skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You lower demand by increasing the the supply

Jevon's Paradox[1] states that as efficiency increases (which itself is a form of supply increase), demand increases.

My own view is that the paradox makes the idea of population reduction moot, those remaining humans would simply use more energy because supply has gone up and demand (through lack of competition) going down to levels below supply would, again, drive prices down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Personally I find it very entertaining when a player pulls a rabbit out of their hat by turning an obviously worse position into a stalemate by some crazy trick. I think it adds some skill expression to an otherwise boring end game, and gives the losing player something to fight for at the end. Admittedly this is more interesting in a format that results in a time crunch at the end.
There's nothing wrong with innovation, of course. A lot of controls needed to change to work well on touch interfaces, like the sliding toggles iOS use(d), and the large, connected touch areas that have replaced the small labels and click targets that computers used to have.

There's no reason to abandon the toggle button/checkbox distinction, though. They're still used distinctively, there are common practices to indicate those distinctions that go back decades, and I don't see any need to unify these controls.
It's a bit like drag racing. If all you care about is the performance of a single transfer that doesn't have to deal with packet loss etc, HTTP/1 will win.
There is a documentary released this year on Zuckerberg, not by Burns of course, that shows that he once referred to himself publicly, on his Facebook pages, as "Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State". Funny coincidence.
There's an interesting real world case of the distinction between US and UK/Europe rules about what is public from a few years ago. Someone acted on information from an overheard phone call on a train and was found guilty by a French court.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-29/deals-...
Archive https://archive.ph/Imf75
AFAIK these are changes that apply to any company in the UK (whether or not theyre LSE-listed). This also wouldn't depend on whether they operate within the City of London.
Aging userbase? People get to a certain age, realise they'll probably outlive problems then just start campaigning for whatever will give them the best rest of their life. Seems to kick in quite early now too, like 35.
Thanks for taking the time to explain that. So, in terms I find easier to understand, MLC would mean that if I:

-take any rectanglular section of the complex plain that includes part or all of the Mandelbrot set

-draw the Mandelbrot set in black

-pick an arbitary black point and colour it red

-recursively colour every black point touching a red point (flood fill)

Then every black point would be recoloured red. And this would work with a pixel based image of the mandelbrot if the image had a high enough resolution. Is that right?
During the Iraq War would you have ever imagined that the 'mobile chemical weapons laboratories', verified by 87 (or however many it was) different intelligence agencies, were actually just completely generic helium stations for weather balloons? That the 'high level insider in the Iraq government' was actually a taxi driver and thief with absolutely no connection whatsoever to the Iraq government? That the 'rock solid evidence of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium from Niger' was actually just a poorly forged receipt? Literally all of the evidence we used to justify the invasion was fake, the exact same evidence that we had people like Colin Powell testify to the authenticity to, under oath.

So "we" don't have anything except claims from an active participant in a war who has been caught lying repeatedly during this war, who has a long history of lying prior, and who has every motivation to continue lying in this one. What's actually happened for the past couple of years will only become clear over the years to come.

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As for Crimea, it has a pretty wild history, but it's never been majority/plurality Ukrainian or even close to it. You can see a demographic history here. [1] At the start of the USSR it was designated a subregion of Russia, but was primarily populated by Tatars. Over the years leading up to WW2 many more Russians migrated to it, and relatively small number of Ukrainians. After WW2 the Tatars were accused of collaborating with the Nazis and deported from the region leaving it almost entirely Russian, which remained the case til the current era.

It was only in 1954 that Nikita Khrushchev granted it to Ukraine, ostensibly as a gift to Ukraine celebrating the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's integration into Russia. In reality it was part of a political power struggle of the time, and in the Russian world this is often referred to as Khrushchev's Folly, probably mimicking Seward's Folly. In spite it being a sub-region nominally under Ukraine, it remained populated primarily with ethnic Russians. And this never changed. The highest percent of Ukrainians was 26% in 1970, at which time there were also 67.3% ethnic Russians.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethnici...
I worked on an embedded system for years that used that exact representation for time. The "fun" part is that it was used to represent real time since an epoch many years ago, and the field was compulsory. Not only would the values roll over every 12 hours, but the system would have to function for a while before even synchronizing to an external clock. Every so often, somebody asks why the next-gen system has four optional 64-bit time fields, and my eye twitches while I rant about time synchronization for half an hour. Then they ask how to compute the time difference between two independent events, and we're literally inside an XKCD comic.
My guess is that this type of round sliding door takes up much less space compared to solutions where you manually close the door. Unfortunately, manually round sliding doors can be very heavy to close. Especially for wheel chair users.

