skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on the deal, there's often less integration work than you'd expect.
Buyer, or in the rare case target systems are deemed better, accounts & flows get ported over and the other side is simply shut down.

Generally they do not do a micro system-by-system comparison and then try to integrate them into a best-in-class Frankenstein sum of the parts.

On first pass it may seem short sighted and that they may lose good tech, but given the 1000s of systems this exercise would take forever.

Further due to all the dependencies, you really can't pick and choose anyway.

In this particular case it would also be pretty hard to argue CS is better that anything (other than losing money) than UBS anyway. CS has been on deathwatch for the last 10 years, at least..
I think the GP is sarcasm, but I only have like 70% confidence.
TFR stands for Total Fertility Rate.
Comparing us revenues with eu ones is tricky. Yes, in raw dollars those poor are better off in the US. But, and I admit to not having read any of those links, my guess is that if you compensate for things like public transport, healthcare, education and other things, the US doesn't compare favorable when you're poor.
Ideally you would produce something instead of consuming it. Maybe music, woodworking, painting, writing, etc... Easier said than done, after having that insight years ago it has been on my to-do list permanently and yet here I am on the screen... After producing for 8 hours at work it is pretty hard to muster up the energy to produce things for myself in the evenings.
Supply chain competition is something I hadn’t thought about, and it’s an interesting point. I wonder how the clone manufacturers themselves are getting around that.
I think you're confused about the context in which they are not yet supporting HTTP/3: they are deciding to hold off on serving it, not on allowing it to pass through their network:

All of this is of course academic until Ubuntu's version of Apache supports HTTP/3. We're quite unlikely to switch web servers to get HTTP/3

They're worried some of their users will be in environments that don't properly support QUIC, and if they started serving HTTP/3 today they might have more support hassle.
Wow, taking care of your parents goes in the same moral bucket as raping kids
So instead of anything useful to say about technology being developed by ISRO. You come up with this random rant.

I guess I just ignore the ignorant, including "deeply insecure" and raging about minor criticism.
Oh good news everyone. It’s trad. That means it isn’t a hardship after all.
Having children is a choice and care can be more easily planned. The duration of care is also shorter.
Quoting Noam Chomsky: “Make rich people happy and frighten the rest.” You are so wrong.
https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign (can't reply to comment below) that's useful to add signatures to documents
Counterpoint: no, it’s not.
Quite correct. To make this a family responsibility is to end up with an unjustly heterogeneous result because families are heterogeneous. For anything approaching fairness, it needs to be a societal responsibility.

Social security was created in the era of the ostensibly closely-knit, God-fearing America that people imagine was the ideal of the past. It was created because the people then observed that even with the closing at families and all of that reliance on God, the elderly died poor and ugly deaths.
So you think they possibly saved 9950 lives, yet a vastly greater number live in poverty and a huge proportion of them are children with no access to healthcare and education, many of them begging in the streets. But yes let's give India a round of applause for finding a minor benefit to their $2bn spending on space exploration (also ignoring the fact that they are not really achieving new science that is not or could not be done by more developed nations).
>rent controls restrict supply and even worse mobility

Exactly this. People love having rent control until they want to change apartment to upsize, downsize or move, and then realize they can't because the market is FUBAR.
It's amazing that for the past 8 years (almost to the day!) imgur has been hosting your screenshots.
I think it is no company has reached orbit on first attempt. But they have been successful on later rockets. This includes SpaceX which was blowing up rockets phase with Falcon 1 but were successful with Falcon 9.
Do the work to spend the time with them before you no longer have the option.

Enjoy them.
Any ideas to prevent the fatal update from taking effect? eg. Run Steam in Offline mode and block IP's?

Could someone sue Valve for pushing this out and breaking their PC? The damages being the total purchase price of all the games to which access is lost? (Didn't someone win a lawsuit a while back against Microsoft after they auto-uograded her PC to Windows 11 without her consent?)
The driving one reminds me of how absolutely brain dead I feel after riding a motorcycle for 8-12 hours in a day. Nevermind that my body is rocked from the wind all day but just being able to do basic math or have a conversation with the person at the front desk of the motel I’m staying at becomes difficult. Any sort of sustained concentration obliterates your brain over a long enough time period.
> Cars are not some revelations-esque phenomenon and parking lots do not "eat" anything.

This website provides a good counter argument:

https://www.strongtowns.org/

> In America, driving is far and away the best UX. You go where you want when you want with up to four passengers even in a very small starter car

Not for children/young people. In the Netherlands it's common for young people to develop independence using bicycles and public transport.

