skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fertility rate in Europe and North America is sub-replacement, but mostly not that bad as in East Asia, with added benefit of being able to fill the gaps with immigrants almost at will (which East Asia can't really do for a couple of reasons).

> We may as well focus on places that speak English; then everyone on HN can follow the news and review the stats.

I'm kinda perplexed about what your problem with this submission is. There's no problem with looking up the stats even if you don't speak the native language, e.g. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
the institution of slavery through the ancient Middle East was more powerful, more entrenched, and those that practiced it had serious weapons and jails. It is a triumph that was long won to end the brutal practices of human slavery. You turn this around like it is the fault of the nice people that it didn't happen faster.
This is non controversial established medical fact. Here are the first three results when you Google 'testosterone rates dropping'

The only thing vague is the precise etiology. However, when it comes to legalizing irreversibly blanketing the planet in poisons, the onus should be on proving they are not the culprit, not the inverse.

'The average levels of the male hormone dropped by 1 percent a year, Dr. Thomas Travison and colleagues from the New England Research Institutes in Watertown, Massachusetts, found. This means that, for example, a 65-year-old man in 2002 would have testosterone levels 15 percent lower than those of a 65-year-old in 1987.'

'Research carried out on Finnish and Danish populations has shown the same trend [1,6]. And even more recently, a large-scale study of Israeli men has shown how average testosterone levels have dropped between 2006 and 2019 [7] — by over 10% across almost every age category. '

'Testosterone deficiency has a prevalence of 10%-40% among adult males, and 20% among AYA men aged 15-39 years, he added.'
In the Netherlands we have Chemours, they produce and dump PFAS. So naturally we find PFAS in and around the factory in Dordrecht NL. We find 13.000 x the norm in certain "swimming" waters. And naturally we find it the eggs of hobby chickens (not industrial ones)... So people stop eating fresh eggs. Many get rid of their chickens. But wait... As it turns out we find PFAS/PFOS that aren't even produced nor used by Chemours! What gives? We investigate and we find it all over the country. Some are above the norm, some below.

How does it get into the chickens? No one knows atm. The rain? The food? It seems like the stuff is just everywhere indeed. We also stopped eating our eggs, looking for a testing service.
It depends. I have a large following across short form platforms like TikTok and Instagram too. Usually for an integration (basically 1-2 minute ad) it ranges between 8-14k. For a short form video usually around the same.
Isn’t the PS5 just a juiced up PS4 at this point? How much is the SDK really changing from generation to generation anymore?
This is just the thing - there needs to be a very clear reason for you to partake in FOSS, something that you want to gain from it that has a bigger value to you than the cost of allowing your time and effort to be used by others for free, and money can not be it.
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later welcome to Google Cloud
What I would dearly love is for Microsoft and Sony to recognize that nobody wants to release platform-exclusive titles that cut the audience in half, and pivot the console industry away from being mutually-incompatible bespoke devices and towards being a blessed open PC configuration that gets battle-tested, mass produced, and LTS-supported. Architecturally they’re 90% of the way there having AMD CPU+GPUs under the hood of both latest generation consoles. Call me optimistic…
I’m sorry. You are working on changing things so FREE sites don’t get charged???

That’s the elephant in the room here. I understand an enterprise plan where you state billing is $xx per GB, but billing someone with a free site??

Give me a break.
>Theoretical counterexample: “Introducing the Facebook App Store for iPhone users; now the only way to get Facebook.app/WhatsApp/Instagram on your phone, and without any of that pesky app tracking transparency.”

And you have the real world where Facebook did not demanded Android users to enable side loading to install their application, so this is FUD.
1. Yeah! Great! No really.

2. "tuition will be free "'in perpetuity'" I have seen so many lifetime licenses cancelled, not sure what 'perpetuity' means.

3. Hopefully they don't add "Very Advanced Courses" that you need to pay for again.

4. 35 years on the internet, yes, I'm a cynic.
It's not that Boeing doesn't have any safety policies or procedures, it's just that no-one is aware of them, so nothing gets reported or fixed? Those findings are worse than you'd expect.. Wonder what it's like over at Airbus and Embraer.
> Psychopaths are generally considered to lack empathy and guilt, exhibit antisocial behaviour, lie frequently and be ruthless, narcissistic and manipulative.

> “Psychopaths are after money, power and control,”

Honestly I know just as many women who fit that description as men. Glad to hear that they are revisiting the measurements to prevent it being sexist.
What a wonderful lesson in digital sovereignty!
I'm in the enterprise procurement world and it's mind-boggling to me how many software companies in the past two years have forced themselves to $0 revenue from us by trying to double (or more!) their already exorbitant prices.
'Date Me' Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love (2022)
I work at both extremes. I can make decisions on the fly, or I need time to think and analyze. So I just say where I'm at for any specific question. I'll tell people that I want to take some time to think about whatever the concern is, and most people are respectful of that.

