skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Culture is a powerful thing. My dad spent his career in public health, exporting to Asian countries contraception and the idea that children are a burden to economic and social development. And it was amazingly effective. In our home country of Bangladesh, the total fertility rate has dropped from 5.7 kids per woman the year I was born to under 2 in 2020. But the new cultural attitudes towards having kids seem entrenched now, and it seems like we will overshoot the targets and go well below replacement levels all across Asia.

The economic consequences of that aren’t going to be pretty. Japan and Korea face many economic headwinds, but among them is the fact that there will be fewer consumers in 50 years. Immigration isn’t a solution to that either. The culture you can create with a homogenous population where everyone is socialized in the same norms from birth just can’t be replicated in an immigrant nation. London and Toronto are fine, but Tokyo and Kyoto are remarkable and different and I doubt they can be maintained in that state by non-Japanese.
Author loads full size images which are just shrinked instead loading thumbnails and then writes article about website design.
> No one is using OpenGL or Vulkan to a significant extent any more.

Absolutely untrue. See also: Android.
What is this "NewTech"?
I have seen trans-friendly people who empathize with people who regretted their transition. The important thing was that that person was not trying to get gender-affirming medical care restricted.
Not saying this is the future, but something like it is. All of the core decisions here are solid (pub key identities, signed events, dumb relays).

There are still features that many apps will need such as tying multiple devices to an identity, abuse prevention for relay operators, etc.
It’s not leaky at all.
I come here to get away from the Reddit crowd. The last thing I want to see is for this site to turn into... that dumpster fire. It's not about being above anyone, it's about setting a tone for a community.
A simple “according to xxx” would have sufficed, no need for an essay. I’ve heard the same thing, I don’t know from where, and that makes me suspect. I wish it where true, it would mean we have to change 1 single industry instead of all manufacturing. The pictures I have seen from The Great Plastic Texas-sized zone didn’t look like fishnets. I don’t think you are pro-Coca-Cola but I do think that message being out there benefits them.
Mate most of us don't hate bin chickens at all. Tbh love em. Icon of the cities especially Sydney's inner west. Folks graf murals of them and all kinda representations :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYWhkSbTU
Where is there a housing crisis with no restrictions on construction, and how much construction has been happening there relative to population growth?

Compared to the Bay Area, there are many, many places with vacancies at 80% (Weed, CA) to 99% (Detroit) lower prices. The problem is that everyone wants to live in a few good employment markets with local housing shortages imposed by zoning.
5 days ago, same repetitive junk pushing the same deceptive political take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681030
Not to mention a lot of the subsequent requests when loading https://www.tesla.com/ contains the HTTP header+value "x-generator: Drupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)"

So yeah, not exactly a secret.
Well, if not by running them and not by analyzing them (any rule system, not just logic is affected), what is your proposed.. whatever to say whether they halt or not? Or any other non-trivial, semantic property?
I agree a bit with your point, but still, given how little it is usually emphasized that the Halting problem is not valid for finite-state machines I'm not sure that even very smart people don't mistakenly end up believing that it is.
The political issue for 2040 is going to be countries in demographic crises pretty much everywhere trying to drastically change housing, employment, and childcare to try to get their populations to reproduce.

The rent seeking which has made so much of people’s lifetime income dedicated to housing which is getting progressively smaller makes investing or just affording children unreasonable to very many people.

Society will need to reorganize itself so that people can have children younger and afford the space to raise them in comfortably which means working parents who can hire childcare so that they can have lives outside of only raising children.

This doesn’t happen with high density city property development which is about the only thing people advocate for.

We need zoning in cities that forces the presence of big spaces for people that actually want them including parking for vehicles and significant tax penalties for vacancy.

Housing needs to be a bad investment.

Facebook ads seem to think I’ma real estate investor and one of the ads I’m seeing a lot is bragging about sixty percent returns on property development projects. That is not adding value and charging appropriately for it, it’s just theft.
We do. But with free TLD's, spammers and scammers can create an unlimited number of new domains at zero cost. That's the problem. They can send a single spam URL to a single person and scale that out, each person gets a unique domain and URL.
Whenever articles like these are published, I wonder who the Author thinks does the work of writing free articles on the Internet just for their pleasure. Content is expensive and is created by writers who must be paid.

