skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rural areas and smaller cities.

And it's not really a matter of low birthrate at these places. In fact, Tokyo has consistently had the lowest birthrate of all Japanese prefectures over the last few decades. The problem is that young people are migrating to large metropolitan areas in search for better opportunities.

It's also worth noting that despite the image, Japan's birth rate is HIGH for its region and among developed countries it is the almost the highest. Japan's fertility is higher than China's, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. The only arguably developed state in Asia which has a higher fertility rate is Brunei and I don't really know if it counts - it's very conservative and the economy is mostly based on oil and gas.

Japan's problem is that it has industrialized earlier than its Asian neighbors and the effects of low birth rates are already very evident (in the countryside). It also got the attention in western media as the poster child for low birth rate, but it shouldn't be — that honor should probably go to South Korea (fertility rate of 0.72 in 2023).
So you want the capacity to ban state-owned, or even partially state-owned, media from any country who has "allied" with a country actively at war with "our friends"? All of BRICS, anyone part of the BRI, just as the tip of the iceberg?
I have plenty of beef with the American political system, but a loud group of motivated Americans absolutely has the ability to influence government decisions. If you, a citizen, decided you really cared about something, and gathered your like-minded fellow citizens to amplify your voice, you have a real chance at making an impact. That cannot be said in any way, shape, or form for a foreign power.
Sure, rephrased "die unnecessarily, again,"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/02/11/trumps-pol...

I haven't said that America is perfect or innocent. And past problems don't mean we shouldn't work to prevent future ones.

Ok. It's dismissive. I don't understand. This is deeply confusing and disheartening to me. I find it unconscionable to put my own quality of life above others living at all, and am having a lot of trouble processing why so many people have. I could ask you how bad it is exactly but I wouldn't vote for Trump even if I was homeless. So maybe I can't understand.
Many rick men are giving back for the soft power (i.e. the politics play). Or indirectly investing into their new ventures (like giving money to buy vaccines and also making the vaccines by their other company). Plus some interesting tax write-offs.

So, thanks for the charity, but I would rather prefer them to pay that as taxes.
You can experience that emotion and then logic your way to "it probably doesn't make sense then to vote for massive tariffs." If you don't logic your way to that next point, then yeah, you're making a bit of an emotionally-tainted decision.
Driving is a right because travel is a right and walking between two points separated by dozens of miles on a daily basis is about as reasonable a suggestion as "let them eat cake".
same in MS DOS

you have far and near pointers modifiers
Did we read the same article? Microsoft labeled an update as "security updates" when it was in fact an upgrade to Windows Server 2025
why would any one care? a world leader will have blood on his hands, one way or another
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/watch-live-trump-s...

Any such calculated attempt at appearing tough would break down when a bullet barely missed your head. His reaction of staying on stage and encouraging the crowd would be quite hard to fake.
China is known to be actively spying and meddling in Canadian domestic politics in ways that are not legal or the normal diplomatic channels.

Describing them as an enemy might be too far, but you certainly wouldn’t describe China as a friend.
A more fair comparison would be subtract it from the size the of source code required to represent the LLM.
No, tariffs are his way of saying "magic wand make economy good" to people who don't (but can and should) know better.
> Going to a concert in an arena and sitting half a kilometer from a band to listen to them play is dystopian.

I agree with some of what you said, but no. People love being part of a huge crowd all doing the same thing, like it or not; a mass gathering has a power all of its own, the bigger the better. Unfortunately - or maybe not - that means winner-takes-all dynamics are inevitable.
No because the US is happy of having those giants data, sometimes without even needing a warrant. We already have multiple evidence in courts and news and congress hearings that all of those and Apple gave to various US agencies for years.

But since Bytedance doesn't dance at NSA's tune, different rules apply.
> She didn't center a coherent vision of the improved future only she could get the country to.

So the default is to vote for a person who will run the world into the ground? I don't understand why the onus on the sane person to prove why they're going to make things better. I guess people think that any change is good change? Yet people voted Hitler into power.

My take is that America was founded during a time of very high "mental activity" and engagement. In the 1700s people read for fun, the printing press just having been invented the prior century; and listened to candidates debate for hours, at a level of complexity that is beyond people today. A democracy takes that kind of mental energy and engagement to sustain. The citizens of the US seem to be too complacent, too uncaring, to uneducated to preserve their freedom, and so they won't keep it. Sad to see.
My first thought on reading the title was "8k hours is a lot of quarters".
> This is a technology problem. Media technology (radio, recordings, television, and movies) has essentially killed live performance of all kind compared to what it was once like.

Not sure I agree, or maybe just partly. Radio has been around for over a hundred years. Movies too. Bars and hotels have been able to play recorded music on cassette, then CD, now streaming, for at least 70 years.