If you have a culture of async communication, that helps.
Don’t forget about all the equipment needed to fill the tanks and transport the fuel to the tanks. Probably easier to assume contamination gets introduced somewhere and just slap an in-line filter.
Demystifying GPUs for CPU-centric programmers
So it's up to us to kill this dead as quickly as possible.

I fear we that won't happen, though. I'll do my part by avoiding Wendy's or any other place that does this sort of thing. Although this is a minor example, it is yet another thing that makes me very worried that the dystopia we're building will just continue to get built.
> If the countryside is empty it will refill, whether you mean for it or not.

Can you give some specifics on how exactly this would happen if Japan does not allow it? Japan is not US where illegal immigrants can find jobs etc.
Maybe true for the company, but certainly not for its management.
Ownerboot
In a company like Sony, where shareholder value trumps any other value, "omg we are drowning in sales" is the definition of selling well and anything less is seen as a problem.
> And Apple’s MDM protocol documentation is far superior (that’s why features are implemented quickly).

In terms of the overal tooling I have to disagree. SCCM is way more powerful than anythng Apple has to offer.

In terms of actual MDM "Modern Management" for Windows (Intune), yes that's only in its infancy but it's because most of their customers still use SCCM for most tasks. It's a bit chicken-and-egg.

But Apple's MDM is not great. The password profile is extremely simplified, not able to handle any complexity (example: In our AD passwords must contain special characters and numbers if they are shorter than 10 characters but don't need to when longer because we want to stimulate passphrases). Also, as far as I know (I don't work in this scope anymore) it still has no MDM profile to mandate the user installing updates in a timely manner. You can delay them but not force the user to install them. This stuff must be handled with scripting. The MDM app deployment is also very hit and miss which is why most MDMs do it through their own agent. It works fine when using the mac app store but most apps are not on there and usually there is a need for a customised package anyway.

And on the topic of customised packages, having to go through Apple's notarisation is really annoying. We should be able to just deploy our own signing keys to the machines that we own, and deploy to those machines whatever we want that's signed with our internal key without having to get Apple's OK on it. Sometimes the notarisation service refuses to work for some reason (happens especially with package installers combining code and signing keys from 2 different vendors) and I need to obfuscate the embedded packages to make it work.

So no, in terms of MDM I think Apple is not great for enterprise usecases. If you're a small all-apple shop and you can align everything with Apple's requirements then you may fare better but we don't. Less than a percent of our systems are macs.

> are often much better at code driven workflows than Windows admins.

Yes but Apple does shoot us in the foot sometimes by changing stuff around. I have to say that PowerShell is much more consistent in this manner.

I still prefer Mac but I have to say the enterprise management tooling is just way better on Windows. Apple doesn't really seem to care about enterprise users at all.

Another point is that terrible federated apple ID system that to this day still requires the UPN to be equal to the email address. In our environment this is different for a reason and there is no way it's going to get changed just to satisfy an Apple requirement.
I like the idea presented it the post in theory but it seems basically impossible if you want to play anything modern. Driver updates, day one patches, etc etc.

However, since I literally only use my Windows system for gaming I don't really care what (additional) hell Microsoft puts it through over the years. Even being forced to have some sort of account, etc, as long as I can just play games without it being too much of a hassle.
Or the prickly pear

If you prick a raw paw, next time beware!

Don’t pick a prickly pear by the paw, when you pick a pear try to use the claw!

But you don’t need to use the paw when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw

Have I given you a clue?
I think the problem is not that Boeing is too big to fail, it's the massive cost of designing, certifying and efficiently building a new airframe, which makes it hard for a competitor to emerge. The US doesn't really have another basket to put eggs into.
It seems relevant that the company has scaled back its live service ambitions in recent months.

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-commits-to-launch-just-six...

It seems many game companies thought they could build the next Fortnite/Destiny, but 1) it’s hard to start with that goal and move backwards, and 2) attention is a scarce resource, with most people only having enough room in their lives for a single live service game.

It's also very likely that live service revenue was unusually high starting in 2020, due to everyone stuck at home craving social interaction. So just like FAANG companies over-hiring during that period, the games industry was due for a correction.
first of all these cloud services are designed especially for that, for autoscaling. Second of all, if these are hobby projects we cannot look every hour the costs etc unlike people who's that their job. So stop calling people lazy and pretend like you are better than others because you are not.
Gaming saw a huge increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, and companies staffed up, because they either had a bunch more money coming in or it was easy to get investments. All these gaming layoffs to me seem like a correction back to pre-covid levels.

