skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad argument. The birthrate is bad IS because the economy is badly ran. The per capita gdp is shrinking and people just can't afford the kids in Canada. Canada economy is essentially controlled by various cartels. The housing crisis is manufactured. Importing people is a vicious circle.

If you really want a positive example about how a Developed country can be with an ok birthrate without much immigration. Look at Japan
Yeah, a lot of people setup https://pterodactyl.io/ on their servers and use that to provision and manage game servers.
>"Prefabricated Coca-Cola bottling plants"

Sun Tsu, an army marches on it stomach!
Lead Pipes Are Widespread and Used in Every State (2021)
Here's a way to encrypt something with an actual timelock, which works because physics. More specifically, it works because there is a maximum speed that information can travel through space: the speed of light.

Step 1: Generate a large number of named public/private keypairs and put the private keys on a spacecraft. Also give the spacecraft a communication system and a long-lived RTG (an energy source getting its energy from the decay of some radioactive materials).

Step 2: Send the spacecraft to land on the surface a distant body in the solar system, such as one of the moons of Neptune.

Step 3: To encrypt a message such that it's guaranteed to not be cracked in less than some specified time, encrypt it several times, using the known named public keys.

To decrypt the message, you've got to send it out to the distant spacecraft and ask it to decrypt the outer layer of encryption, using the private key corresponding to the outer layer's public key. It does that and you get back a message but it might still have several layers of encryption. Repeat until all those layers are removed.

There are tricks to speed things up by sending a spacecraft out towards Neptune, but they don't speed things up too much (because spacecraft travel much slower than light). The amount of speedup possible is left as an exercise for the reader. There's still a lower bound on the required time until full decryption.

Inspired by the TOR network.
> I searched the docs for "durability" and got zero results.

The link I gave above explains it, right the sentence with "durability":

> Safekeepers are responsible for durability of recent updates. Postgres streams Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to the Safekeepers, and the Safekeepers store the WAL durably until it has been processed by the Pageservers and uploaded to cloud storage.

> Safekeepers can be thought of as an ultra reliable write buffer that holds the latest data until it is processed and uploaded to cloud storage. Safekeepers implement the Paxos protocol for reliability.
https://pterodactyl.io/ Something like this maybe?
>cannot maintain its economy - at least in the expected way, that is of ever-increasing GDP as has been the trend for the last 75+ years - based upon birth rate alone. We are below the replacement rate.

For analysis of any arbitrary economy, why should the economic-performance layer be in any way coupled to the number-of-people-living-in-the-country layer? I've been through two microeconomics classes, and one macroeconomics class, and none of the professors said "By the way in order for our theories to hold up you need to birth more people, so get cracking."
It's a waste stream, so if it can be long-term "locked" into construction and not need further processing, that is helpful. That's my thinking at least, it's a way to upcycle waste.
I'm calling bullshit on this based on personal experience.

At the height of this panic, there was talk of the bugs spreading to the UK, and that is was prevalent on tourist-heavy rail lines coming from France.

I used to take the train that goes through Gatwick airport up to Victoria, to go to work every day. Within a couple of days of seeing the headlines, I spotted several bedbugs on the train, including one time, one was just sitting on my bicep. They were definitely bedbugs, before you start questioning it, I managed to rake a photo of the one on my arm before smacking it off and changing seats.

Coincidence, maybe. But I've never seen a bedbug before and never seen them after. So I'm not completely willing to write this off as a conspiracy theory.
Again, not answering a thing but a making up a claim you aren't willing or able to support. How is this supposed web development tooling jankiness attributable to Apple today? Feature detection is a solved problem. What tooling are you even referring to? You aren't even trying to support this with a concrete claim. This is nonsense and you know it.

PWAs are the perfect scapegoat of infinite nebulous whining. The definition of a progressive web app might as well be "whatever Chrome has but Safari doesn't, no matter what year it is or how those features change, and no matter how terrible of an idea they might be even on Chrome".
I don't think "blameless" means nobody can ever be held responsible if they actually did something truly malicious, negligent, etc. It's that the point of the investigation is to improve the system rather than assign blame. This is in stark contrast to the post by 'colechristensen assuming that someone must be responsible and that they should be "stomped for negligence".

