skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The news hacks bear significant responsibility for many of the problems western society currently faces. They're not going to save either men or women.

The birth rate has fallen off a cliff. The rate of family formation falls lower and lower.

Older millennial women are coming to terms with the reality that they will likely never have children.

Gen Z women are still young enough to engage in extreme promiscuity via the dating apps, without yet feeling the consequences.

This isn't going to end anywhere good.
Is this only about big companies? I work in a small-to-medium company and people still want to talk to me (even though I write them great detailed and unambiguous emails specifically because I hate calling) every now and then.
Great point... On Sword and Laser (a book club/podcast) the idea of different types of reader is often discussed; i.e. what's the main driver behind liking a book:

- Plot
- World Building
- Character
- etc (There's a specific list mentioned, but I can't recall it)

That's the simpler classification side of things, so easier to code up... Your example of the canoe trip would be significanlty more complex; but definitely more a scenario worthy of AI over basic heuristics... and something that would need a conversation to drill down into (i.e. did the story evoke the scenery of their trip, or was it reflecting the relationship between the people, etc).
The problem with this is who gets to decide what efficient means.

It's not exactly news that the market throws off price signals, the question is whether those signals are the correct signals.

After all, the market also decided it wanted opioids, slaves, and a betting shop on every high street in the UK. Are we wrong to question whether Mr Market is right?
In my experience maintaining things for even longer than that, if your code is verbose you are way more likely to make a mistake many years later because you don't remember all of the rules required to correctly edit or generate new code in the same form. You are much better off compressing that code using domain-specific abstractions that force all development to fully follow every mental model you ascribed to the model, even if it means you have to load more mental state and it takes you a bit longer to "get back up to speed" in the project you haven't edited in a while, as it helps guarantee you actually load the correct state.
Then what are you saying? That men shouldn't rely on a woman to be the main provider? That men should inform themselves on nutrition? I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say.
A less facetious answer: Yes.

Anti-bribery laws authorise the use of bribes under narrow circumstances:

Particularly if the bribe seems to be necessary for safety of life (e.g. although you can clearly see the hospital has empty beds and equipment, the nursing staff assure you that your employee can't be helped and must just die here in the waiting room, sure enough once they have been bribed suitably the employee is given a bed and treatment begins). The bribe must be properly reported, both as a business expense and specifically as a bribe paid.

It is also certainly true that countries with global anti-bribery laws (including the US and UK) definitely don't actually enforce those laws when it comes to arms sales or other government authorised activity that frequently involves corrupt foreign governments. But that's just an ordinary example of "Do as I say, not as I do".
Drug overdose, alcoholism, or car crashes
It is illegal to confiscate an employee's passport in the UAE. If it happens, it doesn't make it legal.
‘I didn’t give permission’: Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches
In a similar vein I can recommend Alexander Frater's "Beyond the Blue Horizon" [1] as he retraces the original flight path of Imperial Airways from London to Brisbane.

Because it was written in the 80s, it's actually now two histories in one, first the story of Imperial airways he recounts, the second his experience travelling in the mid-80s, well before 9/11 and Covid.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509935.Beyond_the_Blue_H...
According to that benchmark, Javascript seems to be the way to go.
Yes, it's not truly deterministic, but setting to 0 still makes it relatively less random
Here's the hacker news discussion from last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35239972

I don't know how much of that is obsolete in the last few weeks.
FCC Going After Pirate Radio Station Operating from Portland Church
I would agree with summarization and NLP-driven tasks and I will actually add chatGPT to my side-gig for that. But code-wise it's not as big of a help as I'd like.

Good for you that it actually helps with coding! I like copilot a lot for auto-completion tho, but the rest of my work apparently is too complex, yes.
Shockingly enough a lot of things are illegal in the UAE and yet they're extremely commonplace.
Trendy “raw water” source under bird’s nest sparks diarrheal outbreak
"Space: the latest frontier."
Inside “democratic” countries, they are just bribing via legal means - see lobbying.
People often talk about AI apart from its optimization objective -- as-if it "could" find anything in the data... as-if it could find what we could find it in.

No! The AI is radically imprisoned by its optimization objective.

What it must necessarily find is whatever "pattern of associations" maximises "correlations between the items in the data".

Necessarily, an AI looking at the sky can never find newton's law of gravity. Newton (et al.) had to disregard what they were looking at to place Earth in the centre and F equal to GMm/r2 etc. etc.

The AI isnt "finding patterns in data", it's taking data and maximising a single objective. A very very very strange one, which necessarily treats its data as profoundly irrationally superstitious person would.

