skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many countries have a higher birth rate today than last year.
They tend to be lower income, have fewer women's rights, or be more agricultural.

IMHO, we overemphasized the dangers and impact of children, especially for women or career, and so couples have made the rational decision to have fewer children in industrialized nations, when given the choice.
Right, this new estimate can be useful for decision support: if we plant X acres, how much CO2 would it absorb? It's not very important outside of that, and it cant have caused significant past errors because to date humans have not undertaken large-scale planting for CO2 absorption reasons.
If you enjoy Firefox, try Zen browser. You’ll lever look back
They describe quite different phenomena, both in terms of the actual state of being and how they're deployed as a slur? "autistic" seems to be more like "nerd" used to be a slur (but also sometime identity badge) before the rise of SV billionaires.

I've never heard "autistic" applied to anything other than people (and possibly animals, for humour) for example, in the way the r word was used as a stronger version of "dumb".

Anyway, I think people having to be a little careful with their words is a small price to pay to breaking the linguistic and stereotypical link between people with learning difficulties, Downs etc. and dumb, annoying situations.

It's called spelling a word because words are spells, which is why it's ok to place some of them off-limits.
As a kid hacking away on an Apple II this was apparent; all the good Basic games were written in Woz’s Integer Basic.
On the internet, no one knows you have compound eyes.
I live in a major city where people also don't use cash. Some older people still do, but absolute most transactions are cashless, especially if you'd ask eg a coffee shop or a restaurant. It is about 99:1 - 97:3 ratio of cashless:cash.

Internet outages are extremely rare and are fixed in just about an hour, be it a major backbone outage, a bank server outage, or a local wire cut. In this case, most cafes will switch to a mobile hotspot connection.

Not an issue, and wasn't for like last 10 years. I honestly don't remember when I had cash on me.
Not totally related but on Firefox mobile you can't have a Youtube video playing while switching to another app anymore.
> I imagine most of us will be still be working just as much -- if not more

Yes but there will be far less of us working.

Which, in a healthy society would actually be a good thing.
I worked at an almost-medium-sized company and we did quite a lot of A/B testing. In most cases the data people would be like "no meaningful difference in user behaviour". Going by gut feeling and overall product metrics (like user churn) turns out to be pretty okay most of the time.

The one place that A/B testing seem to have a huge impact was on the acquisition flow and onboarding, but not in the actual product per se.
Why and how to do skip level 1-1s (2024)
And that was fast because google pushed on megabytes of javascript and tight loops in it. Regular ajax (now known as htmx) webpages worked absolutely fine in other browsers. I regularly scrolled through a whole freebsd single-html handbook and it never lagged in e.g. presto.

Websites aren't expensive to run even on a slow interpreter. Even medium-complexity apps don't do much and could be written in python or ruby back then.

The only source of website lag is ads networks.
Take the pedals off the bike
I would under no circumstance join the IDF or even live in Israel. They’re not “kids”, they are military personnel.
I think the main reason ZFS's native encryption isn't recommended is that there's known bugs in its implementation, especially around key rotation and send/recv.
> there's a Profiles revamp coming up that's looking really good in Nightly

Oh wow! I totally missed this. Thank for sharing!

I've been using multiple browsers for as long as I can remember. But always liked Firefox ocer the others. Especially now with container tabs.

And the only thing I keep wishing for, has been a better experience with profile management, but also running the browser in different profiles.

I'm really looking forward for these updates
Moreover, Firefox makes it super easy to screenshot individual elements on a webpage, such as photos, by automatically determining the screenshot boundaries, which means I don't have to manually drag the screenshot area.
Only found this one in Swedish: https://www.riksbank.se/sv/press-och-publicerat/nyheter-och-...
Databases seem to grow much slower than other assets, so maybe this price advantage just won't be worth the vendor lockin. Hell my current extremely valuable postgres database worth literally millions of dollars is about thirteen gigs and could be hosted on my mac mini if I really wanted to. Still, the managed hosting is worth it—only without vendor lockin!
You were a founder at the age of 10 then for your post from 2016? Doubt
This is interesting to know, but easy to overstate IMO.

Back of the envelope number is 10 kg of CO2 absorbed per maturing tree and year (for ~20 years).

This means you would need to plant almost 1000 trees for each person (assuming roughly US/EU emission level) to compensate for current emissions only, every 20 years. That just seems infeasible to me, and a factor of 30% is not gonna change this significantly.

Renewables + electrification seems much more realistic, when countries like France are already under 5 tons CO2/year/person by relying on carbon-free electricity (US is at 15!).

But it's still nice to know because at least planting/conserving trees apparently helps even more than expected...
> I have personally been bitten once (about 10 years ago) by btrfs just failing horribly on a single desktop drive.

