Readit NewsIt's a statement of fact, which is neutral on its own.
Where it becomes a right wing talking point (or a discussion about the socio-economic future of a country) broadly comes down to how you present the causes, implications, and necessary actions.
The fact that many more-developed countries having shrinking native populations is a fact that governments must reckon with in some way, and salting the earth on discussing because one faction is trying to exploit it cedes the ultimate policy decisions to them.
abstractbeliefs commented on Classic Data science pipelines built with LLMs github.com/Pravko-Solutio... · Posted by u/galgia
There is, in fact, a large body of work studying classes of problems which are hard to solve but easy to verify. So I'm not sure why this kind of usage is a surprise to so many people.
I'm not sure that source code verification is such a problem. It feels like it's definitely easier to write code to solve a problem than to verify some code written by someone else is correct and fault free.
abstractbeliefs commented on Show HN: Hollow – A Customizable Digital Workspace · Posted by u/ryu-suke
customizability lies in its plugin and theme system, not in modifying the core source code. The goal is to give users complete control over their experience without needing to edit the underlying codebase. You can create plugins to extend functionality, design themes to change its look and feel, and tweak everything to fit your workflow, yet i do understand how important for apps to be open source, therefore i wont guarantee that happening any time soon
It's not one-or-the-other. You can achieve all that customisability without having to edit the code, while also leaving it as an option for those who want to take it further.
abstractbeliefs commented on Show HN: Hollow – A Customizable Digital Workspace · Posted by u/ryu-suke
"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."
No open source, not selling me as a customer.
If you make your entire product about customisation, you're doing me a disservice to not let me adjust the code as suits my needs, asides from the ethical position on free software.
It's like déjà vu all over again, Yogi.
Aug 2023: “UK air traffic woes caused by 'invalid flight plan data'”
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/uk_air_traffic_woes_i... --
(-11 down votes and counting)
The very first line of the article states that this is a retrospective of the August '23 incident, hence the downvotes.
abstractbeliefs commented on NYC Subway Station Layouts projectsubwaynyc.com/gall... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
In the renderings, why are most of the (what look like) stairs/escalators so steep?
I don't know about this instance in particular, but the vertical scale in similar maps is often exaggerated to make it easier to differentiate the different floors.
At the cost of distorting elements with a vertical dimension, it means that all the wireframe layouts don't end up overlaying each other.
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I'm not German and won't presume to say who is or isn't (or should be) "German", but this is absolutely something that needs to be grappled with by governments. A shift in population being "supplied" by birth vs. migration is recognised in many Western/more economically developed countries, and that also includes naturalised immigrants (and their descendants).
My personal belief is that the modern school of business thought is a form of tragedy of the commons: with every business optimising their extraction of wealth from people in isolation, individuals in the whole find the cost of living unsustainable and are increasingly living hand to mouth and feel they cannot afford or have the time to raise children. In this way, falling birthrates are an externality of modern economic doctrine. This is also true for immigrants, who are exploited for cheaper work, and as they naturalise fall into the same trap as being exploited for extracted wealth.
In my eyes, the resolution to falling birthrates is that governments need to reach for social and economic levers to reduce the predation of companies on individuals, as well as to increase the amount of flexible wealth that individuals have so they can choose to raise kids if they want.
I think that the idea that this is actually some kind of coordinated "great replacement" is deeply untrue and instead is a fulcrum to further distract, divide, and exploit people. If my belief on the root causes is true, however, governments must have the guts to reign in business, which does not prove to be popular in political circles. Instead, it is easy for governments to allow the political fringes to continue this narrative to "immigrant wash" discontent with life - rather than address the root of the problem (optimising for growth), they can announce "tough on immigration" measures that demonise marginalised groups who are politically inert themselves (immigrants, legal or otherwise, being much more restricted in their ability to vote and influence politics than established capital).