skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will show this article to my sons this weekend and redouble my time with them teaching them to program. As with many things in life (healthcare, food, peace, schools), we also need to appreciate having high-speed Internet access and two parents with programming experience and the time and interest to mentor our children.
Cost is tricky because the big costs are a step function.

So long as there's an empty seat in the office, it really doesn't cost much to have someone sit there every day. Yeah, there are some free drinks but it's really in the noise and might well be dwarfed by some additional travel for the remotee to come into the office now and then.

However, at some point, having a significant number of remote workers may mean you don't take out a lease on an additional floor or move to a bigger building or construct a new campus, which can be huge costs.

The productivity debate has been done to death and I won't repeat it here :-)
> What of people receiving Social Security, pensions, inherited wealth, royalties from patents and copyrights, rents collected on real estate...?

Not exactly the definition of the creative class is it?
The brain will eventually adapt and find a way to continue procrastinate. Self-deception might work for a while, just don't expect it to last forever.
And also because the power is intermittent / can not be planned, you need long distance transmission lines.

If you have just coal and natural gas plants, you can throttle them according to usage patterns. If you produce a large portion by wind, it might make sense to build a transmission cable to a nearby country with mountains and hydropower.

And there DC is more efficient.
Tweets seem to have an impact of around 1-3% lasting hours to days. Many (most?) stocks have too high implied volatility to begin with for straddling by tweet to be a productive strategy.
Nah, it's just that it took work to integrate turn restrictions, and that that results in a bit of a slowdown.

It's easier to do research on a more limited version of the problem (shortest path in a road graph with a suitably chosen edge weight function) and then generalise than start out with the most general formulation. The results are wild: these techniques are millions of times faster than Dijkstra's algorithms and provably produce the exact same result. It's what makes Google Maps possible.
a tweak to this is to throw a few things in the list that you've already done, then at least you get to cross off something at the end of the day..
Really though? I thought you only something like get 10-15 holidays (including sick days?), are expected to work really long hours, and I can't imagine the rent within cycling distance of downtown San Francisco... Actually I don't need to - it's pretty insane - easily triple London prices which are already very high:

https://www.zumper.com/blog/uploads/2016/03/SanFrancisco_Mon...
I don't know. Good point. I expect some, e.g. O'Reilly, were actively solicited.

I don't spend too much time in Plus. Brin has had a lot of political stuff, recently, although he's a bit mixed and individual in his opinions and they do tend to tie back to points modeled in his sci-fi writing.

O'Reilly I see less frequently. I suppose he's getting more "elder statesman", too.

Torvalds actually addresses some tech stuff. Though he has personal stuff, too -- he does not use it as a "tech blog".

Reminds me some of Tim Bray's "Ongoing" blog -- self-hosted -- that I haven't been to in a while. A personal take, on both tech and other stuff in his life. Whatever the topic, informed, intelligent, and thoughtful. Creative, too.

I don't think Plus is in any kind of a steady state. Even what I wrote about, may well be in decline. Maybe it was better a few years ago.

Regardless, this year's politics have really shocked a lot of people, and this is spilling over into erstwhile non-political venues.
Within visual range air-air combat. It's designed for BVR combat (although it's suffering from a lack of very long range weapons like the Meteor at this point).

Older planes are always retrofitted with more systems, that's what the su-30/35 is (on the Su 27 platform) and similarly for super hornet, late block F-16s etc.
The problem is that those airframes are decades old and there comes a point when the power and cooling requirements just don't fit in the old frame any more.
Seems like the whole concept is outdated. Humans are a bottleneck that needs to be mitigated. Each F-35 should probably have a thousand drone missiles flying behind it, ready to swarm-attack any threat. Not just a few F-22s...

Send 20 missle drones at any fighter or 100 into any deep bunker. It shouldn't be hard or expensive to fly missiles around the world anymore. An aluminum tube, some fuel, and a computer.

The F-35 could be the swarm leader and have the big computer capable of serving its 1000 drones without any outside support.

China or Russia could build this today and the technology is only advancing.
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Except, in this context, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and others aren't underpaying anyone.

Also being a new grad != employable at one of these companies, and no, training isn't going to help them either.
TIL!

> POSTQUEL allows users to save and query historical data and versions [KATZ85, WOOD83]. By default, data in a relation is never deleted or updated. Conventional retrievals always access the current tuples in the relation. Historical data can be accessed by indicating the desired time when defining a tuple variable.

Or, to put it another way [1]:

"Since one can't change the past, this implies that the database accumulates facts, rather than updates places, and that while the past may be forgotten, it is immutable."

&:)

[1] https://www.infoq.com/articles/Datomic-Information-Model
Boredom quickly becomes a non-issue when the real issue is starvation.

