skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article, but it's missing the true dynamics. One of the interesting things in the past few years we've seen is evolution and population dynamics on a very fast and very relevant scale with COVID. You'd see case numbers going up and down, but since mid 2021 or so, the main thing driving rates was the reproduction number of the most contagious variant in existence. At times you'd see the overall case counts going down, but one particular variant growing quickly, and you would know that very soon the number was going to go up again. The dynamics of viral and human populations are not so different.

Groups that have a reproduction number less than 1 (same as TFR<2) will die out. Those that have a reproduction number greater than 1 will grow and come to take over. Right now, the populations that have R>1 are largely in Africa. That said there are little pockets in R<1 countries that are R>1. In the U.S. for example you see groups like the Amish and the Mormons. As long as there's enough food and no wars or mass oppression, groups with R>1 will eventually constitute effectively the entire population.

Now, of course, humans are more complicated than viruses. Viruses don't have beliefs or values that can be transmitted to the next generation, just genes. For this to work for humans, the humans have to pass along their pro-kid value system to the next generation. Some groups will do this, and some won't, but the world is big enough that there will be groups that do manage to do this, and they will inherit the Earth.
Sounds like a very poor excuse when competitors are way cheaper.
And is that bad? So many people suggesting immigration as a “fix” but a fix for what? What’s wrong with a declining population?
The 10x doesn't seem like it's enough to pay for more than a single EC2 server though.
> somehow feels entitled enough that they can dictate browsers to respect their authority regarding what users can and cannot block. It's the same behavior. And the fix is the same: abandon the Chrome ecosystem. The more users do that, the more the web will basically remain outside of the control of Google.

This is fundamentally the problem isn't it. They feel entitled _because_ they can dictate terms to the rest of the web, or at least they think so. There's no fixing this by changing Google's mind, only by forcing their hand by making this decision hurt their wallet. And as you point out, that only happens if people stay outside of the Google garden.
You have the exact same problem with UTF-32. It can also only express more complex characters with clusters.
You will be surprised. The "district court of Hamburg" it's very famous in DE when it comes to, among others, copyright.
> I have some cons

I’m sure you do :°)
ML model for predicting outcome of UFC fights
I don’t personally agree with the approaches that Food Not Bombs take, but _domestic terrorism_? How would you define terrorism, and how does this organization relate to that definition?
Or maybe it's better to compare to personal modes of traffic and not airliners?
> they will want more foreigners in this Country

At that point it won't really be Japan anymore, and where will you go?
I live in the EU and I have been in the USA plenty of times and it is a great country with great people. Now.. to the election stuff...

If you (plural - the people) don't like the "electorate college" method, change it. Perhaps it was serving you (plural - the people) 50-100-200 years ago, but now life, lifespan, roads, cities, technology has changed. Humans wrote this system, humans can change it. The quote "what got you here, won't get you there" applies perfectly for many functions that are more than 100 years old.

Every time you got elections in the USA, I am thinking the systems that many/most EU countries have vs what the US has, and it baffles me how the #2 in votes "is assigned the task to solve the country's problems for the next 4 years",
- aka president, pm, and other titles all over the world
- yes aren't supposed to RULE us, they are supposed to SERVE us.

Government is a system. Humans devised it. Humans placed it there. Humans can change it (if humans really-really-really want to and they have to really-really-really want because there are other humans who make a ton of $$$ by the current system and they will fight tooth-and-nail to keep it as it is now)(sorry for the long parentheses).
R7RS, which Gambit (mostly?) supports, helps mitigate this by making library code more portable across implementations. Gambit, in particular, can also very easily take advantage of the wide variety of C libraries; it has one of the easiest, most integrated FFIs of all Scheme implementations.
Even if I wasn't using containers for production, the ability to make a repeatable build allows you to make software with complex dependencies extremely easy to develop in. Making it possible for a new developer in a new environment to get a build working on their own laptop, in the first day on the job, didn't use to be simple.

And being able to make hermetic environments for integration tests used to be almost impossible, and today, depending on your stack, it is trivial with libraries like testcontainers.
That's not what GP said. There are legitimate reasons for the government to track people, there are not legitimate reasons for private citizens to do so. That doesn't mean all tracking by the government is "for the greater good", but at least there is a chance it's acceptable. There is no chance with private citizens.
I registered this username at one of the early big name webmail services. Not unimaginably rare, sure, but neither is it jsmith or the like.

You’d be shocked how many different people have signed up for stuff with that email address that I’ve had for like 20 years (and only ever log into so I can check on the mayhem). I’ve had bank notices, home sale records, 2 people creating Facebook accounts, and plenty of other stuff.

