skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the associate debacle, the characterization of large language models as “stochastic parrots”[1] is the most accurate description I think I’ve ever heard for the capabilities of AI language models. These models don’t understand that a mistake on a Winograd question is not the same as a mistake on a medical diagnosis (as a contrived example).

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
This doesn't answer my questions at all.
> Are the makers of level 3 systems legally liable when the vehicle in level-3 hits another car.

Currently, as how the NHTSA regulates vehicles, the driver is liable for any accident that their vehicle causes. Your car should always be at your control, and you should be the one responsible for it's actions. Not saying this is right or wrong, but that's how the government views driving.
“Must pre-pay at the lot with credit/debit cards or with the Passport Parking app”

You don’t need the app.
A buddy of mine works for a company in a similar situation that rebuilds transmissions for industrial equipment. They were not allowed to upgrade their computers because the one piece of software that makes the whole company "work" is some ancient dBase system that is accessed through DOS. The bids they received to "modernize" it were astronomical mainly to nobody being around that actuall understood the bizLogic involved in a way to rebuild it.

I asked what happens if the PSU/HDD/etc of the machine running it dies? I was told that everyone retires. It was an actual conversation that had been given serious thought. At that time, the company was 30+ years old, privately owned and no employee had been there less than 15 years.
It is not and has never been open-source. In fact they wrote https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... .
Bitcoin/Ethereum is what allowed these scams to be executed, not be reverted, and to go unpunished.

If you want to push for those technologies, you have to explain how to give consumers a minimum level of protection.
This is an interesting example of the 80-20 rule (or some variant of it)

The vast majority of businesses/projects are small, and will only have one or a small number of developers working on it. So Ruby on Rails (or PHP or Wordpress) is a suitable choice for maybe 80% of projects.

At the same time, a very small number of businesses require 100,000+ (or even just 1000+) developers. These businesses, because they have so many developers, employ the vast majority of professional developers. Thus, maybe only 20% of professional developers work on products that are typical of business needs.

This disparity explains why communities on Hacker News are typically so negative towards Ruby on Rails. It also explains part of what makes Ruby on Rails so remarkable. Even after all these years, it has a thriving community and has resisted the pull to become more "enterprisy." It's still a tool that is targeted at and well suited for a large swath of business cases, the vast majority of which will likely never need to migrate to something "better".
> STOCK Act otoh says Congress and employees have to report within 45 days

Why does advance disclosure prevent insider trading differently from post-trade disclosure? Both permit similar forms of enforcement.
The point here for me is team dynamics, maturity, and skill level.

If you have a team that can't competently write and maintain a monolith that is modular and built/tested via automation, then that team has no business trying to build and maintain microservices.
Deleuze/T.E.C Teatro Escuela Central/Federico Herrero/Teatro Archivo Nacional
indian median age is still 28, so there is still time to get relative "rich" ($8-10k per capita as china today) in the next 20-25 years.
Nevermind the powerhouse of the cell.
Agreed. Super-smart people made these systems possible. Sad to see many people associate crypto with scams and illegal stuff. Well, I've bought a tshirt with Ether and VPN subscription to access Wikipedia and YouTube, from a country that blocks many common VPNs. Super, illegal.

Let them keep saying crypto is scam, people who believe in it will win in the long run anyway.
You think this is ethical? Clearly you have a very different ethics that I do. Also, this propsal is unnecessary and shows complete lack of demographic transition - we already know how to stop population growth in an ethical way and that is to improve healthcare, education (especially women), and general economic welfare. No other solutions necessary, nor have proven to be effective.
yeah, but then you recreated traditional banking, just as they said. It's almost like there are reasons, as to why things are like they are right now.
AWS Is Too Big to Fail
There has to be some nuance here. Feedback that comes when I'm not at a stop/review point is just a distraction. Is why aggressive spell checking is annoying.

This was a thing learning to type, for me. Our class would transcribe from paper to document. Those that watched the screen were slower, once folks learned to touch type.

That is, learning to get into deep thought is a skill that eventually doesn't want the distractions. You want to focus and produce, then review.
And there came a maple and produced seeds which, for whatever reason rotate.

OK not “propeller” but near enough.
In my view the worst thing is that those schools can be well funded, and easily price secular schools out of the market. When I was living in Texas, it was before we had kids, but I noticed that among private schools, the secular ones were absolutely priced out of our reach.

Religious hospitals and medical clinics can do the same thing in rural areas.
Blaming Node is like giving pros to Ruby instead of Rails in this case. You're comparing a framework to a runtime with poorly chosen frameworks.

I bet rails is very productive. But getting a SSR hello world up with Node should take two minutes. Express, EJS, done. Most of the admin pages on fastcomments are server rendered and we add features pretty quickly (IMO).
I wish Casio made earbuds. I doubt they'd have the best sound and they probably wouldn't be very comfortable (no different from the competition) and they surely would be no sartorial revelation.