I think that is far more mentally healthy than the US's car centric infrastructure, which excludes young people, making them overdependent on their parents, or dependent on being online in order to socialise.
> 1. Most young aren't so lucky to be born in a small developed city with good universities, jobs and high quality of life, so they can stick around their families, which is why they leave. Look at most of Southern and Eastern Europe.

I'm from Poland. In here, no matter where you're born, there's a city with an University within 100 km from you (and usually, it's much closer). A lot of those cities are smaller, affordable cities, with rents half that of Warsaw.

> 2. For your idea to work we need to have companies also creating jobs in smaller cities, but the reverse is happening: most companies now exclusively move to the biggest cities where the larges worker pools already are (Berlin, London, Amsterdam, etc) creating a snowball effect. Small cities also have jobs, but they tend to be terrible, body-shop style that suck to work for.

It's true if you're in tech or other highly advanced field, which tends to cluster workers in a few cities. However, most people don't work in such fields, so it's not a problem for them. I mean, if you want to work in tourism, or real estate or food production/processing, or medicine or law or architecture or countless other fields, the non-tier 1 cities have plenty of opportunities.
Of course it isn't close. ChatGPT is like a child making a paper airplane that flies a reasonable distance. AGI would be an adult that works in a group making a large rocket that can go into space.

Right now, all transformers really do is distribute data probabilistically over a certain space, and the retrieval function maps itself to the "pattern" that looks the most similar. It's an advance in lossy data compression. It's a black box with a single door for output and input, it can necessarily never gain consciousness.

The only respite has been that we have been free from "Open"AI's marketing for the last 24 hours, and most of the "hype" has died down, normal topics have returned to the front page.
The missing part of the question is "unpaid".

Does society have sufficient resources to care for all its citizens, whether that is done inside or external to the family.

if not, yeah it's a problem

if so, then it's the just allocation of resources - ie politics
If I had to guess the point was it didn't need to fall to one person to do everything, as most of the article is devoted to highlighting. I don't think traditional roles played as much a causal part in that as the general population pyramid though.
I’m interested in understanding what sentences in the linked article you consider “snide,” as I did not get that at all from the article.

While everything you said is true, I believe the message of the article is not “boy it sucks to have to care for your parents,” it’s “We have a generation of people who are required to do it at a younger age and for longer, preventing them from building wealth at a key age when our current economic system expects that.”
One hint here is that people who still choose to live in multigenerational situations usually can’t afford the alternative.
It's "soft" relative to stuff like cocaine, heroin, crack, meth etc which muck you up more. It's probably kind of a par with alcohol in terms of problems caused.
two words

opportunity cost.

the opportunity cost of a parent in the 3rd world is negligible. income is very low as it is. theres not.much to do to make $$.

therefore, the benefit of parenting is MUCH higher, and the cost of raising a kid itself is low to zero , and in some cases positive (kids work on fielda or take care of siblings, therefore ROI is positive).

contrasts this with USA, where the opportunity cost of a developer to raise a kid is in the 200k level. ok so now what about alternatives for parenting?

well everything is regulated (daycare, schooling , extracurriculars), or hyperinflates (real estate), and every activity carriea an institutionalized bloat of an effective ponzi...to the benefit of the prior generation seniors in every activity.

So now what do you do? If raising kids is negative ROI and doing it yourself has a huge opportunity cost?

Is it a coincidence that wealthy families in wealthy contries like in Singapore, have more kids on average?

How do you explain that aberration?
BSP Trees: The Magic Behind Collision Detection in Quake [video]
Paid promotion might be even worse
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-ux...
>no, most browsers do allow configuring this,

Really? Are you sure about that? I'd love to believe you as it'd mean there's been progress on this front but the last time I checked it required compile time flags in Chrome and Firefox. The problem is that this is a function of the libraries these browsers use, it's not an option that is within the browser itself.

>removing easy ways for end users to do insecure things.

That's a legit pov as long as you think about browsers as in the for-profit way: as insecure virtual machines for customers to run your untrusted third party code. And that's certainly the zeitgeist. But that's not what the web is to many human people.

The web of documents still exists despite the last decade of the web just being a mechanism to distribute JS applications. I know that the for-profit point of view doesn't care about the web of documents (not profitable) but that doesn't make their use case the only use case. All you have to do to make accepting self-signed certs as secure (or more secure) than the "normal" web is to turn off automatic execution of untrusted code sent to you. I'd wager that a good fraction of the HN userbase already does this with their NoScript or uBlock or whatever anti-javascript protection extensions.
Is the decline pandemic related?
> > When you go to the chat-based support interface on a website, it's usually because you've read the entire contents of the website and didn't find what you are looking for.

