skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-8896-8_...
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one in a stable long-term relationship where she and her partner trust each other to be responsible when it comes to risky or costly actions that impact both of them

(pregnancy is one, sure, but there's also things like blowing half your yearly salary on a sports car on a whim)
If they are deranged, they should be able a secure mental facility. Right? Derranged is a medical term.
This is IMHO a trigger warning too far and is also sooo culturaly tonedeaf it's not even funny...
Do you mean they might vote for forced reproduction to combat collapsing birthrates?
It will be very interesting to see which tools become the de-facto for each of the common LLM use cases.

The landscape is so fractured, I feel like I haven't even heard of most tools. I encountered Microsoft's olive the other day and it was completely new to me.
Thirded, OpenSUSE has a pretty good partitioner on its installer which makes it easy to set up encryption and snapshots. It even sets up LUKS1 encryption on an encrypted boot partition.

And the Open Build Service, while not as big as the AUR, still holds a ton of applications.
Can someone explain what this kind of comment is meant to be and what is the history behind it? It looks grammatically incorrect, and I can't reorder the words to make sense either.
It's nice to have the option to do both. Hormonal contraceptives aren't 100% reliable. Having a bout of diarrhea can render them ineffective. It's easy to miss a pill.
This is a big problem, but not allowing a new invention or regulating it won't fix the issue. Decreasing freedom doesn't fix anything.

I have four kids. Without a Christian worldview it's tough to justify having kids. Kids are an incredible amount of work and require being willing to live for others, and not yourself, which only really makes sense with a Christian worldview (at least, to my knowledge; would love to understand where and how I am wrong here). Sure, kids have some natural benefits and bring joy, but you get most of that with a single kid.

Why have more than a single kid if your primary goal is optimizing for happiness here on earth?
I use a programming language that isn’t publicly available and it would be useful to have a model understand it. AI isn’t something I’m super knowledgeable about but fine-tuning sounds like a good way to accomplish that.
I don't agree with the GP at all, but I think it was pretty much established that money is not the primary reason people have less children. Perhaps obvious example, in general it's the rich countries that have problems with replacement rate and the poor countries pick up the slack (and not the other way around). For a more direct example, the populist government in my country started giving out money, no strings attached, to people with children, and the fertility didn't change at all (even declined a bit). So I think it's pretty clear we need other solution if we want to fix that.
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When my best friend took his live in 2007, I backed up our whole ICQ chat history. Nearly 350000 messages. From time to time I read parts of our texts and it instantly brings me back to our teenage years. We shared everything via ICQ, it reads like a detailed log of our friendship.

Thank you for preserving these memories, ICQ.
Fine tuning can be useful if you need to generate lots of output in a particular format. You can fine-tune on formatted messages, and then the model will generate that automatically. That could save a bunch of tokens explaining the output format in every prompt.
> Displacement maps can closely approximate the geometric detail of having 1 triangle per pixel. All the work for displacement maps happens on a per-pixel basis inside a fragment shader (in simple terms, a little program that runs for each pixel of a triangle). You can wrap this displacement map over a single, large triangle and get the visual appearance of a much denser mesh.

I think you're wrong here... Can you provide an example of an engine where this is actually the case? To my knowledge (and I checked on Wikipedia [1] to make sure), a displacement map simply displaces VERTICES along their normals (so white color moves a maximum distance along normal, and black either doesn't move at all or moves maximum distance along the inverted normal - inwards). This means you need to heavily subdivide your geometry. Or you can remesh your geometry, with the simplest remeshing algorithms being just voxelizers - and that's what we see the OP doing - except in the place where all the 3D graphics complain on the limitation of voxelization, he hypes it as this new retro look he invented.

What seems to confirm my interpretation of all of this is how the OP describes this being done on the CPU, and - while he tries to downplay it - using rather decent hardware - I mean, Steam Deck is not exactly ancient hardware, and for an extremely simple scene with nothing else going on, he's happy being above 60 FPS on 800p resolution!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_mapping
Why would you go through all of that, if you can get a better, complete solution from a different vendor?

https://www.lightreading.com/routing-switching/iskratel-s-br...
facebook? I can't remember a facebook page which allowed me to scroll
For couples I can see this being useful, for random hookups I would not assume that a woman would trust a dude telling her that "he's on the pill". I can't see a woman giving up control of pregnancies to a man she only just meet. Then there's also the lack of protection against STDs, which would still make a condom the preferred solution.

