skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very insightful. I have considered another, somewhat related idea: to sample a news / media site, over the course of time. The idea would be to illustrate how news bubble up and down in priority. It would for example be interesting to follow how a somewhat big but also controversial piece of news would be bumped down in priority as other news are added on top. As I understand, the news home pages changes very frequently to attract people to come back soon to see "what is new". This can have the effect that you miss out on something significant because it is already bumped down.

In the old days, when news was printed on paper, you would have one front page per day. I have no idea how many front pages there are per day now but probably dozens if not hundreds of variants, where only after some hours the biggest news is no longer the biggest.
Ok, don't know where I got that. Looking again, I see an average of a halving of total solar flux from space to sea level.

Mars is 144M miles from the sun, average. The earth is ~100M. That's a difference of about 1.44:1 which puts the inverse-square reduction due to different distances at 2:1.

What does that mean? Mars solar flux is about the same as Earth at sea level. So expect similar solar panel efficiencies.
Although the generated personas are caricatures by design, this is a great example of persona development and user segment branching.

Great website with excellent design that provides a thoughtful exploration of the youtube's online "echo chambers".
Being as optimistic as I can without being an idiot: it’s abundantly clear that they are still farting around with welding techniques, but in a complex project of this scale, somebody is always running behind schedule, and if it’s something new, then lots of people are (I worked on support software for the 787, and even among our cohort, my division was the only one that was only slightly behind schedule) and sometimes it’s enough for those people to be sort of scaffolding for everyone else.

If Conway’s Law has any flex in it, you bend the mandate of each group to shift some of their responsibilities to teams that are getting better results and eventually something ships. I suspect this is how they get anything done. It might even be their organizing principle, a sort of self organizing system.

The same might be true for SpaceX, I couldn’t say. What we do know is that they just accepted delivery of welding robots, and I don’t know if that was Plan A all along or they’ve given up on training people to consistently make a clean bead that’s 53 ft long.
Generally it's the photosensitive layer between the plastic and the reflective foil that goes bad.

You can have the reflective layer delaminate, but CD-R bit rot usually has no observable physical changes.
> Security/privacy and freedom are at odds these days.

They don’t have to be; it’s just that this is the option we have right now.
I never feel like I am in this group, but maybe it's because I frequently search out opinions, views, and beliefs I may not agree with, and add them to my algorithmic considerations.
> vacuum back the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

For what it's worth, it apparently is much easier to scrub CO2 from sea water than from atmosphere.
>Low birth rates may be exacerbated at the moment by the economy, but people's preference for their careers and the quality and availability of modern entertainment (why raise kids when you can travel, binge watch shows on Netflix, play video games, etc.) are more probable causes

Your comment fits your name, it is callous, lacking empathy and painfully out of touch. The idea that Netflix is the reason people aren't having kids in simply absurd...
After 40 years I sometimes nail entire paragraphs. I hope to write for slashdot by the time I'm 200.
The actual reactive core is safer, it cannot meltdown, but we don't know much about the support systems just yet. With all that energy running through the magnets, the pressures involved in the contemplated energy collection system, there is a potential for catastrophic failure modes. A steam explosion isn't nuclear bomb but can still kill. Fusion is safer than fission but I wouldn't yet call it safer than solar panels.
Everyone is always quick to blame their economic hardships as usual when this thread comes up.

The fact is women don't want to reproduce or even be seen with a man <= to them in income, status and education. Women increasingly outdoing men in these three areas is the #1 'problem' here. I've noticed all of the women in my circle who did well in education and are pursuing white collar jobs tend to be permanently single (not that i ask them), they look down on my blue collar peers as stupid even when those men earn more.
I notice the "liberal" link has "leftist" in the URL. Is YouTube so basic, it cannot distinguish the two?
This doesn't get directly addressed in the article, but the problem goes beyond Americans not making babies. It's also a problem with making families.

In 1968, only 7% of parents with a child in the home were unmarried. In 2017, that had risen to 25%. That rise is partly driven by an increase in couples who are cohabiting but unmarried. In 2017, 35% of unmarried parents were cohabiting.

But cohabiting relationships tend to be less stable than married relationships. Whereas about 20 percent of parents married at the time of their child's birth have split up five years later, that jumps to nearly 50 percent for parents who were cohabiting but unmarried at the time of their child's birth.

There are myriad difficulties associated with the decline of stable marriages among parents. There are economic implications. There are implications for child development and outcomes. There are legal implications, particularly with regard to family courts becoming a party to the relationship.

