skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your link echos exactly what I'm talking about. This is a statement from one of the hospitals.

“Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley DHBs are prioritising Māori and Pacific in our surgical scheduling processes. The patients’ ethnicity is taken into account along with their level of clinical urgency and the number of days they have been on the waiting list within a given clinical priority band. It is unlikely that any other patients will be significantly affected as a result of this work.” - media statement, May 2020

The last statement "it is unlikely any other patient will be significantly affected" is laughable.

The goal is to affect patients - prioritize a specific ethnic group, so either the change does nothing (then why do it at all?), or it prioritizes certain patients (and if it does it must deprioritize others).
I said "had", past tense. Most numbers still end in 2021, and EV's were a negligible fraction of the 1.5 billion vehicles on the road in 2021. Still are, but it's changing fast. 6 million EV's per year is a huge fraction of one year's vehicle sales but a tiny fraction of the entire 1.5 billion fleet.
This is a human problem, most people want to control what others think. It’s built into us for survival reasons.
Haskell in Production: Relex Solutions
Doesn't take much imagination given that substantial parts of the developed world haul their parents into nursing homes where care is outsourced to the market. The communal, familial support system is already gone.
It's funny how for many years the push to switch to almost-but-not-quite as good OSS solutions has been the cost savings. Then MS gives Teams away for free and all of a sudden it's "oh those evil monopolists". Would it be any different if Teams was OSS? The client is basically worthless to them. The licensing fee covers hosting costs.

This was the same 20 years ago. Netscape lost the browser wars not because of bundling. Netscape lost because Netscape Navigator 4 was crashy garbage, possibly the worst browser ever made. The reason Firefox was developed was because Netscape was so intolerably bad, an alternative to the alternative needed developed.

You know the old saying, "If you can't beat them, go cry to the European Commission."
Well, they don't shut down things where the user is the product.
Drop some commitments. If you're pursuing a PhD there's no reason to have a job and side hustles, focus on your research, a PhD isn't something to half ass. Drop one of the other two. That's my 2c!
Yes this is the hard part. Any change to existing rights is very politically difficult to accomplish.
It’s worse than that. Historically only 50% of men reproduced, and that hasn’t gotten much better. There are plenty of divorced men with more than one family, yet this is rarer for women.

I’d estimate if 30% of women aren’t having children at least 50-60% of men won’t. God knows what kind of issues that will cause.
This is such a terrible move for the ecosystem as a whole.

So now it means individuals using tools like Layerform and Terragrunt cannot use the registry anymore even though the software hasn’t changed at all?

How will they even enforce that?
These threads pop up here just about every other day.

It's not just Japan, though the media seems fixated on Japan to an unusual extent.

Here are some 2023 TFR estimates, source: CIA.

Japan: 1.39. Poland: 1.41. Spain: 1.29. South Korea: 1.1. Taiwan: 1.09. China: 1.45. Canada: 1.57. Germany: 1.58. UK: 1.63. Cuba: 1.71. USA: 1.85.

Italy: 1.24. This is noteworthy as Italy has been under replacement TFR for nearly 50 years. (Since 1975.)

Hungary: 1.49. Despite best efforts.

Just about every developed country on Earth is presently experiencing sub-replacement TFR, and a handful of large countries are worse-off than Japan, or in comparable positions.

Why all of the articles about Japan, when the situation in Italy is more dire? Go figure.

What is to be done? What's clear is that only radical solutions have any chance at working.
I wonder why this mentality doesn't apply to other parts of society, like our police forces (i.e. shut a department down when an officer kills an innocent), or corporations that cause death/disaster? Is it because in those situations, the deaths aren't too big a price to pay?
Because politically, there's been zero interest in actually enforcing the law where large companies making money are concerned.
The only acceptable "remedy" would be to unbundle Teams from all existing subscriptions and have it as a separate add-on only, requiring an opt in, an extra charge and a chance for a competitor to make a sale. Unbundling at this stage doesn't reverse the damage to the market.
I'd also note that plummeting birthrates are also happening in countries that are known for great social welfare, lots of government support for new mothers, and a more egalitarian society overall, like Finland.