But they would last forever and they would actually work reliably. I'd buy a pair, happily.
Right. I did that. And got scammed. I had my BTC in a trusted exchange at the time. Then they dissappeared on me. Then I was told it was my own fault for using an exchange. You just can't win this game can you..
> I don't believe it is possible during the natural development of a free country to get back to having lots of children.

50 to 100 years ago we probably didn't think it was natural to have humans willingly limit their population growth - it was viewed as completely unnatural, but it has basically happened nearly everywhere.

I think you can do it via government rewards to those having larger families and starting them earlier. Housing discounts. Rebates. Tax credits.

I believe Israel does this in combination with being religiously conservative, discouraging/banning most abortions, combined with a lot of government incentives, discounts -- in fact many of the people moving into the occupied territories are people starting families as the government discounts the housing there.
There's nothing anti-vax in the article or headline. I don't understand how you could have interpreted it that way. Your insinuation is unwarranted.
I've dabbled with FastAPI a few times when starting new projects, but the lack of a high-quality ORM always had me switch right back to Django after a few hours. Sure, you can use SQLAlchemy, but it's a miserable experience compared to the Django ORM + admin interface.

Sure, Django is mostly designed around server-side rendering of full pages, but with DRF you can build REST APIs perfectly fine, and there's also http://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/ which I think is more or less similar to FastAPI in the way you write code with it.
And I can steal my neighbour's bike from the common bike room, both could land you in jail if it's ever discovered.

This is not some kind lf 'goctcha, i am so smart', all accountants, bank employees and traders are subject to these industry-standard restrictions.
Indian fertility rate also varies by state. Poor states 2+ and rich prosperous states under 2. https://twitter.com/indiainpixels/status/1464197969016614915
I didn't look too closely, this demo might be a step in the right direction:

https://archive.org/details/GPOLICE
It’s not, we have cheap phone and data plans as well. The article is using the dishonest data point that, yes, it’s expensive to get a plan with unlimited data and a new phone and ever available feature. That laptop price is on par with what I would expect to pay, not sure where you’re going with that.
There is no way in Hell that this is an ad in the sense that The Economist was paid to publish this article. It is being covered because of the potential implications of this or similar technologies, which may have long-term implications for shipping and the military, of interest to its readers.

The paid advertising inserts in this magazine are clearly marked. This isn't one of them.
re: FoxPro - It's Visual FoxPro for Windows, which makes it a lot less ancient than 1988, but a significant number of voter registrations in Ohio are handled by a piece of software written in Visual FoxPro.

Amusingly the vendor had a mandate to add "2FA" to the application last year. They added TOTP to the "login". All the data is stored in DBF files that all users have read/write access to anyway (because the database engine runs in the user's context on the client PC-- the server is just a dumb disk drive).
See also: vector / stroke fonts for use with pen plotters. Often stored in SVG font format. The big difference a typical computer font like OpenType draws the shape of the outline of the character, whereas a router font draws the shape of the centerline.
Is there a need to a sustainable population rate?

There are about 8 billion humans on the planet. We can sustain a sub replacement birthrate for generations.

There is a good chance we can sustain it for long enough to solve aging; or at least significantly push back the ~100 year limit to human life. Once we do that, we will need generations of sub replacement fertility just to compensate for having more generations being alive.
Make it a business decision.

Find out how much money we can get policing crypto. We can even charge a greater percentage of potential funds recovered to extract an amount that would make it worth our while. At any rate, with that data we could determine if the money is better spent policing tax cheats.

In short if we're going to get paid well, we should help. If not? Well, sorry crypto bros. Sucks to be you.
This is not my experience.

Mathematica has a LOT more integrated into the base product. Matlab requires a toolbox for nearly everything and many toolboxes cost more than a Mathematica license. I enjoy Mathematica, but find Matlab to be inferior to Python development and very expensive.
This is the most common slowdown I've seen in rails before. strict_loading mode can help, as can the bullet gem.

That said, it is also quite slow when you actually do need requests per second or rows per second, but the usual thing is to throw more machines at it,reduce the amount of magic in the hot path (like activerecord-import for bulk data if that's still maintained,) or use something else for the hot path.
Been there and done that. People are backing up those keys, right?

Could also disable the touch to decrypt feature while you performed the rekey?
Having some experience with both, agree with everything you said.

I'd also add Django is great if you're building only a backend with it (and you have no frontend and/or it's an external SPA).

For full stack development, Laravel all the way. Just it's templating system (blade) is a joy to use compared to Django's templating system which feels stuck in the 90s.
On a related note, I get the idea that a lot of the companies working on embedded products have a culture where that degree is valued regardless of whether you can do the work or not.

