skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A SQL schema literally does not indicate the locations of data inside of a file.

That's only true if you apply eg the Unix definition of what a file on a file system is (like a sequence of bytes or whatever).

For all we know, the law might take a broader view. Something like: a 'file' is anything that in the olden days you would have stuck into a filing cabinet.

The 'Unix' definition isn't even particularly natural: it's one specific level of abstraction. On disk, the bytes aren't necessarily laid out one after another. Especially with fragmentation, compression and encryption going on.

An SQL schema tells you how data is laid out in a different layer of abstraction than the Unix view of bytes. But that view isn't the only one that the law can mean by 'file'.
you look around with the arrow keys? bro
I'm certainly sure that US is spying on everyone it wants. This is ridiculously hypocritical and I wouldn't be surprised if this was motivated by some politics.
The video talks about building a bypass around the most dangerous section of the Russia-Georgia-Armenia-Iran road.

The part that goes through Georgia is called the Georgian Military Road and was built by the Russian Empire to enable the movement of troops to defend Georgia (at that time a Russian protectorate) from Persia (now Iran).
RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8T cells in pancreatic cancer
> I suspect it's hydroponic.

It's axiomatically-speaking the one of the only few ways to make it happen.

"zero pesticides" implies no bugs/insects around to need spraying it in the first place, and doing that requires (A) a clean environment + (B) no regular soil (regular soil may have insect eggs / fungi in them).

The only things that come to mind are hydroponics & hydrogel agriculture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel_agriculture
"Up to". I guess maybe appropriate for a car theft kingpin selling these by the thousand?

How does it compare with the sentence for actual car theft?
I have some articles about freelancing on my web site typicalprogrammer.com. Free, no ads, popups, or other nonsense.
Or be more open to migration - but this is Japan so hell would sooner freeze
Only argument I have is the no stress part. I find myself stressed out more often than should be when riding a bike in the city due to careless car drivers.
Unless someone is 60, you don't know a time when companies haven't been spying on you.

People were worried about Google in the early 2000s, after they bought doubleclick. There's nothing new here, except a continuous walk along the same path.

Data collection was a big trend of the 80s. Credit bureaus and points cards were the big start.

If you go into a forum about cars, you can see people asking about 5 or 6 years ago, to turn off telemetry in their cars. They are mocked relentlessly.

Then the insurance issue came to light, where car companies were caught selling data without consent. Suddenly, everyone cared.

Point is, the average person hasn't the time, or the inclination to understand, or even care... until it hurts them.

Of course, by the time the hurting happens, it's too late...

So give them pennies (point cards) and they'll be happy to be tracked.

From what I've noticed in my life, many people are incapable of being aware of dangers, without perspective. Thus, to survive mentally, they must dismiss dangers they cannot control. They deride concerns, to protect themselves menrally.

I'd say at least 50% of the population is like this.
Damn! Thank you very much for the info. Quite interesting - and unfortunately, more of a cut than I expected.
I’ll just say “iron pillar at Qutub Minar” for mysteries of advanced ancient technology.
This is ridiculously untrue. Please do not spread Musk disinformation.

First statue of Liberty, Magna Carta, predates the US itself by more than half a millennium.
I'm not sure whether 'file' necessarily has to refer to the 'Unix' view of a 'sequence of bytes'? Or just 'some organisational unit of information'? Ie like the stuff you would put into a filing cabinet?

The 'sequence of bytes' view is just one specific level of abstraction. It's not what's actually on disk because of things like compression, encryption and fragmentation.

Database schemas are a different level of abstraction.
Interesting yes, but regardless of the scientific viability of Helion's approach (that I have no means to discuss), at least they are aiming at addressing the core problem of fusion energy as an investment strategy: turning an non-existent into an existent technology. What bewilders me here are people discussing the business model and implementation details of these ships' reactors for the endeavor to become profitable. These kind of discussions would only be appropriate in the Worldbuilding StackExchange.
Immigration is not a solution.

East Asian countries were never keen and when they see what has happened in Europe I doubt they will change their mind (or they will be extremely careful and picky)
I was accidentally one of these once.

I fixed a long standing bug that was a companies top priority for several months and no one had been able to fix it. They were talking about re-writing an entire app to resolve it, at a cost of 100's of thousands of dollar, dragging the vendor over the coals etc.

I was relatively new and thought I'd take a look, ignoring all the mystique surrounding the problem. It turned out to be a simple one line fix, just a dumb oversight that anyone who bothered to understand and step through the code would have caught.

Things got a little weird after that haha. The director who had been responsible for that department started ignoring me, while I started to get pulled into look at all sorts of other peoples urgent issues, with zero context, often with a team of other people I didn't know on the call.

