skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible we'll be back down to 7B people by the end of 2025 thanks to the food and fertilizer disruption that has already happened due to the war Ukraine.

We're approaching the downside slope of the carbon pulse that has been fueling mankind for the past 200 years. Things don't look good for the next decade for anyone.

I've watched too much Peter Zeihan and Nate Hagens to see anything other than that coming.
Of course my provider will handle large DDoSes, as long as they're not hundreds of Gbps large. In which case there's not much anyone can do, frankly.

Regarding edge caching speed: we're in an age where your phone executing the shitty bloated JS is the bottleneck, not actual latency.
Paean
Define “women’s independence?” Fertility rates in the US cratered after 2008, but before that even states without many Hispanics like Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming had above replacement total fertility rates. I know folks on HN think those states might as well be third world countries, but they’re not exactly Gilead.

American women say they want closer to three kids than two kids: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/upshot/american-fertility... (average 2.7). Half of women with kids, and even 30% of women overall with a college degree, would prefer a homemaker role to working: https://news.gallup.com/poll/267737/record-high-women-prefer.... These women would probably have more kids if it was easier to have a single income household.

I suspect “logistics” has more to do with it than “independence.” Our education system and economy, in particular, causes people to spread out and move away from family. Raising kids without family around is much, much more difficult.

There is also the fact that the feminist revolution stalled in this weird place where women have freedom to pursue careers--but only if they can shoehorn themselves into existing roles designed for men. Want to grind through your 20s in Big Tech or Big Finance seeking promotions? Fine. Want to take time off to have kids at an age when it's the lowest risk and you have the most energy for it? Then you're off the career ladder forever! That's not some unavoidable consequence of "women's independence." Our retirement and pension systems are very much designed around the biological reality of men's bodies working strenuous industrial jobs. But our career ladders haven't changed one bit to accommodate the biological realities of motherhood.
Same logic the mafia uses as you are paying for "protection"

> When the mugger paid for your healthcare, education, roads, services, safety and security, the equation is a little different.

Why did you leave out corruption?

Are you implying none of our tax dollars go to waste and corruption?

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/california-sees-wa...

https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/san-francisco-corruption/

I am okay not having million dollar toilets

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...

Interestingly, the article does not classify money lost to corrupt state officials as welfare. Why?

A slightly intelligent satire piece would have used corruption as welfare :)
I know alot of people cite "Security Concerns", but I suspect the problem might be simply a technical reason. I personally have been using nginx's ssl_preread module to reverse proxy my connections without SSL termination, domain fronting would break things in my situation. Having the possibility of domain fronting is just too much to consider in your software stack.
Why would it?

The analogy is pointless. Discussing the actual situation is more productive.
OOP interfaces as the core concept have several advantages over a pseudo-file based system, even if you assume a higher level RPC system that uses files under the hood:

1. OOP can at least in principle abstract over whether code is in-process or in a remote process, with efficient stack based calls for in-process calls and serialization/RPC for remote calls. Yes you can't make them be identical, but you can bring them very close together. But files are fundamentally a kernel controlled object. For a pseudo-file system to hold together at all, you end up having to talk to the kernel all the time, which is slow (ish).

2. OOP has the notion of a queryable set of interfaces. UNIX style file objects don't have any equivalent, which is why you suggest that operations that don't seem to make sense should just return a generic error code. But this is bad. If we saw a junior programmer both design and then implement an interface in which most methods returned error codes we would school them (it can of course be acceptable if you don't control that interface but even then, really not ideal). A much better approach is to define interfaces better so that your objects only implement operations that make sense, and a generic client can use type casting / IUnknown::QueryInterface style operations to figure out what an object can do.

3. Just as you can't opt-out of generic file operations, you also can't add more. That's why you end up having this split world in which some toy operations are just basic file IO and then the moment you need anything complex enough for the real world, your file becomes just a sockety thing speaking some ad-hoc protocol and you can't use the file directly anymore, e.g. you can't shell script it, you need some ad-hoc library that wraps it. There are tons of files in /dev but how often do you see code that directly uses them? Almost never - apps use libraries that wrap the file interface.

4. The lack of proper interfaces and type safety means that evolving stuff is way too hard. Doesn't matter for a research OS but matters in reality. Look at the docs for /dev/draw, it's all ad-hoc protocols with no proper versioning or evolvability at all, just stuff like "open the device and read 12 strings each 11 characters wide" (!).

I think that even though they suffer from execution issues, Microsoft was heading down the right path with COM and PowerShell. COM provides you with objects, which is way more commonly what you actually want. DCOM attempts to abstract over location, so the serialization and sockety/filey stuff only gets involved when necessary. And PowerShell attempts to give you a shell-like syntax for accessing them. For various reasons it doesn't quite work as well as it could, hence why concepts like Plan9 have enduring fascination, but the core ideas are more general and robust.
yeah, but it isn't real, merely a concept, and I suspect that those wings are going to seriously interfere with stability.

