skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese people are seeing the same decline of birth and marriage.

Part of that contributes to better life but I'd say the majority is because of Capitalism. This form of Capitalism is initiated by the government so there is not much to check its power.

Essentially, if you look at housing, cost of education and cost of medical services, you will understand why middle class in China does not want to give birth to children.
Works on my computer!
In this case, the word "universe" means everything there is. If there's some kind of comic book like "multiverse", it's really just one "universe" with different pockets. It's not actually multiple "universes."

I guess we can't rule out that someone is using Earth as a computer, but if they were, you'd expect the mice to get better cheese.
Individual consumer behaviour has never achieved anything. It did not create the minimum wage, 5 day week, end slavery, stop workers being locked in factories, stop toxic pollution in US waterways, etc. That was all done by unions and democratic institutions.
Get a Sony TV and you can fully control the Playstation with the remote. It handles TV on/off signals and autoconfigures HDR/Display settings. The whole bit.
VFX Walls and virtual sets like the ones in use @ Narwhal Studios [1] are pretty common now thanks to Unreal Engine 5. Used in productions of The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, etc. I think this, combined with outdoor sets like the OP posted about, are the future of movies. Instead of high CGI compositing, do the CGI compositing pre-production and film like you would a normal set.

[1] https://www.narwhalstudios.com
To recover from devastation you need to convert life purpose to include work culture more than ever.

Deming just showed them the way to get more done in less calendar time.
I don't want to be a member of a non profit housing group. Sounds like an HOA but made worse by the sanctimony and lack of incentives of people who work for non profits. I just want to hand over my money to a landlord and not think about it. My only considerations are what I pay and what I get in return. How much the landlord is making isn't at all relevant to me.
> If Google changes leadership to a sensible business person, I'll put serious money into the stock.

That's funny because that's usually when I sell my stocks in a company, as it usually signals (to me) that enshittification is about to begin and they'll start loosing customers quickly, at least if the company was engineering/R&D focused before.
I don’t find your LLM takedown that convincing, but AI is more then text. I imagine you also find the music generation, text to speech, speech to text, language translations, image generation and video creation to also be parlor tricks?
Of course - there will always be investors/influencers pushing narratives to hype their bets. IMO everyone is better off when the hype is grounded in solving real pain points, which the AI projects I've seen seem to be closer to than most of the crypto projects I've seen.

Certainly there are plenty of grifters in AI too (as with any gold rush) and many AI efforts will fizzle out. But it seems there is more real value being created here than in crypto, which is the main thing I'm excited about and hope to see more of
they could be forced to publish their drivers code, since there would be no clear boundaries between their kernel code and their driver code (from a legal point of view)
Unless he's smashing the old phone with a sledgehammer, it doesn't cease to exist.

That he's given money for the trade-in indicates it's refurbished and sold used to someone else, so the total waste is reduced, perhaps even more so than someone who buys top of the line phones, and after three years puts them in a drawer and buys a new one (because the trade in value is almost nothing and/or by then it's cracked, etc).
Caste based reservations in the private sector will be the end of any chance of India becoming a more prosperous nation. In public sector, the reservations are not limited to getting a job, but the promotions as well. In some public sectors, the promotion schedule gets accelerated basis caste. Sure, a lot needs to be done for a more equal society where everyone has the same opportunities, but private sector reservation is not it.
I didn't know it existed. Is it native (AppKit), webview/electron/etc-based or using some dotnet/mono weirdo UI framework abstraction?

I guess they feel VS Code has gotten good enough for dotnet stuff now.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
High pasta prices set to boil over as Canada's wheat withers
Your point about common-carrier regulations already existing is very well taken.

What's not so clear to me is whether (A) the allegations against the ISP have any merit (the article itself states it has no confirmation), or (B) even if they were true that they would run afoul of the common carrier laws. As far as I understand, these regulations do not prohibit the carriers from selectively promoting (and, ipso facto, selectively suppressing) the content they carry.

Indeed, how could it be otherwise? The capacity of the carrier is always going to be finite, therefore, tough choices are always going to have to be made as to who gets priority access.

Common carrier legislation can happily co-exist with a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" sign on the shop door.
It's not all that different from the Cold War, tbh. Robot dogs with guns seem much less scary to me than the possibility of small stars dropping out of the sky, wiping out millions of people in an instant and slowly poisoning the survivors.