To demand quality articles from the Internet, you must be willing to pay for them. Nobody exists just to write free passionate articles on the Internet and earn no money from them.
A huge issue is when one is googling for some obscure issue or error message at work, and end up in a fake website with NSFW content or banners.
But is it pronounced GORE-teks or gore-TEK?
The Mac Mini is actually a pretty nice little unit, and not priced too terribly.
Azure Active Directory has both SAML and OpenID Connect endpoints… what’s missing?
People keep saying economic factors dont matter, but having a comfortable home is key. It was the norm for most of human history; you could simply build one by yourself. It is probably still true in dirt-poor places with high-fertility rates. Family is conceptually proportional to a person's property and the tiny or temporary 21th century spaces just don't leave a lot of space for "let's have a kid"

(I think that 's the reason why the US has higher fertility that europe: bigger homes)
Well, demographic crunches are not really enjoyable.
KUnit: Linux Kernel Unit Testing
FYI, the account that you are replying to has a very long track record of pushing this talking point (and other crank opinions), so do not think that you are engaging in a good faith discussion with someone who can be convinced (1) - if they could be, it would have happened long ago. They're here to push that opinion into the public sphere.
That account was even banned from posting for a while (2), thankfully. Why it was allowed back, I do not know.

1)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33679821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32990026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314574

2)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323579
Yeah this is where I was always confused, I think "trigger warning" has become one of those ill-defined concepts, especially in american political discourse, that mean so many things that they don't really mean anything anymore. Other examples: "liberal," which I've heard mean everything from anarchism through communism and all the way to its actual definition, "communism" which seems to mean fascism, "fascism" which seems to mean literally anything, "grooming" which seems to mean not being heteronormative or heterosexual, etc.

I always thought a true trigger warning, the kind that I really like, are for example movies warning when there'd be things like gore and etc that I don't like to watch. I like it because I get a physically ill reaction that will ruin my night if i see fictionalized gore. I wish I didn't, but I do, so it goes. But as you've said I've seen "trigger warning" mean literally putting the words "trigger warning" on the top of a text post which seems pointless, or, saying it before telling a story, which also seems pointless.
Anytype seems to be playing in the same general space that we are. But, all I know about it is what I can glean from their website, so I can't say for sure how similar it is in concrete terms.

To offer one distinction: while both projects are at an early stage and undergoing development, Noosphere has been open source from the beginning. You can scrutinize our work and kick the cans on it today (warning: very alpha / do not use in production). We invite active participation from all who are interested, and welcome contributions to our Github projects.

https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere
Yeah this screams complete and utter desperation. Like, I get that hating Elon is what all the cool kids at school are doing this month but do we really need this immature garbage on the front page of HN all day?
Are you sure you're not using any displaylink cable/drivers?

I had a choppy mouse at a certain point, but that was only with a bluetooth mouse. Bluetooth runs at a slower rate in any case, but I think it might have had to do with some interference.
What makes you think that there is some "substantial risk"? You seem to be mixing together git repos and site deployment rules. I don't see the big deal here with some CMS leftovers being deployed, but yes from a perspective of correctness this is not something that needs to be deployed.
This is sort of what sonic games are and always have been. If you play an original sonic game… it kind of sucks from a modern design perspective. Speed is the name of the game but you don’t know the level layout and are thus being forced to stop all the time. It feels bad.

Sonic was built on the assumption that you would learn layouts and speed run the game before speed running was well established. Not work your way through the levels and beat them with much of an “on the fly” planning and execution like in something like Mario.

Something like Mario Maker is sort of the hard delineation between the two. It’s hard to enjoy a good sonic level on the first pass.

Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 were, imo, mostly successful because they were just really cool and aesthetic. The orcas from the first level of one and the truck from the first level of two are iconic. Perhaps the first games I can remember to offer that prepackaged hand crafted AAA feel that has leaked into other genres these days.
I was in yet another meeting the other day, and we had more "observers" than actual contributors / workers. Totally absurd. At the end of the meeting, some of the "observers" simply don't understand the meeting, and want a follow up meeting to discuss the meeting, so they discuss it in yet another meeting (presumably to appear intelligent so even more meetings can be scheduled.)

I've also noticed the PowerPoint issue: densely packed slides look ridiculous and don't project well. I think a lot of people wind up simply reading off the slides.
Or you could just deploy on metal, which will be cheaper and sufficient for vast majority of cases. Plus you can always migrate to VMs with relatively low hassle.
We've just passed the 8 billion mark and that is unsustainable.

So what's happening in Korea, and also in other countries, needs to happen everywhere for a while.

Then, humanity will be able to enjoy life in a sustainable way without worrying about the impact of every action, food choice, travel.
I want to know more, please.
So basically everyone’s life is at risk because the .gitignore got leaked. That sounds reasonable.
If it would be better for the society, then the society should be incentivising it, or at least making the calculation sensible. Hence the discussion
Do: date your superior.