A lot of people simply don't want kids. Kids take a huge amount of time and investment for about 2 decades of one's life, and that can have a large, significant negative impact on quality of life, especially in urban areas. Between birth control and lots of other avenues for women to spend there time, it's not that surprising that you always see plummeting birthrates whenever a society urbanized and moves up the economic ladder.

Some people want kids. Many simply do not.
That viability hinges on people actually doing it and the evidence that this is happening at scale just doesn't exist. There are some forks of major packages out there that have been extended but that's because the company had entirely different ideas about the direction in which to take a package. But for the vast majority of FOSS out there the current maintainers are the ones that are capable of doing so and the entities using the package are not able, do not have the funds or the time or people to do so themselves (and more likely a combination of those).
I think the notion is that if you control enough capital, you'll be able to relocate yourself and your family to those parts of the planet that are least impacted by the consequences of continued fossil-fueled global warming.

This also points to the problem with renewables from the capital viewpoint: they're just not as profitable, as you can't sell sunlight and wind or create artificial supply restrictions to jack up prices (which is the historical economic story of the oil & gas industry over most of the 20th century).
>Throughout history people have had children with very little material possessions. Talk to someone who went through the great depression about how you don't have enough money etc. to have kids.

Historically (and in very undeveloped countries today) kids were assets; they could work in the parents' farm or shop, clean the house, tend to the animals, etc. In modern culture parents get essentially nothing from kids in a financial sense, so there's much less monetary incentive to have children.
A doorbell I can understand;[1] it's your own home. But the requirements might be lower if you are signing up for some Lidl customer benefit club.

[1] Well, personally I think that's silly too. But it's a question of degree.
"I can't understand how people consider bundling teams with office to be anti competitive"

It's a judgment call to be sure. Google has integrated Meet with their office tools, but nobody (AFAIK) has shouted about it being anti-competitive.

Does Microsoft block or make it more difficult to add Zoom info to a meeting in Outlook? It's pretty easy with an add-on to add that info via GMail. If they're adding barriers to integration, that would be strong reason to consider the bundling anti-competitive.

I briefly used Office/Teams when I was at Intel. My recollection was that Teams was really tightly integrated as a Slack/Zoom replacement through the whole suite.
I worked a very little bit on the systems code for the MTA, and while I really enjoyed the sync bits, the limited single thread performance really made a lot of things very difficult. Later versions of the processor were integrated in the XT systems - so you could use commodity for the rest of the stuff outside the application.
The glacial rate at which regulators address these issues makes the proposed remedy largely inconsequential. The toothpaste is already out of the tube.
At least in the West, sexual liberation seems to have gone so far that a lot of people have lost sight of the fact that long term commitment is valuable in later life. Childbearing seems to be one aspect that's being pushed aside there, but it's far from being the only one.

Children have always thought that they'll be young forever, but the age at which that changes seems to be increasing.
I was a CS61A lecturer for 3 semesters. I thought that we covered very valuable content, but also did not think that it was appropriate for new programmers. I encouraged students to enroll in a true intro class, like CS10, before embarking on the 61A journey.

Here’s my post about how to audit 61A : http://blog.pamelafox.org/2022/07/how-to-audit-cs61a.html?m=...
In a software context, “build” implicitly means to use as instruction. The clarification was unnecessary.
I use it (sparingly) for tracking which books I've read/want to read, getting recommendations and seeing what people say about certain books as (partial) information to check if they're worth the time
FYI this isn't AI-powered or anything. It's not even doing speech-to-text synthesis. It just uses yt-dlp (youtube-dl) to download the video with its existing [auto-generated] subtitles from YouTube.
> You have to be a hardcore racist and/or an idiot to argue with data that overwhelming.

