skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> someone keeps posting population doomerism to HN. Why do you think this is relevant

While a lopsided population pyramid does cause issues, it's not the end of the world for a lot of countries.

A lot of the population doomerism I'm noticing started off as a Zeihan or Perun trope that was repeated ad nauseum on certain subreddits and percolated into HN because of readership overlap.

If you want to see a country that has been old before it truly became rich, just take a look at Thailand.

They are a large country with a very low TFR, a high median age, and a low median household income ($7k/yr) yet they have not collapsed.

Most of this is because of social welfare - most high revenue industries are very highly skilled and this require a small skilled or semi-skilled population.

Think industries like Automotive, Semiconductors, ONG Refining, Finance, etc - this is the Thai economy (tourism is actually a relatively small portion compared to those).

Deploying tax money generated from those industries into social welfare such as expanded healthcare, expanded social services, etc helps minimize a lot of the issues at hand.

Japan's population has also been shrinking, for decades now, and it's the same story, as has Italy's.

Countries like Japan, Italy, Korea, and Thailand do supplement their unskilled sector with migrant workers - they just don't get counted as immigrants (eg. Most "Work Trainees" and "Interns" in Japan and Korea are actually Indonesian and Vietnamese migrant workers who are doing low prestige jobs like gutting fish, working at a below minimum wage factory, cleaning toilets, working at nail salons, etc)

And workers will always chase a higher salary - the same Thai people who wouldn't clean toilets in Khon Kaen (and thus depend on Cambodians, Laotians, and Burmese to do it) would clean toilets in Korea or Italy, and then Koreans and Italians themselves try to emigrate abroad to the US or Canada because of better salaries and easier work culture, etc.

Realistically, Korea will leverage the Vietnamese population pipeline (it already has) and maybe NK down the line if relations start to warm up again.
Now imaging a future with a smart grid, meaning all programmable loads piloted following supply and demand, ah, yup, it's incompatible with a private ownership of the grid....
> When I go to my pharmacy, the only reason why I need electricity there is to be able to pay with my watch

No it's not. Things like fire safety systems, security systems etc all need electricity.

And you can pay with your watch on a battery powered offline device anyway.

The need is for everything else in the hyper-efficent supplychain.
Compared to what? Ruby? Python? .net? Java?

Maybe Go can claim to be simpler. But there are many runtimes that are popular and equally complex as nodejs.
For what it's worth, when I (the author of that first comment) first read your comment, my thought was "wait, how is this responsive to what I wrote?". But now I've read this whole thread, and while I do think it was a bit of a tangent not super directly related to what I wrote, I have found it interesting and reflective in a positive way. And I agree with your broad point about empathy and such.
This sounds like the "Closest pair of points problem", which should have fast solutions - O(n log(n)) comparisons instead of O(n^2), which makes a huge difference when you have 10 million vectors. You might not find an off-the-shelf solution, but there are some good explanations of the approach at least.
That document is published by the Bank of England. I'm not sure what higher authority would convince you.
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Surprisingly hard to find this info. This says it’s 66% for Chrome on macOS:

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?opt...
How about if they were named "Baozi"?
Making a cross-platform app via A.I
Uncommon to see someone so caring about the specifics of their chosen font. Love it.
> basic HTML

Apart from the code blocks. Syntax-highlighting in `<code>` elements, when, browser manufacturers?
"Gammon" is a clear reference to a ruddy skin color and is intended to be offensive. It is a textbook racial slur.

Claiming that its not is like claiming the "n-word" isn't a racist slur because it was about a particular attitude and doesn't apply to all African Americans (see Chris Rock's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggas_vs._Black_People for an example of this).
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92396

In the meantime there is -ftime-report
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"We promise to limit our revenue"
There's more demand for metals like aluminium and iron than gets recycled, so only part of the demand gets satisfied this way and there's still demand for metals produced through mining. This is also why the price stays at the level of the mined metals.
if anything safari is IE 2.0: stagnating / holding back web platform evolution and forced onto you by the OS vendor
Qpdf has tools that go in that direction (but not a flat text format that allows arbitrary edits).

https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/qdf.html#qdf
Reminded me of an interesting way to optimise a layout[1] here. I feel like something similar expanded to also optimise balancing between hands etc could work well.

[1] https://youtu.be/EOaPb9wrgDY?si=x1hY8SP5noPWamWP
I owned a 3B1 back in the early 90's. It hosted my personal email delivered by UUCP. Seeing FreeBee is a blast from the past to be sure.
The law is written such that the opt-out has to be a free choice. Demanding payment is not a free choice. In fact having the opt-out behind a maze of weird toggles when opt-in isn't, is not a free choice either.

