skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the historical birth rate through the 20th century (hard to find data before 1950, but not impossible), the birth rate hovered around 5 children/woman or 35 children/1000 population. These numbers drop immediately and precipitously starting in 1960, the year "the pill" became publicly available.

Lots of people, young and old, take pills every day. People forget and unwanted pregnancies still happen, but a) that's not suggestive that the pill doesn't work or that it isn't responsible for a significant drop in realized fertility (the birth rate data makes that clear), and, b) the medical advances and cultural shift the pill enabled (casual sex is okay, sex outside of marriage is okay, children outside of marriage still pretty undesirable for most people) also paved the path for emergency contraception and the widespread acceptance and availability of abortion (to the extent that we now end the lives of 73 million unborn per year - that's a top-20 country, by population, per year).

In summary, is it more complex than "the pill did it"? Yes, but not much more. Birth control (of all types) is responsible the bulk of the reduction in birth rate.
That’s not completely correct. The CIA has the least reason to access this data as they are only charted for intelligence collection outside the US. The FBI is law enforcement so they cannot touch or view any of that data without a warrant else they could invalid all manners of data collection in many open cases.

The NSA is chartered to collect data on communications entering and leaving the US. Decades ago that was completely unambiguous but less so now. Their collection of data on Americans is not illegal depending upon what they do with it. That was the most revealing part of the Snowden releases: insider threats misusing NSA data collected on Americans for personal use.
I originally got a PAUSE id to upload to CPAN to add support for returning continuations from Guile code to Perl and being able to resume them as a function call on the Perl side later.

That let me write linear async-await-ish logic code in Guile and then have all the I/O and grungy stuff handled by an event driven layer in Perl space.

(this was about 20 years ago, give or take, but I still periodically get accused of writing lisp in whatever language I'm implementing things in at the time ;)
WACZ is a replacement for WARC that has the index with offsets built in.
What I don’t understand is how they tie data to a specific human in meatspace. Like my car - I own it but if you drive it, you get the speeding ticket.

But with data - sure this post is from a meatspace device registered in my name / but does not indicate I am the actual meatspace person using it.
FWIW:

- Signatures are checked for macOS now

- No signatures are available for Windows

Maybe this year attention from Hacker News will encourage someone to step up and implement signature checking for Linux!
A form of "Use other people's solutions"
Related thread: Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done (bossasaservice.life) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512197
The problem is that we have allowed "social skills" to be regarded higher than actual intelligence or technical skills. Social violence is not only tolerated, but encouraged and celebrated. This in my opinion is the most successful terrorist action of our modern era. There was no "cold war" it happened under our noses and we are all living in socially nuclear fallout every day.

By allowing the bullshit to float to the top we have excluded any intelligence from the decision making process.

Basically we're almost to the point where the computers start firing everyone in Idiocracy.
Does virt-install automatically download the ISOs? When I try it, I get the following message:

$ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended
ERROR Validating install media 'alma9.iso' failed: Must specify storage creation parameters for non-existent path '/home/foo/alma9.iso'.
Probably going to catch some flack for this comment but... if you are that concerned with it, and have some free time, you could always use chatgpt to talk about the code. A prompt could be:
"You are a linux guru, and you have extensive experience with bash and all forms of unix/linux. I am going to be pasting a large amount of code in a little bit at a time. Every time I paste code and send it to you, you are going to add it to the previous code and ask me if I am done. When I am done we are going to talk about the code, and you are going to help me break it down and understand what is going on. If you understand you will ask me to start sending code, otherwise ask me any questions before you ask for the code."
I have used this method before for some shorter code (sub 1000 lines, but still longer than the prompt allows) and it works pretty well. I will admit that ChatGPT has been lazy of late, and sometimes I have to specifically tell it not to be lazy and give me the full output I am asking for, but overall it does a pretty decent job of explaining code to me.
This looks great.
Learning a new language as an adult is extremely hard.
Curious if the conversations are curated or is there some AI/LLM behind this.

Have struggled with learning Chinese, will give this a shot.
This surprises me, I have seen ground penetrating radar results that have shown buried items which have then been dug up, why is this result different?
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Why FinTech Failed
I think this is a partial attribution error; the goal is to make money by capturing attention and selling it to advertisers. The fact that strife is one of the most effective ways to do so, and the companies appear utterly unconcerned about the resulting damage to society makes it look like strife is the end goal, but it is merely a means to make money.

They would change their algorithms immediately if large advertisers applied financial incentives. We've seen some of this with Youtube's policies leading to videos with censored profanity where its use was previously normal and neologisms like "unalived" to mean killed.