Me, too. The drive was unrecoverable. I had to reinstall from scratch.
I feel the same way about companies with CIA founders.
I've used Firefox on desktop since 2019. It's upsetting how often (it's not every day, but more often than it should) a website just doesn't work because of the devs didn't test on Firefox at all. I even ran into this on Vanguard, a firm that manages god knows how much in assets, on a page to download PDFs...

I used to get teased (all in good fun) at my last company for being the only dev that used Firefox. Then I'd be the only one to ever catch the Firefox only bugs in PRs.

I get it - it's got way less market share, and for a small company, you may be able to argue the value of the time vs the probability of a bug, but not having your website work on all browsers in the 2020s (aside from new browser features like WebGPU and file system access) is a let down.
> I'm fairly confident that it would be possible to create new social media apps that were less driven by outrage,

How? App development needs money, which is today acquired through ads, which need eyeballs, and therefore engagement, which is easiest to get by outrage.

> and an app of this type would have a good chance of stealing users from existing ones, because the smartest people would tend to migrate to it.

Why would most normal people follow the smart people?
One day, I might have to go through the trouble to do this!
American workers' enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low
Apples and footballs; in NYC, I suspect the poor don't drive in the first place.
Yes - I've been quite disappointed by this recently. I'm trying to make something that can interact with embedded devices and wanted to use the web serial JS API.

Unfortunately it seems that the powers that be at Firefox have no plans to support it on account of privacy and security - which I half get, but, it appears to be an established standard in Chrome. The discussion surrounding it kinda sucked and well.
Tale as old as time.
Can you write more about your experiences with both and things you'd wish you'd known? Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, I'm glad to help with OP's question. A more enlightened reader might have understood that I mentioned my wife to subtly suggest that there may be any number of reasons for white people to be working with Sikhs, but I keep forgetting that that sort of subtlety doesn't go well on HN where some people need more straightforward language. Live and learn.
I don't know exactly what she studied but it was probably some combination of western and traditional Chinese medicine. The government of "The New China" has been highly supportive of the latter and trying to find a scientific basis for some of it with some success.

Folk religion includes other practices which are illegal under the Communist regime and were also illegal under Chiang Kai-Shek.

In Hubei province, for instance, a family with a troubled child might seek help from a "fox medium" who might attempt to divine the problem by inspecting the ashes from burnt incense and then, if that fails, be possessed by a fox spirit who will tell the people involved how it's going to be. If people don't play along they may be "haunted" for months which could partially be a matter of laying down a strong memory but is also not a difficult feat to accomplish in a culture where there are small and large fox shrines everywhere and everybody gets a fox figurine when they are born (which you will put on an altar together with your partner's when you get married.) Arraigning scenes in a small village isn't that hard, particularly if the fox has a network of confederates who owe the fox a favor or are otherwise in its power.

C's mom may very well have seen these practices be successful herself and almost certainly knew people who knew people who had been helped.

That was psychiatry for most of human existence, I mean we've had Freud for 120 years, decent psych drugs for 60. Similar practices have been documented in Africa, Polynesia, the Americas, etc. Here people get multiple psychiatric hospitalizations but never a real DX or RX. Here I saw pamphlet funded by a pharmaceutical company that made it sound as if, with his prescription pad, a doctor transforms Ritalin from a dangerous addictive drug to a safe ADHD treatment just like the priest at the Catholic church transforms bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

From a cross-cultural perspective our practices are a fad like everybody having gluten intolerance or autism and those practices are time tested. If I tried to do the same thing in modern North America, however, I'd have a much harder time.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kang13338
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262829300_Persuasio...
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Therapy-Psychiatric-Techniqu...
That would be a disaster. We don’t have 10x more arable land that can be farmed at industrial scale. Global agricultural land is about 2/3rds pasture that can grow enough grass for ruminants but it can’t really grow food for humans.

The amount of land used to grow fodder is actually a small fraction of the land animals use, so you wouldn’t gain much back, you’d just lose all the calories supported by land that is otherwise unproductive.
Love your point here - the non verbal-ness of it feels like an increasingly rare thing in our lives (especially in tech).

Music and I suppose other traditional 'fine arts' (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc) are these windows into creation that's not as mediated by language, which is arguably the defining feature of humans.

I suppose dance / ballet / etc would be another similar space too, a kind of physical creation not mediated by language.

Towering above all other art forms, though, remains music - with such an immediacy to it (both in terms of how it hits your senses and how easily it seems to convey emotionality). It's no wonder that it looks like it's the top form of 'art' made and enjoyed by humans these days.
Cool. Why phone home the user's environment, then? The vulnerability could very much be confirmed by simply sending a stub instead of live envs.
Fear of Israelis, sure. But hatred? Come on. Israel has done a lot in the past year, and is being accused of genocide. The fact that is used a conscript army makes it worse, not better.

