skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you (or anybody else) track about how informed the voters that are captured by "easy vote" are? I understand there are a lot of partisan disagreements, but there are also basic facts both about how US government works and what positions of the candidates are, which unfortunately are unknown to significant number of people. If you just get those people to vote, they might vote based on whose name they heard on TV, or who is handsomer, or because they heard somebody said something good/bad about some candidate and they never bothered to see if it's true. Do you think getting such people to vote more would improve the state of democracy?

I am not saying people don't already vote while uninformed - but you may be making matters worse. I am also not saying people that vote only when it's super-easy are necessarily of this kind or even have more uninformed voters than in general - maybe yes, maybe not. But I think it is a reasonable hypothesis which would be nice to check before investing money in effort in something that very well may make matters worse, not better.
i hate when talks of qm use vague standin words like measure or observe stead describing the process

especially when those things are shown in diagrams with a little image of an eye like in this article

observation of quantum events is very intrusive, and i would argue has an obvious affect on the event's original outcome

it is different from having someone throw a ball in a well lit room, and either having your eyes open or closed
I can't think of a situation where events in someone's life justify this kind of behavior being inflicted upon an innocent person.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

They certainly should have been involved, but the way the went about their investigation was unprofessional and significantly affected a person who was completely uninvolved in the original crime.
I agree that the API limitation is most likely not malicious and I did not intend to imply otherwise. Still, lack of malice does not change the fact that the Google Cast extension has a competitive advantage over other non-Google extensions (which can't use all of the same APIs).
> We need a TV channel/website that simply states the facts of the positions each politician holds

Even the politicians themselves don't portray this consistently, so the "facts" of that are often subject to doubt.
This is an interesting point. I suppose the counter would be that we only want the politically informed people who would naturally self-select anyway. It shouldn't matter if there is a bias in previous voter-turnout as many of the previous people who did vote would now not qualify, and the non-voters just stay as-is. Anyone who abstains would also need to vote as abstaining to make sure turnout stays high. I'm just riffing here, getting deep into the weeds of how a potential system could work.
Do you have the link to the MS disk management story?
If AIs replace programmers, why would they stop there? They could replace every job. Including AI researchers!
Not the OP, but I'm of similar age and also a mainframe programmer by trade. It's a pretty lucrative field to be into, especially because the businesses which operate mainframes tend to be very large and (mostly) stable corporations. While not as hip and cool as a Valley startup, there is something to being well paid and receiving good health and retirement benefits! =)

Those same corporations are also not blind to the fact that most of their COBOL workforce will be retiring, en mass, in the coming years, and are quite desperate to hire anyone willing to learn. My employer paid for me to attend a 3 month training program in order to learn how to use and develop on the IBM zSeries mainframe. It was a fantastic experience. As well, those same companies are looking to move as much of their COBOL code off of the mainframe and onto a distributed, server platform. While you can't beat the sheer power of Big Iron chugging along through a batch cycle, the CICS user interface leaves a lot to be desired. It's much more cost and time effective to build a web interface that talks to a Java middle-layer that lives on the mainframe (such that it can directly talk with DB2 or some such), compared to designing, building, and testing a CICS program to do the same thing, yet in a much more ugly fashion.
And this is why we won't ever get AI. Humans seem to only manage to get to a certain level of complex before it all gets too much.

There are supposedly people in Boeing who understand literally every part of a 747, the wiring and the funny holes in the windows. But there is probably no one who understands all parts of Windows 10.

We're doomed to keep leaping like dolphins to reach a fish held too high by a sadistic Orlando world trainer
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Service bureaus. Companies that 3d print parts for people. Imagine a data center, except instead of servers you have row after row of 3d printers.
The metaphor is fine. You're making my argument: there's no inherent reason that the prices of luxury products should influence the prices of commodity products. In fact, barring exceptional circumstances (i.e. shortages) they usually don't. It isn't safe to assume that "construction" will lower rents for everyone. Even here.

Despite conventional wisdom and lots of hand-waving justifications, there's actually very little evidence that building more luxury units impacts low-end housing prices on anything but the long term. Even the author of this piece is falling back to long-term averages to make his argument, and the results are...tepid. A 2% reduction in aggregate, long-term rents for every 1% of new housing built is not a screaming endorsement for indiscriminate construction.

If you have data that shows otherwise, feel free to cite it.
You can use the Schrödinger equation in a classical, non-relativistic, space-time, do calculations and get a lot of the chemistry explained more or less correctly. There is no speed of light, and electric fields have immediate effects over long distances.

