skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah! I’m not sure if I saw your post before the edit or not. To respond to what you’re saying..

I’m not 100% sure what is real and what is selection bias. What is due to class shifts, increased income earning, etc. too. This seems like something that should have studies around it with actual data, but I couldn’t find it directly with a quick search.

All I’ve personally experienced is seeing parents (and myself) struggle to get kids into various activities due to the huge demands on our own time/mental energy, and trying to figure out how to get a good outcome for the kids from it. All of these folks I know were either from low middle and now high middle, or high middle and still high middle class backgrounds.

Upper class type folks already had a set of things they ‘did’, and while there was competition, it looked different.

I found [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720124/] which is quite interesting, but that also seems to be oriented around ‘what do various types of extracurricular activities/after school social interactions actually produce’.

Which is very interesting, and goes more to the outcome as compared to changes over time.
100% correct - the EU is a relative bastion of sanity in comparison.

It would be nice if the UK government used the ridiculous powers they gave themselves to hold Boris Johnson to account though.
If I were to share an anecdote about another group being subject to workplace discrimination and open bigotry; and then get a canned sociological treatise trying to justify it, that response would be, rightly seen as beyond the pale.

So no, I’m not going to engage with it.

EDIT: it looks like you’re from India, so you may not be aware of this. In most western countries engaging in workplace discrimination based on religion would get you into serious trouble, and quite likely fired. Not only is it illegal, it’s bad for business (losing a potentially valuable senior staff member because they’re the “wrong religion” has seriously hurt our project). Your reaction is quite telling though.
They should tax people who don't have kids, subsidize child care, enforce long maternity leave, etc.

Maybe the people who have kids should rake in dividends from the people who don't have kids.
Asking Jeff was not an option?
New Audi LED lights bring warning signs and customisation
So long and thanks for all the fish!!
> Push2Talk - this is also important, I dont understand how e.g Teams dont have this shit.

MS Teams does support this feature, though you have to activate it first: see

> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/teams-... (concise answer)

> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/muting-and-unmuti... (documentation)
I'm not sure why you don't trust Element. It's open source, so you could just look at the code yourself to determine whether you can trust it.

I personally use the nheko client since it is a native client and less bloat (in other words, no Electron stuff).
The Ontario’s are funny. I often get something shipped and think it’s close at hand for southern Ontario, only to be disappointed when I realize it’s in California and it’ll be a few days before it even hits the border.

Saint John NB and St John’s NL is one I find endlessly funny. On paper it should not be a collision, and even out loud it really isn’t one, yet I know multiple people who have independently flown to the wrong one.
IRCv3 has it. I've tried it. It truly brings modern levels of irritation to this age-old protocol.
This almost seems like satire:

Harvard writing an article on behalf of Getty talking about unfair distribution of resources.

Harvard literally benefited from colonialism. Getty is prime example number one of an early “land grab” with regard to copyrighted images.
Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
> influence US elections

I can't believe this narrative is still repeated. "influence" can mean almost anything. In the headliner 2016 story, it meant a few based Russian organizations bought several million dollars of targeted Facebook ads. That's what broke democracy I guess.

In Assange's case it means he released existing emails which reflected negatively on a candidate. In that past most of his released material has negatively reflected on republicans.

The US has an interest in, and is "influencing" foreign election 24/7 365.
If they can buy it then I can opt out.

It is an unconstitutional practice. If they didn’t think it was they wouldn’t go through the extra steps to get the data. Outsourcing one part of the illegal enterprise doesn’t make the whole thing legal.

But if they want to play this game, an interesting way to bait a Supreme Court case might be to request a CCPA delete for the NSAs “commercial” data.
Ryanair is great if you’re an armchair lawyer and only use them for short, no-layover weekend trips where you only need a backpack. It takes a little extra research on where you’re going when booking too, one of my more infamous experiences with them was booking a flight to “Brussels” and ending up in Charleroi
To go where?