I do think the person you're responding to phrased it poorly though. While a blameless investigation can result in someone being held liable (i.e. "blamed"), an equally valid result could be that nobody is blamed when no individual liability is warranted by the facts.
Great to see this on HN and great work grondilu! Many users of memchess yearned for it to return and it really did disappear suddenly. It fills a great gap between a strategy book/guide and pure tactic trainers. Next step is for it to be refined as it was always a little clunky.
Yes, and privacy theater is clearly an attempt to apply the same concept to a closely related topic. I edited my comment to focus on the problem here: you started with this absurdly sweeping claim which you’ve been unable to meaningfully substantiate throughout the thread. Trying to dismiss something as theater based on a bug fixed in the beta period is not only self-contradictory (you’re tacitly admitting that it’s not theater now) but also almost useless as a heuristic because very few products never have bugs.

Now if we want to talk about guidelines, consider that the broad claim you originally made would have to be widely accepted in the industry not to need supporting evidence, at which point it wouldn’t be contributing anything; since the opposite is true, the guidelines about flame bait cover it. It could have gone in a potentially useful direction if you’d been willing to define your terms and support them with evidence, and that would have helped suggest less hyperbolic terms. For example, if you said that Apple could do better at vetting and implementing their features I doubt many people would disagree with you.
Except for the 346 people who died in two MAX-8 crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.

FWIW, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a MAX-9.
Quats are almost exclusively used by industries like food and health care.
A compiler for React for optimization, and readability
One thing I assumed when watching the Animatrix, but never had confirmed, was that the name "01" was chosen because it sounds a bit like "Zion".
'Ill-formed little monsters' could unlock the secret of missing MH370 plane
Parent–adult child estrangement in the USA by gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality
RM is rural municipality I presume?

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_municipality_(Canada)>
the averaging seems like good test for who the parent is.
Sounds kind of like the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell? It made an appearance in the PlayStation 3, but was supposed to be a more general high-performance architecture. At some point IBM sold blade servers with Cell processors.
> could we do something more time-precise using the Ethereum blockchain and a smart contract?

I think only if you want a transaction to move forward at a certain time, and are confident that a majority of network members will not conspire to alter your smart contract.

Hiding information in a smart contract: I don't know of a way that could be done, but I'm not up-to-date on this stuff either (I left that scene after Bitcoin outgrew the tech demo phase and became popular as a "so long as a majority keeps buying and holding, everyone's coins are worth insane amounts!" scheme)
Wildfire risk is absolutely in the cities, at least in SoCal. Firestorms move through the canyons in residential areas. Quite a few neighborhoods in San Diego, for example, have been razed to the ground since I lived there, including one I used to live in. These weren’t on the edge of town.
> Generate a large number of named public/private keypairs and put the private keys on a spacecraft

I suppose, more practically, you could just put the private key in an envelope and bury it deep in a shipping container with a destination across the ocean. While in transit it's pretty damn hard to get to it.
Capitalism and freedom live in union. All forms of socialism involve slavery.
Are you unsure about the meaning of submitting a written application?

Or is there some other confusion here?
The less experienced you are and less mature as a software engineer — the more fearful.

You can literally estimate the proficiency and experience level here in comments.

People that have seen some serious sh*t probably won't even bother answering the question.
Holocaust denial (which is definitely politics, even though it's the despicable kind) is criminal in most of Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial#B...

Some European states also ban left-wing political symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols
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I do not think you are using the term "aristocracy" correctly.

If you are talking metaphor, the "lord" in "landlord" is a far clearer sign of aristocracy. Capital can be passed down through multiple generations, as the Wallenberg family well knows - now in their fifth generation of ownership.

Up until 2003 the Kingdom of Sweden had an actual aristocracy.

Renters like me were never part of it.
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People Who Hate Dogs (2022)
I'm there with you, it's a culture and social issue. That said the argument it's not fun seems quite weak to me. Scientists have to do source citation, formatting, peer review and many other things that aren't intrinsically done for selfish hedonistic reasons.
I use dbeaver extensively at work. I like that you can graphically edit rows and it will start those changes as a transaction, so you can hit ctrl+s to commit the changes
I also believe that (at least in some states), this assertion is inaccurate:

> It’s true, a client can show me where they buried their dozen murder victims and I wouldn’t be allowed to tell a soul, even if an innocent person is sitting in prison for their crimes.

At least in Alabama (for no specific reason other than it was the first hit I found):

> RULE 3.3: CANDOR TOWARDS THE TRIBUNAL

> (a) A lawyer shall not knowingly:

> (2) fail to disclose a material fact to a tribunal when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal or fraudulent act by the client

Seems to me that knowing that your client is materially guilty and an innocent person has been convicted for their crimes is "assisting a criminal or fraudulent act" by your client.
I've got a ThinkPad T430 that came from a local shop selling off-lease laptops a few years ago, and it's been great as a dedicated Linux laptop. Even a T490 from 2019 is only CAD$300 and change off of Amazon these days, which is wild if you don't need the latest and greatest.
Yeah. Don't we have that? A bunch of shitty evidence?
And yet we still needed to do Han unification. Unicode is ridiculous at this point.
No, the intentional absence of documentation is in itself a serious issue. It can even be assumed that tjis documentation, wpupd it exist, wouod proof wrong doing. It tje opposite of Boeing interest to hide stuff.
You might be able to implement this same kind of "have N cooperating message-senders that agree to do X at time Y or M of them can prove violation and penalize [probably everyone]", but you still need information that is not available until time Y. People / systems need to hold onto but not reveal that information until that time.