Musk's Twitter may be a partial exception since it's decisions are now driven by a single man's preferences rather than an amoral mechanistic imperative to increase shareholder value. That doesn't seem to have improved things.
How does memory bandwidth of M2 Max compare to memory bandwidth of Ryzen 8700G? 400GBs vs 80GBs? Exactly my point. 400GBs approaches lower end graphics card territory (e.g. 3060)
I've been fully remote for years and overall, remote wins for me.

But there are some things I think are good about periodic in-person meetups.

What is it about in person that makes people
think more communication gets done?

- The real-time nature is helpful for some tasks, although you can accomplish that nearly as well with Zoom/Meet/etc.

- I haven't found an online alternative that truly matches the ease of use and "flow" of a physical whiteboard.

- When in-person meetings are "special" rather than an everyday norm, people seem more likely to bring their "A" game.

- Lot of informal (yet important and job-related) conversation and collaboration happens in informal settings: hallways, at lunch, over drinks, at the water cooler, etc.
I accept your anecdote at face value. Therefore this gets an 'ooof' from me.

> Criminals/targets have their own signal of data and by filtering traditional data patterns you're left with a smaller dataset of the targets you're there to find. (example: ... no facebook browsing at all)
Classic Pieter Levels project: https://www.gofuckingdoit.com
I'll take a crack at a couple possibilities

well, first, companies having this information is inherently not ok to the average person

Second, agencies are purchasing this information with taxpayer money. So we're feeding a market that we may not agree with

Third, government agencies have rules, and when these agencies skirt around the rules or find loopholes, it has a negative effect on that agency. Generally, a population wants their government to have a good reputation and agents of the government are following the rules.

Fourth, and I think this may be the most important: government agencies have the authority and power to do things private companies cannot. government agencies can launch investigations, get legal advice from prosecutors, indite, get warrants, supena, arrest, detain, etc. All are invasive, expensive, and may result in a range of bad things (from paying lawyer costs all the way up to prison).
Yes, if a pedestrian is crossing against the light in front of you, you slow down even if you don’t think you’ll hit them, even if they’re already past your lane. If the pedestrian stops on the street they are crossing against the light, you slow down, even if they aren’t in your path, especially if you are aware of the vehicles around you and know the pedestrian is in the path of another nearby vehicle. If you see the vehicle in the lane next to you speeding up when you’ve noticed the pedestrian is stopped in their lane of traffic, you slow down and maybe veer away if possible. If you see that the vehicle next to you has hit a pedestrian, you immediately hit the brakes rather than wait 2.4 seconds until you’ve determined you’re going to hit that pedestrian before you decide to hit your brakes.

Those are all things an alert human driver should be ready and able to do. I would expect a quality AV system to do them better than a human, but in this case, none of those things appeared to happen. This AV decided “pedestrian is out of my lane, continue accelerating!” Only stopping when the pedestrian was right in front of the vehicle.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm especially impressed by the gorgeous diagrams. My favorites are on pages 67, 87, 142, and 170. At first I thought they were all hand drafted until I reached the diagram on pg 170, which has dithered grey filled table cells. Does anyone know what method or software might have been used for generating diagrams like these? The publishing date is 1970 and AutoCAD didn't get released until 1982.
Couple things, all reported from Android Chrome:

1. The FAQ on the landing page hides questions as answers are opened, and it is not obvious that previous answers need to be closed to see everything.

2. On the FAQ page, when opening the hamburger menu, the menu is clipped and must options are hidden.

3. The FAQ question about pricing does not answer the question, and I see no where to get an answer.

4. Re: gamification, I think it is enough to reward users with making progress, and encourage them to use all the different kinds of modes/ features.
Also, chiplet based Ryzens are notorious for higher idle power consumption than Intel's monolithic dies, which is where CPUs spend most of their time in consumer applications (web browsing, netflix, shitposting on reddit, etc) instead of running at full load all the time.

Synthetic tests that stress everything at full bore, are not realistic representations for your average consumer PC application scenario. Even video games don't cause as much power draw as synthetic benchmarks can which are more akin to power viruses.

In real life daily driving, Ryzen might still be more efficient than Intels but with a much smaller margin than such tests might lead you to believe.
> Europe is the notorious "old man" of the world.

That's because they bombed themselves to smithereens twice within 30 years about a century ago.
"The immune system is complicated as hell."

You got that right! My wife used to eat a banana every day. Then something in her flipped and she reacts as if she is allergic to bananas and the rest of the world - not exaggerating. She can eat a very small number of foods and has to avoid most people because of smells. It isn't allergies it is - you guessed it - her immune system.

