skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are quite possibly correct. Late-modern monarchies, absolutist on paper, were certainly granting more freedoms to their people than those people themselves would have likely voted for, had they been given the power to do so. I can only imagine what an "Enlightened Absolutist" European monarchy would look like in the 21st century. Pity that proto-fascist faux-democracies are all that is left.
One practice I’ve gotten into with juniors is checking out their PR, branching it, PR-ing to their PR, and then having the discussion about what I want them to change there. This is good because it lets us isolate certain issues (and truly resolve them) rather than comments getting pulverized by lots of little commits, only to have someone else come in and say “LGTM!” and merge it with unresolved issues.

Another obvious way to fix OP’s issue is to request developers to break their PR’s down into smaller chunks, pair on the parts that need help, and slowly merge things from there. YMMV of course - but any 1000 line PR is going to be a headache regardless of what methodology you’re using to review code.
you and most of you who think this is a good thing are gonna be changing their tune the second the dude in the bunk above you or next to you starts jacking off.
No one is telling you what language to use for your purposes. Just trying to point out that not everyone has the same purposes, and therefore may correctly draw different conclusions.
Well using analog effects in digital logic has its risks…at relativistic speeds the capacitor dimensions will change, altering capacitance. Depending on the direction of travel, it could go up or down. ;)
Wikipedia states: "al-Maliki worked closely with the Multi-National Force (MNF–I), and continued to cooperate with the United States following the withdrawal from Iraq."

And "we" as in Muslims.
Water/dampness might be an issue?
Excellent points, since school funding is student count dependent it was critical for it to be close. They mostly predicted increases but year after year it was flat or when decreasing. Maybe politics were involved, and like I said my comment probably isnt fair.
I find it pretty disturbing how many of my coworkers don't even have a personal computer -- they just use their work laptop for everything. Mind-boggling. (These are software developers, they can damn well afford a laptop.)

The most I mix it is using my smaller, lighter, Bluetooth-supporting work laptop for watching innocuous YouTube videos while doing dishes. And I used to use it to print stuff at the office, on occasion.
Three gift card emails in a row randomly
USA using threats of sanctions in order to stop competition from the Japanese computer industry. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This may sound jealous -- but I'm a bit sick to my stomach seeing a file browser raise $2 million dollars when Haiku OS, one of the most promising and important open source projects of all time in my opinion, can hardly manage $15k a year. I really wish Haiku could get more support.
> The only way to stop them doing this is for folks in the right places to make it technically impossible.

Sure. Then they'll pass legislation making it a crime to implement technical measures preventing such data collection, and simply lock up everyone you are talking about.

What's the real solution?
Ask HN: Is it likely for a customer's reputation to be exchanged among services?
We know that there exist third-party data brokers for everything under the sun.

Is it likely that services as varied as food delivery, ride share, or health care, would buy and sell reputational data on customers of other companies in the same industry?

For example, a new user signs up to Waymo. Does Waymo reach into the deep web and attempt to purchase reliable and current data from Lyft, Uber, et. al?

It seems like they would, and probably should, since it would be good to know about problem customers, and conversely, generous or profitable ones too.
Whether its friends, family, or every online community I experience, there seems to be a politically impactful grassroots flip in favor of anti-big tech action for many reasons:

1. Normal daily life increasingly happens through gates controlled by a handful of firms.

2. We all noticed when several of these firms crossed from "free" and "wonderful" to enshitiffied services. E.g. Google, Amazon, etc.

3. A general disgust with big tech's handling of social media in terms of user manipulation, and privacy abuses. And disgust with a perception of unhelpful behavior and lack of transparency or responsibility by social media's famous leaders.

4. General feeling that big tech is shafting little people, whether it's social media, physical world gig work, heavily taxing or not paying creators on their sites or in apps, etc.

5. People dealing with big tech mismanagement of their accounts, with great frustration and even fear.

(I almost lost my home when more than one financial firm suddenly decided that having a non-driver's ID after a move somehow made me more risky? Or a good target to demonstrate they are weeding out risky people?I will never know the reasons, and their unexplained decisions are unappealable. A month of hell. Banned for life, without recourse, apparently.)

6. The amount of frivolous and disturbing news that is generated by the tech billionaire class, emphasizing vast inequalities in resources and quality of public behavior between regular people and the super rich.

I don't imagine its just me that has experienced a surge of complaints like these in their techie and non-techie circles.

