skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO population "collapse" or demographic "decline" not right lens for unevenly developed country with massive population and high import dependency especially in context of "relative power". TBH it's surface level PRC collapists narrative.

What will happen (by design or not) is PRC demographics is being "strategically optimized" with the greatest demographic uplift/upgrade in recorded history. Roughly replacing 2 low skilled, under-educated workers with 1 skilled worker with additional automation. Every ~10 years for the next few decades, PRC will be upgrading / swapping the human capita potential of 1 Nigeria for 1 Japan, it's less people, but much more productive people. With PRC pop base effect this is still multiple more educated labour pool per year than US or other blocs can generate with immigration, and 100s of million more in net talent. Less people also alleviates import dependency, PRC with 1B (400M less) people would have substantially more strategic space to operate. It works towards close relative power potential. CCP wants to smooth out the pyramid with more births for better managed transition, which structurally/culturally PRC with some of the highest house hold savings rate and minimal expectation for safety net is positioned to weather, but long term PRC comprehensive national power is best improved by having less net people, with more % skilled people.
We have an existence proof that the stock market being down is not correlated with widespread unemployment
A pair of Sennheiser Hd58x's from Drop. I never want to use ear buds again. Really loving the 'open back' experience, makes me feel less claustrophobic and the sound quality is amazing. Really enjoying just sitting around listening to music again.
It's guilt tax. If you price your coffee honestly, at 8 usd, but your competitor at 5 usd with gotcha fees, guess where customers will flock to.
Anyone know of any open-source exchanges at the level of sophistication described here?
Hasbro can do whatever they want to the OGL, or throw it completely away, and still just give CRP an actual license (which Hasbro's already done by directly publishing CRP-setting products). I mean, there's a fucking Critical Role CLUE.
Easier to balance; if everything is even, you need to balance two blades to counter one misbehaviour, and do so perfectly to avoid introducing new misbehaviours. (They’re prime for resonance reasons. I don’t remember what, specifically.)
Uncomplete list of macOS defaults commands with demos
Swiss German for example. But space, half space and dot is also common in Europe. Just not a comma, because this is used as a decimal separator (fractions) in most countries.
> If you want idea protection you need to look at patents.

No. You can't.

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/can-you-patent-an-idea

'A machine sucking dust from a surface in order to clean it' is an idea.

Dyson design is an invention.

https://www.dyson.com/vacuum-cleaners/cordless/v15/detect/ye...

Here a broad description of differences between copyright and patent (trademark included):

https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/difference-copyright-pate...

None of them covers the principle of idea.

And if you want an example of a dubious (in my opinion) attempt to patent an idea (patent troll):

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3811791A1/en

While is it a patent trolling attempt (in my opinion) ?

Because it's basically an idea (adding a natural compound in ecigarette eliquids as sweetener) with an extensive list of layers covering general principles of everything related to ecigarette and ecigarette eliquid to pretend it's a specific formula (which is not) or an invention (which is neither because it's a natural compound known for its sweetener properties since 19th century).
Something tells me the intersection of the "you people" trying to reduce car dependence and the "you people" arguing to make cars bigger and heavier is not a large one.

Increasing car size (sometimes) increases safety for the driver at the expense of anyone in a smaller car or not in a car. Road deterioration also increases exponentially with vehicle weight so people that opt for no-car or smaller cars are effectively subsidizing the excessive vehicles of other people with their tax money. iirc a Hummer causes 21x more damage than an "average car."

https://www.gao.gov/products/109954
Water bottle with time markers on it. It gamifies my water drinking habit. I am always eager to beat-the-bottle by trying to catch up to the time markers on the bottle. As a result I am not dehydrated and not perpetually hungry anymore.
This isn't a typical academic research paper but is from a University of Chicago researcher, and I think gives a great overview of failure modes of complex systems in general (software included): https://how.complexsystems.fail .