Don't: date your subordinate.
Recognizing Patterns in Memory
I think a lot of people want children but can’t afford them so they’re delaying. Living in a tiny apartment in a questionable neighborhood makes people say later and not being able to afford help and having to dedicate every moment to attending your child just isn’t that appealing.
Probably not, but on the other hand we don't know it for sure cause there isn't one in recent history
I am willing to rewrite ALL the irs software in a language of their choice in return for ability to add a few lines of my own logic for when MY taxes are being processed. IRS, call me ;)
Large houses also feel empty, and then you want to fill it. Also a large house lets you get away from the kids when you or they need it, which leads to happiness. And having a yard or a street where they can play with friends is also amazing. I'd be so paranoid about my kids safety if I lived in a crowded downtown core.
Self-culling of self-destructive cultures.

There probably were many cultures like modern Korean throughout history.

And since they collapsed they...well don't exist anymore obviously.

Natural selection.
The Powerhouses That Drive the World’s Economy (2019)
> Only 60% of Android devices support Vulkan

Total addressable market matters here. 100% of Android-based VR headsets support Vulkan. Granted, that's mostly the Quest 2, but it's not the only HMD in town anymore.

Also, a lot lot lot of Android devices are garbage-tier <$100 that you wouldn't want to target anyways because you won't get any sales on them. So the % of Android devices supporting Vulkan may be misleading in the sense that you might be aiming for a segment of devices with much, much higher, if not complete, support for Vulkan.
Countries trying to raise birth rates are like fat people trying to lose weight: "we've tried nothing and it didn't work!"
Yeah, but if a gitignore tells you where to look for, and it isn't even blocked by a WAF / rule, it makes an interesting target, esp. one of the largest companies out there.

You shouldn't even be able to execute settings.php
The planet is telling us that ever increasing population isn't enjoyable, either, and perhaps even less so.
It's just their landing page, but still embarrassing nonetheless.
Space Elevators Are Less Sci-Fi Than You Think
The interesting thing about Gore-TEX is that is no longer patented, and is merely a licensed trademark that brands pay for. The Gore company certifies the designs, and it goes well beyond stretched PTFE. They require a final level of breathability, waterproof seams, various construction techniques, etc.

Bob Gore is known for being a savvy businessman, and this is one example of how to turn a 20 year patent into a 100 year revenue stream.
Don't know if it's the same, these days, but when I was more "outdoorsy," having the Gore-TEX™ label on something always at least doubled the price.

We usually considered it to be worth it.
There aren't going to be fewer people as a result of this, there are just going to be fewer South Koreans in South Korea. When developed nations pursue non-procreative social policies and lose their demographics, they get internally replaced from undeveloped nations. The global population continues to grow.
I'm not a religious nut, but you have to admit that religion which typically prioritizing lots of babies got this one right
Housing is a factor yes, but I think it's just a symptom of the larger problem of cost of living outpacing compensation.

Not only do parents need to pay for housing, but also for more food, more clothes, child care, sometimes school, and depending on the country extra wear and tear on a car or if it's a multi-child family, a larger vehicle like a minivan. And that's just the financial cost… good parenting also requires more time than can be alotted in modern industrialized society which require one's job to be their life.

It's possible for many to just barely scrape by on their wages with kids in tow, but why would anybody subject themselves to that struggle if they don't have to? If one is serious about having kids it's better to wait until both parents-to-be have achieved higher salaries and saved up significant financial padding to help mitigate disaster. Problem is, many people will never make that kind of money, and thus will never have kids. Others who would find themselves facing fertility issues brought on by age by the time the means is available.
Perhaps we’re an outlier here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul MN area - a strong majority of FM stations here broadcast in HD. Most have at least one, if not two other HD broadcast streams in addition to their main one.

I tend to listen a lot to the HD2+ streams, as advertisers seem to not be interested in paying for ad spots there (which I guess could be indicative of poor adoption, at least beyond the main HD streams).
This is basically what I thought a while back (front-end dev living and working in Japan) but it cannot be the whole true because we foreigners have been saying this for a decade, and the obvious conclusion is that foreign websites that are "better" would come in and sweep the local competition. If Japanese were also horrified with these local designs, they'd JUMP as soon as a decent design comes, right?

But that just doesn't happen, and except in a few cases (so little that could be attributed to luck or natural competition, a big example being Twitter) what usually happens is the opposite, foreign companies come in blazing and get smashed into the ground. See Uber or Airbnb, the former disappeared and the latter is used almost exclusively by foreigners.

So I have two/three extra possible points that might happen, could also be a combination:

- Japanese are used and expect the density of websites here. As others said, look around Tokyo city and it's all hyper-dense, menus in restaurants have multiple layers of information within a page, the TV looks actually like the websites and we foreigners also meme about it[1]. So it might be the cultural norm and expectation, even if we foreigners find it ugly. And saying "consumers also are tech illiterate" about Japan is ignorant at best, condescending at worst.

