skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a great statistic. Modern age makes having more than two exceedingly difficult if both parents need to work.
From 2009, damn, this has been going on for 13 years now...
It does this all the time
Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work?
There's a lot of news regarding copilot and openAI and what have you. I'm not familiar with AI so I cannot really tell hype from substance here.

Should I worry? Do you think that some form of AI will be able to do the job of an average programmer any time soon? If yes what is your estimate? And how would you try to AI-proof your career?
Are you saying that you can't measure battery power capacity? Why would you assert something weird like that?

Grid assets are measured by power, and power is a key specification of storage capacity.

Edit in response to your edit: the EIA, and in fact all the people who run grids and the grid storage, refer to capacity in terms of power, and when talking about "storage capacity" on the grid continues to use power because it would be nonsensical and silly to switch to a not-so-useful energy unit rather than power unit when power is the key metric for grids.
Lots of presumably learned research and obscure historical fact in that article. But it continually states that eeny-meeny is a 'counting system' eg. "used by shepherds to count their sheep" etc.

Eeeny-meeny is not a counting system. Why would people use a nonsense rhyme to count things? It makes no sense (literally!). Eeny-meeny is used as a 'random selection system' when choosing arbitrarily from a series of options.

Odd to get that basic fact wrong in such an in-depth article.
I have b/w HP laser printer, one of the office oriented series. His cartridges has some chip and 2 contacts on it. After a while after purchasing and some amount of pages it refused to print because of low toner. I have simply covered contacts with tape - and printer works again! However, HP software started to complain that cartridge is missing. For every page printed lol. While actually printer was working. Solution - uninstall HP software and use some generic compatible driver. And after with this cartridge it printed at least as double amount as before it become “empty”.
Sure, understanding the logic behind validating reality models is very useful. Surely, you also can see that pretending like valid reality models are more then useful, but a representation of the very nature of existence, is just a flight of fancy. We don't know what is reality, why is reality, and the bulk of it lies eternally beyond us, towards past and future. Sure we can figure out reality, it's all about tunnels baby! Says the ant.
And if not, surely a political body with armed forces backing said bank could negotiate for leverage or support from other governments
> It’s just not true

But it is true.

> I recommend your friend to find good tax advisor if he/she is not capable to do it by himself/herself.

The situation is just as bad in the US. And I would be surprised if it isn't similarly Byzantine in the UK.

A few years ago the federal administrative court recalled tax reforms because nobody could understand them. That's a Normenklarheitsgebotverstoß!
Fear of missing out can be used to talk about something that closely corresponds to the idea of desire.
Modern Fortran
A 6.7 inch E-Ink display that pairs with your smartphone
fully agree demsocs are obnoxious and in turn friendly to fascism, i’ ll move onto sharing more anarchist oriented material if i can find better sources for it
> This implies, no record of personal purchases around.

What's stopping peoole to do it?

I regularly pay my drinks cash.

I never paid a beer more than 10k though...

> The current "fight against cash" goes in direction of that risk.

I'm glad that when I pay someone for something they can't say I didn't do it and ask for the money again.

That includes the State.

I paid my taxes, here's the proof.

I already paid my energy bill, here's the statement from the bank, have a good day.

Besides, what you are talking about has nothing to do with limits to cash transactions, I am honestly scared by the idea of going around with 10k in a bag to pay for something

only a fool or a criminal would actually do it and feel comfortable about it.

it's betting against bad luck and I an quite sure that I would not win.

Are you sure that you are going to the appointment with the seller with 12k in cash and they are not showing up with guns and rob you?

And what would you do then?

Go to the police? that first thing will do is ask you why you were going around with that much cash in a bag.

Thanks, but no thanks.
There is significant (up to 9 months, from friends' experience) gap between fleeing to the country and getting legal residency (work permit, visa D, blue card). But even that doesn't make opening bank account much easier, there are banks that doesn't open accounts for holders of Russian passports (or even Russian names, believe me or not). Also, like I said, lots of EU banks froze or restricted accounts of Russian citizens in Feb 2022, even if those individuals were legally in EU for months or even years.

Bottom line: it's surprisingly easy to become unbanked in EU.
Depends on the company. Millennials have come to expect excellent customer service, especially from smaller companies. For example, my partner recently ordered a pair of boots that she needed to exchange for a larger size. She contacted their chat support and got them in the right size three days later with no hassle. She was thoroughly impressed by this, as she is every time this happens.

The user story is that if you have polite, empathetic, happy customer supply staff, that means the company cares about its employees and customers and pays their staff well, which in turn means it’s a company the consumer can feel good about supporting. Whether this is true or not of course is on a case by case basis, but this is what Zappos got us used to.
How about GitHub? I refuse to use Google to sign into anything except Google.
I'm not sure that experience with driving in normal conditions actually helps when driving in dense fog or on icy roads. People are overconfident and drive just like they normally would, which is why the pile-ups happen every time we have worse than usual road conditions.
汉字 reader here! (although I'm probably only at grade 3 level)

I've never seen any web-based word games like this for Chinese, so this is really cool to see!