I think the relative unity behind these negative perspectives comes from them being based in everyone's practical lives, as apposed to having indirect, abstract, tribal or ideological bases.
>Transformer model autocorrect on iOS

I think it's supposed to learn your text style and adapt to your personal vocabulary a bit over time. So it should hopefully get better as you use it more.
This seems strange to me… every recruiter I’ve worked with had a guarantee period, and if the employee didn’t work out, the fee was not owed. There’s also the option to do contract to hire. If the fee to hire someone is a deterrent, it doesn’t feel like a great sign of the company’s financial situation or how they view money. $10k extra for someone who may work out is not gonna break the bank when hiring employees that are paid well north of 100k. That’s actually an incredibly small fee compared to what I’ve seen. Employees typically cost the company around 1.5-2x the salary for all other overhead, so 10k is a drop in the bucket.
Yeah, use it with your CI or test suite. Also `-Wd` for Python, and I'm sure there are equivalents for other toolchains/languages.

IMHO it's similar to the robustness principle/Postel's law: "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept". Your build should pass without warnings on your system, but your build system should allow warnings on your customer's system.
Dirt (in a forest) is a great option by the way (just need an insulation layer because it is cold). Concrete is of course horrible.
Ah, thanks for that. Yeah, the implementation was always iffy, while the search picks up many alternate names, sometimes it just doesn't show a 1-to-1 match. And well, they could have just implemented the suggestion as part of the full picker, as a first option row, while letting you search and pick the others.

As for the caps lock stuff, now that it's been more hours since the upgrade, it's definitely buggy: sometimes it pops up anywhere on web controls, very far away from where it's supposed to be.
> The problem with those high-fertility groups is that they usually come with a lot of baggage - specifically they require belief in the made-up nonsense that tends to fade away as the demographic shift advances. So, they may maintain higher fertility rates, but I'd wager more and more of their kids will break away from a religion/belief system that appears increasingly absurd and stifling as the rest of the world moves on.

Honestly... I've simply not seen this. There are many religious people in prominent positions, you just don't know about it. In my fairly traditional catholic parish, we have families where mom and dad are catholic, their five kids are catholic, and their 40 + grandchildren are as well (some are now adults and having kids of their own). And all successful, doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. The idea that religious == stupid or baggage or whatever is simply at odds with history. You're conflating the Duggars with otherwise normal people that just have different views.
Same here. Air gap your personal and professional life. Separate devices, separate networks (if you work from home), don’t even bring your personal device to work if you don’t really have to.

There was a story a few years back making the rounds on HN where an Apple employee had to turn in her corporate device due to some lawsuit against the company. This happens all the time in big companies. She was outraged at this because she had personal nudes on her corporate device. WTF how could anyone think this was a good idea?
My unfair comment is probably more like "The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Data".
It sounds like you don't want your compiler to stop on errors, but rather, you want your CI to recognize errors, and to prevent the merging of feature branches that have any warnings.
Show HN: Virtual Piano
I would politely suggest your school district got ripped off.
‘Predictive’ = ‘empirical’ + non adhoc explanations
Your request and OP's request can be done in a simple userscript. Don't have laptop with me, but should be a quick 10~15 min job with some testing... probably even faster with ChatGPT.
What was the previous generation's child mortality rate? From what I read, that seems to be the dominant factor for the number of children you're expected to get, not so much what religion one has.

Probably contraception availability also plays a role there, but I'd be surprised if the two don't go hand in hand: if you have money to spend on healthcare then you'll also have the money for cheap contraceptives.

Edit: another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720354) linked to a video by the author of the book that I read the above claim in: https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI?t=962 (the conclusion is what I linked, about 1 minute of watch time)
Biden chose Khan to lead the FTC (signalling an anti-trust stance from the administration) in 2021. This was as the inflation surge started to form. While we can grant the administration some degree of foresight, I don't think it's reasonable to say at the anti-trust activity originated from the current (post 2021/2022) big tech backlash. Although certainly the backlash if helpful to their current efforts.

My hunch is that it's a realization that the degree of concentration of power and money is really is destabilizing. For the democrats, doubly so, since it's been plain to see since 2016 just how much polarization and anger is fueling Republican strategy and success.
"The total cost of immigration for the period 1995-2019 for the Netherlands was 400 billion euros."

Quote from the conclusion of one of the studies mentioned here: https://miwi-institut.de/archives/2028#:~:text=The%20researc....

I can only speak for my own region in western Europe (Benelux / Germany / France), for us mass immigration especially from non-EU countries has a very high financial and social cost. So high that both in Belgium and the Netherlands there is a large majority to be found in favor of drastically reducing immigration, recent polls show.
However in almost all west European countries you've got governments doing the exact opposite of the people's will.
In my own country, Belgium, we've got a very generous social security system and as such we attract a lot of immigration that is not interested in working (and/or simply very low skilled, often illiterate).

