skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussed this with folks last time, but haven't had time to build that version yet. It'd need to be a self-improving unicorn version. If I wasn't going fishing this weekend, I'd build it.
"...and some say than China."

Well, that old one child policy from back in the day may have had lasting consequences?
Testing the "garbage in" case seems as though it would be sufficient for the vast majority of use cases. Aside from undercooking ingredients which may cause foodborne illnesses, I think you're highly unlikely to create toxic chemical reactions using common cooking ingredients.
Workplace standards. Men work too much and earn too little to support a family and be a present father. Having a child destroys women’s careers and they are stuck at home with a child and an absent husband. These are issues in many countries, but in Japan in particular, employees work much longer hours, and company loyalty is culturally enforced making it hard to find a new/better job.
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Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
It's the start of a trend that will touch every nation, because the underlying cause is the same.
Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips
That probably won't happen. The families that have children will die out, and the next generation will be almost exclusively have parents that chose to have children even when cultural norms were turning against it. That'll probably lead to a rebound in fertility, which funnily enough we're already seeing - the lowest it's been was 1.26 in 2005 and since then it's gone up a bit. But we'll need to give it another few decades first.
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At the very least, it should factor into a salary negotiation like it would if represented by a union.
Lego was expensive during my childhood as well. There's a reason why there were lots of Lego knock-off brick sets that weren't fully compatible (similar size, but wrong tolerances - so they didn't stick together very well) with actual Lego bricks. But adults who bought those sets for their kids didn't know better.
04-22 is how I feel when I post updates to this project and someone tells me it's bad science and I should shut it down
Screenshots or it didn't happen.
Reading the announcement it seems their biggest concern is privacy/security from a NS perspective by using Indian SSL key servers instead of ones from other countries, not actually the engineering task of implementing every browser standard from scratch, plus other nicety features like signing documents within the browser.

At this point in time I think a large heavily funded government project is the only way we are going to end up with a fourth working rendering engine but no one wants to put in the resources because a sanitized Firefox fork is usually good enough for nearly all applications that need a browser of some sort focused on privacy and security that people have already spent way too much time on to make standards compliant
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Sorry I got the methodology wrong :image-2023-04-22:
That 800-900Mbps doesn't include the bits needed for IP packet headers, does it?
You can't really leave dogs at home unattended either. You can't really take them on airplanes on vacation, you can't take them into many hotel rooms. You'll have a hard time getting a rental with them. You can't insure them on your health insurance and they end up costing a lot with medical problems. You can't claim them on your taxes.

I always thought dogs were somehow less convenient than kids. At least society is built around the parent/kid dynamic somewhat.
SunVox is an amazing blend between tracker/sequencer and analog synth emulator.
Great, one more speedtest site to pit against all the others. On my gigabyte fibre:

Cloudflare: 697 down / 645 up

fast.com: 860 down / 440 up

Google: 760 down / 347 up

Ookla speedtest: 841 down / 827 up

Quite a large variability in upload speeds, which isn't all the surprising I guess. Network providers often don't really need to prioritise upload traffic...
> The answer to "why aren't the executives cutting pay" is obvious: it's up to the executives, and why on earth would they cut their own pay, when they could instead simply decrease worker conditions and cut cost of labor? Without a union, executives have literally all the power.

No. Uber still has to compete for workers with other companies looking for labour. Unions presence or absence doesn't change that dynamic.

> Counterpoint: if they could extract more profit from the market by increasing prices, why haven't they done so already?

Not sure that's a counterpoint to anything? Yes, I assume that they are setting their prices to maximize long term profits.

However, if regulation increases costs across the industry, supply curves will recede, and if demand curves stay roughly the same, prices will rise (because the point where the curves meet will be at a higher price point).
Really appreciate posts like these. I think this post specificaly might have saved me from embarking on a colossal time-sink application process.
To be pedantic, Go strings are immutable and will carry different pointers to different underlying rune slices, so the reader would just display one string or the other, not "Susan Sarcemin".

That said, I'm not sure why developers freak out over races so much. Races that result in simple display of data that's one nanosecond old is typically not a failure condition in most applications. Actual failure conditions from races are usually from read-operate-writes like increments/decrements/etc. And for these, we have tons of solutions, anywhere from atomics to transaction contexts to CRDTs, etc.
The premise of idiocracy is funny but shouldn’t be taken seriously. An uncharitable read would be that it advocates eugenics. More charitably it’s just plain classist.
Hard for me not to see links between marketing and hoarding, all told.

Some of it is in the lie that things last. I remember being appalled when a colleague pointed out that the point of consumption goods is that they are consumed. I thought that was too simplistic to cover all of consumerism. It really helped break a lot of my habits there, though.