- It is just a dinosaur thing, and those same dinosaurs use anti-competitive measures to stifle competition. A big one I've been waiting and I'm sure 99% of my friends and I would jump is a BANK with a decent UI. I cannot make international transfers (in EU it's literally like a national transfer) without signing for a different company which is a subsidiary (I believe) and cannot make recurrent payments, which are my two main complains, but it also just sucks in general. Laws based on a strong nationalistic feeling get passed to make e.g. Airbnb or financial companies harder.

- Companies entering Japan don't treat it with respect as a big market, but just as a "let's slap a bad translation on top and expect numbers as strong as in the USA", which is an issue I've seen first hand multiple times as well. For very similar cultures this might work, but for vastly different ones like USA vs Japan you'll need to do i18n besides just translation.

[1] this is really painfully brilliant: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/418/147/086...
Huh. Is there a name for when a widely quoted sentence fragment is used for the rhetorical opposite of the full original sentence? I feel like I’ve seen this happen before, but I can’t place where.

(Also, my favourite Latin to quote at anyone who quotes Latin: quin tu istanc orationem hinc veterem atque antiquam amoves?)
This program makes use of numerous step sequencers.

Musical staff is a ton of overhead to program.

Piano roll would be a good midpoint though.

And yes i wish they would ease off on the dern hex.
Macs, for me, are the software. This is something that became pretty evident during the Intel era. And I bought Macs exclusively when the hardware was both much slower and pricier than PCs (68k and PPC), because I loved the software so much.

Funny to read such an opposite opinion.

I don’t mind the pretty casing, but it’s icing on the cake.
I wouldn't describe SK as xenophobic, but it's definitely far, far, closer to being a homogenous society than a melting pot.

Those not of Korean ancestry are treated as outsiders. This doesn't necessarily mean disrespectfully, though in some cases it does.
At a minimum optimizing for "replacement" theoretically allows a population to continue to exist as it is (assuming all kinds of things like everyone backfills the jobs that are already filled, etc, etc)

A shrinking population is terrible as there are less and less people to support existing institutions like social services, infrastructure, healthcare, etc.

A very simple example is social security. It is a net wealth transfer from working age people to retirement age people.

If there's not enough working age people then there is not enough to support the retirement age people.
Are they really that bad? There are 8 billion people on the planet. We can support more, but it makes more vulnerable to catastrophe.

Japan has had these demographics for a while now but it doesn't seem like they are falling apart. Someone will say-- oh but there economy isn't growing! Better a stagnant economy than a famine or a plague.
Cities have been places where people come to work, live, and die without continuing their line for millennia.

Cities generally vote Democrat, but minorities do too and they have higher fertility than rural whites, who are predominantly Republican.

But I would be wary of drawing any conclusions for future voting patterns from current demographic trends. Politics and the trends can change in mere months or years, the impact of the trends on politics takes decades to emerge.

Elon Musk has probably realized that wealthy white people like him will become a smaller and smaller part of the global population if they cannot reproduce their numbers. Naturally he doesn't include his employees in this important group.

An aristocrat worried about the nobility dying out wouldn't encourage the peasantry to reproduce.
Don't be so sure. I could easily see a country that has a pretty horrid demographic decline being invaded by a verile neighbour filled with young people who want more space. They will likely view it as taking what is rightfully theirs from their decadent and declining neighbours.

I suspect that will happen quite a bit in the next century. There is never an end to history, no matter how much we wish to believe that. It will just happen the next time around with a lot more remote killing machines and a lot of online multi-channel propaganda.
I think it's still perfectly defensible, so long as you're equitable to all, and "other" isn't code for being a racist. Everyone should have access to birth control, family planning and advanced life opportunities. Everyone should have the opportunity to live a sustainable fulfilling life. That's often not possible if you're born into poverty, born to parents who didn't want you, or socially/culturally pressured into having children young.

The solution is better education, better contraceptive access & more sustainable economies that don't rely on endless growth that grinds human lives away for a pittance.
OK, but why don't you block Freenom domains entirely?

Apart from perhaps a couple of sites like gob.gq, there's essentially nothing of any value on those TLDs. Allow-list the handful of good sites, if you must, and default block the rest.
We spray foamed our entire house and the humidity shot through the roof in the late spring and summer months (65%+) and had to run a dehumidifier constantly negating any benefit from our solar panels. Fall and winter were great because we saw a major decrease (like 40%) in natural gas usage compared to that time frame the previous year. However, our home was built without a scuttle because they weren't code yet meaning that our home air got stale quickly and wasn't able to be exhausted through the now spray foamed air holes. We then installed an ERV and it made all the difference in the world.
> sites//settings.php

Yes PHP is still relevant!
It's funny

Alexa is named after the Library of Alexandria.
Their other products are named Kindle and Fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_South_Korea