skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we go again... Everybody's ignoring the most basic and evident of behaviours (baby-having age moving up), and this one focuses on GDP-per-person without accounting for differences year-on-year but only comparing aggregated data over a period of time, thus smoothing out actual behaviour of a population. All of them also ignore that women (primarily) are learning how much harder it is to have kids at more advanced age, and that we might see a social reversal to have kids at a younger age again.

Let's take Germany as a counter-example: their GDP is still growing (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/gdp-per-ca...), yet their fertility rates are still growing too (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/fertility-...). It's not an isolated case, let's check out Romania: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ROU/romania/gdp-per-ca... and https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ROU/romania/fertility-.... Check out UK as well for when a decline in economy does not result in increase in fertility rates.

Yes, there is a trend in the developing world for fertility rates to reduce as economy improves, but then in the developed world they start to bounce back up even if economy keeps improving. How is this not obvious to everyone doing these modelling studies?

I am guessing fertility rate never stabilises, and major effects like when we'll add 12% of the population are surely predictable from behaviour of large nations like China, India and nations from Africa (who are mostly in their developing phase, or fast decrease of fertility rates for urban populations), but these are compound variables and any correlations noticed are probabilistic and not causation in most cases.
The ability to express thoughts more concisely in various languages is kind of sort of a plot point in the science fiction novel Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, published in 1966. Picked up a few of his novels to read and I've been enjoying them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17
How Grammarly Improved Monitoring by over 10x with VictoriaMetrics
Why Grammarly chose the VictoriaMetrics stack from a large list of modern products for monitoring and observability
The road from Head of Dunloe down into the Black Valley is 80km/h.

You'd be lucky to push 40 on the straight sections!
I agree that it looked like a crazy thing to do. But I'm not one of those who reaches for the word "madman" when someone does something that seems to me to be irrational.

With the benefit of hindsight, it doesn't seem so irrational to me now.

* Russia was under sanctions for the invasion of Crimea; the central bank had built up a huge stock of foreign currency, but it was only going to diminish with time.

* The Russian economy was at best stagnant, and largely powered by resource extraction.

* Ukraine was an impediment to land-traffic to Crimea (hence the need to build a bridge over the Kerch Strait), and also controlled the water supply.

* Ukraine was tooling-up.

For those reasons, delaying the invasion would have resulted in worse outcomes, the longer the delay.

As far as the justification for invading at all, you can take your pick from Russian fear of having a full NATO member on his Western border, or dreams of a restored Russian empire. I think both justifications are crazy, but dreams of a restored imperial glory are common among Russian nationalists. They can't all be madmen.
I was expecting a straight up ban of products that don't meet the FCC criteria but oh boy - the full on refusal of an FCC sticker!

That'll teach them!

Are there any plans for a more impactful regulation like they'd come up with in Europe?
> I am not a native speaker, but doesn't "before" just mean "in the past" here?

That is a strong possibility. It doesn't solve the problem with the line; to make sense, it should say she's said goodbye too many times before.

> It sounds clear to me: the girl has previously tried to break up many times, so now he is breaking up with her.

That is not so strong; the first verse is phrased in a way that suggests she is leaving him, not the other way around:

I was so high, I did not recognize

The fire burning in her eyes

The chaos that controlled my mind

Whispered goodbye as she got on a plane

Never to return again but always in my heart, oh

(On first impression, I assumed this verse meant that the girl was dead, but she could just be leaving.)
On my MacBook, I like to keep a few giant blank files that I can delete in a disk space emergency.
how about 0 ? how about we do nothing and nobody moves ? this way we'll be 100% sure that no one can get in a car accident, that'd be sooo cool guys :D
> Elle salua excessivement avant

That would not mean anything to a French speaker I'm afraid. "Saluer" is seldom used. It tends to mean "saying hello" or saluting someone in passing, more than "saying goodbye".

Elle a dit au revoir tellement souvent would work.

Better: Elle a dit adieu tellement souvent. Not the exact same meaning, but confers an undertone of dishonesty, as "adieu" should typically be said only once (it means you don't expect to see the other person ever again, except maybe in some afterlife).