Back to the marketing point, though. We are simultaneously told that we are bad because we don't find ways to make our shoes last longer, and that we probably need more shoes. On a regular basis. Shirts? Realistically, how many does one person actually need? How many have so many of us purchased in the last year, alone?

Then there is the "collection" aspect of things. We pour so much effort into making collectible copies of things. But then, if you collect too much, you are a hoarder? But, what is too much? Just more than you can financially keep clean? Is this just a "poor people should feel bad about their habits" kind of thing?
MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names
(foreword, I'm far from well versed in Japanese society)

From what I understand, traditional Japanese family model is a stay at home mother with an almost stay at work father.

Society is organised around this model, e.g. no day care, mothers not expected to build a career, and probably being a father comes with pressure about being a reliable provider (getting overworked). I remember that a lot of father losing their work preferred abandoning their family than enduring the shame of losing their job during the late nineties asian crisis.

Regardless of immediate material complications of begin parent, the additional social burden certainly not help.
Applite developer here. No, Applite has zero tracking built in, it's a 100% free and open-source. Only Homebrew tracks the number of downloads.
Which SEO metrics?
It is a consistent trend that increasing levels of education and equality naturally (i.e., without external pressures such as a One Child Policy, extra taxation, etc.) reduce childbearing rates.

On top of that, Japan's work culture of being more wedded & committed to work than to family strongly discourages it. When you are expected to work 12x6, then go out drinking with the boss, and still are living paycheck-to-paycheck it becomes very hard to see how you would have time to raise children. I've heard (PBS, no link now) abt studies where they reduced work hours in a town and fertility rapidly and significantly increased.

Give people a little breathing room and you'll get kids.
In my timeline, those events produced very fundamental changes in their societies. Extinction of that society counts as a fundamental change.
I feel like this is the most selfish thing ever. The only reason you're here enjoying these dopamine outlets is because someone decided to bring you into the world. We should pay it forward.

Quite a few of my liberal friends are childless, which is odd because who's going to carry on their values?
Ask HN: What is the most exciting thing you have learnt this year till now?
Maybe it is a life hack, a new topic, a new recipe, etc. Whatever YOU think is exciting to you.
i am interested too.
That’s my point. Chlorine is edible too. So is arsenic, bug spray, and a plethora of other toxic substances. So your pedantic response was already covered.
> No one's in the wrong here.

Certainly there was bad user input. But as you said, "Users do what users always do." This was very predictable and I think it would have been wise to consider such scenarios before releasing.
America isn't doing so hot on the fertility front either. The US is at 1.64 and Japan 1.34.
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I'm not from here but this is south side chicago. Very active fixed gear scene, though also very young. Fun to ride with and they have cool bikes, totally different aesthetics from what fixed meant in earlier eras. Lot of modern geo track bikes with wide riser bars for the street. I've given them a spin tho and it is honestly very fun the kids know what's up.
As an adult that loves LEGO sets with plenty of disposable income, I would not want a seven foot Lego model. The large sets look nice but a set that large would just be a hassle. Would you really want to waste the space of an entire table? The sweet spot seems to be Voltron size. Large enough that it takes time and looks imposing on a shelf. But it will not take up a full shelf and you can even display multiple models.

Sometimes I imagine setting up a LEGO storage wall plus desks, but that would be for building and not display.
"You can't really leave dogs at home unattended either."

Yes. Yes you can...
No. Not at all.

This type of complete garbage is not uncommon in AI. It's simply the nature of asking a non-intelligent system to generate human readable content.

Maybe this is a different way to think about it. In most of the country, your cellphone has _amazing_ coverage. It can talk clearly with a cell tower. Your data and calls work perfectly.

In some parts of the country, you're going to have no service. Your cell phone won't work. It doesn't have cell towers to talk to.

At the intersection of service and no-service, you'll find an area where your cell phone works sporadically. It might barely have 1 bar of service. You might need to hold your phone a certain way. It will work seemingly randomly. Calls might have a few words go through.

That edge of service is essentially where the LLM is at. Its in an internal state where it has enough signal to attempt to generate a response, but not a strong enough signal to generate a meaningful response. It ends up falling back to something it's "memorized".
Parents had 4 kids by 35, I'm almost 36 and don't even want the added stress of being a responsible dog owner. Even if the world was on a more positive trend upwards I can't imagine myself being inclined to bring children into this hellscape.
It's definitely not over. I got into it professionally in 2018, and have remained employed with it at three different companies. There's turmoil around it because startups use it with great success, but then as they want to scale they have a hard time finding enough devs to throw at their new ideas.
check how many western politicians went to work for gasprom or other russian government companies and talk again.
Wide body planes also helped kill the economics of it
Like Scrooge McDuck?

