skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure of the research, but I think your impression is correct to a point.

I think for lower-income buyers, the initial cost is prohibitive - even with long-term savings and benefits. And I'm guessing some banks would hesitate to give the extra loan money as well if you don't have the income to support it.

It is kind of like buying a decent pair of shoes. If you are working retail, it muchly benefits you to buy good shoes. But you have to save for those shoes because of income limitations: If your current shoes wear out before you can buy new ones, you get sucked further into a cycle of cheap new shoes.

It really doesn't matter if you get long-term benefits or have a great desire to be environmentally friendly if you can't afford to do so. I think once we have a decent used car market with them and the price comes down to soemthing on par with higher-emission vehicles, there will be a much larger change.
laff, forbes won't let me use their site with an ad blocker.
Ugh, when you say "Lisp" you're talking about "Common Lisp"?

AI industry has invested into a lot of languages, including Scheme, but also including stuff like C++/Java/Python/Ocaml. Trivially Google has invested more in Python AI than $2 billion, and I wouldn't be surprised if Jane Street has invested more than that in OCaml AI. So I'm not really sure what you're trying to prove here.
P.S.

I don't deny that it works, but it isn't AI (not that statistical clustering isn't possibly a foundation for AI -- we have no idea -- but the current state-of-the-art is a far cry from the sci-fi meaning of the term).
This is complete bullshit.

As a moderately anxious person I have a completely different internal experience on an American subway vs. one in Tokyo. I have almost no anxiety in Tokyo. Why? it is one of the safest big cities in the world. Theft, terrorism, assault, and general creepiness are almost non-existent and everyone knows it and behaves accordingly.

In contrast, you have to be much more aware on American mass transit to avoid problems. American mass transit is far more dangerous than in Tokyo and it is almost instantly apparent to anyone paying attention. You'd be a fool not have situational awareness on an American subway because there is a higher probability of personal harm.
We need a site ban for forbes.com due to their actively filtering people with ad blocking and history of serving up malware-laden ads. Thank you for the alternate link.
For the same reason they haven't already gone to school to get a better job than the one they currently have: they either don't have the money or the mental capability to do it. What makes you think this is going to change?
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Most of whom are dead I'm presume, and her circles were/are perhaps composed of similar freelancers who are also barely scraping by, though not homeless and thus not in a position to help given limited retirement funds?
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I was offered a job at a firm that uses Embarcadero Delphi to program all of their products. I love to learn new things but I am worried that I will be wasting my time learning a dead language. Will future employers look down on me for not using a more modern language at my previous employer? Should I ask for a higher salary because of any potential future hits? Are there other concerns I am not considering?
I think if you're pinpointing a move from File & Print to app servers and tying it to the move from Netware to Windows it would more be a combination of Netware's difficulties in stably running multiple apps (it was a rock-solid platform for file and print but less stable as an app. server) combined with Microsoft's "aggressive" moves during that period to supplant Novell and Lotus in the office server marketplace.
Firstly we do not need humans to "handle robots directly" now or even in the near future. Secondly it is highly wishful thinking that we would need 4 people to administrate or clean a robot as well. Going to be honest here, this doesn't hold any weight at all.
I think the biggest potential threat here is the rising skill requirements. AI / robots are eliminating the least skilled jobs, and creating highly skilled jobs. Out of work truck drivers aren't going to get jobs working at Google's self-driving car team. No new jobs will be created for humans that a robot could do, just like no one thinks about using a horse to power a machine. At some point, the bottom 10-20% in intelligence and education could be unemployable through no fault of their own.
You can't save up for mishaps of life. Chronic disease, cancer can cost a lot more money than people can save up. That is why you buy insurance in case your house burns down. Catastrophic events are not things you can save up for in advance. Do you suppose that people should save up for in case their car crashes or their house burns down?

Of course not. The whole point of insurance is that most people pay in more than they get back. A few take out way more money than they put in. That is acceptable because those who pay more, get safety in return. That is the whole point of a welfare system. Most pay more in than they get back, but they get safety back. They get the certainty that if their life should get screwed up by chronic disease, accidents etc, then there is something to fall back on.
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Names/values can tell you the what. Comments can tell you the why.
Amazon will come to Israel if they deem it profitable. They aren't exactly Google Fiber though, so I think they would avoid locating themselves in areas with poor connectivity options in the first place.
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> nothing (and surely not naive techno-optimism) prevents it from coming to the West.