If my name were as common as yours, I think I’d be ready to choke someone.
For some reason Firefox Android often freezes when interacting with tiles in Google search results (especially bad with image searches). It's really annoying.
Go is not good at learning from lessons.
An on-demand service app’s efficiency and productivity have ushered in a major shift in our lives. People don’t have time to deal with the day requirements because of our tight schedules and heavy workload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo
This is why I use s3 sync, versioning and lifecycles for mine on a Standard-IA bucket. My 120Gb costs $1.80 a month. No way would I pay tarsnap prices.

The 120Gb is the contents of my OneDrive and local repository trees. This is everything I've ever done that I want to keep and is approximately 115Gb of photos and not a lot else!
I didn't mean for it to sound like the first one but I understand ;)
A treemap visualization of disk spaace is found in WinDirStat, which is a Windows port of KDirStat from KDE.

A key visualization technique in WinDirStat's treemap is the use of Phong shading to give the squares a fake 3-D look, as if they were convex, shiny domes sticking out of the image toward the user. This cue provides clear separation, even between adjacent cells that use the same base color/hue.
“Avoid success at all costs”
And an aricle about it: https://medium.com/@dan.h.mcinerney/how-to-predict-1v1-sport...
Don't use unnecessary abbreviations that are not common without introducing them first.
There is general silence on the cause. Seems

either -> People had new attention now that she died and know nothing else
or -> They like to make some "cloud of mystery" to increase sales.
I just logged into Twitch with a fresh session in Firefox on a Linux system as well. No problems.
It worked mostly fine for most of Eastern Europe after 1990 (with a couple of notable exceptions, like Russia). We tend to focus on the few black sheep where it didn't work, maybe because in hindsight the cases where it worked look so "obvious".
Think one step further: if people become much more valuable and rare, targeting and killing them will become more valuable too.
TLS Encrypted Client Hello
This cover sounds like something that could easily be illegal depending on the location.

Quick research says that license plate covers are "Allowed" in just 16/50 states, though I have no idea how accurate the source is and it also says that the "Allowed" designation "only" means that that that state requires license plates to be easily readable. (One of the table rows is "Arizona: Arizona | Arizona", so perhaps it's not very accurate.)

Still, regardless of how reliable the sources I found are, I'd be shocked to find many states that don't have prohibitions on making it difficult for red-light/speed/ALPR cameras to read plates.
Windows 9X/2000/NT was long time ago, nowadays that it more a GNU/Linux problem than Windows one.
Same, those cloth/linen bags are indestructible. Can’t remember having thrown a single one away yet and the oldest one I can accurately date is from before the 07/08 financial crisis. They’re also much more comfortable to carry than any plastic bag I’ve seen.
So before the worlds elite athletes were coming to town, a clean river wasn’t worth it?
https://de.indeed.com/q-cobol-entwickler-jobs.html?vjk=8d36a...
How are you going to monetize this? I would be very nervous building a business around an extension calling someone elses API. You only have to look at the drama that played out at reddit a few weeks ago, to see how risky it is.
Countries with highest fertility rates [1]:

Niger - 6.8

Somalia - 6.0

Congo (Dem. Rep.) - 5.8

Mali - 5.8

Chad - 5.6

Angola - 5.4

Burundi - 5.3

Nigeria - 5.3

Gambia - 5.2

Burkina Faso - 5.1

(Breakeven is around 2.1.)

Almost all the countries above breakeven are in sub-Saharan Africa, near the equator.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fer...
I mean, sure, you can optimize a lot of the common cases (C++ compilers do the same), but that doesn't make the dispatch static, semantically.
I accidentally pasted a backtrace into a github issue outside of a code block. It was a deep stack, with each line prefixed by "#0" "#1", "#2", etc. GitHub decided to turn these into links to the corresponding numbered issues, for every issue, (including back-reference notifications in each of those issues) and there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.
I started OnlineOrNot at $9/mo, it's now $14/mo for the cheapest plan (with a few experiments along the way).

You can raise prices at any time without backlash, as long as current users continue to get the deal they signed up for. Just change it for new users.

The issue is then, if you raise prices too far, and fewer folks start signing up. You may want to lower prices, and update folks on the higher price to have the cheaper price (to avoid backlash).
Europe does nothing without consulting the mothership.
I honestly think the causation is the reverse: people refuse to pay for low quality journalism because they can do a quick search on free sites and figure the story themselves.

If journalists want to get paid, they need to produce something that people really value. It's not up to the consumer to pay for shitty news in the hope that their sacrifice improves it long term.

Plenty of journalists are now self-publishing and getting subscription revenue because they produce content people want. This author choose to play the mainstream media game instead, and so they choose to produce click-bait. No one forced their hand. I don't think blaming Journalists is the solution: the solution is to support good journalists and push back against low quality click bait like this.
How should a browser differentiate between a <pre> of hard-wrapped prose (that it could reflow in reader mode) and a <pre> of code?
I honestly don’t see it at all. It is RAM-hungry, but that is quite inherent with any sort of tool that has to do various fast lookups in large repositories — that has to be stored in-memory, regardless of programming language.

