skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basically pre-internet Yelp
It was a proxy war, a point which you've just made half of the case for.

The US bombing of Cambodia was without a doubt a defining factor in this event. It killed between 100,000 and 400,000 Cambodians, how could it not be? I have met people in Kampong Thom, right in the middle of the country, that talked about living in complete destitution for years due to the effects of the bombing, before Pol Pot's takeover. There is also quite a bit of shrapnel and unexploded ordinance laying around there still too.

There is just no doubt that this would not have happened if not for the Vietnam war. You can blame China as well of course, but don't forget that the US government began aiding the Khmer Rouge at a later point in time again too.

Try reading "My War with the CIA" by Norodom Sihanouk if you want a different perspective on all this.
The code which contains the fixes: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/2637
It also just costs more to do basic things. Buying a house, finding an apartment, college, finding a job (more competitive), there’s trends of more loneliness and lack of community, you have to learn graphql now, it doesn’t end, and so by the time you find yourself stable in all these things you’re much older, and well, worn out.

Starting a family used to be the first thing you did, but now it’s more of the capstone that one could easily not burden themselves with after all of life’s bullshit.

We are psychologically and financially exhausting a generation.
It's not rocket science, it's because they don't have to raise the kids - I'd be surprised if elon saw his kids for more than a third as much as the middle class sees theirs. Hell he wasn't even at the birth of his latest.
> Children have become more of a burden than a benefit in many ways.

If you view the purpose of your life through a purely hedonist lens, sure. If you view the purpose of your life as being a member of an unbroken chain going back to the very first living cell, with an incredible legacy to uphold and protect, the burden is really just a masked joy.
I wonder why C didn’t just include stdio.h as a default library?
Yes, this is the way to correctly prove "incompleteness", i.e that there are preferentially undecidable propositions in powerful theories of computer science.

See the following for a proof: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
The problem is a lot bigger than coal power. One example, agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation and many of our current agricultural practices have questionable long term sustainability. In addition our agricultural processes are introducing new diseases into the human population, including our current pandemic.

The problem of sustainably providing nutritious food people want to eat is just one of a dozen that we are not solving at acceptable levels.
Sad the amount of technological progress we may be missing out on by this, I rarely see it discussed but I think fertility is important in order for society to be able to maintain a steady course of improvement in science and technology.
Adding to the discussion, population density seems to cause lower birth rates:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27503981?seq=1

To me that seems like a natural feedback loop. Once population declines to a certain level people will want to have more kids.
Overall prognosis is still bleak.

>However, this will be a truly global issue, with 183 out of 195 countries having a fertility rate below the replacement level.

...

>As a result, the researchers expect the number of people on the planet to peak at 9.7 billion around 2064, before falling down to 8.8 billion by the end of the century.

...

>The population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to treble in size to more than three billion people by 2100.

We're still looking at a 2billion increase in population while simultaneously 9/10 billion people from least to less developed countries will be consuming more resources as they develop. Mostly through coal and oil.
Hopefully any organization that decides to use k8s goes into it understanding what they're getting into, but yes if you just get onto the hype train without thinking, you'll probably have a bad time when scaling.
Sure. Curing cancer. Imaging black holes. All a giant scheme.

In April, energy prices dropped. People stayed at home and read and just didn't mess up. If terrorists did not orchestrate the coordinated burning and looting of hundreds of USA cities, we might have kept it going. No more people telling everyone what to do from far away.

Can't have that.

So now we have to work our lives away again, just so some drunken mob does not cannibalize us from the inside.

Why is population declining? People are awful today. Horrible and cruel to one another. People work each other to death and destroy families without a second thought just for money they spendthrift away. Sharing in service, grief, passing on wealth and knowledge to the next ones up, that's all gone.

Now it's just a world of ogres. If you're kind, you're weak or weird. Everyone's looking to get one over on another. A pack of dogs cheating at cards paying monkeys to fix cars.
Over 50% of the worlds resources are consumed by the USA. A lot of it goes to waste e.g. restaurant food, "ugly" fruits etc

The problem isn't the quantity of those resources, the problem is in distribution. The world is abundant enough to comfortably support twice as many humans, if human inefficiencies, waste, greed and selfishness are factored out.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-consumpt...
Less future humans in contention for limited planetary resources.
The resources are there but they are misallocated and the few own most of them. When push come to shove it will become more and more obvious this is one of the problems. Until the we fight on stupid things
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Nope. Currency (paper money) is protected; I don't think coins are at all. Witness all the jewelry made from coins.
The current arrangement, where people with planning skills and self control aren't replacing themselves, is a disaster.