Even better IMHO: Elle dit adieu si souvent. Present instead of past. A little farther from the original, but shorter and with a little more punch. It now implies it's something she does all the time.
Try following traffic laws for a week and time your commute. You’ll find that you’re not saving anything significant at all - and unless you have unlimited piece work you can swap to any time you have an extra 37 seconds there’s no economic value to cancel out the fuel and elevated wear and tear on your vehicle.
no worries, i just wanted to avoid being insensitive.

where i come from and in most other countries that i have seen, the idea of a student being homeless is almost unthinkable. being a student alone grants enough support that this simply won't happen, especially if they have kids. it would have to be something really unusual like the student refusing the accommodation they are offered or being mentally ill in some way that prevents them to make the right choice.

so to me it appears that homeless students are a distinctly american problem. one that the communities and government there need to work on to fix.

the very picture of a single parent with children being homeless is so out of place that i have a hard time imagining that this could happen even in the US.

that you can even come up with such an idea says a lot about how bad support for people in poverty in the US really is.

that said, obviously, if you are homeless, choosing to have kids is probably not a good idea.

but if you decide to have kids and become homeless later, then i would say, shame on the government and community for not providing the needed support.

if you live in a country where this is even possible, you should really try to do what you can to contribute to a change. not an easy task, but one that is absolutely necessary.
The quote in the article says Turnstile does have proof-of-work (and space) challenges. But yes I've similarly wondered years ago why people weren't more aware of this idea for spam control. Instead people now invariably associate the term with cryptocurrency
But why the assumption of back channel and verbal only confirmation?
Hoppscotch is not a Postman fork as far as I know.

You can do request chaining with Step CI (https://stepci.com) and Hurl (https://hurl.dev)
We had an on-prem server at a new factory I was working at and less than a year in the whole thing shut down because we ran out of disk space for logs so none of the automation could successfully report back that they completed tasks to move to the next task. It turns out it was apparently terabytes of unallocated disk space on the server, so it was a quick fix but just felt so avoidable.
It's more like: old being sold as new, engineering samples sold as production parts, relabelling lower spec parts as higher spec on the packages etc.
Their entire Android / Play Services maneuvers were textbook EEE.
> And not spend so much of our time worrying about Facebook targeting me with ads for iPhones, because they know I am in the markt for an iPhone. That's pretty meh.

Let me reverse the question, why anyone is able to target me without me asking for it? why anyone is using my data to do anything without me getting any benefit from it?
Yep, for example, it's standard for US speakers to say "I wish you would have done X instead" whereas Brits would say that should be "I wish you had done X instead". I believe that that construction is a past subjunctive (since it's counterfactual) and therefore that the Brits are essentially right here ("had" is a past subjunctive form but "would have" is not; it's a conditional).
And just to prove my point this is now on page 3.
Yes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.
You need to re-do your math. In addition to what others have said, if they start paying 40 hours pay for 32 hours work, they're going to have to hire 25% more people to produce the same number of cars - that is, to reach the same income.
I’ve seen family’s of 7 on a moped, surronded by multiple live chickens dangling and a 20gal propane tank on the back. Incredible skill. Sometimes they do blow up sadly if a suv runs into them.

For a lot of people, that moped is their life. Deadly force is appropriate. Horse thieves were hung right?
This is gold for my RPG fantasy campaigns. Thanks to OP for posting.

If anyone wants to see a good film adaptation of some of this stuff watch A Dark Song (2016).

And to a lesser extent You Are Not My Mother (2021) - this one is more folklore based.
UK air traffic meltdown 'one in 15M' event
iPhone users spend seven times more on apps than Android users
when it matters, i.e. traffic hours in the morning and evening, it probably would rather save time as less traffic jams will occur (more likely the higher the variance of velocities)

> the savings in people's time outweigh any extra fuel use.

opinion
I’ve been running pihole with my own resolver for >5 years and don’t have this issue. I run into it much more frequently when behind CGNAT.
> I don't like ALPRs…

I echo the sentiments of the parents where limits should be absolutely enforced, but also your concern about privacy.

At the end of the day though, this is what the majority is asking for, by dint of consistently breaking the rules. If people obeyed the limits, there’d be no need to expand the vast quantities of resources to build all the infrastructure for these cameras. It certainly sucks for those who always obey the limits (probably a low single digit percentage of drivers) and will get caught in the dragnet.

I foresee IR dazzlers becoming more popular on license plates and windshield/window frames.
What link is that, very curious?
TreeComp – Keep 2 directory trees and the files within the directories in sync
TreeComp 4.0 b57 : Last Released On November 6th, 2019
Oh, major CAs. GP spoke of Ed25519 not being useable on "the big tech internet", but didn't mention certificates or certificate authorities.
Why use OCaml when we have F#?
Rotten Tomatoes is erratic and hackable – and yet has Hollywood in its grip
> intelligence is by definition generalizable.

How do you define intelligence?
It's not the government's job to pay people more (beyond the public sector obviously), and while they can do certain things to improve commutes, reduce working hours, or increase holidays… I don't have any reason to believe those are the reasons for the rush.

(My belief may be biased by a certain person I used to know: he was driving one of two vehicles with me and my friends to an event that wouldn't start until both arrived; I asked why he was doing 98 mph (UK speed limit 70), and his answer was "If I was going faster I might have to waste time with a court case to prove I wasn't driving dangerously" rather than to slow down. The other vehicle was driven by someone who obeyed the speed limit, and we started at the same time and place).
Björk is the perfect example of being blind to your own pretty privilege.
This was a VM with a ceph cluster.
New York City’s Crackdown on Airbnb Is Starting. Here’s What to Expect
The best alternative firmware example for true IOT devices is Tasmota [1]. Erase manufacturer firmware for every ESP devices the day after purchase to avoid those careless manufacturer firmwares.