But to explain the electron transitions that make gold yellow, you need to use the Schrödinger equation in a relativistic space-time. (But just special relativity suffices here, no need to go to general relativity.)
I think you might be confusing a "Rite of Passage"[0] with a "Hazing Ritual"[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_passage
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazing_ritual
Client-side or server-side? My Angelfire website circa 1999 is still up and running :)
That is exactly the context of this thread. It might not be your context but it is mine and since I started it seems like you are the one who is changing the context.
Why the downvotes for this?
> I can't speak much about the political system of India, but I think it's quite evident that with the rise of politicians like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, people are very dissatisfied with the politicians we've been electing.

Bernie Sanders is a politician that's been being elected to federal office for quite a long time.
>I'd say the only reason such abuse seem "historical" is that we're unaware of the abuses going on right now.

That's my point. The US government may or may not be mildly abusing it's citizens by spying on them illegally, it's hard to know. Compare to Russia or China where it most certainly is vehemently abusing people it disagrees with.

Also, I think the rendition was only for non-citizens. The US doesn't really give much of a shit about you if you're not a US citizen.
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Why rtop?
Not that it matters, but I wonder where the name came from. It sounds Japanese (although the first part is obviously inspired by 'monospace'), but 'mononoki' isn't a Japanese word. There are many ways it could be interpreted as a combination of two words, though, or it could be a corruption of 'mononoke' (a spirit).
It almost leads you to suspect that these policies have been an utter failure in San Francisco. A rational person might suppose that to avoid the fate of San Francisco, that Portland should try something different. Perhaps something that recognizes that supply and demand are real, and that setting price controls at a level below the market-clearing price will lead to shortages.
AIs can stay up all night reading blogs about the latest and greatest JS framework though. You better look out.
I appreciate all the effort and work put into this, but honestly a huge wall of text makes me cringe and hit the back button.

Minimal design and html does not take that much time.
Didn't downvote you, but I think your conclusion doesn't match your anecdote.

"We really need to increase public funding for education."

Shouldn't the conclusion be to lower costs and not increase funding if it's increased 7 fold in a short period?
I'm probably being dense, but I don't understand what you're saying. Portland offers a luxury apartment at a lower price than Seattle, but you don't expect well-compensated people to move to Portland for that reason?
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> and without it you'd just likely learn untrue things.

I prefer this to the more common 'Just don't do it', as you actually state why. The reason is something I knew intuitively but couldn't really (And had actually never devoted any time to) put[ting] it into words. Thank you.
I'm only aware of one real use for D batteries...
Strousoup 's books always have the C++ code in promotional size.
Neither will Jane Street.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3053711

(from the link)

Resolution

To resolve the issue, do not create a user account contains the string "user" on the computer.
How does this anecdote contradict that Portland is more affordable than Seattle?
How would you avoid having a common print queue, when all the documents can't fit in the printer memory?
There are a fixed number of residential slots in the SF real estate market. There is undersupply at every level of the market. If a slot is labeled "luxury", lower-income people will not move in there. But the converse isn't true: higher-income people will take "low-income" slots (see: the Mission) if that's all that's available.

No part of this market in any way resembles the market for Lamborghinis and Kias.
Pretty sure code I wrote in 2001 right out of college is still used in production for mission critical systems for a national association.
Lucrative? No, but someone has to maintain the legacy nightmare. Most mainframe developers (i've run into) are very close to retirement age, so companies are trying to hire younger talent and will often put them through paid mainframe programming classes.

But mainframe sucks. Nobody gets into it cause the like it, they just need a job. I'd like to see a startup that sells mainframe software, cause they'd be be like one of 3 people.
This one too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
The fundamentals that create an opportunity for speculative investment is a lack of supply and an excess of demand. It's very rare that investment itself, in a vacuum of demand, will result in a price surge. Sure, it can happen, but the basics is that Portland is attractive and, like San Francisco, does not build enough to support the new demand.
I agree. The universities shouldn't be wildly raising their tuition & fees annually.
I don't need to make assertions you make it very clear what you want and don't want.

So you are right it's fruitless if all you want is change the premise for the discussion.

