skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the value of labor - especially labor such as marketing, or government gruntwork such as FDA approvals - cannot be done by robots. At least today, and probably not in the next 50 years. So there is still a lot of labor that will have to go on.

As for shifting all taxes from income to capital - this can't work without enormous changes to free trade. This means that we'd have to stop free trade entirely (catastrophic for developing countries) or implement UBI across all countries at the same time (definitely impossible in the near future).

The problem is that all the capital holders would have immense pressure to move their businesses overseas if they're going to lose substantial parts of their capital every year from tax. Income and profit taxes don't do this because the business still has to be growing to pay the tax, so you can just increase prices to offset the tax, etc. But a capital tax big enough to cover income for the entire country would be significant percentage of capital every year. Any hole left open in free trade would have that capital rush to other countries where such a tax does not exist.

Plus even if capital stayed, that would further reinforce 'growth at all costs' mindset. You'd have to grow your capital at a rate greater than the tax every year to be successful. You'd have massive corporate thuggery - such as pricing things just above UBI to force people to come in to work as marketers and other roles to push each business above the competition and beat the capital taxes.

What if your whole economy had a bad decade and assets failed to outgrow your capital tax? As with income tax, your tax base has just shrunk. But you can't decrease UBI because your whole population and economy is based around a set price level. You're back to having to take extreme measures to keep everything running, and a mistake will blow your now-fragile economy out the water.

The takeaway for me is that UBI isn't something we could just graft onto our existing system and pretend it's a miracle cure. We are going to need to change our entire system.
I'm constantly amazed by people's lack of care for the Macbook Air's abysmal TN screen. It's so good to see this being pointed out in this article. But still I can't believe there is no a single mention of TN or IPS on this page!
Jumpsuit-fastest way to write scalable React/Redux with the least overhead
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim.

A novel that tells how to manage IT department in a very enchanted manner. The situation entailed in the story is too real. I had some many "I have come across this shit before, wish I handled it better" encounters that I couldn't put the book down until finished.
They want to have sex with guys who are in peak physical condition. Something about people who are able to hunt and survive is attractive.

But you said date. How long do these relationships last? Are they getting married and having children?

I myself am attracted to 18 year olds with small tits and firm asses but I wouldn't want to date or marry one. The maturity and outlook on life is not there.

I am however married to a woman two years my senior, she has a great ass and is mature.

Sexual attraction does not make a relationship, it is only a part of the puzzle.
Most browsers support embedded videos now, which have the advantage that you can rewind and pause. You could also provide a transcript or static screenshots.
I give One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in movie form, to departing coworkers.
There's a "proper" version (postscript) with the original images intact here:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/research/techreps/TR-449-94
Your comment implies you have a critique of the poster's argument, but you fail to provide one.

Provide an argument supporting the notion that people shouldn't be incentivized to produce things that the market values.

Hinting that someone's argument is absurd adds no value to the discussion unless you illustrate why.
From a physical engineering perspective I don't know how you'd go about making an ultrabook's battery replaceable short of breaking the entire case open.
Since you've mentioned it, I've looked at the free sample. I'm kinda impressed how good it is. I wasn't expecting it to be very well made. In fact I'm buying it now
That tweet, omg! Marc Andreessen got hit so hard because of it that he apologized on his Twitter account and said he won't participate on any political discussion about India again. I like his work, but the particular tweet was grotesque.

However the tweet came late. The activism against FB's Free Basics was in full force already.
Technical reason: Multiple ports = multiple apps.

HTTP and HTTPS use different ports (TCP 80 and 443). You can run one web server application on the HTTP port serving content A, and a completely different web server application on the HTTPS port serving content B. With firewalls doing NAT port translation this could even result in HTTP requests going to a completely different machine than the HTTPS requests.

From a non-tech reason, there are some types of sites that the HTTPS content should never be available on a HTTP site. For example an online payment form. In such cases a sensible website will either disable HTTP entirely (and use a subdomain for secure content, rather than the top leve/ www. domain), or have a basic HTTP site that transparently redirects to the HTTPS version.
We have a pretty tight evaluation process. Still not perfect tho
You can read more here about culture jamming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming

As an example of the problem he's addressing, look closely at your constructions like "is not a broadly understood term", "it's not clear", "it seems odd", and "your comment does not make it well".

These are all your personal opinions, and yet you've cast them in the language of objective fact, of truth. You assert without evidence that your view is identical with reality. Others reading you could take on those fact-shaped opinions as actual fact, especially if you have high social standing.

So by talking about "truth" or "reality", I believe he refers to the jointly held, socially constructed opinions that people mistake for fact.

