skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the legal side of this, let me quote Sir Geoffrey Vos who is the head of civil justice in the UK. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Speech-M...

7. The blockchain is now at a stage in its development equivalent to where the internet was in or around 1995. The internet was unstoppable in 1995 and blockchain technology is unstoppable now. It will become ubiquitous in all major industrial and financial sectors, simply because it allows for the immutable recording of data, thereby reducing friction in commercial and consumer transactions and obliterating the scope for dispute as to what has occurred.

8. As the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales, I hold an office that pre-dates modern trade in derivatives and reinsurance, even steam engines, powered flight, and certainly the internet. I am particularly and obviously concerned about the reputation and development of English law and the jurisdiction of England and Wales.

9. Many people do not realise that English law governs trading in €600 trillion of OTC derivatives annually, in €11.6 trillion in metals trading, in £250 billion in M&A deals, and in £80 billion in insurance contracts every year – just to take a few examples. My hope is that English law will prove to be the law of choice for borderless blockchain technology as its take up grows exponentially in the months and years to come.

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Point being none of this is happening outside of the framework of law: transfer of ownership is the objective of the system. If you're legal owner of the house and a court takes half of it off you, the legal package around the NFT kicks in, breaks the tie between the NFT and the land (yes, there's an authoritative way of indicating this) and you then figure out what to do with the remaining property rights.

When dealing with land, the legal system is always primary.
And what the fuck would be the problem if GenZ had an "over-representation" of LGBT?!

We don't live in the dark ages, almost all Western constitutions have some sort of "freedom of expression" on their books. Just let people live their lifes however they want to do it, as long as they don't harm anybody. Trans people or kissing gays on the street don't harm anyone but the feelings of some poor Conservatives who are secretly in the closet and envious about the freedom today's youth has.

Just look how many of the loud pearl clutching Conservatives turned out to be gay or adulterous. It's nothing but projection and pure envy.
An ancillary question would be, how many of those people wanted to move into management?

Definitely in IT departments I've worked in, in the past, there were a lot of people in management who would have preferred to still be ICs but, for financial reasons, had moved upwards...
This is extremely location-dependent. In countries where you have universal healthcare, free education and childcare benefits, the financial impact of having a child can be very low.
> The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records on the number of animals tested and killed.

How are they doing this science without keeping records of such important information about scientific experiments and the subjects?

Or are they lying, or intentionally finding a way to do the experiments and manage subjects without keeping these records? (I could believe either. I've heard some surprising things from people involved in research on animals, including of primate facilities they know of being hidden/disguised/unmarked, where I'd never guessed. I assume the "delicate PR" of animal research is well-known by people who work in that space, and might be incentive to suppress PR-damaging records.)
It's been a "few" years since I played Dune I & II, but I can still remember the Dune soundtrack and much of its imagery with amazing clarity. They were amazing achievements for the time.
> Real parents consistently make it clear how terrible having kids is.

What world do you live in? I have 4 (soon to be 5) kids myself and I’m happy with my choices. I know many families with kids, and only a small percentage seem unhappy, similar to most other life choices.
This matter is a very clear choice:

1) Have children early at risk of living life without wealth but at minimum risk of health for all parties.

2) Delay. This risks never having children for various biological reasons for the impractically increased chance of increased wealth.

As somebody who had children early, went through poverty, and now lives in a large house with a nice job I can't help but look at single people in their 30s or older. I always want to ask them why they cannot afford a Lamborghini or live in a giant mansion. They had no such restrictions on their time and/or finances to dedicate increased efforts in advancing their careers or founding new businesses.
I kind of see idioms like lenses as part of the language.

But the language allows defining your own (infix) operators, so the core language designers weren't entirely innocent either. The abundance of custom operators in Haskell kind of made me appreciate Lisp and Forth a little more!

There are of course many good things about having your language designed by mathematicians, too.
> just shortly after it had been badly embarrassed by the company's CEO.

What happened?
Scale matters. There are multiple orders of magnitude difference between the things you are comparing.

You get one or two orders of magnitude just from the lifespan of animals-- a pig in a factory will spend up to a decade suffering, musks monkeys presumably less than a year.

You get the rest of the orders of magnitude from the number of animals involved.
I’ll give you a hint, the best locations are not in the city. Check out small towns. The people are down to earth. The cost of living is much less and the people are generally awesome to be around. I love in a small farming town and your neighbors would give the shirt off their back to come help you. One of our daughters has to go to the hospital for about a week and we came home to a clean house and meals for a week.

Those who think the city is good place to be, explore a little outside your urban bubble.

In addition to this, we have lots of kids and there are plenty of ways to have kids affordably. You don’t have to send your kids Ivy League schools and if they do, they can get their student loans to pay for it.