And as expected, the propaganda payload is at the end:

Prof Ibrahim Abubakar, University College London (UCL), said: "If these predictions are even half accurate, migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option."

So to prop-up our sham economy / pension machine for a while longer, we're going to import people who didn't maintain civil society in their own countries, and figured they'd flee to the west rather than stay put and fight the good fight?

Corporate propaganda for infinite 3rd-world labor.
Agenda from the top? Birth control played no role even though it let individuals decide on fertility?
OneWeb went bankrupt, but is being apparently bought by a consortium that includes the UK government. It may well compete on some level.

Amazon is also considering a LEO megaconstellation called Project Kuiper.
SAP is garbage at security. I worked there for a month, after a acquisition. In that time, I was given access to a system to control a cloud fleet, as a demo. That was five years ago. I contacted them half a dozen times and told them I still had access. I've reached out to multiple personal contacts, who brought it up with IT and security. I check every few months. I can still nuke or hijack that cloud today.
> if you actually mean there's a "top" that is dictating human sexuality I am deeply, deeply interested in seeing a schematic diagram for how that system works.

Access to birth control and abortion, social services and welfare, trends in divorce and family court ... All of these things are top-down forces that create a tapestry heavily influencing human sexuality and the choices men and women make. One only has to look at how different things were 50 or so (or less) years ago before these things were as widespread.
People used to want children so they could take care of you when you're older.

I suppose people don't plan that far anymore.
Did you read the article? It addresses this. "However, this stops being the answer once nearly every country's population is shrinking."
Some people have extraordinary wealth and they have the ability to set economic incentives, policies, and cultural influences for certain types of behavior to emerge. There's a hierarchy to our societies, there are people with great power and people with little to no power. I guess the greatest magic trick of the modern world is to make people believe such things do not exist.
i think the main question is if people want kids but aren’t having them for economic reasons or if they simply don’t want them.

the latter seems fine to me but we still need to solve the problem of paying for the social security ponzi scheme and will have to deal with increased labor costs (which could be a good thing)
? How can this affect you at all? Is this some projection of insecurity?

Remember <$1 in change would buy ... almost nothing. Some gum? 20 minutes on a parking meter?
It isn't just the choices. Young people are having less sex. Japan has noticed this. Declining sales of contraceptives but declines in both STDs and pregnancies, especially amongst the young. Incidents of the "oops we are pregnant" scenario have declined all over the western world. Western culture has for decades complained that young people have too liberal a view of sex. Remember those abstinence pushes in the 80s and 90s? Remember purity rings? They worked.
I'm from Spain and there it's only used when someone sneezes.

The word "Jesús" is rarely used nowadays to express a strong emotion like astonishment or disgust. It's something my grandparents would have said. My father is in his 60s and sometimes says it but only jokingly.

It's more common in Mexico but it's also disappearing. When someone sneezes the usual response is "salud".
I know it's unpopular but judicious use of significant white space would solve the ambiguity too.
I support this sentiment 100%.

In human population, we should be aiming for quality, not quantity. Quality also means diversity.

If higher quantity unavoidably brings a higher proportion of human suffering, then we have no other choice but to promote quality over quantity. I fear for the future of our species. Our evolutionary instinct to multiply combined with the tech we've created is now bringing this planet to the brink.

Everyone wants to exist. But I would rather exist in a positive way, than exist at all.
The boomers will be dead long before the system shocks itself. Probably the tail end of Gen Xers or Millenials that will get royally screwed, if I had to guess.
Restoring the Rolex Tudor That Took a Bullet in Vietnam
> I think we should start putting weight on stable unchanging software.

I think that they are just afraid of the income to stop coming in... so they keep working.
Uhm, it's "similar" to how autopilot works on commercial airplanes. And they have two human pilots.
I thought you mentioned that some of those numbers where in the suburbs?
I liked this because the author advocates for simplicity.
Not sure why you're downvoted. Your point strikes me as worthy of consideration
Visual Basic, strict mode.
A 401k is specifically a retirement account - you pay an extra 10% for withdrawing from it before age 59.5, which should add context to the rest of their paragraph.
The number of people who would be adversely 'negatively' affected if we said "alright, we're taking control of this situation and not just going to blindly let you maximize your profits at the expense of the rest of the planet" is pretty small. A few millionaires and billionaires. The majority of us will adapt just fine.
If you're a citizen, they're lying, cheating, and stealing from you. Turning a blind eye because it's a kind of crime you don't feel much of the impact from is shameful.
Thanks for your thorough explanation. Can you point to me what should I look at when I want to spot an actual job from fake one?
I'd kill for a bog standard, completely depressing, tall walled, beige colored cubicle taken out of an Enron office building.
It should be who can produce the most efficient and consume the most efficient. We should go back to building solidly and everlasting. The investment may be initially more expensive but the return will compound quickly and the benefits will make a difference. We’re wasting so many resources to stir this stupid economy and it always crashes.
And studied under Sartre.
The median speed is close to 60/5 so despite them getting screwed on fiber that's not even bad for the US. And the price isn't extortionate, even!
I'm not sure yet what's more interesting, the information the site intends to provide (what actors have passed away) or accidentally coming across terrible B movies I didn't know existed like "Aliens vs Titanic", "Christmas Twister", and "Elf Bowling the Movie".

