skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your assumption that people are having less children because of a shift of the sense of responsibility in the modern era--then the counter-narrative could then be built that the birthrate could potentially rebound in a future where automation has replaced workers and people's sense of purpose is no longer a product of career motivations.
This is very interesting, and unexpected at the surface level. Especially with all the doom and gloom we've always been fed about the world population getting out of control, consuming all the resources, polluting the planet into oblivion, etc.

I was expecting to read about medical/health reasons why men and women are literally becoming less fertile, but it's not that. It sounds like it's a side effect of countries/societies advancing technologically and socially. It makes sense, but I just never visualized it like that in my head. Wow, what a great problem to have!

But as you say, it is a problem, just in other ways we might not have considered before. It will be interesting to see how we figure out how to restructure society as the demographics shift. But this seems like it could be a very good thing for the environment, climate change, resource management, etc. Overall, seems like positive new to me!
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I'd like to see an accounting of the real resources (not money) that elderly require vs children and young to middle aged adults. I'm suspicious because it sounds much like the undue burden tripe you hear about disabled people.
I worry because society has not given us the benefits of increased productivity. We've already massively increased productivity with computerization, but during that same period instead of more leisure time, society has actually demanded MORE working hours (by putting more women to work)
A name like that is going to select very strongly for a certain audience, and one that is quite a bit narrower than 'woke.' You're going to get a lot of Nazis and similar fellow travelers.
Forgive me - but how does this avoid the chicken&egg problem here. Without digging through the promo copy, why would one programmatically label training data to do ML on if they have such a program to label data...
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If go gets generics I will never use it again.
(Brit here)

It seems like being excited or happy isn't enough anymore, you have to be super excited or super happy.
Good! Please sue Google for this, and make them pay dearly for it, instead of a dumb slap on the wrist.

Google, and search engines, have destroyed the privacy of people. Some things, people just want forgotten, but if you end up in some stupid article or something somewhere, that their bots scraped, then your life can be forever ruined.

There is no right to privacy with Google, because your public and private life, is the business of Google. There is no right to be forgotten. There is no right to have distant memories, be forever a faded memory. Everything is forever fresh, digital, searchable, and forever an embarrassment.

The only way to force a societal change on this, is to expose all the private life details of these Google executives and co-founders. Expose who their mistresses are, who they cheat on, how much money they cheat the IRS on taxes, all their misdemeanors or petty crimes, etc. Anything and everything that can embarrass them, to the whole wide world. This way, they can feel the wrath of their own creation. And even then I don’t think that will change anything.

You also need to expose politicians too, but even this, I don’t think matters much.

You’d need to finally get politicians elected into office, that finally gives a damn about the private lives of citizens. This Wild West experiment of allowing these Silicon Valley startups free reign to do whatever they want, has gone on for far too long.

We, as a society, needs to reign back in these powers, and prevent these corporations from benefitting off of the common citizens’ misery, just so that they can make a dollar off of you.
Unfortunately that would require political action that would never be accepted by society until they're hurting enough that it's too late. No politician is going to win an election by promising to make your life worse now for the future generations.
Please tell that to Jeffry Epstein, who impregnated a dozen children a day because of pedo and gay blackmail on people we trusted with the nation's leadership. Or the drug smuggling criminals who get multiple families.

Just follow orders, end up burning alive in the WTC or kidnapped in some horrible foreign job site or just being forgotten.

Covid: Young people who should be starting families are sidelined.
China: Amoral lawyers want to be millionaires and take bribes. Your boss at the very top wants to kill Americans.
Immigration: Want to give boss feedback? Great. Hey, train your new H1B replacement.

A complete hostility to anyone else. Nothing except selfishness. Earning just one dollar is a 100% cut throat affair. You really don't know it until you get hit hard, how little people care about you if you die as long as they make a few bucks. Make something, prepare to have every little dirty trick thrown at you until you die in prison.

People became leaders decades ago because they were just willing to do anything and debase themselves. We used to be your neighbors and family. You turned your backs on us. Won with every dirty trick you can think of. Now we're just a waste byproduct or something to churn for money. Not urbanization. You. The hell you made. I hope the mob kills you all through many bumps and bruises and broken bones. True nature will go for your throat. As you die in your sewer, you will see the paradise of my world, your sunset, because I stayed true.
Bill:

Adding two lines: $ 1.

Knowing which two lines to add: $10,000.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
>They admit to exposing people to negative emotional cues at random?

