skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFR is already way below replacement all over the world. In some countries (e.g. Chile, S.Korea,) it's under 1.0. In others (e.g. Germany, Italy,) TFR has been consistently sub-replacement for over 50 years. This should give us all pause.

The very last thing the world needs is another way to reduce fertility. This invention is worse than that "powdered alcohol" thing from a few years ago.

If anything, given declining sperm fitness in men worldwide, governments ought to consider finding the reverse of this molecule -- a STK33 activator -- and adding it to the water supply.
3D voxel Noita is something I never knew I needed.

But the engine would need to be crazy optimised to handle decent sand/fluid voxels in 3D space. It would be a technical achievement in itself.
That's a bit of a hot take ... in the same vein it's also solved by abstinence, but that's hogwash for much the same reason as your statement.

Not only do condoms have a negative effect on pleasure, they also require more planning, and even with proper use (which in itself is less easy than it sounds), they can still fail (they can tear, or come off at inoppprtune moments).
It’s easy to push for solar in Europe and the US if >80% of the panels are made in China, a country which not only benefits from increased sales of said panels but is also (hardly coincidentally) leading the planet by the number of new coal plants being built.
Ash HN: Recommended niche, techincal blogs like tmpout.sh and phrack.org
I'm looking for highly technical blogs and zines that dive deep into technical niches. They can be about any topic. Would love to hear your reccs!
If the power prices are negative, it implies the other markets are also saturated (or the grid interconnections are).

Power prices going negative is a failure state not "good news" because it implies that active protection of other generators economic viability is being exercised to protect against externalities - i.e. your gas fired peakers can't make any money during the day, but when the solar goes off at night you still need them. Therefore, the gas fired peakers have to be sponsored to continue existing to service the demand at other times.
My PIN for most of my devices is my ICQ number from decades ago.

Sad to hear it's shutting down, but I didn't even know it still existed.
This is a historical contribution. Thank you for doing it!

Basically all the enterprises with a lot of data need to "chat with their data" right now.

I can't imagine how many teams are doing similar stuff right now.
Looks like an OK guide. I wouldn't put shares inside /var/lib/samba though. And the second semanage context command looks dodgy, I thought the file path arguments were regular expressions not shell glob patterns?

Anyway I think anyone using samba on CentOS Stream or a downstream distro should check out Red Hat's documentation here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

And keep a link to the official Samba documentation handy: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/
Need evidence of that 10x number.

The bottleneck in programming is often how fast you can think, not how fast you can type or use auto completion, and definitely not some shortcuts. They cut down time but are not magic. Not to mention that different IDEs often have the same features, you just need to find them.
“It’s okay baby my fit sperm are switched off for a while”
Female as substantial bearer of risk, is in control
danluu.com

mnot.net

prog21.dadgum.com

maybe not as technical as you're looking for
Not op but yes, without tamper protection and disabled via group policy it reenables itself anyways. Seen it in both 10 and 11.
This is why it makes sense to synthesize methane in summer, when electricity is super abundant, to use it in winter when energy is most needed.
I agree with basically everything you said. But funnily, this feature:

> Why can’t I see a stream of the songs I played so I can easily find what I recently played and play it again?

is available on their Linux client which isn't even officially supported. (It's in the play queue screen.)
there is also the joy of experimenting a “new and revolutionary” technology. Although yes, with big tech and big salaries there is an economic incentive
If you look at any land use map it becomes very obvious that it is very feasible to use pv to produce electricity for the US [1]. Also, pv can be combined with other land uses: above parking lots, warehouses, e.g. sheep can grass underneath solar farms ( agrivoltaics[2]), also deserts have lots of underutilized space.

[1] e.g. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-us-is-cow-country-and-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics
This is for people who do NOT want to have children. Are you suggesting to force people into having children?
For at least the last fifteen years I've believed my ICQ account was lost forever, however seeing your post now I decided one last time to try logging in by guessing the password. And it worked!! I can see my old friends list! What a weirdly uplifting feeling!

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Ask HN: How will the GPU market play out in coming years?
I just tried it. The support is limited, but it does get the job done. Good luck moving forward!
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Pretty long but with cool number in it. I thought I forgot a password but looks like my account was deleted, although it still has funny description typical for a young boy.
Friendship started and ended entirely in icq, relationship, whole other things. It was the era for me for sure

ICQ was popular in russian speaking countries in 2006-2009 years, there even was application generator for mobile phones: you was able to choose emoji, styling and other things and receive link to download unique build for your J2ME phone. In the era of WAP it was really impressive
I'm talking about tech companies.

