skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may or may not be the case, but this incident is not evidence for it, since Debian did the same thing. See upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879202
> at this pace, the world's population is going to flatline at around 10 billion in 50 years

Is that what you're panicking about? This means that for the next 50 years, we'll continue growing. Lack of offspring of current generations is clearly not the problem here.

I still remember how in the 1980s, people were panicking that the world population kept growing, and sooner or later we were going to hit 10 billion. And now 10 billion is not enough?

It's obvious that this population growth is not sustainable. Sure, the Earth may technically be able to feed 40 billion people if we all turn vegan, but so far, we don't exactly have a good track record of dividing our resources equally. That is a far bigger issue to worry about.

Should the population grow or shrink? I don't know, but whichever we end up doing, we should do so sustainably; make sure every kid is fed, cared for, received the best possible education, and can live a happy life. And if young people don't have the time or money for any of that, not having children is the responsible choice for them. If we don't like the results, we should change our economic balance to the point that they do have the time and money to raise children.
> What possibly will happen is that junior developers will have even harder time getting into the industry, because clueless PHBs will see ChatGPT doing all their work "for free". A few years later they're screwed, because nobody at the company knows how their applications work. Except ChatGPT...maybe.

Reads like what I said before. Some will be affected and less programmers will be needed,. Especially in particular, juniors and some seniors getting impacted.

I don't know where I said 'All jobs' as you once again brought out as you clear read incorrectly. I only said less programmers will be hired and these software engineering jobs will be more competitive.

The best course of action is to learn to adapt and it certainly applies to programmers. Pretending that they don't need to adapt is a delusion and denial of constant change. With or without AI.
It's not really figure it out later. They have reasons like they will take care in the old age. If all of my peers can why can't I etc. Also, it's more of modern concept to actively not have children, which is not really permeated to all economic groups.

Atleast in India.

In other news, Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter gave her one kidney to him yesterday. Where point 1 literally panned out.
"Crypto" encompasses both the technologies and the systems created and the external effects they generate on the world. When the result is a bunch of scammy centralized exchanges crumbling? That's what "real" crypto is, regardless of any initial guiding light goals.

Just like how the USSR and its actions were "real" communism, regardless of how close they mapped to original utopian dreams about what communism would be. How it plays out in the Real world is what matters, and what makes it the Real thing.
Only because conservatives have adopted the language of persecution because they saw liberals using it effectively. “My cis-male theologically divergent heirloom belief system demands I burn the gays, and I am being oppressed!”
Not quite as experienced as you (I’m in the 10-15 year bracket).

I never ask LeetCode questions because it’s far easier on both sides to ask experience-based questions like “what do you like/dislike about <technology on your resume>?”

If I get superficial answers that tells me something. If i get well thought-out answers from people who have clearly spent time in the trenches that tells me something too.
How many of these VCs used their reputations to pump shit coins (which they got along with equity when they invested in these Ponzis) then sold the shit coins to retail investors?

Seems like they sold unregulated securities
It costs $310k to pay for a kid from 0-18 per Brookings. The math is straightforward to work backwards to the income you need to afford that along with your basic needs and retirement savings, and most people don’t have the means. Median US lifetime earnings are $1.7 million.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3608647-new-estimate-proj...
I think it's a bit more complicated than that.

As far as "all of history" goes, ancient Greece for example tolerated a particular kind of "homosexuality", but not one we should try and emulate - it matched neither of two conditions in "consenting adults", for example.

While it's true that few if any societies other than "modern Western" would score as high as ours on Stonewall's diversity index, there were definitely ups and downs if you plotted things over time.

Go back several generations in the USA or Western Europe and it's absolutely normal for straight men to have close and emotional friendships for life; when photography was first invented, it was a thing that male BFFs had photos of themselves taken that I bet anyone today, if shown without context, would immediately pattern-match to "gay couple". I'm going to quote the "art of manliness" site, of all places, on this: https://www.artofmanliness.com/people/relationships/bosom-bu... (warning: images may be considered NSFW at your place of work, despite being absolutely non-pornographic as far as I can tell)

Some of these men were undoubtedly gay in the sense we understand the term, but the idea of having a close emotional bond with another man was certainly open to straight men too (and to some extent, also expected).

But then, to quote "The History of Male Friendships" linked on that page,

> First, men were free to have affectionate man relationships with each other without fear of being called a “queer” because the concept of homosexuality as we know it today didn’t exist then. America didn’t have the strict straight/gay dichotomy that currently exists. Affectionate feelings weren’t strictly labeled as sexual or platonic. There wasn’t even a name for homosexual sex; instead, it was referred to as “the crime that cannot be spoken.” It wasn’t until the turn of the 19th century that psychologists started analyzing homosexuality. When that happened, men in America started to become much more self-conscious about their relationships with their buds and traded the close embraces for a stiff pat on the back.

