skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry for confusion. I meant to say, to relieve people of unnecessary work. There are plenty of things that need work, such as services for other humans (at least in the short term), programming (again, at least in the short term) and in fact many hobbies and things that people do for their own leisure that require work, like learning languages, mathematics, sport, etc.

Socialism is all about the fact that people really do want to do something. Nowhere did I want to imply that humans ought to be idle, or that the natural state of the human is idle.

I'm saying that a lot of the work that we currently do is for naught, producing massive amounts of waste and generally items which have emerged as part of a culture that's all about consumerism rather than what we need in order to be happy. And if labouring is what you need, by all means please do it! :)

There will be necessary work under any system, make no mistake. But fewer people would need to work, and fewer hours would need to be spent per person if the load is distributed in a better way.
The question is whether issues like these are likely for the individual applicant and whether they're worth dropping salary from $120K to $50K or whathaveyou.
Five Books I want to Read in 2017
Google's in house teams usually have no real world experience converting Google Ads to sales. It's the same way game developers are usually not esports pros. There's a big difference between knowing how a product works and being great at making it work
No, per year. Specifically $606 billion in 2013.

The cited study from the sentence I referenced in my comment:

> Estimated subsidies are $4.9 trillion worldwide in 2013 and $5.3 trillion in 2015 (6.5% of global GDP in both years).

> In terms of countries, China had the largest absolute post-tax subsidies in 2013 ($1,844 billion or 19.5% of GDP), followed by United States ($606 billion or 3.6% of GDP), Russia ($318 billion or 15.2% of GDP), European Union ($295 billion), India ($269 billion or 14.3% of GDP), Japan ($142 billion or 2.9% of GDP), Saudi Arabia ($129 billion or 17.2% of GDP) and Iran ($118 billion or 32.2% of GDP).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16...
These 'hamlets' could be neighborhoods within a big city depending on the size of "The Machines".

Detroit could certainly fit a few. Perhaps it would be an ideal testing ground because of the combination of its space and its manufacturing infrastructure.
Logged in for the first time in a while to bring this up too. The moment I got to this part I just closed the tab. Doesn't matter how correct or incorrect this information is. The person posting this on Quora either succeeded in Poe's Law or is a complete a* themselves. This entire post just reeks of "if you're not a STEM graduate, specifically CS, you might as well just not exist, go do something useful"
I think the general consensus in the futurist community is that this vision requires molecular nanotechnology, which means first sorting out the basics of mechanosynthesis in carbon and simple nanoforges. There are groups working on the foundation technologies, but not many of them in a deliberative way with nanoforges as a destination (E.g. Zyvex).

Translating the section of the present human-based manufacturing industry needed to support a modern village into a box that can be built and maintained by a much, much smaller industry seems hard to do unless said box is something very similar to a nanoforge.

There are important differences between what you can do with a mature general purpose rapid prototyping system and a nanoforge. Foodstuffs directly from raw feedstock, for example. But this has all been debated at great length in sections of the transhumanist community for decades now. There is a lot of good writing on this topic out there to be discovered if you go looking.
Yes, pandoc can convert from markdown to many slide formats, but reveal.js is my favorite.
Sure, here are three images I just snapped.

edit: forgot the link
http://imgur.com/a/2ahUx
You have not spent couple of tens of years building EE career and then turn to physics. I am speaking of fully developed specialists in the field - well into their thirties and even forties.
We do have an entrepreneur visa [0]. We also have the global impact visa [1], which is brand new.

[0]: https://www.newzealandnow.govt.nz/move-to-nz/new-zealand-vis...

[1]: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/options/st...
Graal compiles bytecode, but it doesn't class load it, verify it, interpret it, profile it, etc etc.
I would wage that there's no obvious distinction between an automation tax applied to "robots" and to any computers, industrial or agricultural equipment, automobiles (I'm not paying a horse breeder, or paying people to carry my litter or rickshaw around, am I?), etc. So, would you propose we impose a penalty tax on all machine capable of doing a job that people could also do?
wow three days! I did not know that.
I'm sorry but I believe most of that is FUD, which some prominents economists have been calling out, e.g. this short Krugman piece: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/about-that-frenc...
The sad thing is that this FUD itself has a impact, and is therefore self-fulfilling to some extent.

"Superior results" are, to be fair, quite debatable:

- UK got an edge via fiscal dumping, hurting its neighbours. This is also what Ireland is doing now, which really gives "good results", but is hurting all other EU countries (Luxembourg some the same, some other countries as well).

- Germany has a lower unemployment rate, but with way more precarious working conditions for many workers.

- I really don't know about Sweden so I won't speak about it, but I'm going to read the piece you linked, it looks interesting.