But if you do give it like 2GB of RAM at the least, it is very smooth (unfortunately it used to have a very low max memory setting for a long time). Java is good at handling dynamic loading, you don’t really pay for any feature you don’t use, they don’t even get class loaded.
Not sure why this is downvoted. This model is heavily censored by default.
They are good for showing storage usage, because they create a direct metaphor: the sizes of the elements in the tree map corresponds to their actual proportion of space that they take up, and the tree map captures the hierarchy also: related files in the same directory (e.g. videos) are clustered into the same rectangle.
It's worth noting that many of what Likud voters today deem as "left wing" was actually done by the Likud in the past (like the human rights base law [1]).

Essentially, when you actually gain power and have to take responsible action, you see that the right wing biblical fantasies can't end well for the county in reality.

The problem today is that many of those right wingers who are also religious fundamentalists are now in power, and they care not about this world but about the next [2], so they're willing to make the sacrifice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Human_Dignity_and_L...
[2] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%96%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%9... (It's only in Hebrew, but Google Translate is your friend)
Not sure about "real science" but it's very convenient for our students. We usually setup a notebook per group for ML-related group projects on our GPU server and also set up notebooks for thesis work etc.

Advantages...no setup on the students side (+they get reliable compute remotely) and we can prepare notebooks highlighting certain concepts. Text cells are usefull for explaining stuff so they can work through some notebooks by themselves.
Students can also easily share notebooks with us if they have any questions/issues.

I also use notebooks for data exploration, training initial test models etc. etc. Very useful. I'd say >50% of my ML related work gets done in notebooks.
> When I am working I ether want to see a few windows at once(documentation|editor) (reference|photoshop) (chat|web) or I want to only see one application, I never go "Oh boy I am glad I can only see half this window".

Actually, thanks to "responsive design" and whatever other new inventions, I often go "boy, would I like to only see half this browser window" when I want to have the (documentation|editor) setup on a smaller screen (i3 on a laptop). Because I want to see the actual documentation, not the multiple navigation menus that take up half the browser window. And no, I can't zoom in and pan, because then it will trigger some breakpoint and whatnot and the text becomes comically huge as it thinks I'm reading on a phone.
The universe potentially getting really old doesn't make it more likely for us to be the first. It is incredibly unlikely.
Somehow I am not convinced that Ad blockers are such big of a problem for Google. Especially when these are not used much on Mobil, and the world is clearly transitioning to Mobil.

Do we know the financial impact ad blockers are thought to have?

I’m guessing ad fraud is a way bigger problem, although some would argue that add fraud is not googles problem, it still hurts Google.

Maybe it’s also a third thing I just can’t think of right now, ad blocks just seem to niche to me.
How about just enforcing a stronger monopoly on user tracking?
For some reason USA government fuels this. Why? Some intelligence operation possibly.
Yup. And you can make sure to run your tests in the exact same Postgres version you are running in production. No need to go help your teammate whose machine is for some reason behaving different, due to some weird configuration file somewhere that they forgot they changed it 6 months ago.
> community ownership of the means of production, which would 100% mean access to these tools

I’ll bite. Who builds the tools?
So as someone who deals with enterprise software: Network effects.

Where I work, we treat Chrome as the malware it is: It's banned both by technical measures and security policy. We deploy Firefox, and begrudgingly deal with Edge when people insist on a Chromium-based browser. (At least Microsoft added some modicum of privacy settings here.)

Here's what I've learned over the past several years: Web developers are lazy. We're commonly told such and such app or service "only works on Chrome" or they'll "only support on Chrome". When we call for support, half the time we'll get told it's because we're not on Chrome, and I have to actually prove to them on an isolated machine that the issue occurs on Chrome so they'll shut the heck up and do their job. "Oh, I found an issue on our server" after I spent two hours trying to convince them their app works fine on Firefox.

In most cases, things "not working on Firefox" entails exempting a site from the popup blocker. In 2023, troubleshooting alternative browsers is usually... roughly that easy. But blaming your web browser is easy and lets them shift blame, so that's what they do.

But enterprise software companies have completely turned Chrome into the modern Internet Explorer: The only browser they'll even deal with. And since a lot of people buy Google's marketing that they know security and aren't completely clueless how security works (they are), people have by and large given in and installed Chrome.
I saw that, a bit further along from Kastrup sea bath, with the planes coming in to land at the airport.

