skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most countries use immigration to mitigate this problem. For example, Canada has been unable to naturally replenish their population since 1972. Now they have one of the highest immigration rates in the developed world. Japan as a whole is too xenophobic and racist. They would use robotics & AI rather than allow foreigners to settle and assimilate on a mass scale unlike nearly every developed Western country. South Korea has a similar problem, but I’m less familiar with it

As for the reason for Canada’s birth rate woes since 1972, it was not socioeconomic (it’s likely due to declining male fertility). Abortion was only legalized in 1988 in Canada. Housing was affordable during that time and its economy was strong during the long period of consecutive population declines.

Of course, like many countries a large portion of Canada’s population, including liberals, are now against immigration due to a combination of housing woes and a healthcare system in turmoil. Unfortunately, Canada has no choice unless they want to see their economy further crater and not have the working adult population to pay for socialized programs such as healthcare. According to statscan, Canada’s NIST, even if they drastically increase immigration; it will only slow down the age population bomb and not prevent it i.e. Retired elderly will still eventually outnumber both working adults and children one day too soon. The speed will likely accelerate due to the Canadian public’s growing distaste for immigration.
Where's the difference to the USA or UK with people taking second and third jobs just to make ends meet due to the cost of living?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
I checked Roberge et al 2010 and it seems they don't separate inhalation from exhalation in the gas measurements under the mask.

I checked Sinkule et al 2012 and it's quite hard to tell how the review got those numbers from that paper.

Might check more when I have time later.
Or just "released, down, and canceled" to tighten up the news cycle.
Totally agree, the cost of frivolous copyright claims cannot be 0 if we want such system to work.

> Other parties used the LAION list to train AI models - and those parties are who the photographer should have made claims against in the first place.

"Other parties" have not published a recognizable copy of his work either, only a list of weights that were computed based on his work. How was their copyrights infringed by these?
And Google complies with DMCA requests and removes search results.
Another option would be to mail a physical letter to their billing department stating that you are cancelling your subscription 30 days from now and any subsequent charges to the credit card will be disputed.
Cloud Console is having issues related to the outage in europe-west9

> Customer using Cloud Console globally are unable to open and view the Compute Engine related pages like: Instance creation page Disk creation page Instance templates page Instance Groups page

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...
Still waiting for the high-tech innovation of being able to unilaterally cancel subscriptions by blocking charges.
A billion years from now, time travel should have been invented. Your view of time is too linear.
I experimented with a similar concept myself[1] but couldn't get myself used to it. The neat thing though is that it doesn't require a dictionary. You get what you type (or swipe), there's zero guesswork involved.

[1] https://twitter.com/grishka11/status/1517531884246421505
I am watching vegan leather keenly.

But leather as in cow leather is a great resource that would otherwise go unused if it wasn't for the market.

People will probably always eat a lot of cow, what else should we do with its skin?
Some online banks allow you to easily create virtual cards. I use revolut, which is free.
Hi Rob! I have a request from an avid user of your visualisations in the Octopus Energy App. Could you please switch the y axis on real time data from Octopus Home Mini from Wh/min to just instant Watts? kWh/day makes sense on larger time scales but Wh/min is pretty meaningless to most people. Also it seems like it would be more readable as a line graph with datapoints, than a bar chart. A line graph would also allow for better interpolation between missing readings too.
I think it is you stating ideologically poisoned opinions.

Regular (even ignoring irregular) immigration contributes for 10% of the GDP in Italy alone.

All stats clearly show how regular (and even irregular) immigration is a high benefit to European countries.

I'm Italian and I can guarantee you that many sectors of our economy would be dead without immigrants, especially our precious food industry.

Immigrants pay taxes here, produce goods here, consume here, but they get little out of it as they are neither schooled nor retire here.

See, e.g. key findings here:

https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/library-document/pr...

The other part of your comment is similarly loaded.

Yes, it happens that immigration may lead to social tensions. That's very true. But the experience differs wildly and real stats have to be taken into account.

E.g. In Germany crime is at all times low after having taken more than 2 million refugees and regular/irregular immigrants in a decade.

They have been absolutely core to German growth and I am hardly pressed to state that taking so many immigrants has been anything but a net positive.
Why aren't we lobbying for an onboarding/offboarding parity law (looking at you EU !)

If I sign up with 3 clicks, it should be (at most) the same to unsubscribe.
Show me where people explicitly want 8 year olds, or anyone tbh to read a specific book that’s not part of the basic English class curriculum?
> Smartphone companies like Apple and Google, in an attempt to better their word prediction algorithms, as well as collect potentially profitable information on what their users were typing, began submitting and aggregating all their user's key-taps to their servers, violating user's privacy in the process.