There are tons of policies that influence these trends, but I would argue that paid parental leave, paid medical leave, flexible work schedules, incentives for attending marriage-prep classes and parenting classes, and other social welfare programs have the potential to move the needle.

It's unfortunate that we live in a society where families with minor children are one of the most common household types (making up about 40% of all households) and yet our laws and our employer's policies are so anti-family.

Sources:

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/04/25/the-changing-prof...

https://ifstudies.org/blog/for-kids-parental-cohabitation-an...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242074/percentages-of-us...
It’s housing and education prices that are the real issue. That’s part of the economy, but it’s regulated enough and controlled outside the usual price mechanisms such that it might reasonable to regard the roots of the problem lying outside “the economy”.

We need to reform zoning and build more housing in productive cities near the jobs, and we need to shrink higher education budgets and refocus on what really matters in an education. As a start.
Does it? Is it personal?
Heck, at that biodensity just human body heat would probably boil off the oceans... if the people could feed themselves with nuclear greenhouses underground to avoid the limits of solar insolation.

But the point that economics assumes as a tenet a clearly nonphysical core assumption is a problem. It is weird to me how hard it is to find academic literature on this.

I guess they all figure it's either a problem that's so long term it's presumptuous to try to solve it so early on, that the definition of "growth" will just change to make it always true, or the math is just hard. My guess is the first two to be honest, they're plenty smart when it comes to math... just not always making realistic models.
butter and guns
Unbound, while working 8 hours a day on your computer? That's not exactly quality family time.
I was smoking the most around the time I was most fit and did a lot of sport. I learned to smoke in the sports club. And drink too and swear a lot too.

People who do sports are no puritans.
HN/Reddit folks like to believe that there is a meaningful constituent of flat-earthers for one simple pernicious reason - they want an unassailable punching bag. Maybe people should spend less time looking for a perfect vessel to fill with only righteous rage. "Flat earthers" are not looting your public library. "Flat earthers" are not shaping education policy. You only fantasize that any of this is true so your endless anger can be framed as being moral.
Do You Know Python Has a Built-In Database?
If a person has some interesting Github activity (that they can back up) I would certainly discuss it with them. If I'm hiring for a Django developer and the candidate has contributed to the Django core or a related library, that would be a strong signal - but it should not be a requirement. A strong candidate is typically a mixture of good work history, side projects, hobbies and interests, personality and other things that indicate they would be a good fit for your team. How much and in what way depends on the job and the person. Maybe the startup company needs a person who does lots of side projects, builds stuff on their own etc because you need self-starters that don't require lots of hand holding and are ready to take the initiative to learn. On the other hand your 1000-strong engineering subdivision at big corp needs more heads-down 9-5ers who just produce reliable output. Maybe the things you ask a junior dev out of college are different to what you would ask a mid-career developer. There's no one size fits all approach that people seem to be looking for.
There's certainly enough evidence to suggest this is now true.
Windows or Ubuntu?
There really is no “other side” to many of these. You won’t find a community of lunatics making 340min-videos about “round earth”, except maybe NASA. And the opposite of a far-right racist isn’t a far-left anything, but a regular person that just happens not to be racist.
IIRC, dark matter is supposed to be a different kind of matter that interacts "less than normal" with ordinary matter.

Or is there a version in which it's ordinary matter, just "hidden" by something or in some exotic "other dimension", black hole or parallel universe thingy?
I think it would benefit you to read more about what can be considered an anti-trust issue: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Sadly, the true mathematical opposite of a good, politically-slanted video in recommendation feature-space, probably isn’t one that is good and politically-slanted in the other direction; but rather, one that’s both apolitical and very bad.

To a recommender model, the clusters for “left-wing” and “right-wing” content aren’t on opposite ends of the feature cloud; they’re likely very close neighbours.

A recommender algorithm would have to be a lot smarter to realize that some particular neighbouring cluster has an adversarial (i.e. “watching X makes you less likely to watch Y, without that just meaning that X and Y are redundant”) relationship with the one it’s looking at.
They were convinced to be cult members, as consenting adults, rather than having it imposed on them as minors by a parent, is my reading.

Later, they gained some perspective and realized it was not in their interest to stay.
Anyone who is single should read this as advice and a warning to you.

Almost the exact same here. My wife has trouble with technology. Luckily her job is not tech related.

On an hourly basis, she makes more than me but only works part time. She watches the kid during my workday, then I watch the kid on the evenings and weekends while she works or does hobbies. She does not contribute to our bills but spends her money on hobbies like horse related stuff. She spends more on her hobbies every month than I do on the mortgage. I had to give up many of my hobbies to support us, like the Camaro that I used to do track days with.

