skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically, if we get immortality then we'd want to cap our population. The mechanics are actually really simple: Get the average number of children per couple significantly lower than 2.

Like, if it's a 1 child per couple rate, then it caps out at double the population. If it's 1.4 per couple, then it caps out at somewhere less than 4x our population, I think. Which, realistically, means we'll probably never have more than 40 billion people, since without immortality our population will cap at around 10 billion.

The "worst case" scenario is if immortality is widely administered before birth rates drop to 2/couple or below. I'm not sure that will happen, because I'd expect immortality to start off fairly expensive and a populace getting wealthier usually results in birth rates dropping massively, AND there will be a huge focus on minimising birth rates once immortality (and the asociated population problems it causes) becomes widely recognised as imminent by the general population.
Are you talking about this?

> Please note: Even though we call it the ‘Live’ service, it’s still very much in the Alpha stage of development, and there are tons of features and optimizations to be added. Players on the ‘Live’ service are very much testers, too!

We are talking about 130 million dollar. A hill of mismanagement, ideas stacked on ideas and Spawn offs to keep the hype running. I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are talking about. This game is the peek of that new Alpha Game wave that is flooding steam for example. It's like now everybody wants to be like SZ. Greenlight some rough concepts, ???, profit/cancel.

This game is a terrible example for others.
http://githut.info/

> GitHut is an attempt to visualize and explore the complexity of the universe of programming languages used across the repositories hosted on GitHub.

> Github is the largest code host in the world, with 3.4 million users. It's the place where the open-source development community offers access to most of its projects. By analyzing how languages are used in GitHub it is possible to understand the popularity of programming languages among developers and also to discover the unique characteristics of each language.
I agree with the authors general point. If you would settle to a 60's life style, you could probably achieve that by working only 15h per week. However, there is a big industry which constantly tries to persuade you to improve your life style. You need a better iPhone/car/home/TV! Very few people manage to break out of that brainwashing and we do not respect them much. So, is Apple evil when it tries to persuade you to buy the new iPhone? No, we clearly give them the right to do that. Our system gives them the right. Our system is called Capitalism.

Nevertheless, the author uses "evil" persuasion techniques himself. At one point, he appeals to the "evil elite" meme:

> The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the ‘60s).

Later, he says it was just evolution:

> Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error.
I'm still waiting for them to just rm -rf anything about Google Plus.

I know that they rolled the Google Talk features (mostly) into Hangouts, but this is why it's frustrating to stick with the Googleverse. You never know what's going to be there 2 years from now. It's not always progress either. There's something to be said for the relative stability of the Apple "walled garden."
It may perhaps become possible to allow full autonomy on certain roads under certain conditions. e.g. you can drive on these stretches of highway in daylight in good weather. How something like that gets specified and enforced in any formal sense, I have no idea.
But what about heated discussions that stay on the front page for some time (I suppose they are fueled by the discussion itself, rather than the piece of content, which started it)?
Yes. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/21...
I am not familiar with your software, but would a standard keyboard shortcut work for your common case of adjusting a number? j/k or some such mnemonic for up down?
What would you say is missing or handled worse than in comparable scenarios on mobile hardware in Mac/Win? Not everything-- just something that stood out to you or that you felt that you should have been able to do but couldn't easily.
That second strategy ought to get you on another, more interesting, list though.
> Sometimes the name of a gentlemen's club might be added, but addresses were not otherwise included. [..] The visiting card is no longer the universal feature of upper middle class and upper class life that it once was in Europe and North America. Much more common is the business card.

And "gentlemen's clubs" now typically means strip clubs in modern culture.
Ha! Figures.
The Wikipedia page on cooperative hunting says that some 85-90% of hunting is done solitary, so I was totally wrong on that one.
I look at medium as a networked wordpress. That has some nice benefits, but I am not paying $5 for something I do not control 100%
His pieces in Login are great. There's links to the rest of them and his others works at http://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
> How do we justify bombing civilians, hospitals, wedding parties in remote countries we're not even at war with?

