skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the reaction on hn to a population aging story a few days ago was interesting. No one mentioned AI or robots. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12225518 )

Some aging countries will face a severe loss in standard of living if they fail to automate huge parts of the economy. Presumably the worlds population will not continue to grow infinitely and at some point labor shortages will be a big problem.

One of the most destructive outcomes could come from poor government policy during an economic transition. Socialist or capitalist is one thing, but policies which are in direct opposition to another is another ( e.g. Venezuela, Zimbabwe.)

There are also big AI existential risk issues, but I think that is separate from the labor impact.
> the things you mentioned are not strictly what a driver does.

They are according to the drivers I know. Long haul truckers are not like pilots. They are much more involved with their rigs. They are actually responsible for maintenance. They are the ones talking to the cops when/if they hit an inspection station.
Now, yes, but not when I was doing this for the first time.
While open source software and free software refer to roughly the same set of software, the ideology is different.

Open source is about collaboratively building tools for developers and businesses, or simply because collaboration produces better software. The software is often released under permissive terms. Apple participates in open source projects.

Free software is focused on the end user having freedom over their software by ensuring that they have the ability to read, modify, and redistribute it. Apple does not give these rights to users of their platforms.

The post that was linked was the FSF, which argues from the free software perspective.
I just remember at the time being shocked that the EFF had endorsed a compromise but no longer remember the details. I'll have to google for it and see if I can find it now.
It's not a zero sum game.
The one thing he's consistantly wrong about is that it is acceptable to run a full free-software system RIGHT NOW. For most of us, it would be awkward at best, impossible at worse.

It's still better than it used to be...
Do you ever wonder if he's just... I dunno, trolling us? Or performing some strange social experiment he'll write about at the end of his life?

I just don't understand how a man who wrote a book with such a thorough understanding of empathy can display so little of it in life.
Happy 25th Birthday to the Public Web
The talk on finding vulnerabilities in dtrace to escalate privileges seemed to be the most interesting/terrifying to the attendees. Definitely worth watching: https://www.joyent.com/about/events/2016/dtrace-conf/videos/...
I don't know what is the obsession of westerners with Cantonese. There are several chinese languages spoken in Singapore. The most widely spoken is Hokkien (~50% in singapore) followed by the Teochew language (~25% of chinese in singapore). Cantonese is spoken by much fewer people in Singapore as well as in mainland China.
Based on my impression of the hawker trade in Singapore, this is pausible. I am guessing his 17 hours probably consists of the following:

2-3 hours of food preparation in the early morning.
12 hours of manning his stall.
The remaining hours for commuting and other work things maybe.

It is likely with the michelin star he can work fewer hours. He can choose to close his stall once he sells all his meat.

It is a hard way of making a living.
I didn't say that I _agreed_ with the original comment, I was giving examples of why people might draw parallels.

Personally (as someone from a non-US country) I think the US's system of government is quite flawed in how much power it gives to presidents -- in Australia nobody gives a shit about the Prime Minister. All that matters is what the party in power is pushing for (and what the representatives vote for).

So, while I think Trump in power won't end well, I feel like this is not a problem with Trump but rather with a system of government that allows individuals to have that much power. Just because Trump is the threat _today_ doesn't mean that he is where our attention should be directed.
I considered doing this with my hugo blog, but decided I wanted to do the work on my client and keep my server stupid. In order to build my site, I have a lot of minification, pdf generation, syntax highlighting etc, that requires a few packages to be installed on the client.

If my server had to rebuild after a git push of a new post, I'd have to install all of the tooling on the server. I just commit my post, then run npm deploy which rsyncs all the static assets to the server after building on the client. This also makes it so I can see everything on my client easily before deploying. If I was building a blog for someone else though, this would make sense, stupid client, smart server, commit from anywhere.
If the book is so generic that someone can suggest it here, then it's not a good gift.

But a great philosophy is below. People will appreciate the gesture and you'll never get cranky about lent books never returned.

“It's a gift. Never lend a book.”

― Bill Adama
There was a compromise around CALEA which was one of the precipitating factors in EFF's split into CDT and EFF. As an EFF member during the early Crypto Wars and a staff member since just before September 11, I'd be surprised to hear about a compromise on Clipper; I haven't heard any of the 1990s-era employees mention such a thing.
A UBI might make us all poorer because we will no longer be able to get dirt cheap goods like McDonald's food produced by people in situations that amount to wage slavery made survivable only by welfare. Without the hidden subsidy of welfare and the stronger bargaining power that comes from the other party being desperate, McDonald's would have to charge a more realistic price that many customers would find makes their food even less palatable. But does this change make the market more or less efficient? I don't think it's a foregone conclusion either way—that's why it's a fun topic to consider.
> Who knows what they will spend the extra money on, could be healthcare, boats, TVs, whatever. But new jobs will be created in these expanded industries.

