skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dumb phones address the "kids contacting their parents" angle just fine

There are also other suitable devices. My child has a Garmin watch which can send/receive text and voice messages, but only within a set of pre-configured people. And it can't run or access any ad-ware spam. It's very useful without any of the downsides.
Is that like trying to make a baby in 9 months by using more women?
> Well, birth rates are below replacement rates in most western countries where pornography is consumed more than elsewhere.

Are those bad things? I think it is great for the population to shrink a bit for environmental reasons. It's not like humanity will go extinct tomorrow. We have way too many people on this planet competing for scarce resources already. And that's with more and more poor countries rising in welfare and wanting their microwave ovens and fridges too.

> Also, more people are single, more men are not sexually active, high divorce rates, etc.

It's just that we have more freedom. Couples that married young and were forced to stay together to appease the community were super common in the 50s. We don't have to anymore. And I don't think divorces are a problem as such. I don't think marriage is important. I've had a more than a decade-long relationship and we never thought of getting married.

And kids are just difficult to have now. These days it's necessary for both partners to work and that doesn't fit well with having kids. It's a big hassle. I never wanted them in the first place and I'm glad I didn't. That doesn't mean that people don't have sex.

I see a lot more sexual freedom too. Swinging, sex-positive parties, polyamory etc. Many couples I know share their intimacy, as do my partner and I. I don't think this is due to porn but rather due to a more relaxed attitude to sexuality, which I consider a really good thing. These things can strengthen bonds as well. I know several married couples that would have not been able to stay together if they weren't so liberal to let off steam once in a while.
The oil&gas industry makes heavy use of horizontal drilling already. Say you own land with a nice pocket of $$$ buried beneath, but you refuse them to put a well on your property. That's when they turn to horizontal drilling.

Infamously stated as "if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, but I have a straw that reaches your milkshake, then I have all the milkshake".
Could people be spending more time single due to spending more time inside on the internet rather than a stronger causative effect of porn consumption.

Out of cohorts that consume no porn, to what degree are those variables you cited different? If those cohorts are introduced to porn, do those numbers change? In those cohorts, is there full honesty about usage? It's very difficult science to fo.

There are studies that show porn use particularly in women will lead to higher divorce rates [1] though, it is noted the relationship is curvilinear, as porn use goes to a high level, the effect of separation decreases. Are people unhappy in marriage seaking out porn, or is porn causing the unhappy marriage? Are people who are likely to be divorced later more likely to seek out porn? Correlation and causation are incredibly hard to tease out. Is it the porn's fault? Who knows, in some specefic cases - probably, but generally speaking it is not supported by data. If supported by data, to get that causation claim, then a dose and effect relationship needs to be identified as well as a clearly articulated mechanism of action.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28936726/
Xfce has libxfceui4, which should be equivalent to libadwaita (I never directly used it, but that was at least my understanding of it)
> A straight line along a constant latitude is a perfectly valid interpretation of the words.

It's a perfectly understandable interpretation, and I wouldn't belittle anyone who read it that way, but it can't be correct. A line of constant latitude cannot be straight unless it's on the equator. (Of course technically no line that remains on the Earth's surface is truly straight, but the puzzle's definition of "straight" meaning "turning neither left nor right" does seem like the best interpretation overall.)
We’d probably be living like the Jetsons if we would make a serious attempt to curb (effective) tax evasion and profit offshoring to reduce inequality.

(ie: make returns on labor converge to - or at least track - returns on capital)
I only read How the World Really Works, but I thought it was generally good, save for occasional non-sequiturs.
From the preface to the book:

> As I looked at all of this, I felt a sense of a knowledge gap. I saw people using XML where a custom syntax would be more readable and not harder to do. I saw people bending Ruby into complicated contortions when a custom syntax would be easier. I saw people playing around with parsers when a fluent interface in their regular language would be a lot less work.

In short, Fowler isn't espousing implementing new syntax at the drop of the hat; he recognizes the various forces many other commenters on this post have already mentioned, and navigates through them appropriately.
It's weird thinking of FBI raids like this. Like, what's even in the office that matters? All the data, all the systems will be in AWS or some other cloud. No one's gonna be slowed down for a second by not being at their desk.

I can scarcely imagine what would be required to try to prevent this. Call up AWS and order them to block a bunch of ports, hope there's no jumpboxes or vpns on odd ports? Run deep packet inspection and hope there aren't web terminals in use?

