skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to take any kind of wholesale prediction of population calamity seriously after The Population Bomb bombed in the early 1970s. But this article claims to be able to predict the future of civilization 100 years into the future. Assuming we even make it another 100 years, there is no way to know what our population will look like then, or whether we could pull another technological/logistical food revolution out of our asses, or whether global cultures would start to embrace a further explosion of population. WW2 resulted in unprecedented population growth in the USA. There's no way to know if a similar event, here or in other countries, might shake what we expect growth to be, or why. The biggest mistake we could make is to expect consistency.
I'm all in fiat right now, and will stay like that until things calm down a bit.
I'm not sure what to say. You're replying in the context of a post about why people literally do not and cannot get it right 100% of the time. Thinking so is pure hubris. (And demonstrably so.)

EDIT: The fundamental problem with the "attitude" of C++ I see is that fast-and-potentially-UB by default is a bad default (as almost all defaults in C++ are). It would be far saner to have slow-but-guaranteed-behavior by default[0]... but the C++ committee has repeatedly demonstrated that they're not willing to do that. Well, it's either that or require the compiler to prove that the fast behavior is safe (an example of which is Rust), but that's likely not feasible in C++... unless you turn it into Rust with even more obscure and verbose annotation.

[0] At least you can stay safe and then optimize as needed from there.
You describe the current entrenched system with such horror which… well, a bit one sided but not complete wrong either.

The only problem is that it’s displacement by a market resembling the crypto one currently in collapse would be worse in every single way.

Just take investment portfolio loss that you mention: a tech heavy portfolio that lost 60% this year, if the investor is long anyway, may recover a bit or completely by the time they need to cash out. I’m far ahead of any temporary losses over the decades.

In contrast, even a portfolio long on crypto is still irrevocably (mostly or completely) gone if it was held at the FTX exchange.

Turns out “too big to fail” may actually be a bit of a bug and a feature, while crypto has, for the foreseeable future, demonstrated it’s simply not worth saving. Considering the contagion FTX will have, it should be concerning that Binance might simply not have been stable enough itself to step in. It should concern anyone with holdings with Binance that they made such a big deal about stepping in and then backed out, possibly just could handle it on top of their own shaky foundation.

Maybe some current coins should have a future but the entire ecosystem surrounding them is rotten and needs to be torn down, the ground salted, and then filled with people less blinded by hype and shiny tech and more understanding of how a financial system interfaces with a real world economy and, the masses of people live in it every single day.
>around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems

Is there any information available to assess what portion of that 70% was, or could have been, identified through static code analysis, sanitizers and other memory-safety techniques that can be applied in a bulk / automated manner?
Pardon my lack of technical terms, but when I worked with Bevy in 0.7, applying a part of a texture to a surface was really difficult. (It wants to apply the entire texture, and stretch it to fit.)

Has this improved?
Avoid Using Blue Mailboxes During the Holidays, USPS Warns
I've summarized a lot of my thoughts in this blog post: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevys-first-birthday/#things-i-m...

But in short (slight copy-paste of my generic Bevy pitch):

The Developer's Engine: most engines are built using multiple languages, with significant abstraction between "user code" and "engine code". Bevy is built with a consistent stack and data model (see the blog post I linked to for details). If you "go to definition" on a Bevy app symbol in your IDE, the underlying engine code will look the same as your app code. You can also swap out basically everything. We have a vibrant plugin ecosystem (https://bevyengine.org/assets) as a result. These blurred lines also make it _way_ easier for "Bevy app developers" to make direct contributions to the engine. Bevy App developers _are_ Bevy Engine developers, they just don't know it yet. The new Bevy renderer (in 0.6) was also built with this principle in mind. It exposes low, mid, and high level renderer apis in a way that makes it easy to "insert yourself" into the engine.