Lastly, yes, kids can a source of frustration and pain but they are by the one of the largest sources of joy, pride and happiness in our life. Watching them grow and develop is amazing.
Right. The value has not been lost. It has been shifted. It happens.
Stupid idea for signing: use invisible characters to embed GPG signature (or signify(1) or whatever) inside any text you publish. This way, when the text is copy/pasted, your signature is still attached.

You can even make browser and text editor plugins to make it ubiquitous.

(yes you can make a screenshot, remove invisible chars, etc.)
Zeihan is not always intellectually honest and I don’t trust what he says about Ukraine but he says a lot of interesting things about demographics. He says nothing though about culture, sovereignty, or the quality of bureaucracies.
The drug war argument is compelling. If this is the main driver we have a pretty unpleasant trade off to consider: accept drug addiction which ruins lives or send people to jail which also ruins lives. Some drugs aren’t so bad so the trade off is not there.

Definitely one suggestion from the right is promote their view of social morality, Christianity but also a la carte statements: no infidelity, no sex out of wedlock etc.

Another of their arguments is that welfare payments from the state have made it easier for the poor to not stick together and this has been a driver of single parent households. Ie however well motivated there is a potential harmful unintended consequence here.
Stupid question, if you already are at the edge of max heap size for allowing compressed OOPs, can increasing ReservedCodeCacheSize kick you into 64 bit uncompressed land?
A real conversation is generally not possible anywhere. Your boss has enormous power over you and the reality is that even if you are somehow special, they won't see you that way. It sounds hopeless, but if you approach your boss in this manner (he couldn't care less whether or not you do actually get hit by a bus) the negotiation is easier to do.
I know a guy that left one FAANG recently which was laying off people, interviewed at two other FAANGs, got offers for senior remote roles for over $600k, accepted both and is now working two jobs at the same time. Given he was doing the previous FAANG together with a tough grad school, I think he'll be fine.
From the beginning of the article:

> The basic operators here are ^., .~, and %~. If you’re not a fan of funny-looking operators, Control.Lens provides more helpfully-named functions called view, set, and over (a.k.a. mapping); these three operators are just aliases for the named functions, respectively. For these exercises, we’ll be using the operators.
Please do point out my logical error. I see countless examples of competition keeping corporations in check. What is keeping Unions in check then?
I essentially see it the same way. It's a tradeoff of pleasure and comfort for meaning.

It's a counter intuitive choice in the modern world. Its increasingly common to choose comfort over meaning. Especially when so many dont think meaning even exists.
I've been looking for a remote design + engineering role, but it really seems like most companies are not hiring or just have way too many options to choose from!

I've got 10+ years as a design who is also a full stack engineer (node stack). If you're hiring for a role that is well-rounded product, please message me, I'd love to talk.

Portfolio link in my profile.
What are the birth rates in these countries? If you check (Our World In Data Fertility Rates), you’ll see it’s lower than the US, even countries with strong pro natalist policies. The opportunity cost of kids is just too damn high.

When fathers in Spain were given more parental leave, they have less kids, for example. The revealed preference is clear.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-UN

https://qz.com/work/1614893/after-men-in-spain-got-paternity...
Telegram Copyright Takedowns Breed a Hydra of Z-Library Bots
> - 13th salary as a Christmas gift (so +8.3% salary)

My 100k number is all-in.

> Also, with a bit of searching, you can rent a house with garden for €2000 per month even in large cities like Hamburg or Berlin. As a result, an 100k€ annual salary will be enough for you alone to comfortably bankroll a family of 5 - something that's almost impossible in the bay area due to high rents and insane costs of living.

That is true. But you have to say goodbye to any romantic dreams about owning any property big enough for children (within a nice area of such a city), if you and a similiarly well-doing partner do not want to work for it for the rest of your life. If you have not come across FIRE, that might be okay as well.
Am I the only person that looks at these (articles/rants/raves/sometimes serious) and thinks: Wait up, the start of the article noted that we are at 8 billion people on the planet... but dangit, we need to have more people!

Perhaps it is sarcasm, and I keep reading we do not have enough young people, but it sure seems ironic that the two headlines that keep cropping up are: Too many people and Not enough people.
> Patronising is thinking you know you don’t want kids without having them. You don’t. You have no idea what it’s like.