Also, it's worth noting that boats don't have good life-spans. Cruise ships of comparable size have rather short ones before they're dumped on a beach and carved up by wreckers, and require constant and extensive maintenance whilst in service. I fail to see what problem this actually helps solve.
I wonder if this quote from "Amy's Eyes" was a direct reference to "The Velveteen Rabbit":

> There is time enough to be real. And if it never happens, that can be all right, too.
I see how it seems that way, but being poly isn’t a choice, in a specific sense: you feel attraction and emotional love for others, even while you’re in a relationship. And it happens repeatedly throughout your life.

You can say “well, stop doing that.” But the comparison with being gay is all the more valid here. It’s like saying just don’t be gay.

In other words, being poly isn’t merely an agreement between three or more partners. That’s a necessary component (otherwise it would just be cheating), but it’s not sufficient. Some of the people in those three can’t help but feel that way, regardless if they used to be exclusive.

It’s doubly hard in the current social climate, because since it’s so new, there isn’t really a way to meet likeminded people yet. The app Open is the closest I’ve seen. So societal normalization is a necessary step before the movement can start flourishing.

The topic is incredibly nuanced, and thus quite hard to have a substantive conversation about. But I’m hoping one day to see the phenomenon pop up on HN so that we can have an open discussion about the merits and downsides. (There are plenty of both.)
What a mess. I wish there was a viable alternative for people working in machine learning that isn't goddamned Python.
In theory if you were a California resident, you could file a CCPA delete request, but… not sure FTX would honor that now.
I really enjoyed this analysis. I guess that I noticed some differences between Twitter and Mastodon, but did not have this kind of nuanced insight on them. Quite interesting.
Thanks for sharing this.

I partivularly liked "You can wander all around my property and all you're going to see is trees, wildlife, mountain views...and my stuff."

I'm not sewing much. I bought the sewing machine to reinforce the knees on all my son's trousers, and haven't used it for much else.
Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server (2020)
If the cost and size of the Pro 8 is ok for you compared to the Go 3's, consider the Pro X or the newer Pro 9 5G, they're based on a ARM64 SoC [0]. They're more than enough for all of what you mentioned, they're fanless and the battery lasts longer

[0] Microsoft SQ2 and SQ3 respectively, which in turn are binned and rebranded Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 and 3 respectively
They are confusing privacy with secrecy. Big difference.
Would the game still be playable under a 486?
Make still helps with go, if for no other reason than to simply provide shortcuts (e.g. `make test` instead of the `go test` command with all its options one has to type out. The Makefiles are generally quite simple, though.
The reason some languages use "let name: type" instead of "type name" is to eliminate various ambiguities, for example C++'s most vexing parse, or the classic C typedef ambiguity where a statement like "X * Y" is ambiguous because it could be the declaration of a variable Y whose type is "X*" where "X" is a typedef, or it could be the multiplication of a variable "X" with a variable "Y". There are many languages where the "type" can be a fairly complex composition that can introduce ambiguities.

Modern languages use a type of syntax where all declarations start with an introducer, something along the lines of "let", "fn", "class", etc... in order to eliminate ambiguities as well as avoid the need for the parser to have potentially unbounded look-ahead.
Tether is used to route around the restrictions on leverage and money transfers in the US, and when it finally goes, Bitcoin will crash as most of the inflows into that market are through Tether.
Yeah your approach is the more usual commonly accepted idea - poor people stopped dying moved to cities got educated became a productive middle class.

The above quoted book tried to argue that the poor dying continued and the middle classes of victorian briton had more kids and hence took over - a sort of poorly argued eugenics wrapped in the usual "it's culture innit" argument.

However Like I say I have only read enough of the book to decide it's in my reading list only after I discover immortality.
Isn’t that one of the recognized uses for cannabis?
Why is Prop 13 welfare?

This kind of logic results in net loss to citizens:

https://time.com/5530386/aoc-amazon-new-york-hq2/

Also, why are those against Prop 13 the most silent (usually) on corruption in the state?
Seniority yes but also consulting. Consulting is the only place I've ever found success.
Well, the more you know. Thanks for the detailed reply.
I don't bring up politics with friends because they have a more trustworty friend than myself, the TV.
Its the worst airport I’ve ever been to
Social Web Protocols (2017)
That makes sense. What I was thinking though is that the company turned off withdrawals. Are they required to do that? What’s the threshold? Because couldn’t an employee just flip the switch back on and withdraw like any other customer? (That clearly didn’t happen here though.)

