skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One overlooked aspect of all this is the evangelism around birth rate reduction that happened in the 20th century. My family actually came to the US because my dad got caught up with these folks, who worked hard to reduce the number of brown people being born around the world. In many ways the effect was positive—in my home country the birth rate dropped from 5.7 the year I was born to a sustainable 2.0 today. In my part of the world this was seen as a necessary step towards economic development and modernity.

What I realized over the years, though, was there was an ideological underpinning to it. Frankly it’s deeply disquieting—we had a party the other day with some of my dad’s family work friends, and someone asked whether we’d have a fourth child. One lady got very uncomfortable at the idea and muttered something about family planning (even though we’re rich and could easily afford another kid). It’s as if they are drawn to small families in and of themselves, not means as a means to practical ends.

This ideology has now been exported all over the world, even to societies that are historically natalist and family oriented. The birth rate in Japan and Korea of course has plummeted. But birth rates among Asian Americans is also abysmally low, despite their affluence.
I got hired from one about 8 years ago. It was cool.
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Same here, in the last 18 months 2 different VAG cars have hauled the anchors on for no reason at all with me driving. Fortunately, I wasn't in traffic, but both cases would absoulutely have caused an unnecessary crash if there had been a car behind me. This technology will be great when it's ready, but the false positive detection rate is massively higher than would be acceptable.
I'm not sure how exactly it works, but for my Hyundai at least it doesn't seem to be "you will hit this if you do nothing", the alerts generally pop up if I'm actively accelerating. Maybe if I got closer it'd kick in, I've just never heard the alarms when I'm already slowing down (but should be doing so faster).
A high-visibility vest worn while walking on the side of a road is sometimes all that it takes to activate it. :)
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Was this the one?

uPlot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23045207
I got hired to be an analyst for a MLB baseball team off of a HN post like 7 years ago. Because of HN I have 2 world series rings! Life is very strange but I'll forever be grateful for that Who's Hiring post.
Sure, everyone pays taxes. I'm pretty well set and I'm still not sure I'll ever pay enough in taxes to cover one of those famous US hospital bills.

Then again, it should be matter of at least a majority agreement that things like that should be paid from taxes, and it's obvious that in the US the agreement is not there.
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E.g. ISPC can compile for multiple targets at once. The runtime system selects the best compatible implementation for the machine running the code.
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> And then the passenger behind can take that space from the person behind them, etc. I don't see the issue.

Then why not leave them all reclined, and not have a button? The only way that everyone has equal space is if everyone agrees to keep their seat in the same position.

I think the point of this article is that the airlines are using the button as marketing, but it has only caused problems not only between customers that don’t agree in which position to use, but also for the flight attendants that have to deal with the resulting drama.
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> The organization of the stuff in between really just becomes a question of standardizing function signatures and organizing modules so humans can easily navigate them.

That’s one impressive load-bearing “just” you have in there..
survival rates are a pretty bad metric because you can easily change them by changing the amount of screening without making people live longer or healthier. when you compare cancer mortality rates, the US is not doing well.
“Average” GDP per capita doesn’t tell you how “rich” the individuals are.

You should look at the median income per capita. Berlin ranks lower there than other federal states and cities.

Look for example here where it ranks 318 out of 400. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Landkreise/Kreise_...
All good. Generics are too new in Go for it to land.
that was a follow-up. the first one was in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207132
I think when you are specifically the government and will definitely refuse to sell the land, the line is a little grayer.
Karl Marx was right all along.
I know mine is camera-based. The car does not have adaptive cruise control, so no radar, just front parking sensors - but those are probably just used for the "the car ahead of you has started moving!" warning, which is the exact opposite of AEB.
I really love negotiating. I also like knowing the budget a position has been assigned.

Obviously salary means you're getting paid less than the value you contribute so then it becomes a matter of squeezing more value out of the position or adding more value than advertised?

I've interviewed candidates. They come in every skill set. Some under value themselves while others. We've been given a max budget of $150k. What do you do when an amazing candidate who could replace a dozen current employees only wants $180k?
They can't wait for every employee to quit. Helps them pay less severance on the thousands of firings Zuckerberg loves to do. Makes him more billions in stock value.
I hope it didn't burn down.
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That is an entirely different concept. The sponsorship of art in the country is different than sponsorship of art outside the country. Secondly the sponsorship is done by private individuals instead of a government or military order. CIA cannot be operating in the US and it is a govt institution.
I already have one running on my phone: https://mlc.ai/mlc-llm/
I dislike golang the least among languages I have to code.