I do all the cooking, baking, shopping, handyman work, mechanic work, yardwork, etc. She does most of the laundry, vacuuming, and dishes.

She also refuses to move to a lower cost area. I hate my job, so lower expenses could help me retire earlier or find a lower paying job. We both want land, especially for her horse. We could afford land if we moved.
My parents went through hell to make it to America. They wanted their kids to have a better life. If I want the same for my kids, I will have to move to a country that offers a better life for my future children, likely one in western Europe. I won't have kids here. There are solutions to some problems, though they are unlikely to be implemented: universal healthcare, cheap daycare, free university, good education. But culture is unfixable: the anti-intellectualism, entitlement, and superiority complex, helicopter parenting and lack of freedom, lack of community, extreme hate (like racism or misogyny but not limited to those), etc. These two sets of problems make having a child in America a completely unappealing. Even if the former set of issues is solved by making a ton of money (the only current way to solve them on an individual basis), the issue of culture is intractable. Unfortunately, many countries have such intractable cultural issues that makes the idea of raising children there abhorrent. Some make the idea of living there abhorrent.
Honestly I really like Youtube's recommendation algorithm. I'm a car guy and so most of my Youtube consumption is in car culture. I think the key to living with it is not to block it and avoid it at all costs, but rather to understand what the underlying algorithm is doing (broadly speaking).

It's funny that once I became a software developer (frontend specifically), things like dark patterns and other UI features that try to keep users on the app is very interesting to me. I will never put something like that in my own code but it's still interesting to pick up dark patterns out of every day apps we use (Instagrams "slot machine of dopamine" is one that comes to mind)
Not OP but one common example of this is staying where you live. Sure you /technically/ could move to a different country but there are a truckload of social and economic factors that keep you "stuck" in your current country. So you're stuck by choice.
On the contrary, history teaches us that exactly that kind of "disappearing" is where we're headed if we don't do something to change our trajectory. Perhaps it's hyperbole, but that doesn't justify your insults.
> IMO bite the bullet, over hire and then collect the cream based on evaluation

That sounds at the least unethical and perhaps illegal in some countries. You're messing with people's lives, their ability to pay their mortgages, support their children, and other commitments they might have. While hiring mistakes sometimes happen, you should not be using firing as a tool to make your hiring more cost effective.

And I also think word would get around pretty quickly not to apply to companies who did this. Per the article we are already making lists of who uses ineffective whiteboard tests. I very much doubt any company wants to be on the list of "hires you and then fires you instead of doing effective interviews".
Except apple's marginal cost like 0.
Please don't do this. This idea has spread ad nauseum through copywriting, sales, marketing and product management teams.

Whenever I visit a product page these days, I have no idea what it does. It's trying to tell me how much better it'll make my life instead.

Just be direct and stop playing games.
I am surprised to see Joshua Schachter only mentioned once throughout this entire thread. I loved the story of how he started Del.icio.us from essentially nothing. He was one of my heroes at the time.
This does not match my experience. I live in an average cost-of-living area and know lots of large families (3+ kids) living off a single income, sometimes in the $12-15/hour range. Life is challenging for them but not impossible.

What does "In order to keep up" mean, exactly?
Not saying it's exactly the same situation, but Stripe keeps their fees when you refund a payment
It's nuts. Living in a big US city, with two young kids, daycare alone for them is $5k/month - so that's about $100k of pre-tax income, not to mention probably $2k/month extra spent on a larger apartment than we'd otherwise need.

We can afford it, but think of what this does to the income gap and GDP. If either of us made less than $100k/year, it'd make sense for one of us to stop working for a while to look after the kids. This means that already well off people have a big advantage of being able to have a double income, while that's denied to everyone else.

It feels like COVID makes this even worse - at least daycare is only a few years before public school takes its place. With that gone, kids need full time care for longer. Does this mean we'll see people dropping out of the workforce in big numbers? What does that mean for recovery?

How do other places and countries manage it?
Apple is taking a cut for providing the store itself, distribution, visibility, SDKs/frameworks, etc. Why would they refund 30%?
Yeah but if you get contradictory messages it'll make like watching both videos feel like a waste of time. Which it is. :( sad for profits.
What's a fruitarian?
Thanks for flagging my comment, thus proving my point exactly.
See this post: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=187087&curpost...
Stop spreading lies about Ulbricht.
Economy of Mechanism vs. Defence in Depth
It's a pretty digital brush but hardly generative. Calling the output generative art is like calling a melody played by a single preset synthesizer running through a delay unit generative music.
Academia is not without its downsides. The road to tenure sucks and generally pays peanuts compared to industry. It's not for everyone.

