skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be

True - as a whole. But as things stand now, the owners of the machines get richer, and the displaced workers get significantly poorer.

My concern is this. In ten years time, trucks and taxis will be automated, and vanishingly few truck drivers will be able to retrain as truck computer techs. Truck and taxi driving is the last bastion of badly-educated men, (apart from the military, but automation will be gutting military employment too). So we're going to have a huge (many millions) population of (to generalise horribly) redneck men who like guns and feel worthless.

Even now, 2/3s of gun death in the US is that exact demographic suiciding. I believe these guys gave Trump his victory, and when they realise even he's let them down, those that don't kill themselves are going to revolt.

A UBI could be part of the solution to this nightmare, because it would take the economic aspect out of the equation. It would mean unemployment lost its stigma, because at least some people chose to do their own thing (playing music, carving wood, reading at schools) instead of working for the man. So it would become socially acceptable not to have a paying job.

Sadly I think it's very unlikely to happen, unless the rich figure out that their wealth is going to be redistributed violently if they don't do voluntarily.
Urbit, afaik, is not tied to Yarvin's political views, and he takes special care not to bring politics into Urbit talks.

What Urbit does have in common with Yarvin's political writing is his tendency to play three-card monte with what he's actually doing by employing oblique references to things smart people are interested in, whole-cloth invention of vocabulary, and complex chains of reasoning which are often missing critical bits.
How will Donald Trump communicate with his people? Someone declare a national emergency!
What does "work" mean to you? By "work", I mean that we solve poverty at a cost as low as possible. Having the BI consumed by non-poor people doesn't help that goal.

Also, India is a low inequality country - Gini is comparable to France since everyone is equally poor. So preventing the middle class from consuming a BI would significantly reduce the cost.
> On second look, Python, C, and C++ are also the go to languages for CS classes

And so is Haskell.

But I doubt Unity 3D is schoolwork related.
Isn't one goal of UBI to allow people to invest in something like education (lowers wages for a long time; promises to increase them after relevant schooling) instead of forcing them to choose the long-run suboptimal strategy of leaving education to pursue wages that they need today?
"The major platform technologies in this space are Direct3D 12 from Microsoft, Metal from Apple, and Vulkan from the Khronos Group. While these technologies have similar design concepts, unfortunately none are available across all platforms."

Vulkan isn't available on the Mac huh? Yeah Apple, and just who's fault is that??
The higher the aircraft gets, the thinner the air, and the more power required to quickly add altitude at that point.

Most aircraft have a slowly stepped climb and descent managed through ATC that gives them plenty of horizontal miles to change their altitude, so they can more gradually adjust in normal flight without having to use max power.

These pilots fell 4,400 feet, I'm sure they wanted to quickly recover to avoid any further problems with other flights in the area.
I'm not familiar with that one. Does that mean to take 300mg?
I was there years ago but the main reason was support. I worked on the Enterprise/Custom (largest clients, minimum 5 figure MRR/month) team and the phones were staffed by actual System Engineers/Admins 24/7. It might be one guy overnight but if you were the CTO of $bigname and needed something done, from SQL restores, migrations, etc all you had to do was dial in. No phone tag, no wait, no voicemails.

We were very expensive but the companies must have saved money in hiring their own Engineers as were always growing.

AWS/GCP/Azure have made doing a lot of what we used to do incredibly more accessible to more people.
For realtime sync I can understand subscription models but I would be fine with Dropbox/Google Drive etc.
Here is a story including a possible way to workaround bias in the wheels

http://www.gambling-stories.com/2014/03/joseph-jaggers-roule...
"for side-projects developers can get to an MVP with haste."

