skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's frustrating how many companies in the UK don't do e-mail support.

I've literally resorted to sending paper mail multiple times.

>It leaves a paper trail

I suspect many companies consider that a bug, not a feature.
Blockchain is much more resilient than regular databases. There are thousands of copies of it across the globe, some are stored deep underground, and even some were launched into the space, I believe.
If that one depositor with 25m banks only at the bank that fails, FDIC is on the hook for all 25m.

If the deposit is 250k across 100 banks, and only 1 bank fails, FDIC is only on the hook for at most the 250k.

Now multiply that by number of depositors. It's RAID for banks. You're gaining fault tolerance by decreasing the impact of any particular failure.
The “magic” seems little more than not having to compromise, allowing you to be selfish without the guilt of hurting others.

With friends, the magic comes when the holiday has finished and you start saying “remember that thing on that holiday!”. The worst form of loneliness is only having memories nobody else shares.
This whole "we elites know better than our hired knowledge workers" schtik would be more interesting if the knowledge workers ever really had any say in these companies, if we had anything other than the traditional machiavellian top-down org to study & observe.

It's all a-technical product orgs pushing demands down to the technicals, everywhere, far as the eye can see.

But instead the dismal of the knowledge workers is just embraced, by anti labor disbelief like this, just chalking up the people who know systems & what we could do & their hopes as irrelevant. Strong disagree.
>You don't need those immigrants to breed

Yeah, but maybe you want them ;)
Hello there, Good to hear from your side.

> squirrels were planting them too!

I learned something new today
I have learnt programming from the books "How to Design Programs" @ https://htdp.org/. It is fantastic. It sets in stone the good practices early on.
Humans are great at responding to situations they're in the middle of, and awful at doing anything about problems a few layers of abstraction above their everyday life. Corporations have departments to get around this problem, the average person doesn't.
How does it have to do anything with safety?

And you can just ignore anything GC specific almost all the time..
> but literal existential risks

Unpopular opinion (and playing devil’s advocate since I have two kids), but is it necessarily a bad thing if people stop wanting to have children and the human race just gradually disappears? There are a lot of other types of potential existential threats on the horizon that might be unsolvable and could entail a significant amount of suffering (e.g. global warming, super viruses, rogue AI)—perhaps it’s better to stop reproducing and just let things end peacefully? I can’t thing of a great argument for forcing societies to continue having children if they no longer wish to do so. Sure, you’ll have some “who will take care of all the elderly in 50 years?” but you could plan a bit for that and the problem would only last for one generation.
Agree. Earth as a whole do not lack human, just the matter of imbalanced distribution.
More people simply means more pollution and waste.
People should consider the idea of "continues growth" as an illness.
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>(Immigration isn’t the answer, their fertility rate also gets depressed just like the native population. All it achieves is to balance the birth/death rate on paper for the year.)

What? The reason low fertility is bad is that you end up with a proportionally small working age population, immigration doesn't "solve" low birth rates but it does solve the problem low birth rates cause. In fact it does it even better, because you have a proportionally lower number of children who are just as unproductive as retirees.

The reason Japan doesn't have much immigration is because they have, shall we say, a strong desire to remain purely Japanese and don't believe immigrants can become truly Japanese.
Cynically, because the cost of paying out what they promised these workers is less than the goodwill they'll lose.

Optimistically, because it's the right thing to do.
So the crisis is that there are not enough products and services for an aging population. That's a different crisis than low birth rates, that should be solved differently.
Yeah, 4 is key. Many privacy regulations stipulate that account data must be deleted within a certain period of time, usually days or less, after a requested account deletion. In this system, all recorded requests would have to be discoverable by the requestor's ID and production systems would have to remember to perform deletions when necessary. Also, this database and all related testing systems would have to be held to production level standards for data access because anyone who can see test data to root cause errors can see people's and business' real, private information. Especially for data controlled and regulated industries like government and health care, this would be a nightmare.

It's a neat idea. These kinds of systems often require lots of care and grooming. Since it's used to retroactively test features after they're in production, there's a repeating process of discovering we're saving data we shouldn't, scrubbing, filtering, anonymization, etc. In most cases, I've watched them eventually get replaced by fuzzers. Still, having a central service used by lots of companies may allow this solution to scale up, develop necessary features to solve these problems and function well. I hope it works out!
Imagine a calculator that crowdsources it's answers from the populace, how useful is that tool to the incompetent? How easily would the incompetent be able to tell it's bad?