This is basically weaponized (and possibly automated) enforcement of a rule. It's not crypto, it's just "agree to this or you get the lead pipe". Lead pipes are extremely useful and valuable and this is a completely reasonable tradeoff in a huge amount of situations, but it's not a true barrier.

To get around the lead pipe requirement, you need some kind of data that exists but is technologically or physically inaccessible until time Y. Ethereum has no primitives like that because nobody has primitives like that. About the closest you get is to say "crack this public key to get the reward" and, yea, that's effectively time-lock encryption (it'll Y years with all the hardware in the world so it's "locked" for at least that long at 99% confidence or something) but nobody really considers it "time locked" unless you are intentionally designing a key to take Y time under Z hardware assumptions (which does exist, but a 1-PC-year key takes seconds with enough hardware).
Using PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks
I'm saying the written submission doesn't contain this, and even if it did there is no one reviewing it that actually knows the technical details enough to provide meaningful oversight.

It's similar to that quote from a Boeing insider that came to light "they (Boeing airplanes) are designed by clowns suprivised by monkees".

Note - these are not my words or opinion, just a quote from another guy
While I agree that LLMs can be useful for coders, and productivity can be increased, coding blindly based on ChatGPT code without understanding concepts could result in very serious bugs.
How can you be sure that the code does not have vulnerabilities for example, or solve things in a non-idiomatic way, if you just copy paste code without an understanding.

As long as an understanding of the domain and problem is required a skilled person is required between the codebase and the LLM.

Even if we get to a point in the future where a programmer can be replaced by an LLM, we'll have businesses where they want someone to use the LLMs to create software.
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Dynamic pricing has always existed. To take an obvious example: Someone on a tight budget will take the time to collect and use coupons. Someone with a comfortable income will not. Same product, two different prices.

They are just getting much more obvious about it.
It allows you to flow through lines and play best book moves naturally. You can tell it that you want to focus on particular lines or line and it will let you know when you've made an incorrect move.
I switched ON everything Google I can because it saved my bottom several times already.

Well, maybe not really saved my bottom but helped enormously to get some information about a place I was in, a payment or a web page.

When people tell me about my data being resold and whatnot I put my hands on my ears and I am not hearing you, la la la la! Truly a responsible behaviour but Google is making my life soooooo much easier.
For a lot of people, it's "Why pay $10/ month for something marginally more useful than a folder of bash files?"
>The Arctic ocean is going to belong to the US and the sooner our local elite understands, the better they can negotiate and get their cut.

What cut, US wants to treat northwest passage as international strait not internal Canadian waters with Canadian jurisdiction, there's no cut to be had under that arrangement. Canada can't even hold anyone liable for potential enviromental disasters if concede to US definition.
If a job requires a PE and not all engineers have a license, that constrains supply. If you believe that the balance of supply/demand influences pay, then it can lead to pay increases. The issue is that most jobs that require PEs are also in industries with lower margins (eg construction). I suspect that if social media software engineers were regulated to require a license, those with a PE would see an increase in pay.
> And this is just GPT-5, this year. Next year there will be GPT-6, or an equivalent from Google or Anthropic, and at that point I fully expect a lot of people everywhere getting the boot. Sometime next year I expect these powerful models will start effectively controlling robots, and that will start the process of automation of a lot of physical work.

> So, to summarize, you have at best 2 years left as a software engineer. After that we can hope there will be some new types of professions that we could pivot to, but I’m struggling to think what could people possibly do better than GPT-6, so I’m not optimistic. I’d love for someone to provide a convincing argument why there would be any delay to the timeline I outlined above.

This reads to me exactly like people who said learning to be a truck driver in the early 2010s was stupid because we were 2-3 years away from self driving trucks taking their jobs. I have no doubt that the models will get better, but being 90-95% right still implies you need people for the last 5%. I think, like self driving, the corner case 5-10% is going to be really really hard to iron out and it will not be ironed out in 1-2 years like your comment says. We only just barely have self driving taxis now (despite them being 1-2 years away for the past decade and a half), and we have no self driving long haul trucks afaik.
Statistically, we agree. :)
It's also tough to find good algorithms where you can't just spend double to half the time until it unlocks.
This is true, but what makes academia attractive is the idea of being paid to do research. One doesn’t have to be in the NBA to play basketball, but there’s a world of difference between playing at the local park versus being on the Golden State Warriors.