My guess is that this is probably the only way, if you also want to support disabled users while ensuring them most agency in the intimate process of using a toilet.
Right, I suppose my second paragraph was waffling on the extra legwork the compiler would have to do, but I know validating optimizations is just the start of the work.

Maybe this could be a good way to jump into messing with LLVM...

Out of curiosity, how much of a performance difference did you observe in practice when you made this optimization?
That's why the idea is that radio buttons are round, and checkboxes are rectangular.
Not quite. We don't know the correct value for the ECS, and estimates for that value have been increasing in the last 5 years. Higher sensitivity means a higher temperature per extra carbon in the air.
It's more as if you say "ok if I put glue inside the keylock of someones car, then it will be very difficult to open it, see this is unsafe"
IQ hasn’t declined though. The Flynn effect means that the median IQ has gone up steadily every decade since they started measuring. It’s unclear why. Maybe better nutrition, better schooling, less leaded petrol - hard to tell.

So an 85 IQ person today is substantially more intelligent than an 85 IQ person in the Vietnam war. That said, the modern infantry man’s job is more complex. I would postulate that the job’s complexity has grown to keep pace with the Flynn effect.
> The whole war is fighting with drones to detect and kill enemies.

This is a very wrong take.

A big continental war like this one in Ukraine is fought with artillery and with enough men capable of holding the territory (already under control or conquered), i.e. the story of WW1 and the WW2 (when it came to the Eastern Front). You don't have that, you lose. Trouble for Ukraine (and for the West supporting Ukraine) is that they're running out of artillery shells and they're running out of Ukrainian men.
https://youtu.be/0-w-pdqwiBw
these are used by the rich people to evade taxation. so it's not a problem.

try lying to the govt as a commoner, especially when it comes down to taxation.
> Pretty much any automatic memory management will need to be disabled or worked around when developing embedded systems or operating systems.

I have done a fair amount of hobbyist development with Rust on embedded devices. The naysayers make this sound difficult; it isn't at all.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/25/is-everything-a-religi...

But that said, religious apocalypse scenarios usually aren't quite as specific as "methane hydrate runaway feedbacks".
(Author here.) I have seen videos (not on trains) of one hybrid - a power-operated round sliding door, but with a physical lock on it, that hooks onto the door frame. So that would be one option.

I think the current iteration is fine though - the replacement of the confusing "lock button" with the physical handle, even if emulated, is comprehensible to most, I would think. The "the door is now locked" voiceover also helps reassure people. (Most people are just trying to lock the door and not "fuzz test" the lock handle...)
I have wondered for some time if short term in-balance in fossil fuel supply capacity (oil tankers and pipelines) could help renewables along significantly. Let's say an environmental organization would buy 10 oil tankers and would interrupt the ability of fossil fuel producers to sell as much as they extract, wouldn't this increase fossil fuel prices temporarily and boost renewables and their technological trajectories? At some point renewables will be cheaper than developing new oil sources.
> They vaccinate for all sorts of diseases. Covid is no different.

But the covid vaccines ARE different:

Vaccines typically take 10-15 years of research and clinical trials before approval [1].

The covid vaccines OTOH got developed, "tested" and approved within the timespan of less than a year. They literally had to invoke a sci-fi trope ("warp speed") to justify this timetable [2].

> It’s a risk and threat to them being functional as an organization.

The injection poses a bigger threat to them as an organisation than the disease itself: men below 40 are 6 times more likely to get heart damage from the mRNA shot than from the disease [3]. And this for a disease that has a lower IFR than influenza among people younger than 60 [4].

Pre-2020, decades of research into vaccines for (other) coronaviruses only resulted in vaccines that either didn't work at all or led to enhanced disease [5].

After a gain-of-function experiment went south in Wuhan, all that hard-earned wisdom got thrown out of the window (along with the Nuremberg code [6]) for a panicked and rushed vaccination program.

Yes, these vaccines improve the short-term relative outcomes for the elderly, the obese and the sick. About six months after vaccination you still are somewhat protected against symptoms, but are more likely to get infected than the non-vaccinated [7] [8] [9].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/test-approve.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

[3] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.0...

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9613797/

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369385/#Sec12t...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code

[7] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2022...

[8] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.14.22282103v...

[9] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Actually, i can't say what i would propose as a better way without having to spend some time thinking. While i was expanding on my php.ini mini-rant, i realized that i wouldn't be able to answer a question like yours.

I just seem to be hater for no valid reason other than very personal things like:
- hating the ini syntax
- issues with module conflicts
- how the overloading works

Might be my experience of annoyances when i didn't know the issues might be related to php.ini settings. And (still today), i only find out after googling issues like a moron.