Assuming you do get network access, assuming you're not afraid of employees messing around while you are raiding, it's still a nightmare. The office systems and the product are probably just so convoluted & interwoven in most companies.
I mean, Medieval English villages had violence, we have court records of it. People got drunk and got in fights, threatened to burn a neighbors house down, and all sorts of other reasons why people turn to violence that Hobbits seem to do only under extreme circumstances, like being under the influence of The One Ring as you point out.
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A significant portion of the defense spend is STEM. It takes a lot of engineering to build a bomb. It takes a lot of math to create/break encryption....
Also, the money should go into an escrow account with a list of claimants. Some neutral third party should handle getting the checks to individuals.

That way, there's no financial incentive to make it hard to claim damages, and people won't need to bother filling out a form every few weeks to claim the cash.
Well I'm "glad" it's a presentational issue rather than a performance issue then. Baba is You takes a similar approach in that holding undo takes a while, so we're not completely alone. :)

In our case the choice to have undo be very visible, well it may be a bit overdone, but I think it's partly because in some ways this is a showcase of Goblins' time travel feature, and so we wanted to add some juice to the effect to highlight it. It would definitely be better if we had a "level reset" feature, which would make us comparable to Baba is You: holding undo takes a bit if you did a lot of things, but you can also just start over.

The other thing I really wished we had added was a level select menu but... all this stuff was accomplished in a week and two days; game jams are intense, there's always things you wish you had gotten done. Now that the jam is over, it might be worth adding some quality of life improvements, but of course now that the jam is over we are back to working on the core tech again instead of the demo. :)

But also, hi jsnell, nice to see you again! Glad you got to play the game, and hope you had fun. :)
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No, those 1500 photons are enough and we basically read the signal from them, from my reading of the comments here.
I don’t think you’re making the point you think you’re making here.
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usually this effort happened in the opposite direction, where Japanese people adopted the writing system of China since they didn't have one yet and needed to communicate diplomatically with China.

The hanzi approach is the most historical one. The problem is that it is generally not intuitive for vernacular languages. Even non-Mandarin Sinitic languages like Cantonese look wildly different between the standard writing form (which is just Mandarin) vs. writing the spoken vernacular form. The closest Western equivalent would be everybody in the European Dark and Middle Ages using Latin.
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> why are you not cutting them a deal to make it worth them staying?

It’s a fair question. Workers absolutely deserve a fair cut of the pie in that scenario. Non-competes have been pretty ridiculous lately, and companies had to provide little to no justification.

But the incentives of workers might not be entirely aligned with the “Netflix” or even their coworkers. Blockbuster wouldn’t hire the whole team unless they had to: one or two people who understood the core algorithm is enough, and for 10x their old salary it would be hard to resist. That leaves the startup and everyone else who works there out in the cold.

The second thing is that people aren’t rational expected value maximizers. You can’t pay rent with equity, and a startup may not have the cash to compete on salary.

Finally, it’s possible that allowing the larger incumbent to hire all of a competitor’s employees is actually not in their best interest. After strangling/eliminating the competition, an incumbent has no further need for those employees it poached.
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A big part of handling abuse is to recognize that you cannot win - all you can do is better. And a big part of abuse is just raising the bar of sophistication required to abuse you. We went from "any random script kiddie with a gmail account gets infinite accounts easily" to "now someone has to use a custom email domain" (which is easy for us to just banhammer the domain), which both requires sophistication and money. And it makes the banhammer-swing more on par with the amount of effort they have to put in to evade it - banning the domain means go find another domain and pay another registrar fee.
The problem is the fat tail of rare conditions is really wide because their are thousands of them.

Say there are 500 rare conditions with a rate of 2 per 100k per year. That means one out of 100 patients will develop one of those 500 in a given year.
Bird flu detected in SF, first city in California to report in wastewater
Sure, but the article quotes a 1577 ruling to justify the case that pigeons were only eaten by the elite.