Of course, the reality of research careers is quite different from the pursuit of research itself. They’re quite competitive, especially in fields that lack a lucrative industry, and there are many restrictions on freedom that many people aren’t aware of until they actually become researchers. I learned these realities the hard way, and I’m in the process of restructuring my life to where I can pursue research as a hobby rather than as a paid profession.

Of course, the hardest part about pursuing research as a hobby is making a living outside of it. If a person who wants to be a researcher is aware of this reality, then he or she could prepare by developing some marketable skill, product, or service and use that to make a living while devoting time outside of money-making to research. However, for those deep in research or academia who feel trapped in postdocs, adjunct positions, or other unfulfilling positions but who spent their who careers preparing for an elusive permanent research job without developing other skills, it can be a very painful transition, even if in the long run stubbornness results in an even more painful outcome.
I'm only vaguely familiar with the concept of smart contracts, but from what I understand I can't see how it'd fair any better at enabling cryptographic timelocks - the core problem is designing encryption which can't be broken before a set period has passed. The naive approach is requiring to make a scheme which assumes it'll take X amount of time to brute force with Y resources.

That's obviously flawed because you can't constrain an enemies resources, and if the period is long there's plenty of room for improvement of algorithms/hardware which will shorten the time to brute force the scheme.

This only works because we create a scheme which can't reasonably be brute forced by classical means, and a human organization enforces/controls the time period.

In order to create something like that proposed in the posted link with smart contracts, the self contained smart contracts would have to employ a cryptographic timelock themselves. Otherwise, the smart contracts will be dependent on external (human) input, so it's just reinventing the same thing.
China Miéville's "The City and the City" 2010 novel and 2018 UK TV adaptation, which popularized the term "unsee", includes a similar theme related to the crime of "breaching" the boundary between two virtual cities that occupy one physical city, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/07/the-cit...

The City and the City is set up as a straightforward crime novel: in the dilapidated city of Beszél in eastern Europe, Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad is trying to solve what initially looks like a routine case. But as he looks deeper into the murder of a mysterious woman, he discovers that she has links to Ul Qoma, a city that exists in the same physical space as Beszél but whose inhabitants studiously ignore any sign of overlap.
And the household. I use quats for laundry, too.
I did not realize half the payload was the data itself!
Why can't we talk about this?
Anecdotes are more then just curiosity. They are real possibilities.

When you walk you assume the ground is real based off of anecdotal data. Not science.

Data and science is hard and highly limited. The majority of the world is unverified with science. To limit your conclusions to only rigorous data is to say you cannot walk because you aren't sure the ground exists.

My claim here is that smarter people are more likely to write sloppy code. My meta claim is that That claim is both based off of anecdotal data and also likely to be true.
> Every morning I wonder whether that day has Eleven Magic Words and, if it does, whether I’ll be able to figure them out. And every day that potential scares the shit out of me.
Are there whistleblower protections for medical doctors? Do we use this as a reason to waive any duty the doctor has to the patient?
Why Courts Ignore Exclusionary Zoning
Not arguing LLMs have sentience, but more so whether something that could be considered as "simplistic" as "statistics" could yield in a more complex result.

Whether LLMs have intelligence depends on your definition of intelligence.

Could connections of artificial neurons arranged in certain way as a result of training on data yield in human level intelligence?
I'm told that theaters make their money on food. As long as people are there eating popcorn and drinking soda they profit so it doesn't matter who those people are or what they are seeing. It's not as if theaters pay more for heat, water, and air conditioning if it's the same asses in seats vs new ones.
> By 80 and 90, most peers have already been lost to other organ failures, cancers, etc

In many wealthy countries, life expectancy at birth is greater than 80, which means that the average 80 year old, >50% of their same-age peers will still be alive. By age 90, what you say would be true.
>> Programmers in my area (AI) have a lot of domain knowledge and specialization

How long do you think then when LLM's gain this as well? And then?
Yes, it's all about how easy it is to access this data. Many of these older device submissions are scanned PDFs that need to be OCRd.
When I think of this I wonder how absolutely incredible an octopuses experience of life must be.

We have neurons in our guts that act as a second brain, and that leads to all sorts of funny feelings and conflicts; the octopus has neurons embedded through all its limbs. Truly otherworldly