In my opinion, the core game-part itself feels more like a matching game than a language-learning game. Once any hints are revealed, there's usually only two remaining characters that match the current stroke pattern/positioning. This makes it pretty easy to guess the correct characters starting off with a single random click. One way you could make this more challenging is to only reveal the matching stroke elements, but not necessarily their physical position in the answer word.

While playing, I was confused by how strokes, radicals, and components got differentiated. One specific instance of confusion was that the ren2 radical (亻) doesn't get revealed when guessing any character that contains a shu4 (丨).

I've noticed that in games that include characters with shu4 and heng2 strokes, guessing any character with those two strokes often reveals a large chunk of the answer. Maybe that's a strategy that when realized, actually helps people learn? I don't know. In any case, here is a recent game I played: https://git.sr.ht/~yfxu/images/blob/master/hanzi.webp

That said, being able to see the full word at the end with the pinyin and definition would be pretty useful for a learner (I learned a new word!), but I don't know if it would be nearly as useful as flash cards would be.

At the end of the day though, I still think this is a cool game, and I bet figuring out how to hide and reveal specific components of the characters wasn't the easiest task aha, thanks for making and sharing this!
It's a regulatory feat.
Well, they're not going to tell you there's something in the US ink that's banned in the EU, or vice versa — this is purely an example of another type of explanation, of course.
>dusty old letter from King George

Wow. That's crazy. Is there a picture of it somewhere? Or is it locked in a deep vault somewhere in Harvard
But the very definition of this phenomenon is something interacting with gravity (like matter) and not with EM... And EM in layman terms equals light, thus dark... It totally makes sense to call it "dark matter"
Low reproduction rates are found in dense cities too.
If your niche is storing booleans in the DB… then I could see it matters just a bit? Otherwise it’s a stupid legacy nuisance with zero prod impact.

You could’ve pointed out the lackluster json support or lack of generalized indexes, but this? Come on.
Fully agree with this sentiment.

Also good to know that Jpegli (a traditional jpeg codec within libjxl) allows for 16 bit input and output for '8-bit jpegs' and can deliver about ~12 bits of dynamics for the slowest gradients and ~10.5 bits for the usual photographs.

Jpegli improves existing jpeg images by about 8 % by doing decoding more precisely.

Jpegli allows for encoding jpeg images 30 % more efficiently by using JPEG XL adaptive quantization (by borrowing guetzli's variable dead zone trick), and the XYB colorspace from JPEG XL.

Together, you get about 35 % savings by using jpegli from the decoding + encoding improvements. Also, you get traditional JPEG that works with HDR.

Jpegli is predicted to be production ready in April or so, but can be benchmarked already.
By some estimates, a firefighter costs $120,000 in yearly costs while saving over $500,000 in damages a year.

It's a lot harder to make the ROI claim for highways and roads, especially considering increasing road capacity does not decrease congestion -- added capacity tends to increase demand by over 100% of the difference, as little as 5 years later.
I assume environmentalists like technological advancement? And a population who can afford or contribute to a tax base where the government can support R&D for more green technologies?

How about medical care? Do environmentalists like advances in cancer care? And a system where the population has the money to access them?

Or social security? Paying money to retirees so they can live in relative comfort?

Population declines are a major issue. In some Asian countries the number of workers per retiree is going from 20 to 1, down to 2 to 1 if the population declines continues.

Growth means more money. Not just for things like consumer items you so distain, but also social programs that keep people healthy and in relative comfort.
With my ISPs I've had IPv4 broken more often than IPv6.

To the point that I've set up an IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnel out, for when IPv4 breaks.
Respectfully, that isn’t decades old.

The example above is brief due to forum limitations, so yes, it doesn’t include lifecycles or the whole implementation of a rendering loop. But the context of that comment was using one or more languages for building interactive hierarchies of widgets, and not the topic you brought up, so it didn’t even have to.
New S3 Alternative: Meet Telnyx Storage
Egress-free S3-compatible object storage from Telnyx
Germany has been coasting on the inertia of the economic power provided by its industry for a very long time.
Wiping out the recipients immune system and transplanting a donor system is in itself a common (advanced) practice since long, so the new part here is the tweaking of the donor system. Very interesting.
What you are stating was perhaps the previous orthodoxy, but in the last few years even major institutions[1] have come to agree that banks do indeed create money when they create certain kinds of loans; the upshot of which is that 90%+ of money in circulation in western countries has been created through mortgage issuance.