For couples it could be a really good alternative. Birth control isn't without risks for women and way to many stay on them despite obvious heath issues. If this new solution where then man takes the birth control is better in terms of health risks is yet to be seen, but it would allow couple to share the burden/risk.
Yeah I have a Sony as well, and the amount of clicking is pretty darn annoying for my use case - I document far-right rallies on Twitter, which means I gotta be fast in transferring pictures from my camera to my phone.

Ideally, I'd have the camera be constantly connected to my phone's hotspot so I can immediately browse the photos and upload them - partially because selecting photos on the camera to be transferred is a pain, and partially because while Sony does allow connecting to an AP and transfer from a laptop, it is an exclusively foreground application, meaning the transfer interrupts when I have to spontaneously make a new photo / video.
Sounds similar to trying out emacs/org-mode for the first time. I think such flexible programs do well with the help of crowdsourced/community-based conventions; Notion templates, YouTube videos of Obsidian vault tours, and blogs about org-mode workflows and use cases, for example.
How the German cockroach conquered the world
It’s unfortunate that you’re being mindlessly downvoted, as this is a complex topic that is worth discussing.

The actual reality, though, is that the future is comprised of people that don’t engage with these kinds of reproductive-limiting technologies and worldviews. So in an ironic sense, it almost doesn’t matter - evolution will march on and doesn’t have much use for ideologies. It’s a sort of filter for the future, not an abstract evaluation of freedom and rights.
I wrote a similar tool for Linux many years ago: https://github.com/fbngrm/DiscoPy
The biggest obstacle is the lack of demand for intermittent power. Most countries that take renewable energy seriously have already reached the point, where the construction of new solar/wind depends on investments that can take advantage of it. Exponential growth is somewhere in the past, and further growth depends on the normal pace of industrial investments.
I've received quite a few. Some, probably deserved; most, likely not. In a few cases, it was -sort of- deserved, but not helpful, or directly harmful to the community. Saying the right thing, in the wrong way, is still saying the wrong thing.

> When it happens I update the post to link to the nasty comment, without judgement, just to shine a light on it.

Not a bad idea. Not always possible, if the comment gets dead'nd. In any case, I do not respond in kind. I'm quite capable of it (recovering troll), but I won't go there. It's not being a "snob." It's just that I've learned that gasoline is an ineffective fire suppressant.

If I'm wrong, I've learned to promptly admit it; in the same venue as the mistake (a pet peeve is private apologies for public attacks).

There is a line though. I feel that I do really good work. I've been doing this for a long time (like, 40 years), and have learned quite a bit, in that time. I've also worked some pretty tough rooms, and for folks that wouldn't accept crap, so I have learned to habitually do decent work.

My general policy is to avoid casting judgment onto others in public. It doesn't help; even if I'm right (not always the case).

But if we're working together, or I am using your stuff, then it might be a different story. I have had people savagely attack me, because I won’t accept garbage. Guilty as charged, but I don’t go Torvalds on them. I just tell them that their work is not acceptable to me, in a respectful manner, if possible.

Nevertheless, I have found that I can always improve, and learn new stuff; sometimes, from the most unexpected places, and being open to these lessons is basic good policy. I become right, by being wrong, and learning otherwise.

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
I bet we’ll hear a lot about male birth control by female groups.

It is based on a misunderstanding of the problem to solve. For women, the problem is having undesired children, but once they have, they know they are the mother. For men, the problem is the woman having undesired children.

It reverses the logic entirely: Since marriage triggers automatic fatherhood of the children to be born, whether the man is on the pill or not, male birth control is ineffective in that it only decreases the probability of children being his, but that’s only 70% of the cases of birth during marriage.

A really effective method would be automatic paternity tests. But everyone goes nuts when this is evoked, precisely because of the ridiculous extent of treachery in our society. As a society, we prefer to bury that problem and ask responsible men to raise the children of the other ones.
Christians, by the data, are middle of the road re: large families by religion:

Pew Research Center analyzed data on six religious groups – Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and people with no religious affiliation.

Globally, the average Muslim lives in the biggest household (6.4 people), followed by the average Hindu (5.7), Christian (4.5), Buddhist (3.9), “none” (3.7) and Jew (3.7)

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/12/12/household-pa...

Many of the pronatalist altruists are more rich than religious; eg Musk and others:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473060

It doesn't seem that a Christian worldview is neccesary for many with large families.
As a 5-digit user - uh oh!
Just have an editor macro that expands "def" to "public static void"
Sure. What I meant is, a CPU’s trap/interrupt mechanism is very often used to signal both problems that arise synchronously due to execution of the application code (such as an illegal instruction or a bus error) and hardware events that happen asynchronously (such as a timer firing, a receiver passing a high-water mark in a buffer, or an UART detecting a break condition). This is not that far away from SIGSEGV vs SIGHUP.

