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There's difference between employment and actually doing work. A lot of us keep busy with something and get paid for that even. But that doesn't mean that that something holds a lot of value.

We've just seen big silicon valley companies go through the process of shedding 10-20% of their work forces; more in some cases. Seemingly without consequence. Reason: most of those people are busy but not with something that is particularly valuable or productive.

Basically before the industrial revolution, you worked to scrape together a living. Most work was related to food production (farming). The idle were rounded up and put to work typically. The only people not working were the aristocracy. Then the industrial revolution happened and a lot of people started working in factories. Early on this was dangerous and a hard life. It's only with the socialist movements of people rebelling against that things like a five day work week became common. Saturday used to be a working day in most places. Also things like retirement and time off became a thing. And the 40 hour work week.

Basically as worker productivity increased (through automation), less and less people work in food production or anything else that is essential. Since the seventies, we've actually outsourced a lot of production to cheap labor countries. Most of us neither work in production nor food production anymore but in the service industry. Few of us actually even have the skills to produce anything.

The logical conclusion of AI, automation is not idleness. But just busying ourselves with increasingly more frivolous and less essential things for increasingly less time. We'll need to do something with our time. But the value of that is a very loose notion. Having more time to spend basically means there is more money on spending time on each other. Arts, artisanal foods, whatever seems fun/interesting/entertaining.
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The creation of value is derived from consumption of that value, no? If something is created and has value then someone will be a consumer of such, increasing spending. If something of value is created and no one consumes that it's an oxymoron.

Creation of value only exists through spending. If money is more valuable later I will hold onto my money for longer instead of spending, velocity of money goes down, less money being traded hands mean more people are less willing to part with their money to invest in some value-creation as that's riskier than holding onto cash that will be more valuable in the future. Rinse and repeat.
> populations fall until the pressures causing suppressed reproduction ease

The problem is a falling population exacerbates those stresses. The economy crunches, anti-immigrant and right-wing forces gain power; the older population won’t vote to nix their benefits in favour of younger people, so either the system veers towards collapse or someone takes away their votes.
> Rust Ownership and Lifetime rules aren't really that hard to learn.

What’s hard is not to learn the rules themselves, but to build things under the constraints of these rules. That turns out to be very different, because even though the rules are simple, they have knock-on cumulative downstream effects on the process of making software. My guess is it doesn’t fit well with how most people think, and especially the order in which a problem is broken down (such as front-loading ownership decisions).
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Norway here. I got laid off, but it was less of a deal because I was on my way out soon anyway, so it really worked out nicely. I got a new position relatively quick (relatively, because everything slows down near the end of the year.)

I think that the strong US dollar has put a bit of a damper on companies that have diverse cash flows in different currencies, my former employer included, particularly if their bills are denominated in dollars primarily. My new employer is international, but where I will work probably has a lot of cash flow in the local currency, so I presume things will be influenced by interest rate policy here (which stands at 2.75% now and rate hikes have slowed down significantly.)
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That's correct. However, I've tried to use prune now, not sure if I am using it correctly, but that's why I do:

I build my packages regularly (not pruned), then I prune with scope "backend". Apparently the pruned directory contains node_modules with empty packages, not sure what reason is for that; I just ignored it. In the resulting directory I then run `pnpm install --prod`. Only the regular dependencies will be installed. I think this is enough for my usecase. I am not sure if prune is supposed to be used for this approach though.
From what I've seen the CPU/ALU/decode at the center being ARM or x86 may make less difference than you think. The amount of circuitry and silicon area (correlated with power) for non core is significant. MMUs, vector instructions, complex cache hierarchy, high speed IO (DDR, pcie, you name it) extremely complex network on chip (infinity fabric) to enable cpu interconnectivity, etc. Is very significant. Look at the IO die size vs the CCD size. As one poster pointed out using chiplets have great advantages, but there is a power hit. Thankfully newer tech is bringing that power down too. I'd love to see a power breakdown of a full chip to see what % is attributed to the cpu core itself.
I would add, if something doesn't work then change it.

This is the one thing that "failed agile" hits against. Large organisations want everyone to use their same crappy Jenkins pipeline. Which means when it keeps breaking then no one can do any work. No one can fix it, and no one is allowed to switch it for a service that isn't down for half a day most days. That isn't "agile".

It derails everything else in the process, what's the point of a retrospective if the most painful parts was because someone has decided outside of the team that you have to use OpenShift for your Kubernetes, but then hires folks who don't know what they are doing and you can't just shift to a managed service until they sort their shit out?

