skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just that it's how it's worked out in the past, but it's that it continues to work out that way every month in the present. Roughly 24% of jobs are permanently replaced in the US every year (which I found very surprising)

"Researchers’ estimates on the scale of threatened jobs over the next decade or two range from 9 to 47 percent. For context, every 3 months about 6 percent of jobs in the economy are destroyed by shrinking or closing businesses, while a slightly larger percentage of jobs are added— resulting in rising employment and a roughly constant unemployment rate. The economy has repeatedly proven itself capable of handling this scale of change, although it would depend on how rapidly the changes happen and how concentrated the losses are in specific occupations that are hard to shift from."

source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docume...
Neither of my parents realized Peter Cushing was played via CG while watching Rogue One, so while it was terribly distracting to me, it's apparently pretty successful.
> I couldn't disagree with you more.

While I try to avoid politics on HN - I'm one data point in disagreement with you.

The only thing to realistically fight climate change is de-population. At least if you want everyone to have a similar standard of living as the "West".

Cleaner energy is something we need - but simple math can tell you that at our current population growth and developmental growth of incredibly poor but populous nations - it only extends the inevitable.

Any environmental program that doesn't make population growth it's first concern is simply a feel-better program in my opinion. It's ignoring the mountain to focus on the molehills.

Anything a future environmental Einstein comes up with will be instantly used to slam the world population right up the the new limit (e.g. the invention of nitrogen fixation).
Stop with the 2016 nonsense... get a grip. Death is the next baby-boomer surge. Because there are so many celebrities in this group, we'll see daily death announcements in the coming years that will make 2016 look like a picnic.
> What about other stuff that gets uploaded prior to NLP & validation?

I would be very surprised if Amazon sends everything up to the cloud; it would be very expensive to do so. Looking for "Alexa" in the audio is done locally, and probably triggers recording then.
They didn't but we did blow up dams in WWII. In fact, the death star run in Star Wars was based on a WWII movie called the dam busters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
That's not a real account...
She is one with the Force, the Force is with her.

source: the comments in that thread.
The reality is that anything you do for the first time is fun, and then gets boring.
What I was interpreting the parent comment to mean two different subjects. For example, I can't train on weather data from Paris France and then expect it to be able to predict tomorrow's weather in Portland Oregon. Am I wrong on that?
It is a different dynamic. The minimum wage needs to be up, but I wouldn't go from saying that to "shut down all restaurants".

Not sure about what could be done about supply/demand. They are low skill jobs. Most people could learn to do them pretty quickly. That doesn't mean they don't deserve to be paid properly-- the current economy is creating those jobs, we still need service people. They are working hard. But as far as supply/demand goes, I think there would always be a surplus of people who have the ability to do those jobs.
Millions of people are depending on that water and electricity daily. Even without a violent release, I suspect draining it would bring long-term discomfort/suffering in the form of significant power loss and water shortages. How long would it take to fill back up to usable levels in that desert?
What used to be a "bank teller" is now a sales rep, trying to sell you on loans and steer you to investments. Bank of America is rebuilding their branches into a new design. There are maybe two teller windows in the back for the occasional non-ATM cash transaction, while the front of the branch has little glassed-in sales offices like a car dealership.

A lot of employment is in the marketing overhead of capitalism. There are many products, from movies to Internet access, where the marketing cost exceeds the product cost. This is zero-sum; most marketing in the US just moves demand from one product to another. (Spending is income-limited in the US; the savings rate is very low.) It's also why people are still working so hard. Marketing is inherently competitive, which means it can chew up resources out of proportion to the value produced.
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Maybe the sampling bias is in our own little urban bubbles, where we become oblivious to the mass extinction being driven by people around us. The time to prioritize environmental issues is now. Our culture and infrastructure and code can preserve themselves pretty well, but much of the wildlife around us is gone, and most of it will be gone forever if we don't act.
I don't know what "full-scale" means here... you want a store, inventory management system (with multi-channel fulfillment options), warehouse management software, customer rewards / personalized coupons for writing reviews, accounting system integration, fraud prevention, shipment tracking, predictive analytics so you know when you order more toothpaste when people stop ordering toothpicks, the ability to do affiliate sales, and 20 other services, all integrated with your CRM and marketing automation systems? All with dynamic scaling and multiple layers of redundancy?

Or are you looking for someone to tell you which clone of Shopify is best right now?

A few more details are needed to make the question answerable. (=
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The fear comes from the unknown. Appalachia in the United States is what people dread. High unemployment, jobs never coming back, addiction to pain killers killing you in your 30s and 40s. Really, I suggest anyone on Hacker News to take 2-3 days and drive through parts of West Virginia, during the daylight only, to see, physically see, what the commotion is about. [1]

If we had solid safety nets, this wouldn't happen. People wouldn't be worried about being homeless, hungry, and without a support system. People would embrace automation.