The list of tech companies you quoted, if that's the best you could find, is definitely proving my point.
> Even with JetBrains IDEs, I usually spend an hour configuring stuff

That's you, not most people. Tons of people use VSCode every day for years and their user-level config is not more than a few lines.

You can say what you did helped you personally and you found it worthwhile, but that is no indication of how that would apply to others.
On an actual voxel engine, look up Outcast.

Also, Duke Nukem Forever 2013 with Eduke32 had some voxel models I think.
SmidgION
> Show me a program that has no bugs

They're features!
I’m definitely interested in this - but I’m wondering about software updates.

It mentions it runs Android 13 - which was released based in 2022. Android 15 is meant to be released soon.

Do you know if it’s possible to update this to more modern Android releases? How involved is it?

Or would it be tied to the older Android release for some time?
Quality control is a LOT lower in China than in the US, and that's even considering the US's bias towards industry in its legislation. This is why chinese electronics catch fire a lot more (than Japanese ones, for example, too).

There's a huge amout of corruption, and almost no regulation.
> by the marketing squads that devitalize every new media

I find this to be a result of "at scale" we've been adding to everything software related.

We need localized media that don't scale. Then it cannot be hijacked by cv/income/profit maximizing types.
Wouldn't publishing also influence the performance itself because it would also make an impact on the data? And if you'd calculate that in and the method is spreading, wouldn't that in turn have to be calculated in also, which would lead to a spiral?
Switch off sperm for a while?

I cant see any men falling for that nonsense.

What happens if it doesn't switch back on again?

How many times can you switch them off?

Do you switch them off before sex and switch them back on after sex?

Men's sperm count and quality have declined over the years and is still in decline.

Do we need to risk our precious sperm any further.

Don't mess with nature!

We have sperm for a reason.
Yes, specifically it seemed like OpenAI was actively encouraging people (men) to have fake personal relationships with a chatbot. I am wondering if Sam Altman gave up on the idea that transformers can ever be general-purpose problem solvers[1] and is pivoting to the creepy character.ai market.

[1] They are “general purpose” but not at all “problem solvers” https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638
Apparently called "learning curve". Learning rate is generally understood to have a different meaning. This article instead uses the term "learning curve index"

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/learning-curve.asp
I expect an insectoid era coming. Lots of tiny devices roaming regularly to take care of stuff.
And that is the reason male birth control most likely will never replace the other variants. Which woman wants to rely on the man taking care of birth control?
Yup, this is exactly the right description.
And, as we all know, becoming a father when you do not wish to is completely without consequences, making the entire ordeal risk-free. Male birth control pill is useless, QED.
"The mother of all demo apps"
The thing is, China as a culture does have a completely different attitude towards intellectual property. For them, copying is not theft, it's acknowledge of something's quality. Andrew "bunnie" Huang has written (at least) two articles with more details [1][2].

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2014/from-gongkai-to-open...

[2] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2013/the-12-gongkai-phone...
Aside from faulty condoms, you should maybe try the difference, how it feels without ..

In general a safe solution is badly needed. The pill for women is hardly a perfect solution either, it massivly messes up the natural hormon balance in the body. And so far I doubt that this here will be side effect free nor reliable, but it might have potential.
Funny how ICQ drained people from IRC back then, but IRC is still there while ICQ will be forgotten.
The "weights" bit is interesting. HuggingFace's SFTTrainer allows you to train on completions only if you want, but while that makes sense for us humans, LLMs are generally better of learning to predict the entire input. This allows you to get the best of both worlds.
We have launched our product on Product hunt, but it seems everyone is buying upvotes to be in the top lists. We are a small startup (just 2 people) that are trying to make the job easier for people working with AI and creating GenAI applications.

All we ask is for your help to give us a bit of a boost with an upvote and comment. In return, you can contact us and we will credit your account to test the tool for free
I can see that they're adding their own license, which contains their license for the code within the repo. But nothing around licenses for packages that they're installing within the Docker images (unless I'm missing something?)
"Don't mess with nature!

We have sperm for a reason."

Yeah, to make babies, babies, babies.

But not everyone wants that every time.
Thank you for this post Janet.

I think my technical perspectives have moved in a similar direction: keep things extremely simple with minimum moving parts.

I maintained (automated upgrades) a RabbitMQ cluster and while it is powerful software it is operationally expensive. For a side project you probably just batch process in a cron.

If I were to take the approach in this blog post I would want everyone on the team to be extremely familiar with the model of task running: stuck jobs, timeouts, duplicate jobs, client disconnects and retries, stuck "poison" jobs seem like issues you might face.
Now compare that with the area used to grow corn for ethanol production.
Does this mean we could get open source (hardware) WiFi cards for our Linux Notebooks based on ESP32 in the future?
> I suspect Google would err on the side of accidental deletions rather than accidental non-deletions: at least in the EU.