Fully embraces ECS: No popular engines are currently all-in on ECS (either they have no official support ... or they are half-in half-out). I reflect on some of the benefits we've enjoyed thanks to Bevy ECS in the blog post I linked to. Note that there is _a lot_ of pro _and_ anti ECS hype. Don't just blindly follow dogma and hype trains. ECS isn't one thing and Bevy ECS intentionally blurs the lines between paradigms.

We can't currently compete with the "big engines" on features, but we are adding features at a rapid (and growing) pace. Bevy was released about a year and a half ago. Most popular engines have been in development for almost 20 years (Godot since 2007, Unity since 2005, Unreal since 1998), so we have plenty of "time" from my perspective.

I'm a huge fan of Godot and used it to build my game High Hat over the course of about 4 years. I also contributed to it every once and awhile. When I was initially building Bevy, Godot's design decisions were always at the top of my mind (and they still are to this day). I love they way they do scenes (and our system draws inspiration from it). We also plan on borrowing their "dogfooding" approach to editor building (the Bevy Editor will be a normal Bevy App).
Rich people have assets which sit there and appreciate, and when they sell them they usually get more cash out that they put in. I strongly believe that those capital gains should be taxed.

Yes: if you invest in something the value can go down, but I don't think the government should compensate you for that. You should just be careful where you invest your money.
Per dang@https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428 [2020]
I suddenly understand why Azure has been dragging their feet on implementing TLS v1.3*. They're trying to avoid having to implement encrypted client hello, which would make their CDN products usable again by groups trying to hide information from government censorship and surveillance by mingling it amongst ordinary web pages.

*) Or at least one of the reasons, none of which are good.
If the air comes from outside, it's 450 ppm CO2. I want 330 ppm CO2.

Is that possible?
>First, reducing what they take is more efficient than inventing new bureaucracy to send out checks.

No, this depends on the specifics. If they are sending every tax filer an extra 1000 then that would be very efficient (setting aside those people who do not file federal taxes). If the tax reduction is complex, requires knowledge of complicated eligibility criteria, going in person to a local SS office or for a notary public, it's very inefficient.

As a general rule, then, this claim is bogus.
Have you looked into Django Ninja?

I use FastAPI exactly because of the reasons you point out... but damn do I miss the Django ORM and admin. Django-Ninja is an acknowledgement of the realities of that.
Sure, and that's why I said:

> universal tendency with cultural expression.

There is no single "culture of America"
And either way it's only not taxing you for money you didn't get. They never share your pain in the same sense that they share your success.
I chose React in 2022 for a new app. I looked at the alternatives, and the only ones that seem mature enough are Vue and Svelte. Vue honestly doesn't really seem that different to me. Svelte is great, but the ecosystem is a fraction of react's and I don't want to waste time looking for libraries. The one alternative that looked amazing was htmx. I would honestly love to use that but my app is too dynamic and making it in htmx would be a fun puzzle, but a puzzle nonetheless.
SpaceX is a different business entity that actually produces something of value and utility.

When it comes to Twitter, yes the ego is out of check, expecting employees to go above and beyond for something that is little more than a spam cannon.

That said, neither company's success could not be realized on a normal work weeks for all employees. Nothing SpaceX is doing has a hard time limit - they are not saving lives or winning wars. Its about revenue - short term revenue.
NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues
Do they publish proof of liabilities too?
A GFCI device does not care about the presence of a ground current -- at least not directly. GFCI measures a current imbalance between hot and neutral; if there is such an imbalance, it disconnects the circuit (i.e. it trips).