Additionally, I very rarely see roles in that area listed that someone from another fields could “break into”. Often they’re looking for someone who has significant domain experience, and by domain experience I don’t just mean my embedded software in general, but experience around the actual product target business itself (medical devices, cellular networks, whatever).

For example I looked at a job near working working on integrating 5G chipsets into boards. The work was relatively high level (you weren’t designing the 5G stack or anything, maybe at most writing some modem drivers) but they were looking for people who from that domain and had experience with all sorts of strange proprietary Qualcomm crap.
It's hard to understand what to do about this without making some sort of congressional committee to decide which cryptos are good ones and which aren't (and that will obviously never happen and shouldn't)

People have a right to spend their money on things. If the choose to spend their money on nonsense that has no contractual obligation to return their funds to them that seems like a legal transaction when the funds don't get returned.

I do feel for some of the people who thought they could have a better life by 10xing or 100xing their networth on scam coins but the reality is they didn't do their research and willingly walked into this.
Everyone should be worried about that, and if your suggestion is to use exchanges, that just makes them de-facto banks. Now you have a traditional banking system on top of a slow and expensive settlement layer.
How do you know my password?
I'm imagining that sever room to be a dumpster pile in itself, and perhaps they were moving equipment around and forgot to plug the relic back in.
> On the sell side, you and your spouse are heavily regulated so that neither can hold individual stocks

This is not uniformly true. There are various blackouts and pre-clearance requirements and monitoring. But not every bank bans individual stock trading.
I know more Indian couples who has only 1 child vs 3. In my family (my generation), not a single couple has more than 2 child. My family's replacement rate is below 2. From my dads side, we are 12 cousins. We only have 18 kids. My village in India has roughly 440 people. Not a single couple that got married in last 20 years has more than 2 kids.

Before Covid, we had a middle school reunion. Every single one of us had 1-2 kids.

I have 8 best friends (Married for 15+ years). Only one of my friend and I have 2 kids. Everyone else has only 1 kid.

Pretty much all states except a couple are below replacement rate of 2.1. And some are way below 2.1.
> I only invest money I can afford to lose.

You mean "speculate" here, not invest.

People definitely want (and must be able) to invest money that they cannot afford to lose, at least not all in a split second.
Express isn't really like Spring, Rails or Django. Express is very simple and may be good for someone learning the basics, but how is a novice web developer supposed to know what is missing? There concerns from security, authorization, sessions, and many more that Express doesn't handle out-of-the-box.
Yeah nature is good at survival, which is not what you have in mind on a cruise ship
Why not just replace the CMOS battery so you only have to do it once every 4th blue moon vs everytime the thing reboots?
Engines rotate?
The entire World Wide Web was protected by a similar sticky note, for a time:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
"No one has Borgmon readability."
Nah. Trains e.g. sure are heavy, but they're also ridiculously energy efficient when it comes to moving stuff around. And yet they're also typically faster than any land animal.

Building roads or tracks doesn't make sense for animals, and freely rotating parts difficult on larger organisms. On the flip side, our human engineering often hasn't put energy efficiency so high up the priority list.
What about vasectomies? They seem to be widely known
This is an interesting comparison. Phones with "freedom of choice".
I think freedom of choice, Varies drastically Based on the layer where one exists in society.

For example, Instagram pushing/peer-pressuring people to travel/buy/share more feels fine to me when it is an average household with with some level of stability. This is not true everywhere.

I'm talking about families whose total monthly earning is about 150 dollars. Families where the easier choice was to not go to the hospital for leukemia and let them be, than go to a hospital. Where a second Girl child is as close to a bad news as it gets. And yet and yet almost everybody with a smartphone within these community, scrolls through infinite feeds of tik-tok like content, for hours on end.

The way I see it, these social media are very similar to alcohol/other drugs. An infinite cage, from which There is little to no escape. Facebook is as close to a quicksand as it gets. Progressively pulling people in and keeping them where they are, not letting them go where they could be.
Guide to creating a C compiler for those who want to know the lower layers
I worked for a job search company that bought all of their listings from a third party. Every day, they would get an XML feed of active job listings that was a few GB in size, from what I remember. To update their database, they had a program (written in C++ for speed!) that would go through each one of today's postings and scan the old list to see if it was new, then write update instructions to a SQL script that would be executed at the end of the run. (According to a senior developer there, they didn't just interact with the database directly because the database couldn't handle updating large amounts of data (???))

It would take about 8 hours every day for the program to run. So for 8 hours of every day, the company would be returning stale listings. I rewrote it in PHP and brought the time down to ~20 minutes, which could have still been significantly improved. But I didn't stick around for too long after that.
I wonder what a world of 2bn and falling will look like in 250 years time?
The $7.7B part is a bit hyperbolic right?

