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by tfehring 8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992553
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by tfehring 8mo ago
I don't follow. The fertility rate has decreased significantly for US-born women of every race and ethnicity since the 1990s. I couldn't quickly find good stats on trend in birth control usage or labor force participation by race,
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by tfehring 8mo ago
This is surely part of the story historically, but not recently. Women’s labor force participation rate peaked in the late 90s in the US, while total fertility rate is down ~20% since then. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series
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by tfehring 8mo ago
The timing for those factors doesn’t match the timing of the fertility decline in the US. Birth control usage is slightly down since the mid 90s. Among sexually active women not trying to get pregnant, the rate has been flat since 2002. ht
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by tfehring 8mo ago
I don’t think the evidence either way is strong enough to call that one a myth. There are lots of other differences between the two countries that could offset the impact of Austria’s childcare subsidies. There are plenty of longitudinal st
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by tfehring 8mo ago
13" Macbook Air, I rarely use a mouse to begin with. Trans-Pacific flights usually have a few extra inches of legroom compared to domestic flights, so it's not that cramped even in economy (and obviously a non-issue in premium eco
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by tfehring 8mo ago
Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours. I haven't tried OpenCiv3, but I'm glad it exists - getting vanilla Civ III runnin
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by tfehring 8mo ago
My mistake - I misinterpreted your comment, but after re-reading more carefully, it's clear that the video confirms exactly what you said.
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by tfehring 8mo ago
No, but if you run a shadow or offline camera-only model in parallel with a camera + LIDAR model, you can (1) measure how much worse the camera-only model is so you can decide when (if ever) it's safe enough to stop installing LIDAR, a
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by tfehring 8mo ago
I watched that video around both timestamps and didn't see or hear any mention of LIDAR, only of video.
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by tfehring 8mo ago
OpenAI models in general, yes - `opencode auth login`, select OpenAI, then ChatGPT Pro/Plus. I just checked and 5.3-codex isn't available in opencode yet, but I assume it will be soon.
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by tfehring 8mo ago
I don’t think that statement was missing the point. As you point out, what matters is the total cost of ownership of the system. The cost of launching mass into space today isn’t the only reason terrestrial data centers are more cost effect
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by tfehring 8mo ago
They do, at a much higher rate than the US as a whole, but cars are still dominant. Transit mode share in the city of Chicago is around 21%, down from 28% pre-pandemic, while driving is at 44%. For Chicagoland as a whole, driving is 63%, tr
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by tfehring 8mo ago
Driving to work is the most common way of commuting everywhere in the US except NYC. So in that sense, no, taking a taxi to work daily is not normal, just as walking, biking, and taking public transit aren’t normal. When I worked in San Fra
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by tfehring 8mo ago
Natural gas, not coal. From Wikipedia [0], "The electrical energy generation mix in 2024 was 40.7% natural gas, 31.8% coal, 15.5% nuclear, 4.5% solar, 3% wind, 2.9% hydroelectric, 1.4% biomass (including refuse-derived fuel), and 0.2%
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by tfehring 8mo ago
> When are we going to build a safe version of this? I built something similar to Clawdbot for my own use, but with a narrower feature set and obviously more focus on security. I'm now evaluating Letta Bot [0], a Clawdbot fork by Le
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by tfehring 8mo ago
It was unchanged at 4.4% from September to December (seasonally adjusted).
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by tfehring 8mo ago
27%* https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-politi...
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by tfehring 8mo ago
Not publicly disclosed as far as I'm aware, but likely 1x. In Q4 2021 when Brex last raised, only ~3% of rounds had >1x liquidation preference according to Carta. https://carta.com/data/state-of-private-markets-
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by tfehring 9mo ago
Homeownership rates are only ~flat in aggregate because the population is aging and older people are more likely to own their homes. The homeownership rates of Americans aged <35, 35-44, and 45-54 are down ~10% since 1982 and continuing
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by tfehring 9mo ago
Source?
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by tfehring 11mo ago
You’re correct. There are people in the US who drive in the passing lane without passing, but most consider that a bad practice, as it makes roads both less efficient and less safe.
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by tfehring 1y ago
Allianz Life publishes a HIPAA privacy notice at [0], which states: > This notice applies to individuals who participate in any of the following programs under the closed line of business: > • Long term care > • Medical > • Medi
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by tfehring 1y ago
Not Windows-specific, I had to go through about:config to enable this on MacOS as of late last year.
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by tfehring 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
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by tfehring 2y ago
Yep I totally get it and would probably go the same route in Polars' situation. Just sharing how some of the data teams I'm familiar with would likely be thinking about the tradeoffs.
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by tfehring 2y ago
That's almost certainly the main reason they're offering this on all 3 major public clouds from day 1.
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by tfehring 2y ago
The obvious one is that you can handle bigger workloads than you can fit in RAM on a single machine. The more important but less obvious one is that it right-sizes the resources needed for each workload, so you're not running an 8GB jo
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by tfehring 2y ago
This is really cool, not sure how I missed it. I assume catalog support will be added fairly quickly. But ironically I think the biggest barrier to adoption will be the lack of an off-ramp to a FOSS solution that companies can self-host. Ob
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by tfehring 2y ago
Anecdotally, I use rideshare every workday for last-mile transit from the train station, and I’ll pick the $13 Waymo over the $7 Uber every time. There are some inherent advantages to the self-driving, like improved safety [0] and not havin

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