It's true that any such imbalance is most likely to flow through the ground of the GFCI's own Romex cable and for that reason it's best for GFCI circuits to be grounded. But an ungrounded GFCI will also trip if its hot current finds another path through ground, such as through a water pipe, because that current will not be returning through the GFCI's neutral and it will thus create an imbalance.
Citation needed for "not so significant", people behind lesser Ponzis have gotten decades in jail.
What you describe is solved with GraphQL, which is a very mature technology by now.
The one I remember for my country was that by year 2000 (prediction made in 1980s) half of the forest will be gone because of acid rain. I remember as a kid magazines with illustrations showing large dead forest everywhere.
Lack of ozone layer was also supposed to kill most of the planet.
Fortunately when the danger is identified people start to act, this make long term predictions very difficult.
"Never" is a very long time. Is there any reason to think the human population won't reach some kind of a steady-state eventually?
Lack of skeletal muscle is extremely dangerous for long-term health. Muscle is a key component of the endocrine system, acting as a sink for blood glucose and preventing insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes). Lack of muscle needed to stabilize your movements also greatly increases the risk of debilitating falls and other skeletal injuries. It's important to build up a good amount of muscle when you're young because hormonal changes make it increasingly harder as you age (unless you take anabolic drugs, which carry their own health risks).

https://www.gabriellereece.com/muscle-as-the-cornerstone-of-...

https://peterattiamd.com/ama27/

Of course if some people want to sacrifice healthspan for the sake of winning math and programming contests, that is a choice they can make.
> Assuming we even make it another 100 years, there is no way to know what our population will look like then, or whether we could not pull another technological/logistical revolution out of our asses, or whether global cultures would start to embrace a further explosion of population.

It seems like women in pretty much all cultures where women achieve financial independence and have control over how many children they have, choose to have 0, 1, 2, or rarely 3. Which makes sense given the risks and costliness of childbirth for them.

So I would guess that any culture that results in population explosion would have to either have medical advances that address the risks and costs of childbirth, or go backwards on women’s independence. Or really sweeten the deal in terms of financial and other incentives, but I don’t imagine that would fare very well.
I think you do.

Tangential but a while ago I got an offer from Meta London and then used GDPR to request my interview feedback. It had some interesting comments.
Full Report (PDF):

https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...

Via El Reg:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/11/nsa_urges_orgs_to_use...
Yeah, I think the question "Does Marc Andreesen associate with scam artists" has been quite conclusively answered by now. I can just see it now "Well he built an amazing business last time..."
Totally fine for simple game menus, but heavy on boilerplate.

It needs more widgets, the data flow needs some love, and text rendering is so-so. We're steadily improving it though, and every release it really does get better.
Personally, I agree with you. That being said, these posts originally appeared on consumer Facebook (but only visible to FB employees) and as such it was also about saying goodbye to friends you'd worked with. The sappiness just carried over to Workplace, and now LinkedIn apparently.
But who isn't decadent these day? The Minbari were quite obviously declining too, and the Vorlon were obviously thin in numbers.

TV show is what may give food for thoughts.
I have not, and that's why I didn't say anything about it.
“Mates” as in the other socks. Cynthia presumably has a pair of red socks and a pair of yellow socks or something, but instead of wearing two reds or two yellows, she is wearing one red and one yellow. Lucy and the narrator wonder if the other red and/or the other yellow are in the lunch box.
He’s probably in the panic/negotiation phase of it all. He knows he’s cooked but possibly he can escape with enough money to pay the right people in the right places what they need to secure passage for himself.
Appears to be true:

> CO2 monitoring equipment should be provided in the apartment expected to be the main or principal bedroom in a dwelling where infiltrating air rates are less than 15m3/hr/m2 @ 50 Pa.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/building-standards-2017-do...

Well done, Scotland.
The judicial system can sentence you to death, which impacts your everything. So you'd have a hard time making an argument that a sentence too long is somehow unconstitutional.
Your impression was wrong. Zhu Su of 3AC infamy had the evidence sitting on Twitter since 2019 and nobody cared.

https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1116945693946433536
GitHub is a great example of mostly server-side generated HTML. Their output HTML is very stable: the structure rarely changes, is semantic, logical, and self-documenting. This has helped hundreds of browser extensions (e.g. Refined GitHub, ZenHub) and userscripts, including dozens of my own.