That's what we're talking about: An autocomplete machine that has been trained on a million blog posts that contain some code, that maybe correct, incorrect, secure, insecure, outdated or uptodate and the machine can't tell the difference! It only knows what is and is not likely! So the more popular the wrong answer was replicated on the web, the more likely that's what you'll get!
Thank you, that was quite informative.

Russia is not a member of the ICC either, does that pose a jurisdiction issue?
>"which we need to develop the next gen tech."

So how many do we need exactly? I think we have more than enough on Earth. Problem is that we are quite busy fucking up each other's life using this "next gen tech".
Regardless of whether you think Mac's are good for Linux development the maxim just because lots of people choose a poor option doesn't make it suddenly a good option still rings true.
Learn to read code that you didn't write
Companies are responsible for a group of shareholders with the majority voting right. Typically it is only a few shareholders as the ownership distribution follows a power law.

So a company is responsible to those few owners and that is it.

For example, Mark is the biggest shareholder in Meta with 16.8% of shares in 2021. Together with 2 other biggest shareholders they own over 30% of the company.
Honestly I agree, I think "fiduciary responsibility to shareholders" is kind of a funny phrase to be honest. I don't really believe most CEOs at an individual level think of shareholders much except that stock price up means good, and stock price down means bad, and sometimes they complain and we have to justify our actions and respond politely for reasons.

To me the phrase almost is a moral shorthand for capitalism. A corporation has no inherent right to life or survival instinct the way a person does, and the phrasing and pretense of "duty to shareholders" is used to give it one by proxy. Does that make sense? So rephrasing my original post, it would be something like "We all agree it's moral to seek profit, since that's the economic system that seems to work, and his actions can be seen as in line with that, so therefore if you agree capitalism makes sense, his actions are justifiable and moral".
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Totally. Now it feels like the internet is more about exploiting people for profit.
If you think people are a problem why not be the solution in your own life?
For many having kids is unaffordable I guess you will have to create kids farms. So much to look forward to.
At least 67 people got botulism after trying to paralyze their stomachs
To be clear: The human microbiome contains hundreds of strains of bacteria, often in an established ecosystem. An FMT introduces hundreds of microbes, usually shifting the entire microviome around.

Probiotics aren't incapable of changing the microbiome, it's just that usually they contain only several strains, usually sourced from food or animals, and not humans, in relatively small amounts, and aren't guaranteed to make lasting changes to the microbiome. But they can. If they're the best you can get, they can be worth trying.
According to projections based on this fertility rate, Japan will have more than 60 million working-age people at any time through 2100 who will need to support an aged population no larger than 3/5 that size.

What percentage works in agriculture and related industries? A single-digit % last time I checked. It does not make sense that there could be a fundamental problem with the production of essentials (or non-essentials for that matter), especially with decades to adapt.
By whom? Sustained how?
I don’t know. ChatGPT isn’t that expensive to run.
> I'd tell it the error, it'd give me a different way to import, only leading to a new import problem

It's dataset is thousands of blogs posts and stack overflow questions about this very thing, of course the autocomplete engine is going to predict the next response be "another way of doing x".
This is showing a clear misunderstanding of the cause of these low birth rates. If IVF and government run child raising facilities was a real option then they wouldn't need immigrants to do it. Japanese women are not having babies because they don't want to, not because they physically can't.

The crisis the rich world is having is that it is no longer possible to raise a family with only a single working adult, and raising a child while both parents are working full time is simply not something that everyone wants to do. It is in effect too time expensive to raise children.

Ironically the solution here is to accept a drop in productivity and create a society in which people can stay at home. There is already evidence coming in that the shift to working from home has increased the birth rate in places where it has occurred. Japan needs to fix it's work culture in order to fix it's birthrate issue, end of story.
What's up with all these responses about turning women into breeding machines when the basic issue is that it's difficult to provide a decent life for a child on a single income?

How about we make it not a PITA to be a mother?
This article seems to skip the important part - what is the current leading theory for why Japanese women don't want to have children?
right, but what do you do once I've taken my AI generated image, run it through illustrator's image trace, and performed just enough automated manipulation, then copied it through a format or two?

Writing a method to scrub this stuff is trivial.
>But that's not the employee's interest.

Considering a large amount of an employee's compensation is shares in the company it is in their interest to increase shareholder value.
Harsh but illustrative.
Scottsdale seems a reasonable place for someone like that
China might be more open to immigration than Japan and there is a big pool the could draw from.
:'-( I installed SETI@HOME on both my office and home machine back in '98 / 99. I know my contributions were not very much in the sense just how much can one laptop & a desktop do but I watched (and hoped) SETI@HOME as it progressed (:-) and then there's always that wishful thinking that someone somewhere would hit jackpot)...