[1] The Bank of England: Money creation in the modern economy
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
And being unbanked means, for example, inability to buy property, which is, in turn, may be a condition of getting residency in the first place. Not everyone possess IT skills to get work visa.
Taking away freedom is always about "saving children's lives". It's so common in fact that the instant one hears about "saving children's lives" we can be certain something very bad is going to happen.
Democracy is not inherently slow and wasteful, as you see here Germany created this large project in short order. They did not abandon democracy to achieve it.

The key is that the "environmentalists", politicians, judiciary, activists, and people who would block the process were threatened with feeling the pain of the missing infrastructure. Amazing how quickly they abandon their high horses when it looks like it will cost them something, then it's full throttle with construction and fossil fuels. They like to be "all in this together" when they're inflicting this kind of pain on others though, so what seems to be inherent is people's desire to wield power and authority over others.
> Car, house, selling/buying land etc.

so you would buy a house in cash?

How much will the personal protection cost?

I don't think I would accept to sell my house to soneone who pretends to pay cash, I wouldn't want to deal with that much money and all the risks involved, including the fact that there's no guarantees that the money is actually not fake.

Besides, money transfer is so cheap that it hasn't been an issue since at least 30 years ago.

We are taking about Europe here.

If you knew someone who buys houses in cash, can you swear your first question would not be "where did that much money in cash comes from?"
It's hard to predict the future.

One aspect that's being slighly neglected is that programming isn't that special - tools like ChatGPT can potentially impact any kind of knowledge work. So it's not like there's a safe white-collar career track that you can easily move to.
Tories invited representative of fugitive Hindu guru to party at House of Lords
Actually that dude was from Austria.
I believe there is a bug in the bug fix.

I've explained it here: https://blog.deckc.hair/2022-12-11-incorrect-bug-fix-for-24y...

In brief (cp[IPOPT_OLEN] - 1) is the delta, not (cp[IPOPT_OLEN]); according to the original code. (I don't pretend to know where the original -1 comes from).

This means that the IF-statement check is incorrect.
Help in coping post-Pratchett:

Jasper FForde [0] - first 6 of 7 "Thursday Next" stories (starting with Eyre Affair), Nursery Crime books, Early Riser (possibly)

The audio books of these are as good as the Discworld stories in terms of narrator-fit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde
Cash payments are surprisingly common for farmers, people who deal in used cars/motorcycles, etc etc.
If you think of this as "the capacity of power we can generate at any given moment due to these batteries" then it makes sense. Just the same way as you would say "hydro power capacity"
In the US you do not need to register copyright unless you intend to file a copyright infringement lawsuit.
You mean stellar black holes, right? Primordial black holes could be much smaller, if they exist.

I just looked up what would happen in that case, and it sounds really bizarre:

> Nevertheless, a PBH would have a notable local impact, Rahvar notes. “The passage of a black hole could melt a cylinder along the interior of the Earth with a radius of almost 10 cm. After a short time, this tunnel would freeze,” he explains. In theory, this would produce a distinct metamorphic fingerprint of the passage in the rock record. But given that we might expect only eight of these to have been produced in the Earth’s lifetime (one on each side of the planet per collision episode), “I would expect that such a geological trace is difficult to detect,” Rahvar concedes.

https://physicsworld.com/a/concerning-primordial-black-holes...
To simulate a graphics_card/virtual_head?

That gives you the full possibilities of your desktop environment to arrange surfaces in relation to each-other, and place content.

Now, true, if you only need to "beam" static images somewhere, there are other options.

On any recent distribution, `evdi` should be available through the package manager, even Debian has `evdi-dkms`. And your distribution takes care of signing the module, so that you don't have to disable SecureBoot. (Just need to uncomment the line to enable the module-signing helper.)
We explain how this works in Appendix A of https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/static/paper.pdf but it's also a nice little exercise to work out how this breaks confidentiality. TL;DR: Yes, the plaintext coming out is not what you'd expect ("breaks decryption") but in a predictable way.
You use SQS, couple clicks and you’re done. You shouldn’t be using a cache for a queue. You use a queue for a queue.
Database abstraction layers are leaky, if you don't test things like isolation levels or other tricky behaviors, those tests will have limited value.
I’m really interested in 1Password’s approach to WebAuthN[1]. If they can deliver on their cross-platform promise, other projects will likely be able to do so too.

[1] https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/
I think this was a fake scandal.

The aim was to engineer a legislative and social move away from petrol and diesel cars, and engineer acceptance in environmental restrictions (or greater governance), in support of the fake climate crisis, that no one has seen. Except in statistics.

Most of what we see are meta narratives playing out, that are meant to capture the minds, and get us to consent willingly to greater governance. Turkeys voting for Christmas.
It is a small child. Dressing up either involves a lot of screaming or takes at least half an hour.