An obvious political example of that is the way the various US state declarations of secession during the civil war assert that black people are naturally inferior, fit only to be slaves. To them it was experienced as truth.

There are also plenty of examples in the sciences; look at any major paradigm shift and you can see "truth" diverging from truth, "reality" diverging from reality. This is why Planck wrote, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Very nice. Hopefully we'll see more of these soon. I'd love to convert a PS4 to a linux machine.
'Quadrooter' flaws affect over 900M Android phones
Or business analyst, or quant in the world of banking/finance. Someone who calls themselves a "data scientist" lacks the awareness that people have been doing this stuff for decades, and therefore also lacks the body of knowledge that has built up over that time. Actually, anyone can download a couple of open source libraries and run the numbers through them, so where is the value-add of "data science"?
I mean domains on no-ip, freedns, dyndns and the like.. that are subdomains are more likely to hit the default limits with Let's Encrypt... I'd like to see some auto-whitelisting for some of the more popular ones.
If everyone were allowed to do anything they wanted without contributing to society, things would collapse very quickly.

You won't find people willing to take jobs in construction, plumbing, electrical, farming, etc if they can choose to do nothing instead.
I've been publishing stuff on the web for years using just a simple scp.
Bloat may be part of the problem, but I don't believe it to be the whole picture.

As Apple started moving to SSD's, I believe they stopped caring about minimizing disk seeking when considering changes to their virtual memory implementation. I had a Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a spinning-rust hard drive, and was constantly getting beachballs when switching between applications (I had FREE RAM and was getting beachballs!!!).

(Apple's ~2012 virtual memory behavior was a strange beast -- it appears it would page an application's memory out to disk so that it could hang on to some disk cache. This was different than what I had become used to in Linux, which always prioritizes application memory needs above disk cache).

Disabling the pagefile solved the beachballs, but with the downside that when I did run out of RAM, the machine basically ground to a halt. I later upgraded that machine to use an SSD, re-enabled the pagefile, and was back to smooth running.

Is bloat the problem? Possibly. More likely it was shifting priorities (minimizing pagefile access probably just wasn't a priority anymore).
Can Fake Rhino Horn Stop the Poaching of an Endangered Species?
English is my first language and I can communicate technical ideas pretty well in it, but I probably couldn't write something that people would actually enjoy reading, like that article. There aren't many people who could write at that level - it was clearly written by a talented professional writer.

I just noticed that this article was actually written by Neal Stephenson, a famous author who has published many novels and non-fiction pieces.[1] He has devoted his life to the craft of writing and has spent decades perfecting that craft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson
scp is useful as always.
And Docker.
Does anyone have metrics on what portion of the welfare receiving population falls into the "apathetic" segment vs the "bust their asses" segment? Seems to me that what side of this issue people end up on comes down to which segment they believe is the majority, and that belief seems to almost never involve critical thinking.
Or rsync...
> She: I've heard that the main thing is to avoid relativism. But I'm a physicist, and that presents a real difficulty. Without relativity there'd be no possibility of making measurements and we'd each be prisoners, to all eternity, in some single point of view. In my discipline, we need the relativity of frames of reference in order even to begin work. I have a special need for relativity because I work on events close to the Big Bang. You don't need relativity, too?

I think it's safe to say that, with this paragraph, Bruno Latour failed the Ideological Turing Test: this conflation of philosophical relativism with the physical theory of relativity is not something that would ever be uttered by someone who knew what the latter is.

It gets worse from there. Please, anyone who's tempted to write a dialogue with a fictional person holding an opposing viewpoint: talk to one first! Find out what their arguments really are! And, if possible, learn their views well enough that your summary would seem accurate to one of them.
There is a valid argument that the postmodernists bring up that the author of this article (and science in general) seems to be ignoring. This is certainly obfuscated by the postmodernist tendency to misuse terminology all over the place, so it's best to use a specific example to illustrate it.

Recently, as I'm sure everyone here knows, the LHC found the Higgs boson. Imagine an exchange between EP, an ecstatic physicist, and SP, a skeptical postmodernist.

EP: We did it, we found the Higgs boson!

SP: Why should I care?

EP: Well, knowing that the Higgs boson means that we finally know that the Standard Model is correct.

SP: That's cool, I guess. So you saw the Higgs boson with your eyes?

EP: No, that's impossible.

SP: How do you know it exists?

EP: Well, there's this cool thing in the LHC called ATLAS. We get beams of protons to collide in the middle of it, and the resulting products set off little signals inside the detector. By processing the results of these signals, we can figure out what byproducts must have been involved...

SP: How can you find that out?

EP: Embarks on particle physics that goes over SP's head

SP: This is the Standard Model you've talked about?

