skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather live in a world with 100 million humans, and computers helping to run this world.

Most of the problems (wars, food supply issue, pandemics, climate change, surveillance) would be easier to tackle.

China and India have a genuine space (and weather!) issue to deal with, they cannot stay like that eternally, so it may eventually lead to conflicts.

We may see the world self-regulate anyway.
Corona was probably just a trial for the next big depopulation event (either violent, or passive like lack of fertility) :|
It seems that your definition of being Roman is being Western Roman. Of course, tautologically by that definition, Eastern Romans would not be (Western) Roman. The article, and the scholarly consensus, is that Eastern Romans are Romans, and they should be part of what defines Romans; and definitions like yours are motivated by historical prejudice (a term used in the article).

Given that Roman elites, including the very emperors you mentioned, spoke Greek, worshiped (Latin-translated) Greek Gods, and versed in Greek philosophy and literature, one could argue that Western Rome is actually less Roman than the Eastern. Hadrian in particular was very Greek in his intellectual bents.

As for the city itself, Rome was not even the capital by the time of Sack of Rome (AD 410). Contrary to your argument, the Eastern Roman empire recaptures the entirety of modern day Italy by 555 AD during the reign of Justinian.
Almost all the software engineers I've worked with, using Linux desktop systems professionally, use Gnome or KDE (with far more using Gnome actually). I've never even heard of "sway" and I think I've met one person who uses i3, and maybe a few who use xfce.
Even more pedantically, you'd be measuring the round trip time from the earth to a mirror located near the sun and back, but not at the sun. Does there even exist a mirror anywhere in this universe that could survive and float on the "surface" of the sun? Does the sun even have a surface? Is there a laser powerful enough to overcome all of the electromagnetic radiation from the sun such that you could actually discern it's signal? Not pedantically, I stand by my assertion that it cannot be directly measured.
> [we] provide customers with notice to remove trackers, or sign BAAs with user metrics companies where possible

Do you provide any technical solutions to help your customers control these trackers in accordance with HIPAA and privacy laws, or do you refer your customers to third-party privacy solutions to accomplish this?

You expressed disdain for "hitting checkboxes," yet your solutions to this specific problem appear to be more checkboxes.

Asking customers to remove a tool from their site or request tool vendors to sign a contract is helpful, but it forces customers to make tough decisions: Do I lose revenue by completely removing a tool? Can I trust a vendor to follow their BAA?

Technical compliance solutions can remove this source of uncertainty by directly controlling tracker behavior on a fine-grained level.
nope. i can find cases where smiling is not beneficial. Eg: Lookup Angelman syndrome and tell me again how smiling is beneficial to parents that have a kid with this disease.

What else do you have?
You'd be lucky if that's the next phase, more likely it's just more Twitters and Facebooks.
And you know what's the endgame of a pyramid scheme: there are simply mathematically not enough new players to keep the pyramid running.
Similarly - look at the macros on a whopper from burger king - other than the high sodium it's a pretty well balanced meal if you skip the fries and soda.
I like walking to McD's and ordering while I walk, then just saunter in and grab it. No waiting.
Any chance you have an example of what you are talking about
Understaffing has become the norm with the rise in wages.
They aren’t stupid but they are forgetful. There’d be a couple weeks of sharp bitterness then a low grumble, just as always happens when fast food prices get raised.
Just checked with Gemini, and it had no problem calling Hitler worse https://g.co/gemini/share/d50201cc7127.
I too have my own preferences. What I've figured out about myself is that I like to flip between "practice" materials and "archival".

Practice notes are more like your preferences: 70-pager subject notebooks, pencil or ballpoint, clips and manila folders. Those are better for drawing in, because they are thin enough and transparent enough to trace through, and therefore you can refine a doodle into a more developed illustration without leaving the notebook. To go smaller, index cards are very portable and stay rigid enough to work outdoors on improvised surfaces. Those are what I like when I want to build up quick reference.

The "archival" materials are art projects: if you've really developed an idea, make it beautiful. This can be 80% tracing off the practice notes through a graphite transfer. Or it can go straight to digital/typed.

I don't aim for linked systems of notes at all. What I've found is that either I copy it all into the one place I need, or I don't need it. The copying is the important part. Once that's done, it's been "loaded" in my head as well, and I can move on.
Why is this complicated? Public bodies fund all kinds of things under terms that don't create public domain IP rights to the work product data. When the federal government buys a copy of Time Magazine, it can't just publish it. What's public depends on the terms of the deal.

