skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>unmatched by any other country

The worlds largest country with largest ship construction capability has the biggest fleet.

PRC distant fleet _underfishes_ per capita, especially relative to JP (3X more than PRC), SKR & ES (7x), TW (30x ~). All with their own subsidies and suspicious behaviours in others EEZs. At end of day, PRC with 1/5 of world population and relatively small EEZ is entitled to fish in international waters. Like emissions, it's the per capita that matters.

Entire PRC overfishing propaganda is US driven narrative to forward deploy coast guards against PRC interests. There's a reason why these articles never headlines with US east asian partners being significantly worst overfishers. In the meantime, no reason PRC fishermen or consumers should take a hit until others cut down to PRC levels.
It matters because the topic refuses to stay buried (say, when brought up as an example of a controversial figure's purported views), and the prospect of it not being a closed question invites bad actors to rationalize social inequity, and their own tainted views and actions, through its lens.

This is a topic where a conscientious person should have an idea of its correctness and should stake that claim firmly. Best of all, doing so eliminates one's part in the harm of its nature as an infohazard.
The armed forces you need to keep neighboring rivals or meddling first world powers out of your borders are also highly unprofitable
I appreciate your question because I have spent a lot of time in the past thinking about this :)

> I’m genuinely curious because every person defines personal freedom differently. And great society is very subjective.

I couldn't agree more! I believe that all of us have to give up some personal freedom if we want to live in a functional society. I may want to blast music from my rooftop at 3AM but I must curb that urge out of respect for the society I live in. How much of this personal freedom we are willing to give up is different for different people. On this spectrum, I think I lie towards giving up more if it gives me a comfortable society in return.

I am willing to mask up if it means that fewer people in my vicinity may "possibly" get sick less. I am okay with video cameras and facial recognition in public places if it means less crime in my neighborhood. I am willing to pay more taxes if it means public infrastructure can be improved and schools can get better teachers. I might be wrong though, because these things can clearly be taken to an extreme.
One thing is that is easy to develop an inefficient atomic bomb. It is harder to develop one small enough to be delivered and/or thermonuclear bomb.

Also, acquiring the material has always been the hard part. It requires nuclear reactors then reprocessing the waste to get plutonium. Or enriching uranium to get U-235.

There is term, nuclear latency, for countries that could easily develop nuclear weapons. Some identified ones are Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Australia, Argentina, South Korea, and Taiwan. Japan is special case with 50 tons of plutonium.
I came away with a very different understanding from the article.

> Back in the 50s, there were two schools of thought - that the ideas could be kept secret, and that the material could be locked up. Now? Well, hopefully the materials can still be locked up, but we all have our doubts about that.

This experiment showed that designing the bomb was the easy part, but manufacturing is still a challenge. Even today, nuclear nonproliferation is largely about making it hard to acquire enough fissile material to make a weapon. Everything from the structure of anti-nuclear treaties to things like Stuxnet is designed around making it impractical to actually manufacture a nuclear weapon, even if you have the design.

> Probably over a hundred countries could do it very rapidly if they wanted to

Only if "rapidly" is measured in years to decades in any reasonable scenario.
A Simulation of a Simulation: Algorithms for Quantum Computing Experiments [pdf]
From what I know there's a fair bit of research linking improved motor skills and social skills with later academic performance. Here are some quotes from a review article[1]:

Research presented in this section indicates that removing play from early childhood classrooms may actually undermine intended achievement-oriented outcomes.

Play enhances attention, memory, self-regulation, and overall academic achievement throughout childhood. In short, physical play is necessary for learning.

Young children’s motor development has been found to be a powerful predictor of cognitive abilities in the elementary years.

A good playground will be exciting and thus promote spontaneous play, a creative process, and it will be challenging which help kids develop their motor skills.

A bad playground will be dull and lack challenges, thus not making kids develop those skills in the same way.

Thus it seems quite likely that the quality of the playgrounds available at their kindergarten, school and local area can have an effect into adulthood.

[1]: https://www.easternct.edu/center-for-early-childhood-educati...
The Royal Australian Air Force was flying the DHC4 Caribou aa a light airlifter until the early 2000's. It was an amazing piece of engineering and was first flown in the late 50s. You could literally fly backwards in a headeind and land on a dime. It was really useful for tiny dirt strips in places like Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, there's not much out there that can match it's capability for what it was.
Alternatively some seem to go with the “if it’s not broken fix it til it is” approach
As is always the case with such things, they are not selling the image but the convenience.