I could also say that France has superior results, if you look at other metrics:

- productivity per hour: the USA is #1 with a very very small edge over Germany and France, both #2. The UK, Japan are far behind

- Gini coefficient! This one is very dear to me. We're doing pretty well, and our evolution over 10 years has been better than most of our neighbours[1]

I believe that the biggest problem we're facing nowadays (and have been facing for a couple decades) is that increased globalisation allows companies to go "shopping" for their fiscal system, and put countries in competition. This creates a drive to get lower tax rates than your neighbours, which is a bad spiral and in the end deeply hurts countries (however, if you happen to disagree with that, then I'm afraid we have fundamentally different world view, and I don't really have the energy or will to debate if further, sorry). Ireland is a prime example of this.

> why would the "French fraternal" system be worthy of being copied given its weak results?

My goal is not for it to be copied a bit everywhere but, really, for it to be considered with fairness, and not just shunned and mocked because of propaganda and preconceptions.

I actually have a in mind couple great pieces I'd like to share on those topics; unfortunately they're in French. I'll look a bit around for potential translations.

1: some data: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&language...
> All US companies hire in Canada for roughly equal pay (after tax) if not more.

It couldn't be more wrong. Even without considering the ~3/4 exchange rate or the lower income tax, the dollar value is a good 10-50% higher in the states.

Source: I live in Vancouver and have many friends working 200 km to the South in Seattle.
I had the same thought. I'm also curious what that brownish circle toggle does.
Same. I like it so much I pay for his commercial offering, http://slides.com - which has a bunch of neat extra functionality
I think if you select it you'll stay on the current video
I would be very impressed if anyone (human) could keep that whole book in their head!
These are demonstrably false claims.

GDP Annual Growth rate from 1996-2016 in Europe was 1.7%, in the US from 1995-2015 it was 2.1%. [World Bank, Trading Economics].

The German GDP per capita grew from $36,000 to $46,000 from 2006 to 2016. [World Bank], and it ranks in the mid 30's out of 50 states. [Wikipedia].

The per capita GDP of Puerto Rico is $28,529, the per capita GDP of France is $41,329. [World Bank]

For a fair comparison between the US and Germany/France, let's examine the inequality adjusted Human Development Index, as measurements that do not account for income inequality obfuscate the reality of most citizens.

Germany ranks 6th, France ranks 18th, the US ranks 28th. [Wikipedia].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ
Tradition. The space program grew out of aviation which uses nautical miles.
The taxes are not higher than CA or NY or similar states. Why do Americans think their taxes are low? You also pay a shitload of property tax in most states of the US.

Oh, bonus, if you're not employed you still get to receive medical care!

And most Australians carry private cover anyways. It's better, easier to use and still so much cheaper than US insurance.
> A single decision by Moxie

I'm sure that if Moxie turned evil it would be difficult for the project to survive, but that's also one of the reasons they've been successful. They have control over what they're building, and they can move fast and make breaking changes. It's very difficult to build something beautiful when you can't make breaking changes.
Simple. Brilliant.
Exactly. France isn't an exception in Europe regarding high taxes and social contributions (even though the distribution employee/employer is making the salaries look a bit low compared to say, Germany).

And I'm sure some companies can drive salaries up, they just don't need to. Software engineering is looked down upon, most new grads want to become project manager, somehow working at a big bank / big consulting firm is seen as nobler. Even the recent trend in data science doesn't seem to leverage the education system that is particularly maths/physics heavy.
That's fair; as I said elsewhere, we are very interested in making your theory a reality :)
> it's sometimes difficult to draw a line between what is political and what is not

Fine, err on the side of caution. The thread that prompted my request had the word "Trump" in the title -- it's pretty clear which way that one's going to go.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13404211
I agree, I realized the truth of your second-to-last sentence sometime during grad school. These people have played the academia game and it worked out for them, and their sense of self-worth and prestige is tied to their standing inside the system. Of course, the academia game is a lot more difficult to play these days.
Perhaps the desire to dominate can be turned toward benign tasks - such as athletics.

Aldous Huxley (in "The Island") suggested rock climbing as a task perfect for turning the will to dominate others into a benign will to dominate one's self. As a rock climber this makes a lot of sense to me - your world becomes very small and focused when you're on a cliff face.
Hah, that's why I want to start a small business in Australia not the US. I can't pay for it for my own family ($20k/yr) let alone my employees. Megacorps and VC-backed startups don't care I guess, but they're playing with funny money, I'm playing with cashflow.
Moxie was contrasting the different perspectives that communist and fascist leaders had about what caused their success, for the purpose of an analogy. He was not contrasting communism with fascism. Please learn to distinguish the two.
I just bought the ear protectors on ebay, peltor were the brand. cost about £5.

edit: here's a similar pair:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PELTOR-ear-defenders-H61FA-/182424...
It is called intelligence fusion centers. There is already existing network of them. And you're right - it is used for more than just catching of known ones. Its main output is SARs - suspicious activity reports. Google Palantir for (openly described) capabilities.
This is a really beautiful piece of art. I just wanted to say well done. It's a very grounding experience watching it for a few minutes

If you could click through to the source video then that would be great.
Eliminating labour on the whole in society does not bode well for the capitalists; there will be no money that can be used to buy the goods that are being produced, or there will be very little money, which is held by those who must work in some capacity or another.

