skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is replacement fertility rate necessary? I do agree we are adapting to new evolutionary pressures (one of which is that children become an expensive burden rather than a source of family income), but I don't see a problem with the global population leveling off in a few generations, then shrinking by a billion or two.

I was thinking earlier about this birth rate in terms of generations. I'm 53. My paternal grandparents, living in rural poverty in Kentucky, had 13 children, of which 8 survived. None of those 8 had more than 4 children of their own. My grandfather, born in the 19th century, was illiterate and worked someone else's tobacco fields. My father went to high school and owned a blue-collar business. I went to college and work in software. My spouse is 47. Her maternal grandfather grew up in the Kansas Dust Bowl during the Depression, hunting squirrels after a day's work so his family could eat, and he went to bed hungry sometimes. He parlayed his WWII service into a Harvard MBA, and became a VP at Ernst and Young, retired a millionaire. He and his wife had 8 children, all of whom survived, because they were living much better than my father's family did. None of those 8 children had more than 3 children of their own, and some are childless. I have three siblings. None of us had more than two children. Of my two adult children, one will almost certainly be childless, the other I give a maybe 75% chance of children.

This is what happens to birth rates.

Iran, for example. In the early 1980s, the birth rate in Iran was over 5. Now, it's 1.6, lower than the USA or Europe. Iran isn't unusual. This happens everywhere that gets out of extreme poverty. And extreme poverty? That was my grandparents, in the US, in the 20th century. For the most part, such poverty no longer exists in the tobacco fields of southern Kentucky.

I don't think it's productive to speculate about a sudden sharp increase in birth rates over a century from now, based on conditions that are necessarily different from the conditions that are driving a drastic drop in the birth rate today. It's not really our problem, and we have no useful facts.

What we do know is that today, birth rates are plummeting worldwide, to below replacement level. As the last generations of population boom fade away over the course of the 21st century, it's unlikely to grow again. Barring unforeseeable changes, global population will likely shrink some over the 22nd century and then stabilize at whatever level of "terraform" is necessary.

By then, the era of fossil fuel will be over, and hopefully the atmosphere will start to stabilize. Humanity will be mostly on solar power, with sustainable agriculture feeding everyone. I believe that centuries from now, Earth will be a garden of Eden again, as the surplus resources get turned to making it beautiful, rather than just fending off starvation.
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While a UBI would raise the median income within an economy, if it was funded out of income tax then it would be neutral with respect to the mean available income, which is more what prices respond to.

This seems like an argument that breaks when one looks at the details of the markets involved. A landlord who owns low-income units doesn't care about average income. The landlord knows the income of their tenants and knows that they suddenly are able to afford more rent and so that landlord raises the rent to be able to take part in the windfall.

IE, your argument would only work is housing units has efficient, elastic supply and demand like candy or something, where rising income taxes for the wealthy would reduce their demand for low-income units in the central cites. But we know the wealthy's demand for such units already near zero and the demand of the poor for such units is going to be constant.
My initial reaction to the logos was, wow that really doesn't look good, but the video helped sell it.
At least you get a response even if it is a rejection letter. I have heard - not experienced - that sometimes you just don't hear back from the company at all, which seems worse to me.
I think it's a pretty terrible career choice. Good for the soul, though.
I definitely prefer the old logo. The new one feels like it was made in paint using system default fonts. It's not necessarily bad, just feels generic.
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Use Factor Tables: https://github.com/RowColz/AI

Dissection and analysis is made more like traditional accounting and statistics so that "ordinary" office workers can analyze why and where they work. Granted, it involves more human tuning and planning than multi-layer neural nets, but that's also part of the upside: regular office workers can "see" why what part or layer does what, and adjust it as needed. And it's easier to split it into tasks or specialties: Conway's Law meets AI.
The llvm compiler has it's optimization routines here:

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/tree/master/lib/Transfor...

You can play around with how it takes in llvm code to optimized llvm code by using the opt tool.

Here's a basic example.

$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
printf("hello world");
}
}

$ clang -c -S -emit-llvm test.c
$ cat test.ll
** too long replacing with gist**
https://gist.github.com/cwgreene/b6f33d40ad735a448ed15057d91fdbdc

$ opt -S -print-before-all -O2 test.ll
** too long, replacing with gist**
https://gist.github.com/cwgreene/99b3075dbfffae35a5745934ded217fb
** final result**
@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [12 x i8] c"hello world\00", align 1

; Function Attrs: nounwind uwtable
define i32 @main() #0 {
entry:
%call = tail call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([12 x i8], [12 x i8]* @.str, i64 0, i64 0)) #2
%call.1 = tail call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([12 x i8], [12 x i8]* @.str, i64 0, i64 0)) #2
%call.2 = tail call i32 (i8*, ...) @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([12 x i8], [12 x i8]* @.str, i64 0, i64 0)) #2
ret i32 0
}