I don't know whether the deal FCC and NTIA cut here is good --- is 93MM a lot for the data that got generated? But that's the question you'd have to answer before reaching a conclusion on whether the underlying data, which has value outside this project, should reasonably have been priced into it, or whether the USG got a price break for letting Costquest keep it.
Do this and I'll simply refuse to eat there.
Apple's OLED roadmap can boost OLED penetration in mobile PCs to 14% by 2028
The UK is soon to be a majority-renter country, which will hopefully flip the democratic incentive. Although I guess the end result of that might be permanently oscillating in a narrow band around a 50% homeownership rate.
I don’t think they are talking about parking because parking has nothing to do with a government being able to build roads vs rails. Parking essentially has none of the problems of building across the boundaries of multiple land owners that makes building a road or rail difficult.

Even if you do count roads if you move that boundary out just a little the number will drastically drop. It’s essentially a boundary drawn around some government buildings, sports arenas, and one of the largest Universities in the world which also happens to be a commuter school (I went there for undergrad btw).
That's not even close: the first XKCD was published closer to Intel's release of the 386SX than today.

18 years before XKCD, a 386-based PC capable of running Doom would have set you back $6,000–$10,000.

Imagine a game released today that has a 64-core CPU and a 4090 as minimum requirements, and that's roughly what Doom's system requirements would have looked like in 1987.
Well. Nobody used to believe this. If you subscribe to the idea that porn alters your perception of reality I don't see why you can extend it to: videogames alter your perception of reality.
Okay, that is fair. But if you are a major or regional flying under part 121, it isn't quite fair for JSX to essentially pretend they are not scheduled. Maybe they 1500 hour rule should be relaxed for everyone. But JSX is flying the same planes at the same scale as other companies and presents the same risk to the general public. They should be regulated the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144957 is 5 years old but has some good insights.

edit: I missed the name-calling. Please be better than that.
Is SQL a Declarative Language
Wow, that's a domain I haven't seen in ages. I'm amazed to see it is still "alive".
Oh, I see, I misread and thought you were using it to reduce the heat before cooking with it.

Though now I have an idea -- dunk habaneros in vodka for 30 mins before cooking with it.
I predict this won't end well. People will pull up to the drive-thru, find that the prices are much higher than usual, and get mad, because they may not be able to back up out of the drive-thru or pull forward to exit. They'll either have to pay the high prices or wait to leave. Once someone gets burned by this a couple of times they'll just stop going to Wendy's.
any idiot can hike prices arbitrarily, but the true art of pricing is to hike a price but still keep you as a customer.
You might be interested in this YouTube video which discusses the issues of 'big seed' in regards to tomatoes. I'd imagine the same applies to any commercially grown crops (another comment mentioned that there is basically only one commercial variety of bananas), which would explain why jalapenos are less spicy than they used to be.

https://youtu.be/ngjAqzam0fU

TL;DW;

- Almost all commercially grown crops are from hybrids, which means two varieties bred to produce a new variety with the selected characteristics of both.

- The characteristics that are chosen are those which are most commercially viable: long shelf life, visually appealing, size uniformity - these are often at the detrement of other characteristics such as flavor, nutrients or in this case heat

- Hybrid plants usually do not 'remain true', meaning their offspring will not have the same characteristics. This means farmers need to buy new seed each year to maintain the same characteristics. This results in hybrid seeds being very valuable - some are worth 10x more per kg than gold.

- Hybrids seeds are produced by pollinating plants by hand. This is a time consuming process, and usually done in low income countries. That means labour laws are often ignored, and child labour is a big problem.
> The freshman classes could be swamped by people who aren't serious about getting a med degree. And why should they be serious?

This is not what medical school is like from the people I know.

Nobody has a bigger stick up their butts about how important their work is than medical students. Computer programmers (despite what reading comments here on HN would make you think) are at best a distant, distant second.
fewer people means no retirement plans in their current shape, lower GDP and less innovation in general. but we are going there anyway, there is very little we can do to reverse it.
There aren't any enthusiast laptops with more than a 128bit memory bus for the CPU, and memory channels and bus width are the wrong metrics to compare discrete GPUs where both width and clock speed vary widely across the entire product line.
It’s not exactly special, and it’s not exactly cheap, but it’s almost always fast and food, which oftentimes is all I’m looking for.
If you're going to cite the "less experienced pilots" in the Colgan crash as the reason the FAA increased the flight hour requirement, it seems responsible to mention that the pilots in that crash satisfied the higher requirement too. (EDIT: I see you have now acknowledged this in a different reply. Thanks!)

Going by the statistical value of life, crash risk now contributes a truly negligible amount to the cost of flight. We shouldn't accept additional burdensome flight safety rules without quantitative arguments that they pass a cost-benefit test.
It’s to push you into using the app.

The fast food conglomerates really, really, REALLY want to shut down dine-in service for good and transition drive thru to an app-only business model. It’s their #1 strategic imperative.