Total or very-nearly-total automation is not compatible with capitalism unless there's someone there to hand out money to keep the economy functioning, which seems quite silly, because how is it decided who gets how much money?

>How do you get human liberation instead of IP-holders-and-landlords-own-everything after human labor is 90% obsolete?

By socialising the means of production. By passing the returns on to the people who ought to be happy that a job requires less labour, rather than forcing them into "unemployment", something which is only really problematic when unemployment means you depend on welfare programs or die.
Throwing out loud numbers without any evidence or source… Just look like an annoyingly fruitful attempt to gather views on Quora to me. Maybe it is satire as some suggest, but still annoying!
Certainly, and this project could take on a structure which enables that sort of usage. A really great project with similar utility is https://github.com/tj/git-extras, which I think could provide a good model for refactoring git-quick-stats.
Somewhere around 20% of the cost (the total cost, not just the cost leftover after the levy) is covered by fees paid for services.
Seems to be down.
A database of hundreds names of places on the British islands with Scandinavian origins. Thanks a lot / Jævlig bra. :-)
Off topic articles should be treated as Off topic articles, and removed. There should not be any need to update any system or change anything, just enforce the rules. This website is called Hacker News for a reason. Not Political News.
Japan does not seem to get much growth out of it.
That's fine. There's still a difference between "I want to work" and "I have to work".
Face to Face: Nick Earle, Hyperloop One
An algorithm (computer vision) watching a movie trailer
You're absolutely right. I often conflate "single payer" with "universal coverage", which you rightly note are not the same thing.

By "capitalist democracy" I simply wanted to point out that a country can have a healthy and thriving free market economy and universal coverage at the same time. (e.g., Germany, Japan, UK, and many more). It's a counterfactual to small-government conservative hyperbole, which holds that universal coverage necessarily destroys and disables a nation's economy.
Or quite the opposite?

These engineers may find once migrated (especially after a few years, ie slightly older) that the option of having children not to be burden in such a system, might find the safety net of not worrying about health and insurance increase their ability to focus on being productive instance of simple grinders, especially if well educated and motivated.
Oddly the videos don't end up there for me. Which is somewhat disappointing because I would like to share some of them with others.

This tool needs a "link to video" or "share video" button.
Sure, if you plan to never get sick, have kids, or get laid off. Or if you're not trying to settle in one place.
CanaKit and Vilros are the ones I see recommended most often. I went with this[0] Vilros one so I could choose my own sd card, and was pretty pleased with it since it had everything else I needed (already had a spare keyboard/mouse etc.)

[0] - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D92SSX6/ref=od_aui_de...
These are the right questions to be asking:

Did we tax the printing press when it automated writing books?

Did we tax the grain combine?

Did we tax industrial automation?

It seems like a ridiculously slippery slope to begin taxing any means of production. Where do we draw the line? Should I tax a shovel because it takes less time to dig a hole with one than with your bare hands?
I'm always skeptical of someone that reads self-help books like the Tools of Titans mentioned on this list. In my opinion, they seem to think all they needs is to if they find "one secret that billionaires don't want you you know".
The trick is that using a simple frame-by-frame approach means the details filled in only depend on the frame, not on the details which were filled in to the previous frame, so you get crazy jitter.

Deepart.io now has a video mode [0] that takes this into account.

[0] https://deepart.io/video/
Yes, I saw a few videos I liked that I suppose I'll never find again.
Well, the GH/s is currently around 2500000000 GH/s so contributing 50 GH/s you would have a 1 in 50 million chance of mining a bitcoin every 10 minutes. In a little over 951 years you are expected to mine 1 bitcoin.

Something tells me bitcoin isn't going to be a thing in 951 years.
I mean, isn't it the goal of SE's to chase the newest hottest, thing and switch jobs every 6 months? I mean that's the real way to have a lasting impact /s

At this point I'm betting there's a real pool of engineers in SV who have never worked on a real product; they simply focus on getting in the door and then start working on the next step up somewhere else.
I couldn't agree more. The no-politics period was a breath of fresh air.
I came here to say the same thing. I've been looking at moving to the US specifically to make more money. My gathered information showed me that the same job in the US pays at least 50% more (corrected for the different currencies).
A new lawsuit alleges Elysium Health hasn’t paid its sole supplier
I'm well aware that it is unreasonable to expect the compiler to accept all safe programs, hence it needs to be conservative. It must only accept code that it can prove to be safe or that is marked as unsafe (funny, maybe the keyword here should be safe, as the user vouches for the safety of the code) by the user.