I guess it's open water unlike the Seine, but it did surprise me, I felt like I was sat in quite an industrial area when a couple walked past in swimming costumes and towels.
So instead of thousands of craft flying daily over the US, there are potentially millions commuting past Earth? And those crashes still happen despite an abundance of help nearby?
Optional?
I really hate to see that Facebook (stop calling them Meta!) is not just pretending anymore to do things that are not evil to everyone, but now actually do it. I really think it‘s a good licensing model and it‘s benefitting most of us.

Still – never forget: it’s Facebook. Don‘t care what their legal entity is named.

Don‘t let them get away with their sneaky attempt of rebranding to make people forget who they are and what they did. Also don‘t let them own the word „meta“. Why would anyone?!
Predictive maintenance is not that controversial. I built that for a big mining company with pretty broad asset base about 10 years ago. It’s easy to plug some ML in the place of other prediction models. The challenge with these programs are important nuances such as work order definitions and standardisation, whether you use new vs refurbished components, impact on cost, downstream maintenance impacts, useful life etc. Quite exciting domain, I wish I worked on that a bit more as I hand to hand over and people who received got confused on even more basic staff such as dynamic updates on strategy, I.e. run to failure vs predictive etc. Therefore, yes, it can possibly go wrong, but no, it does not have to.
I do not even want to know what sort of weird-ass GUI code or behavior made those two operations dissimilar.
If a government wants citizen to fill out forms online in a mandatory fashion, I think they have to provide free access to internet and email.

The current state where they tell you "to use the internet connection of a friend" when you don't have internet is kind of ridiculous, especially for migrating people from foreign countries that are overwhelmed by European bureaucracies.

You should try getting an internet contract when you don't already own a smartphone. It's impossible, because all ISPs require some form of web identification with shitty apps and your passport that's being recorded.

In Germany we had the "de-mail" for a while with exactly that purpose. But in a government fashion they ridiculously fucked it up, using a proprietary encryption and signing mechanism that never worked up until the point that de-mails were blocked everywhere and all "licensed" providers of that stopped servicing it.
Which is exactly what parent is arguing against? That RRR is taking focus away from the "real" solutions, as if the "real" solutions are something I could do about at a personal level.
;) Glad someone noticed it (or googled it, which to be fair is becoming even more commendable with time)
it is as if linux desktop people hate having users
There's more than one reason that people used (or use) CentOS
I did not know
You are making the same mistake as the other guy, which is the mistaken belief that the US federal government represents and is chosen by the people.

No, the US federal government represents and is chosen by the states. This is exemplified in how the US Constitution can be amended by a 3/4ths majority of the states, with each state getting one (yes: 1) vote.

It is the states and their respective governments that represent and are chosen by the people.

The states choose the President, but they can't do it via Congress because of the separation of powers between the branches of our government. So the Electoral College serves to emulate Congress, which is a method of representation that all states will agree on.

Incidentally, Congress can and will choose the President in the very unlikely event that the Electoral College deadlocks and fails to carry out its duty. This is considered a constitutional crisis, however, and it's a situation we all want to avoid.

Personally, I like the Electoral College because it reflects the above described political structure of the United States and the systems necessary to maintain it. The United States really is what it says on the tin, the states hold tremendous power because we are a union of states.
The canals in Copenhagen are pristine compared to cities like Amsterdam. I'd dip in there any time!
As the article states there are not a lot of books on the topic but one I read recently was "Tomorrow’s People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers" by Paul Morland.

Review here:
https://archive.is/eSzmG
No ifs, no buts. Stop using Chrome.
Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of obviously quality lowering attacks on public education aren’t part of an effort to delegitimize public education in favor of some kind of educational profiteering scheme.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the path to “equality” by removing depth is a foolish endeavor.

Taken to its logical conclusion, nothing at all should be taught in school, and everyone will all get exactly the same grade and the exact same level of academic achievement. Perfect equality.

In reality, this will create an ignorant mass of poor people of all ethnicities, while those that can afford an actual education will do what it takes to put their children into private schools. It will dramatically alter educational outcomes based primarily on household income, and this will undoubtedly have the worst outcome for minorities.

It’s amazing that people cannot see this very obvious and predictable outcome.
If it's the latter, then reader quality is quite screwed up in here trying to make people endorse crazy pricing because he's some known guy around here.
We buy a lot of single use packaging partly because the public was sold on the fact that recycling solves problems, when it does not. Their use has been creeping up for decades. When I moved to Germany around 15 years ago I was initially quite shocked to the amount of plastic waste the people there collected. Back home, at least not then, we simply did not have e.g. grapes packaged in a hard plastic case, or even more ludicrous things like salmon in tiny 50g packaging. Ironically, when talking about poorer countries, rich countries usually lament the absence of recycling, or the use of plastic bags, yet their use of plastic is higher both relative and absolute in terms of the amount of things they can afford.