It’s a curiosity to me about how these things all go down in a broader sense. Because clearly something went way wrong at FTX. But are authorities swooping in, as in literally and physically, at this point? It seems all sorts of shenanigans could be happening in the offices, which to my understanding is also where they live or close to it (at least some of the offices).

It’s like authorities know a figurative bloodbath is going on, but for these financial crimes, the response is a bit slower than a literal bloodbath.
It’s not about ideological purity. I don’t want to touch anything a serious Linux distribution won’t support and I don’t consider Ubuntu - a derivative of the over-patched mess that is Debian - a serious distribution.

ZFS is in a very weird position on Linux. It’s unfortunate but that’s mostly due to Sun and Oracle so I don’t feel bad stating people shouldn’t use it.
> Would you have been open to her asking you to stop if she felt that was ruining her productivity

Most definitely yes. But she never really shared with us what she felt. So when I heard from my boss she wasn't OK with us talking Russian I was like: WTF, how doesn't she understand she has a privilege to speak her native language at the office while most of the employees have to resort to the silly form of English they learnt at school?
I just thought of something, but it's too late to edit the above comment. In San Francisco they have a sanctioned open air drug market. It doesn't make much sense if you're trying to get these people off drugs, but if you are trying to preserve the homeless people in their current patterns of dysfunction as clients for the bloated city government and provide a jobs program for social workers and government contractors, it makes tons of sense!
Susannah mentions Prince's longtime audio engineer, Susan Rogers, and there's a fascinating interview with her as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iv__walYL4

If you're a fan of Prince or audio production and engineering, you want to watch that interview, or read the transcript (https://tapeop.com/interviews/117/susan-rogers/). Trust me on this. This is someone whose work and life/career stories deserve much wider attention.

(Edit: actually these are two different interviews, and I'm only familiar with the one in the transcript.)
Can you teach me how you absorb and respond to all this criticism/feedback with such grace? Worst part of my job. Well done.
This 51% number is not really relevant in blockchain consensus. There is Byzantine consensus, which derives from a specific set of assumptions, but those don't really apply. In reality, consensus is not at all a vote. Coinbase and Circle can accept a chain with only 1% validator support, and that will probably be the canonical chain. Apologies to the many blockchain economists and computer pseudo-scientists that spent the last decade on this, but Consensus is mostly an irrelevant concept. The good news is that new cryptographic primitives are there to fill the same role, and we're just getting started with that.
Mental gymnastics? It’s what Russia is best known for. Applying Occam’s razor brings you precisely to the conclusion that it was Russia.
I got burned like this hot cake.
Thanks for your detailed response and sharing your experiences.

>> I say this as an autistic person with a combined type having some generally male exclusive and some female exclusive traits.

Are you referring to non-exclusive "traits" when describing how you have both male and female traits? I was a bit confused about the "female phonotype" part of your response as it implies having traits through genetics at birth.

Or am I misunderstandings and such gender-specific traits are developed through environmental/societal conditions?
It is mildly ironic that the site's admin has blocked my VPN's IP address and is asking this question.
Not going to lie, that's above me. But is that allowing outlets that aren't grounded? If so, yikes.

I'm in New Zealand and if you are touching your electrics when getting work done, you need to be installing RDCs on the circuit.

You can do all sorts of stupid things when you have an RCD on a circuit, and while I'm sure you could still get electrocuted, you'd have to try quite hard.

https://www.nhpnz.co.nz/en/News/Stay-safe-with-compliant-RCD...
So despite Musk and similar claims about depopulation, maybe we shouldn't devalue having children so much as a society. It becomes progressively hard to afford time and money for more children based on current economics and corporations controlling society via governments so that all the money flows up and we dont have extra money for kids/child care/etc.
Do they think they'll get a job at LinkedIn?
"At Craptech we're always looking for passionate ninjas who dream of sacrificing their health and happiness to build value for our investors and directors!"
Early on an engineer wrote the code on a paper and a programmer then entered it into a computer. But as this is in the era of personal computers I'm also interested in the distinction.
Yes?