Your argument that for real world programs the borrow checkers conservatism does not create technical problems is completely plausible to me. The issue lies somewhere else.

There is a psychological component to this. People struggle with the borrow checker, or at least they feel like they did. This is negative for rust.

My point is that it would be better if it weren't trivial to write short, safe programs that are not accepted by the compiler.

Where can one expect the line to be drawn? I don't know. I worked with Isabelle/HOL to formalize mathematical proofs and there I saw that we can indeed expect a computer to be reasonably clever in abstract reasoning. I'm not saying that the rust compiler is dumb, however, there is room for improvement.

Thanks for your(plural) work on rust, btw.
Very interesting related Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
Check your youtube history.
This is a sloppy piece making grand claims about a man who likes to make grand claims about himself. By most accounts, Schmidhuber is only marginally involved with nnaisense, lending his name to the endeavor so that some of his graduate students can raise money. They have no use case, no product and frankly no business sense, which is one reason why they only money backing them comes from an unknown investor based in Madrid.
I've been a part of a product team for a high profile release before and in my experience the reasoning behind implementing policies like this across the board stems from the fact that it is nearly impossible to implement any policy in a company unless it is done universal.

Policy seems to be taught in business schools as a "weapon" to exert control and expand influence and consequently if you walk into a room full of managers and suggest POLICY limited to your group only you are essentially giving yourself a demotion or being short-sighted. If you've got POLICY that's worth being implemented then it better be universal!
The people who cannot spend energy to control themselves and therefore curse are less prone to using self-control-dependent strategy of lies and deception.

Wowsers.
Definitely agree with the coding being more fun. I found refactoring my teams messy analysis code much more satisfying than the laborious data analysis + paper writing.

For me it was also that nothing truly new was being discovered in my area of physics, so it all felt a bit boring.

Plus the politics that comes when post docs have to fight and plot over rare tenured positions when they appear.
The video ID shows up in the developer console. Not ideal, but a method you can use.
I believe the down-scaling is done the old fashioned way. The up-scaling uses a neural network to guess what the original image was. See waifu2x [0][1].

The new thing here is that they're using it to save bandwidth, and running it on the user side.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nagadomi/waifu2x/master/im...

[1] http://waifu2x.udp.jp/
If you keep changing areas you will eventually be a generalist by default. If you gravitate to one sort of work (architecture, project management, etc.) then you will use generalist skills but perhaps develop less breath. Don't worry, just enjoy what you do.
I did not write the blog post but I did post it to HN. The reason is because I recently just accepted a position as data scientist fresh out of college and my salary is WAY WAY lower than those mentioned in this post. I was wondering if I got ripped off or not, and I figured the fastest way to determine whether these salaries were genuine was to post this here.
From what I've seen, this is accurate for medium-big tech companies in the Bay Area. Unlikely to be as high outside of the Bay.
That's fair. CORS is a bitch.
I had to disable uorigin adblock and use incognito.
ShopperStopper
But all sorts of brands have commercials..
You cannot buy happiness – not even on ‘Blue Monday’
That sounds interesting. Do you have any links?

I must not understand what you mean by scaling up, I though the best way to scale up pixel art was to disable interpolation, so each pixel just becomes a perfectly sharp square?
>The idea of working for other people is also a part of our being.

Poppycock. This is tired ideology used to say that humans need unjustified authority, someone to give the product of their labour to. And it's hardly a "you scratch mine" relationship when the boss decides who gets how much profit, despite having little to no involvement in the labour process itself.

Working may be something humans "need" to do (even that is so far unfounded) but the idea that we need to work for other people is exactly what was pushed on the serfs during feudalism and it's exactly what's being pushed by the state, the church and the owners of capital on the labourers of today.

With regard to your second point, humans may indeed have a hard time accepting people who don't want to pull weight, but that pulling doesn't have to be done for someone else. It can be, sure - and I feel as though many or most people would be happy to work for collective good, for whatever motivation, but to force someone to work in such a fashion is authoritarian. Just as being forced to sell labour is authoritarian.
Huh? Nautical miles are a fixed unit of measurement equivalent to 1852 meters today but originally defined as a minute of latitude. They are still commonly used for distances, e.g., range of a Boeing 777 as reported in Wikipedia. [1, 2] They are a logical unit to use for flight to the moon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Specifications
Click the YouTube logo on hover.
I definitely felt that I saw a "surge" in Trump references during, and after the election, in all sorts of articles. Usually bad/fear-mongering, even coming from established accounts. Sometimes subtle, without explicit reference to him; but reading their text one can't help but feel like they're talking about him being elected and what that means.