But that's the problem. The Technologist's Libertarian Outlook. Disruption is okay, just help yourself to some bootstraps, and if you die in the street you weren't valuable enough.

Protect against the unknown, and people will be less anxious about rapid change. Don't protect them, and risk social instability. This is what government, social programs, and taxes are for. Or we can wait for the 21st century equivalent of the guillotines to come out.

[1] http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2015/05/31/Littleto...
The polymorphic recursion allows for compile-time checking of the invariant that "the left and right wings at depth n are 2-3 trees of depth n". In C++, I think you would forgo a compile-time check of that invariant and just write code that maintains it instead.
People write about fantasies like Star Wars, but now also the mysterious girlfriend of Joliet "Jake" Blues has passed away.

Yes, the big cohorts of baby boomers are now getting older and we'll see more obituaries.
Maybe developers should care about not having their companies in the headlines instead of just pushing things out as quickly as possible.
No problem, take your time :)
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I have a feeling that that we'll have fewer celebrities that have the same magnitude of the ones in Fisher's generation, or prior to it, mostly because we have a much more splintered entertainment world. Which is a good thing, because today's world allows for us to be exposed to so much more talent and genre that the movie and music industries would have previously ignored. But it's hard to imagine anyone who is famous right now, in their 20s and 30s, having the same grip on American culture as Michael Jackson or Muhammad Ali.
Way less with modern speech codecs. Even Opus at 32kbps would be overkill for the required quality.
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Yeah, contact details as far as I know aren't copyrightable nor under public domain. Things like your personal contact details though are subject to privacy violation laws if they are used without your consent, I believe. So nothing stopping from one publishing them, but if one asks to have personal detail taken down, they should be honoured without hesitation.

I've brought the issue to Github as well for them to judge whether there is any breach. They are best to decide I guess.
A lot of this comes down to your niche. As you say there are many people who are "photographers", and many many many more who would never pay and take their own with their phones.

I accidentally found a niche when I took some fun pictures of a friend who was an escort. She shared them, for advertising purposes, and that lead to my name being mentioned on an escort discussion forum. Since then people get in touch every now and again and I arrange to shoot them in exchange for cash.

Finding people willing to pay is definitely hard, but sadly my own route is pretty hard to generalise.
C is not going away because is useful, simple, beautiful, and has no problems on dynamic linking on most OSs.
Yes, I thought at too so I zoomed in to make sure that I am not making that mistake.

I've found a solution though. The second point that indicates the radius of the circle also snaps to other points. I didn't know that.

So now I can start dragging from one end point of the given line and end on the other point(not eye ball it) to make sure the circle is the exactly that radius.
Partly that and also based on my experience getting a PhD in physics where I found: (i) published physics papers with 30 pages of math in them frequently had errors, (ii) if you have a large number of signs the odds are 50-50 you will get the sign right in a long calculation, and (iii) you can't say high energy physics papers are "right" or "wrong" anyway... I mean, does anybody think we really live in an anti-DeSitter space?

Medicine on the other hand has the problem that you can't really afford large enough sample sizes to have sufficient statistical power.
It seems to me it should be

a) reasonable for gitpay to offer a way to 'opt out' if you don't want your information there anymore, even if they're not legally required to.

b) fine to let the gitpay folks wait to add that until the end of the holiday season.

The user who created the issue linked from the top of this thread seems to be overwhelming the developers, who have graciously taken time out of their vacation to say they'll follow up next week. The relative severity of this does not seem to warrant a more urgent response.
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> I tried Darktable but the lack of basic undo functionality kept me on Lightroom. Looks like this release has basic undo functionality. I'll give this one another try.

It's had undo functionality (on an individual-image basis) for a long time, albeit perhaps not in an obvious fashion. In the "darkroom" view, on the left sidebar there's a "History" widget. If you click on earlier numbers, it reverts the image to those, undoing whatever previous edits you've done.
TL;DR "2016 has seen the largest number of famous people die"
> That'll be a ways off since a voice actor would be cheaper.

Fox will probably beg to differ.
I think to some extent it disappeared, to some extent it rebranded. But mostly it disappeared, because commercial motivations pushed a lot of money towards machine learning research. But that's just a hunch.
Or if you have a conversation about coffee[1] including the word Alexa[2], but that cannot be parsed or validated as a "query" and produces no response from the device, does that audio get stored somewhere? Could it be captured in transit by other actors? Seems like an important distinction to me.