Are there useful such patterns? Sure. But an AI isnt "finding patterns" as we might -- it's finding one specific kind of pattern which we can characterise quite easily. We know how useful those kinds of patterns are.
On the Theory of Matchgate Computations [pdf]
Thinking in percents is not always the way to make a correct assumption. $300 mln is still $300 mln even if it's 0.6% of whatever budget, and claiming that it won't make a difference is not particularly logical. The man's motivation is pure vanity, but the act of donation is not useless (though Harvard management can make it so, but that's a different story).
Because it is important.

The more egalitarian countries show more differentiation across career choices than less egalitarian ones. I.e. men show a greater prefence for thing based careers and women show a greater prefence for people based careers.

If you've ever watched kids playing you'll realise how self evident it is, from a very early age before kids are remotely aware of cultural norms.

This flies in the face of all predictions that roles of sex are purely cultural.
> many men are struggling to fulfill their own outmoded expectations of what a man should be

Why do we men have to be anything? Why does a woman? Can we just be ourselves and not worry about it? I never have. I've never aspired to be a masculine man's man all grr and .. go camping? Not be able to cook? Those are the traits of a couple of guys I know whose wives left them because they were fucking useless as parents and were aggressive about it. I don't feel like any less of a man because I can cook my kids a meal and would rather book a hotel.

I think the problem is constant messaging that we should be something or other and that impresses on kids. Then they feel disappointed that's not how things are for them and unmotivated to find their own path.
Ironically, ReCaptcha is not GDPR compliant and would require consent before use.
I never saw that sentence anywhere, and seeing you quote it definitely raises my eyebrow. Are you aware that not everyone posting on the web is who they say they represent? The quotes looks more like inflammatory tactics than anything a feminist would write.
You should be more specifix. France is the biggest electricuty exporter of the last decades. They also heat with electricity, not gas. Their Co2 emissions are a fraction of German emissions. What‘s so great about German electricity?
Can't wait for my assistant to tell me he's a great assistant, possibly the best in the world.
> What is it that drives the ravenous appetite of liberalism to flatten all diversity out of the world into a homogenous mass of goo?

If it’s (classic) liberalism that does that I’d say it’s probably because that’s what people individually want.

But I think it’s in many cases the other way around. For example, gender differences in career choices tend to increase with economic prosperity and liberalism.
If my girlfriend suddenly grows by 7 inches I'd be very surprised, I think no amount of friendship-polishing will achieve this :')

Gaining weight would be doable, and as much as I try not to body-shame people, especially her, I think I'd be worried if she would gain 45 pounds...

(...if she'd do that, she'd be Kommo-o, a Pokemon I've never seen or heard :D)

And if we stay in the Poke-meta, I wonder who our respective trainers are.
What would be the point of that if no browser would support it?

See also, https://wiki.csswg.org/faq#versioning-css-fixing-design-mist...
Would be interesting to hear the thoughts of Tailscale folks regarding your suggested fix.
Make sure you teach her to reject feminism as we are teaching ours to.

Manufacturing a pseudo-marxist class war between the sexes is utterly insane.
I also feel your pain. In your specific case, you could not allow Whatsapp access to your contacts, and still use it with your employer? Of course, that does not prevent your colleagues from uploading their contacts...
You ship too fast, Tony! This is awesome :)
She was married to a jet pilot in the 1950s. It‘s not like he lived an otherwise safe life, as evident by his death in a plane crash 7 years after his space flight.
I always wanted to ask someone whose “native tongue” is untyped languages — when you reason about code, what do you think of an object, is it of specific type? Nominal, or more like structural typing that you know that it has to have this and that method?

I have started programming in untyped languages, but simply can’t remember back at all, and now I can’t really imagine dealing with objects in my mental medal as not having some type.

Note: this is not a rebuttal for/against dynamic typing, I do think that types are really important at boundaries, but they may not be the silver bullet - contracts may be better at some things, for example. This may be an open question.
That would be the dream. Websites won't use it, though, and making a specific protocol mandatory by law would be quite bad in a couple of years when greedy data brokers figure out new ways to exploit people and their data.

P3P was an early version of this concept: a browser-native privacy control system. No websites used it, it was only ever implemented by Microsoft, and has been removed from the last remaining browsers a while back.

I think Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla coming together to set up a privacy protocol to replace cookie banners would be the right way to handle things. Until usable browser UI exists, there's no way to force the companies currently employing dark patterns to comply.
> I thought the reason people rather use actual Google Analytics is Google's ability to track specific people across multiple websites and promote websites with Analytics in the search results.

This... isn't possible
It is the usual issue that Linux folks keep looking at NeXTSTEP derivatives as yet another UNIX clone, instead of what is on top of it.
Then they shouldn't take that job. The working conditions should be made clear ahead of time so that an informed decision can be made.
I never said it was a for certain thing. I just mentioned it as a strange coincidence.

