skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you write doesn't make much sense actually. Let's say the parent is of age X. If what you say was the case, then we would be having this conversation every year, for people of X-1, X-2, X-3 years that are also on HN (and of course generally on the internet).

But it's mostly 2016 that's being talked about in such way.

If a 40 year old can "start to notice" that now, then a 45 year old could have "noticed" it 5 years ago. Didn't we have older people coming to the realization you present in 2012? Or 2008? Etc.

Either celebrity deaths is something like a probability distribution where big clusters can and do happen.

Or perhaps it's mostly that most mass media stars were created in an age when TV was getting widespread use (50s and 60s and onwards) and so they approach the end of their lives as we move on.
> For general user applications, yeah, performance isn't that big of a deal.

Maybe if you use recent, powerful machines and don't particularly care about energy efficiency. In my experience with less powerful machines, the applications which tend to be noticeably slow are exactly the widely used 'general user applications': of the ones I use, Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice and Thunderbird.
The heart attack happened about 15 minutes before the flight landed and CPR was started virtually immediately by a medic on the flight with a medical crew at the gate when it landed.

I'm sure the flight didn't help anything but from the timing it seems like it wasn't as big a factor as it could have been.
Yes, it is annoying. My point is just that it being annoying doesn't mean that is easy to solve, or that the cost of solving the annoyance in a non-systematic way is worth it (i. e., trailblazing restaurants forge ahead on their own, instead of, say, legislation about it).

Also, most proposed solutions seem to involve raising the base cost to the customer... at which point the customer is no better off, and has instead lost the freedom to tip low or nothing if they choose, for whatever reason, to do so.

Tipping is not mandated, though. Unless there is an automatic service charge, in which case it is not exactly tipping. It's just a fee, like your parking or anything else to be factored in to the overall cost of the meal.
>when I was still bothering to fly in and out of the Bay Area I chose SFO over SJC because I preferred the private SFO security guard over real TSA employees.

This seems crazy to me - the security line at SJC takes about four minutes to get through and you can park about a hundred feet away from the checkpoint. SFO takes FOREVER to get through.
A career lasts 40 years. Once the technology is good enough to deploy in one instance, how long until it is dominant?

Say it takes 10 years to replace most of the fleet. That still means someone driving a truck at age 25 will be facing an extremely different job situation at age 35.

We could use the tech to enhance the worker instead of replacing the worker, though. Right now, drivers are limited in the number of hours they can do in a day, for safety reasons. If drivers become mobile managers, there is still a need for them. Still less of them, obviously, but it does mean we don't suddenly get rid of 80% of their job openings in 10 or 20 years.
> The devs are somewhat hostile in this case.

You keep saying this, but they really aren't. At least as far as I can see from what's public. Communication is difficult, maybe give them the benefit of doubt? (And some peace and quiet)

To me, it sounds you're trying to make a huge issue out of this now, in the hopes it'll get things done quicker. Which is a horrible tactic. This isn't even about who's right or wrong. So far, it seems like nobody disagrees with your basic premise, just the timeframe.

Just look at your phrasing. "hostile in this case", "sort of hostile is the major concern", "which argument is right", "it's deciding if/who is at fault", "it's a question of ethics in the bigger picture". Until the say "No", this is all just overreacting.
Good clarification! However, no legal threats have been made as of yet. Simply pointing out TOS clauses, and discussing the matter with the community.

By the time lawyers get involved, which would be after the New Year, then the author might have already merged the PR and problem solved.

At the moment, it's simply a matter of discussion.

No urgency to push the developers to take action either.
I agree that it won't happen overnight, but I would guess that with really popular models it will be very cost effective to retrofit the trucks with an automated system.

I think it comes down to what you mean by "soon". I would be surprised if in 10 years a huge number of trucking jobs hadn't already been replaced, and in 20 years they will almost gone outside of a few niches.
"All" modern compiled languages will have bit-manipulation. As long as a language can compile for your microcontroller, you're golden to use something higher level.
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>Except it's blatantly unrealistic. Death is not 'a part of life', but a nuisance.

The two notions are orthogonal. Nuisances of every kind are regular parts of life.
Speak for yourself. I hit the gym 3-5x a week and I am in excellent health. This is a stupid fluff piece outlining why you shouldn't spend $50 a month on a gym. Next time, keep this garbage to yourself.
Check out Exploding Kittens - simple but requires a bit of tactical skill.
> I want to build a simple circuit with a few LEDs and understand completely how it works and why it was designed that way.

Once you get bored by "battery plus LED" circuits, I recommend Nibbler 4 bit CPU [1] and transistor clock [2]. They are sufficiently complex to be impressive and hone your EE skills, yet simple enough to still finish even if you're not really an EE. They also can be understood completely, there are no secrets and all design decisions are explained in the documentation.