You however illustrate the very reason why HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/DOM are popular and Python still haven't found it's way into the mainstream.
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Oh, yeah. I put the UV part in there because of the talk about full color printing. The first time through that video I missed the key phrase "could in the future"[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXntl3ff5tc&t=3m27s
You are claiming that there will never be another recession in SF?
This is mostly a futurist view on the topic. Not surprising given it's from wired.com.
Some great programs are reasonably priced. One example that HN readers may find interesting is Georgia Tech's online graduate CS program. For roughly $7,000, you can get a CS degree from a top 10 school.

http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
Sounds like you've made the choice to see it as apathy.
That's actually the "Up Next" list I was referring to. Not History.
Firefox was never janky, or slow. It's just both 1) not pushed on users of the products of the two biggest tech companies we have, and 2) not distinguishable from the other options.
Designing a Dementia-Friendly Website
In Copenhagen, electron is "mysterious quantum object", unlike wave, unlike particle, just showing off properties of both in different experiments. It is not meant to be the same thing as \psi function, which is regarded as mere calculational device that describes this mysterious quantum object. The pilot wave in de Broglie-Bohm theory is just the \psi function with the addition that this function is "real", that is exists objectively and not merely on paper.
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I must be clueless.

Please cite an example where a software design task has been done by machine learning. Something where you start with a specification or description and the automation produces a usable design.

Coding could possibly be replaced by something in a decade or so but I wouldn't hold my breath. We are just getting to compilers and JIT systems that do better than smart developers working at a lower level.
Why would you need UV absorption for color printing?
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My layman's understanding of is that fundamental uncertainty can't really be distinguished from a hidden variable we cannot observe or influence.
As someone else already pointed out we actually do have robots doing surgery. AIs are not dogs - that's a bad analogy.

Right now development costs per head are sky high. If there's any way to cut that spend, you better believe executives will be all over it. A lot of businesses don't care so much about quality and craftsmanship - as long as their customers are stuck with them they're perfectly willing to ship the most minimal product they can get away with.
I did a bit of research in program synthesis, which is probably the closest academic field to this sort of thing (albeit in the realm of programming languages rather than AI/ML). I have two main conclusions:

• Current methods to generate programs fundamentally do not scale. Most practical research is about how to extend small-scale synthesis systems to large-scale problems, rather than synthesizing large programs outright.

• The best way to scale these systems is to make them more interactive. Let the programmer do what's easy for humans and use synthesis for the parts easy to automate. This is another way of saying that program synthesis is less about fully automatic programming and more about (radically) better development tools.

I am confident that we will not have automatic programming systems that can handle non-trivial programs by themselves in the next 10/20 years, barring the sort of paradigm-shifting breakthroughs we can't really predict. Instead, we will have systems that can generate some amount of code and work in tandem with programmers—perhaps through sketching[1], programming by demonstration or just much-improved Intellisense.

The current trajectory is that programming is to become easier, not obsolete. The result will not be fewer programmers but more programmers, largely because people with less expertise will be able to become programmers: think Jevons Paradox[2] for programming.

Programming as a job will change and people will certainly have to adapt, but the job as a whole is not going anywhere.

[1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/papers/thesis.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Lots of people with positive experiences with psilocybin in this thread. I have also had many incredible experiences and advocate its use, with conditions. But. And this is a very important thing to know before anyone reading decides to try it for the first time.

Psilocybin experiences can be truly traumatic. If you have existing mental health issues, please be very, very careful before you decide to take it. Do all the research you can. I have one friend who went completely over the edge, reached the point of no return. It triggered a predisposition to a horrible mental illness. It has destroyed his life and his familys. For a small number of people, this can happen.

If you think you might be vulnerable to this but still want to go ahead, please make sure you are responsibly and get an experienced sitter and a safe, familiar setting.
Have the printer act as a server to which each of the sandboxed print queues talks directly, seeking permission to send data, and let the printer handle flow control.

Not saying this is necessarily a good idea, but it avoids a system-wide print queue, all you need at the system level is a service locator to let you know where the printer is that you need to contact.
No less a man than Scalia himself said that, if he could wave a magic wand and change the constitution, the change he would make would be to make it easier to amend.

I didn't agree with most of what he said, but I thought he was spot-on with that.
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Cool, but what I really need to know is if two characters next to each other make a square, such that I can have CJK characters in the same line and not muck up the formatting.
Replaceable or replaceable by AI?

Already today standard CRUD web development is largely automateable. I already have my own specialized scripts from years of experience, targeting backend, front end, design components, that generate most of what I want with some basic inputs. I imagine most experienced web developers have some internal tooling like this too.