As someone who writes a lot of complex/evolving data analysis software that needs to work correctly, I find some of the considerations listed in the above to be immensely helpful.
My wife is a stylist and does an online-only version of this (and other related services) over at https://estilistas.co.uk/ (hope no one minds the plug!)

I'm always surprised how often her clients come back multiple times per year. She's had quite a few from the US and Canada too. She caters for men & women
Ask! For me, I got 2 months of personal training for about that much (2 one-hour-sessions per week).
I was hesitant because I thought personal training was too expensive given that there were so many resources online, but I’m VERY happy with the purchase.

It forced me into the gym regularly for months, I didn’t have to think about what I’d be working out, and my trainer kept me honest, kickstarting a habit and confidence I’ve tried countless times to develop.

Of course, YMMV and some trainers are terrible, but I would have happily spent much more.
What’s the unemployment rate - right now?
You are right. I have spent a lot of time tinkering with build systems on sizeable projects to be sure I do not want to do it myself.

But why would any beginner do not do the same thing that Rust offer: use one written by someone else? It does not have to be special or even open. Beginner needs one that they can learn from other people around them. Most of corporate ones are not even documented. People onboard by watching over a shoulder how it works xD.
I use a USB switch to swap mouse/keyboard/webcam, but I switch my main monitor between two inputs manually because if I use a monitor switch, then once I swap it to my work computer, Windows detects the monitor is gone and moves all my windows to the second monitor (Which is also a different resolution and has different scaling, so they also all get resized) which is a pain in the ass.

I know you can get so-called "active" switches that tell both host computers that there's still a monitor plugged in, but they're expensive, especially if you use a monitor higher than 1080p. I'm not even sure once exists that will support 1440p @ 144 hz with GSync.

However, I haven't looked for KVM switches in almost two years. Has this situation changed? Is there a KVM switch that will tell the host machines that there's still a monitor hooked up when I switch it to the other machine that will support my resolution and refresh?
And let’s not forget that Orwell was an active participant in that serious history. Makes his comment especially noteworthy, surprising even
I have a social group of folks that work out hard integrals via social media -- friends and friends of friends over the years in quant jobs and graduate school where we work on fun things.

This author obviously knows this at a deeper level, especially the academic literature, where our group is more raw about it. So fun. Thanks to the author and the poster for a pleasant Friday afternoon read.
A bit unrelated, but I've been a runner my whole life and have been injured the past few months from plantar fasciitis.

Curious if you have any recommendations there.
What happens to people when they retire?
AFAIK, these days the content shown when visiting the home page at https://reddit.com is exclusively comprised of subreddits that you're subscribed to. You can visit https://reddit.com/r/popular to see an algorithmic page from subreddits that have opted-in to it, which is mostly dominated by like 50 mega-subreddits but the algorithm is still capable of surfacing small subreddits once in a while (it's not just based on absolute number of votes, it's also has a votes-per-number-of-views component or something). And if you're not logged in, you just get /r/popular when visiting https://reddit.com . (However, I rarely use either of those features, I only have the one subreddit I care about, so I could be inaccurate.)
Very similar to Cunningham's Law.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
I consider myself to be kind of a Free Software person and I wouldn't cheer for the end to software copyright, I worry that the abolition would harm the cause I care for, which is preserving the freedoms of users. Getting rid of copyright wouldn't stop bad actors from trying to circumvent their users' rights, and with no recourse to copyleft it would become harder to fight that.
I think "Saudi Arabia jails Wikipedia admin for 32 years; alleged govt infiltration of WP" is still a bit confusing, plus we try to avoid abbreviations as a device for fitting the 80-char limit.

I agree this is a tough one! I've reverted to the article's title but took out the word "spy" since it doesn't clarify anything.

If someone suggests a better title, we can change it again. Better = "more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article".
As far as I can tell: yes.
The top z-layer of designated stairs will always become pure down, the bottom layer pure up.

But I think you can get around that by designating one more z-level than you need, and then removing that. Blueprint mode or designation priorities might also work.