Serious question as a UK citizen who doesn’t live there anymore. Post-Brexit, leaving is surprisingly difficult despite the refrain of the morons who say “if you don’t like it go somewhere else”, blind or ignorant to the fact they removed that option.
AI chatbots could be useful at support if they can fix the code for customers and submit a pull request to the developers. No more JRA-9 issue opened for 10 years.

And same goes for OSS libraries.
As a tongue in cheek remark, it is English-centric to think that using c for constants is an English-centric view of science. French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, all use the same word of Latin origin.
That's really cool, will definitely consider, thanks!
This is just wrong lol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920150
the Australian government does not give a fuck about Australian citizens getting themselves in deep shit overseas, never has, never will

and it's because the ones that persist in doing so would wear their entitlement on every bloody sleeve so hard until every consulate is jammed up dealing with the procedural consequences of every half-cocked larrikin pisshead that tries stealing a tuk-tuk or whatever, and by the gods we export enough of them, sorry world
Its still somewhat slow with loading existing chats but Matrix has serious potential. It is already doing much better than the fediverse in terms of discovering niche communities.
The UK also has a strategic position as part of the giuk gap.
Which is absurd when you consider where most professionally-done astronomical observations happen (hint: it ain't in cities, least of all ones with fiber).
I dislike web chat for one reason, the overview is very limited.

So Matrix, with a bitlbee plugin or a text client, would be amazing imho.

I'm just so used to seeing many lines of text, and getting a good quick overview of what is going on that way. Sometimes I use /last in irssi, and very rarely I've searched through a channel's web archive. But mostly I just see whatever it is I need directl in the client. If it's a slow chat I see it the next day. It's not going anywhere.
Digital Bum: Finding a Home/Lessness on the Internet
> I'd rather have Discord some user data that I'm consciously putting there instead of my enemies from the game DDoSing/Stalking me

Security by obscurity is not a real solution. If you have a public IP connected to the internet, you will be subjected to attacks and port scans either way.

Configure your network and firewall correctly and ensure no ports are open instead of trusting the false sense of security given by some proprietary vendor who has your data.

> sounds like: go put effort and decrease your UX.

"UX" is subjective. For me, Discord has horrible UX, with its flashy, slow, obnoxious UI and its incessant cacophony of tips, "new feature" notifications, and advertisements for "Discord Nitro".

Putting in the one-time effort to configure an IRC client (and making it "fancy") seems worth it to me instead of having to continually put up with Discord's whims. At least there is no threat of enshittification with this approach. "IRC Nitro" will never be a real thing. With Discord, you can never be sure. Elon might just decide to buy it on a whim and rename it something like "XDickswords" if he feels like it.
Related : "Science progresses one funeral at a time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
Australian here

We are a subimperial power. The metaphorical "empire" here being the "rules based" world order the US has established since WWII

We are the most powerful nation in Oceania but ultimately cannot confront the US when differences between us arise

We're one of the world's largest sources of minerals and land for the next few centuries. I don't think it's impossible we can't be invaded by a certainforeignpower by 2100

We're locally important, globally powerless and are clinging to the existing relational ties we have with our big brother, the US. Even to the determent of our own citizens
Geddit: Time to get involved!
I agree. I just wish there would be a browser setting where you could say "only ever functional cookies" and never see a cookie banner again. But I guess that would need to be forced on companies via another legislation. The free marked doesn't do such a user friendly thing.
Element mobile isn't as smooth as WhatsApp/Telegram but it isn't terrible either.

If you don't trust then there a few alternative mobile clients and plenty of options on desktop. I use iamb which is modal TUI like vim.
Tested couple of similar products before, will give it a try
It will be around, but it will be used by about same number of people... It won't grow from where it is now. Unless it fundamentally changes.
> Start moving inland/to higher areas now ... hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters

Crop failures, famines, civilization collapse, wars, violence, slavery ...
lol

here's your unsourced claim:

> There's still no practical armor, in 2023, that could protect anyone from a crossbow at short to medium ranges.