It was fun while it lasted, but man, I'm glad I'm no Doogie Howser MD, that shit would go to your head!
why would we even need to increase birth rates? humanity is nowhere near extinction from low birth rates
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its stuck on analysis 100%
That's a good reason to sell an extra home when you need/want cash, not to rent where you live. Even if you don't have children to inherit, it's nice to own a home, but I guess it depends on ones lifestyle.
>Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia [4 April 2024]

Seems to be a wrong link.
I started playing a game when I’m waiting at traffic lights, that is to count how many cars have a single driver and no passengers in it. A good portion of those cars are SUVs that have no business being in a city. The results are far from surprising and completely maddening.
>> force women to. Obviously, no society would choose the latter option.

Well, many governments today seek to limit reproductive rights specifically to encourage pregnancy over other options. Limits on the termination of pregnancies, along with discouragement of contraception and education, have the net effect of making more women pregnant. We in the glass houses ...
Privacy in public transport systems is poorer than it has to be, and can be enhanced. The following describes a privacy-preserving ticketing system.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20810-7_...

No doubt many people are aware that card passes are potential trackers, and that may be why a third or so of the ridership pays no fare.
I have no idea what they can even do at this point. I have young Japanese friends (early 20s) and they all tell me the same thing: the cost of raising a child is too high in Japan (considering the wages).

When I talk to people it seems that they all have this concern, I doubt it's something that can be changed drastically in the short term.

But this is basically the same story everywhere. Living costs are really high. Add children to the mix and how do you manage?

If I put my pessimist hat on, it's just a matter of time till the same happens in Europe/US.

Heck, I already see friends in Ireland and UK struggling with that and they are all high earners.
Wrong link for headline
"How can we simplify? What's annoying, too complicated, or should be removed?"
Consider asking users: "How can we simplify? What's annoying, too complicated, or should be removed?"
Musk has shown he's not a man to be trusted.

This cracks me up. You're only saying that because he's vocal, and you're aware of him daily.

After all, I don't see people commenting on the other 1M CEO, nor aware of what they're doing right now, which do not post on X.
> Would privacy also be better? Because the government is more trustworthy regarding the collection of movement data than private companies?

It must be possible to buy a ticket that has at least one of the following properties:

1. It is not linked to the times when you use it (flat-rate/monthly ticket). Payment may be linked to your name.

2. It is not linked to your identity (pseudonymous numeric ID). Payment must not be linked to your name.

Otherwise it's easy to track when you travel which route.

And obviously, facial recognition must be forbidden.
As far as I understand, the UK gave Apple an order that has effective worldwide extent to insert a backdoor. Clearly you can't have a backdoor that only works for people in a certain location, since people are not fixed in one place.

Apple chose to partially comply with the order, by disabling ADP for UK users, instead of inserting a backdoor.

Apple is making the distinction here between UK and non-UK, so they can define a "UK user" however they want. A foreign citizen travelling in the UK almost certainly won't be affected.

In other words, they aren't handling this case legally, or at least that is a matter that may be resolved in court if the UK is unsatisfied with Apple's method of compliance. Apple would seek to challenge the UK's jurisdiction in that case.
Is it?

Article shows up fine for myself. Maybe because my browser scrubs cookies and always looks like a first time site visitor, maybe not locked for Australasian IP's. Dunno - never had an issue reading the FT though.

All the same - https://archive.md/yBCh0
There are Western European countries that have similar birthrates to Japan (Italy and Spain are very similar). However, they manage to sustain their population, and even have population growth, through immigration.
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Ideas welcome :)
It depends on what you mean by consciousness, if we are talking about the intelligence or self awareness or thoughts then I don’t see any problem with it being emergent. But if we are talking about conscious experience/qualia (not something that thinks or interacts, but something that just experiences) then I think it’s incoherent for it to be emergent. That there is a consciousness that is experiencing something is the only thing we can know as 100% true, and the world itself is something we can never know is 100% true: we could be a brain in a vat, we could be dreaming, in the matrix, a demon making us hallucinate everything etc. It seems a bit silly to say the 100% true thing is an illusion or is dependent because something that we don’t know is true tells us it is.
Unfortunately games that did not succeed never make it to the point where publisher recouperated it's investments so it's actually worse. If the publisher fully funded the game they will take 80%, 90% or everything.
The demographic and cultural experts of hn will recommend adding more foreigners since that was very successful and without any issues in the west.

An actual improvment could include not only reducing working hours but cultural norms such as staying longer than actually needed. Also building more living spaces around cities to reduce costs.
These hacks do have to make up a non-insignificant part of North Korea's actual monetary budget, right?

If all the reports of elite teams of North Korean hackers are true, which they may or may not be, then NK is only encouraged to hire savvier and savvier ones, as the return on these workers, per person, is something SF companies only dream of.