What's the point of standups to get updates if most days people are still stuck on their ticket because the mandated CI pipeline is stuck due to a lack of workers?

I see it in all these complaints about agile, that they don't grasp that they were never given autonomy in the first place. It was always only lip service.
In theory you can go even smaller: a way of measuring output, and a regular retrospective to improve the process. In other words, a feedback loop that improves your process over time.

Of course it would be dumb not to include all the stuff you mentioned at the start, because we've learned from previous projects that it works. Might as well stand on the shoulders of giants. But it's not the absolute, minimal core.

Personally I'm not convinced that "tighten your feedback loop" is good advice, because I interpret it as "shorter measurement intervals", and the shorter they are the more noise there is in the measurement. But the beauty of iterating the process is that we can try it and see if it works.
It’s mainly driven by gender equality I would have thought. The more educated and autonomous women are, the less they tend to have kids. The most fertile years are spent (quite rightly) enjoying life, getting an education and engaging in productive economic activity. It is the clash of culture with biological reality.
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I'm pronouncing it Finned. By the way in your rating component "was this answer better than google" I think you need a - for equal to google.

Reasoning, well my results were equal to google. Also your target audience are technical people, they can handle a more complicate rating process.
Tesla full self driving next year as well?
haha yeah, I see the flag on Neutrogena products, an American company that was bought by J&J in '94
Not relevant, just aesthetics
Probably, just like the Scythians or the Phoenicians... can't really recall a peaceful precedent like that though.

> Bizarre that North Korea would be the only Koreans left on the peninsula.

It is indeed. They seem to be doing slightly better by the numbers but not looking too promising either.
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Are you suggesting the number of focused hours per week can be trained just like running a mile?
what do you mean by component in that question?
I wish that were true; for example, https://www.apple.com/iphone-14-pro/

> A display that’s up to 2x brighter in the sun.

if you click the arrow to look more, it elaborates

> For those bright, sunshiny days, the Super Retina XDR display now reaches a peak of 2000 nits outdoors — that’s twice as bright as before

whereas "up to 2x brighter" ought to mean (according to you, and my wishes) thrice as bright. If you look through the rest of the marketing copy, Apple consistently uses such language.
No no no, it's a Common broker architecture for object requests
Why would anti-immigrant voices gain power with a falling population?
Is there any discussion of impact of savings rate? I am saving with the assumption of having 0 social security. If all stays well, I'll maintain my lifestyle of upper middle class post retirement. My parents did the same, because we actually had 0 social security at their time. We are continuously increasing the efficiency, with improvements in AI/Robotics ... we should be able to reduce the inflation in cost of living.
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I don't have time to read it, but the paper is linked at the bottom of the article.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244778
Nothing new, here...

As we're on a tech oriented website, I am surprised at the purely "sociological/political" perspectives in the comments.
If no significant upheaval in westernized societies (à la "mad max"), the cultural norms won't be changed, so the decline in population won't be fought through social/societal means.

That's why I am rather intrigued by the future technological consequences of all this :

- accelerated automation : some countries might embrace their demographic declien and go all-in (Japan was the model but seems they are stagnating, now...)
- new (technical) challenges about how to deal with more and more old people and less youth to do so ("Roujin Z" is a take on this)
- where are artificial wombs? Seems sooner or later it might become the de facto standard way of having children, in a (not so?) far enough future...
UK has a lot lower % of VC funded startups. Would be interesting to see the stats on that. Most UK IT is directly servicing customers through consultancies or inhouse. UK recession/inflation is bad at the moment, but almost everywhere seems to have a hiring issue as well, which started around Brexit/Covid and has only got worse recently.
If it's an arms race, then the solution should be a strategic education reduction treaty?
while WSL2 is great for what it is it just doesn't compare to working in a linux distro. there are a lot of pain points where external tools wont always work well with WSL.

I also like the productivity customizations posseble in Linux while the same are difficult or impossible on Windows.

of course if your work is tied into the windows eco system having WSL is good to have.
it's not that simple because after a period of massive decline there are fewer people around to even restart the process, even if they magically so desired.
We don't have a solution for the problem. We have some ideas for minimizing it, but the problem isn't going away. Detectors are unreliable. Pay-to-submit sacrifices too many legit authors. Print submissions are not viable for us. Various third-party tools for identity confirmation are more expensive than magazines can afford and tend to have regional holes. Adopting them would be the same as banning entire countries.

