skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> wonder when people will make the connection between monetary inflation and birth rates

It's been studied. The connections are as non-obvious as they are fascinating.

In the Pacific Islands, a "1% increase in CPI (inflation) will decrease total fertility rate by 0.41%" [1]. (This effect was much stronger than female education and real GDP changes.) This supports your hypothesis.

When we look at rich countries, however, we find that "an increase in annual inflation of 1 percentage point would bring an increase of 0.06 percentage point in the annual growth of the total population" [2]. Inflation increases fertility!

A clue as to why might be found in the U.K., where among "home owners" they found "evidence of positive but temporary effects of house prices on fertility," with "a 10% increase in the average house price in a given month increases the fertility of home owners by 2.4% in the following year" [3]. Among renters, on the other hand, "fertility rates are lower by the order of 2 to 4%. Fertility rates for this group remain lower three years later, suggesting house price increases affect completed fertility as well as the timing of births."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8457485/ Table 8

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10590...

[3] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/research/housing/publications/...
Only six years to turn that around? That is a mammoth task. I’m not sure that will be possible.
As long as everyone, including the people responsible for these disgusting tactics, gets equally surveilled, there shouldn't be a problem! What do you mean that's not how it works?
https://threads.com/
The abstract drum icons inspired me to add drums to a project of my own, slidesynth, a synthesizer for touchscreens: https://slidesynth.com/
How to Be a Curious Consumer of Covid-19 Modeling: 7 Data Science Lessons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus have also been discussed as an option.
I don't disagree with your actions, but make no mistake: you won't be the first of many. Unfortunately the market has shown us again and again that people a) don't look deeply into the business model and mostly care about price, and b) even if they did bother to look into it they don't value privacy. I wish it were otherwise, but sadly it just isn't.
I would have thought that it's easy to use for ads, but it's certainly both creepy and a huge legal risk.

It may be just inefficient per byte to use for ads, so they might just process the important bits and throw out the rest.
Vanta cofounder/CEO here.

Thanks for the feedback. What we should probably do is take the credential, start scanning, and then nag them with a failing test about overly-permissive roles. Our own role is an easy check because we know what to expect, but there's other best practices here we can check for (and in some cases do, though not 100% comprehensively across all clouds.)
It seems to be all the rage. On June 2, Space.com released an article talking about Boeing's Starliner's successful launch and a link to the live stream of the docking with the ISS. After the launch was scrubbed, someone forgot to check their pre-scheduled releases.

It's all just examples of how poor the publishing industry has become
How do you get twice the power without the chip gaining a gooey caramel filling?
I don’t know whether FF lacks these features, but I’m using:

- webpage splits

- search by image

- go to non-<a> url in bg tab

- open in new tab in a virtual sub group rather than just to the right or at the end

- tabs retain width on close until mouse goes away (helps with closing series of tabs)

- bookmarks open in new tab by default

- last tab doesn’t close the browser

- gestures and toolbar customization

That’s in Vivaldi, I probably forgot a bunch of features that feel natural but may have no FF counterpart. Tbh, looking at FF settings, there’s basically none. You can’t miss features that you never had, I guess.
Make your program slower with threads (2014)
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe every 100% debt-to-GDP at current 5% rates is like an extra indefinite 5%/year tax taken from everyone

You're wrong.

You need to consider the real returns on that debt, its real burden, and interagency holdings (e.g. the Treasury paying the Fed interest). Also, that debt is serviced with taxes. Adding it to the tax burden is double counting.

The debt is analogous to taxation. But not so much that you can numerically equate them.
What's most interesting to me about this trend around the developed world is that nobody has put together a truly compelling theory as to the root cause. There's lots of obviously politically motivated theories, like liberals saying it's because of soul crushing capitalism run amok or conservatives saying it's because women aren't kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, but for as consequential as the whole thing is it seems very light on legitimate analysis (at least that I've seen).
Swift Playgrounds >= Xcode
Not only are the hot dogs cheap as hell, they're honestly not that bad. It's not a gourmet hot dog or anything, but despite being basic they're pretty decent quality.
Here is a snapshot of threads.com from a few months ago:

https://archive.is/mWdxZ

It says:

> Threads is a workplace communications tool.

> Designed for teams of...

and then:

> Threads are made up of blocks, arranged to organize ideas.

> In 4 easy steps, we'll show you how to use them to share updates, meeting notes, plans, documents, announcements, questions, and presentations.

Further down are some images of a workplace messenger that looks like somewhere between an email client and Slack.
Discussion [0] (15 points, yesterday, 8 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590702
It was a clone of Slack:

https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlN...
It’s exactly what CC was writing about. It is the way large organizations think unless someone has the courage to recognize that if they don’t start a new division, some little upstart will eat their lunch. Kodak laughed at the early, feeble digital cameras. Bell Labs sat on DSL because it would kill T1 revenue.

