skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. But what happened to all the people that used to till the fields until tractors and combine harvesters came along?

Thousands, literally thousands of professions have been made redundant by mechanisation and automation over the last few hundred years, but we're still all just as busy as ever.

Look at all the professions that have been created in just the last 20 years thanks to the internet. Sure automation changes the nature of work, and the type of jobs that need doing, but I've yet to see a shred of evidence that continued advances in automation are going to put us all out of a job, other than vague "this time it's different".
Exactly. To be fair, it's pretty hard to remain objective in his spot. If he spent a year anywhere else in the world, doing something different, he would certainly have a different perspective. But that's fine. He should feel the way he feels about this.

I was going to make a similar bet but in the other direction. My instincts say that 90% of the companies mentioned would be out of business by then and the remaining in the "still-going-but-not-relevant/MySpace" category. The coming Tech Winter will be devastating to the unicorns, precisely because so much is expected from them.

But I don't want to be one of those people. A community is built by people supporting each other, up or down, Tuesday or Wednesday. Maybe Sam is right and maybe I am, but at the end of the day, let's innovate and let the future unfold how it will.
This is what I've been thinking for quite a while but what allot of people seem to ignore - the "AI revolution" can very well "only" hit developing nations while skipping the developed ones.

Better, smarter robots are a threat to Chinese workers, not so much to say Dutch or Canadian workers.

The west can afford and is willing to pay more even for less, just look at how many people are willing to pay 10 times the price for "Organic Fare Traded Tomatoes" or any other "artisan" goods.

The west is also not as much dependent on manufacturing and the manufacturing it does do is usually high tech, low(er) volume and highly specialized one where it both might not make sense to automate everything and where people are more than willing to pay the extra to know that something was "hand crafted".

But overall we've developed a consumer culture especially in the past decade that is pretty much focused on retro/old school craftsmanship, small scale production and "artisan" touches, it almost makes one wonder if the whole "hipster revolution" wasn't hand crafted by some cabal of shadowy figures that foresaw the "rise of the machines", because our willingness to pay 250$ for a hand crafted hemp bag on etsy is just might be the thing that would protect us from AI automation.
Not really "some investment" is not equal to "extraordinary investment". One is possible with little change and costs, the other would require lots of change and waste.
I think the books towards the end of the series, or if you prefer to start fresh, the Dirk Gently detective books, have more depth to them. I think they have quite a bit of pathos and there's some real reflective sadness which fills out some of the things you mentioned (which on their own can be somewhat shallow).
The video that actually inspired me to go find and hike El Caminito del Rey (back before they renovated it and reopened it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw
Does anyone know if Storm ShellBolt compatible with Heron, or is there a better way in Heron for running non-jvm bolts?
For Nokia this turned out to be a good deal. They got good money for the mobile phone business. If they would have sticked to it that might have been the end of the whole company.

Now Nokia got several billions, bought Alcatel and continues other business. The feature phone business ended up in new company which is using Nokia's name and IPR and pays per unit royalties to Nokia. If this venture proves succesful, Nokia could just acquire them.

Years ago there was speculation that Elop was a trojan horse, placed by Microsoft. After things turned out as they did, I have started thinking that maybe it was the other way round. Maybe somebody planned all along that hiring Elop would open the opportunity of dumping the business to Microsoft in case it would nit start generating profits.
> hypocrisy is not a fallacy

... but a warning sign that an argument is probably too broad, too absolute, too confidently stated, and has ten thousand exceptions that you didn't consider.
If you're going to consider those for uranium you also need to consider them for coal.

The energy density of uranium makes it a non-issue. A 1GW reactor fissions about 1 ton of enriched uranium per year. You need about 10x as much raw material, so we're talking about 10 tons of uranium per year.

If you can't reprocess, then you lose about 95% of the fissionable material in the uranium. So you use up 20 tons of material per year, and you need to mine about 200 tons.

In comparison, a 1GW coal plant uses about 3 million tons of coal per year. And be real, coal isn't particularly clean to mine either. You need to wash it, and that water ends up just as polluted with heavy metals as the fly ash. Not to mention the human toll - black lung disease still killed about 25k people in the year 2013, and incidence rates (in the active miner population) have actually been rising since the 1990s.

It's the difference between a small-scale mining operation and large-scale strip mining.
> My personal crystal boll says that we'll end up with a system more aching to that in the star trek universe anyway.

The economics of Star Trek are the incoherent and inconsistent mass of contradictions that one would expect of a system in the background of fiction where the focus is elsewhere and no one was doing detail socio-economic worldbuilding in constructing the setting.