Tell you what, I am going to try now, will post my results shortly.

Edit: Yes this works. After finishing the designation, it will change to the corresponding stair type. By doing one more z-level, you move the "down/up only" layer there, and can remove it. The designations in the level below will not change as a result.

For anyone wondering: Yes, this is still an improvement over the old way of doing it.
They didn't change the terms, you can't expect privacy when you're out in public. I'm also curious how you're certain your project was used?
> This is not the year when you're going to increase your salary by jumping to a cool startup as employee #3.

Agreed, you won't get a big salary out of the gate because unproven startups paying huge salaries are dropping like flies as the easy capital dries up. On the other hand, the likelihood of getting in on the ground floor of the next FAANG is increasing as staffing costs decrease and behavioral changes increase during a recession. EV obviously still higher at established top-of-market companies, but when has that ever not been the case?
Same, but with an air-fryer it's just 10 minutes from frozen to done, so I usually pick them from the fridge, put them in the airfryer, boil some tea-water, and then have tea and croisants for breakfast in 10 minutes.
It's fair because Epic is part owned by a company (Tencent) that is owned/ran by a government (The CCP/CPC.) that bans such things for their children, but are OK with it in the West for their profit.

But yeah, Roblox and CoC are gross too. However you should not trust Tencent and Epic. Just go pay for Kerbal on a better platform.

A ranking CCP member must be on staff at a high level to carry out the interests of the party. I believe more than few of their upper management positions are headed by high ranking CCP members.
I do not see a way to compare big tech companies and Jane Street or Citadel, seeing as how the big tech companies employ many tens of thousands of very qualified people and Jane Street and Citadel are a couple thousand max.
Yeah it's not really a money saver, I already upgraded my roaster, but it is really fun and satisfying. The are ways to start for like $20 if you ever become interested.
> We harmlessly exchange stock phrases, like "how are you", to which the proper responses include "fine, and you?",...

Q. How do you confuse an anglophone?

A. Answer, when they ask how you are.
In terms of the salt lake, I think you are right. In terms of access for urban use, I think it is their problem to solve.
Anyone here use Kagi and Neeva for a similar amount of time? If so, thoughts on comparison?
Yes this is what I discovered. Being on your own for extended periods without anything to do can be terrifying and even worse for mental health.
> mad hacker

You might even say they were "insane in the membrane".

Thanks everyone, enjoy the veal!
Medical debt can be discharged in bankruptcy, there's no reason anyone should become homeless over it.
Paperless-ngx: Scan, index and archive all your physical documents
Good job on the pilot for getting the aircraft landed in such a harrowing situation. Will spare the group and avoid the use of any route 66 or luke skywalker jokes. Flying in small planes seems so overrated (due to safety and mechanical concerns) but understand the pilot aspired to work for an airline..
Johnson and Cameron hardly led the Empire.
I've had a little robot 3 for 5 years. It isn't the most reliable device in the world, but you learn very quickly all the little quirks of how to fix it when it breaks and it isn't too bad. I'm very, very happy with it. If you aren't handy then it might be more annoying for you.

My only complaints seemingly are fixed by the litter robot 4: better sensors (so it breaks less) and a larger poop storage. I would buy one immediately if I didn't already own the LR3.
The "air fryer" marketing is actually quite good. It justified a whole new class of countertop appliance, even though many already have convection ovens.

And if you've had frozen fried foods like mozz sticks, chicken nuggets or eggrolls in an air fryer, it really does live up to the name
Canada was essentially independent since WWI.
Ah I see, that makes sense to build stairs in a shape of, huh, stairs. Thanks for that explanation :)
i think they are completely separate?

landlord: may or may not own a home, but have a property to rent out, may it be a residential or commercial like a warehouse. They may not even own the home they live in, which is surprisingly very typical to cut cost and deploy money in other ways.

homeowner: own the property they reside in.
No, just average people, who built the community over time into something desirable, that were promised with zoning laws that it would be the type of community (single family homes, etc) that they wanted, and that then dedicated the majority of their lifetime earning power to purchase a home there.