The one linked in their example is on the first page of Getty search results for "old telephone sketch", along with dozens of other similar options. Being able to pick one I like in 3 clicks is easily worth the $500 when compared to having to go to the library (or Google Books or wherever else), digging up old books that may or may not match the subject, finding appropriate illustrations, hi-res scanning, editing in Gimp...
I think Caitlin Long said it best on Twitter:

“WORLD WAKING UP to the fact that a bank deposit is an unsecured loan to a leveraged counterparty, that the FDIC insurance fund only has $128bn, that total deposits in US commercial banks=$17.6 trn, &...here's the big one: that money itself is a confidence game (always has been)”[0]

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1637466829219...
There's a wonderful skit from Portlandia about a couple who visit Spain and come back and everything is now a reflection of what they saw there. They can't help but talk about it... constantly.

I think it's hard to really "know" a place, and frankly your experience anywhere will vary.

Granted sometimes people just need a change.
How are the random numbers generated? Like, what are they generated from?
Perhaps. But people who give up on relationships also let themselves go as well.

On the other hand, when you're a couple, you might be tempted to let yourself go, but at least there's a chance your mate will refuse to go. Since our behavior is driven by environment (a la we observe the norm, and conform) you'll resist temptation and stay healthy. Habits are easier to maintain when you're not alone.

This alone might give couples the edge.
Intuitively the effect should be the same regardless, it's still the air being forced down by your wings forming a cushion increasing lift. There's probably some differences but the bulk of the effect should be the same.
Glaze: Protecting artists from style mimicry
prizes are only for the living. Why would we think the Nobel prize committee would want to admit to making a mistake and not handing one out 25 years ago to wu?
No, it will add bugs.
I would say leisure was "for free" for humans too but was often traded for productivity for survival, which was more precarious.

I found the book Metropolis to be a good history of that in the form of "what did cities look like over the years" - cities were dirty, crowded, less healthy, etc, than a lot of alternative lifestyles but they also supplied the material essentials in predictable and more reliable ways.

If physical survival was easy to do leisurely then there wouldn't have been the motivation for more complex forms of society (many of which had very-unfun roles for many participants long before capitalism).
That's what I've read, too, i.e. intent to settle, or not.

Maybe wanting to move forever (i.e. migrant) is more common, if one is from a poorer country, which could explain why some others here thought that "immigrant" implied "poor and less educated".
You're only saying this because you don't like the outcome of economic research. So called "soft" sciences are the best way to get close to the truth in those fields even if it's harder to get undeniable answers.
> It wouldn't serve them at all to refuse.

Because WikiLeaks had become the Julian Assange show and published releases based on his whims. The DNC e-mails hurt his "enemies" while RNC e-mails did not.
I'm trying to understand the point you're making.

Are you making the argument that because there are things that are possibly worse, we should ignore the bad?
Precious few details here. Great news, diplomats made an agreement! If this is like every other treaty I've prematurely gotten excited about, those diplomats don't have legislative authority, and each needs to return home to get the treaties ratified by their respective legislatures. And after that, it's up to each member nation to pass and enforce legislation to back that up. And in this case that does mean fighting pirates on the high seas. In 20 years, we'll look back and see that little, no, or most likely, negative progress has been made. But hey, you can ask chatgpt how it feels today. Sigh.
> Your account is rate limited. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars.

Thank you very much for taking the time to try to clarify things! :)

I say "try to" because your statement still does not tell me what I precisely did wrong?

I unfortunately cannot guess it as I stand by my opinions, like most people do probably.

> I recognize that the current system is limited and when you say it makes you angry, I get it. I'd feel angry too.

Thank you very much for the empathy! Good to hear! :)

> I guess in our defense I'd plead that it's almost impossible to keep this place from collapsing, we don't really know how to do what we need to do, the pressures are enormous, and we're limited in resources. (That's mostly my fault, by the way—not YC's—but that's another story.)

I hear your struggle and thank you very much for the effort you're putting in! Don't be too hard on yourself.

You kept the place running for many years, so it's not collapsing!

How about these ideas:

1) If you want people to change their behavior, you have to tell them whats wrong. All I have been told up to now is that I cannot post quickly anymore. This changes zero about my opinions and how I intend to behave. Because I have no crystal ball, I cannot blind guess what HN disliked.

This isn't even an issue of the Internet, it's a general concern of regulation: If humans do not understand why a piece of regulation is imposed upon them, they are more likely to not accept it.

And don't forget: Moderators are humans too, it is entirely possible that you misjudge something to be low-quality even though it is not - but you will never get a chance to learn why you were wrong if the person you judged cannot correct you because you don't talk to them but just rate-limit them :)

2) Use the tools you have already. You could have commented my original post(s) which caused you to rate limit me, and there told me why my comments are "low-quality" or "flamewars" in your opinion.