https://www.fallenfilmstars.com/film/467839
It depends on what you define "this" as. If the problem is simply "not enough people," that of course is easy to remedy.

I hear zoos have trouble getting pandas to mate. Why don't they just add some polar bears, or leopards, or even rabbits?

What do you think the pandas would say if they could talk?
Yeah. That's why it's about as successful as Dart.
Those are excuses that people make up to soothe their egos. The real reason people do not have children is selfishness. They think that the financial and time cost will deprive them of other material joys. It’s as sad as it is misguided.
Yeah doesn't reflect well on him. His ire is always pointed in one direction. That's what you get with Chomsky. Flipside the Khmer Rouge avoided deserved annihilation because of direct support from China and the United States. Chomsky has no responsibility for that. As you said his influence on policy is nil.
Most of us are not willing participants in this "cult." We're dragged along by the nose.
Though there's some truthiness here, it's a very cynical take.

Most people aren't thinking about the ROI of their kids, that ironically is a pretty modern twist.

Birth Control is way, overwhelmingly the #1 issue, so far ahead of anything else. Condoms and 'the pill' are a very new phenom. Imagine before them, when every sexual act had a pretty high change of pregnancy. And then it's easy to understand how sex<->marriage<->family are so deeply intertwined in pretty much everywhere. 'Sexually active' basically guarantees children, children need stability, so it's 'nuclear family' or bust for the most part, before the pill. An enormous amount of social conditioning is baked into this.

'Working for corporations' is better than 'working in a factory, mine, or on land you don't own' ie serfdom, which would have been the default for most of our ancestors in one way or another.

Undoubtedly, the 'thing we cannot say in public' is that double-working families has had a double effect on the family 1) less time and 2) more acerbically - the cost of living goes up, particularly for property, forcing everyone else into the same 'two workers or risk being be poor' trap.

Playing with the reproductive system (I mean social system, not so much physicality), is really, really dangerous, as I don't think our individual intentions are all that positive - but the silver lining is that the world does have quite a bit of people, and that in many places, we do need to have less kids.

Remember we're living a lot longer now as well.

So at least for the moment, if India and Nigeria can get a grip on fertility ... it has upsides.

The real challenge, and scary things is what this will mean longer term. Once Japan drops to a certain point, will they level out? Or expire?

Hopefully we can work it out.
OP is clearly referencing the secret cabal who dictate the course of humanity with orbital mind control lasers.

What they haven't realised yet is that this forum is exactly where the aforementioned illuminaATZ# NO CARRIER
We should take a page from Jonathan Swift and consider eating them.
Maybe, but we didnt, so here we are and I don’t see any megafauna to hunt near me. In the future we may wish to think more about our changes.
> Hey Clark, long time no see, hope you're well.

Thanks!
That article was posted 10 days ago, on a US public holiday. Seems likely the previous owner only recently reported an account "theft" enabled by github's own support team and name reuse policy. This is exactly why account name reuse is such a bad idea.
> Setting up and managing keys, spinning up new repos, etc. would suck up an inordinate amount of time.

The claim was 5 hours per employee per week. I found that it took far less than 50 hours a week when working at a 10 person company. And if it did, I'd question the competence of whoever was doing that maintenance.

I'd pin it at closer to 3 or 4 minutes per employee per week, with maybe 8 hours of setup once. That's still a bunch of work, but it's a whole different ballgame.
> who knows what will happen if the population declines.

Hopefully, a declining population will lead to an oversupply of housing. Existing homeowners will do their damnedest to prop up prices by any means possible, but it can't last forever. Housing prices will crash sooner or later. It will probably happen in each country long before a its population has halved.

Cost of housing is currently a huge factor in declining fertility in many countries. Who has time to raise kids when they have to work two jobs just to pay rent? But once it becomes more affordable to raise a family, fertility trends are likely to reverse until it a new balance is reached.