Well, if you stop dividing people into "West" and not West, and consider the whole world without artificial borders as just humanity, it's already the case.
Ah good point - at least for Volkswagen...Yahoo has other confounding factors (their sale, etc.) but overall the impact is probably a short-term shock with few longer-term lagging effects.
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> What I don't get is how what is happening now is fundamentally different to the point where the economy won't correct?

Used to be, worse came to worst, you'd just go be a hired hand for someone: a farmhand, a servant, a soldier, a sailor, etc. It also used to be that four walls and a roof was a home and bread and what-you-can-grow was food. Our standards of living are different now, at least in developed nations. We also had social structures that included multi-generational communities. So the grandparents, older relatives, etc. would watch the children, help around the house, etc.

Also, people ate worse, got sick more, and died younger.
So when assembly line automation occurred in Detroit, those people moved on to what positions? Because... it would appear the entire place is now in shambles and never recovered. Lots of people living in what can only be described as abject poverty with no hopes of EVER getting another job that will pay them what they once earned.
Most of this suggestions offer only something like a 20% discount. They are far from free.
My post was.neither childish nor an insult.

Facts have no effect on you either then?
You're lucky. You also get to avoid the autoplaying video with audio. I'd recommend the mods switch to the timeout link.
I don't think this time is the same because of the scale and the cost accounting pressures that were not present last times.

First: Drivers obviously: 10 million people. Fast food: 3 million. Walmart: 1.4 million. Etc.

Secondly: offshoring (NAFTA and TPP) was never happening at the scale those treaties are indented to impart.

These two things could decimate the US workforce if they're not contained.
But when you raise the bar to "better than a desktop PC" it is like going from "well the burden is on chess computers to prove their machine really plays chess" to "the burden is on chess computers to prove they're better than humans (and it's not real until they do.)". That is too high a bar.

My only objection is on this suggestion - that they have to find something it's already better at than a desktop PC (with literally billions of transistors).

I quoted the part I objected to.
This article seems to be about a correlation between anxiety and right wing views, which is fine, but obviously not the whole story; generally speaking the opposite is more likely if we're talking anxiety disorders, not just general anxiety[0].

The single anecdote of 'conservatives look at offensive pictures more frequently' is extrapolated to mean that they are irrationally anxious about the future. This is not to mention that this entire line of reasoning is based on the premise that conservatives are looking at 'aversive images' out of fear/anxiety.

There is nothing wrong with rational fear of future possibilities, it is an important and integral aspect of how we make decisions about the future.

[0]-http://neuropolitics.org/Anxiety-Depression-and-Goal-Seeking...
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Those people could just use Via for the exact same thing.
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Because Cloudflare uses Anycast there is no change in the public IP address for a request that hits us. It will be routed to the nearest data center (of which we now have 100 cities covered globally). The Traffic Manager product controls how that traffic is the routed to the origin server (if the request could not be served from cache).

As the active monitoring is performed from each location separately the Traffic Manager applies its policies in each location and can automatically route around connectivity problems in the Internet as well as origin server problems. All without changing public DNS.

This allows us to do very fast failover and route changes because this is independent of the propagation time for DNS on the public Internet. Solutions based on changing DNS records are suboptimal.
They don't mind that it could be confused with the noun ?
My median San Francisco uberpool fare was (rounded) $3. Assuming similar per-mile rates it doesn't take long to break even.
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> If the names/values are chosen well their purpose will be self evident.

I don't see how. If I pick a particular value for a config setting, it's obvious what value was chosen, but there's nothing to suggest why that value was chosen.
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Below 125th street is something like 80% of Manhattan's area and probably 90% of the population (including half of Harlem), so it's really not particularly limited. They just are cutting off the outskirts since there likely isn't a high enough density of UberPool users up there for it to make sense.
I use a Qubes Debian VM for dev work. Works fine, except that it runs gnome-keyring by default, which breaks ssh, and restores this config everytime I upgrade (but easy to fix when it happens).
That particular issue, yes — but it wouldn't help me set up a new phone.
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I was working just days ago on a page which injects a script with `document.write`, console open, in Chrome latest. Never saw a warning.
I love how the leftists are taking the points down without commenting. The comments I made are factual and can be backed up. But let's not allow some facts to get in the way of our emotions over some violent people, who, more often than not, deserved to be shot by law enforcement.

Fact: if you act violently, don't comply with a lawful order, take your protest violent in any way, shape, or form, you deserve what you get.

I grow weary of how the attitudes of Americans have changed. A few years ago, no one would have batted an eye at cops doing their thing. Now? Cops are the enemy, even when its learned the person shot was a known criminal.