Unless you're purpose-building some kind of ultra-high-draw-weight crossbow with some very unusual bolt materials, you're not going to penetrate it

Feel free to believe myths if you want, but they're simply not true[0]

>The energy required to defeat a steel plate rises geometrically, not linearly, as the plate gets thicker, as Williams (2003) notes. In practice, a steel breastplate of decent (even just c. 2mm) thickness was functionally immune to handheld weapons and bows and crossbows except at extreme close range. You can see an example here of a high poundage (quite a bit higher than the 80lbs bows used by Williams in his test) longbow being shot into a steel breastplate at point-blank range. The breastplate is secured to the ground and there is no additional protection behind it – in terms of range, power, positioning this is an absolute worst-case test for the breastplate. It is barely scratched.

>Crossbows can do somewhat better. Skallagrim tested a crossbow against both a lamellar (layered metal plates) armor and a breastplate – both of admittedly low quality – against a 350lbs crossbow and a 975lbs crossbow. While they are able to dent and punch holes in the breastplate, neither defeats it in a way that would wound a person wearing it. Range matters a lot – and these were fired at extreme close-range for the weapons.

Now back to you: find me a source for your ridiculous claim that "There's still no practical armor, in 2023, that could protect anyone from a crossbow at short to medium ranges"

Practical armor from 1000 years ago could stop them - and you seriously think armor today cannot?

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[0] https://acoup.blog/2019/06/21/collections-punching-through-s...
Saying you have a few and then have none, is kinda expected and not really annoying.

Having it say you have none, and then you go to the store anyway to get an alternate and you find what you originally wanted sitting on the shelf, that's annoying.
I like that Prosody MUCs default to just giving you the last 20 messages–enough to give you context of the current topic. Shipping the entire history like Matrix & others do is more that should be necessary for the communications best suited for chatrooms. If you needed something to be longer lived, it should have been on the forum and/or mailing list.
We must live in alternate realities then.

In the world I live in, Big Tech has unleashed products and services that exploit user data and privacy for profit, enable proliferation of mis/disinformation and propaganda that undermines democracies, enable hostile advertising that manipulates user psychology for more profit, with thinly veiled claims of connecting the world, making the world a better place, and whatever other empty platitude is more marketable at any given moment.

All the while, in general, most services themselves are hardly revolutionizing as their authors claim them to be, and are designed to deliver dopamine hits and keep their users glued to their screens.

We have to stop equating the value of a service to humanity based on its popularity, or the value it generates for its investors. In most cases, the actual disruption technology causes is harmful in ways we have yet to comprehend. We have seen some of it on short-term time scales, but long-term impacts are unknown to even the authors themselves. This is why it's of utmost importance to be conservative with a technology like AI, which unrestrained can send us on the wrong path with no return.
Thank you. If only Meta would take this approach everywhere and not just Threads, society would be better off.
If you don't want them to buy your data, stop selling it. Lock down your browsers. Don't use Facebook. Put a better OS on your phone. And sue every company that even hints at violating privacy rules.
Ahem we have other journalists we hold hostage

Edit: this is a joke about our National Security Laws and frivolous use of Gag Orders. Plus the AFP raiding journalists on a whim
I care about privacy and flexibility and the other things decentralization gets you, but I grew up with instant messengers (Yahoo, WLM, now Discord, which is the closest thing to WLM in feature completeness yet still not at parity since it's a thin client where every feature rent seeks). Not only could I barely figure out how to use IRC last time I tried, but it doesn't have things I've come to expect, like avatars, emoticons, file transfer with embedded previews, etc. D: That shit's in the Stone Age!