I would go so far as to say they don’t care about profit here and in fact they’re happy to lose quite a few customers, as long as the “percentage of orders made in app” KPI keeps going up.
Ruth Gottesman's $1B Donation Makes Med School Free
This will be very nice for go monorepos.
Not gonna lie, I’d probably sign up for a clinical trial of this procedure, just to experience it. But the risk of something going wrong is significant.
Apparently they can. :) Life doesn't work this way though.
Why Capital One Wants to Buy Discover
Italy is in a worse situation than Japan if I recall correctly
> Because only the First Amendment rights of the billion-dollar corporations are being infringed upon by the state in the case before SCOTUS.

Also note the "only the First Amendment rights of the billion-dollar corporations" which gets into a part that is likely overlooked.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/26/us/supreme-court-arg... (full unlocked article if that link doesn't work https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/26/us/supreme-court-arg... )

> Justice Elena Kagan seems skeptical of Clement’s argument that the fact the laws regulate only larger social media platforms is a First Amendment violation. Clement insists that under Supreme Court precedent, discriminating based on size is such a violation.

This gets into the Bill of Attainer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder#United_State... ) where laws are written to impact specific individuals or companies and depriving them of rights or property without due process or through legislation.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/BillText/er/...

453 (g) "Social media platform" means any information service,
454 system, Internet search engine, or access software provider
455 that:
456 1. Provides or enables computer access by multiple users to
457 a computer server, including an Internet platform or a social
458 media site;
459 2. Operates as a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited
460 liability company, corporation, association, or other legal
461 entity;
462 3. Does business in the state; and
463 4. Satisfies at least one of the following thresholds:
464 a. Has annual gross revenues in excess of $100 million, as
465 adjusted in January of each odd-numbered year to reflect any
466 increase in the Consumer Price Index.
467 b. Has at least 100 million monthly individual platform
468 participants globally.
469
470 The term does not include any information service, system,
471 Internet search engine, or access software provider operated by
472 a company that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment
473 complex as defined in s. 509.013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...

Why not 100,000 monthly average users? Or gross revenue of $1 million?

If YouTube comments are part of this, would Amazon reviews be too? Consider also if this law would this prohibit Amazon from removing the reviews of someone who posts "MAGA Sucks" on every listing of a red hat?

Clearly, the solution to the Florida law is to classify the Googleplex as a theme park.
How long before technology that detects very drunk people and charges them 10x knowing they won’t notice?

(Of course if they do notice they are more likely to cause a disturbance and break things - more things to consider for The Algorithm!)
Preceded it by many years in fast food. Algorithm-optimized minimal labor scheduling based on previous sales was being used at starbucks and mcdonalds at least in 2014, but probably earlier and probably elsewhere too.
Piscataqua River Border Dispute
Japan was a technological leader in those years; while not smart phones per se, they had plenty of entertainment technology ahead of the rest of the world.
Cool little software rendered pixel buffer GUI C library
Those same regulators who check Microsoft's stock price regularly to see how 25% of their retirement plan is doing?
Populations cannot increase forever. Social safety nets structured like pyramids aren't going to scale.

A sustainable future means settling for a stable population and retiring with less than infinite growth could provide.
And if you find no regulation in areas where consumers are being harmed it can often be even worse. Personally I don’t think regulatory capture is an argument against regulations - but perhaps I’m reading too much into the statement.
good ol' days when Blizzard wasn't a public company that needed a way to generate on going revenue via some sort of game pass system.
> should be an example to others.

I am curious to know what sort of example it should be, and to whom.

Video game developers and publishers will look at this as an example of leaving money on the table, since people continue to enjoy the game without having to pay them any more money. Yes, the tail is long, but it doesn't end up with more money for the game company so they will see it as waste.
<Kids were perfect for the farm and nomadic societies. They were essentially free labor to help around the house.>

They also mow the yard and help with heavy lifting!

All kidding aside, children are also useful/needed in the later life phase of their parents. I watched my wife visit her Mother everyday for the last ten years of her life.
I never stated any such thing nor am I a fan of ultra-hot peppers, but you sure seem insecure about it. What I did state is not controversial. Self-selecting expertise in the qualities of food applies to a great many things we eat. It doesn't have anything to do with "superior taste".

Anyone can learn to eat peppers, most people choose not to. Could swap out peppers for a very long list of other foods and it would still make sense.
There's a saying, The bitter the better

Many bitter foods are highly nutritious.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bitter-foods
This whole thread of speculation is pretty crap.

The history of speculating why poor people have so many kids is extremely crappy.

Let's just stick with what the boffins have come up with, yes?
Worked fine on my M1 Mac mini with Chrome 121.0.6167.184, and after updating to 122.0.6261.69 just now. Only issue I noticed was a bit of jitteriness as the frames were written to the console.
> "We have a customer at this address and the min/avg/max download speed their connection has had this year was X/Y/Z"

Not even that. The data could be "With no more than a 1-hour router installation on premise, we (ISP Alpha) would be capable of serving this address at 500 Mbps download speed with 99% uptime, 800 Mbps down with 95% uptime, and 1 GB Mbps with 80% uptime." Ditto for upload speed. That's not customer information. Whether anyone at "this address" actually uses ISP Alpha internet right now doesn't matter until the customer disputes the advertised speed.
I sometimes sometimes wonder what the airline industry would look like if America had meaningful high speed rail.
Happy to see capnproto on the front page!