If criminals get shot, good. It's evolution removing the stupid, non-complying, and evil from society. Chicago is a pure example. You NEVER, EVER hear the media talk about black on black crime, which is what Chicago is. It's not guns, people. If those gang banger thugs only had knives or bats, the same amount of deaths would occur. Look at south east Asia for examples. Guns are difficult to come by, so the thugs there use knives, cleavers, bats, hammers, cars.

Personally, Chicago is a culling of the stupid. Let them kill themselves. The women are better off when stupid men are removed from the gene pool. Those poor kids whose dad would be part of a gang deserve better, anyway, not that dads in black communities are even really present. Most black women are unmarried and have two or more kids, usually not from the same man. "Dad" is busy being a thug, stealing, raping, selling dope, sitting around without a job with his thug friends eating, drinking, and smoking. This is NOT a stereotype. I've seen this for years with my own eyes in my own big city.
All you've done so far is spread FUD, and repeat issues were first visited 100+ years ago, and which have constantly been revisited over that century. Looking now, there was a set of articles about public health and constitutional issues for the centenary, like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449224/ and the topics on the sidebar. You'll note that it goes into the changing understanding, in part to avoid new atrocities.

You haven't added anything new. Even your complaints about 'trusting of "the government"' are older than my parents. By "added nothing new", I mean that the existing policies have long since tried to respect people with viewpoints similar to yours.

You haven't proposed anything better than what we have now. All you seem to want to do is throw away a framework which has seemed to mostly work for generations.

You also malign me and the system with your statement "trust in the purity of the process". No system is pure, including whatever alternative you might propose. But yes, the vaccine system we have is a lot more transparent and externally verifiable than most of what goes on in government. What angels do you think will run things for us?

Of course different countries have different vaccine policies. The world isn't in lock-step, different countries have different levels of wealth and medical care, and many diseases are only regional. Most people in the US don't need the typhoid vaccine or yellow fever viral vaccine, even if they are required in places where those diseases are common.

The case law says that children with contraindications and adults are not required to follow a vaccination schedule. That's what I mean when I say that children with a medical reason do not need to follow the schedule.
You say that like anyone can just up and go back to university or simply create their own service (presumably some new, inventive one because the one they just had is already nearly perfected by machines). Neither of those things are especially easy to do with a decent paycheck, and these people wouldn't even have that.
But haven't those other corrections been somewhat painful for many people? I think the fear here is that this is so much larger because instead of letting one person do the work of 10, leaving the other 9 to do something new, this is just replacing all 10 across numerous classes of work, leaving few to no new jobs. It's going to be a lot more painful for a lot more people than previous corrections. It could result in violence, starvation, and the collapse of the middle class, leaving the have-not's entirely at the mercy of the haves with no recourse to get out of that situation.
Would be good to know what "up to" means in "up to 1000 times faster". By any chance, isn't it the same "up to" as in "you can win up to 100 million dollars in a lottery"?
For the small data use cases I've seen, Solr always returns results quickly. You're limited in how you can query it - it's modeled as one giant table, and the query syntax is much more idiosyncratic than SQL.

Postgres is really reliable, and I think a lot of the performance difference comes from robust transactions. For some use cases you can use both and replicate data or query one + the other in sequence.
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Looking back at the thread, I started by saying "it doesn't make anyone else dumber, weaker or uglier".

You talked about "dumb", "weak" or "ugly" instead, and have stuck to it.

So I suppose you're right within your changed phrasing, because you chose to talk about something different than my point.
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Yeah I mean if you think the quality of life is higher anywhere in Texas than San Francisco obviously I'm not going to convince you of much.

edit. yeehaw, downvotes
It wouldnt matter, she went over a decade living off savings and getting by without the journaling gigs she built her career on.

Even in your personal finance pro world you would fail to avoid this exact situation
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The reason this time is different is that the pace of change is faster than the workforce can respond to it.

In the past, a displaced worker could transfer their skills or pick up a new skill relatively quickly (6mo-1yr).

Today though, it's much harder for a high-school educated person to completely change their skill set to building ML systems.

I think this is solvable through education programs and shifts in how humans can train machines, but so far those systems aren't being built or deployed.
I live in Manhattan. This is a rip off. The Uber Pool rides can take up to an hour sometimes, they drop off and pick up up to five people on your way. Uber if you are reading this, everyone in NYC realizes what a waste of time Uber Pool is.
Those were the 50 and 60's, C was yet to be invented and only became competitive against Fortran compilers after restrict was added (C99) and the special scientific extensions from the ANSI working group for numerical computing.