Among non-EU origins we're at 44.5 % inactivity, not studying nor working, (!!!!!) which is the worst score in all of Europe. Belgium itself is of course partially to blame because our social security system is too flexible, too generous and does not push to work.

Mass immigration from strongly divergent cultures is damaging western society, causing higher poverty, more crime, and rampant feelings of alienation, tearing at the fabric of social values and cohesion. Look at Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden...
Go for a stroll in Brussels or Frankfurt, have a look at the numerous ghettos there. Mass immigration is a lose-lose thing, both for the host country and for the newcomers who often sign up for a life in abject poverty.
Ask HN: Any tips for applying for the Google Startup Program?
I'm planning to apply to the Google Startup Program which offers credits of up to $200K for Google Cloud usage (https://cloud.google.com/startup). I'm a solo founder and have built several small startups on Google Cloud but have never applied for this before.

Has anyone done it and gotten a significant amount of money? Any tips/tricks/hacks to maximize the amount I may be able to get? Thanks!
Yup they might have not been good but they kept getting hired. In my mind I am thinking if they cant reliably predict a popualtion of around 5000, his could they predict the world. I get that they are apples and oranges.
That... is a very literal interpretation of my question
Nice. It’d be cool if it could auto generate, and auto evaluate system prompts. Teach it on a few examples of what’s a good output, then it can generate and test system prompts, to auto identify a possible winner.
I'd say the same for a random insurance company.
Yeah, the skateboard-to-bike range of mobility tools is just lovely in the city -- they have the property that you can go much faster than walking with far less effort, but you can also carry your transportation (up stairs, over obstacles, etc.) With a car, if you run into a traffic jam or an obstacle or a mechanical failure, you're screwed.

Bikes are definitely on the big end, being things that not everyone can carry, and that definitely can't just be strapped onto your back. (But they do let you carry cargo.)
I will much prefer this to something that will require the newest C++ compiler support.
> 300% faster

False. I can totally run out of my OneWheel Pint, did it multiple times.

It's max declared speed is 14mph, but it really goes around 12.
16 GB is a really nice offering at that price point for AI workloads. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a higher end Battlemage offering and some real competition for Nvidia.
“The most important case that the FTC has brought in its 109-year history”
Motocross, even. Chin protection isn’t a focus of standard motorcycle helmets.
> Shop clerk? Farm worker? Baker? Cleaner? Butcher? Driver?

Math, low skilled immigrants often lacks basic education and can't properly read numbers. That makes them unfit even for most jobs we nowaday call "unskilled" like shop clerk etc. There are billions of such people in the world and when they immigrate there isn't much you can do to get them a job.

There is a reason why most unskilled jobs today require high school, because without basic math you can't do much at all. Immigrants with high school equivalent education or higher can integrate just fine, immigrants with lower level than that are hard to deal with so most countries refuse to take them in but those are the majority of people in low income countries.

In Sweden they are trying to teach these immigrants math etc, but it is hard since they both needs to learn a new language and math and all those standard things as an adult. And after that they have to compete with "unskilled" locals who learned those things as kids.
Really there's often difficulty past 30.

Your 20s are the prime years for reproduction, biologically.
Well, the results speak of themselves - all ethnic cleansings so far have been performed only with the help of AIs. Oh wait, actually none of them were.
I am sure they were not getting their moneys worth.
True - but there’s been a ton of stylistic and technological advancement of the basic 88 key device over the years - ranging from the development of key synths to (neo)classical reimaginings of how to use the hammers and strings to do something novel, not to mention AFX going nuts with little servos and player pianos, plus the development of jazz, ragtime, etc.
That’s a very thoughtful and thought-provoking article, thank you

It sucks that communism and pretty much anything related to it is almost impossible to discuss in earnest

I doubted even clicking on that link for a while, dismissing it just because you mentioned it was “the communist answer”
That Manhattan remark was extraneous. I wanted to note that decreased population does not always lead to decline in property value. There is a shift from a more widely distributed desirable city middle class to concentrating wealth in coastal cities or new western development.
Maybe give nimlangserver a shot, it's an alternative to nimlsp:

https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver

nimble install nimlangserver
Quasi-crystals and the Golden Ratio (2012)
I was interested in historical demographic predictions. What did the UN project for 2020 in 1950, 1960, 1970 etc.

Unfortunately pre-1950 demographic prediction is a little harder to find. I wonder why*

Anyway a reliable source is found here:
https://ourworldindata.org/population-projections

In summary historical population projections have been pretty accurate but not in the way you expect.