Also, okay then let's switch it up to the Russian army. Would you use a product with known ties to some electronic warfare russian army unit. Or rather, would you consider any doubts or hesitations over using said product to be "russophobic"?
It feels like we can never catch a break. If we do something like underestimate the amount of CO2 plants absorb it still does nothing to change our fate.

Is there anything in our climate models that if we got wrong would drastically reduce the estimated severity of long term impacts from climate?
> most of the countries of the world had a net tree cover loss.

This also doesn't really matter.

Russia, Canada, Brazil, the US, and China are about ~60% of the world's trees.

Their forest areas could grow by only 2-3% and dozens of small countries could lose substantial percentages of their forests, and we'd still end up with a ton more trees and forest area.
And if they use abandoned / derelict buildings to group up and start their "operations"? Removing those is a nice first step.
It's reasonable I think to assume that the economics would shift if HFCS weren't so cheap.

If say soda were 10% more expensive, how many sales would be lost? Would the risk of losing sales justify reducing the amount of sweetener to retain those customers? Would Americans then recalibrate their taste buds to less sweet beverages?

FWIW, American packaged junk food like potato chips often has lower sodium today than it used to, so there's evidence that you can slowly adjust this stuff without losing sales.
Apparently this guys is unaware that pedalless balance bikes for kids already exist, and are quite popular. The idea is to get kids used to doing the hard part--staying balanced--first, then when they get a 'real' bike, they don't need training wheels, or at least, not so much.
I heard someone recently describe Apple as a great hardware company with a few software people. Rings true!

Most of the iOS / MacOS software issues are things that more bodies could fix.
Stack people in pods, keep them plugged into VR entertainment, feed them paste.

The Matrix is the ultimate goal of consumer capitalism. Your dreams of efficient resource use brought to life!!!!!

The incentives are for rich to get rich, for the tautological purpose of being rich in unicorn horns bank account size.

Politics, culture, society has been aligned to this over the last four decades as the echoes of collective identity from world war 2 faded away.

Families and regulation, environmental social or whatever, are arbitrated away across global trading boundaries by the rich.

I bet you can't wait to get a brain plug,let us know when you do
> Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube.

While I agree; between an up-to-date uBlock Origin and https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/chrome-mask YT is quite usable.

Long term I'm more worried by Mozilla leadership than Google shenanigans.
A few notes from analyst research on this.

Robinhood got off pretty easily here, looks like a settlement was rushed so it wouldn't pass onto the next administration.

> The messaging apps probe appears to have settled for $8 million, well below the $100 million we anticipated based on a $104 million accrual in 3Q23

> Fines connected to a 2021 data breach came in at $2 million, consistent with our view they'd be below $10 million.

They have a few other lawsuits on the go at the moment.

One is a class action lawsuit over them taking higher Payment for order flow that lowered the execution quality that their clients got.

Bloomberg is estimating this as 70% likely to be settled in Robinhoods favour

The other is their cash sweep lawsuit where they are accused of paying unreasonably low rates on their cash sweep products. Here they are not alone as many of their peers are also being sued for the same issue.

Schwab, for instance, settled with the SEC for $187M for this in 2022.
Has anyone found a fix for this? It's very annoying, and has been around for years.
Zen looks interesting thanks for sharing
Agreed. I have worked for several companies who tried to self-host their VCS etc, and their uptime was way worse, the overall cost was higher, and there were less features. Having a backup is always a good idea though, and an emergency plan for how to onboard to a competitor.
You use it at work knowing that they'll never know and you'll never get sued.
I guess it must not violate the law as the last president vowed that men would be ineligible and he would only select a woman: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/15/politics/joe-biden-woman-...
It really is a world of difference - XBMC 20+ years ago made your TV a wonder to behold, more powerful than anything anyone else would have (and desirable, too!).

Now a full Plex + JellyFin + Infuse setup just makes it feel like some sort of knockoff Netflix.

There are still advantages. But they’re not as noticeable (main one being if you can find it, you can have it instead of having to search various streaming platforms).
Well, when you start a raidz with 2 devices you've already done goofed. Start with a mirror or at least 3 devices.

Also, if you don't wait to upgrade until the disks are at 100% utilization (which you should never do! you're creating massive fragmentation upwards of ~85%) efficiency in the real world will be better.
My first though: WTF? All hail Manifest v3?
> For work I use a work machine and if it gets compromised it's not really my own problem.

Is that really a good mindset for a organization?
If you need Windows, you can use something like restic (checksums and compression) and external drives (more than one, stored in more than one place) to make a backup. Plus "maybe" but not needed ReFS (on your non-Windows partition), which is included in the Workstation/Enterprise editions of Windows.

I trust my own backups much more than any subscription, not essentially from a technical point of view, but from an access point of view (e.g. losing access to your Google account).