I'd love to get to the point where the main problem is being bored. I fear that, if the current social and political dogmas don't change, a heck of a lot of people will get kicked to the curb once AI-driven automation really takes off.
Now what do you do once a court hands down a ruling requiring said shares be transferred to a given person?

Guess what, they're not going to accept "we can't" as a valid answer.
There was a bug in pf which made it break with TSO, but it was fixed a couple years ago.
> A plumber with a team of robots and an AI assistant will all of the sudden be able to do enough work to justify the cost of his labour.

This also implies that fewer individual plumber/robot/AI teams than the current number of plumbers. To offset that, we either need quite a bit more work at this level, or we need a rethink of the whole work-to-live system.

In the past it has always turned out that there are new kinds of jobs to be done. That may happen this time too. Things like living off of making YouTube videos are perhaps an early indicator of the direction we should be looking in. But it seems like most of the new models that are successful are based on ads and it seems to me that advertising-based business models can only ever make up a relatively small portion of the total economy.
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> outside ...?

I meant "blue collar" as a metaphor for employing a large group of regular folks, not for outside work.

Manufacturing jobs in the middle of the 20th century were a core part of the economy. As robotics and other forms of automation replace more human activities, computer programming might become somewhat similar to the assembly-line job of the past. If not, I can't think of anything else that could plausibly take that role, in which case there would not be a large middle class.
> I don't know enough people. I don't talk about any of this stuff with my friends. Nobody is interested in it. I've had my fair deal of shit from teachers when it comes to computing, too.

What a bummer. When I was a kid, I was nowhere as skilled as this guy, but I was online a lot and talked to a fair amount of people whom I would consider friends.

It seems that today, it should be even easier to reach out and connect to people with your shared interests, especially when those shared interests are effectively marketable skills and ought to translate into job offers out of high school.
That's true, which means any algorithm would also have to take the nature of the company being tweeted about into consideration.
With any pretense of curation gone, I'm afraid Steam will go the way of the Apple App Store. It is a swamp of copycats and low quality half-efforts. Sure, there's quality in there, but it is awfully hard to find.

I hope they make the entrance price high. Steam is already clogged with a lot of subpar stuff. Perhaps if a developer has to put down a chunk of change, he/she will think twice about publishing the 37th zombie-tower-defense erotic (but PG!) visual novel.
Down to 0. I have a cup of decaf in the morning since I need to override my behavior of having something hot and bitter in the morning. In the afternoon, I'll have some hot barley tea. Over the weekend, I'll treat myself to one regular coffee that's more on the fancier side.

I decided to stop caffeine because I was getting random headaches in the evenings. Also, it would be very hard to forgo that afternoon caffeine when I started to get sleepy.

With this new routine, I feel much more in control of my mind and can escape the roller coaster of energy that caffeine puts me through.
BVR = beyond visual range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond-visual-range_missile

WVR = within visual range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_superiority_fighter
How about some image processing/object recognition by standardized AI interfaces?
> "It's stellar performance"

Am I the only one deeply troubled by Popular Mechanics articles making this ugly it's/its confusion in 2017. Is this really going to become a thing now?
yes, the old "specter of communism" is always hanging around. I don't think people will just rollover and cease to exist once they are deemed not needed by a society.
I used to try stacking the deck in the way this article mentions, until I tried Adderall and realized that it made this kind of task juggling totally unnecessary.

It was really bizarre to experience. However, to be honest, I don't need laser focus most the time, and like the sort ambling approach he discusses. My strategy for the next few months is going to be using it one day a week, for sweeping up the boring things (that otherwise haunt my waking life).
food production and distribution is also heavily regulated. the USDA inspects farms for safety and sanitation. the FDA inspects food processors for safety and sanitation and inspects food products for safety and purity (whether or not the item in the package is what it claims to be).

