latency wasn't near as good because of ISP routing, mainly. Still playable, but definite pretiming everything. I think latency there was 50ish ms.
Not sure why you're down voted but this is what I thought as well. What I mainly heard was that thus was aimed at casual gamers. But this felt like an over-engineered solution for casual gamers to make enough money from them while too underpowered to appeal to the hard-core gamers (PC,console gamers).
Large Language Models Can Self-Improve
The Atlantic coastal regions are pretty moderate and they're also sparsely populated. There's plenty of space in southern Ontario/Quebec, in Edmonton and Calgary...
Write Barrier Optimizations in Regions
Made some offhanded comment about Chrome perf on Twitter earlier this year and a Google friend replied something like "Well, pretty much the whole Chrome team just got upgraded to local test machines with at least 32gb of RAM. Godspeed everyone."
I've been watching some geopolitical strategists on YouTube. They seem to be expecting a collapse of the global world order. This means they need to flood North America with fresh labor to compensate for the loss of global labor or inefficiency of doing business in a war-torn international climate. Also, the demographics are bad in the first world. Low birth rates and an aging population.

I would not be surprised if the present culture was engineered to quell any dissent over the new immigration policies.
Or (maybe, hopefully) for anyone with a hole in their favorite sweatshirt?
I feel like you need to include "% of patients" as well to answer the question meaningfully.
“Just” seems to be doing some heavy lifting there.
What the heck? Stadia failed because it sucked, and not everyone lives in a town with a fibre uplink and a local server farm!
There are a lot of illegal housing arrangements like 2-3 families in a basement that cities tend overlook (utility usage not matching with official data) because that's the only way they can sustain the population/economic growth without triggering NIMBYs
That’s what consulates are. An actual police station is way different.
Note: 540B parameters -> Google Research's PaLM (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311).

GSM8K = grade school math word problems

DROP = reading comprehension benchmark requiring discrete reasoning over paragraphs

OpenBookQA = question-answering dataset modeled after open book exams for assessing human understanding of a subject. 5,957 multiple-choice elementary-level science questions

ANLI-A3 = adversarial benchmark designed to be challenging to current state-of-the-art models
> Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

In case someone was wondering.
I tried to use Stadia, as a long-time paid user with a gsuite account I use for my personal account, they wouldn't let me as an "enterprise user". I spit on their future grave then, and I spit on it now - it was destined to die. Steam actually embraces linux with Proton to make windows games work. As a full-time linux user for ~20 years, bless Valve's soul.
It's common, in the open, and Western Governments are too afraid to do anything material about it. That tells you who has power.

It's bad.
JIT. It's using a "known state"/ cached blob to start then quickly falls apart as it does it's "SSD expected" memory management voodoo.
I was severely bullied both verbally and physically. I would take verbally 10/10 times any day. Words hurt, but the fear of being severely physically hurt or accidentally killed is worse by miles.
I'm hearing it a lot less after the recent tech backlash, but a few years ago it was fashionable to say things like "take risks" and "embrace failure". But the cautionary tale that most companies are going to take from this is to take fewer risks and to avoid failure at all costs, which I think is a bad outcome.

Google shouldn't stop cancelling products that fail to get traction, they just need to learn to fail gracefully without leaving customers and developers who've built on top of their platforms in the lurch.
Not sure how you read that as it being dead last. It reads to me that the stack is first and nothing comes even close enough to it to be ranked as a second.
Is this far off from the percentage of immigrants in the total population ages 24-65?
In mid 80ies, I wrote a huge article for school history project on Genghis Khan using reference material from my grandmother's copy of The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 50 volume edition from likely mid 50ies, USSRs answer to Britannica. Gorgeous drawings, gilded cover, lots of really insightful articles. I learned a lot about Mongol invasion and got top grades. I wonder where those books went after her death...
I’ve tried this with a low cost projector. I’m wondering if anyone experienced this with a better quality one?
End-to-end-encryption doesn't protect you if the company holding your keys can be coerced by central authority (eg. Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.). It's been long speculated that many world governments have this capability, and all of it is enabled by the inroads the US government has with domestic tech superpowers.