[1] Or, y'know, about some subject more subpoenable or privacy-sensitive.

[2] Or, y'know, not including the word Alexa but triggering the on-device recognition anyway. "Alex, uh, here's your payment for murder."
How developed is the ecosystem? One thing I enjoy about .net is the huge number of free and commercial libraries, the great IDE, and the ability to code a very broad range of applications with a single language (website, CLI, GUI, service, etc). Is Rust comparable?
> Going from "this technology is getting good" to "soon it will own 90% of the market" is a pretty huge leap and bold prediction. Tech readiness is only one small factor

The need to replace truck fleets would be one reason why it won't happen overnight. It would take time to replace millions of expensive vehicles.
The main thesis of this article is true but honestly the author has done a very unconvincing job to back it up. For example my problem is with his references: "Firm investments in high-tech equipment and software is falling"...whereas the liked article is about "The recent slowdown in high-tech equipment price declines and some implications for business investment and labor productivity"
I don't know if you're actually being "/s" or not, but, if you're not, you shouldn't be allowed to spew your horseshit unchallenged.

Nobody is calling people racist just because they oppose free trade. Sanders and a lot his supporters are against free trade and have a narrative of jobs going overseas, nobody calls them racist.

Furthermore, I am not sure that calling out racism in the political arena was even as strong in the 60's and 70's, or even the 80's, as it is now. Can you drudge up some evidence that opposition to free trade earned a person accusations of racism as far back as the 60's?

The problem in the US w/r/t free trade is that we have no social safety net. We have gained a lot from free trade, but the gains have not been spread evenly. There are cultural reasons why our laws and regulations have failed to solve this problem. One is an irrational disdain for anything remotely socialist. Another is that working class whites have very distinctly voted against their interests in this regard for, as you say, the past five decades.
>It wasn't really good enough in Rogue One, but of course it will still be getting more use.
Oh! Thanks for pointing this out. The whole site is hand maintained, and I routinely forget to put stuff up there. :)
> memory efficiency. If you allocate a Foo, you also allocate everything you need for Foo to be on all of the lists it may appear on.

I can't speak for the kernel developers, but for the same line of reasoning it may be more significant that there is the lack of error paths.

When you allocate an 'object', further changes of state (eg. added or removal to other lists) in its lifetime can be done without the possibility of running out of memory or address space. This can be a huge benefit to overall program structure in certain types of application.

In contrast, addition or removal to a vector or flat list can ultimately require various actions to happen.
Rust is much harder to learn than C. Rust is a good language, but, like C++, it has several levels of abstraction that C does not.

I don't agree with this; using this logic, I would arrive to the conclusion that C is much harder to learn than assembly, as it has several levels of abstraction that assembly does not.
Assuming they are trying to come up with a treatment based on this theory but that wasn't mentioned.
>The only thing that's uniquely an advantage of C in the article is understanding legacy code in popular projects.

As much as I love C (despite its flaws), I have to agree here: Like drinking, C is only fun if you do it socially. If you do it nonsocially at all hours, your friends might begin to distance themselves from you. Or hold an intervention.
The borrow checker is hard to deal with at first, but after you power through the initial difficulty it becomes second nature. I rarely have to fight the compiler, and when I do it's because I'm trying to do something stupid.

In a way I'd liken learning Rust to learning Vim. There is an upfront cost, but the payoff is going to be huge.
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According to others in the thread (i know nothing of this), it sounds like that is easily verifiable though, and not done. Ie, it sounds like they've monitored the outbound traffic of the device and it only sends Alexa... requests.

It's possible that they keep a rolling buffer of all audio in the device though. There could be legitimate reason to hold onto such a window of audio. Would make for an interesting discovery.
So what did the Duck Dynasty guy have to say about policy?
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People have discovered how to at least gain access locally. https://github.com/echohacking/wiki/wiki

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/4inesj/rooting_the_...

Am I saying people shouldn't be skeptical? No. But I'm saying people are focusing on a subset of devices when they've had cordless phones, cell phones, and PCs in their homes for decades.

I just get tired of the constant fear-mongering, if we have evidence of a problem, call out Amazon and have them fix it.

The cops in this story are banking mostly on the fact that it was accidentally triggered and they have some kind of audio, that's legit. Yet this article was written as if Amazon might magically expose some recording capability.
Crazy? Come'on, that's a bit strong, no?

I have philosophical disagreements with a large portion but not all of my governments spending. Giving it to a waiter seems like a much better use of my money.
It's a couple of years since I read that article but I'm pretty certain top chefs -- who work directly on products that people clearly want a lot -- are the exact opposite of the kind of alienated work Graeber had in mind.
The vast majority of recommendations suggest putting up barriers to dissuade the devs and designers from interrupting you. But remember every question they don't ask is a possible misinterpretation of what you need them to build.