[1] https://tasmota.github.io/docs/
It's so refreshing when the ML acronym is used for its original meaning rather than for the AI hype.
I wonder if that was intentionally chosen to reference the "4 is death" connection in some languages
There was vert little pretence in the message above.
And, as the article says, this proposal is likely to be illegal under the ECHR and the CFREU.
What could be the reason that clicking won't work and pasting will? Is it something to do with referrer policy?
Are you talking consumer prices, enterprise redundant SSDs in a Data Center, or enterprise cloud storage? In my experience the latter two could add another digit to your price.
Deu: "Ex!"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ex#German
the model for doctor work was designed by a guy who was a cocaine addict. he made it work... cuz he was stimmed to the gills most days. so start by tossing that approach out.

another specter hanging over the industry is that studies have shown that hand-offs to different nurses and doctors is what leads to errors, and in medicine that sometimes means people dying cuz of dumb mistakes. the solution was to keep someone on shift, like 12+ hours, or often more for sensitive cases.

i've done 60 hour weeks in IT, and even napped in a data center -- that hum is relaxing! -- but those were one-offs, while it's a lifestyle for the docs.
I've found that this seems to entirely depend on who taught you to drive, and perhaps to some degree where you learnt to drive. In rural areas, almost everywhere is NSL but you'd die in pretty short order if you drove at 60 on tiny rural roads.

My instructor very much taught me that it's a limit rather than a recommendation, however, that's also balanced out with the minor fault of "making progress". Obviously if someone just drives at 5mph everywhere then they're clearly not a competent driver, but there's definitely a grey area. My instructor said as a rule of thumb, on a clear day, clear straight road without any hazards, you should be within 5mph of the limit on the test, but that otherwise, examiners are relatively tolerant of driving below the limit.

As far as the police go, I think it's because people driving slow is generally suspicious of perhaps them being a drunk driver or some other issue with their competence or road worthiness. I was once driving at 40mph on a dual carriageway in Scotland and got pulled over, but I explained to the police that I was just low on fuel due to a number of closed petrol stations, so I'm trying to conserve fuel by driving at the speed I get the best economy otherwise I won't make it to Inverness. They were completely satisfied with that and let me on my way.
How so? Hollywood wants to make money. And most Hollywood decision makers want to brag about having Important Friends in High Places (like the DoD). Producing anti-war movies (or otherwise making the DoD look bad) would get them ~nothing that they really want.
Could this be an artifact of just not reshuffling the dataset and how the weight regime is? What if you reversed the dataset in the second epoch, under the memory hypothesis the training loss would not plummet if it has not learnt anything during the epoch after the first 10%. Yes?

The report mentions there is no reshuffling:
> We’re not re-shuffling the dataset at the start of the epoch, so those first batches of the second epoch are when the learning rate was still warming up.
I think, most of the companies do that.
And they are actually clueless what they can do, what data can be taken without being litigated.
A global consensus may be a great thing for startups not having to worry about data laws focusing more on building the product.
Will be good for EU Economy too.

Global Consensus on these laws or a scanner app letting the startup owner know what you have unwillingly violated is highly wanted.
GPT4 response:

You can translate the phrase "She said goodbye too many times before" into Latin as "Dixit vale saepe nimis antea".

I asked GPT4 whether it could make the translation shorter to which it responded that Latin was inherently a verbose language, so no.
Yeah ideally I want to code myself except the payment part, just need a good payment system provider that supports multiple options. My country isn't directly supported by Stripe (but I heard there's workaround haven't dived in yet), so I currently don't know other good options.

Edit: I just learned it's called "Payment gateway", looking at various options now..
My typical drive to visit family is roughly 125 kms with a 130 km/h speed limit and 125 kms with a 110 limit. If I drove at 100 all the time it would take 25 minutes more. More than a bathroom break I think.

Honestly I feel that driving faster is safer for me, since I tend to zone out if I don't have to pay attention to overtaking trucks.
> potential future introduction of road pricing

Interesting, because in the states, similar infrastructure is being deployed specifically for road pricing. I assume then we can start working on the more sensible uses you describe, but don’t have high hopes that it will be easy or quick.
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop (2023)
These companies didn't even exist 100 years ago and most of the success they have had, are big innovations in their respective areas in last 20 years. Yet now they are designated as some sort of immortal "gatekeepers".
Do you have zero downtime upgrades and automated rollback on deployment failure?
FEMA and FCC plan nationwide alert test messages sent to all TVs and cell phones
Does anyone have any experience on how this works at scale?