The command `opt -S -print-before-all -O2` can be manually modified to specify exactly which compiler passes you want to see. You can run `opt --help` to see a list of all compiler passes. (you can figure out what code performs by looking at the * * * IR Dump Before `MODULE NAME` * * * and finding the associated logic in the Lib directory)

In the case of llvm, the idea for them is they break the code into things called 'basic blocks' which, along with using Single Static Assignment, are more easily analyzed, transformed, and simplified.
Land is available in the US under 10,000$ an acre. It’s the stuff like ocean views and public services that make land valuable not the limited total supply. Basic incomes would cause people to migrate to less expensive areas, but that’s unlikely to change prices much as we have vast amounts of land that’s barely used for anything.
Yes. I don't mind the parens (syntax highlighting can subdue them), but every time I actually fire up Common Lisp to try it, I see all caps somewhere, like someone even older than me is shouting at me, or I stumbled across a box of my Fortran punched cards from before I switched to APL in the 1970's. That's an ugliness not addressed by this guide.
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Isn't giving detailed feedback a liability nightmare? Everything I've ever heard on this is to say as little as possible.

It's certainly great as a candidate to get detailed feedback (would have really appreciated it back in the day as a co-op student), but I just wonder if the concerns over it have any merit or are overblown.
Offensive, interesting. Yes, I don't think it's offensive. I do think the attitude of "my time is worth more than yours" isn't one I particularly appreciate. When I was interviewing and got at-home coding challenges, I appreciated it when the assumption was I was going to get actual helpful feedback if I didn't pass to the next level. A solid code review, if you will.

At least then there's some sort of reciprocity in time.
There are various shades between scientific breakthrough and "yet another app/Server Tool", of which hundreds were implemented in the past, which can be solved by following random blog-posts, and (in the worst case) make no sense, even besides academic rigor.

Scientific work should fulfill at least some standards, and IMHO this includes undergrad theses.
With UBI I'm not necessarily tied to living in an urban population center, and I might be able to make a lower-paying job in a rural area work better for me. Urbanization came along with industrialization.
ownership is different from actually having ops capabilities,

I do not think there is a button somewhere is Beijing that China can use to just turn off Australian power plant on Australian soil.

The most China can do to sell the asset and temporary depress its price.
before getting anywhere near "weared out".

Well done you, picking on a non-native English speaker! Very welcoming and inclusive.
Obviously we read something different in our messages.

Anyway:

- Orcas are mammals and not fish.

- Your study talks about fish. So does the first article I mentioned. "My" article mentions nociceptors and opioids (pain killers) and an experiment with painkiller lidocaine that suggests that fish feel some kind of pain. Note that both fish and mammals have nociceptors and opioids as chemicals in the brain. That fishes eat after surgery does not mean that fishes do not feel pain. Some people eat as response to stress and fear.

Quote from "my" article (I guess finfish means true fish in this context):
In 2013, the American Veterinary Medical Association published new guidelines for the euthanasia of animals, which included the following statements: “Suggestions that finfish responses to pain merely represent simple reflexes have been refuted. … the preponderance of accumulated evidence supports the position that finfish should be accorded the same considerations as terrestrial vertebrates in regard to relief from pain.”
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fish-feel-pain...
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I get why companies don't do honest rejection letters, but this there's no excuse for whatsoever.
If you had linked that comment in your first reply, I would have agreed with you and we probably wouldn't have had any of this to talk about :)

A license granted by accident without consideration in return is not a "no takebacks!" situation. If I paid for that license and then you said, it was granted by mistake, I may have a legal leg to stand on in terms of "no takebacks" claims. But if it's just a URL, I'm pretty sure I actually don't need any license or your permission to copy it.

(If you wanted the data that the URL serves up to be protected, then you should have implemented some kind of actual protection scheme, like a token auth system that restricts access to authorized users only, instead of serving that content up to anyone who knows where it is located on the public internet.)

I don't think that's what they've actually tried to do here, so the issue is really moot. Thanks for clearing up what you meant for me, and have an upvote.
Xeon Phi was basically that. It wasn't that fast.
IMHO it's easy enough to find a way if you want to test.

