skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India's population is still growing and in pretty bad conditions. In Africa population is still booming.

China would have hundreds of millions more people, with consequences for all of us, if it had not done what it did.

Very little efforts are made globally to control population, which makes things like COP27 rather moot.
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Are there any servers with transparent open governance? Debian provides a great example
“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
"Me: \"I'm 45 years old but I've got a 19 year-old young man's body\"\nHer: \"Show me\"\nI opened the freezer to show her the body.\nShe screamed.\nMe too.\n") }

nice
Make a new file.

Type the word, without quotes, "random"

Highlight it.

Click the ? menu.

Click "About Notepad++".
India is 1/5 of the world and IT is the very best way up for millions of Indians.

The talent pool is generally over represented by Indians. I have been rejected a few times by HR (western) for not being a cultural fit.

Indian managers do not generally have the same problem, network can be a better explanation.
>Bottom bracket standards he is right about, way too many manufacturers came up with their own

No, he's wrong about this one too. He used to be right, 5-10 years ago. The bike makers finally saw the light with the ridiculous proliferation of BB standards, and also gave up on pressfit (it caused more problems than it solved, and also the factories just don't have good enough manufacturing tolerances for pressfit brackets to be trouble-free), so they've all been moving to a single threaded BB standard now.
Or you could just prevent namespace collisions. Lots of people change their username for Halloween or other frivolous reasons; restricting everyone because of a mischievous or malicious few is a canonical example of inept rulership. Doubly so in this case, after Musk's recent grand declaration that 'comedy is now legal on Twitter.'
Handle money, get subject to government regulations on money handlers. Who'd have thunk!
How do we as a society combat this oversensitivity? Since when is the use of the word “guys” a micro aggression?

Why is it so rare for someone to stand up against this type of behavior?
"The best things in life are free.

Notepad++ is free.

So Notepad++ is the best.

"

Logically incorrect. Maybe that is the joke. Should be: "The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. Therefore if something is not free, it cannot be one of the best things, or notepad++"
Please link to the original source. This is just the worst possible interpretation of Luckey's blog post in order to attract eyeballs.
I'm frugal by nature, and from Eastern Europe. How comfortable a life can one afford with $60k/yr or $30k/yr in the US? With this level of income, would you actually find any essential things or services lacking in life?

In other words, what's the actual, practical need for a person (or a smaller nuclear family) in the US to actually earn $400k a year?

Similar to the US, university-employed PhDs definitely tend to make less than many industry professionals in my country as well. Then again, it is nonetheless a very acceptable standard of living. As civil servants, life is very stable (as compared to e.g. one-person companies), and they are by no means poor. Most importantly, though, a doctorate program will very probably train you into a better, more analytical thinker (I've seen very few examples of the contrary).

For that reason, I've always found it questionable when PhD vs no PhD is debated solely on the basis of expected income. Maybe I should remove my pink glasses, but there is, still, a little more to it, isn't it?
They stop using it because they can’t sms? Why is that… no connection to wifi?
The century of humiliation probably is the reason why.

To use the same analogy is like someone hacked their system and placed a bug in production.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
This looks like a student assignment project from some CS class. A lot of promises, but looks like some TCP reinvented over UDP using some C API with some decentralization marketing.

> TCP/IP design is fundamentally broken, and a different approach is needed to build efficient packet networks.
Oh. Twitter app has so many permissions?
What if I use twitter in a web browser?
Signal's "ongoing linkage to phone numbers" is one of their more powerful security features.
I always have the same issue when copying files over from my iPhone to my Windows PC, all photos are given a random name. They really do their best to keep you locked in.

However, if you are lucky files might still preserve the modification timestamp from the time they were created. I use a little script to rename all those files chronologically. I'm sharing it below if it helps ;)

https://github.com/monti-python/utils/blob/master/rename_chr...
Yeah that was my first reaction as well and I am still not sure how I feel about Signal pursuing this, but I appreciated the opt out option. I also appreciated that they talked about opting out early in the blog post before diving deeper into the mechanics.
That problem is only in your head, and it sounds like someone complaining that iPhones and Ferraris are too expensive.

I recently bought a perfectly nice hybrid bike (with disc brakes too) for less than USD$1000.
I do love honk but the code is horrible to read (probably not an issue for most) which makes it a pain when it can't, e.g., follow someone on a gotosocial instance and you want to debug that or you want something like 2FA.
Ya, so they just need to add another party to be considered as such
I think the only way to improve things is to have a representative based system. Local community picks a rep, sends them to a higher level meeting, all the chosen reps pick a rep from among them to send to the next level, repeat and scale the number of layers as needed. Then there’s no mystery because everyone at each level knows who they agreed to send to represent them. Your party should just be your literal party, your local community.