> [...]

> The man friendship underwent some serious transformations during the 20th century. Men went from lavishing endearing words on each other and holding hands to avoiding too much emotional bonding or any sort of physical affections whatsoever. Fear of being called gay drove much of the transformation. Ministers and politicians decried homosexuality as being incompatible with true manhood. And like most deviant behavior in the 1950s, homosexuality was associated with Communism.

So, once "gay" appeared on people's radar, heteronormativity shot through the roof and men were expected to be performatively straight, to prove themselves that they were not "tainted" by this new "affliction". That's where a lot of this pressure came from, it was definitely not constant throughout all of even relatively modern history.
> Are you really making an argument for why we don't need more babies to be brought into this world? That is a bit on the side of fucked up if you ask me.

Great argument. About as great as the rest of the article which misses any nuance.
I am not a lawyer, but based on my experience with New York tenant law the attorney is correct that the apartment management only needs to provide you with a means to enter and secure the apartment.

Meaning - if that "means" is a smartphone - then (unless the lease you signed says otherwise), the landlord is obligated to provide you with a smartphone (along with a fully paid contract).

Otherwise it's a lockout, which under NYC tenant law constitutes over harassment. Period, end of story.
Just in case anyone missed the joke this poster is making, "the left" is a political group that believes, for instance, there are more than two sexes.
On the one hand, reducing the time it takes to buy or sell a house is a great thing.

But on the other, there’s a lot of due diligence that is appropriate to carry out as a purchaser that doesn’t seem covered and it’s unclear that the NFT or blockchain adds anything to the picture - the value-add here is in having done the searches ahead of time.
Marx wasn't wrong, but he also didn't say most of the things we think he said. What he really said was "skimming bad". On its face, this is inarguable, but the difficulty is to describe an alternative.
>Birth rates below replacement means that the proportion of elderly increases every year, forever.

Not when life expectancy decreases, as it is here in the United States.

>It will become harder and harder for young people to build wealth and support themselves and it means fewer resources to solve the other very big problems we have such as climate change.

"Big problems" like climate change because much less "big" when other problems grow more pressing and threatening to immediate survival. People who don't have a roof over their heads or a meal to eat aren't concerned with climate change.
We are talking about someone with 15 years experience though. 100k @ 15 years is too low when new grads now start at 60k.

So you hire someone who has 14 years of extra experience and brings a lot more value to the company and only pay them 40k extra?

That's why I'm saying it feels like an insult.
Precisely. Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror.
TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab
Neat, in what kind of industry/countries have you seen this?
> What has democracy ever done for us?

The labor movement gave us the 40 hour workweek, weekends off and the minimum wage. They're the reason you have time to opine online right now instead of working.

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-40-hour-workw...
https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/unions/labor/living-wage
This is exactly what I thought of when I saw "social media-induced illness": MSMI

I saw this in the school I led, especially in young girls. One of them starts cutting, suddenly we have multiple girls cutting. One of them struggles with bulimia, suddenly the guidance counselor is reporting that she has an inordinate number of girls coming in for counselling about bulimia.

I dont think its any different with claiming to be transgender. And my current school counselor contact confirms that - for every one child she sees that she believes may actually struggle with body dysmorphia and she believes may be trans, there are 10 more coming in because its the 'thing' to be. These are usually kids who are troubled and are desperately seeking attention and care, legit needs, but going about it the only way they see that's acceptable. They gain attention, they gain power, and in an odd way, status among their peers for 'being who they are.'
It seems like a stretch to claim that our population is going to zero the instant that exponential growth stops. There is nothing stopping the population from dropping to (for example) 4B and then start climbing again.
EIP-4895 [1] will enable beacon chain withdrawals and will be included in the next Ethereum upgrade scheduled for next year. No actual release date has been decided yet [2].

[1] https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4895

[2] https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/01/when-will-ethereum-sta...
The Australian bill only served to move money from one set of large corporations to another set of large corporations.
George Hotz: Multiple people will die in the next ten years from watching TikTok
Considering that’s never actually happened it seems you have an unreasonable level of certainty about the outcomes.