But man is it ever hard to execute. Andy Grove made every exec at Intel read Innovator’s Dilemma, but still it was hard to turn that ship.
that's a good point. it could also be the same reason everyone else is struggling: it's very hard to find compelling utility for LLMs. We absolutely will, but it's difficult.

Right now everyone is setting incomprehensibly expensive amounts of compute on fire, for basically free, in the hopes utility emerges
Pretty sure in 68 you would get significantly better sound on the radio than on television. Radio would be stereo, tv would be mono.
Japanese inflation is only a recent phenomenon. Prior to the pandemic, they were experiencing deflation and the BoJ was doing everything in its power to get some inflation. The falling birth rate, on the other hand, has been going on for far longer than monetary inflation.

Falling birth rates are often correlated with discretionary income levels and women's education.
You can try to manage perception as much as you like, but the facts are: Many people value there privacy, and will dump companies that abuse the privilege of purchasing products from them.
Got a detailed and accurate response for the 7B model locally.
It's really hard to believe that Google deletes some data permanently. Especially location data, as it's pretty valuable for their core business: ads. Do they delete it after some aggregation?
They imported dirt from Australia to Florida, grew grass on it, then shipped the grass to New York to be put into the stadium. Absolutely incredible.

I have to wonder if there might have been a better way to accomplish the same outcome though. Surely New York landscape suppliers could mix any desired dirt mix, and the grass could be grown in greenhouses? Wish I knew more about the decisions behind the Rube Goldberg grass.
What "their creative software" and you talking about?

Microsoft Office? That's not Apple (and it's got AI a-plenty).

Adobe Photoshop? That's not Apple (and it's got AI a-plenty).

Autodesk Maya? That's not Apple (and it's got AI a-plenty).

Logic Pro? It's... Oh, that one is, in fact, Apple — and it's got AI features unrivaled in other DAWs, as of last month's release [1].

Final Cut Pro? Got me there, I don't know much about it, but at least we can be specific.

In any case: most "creatives" are using software that's not made by Apple to create.

And the creative software Apple does make is not their top priority.

So, to my knowledge, presence or lack of AI in Apple software is not affecting most people using Apple hardware as creative professionals.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/whats-coming-in-majo...
and we don't even know if snowflake itself was compromised at this point...seems it was not
Discussion [0] (31 points, 6 hours ago, 15 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599834
> Even after the first nuke they didn't surrender. It took the emperor speaking up - for the first time ever - after the second nuke, and even then the military junta tried to stop it.

All this is true, but it's also true that the nukes weren't the only factor involved. A good case can be made that it was actually the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, which started at midnight local time on the same morning that Nagasaki was bombed, that gave the peace faction in the Japanese government enough leverage to get the Emperor to intercede. The Japanese still weren't exactly sure what the nuclear bombs were, and they had already been firebombed for months so having two more cities incinerated was not the huge change that later US propaganda made it out to be. But the Japanese had been trying for many months to get Stalin and the USSR to broker a peace agreement, and Stalin and Molotov had been stringing them along without any real intention of helping, to ensure that Stalin would have time to enter the war against Japan. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria shocked the Japanese government into realizing their true position and made surrender an urgent priority since Japan greatly preferred being occupied by the US to being occupied by the USSR. The nuclear bombs were a convenient way for the Emperor to save face and not have to admit that it was really the strong desire of the Japanese to surrender to the US and not to the USSR that drove the decision.

See the excellent book Racing the Enemy by Hasegawa for a detailed and thorough exposition:

https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Enemy-Stalin-Truman-Surrender/...
Hunc esse nugatorem censeo, quamvis jocosum
Bolt's drive-to-win insurance scheme is putting drivers' lives at risk
The 7B model gives a detailed and accurate account when run locally. Pretty sure this is just incidental load issues w/ Huggingface.
Kernel-level anti-cheat does not work in Linux and I think that is a good thing. Should you really trust some random game company to have essentially root/admin on your computer? They are not a very trustworthy group of people...

If you can't detect cheating in user space or with traditional telemetry I don't want to play your game. I refuse to run kernel-level anti-cheat.
I can't speak for everywhere in the world, but in New Zealand it has usually been possible to cover total costs with rent. It's not possible right now due to higher interest rates. I believe this is common in many other countries (e.g. Australia, Canada, UK etc.).

This suggests it's common in the USA too: https://www.moneypenny.com/us/resources/blog/how-much-renter...
Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.
This came up earlier today in a discussion at work, and I googled up an old fav again: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/1172
Anyone here who can answer this as well in the context of local work on a Mac? I manually use tmux when sshing into servers but usually that’s one session split in two and that’s it.