> It really, really bothers me the constant "x technology will drive x people out of work, therefore we need Universal Basic Income, so they won't starve!"

This is incredibly fanciful look at the future. The population cannot grow AND lose jobs to machines. Disruption is having its own variant of Moore's Law, in that, we are disrupting more industries at a faster rate.

UBI, or some form of which, will not only be necessary, but likely inevitable. The improvement of humanity you speak of is in fact a humanity that will survive on creativity, not labour. Labour is done.

Additionally, capitalism doesn't care about "expanded industries" any more than Moore's Law cares about engineers who made their career in the 1980s.

The transition is necessary, and it will be hard, and it won't happen without social security. It's a complete fantasy to see it happening any other way.
Like I said, that's all I see. I doubt these systems are backed by LDAP, but that's irrelevant.
Cubase in an Atari ST emulator works great with MIDI devices. I wonder if in the future there could be integration in these web emulators with the Web MIDI API.
>Exploitation of the public's fear, >promises to make the country great again,

Xenophobia. Us versus them. Rejection of internationalism. Lack of empathy towards others (e.g. pro torture, pro going after the families of suspected terrorists, etc). Blatant dishonest and a disregard for facts, even when presented with proof.

Yes, when people are caught up in an election, every slight disagreement or preference seems pressing, but this time I think Trump is actually a first in so many regards and has created an alternative to the regular left-right heterodoxy that has controlled America for the better part of the century. This is cult personality nationalism that hasn't made its way to the modern US in any meaningful way until now
I have a side hobby (ie no profit) of getting US residents (through word of mouth) treatments in India, Thailand, and Mexico that are anywhere between 1/20th and 1/80th the cost of US healthcare. Not much other choice until more Americans are outraged (versus current apathy).
And nowadays, if it were based on misissued certificates, Google would have (a lot of) real-time reports about it from pinning violations. Although maybe an attacker could be selective about never attacking something with a pin, and trying to block any kind of pinning violation report.
15 years ago marks the crashing of the dotcom bubble, which was used to recover from the recession of the early 90s, which was caused by Reagan ruining the country.

I couldn't disagree more. The US economy was crap through most of the 1970's. The 1980's was one of the strongest periods of growth in the US for a long time. And the growth in wages was across all income quintiles. In fact, the runaway growth for the top income brackets started to take off in the 1990s.[1]

[1]http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Household-...
That was wonderful, thank you :-)
Sure enough :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ojb2x2R28&feature=youtu.be
Going to go off topic here, but I grew up in communist Slovenia back in the day where you had to pay the TV license fee if you owned a TV set. Now, the government provided an official method of canceling the TV "subscription" without physically hauling off the TV appliance, by sealing the electrical plug.

I have a fond memory of one day when my grandma decided to cancel her TV fee. An actual lineman came in at some point, came into the house, stuck this metal lockout device over the plug, and sealed it with a lead (Pb) seal. It was one of my favorite things to play with because it was so squishy and easy to dent.
The language used in sociology does deny the existence of objective knowledge, for excellent reasons that sociologists are happy to explain. It's a way to manage a massive problem.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160529025038/http://www.cardif...

We might know objectively that matter is made of atoms, and sociologists know that too; but Dalton, Boyle and Lavoisier didn't know it. It's easy to tell a story about what they did and why they did it, and the story will end with everyone finding out that matter is made of atoms. But, in order for the beginning of that story to be an objective explanation of what people did, it has to make sense whether or not matter turns out to be made of atoms.

Causality runs forwards in time. Therefore, atoms were discovered as a result of the actions of people who didn't know about atoms, and atoms did not directly affect the actions that led to their discovery.

If atoms caused the discovery of atoms, it would have happened ten billion years ago, not two hundred.
The sociologists struggle with the level of confidence portrayed by most scientists. They may all today claim X=1, but the sociologists see that yesterday they claimed that X=2. That confidence, in light of conflicting history comes of as arrogance.

Scientists feel they need to portray absolute confidence because they know septics will latch onto anything to justify their views (see climate change). The problem is that disinterested parties, the sociologists, identify this conflict as a problem that scientists seem to ignore. Should the general public better understand science scientists could possibly shed the absolute confidence act, mooting the problem.

It's like talking to an ER doctor. The doc knows he is only 80% sure of a diagnosis, but the patient needs to see absolute confidence. They are the ones going under the knife. Should the patient better appreciate the science, the doc might be more honest. But given the average patient, the public, the act is necessity.
It's not about the need of new hardware, it's about a company selling you 4 years old computer for the price of a 2016 device.