People who don’t have kids don’t pass down their culture, which seems like an obvious feedback loop to keep things going. On top of this population declines have generally resulted in increased individual prosperity for hopefully obvious reasons.
https://xkcd.com/416/

"Notifying field agents"
Doesn't even need to be that explicit. It would be no surprise to find out that the those managing the program that identifies "genius" discovers that genius runs in their families (and friends' families).
The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a consciously learned accent of English, fashionably used by the late 19th-century and early 20th-century American upper class and entertainment industry, which blended together features regarded as the most prestigious from both American and British English (specifically Received Pronunciation). It is not a native or regional accent; rather, according to voice and drama professor Dudley Knight, "its earliest advocates bragged that its chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so". The accent was embraced in private independent preparatory schools, especially by members of the American Northeastern upper class, as well as in schools for film and stage acting, with its overall use sharply declining after the Second World War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
Did you sign using your own name and signature?
I like the Keybase model of linking multiple online identities to a keyholder.

The PGP web-of-trust model could also work, and mobile apps to ease keysigning could make adoption more feasible than the old keysigning party idea.
The trouble is, the numbers just don’t support your hypothesis. Birth rates are falling in almost every country on the planet, however poor they are, however rich they are, however large student loans are.

This just isn’t the root of the issue. It’s pretty common knowledge that mostly the richer a country is the less babies it has.

So, maybe research what the actual problem is, before projecting your own views of society on this issue
Remember, "Americans" believe everything outside USA doesn't count
I have been running Debian Stable on my (gaming/coding/general use) desktop and on my work laptop for close to a decade now, and I have had very few problems, things just work. The last problem of "too old system libraries" nature I remember was maybe 5 years ago, when Steam client did not work because of too old glibc, but one Debian release later the problem was gone.

I don't think it's as bad as most people think it is, nowadays.
I don't think the issue is the absolute number of humans but the ratio of young to old.
I'm not sure the idea of genius is one we should rely on. Why is it that we think one or two great people are responsible for all progress?

I'd rather think that it's about creating an environment where someone will solve our problems, and that we merely need to nurture the environment.

With pre-identified geniuses, we end up with an entitled class populated by people who had hired tutors, and a bunch of people who think they'll never amount to anything because they didn't pass the test.
Is there a more reliable status-quo than left-leaning thought dominating universities? Anyone there who sought understanding decided that they found it and stopped exploring sometime in the 70s.
I better waste a truckload of eggs and make that omelette in my lifetime. I think we had enough "potential treatments" for humans that take 50 years to pass(if ever) the "potential" stage. We eat enough steaks anyway so using 0.00000001% for research doesn't sound that bad to me.
In India- or that subcontinent, people were majority in the very poor category. Only recently middle class grew, 20-40 years. What people did was buy homes and invest live savings to have a "permanant shelter over heads" for themselves and their families.

This is true for a lot of people so children when the start earning, "there is no rent to pay" which is a big savings considering.

On the other hand, you have "american dream" of kicking your kids out at 18 so the roof over heads analogy falls out the window.

I get it. Its fun, its freedom but at what cost? Apparently running your ass off to stay afloat.

Then there is this argument about "no opportunities in home town" but does this apply to 100% of 18 year olds in USA that they have to necessarily move out?
Meta threatens to remove news from Facebook if US Congress passes media bill
Getting ChatGPT to write a Linux kernel module for me
My answer is that people brought other people into the world after the black plague, after world war 2, after Hiroshima, and I'm personally very happy they did.

The world has a lot of issues for sure, but it used to be much much worse, and despite many issues left and appearing constantly, I think we're still going in the right general direction.

There are challenges and obstacles today, there surely will be some in the future, but I'm sure we will prevail, and I for one am happy to be there and want to give this opportunity to someone else.
This is my own experience: if the recruiters don't call me back, that means I fail. Calling them just makes me more stressful/sad.
I don't know most of the people I follow on Twitter in real life but I would argue that I do know them personally because I follow a pretty small group and see most of what they post. So I have gotten to know people on Twitter personally over time.

It's interesting because I can't say the same for HN. I only recognize a few dozen usernames and only really feel like I know the personalities of a couple of those people. This is despite having been on HN for far longer (in both calendar time and hours spent).
I think signing things will become a lot more commonplace. At my workplace we sign code using Metamask to prove that someone made a commit. Allows us to build something like a decentralised Git
Signing things is only relevant within a bubble of trust where you just want to know that the Fred you're dealing with is the Fred you already previously knew and trusted.

"Out there in the real world", among people who work and spend money and vote and hold offices and sue and buy guns and raise kids and consume consume consume and couldn't be paid to care about your cryptographic signature, this solves absolutely nothing while dangerously pretending that the legitimate problems don't really exist or aren't really serious.
I kept waiting for you to support the “over represented” claim. Much disappointment.