A lot of value of crypto is based on a small volume of transactions to cash which give a number to the entire asset.

If I create 1B secret numbers, sell one for $1, and someone steals the rest, is anyone really out a billion dollars?
It is not just a matter of reaction times. It is mostly of stopping without harming you, which at 70mph is rather difficult if the vehicle in front brakes too hard.
I think use of the copy buffer is the weakness of pass. Can't it be read by any process?
CASL. Isomorphic Authorization JavaScript Library
We struggle greatly to actually understand population numbers in many countries. Consider Afghanistan, where the numbers were in part made up until recently[0]. I really wish we could see more background on these numbers.

[0]https://youtu.be/WF3Rkt42wPY?t=266
Maybe - but if you don't know what QWER is and I explain that "QWER is just like ASDF" but you don't know what ASDF is either, I haven't really clarified anything for you.
It's also true about the tony districts in London.

It's well known that many mansions in the Hollywood Hills are owned by absentee owners. Sometimes they rent them out as party houses (like that one in Neil Strauss's The Game) or even office space (like that time we were partying on Friday evening when I was waiting to use the bathroom on the bottom floor with the project manager and we were looking at the OSHA safety sign while people were jumping into the wrong end of the pool.)
> I look forward to the problems we will face then, and the apocalyptic narratives the media will invent about this new problem.

It's not the media inventing this, but a multi-generational lobby group in the West, which started as "eugenic science" movement in thirties in the West.

German Nazis were given a noose in 1945, and their shit "science" was all busted, so this group which came to huge prominence in Western elites had to find a new raison d'etre, so they rebranded themselves as "demographers," and "segregationists," inventing other pretense quasi-scientific reasons to legitimise their existence, and claims to power.

Antivaxers, and AntiGMO are their new "iteration" after their previous workhorse "counterterrorism" kicked the bucket.

Sounds like a 1000% conspiracy theory, but unfortunately it's more than true. Population council, planned parenthood, Rockefeller, Ford, and Milbank foundations all have very deep roots in the eugenicist movement which are for everybody to see after few minutes googling.
Democrat Senator Took Bribe from Nike to Allow Chinese Forced Labor Goods
Piece of shit should be executed.
> Is there a need to a sustainable population rate?

At some point yes we do.

> There are about 8 billion humans on the planet. We can sustain a sub replacement birthrate for generations.

For sure. But at some point there won't be enough humans to run an advanced society.

> here is a good chance we can sustain it for long enough to solve aging; or at least significantly push back the ~100 year limit to human life. Once we do that, we will need generations of sub replacement fertility just to compensate for having more generations being alive.

I think generational change is a major driver of innovation. Old people get stuck in their ways, more so then we are likely to ever admit -- but maybe we can solve brain plasticity as well? I think if we solve aging completely, we become a rigid oligarchic society.
I mean, why not both? There's an entertaining subgenre of police blotter reports where people report their illegal drugs stolen. If people report crypto assets stolen (which they very rarely do), maybe have a look at how they acquired them and whether it was reported to the revenue first.
> Why shouldn’t I seek power to enrich myself and my friends?

> Society is worse off for it, probably, sure.

You answered your own question. You are directly and knowingly contributing to the worsening of society and you should feel ashamed for it. If anything you should feel shame for your lack of self awareness here
In my ansible.cfg I have:

vault_password_file = tools/vault.sh

In my tools/vault.sh I have:

echo -n $(pass infrastructure/ansible-vault)

This lets me store my ansible vault master password for managing my personal infrastructure inside pass. I like it.
The Inevitability of Ransomware: End-to-End Solution to Recover Without Paying
Can We Regulate Social Media Without Breaking the First Amendment?
True, but you can’t hold a billion dollars in the wallet in your back pocket.
there's probably some extra bandwidth usage but it's using Data Channels, not streaming video. i'd love to know what a single character footprints is in ssh & in webrtc data-channels. evidently ssh is not actually that great[1]! webrtc might perhaps do better!! it is sctp/data-gram based! (personally i hope webtransport/quic eventually replaces this kinda odd/big stack)

once one starts doing Terminal User Interface programs or something is streaming to the screen, i expect potential differences to get less noticeable. hoping that packets get bigger. but definitely would like to see real evidence that packets get bigger, buffered, not just more numerous.

[1] http://blog.hyfather.com/blog/2013/04/18/ssh-uses-four-tcp-s...
+1 on HTMX and Alpine, wish they were more heavily advertised as an option for rapid prototyping MVPs or proof of concepts. No need to whip out React for an spa or Next(?) for a "server side rendered reactive frontend" (this concept in particular is weird to me as it pretty much means we've come full circle)