That's the caveat you want to hear. Also Facebook with php and HHVM [0] not wanting to break things too much.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_Virtual_Machine
I expect a lot of C/C++ are from weekend game/graphics hobbyists.
Hans Rosling dead: World famous statistician dies aged 68
Also somewhat related. I made this site to show you the popularity of programming languages on Stack Overflow by countries and US states: http://soversus.com
As a rule these articles about gentrification almost always irritate the hell out of me (likely because I live in a gentrifying neighborhood in Chicago and honestly just don't feel all that bad about it), but this is a rare exception. I think this article is well worth the long read.

A lot of what makes the "news" in Chicago are plays on the old "this was my neighborhood/new people are allowed to live here too" tropes. All that seems to do is to get both sides to dig in, and I've never seen any useful dialogue come from it. Telling me that I'm an asshole because I came in and bought a house for more than it was worth 20 years ago and I should be ashamed of myself doesn't do any more good than me telling someone that I know their rent goes up as the neighborhood gets more expensive, but they don't get to tell me where I can buy my house and by the way, my neighbors houses are worth more now too.

This article changes the conversation in a way that I hope isn't specific to SF by acknowledging that gentrifiers come into contact with new people with real problems. Appealing to someone's humanity to help their neighbor is a much more effective strategy than verbal class warfare. It also helps inspire people to think of ways to get concretely involved in small and meaningful ways, rather than complaining about problems when there are very few realistic alternatives.
Macs used to be popular with developers but, this has basically changed IMHO. Perhaps they are popular with web designers still but, developers seem to be using Macs no more than the rest of the population to me now. It is Apple's complete lack of support for them that has brought this about IMHO and, I think it will be the end of Apple in the (very) long run (it will be the end of them as anything other than a phone manufacturer sooner and eventually completely I think).
Must all creation be judged? Subject to code review? Criticized and torn apart? Next, let us ban the child's doodle, for it is a self-crafted safe space, free of criticism and the harshness of reality.
No way - I used unity for two classes in college, one elective and one non elective. I know of at least 2 more available as well.
Calling something logically false, usually indicates that you have some sort of proof. Instead you've provided an inference without any supplementary reasoning, which yields a result which I think YOU think is a contradiction, but is not. Ie it would not be logically false to insist that no action, even deliberately undertaken, can objectively be called trolling.

Presumably, in an effort to remedy this, you attempt a construction, which fails in two ways.

First that is the skeeviest use of the word objective if I've ever seen. An objective definition is one which does not depend on the observer. To get around this, you have simply fixed two observers, thereby demonstrating the one to one correspondence of subjective statements and objective statements as follows:

I believe X is so ->

X' is so if I believe X is so.

This doesn't really count, I think, partly because of the second way the argument fails which is that your construction uses no properties OTHER than what these two observers think. In particular, the definition of troll, is formally equivalent to the following definition of ice cream. "if the poster, and at least one responder think it is ice cream then it is ice cream".

So before you invoke things phrases like "logically false" and "narrow logic", I think you should take a good hard look inward, and I mean this, of course, objectively.
I don't think you are in the minority, assuming you have a reasonable way to quickly parse text. I think most developers just Google for one-liners or throw something together in Python to solve text-parsing tasks at hand, rather then trying to remember which tool uses which type of regex with which argument.
They probably meant nuance, but I think the biggest part of experience is knowing all the nuisances (especially in the accompanying development environment) and how to get around them.
Sure, my opinions, values, etc have evolved along a continuum since my college days, yes. I've learned a ton, and make fewer unforced, stupid errors. I've had some damaging tragedies since that time that made me more wary and empathetic to others facing similar difficulties. I am more complex and nuanced.

But, my character, my moods, my tells, and the fundamental flow of my thought processes have never changed. I'm the same lumpish animal I was when I was a tot. When someone says "People don't change", I think the core of that sentiment is that the brain wiring that makes random person X who they are never changes (save the brain becoming damaged or fading, of course.) I'm talking about the essence of a mind.