More importantly, those were just examples. Replace teaching with running a bookstore or tending to a community garden or living on a sailboat in the Med and all of a sudden, professorship isn't nearly as desirable. You can always find someone to teach after a long career in industry, no need to lock yourself into academia. :)
It is a fact that as men and women become more educated and start earning greater incomes, they have fewer offspring. This trend has been observed on every continent.

Greater incomes give one access to more of the finer things in life, which distracts from family planning. For better or worse.
Y-shaped Grace Hopper subsea cable, linking the U.S., U.K. and Spain
Civilization short-selling + DIY.
I'm surprised and disappointed that was the prevailing culture in Germany, which is famous for its engineering culture; I guess that's limited to mechanical engineering?

The British microcomputer boom had a huge boost from a classic "dirigiste" state direction, involving the BBC producing a TV series to educate the public and a matching computer to work along at home with. That led to Sophie Wilson being hired straight out of Cambridge to produce it, and ultimately to ARM.
Unpopular comment ahead.

We need people to pay taxes and provide services for the young and the elderly. In general, that requires a high trust environment. Wholesale importation of immigrants without a plan to integrate them into the environment is not a high trust environment. One (very probable) outcome is the large community of unintegrated immigrants will detach from the responsibilities being placed on them. At which point we also haven’t solved the demographic problem that immigration is supposed to solve.
Well, if the employer finds out you violated your employment contract in this manner they could sue you, or perhaps even the other party that paid you. But IANAL, I'm just saying that contracts forbidding side jobs are not unheard of.
Xcode doesn’t emulate anything, it runs the entire iOS userspace as native processes on top of the macOS kernel.
There are many unemployment rates. Generally speaking, the unemployment rate that we are talking about in this thread is 'What percentage of people who are actively looking for jobs can't find jobs?'

Getting it to zero does not require any forced employment, or any restraints on geographic mobility, or babushkas with home scales weighing you for five kopeks at the entrance to the Leningradski railway terminal.
Well it depends. People can have lots of hope for the future without wanting children. And even in that case, low fertility can be bad for the economy (at least medium term).
Yes, by self-selection of visitors.
The only Mormon that I know reasonably well has five kids, so they're at least doing their part.

The main thing I've noticed among my peer group is that the more "career-oriented" you are, the fewer kids you're going to have. For those people it seems to come down to a decision that the expenses of kids outweigh any benefits.

Whereas the less well off people I know tend to have larger families because you're never going to have enough extra money for it to matter anyway, so why not have more kids and enjoy them.
I'm sure it's unintentional, but to reach a 50% number, your comment perhaps lumps together two groups that are worth treating separately:

(a) Persons who oppose large-scale immigration in general. Some of whom (perhaps a majority) oppose it for reasons you abhor: racism, cultural elitism, etc.

(b) Persons who oppose only illegal immigration. Some (most?) of whom do so for reasons entirely unrelated to racism or cultural elitism.

People sometimes refuse to differentiate (a) from (b), perhaps on the assumption that most persons espousing (b) are actually using it as a fig leaf for (a).

Personally, I'm in (b-not-a), and it's very frustrating to discuss the topic with people who refuse to believe that I'm arguing in good faith.
I don't think write is in the works.
What does everyone think of Shellenbergers apology for climate alarmism? (Apocalypse Never) It showed up in that category.
116 Organizations Driving Change
Someone who only eats fruit.
Wasn't it estimated to be 90%?
You can also use a very basic rule in, say, uBlock Origin to hide the sidebar completely: youtube.com###related
There is no contradiction between "choice" and "not rational". Choices are often emotional, irrational, fear based, inertia based or result of perceived lack of choices.
neat, I missed that when I saw the website earlier
the old-school nerds that get celebrated like this are mostly all assholes. building cool things doens't make you a nice person.
Having kids generally doesn’t work out in terms of numbers but that’s not the point. It’s more of a deep existential reason, then economic utility.
You probably have already thought about this—and it is a bit of a derail—but it seems to me that a "veriface" service that provides attestations, or some combination of verifications, as to the accuracy with which a photo represents someone could be useful.

"Yeah, that's him… 10 years ago."
>men and women become more educated and start earning greater incomes, they have fewer offspring

How can you get this close

>Greater incomes give one access to more of the finer things in life, which distracts from family planning

And still come to the wrong conclusion.

I promise you that high school dropouts with 5 kids are watching more netflix and playing more video games than a couple with graduate degrees from Stanford.