Believe whatever you want to believe, but I doubt this was a freudian slip. This dude probably saw an internal recon kit that could feasibly have these capabilities, and accidentally got caught bragging about it to the press. Happens very often in the USA as well.
Sounds about right. Pretty much every single gamer (across multiple circles of friends, most outside of tech) I knew joked about this. Most also commented on why would they need it when they already have a PC/console and performance (though Nvidia and PS Now users were quick to speak up on the quality). In general. I'm not saying this was the only reason, but this was one of the reasons every dismissed it.

Even the gaming press was pretty harsh on this in general.
I have a bunch of USB-C cables. Some will fry things some won't. How will a naming convention help me keep track of them once they get chucked into in the basket under my coffee table
Your ethnic group has never invaded and colonised an area?
Reader, Wave, G+, Hangouts, Stadia and soon RCS.

Never build a business on a Google project, only ever use Google as a side hustle.
Put me in the same bucket.

And in Quebec the extreme-left party (QS) is promoting religious sectarianism in schools, in favor of political indoctrination of children.

There are also unashamed communists promoting war in Montreal, just today there was a dude flying the soviet flag on a bike while I was getting coffee, and nothing can be done it about otherwise --> Jail.

Contemporary Canada has only existed for 50 years, and for some reason everybody left of center thinks it's always been this way and it feels like they are all ready to cut their veins open in shame of being born in a successful country...
This seems weird to me, can you define "run properly"?
Yes, but then, firstly, that would be actually something you can influence by at least being more careful, and secondly, I've seen estimates that with aging removed, the average human lifespan would be around 1000 years. And 1000 years is quite a lot of time in terms of scientific progress. Just a reminder: electricity was very new just 150 years ago, yet it's essential for our current society.
personally i prefer javascript front end and node.js backend. all vanilla.
I believe before 18, you need your parents and school principle to sign off. I don't know many kids who didn't work directly out of high school, even with university but in that case, they're just being carried by their parents and will skip directly from "first job" to "their life long career" after graduation.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire, a bullet traveling at 200 feet per second can penetrate human skin. So even terminal velocity is significant and can injure or kill.

The reason perfectly vertical bullets are less dangerous is that they tumble and this tumbling reduces the terminal velocity below dangerous levels. Presumably tumbling could also happen at lower angles due to wind or other factors, it just is less likely.
Isn't that too much effort for something as simple as that.
Unanticipated race condition perhaps? A process takes 2 minutes instead of 5 seconds, and then a later part of the startup fails because it has no way to handle the totally unexpected lack of data
Apparently 21% of Canadians are foreign born so those numbers aren’t entirely out of line. Yet.
Some divorced moms don't do a great job of letting the dad remain involved in a significant way. "Every other weekend" kind of thing. To the detriment of the children, sometimes.

I don't want to generalize, but that's a common narrative also. I have no direct experience.
At a time when traditional American values are more desperately needed than ever around the world, they are dying right here in the USA.
> Also though the Web has been pretty much redone from the ground up since 02000.

Rather: An insane uncontrolled growth of extensions appeared since 2000. The only in my opinion serious attempt to redo the web from ground up that existed in this timeframe was XHTML 2.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XHTML&oldid=11002...). Since the arrival of HTML5 (which was a "let's standardize the wild zoo of extensions that already exist at least a little bit instead of redoing things from ground up in an organized way") XHTML 2.0 is dead.
Aw heck, we're all in on GCP. How much stock can I put in an article from 3 years ago?
What does future hold for Canada?

It has little tech, manufacturing or other productive industry. It was actually among the first in mobile business, with Nortel & RIM. US and China took its lunch. The jobs seem to be mostly in government, finance and service.

On the other hand, housing in Canada is ridiculously unaffordable.

Frankly, it might be better off as a US state, considering it has low population and isn’t able to build a competitive economy.
10x times 0 is 0.
Stellarium is such a great piece of software. Glad they are considering it stable now.
I sincerely respect that you do not value Bitcoin. But by voicing your opinion. You are implicitly partaking in the market. Clearing you are trying to influence others that Bitcoin has no usefulness or value. And again I sincerely respect that. After all that's how a free market works.