I'm not sure the "negative" part matters. Manipulating someone's information in any way is irresponsible. A message intended to be uplifting can be harmful, say if someone is in a manic state or is unable to relate to the positive message. In politics, I think we all know the dangers of burying bad news.

Making people sad is more obviously evil than making people happy, but Facebook has no business trying to do either.

>At this point, they are certainly responsible for some number of suicides.

I doubt that. The effect size was small (~2% change in frequency of emotional words), and it seems dubious to me that the frequency of positive and negative words actually reflects someone's emotional state.

But failure isn't an excuse. Trying to hurt people isn't OK just because you aren't very good at it.
This, but also people used to see having a family as being the meaning of their lives. In the modern world, the alternative meaning of life invention is the Career™. This alone, that people have been influenced to believe a career is a replacement for having a family, is highly suspect of "top-down" influence. We don't even have the perspective of how ridiculous career driven culture is.
I would’t say that is the main reason but that is one of them, sure. Also the society has become a lot more isolated. I sometimes look at a modern societies like Japan or South Korea and am wondering whether the western world will follow suit.
> I feel like the general attitude of software developers is: if it isn’t changing and being updated it’s dying. I think we should start putting weight on stable unchanging software.

I agree with this.

However, the key is to stop once you've implemented the right set of features. Minimalism is about implementing the minimum necessary and no less. I firmly believe that generics are in the right set of features for a statically-typed programming language.

The problem is that Go has already implemented some features which clearly aren't in the right set of features--such as `go generate`--which already allow you to implement a crappy version of generics. So now you're starting to move toward the problem that C++ and (to a lesser extent) JavaScript have, which is that there are 5 different ways to do the same thing, which don't necessarily interoperate well with each other. If go were being implemented from scratch, it would be better to have generics and not `go generate`, but given the language already has `go generate`, there's certainly some downside to adding generics. It's not a simple choice.
Our non-technical stakeholders are almost guaranteed to have some minor design thing they jump on, so our equivalent was to show them only things that were functionally done, no matter how un-polished. That way they were the ones blocking any release.
Sorry, Comcast is the wired ISP (cable modem) in the suburbs. The others are wireless.
Did you forget the part where you said "several billion other people"?

If you're not talking about the developing world, and just look at the rural and those who don't want a connection, that's not nearly enough people. So it's not wrong at all for people to assume you meant the developing world.

And nobody said they were 'life essentials'.
> ISP offers one plan $45 mo 60/40mbps.

I pay $75/month for 30/30. So that sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
> Mind your own world of influence.

I have trouble with this. For potential whistleblowers (which this thread is about), this is their world of influence. They are part of an organization that is actively defrauding/harming individuals and they have the power to do something.
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Millennials can’t afford to move out of Mom & Dad’s basement, get married, and have kids. Our society is profoundly sick, both figuratively and now literally.
There's a new economic model starting to get popular in Europe called the Donut[0][1] according to which after a country reaches a level of maturity, it should stop focusing on growth and switch to stability so as to avoid overshooting.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_(economic_model)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhcrbcg8HBw
The question would be how are they solving it differently after these many years. They are just following what every other language has done for the years. We agree on having that restraint is good, if they see it as not required.
Because there's more to the state than Boston.
Not all ponzi schemes are dysfunctional, some are sustainable in the long term.

For instance if you have an asset that appreciates over time and represents true value (say because it generates more income over time) then you can't realize that appreciation if there is no-one to buy that asset from you. That is the marginal effect of having less people.
If I end up with Starlink as an option am I going to be fighting with urban users for bandwidth?

No, because there won't be any urban users on Starlink. It doesn't make any sense for them (ignoring a small number of vocal fanboys).
I don’t get your issue with modifiers such as alt-gr. I grew up with a mix of Swiss (swiss qwertz) and French layout (azerty), and have my own custom layout since around 10 years, all of them require to use modifiers just to write my main languages and that hasn’t been an issue since I was a kid. If you use a non US layout it’s very likely that you already use modifiers quite often, I don’t understand why that would become an issue once you start writing code.
heh, i know a guy that will be having rage-fits of the use of "on-Premise" on their web site...