Just War Theory has existed for long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory
Visualizing Garbage Collection in Ruby and Python (2013)
I love to listen to podcasts while traveling or just walking. There are some really good podcasts on SaaS businesses and on technology. They are also free and come often weekly, so you can follow one you like especially. I'm following for example "Release Notes" or "Giant robot smashing into other giant robots", event TED has a podcast there with good shorter talks.
That's where unmanned refueling aircraft come in.
This happens if you have full disk encryption enabled. If the laptop goes into hibernation, the disk is no longer mounted. So you need to enter your password to mount the drive which then drops you into the lock screen to enter your password again.

Ideally, the computer should be able to know you just woke the computer from hibernation and skip the second lock screen but I don't think the systems are integrated enough to do that right now. :)
C and C++ are the most popular "systems programming languages", C is king in embedded, kernels, C++ is a king in everything else. Go is not strictly "systems programming language", as to Rust popularity this is the most pragmatic answer I've seen lately:

"... Let's see Rust for what it is: the latest attempt at a C++ replacement. These have come and gone over the years, and it's by no means clear that Rust will succeed. As an example, Rust is currently 43rd of the 50 languages monitored in the Tiobe index. For comparison with languages of a similar vintage, Swift and Go are 10th and 17th respectively. C++ is 3rd. To put it bluntly: almost nobody is using Rust in the real world yet.

So please, ease up on the hype, Rust users. Have a little humility. You've got a nice little language with some really good ideas, and having a static analyser built into your compiler is cool. But there's a long way to go yet."[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/611811/have_you_used_r...
Exactly, especially so because that would totally break sandboxing. Granted, applets are way beyond their best-before date, but there may be other reasons a SecurityManager sandbox is in place, perhaps for isolating multiple .wars from different sources, or maybe someone even wrote a sandbox for executing user-supplied code.

Java's raison d'être was arguably the byte code verifier. Being able to crash the JVM with validated byte code is always a bug.
> First, all the compilers already implement pretty much all of it. I'm not sure if by widespread you mean "included in a distribution" but you can use these features today, if you want to install a compiler.

Of course, I can install any compiler, but my employer might not allow me to use it. Porting to a new compiler is not an easy task when a code base is large; we postponed porting due to lack of time.

> Second, C++ is popular by pretty much every measure I could think of. Whether you want to measure lines of code, or number of projects, or number of developers - it is very high on the list.

More interesting measure would be the number of new projects.

> It is true that is not popular with web developers and gets shouted down in those echo chambers, but the web entirely runs on C++ because all browsers are written in C++.

In web backend C++ is not used. You find there C#, Java, PHP, Python, maybe Go.
I have the new 15" (after using the 2013 version almost since release) and I haven't noticed a disparity in bugs - both have been extremely reliable machines.

That touch bar thing has never happened to me. Still hate it, though. :)

This sounds like you should just take it in for a replacement to me.
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IIRC, Trello had plenty of folks wanting to pay money to support them. They ended up releasing a paid plan, which I think gave you stickers? I suppose you're right, they should have some kind of offer, but then again I'm sure there are folks that are more than willing to pay for what they're getting already.
There is no such thing as a "bullshit job". If you work in the private sector, where the primary reason for existing is to make a profit, your job directly or indirectly contributes to that goal.

If you want to make an impact that is unrelated to making money, volunteer or join a nonprofit.
The worst part of the new laptop is the damn keyboard. Keys keep getting stuck, which severely slows down my typing. And it's intermittent. At any given time I have about 1-2 keys stuck, but it always changes.
You forgot the arena like fights transmitted live on TV with little difference from gladiator fights.

Just with the difference that people usually don't get killed on the arena, and the subject being some kind of martial arts instead of reproducing past battles.
One of Tesla's primary responses to the Autopilot related crashes was to require higher levels of driver engagement.

Tesla revamps autopilot technology after fatal crash

https://www.ft.com/content/3ddb43f0-785c-11e6-a0c6-39e263316...

Tesla's system may still be in the deadly valley, I don't know, but I guess many people will not put up with having to stop the car repeatedly.
It's more taxpayer money used to kill more people. The Israelis are our frenemies. Plenty of examples of them not acting in our interests. Funds the suppression of the Palestinians. There's a lot not to like about how that is used. Yes we get a partner in the Middle East that helps us fight more wars. Is that really a good thing?
According to economic theory, at least, the last thing a profit-seeking firm is going to do is shell out money to workers they don’t really need to employ. Still, somehow, it happens.

I think that's, at best, a twisting of any economic theory I've ever read.