*One thought is that because current date may become a historical inflection point similar to the first half of the 20th century, current date demographic statistics may be too important to put much stock in. Sobering.
I’ve never truly trusted non in-house recruiters… I was once hiring for a position and working with a contract recruiter. He literally said “let me dig through my roster and see who I placed more than 90 days ago” And they’re guarantee was 90 days. Essentially admitting that he poaches staff from one customer to feed another just to get commission. Was just so ethically poor in my opinion, never wanted to work with this type of recruiter ever since. Our goals are not aligned.
That really does not seem that expensive - pretty sure 800Gb/s switches with that many ports cost around the same ballpark.
This is interesting and.. quite different in one very important key way:

"Are the Japanese picking our brains?'' a congressional staffer asks. ''Yes. They're doing it very well. They're doing it legally. The question is whether we have a two-way street"
Maybe this is what you're saying, but to have CI prevent the merging of feature branches that introduce new warnings? That's my favorite setup for introducing lint or lint rules to a large codebase.
"Volatile terpenoids emitted in large quantities by the abundant eucalyptus trees in the Blue Mountains may cause Mie scattering and thus the blue haze for which the mountains were named."
Amazing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wale...
The solution is to do it before it's made illegal.
Japan's 10-year "Fifth Generation Computing Systems" initiative. I remember, this was very famous in the 80s. It was talked about all over the world. Even in popular magazines in Brazil (like Time), for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...
Site looks chatGPT generated
Disheartening to see this. I was planning on getting a pixel for my next phone and hoping this might be a 911 only issue but obviously it's related to emergency dialing all-round.

> 112. Which is an emergency number in many countries.

There's a lot of the planet where 112 will work, often as a redirect to the actual number.
That's a very negative way to look at it. For one, you could just, you know, find a job you like doing. Also, you might have one partner stay at home. There's lots of ways to make it work without ending up hating the enterprise.
Spouse or people that need to provide. Invariably the man in the family ends up knowing English unless he’s old and depends on his son.
> it works slowly over thousands of years

This isn't always the case; evolution can happen relatively quickly in response to rapid changes in the environment [1]. There are plenty of people alive today who have particularly strong urges to have children, and the widespread introduction of birth control creates a major selective pressure towards any heritable genes that produce or enhance those urges. The effects of this could be very significant over even a relatively small number of generations.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
While 10-15% IPC increase is great on paper, it is quite far from previous rumoured 20-25%+ IPC increase. To put this in perspective, the A16 / A17 is ~50% faster per clock than Zen 4 in Geekbench 6. And will still be 20% faster than Zen 6 in ~2025/26.

Still waiting for 86 to catch up. It is just around the corner.
Drag racers. The current trend is very high-horsepower turbo-charged engines with lots of torque and a two-speed "auto" is all they need and there's only one shift in a 1/4 mile run.

I put "auto" in quotes because the automatic function is usually removed and you have to shift it manually.
AI predicts how many earthquake aftershocks will strike – and their strength
This project is such a natural fit for using OSM as the entire backend. Surprising choice not to!
It applies to the poorer countries, but less and less so. The more developed countries in Latin America have a birth rate that is similar or in some cases lower than the USA (Uruguay) and are definitely more secular in their culture.
A Case for Stacked Patches
Sticking together makes bacteria nearly invincible
I've tried journaling my dreams but I found it to be tedious due to the amount of dreams and their various contents. Some dreams consist of strong emotions and what I sense as I wake up is not the dream, but the feeling of have been separated from the dream. That's hard to put into words in the middle of the night. In the end, I tend to recall my dreams quite well, many of which have a permanent place among other episodic real life events.

I have a few dreams that are like a long running TV show, suddenly I'm in this certain universe and the plot continues, even though it's been a few years. In a single sleeping session it's often the rule that dreams continue even if I wake up in the middle. It's so consistent that waking up from a nice dream doesn't mean it's lost but gives me something to look forward to.

Lucid dreaming in my experience is very much an Inception-like (the film) experience. Once you have "woken", there's a fine line between controlling the dream, and the dream noticing what you're up to, eventually booting you from the matrix.

For something more on topic and for anyone that will be experiencing a lucid dream in the future: Take a moment to really appreciate the extreme level of graphics, and other senses the mind can render.
Demonizing violent junkies is kinda key to my constructive criticism.
To use an example that's relevant here given the smart home context: Home Assistant has a huge community of hobbyists around it, and I think it's fair to say it couldn't have gotten nearly as far as it has without community contributions.
no it's not

there is a sizable portion of people who genuinely believe things like this so here we are. just sort of sniping at eachother ineffectually. i can't prove it to you without someone owning up to whats in the training data