I certainly hope not, because that would be incredibly stupid. Customers understand the significance of different kinds of risk. This story got an incredible amount of attention among the community of people who choose between different cloud services. A story about how Google had failed to delete data on time would not have gotten nearly as much attention.

But let us suppose for a moment that Google has no concern for their reputation, only for their legal liability. Under EU privacy rules, there might be some liability for failing to delete data on schedule -- although I strongly suspect that the kind of "this was an unavoidable one-off mistake" justifications that we see in this article would convince a court to reduce that liability.

But what liability would they face for the deletion? This was a hedge fund managing billions of dollars. Fortunately, they had off-site backups to restore their data. If they hadn't, and it had been impossible to restore the data, how much liability could Google have faced?

Surely, even the lawyers in charge of minimizing liability would agree: it is better to fail by keeping customers accounts then to fail by deleting them.
Yeah the whole capex vs opex argument for cloud preeminence doesn't really hold water. Cloud is not the only way to play that trade-off.

The whole thing was very much marketing and FOMO driven.
I was using 2022 data so a little out of date.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/1222/1343395-health-report/

It’s all so close at the top it shuffles around regularly so it’s kinda moot.
>It's already cheaper than anything else and getting even more cheaper.

Cheap but a lot of folk don't follow through. China accounted for some 50% of the coal capacity under construction in 20 countries last year. China (75%) dominates the solar business but opened more coal power plants last year than at any time in the last seven years. At the same time their solar accounted for only 3.5% total energy consumption.

'It's already cheaper than anything else'. Is this a prediction? If so when will it become a reality because at the moment it's the reverse of the truth for most locations.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-scrambles-add-coal...

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-dominance-solar...
Yes and you sound like those commenters who post "correlation does not imply causation" as a response to everything without disproving causation.
rust r over, brilliant name
You want people to have more children? Pay for child care and make wages (single income households) keep up with costs.
Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes
depends: in EU, bc of unified grid, southern countries can provide electricity to northern ones + let's not forget abt nuclear which is still huge. + Wind can help too in N, Europe. For other countries that can't have such a cooperation, it's indeed harder
Exactly so ...

> Leap years is 20/4 = 5

... but because you are in February you have not yet had that leap year, so it's only 4, and then the sums work.
Part of the issue is that the United States has 25% of the world's prison population and only 6% of Total population the world. When you are the jailingest country in the world per capita by a large margin - More than Russia, Saudi Arabia, iran - You got the question how flippantly we put people in a cage.
There is however a prominent energy historian/fossil shill/degrowther who has as a core thesis that energy transitions do not get faster. So it's good to hear the other side.

https://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/2016-ERSS-...
Nushell Bashisms
> Surely that’s because the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to be in control of your fertility, I say. One of the reasons why I chose to have only have two children is because I couldn’t afford to give more kids a good life; the bigger home, the holidays, the large car and everything else they would need.

> A generous smile spreads across Malcolm’s face. “People say this to themselves. But – speaking as someone who has a lot of wealthy friends – people just upgrade their lifestyle as they earn more money. We want to have tons of kids, but as a result of that, we’re not going to be able to send them to private school. We’re not going to be able to pay for them to go to college.” The Collinses plan to home school all their children.

Combined with the text "Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause." You know how irrelevant this article is to most people. We are looking at the lifestyle of a couple that is elitist and out of touch.
This comment scares me a little, having recently re-watched The Handmaid's Tale...

I don't really understand the premise. We're already pushing several limits for global sustainability due to the human (over-)population (climate change, food supply, loss of fauna diversity).

Why is it not a good thing to reduce the population size?

Why should we not work towards a sub-2 TFR for a few generations, to reduce human impact on our planet a little?

Why should governments actively work against people's right to choose whether to have a child or not, by increasing fertility through additives to the drinking water?
We open-sourced our text-to-sql product last year too (way more simple than this):

https://github.com/ryanstout/question_to_sql

These sorts of businesses are really hard to build: incumbents have such an advantage. Makes so much more sense for this to be (a) open source (b) tied to snowflake / powerbi that have free distribution and a good security story.
One that trusts her partner? What kind of question is this.

I can't imagine my long term partner, now fiancee, wouldn't trust me with something so important to us both. Why even be in a relationship at this point.
Female birth control is much more efficient. One male birth control and 100 females not under birth control has 100 more pregnancy risk than 100 males and one female not under birth control.
Daylight – A More Caring Computer
What are the obstacles? The only one I can think of is lobbying and politics, e.g. there was a report recently that Trump is selling favors to the fossil fuel industry - a cool billion now for future privileges when he's in the office.