... what?
I am based in Nigeria, a ‘third-world country’, I work remotely for a company domiciled in the US and get paid in Stablecoins (USDC & USDT). Crypto has been a life saver for me. Before that, one alternative was to get a USD account in a local bank & get paid via Western Union. The challenges are numerous. To setup a USD account locally takes a long time & multiple requirements. Assuming that hurdle is crossed, the more challenging issue is how restrictive Central bank policies are. In an economy with high inflation & parallel market rates for USD, there’s an incentive for the government to retain as much USD in the economy due to poor trade policies preventing $ revenues from coming in. Withdrawal limits have been reduced over the last 2 years alone, & the flexibility to make $ payments is hindered by low transaction limits with a USD card ($15 per transaction). To navigate this, I tried creating a virtual USD bank account with a local Fintech, with which to receive salaries. However these virtual accounts can only receive payments from US accounts (via ACH transfers) so can be restrictive. The most seamless solution to my problem has been to setup a crypto wallet. In minutes I receive my salary and can spend any amount, whenever I like. Plus, it makes it easier to save in USD, avoiding the local currency devaluation (The Naira has fallen 52% in the last 7 years under the current regime). So speaking as a ‘third-country citizen’, crypto provide a far more effective banking system.
might be the most amazing experience of your life. Not everyone enjoys (or would enjoy) being a parent.
i work in the medical device industry and am very familiar with preclinical (animal) research. my problem with this article is the inference that the animals COULD have survived if the studies were not rushed. the reality is that these animals are specifically bred for research and are always euthanized at the conclusion of the study.
Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees
Rare new fossil find the Rosetta Stone of marine palaeontology
I like RMS being out there and having the opinions he does, but please don't act like he is some great role model for men or humans. He's a weird nerd who doesn't attract mates and alienates his allies. Woe be unto any man who tries to be like him, you'll end up unhappy and considered a loser
yeah, Europe's AM bands were fun at night

I can still get music radio from Algeria on AM, or rock, sport and news from the UK (I believe from stations emitting from Swansea and London)
I used to listen to Deutschlandfunk, France Inter, BBC4 LW on the LW band (only the latter is still active today, others were switched off in the 2010s)

Also, I love that radio is a media that is so hard to regulate. There is always some novelty to what you can listen.
There used to be rock-music pirate radios in the 60s, emitting from the international waters. Some small countries like Luxembourg and Monaco would also have commercial radios to break government monopolies from neighboring countries.
Then there were the pirate FM radios in the 70s and 80s

Monaco is still broadcasting some stations that don't comply with French regulations on music (Riviera radio serves mainstream English pop songs).
It allows you to listen to some different music in your car.
(this one is in FM, tho, so it's very local)

Some authoritarian governments were challenged by the radio too. Nazi Germany couldn't stop the BBC during WWII, for example.
And you can get a lot of American radios all over the world, even when the internet is controlled.
At last, none of the radio you listen to on AM end up in the history that profiles you. You can listen to a radio a night without being served the same music over and over afterwards.

AM radio won't be mainstream. But I'm convinced it still has a role for media plurality, and as a line of Defense for the democracy
(and yeah, I know you can get much more from internet radios, like Anime music and everything, but it doesn't feel the same)
Microsoft to raise Xbox first-party game prices from $60 to $70 in 2023
In all these instances, the answer is litigation under the terms of service which are associated with the NFT or the warranty contracts which guarantee the status of the property.

You bring a case under those terms: "I am the legal owner of this land and I want the NFT which was owned by the deceased to be reissued to me". The legal binding on the original NFT is broken, and a new NFT is issued.

There's also provision under the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce digital dispute resolution rules https://lawtechuk.io/explore/ukjt-digital-disputes-rules to have an arbitrator use a judicial back door in the NFT contract to transfer ownership of the NFT if the contract has those affordances.

We feel that's very powerful.
You make a case that gender norms have changed over time, not that there were no gender norms in the past.
Any industry permits an uncharitable reading:

Medicine: Keep them alive long enough to take all their money.

Search: Sell them things they don't need

Self-driving cars: Delay societal investment in sustainable transportation

Retail: Pointless fashion for the masses

Agriculture: Make as many as fat as possible

We should look at the best that any industry can provide and then strive for that instead of assuming evil is inherent.
All of this may be true, but each one of these things is one tiny programming mistake away from complete and irrevocable collapse. The track record for this category is poor.
Your right hand is your sword hand; by offering to shake hands, you demonstrate that you are not about to run your counterparty through.
This is like one of those “things parents think about having children that are wrong” articles.

It makes a lot of assumptions about all parents having the same experience. It’s not. A lot of this assumes kids without any health issues.

“The low-sleep phase is temporary.” Nope.
“Same goes for changing diapers” Nope.

There are lots of good things when it comes to children, and I love mine, but if you aren’t mentally prepared for the possibility that your entire life will have to change, you might want to think harder.

It might not happen to you, but it could also happen. Do not let someone pretend that it’s all temporary.

No.

It’s literally for the rest of your life.
Libsoftiktok pushes narratives. Spins stories. It lies. It does not just forward messages. All your arguments are based on the false premise that libsoftiktok is some innocent reposter. Which then is what all your attacks on me hinge on.