The EU has decided that people should have a right to opt-out of having their privacy violated. Whether or not you think that's a good idea it DOES explain why things like "pay to opt-out" aren't going to fly.
I feel similarly. Pick the most interesting opportunity you’re aware of, seasoned with some realism. Excel to the best of your ability. Continuously increase your abilities. Leave everything better than you found it; but don’t exhaust yourself needlessly. Leverage the advantages you have and don’t mourn the ones you don’t.
If you like things like this, join us at https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchMachinesLearn/
We are a decor company, based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, specializing in luxury residential projects and décor designs. We have done amazing projects across many countries to be on the top of decoration companies in UAE.

Excellence of design and its successful execution, quality and research are central to our approach, every project is a unique opportunity to valorize client's vision and to take them beyond their expectations.
While I'm 100% on board with RAG using associative memory, I'm not sure you need Neo4J. Associative recall is generally going to be one level deep, and you're doing a top K cut so even if it wasn't the second order associations are probably not going to make the relevance cut. This could be done relationally, and then if you're using pg_vector you could retrieve all your rag contents in one query.
The manufacturer is buying every plant they can get their hands on. With this amount of money at stake, they'll manage it pretty quick.
Interesting .. I hadn't realised there'd be so much give in the FIFA specs!

Thankyou for looking that up.
I suggest taking a look at what an actual central bank, The Bank of England, have to say on this rather than a lot of stuff on YouTube: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
Because there are some central points, for witch you need or a decentralized system (absent, so far) or big money to build another... That's the "hybrid model issue" I'm talking about.

Shared binaries from /nix/store in a torrent-style setup might be feasible, but so far there is none. Similarly distributed build for large projects (LibreOffice, Firefox etc) might be possible, but so fare there is none. There are servers dedicated to that, paid for that. Not-so-small companies could pay. Public universities as well, but in the present world public uni do not even mirror anymore FLOSS projects, so... We need a distributed architecture to keep up FLOSS.
These are quite concerning and at best no thought was put into them and this is just some cookie cutter template.

That being said (and i am not a lawyer), if you are a Customer in the European Union it is very likely that terms like

> The user agrees to indemnify and hold Wilhelmsen Studios harmless from and against all the risks arising out of the use of the Software

won't fly anymore in the near future since the Cyber Resiliance Act was created precisely to prevent companies from ditching liability for damages.
while true; do if ! curl -f "${url}"; then for i in {1..10}; do sipcmd ....; sleep 60; done; fi; sleep 60; done

Let it dial your phone and add the dialer's number to the list of allowed numbers that can pierce the silent mode.
Holy shit, that's for one year.

You're paying the sticker price of a brand new car every single year.

This is bonkers.
> Apple has crippled iPadOS and consumers need the EU to force Apple to make moves that actually benefits the consumer

I won’t go into whether that’s true, but I don’t think the EU has any objection against companies selling (or attempting to sell) bad products.

The EU is acting because they think companies effectively do not have the choice of going around Apple to reach their customers, and that is limiting competition.
>> "wet streets cause rain"

So are you saying that 2/3 of personal bankruptcy cause medical debt?
Interesting, but I think if I were to re-learn touch typing I'd go all the way and move to a chording keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
The problem is with Chromium.

They recklessly add any random API with very little thought given to privacy and security. Which is why advertisers have been able to create browser fingerprinting that can be close to 99% accurate.

All cheered on by fools who think Safari and Firefox are stagnant by being more careful and pushing for standards.
It's relatively easy to find articles from the horse's mouth about this. If you read through the euphemisms you can see that besides drone/counter-drone stuff, they also participate in building and deploying tech that are not purely "defensive", not focused solely on drones, but capable of and built for violence against people, infrastructure and other (manned) vehicles too.

Suggest clicking through since the URLs are not nearly as clear as the content:

https://www.anduril.com/article/altius-700m-live-fire-test/

ALTIUS-700M brings unmatched payload capacity to the loitering munitions market, combining multi-domain launch, proven collaborative autonomy, and category-leading range with a larger, penetrating warhead to kill or disable armored targets and infrastructure.

https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-s-lattice-a-trusted-...

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, for example, uses Lattice for land and maritime border security to autonomously identify, track, and detect people

https://www.anduril.com/article/army-selects-anduril-and-pal...

TITAN is a vehicle-mounted expeditionary ground station that will accelerate and simplify the Army’s ability to access and process massive volumes of Space, High Altitude, Aerial, and Terrestrial sensors to provide actionable targeting information for enhanced mission command and long range precision fires. TITAN will reduce sensor-to-shooter timelines by enhancing the automation of target recognition and geolocation from multiple sensors [...]

"and long range precision fires"
The kind of application of DRY you describe is not what the author has a problem with. What you describe is totally reasonable.