The Iphone 5 is good enough for the job but you wouldn't you buy an Iphone 5 for $800, would you?

The thing is that if you take today a 2012 MBP the last ones that were upgradables you can, for a few hundred buck make it much more powerful than and 2016 MBP
"The Way to Happiness" by L. Ron Hubbard is a common-sense moral code. It's inspired me to be a better person in different ways (e.g., as a husband, professionally, personally, etc.). I gave it to a plumber in Sydney once (I used to hand them out) and he came back and asked for a few more for his mates "because they could use it".

http://www.thewaytohappiness.org
With or without UBI, people actually don't want crappy mcdo food. They want good food. But good food cost money and and/or takes time to prepare.
So instead of having minimum wage workers working their asses to make some owner millionaire, we may actually get chefs and cooks paid what they deserves.
So, bring UBI, at least it will stop this stupid race to the bottom. And then lets cancel UBI, I don't believe it is anymore sustainable than the current narcissistic/corporatism regime going own, but it cold be a buffer, while we move forward without back-pedaling.
Voting is predicated on privacy, to prevent being unduly influenced.
One reason might be too attract a certain kind of clientele. I know AirBnB people who charge less than what the market will bear, because they know that at a higher price point customers will be much more demanding - both because of the psychological impact of paying more, but also because the kind of people who can afford $100/night are likely to be older and more picky.

Similarly, by charging less and having a line out the door you get to enforce standardization and other nice things on your customer base.
You do realize that most people don't live in Silicon Valley or NYC, right?

I'd say a small fraction of the US population is paying "80%" of income for rent.
1. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Repeatedly (to different people).
This is what has kept me from reading them, I greatly enjoy military fiction (especially when you add sci-fi into the mix, I semi-recently read the whole Honor Harrington series and loved it).
How do H1-Bs send jobs overseas? The visa brings people into the US. They pay taxes, and many go on to become Americans (or try to).
User Retention Goes Beyond Than Just Collecting an Email
It's not baffling. The same anti-gay, pro-genocide themes are present throughout most of Card's novels and short stories.
There will always be scarcity of some sort or another, and there will always be want of something. There is also a predilection to be the person with the most stuff, and robots only accentuate that those with capital are the ones who are winning.

Maybe at some point people will just throw up their hands and start to embrace higher taxes on capital and UBI, but I'm not holding my breath.
> or 2% farmed and 62% were on UBI - who would have had the time or incentive to create computers, software, advances in healthcare, etc?

The 62%, obviously.
I used to give Dune to my teenage relatives and it usually turned them into avid readers; they would thank me later. I noticed that it doesn't hold the interests of the recent teenagers in the family; it is hard to get them to start and even harder to get them to finish. I think competition from the internet, youtube and cellphone is just too strong. That is horrible because developing a passion for reading helps lot in highschool/college/life. I've offered to pay them $100 and they still won't read it!
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas. I'd read thousands of books, novels, and other literature and never had an answer to "your favorite book?" and thought I just wasn't meant to ever have one... Until I read it. Since then, I've bought copies solely to have on hand to gift to people I actually care about.

To drive home the point of just how much I loved this book, I went on to learn French just so I could read it in the original print.

Make sure it's the full, unabridged edition (1200 or 1400 pages), though!

(Just to throw in a nonfiction title as well, Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is a great gift for scientifically-inclined minds (esp younger ones) looking for a first foray into the world of nonfiction, wittily-written and well-narrated.)
Good thing Apple price these relics competitively. They don't?
Article with such a title doesn't have a mention of transhumanism. I'm sorry I don't have time for this.
It's probably unfair to compare bugs to bugs, since with a typed language, your compiler and editor caught many "bugs" before they even hit your application.
I've been getting more and more life out of my Apple stuff. For example, my early 13" 2011 MacBook Pro (2.3 GHz i5, 8gb RAM) feels like a much newer machine now that I replaced the spinning disk with an SSD. For what I'm doing with it, things are great. I have the feeling that macOS Sierra will be the last OS X version that will run on it, though. At that point, I might finally do an upgrade, which I plan to keep for a 5 year cycle if at all possible.
I have given Humans of New York book as a gift to a friend of mine and now preparing another one to another friend.

Mainly because I think the book has so much great quality photo essays, worth keeping it for a long time, sit down, flip it through from time to time and enjoy the beautiful stories.
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. A stoic tenet plus it grounds everyone once you realize not even the power and wealth of a Roman emperor is enough to escape certain realities and you need to re-adjust your definition of success.
Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber. It's pretty much my Bible, and is all that needs to be said about the nature of my secularism. I tell people it's a cool book about vampire myths, though.
TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)
I bought an Intel NUC for a home media box. Was also looking at the Mac Mini, as the low end one would have been fine, but i couldn't get past the fact that it has a slow spinning disc. In the end, I got an SSD for the NUC and have been loving it.