Over represented compared to what real thing? What should the representation be, in terms of percent, compared to what we see today?
The actual official government registry part of the process is negligible.

What takes the time is lawyers talking to each other about god knows what, for months on end, for no apparent reason. My last house sale in the UK took about 4 months to go through. I am glad I don’t live there any more.
It does have a solid and well documented upgrade process, provided you're on the latest stable version prior to executing the upgrade.

Fall behind by 3 or 4 versions and it's a long laborious task to upgrade each one. For products containing the OS which are shipped out to customers (NAS, firewalls, appliances, etc) this process might be too high risk, so it's easier to never upgrade - but ship new hardware, usually in the form of a new product.

(This is from personal experience taking on a client who still ran internet-facing FreeBSD 9.x servers. Lift & shift to the latest FreeBSD 13.x was far safer)
Absolutely agree. The original Dune artworks and soundtracks are really appart, it's more an experience than a "traditional" video game (while at the time, there weren't traditional games, good memories...) The first Dune is also more faithful to the book regarding the ecology theme and the Fremen arc (in my mind at least)
> I've always considered the Dems to be incredibly corrupt. I dont really know what Trump has or hasn't done because my only sources are the media and the media is garbage.

Okay, then stick to primary sources who are Republican.

The Mueller Report was authored by Republican Robert Mueller, was authorized and overseen by Republican Rod Rosenstein and was signed off by Republican Bill Barr. It details that Russia hacked the Democrats in 2016, attacked the 2016 election, and Trump obstructed the investigation into said hacking.

Or read the Senate Intel report on Russia, authored by the Republican senate and chaired by Republican Marco Rubio. It shows that Trump’s campaign collaborated with a Russian Intel officer to exchange day during the 2016 election.

Or look at primary sources like court filings. When you say the Dems have politicized the Doj and FBI, I’m assuming you’re talking about the recent raids on Trump’s home. But wouldn’t you agree that if the raid was properly authorized by a judge based on the facts, that wouldn’t be politicization?

Since the raid, the DOJ has won in court over and over again as Trump has challenged the basis of the raid. The only wins he has gotten have been overturned on appeal, with those decisions saying that Judge Aileen Cannon (who Trump appointed and forum shopped to hear his case) abused her power in deciding for Trump.

Or take the January 6 insurrection. If you don’t trust Democrats about that day, just listen to Republicans. The 1/6 hearings had testimony from 90% Republicans — from Republican staffers to Republican political operatives to life-long Republican politicians (maybe some you’ve voted for). Their testimony shows Trump planned and was responsible for that day.

At this point if you don’t know who Trump is and what he’s done, that’s not on the Dems or the media. That’s on you for not paying attention.

> Outsourcing your breaches of the constitution to private enterprise (suppressing free speech totally legal!!) would be another.

You do realize Matt Tiabbi says in his story the Trump admin was doing the same thing as the Biden Campaign. If you think what Biden did was violating the constitution by outsourcing, you must think the same of Trump and Republicans. Anything less and you’re being intellectually dishonest with yourself.
I think it depends on culture for having/not having a kid.

In developing countries, the purpose as i see is mostly to have a child to take care of them when they get old, which seems wrong!
In the UK I know a lot of people who can't afford decent housing, who can't afford weddings, who can't afford retirement, who struggle against a rent-keeping uber-efficient capitalist age to not live month to month.

Against this back drop a choice emerges: To take what little is left and use that to eke out some semblance of life, some work/life balance... that first they delay having children from their 20s to their 30s. Then when they arrived in their 30s they're still very much behind where they had planned to be (wars, Brexit, COVID, financial crashes, inflation, etc)... and they're either delaying to their 40s or just accepting now that this was not for them. They wanted a decent life, it included children... but in reality the economic reality and pace of life has precluded it.

I'm late 40s, that was my reality (further delayed start due to being homeless when younger and having an even worse starting point)... and I get it, it's hard.

Having children feels like something that has become the preserve of the wealthy or the poor, and if one wishes to achieve a betterment in your own lifetime - a social mobility, then you're likely choosing against having children. I've long accepted this, but once in a rare moon I get to just write it down like this as there's definitely shame involved at making those choices (and it's way worse for women who are constantly asked when they're going to have children, whereas men are mostly left alone on the subject).
I was laid off a week before thanksgiving.

Job search has been going pretty bad. Only a few screen out rejections and a handful of obnoxious crap recruiters have contacted me. No interviews yet.
It is a new acronym term in attempt to break free of the spam industry stranglehold on spam.

You should also know who you are getting your email from instead of trusting other people putting in "their" name in the encoded-words (outside its addr-spec).

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2047