Your reaction seems excessive and emotional, not to mention binary.

Still while not knowing really anything I agree with your sentiment regarding the likely unethical food production hell hole. But that is uninformed sentiment on my part.
Many years ago (15+ years ago), I worked for a company that wanted to sell some software product to China. Now, you can't legally use bribes where I am, "the EU says NO". What you can do is hire a Chinese consulting company, they will invoice you a surprisringly high amount for their services and take some of that money and use it to grease the wheels of the Chinese bureaucracy. At least at that point in time, it was basically required to win any sort of contract on that level in China.

Microsoft using bribes in Africa, the Middle East or parts of Asia isn't a Microsoft problem, it a problem that those specific countries need to deal with. Microsoft would most likely have made their sales anyway, if bribes hadn't been a thing, it would just be slightly cheaper to do so, so I don't think management at Microsoft cares one way or the other.
We will see, I am glad that know you are informed and know that if you leak private data you need to inform your customers and authorities. We know what happened when this laws were not in place, companies did hide this stuff and then the data was found on black markets much later after lot of pain was caused.
Lol. But to each their own, I’m -currently- middle class (struggling) and I’m very much looking forward to anti-aging.
I assume you're saying that ads are irrelevant because we have AdBlock?

Ads would always exist, but think about how many great (even lifesaving) solutions we're missing out on because market decided they aren't worthy of pursuit.
yes, it works with self-hosted too - although we just released it this week so it might take another week or so to land in the docker image
If everyone is benefiting from something and no one is being harmed then yes I do believe the laws are unnecessary.
> the history

You dont need to go beyond yesterday for history. The foreign aid budget for example is litteral bribery with a less icky name.
That was my argument from the very beginning, you are doing a lot of interpretation and talk about lies and dishonesty, which is frankly typical German Energiewende talk that led us into this disaster.
I can only speak for myself but living at home is not desirable to me. I love my family, but this is not some cultural expectation that is put on me. It is my own desire to be independent and form my own household. I prefer to stay in the vicinity for visits of course, although travel today is quite convenient.

Sure, it is more difficult and more expensive in comparison, but if they have the economic means, neither men nor women tend to stay with their parents.

I don't deny differences in interest between men and women. Some interests will stay exceptions for one or the other sex.
Isn't this the one everyone is using currently? What's new here?
how ironic to say that in a post about illegal bribes
Thanks for this.

Is there a demonstration Web browser that can be built with the layout 2020 option enabled?

I'm thinking of something like the very basic one that WebKit had when I used to try these things years ago.
The EU can’t forbid web sites from informing you about the purposes for which they may want to store data on your browser. Even if the EU mandated a technical browser protocol, there would still be popups.
What kills me is the often repeated claim that some massive tsunami is going to wipe out everything up to I-5 (about 60-80 miles inland in Oregon).

Most of the analysis I've seen seems to completely ignore the existence of the Oregon coastal mountain range, a 4000 ft high mountain range a few miles inland along the entire Oregon coast (basically Astoria to Florence).

Even in the worst case scenario, maybe some coastal towns are going to have a bad day, though they are all very well outfitted with tsunami alarms and maps that basically say to go a mile or so inland, so I doubt there would even be any significant loss of life.
For context Alice and husband were very much part of the London 1% rich merchant class of their time (Alice died in 1593).

Her father was Sir Andrew Judde (c. 1492–1555), mayor of London in 1550 and a master of the Skinners Company. In 1555, she married another Skinner, Thomas Smythe (1522–1591), an MP and a successful merchant himself. Three years later, Thomas became the customs collector for the port of London, a government role that brought him vast riches and the nickname Customer Smythe.

and

In all, Alice’s possessions came to £1084 17s 1d, plus £1248 that was received from the executors of her husband’s will. The total would be worth almost £700,000 today and this didn’t include the value of the house itself or any other property she owned elsewhere.

Her wishes were that a fifth of her London wealth|assets go toward monuments and services that made a statement about herself and her family.

It's likely that greater wealth was held in trusts and structures for her heirs and already in the hands of executors and trustees prior to her death (as a seperate "business for generating income legally seperate from personhood") much as the wealthy do today.
Last time I looked at PostHog, their documentation for self-hosting had the tone that you’d be an idiot to use it for anything other than a small experiment and that it would fall over for any production workloads. It actively discouraged me from going any further with PostHog.
Wouldn't a better analogy for SQL be 'Get the top two eggs from the fridge'?

It'd translate to

select top 2 eggs from fridge;
I bet everyone had a stellar score on the code of condut and company values trainings.