Neither Google's nor Apple's keyboards send your keystrokes to the server, that would have been too outrageous, even for them. Gboard is kind of leaky, as it uses "federated learning" where the keyboard finetunes a prediction model locally, then the results are sent to the server and merged there; this is literally a long-term profile of what (and how) you type, and can probably be used to identify you elsewhere. But even then it doesn't send your keystrokes directly.
> You are definitely many standard deviations from the norm!

[citation needed]
No need for the AR goggles, just hire day labor to work for a skilled tradesman as a labor multiplier, or try the old fashioned "here's a mobile phone do what your boss says"

In the trades themselves, we've been doing this for centuries... have a master mason supervise the journeyman masons supervising the manual day labor. AI will not be able to compete with experienced personnel. In that field they've already dumbed down the entry level requirement to "pick up a brick and move it there" and it can't go much lower.

On the other hand, if I were manufacturing survey equipment I'd worry about AR goggles as the competition.
I didn't say that nobody is willing to discuss things.

I said that comments outside of a certain narrow range of acceptable opinion get shut down.
That's why you're always advised to have a backup passkey.
In the EU, specifically for copyright cases, you are.
I am reluctant to subscribe to anything nowadays. I contemplate hard and long before deciding to go ahead, more likely not going ahead. And this is mostly due to the rubbish client relationships many providers allow for themselves. Most times it does not worth the effort.
This crap hurts an awful lot of good actors. I used to work for a small startup in the education sector. We offered trial subscriptions, but because of the 'cancel before your trial expires' anti-pattern that so many companies adopt, potential customers were suspicious. To the extent that they thought they might be charged on trial expiry, despite the fact that they didn't even provide a means of payment at any time during the process.
Swift: Hold my beer
Various credit cards give you the ability to create per-store cards that can be shut-off or have shutoff dates. When I sign up for a trial now, I use a temporary card that is locked before the payment kicks in.

My card actually has a nice browser extension that automatically gets or generates a per-store card when I hit a payment form. Very convenient.
I think you know, but just to be clear: this one isn't T9, it's something IMO much better. I've used the keyboard they based this on and it's easily the best input method available on a phone once you learn it.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand although both articles are not even linked.
It sounds like they were fine if you were within a mile of the lake on the north side. I wonder what... else... is notable about that... area... but I just can't quite... put my finger on it....

South side isn't an island, it's half the city's land area and population. To the extent it's cut off from the rest of the city that's an intentional policy choice supported and justified by comments like yours.
It is very strange to me to have the thought "man, the current bee population cant support the human population much farther" then on the heels of that, "the human population is about to experience a significant decline"
I watched a program about a couple that bought a "1€" house in Italy. Long story short, by the time the house was in a liveable state they'd spent around 100k, and the village they were living in had virtually nothing to offer in the way of shops or services and everything was a 45 minute drive away. They eventually put the house on the marker for less than they'd spent on it.
Disagree somwhat; Age of Empires would be unlikely to do better under any other publisher IMO.

The whole Gamepass thing also appears functional to me (i.e. I know people who pay money for it and are satisfied, unlike former Stadia).

But I strongly believe that stopping consolidation in that market is a laudable move and am super happy with the decision to block this.
Ouch. Isn't part of separate zones being protected against something, say, like a terrorist attack or a natural disaster that can take down a whole datacenter?
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/theres-confusion-ov...
In what industry is a 40% operating margin considered normal? For comparison, Elsevier has an operating margin of 37%.
When people say "easily", they don't mean "everybody gets to it". They mean "The chances are better than elsewhere". Which is true. And also fyi if you actually enjoy learning and growing you wouldn't sound so bitter about not making stupid amounts of money
I'd caution you against this idea that you can "know the feeling" of acute CO2 exposure.

For my PhD work (gas geochemistry) I spent hundreds of hours working in volcanic ice caves with CO2 levels up to 2% (we measured up to 3% but had a rule against being in above 2%). I always had a gas monitor with me so it was interesting to try and guess the levels. Neither I, nor anyone I was with, could guess reliably.

More than once I was with others in a cave, and they would freak out and say they felt high CO2 and we'd check the readings and nope. I actually think people (including myself) were responding to high humidity and heat and misinterpreting it as high CO2.

Of course, high CO2 is dangerous, all I'm saying is that it's surprisingly hard to disentangle it from all the other factors affecting how well your feel as a human, when you actually test yourself.
> Regular (even ignoring irregular) immigration contributes for 10% of the GDP in Italy alone.

I haven't denied that. But that's not the point, which you are ignoring. In fact your reply illustrate my previous comment that immigration is the easy option for industry, but it is not sustainable.