[1] http://bigmessowires.com/nibbler
[2] http://transistorclock.com
Source, minus The Verge content regurgitation:

http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/23/carrie-fisher-heart-attack-pla...
It seems highly unlikely to me that Rust would take over true embedded systems (i.e. EEPROM, no OS, etc.), simply because nobody is going to write a Rust compiler for their custom architecture.

The resource constraints are what make C essentially the optimal solution for those applications
A New Chapter
I'm a bit skeptical that "we'll always find a way to
quickly replace jobs" will stand the test of time,
especially when the primary evidence given is, "Well
that's how it's worked out so far."

Perhaps your skepticism can be allayed by looking at the mechanism. Money, in the form of capital, flows through an economy from providers to consumers. With a functional banking system capital doesn't accumulate. Even when a company like Apple has $200B in "the bank", that money is being lent out to others to build things and start businesses etc. Building stuff consumes labor and that transfers money back to the labor force which then uses it to purchase goods and services. All basic economics but the key is that the existence of money (capital) creates an economic force. Banks cannot simply sit on a pile of dollar bills and pay out 1.2% interest on that, they would go broke. They need to make a return on it so they find people (economic force) who will use the money to create additional value.

In many ways its like "running out of water" which on its face is preposterous. The planet is literally covered in the stuff. The mechanism (evaporation and condensation) which move it around the planet can put too much or too little somewhere but we'll never be permanently "out" of water. It will rain somewhere at some point (or snow) because water is evaporating from the oceans every day.

Economies are very much like that as well, they may have capital dry up in one area (like Appalachia) but it is probably raining somewhere else (like San Francisco). But the mechanism of buying and selling products or services is a constant force to move the money around.

So that money will always find a way to be spent. And that means jobs. They may be different than the ones before but they will get created.
> source: the comments in that thread

... and the new Rogue One movie. If you haven't seen it -- it is worth watching.
> As a friend put it more eloquently, Fuck 2016.

I think "most" anyone who lived through the years 1914-1918 or 1939-1945 (and was >= 4 years old at the time) would beg to differ. The world was literally tearing itself to shreds, and I'm sure somewhere & time during WW2 it looked like there was no end in sight.

The lives lost this year (especially in places like Syria) and personal grief is immeasurable, but it can be important to keep perspective.
A Kaggler’s Guide to Model Stacking in Practice
Those words don't even appear in the essay. It's targeted primarily at "administrative" jobs -- and I'd say it's well worth a read.
How Jukin Media Built a Viral-Video Empire
It could be an incentive. Some customers are more valuable than others and using percentages means the employees will be extra nice to high-value customers and not waste too much time on the low-value customers.

Of course they should be nice to everyone, but if it is a busy day and they have to choose, the restaurant owners would prefer that they prioritize the ones who spend more.
Then this is a problem with management that doesn't care to offer a certain level of customer service. Management should make a policy and make things up front. If their staff can't carry out their expectations, then fire them and bring in new staff. It shouldn't be the customers that do a managers job.
It's the scale, not the pace so much.

We have a terrible history of giving the opportunity to switch careers. I suggest you look into the history of former mining or steel towns in the US and UK. The majority of "regeneration" has been from younger people coming into the market rather than former workers being given opportunity. A significant proportion spend their lives depressed, broken and unemployed for the rest of it. Some of those communities never recovered.

If government gave retraining - by which I mean REAL retraining rather than a cheap (lowest private sector bidder running it, minimal quality requirements) course to draft a CV and perhaps import some low job security call centre work.

It wasn't "a problem" in the past as the scale meant that it was possible to ignore - unless you happened to live near one of those former industrial towns. This time the scale is such that ignoring it will potentially take us near anarchy. It will have to get very close for governments to do something actually substantive.
Syntactically I agree with you. I love the C style, I pretty much only use C derived languages for a reason. I think it was great for it's time...
I love C, I really don't see what the fuss is about about 'replacing' it really. It's a sharp tool, requiring care and attention.

I did C++ for about 20 years, and gradually reverted to C, simply because of the footprint and the ease of maintaining a C codebase compared to a C++ codebase. C++ codebase's footprint will /explode/ very quickly, while it's really, really hard to do that with C.

You can't have 'shockwave' effects in C codebases; you can't have an intern adding a subtle 2 liner to your codebase in an obscure base class and make the footprint of your application explode. (been there...). It's a lot easier to review, test and maintain over a number of years.