Premise:

noun
/ˈprɛmɪs/
LOGIC
a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.
"if the premise is true, then the conclusion must be true"
verb
/prɪˈmʌɪz/
base an argument, theory, or undertaking on.
"the reforms were premised on our findings"

Premises:

noun
a house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context.
"the company has moved to new premises"
It seems pretty clear that he’s narcissistic, it’s not like his behavior has all of the sudden changed when he had a shot at being the presidential candidate. So I would say the motive is always to keep the spotlight on him and to bully others. He doesn’t want to be viewed as weak so he’s always on the attack. It’s not some well thought out strategy but it’s working with his base because a lot of them agree with that strategy. It’s the terrible way of thinking that you are manly and strong by picking on others, when in actuality you are insecure. I mean there are a lot of things behind his rise but each party invokes the name of the other party to convey negative feelings. I mean I heard my father call something communist, it actually wasn’t but that word is used by Republicans mean something that is bad. It’s an odd time in US politics, and you can see that the actual Conservative Republicans are stepping aside from their real views and values because it doesn’t matter as long as their team is winning, even if their leader loves Russia and is actively pushing the US towards authoritarianism.

That was sort of a rambling comment, but it’s just so odd to me that hate can be amplified so easily now a days. It’s been good to see the fight for equality lately with BLM, equality is a very American value (despite us needing to go so much further in that regard). But we have a President saying there are good racists out there and how we need to preserve the Confederacy. It makes no sense.
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Holy god that trailer is chilling.
Off the top of my head, I think of nations who have dealt effectively with the current health challenge: New Zealand, South Korea, Germany, etc.
English is the lingua franca of the world and is the basis for the most accurate information in the world.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing that! Can I ask a quick prying question -- who writes these principles and who approves them over on your end?

Effectively trying to gauge - is it grassroots and from the ground up, implemented and vetted by the engineers or is it more top-down "we need a way to align engineering at scale" development?

Mostly wondering about adoption and imagining whether my approach of pushing this into our team is the way to go or if it's worth allowing a collective to determine the working principles. Sorry for all the questions, you sparked my curiosity :)

Cheers!
Premodern society where women were effectively property, where religion dictated their role, where marriage and a woman staying at home were the social norm. You're trying to pretend like social policy is a new thing when the Catholic Church has been controlling the rights of individuals for a very long time. To such an extent that Kings were generally subservient to the Pope. And then those Kings and Queens did actions like the Inquisition where they forced individuals to either convert to Catholicism, be exiled, or be murdered.

History goes through many stages of social belief intertwined with social control. In ancient Rome there was a plant that caused abortions and was so popular it went extinct [1]. However also in ancient Rome, Augustus patronized writers like Virgil to help instil "traditional family values" in the Roman population.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
Fair enough, although in the case of a complex browser-based application, the same problem exists. The "backend" is complex code that happens to run in the browser.
You're not factoring in international trade. Countries are not closed systems.
I think I've had something similar a number of times, like daydreaming while another part of me is disengaged, although in my case not really observing in any active sense just half asleep in a different way :/.

I think this may be related to altered thalamus activity (less relaying) during sleep and meditation.
He's getting up there in age and there needs to be a Musk on Mars.
> My index is failing me here but I recall a paper that had looked into falling birth rates as standards of living increased and found that birth rate correlated strongly with the "cost" of children. The supposition (it really wasn't a theory or even a solid hypothesis) was that as parents became more educated and society's measure of success became more material, the parental effort to provide the "best" for their kids went up.

I think it is pretty clear that humans (like animals generally) are more likely to adopt K strategy (smaller numbers of offspring with higher investment in each) rather than r strategy (larger numbers of offspring with smaller investment in each) in a stable, secure environment, and that this is structurally favored by the environment.

I wouldn't put much weight on the suggestion that either the number or investment piece drives the other, though.
> One way to think about this is what exactly would TikTok have to do to satisfy your accusations of them “manipulating” people?

Set up a subsidiary that's subject to US law and rather than Chinese law and also has majority ownership in America. It's what the China enforces on foreign companies, so fair is fair.

> So should the Chinese just sit out of global economics because they could threaten US dominance and potentially spy on or manipulate US people?

I have no problem with Chinese companies participating in global economics as long as they're not based on stolen technology. Also it's not "potential", this has already happened extensively. China rose to prominence by extensive state funded industrial espionage and US companies were too blinded by greed to counter it. The US needs more laws in place to prevent this type of behavior and more retaliatory action when it's committed.

So many Chinese people I see online seem to think that the US is scared of China becoming more powerful economical or some other nonsense. The US created current Chinese economic prosperity through extensive work by Nixon and others in that era. That was all a massive mistake based on the mistaken idea that if China became more economically powerful they would become more democratic and more freedom oriented. That has failed to be the case and it's time to rethink how the US has handled China historically.
The go2 proposal (as currently implemented) is a source-to-source translator back to go1, so neither in that case.