We could easily implement a system that only allowed authors that had previously submitted work to us. That would effectively ban new authors, which is not acceptable. They are an essential part of this ecosystem and our future.
>Funny though how it sounds like, per their own admission, McKinsey badly mismanaged running their own internal operation and woke up to realize they need mass layoffs.

Classic example of this is Bain almost going bust during the 1990s. Mitt Romney, who by then had left to start Bain Capital, had to come back to right the ship.
School Apologizes After Using ChatGPT to Write Email About Mass-Shooting
Smaller populations isn't a bad thing, but a rapid declining population is. At a stable birthrate of 2.1 there would be a workforce of approx 60% of the population compared to 20% elderly and 20% minors.

( Assuming productive age is 20-80 and all people die at 100 )

Once you enter a low birthrate of 1 that would mean at some point your workforce could be cut in half and your elderly population could be doubled. Now, 40% of the workforce will end up needing to sustain a 50% elderly population and 10% would be minors. If you're not carefull the loss of capital in the workforce could mean less people desire to have kids in a world that cannot sustain their needs. Leading to a feedback loop that is very hard to get out of.

One way of improving the situation is by cutting back on all non-essential programs for decades in order to stabilise the population at the magical 2.1 number.
I don't understand why you would mention that an email was written using ChatGTP. You're not going to add that it was written using Word, or that you consulted a dictionary, are you?
the fee and payment system used is the same as banning entire countries

that's what the editor said, and that's true.

and decade-old payment solutions work, but would alienate their audience and brand still be too costly for lots of people
In many other countries, immigrants eventually become just as much a part of the country as non-immigrants.

There are millions of children of immigrants in Germany who speak German just as natively as anyone else in the country, just to give you one example.
> it has no good decision problem associated with it.

I disagree. You can efficiently find a k-coloring of any k-colorable graph if you can efficiently decide what graphs are k-colorable.
I am not sure, but I think that even if your drive is full, files will appear. So if it's just temporary might be okay.
> who hastily released Bing's LLM to muted ridicule

…In the tech/hn echo chamber. People who have access that are not technical and that not try to trip it up seem to like it. Don’t think Bing has been used this much since its inception.
I would hazard a guess they are using a water soluble formulation of ivermectin with a very short half life in the body (I didn't know such a thing existed) - since the usual fat hungry types applied subcutaneously or to the skin layer via a suitable solvent / binder like glycerine at 1200 micrograms per kilo is enough to cause significant blood brain barrier issues in animals like dogs. Humans can be slightly more resilient to some chemicals, but given the percentage of poor reaction to a 200 micrograms per kilo dose is similar or comparable between humans and dogs (bar a couple of breeds which are finicky with a small percentage which the dose results in a fatally,) it'd be a brave researcher exposing a test subject (person) to much more than ten times the standard dosage of fat hungry ivermectin formulation.

It's also used to help control malaria, but iirc, it's not antimalarial at standard dose rates.
IMO the main problem is in the very way organisations are structured - it is about power, and people (really meaning management) want to achieve good enough results, given that their control is maintained.
Agile as aesthetics is cool, but actual implementations move power away from management and we can't have that. So we will rebrand project managers to POs and whatever managers to scrum masters, and will follow the rituals as long as they don't get in the way of normal run of things.

Agile was grounded on solid principles, but is very ideologically naive, which allowed its easy cooption by consultants and management.
> Totally agree! But they do care if Word corrupts a document that’s been open for 10 days (a bug that a principal engineer spent many, many weeks hunting down).

Caused by memory corruption, or the remaining 30% of logical bugs present in any safe language?
When I worked on London Underground, we investigated regenerative breaking and found it wasn't worth it for the power savings BUT it was worth it to reduce temperatures on platforms (LU applied a £ value to the comfort of passengers for modelling purposes).

Interesting to see the same fundamental issue at the nano scale...
>In my experience talking to semiconductors folks,

Most, if not all SemiCoductor “folks” I know are very pragmatic. As in how a Real Engineer should be, unlike software engineers. And in my experience, only HN and the Internet are suggesting ARM is dead. Everything will be RISC-V.
Phew, I thought for a second Soylentnews had been acquired.
> I find it harder to wrap my head around the position that GPT doesn’t work, is an unimpressive hyped-up defective product that lacks intelligence and common sense, yet it’s also terrifying and needs to be shut down immediately.

Immediately lost me as a reader. There’s at least 5 reasonable ways you can frame the various opposing or concerned arguments that are consistent but you chose two critiques on purpose to frame an unrealistic imagined hypocritical opponent that’s a mashup of legit critiques designed to look foolish.
what about ...low code software ?
But courts have jurisdiction over their consumer markets, if a court in the US says it's illegal to use non-licenced data for training models and any product doing so can't be used/sold in the US you have lost access to a massive consumer market.