If we could just flip it back to "normal"...
You're missing out, pinecil is the best soldering iron I've ever used. I really like that it automatically turns off based on the accelerometer input when you set it down
Canada allows medically assisted suicide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_Canada
I thought this was an excellent, excellent read. This post, about how well-meaning legislation to increase EMR usage had some strong negative unintended consequences, dovetailed with thoughts I've had a lot recently about the concept of "bullshit jobs" (a popular discussion topic on HN). I've wondered what the true source is for these bullshit jobs. After all, corporations voraciously want to increase profits, which should be a strong incentive to eliminate unnecessary jobs.

The conclusion I've come to is that the side effects of government laws and regulations lead to a negative "codependent relationship" between government and companies that exist to implement the complexity required by the regulations. There is no incentive on either side to reduce complexity. To be clear, I am not blanket "anti regulation", and I've seen the benefits of strong (usually simple) regulations - for example, I live in Texas (usually famously anti-regulation), and there is good evidence that old laws restricting home equity loans, due to an old animosity of Texas farmers against bankers, helped uniquely limit the damage of the Great Recession in Texas: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/texas-home-equity-lim....

However, I've also seen the damage and useless work created by well-meaning regulations that create a lot of complexity, and then companies spring up to "tame that complexity". For example, most people in the US are familiar with FSAs, flexible spending accounts. There is a HUGE amount of work that goes into managing FSAs. The rules around what is a qualified expense are complex, and lots of companies have sprung up trying to work around those rules (e.g. companies that will churn out a "medical letter of necessity" for any massage you want). And all FSAs do is let you save taxes on medical expenses. But since FSA money is "use it or lose it", it turns out that 23% of the funds go unused every year! So all this complexity was created to save consumers money, but at the end of the day it ends up being (in aggregate) basically a total wash! All we've gotten is tons of administrators and companies that are paid to manage that total wash.

I don't have a great solution, as again, I don't see incentives on either side to reduce complexity. But more and more "tear down the whole f'ing system" is the only answer I see.
T25 keyboard will go into T470 with a tiny bit of dremeling. I think it's a bit more work to get it into T480.

I have a couple of T420 and T420s at home; I did use T530 at work back in the day, but don't have one now as I find it lacks in portability compared to T450+ generations (plus a personal perspective that if you're gonna have all that 15+" space, you might as well have full keyboard - but that's very much subjective:).

T440/T540 was an abomination upon all that is holy, having witnessed two separate consulting architects slam laptops on the desk in frustration over its trackpad "buttons"!

Which is why the T470/570/480/580 seems to be my own sweet spot right now - lightweight enough to be portable, still runs modern stuff well enough, and easily replaceable battery/memory/SSD:).
> Doing taxes and bills are not what I consider high reward more like moderate penalty

Try not paying bills or filing your taxes and you will see what happens, doing the task prevents you from getting a severe punishment (relative time spent on the task), so it is high reward. People with ADHD tend to be late paying bills or doing taxes and struggle with filling in forms in general, ie they regularly fail to do simple high reward tasks.
canada legalized it, euthansia that is. first in i wanna say 2017? and then another law expanded it fairly recently, or rather removed some barriers.
Does anyone keep an archive of the documents anywhere? I really need that F16 flight manual.
> The FBI is law enforcement so they cannot touch or view any of that data without a warrant else they could invalid all manners of data collection in many open cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
An entrance plaque at "Schoellkopf Power Station" reads:

to know what to do... wisdom
to know how to do it... skill
to do the thing as it should be done is ... service ...
The only way change will come is if some actually independent hospital develops open-source in-house software (under the strongest possible non-cooption license available, likely GPL3) over literal decades until it becomes a standard.

It’ll be fought every step by the entire healthcare industry.
FWIW, ChatGPT 3.5 says:

"The development of a new food allergy, such as an allergy to eggs, as a direct result of a blood transfusion is extremely rare and not a well-documented phenomenon. Food allergies are typically triggered by exposure to specific allergenic proteins found in foods, and blood transfusions do not typically involve the introduction of food proteins."
There is no life on Mars, so it s probably too expensive to bring useless instruments ?
Hi, it cannot. Tbh, this is something that I want to build but still struggle to find a proper solution.