> Because chatbots were so far utterly useless.

My guess is that you are correct. I have been thinking that rebranding site chatbots will be needed and inevitable. I wonder what that will look like.
Whatever that means - only yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391868) the fact that US life expectancy on average is the same as the life expectancy of the citizens of Blackpool, England was discussed here. Blackpool is the most deprived city in the country, and that really says something - England isn't rich and has many post-industrial wastelands.

Your statement is reminiscent of the prophet Ezekiel and his "Defiled Bread" (Ez 4:12-17), as that passage is called. Instead of human feces, Ezekiel got to use cowpats, but unlike you, the prophet still found it disgusting.
Haruomi Hosono became the only member of YMO, just like his grandfather who was the only Japanese survivor of the Titanic.
Sounds boring to me, but then what I do outside sounds boring to others. Such is life. I'd rather be out exploring with a camera. Perhaps even on a farm, documenting and finding the art in it. I'm happiest working with my hands, but that could be working a camera as easily as building something in Minecraft. The farming I've done (in real life!) wasn't very fulfilling.
Comparing France to Germany in this respect is totally misleading. France reignited some coal power plants but the impact of this is negligible compared to the consequences of Germany's atrocious anti-nuclear stance.

France generated less than 1% of electricity with coal in 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1263322/electrical-produ...

While in Germany it was over 30%: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

There is a qualitative difference between an occassional need for some coal in particularly adverse situations, and relying on it for almost a third of your electricity needs.
Maybe.. but you will use a lot of energy just trying to make your feed full of professional content.. not to mention that the environment of TikTok and their suggestions video won't help.. because of the amusing crap it keeps pushing.
And songbird, a media player.
But elderly population grows so it’s still net up.
I 100% agree on verilator. It’s by far the most efficient tool for many simulation and verification needs. Hands down. Even more so if you are building CPUs

UVM definitely has its place still in verification flows. It for something as complex and flexible as a CPU for sure, it’s hard to beat the amount of cycles and coverage you get from verilator. (EDA license fees are a big part of that, but also the fact that verilator generates just C++ code you can integrate with the rest of your s/w flow is invaluable).

But: What is also important for CPU is good validation and compliance test, (random or replayed or directed) instruction stream generators, ISS to validate agains etc. There are so much more scenarios to check because a CPU needs to handle any sequence of any instructions flawlessly.

Those tools are also crucial. And they are being built or sold for RISC-V now too. And also: I much prefer combining those with verilator than with commercial eda tools. And don’t forget: before you start building a lot of RTL, you’ll typically will also build C based higher level performance models of the micro architecture, eg https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-perf-model
Azul[1] is my solution for that, it is based on WebRender, so basically the same as XUL, but in a more modern way. I didn't get around to finish it in 2019, but I will work on it this year, maybe I'll get it to be mature enough to post it here.

> wide portability (at least Windoze, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, embedded: Azul is Windows-Linux-Mac only, don't underestimate the effort to properly port something to a new platform

> "though a Vulkan-based renderer can be made to run pretty much anywhere": WebRender is OpenGL + using software rendering as a fallback

> a permissive open source license: MPL-2.0

> a C interface/wrap to allow a wide programming language binding support: yes

> and an easily extensible and themable set of basic widgets: also yes, but the CSS styling works a bit differently depending on whether you want convenience or speed

Check the screenshots[2], I personally use it for developing GIS applications.

[1] https://azul.rs/

[2] https://github.com/fschutt/azul/releases/tag/1.0.0-alpha1
They definitely did, and such care fell upon the housewife or mother (and in the absence of the housewife... Yeah, people died poor and ugly deaths in old age).

Since we won't and shouldn't solve this problem by going back to the traditional patriarchal family structure, we must look to other alternatives. And one such alternative would be finding a way to recouple labor to employee earnings such that a married couple with one working spouse can support a family of four.
This reminds me of secondary school, where the IT guy blocked UDP completely. WireGuard didn't work, HTTP3/QUIC didn't work, network time didn't work, and probably a bunch of other stuff.
People acting as though this is nothing new are ignoring how the system and numbers have changed over time.