Some things (“imprecise traps”) sometimes blur the difference between the two categories, but they usually admit little in the way of useful handling. (“Some of the code that’s been executing somewhere around this point caused a bus error, now figure out what to do about it.”)
There was such an explosion of PIMs and PDAs in the 90s I seem to remember...

My Dad went through loads of different bits of software (paid for by work)...

I can remember Ecco, Sidekick, Packrat as names, and I'm sure there were more that were more closely tied to PDAs like Psion and Palm in the later 90s...
Why not go one step further? All art is stolen art.
Fertility is not a heritable trait; it is a norms-based, cultural trait. This was recently highlighted in a good paper by Greg Clark, author of A Farewell to Alms: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X2...

Once fertility declines, it's extremely hard to reverse the decline without a massive cultural shift. Countries like S.Korea and Hungary have made heroic efforts -- without much success. People raised in a generational culture of small families tend to have small families themselves. So either your culture shifts, or your culture is quickly replaced by high-fertility subcultures such as the Amish, Quiverfull, and Haredim. ("Quickly" in generational terms, of course.)

My thinking is that if you value your culture and its values, you should want to see it persist. The only way for it to persist in meaningful terms is for it to reproduce to at least a replacement level. The alternative -- which might be better for the environment in the short term, but not on very long timescales -- represents not a temporary lull but probably a permanent cultural decline.
I think you misread. Here’s the relevant statement from the article:

“Data backups that were stored in Google Cloud Storage in the same region were not impacted by the deletion, and, along with third party backup software, were instrumental in aiding the rapid restoration.”
first thing that came to my mind! what a throwback!
Quality suffers at very large contexts, and you might want to use your large context for something else (e.g. a long current conversation or a lot of recent data).
This misses the point entirely. Most of the time when I need a temporary email address I just want to see some content that's hidden behind a sign up form. Going through the effort of buying a domain, configuring it, etc is the last thing I want to do in that situation. I want a site that will give me an address for 2 minutes so I can complete the sign up process and then go on with my day.
I can’t find the blog/article anymore, but its message was that “when you see something suboptimal in the code, do not assume incompetence”. As people who wrote the code may have had tight deadlines, different priorities set for them and other factors that may have prevented the developers from “doing the right thing” immediately…
Nothing?

Vasectomy is more than 99% effective at preventing pregnancy.
> They’ve had the genomes of their frozen embryos tested and are selecting which ones to implant according to how well they score on intelligence and future health.

There’s a lot to unpack in this article; but the selection of embryos on intelligence sounds like a stretch. Is that much known about the specific polymorphisms that result in intelligence, however you care to define it?
> I prefer to retain the file's modified date when I just update tags so I'll know how old the rip is

Mp3Tag has a timestamp preservation setting. There's also the ability to run an external script/program on all selected files (via the Tools sub-menu of the context menu) or by configuring File>Export with a script.

For those wanting to preserve original timestamps I'd suggest storing them into custom tags in the files themselves as a backup. Mp3Tag can be set up to do this automatically using an Action (its scripting syntax). That way one can always restore them back using a script.
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No idea what this guy is talking about. Big tech are only talking about the existential risks to hide talking about the actual very real risks of how the technology will be misused.
Yes, agreed.

But it's still a lot better than 5, 6, 10 different apps.

Also, it's "Pidgin", as in "pidgin English."

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

It's a word, not a weird made-up name.
If you need to block services like this, then you're probably part of the problem. These services only exists because companies insist on ask for email addresses for stuff that has no need for it, or which users don't trust to keep their email address safe and free of spam.
For this case, I did a quick scan for the “other perspective” and ran across this, for those interested:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/11/robert-roberson-texa...

I have not yet found a link to the 2023 appeals court ruling.
Azure has had multiple embarrassingly bad tenant-boundary leaks, including stuff like being able to access another customer’s metadata service, including credentials, just by changing a port number. They clearly have some major issues with lack of internal architecture review.
You just have to buy out the company that owns the domain so you can set it up with your former email. Easy.
Replace in Python with 4-space / tab indentation.
Notice it's not "Famous person vs Non famous person". It's "Famous person vs Corporation". And in those cases it was not about the voice alone, but the use of it (which was found to be intentionally soundalike and misleading).
That is correct but it was still more open than what we have now with the current services.
3rd party clients and multi-protocol messengers we don't have at all anymore.
Most people can take feedback and apply it. I find some people just give feedback poorly and equate that to others not taking feedback.