Of course, treating HTML as API/data exchange format is fragile and might be seen as hindering progress by some of the GitHub staff. However, it has been like that for many years and was beneficial for the community. Perhaps not that beneficial for GitHub, who would prefer integrations over the official API.

If GitHub's HTML changes to a dynamic React-powered div-soup, that might be the end of browser extensions and userscripts. And another reason for power users to flock to other platforms.

Edit: React does not necessarily mean div-soup, but I have seen too many React-powered div-soups to expect GitHub's HTML to stay the same.
Don't you think those 'experience correlations'
are based on proxy parameters?

Oh absolutely, I'm sure that's a huge portion of it. Nonetheless, I'm much more attuned to it now.

Situations with high CO2 are usually situations with lots of warm, stagnant, exhaled air in rooms filled with people.

Would I be able to detect high CO2 levels in an environment with cool, well-circulated air? I'm not sure. Certainly not as well, and perhaps not at all.

In practice, it probably doesn't matter. I don't think there are many of those pathologically counterintuitive CO2 situations. If the air seems stuffy or stagnant then you can be fairly certain it's full of CO2 and/or airborne pathogens.
What if this was never about getting the money out of the crypto markets. Could it simply be about minimizing how many of the assets the bankruptcy could liquidate all at once?

It may take a long time to recover these funds. Remember seeing that slippage was as much as 50% on some of the transactions, a permanent loss.

No one still in crypto wanted to see the liquidation happen.
When set undofile is combined with :earlier and :later being used in place of undo and redo I think vim behaves as the author describes.
In some states like NY, the money you make from writing/talking about your crimes go to the victims of your crime. That's why Inventing Anna (Netflix series inspired by true events) didn't make any money for the real (but not so real) Anna Delvey.
I hear you, and not to argue with your points, but I have some comments.

- There is a very close school here, as I happen to live in the tiny area that has the school for a pretty big region. They have very few students (graduating classes of 10-20). I'm not sure how good the school is, but I knew a second grader who tested 99.9 percentile on the Iowa standardized test. So it's at least passable? I think schooling is a big rural concern, for sure, but worth the tradeoff of getting to grow up in a place like this. There's much to learn that isn't in a textbook.

- [Comfortable weather] There's other regions, of course. I don't love the summer here, but I like the 3 other seasons. And in summer I just travel and work inside more. It's not even the heat, it's the bugs in this region. Ticks, mostly.

- [Asian] You would stand out here, but wouldn't be receiving any hatred or anything. The man I bought my property from married a Filipino woman, and she had a daughter who went to the little school here. They didn't speak much English when they arrived. Anyway she loved the school, and married locally and had children. They all still live very close; they moved away when I bought this place, and moved back after a couple of years. No groceries in this county for you, though, sorry. No stoplights, either, so you can imagine why niche businesses don't spring up. That goes for all niches. We have farm stores, dollar stores, grocery stores, gas stations, and that's about it. Dry county, too.

- [Costco] That's kinda nice, but then you're 10 minutes from Costco, and for me, that eliminates a lot of why I like to be out here. You can wander all around my property and all you're going to see is trees, wildlife, mountain views...and my stuff. There's no towers, homes, roads, billboards, vehicles, radios, any of it, unless you choose to bring it here. That said, I own a business in town, and I commute usually once per week, so I can do my shopping while I'm there.

- [Room per] My county has no building code, so you can build whatever you like out here. That's cool. I do stuff like this. I have an area for leatherwork, an area with my sewing machine, my woodshop. Fly tying in a spare bedroom. A home gym. Etc. That's one of my favorite things. If I ever have a family out here, maybe I'll stick the kids' bedrooms in a separate building once they're 10 or so.

I visited SF in 2020, right before COVID. I had a great time. Very interesting city. I do love cities, too, but they don't feed me like this place. In another life, I'll be an almost-anonymous resident of a massive city, one unimportant detail. In contrast to out here, where I'm the only one who can affect any change.