There are how many acres of land in this country? Why do you have a right to overrule the will of people in one comparatively small community to force that community to be something else, in the name of affordable housing, when there is so much land available elsewhere? You want it, build it, commit your life to it, like they did in paying so much of their lifetime income into their family home. If we were a tiny island country you might have an argument, but there is soooo much land in this country, arbitrarily picking one small area because that is where you want to be is not a right.
Are there studies on GPAs of extreme medics? …Why?

(And how much education did they have? The field includes people who have and haven't gone to medical school, I assume.)
If today you only had 20% to give, and you gave it.
You gave 100%.

If today all you could do was: Brush your teeth then go back to bed. You've accomplished.

We are not PRODUCTIVITY MACHINES.
We are humans, just like birds are birding, squirrels are squirreling, bees are beeing?

I'm not saying to stay complacent, but we humans in this current society have set ourselves for failures.

OMG! I'm not making 250k a year, i'm a failure, I don't have a TRILLION dollar startup, I'm a failure (not saying you feel this way) but you get my point.
I'm quite salty about HFTs. I'm a final-year undergraduate with a bunch of close friends who all love C++ (yes, we're masochistic that way). They're all really smart, too (me, not so much—my GPA is 3.00/5). However, after a while, it got really dull and frankly, a bit exasperating when all the rest of them could discuss were HFTs, their ridiculous, outrageous salaries, matching engines, order books, and low-latency trading. Heck, one of our assignments last year was to write such an engine in C++. It seems C++ developers are particularly in demand at most HFTs.

Some of these companies I have never even heard of before having entered CS—Jane Street, Citadel, HRT, DRW, Ansatz, Two Sigma... Their names and websites are cryptic, and their job position listings are even more so, unless one knows that they're mostly proprietary traders—in other words, making money for money's own sake.

It feels dirty and excessively capitalist—these companies don't even have products to show for all their effort. Any clients they do have probably already make millions to billions, too.

My friends defend themselves by saying 'HFTs make money by keeping the market liquid', 'there's nothing wrong with arbitrage', etc. That's fair, but I still feel that's just sugar-coating what I said.

At the same time, I don't really say anything in person to my friends, because, well, they're friends, and secondly, my lousy grades make me feel thoroughly unqualified to make any sort of criticism.

I personally would rather do embedded, automotive, avionics, or game engine development. I just wish I had someone to discuss this with. Hardly anyone I know wants to do these instead, because the salary is lousy to above average, the hours are as bad, and especially game development is considered a mostly rubbish job to have. It really sucks, because I've gamed all my life and always found video games pretty damn amazing, both technically and just in general. It was a pretty bad bubble-bursting moment when I discovered just how bad the game dev situation was—overwork, crunch, sexual abuse and sexism, bean-counter-led design and marketing decisions.

I'm not looking for 100% job satisfaction (I accept even the most exciting work will have its dull periods), but it would be nice if the thing I spent 8-10 hours a day doing for a salary was something that remotely excited me and others, instead of just mindlessly piping money from X to Y and back just because it paid half a million a year.
XML is a huge abomination, period.

But I don't think anyone is arguing that it's completely useless.

It just hasn't earned it's current privileged position in the computing world. It got there on the coattail of the obscene wave of hype around the turn of the century.

So it has a way to go as it slowly falls back to its rightful place.
Maybe San Francisco is just not suitable any more? There's nothing magic about SF's geography that makes it a tech hub. It's not a mining town that needs to be next to coal or minerals, or a ski resort town that needs some mountains and snow. It's based on work that can literally be done anywhere.