I don't know precisely how this compares with the degree of regulation and government intervention in the healthcare sector, but I wish you would try to make a more concrete argument with some examples or citations. as is it really seems as if you're arguing purely from ideology.
This argument is inherently a fallacy. Sometimes ideas are inherently bad. (Also, you're an engineer at Buffer)
In case someone wonders where this is from -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc
That was the motto on the Washington family coat of arms before he was born. It's a quote from Ovid.
Should we colonize Mars?
This isn't even limited to particular president-saints. I was amazed to see the presidential debate last year held in front of a larger-then-life backdrop of the US constitution. It felt like watching a cross-over between a pious ritual, and 'Better Call Saul's' sleazy law office on Breaking Bad.
The whole point of the F-35 is stealth which is determined by the shape and materials used on the fuselage. You cannot simply retrofit stealth.
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I could see how a bird can pick seeds of a cactus and fly between continents, releasing a seed. The other similar, and bigger in my view, evolutionary puzzle is fresh water seals of Lake Baikal in Russia. Thousands of miles away from the sea shore, they are the only fresh water seals in the world. How they got there is a mystery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_seal
The old airframes are also not stealthy, which is a pretty important perk for BVR combat. Getting better missiles isn't much help if you don't know where to put them.
Thing is, that's not how it's pitched, and the trade-off needs to be worth it. I personally would rather we found a way to do verifiable e voting (no idea how though, some cryptographic way to sign the logic used to express the program so you can verify it's the thing everyone agreed on?) and remade our cooperation systems into a working version of libertarian communism/syndicalistic anarchism. IIRC rojave is trying something like that right now?
It scares me too, but you know, I'm ready to embrace whatever comes next.

I've been thinking alot about this over the course of the last year. Say that enough things get automated that we have massive numbers of unemployed, how do we address that? Instead of dodging the question by exclaiming that it won't happen, we probably should address a much deeper and more fundamental question: Why does the value of a person come from their method of earning a living? We have to detach individual value from choice of career first.

Once we've done that, we really have a real question to answer, and it's deeply existential: Do we really want humankind's story to be about the majority of a population working at dead-end jobs just to buy food and water? Aren't we here for more? I for one don't buy the theory that we will self organize into makerspaces and become "creators". Creativity beyond survival is a luxury when life and death are on the line.

I don't have the answers, but I certainly have many questions. If I had to guess what would happen in the event that extreme A.I. automation puts us out of work, I'd suspect we will organize back into tribes to focus on subsistence. I've found that if you look at the history books, a centralized government isn't the best entity to take care of masses of unemployed people. In large enough countries, people would end up starving in the bread lines.

I think we need to really think about why we're here. Why are we so bent on using automation to complete the tasks of our shitty 9-5 lives instead of building a utopia? People are quick to say that we need to replace a money based economy, but that's too superficial a solution. Money is merely a shared myth used by us to trade our time and value for a symbol that we can use to prove our worth. Until we transfer where the "worth" of an individual comes from, we're going to be in this cycle.
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But there are mental jobs being replaced. Finance, insurance, data entry, law, etc are all being disrupted. Some slower than others, but its more the cost of hiring the software developers to replace them with automated systems than it is the technology not being ready.
True HFT is not in any sense dead, it's just matured so only those with deeper pockets can compete.
> Doesn't play well with source control. Even if the GUI builder spits out a text-based format like XML, it's hard to read and understand diffs, and it can be difficult to impossible to merge.

This is a bit more specific to Apple imho. Android layouts are also XML but much smaller and much more manageable in source control. The underlying xml of storyboard files are hundreds of lines long and often change just from opening the file, even if you don't change anything.
I wish they'd use starch again, instead of "water soluble polymers." The oceans don't need more plastics.
"Edge Analytics" is an import trend for IoT to become what the pundits claim: tens of billions of devices orchestrating the connected world. Decentralize as much as possible, because no server farm can (or should) constantly serve and consume advanced content to and from tens of billions of devices, especially when information from nearby devices is often far more relevant for IoT applications. The idea is similar to CDN's, and could help decentralize routing as well; here's the term I've heard more often to describe this idea, fog computing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing
Plenty of scientists, entrepreneurs and creative thinkers have backgrounds that would allow them to subsist with minimal work, and choose to do what they do anyway.
What I meant by fraud, was not cases of outright fraud where someone bills Medicare for services never performed, although I'm sure that happens all the time.

I meant cases like the late night commercials "call now and get a free motor scooter! Just fill out a simple form and we will bill Medicare."

And more relevant are the cases where hospitals bill medicare huge amounts for long patient stays. Medicare always pays what they are billed, after all it's the government paying, they just write a check.

Meanwhile if you bill an insurance company they will negotiate, argue, refuse to pay, deny coverage, etc. If you bill an uninsured person they can also just decide not to pay in favor of paying more important bills like food and shelter.

So, the hospital is actually fine with this, they simply write off the unpaid amount on their taxes as a charitable expense, and increase rates, which Medicare will pay.

So, as you can see, Medicare (plus tax breaks) create a situation where the government subsidizes and distorts everyone else's health care costs.
No, what I mean is that there is no gravitational term in any formalism of the Standard Model, and never has been. Its Lagrangian does not include a kinetic or interaction term whereby the spectrum of the Standard Model can include a graviton. Gravity is simply absent from the mathematics of the Standard Model, which is a specific quantum field theory.