This whole top-down thing where powerful established groups that already have their own agenda tell you and your neighbors that you can only choose between a few of their chosen people to represent you has got to go, the agenda should be your agenda, the rep should be your rep. This is totally doable, repeal the 17th amendment for starters. Add more meeting houses next, counties/districts can have their own house that each elect the state Congress, etc, micro-service distributed architecture!
If I may quote Orwell, who opined at length on the tendency of his countrymen towards authoritarianism in support of 'good' causes, "But how much of the present slide towards Fascist ways of thought is traceable to the ‘anti-Fascism’ of the past ten years and the unscrupulousness it has entailed?"

And in the words of Aldous Huxley, "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."

Of course, C.S. Lewis also had a good line on the matter; "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Why would you use this over something like Realm, which is a much more solid embedded database and already syncs directly with MongoDB?
In the news, the ancient art of yodeling has been lost among the denizens of Switzerland! How will they adapt to life going forward?
Eh, someone will probably smoke you on their $1k bike. You gain literally nothing for the more expensive bikes except a few grams of weight savings here and there.
Definitely not optimal but it gets the job done? /s

Do you have any better model to recommend?
Thank. Will try it out.
If you look into it the primary intent of the ordinance is to ensure hotel workers can get help fast if they are assaulted in the course of their job, and the secondary intent is to prevent them from being overworked without consent.

Which makes this ploy especially distasteful in my eyes - bit of a "the city made us make your servants feel safe and valued at work" fee.
But many cities from these states also face high pollution.

Noida, Ghaziabad (UP), Gurugram (Haryana) are a few examples which are highly populated. Noida is slowly growing as UP's manufactoring hub, already being its IT hub. Gurugram is another IT hub.

A lot of this problem is also because of the apathy of the working class who reside in these cities.

We have to learn the art of activism :(
U.N. Chief Tells Cop Leaders 'Cooperate or Perish'
A very interesting concept. I really like the idea of a "triangles as control" for GPU rendered curves. I think having multiple primitives is less pure but very practical. Too bad you don't get the continuous curve for free like you do in a Bezier curve, but it seems like something good tooling could really help with.

One thing that came to mind: It's pretty easy to encode or include addition points within the vertices of a triangle. So as long as the constraint that the whole section of the curve is contained within the triangle, it might be worth thinking about adding additional control points related to the triangle-control/Gkurve-primitive
You don’t need APAC when the entire play is corporate takeover of government in the US
>You gain literally nothing for the more expensive bikes

You do if they come with a beefy motor strapped to them.
So we have Elon Musk, currently speedrunning the destruction of a company nominally worth $44 billion; and Palmer Luckey playing Dr. Strangelove by creating a weeb-inspired death helmet, all while providing the U.S. government with the tools to remotely execute its opponents.

But the thing that should really scare us is trans activists detoxifying the internet by getting Tier 1 ISPs to blackhole hate sites.

Right.
Why AI Can’t Match Humans at Mathematics (Yet)
It was more than 40 years ago when the four color map theorem was famously solved using a computer program. Today artificial intelligence has made its way into all areas of mathematics from identifying patterns, making conjectures, verifying and even proving theorems.

So why can’t an AI win a mathematics competition designed for high school students?
Bikes are much easier to maintain than they have been in the past. Mechanical 1x drive trains are much easier to fine tune than anything with a front derailleur. I'll take cable actuated disk brakes over cantilever brakes any day of the year. Outboard bearing bottom brackets are much simpler than square tapered bottom brackets - I never want to see a crank puller ever again in my life. Threaded stems always felt like a kludge.

Many more specialized parts of bikes: suspension (especially rear), tubeless tires, electronic shifting are optional. If you spend $10,000+ on a bike, there may be some parts that are more persnickety than others to a garage wrench turner.

The one good tool to get to make things go much more smoother is an accurate torque wrench for things like bottom bracket installation. If you've got fancy carbon parts (which I do not), you need another, smaller one for smaller nm of torque(s).