And the only defense for us is to build secure software, which is something that will never happen. Genius.
For 1., I had the taxes afterwards and since every factor is just multiplied, it doesn’t matter for the end result. And do refunds count into the final sales number?

For 2., I linked the page where you can find the document where the publisher claims to take 50%, if I didn’t miss something while skimming it.
This is what I would have chosen too as it's natural for programmer sensibilities.

I can see it as a choice from the "plain text first" philosophy i.e. the things you typically write in plain text should not need escaping. My intuition pump is that you can copy-paste an email into .md without edits or surprising rendering.

As such, it's doomed to never satisfy everyone. Personally I never use intraword emphasis and I typically only have underscores in non-code names i.e. `this_is_normally_code`.
You don't even necessarily need to run Ethernet. For example, my parents house was built without Ethernet cable runs to every floor, but they ran coax cables to basically every room for TV.

Thanks to MoCA (Media over Coax Alliance) you can route your Ethernet over Coax, and thus we have a really stable and performant (> 1GbE) Ethernet connection to every room.

Wireless repeaters/mesh doesn't really work well when you have reinforced steel-concrete floors and walls.
Those who win at elections aren't democratically elected?
i use touchpad in my mac, but mouse should also works, fixing it
Do you work for the US military in any way?
Does that mean that all encryption is now illegal in the UK, even for foreign citizens?
That one is specifically British though. Or perhaps even just English, I can't imagine a Scottish person using it.
It's ok, Niger had a population of 19 million in 2019 and is set to be at 70 million in 2050, so they'll make up for Japan.
Ok, it's indeed much cheaper.

Unless, of course, it's the Vogtle plant or similar Western-built one, which cost about 17 billions per GW and took 10 years to construct. In this case, the price is comparable if you factor in the cost of money.
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We're still pretty small, so something lightweight, affordable, and easy to set up would be great.

We want customers to have full transparency into the priority, status, and progress of their tickets.

Any recommendations? Thanks!
If you're trying to convince East Asians that immigration is a good solution by using Europe as an example, you're not going to go very far...
I am CTO of a fintech -> payments company. Stealth mode for now so cannot say to much but I have been in payments for > 30 years.
I think the Indian business mindset still hasn't adapted to Western-style capitalism (derisk your personal wealth, throw a lot of money, go big or go bust) and entrepreneurs spend very cautiously which ultimately leads to failed outcomes. You can even see this in the way that big public corporations behave.
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> Honestly I don't even understand why enough people still use their cars through my city instead of biking.

I am an ex-avid cyclist. Bikes are easily stolen, You can get soaked if the weather is poor, If it is bitterly cold it can literally take you hours to warm up (especially if you are older). If you have to ride in traffic it can be very frightening especially if you haven't done it before. Other people find cycling simply uncomfortable, I've been told it more uncomfortable for women.
I agree! The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is a critical organization for sustaining healthy populations of fish and wildlife.
Yes, absolutely. All these other potential invasions of privacy.

But I'd like to think the items on your list become more visible - and easier to combat - if recordings are time-limited. Can activists conceivably use FOIA requests to identify ALL dataflows out of surveillance systems in use in public commons ?
The problem will eventually solve itself, because people who don't have children won't pass their values down, while people with (sub)cultures that prioritise childbearing will. So eventually the subcultures that place a strong emphasis on having children will outbreed and replace those that don't. We already see the start of this in the US and Israel, where the ultra-religious are becoming a larger and larger fraction of the local-born population.
Nobody is going to read and the "thoughts" they do output are hardly every particularly coherent or insightful (Deepseak is just sem-unhinged continuous rambling and Open AI of course hides most of the reasoning).

Even if the steps/explanations were actually useful and insightful, though IMHO that's not remotely the same thing as figuring out the steps on your own.
Plenty of places, including my current city, have time-based tickets only. So even for the shortest ones you have to validate only once, while you can have a much longer trip.

Daily/weekend/weekly are even better, and monthly/quarterly even while they tied to your name, don't have to be validated in any particular place at all. You can do it far from any vehicles.
Funny, some of the "reverseness" looks a bit like PostScript, which is a stack-based language, where you write code like:

/Times-Roman findfont 12 scalefont setfont
42 84 moveto (Hello world) show showpage
Why even bother with one of those crusty old 3-letter agencies, when you can go straight to the top via your very own 4-letter (1 better!) agency: D.O.G.E.
Maybe. Global food production seems sufficient for everyone. Most humans are surviving, even if distribution is uneven, so, if we fix that, everything should work out.
UK requested access to any and all persons worldwide not just people under UK jurisdiction either by citizenship or physical location.