May I ask more about your codebase, like the languages and frameworks that you're using?
Great article. I felt like I was reading a guide on how to properly interact with the perfection monster in my own brain. Perhaps believing you're not smart and don't have talent leads to better work anyway! Clever. Great read.
Pinhole: A Falling Ball Demo
It's funny that you link to a comment from 6 years ago. Just a month after that there was a pretty big bug in ZFS that corrupted data.

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7401

Corresponding HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797644
I believe that almost every technology is net good.

The reason i believe that is i fundamentally believe almost all people are selfish semi rational and cooperative by default. And I think that positive behavioural inclination may have evolved as a solution to an environment that required game theory like itterated cooperation, where the emergent solution was like 90% cooperative actors and 10% exploititive actors.

Even if that were not true, this particular technology is a platform, a medium for other technologies, and so I suspect the distribution of its use and misuse will be nearly identical to all the other similar technologies, such as paper, phones, the internet, etc
While it won't be a full-on app, you might want to look into YugoGPT/YugoChat https://www.yugochat.com/en as it was specifically trained on the b/c/s/m languages
It does. If a person’s rights are not violated there is no cause to limit government access, at least according to the fourth amendment.
Slavery is just so damn profitable.
If there’s greed, there’s gonna be some kind of slavery ( at best, explorative working conditions)
Sure they have - they very family under discussion.

Just because they have attempted to foist a polite fiction that it is a 737 variant doesn't mean that it actually is. It's a new single-aisle transport with several serious problems.
Unusual Articles/Lists
They managed to force Google into offering a friendly "reject all", so I doubt others will be able to keep up their dark pattern shenanigans much longer.

The current evasion trend seems to be offering the "choice" between an outrageously expensive subscription and "free with tracking". That tactic needs to be legally challenged still, I think. I doubt it's legal, as there is no real option not to be tracked.

They have every right to paywall their stuff completely, but then I don't want their click-bait content teased in my feeds or search results, ever.
Yeah I don't buy that at all, sounds like made up excuse that is hard to disprove.

But even if true, clearly the Cruise folks must have expected questions about the dragging and if none came should have wondered why. They witheld evidence, intentionally or not, but knowingly.
Wow, sounds like Lord of the Flies.

Maybe the first limiting factor to be encountered would be a lack of suitable land, if everyone wants inefficient self-sufficiency and enough room to run around in circles and scream and shout and giggle.
Both these things are very likely to break down.

Using a drill as a human with hands is easy.

Using a drill on another planet where any jam or failure is permanent is staggeringly hard.

A robot can't just chuck up a bit, or wipe down dust and dirt which is stopping something from working. Or quickly regrease a bearing.

Ultimately one of the best arguments on favor of manned exploration is that despite our robotics, a human in a space suit with a shovel would get an incredible amount done in a few hours.

EDIT: drills have flown, but they are limited in capability.
Is there something similar to this but for Windows 10 or 11? I want a Windows GUI for QEMU to build some Linux machines. I tried QtEMU but didn't like it. Thanks in advance.
Anyone know if I can I legitamately make and submit iPhone builds off a macosx VM?
There's an old interview with Rasmus Lerdorf somewhere on the net, where he talks about just hacking something together and make it work. It doesn't have to be good or the best way of doing things, then some "computer science guy" can come along and fix it later.

In many ways that's a good way of creating security issues, but it's also an excellent way of actually getting a feature build. The smarter people is being given a sense of direction, by being shown the bad implementation and tasked with improving it.
Everyone has to start somewhere, right?
> One of the reasons OSINT is becoming more popular is that since it’s already public, it can be freely passed around the government without worrying about classification.

I think the important part of this is how the vast bulk of the OSINT we're discussing is of Americans not suspected of a crime.
As someone who writes these sorts of GPT instructions all the time, if the person writing the prompts isn't a muppet, they're getting GPT to cite snippets of the original text as evidence for summary points. That reduces hallucinations at the same time it provides you with the ability to verify inferred summaries. You can even have GPT (or another model) separately check the summary against the evidence included and give it a score so you can flag it for manual review as part of a pipeline.
> Why would anyone put in over-time to solve a problem, if they dont know how well they'd get rewarded by it?

Because they enjoy it. Because they want to create cool stuff. Intrinsic motivation!

Maybe they have to turn it into some kind of business in order to sustain it. Sometimes things have huge operational costs and people are unable to maintain their existence without making money. The ideal of creation for its own sake remains though.
My mom had passbook savings accounts from 1970 to the mid-1980s in New Hampshire. The 1980s were a time of tremendous turbulence in banking in New England, it didn't get as lurid as the Savings and Loan crisis got in other parts of the country but my family's bank changed its name several times as one went out of business and got merged with another.
Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing