skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree in principle with most of what you've said here. The server-side is going to be a lot more intelligent in the near future though. My prediction is that every cloud provider is going to have some sort of AWS Lambda service that will eventually become like a server-less toolkit in the cloud. And these platforms could eventually have some augmented intelligence built-in.

Essentially, we can't keep teaching each and every developer database connections, SQL, et al. The cognitive load associated with these sort of programs actually slows down advancement, and the quicker you can setup cloud-powered services that get the job done, the better it will be. Although, I can't say what that will do the livelihood of developers. We'll have to wait and see.
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> That hasn't been true for a while

For building a traditional monolithic website with server side rendering Rails and Django are far faster to develop in than anything in Go, Java or Node and the overwhelming majority of websites will never run into any performance problems with either.

> By way of contrast several years ago I benchmarked a real application hitting 1000 requests/s on a $20 per month Linode box

I have Rails applications that hit the database on every request doing 1000 rps on $10 a month Digital Ocean boxes. 1000 rps is not that much and all of these performance metrics are meaningless without extensive knowledge of how the application works and exactly what it is doing.
Ask HN: Is anyone using json schema?
I am building a JSON editor/viewer that conforms to a schema. It is sort of like a non developer friendly way to edit or view documented JSON. The best resource i've found for any kind of existing JSON schema standard is at http://json-schema.org

Either I have not been paying attention or I have not seen many API's or other JSON related software using any kind of schema for reference or validation.

I'm curious as to the pulse of who's adopted or found using a JSON schema useful or if it has been largely ignored and we're doing just fine without it.
I'd like to see another big player in the os market. Something really new, not based on UNIX (don't get me wrong people...).

Just for the sake of diversity. And maybe the illusory desire of a clean slate.
The Docker logging model of line-by-line stdout/stderr doesn't seem very useful beyond debugging in the local console. I prefer configuring the application logger to ship logs directly to a proper log system when possible.

E.g. Logback is perfectly happy shipping structured logs directly to Kafka or Elasticsearch, with no need to re-parse the formatted log output.
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That is the peak we see right now at ~20-30% utilization overall network/cpu wise, it can do much more easily.

> Binary logging is a must, because even something like string formatting is simply way too slow, by an order of magnitude.

true, string processing takes most of the resources.
Sounds like a neat solution but I guess you haven't heard something that is out there that can do all that and we could use straight out of the box. Problem is we have a lot of data feeds that will keep changing over time so the tool needs a generic infrastructure to accommodate new ones.

I can't believe there is nothing out there. Oh well live and learn.
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You've got the 1st order effects completely right, but there would be several second-order effects that would undermine this result.

(1) There would be a fall in non-skilled wages, increasing demand for non-skilled labour output.

(2) The reduction in marginal costs would increase supply of the good and reduce its price.

(3) The increased profits earned by the firm/robot inventor would increase demand or saving/consumption of other goods.

(4) The change in relative wages would encourage workers to retrain and switch industries.

In 1850, 60%+ of the American labour force were farmers and over the next 100 years their jobs were automated out of existence by range of more efficient 'robots'. This was no-doubt harmful for many specific farm labourers, but didn't 'screw over the economy'.
No; however there are not many vector tile formats publicly defined. MVT is good at what it does.

The generic vector files used in GIS (shapefiles, DGN, KML, GML etc) are not a good fit for tiles - they describe a specific classes of features and do not optimize for tiling (i.e. you must always parse the entire files without regards what extents you are really interested in) - which is fine for generic GIS usage, but not for end-user vector maps.
I've been working on this over the last couple of weeks. The idea is that you can can start a session (click the number at the bottom and choose "independent"). Then other devices can subscribe to it (by entering the id as 'other').

I've built it for:
* demos during talks
* workshop/hack sessions

…seems to work okay so far, but I'd love to know what people think.
As long as actually fails yes, if the switch on the break pedal fails open for example you'd be in a world of hurt. I see where mistakes being made.
You're not factoring in the utility created by freeing up the worker to enjoy themselves. They're consuming the same amount of resources, but they're much happier as well.
> Imagine a worker, earning the bare minimum to survive
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I just clicked into the comments here to say exactly that. The article is a load of cobblers.

There's not even an informative diagram to illustrate that planetary body's oddness.

As for that embedded video - yuck!

It would have been better for the submitter here to have just supplied the paper's URL, said paper even has informative diagrams : http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01808
If we are all made in his image, a bit of him must have been gay, trans, fluid, etc. etc.

Or is this not how it works?
It's quite unfortunate that seems to be a US-only position, you look like a fantastic employer, and I love your challenges.
> ... so lashing out with vague supposed flaws ...

That's funny. Because the reason I said it was that you close issues without pointing out WHAT item in your huge list of ridiculous guidelines (like "I don't accept pull requests") has been broken. LOL.

It's a real asshole move and if anyone actually reads the list of declined issues they can clearly see that people are annoyed by that.
At the risk of making a tu quoque argument - if you want to see unhealthy children television, look no further than Cartoon Network.
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By the same account, electrons are imaginary as well.

Edit for the naysayers: quantum effects too...
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Yeah, that's a good point. Though work could be both positive and negative utility-wise. I guess that depends on the job.
"Politicians need to begin thinking boldly, now, about a world in which driverless vehicles replace most truck drivers’ jobs..."

Can we replace politicians with robots?
But doesn't this rest on the assumption that a working worker uses the exact same amount of oil as a worker not working? I don't think that assumption always true. Or am I missing something?
Let me document all the reasons I dislike the HTML spec: it defines a willful violation of the ECMAScript standard.
In the USA the surest and safest way to do this is to follow the American Dream... ie: buy a house. Specifically, buy a multi-family in a constantly in-demand area / big city. The devil is in the details on the economics of all this... how much you put down vs how much you borrow, etc.. etc... But within 30 years (assuming you get a 30-year mortgage) you will certainly be financially independent. The key is to manage this wisely and ensure you are in a location where you can get near 0% vacancy. Why am I so sure this will work? Because the US economy is designed for this... it's designed to massively leverage yourself up against the collateral of the home. The tax code is designed to basically writeoff your expenses - and even more so if it is your primary residence.
As a layman I find Scientific American goes into sufficient detail that I learn new things but is still approachable enough for me to grasp. They also seem to generally avoid sensationalist writing, providing plenty of caveats when discussing something theoretical or unproven.
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Thats a supply and demand issue though. If disney has taught us anything its that an entire IT team can be replaced by H1-B. Silicon Valley tends to hire mit grads or savants. As those skills become more prevelent however, the demand for those individuals will be driven down. Right now a very small portion of the world cam program and even smaller are good at it. If it becomes more common though, these good wages will no longer be necessary
The French project would be even worse for us French coders.

Symbols used for code would be hidden behind several layers like altgr combinations. While, imo, archaic symbols (ÇÀÉÈàçê, etc) would be on the first layer.

I'm planning on doing the same as parent, using the US layout, but I can't change my keyboard at work, and although I can type in qwerty, I don't know all the layers like I do azerty, so I can't just type without looking.
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> companies that shove ads into users faces

ISPs intercepting traffic and injecting ads that neither the user nor the site owner intended, yeah, I can see how that could be classed as "shoving ads in people's faces", but "here's a free service with ads attached, please either take both or leave both"? What part of that is "shoving"?
but to call them 'outdated' is a bit of a stretch

I didn't say that =)
This link to "Ramasjang" might (or might not) work from outside Denmark:

https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/onkel-reje-og-boernenes-brevkasse-s1...

Most bakers sells "Kaj Cakes", we don't mind eating the cute puppets: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/c72.0.495....
A sufficiently low UBI (survival, not comfortable survival with all kinds of nice-to-haves) would be wage subsidy (or microentrepreneurship subsidy, or subsistence farming subsidy) in all but the most extreme cases of zealous frugality combined with a heavy disinclination to work. Excess money beyond survival is a very strong incentive, much stronger at least than replacing survival level welfare with survival level earning, which is what existing systems routinely expect to happen.
That's an uncharitable characterization, for sure. Though I do remember in my first graduate probability class, the instructor would often say something like "So what do we think the answer should be? Just change the order of integration like so and it falls out. If you're a physicist, you're done! Now we prove it."
This table is quite useful to solve some problems: https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
I used to like this essay, but the folks over at [UPenn's Language Log](http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992) do a great takedown of it, and I am inclined to agree with them. Orwell is extremely hypocritical (which many people try to claim is a "deliberate stroke of genius", with very little evidence to support it).

It's particularly a hit amongst center-left liberals who are emboldened into feeling like they are very righteous by not doing anything at all. The more accurate observation comes from commenter Mark F:

> The reason Orwell's essay makes some people angry is that it depicts violations of stylistic rules as moral violations. Use the passive, it says, and you are playing into the hands of the totalitarians. I think that's also why some people like it; people can feel like they're defending the cause of freedom by writing concisely.