I had to do it a few times in the past and it's surprising how easy it is to run macOS in VirtualBox. Insert ISO, change some configuration, and it boots and installs. Plenty of tutorials and such too.
a lot of ppl in the tech industry
This is dealt with at length in the article.
This is called out early in the post:

> The number one reason companies cite for not sending feedback is legal risk. Interestingly, I don’t think this is true. Companies put themselves at legal risk if they are rejecting candidates for illegitimate reasons, like race, gender, or a disability. If they send feedback which tells candidates, truthfully, that they were rejected because they didn’t get very far on the coding project, then if anything a company reduces their legal risk: they have a transparent track record of evaluating candidates based only on their skills. I recently talked with an employment lawyer about this, and he didn’t think that specific feedback on technical performance put companies at risk. So legal risk, despite being frequently cited, seems unlikely to be the real driver of policies here.

Then, an explanation that legal risk isn't the same thing as lawsuit risk:

> Even if your process isn’t biased, if you send feedback that creates the perception you’re biased, that’s enough for a costly lawsuit. So while legal risk isn’t a reason not to send detailed, honest technical feedback (as long as you’re not discriminating), it’s a very good reason not to send carelessly compiled feedback through a haphazard process (even if you’re not discriminating).
If that happened, the client government could nationalize the reactor and seize control of it. This would provoke a diplomatic incident, of course, but that'd be something for the two governments to sort out.

Or, less aggressively, they would retain enough reserve power generation capacity to replace the electricity. For example, have gas plants that can be spun up on demand if the nuclear reactors were shut off.

Either way, a government isn't going to be held ransom by Rosatom.
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As others have said, ownership doesn’t precisely equal control, and certainly not in the way control can be exercised over one of these floating reactors. Also...

Well the Australian government(s) aren't sane then.

Yeah, hasn’t that been pretty well established in a myriad of other ways?
The article addresses the "liability nightmare" and they mentioned they reached out to an employment lawyer.
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Yes, that is correct.

Take a bow with your bow tie on.

Pile up a mow when you mow down your hay.

Have a row when the row is not straight.

Tie up the sow when you sow seeds.

That tow-headed man drives a tow truck.

(For additional fun, pronounce bough, cough, rough, and tough.)
My understanding is that as long as you're not discriminating against candidates on the basis of race, gender or some other protected category membership, and as long as your feedback reflects that by being focused on the technical abilities the candidate demonstrated during the interview, you're not actually at all that much risk. Of course, if you are illegally discriminating, or if your feedback suggests that you are by giving feedback on candidate appearance or something (never do that), then you're absolutely better off not sending it.
This is the worst sort of ageism. In my professional experience there is no correlation between youth and fresh ideas.

Big companies with competent leaders are perfectly capable of rapid change when survival is at stake. The classic example is the pivot from desktop software toward the Internet that Bill Gates led at Microsoft.
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We have a smokers pole outside for butts. It is surrounded by butts and is apparently only emptied when it catches fire and enters "self cleaning mode" which I'm sure creates a nice miasma of VOC from the burning plastics.

I'm very wary of voting for any sort of social nannying laws that try to keep people from making bad choices, but I make a strong exception for smokers, who seem to be nearly unanimous in treating the world like they treat their lungs.
Yes, a large scale movement can challenge federal law. It starts by passing laws at the state level.

In a case like that, they are sort of hoping it goes to the Supreme Court and the court finds in their favor.

One of the issues marijuana growers and sellers are having is that they have trouble establishing bank accounts because banks don't want to be in violation of federal regulation.

The people passing pro mj laws and starting legitimate mj businesses could be viewed as a quiet, non violent civil rights movement. Everyone doing stuff in that space is sticking their neck out.

I'm allergic to mj, so I'm not willing to stick my neck out, but I am for the legalization of mj. I have done some research on the topic and I have tremendous respect for the people quietly working to make this legal in the US.
1. Premise: P -> Q

2. Premise: ((P -> Q) -> P) -> P

3. (P -> Q) -> P, from 1

4. P, from 2 and 3

5. Q, from 1 and 4
> It probably takes longer to write and a lot of current developers probably can't do it.

I think we can go even stronger than 'probably' - we know that there are people who do work to these constraints, and it's mostly experienced devs from a few starting tracks working on years-long projects.

As far as I know, NASA's coding standards haven't slipped from their famous "0 bugs per 500,000 lines", and that code (along with JPL, Orbital, SpaceX, etc) is often written to harsh physical constraints. Systems like the Mars entry controller have to operate unsupported in environments where slowness, power, and weight are all serious limiting factors. For all that the IoT is a disaster, embedded control software for non-consumer projects is often concise, fast, and reliable.

It would probably be possible to train a lot more high-performance developers than we have now, but the demand certainly hasn't been present and even if we could there'd be a real price exacted in lost development time and features.