Also, HN does have a system which is meant to rate content in a community effort, so precisely what is needed to ease the moderation burden - the voting system! If people don't like my posts they could just have downvoted them.

No need for manual intervention.

And more democratic.

3) This is a matter of personal taste, not necessary a strict recommendation, but: Tell people to change before you punish them. I know it's the new normal on the Internet to punish people right away - I just think this is rude.
Is it possible to care at scale?
> This is what you get if you privatize and deregulate basic infrastructure services: huge holes in coverage and overpriced monopolistic control of the rest of it.

shouldn't every square inch of Alaska be electrified, internetted, and cellphone towered? that way, just in case I consider whether to live there, I won't have to think about the inconvenience of it, it will make my decision easier.

i.e. spending money on expensive infrastructure to service small numbers of customers is not necessarily a brilliant idea. Who knows, it may not have even paid itself back for all remote communities within the lower 48; many rural communities are even smaller now then there were then.

That doesn't mean there weren't net benefits from the rural electrification act, but you are wrong to pitch it as "evil corporate barons vs everybody else". How about all of us together decide what we can afford? Would you accept your kid's argument that you pay to electrify (to code, mind you, and union electricians) your kid's treehouse in the backyard just because he accuses you of being a greedy tyrant if you don't?
sounds like a generic idea. also why would dick or linklater have had any knowledge about abagnale being a fake con man?
My son was conceived (deliberately, on the first attempt) in a time when I was unemployed and it took quite a few months of ‘work’ to create a job for myself (networking, convince an academic organization to find the funding, etc.) so it turned out I started work the week my son was born.
I remember when Digg took over from Slashdot. I was skeptical at first but eventually I gave in. Now people wonder if Digg exists.
Imperfect evidence but claim was made with screenshot accompanying in above linked Twitter, see that one: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/ArsonAtDennys/status/13621874...
That is a big task. What would be the purpose behind it?
Not a banking expert by any means but what would happen if all banks were forced to pay out failed bank depositors in a cap weighted manner? Banks might then push for sensible regulation themselves to keep risky banks from costing them money.
The only way to change the later is by putting it in the constitution in the first place. It's not nice, but it would work. What has the parliament done in the past 15 years? Nothing of substance, otherwise we wouldn't be in the same situation again.
From the linked page: “The term is not widely used in the psychiatric and medical fields, as it is considered ambiguous.”
That's very interesting, what made you leave those countries? Argentina likely has money issues, but the other two come very "highly recommended" (high quality of life, law & order, etc), especially Finland.
Not allowing people the convenience they want means they'll switch to a method that does. Worst case: a passwords.txt. Wouldn't that be a worse downgrade attack?
Just wanted to mention that amending the Swiss constitution is near trivial, one could start there :).
Hate to break it to you but upper management is usually the main driver of bullshit jobs. They know what’s going on
The title of the post seems a little bit disingenuous - Atlassian themselves wasn't hacked, nor was the vendor that the data ended up coming from for that matter.. It was a case of an employee accidentally posting credentials for Atlassian's Envoy setup in a public repository, which they apparently use for in-office resources, hence why it has basic employee information and floor plans.
GPT-4 Solving Machine Coding Interview Problems
Hyundai Recalls 26,000 Velosters over Parking Sensor-Related Fire Hazard
I watched a Taiwanese election in Taiwan. I observed their polling stations. A Taiwanese citizen started a conversation and educated me, an American, on democracy and elections.

This Taiwanese person told me that elections are for the loser. If the loser does not believe in the validity of the election, it serves no purpose.

That's why electronic voting machines are anti-thetical to the purpose of an election. Electronic voting machines exchange trust for a more efficient election. That is why Taiwan does not use electronic voting machines.

That is a pretty impressive insight that was absent from my American civic education. I was very impressed with the civic education in Taiwan, and I was impressed with the average level of education in Taipei.

My subjective experience as an American was that Democracy is more healthy in Taiwan than it is in America.
I'd encourage everyone to read:

https://globalbrief.ca/2020/06/zeal-and-chinas-wolf-warrior-...

This goes way further than most to explain "Chinese characteristics" (my term usage not link's).

China is very complex and belies any simple summary. I definitely think it's a vastly smarter state than Russia... who by comparison it must now regard as a baby sitting project.
Allen Ginsberg

"Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance ...
I'm a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too -- everybody does, who has a little humanity."

Source: https://www.nambla.org/ginsberg.html

> Children screaming under the stairways!
> ChatGPT 5 and very likely 6 are being trained as we speak

5 is almost certainly being trained (or at least the small-scale precursor models are), but given the cost it would probably be literal insanity to have started training 6 yet.