- There used to be more children per family, so the burden was shared. The parents in question had fewer children, and now a single person is often responsible for both parents.
- There are fewer and fewer middle class families. The younger generation is more and more barely able to foot their own bills, let alone take on additional for additional care for another dependent.
- The expected life span has risen, so parents are spending additional years alive, often long past when they simply would have passed previously.
- Rates of dementia and Alzheimer's continue to rise, and require an entirely different level of care than someone who simply can't drive or get around and needs check ins once a day. Round the clock caregiving is an entirely different animal.

Taken together, the burden on children taking care of their parents has never been higher. Either the support system will grow, or we're going to see a rise in mental breakdowns among the current caregiving population, imo, because they are being put in increasingly hopeless situations.

Regardless of whether you morally want to take care of your parents, the bottom line is people can only do so much and be so strong. It's really difficult.
I had complete and total freedom over my internet usage as a kid. I watched plenty of dark stuff, had sexual interactions, and made close friends.

I turned out fine. It’s hard to see the moderates in any given situation, almost by definition. That includes moderate outcomes.

Comparing the internet to heroin isn’t a moderate take. Having freedom when I was a kid directly prepared me for the rest of my life.
This reminds me a lot of trickle-down economics. We can all see a problem - but while some people try to derive a solution using empirics (e.g. through pilot studies), other people point to some metaphysical solution and say "if we all just believe enough, everything will be fine!". I don't see a difference between a libertarian arguing for a free market, which once free enough, will optimally provide for most participants - or your examples of simply requiring "slightly-more-traditional values".

Can you show empirically that this is an actual solution? I have read studies which show that wealth concentration leads to massive social problems, partially like the ones we are now experiencing. Why should I follow your solution instead of the ones suggested by the studies?
why do you think Linkein is awful?
200k is not cheap.
Yes. It allows everyone of high education to lean into the fallacy that all our problems would be solved "if we just taxed the billionaires more".

In reality, the sheer number of middle/upper middle/upper income and the tax revenue needed for a EU style social welfare would require an increase across a much broader tax base.

So tax the billionaires more too, but we aren't getting a lot more government service from that alone.
Most places (government included) accept e-signature now, don't they? You might need to upload the PDF to docusign to make it a "legit" e-signature, but that sounds better than the absurdity of printing and rescanning an originally digital document.
The tech industry likes places geographically distant from Washington DC. They also like unregulated activities. Like software monopolies, ad-tech, crypto, gigs, the metaverse, etc. (and now, AI).

If it's too new or too abstract to be illegal, you will find a California company for it.

The race for technological advancement is not to make the world a better place, it's a race against legislation to find things that are not yet regulated and profit for them for as long as possible.

1. Enter unregulated market

2. Profit as much as possible

3. Use lobby to keep regulation away

4. Once it's so regulated that it's hard to make money from it, find another unregulated thing to do

Examples: Google's Doubleclick fiasco, Uber, Airbnb, Coinbase, etc.
Three in ten are online 24/7? I guess those are the 30% that are ready for all the employers that require them to be available 24/7. My job has me carrying three cellphone. At any moment I need to be able to respond and, on occasion, spend a great many uninterrupted hours in front of a screen processing information. A 24/7 online lifestyle for teenagers might be good training for those future jobs. (What it means for their mental health is beside the point.)

I once had a conversation with a fighter pilot about what a good pilot candidate looks like. He said it would be someone who could drift a car around a corner while having conversation about a legal problem, while adjusting the radio, and not missing a beat as he pauses that conversation to answer a cellphone, all the while keeping an eye out for cops. Such people will not be the type to sit quietly in history class, but they might be those people who sit at a screen all day bouncing between a dozen different tasks.
> A complete free-for-all doesn't work because malicious actors be malicious and a majority of users aren't competent to protect themselves against such threats.

It does work. You claim it doesn't because you think the resultant state of affairs is intolerable, but to subsequently claim it "doesn't work" because you don't like the outcome is simply wrong. You might as well claim that allowing people to buy pointy kitchen knives "doesn't work" because sometimes people stab each other and you think murders are simply intolerable. But the reality is that allowing people to have pointy knives even though some people get hurt does work, even though it doesn't produce an outcome the hypothetical you are happy with.

The problem with "think of the children" style arguments is they are always unbounded, and there is always something more controlling than what we're doing presently that could obstensibly make children even safer. Why not have browsers ship a whitelist of trusted websites, and forbid all others? That would be even safer, and if you oppose this then you're not thinking of the children. In fact I find the present state of affairs with bad websites being blacklisted simply intolerable, new malicious websites are permitted by default and that just doesn't work!
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