skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really how consumer surplus works. Just because "the market will bear" a certain price, does not mean the value to a given buyer is that price. In reality, there are probably some who really do only value the loaf at $1, but others would be willing to pay $1.10, $1.20, or even more before the transaction was no longer break-even. You might make an attempt to capture this surplus as well (this is called price discrimination), but it's notoriously difficult to do with commodities.

Also, there is no actor in the world economy who is having an effect like your metaphorical bread-give-away-er. So while it might hypothetically have been better if someone had built Amazon out of the goodness of their heart and operated at cost to all users, that is not one of the alternatives we have to decide between. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that such altruists are out there waiting in the wings. If anything, they'd have a competitive advantage, if they did exist, because they'd be able to offer lower prices.
Most of what I know comes from listening to other engineers (my father's age) talk as I went through engineering school with a TI Voyage 200. That didn't have a nice manual, but it had pretty printing and could solve large systems of complex equations with ease and was almost too powerful and even came with apps (essentially a TI-89 with more RAM and a lot more buttons). I could type out a massive equation and then adjust it slightly each time. My father was dirt poor and worked in fast food full time while taking classes, and he could somehow afford one as did most of his classmates as the RPN feature would be invaluable when a TI calculator would force you to write down output from individual calculations without an X-Y-T stack (please correct me if I'm wrong though). Another advantage to owning one was some introductory programming classes would allow you to use the HP language for homework assignments. As ridiculous as this sounds, the alternative was waiting in a massive line at the computer lab to use the Unix time-sharing system (apparently the university had one of these) to run your Fortran or Pascal code.
Sorry - but you're accusing me of a timeline I had not stated.

I said that fuckery was afoot -- I didn't give any timeline or sequence to events...

I simply stated that Gaddafi was murdered for his money (and the fact that he refused to bow to the Rothschild central banks, and wanted to run his system on a gold standard) -- I did NOT stand up for anything regarding his character, dictatorship or anything. And yes - I personally do believe that HRC is a criminal (as is trump) I only put faith in Sanders, but almost exclusively I am apolitical.

So keep fucking on topic - Gaddafi got killed for a reason we will never know, and his ~$70 billion dollars evaporated to who-knows-where.
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So much of knowledge work is a constant translation between abstract concepts, mental models, words and pictures and back again. In general, we try to overcome this challenge by over communicating but we never really get better at it. This is in part because it is hard and in part because we are all incredibly busy.

So I set out to create a tool that would allow us to practice communicating outside of our normal projects and roles with the following goals:

- Require lots of communication
- Use the communication tools you already use
- Simple to learn (less than 15 minutes)
- Quick to use (less than 5 minutes)
- Clear goal that is attainable and builds confidence
- Allow people to take different roles
- Force people to build a shared language
- Be fun!!!!!

This is still an MVP and I plan to make it more mobile friendly and add more difficulty levels.
Feedback appreciated, thanks!
That's literally the difference: this isn't word processing, it's typesetting. If you want word processing, use a word processor, and trust it to make the right choices for you. However, if you've spent any amount of time actually trying to get those images placed correctly, or those page dimensions perfect, word processors fall short and your only other option is a TeX engine, or typesetting applications like InDesign. Of those two, one category is free, and the other costs $50 a month these days.

Certainly this is the case when you need to typeset maths, but even when you want proper typesetting control over something as "simple" as mixing English and vertically typeset Japanese, Word and friends are insanely ill-equipped to do what you need them to do, whereas a modern TeX system like LuaTeX or XeLaTeX will actually let you define what you need and then get out of your way from that moment on.
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Platform doors are not just for preventing falls onto the right of way, they also help to reduce litter, reduce delays due trains coming into stations slowly because of overcrowding and allow stations to be air conditioning.
>Let's see. My guess is that "Things that can't be created by automation" become more scarce, hence more rare. That means their price goes up, demand increases, and more folks start making that stuff.

This assumes that:

(1) jobs making "things that can't be created by automation" would be enough to replace jobs replaced by automation.

(2)people whose jobs have been automated en masse will still have money to pay for that marginally useful scarce products (or consumption by the rich/upper classes will be enough to employ them).

None of those two are safe bets. There's nothing magical about jobs, and no physical or other law that guarantees that humanity will forever, whatever the technology available, still have jobs for everybody.

It's very much possible to have a world where only 5-10% of the population is required to perform the most manual/difficult to AI jobs and all the others are automated away.

We basically have 2 historical instances where this didn't happen, and we extrapolate that this is some guarantee. But it's far from guaranteed.

The industrial revolution turned most manual and farm jobs into factory jobs because early factories weren't automated enough by the technology of the time -- not because it was "inevitable".

The service factor jobs that replaced most factory jobs when factories got more automated happened because we had the increase factory production, but no way to automate those (from accounting to burger flipping). If the majority of those get automated away from AI and software, there might be new jobs, but there's no guarantee for that.

There might be some way (through a "New Deal" style effort to create various marginally useful jobs for humans), or a huge reduction in working hours, or there might be UBI, or there will be discontent and chaos and people who are more numerous than jobs.
But most of their connection locations are not.
> He is advocating for a free market solution which is much more robust then one that hinges on the right people being in power for all eternity.

Unfortunately, in the real world, history teaches us that free markets will absolutely go to hell in a handbasket if the wrong people are in power even for a short time.