> I tend to side with the former camp. I think people pick up on cant pretty well without his help, except when it's telling them something they already want to believe. And in the latter case his help is no use.
"making it is way"
I think it honestly depends on the political climate at the time: If it looks like a heap of truckers will lose their jobs, the government might step in and try and legislate sideways for jobs to remain - think mandating an operator for safety reasons.

I'm not a national of Australia but spent a significant amount of time there in the lower echelons of the auto industry;
There the government could see that the local auto manufacturing industry was being priced out by lower-cost SEA operations, and not wanting to have "hard-working Aussies" lose their jobs while in power, were pressured into heavily subsidising (> 40%) some factory workers' salaries.

A couple of party changes later and this was wound back, and almost immediately the two largest employers in the sector announced they were pulling out.

The net result was that instead of some workers losing their jobs gradually, or the plants freezing hires and people seeing this an being incentivised to look at alternate industries for light-labour positions, several thousand workers are expected to be laid off all at once some time next year - fodder for a media shit-storm.

It's a bit off the topic, but the question is, where would those workers be if the government subsidies were instead used for educating/re-training?
I don't think the existence of jobs you could quickly retrain to is an eternal law of nature :-(
Undoubtedly there are edge cases where that's true. But as an argument for UBI it works only if the cost savings from labourers being willing to undercut market price of robots in a UBI-era world across the whole economy exceeds the net cost of making welfare payments to a vast number of other people previously ineligible for them.

At present, the numbers of people claiming welfare because their skillset has been superseded by automation are vastly exceeded by the number of people on federal minimum wage jobs or choosing not to be employed...

And that's even before you look at the distributional impact of the subsidy (the benefits from cheaper labour tend to accrue to a subset of business owners; the cost of subsidising it is shared across all taxpayers, with the net burden probably falling on middle class wage earners)

If a government were to decide that preserving jobs in a particular automation-threatened industry/locale were worthwhile due to the difficulty of finding alternative occupations, a targeted subsidy per job would be far more efficient
Sarcasm? Happy to be laid off? Note that I'm not for keeping people employed in useless jobs, but saying about laid-off workers that "they're much happier" is a little weird to me. It would be good if that was so, and the fact that it isn't to me is an indicator that the system does not work well, because it should be that way - but it isn't.
We're talking about automation, so we're talking about developed countries.
It depends on your definition of good. Programming is an office job with low customer interaction (most times), but on the other hand, you might be working quite a bit of overtime or be subjected to meeting after meeting. All without having a decent vacation or sick leave policy.

I'd argue that such things like limits on workweeks, paid sick days that do not risk jobs, and 3-4 weeks off a year (mandatory!) would mean a lot more than the perks over time, but I very much doubt that stuff will happen without government intervention.
What the hell am I reading.
My take:

FaaS will become big.

Back-end development with this will become so easy that a front-end dev can cobble together a pretty performant and secure back-end.

Only FaaS provider will hire back-end devs.

</joke>

I think since much is transitioning to realtime data (which FaaS can't do godo ATM), there is still a huge demand for back-end devs in the next years.
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It's also worth reading Asimov review of Orwell's 1984 (http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm).

There's a kind of person out there who really likes George Orwell, Steven Pinker, David Foster Wallace, Christopher Hitchens, etc. which all pander to a political sensibility that is very self-congratulatory about inaction, and consistently says "things are fine, don't rock the boat, you'll make things worse".

It's ironic that on HN, critics of Orwell's work are said to be "your typical critics", but really, it's Orwell and Pinker and co. that consistently push/pushed out tracts that are critical takedowns of third parties. So their readers are now smugly self-satisfied twice over: once when agreeing with the authors, once while dismissing their critics.
I am old enough (40) with a daughter who is almost 3, to be a little horrified by kids' TV. It's not that there isn't a ton of "good" stuff for her, it's that there is only "good" stuff. There isn't anything not geared toward teaching her math, reading or morals. When I was a kid, that was PBS and a handful of other shows and the rest of it was people whacking the crap out of each other to make me bug my parents to buy toys. I don't think either extreme is particularly wise, but it's strange to me there's nothing aimed at her age range that's simply fun.

Left to her own devices (literally), she scans youtube for videos of off-screen adults playing with toys (which depresses the crap out of me) and 1990s-quality offshore Flash video of the same "Johnny finger" song in various copyright violating incarnations. The song is horrific. Do not go look it up unless you plan on having kids and want to inoculate yourself now, but writing this out I wonder if it's not her looking to simply enjoy something rather than constantly be prompted to solve a shitty math puzzle so we can move on with the plot.