Anyway, my kids worry more about climate change; correctly, I think.
Likely the investors negotiated the terms in return for funding.
How are you defining crossover? Not body-on-frame or more like the "lifted sedan/hatchback" like the Subaru Crosstrek or Mazda CX-30? If looking for body-on-frame, your options are really just Rivian (R1T or S1T) or F150 Lightning. If you're OK with unibody but large, there's a bunch of options that came out recently like the Audi Q8, Volvo EX-90 (even 3 row seating), BMW iX and X5, and some models from Mercedes that I can never remember the names of. All of them are all-wheel-drive.
I don't torrent stuff at all and my IP was there.
Ask HN: Suggestion for “Portable” JavaScript Framework
I'd like to build an embeddable JS component - it should be portable enough to work well with React as well as when used in Vanilla JS.

I'd also like the conveniences that come with using something like React when implementing my component, but I'm willing to flex on this.

Any guidance/recommendations anyone can provide?
thanks for reminding me to close the laptop, hug my children, and go for a run.
I think what you're missing for this to make sense is what is the desired outcome. For type 1 diabetics there are three important ones:

1. Time in severe hypoglycemia - ideally 0%

2. Time in severe hyperglycemia/diabetic ketoacidosis - ideally 0%

3. Time in euglycemia (also called time in target) - clinical target is >70% and for reference the median healthy non-diabetic is in target ~90-95% of the time.

Closed loop systems are very good at #1 and #2 as it takes a while for levels to get to the severe state and insulin can be administered (or withheld) based on CGM.

When we talk about algorithming out of meal announcements it's whether historical patient-specific blood glucose levels and insulin administrations (i.e. a prediction of what you eat and when) combined with CGM can keep #3 acceptable, not necessarily optimal. Medtronic is using this approach and their newest model more or less eliminates the need for accurate carb-counting but they still require meal announcements. The hope/idea is that this can potentially be eliminated in further iterations.

Another important thing to keep in mind which is sometimes lost in these discussions is that we don't treat numbers we treat patients (i.e. what are the clinical outcomes). Generally speaking, we assume the closer to normal the better but we don't have actual data about how much an extra X% outside of target ranges matters in terms of clinical outcomes and complication rates. We only really started getting this data with CGM and complications in these mild states would require very large cohorts and long (10-20 year) follow-ups to detect differences as they're likely to also be mild.

So while you're absolutely correct regarding the limitations and that an algorithm cannot outperform accurate carb-counting and meal announcements the missing piece is that it may be sufficient. Particularly if said algorithms result in improved time-in-target for patients who aren't good at managing their diabetes and find meal announcements cumbersome.
Some details here:

https://www.moneris.com/en/support/additional-resources/paym...

Premium card fees up from 1.8% to 1.85% and super-premium up from 1.97% to 1.98%.

Bloomberg claims that Mastercard is introducing a pre-authorization fee:

https://archive.ph/sFo82

However, you can see in the Moneris page that Mastercard actually introduced that pre-auth fee back in Nov 2019, and it is 0.05% or $0.01.

So, seems to be pretty much a clickbait nothing-burger.
Ah, good to know. That would explain why it wouldn't work in some places abroad. Machine probably couldn't process visa debit without inserting a card.
I'm pointing out elementary flaws in the methodology. As such the article wasn't convincing for me, and this is my feedback.
This is mostly true* and beyond irrelevant to the point GP was making (that they no longer use Linux on the desktop because of annoyances like this).

From the original article "It works great on both Mac and Windows, but on Linux it displays just a black panel" and, amusingly, after the fix: "One issue is that now my second monitor isn't displaying anything. When I go into Display Settings, it seems like my computer thinks that both monitors are sending this EDID so it's put the second monitor into the wrong mode."

Seems like 2023 isn't the Year of the Linux Desktop either.

* I say "mostly" because to 99+% of the people, telling them "this monitor works great on both Mac and Windows and shows nothing but a black screen on Linux, but don't worry; it has nothing to do with Linux" will get you some pretty quizzical looks.
Microsoft-signed “BGAUpsell.exe” pushes Bing on Windows and Chrome users
Knowing how those in positions of power can gate keep, yes, those higher caste Indians could easily block tenure. Especially since non-Indians propably cannot really spot the caste based component of those actions.
The subtext is that other people of Indian descent are doing the discrimination. So far as I know, nobody asserts that non-Indians are aware of caste, or could possibly identify caste from names.
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If you're really lucky, they'll sell the product to someone else and then you get to have a relationship with a new company (like google domains). That seems to be the very rare exception though and you should expect to have to find your own replacement for any Google service you use because it's unlikely to last very long.
I don't feel bad in point out flawed arguments or articles. Its up to the author to take the feedback for what it is, or discard it.
Yeah, memory loss and personality changes are both symptoms - so being paranoid fits there... it doesn't help the original person was writing themselves notes, forgetting they did it and then waking up wondering WTF is this??