I'm excited by projects like Element, which is Matrix protocol-powered Discord but open source, but, aside from network performance and feature parity, network effects rule social tech. You're doomed to use Discord if nobody uses Element.
It seems to have clearly been a case of "I remember 2 to 3, that was really bad. I imagine everyone else is wondering this - is this going to be another 2 to 3?"
I’m sorry you had this experience, but it’s true. Australians are often deeply racist. However, Chinese are too. It’s unfortunate, but it’s not the main issue.

One issue Australians have is their vastly inferior (in general) level of rhetorical facility on these matters, as compared to Chinese. We just don’t have the quality of critical thought that many young Chinese are displaying. This sounds ridiculous, I know, but again it’s true.

If Australia is going to effectively think about, and eventually negotiate, its place in the changing order, its citizens need to get a lot more cosmopolitan, critical and perceptive about international affairs.

For educated Chinese, I suspect thinking critically about international perceptions and power (and possibly even relations) is almost second nature: it makes sense to have it as a National pastime for an emerging power.

Australians need to recognize the necessity of this for their own position, too, and work to let go of the limiting policy dogma that continues to constrain and limit their political thinking.

It may not be too useful to promote Paul Keating as a role model for this type of critical faculty as his stances will provoke too much opposition for people to want to admire or follow him. Yet the truth is his kind of contrarian policy thinking is exactly more of what Australian needs, even if of not exactly the same flavor.

Unfortunately, we’ve been a victim of our own success, and our economic buffer will conceivably for the midterm, insulate us from the urgent need to develop the critical faculties that are so essential to our long-term future.

In other words, people can say “why do I need to rethink it? we’re doing great.”
>it allows to formally verify the correctness of a particular ISA

That must be hypothetical. "Functionalness" of the language/code doesn't make everything that is written automatically subject to formal verification. (mechanized or pen and paper). What kind of correctness properties does it actually allow to formally verify? I understand if it was the F* language, which is a full blown dependently typed proof checker, but with F#, which is defined by the implementation and 300 page English spec, I don't think you can verify anything interesting. As far as I know F# itself doesn't have mechanized formal semantics and its type system could be unsound.

https://github.com/mit-plv/riscv-coq and https://github.com/riscv/sail-riscv (don't know how complete they are) approaches actually allow to formally (mechanically) verify riscv properties.

Your executable specification could probably be called "Formal", in the same sense as a PDF spec being called "Formal", but being subject to verification by the virtue of F# being functional or being written in the functional style might be pushing it too far.
What I've always kinda thought is that each congress person gets a large amount of budget to spend on staff. ~order of 10 million per congressman.

This would allow for the establishment of in house knowledge groups/ staffers, particularly with regards to policy, rather than having to rely on lobbiests. It would also reduce the churn from congressional staffer to industry lobbyist.

Or at least that's my thought. The us gov spends a ridiculous amount of money, spending more in the organization meant to monitor and control that spend. If you even have a half a percentage gain in efficiency would pay for itself.

This is forgetting the ability of congresspeople to be more responsive to constituents.
Those outside of capitalist countries who move to countries like America usually make the same consumption choices (sometimes it seems worse - Gucci purses and stuff) it’s just that they don’t have the ability in the country they live in. I think it’s less about the economic system and more about access.

That being said I agree with you about advertising getting people to buy things they don’t want or don’t need (strong need) in capitalist economies but that’s a failure of regulation and this a failure by the people.

Another experiment you can do though is look at highly capitalist countries like Norway or Denmark and look at the consumption patterns and then compare that with other capitalist countries like China (effectively capitalist) or the U.S. or Brazil and see whether or not it’s a cultural phenomenon or perhaps an economic one. As I’m sure you could guess I think it’s cultural.
So IRCCloud?
> Push to talk

Isn't that solveable on the OS level? I have a global mic mute toggle hotkey, this could be done on keydown/keyup too.
I have no idea what you're talking about. If the standard were a 64bit integer none of what you're saying would be the case at all.