I just have the feeling another solution might offer much better dev experience. But yeah, i can't offer any helpful insight here. Maybe it's just that i don't want to have to initialize at all, given that the PHP we talk about is not the one running on funny hardware, but rather purposefully configured servers anyway. But yeah, not sure what a better alternative would be right now without digging in to it.
The poor fella might be guarding an ark somewhere.
I can kinda see both sides here. I definitely wouldn’t want people using AI to maliciously depict me beside Trump etc. However, I also don’t think people should be punished for thoughts or art, be it human or AI.

My own solution is to simply not appear online but I understand that’s not possible for celebrities.

How would you propose we solve the problem of AI generated desecration, if it even is a problem?
For a few years in the last decade, it seemed that UX design was getting recognized as a serious discipline rooted in user research. Then, somehow, it devolved into fashion. When/why did that happen?
haha cool, reminds me of kid cudi day 'n' night
I mean, to know who is right the only way is to go back and look for yourself, correct?

https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/companies/habr/articles/6...
> The PLO was willing to negotiate and Hamas is not.

The last negotiations between thr PA and Israel were broken off by Israel because the the PA and Hamas both agreed that Hamas should be involved.

And then Israel specifically targeted and assassinated Hamas leaders that were leading the internal support for negotiations.

> Which is why Israel and Gaza have gone to war many times, but Israel and Ramallah have not

This is false; Israel is waging a significant campaign in the West Bank now as well as Gaza, and has essentially every time they have engaged in active combat in Gaza.

It’s not “against Ramallah" in the same way as it is “against Gaza” because Gaza is essentially a single administrative zone where, when Israel is “withdrawn”, is continguous and able to be centrally administered. The West Bank has parts administered dirextly by Israel, while the parts nominally administered by the PA are divided into 79 tiny noncontiguous areas separated by Israeli-administered areas. The PA innthe West Bank is sructurally impotent, but that doesn't stop Israel from going to war against the Palestinians there as well as in Gaza.
Asked and discussed here hundreds of times.

Leave the phone turned off when you don’t need it.

Use a dumb phone.

Quit social media, delete the apps.

Somehow we all got by without smartphones for most of our history. I got through 40 years without one. It’s only essential you let it.
You hope? Why? How does it affect you?
> And that taboo is probably rooted in evolutionary psychology

No. It's because it inevitably puts you in the position of deciding who gets to have children while the rest are denied such privileges for the good of the species.

In other words, eugenics.
Fatalism isn't helping it. There are things which can be done and which are being done.

Do your part of avoiding disaster.
Please consider whether this type of post raises or detracts from the quality of the culture here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible (2018)
Sorry about that, I usually try to refrain from making negative comments on HN. I was sort of mislead by your comment in the thread that you did not make this (didn't get the joke), and thought that the author was unlikely to read that.

Don't take it personally, as I was actually pointing what I think is a common mistake. I did a lot of mistakes in this domain, so I'm trying to share my experience here more than gratuitously criticizing a project.
After the Vietnam war experiment "Project 100,000" (aka McNamara's Morons) the IQ level 80 (9 percentile) became the floor for acceptance in Army. https://www.amazon.com/McNamaras-Folly-Hamilton-Gregory/dp/1...

About 10% of people are too cognitively challenged to positively contribute in the US Army even in the least mentally challenging roles.

At 80 - 85 IQ level person can typically read basic level. They gradate from schools and comprehend simple texts and sentences but may struggle with more complex language structures, vocabulary, and abstract concepts. People with reading disorders or other disorders should not be confused with low IQ.
This makes some sense, but I think you still could have used an actual mechanical lock on the door. So open and close still be buttons, but once the electric door closed, you engaged the lock (some electronics required there obviously, to tell the state to the system, so it does not try to open with the lock engaged).
While there are countless cultural and technical reasons why TS ended up more successful than Python here, I think the single most significant aspect was that TS decided to go with structural system while Python went with nominal. While nominal systems in general are fairly popular and well-received, the chief thing here is that structural types match how the language was being already used. Especially for Python they had before embraced "duck typing" as their idiom and nominal types are in conflict with that.
And the happiness of your children is affected if they know that their children will die from climate change. And so on, transitively.

It’s a beautiful thing that kids give you: a sense of purpose that extends below your own lifetime.
There will be less people in the future if people reproduce at less than replacement rate. You don't have to have them killed, they will die eventually.
The text alignment buttons work because you know you can't have both centered and left, otherwise relying on subtle spacing would mostly signal some connection, not mutual exclusivity (similar to how those | symbols group related buttons together)

One solution to selectable labels would be to add the indeed missing indicator, e.g., you could have the whole label have a border when it's active (though in this case maybe you don't need radio buttons, but just have multiple lines that look like distinct lines?)