As a software engineer, I have a skill that is fairly valuable in today's economy, and yet I've had a number of clients - mostly startups and small businesses looking to add automation - where I never added any real economic value to the organization at all. I'd work with the client, trust their domain expertise, build a solution to the problem they had, and then watch as no one ever used it.

And yet, this is an important facet of capitalism - investments that fail. In the age of globalization and automation, entrepreneurs have an out-sized advantage over employees. The ones that fail are effectively working "bullshit jobs", but the ones that succeed grow the economy many times what was lost from the failures.

That, in effect, is why Keynes's 15-hour work week didn't materialize. The value of the extra productivity went to the entrepreneurs and their investors, which in turn tilted the playing field even further toward entrepreneurs and investors.

The good news: the barriers to entrepreneurship shrink further and further every cycle of productivity increase. 10 years ago you could start a business with a laptop and some coding knowledge, and build an app or a website that could be worth millions. Now, you can start your own television station with a smart phone and some niche domain knowledge, as YouTube and Patreon are proving.

As a result, there are going to be more and more people out there working for inevitable failures, but the winners are going to grow the economy for everyone.

So, eventually, everyone is going to become an entrepreneur, the singularity is going to make us irrelevant, or we're going to have to re-think how we distribute scarce resources.
Given Graeber's previous work:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-gr...
I'd want numbers to back up his claims. For example, we could easily say that while the expertise of a corporate lawyer is artificially limited by law, and maybe not even these days:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-law...
while the musician poet makes songs, which these days have zero marginal cost to replicate.

When we look at some of the other "bullshit" jobs, we see similar things. Sure the amount of actuaries is predicted to increase by 14% in the US from 2014 to 2024, but there will still be less than 30k actuaries in the us, with an increase of upwards of 4k.
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/actuaries.htm
There are only 250k public relation specialists:
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/public-relat...
There will be 8k anthropologists by 2024:
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/ant...

His numbers don't pan out. There aren't that many bullshit jobs.
Sierra was the end of the line for me. Dell XPS 13 DE. i3 for WM. It has taken a few weeks of tweaking but it is a one time investment in many areas (backups, configs, wrangling iptables, etc.). If you stick with Unity it is nearly flawless. Build isn't like a Macs but it is good. I am... Ok. Some apps leave something to be desired but my core work is fine.
Windows 0Day flaw used by #AdGholas hackers and it was included in #Neutrino EK
They burn $50m per year and have 60m readers

They need 1.4% of readers to subscribe

They charge 1/3 what the NYTimes does. The NYTimes company has +$1bn revenues.

They can probably get 1.4% of readers to subscribe. They could also charge subscriptions for blogger tools. They could have tiered subscriptions ($5 is the lowest guardian membership, and it looks like you get little for it). They have only just started offering subscriptions so I imagine what you get for $5 will only grow.

150 people really isn't bloat. Stack overflow has 250 employees and I bet you never paid them a penny. SO have VC funding to series D and they have fewer users and readers than Medium.

It seems that Medium has a viable business model: ads and subscriptions. Same as any other media business.
He makes some good points about how certain jobs are more wasteful in a pure economic sense but he jumps to quickly to denigrating a large swath of modern jobs.

'It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish'

Best cases:
- Private equity CEOs buy out companies and get rid of the pointless jobs this article rails against
- Lobbyists help inform politicians about the impacts of complicated laws
- Actuaries make insurance more efficient and affordable
- Telemarketers.... yeah....
- Bailiffs help to enforce rule of law
- Legal consultants can help companies to be more efficient

There are huge negatives to all of these jobs but it's not fair simply to write them off as wasteful and unimportant.
I agree, but it's more misleading to have headlines about a self-driving car that crashed without mentioning it's not the self-driving car's fault (and without mentioning nobody was even injured).
> If everyone has stealth aircraft, how do they even find eachother to fight? How do missiles work?

Stealth isn't like a Star Trek cloaking device - they're still detectable, just not as much. Lets them get closer to targets before being detected, but if you fly a B-2 right over a radar site it's likely to get picked up.

