skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the complete collapse of fertility rates in the developed world, that is probably the strongest evolutionary pressure humans have faced for millennia.

It is a bit weird to me that the scientific press doesn't talk more about how evolutionary pressure applies here. I think that people are wary to talk about this because it can end up sounding like social Darwinism, or that they believe "Idiocracy" was a scientific documentary.

But it's inescapable, for example, that education rates are now strongly negatively correlated with fertility. While "level of education" is obviously not inherited genetically, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to hypothesize that genetic factors play a role in someone's educational attainment. And, currently, the more education you get, the less likely you are to reproduce (statistically, of course).

Sex evolved to feel really good because for most of human history having sex would usually, eventually lead to babies. Reliable birth control has fundamentally broken that link. Similarly, when a major factor preventing you from reproducing was starving to death, being smarter or cleverer was an evolutionary advantage. I'd argue that advantage no longer exists.

Another simple anecdote: I recently went to my uncle's funeral, and his family was very religious (Catholic). My father, on the other hand, rejected religion and raised us all atheists. My father has 6 descendants, my uncle 24. Again, "religiosity" is not a genetically inherited trait, but I think it would be foolish to believe genetic predisposition plays 0 role.

I say all this just to highlight that, eventually, the "collapse in birthrates" will take care of itself - people with a strong desire and ability to procreate will outcompete, at least in terms of offspring survival, their peers. This will have a huge, profound effect on world society that most academics are too scared to talk about.
Cultural influences matter a lot too. Even if the parents past down certain genes, a lot of that can be suppressed by environmental or cultural factors, everything from lifestyle to propaganda.
I've completely quit social media except for LinkedIn, which I need for my work, and Reddit, which I selectively use for product recommendations and advice on my career and relationships. And also Twitter, through which I receive the latest research in my domain. And Instagram, which my girlfriend uses to send me memes and videos. Occasionally Facebook for event invitations. And this website.

But other than that I've totally quit.
Show HN: Algorithm to Predict Romance/Indian Languages from Latin/Sanskrit
This is a website that converts Latin/Sanskrit to modern Romance/Indian languages. The catch is, rather than a translation, it is purely based on deterministic phonological algorithms. Since linguists have determined fairly regular rules for these transformations, I thought why not code these rules into a computer?

While the result isn't perfect, it often works pretty well, and the cases where it fails sometimes give some insight into why a language evolved the way that it did.
Sounds like your problem is with a Google product more so that the browser feature itself. I for one can't wait to start using these kinds of deep links. I love when websites have "copy link to header" buttons, but even when they do I often want to link to a particular sub-paragraph or sentence as a citation... and now I can!
The New Battle for the Middle East
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
GP post wasn’t that nuanced; it strongly implied that since granny gave her Mac to her silly nephew for setup and had a bad time, that justifies stripping the supposed owners of all Apple devices of meaningful control of those devices. An unsurprising take from someone who sounds like he may be a onetime or current Apple employee.

I think what makes someone a “fan” is that complete trust of Apple to do “What’s Best,” a completely coincidental perfect harmony between “What’s Best” and Apple’s financial interest, and the suggestion that the platform(s) simply aren’t “for” people like me who want any choice whatsoever, and we should just F off to Android if we don’t like it because ceding us any control would somehow explode the “safe, easy” walled garden by its very availability, a completely bogus argument.
He would've had 5 million more dollars this year if he didn't ask the board to change the terms of his contract to give him less money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
The article this is responding to is some of the worst anti-science, anti-intellectual FUD I've seen in a while, with laughably false conceits like (paraphrased) "physics is too complicated, no one understands it" and thus "fundamental research doesn't matter".

Worse, the author of the original FUD is a professor of EE at Berkeley [1] with a focus in ML. It almost goes without saying, but EE and ML would not exist without the benefit a lot of fundamental physics research over the years on things that, according to him, "no one understands".

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
Does anyone have any feedback on this Udacity courses:

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Nanodegree Program

https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-reinforcement-learning-n...
> That's not driving: it's merely remote humans answering a question about where to drive in case of a novel obstacle on the road.

Listen to yourself.
If you open, say Android Studio (or IntelliJ) and start a new project, then open Rider and start a new project - the UI is actually very different for how the projects are managed. PyCharm is different too in different ways.