I generally don't like any programming language after I have tens of thousands of lines of it written
It does really feel like the cat is out of the bag that producers anywhere in the supply chain of housing and food realized they could do whatever they want and we can all suck wind. Every significant expense I have is up more than 40% in the past two years.
Yeah, Brave New World is a really interesting work of dystopian fiction IMO, because many people disagree that it's "dystopian", unlike 1984 which it's often compared with. No one thinks living in the world of 1984 sounds appealing, but BNW sounds like a pretty nice place actually, but the anti-BNW crowd tries to tell us it's horrible because it's "unnatural" or "against family values" or something like that. Meanwhile, in the real world today, many families are completely broken (and many were in Huxley's time too, except they didn't get divorced, they just suffered), the marriage rate has gone down, the birthrate is unsustainably low, and young people frequently aren't even having sex any more, leading many to be isolated and depressed. Personally, I fail to see how adopting a BNW-style society could possibly be any worse than what we have now; indeed, it seems like a huge improvement in most ways.
I've worked at a place where the core system was still 10% or so assembly (it was written in the 1970s). I'm not sure if it needed much modification but it was absolutely business critical.
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No, because the business analysts aren’t making anything.
I know it's the Economist, but it would be great if it could at least contemplate some of the benefits of a shrinking population:
- less people, therefore less competition for houses, therefore lower house prices
- less urban sprawl, more nature reserves
- less cars, less traffic
- less farming, therefore less competition with native animals for land

It might even lead to a (long-awaited) increase in real wages if there is more competition for workers ... oh wait, AI will take care of that.
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That's not going to happen, though.

Population growth will continue whether you're having children or not. Western economies are Ponzi schemes and the ones needing your votes know it. You may not have any kids, but there are millions of Africans, Indians, and Chinese ready and willing to flood your country, and there are politicians only too eager to see them pouring across undefended borders. Some of these countries are seeing 9+ births per woman; there will be no shortage of new people to replace your non-existent grandchildren.

The solution would require some degree of ethnonationalism, else how do you argue against this policy? From a "we are all the same" viewpoint, it is unremarkable if Canada is 100% ethnically Indian and Chinese in 200 years; if Britain and Australia are African colonies; if America is... American. The very thought of racial discrimination in immigration, however, is totally unpalatable and unconscionable to most Westerners, and thus there is still no solution.

Your descendants' positions will be filled. There is no depopulation fantasy in the West's future. There can only be replacement.
We might end up with a new character set like gpt-utf-8 or something, offers at least some watermarking capabilities
I don't think the data supports your hypothesis, at least if we're talking recent declines in rich countries from their prior levels and not trying to answer "why does the US have a lower birth rate than Mauritania".

Birth rate declines in the US in the past 15-20 years have been entirely among the poor. Among the higher-income they've been basically stable.

Here's a simple chart: https://www.statista.com/statistics/562541/birth-rate-by-pov...

From 2005-2021, the change in birth rates by group:

Below poverty level - down 25%

Income 100-199% of poverty level - down 15%

Income 200%+ of poverty level - up 2%.
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That is a well known issue, same with it not remembering the play area so you have to recalibrate every single time. The Quest software is just an absolute buggy mess
The hygiene hypothesis makes sense wrt/ potential allergens, less so a "we should let our kids catch every virus under the sun because air quality standards sound annoying to care about"
How do I make sure the words you've typed weren't corrected with spell check?
how your experience with Odin so far? How Odin differ from Zig in your opinion? What you likes/dislikes compared to Zig or other languages?
This is a solved engineering problem domain: use redundancy. There's a reason air travel is safe despite using many intricate safety technologies.
I mean, there were UI changes. Could be just that.
Incredible that there's not even a mention of monetary policy.

Are they proposing that corporations suddenly became greedy in 2020? During previous periods of low inflation, did they congratulate those corporations for their altruism in keeping prices low?

Money is subject to the same laws of supply and demand as everything else, and when there's more of it, it's less valuable.
Yup mine too and on top of that everything has gotten smaller and shittier in quality too.

I really wish they would have met the banks collapse. That would have done wonders for fixing this inflation. Nope us wage slaves will continue to lose.
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The authors' own conclusion seems to directly contradict your overall argument here:
"Implications for practice
The totality of evidence now supports the benefits of statins for
primary prevention. The individual patient data meta-analyses
now provide strong evidence to support their use in people at low
risk of cardiovascular disease. Further cost-effectiveness analyses
are now needed to guide widening their use to these low risk
groups."