Hoping you guys come back again.

Best.
But no sight of OGR-29.
I feel like the fact this question is being asked in plain seriousness 4 months after the technology was made publicly available/known to the general public sends a different message than you meant.
The blame of the recent layoffs lay not with the employees but with the managers who had miscalculated their prospects in the midst of the covidic plague.
> They just cut people who has a sub-par review 10 months before

Did they? I left on my own a month before the layoffs and what I heard from former coworkers was that it seemed mostly random.
logical replication does wonders for live monitoring.
lol wapo title almost suggests this is a bad thing. Zuck gets grilled all the time at these things and it’s one of the best things about meta.
For anyone asking why this is a problem, our social system is setup that the younger working generations help the elderly and retired. Ideally you want a generational pyramid to sustain retirement and insurance funds, with the youngest being the base.

However if the pyramid gets flipped where you have way more elderly and retired who need to be sustained financially and need care the system starts to collapse.

What exactly is expected to change this? Not only for Japan but all modern countries? It would seem we live in a world where it's simply too difficult, too unfordable, too little time, and too many problems to have children at a rate that old politicians seem to deem needed.

So they've identified this as an issue and their attempts to solve it? a 4 day working week? Build and invest into housing? Focus on childcare costs? None of that? Well, why are they politicians then? Identifying the issue is easy, it was identified decades ago. Sadly it seems modern politicians are utter failures in solving issues when what is needed it pretty obvious to us all.
Did you just discover how registries works or something? Docker hub is just a public registry, anyone can have their own private registry and it is what everybody usually does when you want your own kubernetes. Harbor is the usual free/opensource usually you use, or you can use the simple one that docker provides and run it locally. Also they are other public registries like quay.io or the GitHub one.
The talent pool is there, just wasting their talent being on the wrong end of the global economy, oppressed and exploited.
I don't disagree either, and maybe I worded it to indicate otherwise. While I think there is a difference between the notion that a helping hand exists or not and whether a person is entitled to advocate for government assistance, the two are typically correlated because liberals believe in a legal mechanism (voting) for seeing that type of assistance through a machine, the Democratic Machine (Tammany Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system) (I wouldn't even call many government services assistance, but programs that accomplish basic services, like National Parks management, etc).

I also think the GOP relies more on the patronage system now,

What I find interesting is that there is a study of this viewpoint, and it's called Primals: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-Primals-Project-resear...

I think that best captures the divide, more so than specific political issues, although that does overlap alot- for example, the perception of crime and immigration, while not correlated, get grouped as a platform issue on the right, whereas the Democratic platform does not consider those issues in the same light.

There is another anthropological term for fear, that I can't remember but read a few days ago- I think it was a Dutch anthropologist who coined a term in the 70s and also developed a computer architecture.
Not everything is connected to the grid, you know.

Here's an example of a single hydro dam a LONG way from the grid which (pre-Cryptocurrency gold rush) had 12 MW of unused power generation capacity plus they were talking up the possibility of adding an additional 20 MW of generation.

https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/boralex-acquire...

It's not going to be the only one.
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Tungsten has the highest melting point of any pure metal, I believe, as well as being close to the highest atomic number among the non-radioactive metals. It's also reasonably workable as a material, isn't terribly toxic, and has a reasonable availability and price.

The other high-melting metals near it in the periodic table all fall down on one or more of those properties. Osmium, for instance, is rather expensive, mined in only very small quantities, and reacts with air to form highly-toxic osmium tetroxide.
As the population drops resources become more accessible. The problem solves itself.
Very good news for Xen Project
It's amusing that Japan has become singled out on this, like some kind of a trope, when it's not even at the bottom. Last I heard HK has a fertility rate of 0.7.

There is no crisis. There's problems, but not to the level that a mainstream western rag wants to make out.

There's a known migratory pattern that once people retire, they don't need to be commuting to an office anymore, and so they move out far from the cities, where the cost of living is significantly lower, to stretch their pensions.

I don't imagine retirees have many kids. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's a great number of such places.

What everyone who bemoans this situation needs to answer is: what population number is ideal, and why?

There's no clear rational being put forward by anyone why 100M is not fine, or why 50M is not fine, or why 200M is a must, or whatever. All they say is "more is better", and that's pure ideology and political bias.

If a few towns fade away, so what. They weren't there originally anyway.
> better to stop reproducing and just let things end peacefully?