It'll be interesting to see what happens as chip speedups become increasingly unavailable; it's possible we'll revisit the old stuff and make it faster, but so far the leading answer appears to be falling back on networking to handle tasks on bigger hardware.
My gut reaction is that this new logo is strictly worse than the old one. This is my first time seeing either of the logos.

Can someone with a graphic arts background explain why the LoC is so attracted to this new design (after only 8 years with the previous one)?
> That sounds more like a just-so story than some fundamental similarity in overall business approach.

And yet both companies' business strategies are primarily known for those things, and both companies spend more of their money on those things relative to R&D than their competitors.

> what would a 'heavy investment in litigation' even look like

Like this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/23/steve-job...

The fact that Jobs would even threaten such a thing shows how similar he is to Ellison. The only reason he backed down was that Palm would have taken Apple to the cleaners in the countersuits.
You don't have to assume that poor people are lazy in order to be worried about how the money will be spent. It takes an equally shaky assumption in order to believe that the money will be spent as intended. I'd have to see a wealth of evidence to convince me of that.
What do you mean? Just to see what you were talking about, I downloaded VSCode from their official website, installed and started it. At no point was I (to their credit) presented with a "contract".

OTOH, there was (again, to their credit), a notification when I started the software about how to disable telemetry.
i wonder what would be worse...
not paying taxes on revenue, or creating a parallel currency...
when does mutual contras, vouchers, barter, bitcoin, etherium cross the line?
what about CPU time slices, or mesh nodes, or .pdf payloads?
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It's the same sort of problem of induction that Hume pointed out in his original argument. Nothing substantially changes if we substitute "short explanations are better" for "sun rises in the morning".

The basic problem remains, though we've consolidated many problems of induction into one.
It absolutely is worse to not hear back at all. As someone who has dealt with this recently, the one positive thing I can tell myself about the experience is that I would not work for a company that cannot be bothered to write a rejection letter.

It reminds me of a restaurant I worked at in my youth - because the owner and her daughter were so conflict averse - rather than fire someone, they would just slowly write them off the schedule. Sad.
After looking at the book, yes, it's the exact same. They can be grounded in groups by shotgun first, like in the book, although I've heard they're stupid enough to be approached and killed barehanded. In other seasons they spray the eggs with oil while the parents are gone, and then replace them in the nest, to starve the eggs of oxygen and prevent the chicks from developing. If you take the eggs outright the geese will just lay more.

It would be nice if we could open hunting season on them and let them all get killed in a sporting way, but they're said to be repulsive and inedible.

Here's a government publication on it dealing with my area specifically (southern BC).

https://www.ec.gc.ca/mbc-com/6D2B893B-C671-41AF-8439-713305D...
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> This is an assumption, rooted in the belief that people are poor because they are lazy, and it is wrong

I would have phrased it differently, namely that people at the bottom of the economic ladder lack the education to wisely spend UBI and it will end up getting wasted or siphoned by predators. I've worked closely with poor people in my church, helping them learn to budget and such, and what I've found is that more often than not, they had hundreds of dollars each month tied up in services they didn't use, many of them very deceptive and predatory (i.e. the letter has red ink "amount due" stamped on it, even though it wasn't even a bill!)
What ISO? And where?

You mean those hacked ISOs from TPB for 3 year old OSX releases?

How can I, or anyone else for that matter, be sure they are safe to use and represents runtime behavior of the latest ever-changing (read: breaking) OSX?

It’s not as easy as you make it out to be.
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This stuff is fascinating, and possibly most wonderful in that it's somebody else's problem, but I'm curious what "obscenely expensive" means in this context.
This happened to me. Several rounds of interviews with a well known colored-hat company, then... nothing. No response to follow-ups either.

What was especially frustrating to me was that up to that point, the tone of both the conversations and email exchanges was very positive and cordial. I would have expected a "Thanks, but no thanks" follow-up at least, especially considering I was an internal referral from a Sr. Mgr. But... nothing. Made my reconsider my view of that particular company.
> Free-market competition is better.

one problem with this is that 1) free market with no regulation leads to monopoly when only one competitor remains and 2) efficient markets are purely theoretical due to impossibility of having perfect information in the real world.
I’ve had that. But not from anyone I cared about after going through the interview. Unsurprisingly.
In my handful of years in the bay area I've seen rent controlled 4 bedroom apartments pass through chains of friends (usually alumni of the same university) several years in a row. Most of these tenants have been well compensated tech workers. I think price control without regulating who can access lower controls can increase inequality. Something I have observed anecdotally to work is fixing a percentage of units to be reserved for low income people. It's a nice way to let us tech workers subsidize the less fortunate and still allow landlords to make money.
Nice tool set. I've definitely seen more than a few startups that would benefit greatly by filling out the details asked here.