I'm pretty sure I've managed to do something late night and wake up to it thinking the same (and as far as I know I dont have CO build up lol)
Font awesome plans to charge pageviews
Good news for Rider I guess
Cap-Ex
Yeah this is a bizarre one. It should be a successful type of program; Apple has been doing it since 2015, and bundling services together with the device makes total sense. Surprising to cancel it instead of just adjusting the price.
Ugh, swapping out a successful development paradigm midstream sounds like somebody up the chain thinks change is the same thing as progress.

In situations like this, one strategy I have used (not for Scrum, but for people who want to tinker with shit for the sake of tinkering) is to say: "Great, we welcome experimentation, this is really cool. What will we measure to decide whether this change is improving our process, and how long will the initial round of experiments last?"

Because: this frames it as something we are trying together rather than something they are dictating, but also something that is not necessarily permanent, which can be changed in the future (including changed back to the way it was), and which is oriented around measurable improvement rather than arbitrary whims. Almost nobody is willing to be the guy who says "we'll do it my way because I said so, even if it makes everything worse", and if they are, that in itself gives you some valuable information about your manager or leadership team.
Depending on where you live - the fact that you use Tor can be used against you.
See, the thing is that I cannot entirely shake the feeling that part of this stance is a certain laziness/complacency, essentially a lack of interest in any challenging activities.

What I mean is: A lot of the people who come down against child-rearing for lifestyle reasons assign a lot of value to things they'd rather do instead because they provide "great experiences I'd miss out on because I won't have time or money anymore" like "traveling".

Which is of course true, having kids is a trade-of. But doesn't raising kids also provide a big set of exciting experiences you are trading-of against?

Sure, you can prefer one or the other at will, and it could absolutely be true that your pick is best for you. But I'll say that my friends who are into activities/experiences that provide challenge (e.g. sports, adventuring, what have you) also are often into having kids.

That makes me wonder if there's not something to cultivating the kind of experiences you seek to have.
I was just pointing out that we need to understand the rule to effectively and intelligently apply it.

Usually you want progressive taxation - where the burden falls on those with more money. Regressive taxation doesn't mean changing behavior back, but rather where the burden of the tax falls.
> What is "less democratic" about literally voting with your wallet?

The fact that some people get more votes.
Voice, keystrokes, going to the streets is more accessible.

I am not saying dont vote with your wallet. I am saying do vote in all possible ways. Complain, tell people, talk to your representative, create ballot proposals.

Often 'vote with your wallet' is offered as a substitute for the other, more acessible, more powerful means of expression. More powerful especially for those that have smaller wallets.

So I think it requires a complement. "yes, and" :P
I think that there is usually one open along a long route. It seems they close them to keep traffic moving. From what I can tell there are now mobile scales that they often use instead.
Ask HN: Why does everyone become a project manager?
Is it me or does Project Management seem the like the role for people who don't really have any particular skills.

It seems also to be a trajectory for many job switchers or aimless types.

I feel like PM's generally tend to be the people who have the least domain knowledge.

It's like the PM is the technology equivalent of the McDonald's shift manager or the fair-weather ex-{whatever} coding bootcamper.
>> Ended up just with a residential IP and that solved everything til I left.

What does that mean? You installed a proxy/vpn server at someone's house in the US and GFW didn't block it?
This sounds like a study made from afar by just reading numbers without even talking to Koreans.

When I talk to Korean parents, the vast majority of them tell me that raising even one kid is exhausting.

They usually try as much as possible to satisfy every requests of their baby: carrying the toddlers for hours until they fall sleep, letting their kids sleep in the parents bed until they're 6, spoon-feeding them until they are 6, and so on... A Korean pediatrician friend told me that Korean kids score the lowest in the world in terms of autonomy.

So, parents of one kid are already exhausted and think it would be too hard to have a second one.
FCC refuses to scrap rule requiring ISPs to list every monthly fee
An honest question from someone without a car or a driving license: why exactly were you renting/borrowing these SUVs and trucks? Where does the need come from, what were you transporting?
Only speculating - the point is there are multiple resource rich competitors to OpenAI. Although OpenAI appears to be having early success that may not last given the strength of the competition and the degree to which those competitors believe the technology is key to their survival. Of course there are plenty of things I don't know and are not privy to.
I assure you: commercial players are working very hard on this.

The difficult part is actually power management. There are clearly very sophisticated algorithms that can do no meal announce closed loop management of t1d (just google scholar "closed loop type 1" -- it's a very popular problem for control systems researchers).