Case in point: GDPR, you can vacuum as much private data as you wish from non-EU citizens, the moment you touch EU-citizen data you must abide by the GDPR or you don't have access to a market of 400+ million of some of the wealthiest countries in the world.

You don't need global jurisdiction when your economical power is large enough.
I have checked out my local area on that London tree map, and it appears to be accurate in details.

True story: Summer 2022 in London was unprecedented and brutal. After weeks of heat without rain, it got worse: there was a day that the temperature reached 41C in July, and only a bit cooler on days on either side. 3 young trees on that map are possibly only alive because I noticed how badly they were doing (leaves all shrivelling up and falling off), and applied water daily until the heatwave was over and they started to grow new leaves.

I wonder what would have happened if those trees had died? How and when is the map updated? These treed are cared for (in as much as they are cared for at all) by the borough council. So the tree data is also collected by them?

1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/jul/19/uk-weathe...
Bringing in younger migrants from countries still growing in population to help look after our elderly is probably the only realistic one (we already do that pretty heavily in Australia despite population growth). At least there's not a problem of space/infrastructure to solve.
Ok so let's look at this from the economical side of things

A, let's say, assembly worker has a maximum production output. In a perfect system, their workload is uniform, and so is their production output. So a 20% increase in work would yield 20% increase in output, and vise versa.

That is obviously not true for a wide range of work that involves thinking - like creative work, many white collar jobs, academia, etc. Your output may not be a linear function of time, and your workload is probably not uniformly distributed across your workday. If you provide value, employers will keep paying you - even though you might only do what seems like bullshit work to others. And it does not matter that you have periods where you do nothing, because in the end - you're producing something, and that's all that maters.

With that said, yes - less hours do simply not translate well into certain jobs, unless you start setting up specific shift rotations.

This is just one variable. What about sick leave? Is that a problem, and how to reduce it? If a 20% decrease in work yields a 60% improvement in sick leaves, that's another important metric to consider.
I think this is very common analysis, and yet, there is likely never a point where having a kid becomes a financially sensible decision, hence we keep putting them off. The ground is never solid, my recommendation is go ahead and reproduce!
Be more insightful then, what's your counter-proposal to that?
> It was all very doable and not useless time spent futzing around (I would also stop tracking my time for any break I took - no exceptions).

I have a similar experience working remotely. I can be productive 40+ hours a week without getting drained.

But this includes making rather long breaks between blocks of work. Usually this ends up in blocks of ~2-3hours with breaks of ~1hour in between. Although this works out my end of work is rather late (typically I work from 8am to 7pm) which leaves little time to do private things.

So in conclusion, although this works out I am looking into reducing my work hours to 30 hours per week to have a bit more time for myself.
Rapidly shrinking populations as a result of low birth rates do the exact opposite of increasing average quality of life. You end up with an entire country full of old people who can't work and an increasingly small number of young people who need to support them, unless you're willing to just throw grandma out on the streets. This concept is known as the dependency ratio, the ratio of dependents to working individuals.
Economic output is a result of work done. In a country with a high dependency ratio, the relatively smaller number of workers need to end up doing much more work to to support the large number of non-working dependents. Essentially, you can either tax your workers to death or let grandma subsist off of cat food. Neither option is really great and the whole situation tends to be stressful and depressing on a societal level.
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> BUT I disagree strongly with this idea that anyone who works more than 30 hours per week is just unproductive. That’s just factually false. With many jobs productivity scales close to linearly long past 30 hours.

Blue collar jobs do scale linearly. Many white collar jobs do not, though self-reportedly.

But linear or not in itself is not a problem. If it is linear for a certain job, then there simply must be more people employed. Which is always a good thing, since our system has a baseline unemployment almost by design. People in unemployment but wanting to work are miserable and usually exploited when they do find work. Some businesses won't be able to be profitable without exploiting their workers, but this has historically happened every time workers gained some rights.
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The summary is buried on page 11 in this sentence:

> There are almost certainly many other large and small, obvious and subtle reasons for the difficulty of learning and using Rust’s Ownership type system, but these three (Rust’s different paradigm, unhelpful error messages, and the incompleteness of the borrow-checker) are the most apparent from the works surveyed here.
Sadly, where I live, this method would produce a gazillion mosquitoes and biting gnats.
> During the Vietnam War era, between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military drafted 2.2 million American men out of an eligible pool of 27 million.

^ college students included
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