Prisoner's dilemma, I guess. If everyone stops reproducing, the people who keep at it secure more resources for their offspring.
Communications theory is largely about how to pack circles/spheres efficiently in multiple dimensions. So arguably pretty much all of the modern society is based on efficient packing.
One can think people are a problem and still cherish life (the two are probably correlated). That's why it's fortunate that the population reduction is happening spontaneously.
Well until we have robots which can fully replace many/most jobs people do, the only way solve that is by increasing the proportion of working age people to those who are retired.

There are no other options. You can do that by either increasing immigration or birth rates. That’s it.
Unsurprising. Facial recognition has been good enough for a few years now to check all these photos against arbitrarily large databases.
It's a similar waste of my time to respond to comments like this... but I will at least try to give some pointers so that those who encounter this comment won't immediately fall into that line of thinking:

- a lot of programmers, including experienced ones, are absolutely infantile and they only have a job because there is a big shortage of programmers; not all of them get better with experience... hence a significant part of software development is dealing with problematic programmers and problems created by them.

- GPT is not that great a programmer but a great thing about it is that it is not a human... and one can get thousands of instances of them for the price of one human. You only need one of those instances to produce usable code.

- there have been many changes throughout the years which have definitely replaced a lot of programmers: library distribution services (pypi, npmjs), better software development tools and practices, SaaS delivery model, better programming languages etc.; so far, because the market need for programmers has continued to increase, most programmers continue to have jobs; this won't last forever.
I will say it save more energy. Since intelligence is being accumulated inside the weights, we do not need to waste time on re-training students or robots again and again to do the same task.

Think of that training a teacher take more than 10 years at minimum, and still they do not perform well.
> people still use oil paint while photography exists

It's not at all the same medium. Unless you consider that the whole point of oil painting is to imitate realistic pictures...
ChatGPT has made me enjoy making games again. Trying to do something specific in Unity usually meant having to sift through old outdated forums or long videos. Now I can prototype ideas just by asking. Can't wait until this is built into Unity so it can assist with more than just code. Something like RunwayML but for game engines.
Like so many GUI clients, it is inspired by amIRC[0].

0. https://www.amirc.org/
They deserve the whole of the product of their labor.
> things like React would never have been developed

Not entirely sure that would have been a negative outcome. React is horrible.
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Oh look another complete clown that doesn't know the basics about statistics

"I'm not a doctor", that's painfully obvious
I remember that day in November when Mark scolded all of us for even asking if this was going to happen again. He said that decision was made with surgical precision and had been planned for months, and they weren’t even thinking about it at that time. He insisted there wouldn’t be anything more that normal attrition and we needn’t speculate. Then this happens 4 months later. LMFAO
You seem to lack some nuance. As demands for those goods on services increases while supply remains stagnant if not decreasing they’ll cost will grow. Making it hard for most Japanese people to sustain the QoL they are used to/expect without increasing the burden on the working age population.

The Japanese economy has already been close to stagnant for the last 20 years or so.
There was less than 100 deaths from chernobyl, and only one person died directly from fukushima[1]. I suspect more people have died from falling off roofs while fitting or cleaning solar panels than that.

You're correct that nobody builds rbmk reactors any more, but others of the design continued to operate safely for many years.

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...
Emptying out of small towns is happening in the US, too. Small rural towns were built to service farmers. As the number of farmers declined, the need for towns went away. After Walmart and Amazon, small town retail died.

Work from home? If everything you do goes in and out over a wire, GPT-4 may be able to do your job soon.
I said nothing about profit. I can sell my house today, yet houses are one of the prototypical examples of something that is illiquid. The ability to sell something fast is not the definition of liquid. Liquidity is specifically the ease (or difficulty) with which you can sell something without taking a haircut.
One thing that I think would help (and is probably already helping) is remote work.

The ability to cut out commutes and move out to cheaper places and bigger homes that are aligned with child raising is a huge help, as well as improving many people's lives generally.

The government should really be leaning hard into this, and attacking meeting culture (especially in-person meetings) head-on.
Fish. And plankton. Sea greens. And protein from the sea.
Genode is awesome in general.
> However if the pyramid gets flipped where you have way more elderly and retired who need to be sustained financially and need care the system starts to collapse.

It is true that the system as currently set up does not cope with inverted population pyramid. Do you change the system or try to force the pyramid to re-invert? Why all the focus seems to be on the latter?

Fundamentally, disregarding for a moment how financing mechanisms are set up, what % of working people does it take to support a population?
I don't think it's even that, per se. Even putting aside profit (which possibly the CEO of Facebook can never do), it still seems like this is a straightforward case of "We think we have too many people." Profit notwithstanding, what do you do if you realize a giant chunk of your workforce is not needed?