Have you never seen more junior engineers make code 1000x worse (bordering on nonsensical), with them proudly saying they made it DRY-er? They are sometimes so focused on the one often-misapplied principle that they cannot reason about the produced code as a whole.
Try Zenfetch. It's designed for this use case.
I talks about the simplest servers. We wrote those apps ~1993 and there was no Javascript. Then JS arrived for gimmicks (like display the time of day on a page) and later on was used to drive applications.
I think you're missing the fact that USA, as a very rich country, tends to subsidize drugs for everyone. Your cost is artificially lower as ours is artificially higher.

The only way to make it cheaper in the US is to make your pay more.
Nice to see this happen! When this was attempted with trapped ions, I and my colleagues at GaTech were the first to trap and laser cool Th(232) 3+

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/kuzmich-lab/wp-content/uploads/s...
That the private operators of part D were always free to negotiate prices is most of the point.
I'm not taking anything away from, Rust, it is a great language for CLI developer tooling. But in fairness you'll find a plethora of tooling written in all popular languages these days. This is also true for a great deal of "uncool" languages too, like Perl.

I also think newer languages benefit from the fact that CLI developer tooling is a great "hello world" type project to work on. Such projects solve a very real problem that someone starting out in that language wants to solve, while also often being simple enough problem to learn that language in.
I think the author is always creating a certain type of application where db -> web server -> web page latency and throughput don't cause any performance problems. My main point is, don't assume that all applications are the same. Know when you are in new territory and the old heuristics don't apply.

I'm triggered by context free "I usually find that..." and "In my experience..." assertions.
My first "major" program was a ASCII art based Super Mario Bros clone in Turbo Pascal from 2005. I don't have it anymore, but since Turbo Pascal hasn't changed and text terminals haven't changed, I'm pretty sure it still works.
Maybe not a part of language per se but they throw out corba in java 11 and this decimated some very old libraries that used is as dependency.
A non-twitter link, and the bill itself: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-r...
> Do you think there's any danger in handing over absolute power to whomever just claims to have a superior morality?

At any point in time there are always multiple entities claiming to have a superior morality. There is also always an entity with absolute power. So both points are moot and this question is moot as well.

> Didn't Andruil get sent of after a while anyway?

I would assume people like a project that is lead in a way that the community doesn't have to make ad-hoc interventions to undo decisions they think are bad.

And this is where the power dynamics come into play. There is leadership that assumes it has the power to take certain sponsorship. So the community does not want that entity to have absolute power, it actually wants that entity not to have power. So now there is a power struggle for absolute power. The community would like to get absolute power so it can just make decisions about military sponsorships beforehand. The current power holders want to keep absolute power and take whatever sponsorships they want.

I don't think open source ethics prescribe you have to fork a project instead of taking it over. Common courtesy from the current power holders would be step down, or common courtesy doesn't actually mean anything "you know".

It's up to whomever will be in power to decide where the line of ethics is drawn. I certainly hope they would consult a broader audience to see if they line up with the community. If you think github and Microsoft should be dropped as well I would implore to make that case.

It's interesting that you think there are other unethical organizations involved with Nix while at the same time arguing that the current leadership should remain. If I think something is unethical I argue against it instead of for it. In case I find myself on the unethical side of an issue I try to see if there is a higher ethical standard that I hold that trumps that one instead of arguing that the unethical thing is good.
148 doesn't feel too far removed from the visible spectrum, but it's in the wrong direction for animals to make use of it. I'm no biologist, but I'd be shocked if there were any animals that had adapted sensitivity to a type of radiation that they are never exposed to in nature. The sun doesn't really emit much UV-C light:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Absorption_an...

and the light that is emitted is absorbed by the atmosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#Solar_ultraviolet

It's useful to be able to see a little UV-A, perhaps, and very useful for predators to see 'heat' into the IR range, but if your eyes were sensitive to 148nm, the world would be pretty dark.

Maybe after a few million years, in the grinding dust in the back of my shop, something will evolve that has a symbiotic relationship to arc welders...
You're not from the UK are you?

It seems clear you've never heard it used or how it's used there.

If you are and you have then it would seem you're arguing in bad faith.

It's a slur on character as two people of clearly the same race, age, and gender could overwhelmingly be voted as one Gammon, one not.

It's about a cetrain shoutiness and empire centric values and attitude.

I've seen a lot of Chris Rock and your opinion notwithstanding that doesn't easily apply here.

As a genuine question, how is it that you've honed in on my response to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40194063 which is an actual dismissal of recognition of non western values?

You appear to have latched onto the mote in one comment and ignored the beam in another.
The problem with these things is they stack on each other and we never go backwards. Any single aspect is not a problem so much and someone will argue the merits of why it is a good idea.

The system this builds though on a multi-decade scale is total insanity.