Your argument hinges on natives not achieving similar results with I’m not sure is true.

Given history, I’d say it’s likely the natives would succeed (as there’s precedent for their ancestors succeeding). However it would come at a higher cost to the “business” - really, the few at the top who are disproportionately profiting.

Furthermore, given the state of the import’s homeland it’s likely the immigrants only succeed because of environment in America, not because of anything unique they bring. And there’s no precedent for them maintaining - much less creating - the culture that allowed them to immigrate to a new land and be so wildly successful.

On top of that, investing in a native population has long term benefits that vastly outweigh importing talent for immediate gain. Unfortunately our politicians are choosing the opposite and sacrificing long term health for short term profits.
Watch out for portability, too. Personally I would consider it a last resort exclusively for local system automation too complex for bash but for some reason python isn't available. I'm not going to pretend I understand everyone else's use case though so I'm glad it exists.
Why would people make up excuses? They simply don't want them.

My “excuse” for not having children is the same “excuse” I have for that I'm not a firefighter: I have no interest in it.
How do you plan to make revenue?
Agree that col is an excuse.

Exhibit A: Husband works for less than a dollar per day to buy food for wife and four kids: https://youtu.be/_9Eopzpa6QY?t=1476

Exhibit B: Abdala has two wives and two children and makes less about a dollar per day as a boat captain. https://youtu.be/_9Eopzpa6QY?t=541

Exhibit C: Huge families abound the community despite extreme poverty. https://youtu.be/_9Eopzpa6QY?t=1736

Exhibit D: Mother with two kids survives despite losing everything in a hurricane. Total net worth probably under $10. https://youtu.be/_9Eopzpa6QY?t=2080

Exhibit E: Me. I am poor and I have three kids.
We switched to US Mobile prepaid data pools a few months ago. $9/line + $2/GB per month.

I found some code online [0] that runs every hour and purchases an additional GB if my remaining amount falls below a threshold. It’s been working great for us.

We dropped our bill for 2 lines from ~$100/mo to $21/mo.

[0] https://github.com/dbrand666/usmobile-lifeguard/tree/main
Making Postgres backups 100x faster via EBS snapshots and pgBackRest
That plus they seem to have added additional security checks (probably doing multiple LLM calls, like additional validation calls) since about that enterprise announcement. I noticed certain things being a lot slower since a few days ago.
CubeSats have gone all the way to Mars even

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cube_One
I would argue that "For the year 2022, Canada welcomed 437,180 immigrants and saw a net increase of the number of non-permanent residents estimated at 607,782."

Combined with "About 286,000 new homes are currently built each year, according to 2021 data from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. But the country's housing supply is not keeping up with population growth."

Is absolutely not serving the Canadian people when their home prices are completely unaffordable to a growing number of their population. It also suppresses wages for their own skilled citizens.

I do think importing skilled immigrants is a good long term strategy for their country, but they should tone it down a notch until housing prices are better.
I thought https://tart.run/ was for this purpose?
Oops! I stand corrected on this. Thank you.
It now starts in Python and ends with Scheme (building a Scheme interpreter in Python).

Source: I lectured 61A in 2021
If every request took exactly the same amount of cpu time and wall time and same amount of ram and other resources, then random load-balancing is just fine for a sufficiently large number of machines. But there in lies the problem. Every request cost is different. And they have noisy neighbor consequences to other requests on the same machine etc. Hence, any naive load-balancing will lead to hotspots. If every request/response contained a X-Health: header that is understood by the load-balancer to decide how much headroom is available and if every request also had deadlines, then load-balancer can do interesting things with it to avoid hotspots, drive near-uniform utilization, avoid bad tail-latencies and provide near-ideal back pressure to upstream.
It an imperative command telling to copy/import another image, not different from importing a library in any other imperative language
> Every declaration defines a new immutable layer with its own unique hash...

This blurs the meaning of "declarative" to the point of meaningless.