Also, what are we comparing bike to? They're easier than a motorcycle, and much of a motorcycle is easy enough to work on at home if you have the curiosity. What modern bike parts are (which I'll concede) in many cases are more delicate. I don't like how thin my 11spd chain is compared to the 9spd I started out with, and I don't like how sensitive to wear the entire drivetrain is either, but thems the breaks. Proper cleaning and lubing is just that much more important.
I wrote a little script in PowerShell myself, and what I found was modification times were wildly incorrect. Creation time couldn't be relied on because it would default to the day it was copied over. The script checks the EXIF data for "Date Taken", and was able to reduce the number of pictures I needed to sort from 30k to around 4k left. That's still a lot of photos to sort through, though.
Do you need Mummy's breast...
Could you provide a link to original (Chinese) article?
New study reveals complex identity of ancient Britons
I like it, but couldn't get past having to learn the argument order of each predicate.
I firmly believe (as in assuming, no proof) that it was both a cost saving measure and what you describe as increasing revenue - think about it in terms of statistics, if you give the user the most relevant videos as the top 5 suggestions, you can cut down the cost of a query substantially and so cheaply so that you spend micro-cents per query, whereas before you'd arbitrarily cut off search results related to the user query after ~50 pages or potentially more, costing maybe thousanths-cents per query

The new scenario gets you the user conversion to a watched video and subsequently to a relevant ad, all the way to the 95th percentile, and maybe even 99th percentile conversion, at a fraction of the cost, and doubled with the fact that the extremely relevant result got the user to a video, got more monetization as a result. Your cost is then simply the query time to the cheap edge model, and then the search that provides the most relevant videos to search top-n (in this case 5)

It's not working for some people - but who cares, you hit 99th percentile of all users and you've cut down the spending of a black hole that YouTube is, in fact you might've even made the experience better for 99% of users.
I have nothing to substantiate my claims, but knowing how I'd reason about it, this would be my assumption for the state YouTube search is in

I also hate this and it has made me move away from YouTube search, unfortunately YouTube recommended is quite good at giving me relevant videos to myself
This was all true in US at some point.
I've gone far into the depths of hell trying to properly set up a pair of cantilever brakes to be performative. Disk brakes any day.
Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser
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It's written in Golang and Nextjs React Framework and runs as a single binary.

Features:

- Cloud based: Setup on your server. Works in browser.

- Easy to use: with minimal interface it is simple to use.

- Collaborative: Works with your teams. Easy sharing queries within team.

- Database Support: Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

It's in beta phase and all I am looking for is some users who want to try it out and drop some feedback in comments.
Agreed. Also, you don't probably need highest-end tools (e.g. most expensive chisels) as a family handyman. I've come to conclude that once you're good with sharpening, even lower-end tools do the job just fine on most "home improvement" cases.

First blame the man, not the tool, as always.

The best middle ground seems to be buying well-kept professional tools second hand, though. It is also strangely enjoyable to hunt for these online.
I use it daily on the M1 Air that I work on, and probably 1-3 times a month on my desktop gaming PC. I never need to re-login on my Mac, and on my PC it feels like 50/50 odds whether I'll have to log in again or not - it's infuriating.
Also, biopics are terrible. I can't think of a single one that is worth it, especially if you consider that for many of the subjects, you could just watch a documentary on the person anyway, often with real footage and interviews with them. Biopics are usually just cash grabs and weird Hollywood flexes about mimicking someone else. The fact that they do so well at the awards ceremonies speaks to this.
Impersonation isn’t really free speech.
I think like most generalizations, "studies show" is making this seem like a much more pervasive bias than it is. I definitely buy that the majority of people tend to go with defaults more often than not, because were that not the case, the notion of a "default" would hardly even be well-formed. But it's clear that it's also not that uncommon to have the opposite bias, as demonstrated by how often one hears the advice "don't reinvent the wheel" and how apt and wise that advice is for some people

I definitely find myself in that position. I have a strong resistance to uncritically making decisions based on the default that is presented to me, and while I do view this as a valuable part of my mindset in many circumstances, it also is quite often the wrong call in retrospect, whether it's absorbing too much risk, accepting too much decision fatigue over insignificant choices, or even choosing suboptimally just to make a point

I think a lot of people could benefit from trying to make more choices, but I've very seldom met advice whose opposite wasn't appropriate for someone, and even less often met advice that's wise for everyone in every circumstance

Too often, studies that find that e.g. 67% of their participants behave a certain way - often in fairly constructed conditions - create a false sense of consensus and homogeneity, even among fairly smart consumers of such information, when reported this way
I like the link to old.reddit. New reddit is still such a sluggish site..
Hmm I thought this was a common enough expression, but apparently its largely limited to Indian English.

