benjhm

This is hardly surprise news, it's just what the demographics projected. And if trends continue, China's population will halve by 2100. The big one to watch now is India, and then central Africa, those are harder to project.
You can experiment with my model - click the 'model pop' plot on the left side.

Seems like a good idea. As the weight ratio train : passengers decreases, I guess the experience is zippy when empty, slower when full, wonder if they adapt the schedule accordingly ?
As for reducing the lifetime embedded emissions - how does the construction of the trains compare to the construction of the tracks - I'd imagine the latter dominates - can they replace concrete and steel elevated structures too ?

Thankyou for the update! Glad to see alexandrite still developing, extra ways to search and organise especially appreciated.

Whilst I like the concept, doesn't such algorithm need access to a huge amount of data (i.e. a large set of potential posts from which to choose), if so how could this run client side?
Maybe could envisage something running in a parallel distributed federated way (vaguely recalling projects like seti@home or climateprediction.net), grouping results for sets of people with similar preferences, with minor local tweaks and short-term updates - but that implies many interacting layers, rather complex.

I might try Friendica, although coming from lemmy I'd be more inclined towards Mbin, to combine topic-focus and people-focus.
However as a developer I first check the code repos and see that both are based on php, which seems rather old, and i doubt this would scale efficiently if the network really took off. Recall that twitter was once based on ruby (like mastodon is) and shifted to scala for such reasons. So I feel, these are exploring well the potential user-experience, but the code may need a fresh structure (if somebody knows this tech issue better, please say). It's good to discuss these things, to help consolidate potential efforts.

A wee quote from the author of the original little red book ...:
"the two slogans -- let a hundred flowers blossom and let a hundred schools of thought contend -- have no class character; the proletariat can turn them to account, and so can the bourgeoisie or others. Different classes, strata and social groups each have their own views on what are fragrant flowers and what are poisonous weeds".

Seemed a good idea at the time (1957?), remember how that trick evolved thereafter ...?

Modern slave trade. Russia is also driving wars in Sudan, Libya, Niger, Mali, etc. - hope the loss of their Syrian base will reduce their capacity on the ground. Yet their biggest trick has been manipulation of social media algorithms in Africa (with apps made in usa, and anti-european rhetoric), it's too easy to continue.

I'm thinking culturally, long-term, EU has prioritised diversity of human languages more than coding skills. The evidence is in the global distribution of big software, first usa, also former soviet union, china, india, uk.
It might be said, that ideas emerge well here, but are nurtured (/ exploited ) across the pond. Also thinking from personal experience, my skill in coding, nurtured in one of those "anglo-saxon" countries, was not so appreciated here near the heart of the eu. Of course there are exceptions (especially known among us on lemmy), one example is scala language - as used in that twitter algorithm - which is mainly developed in switzerland + poland. Anyway, the next four years could provide obvious motivations to change this.

It's interesting that the rise at Mauna Loa is a bit higher than the global average. From such differences one gets a clue about the origins (useful as regional biospheric and oceanic sources and sinks are still hard to quantify precisely). I note also that they are predicting a lower rise in 2025. So, if I read it correctly, there's a small sign of hope that the trend may get better, as the factors which contributed to this anomalous rise were more in the early part of 2024, related to the earlier El Niño. Unless the latter returns again soon - keep an eye on the pacific heat.

Bien sur, on a besoin des changements en Serbie, mais ça m'a surpris que ce soit un accident d'architecture qui la provoque. Ou est-ce-que il y un liaison, par exemple, avec le financement chinois de ce chemin de fer lgv à travers Novi Sad vers Budapest (je spécule, je ne sais pas) ?

Good start, but 'Documents' is the wrong, bureaucratic approach - if there are any papers they will be vague and old. The algorithm is code, and just a few characters adjusted in an obscure place can make a huge difference. I recall twitter published their old algorithm - scala code - a couple of years back, so what we need is a continuous update of that, together with some testing mechanism to check that it's really the same as applied on their servers, without extra secret please-boss-backdoor-tweaks. Of course even better in the longer term - attract people away to the fediverse.
Meanwhile more general problem - european union doesn't support enough people who understand such code.
Note also some good comments below the article.

Neat! If it really scales up, it almost seems like they are defying thermodynamics, concentrating entropy ... (as life does)