I think the differences are more akin to the old Visual C# Express and Visual Basic Express IDEs vs Visual Studio. Visual Studio was always "everything", but you used to get the express versions that were "low cost" or free. They only had the single language in them. They were customised to just that language. This is what Rider is to IntelliJ Professional, except from what I understand, the plug-ins for IntelliJ are not always on a 1:1 feature parity. This can even be seen with Android Studio and IntelliJ Community. The Android tooling in IntelliJ Community is almost the same, but it does miss out some stuff in Android Studio. Because Android Studio is specifically for Android development, and IntelliJ Community is more general purpose Kotlin and Java development. I think the Kotlin Native support is slightly better in IntelliJ Community.
The pressure to quit is so large I keep quitting daily
You're discounting the idea that being a brave man still has any reproductive advantage. I doubt very much that a fearful man is as attractive to women as a brave man, even in modern times.
I get it.

Technically speaking, welding is when you've melted the two pieces together so they form an integral piece. Brazing is when you're "gluing" two pieces together using the metal of the brazing rod as the glue.

Brazing is not necessarily a weaker bond than welding, depending, but is usually done either as a temporary repair until welding can be done later (because you can braze with a blowtorch instead of a welding machine), or when you're bonding two metals that are different enough that welding is not possible.

Technically speaking, soldering is a form of brazing.
Membrane: Durable Functions for Internal Tools
I could see this coming into Apple Intelligence for example; you could simply ask the browser to buy stuff off of your favorite store, or even do a chain of tasks like informing a contact off your list that you've bought said thing, etc.

The possibilities are quite exciting, in fact, even though the technology isn't quite there yet.
Google (and Amazon, and probably a few Chinese players) have multiple revenue add-ons they can use with robotaxis.
Apart from food packaging, one great way to easily ingest plastic is to use synthetic clothing. Just a basic rubbing of a synthetic sleeve on your nose causes thousands of polyester particles to release in thin air, readily breathable.

Not just clothing, but also bedding is a huge issue. With pillows, mattresses and towels mostly made of synthetic fibers.

My usual instinct is: try rubbing the synthetic material; if it releases thousands of particles in thin air, stay away from it
Same here - I just see that versions change from time to time (yeah I know I should do that manually but there we are).

One thing I do not like (or, say, "miss") in Bitwarden/Vautwarden is the ability to make decrypted backups. I run the service for my immediate family and would like to have access to some people's passwords (of course with their agreement) to make sure they are fine.

A solution is to use Organizations but you cannot have a "organization-only account" - an account that would exclusively save to an organization without a private vault.

The "solution" is to tell people to move what they save to such and such Org but this works fine with me, recently with my wife but somehow my father does not do it and we sometimes end up with tense moments when it is time to get to some accounts :)
> There were other simliar platforms before AirBnB, there will be others after them.

That's true, but it wasn't a huge industry like it is now, at least not here where I live (Barcelona, Spain). Once AirBnb appeared on the market, it kind of blew up in popularity. And while hotels/hostels needed permission from the government to make properties into hotels, the vacation rental market didn't (initially) so they ended up buying a lot of property meant for residents, but used it for tourists.

I'm not saying AirBnb is the sole party to blame here, but vacation rental companies do carry some responsibility for this.
You know you have to do even more once you get a reply?
> and a 5% difference in the raise, from "extremely large raise" to "ridiculously large raise".

Sorry, but we've had a large run of inflation _and_ we have no idea what kind of raises they've had in the recent past. Have they had cost of living raises, or nothing from the last 5 years so they need to catch up? There is always more context than can fit in a single sentence.
> Waymo instead of being generalized, works off of a detailed map for each region they drive in. They have a complete expectation of every detail on those roads and so then only need to account for the dynamic unknowns on the road.

This isn't entirely true. Everything at Waymo is built to be generalizable. Engineers and execs at Waymo have said to multiple times, as recently as yesterday [1].

They are able to drive just fine without up-to-date maps as well. It's an assumption built in to the system. The cars are also self-mapping. Ultimately, maps are just another input to the general driving software. The same driving software is deployed across all their cities.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6RndtrwJKE
Watermark for LLM-Generated Text
This wasn't my experience when you cross-reference the systems (bus, tram, metro) and consider walking also works.

> would have been fifteen-minute drives

Yes, if everyone on Earth magically disappeared. If you've never driven in a dense city, it's often faster to just walk alongside the cars than be in the cars.

This is because, again, cars are so unbelievably space inefficient that the space saving of human people versus cars can make up for the multiple order of magnitude difference in speed.
It drives itself with zero control input from me, hands literally off the wheel and feet off the pedals. That's the definition of "full self driving".