This decline of the working musician is a much more recent phenomenon.
China hasn't been communist since Deng Xiaoping. It's not liberal, though, it's a tightly controlled economy.
It's not particularly deep and genuine to double-tap to add a heart emoji to a video of a skimpily dressed complete stranger you "met" 5 seconds ago and will never see again unless Tiktok's algorithms think that would result in greater ad revenue.
super low effort comments for sure.
Biden should have picked Klobuchar in 2020
hmmm you are right, the ergonomics of providing context are more powerful in zed. Feedback taken, we will work on it.

We implicitly take in all the diagnostics on the files https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/e5408782a3bfa461...
Even this article suffers from the same issues? Just in the first few paragraphs: what are spherical harmonics? I read the Wikipedia article but it all went way above my head. There really needs to be a maths-for-smart-but-not-math-phd-people resource.
HN is not largely populated by hackers. It's populated mostly by people working for SV-type companies.
Are we sure the effect will be what we assume? Don’t democrats skew more educated and higher income at this point
Why would it cost $10 a day?

It should not cost more than a dollar a day.

Take AWS and azure credits and run it for free for years
You'd be surprised how many companies or individuals won't exchange money with you if doing so puts them in criminal or civil legal jeopardy. No need for even a Great Firewall.
While I agree with your overall comment, in that clip Cenk says that picking Tim Walz as VP was the obviously right thing to do.

I don't think that's as obvious as Cenk seems to believe it is.
Music is 80% familiarity 20% novelty. Western scales are 100% gruel when you consider the available audio spectrum/combination. And yet I bet a large portion of music you enjoy is made up of 'gruel' made to be 'gruel' simply to have that common connection you deride. And even if not, do you not have genres that you enjoy? Each genres just being their own brand of gruel with whatever familiar makeup defines it?
My developer friend in Japan who always wanted a family never received much dates and when he did not one commited.

So he married a woman from India and now they've 4 kids.

It wasn't about money, no one was willing to make this sacrifice for him.
Read some real life accounts of victims of BPD individuals here for contrast: https://www.reddit.com/r/BPDlovedones/

I thought I was special as well. I wasn't and neither is anyone else posting there.
I've taken the linked Russ Tedrake class and have to say I loved this. Please make more!
Surveillance is a bipartisan interest, and neither candidate would or will limit US surveillance capabilities.

We do this to ourselves, by electing to only use products that are marketed to us as safe or private. Of course, the only businesses successful enough to mass-advertise their products are the ones that acquiesce to horrible surveillance states like China, Russia and FIVE-EYES. So... NSA wins, fearmongers and paranoia-mongering politicians win, international adversaries win, and all American voters on either side of the aisle lose. We're just too dumb of a nation to seriously resist surveillance, no matter who wins whatever election.
Nixon’s Southern Strategy only worked because LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act. He famously said “We have lost the south for a generation” after signing it.
It's an interesting list. Definitely something for everyone on there.
When I watch my sister talking with my mum about health problems, I'm aware that - as a man (and a programmer) - I repeatedly fall into the trap of 'trying to find a solution'. So I humbly suggest to all the other men/programmers out there who are caring for someone else, always try first to acknowledge what someone is saying to you, rather than trying to jump straight to a solution, because the latter can sometimes appear to be ignoring that person's feelings or condition, or failing to acknowledge them.
They could request an audit (and ban if tiktok refuses). They could monitor the results they are getting in the recommendations based on specific list of criteria. They could propose moderation rules tiktok would have to follow (kinda similar to how it operates in China - they have a different algorithm there). They could request tiktok servers to be in Canada.
"I tried to be civil, but people didn't like what I had to say. Rather than asking why they disagree, I'm going to assume they're evil criminals."
At a company I used to be at they used GitHub Enterprise and some repos definitely seemed to have linked repos or linked commits (I don't remember exactly but there was some way of linking for repos that depended on each other).
An SFH in a big city is a luxury, as you say, something has to give.
You can't have cheap SFH in a nice neighborhood next to your job for everyone, there is reason why buildings exist
It's impossible to take this argument seriously when Americans are out there buying more junk than ever, from eggs to bass boats. Household debt service ratios are as low as they've ever been, significantly lower than the Trump years. Americans can very demonstrably afford these things, which is expected because their earnings are way up, more than prices are up.