Unless something very surprising about reducing costs has been discovered, it will take at the very least months to finish training.

The billion dollar investment wasn't just for hoodies and smoothies, this stuff is severely computationally expensive.

> They just need to close the loop so it can improve itself without supervision.

"Just" is bearing more load in that sentence than it can actually support.

People were talking about self-supervision pretty much as soon as the field got started, and the reason OpenAI has decided to publish far less details is precisely because there still isn't even any way to reliably keep a completely "closed loop" AI from doing dangerously wild and nonsense things even though transformers are already self-supervised to a certain extent.
Well, if you would keep signaling your six year old and ignore the "deeds" of his little brother I would say you are biased and have something against your six years old.
Also what made you punish the bad behaviour all of a sudden?

It's not like China was a beacon of human rights until "now".
I don't think SA is really a little brother either. They still behead people in public squares. The whole "human rights" issue in China is really just a pretext and use of U.S soft power to isolate China. But "everyone" know that at stake is really the economic and millitary rivality. The U.S couldn't really care less about the muslims in China. Just look how much it cares about women in Afghanistan. Let's stop pretending we are little children. China is starting to influence our way of life and we should push against that but I just hate the B.S pretexts. It feels like propaganda and we hate propaganda, don't we?
nil isn't cast to an empty slice (Go doesn't have casts, except maybe the new pointer-to-array syntax if you want to count that), nil is the default value of a slice, and that value is also empty. Other empty slices may be non-nil, because they may have capacity, or have been sliced out of another buffer, etc.

Of the various legitimate issues around nil (box vs. unboxed, nil receivers, nilability of all pointers), this is the most not-actually-ever-an-issue.
Full-time tenure-track faculty salaries haven't really beat inflation since the late 60s. And senior profs have been substituted by adjuncts and grad students. And yet cost of college keeps soaring.

https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/AAUP-2021-SurveyTab...

Baumol's cost disease theory makes sense in general. But empirically, for a specific service, there's always a lot of other stuff going on, are they providing a superior good with rising demand as society gets richer, how easy is it to substitute lower quality adjuncts, etc.
No. Why would you try? What would you aim to gain? Messing with things that are working is going to break them.
Thanks for the explanation dang.
Google inconveniences the entire company by defaulting to 24hrs chat retention so they can avoid sharing sensitive info in litigation (frustrating countless employees who would have needed to refer to the chat message from yesterday about simple CLI commands/instructions etc) while getting hit by a lawsuit for intentionally purging history. Classic Google.
No, this is about the Swiss constitution. 100k signatures are required to initiate a vote about it. That is quite doable.
I'm honored by the nickname, thanks :)
>"...making it hard to acquire enough fissile material to make a weapon."

Which may stop becoming hard if country like Russia decides thar it has nothing to loose and will start selling.
Would you instead favor starting a war over this? Because this is reality, accords and treaties are tools of diplomacy and they are binding, you can sue other nations or implement other measures against them as a collective of signatories where without the accord you would act unilaterally and without cause.

I think you, like many, mistakenly assume that there is some law or authority over all nations.
oh ok, yeah that's not pretty
Interview with Sten “ZTN” Uusvali
Use SQLite's virtual table functionality to to explore Linux ELF objects via SQL
Chevy (and I guess Tesla before them) is removing headlight switches entirely which is the topic of much justified angst. Safety controls should never only be accessible from a touch screen.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42953152/the-2023-chevy-c...
Doesn't mean they can't be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
In Bullshit Jobs Graeber terms our current system as "managerial feudalism". It's not capitalism in the same way Adam Smith or Marx envisioned, we don't have firms brutally competing to generate the most value at the lowest cost. Instead we have a system of rent extraction largely done by a small number of powerful players. You don't need to be efficient to extract rent, so you end up with a court, or org chart in modern terms, of useless hangers on that mostly serve to demonstrate your wealth and power.
Can a lawyer comment on how retention laws have evolved in the past 20-25 years? Before email, hardly any informal conversation was recorded - it was done in person or on the phone. Now, though, so much of our conversations are done in recorded digital formats. But surely it's not illegal to say something like "Let's chat about this in person", even if you are under some sort of record retention decree, correct?

I've just seen some law cases over the past 10 years or so where I think it's very easy to take informal conversation out of context. For a person like the CEO of Google, where tons of folks would be deliberately looking to frame any utterance in the worst possible light, I can understand wanting separate channels for informal discussion vs. official decisions/communications.
He's counting it from when he first started saving to get his first reel to reel tape recorder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

Right on that page is an example of "Keep it Simple" without the "Stupid". A charitable reading of parent's comment wouldn't have thought the commenter was labeling anyone stupid with the appeal to keep things simple.