So I contend that a creep like Zuck doesn't uncreep himself. A sociopath is wired that way, even if they're proficient at hiding that fact. You might say, "Zuck's been exposed to and riding atop a business operating at a mind-blowing scale and pace - that HAS to change a person!" I think that's just projecting what one thinks would happen to themselves in such a situation. What change can you actually point to in Zuck?
Neither is this. An airplane measures indicated airspeed by sampling dynamic pressure. This happens to be useful because it has a direct correlation to various important V-speeds, such as the speed where a wing in a certain configuration generates enough lift for forward flight and so on. This is why an aircraft's V-speeds are given in KIAS. (Put another way, you get the density altitude calculation for free by relying on IAS, as the airplane gets more "inaccurate" with altitude but in actuality "accurate" from the perspective of fluids traveling over surfaces.)

As an airplane gains altitude, IAS dramatically falls versus true airspeed due to this measurement artifact. Complicating this calculation for someone approaching it physically, as you have: by regulation all aircraft calibrate to the same altimeter pressure (29.92 inHg) beyond 18,000 feet. If you think about this physically, that means a whole bunch of airplanes indicate 35,000 feet but in actuality linger around 34,000 or 36,000 or something depending on the actual atmospheric pressure. That also affects how airspeed is calculated, meaning you can't say "well, at 33,000 feet, Mach 0.9 is blah." That computation is a little more nuanced based on the way aircraft sensors are set up and, until computers, required a whiz wheel.

'mikeash is correct, here. You're correct for TAS. IAS is a weird aerospace-specific thing where it's actually helpful to be wrong. I know. To the point of the article, too, the computer worked to avoid exceeding Vne and probably started intervening after passing Vno, which are both figures given in KIAS because both rely on how thick the air is. (Everything in this comment applies to subsonic flight, and the entire calculus changes when you're >=Mach 1.)
I'm disappointed that I had to scroll this far down to get to the real heart of the matter - Apple removing the headphone jack!
This is actually great, thankyou!

edit: Nope, they don't let you setup a proxy (for Node) and PHP on the same server :( it's one or the other
It seems unwise, in retrospect, to make the phone company a critical element of a security mechanism, as it has no skin in the game.
Moldbug is the philosophical father of the alt-right, so of course he doesn't care about non-English users.
I think you'd get a lot out of reading Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind". They're not directly related to privacy, but I found them really helpful in understanding human psychology and different aspects of human thinking.
I don't agree. Whats better than a fictitious human-like AI of tomorrow? A literal human slave 200 years ago. The US South had millions. What did the free people do? Work of course.

You can point to the "Poor White" as an example of what AI could create tomorrow but the "Poor White" existed well before and after slavery was instituted.

The solution to poverty is always the same. More education and more infrastructure. AI should free up enough resources to help make those two goals much more attainable.
> what's bizarre about the branding [... 'fanatical'] which just means 'filled with excessive and single-minded zeal'

Branding your support 'excessive' or 'single-minded' would also be bizarre.

Fanaticism is typically taken with religious or political connotations, and derogatorily.

Cambridge [0] says:

> [informal] extremely interested in something, to a degree that someone [sic] people find unreasonable

​> [disapproving] holding extreme beliefs that may lead to unreasonable or violent behaviour: a fanatical group that has threatened to assassinate doctors

Oxford [1] says:

> A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause: 'religious fanatics'

> ... originally described behaviour that might result from possession by a god or demon ...
(Oxford [1])

(Italics mine.)

[0] - http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fanatical

[1] - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fanatic
Reading this makes me realize how naive I was. I thought I could rent a cheap dedicated server from OVH and leverage Docker to build nice infrastructure without paying too much. Better staying with Google/AWS then.
>> NVidia has it's best days ahead of it. I think the direction it's going with ARM has more legs than what they're doing with POWER.

I'm thinking NVidia doesn't really like ARM, they are putting a RISC-V core on future GPUs after all.
Two major reasons:

1) Windows allows the GPU manufacturers to ship their own Vulkan support; AMD, Nvidia and Intel all do this, which covers 99.99999999999999% of all Windows machines where this is an issue. It's not as good as native support, but it's good enough.