But they take a lot of power. Embedded convex solvers for large MPC schemes do not come cheap, especially when you want them running every 5 minutes! I have used this DIY loop system in the past. It is extremely power hungry and requires recharging daily, even when plugged in half the day. And I don't even think they are doing anything exotic like MPC. I stopped using it because of those battery issues and the implementation is gnarly -- it's basically a collection of bash scripts and relies on the operating system (armbian linux) to schedule doses. No RTOS, no watchdogs...

Power management is extremely important in a pump. If a pump dies every <24 hours without being recharged, that impacts both the patient experience and can be very dangerous. If it dies overnight you get no insulin and you will be very sick the next morning.

That said, I love that this is a thing. It pushes the tech forward and gets people excited about a machine cure, which is the only viable solution to "curing" type 1 at the moment.
McDonald's is nearly 6 times larger than Wendy's by number of stores, and double the revenue, with more than half of that revenue coming from franchise fees[1], if I'm reading this correctly.

[1] https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/corp/nfl/p...
Cool, so why is the solution simply not getting money out of politics and allowing people to build as much and as affordable housing as they want? Why is the solution to have the government distribute living accommodations, as opposed to making those dwellings cost pennies like anything else you can buy on Amazon, and let the markets figure this out the way they have with TVs and pencils?
We need a blanket exemption from DMCA for repair. Unauthorized bread and in this case ice cream should NOT be illegal.
Their methods rely on heuristics to sparsify NNs. They compare their sparse and dense methods to PyTorch and Tensorflow and get worse perf on dense inferences but better on sparse. It would be useful to know if PyTorch runs faster or slower than their methods using their sparsified matrix techniques.
I suspect that OpenAI is correct in its interpretation of US copyright law. I don't think copyright affords any kind of real protection from them or similar efforts.

Which means the only defense available currently is to stop publishing works, which is sad. I don't know what the solution to any of this is. Or if there even is one.
Hurricane Idalia leaves hundreds of thousands without power
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There are two sides to the story. Yes caste does come up in India in daily life, the more rural you go, the more important it becomes. That being said, there is also an element of obsession with caste in people who are well removed from the discrimination because they’re doing well socio economically. Sometimes people feel discriminated against because generally that’s what you’re told you should expect, but sometimes you over compensate for your insecurities and people just don’t like you for who you are. I’ve had plenty of people from OBC come up to me in the US and ask my caste, and when I don’t engage, they feel almost insulted. Context: I’m not OBC but I’m not up there in the caste ladder either. And I’ve basically completely blocked the whole caste system from my brain.
I guess I don't consider the phone addictive since I use iPad or computer at home. It is Reddit or Youtube that are addictive.

Also, it is possible to make phone into useful tool. I make audible/vibrate notifications for important things so don't need to check phone constantly. Put the phone down and only use it when you need it. Try moving content consumption to another device. Try limiting addictive things to certain circumstances.

If that doesn't work, consider deleting the addictive apps and turning the phone into a tool. Smartphone without addiction is more useful than a dumb phone.
May I ask why you didn’t want a second kid, and why you wanted your wife to go back to work before your child was kinder age (4/5)?
Yes pretty much the only such shops left where I live are the ones where the product manufacturer refuses to sell online or at Walmart -- certain brands of vacuum cleaners as an example. The local camera and computer and office supply and hardware stores (excepting big-box national retailers like Best Buy and Office Depot and Lowes) are all gone.
They're one of the few sites bad enough that even Cloudflare blocked them, which made big news at the time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Let's just look at the phone that the 5a adopters (me) would be getting from their store.

You start off with the Pixel 7a at $499. There's an immediate $250 credit that is applied over the next 2 years. This drops that price to $249. Pixel Pass users get a $100 bonus credit. Now it's at $149. Then there's an immediate $85 trade-in bonus. So now we're at $64.

Gosh, Google sure is doing me dirty by charging me $2.67 instead of $12 a month.
Buddy that internal "GPU" is like 24 years old. Make sure Firefox isn't attempting to use hardware rendering because it sure as shit won't work or help. You know you can get a couple year old Thinkpad on ebay for like $200 right? One with a significantly more capable CPU, GPU, and battery and other things.
I couldn't finish the W11 Home Edition installation on my parent's computer without having them create an account, so I just installed Xubuntu on it instead, and probably avoided a lot of headaches.

I'll probably revisit that computer and install Linux Mint with KDE Plasma, and do the same on their W10 machine.

If push comes to shove and they need some Linux incompatible app that I can't get to work with Wine, I'll just buy a used Macbook.

W10 is bad enough and W11 is not a viable option.