As for the existing implementation of generic map[K]V, generic []T, chan(T), etc., it's a best-of-both-worlds mix - a kind of erasure (there is only one map implementation in a Go binary) but with a static vtable for accessors without Java's need for boxing - all possible owing to the clever coupling between the runtime and the compiler.

See https://dave.cheney.net/2018/05/29/how-the-go-runtime-implem...
> Especially with all the doom and gloom we've always been fed

Which is still true, if the billion Indians and Billion Chinese start having American lifestyles, that is just not sustainable for the planet.
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Harvard's endowment was not built from undergraduate tuition. 20% of undergrads don't pay tuition, and half pay reduced tuition, anyway. [0] You're correct, though, that Harvard's actions in this situation have nothing to do with a "revenue stream". Occasionally Harvard does the right thing, simply because it's the right thing to do.

[0] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid
You shouldn't assume the worst of your fellows. Life is complicated and there are valid reasons beyond selfishness for people to not want children.
It’s too expensive to have kids and there’s a lot of homosexuality plus some people don’t want kids. It’s what happens when the government done fucks up
My team has been using this for over a year. It's been my favorite answer for this problem-space. I love the self-hosted part (which means I also get backups I can trust). It's trivial to put inside a VPN for added security. It's security reviews were good and built on standard tools (so maybe if PB is dead I could recover outside?). Just save the key you download when you setup or your hosed!

Which reminds me, I've been meaning to make a plain-text archiver for this -- to print out secrets and put them in my safe.
I attribute this to anti-social tendencies rising due to technology addiction. People are getting worse at social interaction. When you spend so much time in front of a screen, it has to have some effect on your ability to socialize.

That's my take anyway.
I have to agree. I think the current baseline of not publicly expressing bigotry and being respectful of others' feelings is a pretty good one.

On the other hand, bigotry is conditioned and spreads from person to person. Some people grow up with it and change later in life.

If you are at any point caught expressing it publicly, you can be tarred and feathered for life and never be able to find a job again, even if you change your views.

Neither ideal, nor tolerant.
Nice. But I want the application for the satellite transceiver. I can see their signal but I'd like to be able to demodulate them too.
There’s no shortage of media and news out there talking about the joys of being child free in your 40s, how much more fulfilling a good career and vacations are than being burdened with children who’ll impede promotions and take up your free time, how having kids is the worst possible thing for the environment and so on.
Centrist does not mean right-wing, nor does it mean just mixing both political extremes.
Yeah, the two are connected, for sure.
Perhaps there's some truth to what you say if we consider couples who choose not to have kids at all. However, I think the cases that choose to have just one or two children are more common than those who choose not to have kids at all. I think financial situation better explains why people would stop at one kid rather than 3.
The good: a lower total population is good for climate change. Additionally, humans can focus on living in the most habitable, productive areas, improving per capita efficiency.

The neutral: day-to-day things are unlikely to be affected much. Fewer farmers, but fewer mouths to feed. This applies to most consumables.

The mildly negative: for knowledge intangibles, a lower total population means a lower number of scientists, entrepreneurs, etc. Perhaps substantially less. Apex projects that take a substantial proportion of the world's capital and labor (e.g. colonies on Mars) become a lot harder, with many becoming impossible. This is somewhat counteracted by most countries becoming richer and more educated.

The disastrous: older societies where each person working has to support multiple other people are sclerotic societies. A society where younger workers have to pay taxes 2x higher than they do today, to support a bunch of old people who already own all the housing and capital stocks? That's a society that I'd move away from in a hurry, regardless of if I'm old or young. I'm going to have to encourage any kids I have to study Yoruba.

This is one of those huge issues on par with climate change, but people mostly don't care or think about it. I'm not sure what governments can do about it. At some point I want to study Israeli demographics and fertility more, as it's the only country I know of that has maintained a high TFR (>2.1) even in its secular populations.
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Those issues can be solved by immigration and by immigration, respectively.
get over our bigotry against female genital mutilation, honor killings, and acid attacks. got it.
B-52

First flight: 15 April 1952; 68 years ago

Introduction: February 1955

Status: In service
Its concerning that this article closes with the idea that "migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option."

There are multiple factors that limit population density, most important of which is access to space and clean water. The fact that a professor from London, with a population density of over 10,000 people per square kilometer [1] is advocating for continued growth is odd.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_p...
I wasn't making a normative statement. You can form your own opinion on what you prefer