Hard to access the background group, I know it doesn't work if it includes labels like in the screenshot in another comment, but maybe only for buttons it'd be more understandable
TFA explains this. As models got better and CO2 rose more and more it was realized that the old models lacked important aspects of cloud reflectivity.
>There are lots of business ventures that are illegal or heavily regulated.

So????
This site somehow made me dislike dark mode in a good way. That was wayyyy too dark
Vampires exist
Sustainable means different things to different people.

In a simulator, could you have 12 billion people with their needs met, living fulfilled lives and continuing into the far future? Yes.

Is there a political and practical way to reach that state? No. "One study estimates it would take just over 5 Earths to support the human population if everyone’s consumption patterns were similar to the average American." Any US government that tried to bring America's environmental footprint down to a sustainable or fair level would be voted out. It doesn't matter whether it would be gas taxes, meat taxes, per mile taxes, flight taxes, carbon tax and dividend, building renewable energy in less developed countries, or any other scheme. It doesn't matter if it was targeted at the ultra rich or the middle class. The sheer scale of it would cause Americans to vote out the government. And the same is true for any democracy and plenty of the non-democracies too.
This is actually what I like most about these generated things : your brain is trying to figure out what on earth the prompt was to make such a zany picture. It is a wholey unique feeling that has not existed yet.
Nerds like you and me know about reader mode, but I would bet at least 90% of web users don't and even if they do it's another step in the way of accessing content.
Why are you saying this. We just need to get to netzero. This is going to cost some money but it won't break the bank. Estimates go up to 2x global GDP.
Quantum physics is a part of physics and brains work using physics. They are not digital, however much some would like them to be. So of course quantum physics plays a part in how they work. I am not sure that leads inexorably to the conclusions reached here. Consciousness is poorly defined and quantum physics is weird and wobbly, that doesn't make them connected.
This is a fixable bug though. And no force of any kind was used here. As mentioned other trains use the same lever design, but with the lever being spring-returned, which doesn't exhibit this 'vulnerability'. It could also just be fixed in software by making the lock lever input to the microcontroller edge-triggered instead of level-triggered, so that if someone does actually do this it won't lead to a DoS.
If I remember correctly Borland claimed compliance with some standard for the TUI toolkit provided as part of Turbo Pascal. I cannot remeber which ISO it may have been, or if details like checkboxes were covered by it.

Does the current ISO 9241 cover that topic?

The three recent main losses of clarity/usability seem to be: 1) links no longer visually identifiable, 2) changes applying instantly instead of only when pressing apply/ok and no cancel button to revert, 3) now the loss of visually identifiable checkboxes.

Shouldn't things become easier and more clearly identifiable to use with todays user base of 100% of mankind compared to limited few persons 30 years ago? Why is the opposite happening?
Ah, you were the author as well. Have you noticed anyone from the train company about this flaw? (not saying that much would come out of it, but I think one should try)
Interesting. But I think the vast majority of this functionality is already available in the Qt framework, which I use for pretty much all my projects.
Non–multicast-aware switches don't care; there aren't any additional unicast MAC addresses on the wire. Multicast-aware switches will incur multicast table growth, except in cases where multiple addresses on the same host share the same final 24 bits, which will cause them to share the same solicited-node multicast address (and therefore the same multicast MAC).
That's a huge pain point, but I'm curious! What would be a good approach in your opinion? I'm not questioning the exit/print error and carry on, that's plainly wrong.
When working on private projects/libs, my functions usually return an enum error type, and do all data handling - be it arguments or returns - through pointers passed as args; I mean, I think that's the usual convention, but you clearly have way more experience, so I thought about asking! :)

Looking at you, syscall!
Does Homebrew not mess up permissions on a multiuser system anymore? (haven’t checked for a while, using MacPorts)
That’s pretty nuts, I thought those were cruiser tyres specifically with softer sidewalls, whereas sports tourer tyres have those stiff sidewalls for better handling. I think all the K1600s I’ve seen, similar weight, had Metzler Roadtecs or Z8s on (great tyre BTW, always rated a Metzler front tyre, even if they wore out quicker than the Michelin, lovely while they last).

Still, sounds like an interesting characteristic to get used to. Always wanted a go on a really massive cruiser/tourer, but I struggled with my tutor/observer’s Pan European, made me realize that the RT’s design was a lot cleverer than I thought.
I wanted to write this!
How is not enough memory or storage a problem of the operating system?
As a westerner, the most impactful thing you can do is to not create more westerners.