We've also seen a bunch of consolidation in recent years, which in itself makes some positions redundant.
Is it just me or ECS is relatively complicated? I mean, it is no k8, but still you need to set up a lot of stuff to get it to work.
I would not be so harsh. They had limited resources, no familiarity whatever with how unforgiving and lethal the wilderness of the American West can be, and made what the local search & rescue folks seem to regard a series of "reasonable, but ultimately tragic" assumptions & decisions.
Car manufacturing is similar in a lot of ways yet notably different in the putting all eggs in the same basket sense that parent mentions. Ford and GM are too big to fail yet they do compete and it does lead to at least one of them making decent cars that don’t fall apart under you.
Original unedited article: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/swiss-maps/
Odysseus moon lander will cease working after sideways landing
Yeah, my last experience with Nvidia on Linux was super annoying too. I already made the stupid decision to purchase an Nvidia Gaming Laptop back then (~2012-2013). The thing was bulky and ran super hot with abysmal battery life. On top of that the Nvidia Optimus situation on Linux made me simply disable discrete GPUs back then. That's why i haven't purchased any Nvidia hardware since then.

Also, not to start a flamewar here or anything but isn't Fedora like super bleeding edge/and sometimes unstable software generally? I remember them shipping wayland super early... Friends with Nvidia desktops generally used things like Pop OS..
Missing mention of pawpaw's annonacin content, which causes Parkinsonism.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/

"Pawpaw fruit contains a high concentration of annonacin, which is toxic to cortical neurons."

https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs...

"Pawpaw fruit contains high concentrations of annonacin, which is toxic to nerve cells. In addition there have been case reports of possibly related nerve toxicity. Therefore, chronic use should be avoided."
Isn't this an implicit argument in favor of simpler tools with less thorny undersides than React Hooks?
> Would the product be that different without the glass front and second screen on the front?

Well, the article has the cost savings at under 5%. Battery would probably be more but I’d be quite surprised if it was a game-changer: the processing needed to make XR work is just expensive and Apple has one of the best design teams in the industry so we can safely assume that they wouldn’t have missed an opportunity for a notable battery life improvement.
Can you be more specific what computers do not work with Linux? And WHY do you have such a computer?
They're probably referring to the following study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00643-4

"Chlormequat was detected at low concentrations in samples from 2017 through 2022, with a significant increase in concentrations for samples from 2023. We also observed high detection frequencies of chlormequat in oat-based foods. These findings and chlormequat toxicity data raise concerns about current exposure levels, and warrant more expansive toxicity testing, food monitoring, and epidemiological studies to assess health effects of chlormequat exposures in humans."

...

"Despite being approved for use on crops in Europe and parts of North America, chlormequat exhibits concerning toxicological properties, as documented in historical as well as more recently published laboratory animal studies. In the early 1980s, the impacts of chlormequat exposure on reproductive toxicity and fertility were first described by Danish pig farmers who observed reproductive declines in pigs raised on chlormequat treated grains [4]. These observations were later investigated in controlled laboratory experiments on pigs and mice, whereby female pigs fed chlormequat treated grain exhibited disrupted oestrus cycling and difficulty mating compared to animals on a control chlormequat-free diet [4]. Additionally, male mice exposed to chlormequat via diet or drinking water during development exhibited decreased fertilization capacity of sperm in vitro [5]. More recent reproductive toxicity studies on chlormequat show delayed onset of puberty, reduced sperm motility, decreased weights of male reproductive organs, and decreased testosterone levels in rats exposed during sensitive windows of development, including during pregnancy and early life [6,7,8]. Developmental toxicity studies also suggest that chlormequat exposure during pregnancy can dysregulate fetal growth and metabolism [9]. Other investigations did not find impacts of chlormequat on reproduction in female mice, male pigs, or a subsequent investigation of fertilization capacity in male mice developmentally and postnatally exposed to chlormequat [4, 10, 11]. Equivocal evidence in the toxicological literature on chlormequat may be due to differences in doses tested and outcomes measured as well as selection of model organism and the sex of laboratory animals. Consequently, further investigation is warranted."
Is it a surprise to you that all of the countries that have historically been imperial subjects of Russia seek protection from the possibility of that eventuality coming to pass again? Is it surprising after Georgia in 2008 and Crimea/Donbas in 2014 that Ukraine would want some assurance of security and independence for the remainder of their country?
They said it was entering its latter stage, which makes sense given it is been close to 3.5 years since it came out and their generations usually last 7 years.

It is selling pretty well too, I think I read even better than PS4 if you align their launches?
The federal government should buy a controlling share in the company, problem solved.
We don't have to go into details but I really wonder what kind of bad experience you had. I use Linux for ~20 years now and literally wasted weeks getting graphics to work the way I want. I know all about these pains.

However this was a long time ago. OS drivers were shit, official drivers horrible to install and maintain. Today all end customer facing Linux flavours feature a button do directly enable proprietary drivers on installs and just have them updated and maintained in your update routine.