EDIT: You have to enable check-summing and/or compression for data on ReFS manually

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/ref...
I sometimes do have several Youtube tabs open to line up things I want to watch next.
Why would I accept your challenge? Your post and unwillingness to even spell "Khalsa" correctly speaks for the excellent faith and attention to detail that you're bringing to this discussion. Everything about your discussion can be summarized by this pair of mutually incompatible sentences:

> Not everything is an attack on your people.

And

> But I always found it a bit strange how Indian people, Muslim Hindu or Sikh, get so defensive the moment anything remotely negative is said about them.

Which one is true? Are you saying negative things, or is it not an attack? Feel free to answer, but as with the original reddit video, we are all free to decide ourselves.
"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to...
I heard police officers say that lot of homeless people are doing some sort of crime.

It's not an oppression to read statistics. It's a good first step in trying to fix stuff.
Experimenting with Stealer Logs in Have I Been Pwned
Not clear from the linked article. Did you see something else?

NPP is probably increasing as it's been observed for years now that the earth is net greening in response to rising CO2
Sorry I actually meant hydro, not geothermal!
There was nowhere to charge in the 8 other places in the UK I've lived that aren't London in the last 50 years...
I feel I've been nerdsniped or, some other term for your quest being contagious, I also now need to know if this is possible

I found a thread from someone who seems to know what they're talking about saying it's not going to happen "on your hardware", but doesn't mention what hardware might be required

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/can-intel-integrated-gpu-out...

Edit actually reading that link again it sounds like a USB adapter worked right away as a monitor for the VM and the OP is asking how to prevent this ! So seems you just need to enable GPU passthrough, and a USB HDMI will appear to your VM ? Will have to try this later today
Looks great!

would like to see a supported Terraform provider
True, but as the comment a few above mentions, “we demand growth long after everyone is satisfied.” Why even grow at all once you’ve achieved a great networked speaker? If the product is mature, everything after is gimmicks especially weighed against user satisfaction, the ultimate goal.
> I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often.

Why not? How often?

This should take literally 5s using the bookmark manager, right click on "Bookmarks Toolbar", "Open All Bookmarks". Then some more to load the websites I guess.
> the maid works long hours 6 days a week

It's probably exactly the same amount they'd be working back home. 6 days (legally) or even more (illegal but rarely/never enforced) is common in many industries across SEA, maid service assuredly being one of them, along with everything else in the hospitality and F&B industries.
Good point. I suppose many people, like me, would not think about that.. but.. IANAL but at least in Germany I think there's often some correlation of "not profit-oriented" and "no commercial purpose" - I mean, every time you let someone pay for membership in your club, it can be seen as commercial, but mostly not.
There's stuff all the time:

https://eji.org/news/alabama-attorney-general-releases-white...

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

Or here's a case where 6 officers collude to torture 2 black people to death (https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-guilty-pleas...). Surely they'll get a real sentence now that it's news, but it makes you wonder how many cases never get identified as racially-based when the investigators are the perpetrators.

And boy it sure does seem odd that further south you go the more of a problem it is... I wonder what could explain that phenomenon....
I go through my feed or history and bg-open the links I want to watch. Then I watch them.

What a strange confusion, as if all people must have the same "workflow". Sorry, no intent to sound negative, but why not give it some thought at least. It's "6 tabs", not "6 videos playing at the same time".
Latency still matters a lot…
The only part of the article I disagree with is this line:

> But in general, it’s a good idea not to install NPM packages blindly. If you know what to look for, there are definite signals that these packages are dodgy. All of these packages have just two files: package.json and index.js (or main.js). This is one of several flags that you can use to determine if a package is legit or not.

This works -- maybe OK for top-level packages. But for transitive dependencies it's nearly impossible to vet every transitive dependency.

If you're pulling in a package that has 400 dependencies, how the heck would you even competently check 10% of that surface area? https://gist.github.com/anvaka/8e8fa57c7ee1350e3491#top-1000...
Which performative activities, though, for which very small, fickle, and vocal portion of the population? Have you seen Musk's or Zuck's antics lately? Condemning the lesser offender(s) can gain favor with the greater, but it's useless for making any real point. Who's being performative now?
What Is It (In Ruby 3.4)?
Great book. A couple of others I’ve also found super helpful:

- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter (https://a.co/d/dRDXQtg)

- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (https://a.co/d/aw73ped)

I’ve also found some good stuff in Lenny Rachitsky’s Podcast/Blog (https://www.lennyrachitsky.com)
> Why are corporations dropping it as soon as it became socially acceptable to do so if it is providing value to them?

Goalposts are moving quite a bit here. Companies are dropping some affirmative action, but I don’t see anyone dropping things such as pronouns or unisex restrooms, vegetarian/halal/kosher meal options, and so on.