Now having said that. By implicitly partaking in the market. You'
d have to concede that other's have a right to partake in the market too. And the market clearly at this time thinks Bitcoin is worth 19,302.40 USD with a market cap of 369.95 billion. That's more then Meta (facebook) BTW

So clearly after 13 years. The market still thinks Bitcoins has value and that valuation has gone up not down. As much as you want to scream to the rafters about it. It's not going to change the markets valuation of Bitcoin. And that's what determines value the market.
Please ask me everything at 9am by 10am I will be too busy and into something. Tell me you are struggling at 4:45 and we'll deal with it tomorrow. Telling me at 4pm means we have to deal with it now when I have planned other activities.
But the valuable energy density of nuclear doesn’t have a combustion equivalent, right? Only explosions or slow burns.
Decades long droughts are associated with a fair few collapsed civilisations.

I heard a fascinating discussion on my country's version of NPR from an author of a book, who started that the Mayan rulers derived their legitimacy and power from their ability to provide abundant and clean water reserves during the dry season. The water lilly was often a symbol of Mayan kings (and allegedly it can only grow in clean water), although I suspect there's a lot more to it than just that.

Then a decades long drought hits the Southern Lowland Mayan cities, and they collapsed, and the author claimed the close association between water and kingship hastened this (although the term collapse is contentious, to paraphrase Gaiman/Pratchett, some historians think that they "didn't so much collapse, as gently saunter downwards")
Why must we compare ourselves to 3rd world countries that have terrible quality of life issues?

Maybe the canadian economy isn't able to support a decent quality of life and these population levels. Seriously go visit these countries these people are from and ask yourself, would you like canada to turn into this?! Let's be honest with ourselves.

Don't worry you can just label me a racist and devolve the argument around that instead of the fundamental issues with immigration today. Canada is going to turn into the countries where these people are from if there aren't cut backs.
ah, got it. Thanks
Immigrants are 21.5% of the population. They are also on average younger than the rest of the population, so they will use less medical services. The average age of a Canadian actually went down this year for the first time in over 50 years because of younger immigrants arriving.
What happens to plants (phytoplankton, for example), fungi and animals may very well impact we 'top-of-the-food-chain' animals as well. That somebody is overseeing reports on what's happening to all life is an amazing, too-long deferred development (as were acts to protect water and the air). If noone had responded to the ozone hole, many of us would be listening to, not reading, HN.
Bindexr: Budget Inventory Management Software
> If it was this easy eveyone would be using RPC all over the place for many years already, and we'd have no HTTP and no train-load of other protocols.

People are using RPC over HTTP all the time. Most backend APIs I've seen are only vaguely RESTful [1] and everyone seems to stuff much of their critical functionality in JSON RPC APIs masquerading as POST endpoints.

[1] no true scotsman and HATEOAS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You know exactly what that word is referring to.
> Your answer is to become the reseller and charge more putting the reseller out of business?

No, that's what the promoter should do.

> Now you have increased profits short term and increased risks. And only rich fans can attend. This works for some stars and against other star'a brand.

No, it's doesn't have to be this way. Price could start at $1000, but the minimum could be as low as $50.

Yes, the rich fans would get their tickets first, but after the first 50% tickets are sold, all the remaining tickets could cost $50.

This way, at least theoretically, all the rich fans would get their tickets directly, and the resellers would go out of business.
I'm a loxsmith, and I'm a loxsmith.

https://youtu.be/XFhpctuUwb4
An elegy for GNU and RMS
Chinese agents have also been arrested in the US for this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/16/...
yet again unjustifiably both-sidesing the actions of America and china. i don't like when America does it but it isn't relevant and i'm a lot less worried about her expanding power than china.

spoiler: most of us actually don't like the bullshit war on terror/war on drugs tactics.

and is there evidence we've threatened American citizens at home to get to expats?
But not pushed with electromagnets, yeah?
It definitely took me more than an hour. It's possible I've gotten further? I just don't remember exactly where I left it because there's barely anything there to remember.

Xbox profile tells me I've got 20 hours played, 20% achievements obtained, 7 endings acquired.
It should not be surprising at all - you are 'allowed' to do what you have the power to do and get away with.

China speaks with one voice, Xi, everyone else a thousand voices. US has 10 000 people at least who make up the power of Xi. President, senator, CEO, senior bureaucrat, judge, heads of NGOs, Universities, police, military etc. all 'put in one group and coordinated with an ambitious 50 year plan' in the West. Even in a single country.