> You don't take the child to playground or just to move about?

Not sure where you got that idea. I do.
I think you're mistaking "we don't talk about pre-marital sex" with "we don't have pre-marital sex".
The USPS loses money heavily delivering to remote areas.
Their terminology is defined here: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/74426.pdf

I think it is mostly use correctly. They genuinely are talking about "the total possible instantaneous discharge capability" when they talk about "storage capacity increasing".

I think this is because in table 1 of the linked doc they list where batteries help the energy market and most are capacity (as in power delivery capacity) limited, not stored energy limited (ie most of the uses are measured in "hours" of stored energy or less. In general it reads as the limiting factor is power capacity, not energy storage capacity).

I do think the graph in the linked article (https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54939) should use terminology consistent with https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/74426.pdf though.
Have you met Germans?
Much recommended science blog on the emerging topic of "its all light": https://drgblackwell.substack.com/
And for a lot the initial lithium ion storage on the grid, which was used for frequency regulation, the W/h or ability to respond to powe change, was a far far more important characteristic of the batteries than the Wh.
Is this what you’re looking for?

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/
> the average human mortality rate is about 1% per year

Are you talking about death from any reason? Because I don't think anyone expect the Qatar authorities to comment on someone dying from a water-skiing accident or from old age. Given migrant worker have to be healthy enough to travel and work, one would assume their mortality was significantly lower than average.

The question, of course, is work-accidents. Does migrant workers in Qatar have the same rate of work accidents as workers in other rich countries?
> Did you not see the quote from Einstein?
> The only reason why I made a new account is because I wanted to comment here.

Extremely petty, insubstantial and toxic, you have nothing insightful to add.
Someone is scared of natural child birth and prefers invasive surgery instead? How does that make any sense?

The recovery for c-section is way longer than natural child birth. They are literally cutting open your abdominal muscles to access the baby.
The government knows that you own a motorbike, you can't go around with an unregistered vehicle, you have to sign documents that prove the transfer of ownership, you also have to pay insurance on it, it's mandatory where I live in Europe.

It makes sense: if I buy a motorbike from you using cash and nobody knows about it, when I am going to rob a bank with it, the police would come knocking at your door. Would you like that just to let me use cash instead of any other system available because we are normal people that live in societies not in a lawless imaginary city in a western movie (west was not lawless, properties where already registered 4 thousands years ago by Egyptians, it's nothing new)

Simpler yet, if the police stops you and there isn't your name on the certificate of ownership , you have to justify why is that.

Again, it makes complete sense. It could have been stolen and you could be the thief.

A washing machine costs 250 euros, you can pay it in cash.

The limit is 10k, it's 40 washing machines.

The washing machine comes with a warranty, warranty is valid only if you put your name on it.

Only a fool would renounce to 2 years warranty to pay cash and not let the government know that they do laundry, like literally everybody else, I'm quite sure the government doesn't care if you own a washing machine, but then again I live in Europe, probably the CIA does and it's a big deal there.

I really don't understand how people feel comfortable going around with thousands of euros in cash in their pockets to buy stuff that they could have comfortably and safely bought from their couch using a free and immediate bank transfer that guarantees both parties against fraud, and theft and that have no handling costs.

American paranoia about government will be the worst heritage of these last two decades.

But probably even worse is the idea that your freedom means I have to pay the price for it.

Wanna pay a house or a car in cash, without any record of the transaction?

Go buy it from a criminal, because I am not selling it to you. Nobody would. Unless they are being paid to accept all that cash in one transaction.
If stopping crime involves treating normal people (in my country they are called “innocent”) like criminals via a transaction limit that may change with a vehicle so important as cash… then the method is unjust. A nation has no right to, in the name of “fighting terrorists”, accidentally consider or treat an innocent person as a criminal.
Lol. Amazing. I lived in Glasgow before Cairns but my main form of transport was bicycle so never had the pleasure :)
To be fair, gmail was quite great at the time of GWT. Not sure how much use their Clojure “platform” still get, but I think it was very ahead in terms of maintainability of large js code bases (or even ahead as we have it now)
No. It is not a matter of being «native». It may be your mothertongue of not: it is an approach transversal to all (this class of) languages.

It is the set of those people who intend to speak English, though surely not the language in use among the English. "Currently typical" English does not mean "good" English.

Edit:

On the contrary, «native English speakers» are the one who will follow that: they are the ones supposed to have absorbed more English (and relevant) literature.

I have just checked and I see the terms employed correctly in Joyce, in Wilde, in Chandler, in Hammett, in Paul Johnson, in Niall Ferguson, in Woody Allen, in Spike Milligan.

As absolutely expected: there is the gathering of the Assessors.