No offense, but naïve is the right word, because this wealth is invested, not hoarded.
Thanks for making my argument more explicit.

And arguable, executive pay is perhaps a lot more elastic than ordinary workers' pay. Companies aren't shy about paying huge bonuses to their CEO one year, but cutting them to nothing the next. Ordinary workers have a much steadier pay check, even when working for Uber.

Similarly, most companies are also quite willing to hire and fire CEOs. Statistical distribution of CEO tenures is a well studied subject.
I'm telling you I can find a way to _not_ accomplish my job with as many keystrokes as you require. Goodhart's Law, etc.
What, you don't like the reverse image product search? You want actual... images? Not thumbnails of stuff you can buy from rando websites? How anti-consumer of you!
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Whatever a person's stance on ongoing political events or active conflicts, punishing them en masse for choosing to be born on the wrong side of an arbitrary border is nonsensical.
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Yeah. And what about analytics and stuff?
GitHub changed the default to "main" so 95% of new projects will default there.
This may describe your experience, but it is not a good description of what is going on Japan. What is going on in Japan is much more rooted in economic insecurity and a disillusionment with the expectations of society.
I think it has to do with a general feeling that we've lost control in our lives. Things we can control and they give us comfort. On a different level I also think its what has led to the rise in violent pornography (among other reasons). A desperate need for control amid feeling cut off from being able to control our lives.
40%...Ride that horse right into the ground. You can keep learning on your own, nothing prevents that. As a matter of fact start kissing ass and embracing their ways/culture, be a team player, agree with everything, you could climb the ladder and double/triple your salary. After spending decades in the Industry, I've learned all that is important is earning as much as you can. At the end of the day it's all that matters and no one will give a shit about any of your accomplishments.
In the UK you can use something like this: https://www.deathnotificationservice.co.uk/

There are a few of these, one official one for notifying the government and a few private ones.

I imagine this services exists in other countries, if not then might an opportunity to create it.
Taiwan has all the Japan's problems plus higher house price to salary ratio.

I suppose Korea is like that too.
How exactly? They still had the code included. When the code gets randomly generated, compiles and still compiles after every further evolution I'll be convinced.
Easy option: https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
I agree with you. This really has nothing to do with that.
> Children lock you into a life of servitude.

Little children do, but they don't stay little
This is really cool. Godspeed!
it depends on where the important stuff is.

i have all the family photos on encrypted devices, and the most efficient way to share them is to share the passwords for those devices. my phone they don't need because the important stuff from the phone is backed up anyways, so they just need that backup.

so i guess the easiest way is to keep separate backups of stuff you want to keep private and stuff you want to share.
So then you just order another one? Unless you had some kind of hard deadline for when you needed the shower, you were in the same position as before you placed the first order.

It sounds like they handled this particular situation completely reasonably (modulo the least-effort job everyone does these days), and your expectations were off. If you're ordering stuff online, the table stakes include waiting and dealing with exceptions.
Cumulatively, these quirky edge cases make learning web dev very difficult.
> In the west, we call that "privatization", and it happens pretty frequently

That's not even slightly true? It's headline news and massively controversial every time this happens.
Japanese women in particular can be locked out of career growth once they are married. The expectation is that after they get married they will quit their job and become a housewife. Add that to the issue that having children out of wedlock is frowned upon, and you get less people having children. Make it so women can have both children and a prosperous career and you'll fix the fertility issue.
>> I'm curious, is anyone using any kind of LLM agent workflow in a client facing production environment?

Yes. Not everyone will admit as most big companies have policies against it. Small companies are, because the cost saving is so high.
Speed/signaling issues.

To me is a mystery that CPUs/motherboards still have extensible RAM, integrated RAM (if you don't skimp and go for cheap RAM) can be very fast - for example the Steam Deck has quad-channel 5500 MT/s LPDDR5, very console-like.
Welp that's a nerd snipe if I ever had one. Will report back once my bruteforce hack finishes crunching away.
> Hard for me not to see links between marketing and hoarding, all told.

I don't think that follows. Hoarding isn't fundamentally about desire to acquire junk, it's about the inability to get rid of it.