Also, I've grown up considerably since I believed object oriented programming is THE way to solve everything related to programming problems, I've seen a lot of cases where you'd have a spaggetti plate of classes to solve a problem while you in fact could have solved that problem in a 15 line static function.

C -- especially C99 with it's extensions -- is nice, lightweight, hard to mess around with. it's actually a sharp tool but at least it's a straight sharp tool. You know where it's going and how it can hurt you. It's not the case for many of the other solutions who just add bloat to try to hide the fact that they are about as sharp cutting, but it'll get you at the back of the head, later :-)

I keep a keen eye on what's going on with Rust and Go in particular, but it'll be a long time still for me to commit to any of the new kids on the block. Right at this minute I imagine myself easily having to rage-recode it in C at some critical point because of some unforeseen effect.

My only regret with C is that the C committee is completely out there. C11 doesn't solve any of the problems that would be useful for 99% of C programming. Like, rolling in some of the GNU extensions that have been around for 25+ years (case X...Y comes to mind!)
I wasn't expecting it, as I tried to remain ignorant of details before seeing, but I spotted it quickly. I struggled with it momentarily, though, thinking to myself, "Wait. He's dead, right? This looks a bit off." My boys, 13 and 17, lean over simultaneously and say, "Totally fake." It still looked digital later, but I think we cared less because we'd settled it in our minds. Young Leia felt more obviously digital than Tarkin, though.
That was original unused footage.

https://moviepilot.com/p/unused-new-hope-footage-rogue-one/4...
Like the other commenter, I've never had this happen. If I tipped way below what other customers tip, I would like to be told politely and then make a choice about whether I was going to tip more, but I think even that would be frowned upon by business owners or managers. Usually, if I'm not sure (such as a service I rarely use), I will ask somebody what a typical tip looks like. A good example is a buck a bag for bell staff at a hotel - or $5 a bag for Skycaps, if you would like them to ignore the weight of your bag ;)
we've just seen it in the hardware - horizontal scaling, a huge number of well connected commodity elements beat standalone super-servers for most practical purposes and metrics. So, now we going to do that with human "wetware" too, and HR glamorizes itself as Kubernetes (with original system suitably called Borg at Google) in that brave new world.
That's evidence that Trump's strategy was correct. The right strategy is to maximize EC votes, not the popular vote. Clinton won the wrong game.
It's a step-by-step guide on how to learning machine learning from overview to detail. Any comments are welcome.

If you want the interactive system, please check "A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning:http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/"
>If it is truly random, the terrorists have no way to predict if they will be checked and if it is frequent enough, it will be sufficient to change their behavior.

If we are talking about suicide bombings, I don't see how this changes anything. If they don't get through, they will just blow themselves up as soon as they get randomly selected.
Time trade-off and ease of test-compilation/env setup and tooling on more "friendly" workstations, at least for my uses.
Agreed.

I meant to convey the idea of imminent and threatening speech.
Clearly fake accounts and vote manipulation.

The abstract is nonsense. Does anyone care to take the time to score the article by the Crackpot Index[1]?

[1] math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
I would never put a closed source hot mic in my house. You can trust big brother all you want, but I'm going to stay clear.
Good insight, the amount of money society spends on marketing is staggering (and that's thats only things explicitly labeled as such, which I think your case is not). Actually I would go as further and say short of high IP/high technology industries, marketing (branding) IS the product. Bank of America is a fabricated brand that happens to be in banking.
I don't think the expensive part is accurate. Voice sounds okay using the G.729 VOIP codec at 8kbps. Capturing and storing that amount of data, for every Echo user, 24 hrs a day would be trivial for company the size of Amazon.

As others have pointed out, network monitoring has shown the Echo only transmits after it's heard the wake-word, so it would appear Amazon doesn't capture everything.
>So to see people say "fuck <the year in which my son was born>" over B-list celebrities, yes, it can be a bit of a problem.

Because it's all about you? People who say that don't know whether your son was born, and could not care less.

>Where were all these not-Star-Wars Carrie Fisher fans before she died? Where were these George Michael fans before he died?

Buying millions of CDs for decades and filling in stadiums?

Heck, Wham! are even presented as the "greatest band ever" in Deadpool, a 2016 movie.
I think items like this, which have no relationship to the VC or tech space, are complete noise on HN.

I understand that the culture of celebrity tickles a primitive part of our brains, and that it's impossible to prevent on a site like reddit. But it bothers me more than it should to see this drivel on a site driven by technophiles.

Why is this death any more significant than any other human being who wasn't lucky enough to be in show business?

Based on the comments and voting, though, I appear to be an extreme outlier in this opinion.
Only the wake word needs to be processed locally.
As far as I know, the straw that broke the camel's back was CM inc breaking a device exclusivity contract which as one can imagine hurt revenue and anger investors. That coupled with some aggressive PR in years past lead to this.
you can still try to earn a tip if you want to.
But now it's more like a bonus, gravy

Isn't that where we started? I don't think that's stable. If some people get tips, the next tier of goodish servers is going to think they deserve tips, until you end up where we are now.
Wordy? Ouch! Ok, I took out "may or may not".

I disagree about "The", though. Much like "this", it's a clickbait device—somehow it grabs attention whether it deserves it or not. And it's misleading, too, because it implies there's only one of the thing.
I can't help but feel that your comment is both entirely valid, and also indicative of the (or at least a) general problem. I can't help but think that something is lost when viewing these through a computer screen. At least in a car the scale isn't abstract. It's right there, and there's no turning it off. The best you can do is drive away, and the time that takes is itself part of the experience.
The other big advantage of C is that multiple compilers for it exist that are good enough to use in real life, for a wide variety of toolchains, and it's simple enough that it's possible to write a compiler for it (if not necessarily a very good one) as a hobby project. We can be reasonably sure that C will continue to exist.

By comparison, C++ has precisely two working open source compilers --- clang and gcc --- and Rust has one: if you commit to using Rust, you're also committing yourself to an LLVM-based monoculture. The chances of the entire Rust team being simultaneously hit by a bus is low... but it's something that needs to be factored into a product assessment.
File systems tend not to have large data structures. They are relatively modest data structures which manage bulk access to large blocks of data. A subtle distinction, but important in this context.
2016 also took one of the greatest female scientists of all time
High level Api's could easily provide this, e.g. the C#

Process.Start(executable, args);

Takes a single string as args, and has no overload taking an array as args, which formats it safely and correctly so that the receiving process would see the same string in its args vector.

So while it seems to be pretty easily fixable, it hasn't been.
If the peers were properly authenticated as such, then wouldn't that obviate the need for the journals, if trust is their only value add?
Things like that get pretty important when it comes to national policy covering all that acreage. $15 minimum wage for example - sounds reasonable in high cost of living, densely populated areas. In rural areas it would be economically devastating.

It's one of the biggest reasons why acreage needs to matter for the Presidency. City, County and State laws can handle everything for the densely populated areas just fine without imposing the desire for those policies on areas with entirely different economic conditions. One of the biggest dangers to the country is counting a high concentration of people in an area who have completely different life experiences and conditions, more than areas that are heavily spread out. Policy does not have equal effects in all places.

It's not much different than saying if India became a US State for some reason that suddenly the 1.3 billion people there should be dictating policy that effected every other US state. It's also why federal policy for just about everything outside of common defense tends to be misguided.
Agreed. My first choice for a project on *nix is usually in C: it feels like real coding rather than including half the packages/modules from 'pick your glue language here' where the opacity is blinding. But many times I'll stop after working through the first data structures and IPC elements and decide to go higher level in the interest of time and energy (and for other (younger) people being able to maintain it).
Unfortunately, the Presidency is won by the most electoral college votes, not by the best policy. Optimizing a campaign for the best policy only wins to the extent that those gains translate to EC gains.
Oh no, we can't have luddites running around saying "ah-pex-io dot org"
If that's declared up front on their menu, I don't mind because I have the choice to not eat their if I'm not OK with that. I've never had to pay a service charge that I can recall on a small party. Usually over 6 or so.
Make labor cheaper. Not for the worker, but for the employer.

1. Wage subsidy. Tax people like me more to increase the EITC. At the extreme this is make-work jobs, but there is a lot of ground to cover between here and there.

2. Make employment cheaper. Cut down on employment taxes and other expenses associated with employing people.

3. Make employment easier. This won't happen overnight, but, after coming to wage and term agreement with someone, I should be able to hire someone by clicking a few links on a government webpage. And I say "I should" as a person, not as a corporation. Make everyone in the country able to hire another person quickly and easily. If I see too much trash on a street in my neighborhood, let me hire people to clean it up a few times a week. I shouldn't need any kind of HR department.
My daughter was born this year, too, which was a bright ray of sunshine among the clouds.

> Where were all these not-Star-Wars Carrie Fisher fans before she died? Where were these George Michael fans before he died?

I don't know; where are you? Whose death would sadden you, and why are you not praising them and cheering on their accomplishments right now?

People who take 5 seconds to post on social media are mourning. What do you expect them to do? Shave their eyebrows, write essays, get tattoos? I'd wager that George Michael's and Carrie Fisher's families are probably buoyed by the support they see for their family members, and for the outpouring of love for them.

Sorry if our grieving process, or our celebration of someone's life, is slightly inconvenient for you.