This article and the source material from the Economist argue that what really happened is Republicans negatively polarized themselves against the economy, and will just say anything in surveys. https://www.econlib.org/why-so-sad/
the hetzner one is a dedicated pcie 4.0 nvme device and wrote at 2.3GB/s (O_DIRECT)

the AWS one is some emulated block device, no idea what it is, other than it's 20x slower
You misunderstand. Given that data MAY be a graph structure, the markup MUST support that. A tree with pointers to the parent nodes has a graph structure, a common enough occurrence.
Their autocomplete experience is decent, but I've gotten the most value out of Cursor's "chat + codebase context" (no idea what it's called). The feature where you feed it the entire codebase as part of the context, and let Cursor suggest changes to any parts of the codebase.
"Gesinnungsethik" - We had the purest ideas, never mind the results. A real scourge. For some reason, it seems to be most popular with those with the highest education and the corresponding parties. Intelligent people doing stupid things on the regular, that takes ideology.
It is a frustrating and often ineffectual system, but I simply cannot disagree more that I, as an American citizen, have equivalent powerlessness over the American government as I do over the Chinese government. There is a clear and storied history of people who cared about issues making real change to the American government and the lives of their fellow citizens. There are plenty of terrible things this country has done as well, but I’m not ready to give up on it yet and assume the Chinese government is equivalent.
Apply is really straightforward. The dictionary stuff is very annoying overhead but it’s nice keeping everything in one language.
I made my passport photos on a phone camera against a white wall, stitched them together with other family members and printed them on a 4x6 photo at CVS.

I think it cost something like $0.68 for 2 photos, each of which had all four of our photos plus 2 extra spots.
No, it only worked because many white southerners were racists twats, and still were at least when I was living in Mississippi in the late 1980s. They still revere Andrew Jackson (founder of D) and hate Lincoln (founder of R), even though they are caucusing with the Republicans these days.
> I think we are moving away from this kind of Authoritarianism, and embracing the freedom of diversified opinions.

I think the exact opposite.
Really enjoyed this article last week. I wonder how obvious or how long it would take most players to see the difference between the (preferred) original, and the redone Remastered.

The part about why the author spent another 600 hours playing after the negative review is heartwarming as heck: to help other people modding.

Battlezone 98 was an incredible game for me, even if I didn't get far into it. The blend of fps and rts felt sweeping and epic, gave a sense of scale I hadn't experienced. The game ran incredibly smoothly on the Pentium mmx with crappy voodoo banshee.

My hours logged is nowhere near Sacrifice, a game with incredibly different setting (planes hopping wizard currying favor with local dieties), but both games had that blend of first-person and rts that was incredibly challenging & of incredibly neat scale, teaversing huge open spaces. I only play them once or twice a decade now, but they're games that recur in my thoughts a lot.
Agreed, and 4 years into PS5, the onus on making the PS4 a "quality" experience is lower, vs. just giving PS4 owners "something" to play e.g. in developing markets where people mightn't have upgraded yet.

An analogy I might draw is the FIFA games, where FIFA 14 came out on the PS4 and PS3, but also the PS2 and Wii, which were just roster updates of previous years (no new gameplay features whatsoever), and clearly that was acceptable to enough people to give EA the trouble of developing, printing and distributing.
The problem is people don't really see wage increases and inflation as things that balance each other out. They think of raises as something earned that will improve their lifestyle - when inflation cancels that out, it can feel like you were cheated out of that reward.

Even if you understand intellectually that a pay increase is a cost of living adjustment, that doesn't mean it isn't disheartening to see your new earnings being eaten up by inflation.
I've listened to what he said, firsthand and frequently. He's deliberately divisive and uses racist and violent rhetoric whenever possible (even in the last week of the election). 8 years ago I was open to attacks against him being fearmongering and then I lived through 4 years of his presidency. Not everything people say about him is true, but the vast majority is. It is difficult to justify "got tired of this shit" as though it's not true, when a large number of his own former cabinet members AND his own former vice president refused to endorse him, saying that he is unfit for office.

I mean, come on.
multiply 50 gigabytes * 20 and tell me what you get

pro-tip: it's quite a bit bigger than a terabit
It feels like in many cases the voters essentially do not know what they want, other than something different than what they have now.

Which seems to produce the ironic result you observe, that winning can be damaging.
As a non-US citizen, I find it shocking that such a high number of US
citizens need to live on food stamps, so I checked the numbers.

Indeed, it's 41.2 million out of a total of 334.9 million U.S.-Americans, or 12.3 % or more than one in ten folks - that this is more than one in hundred suprised me because the US are by some counts the "richest" country on the planet.

It's merely the country with the richest few, perhaps this calculation is just a way to show statistically what many believed all along, namely that the so-called "American dream" is a pipe dream for most, in the sense that the majority of people simply fund a tiny fews success in the way lottery ticket buyers fund a few select millionaires that don't deserve it.
enormous exit taxes

Huh? Can you speak more about that?

much of the western world in a similarly bad state

That is the real crux. The only chance so to speak is to go to a western country that's in better state, though it's not necessarily gonna be a good state.