2) Windows has over 90% market share on desktop. macOS has far, far less. It's a lot easier to get people to support your API when you have that kind of market share. iOS doesn't have enough market share for devs to ignore Android.
Old old versions of the Urbit docs talk about things like duchies being passed down from father to son, how Bitcoin is terrible because it enables immoral things, and how trolls will get kicked out of the Urbitverse for not conforming to social mores. Some people see that stuff as neoreactionary dog whistles.

Newer versions of the docs are far less political, so either Urbit has changed or they're just keeping it quiet.
Hum... If you look at the later graph, Haskell's volume is among the lowest volumes of anything there.

What really makes sense. SO format does not suit Haskell very well.
The average age of a commercial truck driver in the US is 55. Many of these people will be retired, and younger people are (rightfully) avoiding this industry.
The bit about the arms race is on point. Also worth mentioning that privacy isn't single-dimensional and the relative cost/benefit analysis for each scenario differs.

For example, your stereotypical teenager cares quite a bit about privacy from her parents, less so from big corporations and the government. Which is why she might engage in privacy-conscious behaviors like using Incognito Mode or using Snapshot instead of MMS. Neither are a good defense against state-sponsored surveillance, but it mitigates the risk of your tech-illiterate mom stumbling upon an embarrassing search in your browser history.
We apologize for the above antics. Those responsible have been sacked.
No share point but nothing beats some salesforce to unwind on a Saturday evening.
Well, I found this. Now it looks like that part of the Ars article is "fake news":

"Yesterday, Bates said he was contacted by the Science Committee for the first time only after the story broke. He said he has not communicated with anyone there before and was not a whistleblower for the committee previously but that he expected to be invited to Washington to testify at a future hearing."

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060049630
For anyone who has implemented a system using CQRS patterns, do you recommend it? What are the pros and cons as the codebase and application grow?
I do appreciate long form writing, but not when it's done badly, as in all the salient details are scattered about the page. That article would be good as part of a biography. Having never heard of Jane Jacob, I too had to consult wikipedia. They should do what Time Magazine does and have a separate info-box with a brief synopsis of the salient details.
U.S. to pre-position tanks, artillery in Baltics, eastern Europe
Why is Vulcan so magical that everyone in this thread thinks it is the only choice?
Nope, it wouldn't happen in a Boeing aircraft. This is a well-known Airbus defect that was a contributing factor to the crash of Air France Flight 447.

Boeing uses traditional controls. It's like a race car steering wheel on a big movable stick. It is really easy to see how the control is positioned.

Airbus uses a small joystick off to the side. It is force-based like a Thinkpad pointing stick, so it barely moves when you push on it. It isn't easy to see if the device is being pushed.

Here, a camera got jammed against the joystick. The pilot nearly made things worse by putting the aircraft in "direct law" mode because he couldn't tell that his own control was causing the problem. In the case of Air France Flight 447, the pilot's idiotic control input was not visible to the two other people in the cockpit.

Airbus will obviously brush this one under the carpet as well, because admitting that the side-stick control is hazardous would cause a need for drastic retrofit of all Airbus aircraft cockpits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Sidestic...
Running on IIS 7? It might be time to upgrade...?! http://images.metmuseum.org/
All of you complaining about this proposal not being based on Vulkan seem to be overlooking the fact that Vulkan is actually quite cumbersome to use. Metal, on the other hand, is a really well designed API and in my opinion strikes just the right balance between performance and usability. If it was available for non-Mac platforms too, it would be my first choice of graphics API every time. So for me, a cross platform web graphics API based on Metal is really quite an exciting prospect - much more so than one based on Vulkan - and I applaud Apple for proposing it.
So much more value would be created if iOS supported Android-style progressive web applications...
Yeah, that's exactly right. Theft of trade secrets only applies in a narrow set of circumstances, but a broad reading of the CFAA could be applied to any condition in a TOS, which is why it is way more troubling.
> It is a joke to suggest putting another abstraction over the low-level api. That is squarely the domain of libraries and frameworks.