And as haldujai mentioned this is explicitly regarding their use for primary prevention, not with regards to usage for secondary prevention which has strong supporting evidence.
Competition is supposed to drive prices down to the equilibrium level. Why is it not happening? Are produces colluding to fix prices? Why new players are not entering the market to take advantage of higher prices?
Haha, if we are talking about the final outcome of zero population, of course the cities are empty. But until then, there is still some way to go. And I am pretty convinced people will flock together in cities instead of withering away lonely in the countryside.
A related question which I'm curious about: Suppose you own a well-diversified investment portfolio, work a job, and consume a relatively typical mix of goods and services -- what's the point (e.g. a ratio of how much you have in equities to how much you spend per month) where the "typical" margin-increasing price hike benefits you overall? In other terms, if this pattern of behavior results in a transfer from consumers to owners, what kinds of people are at the equilibrium point, where your lost purchasing power from price increases is exactly matched by increased value of one's investments caused by fatter margins?
I’m not sure why you think I’m lying, or why it’s so unbelievable that we’ve hired at least 10 engineers from HN? It’s true, and fairly easy to verify too.
Viral reactivation and basically everyone nowadays having a compromised gut microbiome are definitely two large factors in many chronic health conditions.
It doesn't upset me and that's exactly what I think may well happen because it has happened like that many times before with other people.
I share your sentiment but the reality is that many remote calls are recorded.
Indeed, the actual buying of land in a checkerboard like this with this obvious intent is the most cynical, greedy thing, and I assume the only reason the government sold them the land in that pattern in the first place is because the rules allowing that were written by someone in the pocket of the folks looking to do this practice.
I can see the value of writing an emulator, but what was the benefit of translating from machine code to assembly instructions?
I strongly disagree. You are not the only person on the road, you are creating risk for other drivers and pedestrians every time you drive.

Vehicle regulation should be based on the overall safest option, not 'dignity' or freedom or individualism anything like that.
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Not complicated
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> Sending the bill to the government just means that we all pay it through taxes

Yes that is not a surprising caveat, that is the point. It's fairer to everyone, in my opinion, and in practice in many countries. I understand it's not that simple in the US but the concept of spreading the cost across everyone's taxes is the same. That is what insurance is afterall, and people seem to be fine with that.
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This may be in part by evolutionary pressure. I don't have the link anymore, but I was reading that many species have an evolutionary limit to population size - and you would think it wouldn't apply to humans, but it may.

The thought goes that as humans' biological needs for survival are better met, the reproductive needs trend downward.
So do you have to replace the explosive even if you don't end up crashing?
Classical vector machines (think Cray) had flexible vector sizes. But eventually they were buried under a tide of consumer processors, which were fundamentally scalar. Then as these machines took over the world, they had to go into every niche, so the MMX style “fixed length vector instruction” was invented, for CPUs that might have to do some math while still fitting into that paradigm.

RISC-V also has the P extension, which follows this pattern. It will be very cool if RISC-V proves flexible enough to really enable a resurgence of classic vectors though.
Many do though. Could have checked for that.
I do not trust this article.

> 5 / to bring one’s hand toward one’s mouth without quite touching it
Modesty. A gesture of eloquence employed by the great orators of antiquity.

AFAIK, this is the wrong explanation. The gesture is still in use today in Italy, and its meaning is different.
How about you output in Spanish, then google translate to English?
Sure .. after the land parcels and ennumeration scheme had already been laid down .. and not limited to rail grants - there was a general US pattern of checkerboarding all land grants to disperse development.

The foundational aspect to the question posed is that land was gridded in abstract from afar before any aportions were made, a secondary aspect was that in some regions large tracts of those squares were initially granted to various railroads on an "every second large chunk" basis, another aspect was that in the days of open cattle grazing early land cattle barons realised they didn't have to own land to graze on it and they could control access to unowned land by only paying for surrounding land or for "chokepoint" land in rough terrain.

A 'final' aspect to the story is the creation of the US National Parks movement which started a wave of "freezing" as yet unsold land as permanently held as not for private use.

A key point is that the Land Grant Act of 1850 granted checkerbordered land to railroad companies within at most 50 miles of planned rail routes .. however that practice wasn't limited to rail grants - Tribal lands were also checkerboarded by the Dawes Act and public land was released on a checkerboard basis.

You can see the checkerboard ownership even in early cattle country that had no history of railroad grants - the large squares were the unit of sale and typically the early sales were for homesteads in the midst of unclaimed land with the next sale not being "right next door" but for another homestead block in the midst of unclaimed land.

It's the appeal of owning your house, shed, assets, yards, etc. while not having to pay to own the land your cattle are moved through for seasonal pastures.

Eventally all land would presumably have been purchased .. but the National Parks started freeing things up.

There's more on this (but not the complete picture) in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
You're so close.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
> Is it really that hard to understand why people don't get the hype around a Jackson Pollock or Voice of Fire?

I'm going to speculate OP is correct here. Engineers do get persnickety when faced with sufficient ambiguity and messy historical context. Visual arts have both, and fear of the unknown isn't at all a weird default position for humans.
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