Consider the following pseudocode:

x = 5
print x
x = 10
print x

This is clearly 'imperative'.

But from the perspective of 'each line of code declares a new program', then we consider the code snippet a declaration of a program.

> Just as in Ansible you can use “declarative” YAML in a very imperative lasagna of a setup

One of the things which makes Dockerfiles imperative is the sequence of Dockerfile commands is significant; if you swap the order of a COPY, RUN to a RUN, COPY, the result changes significantly.
I found this video by Benn Jordan very enlightening about the whole Atmos nonsense: "Gaslighting Your Fans w/ Dolby ATMOS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dw3aKbw5Wo

TL;DW: It's just not worth it. (but do watch it to understand why)
it wasn't possible to fire them. and i wasn't their manager.
also, how those devs could be correct if they asked for 9 man/month and the one in next room did it in 2 weeks
Then it wouldn't be a big deal to ask for part of that $20 back when the service is unavailable.
I wonder how long until we can just use LLMs to do that for us - first summarizing a blog post (already something we've seen many examples of LLMs doing) but focusing on extracting factual claims, then using those as context when injesting linked sources to output to find what in the sources actually backs up the claims or if anything in the source goes against the claims made
It depends on where you are. In the US it's like you say. But in the UK for example they will often use data as singular.
Your sources aren't worth reading because I don't like the conclusions they support. /s
> Technically if you are a user but you weren't using it when it was down then it wasn't down for you

By the same logic, if someone stole money from you but you haven't noticed it, you haven't been robbed.
Xfinity did the same. I had to switch from credit card to bank account to keep my $10 discount. If I recall correctly the deadline was July 31st
It turns out the vast majority of people around the world prefer the convenience of streaming (large choice, worldwide selection of content, immediate access, etc.) over waiting for and managing physical discs. Moreover, nobody would want to wait for the next episode of a TV show to arrive on a disc.
This. Many US government agencies (and therefore their forms and APIs) use FML.

So, our software has a whole pile of names... FML, preferred, mailing, formal, sort name, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. It's a mess.
>Why all of the articles about Japan, when the situation in Italy is more dire? Go figure.

It's more dire in Japan because Japan has very restrictive immigration policies, so the decrease in working-age people there cannot be offset to some degree by immigration, unlike in western countries.
Good. Any implementation of carbon offsetting is a sham anyway and Shell's plan didn't even offset its product's emmision but only its own business process(because offsetting the emissions of the products would be many times more costly than the product itself)
Now do the TFR numbers for the "native" populations and you'll notice something quite interesting - that Japan is actually doing quite well.
Some claim that the Earth is flat too.
You could say Dear Firstname Lastname without being off.
I suspect many more are blisfully unaware of what will happen to them when they inevitably end up in a nursing home.

I'm not sure what you mean by generational traumas but if you mean what I think you mean they can be overcome. My grandparents vehemently hated certain specific ethnicities till the end because their brothers and sisters and parents were executed ("disappeared") by their soldiers and secret police. My parents are a product of being raised in their post-war hellhole. I was able to see past all that and grew up normally with friends local to my country. I suppose if my parents spoon fed me hate and persecution stories constantly I would develop some sort of PTSD.
You're describing something akin to "timing the market." Why not just use the product until the shittification happens? You're leaving utility on the table otherwise.
Kagi Assistant
They almost did with BBM. They came really close to getting major telecoms to use it as their backbone to replace SMS / MMS infrastructure.