> if this is the hill you want to do die on…

> So then then question here is why do you write comments…

To make it clear. People have gotten threats because of the way libsoftiktok has editorialized stories. The moral bankruptcy is squarely on the account.

The pseudo-intellectual attacks you’re doing are weird. Changing the argument to pretend I’m upset that any one can be triggered by anything is weird. Pretending libsoftiktok is not an anti-lgbtq hate account is weird. Supporting hatred is weird.
>Should the population grow or shrink? I don't know

There was a good paper in the Lancet covering some of the expected repercussions if population growth continues to decline throughout this century (as current trends indicate it will): https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)30677-2/full...

Certainly society's economic balance is going to be drastically affected:

"Although good for the environment, population decline and associated shifts in age structure in many nations might have other profound and often negative consequences. In 23 countries, including Japan, Thailand, Spain, and Ukraine, populations are expected to decline by 50% or more. Another 34 countries will probably decline by 25–50%, including China, with a forecasted 48·0% decline (95% UI −6·1% to 68·4%). Population percentage declines do not immediately convey the associated profound shifts in age structure in these nations. Our findings suggest that the ratio of the population older than 80 years to the population younger than 15 years will increase in countries with more than 25% population decline, from 0·16 today to 1·50 (0·54–3·25) in 2100. These population shifts have economic and fiscal consequences that will be extremely challenging."
The answer is probably that VCs aren't looking for what you think they should be looking for.

And technically you could say FTX was a good investment if you got out before the collapse.
I cannot find it right now, but our beloved Terry Davis once said something like this: "If you make having children enough of a hassle, people will stop having kids".
I didn't realize RMS was of the childless drone society. For shame. Hope he gets some work in before meeting the elephants and cosmic seaturtles.
To add to that, hiring is very slow at Google right now. Kudos on getting an offer (even if you're not going to take it).
Wait! the Christmas/Vacation "extras" are already factored in the 100k.
The tax refunds may seem a big thing, but are actually not that much.
Company not always pay for children daycare. You have to make sure it is, and even when they would pay, sometimes you just do not find a place that accept the kid, because there is lack of places in many cities.

About the retirement... I would be careful about big expectations. Everything is based in constant growth of the german economy. Any public retirement is basically a Ponzi scheme (not my words! but from a Nobel Economy laureate)

Also one very important thing about cost of living: Hamburg and Munich, for example, the cost of living means that doing 20k more per year, as compared with say, Stuttgart, at the end you get the same... or the way around, 100k in Stuttgart is like 120k in Munich. You really have to factor that into the equation.
Tech hasn't slowed down. High-burn SV companies are slowing down and large SV companies seem to be cutting cost. Small, normal companies haven't been able to fill positions for ages though, so they might finally be able to catch some fish now. Not great for the salaries of those used to FAANG and high burn salaries, but nobody should have to worry about having a job.
Title slightly misleading... The article makes the point that downtowns are turning from office to social centres and the $453B figure is more of an investment in repurposing offices and rethinking urban spaces for that purpose.

I welcome these changes... Yes we'll need to rethink our urbanism, but if anything this switch feels like a coming back of what our urban centers are supposed to provide us.

Imagine parking spaces becoming local artisans/food stalls, conference rooms becoming event spaces, coworking spaces adapted to people's lifestyle and living patterns (e.g. a suburban cowork with childcare and a dog park).

"gutting downtown" might be true for those who are wary their office real estate investment will not have a positive ROI. But the way I see it, this change in urban patterns is a paradigm shift in wealth distribution patterns and in economic opportunities for leisure services, both locally and globally.
Whilst I obviously can't speak for the single people you've met, it is possible that not all of them were optimizing for the outcome of living in giant mansions or owning lamborghinis :)
Is that legal? In the interview, you basically have to lie about your employment situation, right?
Why can't blue men sing the whites?
But they are proving they can't even be bothered to meet the much lower standard of care required for animals.
Been laid off in September, interviewed for a month and accepted an offer at the end of October.

I'll be starting in mid January since am legally still employed with the old company until 31 December. Still employed since that's how we get our severance, so am enjoying the time off.

The thing that bothered me the most was that I had to update my CV, interview again and all the things related to that. I landed that job in March so I really didn't feel like finding a new one, I also liked the place.

I have a nice resume so was pretty confident I'd find something before the end of the year, so I didn't feel much anxious about it.
These animals are intended to simulate humans for purposes of research, though. A disregard for doing the experimentation properly has the potential to carry over into production usage, just like coding newbies who write code with SQL injection holes saying "eh I'll fix it later" are practicing writing insecure code.

"Oops wrong glue/vertebra/implant" folks are not people I want anywhere near my brain surgery.