> I think it is you stating ideologically poisoned opinions

QED.
Have a nice day.
Reminds me of the joke about a retirement gift for a urologist made of scrotums.

During winter it's a small coin purse, warm it up and you have a briefcase.
How does the CMA reconcile the fact that Sony also has a cloud streaming service and it is larger than Microsoft? If this makes Xbox too big doesn’t it mean that PlayStation is also too big? And how is anyone to compete against Sony if they can’t grow their own exclusive content?
They also operate in UK. Of course if they were "just" two US companies UK can't do anything but these companies also have legal presence in the UK.
In the early days of COVID, before we knew anything, I would go for runs outside and wear a mask (N95). I live in a densely populated city so this seemed like the appropriate thing to do.

While it was not pleasant, at no point did I start having issues you described so I have trouble buying the original claim.
"Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region"
That's a big if. IMO anti-aging could be similar to self-driving, i.e. harder than it seems.
Russia Seizes Foreign-Owned Utilities After EU Asset Moves
> In March, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a “click to cancel” rule that would make it as easy for consumers to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.

Unsubscribing (and cancelling any other recurrent payments) should be made from bank's website. It is noteworthy that banks allow companies to charge you but do not display list of subscriptions and do not allow to easily cancel them. There is no hope that banks will change, so I hope cryptocurrency wallets will fix this problem.
cancel culture makes it so even that one isn't safe.
I agree with most of this, but this isn't an argument for Activision-Blizzard merging with Microsoft, this is an argument that Activision-Blizzard shareholders need to throw out Bobby Kotick and his folks, and replace them with competent leadership (or really, anyone with a pulse who won't union-bust and won't sexually harass people, would be more qualified at this point).

It's ridiculous that a company with this many talented people, and this much treasured IP, is languishing in this state and tied up with such easy-to-avoid internal-only mistakes.

> The Microsoft acquisition would have likely breathed some new life into the company and allowed corporate to clean up shop

Maybe. But it seems more likely that Microsoft would have cleaned up leadership a tiny bit and then left Activision-Blizzard to slowly quietly rot away, in much the same way that Microsoft has treated Halo.
Many niche communities now are entirely accepting of, and active participants in, knee-jerk feigned outrage and groupthink. I don't think fear of cancel culture is a big aspect, since a lot of them actively cheer it on. Remember, the well small places draw from isn't filled by other niche communities and tech people anymore -- it's Twitter, Reddit and Facebook.

In the case of places that are not self hosted, like Discord communities, closing off is often a means of survival against a mostly automated moderation system. I've seen several relatively large Discord communities be wiped out by small groups of obsessive and sad people going around and reporting out of context posts until one finally pops the server and gets it deleted.
What preceding poster said, it was prescribed very liberally, not that it was OTC.
Can someone explain to me how a UK regulator has the power to block a merger between two US companies - I get that they can say its blocked - but what kind of powers do they have to enforce it from not happening?
In the economic model of perfect competition, price equals marginal cost, so margins will be zero, as you say. Though you don't explicitly argue it, it is worth making clear that capitalism doesn't mean that the perfect competition model will always hold for all markets. There are plenty of reasons why monopolistic competition could occur, even in a strawman version of capitalism. People could pay attention to branding, for instance. Firms that spend more on branding might be able to maintain higher margins. So even in the strawman capitalism, margins could be high for reasons other than a lack of competition.

In the real world the technology industry does tend to have higher margins than other industries. There might be perfectly normal explanations for that, such as network effects, but there are also government policies that have the effect of reducing competition. For instance, intellectual property laws reduce competition in order to attempt to encourage innovation. The strawman version of capitalism doesn't exist in the real world. Margins can remain high for some time.

That being said, there are competitors for Microsoft's bread and butter products. If you want an alternative to Windows, try Linux. If you want an alternative to Office, try Open Office. For many users, however, they get a better experience with the Microsoft products than these alternatives, even though they are free. Microsoft has to keep making their products better than the alternatives or people will use others (though there are costs of switching and network effects that mean that MS probably doesn't need to have the absolute best product on the market in order for customers to keep using them).
I would lobby for it at the state level, and pass something like California did. That will be much likelier than federal action.
> non-existent on pc

You may want to think a little longer on that ;)
The problem, I believe, is the United States. The US is responsible for an outsized proportion of the world's CO2 production, directly and indirectly. It is the source, and biggest beneficiary, of CO2 denialism.

To bypass CO2 denialism means leaving the US out of plans to reduce carbon. And that means handing the US a big economic stick with which to beat other countries.

If you do not invite the US to a climate discussion, it will be conspicuous by its absence. Nobody wants to spend the money to benefit a country that is most at fault. And if you do invite us, we will water down any agreement -- and then probably fail to abide by it. The United States is always the (ahem) elephant in the room.