What are you sewing? I'm about to make a tipi cover on a Singer model 128 (a treadle machine).
It is a pretty broad term, but it generally implies some combination of cache-friendly design and composable (sometimes component-driven) behaviors. ECS intersects with it, but "data oriented" is a much broader category.
I'm one of the engineers at GitHub who was behind this new UI, let me know if you have any questions. We chose React for this code search/code view because it has a lot of interactivity, and it has worked well so far.

And we do intend to write a blog post with more details in the coming weeks.
Insofar as each client's deposits? Yes.

>Any client can independently verify that their balance was included in the Proof of Reserves audit by comparing select pieces of data with the Merkle root.

https://www.kraken.com/proof-of-reserves
My favorite languages are MLs, particularly F#, which usually have some of the cleanest syntaxes available. It’s not just Lisp-family enthusiasts. I think it’s more for anyone that thinks rather that follows or assumes or whatever.

I actually learned about Lisp/Scheme after I had learned about several other languages.

What do people not like about parentheses? It’s normally along the lines of “well, I just don’t like them”, which can be read as “it’s not what I’m used to”. Yet, these same programmers will freely throw parentheses around expressions in an ad-how manner to communicate with the compiler in their given language. In some ways, one can back Lisp/Scheme out of popular languages by stating that instead of letting parentheses be used to frequently but not always clarify precedence and grouping and function application, they are going to be required to enforce these. Such a thing is not such a radical or unreasonable stance.

McCarthy’s original M-expressions are somewhat irrelevant. He wasn’t trying to make a programming language for software development. He was investigating it as a tool for his research.

My primary complaint about popular languages like Python, C++, C#, etc. are their irregularities. There a lot of syntax, semantics, and little quirks in the languages that make it very hard to just know the language and move on solving problems. My favorite thing about Schemes are their regularity. The social popularity of languages can’t be explained by their technical merits. It’s more due to social and historical phenomena than a technical reason.

For what it’s worth, I also like Smalltalks.
1. Sequoia removed its glowing 13,000-word profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-investor-sequoia-removes...

2. NAS Daily on FTX

https://twitter.com/nasdaily/status/1590027230281093120?s=20...

3. The World Economic forum: FTX

https://www.weforum.org/organizations/ftx

4. White House Monitoring FTX Collapse, Calls for Crypto Regulation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-12/white-hou...

what a whirlwind. there are more FTX chaos on Twitter.

edit:

5. Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire ‘was run by a gang of kids in the Bahamas’ who all dated each other

/r/wallstreetbets : https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ysujgu/sam_...

source: https://fortune.com/2022/11/11/sam-bankman-fried-crypto-empi...
My experience is that soldered-on RAM (almost?) never fails. What's the benefit of being able to repair something that doesn't break?

SSDs and external connectors definitely fail, though, and they should be repairable/replaceable.
If crypto is a scam, why isn’t Bitcoin also a scam? It’s the same technology right?
Birth rates are already below replacement levels worldwide, and well below it in all but Africa. "Peak baby" worldwide was in 2013. Japan's population peaked in 2017. Outside of Osaka and Tokyo, the country is emptying out. Look to Japan first to see how this plays out.

China's population is peaking now. So is the US native-born population.[1]

Almost all the population growth worldwide is in sub-Saharan Africa. That region may not survive global warming.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00073413
This has almost nothing to do with crypto. There's no "hurr durr code is law" clever hacking involved, the money was straight up stolen from a centralized exchange in the digital equivalent of a bank robbery and is now being laundered in plain sight.
People "resist climate change" because most climate change rhetoric is transparently trying to get them to vote a different way or buy some different thing. If it was stated just in terms of a causal relationship, like rising CO2 raises global temperature, fewer people would object.

Put another way, one group conflates the fact of CO2 increases + greenhouse effect with suggested political acrions. Another group counters by conflating not agreeing with political actions with disputing the underlying physics.
Is there an archive link of the Sequoia page? (or even the now defunct URL will be appreciated)