This is just one of the many factors that might come into play over the next 80 years that popular predictions about 2100 tend to glance over.
Yes... other comment, see this one please.
"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#Inscriptio...
Indeed! You could use other chars if the single quote is a problem.

Make identifiers that start with period or tilde perhaps be used for template vars. And only template vars. Might be a bit noisy but less noisy than reusing various types of braces.
A good example lies in Kotlin, as well.
To be fair I suspect this part of that sentence explains the reason for choice of these special character:

From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier.

The designer was using those characters to trick the Go compiler which I then suspect means things like go format would also continue to work.

Then the designer could easily create a pre-processor that translates those placeholders characters as a way of providing some sort of generics in Go.

So in reality this was quite a good solution as I can imagine coming up with a solution that broke go format would have been a real pain to use.
This article is quite exasperated, but doesn't say much. I'm far from an expert in this area, but here's what I've read elsewhere:

We're quickly moving from the population explosion problem to the population implosion problem. No one planned it or made it happen. But, it looks like we're not actually going to overflow the planet with people standing shoulder to shoulder. Instead, the problem we're facing moving forward is a combination of longer lifespans and less children shifting the elderly support structure from a pyramid to a column.

A big driver of this is people moving up in job prospects around the world. Clearly in rich nations like the US, Japan and UK couples are working more and putting off having kids. But, also in the poorer nations people are moving to the cities because that's where the jobs are. Once there, the combination of high rent and great reductions in child mortality means it doesn't make sense any more to have lots of kids hoping that a few survive long enough to work at a young age. Instead of having babies rapidly, women around the world are going to work to bring in that second income needed to pay the bills in the city.

It's great news, really. It's just really scary really great news because we don't know how to set up a society where there aren't enough young people to support the elderly.
Best policy I've figured out as a developer dealing with product teams is demo everything in a command line until the backend actually works.

No chance for suckass product guys to push if they can't understand what's going on.
America has had tons of immigrants working 24/7 to run a restaurant, a laundry shop, or a drugstore, while putting their kids through school. Most of them weren't forced to come to America or choose such a job: they did it because even maintaining a 24-hour convenience store is less grueling work than planting rice, and they're rejecting their children's "help" because they want their children to study and have even better, more comfortable jobs.

Pre-modern agricultural societies had huge families because there was so much work that you could always use an extra pair of hands. (Also, many of them died off anyway so you had to factor that in.) You are looking at the past with a seriously rose-tinted lens.
The number of individuals with the potential of Albert Einstein (to pick a stereotype) in a given country is not correlated to the total number of people. Standard of living, a stable childhood environment, quality of schooling, modern medicine, economic opportunity, sanitation, are more important to nurture future innovators. A kid working the fields in Angola will probably never reach his full potential, but little Johnny from suburban America probably will.
Ask HN: Validating an architecture/design/deployment using a mock domain model?
I remember seeing a project (that I've since forgotten) that was able to validate an architecture by creating a super slimmed down model/domain that represented the moving pieces. The model was immutable, with various actions that can mutates the state. It allowed you to validate use cases by dispatching various sequences of messages to mutate the model, allowing you to test/flex your assumptions about the design.

I really wish I could find the project because it had some useful resources on the technique. I believe it was a functional language, using something that resembled redux (from JavaScript/React) with it's state, actions and reducers.

I want to say this is simple domain driven design, but there was something unique about this approach, in that it wasn't meant for production, it was meant for validating architecture/designs/deployments/etc.

Does this strike a bell with anyone? What am I looking for?
Everyone has the same influence over society, right? There's no inequality that would give certain people more influence over things?
Government and private retirement strategies both rely on cash transfers from younger workers. In a government system, the younger workers pay taxes which are transferred to retirees. In a private retirement system, younger workers are the purchasing counterparties as retirees sell off their investments.

Retirement financing in general relies on future economic growth for future cashflow. That said, you don't necessarily need a growing population to make it work. If the population declines 15%, but the average worker's productivity goes up 20% during that time, you still come out ahead.
Wow, you'all at Edubase going hard with posting positive reviews on the internet! Dunno if HN is the target audience for your product though.
That’s hardly his fault.

And if the loan shark weren’t there providing his service, his clients would be strictly worse off. He’s not forcing them to borrow money—he’s offering, and they’re free to say no.
I live in a country where a major source of pollution is farmers burning shit, so I’m having trouble getting with fetishising this as some kind of pastoral bliss.
If you see your neighbour kick their dog (or even child) would you stand idly by and say "well, it seems to work for them" or would you take action?