Hollywood, after all, was just a dusty desert town that became the hub of the movie business because it was easier to move there and start a new one than dealing with Edison's lawyers back East, so maybe the tech industry needs to get out of SF, start a new hub somewhere else, and leave the city to the NIMBYs.
You don't even need to talk to someone. Pick up any book on European colonialism, the Roman Empire, Japanese imperialism, Chinese Imperial dynasties, medieval South Asia, pre-Islamic Persian empires, etc etc. Reddit's r/askhistorians is a great reference for sources on the more popular topics.
I came across Firewalla as well. Anyone using those ...looking at the gold while wondering if gold+ is the way to future proof
Related:

How to Build an Exchange (2017) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27879230 - July 2021 (12 comments)
This right here.

As a long time ZFS user, I was excited when Canonical promised first class ZFS integration. But it was clear from the first release that Ubuntu's ZFS project was a mess. Clearly some folks got excited about ZFS, but didn't absorb much of the existing knowledge or wisdom in the ecosystem. Issues like dataset/pool layout, how snapshots were handled on update, were handled in completely unusual and boneheaded ways.

The ecosystem already had the concept of boot environments, which more or less standardized what a rool-on-zpool layout ought to look like, and how to handle graceful, recoverable system upgrades. What Ubuntu could have brought to the table was a really high quality beadm replacement for Linux, moving Grub's ZFS support forward with support for more feature flags and boot environments, or investing in ZFSBootMenu.

Instead they went ahead with zsys, and it's still not entirely clear what they want or expect it to be. That they needed to write a daemon to enable "complex zfs dataset layouts" should've been an early clue that they were going down the wrong path. The dataset layout for a root filesystem should never be so complex, that you need to write a whole daemon to manage it.

The packaging issues and bad patches are almost besides the point.
Because they work better and are easier for non-technical users to run. Have you tried using WebRTC with more than a few users? It's a bad time
I had not considered that this kind of technology would exist. Very cool.
At the bottom end of this effect, I first learned bass on an Ibanez sr400 (cheapest being the sr300 at the time) and couldn't do anything I wanted. Years later I tried a 2nd hand Squier JazzBass vintage edition and was shocked how easy everything was (even though the neck was thicker than the ibanez). Revived my passion for many years after that.

A good instrument (not necessarily expensive) is indeed important.
Plus, they have water cooling.
I've been struggling with this for years and I've made tremendous progress in 2022. Here's what worked for me:

- developing a regular aerobic exercise routine. Starting my day with a walk or run makes such a difference, I feel like a different person after I exercise

- reducing/cutting out substances. I love cannabis but I recognize that it exacerbates my ADHD symptoms, reduces my desire to connect socially and reduces my cognitive ability. Alcohol disturbs my sleep as well. If I don't keep tight limits on my consumption and take long breaks between use, my mental health declines significantly

- find a constructive activity that you love to do. I've fallen in love with painting. It gets me off the screens and relaxes me while giving me a sense of personal accomplishment and growth. It gives me space to appreciate myself and cultivate self-compassion and love. Don't try to make it a side hustle, just something that you enjoy and helps you unwind

- practicing a self-care/personal space cleaning routine. I still struggle with this and by no means keep a 100% clean house all the time. But I know that no matter how bad I'm feeling, I always feel a little better after cleaning. If I'm having a really bad day, I try to clean at least one room in my house (and once I do one, I usually feel motivated enough to do more)

- psychiatric drugs have not worked for me personally, but that certainly doesn't mean they won't work for you. The key to recovery is making them a part of a larger commitment to your overall health. You cannot simply take a drug and ignore the other aspects of your life. Americans have been conditioned to think that a pill solves everything, but this could not be further from the truth
The litter robot scoops automatically after the cat uses it (plus a configurable delay), so it helps with the smell, too. It also has a ton of useless features (eg, it tells you how much your cat weighs each time they poop), but overall it's great.

I know it was too expensive, but it has definitely paid for itself in reduced martial friction by removing a shared chore and making the area around the cat box more pleasant
Why was Roman concrete so durable?