It's bizarre how people are so adamant about this when they haven't even tried it. Every passenger I've shown this to have had their minds blown.
Agree-- The satisfaction from uncovering something by effortful research helps the subject stay in our memory, and build our IQ. I agree to a poin that "Technology has changed us from being doers into being more thinkers." However, there is a darker side too, which you also share, - when we get all of the answers do we think? You have a point about the lost contact with others, in the past, people regularly met for intellectual discussions with colleagues, think of CS Lewis and Tolkein, Churchills "Other Club" with Wells and many more, Ramon Cajal and his weekly meeting. Yes, specialization is limiting our generalizability's for sure.
In a similar vein but still containers and a bit more targeted: http://github.com/legobeat/l7-devenv

I daily-drove NixOS for a few years and philosophically very much vibe with the foundational ideas. Gave up on it because it was too much involved in getting productive with writing and maintaining nix configurations.
Would you have sat in the back seat? How about in a Waymo?
Absolutely. Simple, and modular - with wide availability of (perhaps 'universal') replacement parts.

We're observing in real time - mostly via skyrocketing insurance rates - the impact & unsustainability of expensive, all-proprietary parts. Vehicles are getting totaled out now more than ever for things that should be repairable.

Speaking of diesel - what I really want is a simple plug-in hybrid truck or SUV (e.g. a USA Toyota Hilux or 4runner) with ~50-80 miles of battery-only range, and a diesel generator for 'indefinite' range extension.
What makes Hacker News a social media website?
At some point the technology is good enough, then the cheapest car wins. Waymo doesn't have vertical integration necessary to rapidly iterate and it can't afford to take risks - it's still not operating their commercial service on the highways, not because the tech isn't there, but because of the liability and PR damages if there's a fatal crash (much more likely at highway speeds).

Baidu can have their test car kill a pedestrian every day for the next 10 years if necessary, that's not exactly an even playing field.
> I decided that vaultwarden should not have an internet accessible port

So how does your browser extension work when outside your LAN? via Tailscale or similar VPN mesh? And for people who use it outside of the LAN entirely?
> The police will stop you for any random reason, including walking alone in the street at an unusual hour or just to check your bike.

Parent was talking about Japan not the US. In most of the world, the police will leave you alone unless they have to intervene. In Japan, they’ll probably want to really help you and not add an arrest to their record.

> From there, if you have nothing to officially prove your identity you might totally spend a while at the station, and potentially have them kindly escort you to your home so they get a look while you're looking for your passport

Again, highly an American perspective where the police is fishing for arrest reasons. The rest of the world doesn’t allocate much resources to the police so they bus around people without very exigent reasons.
For this type of data, preference could be toward fully open source stack (i.e. fdroid, etc).

Another thing I recommend is to enable versioning on syncthing for the database. This way accidental changes can be reverted easily.
This discussion is about an open source password manager. I wonder why you are recommending a closed source software? Are you aware that many people prefer open source for security software for a reason?
Ya in retrospect 2 years was a stretch, but 1 year seems feasible. I elaborated on entertainment in another comment, basically anything I'd spend on non-hobbyist watching or listening in real life or digital, video games, over a year. I could probably include concerts, but that's something I'd let myself spend more on if finances permitted. Some food expenses would fit between those categories. Vacations excluded.
Many (most?) traits require energy to develop and maintain. A stronger muscle will need more energy so there's always pressure to reduce it. That pressure may just be countered by pressures in other directions.
Something something opportunity cost? If you can allocate your next bit of energy and protein to something with better bag-for-buck than a jaw muscle then that should be an evolutionary advantage.
Global GHG emissions increased by 1.3% between 2022 and 2023: a UNEP report [pdf]
I would vote for a once a year internet holiday. It would bring minor mental wellbeing improvements, coerce important industries and systems to exercise redundancy pathways, provide opportunities to have such a cutover like switching to IPv6, and remind a million petty tyrant product managers that no, our goddamned fart app does not need 6 9s of reliability.

100 bucks says IPv6 would still not get implemented. We need legislation at this point. There's enough stubborn assholes in the networking infrastructure industry just refusing to do their job for it to happen by itself. They will insist they need to save a few thousand bucks and hold the whole damn world back.
The alternative in many cases would be to install MDM software on one's personal device, which seems like the worse option to me.
I had initially included the phrase "largely reversible." You're not wrong that if used for too long, or outside of specific windows there are effects that cannot be reversed. But that's not how they are used in this context. They are used in the context of providing time to decide if you want to make the irreversible decision.

No reasonable health provider is going to leave a child on blockers so long that they end up functionally a eunuch. Is it possible for problems to occur? Of course. Is that the intent and the way they are usually used? No. Has it happened to a non/0 number of people? Maybe? Being technically correct here doesn't help anyone.