I mean, on the most basic economic element: the Federation both explicitly does not have money, and explicitly has a defined unit of money (the Federation credit) to which there are several references to its use in trade.
Yes, undoing hundreds of years of development sounds like a fantastic idea.
Apple CEO Tim Cook saw an iPhone in a nearly 350-year-old painting
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full time?? wow
They didn't choose to work less, they fought vicious and sometimes violent political struggles against owners and government to get reduced hours.
I have a Garmin watch (forerunner 220) and it is a bit frustrating how limited it is for the price and how Garmin segments their watches. Example: there is no bike mode so if I ride my bike it messes up my records, etc. instead of changing one bit in the data and the model that does this is hundreds more (at the time). There were also lots of issues with auto pause, pace smoothing and the like. Finally it only has 2 custom screens, another arbitrary product segmentation limitation.

I love Garmin hardware as it is super reliable. Software is more meh.

Also with this we get a music player which obviously would be suboptimal to have a cable hanging off my wrist (though Bluetooth could be cool but a bigger battery hog). This could also be interesting to monitor running form at some point too.
Energysquare – always stay charged
This is a great article. We seem to love the act of complicating healthy eating habits.

Vegetables are good. Processed foods (including sugar) are bad. Mix in some fish and chicken from time to time. Don't pour salt all over it. There you have it. A healthy diet.

The bottom line is that eating healthy is not hard, nor is it prohibitively expensive. It's all about priority. If you would rather have the flat screen TV than a budget for Whole Foods, then that's your prerogative.
Exports were one of the many things included in "and any number of other factors" (that could cause GDP to not drop in the scenario described in the post I replied to).

The point I was trying to make is that production/GDP alone does not seem like an entirely appropriate metric, if you don't necessarily consider the increased production and consumption (of "gadgets" or otherwise) a universally desirable property. Be careful what you measure and reduce to a numeric metric.

> But the suppliers of the inputs to the product lose.

GDP doesn't include that. GDP includes "final goods and services", not intermediate parts or business-to-business transactions. There are other metrics that include the intermediate steps, if that's desirable.
+1 for static imports!
After following his rules for a year now and losing 50 pounds with literally no exercise, I'm (further) convinced that healthy eating and corporate interests are completely opposed.

It seems everything that makes food more profitable also makes it less healthy. Perhaps the science is thin on things like caloric sources (quality vs quantity), preservatives, complexity of sugars, the effects of high processing of food, etc., but my anecdotal evidence and growing intuition aligns with the author's opinions.

For me personally, removing added sugars and processed foods and moving to a more "real foods" meal plan (meat, veggies, fruit) has been transformative.
From the picture in the article, it seems that a "pick-and-place" machine [1] that is typical to SMT operations would do the same job as the workers in that photo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMT_placement_equipment
CaptSpify makes some good points. There's also pride. Outside the SV echo chamber defines big old tech company.

Driving it into the ground at mach 3 makes every leader in SV, every leader in tech, look bad. "Why just like yahoo, I'm sure twitter is worthless and about to go out of business" We either know better, or for various social reasons we can't say stuff like that, so we don't say stuff like that. But she's representing "us" to the world, very poorly indeed, which hurts many people's pride. "Why all those SV CEOs can't lead starving dogs to raw meat, right?" That's gonna bruise some pride. On the very big picture, its no different than a sexual harassment scandal or an arrest for securities fraud. It makes an entire industry look very bad. So the distancing starts. "I'm no Marissa" "She's awful nothing like me or us" "she was never one of us"
Meet Vocal IQ the self learning technology that is a part of Siri2
> ZFS is excellent for database development! Create a snapshot before you try something that mess up your data and instantly restore it! If your development database is a few gigabytes, this will save you a lot of time.

The proper way of doing this is to clone the snapshot and then spin up a new container using the clone. That way you do not need to risk downtime on your production code. I believe that Delphix has a ZFS-based solution for doing this.
No we don't, I am not anti-progress but my personal opinion is that increased automation will lead to further inequality and potentially economic contraction. Thing is, we are not born equal, different people have different skills, we can't be expecting everyone to become an engineer or a scientist. Blue collar workers losing their jobs will not lead to interesting times...
If you look for simplicity have a look at DOM99

https://github.com/GrosSacASac/DOM99
I mean, you can have hereditary control of land and a military apparatus _without_ letting anyone live on the land.
Not exactly. Feudalism was rent seeking from top to bottom. Local Barons obtained the right to get rent from peasants who lived on their land. In turn they paid to their local Earl who paid to the local Duke and so on up the ladder to the King. Without the peasants at the bottom their would have been no feudalism. Of note, the peasants alone were generally forbidden from bearing arms.
At least at home, I do DNS-level adblocking, which should be good enough for all devices that use the DNS resolver advertised by DHCP. (Source code is at https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master... if you want to copy this.)
Yes, android 6 now asks you about each permission the first time an app tries to do something that requires that permission.
3 Reasons Why Boomers Need Bonds for Retirement Portfolios
I highly recommend Manna by Marshall Brain - http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm - He looks at how this may play out, with several variations on the theme throughout a single storyline.
it gets sucked into a database ;)
Apple could easily have agreed to an acquisition in the 1990s. It takes true serious chutzpah and goodwill to nose up from a failing product line.
Revolutionize Haight: The evolution of a revolutionary street
Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.