So when they not to focus on climate change denial, they mean "let's forget about the US and do it anyway". And indeed, that's probably necessary, because the alternative is even worse. Only by forgetting about the US can they get to the genuinely difficult problems of climate change -- radically altering markets, spending money on alternatives, balancing risks, figuring out what to do about poorer countries who need the economic boost of fossil fuels.

Those are all incredibly difficult problems that we've ignored because we've spent decades dealing with the stupid, easy problem -- believing that it's not just a hoax. And unfortunately, that means taking the galling step of admitting that the US simply isn't going to help.
There's other things that can not be sorted out. The balance of global powers and culture. Like the western world or not, I prefer it to Russia, China, India. Which are the ones that can slip in the role of dominant global power if the west declines too much in population. Or if it's culture and values get too diluted.

Granted, these things happen in many generations, we'll be long dead before it happens (presuming it does), and as I have no children, nor want, so I couldn't say it interests me aside from an intellectual debate.
Nobody said we should, but they have.
Wizards of the Coast sent the Pinkertons after a leaker
This thread is most definitely an opinion thread.

Which is quite misguided, as you still can go to many places on this planet where literally all of what you wrote is true.

There are vast swathes of land on this planet, where you can go and do exactly what our great ancestors did 1mil years ago.

Not to mention that your whole opinion rests on the notion that labor is free.
As a MSFT shareholder I agree. As a citizen of the world I think it's fine to stop multi trillion dollar companies from expanding anymore regardless of impact and I think most reasonable people would agree
Relative to other fields. Compare it to wanting to switch careers into the military, plumbing, captaining a boat, or becoming a doctor or lawyer or civil engineer after the age of 40.

Technology has no age limits, educational requirements, no government enforced credentials or inspections required, no apprenticeship or residency requirements, no significant union presence, no commonality for time in title, no professional tests to pass, and a trivially small tool investment cost.

You can plausibly learn the craft to an employable level with just internet access, a couple hundred bucks in computer hardware, an insatiable amount of curiosity and desire to build things and the right personality match against the interview team. It's not a guarantee but the barriers to entry are laughably nonexistent compared to many careers.
I switched to using a custom domain + catchall email setup. So when I go to a retail store that requires an email to get a receipt, I just give them STORENAME@mycustomdomain.com and it will get delivered into my inbox. Retailers that don't honor the unsubscribe button just get the email address created and then set to bounceback as undeliverable.

This also does a great job of catching data leaks or willful sale of client and customer data.
Old Artemide lights weren't designed around modern LED technology and are now obsolete. I doubt that your children will even want them.
Maybe he didn't have much of a choice, or funds to buy a faster one.

OP could always decide to go hermit ofcourse and live in the jungle eating roots, so he is partly to blame.
Potentially it can be argued that LAION is aiding in copyright infringement, but there is a very strong argument that no copyright infringement is occurring at all. (With one of the many interesting twists being that AI output is considered PD in the US)

My lawyer would say this is a "legally interesting situation": by which he means that the situation legally and ethically very unclear, and lawyers can earn a lot of money sorting it out.
Check out Privacy.com, they let you make virtual cards that you can limit or cancel whenever if things get fishy. I had to use this recently with a merchant who, after being unable to sell from their e-store on weekends left me wondering if I was going to be charged for this unprocessed order or not. The person I spoke to at the business had a 'gotcha' flair to their response about this, so I just cancelled the number before the conversation was over.
Thanks for the post and I don't disagree with your assessment on how the term "mandate" is used. It's just the closest word I could find at the time to describe how I view the current state. I know the governor for example doesn't come on the TV and say thou shalt drive but the budget and actions do show otherwise. I'm not even sure voters are effectively engaged here either. It's like the saying it's easier to destroy things than to create them. It's easier to just do cars because explaining why we shouldn't just do cars requires more discussion.
Endowments need to be taxed out of existence.
Don't forget that WW2 itself killed well over 50 million people, between direct casualties, civilians, the Holocaust and other genocides and war crimes, and starvation.
In my experience, which is one anticipated layoff, and one voluntary to get a bigger "package", layoffs are very damaging. It's easy to get depressed, it's hard to get up and get going.
Our furniture is almost exclusively IKEA.

While it's not the cheap stuff and movers never actually had to disassemble anything more than the bed frame, I have never seen "we don't move IKEA furniture" or any kinds of furniture related wavers.
I'm glad California has a law against some of the practicies, and our entire Nation will soon follow. I hope they enforce this law.
I'd rather keep paying than figure out how and where to buy stamps and envelopes.
If you change your address to a California address you can enable click to cancel online for NYT.