I'm really hoping that Apple moves away from spinning disks all across the Mac mini lineup.
This has been my most recommended book lately.
"A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco." -- Josh Wills.
If production ends up centralized not through some communist revolution, but merely by advancing technology, do we still end up with an essentially centralized economy? It's hard to even call it an economy, it's more a distribution schedule driven from the bottom by a fear of a bloody uprising.
A couple years ago a friend gave me 'It Starts With Food' and after reading it I bought it for at least a half-dozen of my friends. It was truly life changing for me and my approach to food and health. Within a couple weeks I went from having hypertension/pre-hypertension to normal blood pressure and over the course of 6 months or so I lost 40 lbs. Changing my diet to 'whole' foods redefined for me what hunger was. My daily diet had been one of going from one sugar high to the next. What I interpreted as hunger and a big appetite were in fact cravings for sugar.

Admittedly, it may be a bit below the reading level for the average user here but I can't recommend this book enough. Especially for those of us that sit in front of a computer all day. Take a look at the reviews at Amazon which are numerous and nearly unanimous. Do yourself a favour and give it read.

https://amzn.com/1628600543
Well, the converse argument is that most dynamically typed languages allow you to explore the codebase in a REPL by playing with it. And there's a reasonable amount of noise that is added by static types, since often the types don't tell you how to use them, so you have to read the docs anyhow.

Which really means there's a big difference between static types that everyone knows and uses, and those that someone invented for particular use. That difference seems more significant than the static/dynamic divide.
> Humans have a tendency to always think "it's different this time".

Humans also have a tendency to always think "it'll stay the same as is right now".
I've done time in county jails, state and federal prisons. On average, the phone call length you can make is 15 minutes max. You can make them 15 minutes apart. In the Alaskan state prison system, a 15 minute phone call from me cost my dad $33. How is that punishing me?
what are you doing now?
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Enders Game
Speaker for the Dead
A Brief History of Time
I Am a Strange Loop
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (5 or 6 book trilogy)
Dune
Isn't the point of UBI to get everyone access to the capital share of GDP?
in the US the chinatowns (used to be) largely populated by toisanese emigrants. it is now mostly HK/China prestige yue and mandarin speakers, but the traditional image of the american Chinatown is seiyap.
It's due to the fact that Cantonese is the main language that Westerners will encounter if they ever visit their local Chinatown.

Singapore is actually unusual compared to other diaspora communities in that most of the emigrants were from Fujian province, not Canton.
Yeah it is a pretty generic title. Regardless it fits my job description pretty well I am an Engineer I work with data.

The people who do the work you mention (schemas etc) are called Database Admins here. They work for Information Services - different department I'm not all that familiar with.
Thing Explainer.
If that worked then it would be a short term fix that would run out when the third world countries are elevated to the same state.
> Like most things in economics, the slowdown boils down to supply and demand: the ability of the global economy to produce goods and services, and the desire of consumers and businesses to buy them. What’s worrisome is that weakness in global supply and demand seems to be pushing each other in a vicious circle.

This is the sort of thing that makes people think economists live on a different planet. "Demand," in particular the "desire of consumers and individuals" for things, is something we have in spades- for a good example, walk down a main street of any city and you'll find some people who desparately want to stop being homeless. The problem, and on a more general scale this is the whole problem of our kind of economy, is that their demand doesn't matter.

These homeless people could, in many cases, work- they could do things that generate more value than they require in exchange to live decent lives. But their kind of work is ubiquitous, and they have no control over the market for it; as a result, the market has been manipulated by much more savvy actors to shift that labor market against them. Once this happens to a kind of laborer, an entire segment of "demand" is functionally removed from the economy.

The answer to that sort of thing has been known for ages- unions, substantial minimum wages, perhaps even basic income. But while the article talks about the kind of economic inequality that these measures combat, it does an impressive job of not putting two and two together. Economic stagnation and inequality are two sides of the same coin, but no one talks about this- because the managers of the economy are, predictably, wealthy, and have everything to lose to redistribution of wealth.
I'm not sure I follow.

Why not test with something that implements the reader or writer interface, but shuffles bytes around in memory? That should alleviate the testing explosion.

And whatever interface you do have must be putting bytes in our getting bytes out of the protocol layers. Why not call that interface reader or writer?

I'm not seeing the distinction.
It did for me. My second conviction sent me down for 7.5 years and it was only about 5 years into that bit that I said, "okay, I quit. I'll be good now."