Locally I use iterm2 with a single hotkey window but multiple tabs with one per project and then up to 8 panes per tab. These stay open for many months until the inevitable restart for system updates. I feel like I have pretty good persistent terminals this way.

But would there be any benefit for me using tmux locally? I know that iterm2 has some kind of integration with it but I‘ve not tried that
It depends, standby lead acid batteries are really cheap.

Cyclic use lead acid is much more expensive. And also a much better comparison to lithium phosphate because it can also handle cyclic. But these are not what's used in a UPS because of the usecase.

If your target is really backup power for that once a year max power outage, lead acid still rules. I believe this is why it was exempted from RoHS. And the lead can be recycled well.
Worth repeating, though.
I think you are fooled and you don't know what you are talking about
gpt's eyes don't dry out
>I want a computer to do my dishes

We have that, it's called a dish washer. We also have a robot for vacuuming, it's called a robovac, and so on.

We have robots for most mundane repetitive chores, they're just not humanoid like in SciFi, but are purposely designed for each task.
the positive correlation between vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and autism has been known for quite some time. One more aspect of this correlation related to the original post:

https://karger.com/neo/article/113/4/305/227927/Vitamin-D-an...

"the vitamin D-deficient infants have a greater brain mass than pups born to vitamin D-sufficient mothers, indicating impairment of appropriate neuronal pruning"

"deficiency early in pregnancy is more likely to affect brain structure during the period of organogenesis whereas the pruning of neuronal cells occurs later in gestation, so later deficiency would likely present with differences in brain size. "

That also dovetails with that Sweden study that autism is more correlated with vitamin D deficiency in the 3rd trimester.
The Bibendous Unbobblebles of the Bubbly Barbarian Bible Belt (another schlager band to reanimate?)

Aka "what does not kill you may still make you more or less equal."
Many of the world's tallest buildings are in areas with more frequent and much more severe earthquakes. It comes down to whether or not the building is designed with earthquakes in mind more than whether earthquakes occur.
it's because there is some sense among the physics-challenged that apple has to support it in hardware, as if we're a generation away from placing the burn-inducing, fusion-reactor-draining h100s in people's pocket it would take to run a model that impresses them as much as the tech demos of today
You miscapitalized "s" and "i". :)
For everyone else who heard this for the first time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_and_pregnant
There have been scientific studies done by anthropologists, but they're a different clique to economists and they basically "don't talk to each other".

Essentially, there's a sort-of phase diagram for the optimal human reproduction strategy where the axes are things like "income inequality" and "environmental stress". You can then color in patches of the diagram with what strategy members of a society will settle on.

For example, high-stress, high-inequality societies practice polygamy. The game-theoretic logic is that women need a partner that can provide consistent excess calories. If you can't feed your kids in just one year out of twenty, they die. It doesn't matter what the average income is, just how steady the income is. In societies like that, only the richest 10% of men can provide this, so they all have 10 wives. The other 90% of men remain bachelors and often participate in tribal warfare, exacerbating the problem. Saudi Arabia used to be like this, and parts of Africa still is.

Similarly, in "one corner" of this graph is super rich men in stable societies, where their optimal reproduction strategy is serial monogamy to young wives. Look at Hollywood A-listers or billionaries to see this play out in real life.

Japan got stuck in a part of the phase diagram where the optimal reproduction strategy is "don't."
flakey + overfunded = published success
I learned it slightly differently:

caesar adsum iam forte

pompeius aderat

caesar sic in omnibus

pompeius inis at
I consider my non-technical friends/family technically dead. They're lost souls you can't help, like Elizabeth Swan looking down at her father's ghost on the boat. We can't help.

Freedom and privacy are luxuries only available to those nerdy enough to use Linux. The rest are prey/prisoners/peasants to the technofeudal overlords.
I'm medically diagnosed autistic. I struggle with a lot. But some upsides I've encountered:

I tend to form stronger empathy and justice models, and commit to them wholly. This has allowed me to, for instance, work on improving access to benefits or healthcare for others while other people around me burn out. But I often fight way too long, and I get upset when people disagree.

I often hyperfocus on projects I'm interested in and can produce a high level of output if given an interesting task.

I enjoy counting, categorization, and organization tasks. Find all bugs that meet these rules, or, double check every unit test to check we're meeting coverage goals. Give me those tedious, repeatable, rules based gardening tasks and I'll churn through them all day every day.

I believe I have a more systemic way of thinking than my peers, and while this does cause problems sometimes it also enables me to decompose systems more easily.

I tend to maintain my cool under pressure or bullying. I simply do not notice nor care about emotionally loaded conversations. This causes problems often but also helps often, I can mediate with "we're here now, let's focus on how to improve".