Source: https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...
To be precise, what was implemented was a CPU backdoor, but the attack applies to all integrated circuits.
Doing a quick search for "American manufacturing output graph" shows that we are producing more output than ever before, relative to our past.

The solution going forward is specialization. We handed manufacturing to China while our service sector exploded. Let each country produce those goods it does best and then trade with one another. Why bring production back to the US? Only if it makes sense to do so.
Thank you for the insightful reply. However, I am not misremembering the story about the AA batteries. There was something in the original story about the third crime automatically getting elevated to a felony. So, yes, it needs to be a felony, but a minor third crime gets elevated to a felony.

I can't find the original 60 Minutes video, but here's a partial transcript of the episode (search for the word "batteries"):

https://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=JUSTWATCH-L;16e9e...

And a book that recounts the same incident. The author is a Senior Fellow in Criminal Justice at the University of Southern California, so I assume he knows what he's talking about and has checked the accuracy of the story.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8356210389&...

And someone's letter to the Governor of California with a list of three strike convictions, a number of which are not felonies:

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-39951.h...
Max vs. cruise is a huge difference for VTOL though, which you need to replace cars for daily commute.
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I always ask when I think I'm hungry if I'm just bored. I know it seems like a silly thing to do but I found often when I'm really bored I just eat more just to do something I think. Not sure if this is objectively true in all cases even for me, but it seems to be helping me lose weight.
Please don't bring outrage culture to HN.
The Irony of Viruses
But why was she right after all the work was done? If the brand colours were so important surely the design team should have been aware of that beforehand.
Here are a couple we highlight:

1. Since Realm is not a relational database with an ORM, we don't run into the impedance mismatch. Relationships are first-class citizens.

2. Realm uses a zero-copy architecture. Objects and collections are lazy loaded offering benefits to both memory use and speed.
Not just a threat to Chinese workers but also the Chinese government. Unemployment tends to foster civil unrest.
Same here but you'd be surprised by how many people I know and you know post 1000 photos of every moment of their summer vacation on a trip. It scares me that they keep uploading all that there
> Apps like MailTime even promise to save us from our emails by turning them into chats.

I've been wondering why this wasn't done sooner.
I believe he is now back at Stony Brook in the mathematics department. Not full time, he has a lot going on, but some kind of affiliation.
> If we were to make an identical copy of the CDDL license and call it CDDLv2, those two identical twins would be incompatible with each other. Software under CDDLv1 would not be permitted to be combined with software under CDDLv2 and distributed as source code.

There is a CDDL v1.1 that is effectively 's/Sun/Oracle/'. The CDDL has an optional clause saying any later version is allowed and the CDDL only applies at the file level. I have yet to see a problem in mixing CDDL code under v1 and v1.1 with each other.
Rand Fishkin, Moz. What I'd Change What I'd Keep the Same What I Don't yet Know
If you want more range for the Wifi look at Wifi boosters for the DJI P4, other than that I don't really think you will get more range.
I know people with both and the flight time is pretty much identical 25~ min or so, even tho the P4 has officially 2-3min longer flight time it doesn't seem to really express it self that much in reality.
Why do you think we need to do that? The economy will sort itself out as it always has. The job market will just shift. Some jobs will stop being, others will be more in-demand, which will create entirely new ones.
I know we as western societies take similar positions on other issues; I'm generally critical of them. People don't need to be experts to make informed decisions; FSM knows politicians aren't experts on most things they decide upon.

Informing, requiring consent and - especially - offering better alternatives to the "exploitative" option should, in my opinion, be used instead of the paternalistic prohibition (which is often just a cover for other interests).
Yes. We've changed it from "Ken Thompson was right, proven definitively 32 years later".

Submitters: it's against HN's rules to rewrite titles like that. It's only ok to do so if they're misleading or linkbait to begin with (and definitely not to make them more so).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Unfortunately only for the Intel processor units. I didn't realize this until my ARM-powered device arrived and the package wasn't available.
New CDDL code outside of Oracle is under CDDLv1 only to prevent them from doing as they please with the license terms.
It is not just manufacturing that is going to be replaced by AI and Robots and it will affect developing and developed countries.