A “purple patch” is a period of exceptional performance. Like an athlete being “in the zone”.
Eastern Europeans can relate too. Lots of people with phd from finance to physics and philosophy were or at least started like that in Western Europe too.
> Though it doesn't seem to deviate from Mastodon

It's a single binary that can use SQLite - from what I've heard of the Mastodon source, that's like a trowel compared to their intergalactic planet crusher that occasionally crushes parts of itself. Pleroma would be more of one of those big circular strip miners - a reasonably heavy faff and a half (don't let your OS upgrade Elixir! Pleroma might not restart!).
For comparison - UK/mathematics, I went into research on day one, my supervisor set me an 'easy' problem straight off the bat, and I learned on the job. A couple of extra research problems came up naturally during my PhD. Had a paper submitted by end of year 1, was ready to write-up my thesis by end of year 3. I had some teaching responsibilities, but nothing heavy like running a course. Not saying it always goes this smoothly, but I rarely felt like I wasn't moving towards the end goal. +1 to 'forget about becoming a professor though/pay is terrible' though!
The number 1 most important property of voting by far is that the results are believable.

Voting machines irreparably damage the believability that an election was fair. They require trust, they require operation, and they increase the blast radius of bad actors. They are fundamentally a black box, open source or not, because the operation of them is subject to human malfeasance. There is no guarantee the open source software itself is what is running on those machines.

I consider myself extremely liberal and I don't believe America's elections are legit. I cannot go verify for myself that votes are tabulated reasonably, so I have to trust without the ability to verify. I cannot even begin to explain the details or process of how an election is run. I can't even think of edge cases for voting and how they are addressed because there is too much I don't know I don't know. I can't tell you what prevents double voting, voting on behalf of non voters (for example if I knew 10 people who haven't voted in 30 years, I might be able to submit a ballot on behalf of them), or what prevents ballot interception. Some states use "signatures" yet my signature is not even remotely distinct.

It doesn't have to be this way.

In Taiwan, you go to your voting location, you vote in a booth, you put your ballot into a box, the box is opened after polling hours and votes are tallied publicly with anonymous ballots shown publicly as they are tallied. Ambiguous ballots are subject to public review. All unambiguous votes are counted. Everything except filling out the ballot itself is public.

When conservatives spew forth the big lie, that is not something that can be thrown under the rug. That is not a Trump problem, that is not a conserative problem, that is an America problem. If election results are not fairly undeniable, the basis of democracy (that those in the minority should submit to majority rule) is violated.

The fact that election officials are more concerned with "counting the vote" than "our voting integrity is unimpeachable" is a big problem.
1. The interpretation is straightforward but the construction is not: why is 他把饭吃了 grammatical but 他把我帮了 not, despite both being SOV constructions you can make SVO (他饭吃，他帮我）?

2. 走路 I agree colloquially you can say 我在走 even if it feels a bit fragmenty. I do think there’s a lot of difficulty again in the construction:

He’s walking: 他在走（路）

He walks quickly: 他走路很快/他走得很快 but not 他走很快

He walks to my home: 他走到我家 but not 他走路到我家

3. I guess this one depends on your view of past tense and if past perfect you consider a subset of past tense or separate: in any case 了 is not a past tense marker, since you can use it to talk about the future (e.g. 他要来了 for “he is about to arrive”)

4. I just wanted to point out that 们 is not a generic pluralizer and the generic pluralizer is usually implicit: besides, particles lie all the time in Chinese: half the words with the 纟 radical have nothing to do with silk!
Facebook polls are neither secret nor verifiable. Facebook knows how everyone voted, and voters cannot verify that Facebook is reporting the correct result. Those problems can theoretically be solved with cryptography (assuming the voter has full control of the device used to cast their vote), but not in a way the average voter can understand and verify.

Another problem with online voting is that malware can infect a voter's device to spy on how they vote and/or change their vote. I don't think there is a solution to that problem.

Online voting is a terrible idea. The only way to have secure elections is to publicly count every ballot by hand. If you think that's too expensive, you think electoral democracy is too expensive.
If you spend $10,000+ on a bike

Holy shit, people do this? Around here used steel frame bicycles from the 80s with a Shimano 600 are €350 if in good condition. And the fact that they are from the 80s and in good condition tells us something about maintainablility of those bicycles.
Slightly off-topic: what a fantastic time that was.

The "blogosphere" times were, if you squint enough, the perfect web.

Independent publishers (bloggers) associating freely (rings, networks), making federated content (RSS) and independent curation (slashdot et al) tying it all together.

SEO was in its infancy and algorithms too primitive. Bliss.

Not sure what went wrong. AdSense? Google? Social networking?

But somehow the platforms and blogspam ate it all.