These, of course, are not the upsides of every autistic person. They are my upsides for me. Again, I am medically diagnosed and do require support to operate as an adult. My childhood was... not good.

I do not want to say it's only upsides, but I do think for some autistic people there are things those people do consider up sides.

Edit: if I could choose to not be autistic, even with the massive burden it has for me, I would choose to remain autistic and I would fight tooth and nail against anyone who tried to change me to remove it.
On the steam deck that statement is gone!
Seems like an insignificant enough number of people that companies will continue to make the choice to sell your data rather than appease privacy conscious individuals.
I support cheap and affordable housing. I support charity for people that are honest members of society.

I think unrepentant thieves need to be incarcerated, not because they deserve a housing, but to protect innocent people from their destructive Behavior.

>Quoting so you can't retract. I don't think you'll find much agreement there.

I think you'll find that you are in the minority. Look at laws for felony theft. I think most people would like even harsher penalties people that steal assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. All it takes is seeing it once and people swing very quickly against this kind of behavior.

You being hungry does not entitle you to my dinner. You being horny does not entitle you to my body. You being cold does not entitle you to my shelter.
I don't use tmux but I use screen which AFAIK is the same basic functionality on my Mac. I use it to run long lasting software during development, so the frontend and backend of the service I'm developing for example, since they have hot-reload.

It's not _necessary_ but it's nice knowing I can close my terminals without worrying of having to wait for another 10m build because I like to keep my open windows to a minimum.

I think it's really down to how you use your computer more than a real need.
Do you have suggestions for XMPP client libraries (across any language)? I really wanted to do this myself but it seems that the first few results I found across several different languages haven't been actively maintained.
How many people are gonna do all this to get an adblocker working? How long is this workaround gonna be allowed by google?

What excuses remain for sustaining the chromium monopoly that allows this shitshow, and for using chrome and chromium derived browsers instead of firefox?
Really? If I saw an ad for a product that is 20% more expensive than the organic result, I wouldn't click on it. Price is way more important than page placement for most consumers.
Many ups companies also downplay the ease of replacing batteries. Or selling "official" kits that cost half the price of the ups.

It's sad because it really is quite easy in most cases
Kind of a banking social credit score..
It’s technically true that you can make unsafe mean whatever you want in your own projects, but redefining it to include nondeterministim that doesn’t itself result in UB would be such a fundamental change to the semantics broadly accepted by the rust community that it’s very unlikely they would do so for language constructs like `as`.

That said, I think `as` is generally a code smell and the one large professional Rust project I’ve worked on banned it in CI via clippy.
DuckDuckGo AI Chat: anonymous access to popular AI chatbots
Discussion [0] (41 points, 12 hours ago, 52 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596089
There's already a firefox extension [0] based on the exact code that google started with for chrome.

I remember being a little annoyed by those fake anchor links when they first appeared, but I've since softened to the concept.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-...
> where one side intends to conquer a continent or the world

I believe this view indicates you may have drunk a bit too much of the kool aid. Germany had zero ability to hold all of Europe longer term, let alone the entire world. This is a comic book tier view. Any end to the war would have had concessions and land transfers but there is no precedent to suggest that even France would have remained under Germany longer term if the Germans had won. Western Poland and bits of other nations, sure, but that is hardly an entire continent or world. The notion that they were a serious threat to occupy the US is hilarious and goes to show how effective the fear mongering propaganda was and continues to be to this day.

> The Allies did not initiate war and did not want war

England and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Arguably the whole thing could have been avoided if England and France hadn’t backed Poland, which would have likely caused Poland to negotiate on the original land bridge problem rather than dig their heels in. It’s eerily parallel to the situation with Ukraine today, in fact.
Distance to horizon from the full 1905 feet (observation would be lower based on the design picture) would only get about half the way.
Sounds like ICC is trying to be more like FIFA.
Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards
Could be, could be. My country overthrew communism non-violently as well afterall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

But it seems to me, that it's going to be impossible to revolt against a party who controls an obedient killbot army.

Hitler was a special case, since he played the dumb world domination game.
I save too much on gas to do that. Just gonna use their opt out and still save me some money.
R or Python for Bioinformatics?
Tesla Cybertruck Loses to Model X in Towing Range Test – Again
Tetration [video]
> How to reach assurance?

Do you have a working prototype? If not, you might have a hard time going from "idea" to "invention" without a third-party involved.
That's tricky. For example, AMD bonds more cache on top of their cache but they don't put anything on top of the cores to prevent them from melting.
The good thing about the shuttle was that it could also serve as a base for astronauts to work and live for weeks. The ISS couldn't really have been built without it. Getting them there is only part of the problem.

The space shuttle was basically a space RV. The current options are more like a space micro car.
Turns out Spotify can't open-source Car Thing because it's a potato