I don't see how it is possible that there is anything resembling what we would call a free and open society in 50 years.
I've messed with a few. I really like Apache Echarts if you're looking for an all-in-one-can-do-anything solution with a good license. The downsides are that the docs can sometimes be a little obtuse. There are adapters for almost every front-end at this point.

Nivo is a much simpler system that is styled by default and works much easier with React. If you're not doing complicated charts, it's my goto for the "I just want a nice line/pie/bar chart".
Indeed, selling ads like this directly is the old school way of doing it.

But even on YouTube it's back nowadays, most YouTubers get their money from sponsorships which work just the same as old-school pre-internet ad placement.
What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)
> little thought given to privacy and security

They do think about privacy, they just want you to have none.
Aren't iOS and iPadOS essentially the same thing?
Boston radio pirate faces $600k fine for staying on air even after earlier fines
Don't like them, as they invent the wheel and try to teach new controls, although there are already tools built in to the system, so I just don't notice actually.

On PC I use Home button, scroll bar and, as mentioned in another comment, tap to the top of the screen on ios
A solar cycle takes around 11 years and is about to be completed in 2025. In the end of the cycle (2025) the magnetic poles flip and until then the tension builds up leading to increased activity on the sun which can potentially harm us.

Fun fact after we make it tru 2025 and the sun activity should be less, obviously it will be our good efforts to combat climate change which did it.
Following up, over 2 days have passed since opening my ticket with SquareSpace support (after waiting 72 hours for DNS), and I have not received a single reply.

I've edited DNS records for multiple domains that have not propagated at all.

As far as I can tell, it looks like there are major system-wide issues with SquareSpace domain's DNS records propagation. Doesn't seem like it works at all.

Can ANYONE in this thread confirm they've have DNS records propagate correctly after a domain was transferred from Google -> SquareSpace?
The Frustration and the Beauty of Repetition
While this article points out some potential problems in the methods used to derive that headline political figure, its own methodology seems to have pretty serious flaws. The most I'd take from this is "This is such a bad problem that even when you try pretty hard to look in the wrong place you find it anyway".

This study deliberately does not - just for example - count it as a "medical bankruptcy" if you weren't hospitalized. So magically every person who was bankrupted by the cost of their must-take prescription medicine, they don't count because they need to be admitted to hospital to count for this study.
Generating AWS Diagrams with Resource Explorer and Ilograph
With substantially less market power than "the Federal government on behalf of all of Medicare", and with the knowledge that the Feds will bail them out when costs are high.

https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/press-release/3-char...

> The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that negotiated prices will reduce Medicare spending on drugs subject to negotiation, translating into nearly $100 billion in federal savings between 2026 and 2031.
https://archive.is/SL4rn
Haven’t been on Twitter in a while - is it actually dead or no? Seems like most ML stuff is active on Twitter
You can still ask and get those AFAIK.
If you think of the shell as a REPL and an iterative environment,
the first variant has many benefits.
The first two parts, might be an attempt to see 'can I write a regex to remove the parts we need to get rid of?. I had better run it first, to see it catches the ones I intended. Oops two times in a row, that one didn't catch them all, and that one would include some of those we MUST keep'.

I often do the same with SELECT/DELETE on production databases,
so I can visually inspect what I'm about to destroy. Transactions don't help me, because if I haven't verified that I'm correct, I won't know that I should use ROLLBACK.
I would like to see something that records your keystrokes and gives you stats on what you type the most. Then spits out a keyboard arrangement to start from.

Not sure how you'd get around it being a huge security risk? Maybe only write totals for keypresses every 30 minutes?

Edited to add: Does anyone daily-drive a Keyboardio Model 100? I really liked the concept and participated in the kickstarter, but unfortunately found I didn't enjoy using it that much.

I've settled on a Keychron Q10 with the Alice layout[1]. It's a nice compromise between the full on split and standard keyboards. It's nice and heavy, with QMK/VIA customization, and some useful macro keys I assign to some Emacs shortcuts like M-x and C-g. I do wish it had a thumb wheel and/or some Moonlander-style thumb keys below the space bars.

[1] https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q10-alice-layout-...
You can also provide pointers to base classes, but, unless you do some heroics, you are forced to use virtual functions.
Apple argued they are separate platforms, and got around the EU requirements with that. So there are no third-party app stores and browser engines on the iPad available yet. Until now, that is.
I recently compared the number of Jobs on Glassdoor in the beginning 2023 and 2024. Flutter had one of the largest declines among of all the tech.
> Er... which one is it now? If they support customers with urgent pharmacy needs, the stores can't be completely shuttered?

Customers can still go to another pharmacy.
> Think crazy stuff like

Who is doing this?
Scientists and comedians join forces to get climate crisis message across