Europe, N. America, Japan, Korea, Australia have to partner with 'everyone else' in a comprehensive way to stand up to this. Trans Pacific was a big opportunity that Trump didn't have the foresight to grasp - he wanted to have 'unipolar power' in a world where the US just does not have the leverage it did after WW2 and no amount of 'wishing' or even exceptional leadership will change that. US could 'solve all it's problems' and it would still be the reality that % of global GDP would be declining because other nations are 'coming on line'.

Oddly, a panacea of 'other voices' may serve to counterbalance. Even if they are acting in self interest, to the extent they are not overrun by China, their own voices add up to something. We are seeing the beginning of that in Africa, with their stance on the Ukraine issue. While they should definitely be taking a more assertive stance via Russia, the fact they are where they are (and partly due to the fact Russia is their 'breadbasket') is an indication of coherent self interest on some level.

I don't think it's cause for world wide alarm, but there needs to be a plan.
Musk's advertising strategy with Tesla has been to keep telling a bigger lie. Telsa's full self-driving is neither full nor self. FSD doesn't work right. But that doesn't matter because the lie sure works. People keep buying in even after 9 years of false promises:

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

The Tesla bot is just the next lie. It doesn't matter if it never works right. It doesn't matter if it is perpetually "one year away". People will buy in, just like they did with FSD.
"Heck just give Canadians a 0% interest, 0 down mortgage for building a 500k home and residing in it for at least 10 years in say Regina."

No one would take it because you'd be in Regina.

And the West "cant build cities" anymore because there's no need to build a city in the Prairies anymore. 100 years ago physical labor had to man farms, and therefore you had human settlements. There's no need to put a new city in between Winnipeg and Calgary except to store people in it.
That's an odd take. Most of the discussion that I see online about detrimental aspects of Canadian immigration levels are focused on housing prices/availability than health care.

I think most people acknowledge that immigrants are young and relatively more fit and therefore don't consume health services nearly as much as aging, western boomers.

The major issue we're facing due to the high immigration levels is the strain that it's putting on our housing availability levels. Those 270k people/year need to live somewhere, right now and that has direct effects on cost of living of everyone in Canada.
> But Canada afaik does not have multicultural immigration

This is not correct. Toronto is 52% visible minorities. Even mid-sized cities like Calgary have big immigrant populations from Asia. When I visiting the wilderness of BC I actually ran into a guy who owned a fruit orchard who immigrated from India a few years back.
CNAME wouldn’t work because then the cookie is bound to that domain. So the identity doesn’t travel from website to website.
Interesting. Can you please share some links to the videos you are describing?
Texas was also emptier than Nova Scotia at the time.

If Nova Scotia stats being filled with Russian immigrants maybe it’s worth noting.
Reminds me of the Woody Allen scene with Marshall McLuhan.
and huggging face doesn't even require you to signup/login to have a try
No. It's actually less affordable than the US relative to income.

That said, it's undergoing a massive correction right now, so you may be right in 3-5 years.
No dog in this race

First of all this is a civil case of liability which ranges from indirect responsibility to facilitated thru incompetence/ambivalence

Second this article is about dismissal of the case over jurisdiction for parts of the claim

Third “The judge also dismissed claims … lack … jurisdiction”

Maybe the case is over with a ruling, maybe there is an article proving a link, maybe maybe but this article doesn’t make that
Proof
With iOS you’re SOL. No extensions. And they allow in-app browsers. I wish it would be banned.
Trifolds are simply too bulky, expensive, and greasy for the main populace. Don't get me wrong, I would like a subsidized push for that too, but the e-scooter seems like the best thing to get everyone going, which is why Bird/etc used that and not e-bikes.
nope, a shitton of amphetamines and fentanyl that end up here poisoning our population start there. we should be at war with china the way she is doing this. over 100,000 a year from opioids alone. Australia getting hit with meth explosions in a similar manner. exporting drugs is china's sneaky way of weakening her competition.
Canada should make multiple cities named Vancouver and build tons of houses there and sell them to unsuspecting foreigners.

Big money win/win.
Some infrastructure can be built first - for example a train line with planned stations that aren’t active yet.

Can help direct development.
I think he's implying that the immigration system as it presently exists primarily brings in a class of person that is unlikely to work at Tim Hortons, but likely to be a customer of Tim Hortons. This exacerbates the waiting times.

That said, I do not live in North America. I am inferring from context.
Can you please provide a source? According to https://data.oecd.org/price/housing-prices.htm Canada is only behind Portugal and The Netherlands in terms of housing price to income ratio.