Let’s say I have a directory tree with 100MM files in a nested structure, where the average file is 4+ directories deep. When I `ls` the top few directories, is it fast? How long until I discover updates?

Reading the docs, it looks like it’s using this API for traversal [0]?

What about metadata like creation times, permission, owner, group?

Any consistency concerns?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/objects/li...
The audit department at my current gig says all records must be retained for eternity because of regulatory reasons but cannot direct anyone to the relevant regulation.
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are significantly safer than human-driven ones
> If we're concerned about dire threats like this, the manufacturer needs a way to remotely send devices into an internet-disconnected "safe mode" before anyone's even talking about updates.

This was exactly my thought. Download the update then take the device offline until it's applied if the update contains a security vulnerability.
Tech companies in the US have significantly more lobbying power now. Microsoft will be fine. HN is amazingly ignorant and about political economy.
I've got a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee and I've been searching for where the sim card is for the built in cellular modem so I can rip it out.

It astounds me that there aren't more people interested in cutting off the constant telemetry and to be honest it wouldn't surprise me if the car refuses to operate correctly when I do figure out where it's at and pull it.
"I spent the week creating a typescript interpreter that verifies the type safety of our bash scripts using typescripts string template capabilities"
> it can't be considered fluent English when seen as an isolated sentence

Can't it? Why not? What's wrong with it?

> The line in question, She said goodbye too many times before, stands out like a sore thumb for being preceded and followed by sentences that, unlike it, are both in the present tense.

But it's a song. Prosody can't be held to the same strict rules of tense consistency (or other grammatical rules) as prose. And flipping tenses between lines is hardly an uncommon feature of songwriting. Take, for example, Leonard Cohen's "Boogie Street":

A sip of wine, a cigarette,

And then it's time to go,

I tidied up the kitchenette,

I tuned the old Banjo.

I'm wanted at the traffic jam

and so on.
To add, my personal experience from the air force is that flight plan rejection from Eurocontrol was business-as-usual situation so I'm also confused reading that the system instead of rejecting that one problematic plan, threw a white-towel
The danger of them having this data is just too great. It's too much concentration of power.

Would you trust the government with your voting preferences? Meta can know that with extremely high confidence based on the articles you read, people you follow etc. And while I'm not particularly trusting of the government, I'm even less trusting of zero-accountability, billionaire-led, Meta.

Imagine the potential for abuse if this data is in practice usable by large interest groups that want to strongly influence your behavior. Oh, wait a min! This data is usable today by these groups for ads targeting!
If these are the kind of things we are worried about then the correct course of action is to ban needlessly internet connected devices. Your need for twitter on your fridge doesn't outweigh the botnet threat it poses.
But then you have the tree falling in the woods problem.
I'm not an expert in quantum gravity, but as there's no widely accepted theory of quantum gravity I suspect the answer is: we don't know.
The howls of "nursing shortage" are made to entice youngsters into the field in order to drive down wages. When wages drop, people quit to do other things, so wages rise. When wages rise, the media shouts "nursing shortage" from the rooftops.

As a career, nursing suffers from a huge amount of burnout and COVID led to large numbers of medical professionals being physically attacked for failing to apply horse dewormer as the purveyors of "alternate facts" kept claiming was a magic cure. Many in the medical profession saw friends & coworkers die from COVID, so the sharp wage increase in recent years was an attempt to mitigate a shortage.
That was 55.
So you are claiming that the NSA (at all levels) lied to the House Intel committee? That's a big claim, you should back it up with some evidence. Which part of the report is not accurate?

Have you read the report?
> But I can walk to my oven and turn it on, which wasn't a real problem even when I lived in a huge house.

Rushing to get out the door, "Honey, did we turn off the stove?" Presumably you can then check with your phone.
> No different than writing software to a releasable stage.

It's extremely different, imo.

Releasing buggy software to prod: no biggy, hotfixed in a couple of hours

Releasing buggy hardware: recalls, mass customer dissastifaction.
I also love the look of this car. I think the closest thing that's actually on the market might be the Honda e[0], but the price isn't worth it for the limited range imo.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_e
Thanks for the AROS tip, that makes a lot of sense, have duly noted it for future reference ..
The problem is, Microsoft is entrenched with everybody but software engineers and server administrators.

Even “IT people” - their primary domain of skill is working with Windows etc…

And Microsoft has leveraged this dominance to coerce companies into their cloud services too.

Microsoft is a lich, it can’t be killed. It just has to be managed around.
An interesting take. I’m not a Samsung user, but these days I get enough bug reports about issues specific to Samsung browser that I had to buy a device just to reproduce the random weird stuff that happens. The latest one had to do with Samsung browsers’ dark mode which has some strange algorithm to make every website dark.