A bit of a shame that never came to fruition honestly
You can certainly make titles optional or just part of a name field although, in the case of some titles like Dr., that still doesn't give you what you supposedly need anyway. Personally, if I had a form that didn't need title information for some reason, it's probably a minefield I would just bypass even if there are potential edge cases.
Microsoft to Unbundle Teams Software in Europe
Who is the bad person you're referring to? I read the article twice and saw no mention of anyone bad.
The alternative to a commercial OSS project is a commercial project without the OSS component. If the quality is perceived to be similar and the OSS license is no longer a factor then it might as well be closed source.
> Once they build out for the moon, they could have a blueprint for deep space

It's the other way around, actually. JPL and others, including Vint Cerf, have been working on the blueprint for a couple of decades, and the spacecraft in orbit around Mars have been acting as relays for the landers (e.g., Perseverence) for years. It's a question of bringing something similar to the Moon.
> jailbreak (impossible on recent

Just think about that. Apple has successfully made hardware that they can distribute to 1 billion+ people, many of whom have something to gain by jailbreaking, yet not a single person has managed it.
Aren't those name/pronoun mismatches in both cases a clear expression of status gradient? "I consider you close but I certainly don't consider you a peer". I suppose that neither of those drivers would reply in similar form. (though far less unlikely in the munich variant I think). An exception would be a recurring pattern of ironically using the family name like a nickname in youth language. Perhaps male only youth language, but very much an entirely different thing from those Munich/Hamburg oddities.
It's not that, it's like others have said up the thread – the mental overhead of subscriptions is super annoying. (Sure, not if it was the only subscription you have, but it isn't.)

I let Jetbrains lapse a lot. But certainly not when I am actively using it. If I start using it regularly again (which I do, intermittently over the years) then I subscribe again.

But the thing is, that also solves the elephant in the room that devs don't want to talk about: a huge portion of subscription revenues comes from providing absolutely no value at all to customers. It's people paying for a subscription, being too busy to notice the charges -- or worse, too busy to figure out how to cancel them even thought they do notice, and mean to.

And devs can claim this is ethical, because they disclosed the subscription recurrence, and the responsibility lies with the customer to track all their subscriptions diligently, across all their platforms and billing methods, and cancel them whenever they stop using them.

And some people do that. But most do not.

So the other way to look at it is that subscription software models are just a scam. A way to exploit people who lack the organization, or have two jobs and kids, or whatever — and get money out of them without providing any value at all. For months, or even years in many cases. Of course it is great for your bottom line. But is it ethical? Even if you think it is, is it a cool thing to do?

I think both arguments make sense. It is debatable.

But personally, I would only want to do subscription billing if I had some means (perhaps via opt-in telemetry) to automatically detect when the product hasn't been used at all during the billing period, and not charge anything in those cases.
Many end-users just really don't care. Most end-users haven't the knowledge, skills, or resources to accomplish and maintain a fork. That's an idealistic fantasy of a small percentage of elite devs and corps.
Are you sure about that? I trust you if you are truly, TRULY sure...

Imagine you had a tool similar to those ChatGPT IDE auto-complete plugins, except instead of doing chat GPT it typed what was in your mind.

Imagine you start work in the morning, and there is a 0ms response time from what you think, and huge blocks of code would appear instantly.

Is your work such that you TRULY only type 300 words per day? Or, do you also... write tests, write boilerplate, write for loops you've written thousands of times, write and read files, call/build APIs, write command line tools.

If you can imagine some kind of "instant feedback" typing thing quite literally not improving your quality of life whatsoever, then I guess you are just in a rare boat. I can't visualize any circumstance where 80WPM typing would not benefit them, but I suppose there might be a world of developers out there who truly live in a vaccuum like one of my other comments said... they just come in to work, dont communicate with anyone, dont write anything other than a 50 line file with a few hundred words in it, and leave after 8 hours)
Yup! It’s basically a glorified shell script. Sometimes the old ways are useful.

(I’m the author)
Yeah, I know. The number for "Ethnic Germans in Germany" is probably comparable to South Korea's.
The streaming boom was what, the last decade? Whenever Netflix started spending on House of Cards? Billions spent on prestige TV shows to acquire market share and they all have seemingly no cultural relevance at all. None will be remembered or cherished 10+ years from now I think. Pretty insane.
It depends, makes a difference for me as I like to be aware of the surroundings. Seeing that some people drive while looking into their phones, I figure, it may not matter for everyone.