All of this sounds like I am an awful father but in reality we limit her daily screen time to no more than 24 hours.
I think this advice is misunderstood -- part of Orwell's advice here is that you can't always use the active voice. Not, at least, without inflicting worse injuries to the language than with the passive. I read Orwell here as saying that the passive is often used to conceal agency when the active would be both more honest and more natural, not that we should never use the passive.
"Serverless" such as AWS lambda removes the ability to take advantage of so many Computer Science principles that are integral to writing a fast backend. From one request to the next there is no CPU cache optimization, in-memory caching, and no IPC to other useful programs.

Serverless has it's niche for some tasks such as responding to events, but to do any heavy lifting I'd take a handful of beefy VMs over unlimited lamda functions any day.
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There's proof of electrons... Your screen.

edit: there's also proof of quantum effect in the real world.
Nobody seems to be using Argon2 [0].

Argon2 was the winner of the Password Hashing Competition [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon2

[1] http://password-hashing.net/#phc
Indeed. I did not realize what a staggering fraction of blue collar jobs in the US are related, directly or indirectly, to long haul trucking: nearly 9 million. Disappearance of this industry will make the deindustrialization of the rust belt look absolutely trivial by comparison.

https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-goin...
If cops weren't dumb, they wouldn't be cops.
Reminds me of the "nuisance abatement vehicles" used for controlling riots
Well the original argument assumes that the welfare is equivalent to their salary (otherwise they'd be consuming less resources), so yes they'd probably be happier.
I don't know what they are showing on CN in general right now, but I'm an adult who watches the regular show and Steven Universe, and would very much watch the latter together with my children if I had any.
It's hard to answer this without writing my life story :-) I live in Shizuoka prefecture, right on Suruga bay. We live in what I think is the most expensive apartment in town -- it costs $600 a month. It's a concession to my wife who put up with the $120 a month shack that I loved to death (but that she called a haunted house -- they tore it down after we moved out ;-) ).

I work as a software developer on contract to an English company. We spent 2 years in London, before moving back to Japan. Before that I worked as an English teacher in the high school in this city. Before that I was a software developers for 20 years or so.

I actually started in research labs too. I worked my way through school (or rather, I got free tuition because my father was a prof, and I paid for my other living expenses by working for various departments while I was in school). I didn't always have this idea of living cheaply... I had a house, a car, 2 dogs, the works...

I've had a few times in my career where I absolutely hated my job. One day I just quit. I had no prospects and no idea what to do. I was just done with the place I was working at. The next day, not knowing what to do, I started fixing some bugs on free software projects. I just kept doing that every single day, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 8 months. It was at that point that I realised that I liked programming ;-)

I've been very, very poor a couple of times in my life. Once in my early twenties I spent a few months in London. I had enough money for either meat or beer, so I became vegetarian (which lasted... until I got married ;-) ). I remember being happy every day despite being unbelievably poor. There were a couple of times that I ran out of money on a Thursday and was unable to eat until I got paid on a Monday. That taught me the importance of budgeting ;-)

Other times have been like I described above. I got paid a good salary as a programmer, but was often unhappy. I decided to quit my job (or the companies I worked for decided to run out of money) and I took a sabbatical to write free software.

One day I met a guy who suggested I go teach English in Japan. I only meant to go for a year in order to learn Japanese and improve my presentation skills. I stayed for 5 years.

At that point, I asked my wife, "What should we do? Do you want me to make a lot of money? I'm sure I could as a programmer. Or we could open a brewery. Or I could become a tour guide. Or I could..." And then it dawned on me. I could do anything because we had learned over the years to live on tiny amounts of money.

It's freedom more than anything else. These days we spend quite a bit more than we used to. My wife even has a car (bleh...). Getting the balance right is tricky ;-)
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I'm not really sure we are going to see the kind of job losses from robots/AI that people fear, not within the next 10 years anyway
Can someone please correct the it's in the title?
German retailer 'Mediamarkt' ( electronics ) already uses e-ink price-tags and displays for over a year now. Seen in NL.
For me, this sums up the current state of front-end web dev. If you have so much JS on page that it affects scrolling, the problem is not the scrolling...
Somebody elected them, so they are not the cause but he effect. Even a guy like Trump finds a lot of support from voters. So it seems to me ranting about politicians is like treating the skin rash when someone has measles. Sure, choice is very limited especially in winner-takes-all systems like the UK or the US, but even so, the politicians you get can then be viewed as consequence of the system, so again the secondary issue.
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Get some copies of the classic Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry 1940-1950 for example. (not the sixties it all goes downhill, the drawing isn't as good, they begin talking, too much characters).