By the 17th century the private dovecote might have hung around as a status symbol, but there's no reason to believe that in certain places and circumstances and fashions during this whole period common folk were not eating pigeons if they could afford it.
> a fine of $1000 paid to each individual per leak would be a good starting point

They would just fold the company and start another? Most data brokers do not have 3 trillion dollars.
While yes 2b2t is on a modern version most of its history was spent on 1.12. Only last year did they jump to 1.9 and only in the last few months to 1.20. Not knocking it, just most of the old builds and metas were based on 1.12.
In a truly "straight" line you'd go into space soon...
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The USAF would certainly agree with you! ;)

On the whole, I think it's still a net positive. The drag of unmotivated, apathetic, and/or inflexible employees is incredibly high, and then there's the additional efficiency drag of the systems that must put in place to ensure they meet minimum performance (i.e. filling out make-work forms to track performance).

Better to simply create a system by which they're weeded out.

Which I guess dovetails with the military "up or out" process.

From a giant organization perspective, there's a lot to admire in militaries. They're the worst systems, except for all the other ways organizations as large as them could be organized...
If AMD would just release a consumer card with 128GB of VRAM they could have an instant hit on their hands for all those that want to run local models.
I think El Salvador should offer two alternatives: Passport OR permanent residency. As there are many other countries that don't recognize double nationality and would require the applicant to cancel their original nationality. And that's a harder decision than just moving countries.

I think there may be a niche that could take advantage of this model. Specially those coming form countries that have problems less present than El Salvador. Like those affected by war, bad climate, unstable currency o weaker passports.

While crime was historically high, El Salvador is a very different country now with today's low crime rate. It's been truly life changing for everyone in the country who is younger than 50 years old and never lived in a country without war or gangs.
Well, of course not! It's another Y Combinator Fraud
One thing not discussed here: Coke had been used in China since ancient times. How does that fit into the discussion about coke here?
Don’t forget about heat death.

More energy being used heats up the as atmosphere, it doesn’t simply just disappear.
I've put a whole 5 minutes of thought into this over the years, but it's something I've always thought I would like in some kind of DB tool.

Notably, being able to follow relationships easily.

Trivial use case, selecting a bunch of order rows, clicking on the "customer_id" of one of the rows, and it brings up the associated row, following the foreign key. Clicking on something else to open up the dependent tables (like the order detail lines). After a bit of clicking around, you have a subset of the DB ERD (save it has data). Then, maybe, using that as a base, you can start clicking on columns to form up a query, with all of the joins in place.

As I said, 5 minutes of thought, 30,000 ft view. But I've not seen anything like that, perhaps it's just not practical.
And importantly, once your old employer is gone, there’s no need to pay you inflated salaries anymore.
Modern laws are generally onto this, and if caught (a big if) bad things happen. This is also why oil and gas companies buy mineral rights anywhere they might be interested in - it lets them take your oil without worrying about it.

Of course not everyone lives where law is caught up to this, but it is a big deal and so most places where it matters the courts know what is up.
In this area, Rivian's are everywhere and Cybertrucks are non-existent. Has anyone seen a compilation or response from Tesla why they didn't follow their own design decisions that started with the sportster through the E -- build a car that people already know and are familiar with -- and instead take a lark on the Cybertruck?
The reverse often happens, too!

Anytime I see grits on the menu at a fancy restaurant for $15 I chuckle to myself quietly.
Some people will still get some money. And spinning up a new company still has costs. However, this is precisely why this is the second-best option, after actual jail time for actual CEOs. Then they can fold whatever they want in their prison cells
My new rule:

Open paper, Look for the term hallucinate. If it does not touch on this topic it is probably sweeping things under the rug.

Hallucination, Buggy, Broken... Pick a term and speak to the issue and how it impacts your results in every dam paper.
Probably not, this assumes that that 20% is efficiently spent.
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There's nothing permanent in Ukraine losing territory though. It's Russia which has long-term problems incompatible with remaining as it is right now. Ukraine instead is going through the nation building, which Russia is still far from.
I'd prefer to switch to Korea's hangul.
At some point, suspension of disbelief is the expected behavior of the reader. Nobody would want to read a fantasy about dwarfs, hobbits, elves, and dragons if they first had to get through a complete history of the financial systems within the fantasy world. Most people can't make it through all of the language system within the tomes that Tolkien did include.

Expecting all of the details to work in a FANTASY story is just ludicrous. This is why a lot of people that are not fans shy away from fans having these types of conversations.
As someone, still planning to tackle learning Chinese (mandarin) one day, this is very interesting!
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Yes, if it had just mentioned that it meant a great circle, I would have felt like it wasn't such a gotcha question.