EP: Uh, yes...

SP: So, what you're telling me is that you've just verified the Standard Model by assuming that it was true in the first place?

EP: ...

SP: Walks away in smug satisfaction

What the postmodernist gets right in the argument is that our evaluation of the validity of scientific tools to make observation is based on a model of how science works, and that, without care, you risk creating a circular argument that boils down to proving models correct because you assumed them. What they get wrong is the assumption that this circular argument is unavoidable, and that thus the entire edifice of science is built on shaky ground in the first place (ultimately being simplified down to "there is no such thing as objective reality"). Ironically, what the Sokal exposed is that the postmodernists were just as guilty of the crime they accused scientists of committing: they didn't criticize that which would have proved them correct.

The message for scientists should be that you should always strive to make sure that the tools are working properly. If there were a serious bug in the code used in ATLAS, do you think that the scientists on the project would have been equally diligent in finding and fixing that bug if it made a Higgs boson appear where it didn't actually occur than if it hid the appearance of the Higgs boson?
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I found out about BluesNews from an issue of PC Gamer and was a loyal visitor for many years in the late 90's. Video games are what got me sucked into the PC world. Modding and map making were my introductions to programming. Had no idea it was still around. Surely it's got to be one of the oldest continuously updated web properties by now?
Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder.

or more recently,

Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints, By Gary Snyder and Tom Killion

and

Quiet Light, by John Sexton

or

Places of Power: The Aesthetics of Technology by John Sexton
Masters of Doom, by David Kushner.
"things you make today are going to break down, wear out, or become obsolete thirty years from now."

Planned obsolescence started not too long ago and everything now needs replacing much earlier than thirty years. We can see its inefficiency in every industries generated from this money printing scheme. Turning what once was considered permanent and high quality will now break and need replacing.

Everybody is doing it, and it's hard to stop, but it probably should stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1j0XDGIsUg
I must respectfully disagree. China is the worlds manufacturing center. The power it projects globally cannot be understated.
Wait, is there a temperature measurement out there that's mire intuitive than "water freezes at zero and boils at 100"?
That's one of the best stories in the book! I also like the Great Buffalo Sauna Fiasco.
Even if the element is definitely in the filter, another element can have the same fingerprint. Thus, deleting that event which is definitely in the filter will also cause false negatives for that other element. Isn't that right?
You had me until the 2001 Camry, that's just being a masochist, haha! You can get a reasonably priced, fun car without having to suffer!

I've got an Ergodox, Logitech g700s mouse and three monitors, 32" in the middle with two 24" on the sides, plus a great comfy chair.

Best money I've spent, worth it at 10x the price, considering how much time I'm sitting there...
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

The 256gb SSD proved to be a slight adjustment, but hasn't been a major issue thanks to streaming.
>> The form factor is broken if there's a second device hanging off of it.

That perfectly describes my problem with the tubular Mac Pro. Call me old school, but I loved the old Mac Pro chassis and its internal expandability.
The unfortunate thing is that GitHub flavoured markdown doesn't yet support webm or other types of video embed.
In a large application my rule of thumb is 1/3 compile, 1/3 React internals (which includes DOM updates) and 1/3 product code. 2.5 seconds is a lot, but not surprising if an application is being shipped as a multi-megabyte bundle.

Compiling as a build step doesn't get you very far when you are forced to ship source code to JS engines.
* in theory.
10% Happier by Dan Harris (audio book, narrated by the author)

A light hearted account of a news anchor's introduction to meditation
I'll venture to guess that the healthvault difference might be for sharing information with a doctor or caretaker. Then at least there's the case of deleting incorrect information.
I don't have much opinion on the rest of your translation, but I think this gets it wrong:

> Postmodernists make for shitty programmers

To me one of the big differences with postmodernism is a deep skepticism for grand overarching theories and perfect understandings. I think that's an immensely useful trait for a programmer.

The more I code, the more I treat any digital representation as a deeply distorted image of the reality I'm dealing with. The best I can do is have the distortions match my user's purpose. As Box wrote, "All models are wrong; some models are useful." The modernist continues to seek the perfect model. The postmodernist treats perfection as a fool's errand and ships something that works well enough.

I have seen this problem over and over in my career; a lot of architecture astronautics strikes me as rooted in modernism. But perhaps a good example that everybody can look at is early concepts of AI vs today's machine learning. When I compare Cyc [1], which has spent 30 years trying to build the seeds of perfect knowledge versus today's deep learning, that strikes me as a postmodern shift.

How does a convolutional neural network recognize a dog? We don't exactly know, not in a way that makes much sense to us. [2] But we don't care. The convnet has its own very bounded, limited version of "truth"; as long as we get a 90% match, we ship it and go out for beers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

[2] https://blog.keras.io/how-convolutional-neural-networks-see-...
It makes it less efficient.