Missiles can be guided by a more powerful ground radar or an AWACS aircraft, and some are capable of optical and heat-seeking operation.
I remember being told, somewhere in high school, that the slaves that build the pyramids were kept docile by being fed beer after work...
_/\_
I guess I just don't see the stretch goals as bonus wins. They caused the whole game to be rethought and redesigned. They're integral to what the game is expected to be and have driven the ambition to make the game better. And again, even if we look at the components individually, many are still late from the times they were estimated to be released. And I wasn't being disengenous: I'm talking about simply the Carrack, the part I'm most excited about. But CIG's gotten good about not promising dates anymore, a lesson every Kickstarter and development group should learn!

My point is that lateness isn't the sin people make it out to be. A well polished and expansive game can come late, and so long as the medium still does it justice it'll be great. All the gnashing of teeth and whining will be forgotten as people play fun. Setting expectations for deliverables is far better than expectation for delivery times, since you can miss deadlines while still delivering (leaving you with a lose-win pattern). And it's better to set expectations realistically rather than disappoint, because then at best you can deliver disappointment on time. SC has some damn good pedigree, so I think it's easy to believe they'll deliver on quality and expectation, and that overrides everything else.

I was thrilled about NMS (and had a blast with it), and I think it panned a bit because it rushed. There was some noise that warped expectations, and yet the game became just what it set out to be. Further updeates made it even more fun to play, and to quote Day9 "I will play the shit out of No Man's Sky 2." Heck, we even have celebrated failures like VoxelQuest, which is one of my favorite KickStarter epics. Obduction was just what I expected from Cyan. And I'm honestly kinda excited to see if Hiveswap manages to deliver despite hype. Broken Age was a bit bizzare, since it actually probably would have been better if it stopped in the middle (but still a lot of fun). We live in such a golden age of choice it's possible that Dual Universe will be good!

Imagine having NMS, SC, and DU all with their own take on a large persistent universe - pick the style you like! I'll happily wait years to see that, and we can usually play them before they're done, which takes the sting out of waiting I think.
> Ahh yes. The "Tesla" defence.

Is that the "BMW" defence to the "Tesla" defence?
20n's prediction platform for synthetic biology is now open source
That money could have been used to feed and educate a lot of people.
You'd also have to factor in the times the human operator has to take over for the autopilot to prevent accidents.

Many articles and press releases make it look like self-driving is "already here" when it's actually still very much a work in progress and not at all a solved problem
Libre office generally just works. I have real Word in Wine that works fine too.

But yeah apps can be tricky. I am happy with my laptop as well (Linux).
"The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger”

Take, for example, a telemarketer selling junk.

Maybe they took the job because some ruling class wants them to not be productive and happy with free time, as the article claims.

Or maybe, just maybe, they do the job because they can make money doing it and someone else can make money employing them to do it.
Vmware workstation... :)
It is totally inhuman and not acceptable to spend such an enormous amount of money for these primitive war technologies.

We have many people on this planet still suffering from problems that could be solved with a fraction of that money.

Please do not support these destructive projects with your work. You can make a change!

From my own experience I can tell you that you will have a much better life avoiding to work for these neanderthal-minded war prophets.

Many people working in war industries are getting very, very ill, physically and psychically, because it is against your human desire for harmony to make yourself part of a giant killing machine.

Love and Peace!
I use truecaller. It works well me, but robocalls have never been a major problem for me fohttps://www.truecaller.com/
Most C++ compilers have them, the problem is the macho coders that think that know best.

The same that micro-optimize every single line of code they write without ever running the code through a profiler.
Same here, I own a Galaxy S3 LTE which I also keep up to date using custom roms (though official CM/LineageOS support is lacking lately making it a bit less straightforward) and even that is basically already fast enough for everything.
Sorry, but this article is kind of full of assumptions and it has more storytelling than facts. Multiple times author says "I have no objective measure but one time I met a guy..."

Perhaps the worst assumption is that we have a capitalist economy/society and thus its ills can safely be attributed to capitalism. In America at least, we have a mixed economy in which the state is deeply influential in most industries through regulation and/or outright participation. Additionally, all income can potentially be taxed and interest rates and money supply are controlled by a quasi-governmental corporation (and since barter is rare, money is in general half of every transaction).

I would suggest that it is possible that many (or a majority?) of the "pointless" jobs exist because the income tax (if people aren't working, they aren't being taxed) and because of government laws and regulations (more laws and regs = more pointless paper pushing = more people being taxed). My theory has as much logical support as the author provides at least.

Also might want to look up the term "contrafreeloading"