Why would France, Germany, or any other country should allow their citizens in their sovereign country to be treated like that? And what’s next? “If you want to do business in country X then give us all the user data for country Y?
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Yeah totaly understand the stealthmode. But if i am a merchant in pci-dss context. You as my PSP Need/Want me to collect the AoC of my TPSP such as Hoster?
Fair. I live in Dublin.
I think it's rather a form of "natural selection", you have to be a sociopath to be successful in a pond full of other ruthless sharks.
To me it seemed like the comment said the complete opposite of what you are implying? i.e. "llm can teach you the basics" BUT "You can't see if it's really learning or not until you see how it's used."
thats one way to do it but feel like theres a better solution
A someone interested in programming language theory, this book looks very interesting. Unfortunately the HTML is incomplete and very hard to read, and the book itself is quite expensive.
You have it reverse wind turbines need mooring, stay upright and so on. That's highly impractical. No, you build a fast-going sail vessel (using big traction kites, because it's not the 19th century anymore) and power the generator from much smaller turbine blades in the water. Hydrogenerator is the term established in recreational boating.

I sure would not expect any returns in days, more like months or years. But if we (humanity) could just solve the purely man-made problem of piracy (or would it technically be salvage?), I believe that a robotic fleet of cruising hydrogenerators could be a huge contribution to our energy needs.
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but 10-15% of the world reads rtl...
Tilting at windmills.
>what can actually be done in Japan to increase the birth rate?

what for? it is a pretty legitimate choice for a society to have less children. Does the society have any issues that can be solved only by increasing birth rate? With AI/robots the issue of taking care of elders will be solved anyway. The AI will also possibly make the labor market even tougher, so less people may be better. Anecdotally, when i look at IQ charts and birth rate charts of various countries for the last several decades i see negative correlation between directions those two parameters move, and the higher IQ/lower birth rate doesn't look like a bad strategy for the projected technological future.
There are practising scientists who take philosophy of science much more seriously than you do.

To give a random example, I'm quite a fan of Lynn Waterhouse's Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity (Elsevier Academic Press, 2013) which seeks to provide a critical evaluation of the strength of the scientific evidence behind the theory of autism, in its various incarnations (from Kanner's early infantile autism and Asperger's autistic psychopathy through to DSM-5 ASD). And Waterhouse actually draws on philosophy of science in the process, as this quote demonstrates (p. 24):

> In fact, the orphaned and disconfirmed theories that have failed to explain variation in autism are, in large part, examples of theory underdetermination. Science philosopher Peter Lipton (2005) argued, “Theories go far beyond the data that support them; indeed, the theories would be of little interest if this were not so. However, this means a scientific theory is always ‘underdetermined’ by the available data concerning the phenomena” (p. 1261). The theory of underdetermination, called the Duhem–Quine principle, is a formal acceptance that theories make claims that data do not fully support. Theory succession, as from Hippocrates’ theory of pangenesis to Darwin’s gemmules, to DNA and transcriptomes, moves from one underdetermined theory to the next. However, Stanford (2001) pointed out that not all theory underdetermination is acceptable. It can be a Devil’s bargain: a serious threat to scientific discovery.

And another quote from the same book (p. 27):

> Equally problematic, autism brain research findings have not uncovered the underlying complexity of the phenomena. Bogen and Woodward (1988) argued that what can be measured is “rarely the result of a single phenomenon operating alone, but instead typically reflect the interaction of many different phenomena ….Nature is so complicated that … it is hard to imagine an instrument which could register any phenomenon of interest in isolation” (pp. 351–352).

And the citations referenced in those quotes:

> Lipton, P. (2005). The Medawar Lecture 2004: The truth about science. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, 360, 1259–1269

> Stanford, P.K. (2001). Refusing the devil’s bargain: What kind of underdetermination should we take seriously? Philosophy of Science, 68, 3. Supplement: Proceedings of the 2000 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part I: Contributed Papers, pp. S1–S12

> Bogen, J., & Woodward, J. (1988). Saving the phenomena. Philosophical Review, 97, 303–352.

The book only cites three philosophy of science papers, compared to dozens and dozens of papers from neuroscience, genetics, psychology, etc – as you'd expect for a scholarly book focused on the science of autism. Still, the fact it cites philosophy papers at all is an example of how many practising scientists are more positive about philosophy of science than you yourself are.
So it's just unashamed racism now, is it?
> When do we not adapt and learn? When we ignore our inputs and do nothing with it (don’t store it, don’t retrieve it).

In the example I mentioned, the program clearly is taking inputs (load), storing them, querying for previous values that satisfy certain conditions (the value at a certain timestamp for each of the last 7 days), running computation (computing a mean), and operationalizing the result (pre-emptively scaling) to achieve a goal (avoiding having insufficient capacity) that affects the world (whoever interacting with the system will have different experiences because of the actions taken by the system). That seems like it satisfies your criterion to me.
I knew this would get racist.
Well of course you can. We have freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences.
On my phone nothing happens then I die?