These people usually think there preferred feedback is the best way so therefore everyone should feel the same way and if they don’t the other person needs to change.

They are of course wrong. But if you tell them this, they demonstrate why I use the word “most” in the opening sentence.
> the populist government in my country started giving out money, no strings attached, to people with children, and the fertility didn't change at all (even declined a bit)

That doesn't say much on its own. We don't know how the birth rate would have behaved without that money. And even if that supposed stimulus did have no effect, it could also mean that it's simply not enough money to offset whatever factors cause people to have fewer children.

I think the conclusion to draw is that wealth and economics likely play a role, but it's more complicated than can be sufficiently addressed with these kinds of cash handouts.
A reversible vasectomy would be real cool. I want to get one but I’ve heard some stories…
I am sorry, what?
IIRC the reasoning mainly rests on the right to not have to assist the state in convicting and punishing you. Similar principle as the right to remain silent.

It would also be weird to punish people for a failing of the state.
Mesh is such a cool technology that seems to be reserved to high end HW, and bringing it to ESP32 would be amazing!
Perhaps the team members cycle so that the team was working on the thing without any night or weekend break. Which should be a standard thing at all times for a big project like this IMHO.
May I have an invite too? jinglemansweep@gmail.com
It is difficult to model the anger and resolution patterns easily but I will try.
Say there is a discomfort/cause/trauma for anger. In a way it is a stress response to prepare one to fight or make a change. If one adds a little anger to a fight their response improves. And if one doesn't use the anger as a signal, the signal gets louder next time. During an acute stress response it is better to use the anger energy and express yourself and win/lose/stall the fight rather than mute/lose the fight and in later revisits to the incident give in to the anger because later there is no outlet or easy resolution except letting go. The helplessness of not acting gives rise to the emotions of regret/revenge and impact self-worth/identity when the action is delayed. And these emotions are more damaging than anger as they can influence our positive actions in other areas.

Now in our current world not every incidence of anger is because of a conflict but follows the same pattern. To talk about the bad weather is better than grumbling about it. Grumbling about it is better than grinding your teeth. And expression does not mean give in to the anger without awareness, so it is not okay to direct the rage one felt in the workplace to their family members or to kick the tyre of a car.
The problem with Fairphone is that the price just isn't right.
I get that they don't have enough volume but they should find a way to make it viable at a competitive price otherwise it is useless.

Who cares that it is easier to repair if you can buy 2 similar phones for the same price?

The issue with other phone manufacturers is not that they are inherently hard to repair, even if some phones could use some improvements at the design stage. The issue is that even if you want to repair and have the knowledge/skills to do so, it will be very hard to source correct parts at a worthwhile price.

The big brands are knowingly killing repairability by preventing 3rd party parts in the name of "Intellectual property", parts pairing/locking (with serials/chips) and finally not offering parts at a reasonable price even when they are forced to.

The Apple repair program is a farce precisely because of that, even if you are willing to do the work, it will cost you just as much as it would in an Apple Store just because they sell the parts at a ridiculous price while making it so that you can't get a replacement elsewhere because the phone will not work or have reduced functionality if you don't get a part from them.
It is disgusting predatory anti-competitive behavior and buying Fairphones won't solve much of the problem because peoples will still buy iPhone for obvious secondary reasons.
The value add is the whole OS, top-to-bottom is now an expression of its declarative config which the others have you mutate files for config that inevitably go stale.

Having used it for a couple years now, it’s hard to express how much more comfortable I am hacking on parts of my system I don’t even understand that well since rollbacks are trivial & patches can be declarative so I can run those upstream fixes or patch things I don’t like without worry. On other distros, had I bothered to compile something for a patch rather than just waiting (or hoping) for it, it wasn’t easy to maintain new updates to that package while maintaining those patches & it was a real hassle to manually compile it. Versus Nixpkgs where I update & if there is a new package version it automatically gets recompiled according to the patches I have declared in my system’s config.

These same principles apply to development as well. Once you get the hang of it, you can customize any environment just like your system. It feels weird to value Nix in a development environment & not see it as useful for your system. …It also helps that Nixpkgs has more packages than even the AUR (that said, AUR being self-hosted is great instead of relying on Microsoft which throttles me all the time).
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I am mainly focusing on US California and Texas