People who buy too much garbage they saw on social media or wherever are just "consumerists". It's arguably a mental illness too, I guess, but they aren't hoarding. Generally they just throw stuff out, or into a closet, etc... Though "thrifting" is suddenly an en vogue activity, I assume partly driven out of collective guilt over the amount of junk in our lives.
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70% of Japanese answered "it's hard to find a job which supports raising children". Japanese society is still rooted in women quitting when they have kids and being stay at home moms. Even though now 60% of couples have two earners, this hasn't changed fast enough. The economy is doing badly too, and people have less money than before.

In Japan, marriage = kids, there are few children born outside of marriage. Increasingly people are marrying later or not marrying at all, which has a direct effect on that. There are other reasons: women still end up doing way more of the housework and childrearing than men (on average) in Japan; men work longer hours and don't get to spend time with the kids they're raising; in a divorce women almost always get full custody. Mother in laws used to live with the family and help, but that is less common now. Two earner households are more common. Women are focusing on careers more.

The overall picture is similar to other countries - a rejection of the traditional marriage and kids plan in favour of spending time on other activities in ones 20s and 30s - but unique societal factors make it more prominent here.
Not for long. They need to use the bathroom and eat. They make noise and destroy things.
I had no problem browsing that page with firefox a few hours ago, but it's not working anymore.

So yes, maybe the servers handling google groups are a little too busy.
Income has fallen below costs.

Costs: $40k equivalent [1]

Income: $37k equivalent [2]

Combine that with an expectation for women to stop working once they marry and surprise, people rationally find that it doesn’t make sense.

[1] https://www.candyjapan.com/life-in-japan/what-it-costs-to-li...

[2] https://kimi.wiki/work/income
If your only active metric is "all or nothing". Sure, there's a few.

But the major git hosting platforms are only using 'main' as the default for new branches, and there is significant enough social stigma for new projects that it's preferred to use main.

I don't have precise statistics, but I would happily wager that even though master was the default for so long that the majority of git repositories that have been contributed to in the last 30 days are not 'master' as the default branch name.

To change a default with such inertia as to completely skew the demographic in favour of the new rather than the status quo: I would certainly merit that as success.
According to the OECD, people in Japan don't work more than people in many European countries.

https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
You are repeating russian propaganda and there are people far smarter than I that have repeatedly tried to explain why it is such and failed, and I won’t bother trying.
I noticed similar a behavior in Stable Diffusion forums where people believe that the model they downloaded and are running offline is getting better at understanding their prompts.
Correct, not profitable.
A minifig is roughly 1:25 on the width so a minifig scale Condorde would be 8 foot long with a wingspan of 3.36 feet and a 4 inch wide fuselage. Real world display sets are never minifig scale. There's Microfig scale though that's approximately 1:150 that is used vaguely on sets like the Saturn V but if you scale the set to the real world Saturn V the astronaut microfigs are only 4'4". Roughly crunching the numbers the Concorde set is bigger than microfig scale but way smaller than minifig scale.
Its not just about passing away, even a sudden incapacitation from which you do recover may pose a bit of a challenge for the relatives:

Some time ago my dad had some severe heart problems which lead to him being hospitalised for multiple months and a lengthy recovery where he was in full "vegetable" mode in the beginning. As he is somewhat of a "patriarch" personality the whole family finances, insurances etc. where all on his personal system.

It really was "fun" to sort everything out for us and even more "fun" for himself making any sense of his whole accounting sheme after suffering some memory loss during the whole ordeal.

So... having some "letter of last resort" deposed somewhere may even benefit yourself...
There are pretty convenient pet sitting services and I’ve also had friends pet sit for each other. Definitely still expensive though
What is strange to me about this is that with a remarkably similar prompt ("Draw a unicorn in SVG format") I'm able to get this from the Bing image creator (which is powered by DALL-E -- and I would think GPT-4 would have this capability. Perhaps I'm being naive):

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG.GqpaRZ.NXCN6uxKj7X1u?pid=ImgGn
I am a digital hoarder. yt-dlp is a godsend.
I wouldn't trust USB flash drives with anything long term. Best archival method would be to print something out (perhaps an encrypted message in a QR code), have it put away somewhere secure, and use that for a key to unlocking everything else.
Teams is pretty useless as a standalone product anyway.
Well, the original notion was silly:

> It's a failed business model because Uber has to provide a return to investors and livery is basically a race to the bottom without some form of price controls.

You can't have a race to the bottom without competitors still in the market.

If competitors like Uber leave the market, Lyft can raise prices.

In the long run, there will be a balance between competitors entering and exiting the market just around the point where the industry is barely viable as a business.

That's also how eg restaurants or cafes work in many big cities; and this explains why so most cafes fail, but why there are also always some cafes around.
The Saturn V set is close to microfig scale though the astronaut figs are only 4'4" if you scale the set up to real world scales.