Already there are a lot of junior lawyers being replaced [0].

Check out what a former CEO of McDonald's said about robots and the fast food industry [1].

> “I was at the National Restaurant Show yesterday and if you look at the robotic devices that are coming into the restaurant industry – it’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who’s inefficient making $15 an hour bagging french fries,” the former US chief executive Ed Rensi told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/25/former-mcdona...
It's interesting that I read 'Google "hybrid electric aircraft"' without your quotes for a second and assumed Google was working on a hybrid electric aircraft, rather than you suggest people search for it with Google. Google is diversifying enough that just saying "google $term" without quotes (as you provided) can be ambiguous. Perhaps this is the long-term curse of google as a verb.
Buried at the bottom, but a "yuge" issue that bears repeating:

> Granted, Hipmunk users tend to be urban millennials, and so our own demographics come into play here as well.
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Here's the full report: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-696T
The OP doesn't mention, but could it be that hedging against bad PR and government incentives for capex purchases are accelerating this.

For example, if this trend continues Apple will no longer get bad PR for supporting sweatshops. In the US there were also years (might still be true) where a company fully could write off capex purchases in the first year and not a multi-year depreciation schedule. Perhaps China is doing something similar.
Tractors automated farming. Printing automated writing. Robots automate assembly. Though admittedly there may be some immediate negative consequences, the long term benefits far outweigh those.
If a graduate student and a postdoc can do it...
> The proper way of doing this is to clone the snapshot

Might not be really feasible. In order to create a consistent snapshot you have to stop the database server (or, if running a multi-master setup, take one master out of replication, but MM setups are rare and even more so is experience with them).

Then, you have to actually do the clone - with a couple-GB-sized database, that's easy and fast but once you hit triple-digits GB sizes, you'll end up with a massive disk performance loss during the copy.

Also, in case your DB upgrade went through, you have to (magically) apply it to the other servers because in the time between clone-begin, clone-end and db-upgrade-end data will have changed on the prod system...

It's easier to make a short maintenance window, do a snapshot, hope for the best and if it blows up, restore service with a single click (by removing the maintenance page).
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Maybe my phrasing was off, but you're misunderstanding my comment. Stepping into a CEO role means you're saying "I can turn this company around." If you fail at that, then you accept the blame. Don't want to catch blame? Don't accept "impossible" jobs.

Also: Yahoo! had a ton of resources in a rapidly-growing industry. I highly doubt turning Yahoo! around would be impossible. Hard, maybe. And maybe many people had already sort of given up the game and moved on to better things. But, again: If you're CEO, it's your responsibility to turn the company around. That's why you get the big bucks.
Right. I'm saying, they've run out of other ideas.

Ads have always been Google's major source of revenue. Now, their to answer to dwindling revenue is to add larger ads to existing apps [1]

Bigger and more ads is not very innovative for a tech company.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-increase-size-frequenc...
Why does Silicon Valley seem to love Democrats and dismiss the GOP?
Sometimes I'm glad that I'm old enough (38) to have lived a significant amount before the conveniences of the modern internet. The idea of getting around without online maps isn't strange to me and I have the skill from back when it was the only option. So when google maps starts getting too bullshitty it's easy for me to do without it.

One time a few years ago a (younger) friend laughed at me for writing down directions on a piece of paper. But the piece of paper didn't have to be mounted, I didn't have to turn on a screen to use it, navigate to the right app, worry about the screen going off after not using it for a minute, etc. The piece of paper was the most usable option by far.
Norway consumer body stages live app t&c reading
I don't know you implement a basic income scheme on a nation-state by nation-state basis.

If one nation taxes the robot overlords and gives the money to unskilled humans... then the robot overlords will move to a friendlier nation, while also seeing inflows of unskilled humans immigrating.

The immigration issue is a difficult one, because the nations most likely to embrace basic income are also the least likely to embrace draconian immigration controls. The movement of capital issue is more difficult still, and perhaps outright impossible. How do you break the race-to-the-bottom cycle if some nations opt-out of the new order?

Basic income is an interesting idea, but I haven't heard any plausible proposals for it that wouldn't depend upon nations giving up sovereignty and moving closer to global governance. Back here in reality, Europe is struggling to keep a single continent loosely tied together.
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> It's entirely possible she was the best person for the job.

In hindsight this is tough to accept. Her only job experience was with Google, while that is impressive Google was it's own rocketship that was skyward from the get-go, she had no experience taking over a project on a downward slide and turn it around, she was also demoted while at Google. But hindsight is always 20/20, and maybe no one else more qualified wanted the job at Yahoo...?