That's fine for native apps when the libraries and frameworks can be native and thus high performance but, on the web, these have to compile to JavaScript and, while that can be very fast, a native framework is going to be faster than one running in JavaScript ontop of a lower-level API. This is a problem with the web though.
Why? Do you take issue to the fact that scales show you a measurement in kg rather than N despite it varying as you move around the world (and potentially with changes in temperature, depending on the type of scales)? Velocity/mass is far more intuitive than pressure/force even if they don't apply exactly the same in all cases.

It's about what works easiest for the users of the system.
That's not so surprising, is it?

Unless I'm missing something that graph's all time - there's definitely tonnes of Python Q&A on SO, and as I (anecdotally) described above, not much Rust.

That graph would be better titled "Have people talked about it".
Kubernetes is dead simple to use, but can be a little daunting to set up.

Thankfully, that is changing with things like minikube, kubeadm, kops, and self hosted Kube.

I think the orchestration wars are essentially over. Kube has insane momentum, and is a well architected solution.
That chart shows around 7 billion for corn. The text later says:

> US corn ethanol subsidies are between $5.5 billion and $7.3 billion per year.

Doesn't that mean most non-ethanol uses of corn aren't really subsidized too much?

It does also list: "Feed grains, mostly corn	2,841" (million)

Am I right that that is just $9 subsidy per citizen, and lots of it is going to feed farm animals?

The numbers are all from different years so there could have been some major changes.
An example? https://xkcd.com/705 :)
IIRC- >50%. Source- cant find it atm, but was something I read as part of my business selling online (and most of that on Amazon).

This benefits Walmart the most. Currently I don't want to expand my Walmart/Jet/Sears/NewEggeBay business because I'd need to buy a warehouse. Most 3PL's are small mom and pops or tailored to very large companies. If Fedex can execute on this there is alot of mo ey to be made. But the. Again, execution is everything, isnt it? :)
Good find, it's a shame that the only info is buried in forums and there's no timeline or official statements.
My account still doesn't work and it won't let me continue further, claiming I do not exist.
In my experience? The later. Regime change is a killer in trading algos.

Further, accurate back testing is very difficult for lots of reasons, the most obvious being your own actions aren't reflected.

Most algo firms use historical data to develop a hypothesis & then many different ways to validate that hypothesis. Test trading being the one with the most weight.
Just a head's up: Presto was owned by FoxTel, and was shut down this month.

Stan seems to be a good competitor, but that's only comparing it to the Australian Netflix library. I'm of the opinion that all competition has done is split the market, as they fight over the same set of exclusives.

I'll often browse US Netflix rather than switch between Aus Netflix and Stan to find a movie I've seen previously. US Netflix seems to have 90% of the missing content Stan offers over Aus Netflix.
I have a friend that works at the Met, and (with management's permission of course) was able to get me into the modern wing during a time it was being renovated. It was just incredible, being able to sit in front of such giant paintings in peace.

If you stand as close as you can to a Rothko (with your knees practically touching the velvet rope barrier), and stare for a while it just completely envelopes your eyes. The colors take over your entire field of vision and you can really get lost in them, and just "feel" the painting. You can't really do that otherwise without someone asking you to please move. The Pollocks were my favorite, but it's all incredible. It definitely became my favorite type of visual art after that and I will always visit the Met and MoMa when in town.

Edit: Unfortunately, seems like none of those are public domain, so only low resolution images are available.
> but that doesn't mean there is an infinite source of jobs if we just try hard enough.
Job = Time.

As long as human beings can use their muscles and brains in the time to change outcome of some events and as long as people vary in their ability to do so, I think jobs will always exist.