There is no difference between a random 128bit integer vs a sequentual 64bit integer except that the 64bit integer is smaller.
> when really it’s just a matter of perspective.

it's really not, in the engineering school I did in the first year we were taught both C and LISP during the same semester and it was obvious to almost everyone except math nerds how much easier C was mapped to a normal human being (e.g. someone without prior programming experience)'s mental model of the world
Everytime this comes up, I always see the "this good, Overpopulation!" rhetoric and it's so wrong.

Population decline resulting from decades of abysmal fertility rates is absolutely a horrible thing.

When people stop working, they stop contributing to society but they don't stop taking from it.

For as long as human society has formed, the solution was either the working population being productive enough for everyone else or the non working dying off soon after the fact.

When fertility rates are in the shitter for a long time, you guarantee that at some point, the working population will be far far lower than what is necessary to support the rest.

A demographic and societal collapse will ensue. Many benefits and safety nets for many people including the working will cease to exist simply because it can no longer be sustained. Once this hits in full force, it will last decades. It's that simple.

And it has nothing absolutely nothing to do with capitalism or socialism or communism or whatever -ism you might want to scapegoat. For as long as humans need to work to survive this will be a problem.

The problems Japan is having, South Korea is looking to speedrun. It's so bad that it's too late to forestall a collapse. Even if the country magically started having replenishing birth rates immediately, in at most a few decades, we'll be seeing a collapse that would last at least 20 years. This is the best case scenario. It's straight up apocalyptic.

This is what a population table looks like for a country that had a fertility rate of 6 at year 0 and then an extinction level rate of 1 for decades (SK is actually decidedly worse at 0.78 now).

(148) Year 0: 4 sixties, 11 forties, 33 twenties, 100 newborns,

(194) Year 20: 11 sixties, 33 forties, 100 twenties, 50 newborns

(208) Year 40: 33 sixties, 100 forties, 50 twenties, 25 newborns

(187) Year 60: 100 sixties, 50 forties, 25 twenties, 12 newborns

(93) Year 80: 50 sixties, 25 forties, 12 twenties, 6 newborns

(46) Year 100: 25 sixties, 12 forties, 6 twenties, 3 newborns

(23) Year 120: 12 sixties, 6 forties, 3 twenties, 1 newborn

It's like climate change. You go decades with everything looking normal at first glance. By the time, everything doesn't look so normal it's to late to do anything other than save your population from extinction. (Assuming you can even do that. A lot of people seem to miss the fact that not one country that has suffered declining fertility rates has managed to reverse the trend despite trying for decades. Not one)
I'm saying it's good enough for my use, which is watching YouTube videos, using apps, taking pictures, having a reasonable battery life, making phone calls, sending texts.

It might not be the best possible soc etc. But for $349 it serves me as a daily driver for 3 years without shelling out over $1000
Balloon-powered internet is helping Peru during extreme floods
They may even plot to assassinate you!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8041597/US-plotted-...
Japan is also 73% mountains, so the populated areas are much denser than a simple population divided by area calculation would give.
>Japan is nowhere near the most densely populated country on earth. It's the 40th. Less dense than Belgium, Israel, India, Singapore, and South Korea, just to name a few. Calling Japan cramped for space is a stretch.

But relatively little of Japan is actually livable: if you look at Honshu, most of the population is in plains on the coast, and most of the inland area mountainous and hardly inhabited.

For example, about a third of the population of Japan lives on the Kanto plain which represents just 4.5% of the land area.
> I'm motivated to put forth this effort when I think like I can contribute some to the discussion...which often occurs when the trend of the discussion is perceived to possibly be leading down a false or unoptimal path...an unorthodox view.

I have read this sentence four times and I have no idea what it means.
The sooner we achieve a critical mass of lunar industry, the sooner we'd be able to almost entirely do away with any need for terrestrial launches in the first place (the exception being to get people up).
Very important! Another update