This kind of approach already does replace programmers, and could do so a lot more. But what do you mean by replaceable by AI? How would that work?
Whoa, that is super cool about how they trained you and everything. I have actually heard bits and pieces of sort of like folklore from my dad about CICS and other mainframe pop culture, it's always fascinated me in a certain sense. That there's another whole universe of programming that most people have never heard of or been involved with.

I'm actually in the process of getting involved with the US Army now (I'm 21) so that I can get some schooling and stuff done later, but I've thought that I might spend my off-time for the next few years trying to self-teach myself NetREXX or something and try to land a job in some MegaCorp. I'm not opposed to writing code all day in a comfy office chair with full benefits etc, especially compared to living in a dorm with couple dudes eating Ramen and trying to conquer Web 4.0 or whatever. Just doesn't appeal to me.

It's reassuring that it's a viable career path, I hadn't thought much about the new generation of mainframe maintenance, but from what my dad has told me about some of the people he's worked with it certainly makes sense that these big corps would be desperate for fresh meat right about now.
I bought 16 total Low Self-Sidcharge NiMh AAA/AA from amazon back to 2009.

That was the last time I buy batteries in that spec because they still work today.
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The drama of something to argue over with their Establishment sister party, perhaps?

It is plain that the Democratic Party doesn't want Sanders voters if they're going to demand Sanders policy outcomes. There's no drama in successfully helping people, and what kind of partisanship isn't made of drama?

It is plain that the GOP didn't want Trump voters until Trump more or less took over the ticket with the help of professional-class journalists looking for... drama.
I don't think the replacement of programmers is going to come in the form of AI actually writing code in any normal context we consider writing code.

It's more going to be that a lot of the superficial patterns if/then (and quite a lot of scripting) that are being done today will be easily replaced. Not that writing a new kernel or some other advanced job is going to be handled by machines.

In that context I think it's going to go fast and be in our lifetime.
Maybe a plan on both "Mononoke" and "Monokai" (the other font)?
He he, no, they aren't. The difference is that in public there's much room for opportunistic, untargeted data collection, which is a lot more creepy under the right (wrong?) circumstances than targeted or random surveillance over my private spaces.

I'm more worried about untargeted collection of data because it produces a larger data set, which can be used to data-mine all sorts of juicy tidbits about people's lives.
Most people do hold Google to a higher standard. As such, many people I know would hesitate to even recognize the possibility of Google doing this.

I, on the other hand, consider Google holding a patent not significantly different than Oracle holding a patent.
No, it is simply a statement of fact. Given that all treatments for depression produce a powerful placebo effect, any non-placebo-controlled trial tells you absolutely nothing about the effectiveness of the treatment. It's true that it does tell you if the treatment is safe, but I think it's fair to say that that information is "next to useless", as there are an almost infinite number of potential treatments. The only way to know if any of them are effective is to do a placebo-controlled trial.

Still, I think it is a plausible treatment, so hopefully there will be some better trials.
Doesn't surprise me. I spent my youth thinking math was impenetrable, and only when I started programming later in life I realized that mathematicians shouldn't be naming things.
> I have one friend who went completely over the edge, reached the point of no return. It triggered a predisposition to a horrible mental illness. It has destroyed his life and his family.

Have any details you're comfortable sharing? Particularly the mental illness, what happened when they were triggered and how often they dosed?
Once you guys made it big, you should rename yourselves to RethoughtDB :)
I don't think it's just the "internet services" that they need to take more seriously. Ever since I bought my iphone (about 1 week ago) I've had an itch to write a blog post about my first experiences using their Clock app... Their CLOCK app :)
Arduino Primo with Onboard BLE, WiFi, and NFC
Nobody was permitted to see the Emperor of China, and the question was, What is the length of the Emperor of China's nose? To find out, you go all over the country asking people what they think the length of the Emperor of China's nose is, and you average it. And that would be very "accurate" because you averaged so many people.

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
They have low housing prices in Detroit. Maybe they should emulate Detroit. Seriously, high housing prices might be a sign that people really want to live somewhere. If you make more places like San Francisco, where people actually want to live, maybe prices in San Francisco would fall a little since it wouldn't be so special of a place anymore.
It has been abandoned because of a slew of SCOTUS rulings that have significantly broadened the powers implied in some clauses (most notably, the Commerce Clause, and the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment), allowing the federal government to work around the system more often than not; but also because of increasing partisanship of the political system making the 3/4 majority of states necessary to amend anything extremely unlikely on any issues where there isn't a near-unanimous consent already.
That part is fine. The difficulty arises when you want to take out an apple from a list of fruits.
My eyes...

The goggles do nothing!