Playing with the market causes deadweight losses
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss

Granted, many argue that there are more objectives than sum total economic efficiency.
This is basically a hash collision, two keys hash to the same digest. You'd need to add refcount to keep track, same as bloom counting filters [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Counting_filters]
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer explains how she worked 130 hours a week and why it matters
Aren't save locations different on a per-game basis? So does this need configuration? If not, then how does it work without user intervention?
Thank you so much for this
2 trillion+ already spent and gone and much of the remaining 4 trillion in interest and healthcare for veterans. That money would be more available today and we still have to pay it. Harder to get money now if large amounts are already spent now and in the future, it does impact 2020 budgets. Are you saying debt now doesn't impact spending? It does indeed. The fact the interest will carry for 40 years is telling in how we are budgeting for the wrong things.

Money owed is money owed even if interest only becomes 2 trillion we are still at 4 trillion. It will probably end up as more than 6 trillion as these figures are usually off on the low side. That is money that is on the books that could have been used for infrastructure and is harder to get now.
Last week, my plumber told me how dire the situation was under the house. Even though he is an expert, I still got 2 other quotes.
I was extremely enthusiastic about doing something in optimization just after graduating, but realised that businesses were happy solving things manually and reaching sub-optimal solutions. Also most problems needed to be solved once and there were few use cases of continuous optimization.

Thanks for sharing your story of perseverance and spirit.

Now that you are at it, are there any easy-to-use solutions to solve time-tabling problems for school/colleges. I know of solutions which use GA, but since its a generic problem for every academic institution, someone(you) might want to provide an easy to configure and use solution.
I find the real world analogies quite weak and unnecessary.

If you haven't read it already, this is worth mentioning: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
No Man's Sky – a sci-fi game set in an infinite procedurally generated galaxy
> Wouldn't it be better to have a contracting population that consumes less?

No. Because would you voluntarily sterilize yourself and your partner to live this ideal?

We have an entire solar system to colonize, don't spread your defeatist message before we even get off world.

We have nigh-infinite energy in the form of fission and solar systems. We have infinite food and space. The bottleneck is distribution.
Another alternative to windlep's great post is simply installing both Windows and Linux, and booting in to Windows whenever you need to do some AutoCAD or Photoshop.
If you use github pages you can use the HTML5 video tag, here's an example from my account's Github pages

https://icpmacdo.github.io/

https://github.com/icpmacdo/icpmacdo.github.io
"Ecotopia" by: Earnest Callenbach

"Self Reliance" by: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Iron Heel" by: Jack (fuckin) London!
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers.

It's still my favorite book on business, a short easy read filled with anecdotes from his time running CD Baby. The situations are ones I keep encountering myself running a small business, and the way the stories are written makes them highly memorable & applicable. If I can't decide between opportunities, I remember "Hell Yeah! or No." If I'm working on fraud screening, I remember "Don't Punish Everyone For One Person's Mistake". When working on an MVP and feel it isn't big enough, I'm reminded of "Start Now. No Funding Needed." And it has my favorite twist ending in business.

It's the first book I've specifically bought multiple copies of to give away, including to clients.
> a famous author who has published many novels and non-fiction pieces

Thanks, I should remind myself to always check who wrote whatever I am reading in front of me
This entire post/thread appears questionable. From what I can tell there appears to be 5-6 accounts in coordination (2 are easily identified).

What's even funnier is that, while I don't disagree with Alec's statements, he doesn't appear to be the most qualified person to be speaking on the subject.
An interactive visualization of the world's shipping routes
It would be cool to implement this as githook -> AWS Lambda -> publish to s3 bucket.
>> If I can get you to use HTTPS when you should've used HTTP, it might be a DoS.

Can you explain what you mean by this? Genuinely curious to know how it can lead to DoS?
Boom ditto!
Jio, a new Telco player in India, is also an important new and enabling factor to get Indians online. Already the limited tests peg the usage pattern:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Jios-monthly-...
Lawyers vs marketing people? I think there is a risk that if you try to soften the language, then somebody could claim Microsoft was downplaying the risks even they were clearly aware of them,

Bad things happen and even if Microsoft did everything properly to protect the data, there is always the risk that user is sloppy with managing his credentials and 3rd party gains access to the account that way and deletes something.
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"Still Life With Woodpecker" by: Tom (fuckin) Robbins!

Defined "Outlaw", a philosophy for dope folk.
Even this article says:

> At think tanks like Brookings, the majority of reports and events...have no obvious link to corporate donors.