There is literally zero friction other than a checkbox in the installer for a majority of setups.
I have been able to avoid this by just immediately switching to something else when I feel things are getting too comfy. Doing things that are not comfortable seem to stretch time for me. It works so well that for me (at 50) time is moving incredibly slowly and I like it that way.
No, I think everyone recognises tradeoffs here and your belief that
I'm creating a dichotomy is unwarranted. I'm addressing distorted
perception of the parameters of tradeoffs.

Like the overwhelming exceptionalism of how we all care about the
environment and the future health of our children... just don't take
our gas-guzzling cars and non-stick pans way!

We are not rational beings, but we so deeply believe we are.
If you’re okay with just text communications, the meshtastic project is also an option. Because it uses LoRa for communications, nodes can be further apart. As a bonus, it allows for encrypted [1] communications as it doesn’t use licensed spectrum. But, LoRa is a low bandwidth technology (or at least meshstatic is), so text is about all you’d get. But it works with pretty cheap components.

[1] I’m not sure if the algorithm has been vetted or not.
I would pay $2,000 for great AR/VR glasses - not goggles like the Vision Pro or Quest. Something like the XReal Airs but higher resolution.

Why Apple didn't work on this category - glasses - and instead worked on VR goggles, which for years have already been a niche for gaming (something Apple sucks at), is beyond me.
They'll keep improving the quality for the top end product, sure.

But screens with today's quality will fall in price over the next few years.

Apple loves putting tech they have already paid the initial manufacturing scale-up costs on into lower tier products.
Big Tech's jumbled AI portfolios tell a story of self-preservation
https://archive.ph/guzAV
Odysseus lunar lander shares new photos from its harrowing descent
Soy also has negative associations on the subcontinent. To the point where I have to overcome a bit of an ick reflex to eat soy, similar to eating ham (being from a Muslim country). My mom thinks soy causes cancer.
slavery and warfare imposed itself by force on every random group of people that could be found in the ancient Middle East and along huge trade routes from there. Large areas of fertile Earth had nowhere to hide from the attacks of neighbors. Where in your example, would a mother be able to have children and raise them?

In some times in India, it was actually a problem for tribes that young and old men would go find some secluded place to find themselves and god. Actual tasks of daily life, medicine and comfort were neglected for the other eighty percent of the population that were not young or old men.

In some sense it is selfish to insist on seclusion by individuals. The lesson is not at all obvious to the person who is thinking that way.
so far the web site still seems to be online

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintag...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3py9j/ai-companion-replika-...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbped/nintendos-offensive-t...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/78xa99/the-cartel-gunsmiths (from 02015)
But not their heads, mind you. After all, it's the fault of the peons that got hired for getting hired. No one else is to blame for growing the company too fast.
Developing standards for organ-on-a-chip research
Some people drape bacon on the limbs to attract flies to pollinate the pawpaws!

You can also try hand pollinating with a soft brush if you’re not interested in adorning the boughs with rotting meat.
> In case some still haven't realised, Apples has become mostly a status brand.

People have been saying that since the 90s. You’ll need to show your work if you want to be taken seriously.
How does a failure look like? I mean, this is not a financial institution and in the case of a financial failure people who make planes, the machines they use and all the IP wouldn't disappear.

The Boing might actually be too big to fail but their failure, IMHO, looks like what we have today: An inability to make high quality cutting edge aircraft. For the USA, the disaster would be to be reliant on EU/Russa/Brazil/Canada/China for conducting its transportation operations in this massive country.

What happens if people start freaking out when their planes are not Airbus? Would increase in government contracts keeping the stocks and profits the same mitigate the problems?

So maybe Boing has failed already, its just that its still institutionally solvent for one reason or another.
Can't watch it with other people though. Still need to strap a heavy headset to your face instead of just clicking a button to turn the TV on. I'd still rather have a TV than Vision Pro.
The last one fired got a $60M golden parachute and then became CEO of another company. There seems to be little incentive there.
Matthew Ball had a good essay on this about a month ago: https://www.matthewball.co/all/gaming2024

The industry as a whole is facing huge financial pressures, Sony included.
As an aside, I want to take a moment and really appreciate the fact that in the age of bland and boring corporate redesigns, Sony Interactive Entertainment has kept the same gradient square as their logo since 1993. They've updated the typography, but the retro square has persevered.
Doing the math one bil surprising would only pay for one year.. 60k a year, let’s say 15k students, your at 900mil right there.
So I know a lot of the tech (non gaming) layoffs were correcting the over-hiring during covid.

However I did not think gaming did the same thing. Especially given the long development timelines for games now it wouldn't have made as much sense. It isn't like they could hire during the boom and expect to get anything out within a reasonable amount of time.

Is there anything out there talking about gaming also doing a big hiring push during covid?
Yes. Find one that works. Don't strive for perfection in it. And then move on. Don't keep obsessing over organization if what you are doing is working.