Should C compiler vendors also given up against Fortran compilers?
Before you get all excited about this, it's ONLY UberPOOL and your destination must start and end in Manhattan. So if you use this to commute for two weeks you're paying 10 (edit: obviously 100/20 = 5, it's early. leave me alone) dollars flat for a cab ride that you share and will take longer than normal because of the overhead of splitting the ride.

There are certainly some people for whom this will be cost effective, especially if they spend most of their day traveling to places they can be 5-10 minutes +/- their target arrival. However for people like me who live on the east side of Manhattan and commute to FiDi it doesn't actually save a worthwhile amount of money.

Also forbes is incredibly spammy so here's the link directly to the promo: https://www.uber.com/info/plus/newyork/
The biggest example is Intel and their taking away of ability to do custom chipsets for their chips. That move torpedoed NVIDIA's Ion. If you want custom, then you go ARM.
> Officially both SoCs support Android and Linux but for some reason the 410E also supports Windows 10. We will ignore that option almost as thoroughly as Microsoft ignores ARM users and focus on the Linux side.

That is some world-class throwing of shade.
Which "it" is that, and where can I read this explicit statement?
I shudder at the thought of compilers with builtins for something as complex as qsort. But yeah, it would fit with Go's usual way of doing things.
Hehe I think you might have actually been first!
These are farms of cheap Linux boxes.

They go out of their way to design and manufacture their own motherboards and equipment[1] to reduce their capital and operational expenses.

While the motherboard and enclosures are probably custom made, the components inside (CPU, memory, etc) are all "commodity".

[1] http://www.opencompute.org/
How does this now-patented "ISRIB" molecule compare to Leonard Guarente's research[1][2] on nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene supplementation?

[1]: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/is-elysium-healths-basi...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345526
Besides, if it takes that many humans to maintain each robot, the robot is simply too expensive to replace those humans.
Interesting that its called "Pinnacle Sweden AB" on Gmaps [0]

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Pinnacle+Sweden+AB/@65.6...
> "Your site is slow, so we'll break your functionality. There you go, isn't it faster?"

If your site is unfunctional without JavaScript, it is already broken.

If you use JavaScript for progressive enhancement, then not loading scripts on a slow connexion is a great idea.
I agree with you, but in the cases where it really matters you can still avoid it! There is community activity around code generation to fill in for the cases where generics would really be the right answer. Basically, you make a template and render it for your type, check that into source control, and use as normal.

This removes the dynamic overhead at the cost of having to run a code generator and maintain a rendered template library in your source. There's actually language support for hooking into these generators at build time.
So you're at best replacing 5 skilled (higher paying) jobs with a robot + 5 unskilled (low paying) jobs, and at worst not replacing those jobs. Multiply this across the industry and how can you say this is a good thing for all these people?
'Millions' is actually an understatement.
Really? AI-assisted automation has happened in the past?

If so, I missed that portion in my history classes.
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Erm... online education being now a thing, for one. Them having more resources now after having worked for x years than when they started without education. Them being probably married after a while and therefore having a safety net inside the family to be able to take some time off to learn new skills. Many things are plausible.
90% of Manhattan? Maybe. 90% of NYC? Definitely not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City
> I've never met a caucasian person who's been arrested for marijuana posession.

I happen to know someone (Caucasian) who was just arrested and let me say that skin color isn't always an issue. I think your point would stand more firmly on a basis of states that are more or less likely to criminalize the drug.

Edit: To early to speak correctly
That would need some serious political intervention. For companies it is more efficient to have one employee work longer hours because it reduces the communication overhead.

I also don't see how such an arrangement will help, for example, taxi or truck drivers who will be completely replaced by autonomous cars in the near future.
Without over leveraging Norways housing market can continue its appreciation for decades more.
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Except for the people taking it...
like this?
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-rating
> when Cars were invented, I am sure a lot of buggy drivers lost their jobs. But they probably learned to drive and moved on.

When cars were invented, a lot of horses lost their jobs. Now, there aren't as many horses as there were before.
I thought uberpool was for commuters that were going to the same way every day.
>, the other 4 are now pulled in things like maintenance, cleanup, admin etc that comes with running Robots.

No they're not. The entire point of automation to be able to extract the benefits of labor without paying for the burden of human employees. Unemployment isn't a bug, it's a feature.

More likely - all five employees are fired, and whatever skills those employees had becomes useless to them, as regards future employment elsewhere.

Operation, maintenance, cleanup, admin, etc. gets farmed out to contractors for a fraction of those former employees' salaries, or else shared by the remaining employees. A few people wind up reaping the benefits, everyone else becomes surplus to requirements.