Fyi - kentonv, its creater, is on here and is usually super responsive.
> It just reeks of privileged guy in tech that lives in a major metropolitan region of the US that hasn’t really experienced much of the world outside that niche.

Even a "privileged guy in tech that lives in a major metropolitan region of the US" would be feeling the brunt of a growing population in his wallet. More people = more demand for land = higher land prices = higher housing costs. Even in my somewhat-minor metropolitan region of the US am I feeling it.

There are of course approaches to solve that issue (cough cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax cough cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism cough cough), but the exact sort of person who'd benefit from population growth under the socioeconomic status quo is also in all likelihood someone with a vested material interest in opposing said approaches - that is: someone who owns land and seeks to profit from said ownership, be it by renting it to others or by speculating on its future sale price.
Because they disagreed and thus everyone else is wrong, apparently.
they had plenty of entertainment technology ahead of the rest of the world.

What did they have that the rest of the world didn't?
The TSA misses 60-95% of guns in security tests. That's approximately $10-$11 per flight that you pay for at most a 40% reduction in guns on the plane (assuming they're even able to find intentionally concealed firearms at the same rate as the base chance). Most guns that make it through are never used or intended to be used for violence on the plane, totalling to well over (unclear if it's closer to 1x or 100x too small) $250m for every gun which was caught which might have on average prevented 1 gun-related crime in the air.

Their other stats aren't much better. For the equivalent of $250m worth of effort, there are thousands of better uses of your time and money.

And today, right this second, you can bring high-powered un-extinguishable bombs onto a plane [0]. That comic is written in jest, but it really is trivial to kill a lot of people with common household devices and chemicals, including those allowed on planes. The world carrys on because most people are at least halfway decent, not because the TSA saves us.

[0] https://xkcd.com/651/
I've often heard it said online that the high cost of things (housing, mainly, among others) is why people don't have kids, but I have come to the conclusion that people won't have kids even if their material needs are satiated. Think of all the programs that the government has launched in Scandinavian countries (even so far as to run ads encouraging having kids) and people still don't have children. I think it's due to being too comfortable not having to take care of kids, living the double income no kids lifestyle with a partner, that's certainly my reason for not wanting to have them. Call it selfish if you want, but that doesn't change the underlying statistics and reasoning of many people who can afford to have but still don't have children.
Part 135 is not a "loophole."
In these cases I always remember the song "Dégénérations" [1] by Mes Aïeux [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW-6dQvQrFk&list=RDMMAW-6dQv...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mes_A%C3%AFeux
In my testing I’ve found protobuf to be a bit faster.
How about Linux (Ubuntu, Mint)?
where....do you live in this scenario???
Just need enough information to send to either Amazon or the FBI.
Dell, my vacuum cleaner supposedly has AI in it and it still sucks the floor the same as the one before it.
Who on their phones all day is meeting new people and settling down with them?
They don't need to — in fact, you might be depending on them not following any particular pattern. Think: treating the Account IDs as pre-hashed keys, and then specifying prefix patterns as ways of sharding the hash keys onto a set of buckets, to evenly distribute access (and therefore traffic) by customer.
The Taco Bell near me still does that.

The difference is that they have large printed signs advertising the discounted prices and the times they apply (2p-5p). The posted prices are dependable as long as one checks a clock.
It already exists and it’s the “ Ryzen Z1 Extreme”

The Ryzen Z1 Extreme uses AMD’s high-end Zen 4 APU configuration, with eight Zen 4 cores and six RDNA 3 WGPs.

The ROG Ally uses it and you can dedicate 50% of the memory to the GPU and it performs quite well.
Missed opportunity for a metaphor... "we're gonna need you to walk the plank".

But fundamentally, I don't think this is an indefensible stance. There are many industries that hire seasonally or for specific projects, and where the expectation is that you will need another job when the season is over / the task is done. Tech is actually pretty "seasonal", going through cycles of manic, excessive hiring and then belt-tightening and layoffs at the first sign of any headwinds. It's been like that for 30+ years.

The problem is that nobody is going to be honest with you. In fact, in the fat years, tech workers are coddled and told they're family. I can't really see the industry changing any time soon, so if you want to stay sane, just don't fall for the lies. By the end of the day, you're just a delivery guy for a very posh version of UPS.
I foresee surge pricing for bricks...
The performance of the stock market is more related to the money printing by the federal reserve than anything else. Modern economics seems to deny this, and thus will make articles like this.