The US honestly seems like the best option right now

That probably depends on various things. Are you a white male with the right job? Not too bad. Are you male and the wrong job or you might like other men? Much less good. Are you female or non-white? You may want to reconsider. Not that the AfD isn't gonna be problematic in those regards but the US is definitely going into a bad direction that way.
Except that at the the lower income bracket, there are many more Democrats than Republicans (58% to 36% according to Pew[0]). So I don't think the election turned on poor people not being able to even afford food.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship...
It's an online multiplayer PvP game. There is no pacing, conclusion or completeness like a single-player "estimated 40 hour playthrough" game, discovery is a metagame, and a review veering into historiography can add relevant and useful information for prospective players because of it, not in spite of it.
Yes, because it’s not “Democrats” that the far right wants to prevent from voting, it’s anyone poor or from an ethnic minority, who often happen not to have as much access to a DMV or other facility in which they can obtain an ID.

Elsewhere in the thread is mentioned the predominantly-Black county that has a DMV only open one day a month. Why do you think that is?
Is canonilization not irrelevant. Any format with comments is not canonical; so xᴍʟ is not, ᴊꜱᴏɴ has escapes options for string characters so it not either.

Response to graph conjecture stated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42072133.
So I'm in the Philippines. These things have far-reaching effects outside of the US because of the dollar. This is why Filipinos (and Latinos, and Muslims) love Trump. A female Filipino business owner gushed to me a few hours ago (awkward!) about how she's happy because now she'll be able to afford to fuel her car (gas/petrol is notoriously expensive in SE Asia for most people).

Point is, business, markets and consumers vote their interests. Look at Wall Street, Bitcoin, &c. in the hours leading up to the election.
You reminded me of a fun fact.

When the Elkann family (which owns majority stake in Stellantis, Juventus, Ferrari and many others) got pissed off by the largest newspaper in Italy reporting on them (despite their businesses impacting the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Italians) they simply bought the newspaper and the major critical voice of them disappeared.
(3) Play console-exclusive games (or they want to play online with their friends who do)

(4) Don't have money for computer (there is a lot of overlap here, a PC may or may not be cheaper in cases for a given perf level)

(5) Gift bought by non tech-savvy family member

(6) Do own a computer, but just want a different and more plug and play device to relax with after staring at said computer for 10 hours a day
The Canadian government needs to gain control over the internet before the internet outcompetes the Canadian government...But every effort to impose totalitarianism will be mocked, resisted, & rejected. The Canadian government is cooked.
1/2 of the claimed benefits are just lies: China isn't going to be paying the tariffs, but maybe it will spark some limited increase in US manufacturing. The thing it will do is increase prices (inflation).
Everybody needs to read Manufacturing Consent [1].

A big part of that is how the media is used to push a particular narrative. Every US tech company plays ball with the US government and moves in lockstep with US foreign policy.

The threat of Tiktok (to Western governments) is that allows users to see things that other platforms bury, downrank, outright block or otherwise censor.

A big example of this was the train derailment in East Palestine, OH [2] last year. I reember for at least a week seeing things about the chemical spill, the evacuations and the smoke from the burn (which was visible from space) and I saw absolutely nothing on mainstream media.

You see this in the last year where what's happening on the Middle East manages to get out on Tiktok in a way it really doesn't on IG, Youtube or Facebook [3]. Information simply cannot be tolerated to move as freely as this, hence the scare campaign about Chinese control of Tiktok.

That's why you don't see any effort to, say, have a data protection regime. The goal is to control what you're allowed to see.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[2]: https://www.wired.com/story/east-palestine-ohio-train-derail...

[3]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
In order to be heard, truly heard, you have to be able to be understood. Music is 80% familiarity. Rarely can you just add your 20% uniqueness and be understandable. All music starts with 80% gruel as the base recipe.
There's Pure, but it's not exactly mainstream: https://agraef.github.io/pure-lang/
More people than jobs, which is why they are so easy to exploit.
Could someone in the ads world give an estimate of how this would work? What volume of data would need to be purchased, how one individual person could be de-anonymized from that volume of data, how much it would cost to do, etc.

I've always been terrified to think about how much of my data is out there, but I don't understand enough about how it can be used, and the potential risks.
The IDP feels like such a scam. I have to get it every year and it is so annoying.
Two different companies.

The Santa Cruz Operation Inc (the original SCO) sold its UNIX assets
to Caldera around 2001, pivoted to VDI and renamed itself to Tarantella, before being acquired by Sun, and in turn Oracle. The original SCO played no part in this.

Caldera then renamed itself to The SCO Group, and then used SCO's good name in its shakedown.
What does Canada booting a Chinese company have to do with US companies in Europe?

You do know that Canada is not the US, and most Canadians do not identify or want to be seen as American.

In any case, the solution here is glaringly obvious. If you think that American companies pose a national security threat, or that they serve as unofficial tools of an adversarial government remove them from the country using legal means, just like Canada did.