You can certainly describe gravitation using a massless spin-2 graviton, and perturbative quantum gravity -- another specific quantum field theory -- does exactly that, and is a perfectly fine effective field theory that entirely matches General Relativity absent superposed sources and outside of strong gravity (which is defined by the EFT's renormalization group flow).

You can add this graviton to a particle zoo. But then it's not the particle zoo of the Standard Model, any more than writing down an "action of everything"[1] gives the action of the Standard Model.

> The general laymans meaning of "Standard Model" means everything in physics that is referenced on that chart (including gravity), and that's how I meant it.

is only correct if you underline the "how I [mean] it" part and make that central to evaluating the sentence's truth. It's hard to disprove solipsistic physics, though, and rarely interesting.

Additionally,

> which relate to the 4 fundamental forces (carriers) ... I'm sure you're familiar with this chart.

Sure, but there are several such charts, and they're not all the same. Here's one from Fermilab and SLAC, institutions that are pretty familiar with the Standard Model: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/standard-model/ (There's no graviton in it).

Fundamental forces come from fundamental interactions, but there is no force police force enforcing a law that there are four of them or that the carriers are gauge bosons in a particle zoo. The Higgs interaction can be treated as a force[2] and its mediator is a scalar boson rather than a gauge boson, so does the Standard Model have four fundamental forces? One can take differing views of the electroweak interaction above 80-90 GeV: does the Standard Model have only two fundamental forces?

One can certainly treat Einstein gravity as at least a d'Alembert force arising from the affine connection; but alternatively one could take the position that d'Alembert forces generically depend on a choice of frame of reference and on that basis they cannot be fundamental. Is gravity a force? You get a different answer from Newton (yes) than you do from either Einstein (yes, but it's fictitious) or Misner, Thorne & Wheeler (mu, there is only spacetime geometry).

So an argument that as there are four fundamental forces there must be four force carriers is on shaky ground to start with. Even if we were to accept that, it does not follow that all the forces in question relate to the local symmetries of the Standard Model.

[1] For example, Carroll's "core theory" here: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/...

[2] as discussed at last year's Moriond EW, for example, the Higgs force can be measured using atomic spectroscopy: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/12279/session/7/contribution/1...
"GPS is the automated tool that killed the Taxi."

No, not really. When I travel to a new city, I always use a Taxi to get around. GPS actually helps out the taxi drivers because I don't need to sit there explaining exactly where to go. I can just tell them the address. In a foreign country, it's even better: Just give them a business card or piece of paper with the address on it.

"Uber is just the first major company to take advantage of cheap GPS technology."

Uber is the first major company to avoid all of the taxi unions and the medallion systems and hire any driver off the street for what amounts to some extra beer money for the drivers.

It's really convenient and nice for consumers, but guts the industry of jobs that could actually earn someone a real living.

"the Taxicab industry became an endangered species."

Again, no it didn't. I'm not sure how much traveling you have done but when you need to get somewhere on time, Trains and Subways don't really cut it. You need to take a taxi.

Unless we have an instant form of travel without cars, we will always have a need for taxis.

Uber did, however, show us that when unions are in place and create a monopoly in an industry, they really have no incentive to actually make things better for the consumer.
Then what's the point of doing the transaction with a digital contract in the first place? Weren't they meant to remove the need for trust or centralised arbitration?

We already have well-established mechanisms to arbitrate these kind of disagreements, e.g. courts. Adding blockchains to the process just makes it more complicated for no gain.
Great point. I would take it a step further and fully test the distribution model that you would expect to have when your product is complete. More than likely, your sales & marketing would go beyond a landing page. If you can force yourself to solve the distribution part, the product creation part is that much more fulfilling knowing that you'll have traction when you're done, or even already have it before shipping.
You could contact Flexport, and let them know that someone is spamming the HN boards with random "hiring" post that point to news articles about Flexport.

If you politely point out that it looks like another company is trying to sabotage their hiring by giving them a bad reputation, I would bet that someone would take notice.

If they are a legitimate company, that is... It is always possible that they don't give a damn about their reputation because the company does not actually care about their tech hires. In which case, anyone who isn't desperate and has a little sense would know to stay away from Flexport at all costs.
No aircraft looks good BVR against live targets. There have only been perhaps one or two air-to-air missile kills bvr against aware/equiped targets in the last 40 years (targets with trained pilots and realistic countermeasures). Most pilots assume a 10-15% hit chance in a realworld bvr situation. No aircraft looks good when launching all your bvr weapons (4?) will likely not score a single hit.
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You know what's open source and works great as a firewall (also based on pf)?

OpenBSD.

No, seriously. Don't bother picking a third-party repackage of pf, when you can actually get the a secure OS built by people who actually put security above everything else. If you care about security, there's no reason to go elsewhere.