I'd suggest a more targeted approach. For instance what are the typical types of questions they ask you? Next time someone asks you a questions ask yourself

"Do they already know the answer?" - If yes then why do they feel like they need to ask me? What am I doing to give the impression I'm a micro manager.

"Do they not know the answer but you think they should" - Maybe they need to spend more time with the client, or you need to add more people to product management roles decentralize some of the knowledge.

"If I spent more time upfront white-boarding with them would they need to ask me this question?"

Just remember they're asking you questions for reason.
I have also been looking to get back into bare metal programming professionally (I miss the torture). Did you see an immediate switch to rust or is this a rare unicorn project in a sea of C/ASM code for embedded devices?
Maybe this is off-topic but I'm wondering what people think about tech recruiting websites that scrape profiles on sites like Github to sell you to other recruiters (or for other purposes, like GitPay).

With badly coded websites like GeekedIn the attack vector is all of their data being public like so: https://www.troyhunt.com/8-million-github-profiles-were-leak...

But with the websites that aren't as badly coded, the annoyance is recruiters messaging you on your Github account pitching you random jobs. Do you get those?

This is something we deal with at Stack Overflow (where I work) a lot. People love trying to scrape our content and creating Chrome plug-ins that when someone loads up a Github or SO profile shows all the random bits of info they've been able to scrape about that person. It leads into a lot of issues for us e.g.:

Recruiter claims to have gotten my email address from Stack Overflow
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/318621/472021

to the point where we've (semi) recently changed our ToS to directly be able to fight cases like this:

A Terms of Service update restricting companies that scrape your profile information without your permission
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/277369/a-terms-of-se...

Do you think Github should try to do something similar? I just want to have a place to put my code and be able to easily talk to others working on code, not something that results in recruiters messaging me and random websites taking my data hostage.

Edit: In case you want to see what the "attack vector" looks like, find any of your recent Github commits, e.g. for me:

https://github.com/jc4p/quick-hue-toggle/commit/28f4cf724968...

and add a `.patch` at the end to get the patch file:

https://github.com/jc4p/quick-hue-toggle/commit/28f4cf724968...

and bam, my e-mail (per my git user config) is right there. Should we all be using fake e-mails when we commit to git?
Thanks, this agrees with what I read elsewhere.
> I'd be shocked if a non-negligible number of trips to the gas station for most car drivers involved entering the convenience store, particularly to "hit the restroom".

I'm going to contend you're exactly wrong, actually -- literally backwards.

For an electric car, routine fillups don't actually exist. You charge it at home and it's always "full" for commute trips.

Electric service station visits happen on long trips. Notably, so do bladder full exceptions and blood sugar shortfalls.
I did not actually. I pointed out the approx energy required to get to 1 dan professional then pointed out that a system trained with orders of magnitude more energy was still far less capable. To get to Lee Sedol is still < 3000 MJ (30 years of daily practice and study) which is still an order of magnitude less energy than training a single amateur level policy network.

To say AlphaGo or any RL system is learning from self-play is not in the typical understanding of the phrase. It's more akin to evolving with competitions against previous versions of itself, which should count as different instances. As stated on page 38 of 1604.00289.pdf

Between the publication of Silver et al. (2016) and before facing world champion Lee Sedol, AlphaGo was iteratively retrained several times in this way; the basic system always learned from 30 million games, but it played against successively stronger versions of itself, effectively learning from 100 million or more games altogether (Silver, 2016).

In comparison, from that same paper, it was estimated that Sedol could not have played much more than 50,000 games. My own estimate is about 40,000 games.

As for work required to learn, it's irrelevant to point out that one can learn from others. Learning, whether from play, books or study still requires energy spend and work by the learner. Most of the extra work is from study, occasional review with a tutor and discussions with peers--the last more of a meta-step: learning to learn. Accounting for books and some time with tutors will not, I argue, shift the budget much. Especially if you include that any machine playing Go requires overhead of power infrastructure, energy, cooling, networking equipment and occasional maintenance staff. And learning, improvement in architecture, requires searching through and discarding many changes and playing through a cumulative hundreds of millions of games.

The fact that humans have other available highly efficient means of learning is a boon and not a downfall. That's the whole point of getting to AGI. Learning from books and others is akin to learning by Program Synthesis from specifications.
Or why is it so hard to enable authentication at all?

Or why enable flags that allow to loose data without warnings in many common circumstances?

Don't expect anything from mongo. Don't trust mongo. Don't use mongo.
Some of us have to choose something now, or at least before Rust becomes mature.