I think that's a real possibility, but my view on that is that this will just shoot his own country in the foot. The first one now will later be last - if you hop on the wrong train you'll be going nowhere.

Technically I think the biggest advantage is that it's mostly trivial to install and maintain. There's probably a fair deal of complexity in the technology, but it's all contained in a module, it's plug and play. Beta didn't lose to VHS because it was a lesser format. Worse is better.

This keeps projects on time and budget, it makes people invest further in it, capacity grows and the prices keep plummeting. This attracts more people into it, rinse repeat. It causes investments to grow in complementary technology and we are seeing that now with batteries and other forms of storage. There is already now a growing panel recycling industry, etc.
Very cool! This reminds me of the program I used as a kid to make GUI apps.

https://www.indigorose.com/autoplay-media-studio/screenshots... (surprisingly it works for W11)

Lua was my first language, and it enabled me to make desktop apps for tools I needed.

I think this is very much needed as a lot of kids learn Lua from Roblox and game mod communities.
Virtually Western democracies support death penalty besides the US and Japan. It literally puts us in a lot with the countries. We consider it to be backwards (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia).

I don't think Americans sometimes realize how radical of an outlier we are to the rest of the world on this and many other issues, including probably most notably, basic social policy.
20-04-1889 is Hitlers birthday.

In combination with 1488, it really isn't far fetched. It's convenient that it has gained other meanings, but it's absolutely being used as a way of identification in nazi circles, and as a meme in adjacent spaces (i.e. the leaked group chats of "Itiotentreff", consisting mostly of far right police officers in Frankfurt)

If you think this is a stretch and ridiculous I can't change your mind, except say that's the point of using coded language like that.
You're right about parts, which are mostly state machines. The have a defined input and output. Tests are straightforward to implement and adjust.

But recording and replaying matches? Taking screenshots and comparing the output? Just think about it: If you have recorded a match and change the hitpoints of a single creature, the test could possibly fail. And then? Re-record the match?

The same applies to screenshots: What happens if models, sprites or colors change?

In my experience, tests like this are annoying, because:

1) They take a long time to create and adjust/recreate.

2) They fail for minor reasons.

3) It takes time to understand, what such tests even measure, if someone else made them.

4) You need a large, self made framework to support such tests.

5) It takes a long time to run them, because they are time dependent.

6) They hinder you to make large changes.

7) It's cheaper to make some low wage game testers play your game. Or better, make the game early access and let 1000s of players test your game for free, while even making money out of them
Weird. I wonder why I don't see this on my Windows 10 machine. It's possible I've done something else that prevents it from running that I'm now forgetting, I don't recall. But I do see that I have something like 6 group policy settings modified, it's not just one or two.

Have you tried disabling the service & driver (WinDefend)?
>ps, but for smaller models, such as the 7B a single GPU suffices

If I wanna do this, what GPU would I need?? I have a 3060 TI (laptop one) and i9 with 16 gigs of ram. I don't have AWS quota, or quota in GCP either. have heard of paperspace, but I want to quickly get started with fine tuning Mistral, cause we are planning to use some of their models for an engagement I am working on.
Sigh.

Low birth rates are not caused by reduced sperm quality. They are caused by economic issues. Wealthier populations typically have fewer offspring. The negative trends in places like Japan (and presumably Korea) are caused by the high cost of living, the lack of support for parents (lacking or overly expensive childcare etc).

No one is suggesting turning off sperm production in every male.
Privacy: The chat bot runs on a server, but the chat history allegedly stays in the browser. This is “weak privacy” in the sense that you have to trust the company. I already do this for Kagi, trusting that they’re not storing my search history, even if it would be the simplest thing in the world. You need brand value for people to trust you, that takes time, and marketing as a privacy-first company.

UI: Not bad! I created an account on OmniGPT because they give access to several LLMs in one subscription. But their mobile website was very clunky.

Payment with crypto: I guess there is a market for this. I have some pocket crypto, but rarely a place to spend it. Makes the payment process simpler to set up, maybe you’ll capture a global market.

Nostr queries: I don’t use Nostr, but being able to query a chatbot that is iteratively trained on new, relevant data, seems to me like a potentially big innovation!
A woman who's worried about getting pregnant can monitor her period and take an abortion pill if it's late. A man, on the other hand, can do nothing to avoid the cost of a child besides trying to persuade her. There are women who try to get pregnant against their partner's wishes.
That would be one way to get me to go into the datacenter.
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