Hence why they are worthless beyond getting a checkmark on the yearly corporate trainings.
Which is fine. As much as it's a cliché to say "they died doing what they loved", most people die in absolutely horrible circumstances. Death is death. I've had a few friends die mountaineering, BASE jumping, climbing etc. and once I've grieved I actually admit that they did, in reality, die doing what they loved. I may miss them, and call them selfish for engaging in dangerous activities, but I respect and admire the drive to push limits that border on the impossible. There are many more deaths that are purely senseless, easily preventable and just as tragic. No one other than the friends and family of those people seems to care or comment on the circumstances of those deaths.
Yes. Sadly yes. But its not spread societywide. You do not bribe your way out of law enforcement etc. You do not have that society wide tax on just "breathing" - yet. There is also not yet, the worst kind of corruption, were incompetence in education gets through and enshrined to entrench other corrupt incompetence and finally destroys the mechanism to dislodge incompetence.

Were a visit to the doctor might kill you, because they all got their diploma because they know the same family and never spent a day awake and sober in university. And the health minister is from that family. And the whole anti-corruption self-repair mechanism is dysfunct, cause its married to that familys cousin.
It is inflammatory tactics. But it's interesting how such posts on social media wouldn't get auto-ban. Is feminists inflammatory tactics fine? Especially when people get in trouble for what could be swept under the rug as „inflammatory tactics“ in the opposite directions?

While at the same time very tame things get accounts suspended. Personally I got a ban on Facebook for calling Russians „Muscovites“ in my native tongue. Which is not even a derogatory term (we have different words for that). Yet „kill all men“ posts on Twitter or FB stay up.
Microservices just push the problem out of sight — now you need interoperable types between them, there are race conditions, IDEs don’t see inside the black box of other services so refactoring is harder, etc.

They can be the correct solution sometimes, but blindly applying them everywhere is just dumb.
> It's still class-leading, by a long stretch

City Mapper is nicer for all the cities I have tried. Google Maps UX is terrible if you want to use public transports.
> I want certain favours from the current UK government, I can give a friend of mine an interest-free loan for him to donate significant sums of money to the current ruling party (Tories). You get away with this as long as there is no written record

Having seen this in action (UK, Tory government) ... you are taking too many steps and too much complication. You donate publicly, on the register, to the party, candidates, (leadership candidates) etc. They give you things you ask for. The entire "scheme" is far more transparent than you think. It is also much cheaper than you think.

The expensive path is to literally hire a sitting member of parliament to your company and then you also get things you ask for.

The system works(/worked) extremely well because the people involved had some class and would only ask and take within reason. If you know, you know.
I think the person you’re replying to likely knows all this? But thanks, I guess — people doing architecture or compiler research likely don’t need an explanation of the benefits of an open source compiler, especially for RISC-V. In case you are not aware - RISC-V support was added to gcc years ago (I believe it was the first major C compiler targeting it), so the question is what is the significance of this particular repo (hardly unique as far as packaged scripts go - it seems to just pull in the various upstream components as submodules) being posted now. I sort of have the same question.
Regulation would introduce a whole new set of problems and unintended consequences.
* A friend asks me to borrow $400K. He is a good friend, and I am happy to help him out
* A few months later, he decides to donate $200K to a political party that happens to be in power at the time
* The government makes certain decisions that appear to be in my favour. I discussed that certain changes would be helpful but never asked for them directly.

Basically, it is a gentleman's agreement where no party involved explicitly asked for anything. Illegal in the spirit of the law, yes, provable in court beyond a reasonable doubt, no.

As another poster highlighted, you don't even need to use a friend in the UK, you can donate directly. The price of a seat in the House of Lords is £400,000 ($500K), but you can get other political favours much cheaper.
“your wife called the nurses in the middle of the night to say that she saw her parents on a boat outside the window beckoning her to come. I know this may not make sense,” he went on, “but we see this repeatedly in our patients. When patients report a vision like this, they almost always die within a day or two.

interestingly, this kind of dream was made into a state religion by ancient Egyptians
Being english-like is just appearances. SQL is really just relational algebra (the traditional querying bit of it, at least) with some technical limitations. But in essence, it's relational algebra and it works well because the topic was studied a lot by many smart people and the language reflects these developments.
> so massive that there's absolutely no possibility of competing

Scale has no value unless it offers something to your customer base. What you're ignoring is that Uber, Amazon et al are so huge and dominant because customers flock to them. I can summon a taxi to my location in most cities in the world with a single app. I can have pretty much any item delivered to my door within one or two days. These were unfathomable 10-15 years ago.

Amazon has huge amounts of competition, as does Uber. I have absolutely no idea where you get this idea they are not influenced by pricing. Uber hasn't made any money in its entire existence. That is not characteristic of a monopoly.
Company "fasttracked" worker visas to china, are basically olympic sport visas etc. reassigned for a bribe.