Maybe designing a computer with 10/10 repairability and 10/10 power efficiency isn't possible. That doesn't mean we should dilute either of those metrics to make it look that way.
It’s a drop in the ocean. There are millions of programming jobs out there.
Very shallow article. Conservative media is bashing Trump and backing DeSantis, anyone can see that. No new insight or information, just a poor attempt at creating controversy.
Source on this tornado comment? This entire story is just so wild that it’s hard to keep up.
There's an offer in your inbox.
Oh no people working for the government are doing well! The misery!
Not true. The required fencing has huge impact. I led development of the chpe compiler for windows on arm, and the fencing was major source of our gains.
with no competition?
you are grossly exaggerating the situation, barring nuclear war we'll be just fine for a while, jeesh.
Lol how many abortions are preformed yearly in the usa?
Not to mention the flooding of coastal cities and other land made uninhabitable and unproductive for farming as we have already hit some tipping points. Buckle up for some societal collapse.
Sweet! I’ve been wanting this for a long time.
The will of the people is relevant only in a democracy. The neocolonialism part is when you force it in a foreign country. There is absolutley nothing superior or special about democracy. If the people of a country through whatever self-determined means acheive democracy then so be it. The thing people like you don't seem to understand is that individualism is a very western thing, this idea that the individual's will is where a government derives its power from is a very new and western experiment(relatively speaking).

Take a look at Iran, they are religious as a nation. Their religion supersedes any individual's will. Or china, the will if the party supersedes individuals' needs. You in your post-colonialist luxury worry about your own will but historically people worry about the well being of their children and society which means not getting killed/raped, having economic and academic opportunities,etc... and beyonf that also, the will of their god being implemented. Which people? The people with weapons just like in a democracy (else the US would still be under a monarchy). They self determined through violence and politics the state they are in. In China the economy is good so the CCP is actually popular, so they self-determined communism (at least by name).

There many countries where the US exported a revolution or a democracy and they are in shambles now (who cares so long as they are under western influence?) name one nation in europe that was did not prosper under a monarch before self-determining democracy? Yet your arrogant presumption robbed many nations of that opportunity. Because the people are unprepared and uninformed, the loudest asshole takes power by deceiving people and saying the right things the he gets super rich until they protest and he flies off with his money until the next asshole. This keeps happening and is your direct responsibility since it is because of your will your politicians are exporting chaos and installing puppet leaders in other countries. Civil war after civil war, genocide after genocide because humans are tribal by nature and there is no peaceful way a ruling tribe (see iraq) would peacefully let go of power.

Keep in mind that if it wasn't for the threat of violence by your own country's military you also would be part taker in the voiolence and chaos you are exporting.

Democracies cannot thrive when people are starving, destitute and uneducated and lack basic infrastructure by which they can be informed enough to critically analyze what their politicians are saying. "Your life sucks because of $tribe" does that sound familiar?

So you organize a revolt over Tor, I guess the other side will also use Tor to organize the civil war or genocide?
> 4. White House Monitoring FTX Collapse, Calls for Crypto Regulation

Officials were precisely busy receiving gigantic bribes (well, "donations", the biggest ever made from any sector after those made by George Soros) from SBF/FTX to draft legislation giving the CFTC jurisdiction over crypto exchanges. And who was the chief lobbyist of FTX? An ex-CFTC commissioner.

Let that sink in: the main FTX lobbyist was an ex-CFTC commissioner lobbying for a legislation giving... Full control of crypto exchanges (including the decentralized ones) to the CFTC.

You cannot make that shit up.

So crooks running scams have drafted a legislation that'd give them complete control over crypto exchanges.

The ongoing legislation, if it passes, is the one drafted by the very villains who were planning to execute the biggest scam ever (he was obviously after pension funds and sovereign wealth funds: there was no limit to his megalomania).

As Erik Vorhees just blogged:

“The complex derivatives and custody issues which froze financial flows in 2008, back when safe, regulated financial institutions had no idea who owned what and markets collapsed under the layers of counterparty risk... these would not (can not!) happen in DeFi."

"Have they even learned how to use it? How many of those drafting crypto laws have ever actually executed a DeFi loan?”

“Yes, DeFi removes some of your power as regulators... but it solves the problems you’ve been trying to regulate. Isn’t that more important?”

I do honestly think that the villains just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

The master evil plan was much bigger than that what actually happened but, thankfully, everything crashed, creating a run to safety and immense selling pressures everywhere and put a stop to the FTX/Alameda shitshow.

Crypto haters are going to hate, but here's Erik Vorhees' messages to the (both totally clueless and corrupted IMO) officials.

It would be nice if the crypto haters were to read the following with an open mind:

https://www.moneyandstate.com/blog/sophistry-and-the-savior
> If not blocking traffic, then what? You have to suggest better ways to alert voters, other ways to save the planet and your children and grandchildren.

In other words, only people who agree with these activists are allowed to criticize them? A strange standard, but they do seem to be getting plenty of criticism from people who meet that criteria.
Nokia owned TrollTech (Qt), so they had all the chances to become a software company, it baffles me still why they didn't.
Even if I don't agree 100%, I'll find myself saying these things. Especially in today's world of pointless Zoom meetings, endless "check-ins", it's often not worth arguing. Rarely is anything mission critical. (If it's a "big deal", I will disagree.)