We're not talking about the difference between "almost dead" and "dead" we're talking much more about something like a tattoo or an ear gauge. Ear gauges are reversible up to a point. You experiment with them and if you enjoy having the ability to adorn yourself that way you do so. If you don't you stop increasing the size before you have to spend the rest of your life with a giant hole in your ear.
dont even start
Maybe it is a regional thing like soda, pop, coke etc
Yeah, so he would have gotten $84.1 million instead of what he really got, only $79.1 million. Imagine being a CEO yet so poor.
Good Flag, Bad Flag: The Limits of Simple Design
for me horror movies with ghosts shown as regular people in foggy daylight (for example the kid in the original Omen) are scarier then the ones that fly at night or have heavy makeups with abnormal bodies etc.
> because the built-in password manager in Firefox is too good

I just checked it and it looks really basic, right? No OTP, no multiple URLs, no special URL matching?

Where is its "goodness" (I may have missed something entirely)
Yeah, but that's kinda the point i made in my original post: You can work towards the general math terms while translating your domain model into higher abstractions, but this will have consequences on your personal life. You can see this clearly in the ct-illustrated author that interweaves his struggle while learning the matter and wrote a journal about both his life and the topic.

As Milewski teaches the subject, he is in a position to match both personal life, work and the topic into one book, so this is the goal, but it will entail you leaving the narrow perspective of your work. He can talk from math to math, but you have to - similar to the author of ct-illustrated - find your own way from translating your specific model into a more general one.

If you want a handle to start: Think of a line that extends into + and - infinity: It will create a circle. Even though a circle is a 2 dimensional object, it's made of infinetly many distinct 1-dimensional lines. The same is true for your work: Even though it is made out of a distinct countable number of interwoven objects in your domain, this structure is part of a bigger abstraction. Doing more work, like drawing more distinct new objects will not take you onto the more general abstraction, but thinking about what all your domain models have in common.

Try to work less, be lazy and the underlying mathematical models will appear in a language you already speak. In your case: Abstraction your work domain model into multiple clients (1 employer --> multiple employers in a similar line of work) will a) lead into your termination b) show how you can abstract your work away from 1 source of income and purpose into multiple ones.

Good luck!
Are they deployed into any cities where they are not actively mapping?
I think the person this article is responding to is just a crank, but it is interesting as a layperson to see the basic mechanisms for making this discovery laid out here.
To be honest, it looks like he just had an internal model of “internal code no gpl”, “external code gpl” and mindlessly answered based on that. The fact that it made the latter impossible seems to have been successfully impressed on him.

Overall, I’ll stay a Bitwarden customer. People fuck up and I’m a tit-for-tat-with-random-forgiveness tactic user, not grim-trigger.
I understand it's not proof of something not happening.

I would have hoped a more logical place like HN would understand taking extremely risky measures, which have a history of disenfranchising people, isn't worth it when the problem they're attempting to solve cannot even be identified.

The reason people are so hesitant to implement Voter ID is that the people advocating Voter ID aren't very honest. They refuse to admit the racist history, they refuse to admit the disparities between demographics, and they refuse to acknowledge their own lack of evidence.

That's very concerning. It makes one wonder what their intentions are. If they are truly not attempting to disenfranchise people, then why not admit to the previous history and then explain how that will be avoided? That would ease everyone's concerns. A win-win. But they don't do it.

Do you not find that suspicious?
Never connect a personal device to an employer's network, whether it be wifi or VPN.

Never log into personal accounts on an employer's devices (work phone, computer, etc) or networks.

Avoid using a company vehicle for personal needs.

Never say anything you wouldn't say in a higher up's or coworker's presence over slack, email, any communication platform used by coworkers and/or owned/authorized by an employer.

This kind of monitoring happens, all your shit will be pryed on (personal accounts or otherwise), it's very common (in the US), it will be used against you, it is legal (in the US).

This is a warning not just from personal experience, but it's also been the experience of many others.

Germany is one of the only (maybe is the only?) countries that has made this kind of bullshit illegal.
Because defined benefit plans (at least in the US) are dead and have been for a while (10 years in the Boeing case).
KeePassXC (and I assume the other versions) can import an encrypted JSON Password Protected (NOT Account Restricted) export from Bitwarden.

I use them both. I have KeePassXC for my local machine, and Bitwarden for things I may need out and about.

With the browser plugins for both it's not that hard to manage them both, at least in my opinion.

I was hoping to see some course correction on this from Bitwarden, even if the over-stated impact was really just to the SDK. They appear to understand the look of their licensing move was going to cost them more than it probably should have. Most companies refuse to change course at all, so I at least see it as encouraging.

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