So much for ivory tower "free market" idealism.
Me too!!

Nah its an error.. I don't know why it's made so often..

Maybe it was happening all the time and we only started noticing it?

It irritates me far less than your/you're tho ;)
Which shell, which OS? Is it within a script or when entering from the console? Have you actually timed your tests?

My first reaction to your question was that each command is executed as a separate process and depending on what you are doing, e.g. piping outputs to inputs, using temporary files, other operations could create lots of variances between one run and the next.
Technically true, though everyone on this board thinks Kansas City is in Kansas...
TL;DR The main suggestion in this post is Opera browser, that comes with free browser-based VPN.
One would think so but I went and checked. In a Lost Vikings SNES ROM image, search for a sequence of VM opcodes. The turret program shown has a bit that goes 97 00 01 00 9C 18 08 2F 00, doesn't seem to contain any addresses and is long enough to not just appear at random. It shows up in the ROM image so it looks like yes, the VM was used in the SNES version too.
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World's two richest men from Seattle tech companies. I hope some of this money translates to venture capital. Number of successful startups in Seattle pale in comparison to SV
>People want things they can't have.

There's nothing about automation that says that thing that can't be automated become rarer than they are now.

In fact, if people whose jobs were automated turn to creating those things (and what else could they do?), then things that can't be automated will be even more plentiful (and cheaper) than they are now.
Technology is a lever that can hugely amplify differences in capability.

A 10% skill difference between two people with shovels will result in a much smaller output difference than a 10% skill difference between two operators of heavy duty earth moving equipment.

With software, this dynamic occurs in the extreme, as the cost to run a software program is so low. A hour of unskilled human labor cost hundreds or thousands of times more than an hour of computation. And the quantity and complexity of output from a single hour of computation is rapidly increasing.

Edit: reworked the comment to make my point much more clearly
First, profit is after paying your staff (including him). Regardless, he owns a bunch of stock, and that stock has a price. It's not like all those billions are in cash.
Quite Nice. Just FYI, the very first command, :(){ :|:& };: is a fork bomb and you probably shouldn't run it in your shell
I actually bought a plushie goat and keep him on my desk.
When using remote servers, especially when connecting via HSDPA, I prefer to use https://mosh.org instead of ssh. Although it doesn't impact upon the underlying processing speed, the console terminal becomes more responsive.
I'd imagine a lot of his liquid assets were seized by militants. From some googling, it seems some portion of his wealth was in a bunch of real estate he owned. I imagine those have also been seized, those that weren't destroyed. But the most part his wealth was invested in several western countries. Per http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/21/world/la-fg-kadafi-m... that money has been seized by the governments in question. But before you go "see, HRC took the money!" those assets were seized over a year before the war in Libya, so it's unrelated. That which hasn't been seized has probably been taken by his various money managers.
Your entire story is wasted on me because you didn't specify what an AD is. (It's Active Directory.)
> Florida’s cane toads are believed to descend from escapees from an exotic-­animal importer at the Miami airport, where a hundred of them got away in 1955.

I've heard repeatedly that the hazards of inbreeding make it nearly impossible for a species to recover if the population drops too low. There's a theory that the human population bottlenecked down to 20,000 or so individuals 70,000 years ago, and that we nearly went extinct as a result; the scars are still visible today, in the low genetic diversity of modern humans.

So how does a breeding population of a mere 100 frogs remain a going concern dozens of generations later?
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You can't use it for voting because the voting system isn't omniscient.

http://scorevoting.net/WhyNoHumans
The thing is, you eat less, your body conserves energy when not working out. And the workouts are more challenging because you don't feel like doing them.

Or, you work out more, but then you get a lot more hungry. So you end up eating more. If you try to fight both these conditions, then you end up miserable (i.e., constantly hungry, or miserable when trying to do more exercise).

What is really needed is lifestyle tweaks. For example, if it is a habit to grab a donut or two from the box that someone brings into the office, you need to figure out how to not do that (i.e., relate that donut to doing an additional workout) -- eventually you may be able to convince yourself that the donut is poison, and therefore avoid it.

For the exercise part -- first get in shape (takes about a month or two of daily 1-hour aerobic exercise such brisk walking or using an elliptical). Then, if you are close enough to work, at the start of spring start riding a bicycle to work at least once a week. Then 2 - 3 times a week. A 15-mile ride takes about an hour, and burns enough calories that you don't really have to worry about what you eat.

You can also make a habit out of going for a walk at night for an hour or so -- that should burn around 500 calories. And increase your metabolism. Also, if you typically eat fast food for lunch, change to a sandwich shop, or pack a lunch.
Which is why the most morally consistent position is to be an anarchist. Perhaps not practical in many cases, but morally defensible.
This was a fun weekend hack experimenting with the iOS 9 content blocker extension framework. Never got that link on Daring Fireball though!

http://swabthe.com/
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There are several commands on OS X that behave a bit differently from their traditional UNIX counterparts. grep is the big one that springs to mind—any given grep shell-fu may just not work on OS X and I'll find myself having to reconstruct the arguments from scratch to get it working.

I'd love to see a fork of explainshell or an option in the interface to deal with items like this which are specific to OS X. Let me put a grep command in for OS X and have it show me what options I'm using which are undocumented—that would be nifty.
Man who claims he invented e-mail is now running for US Senate
It'll be tens of dollars in India but hundreds of dollars here. It would probably be close to the same price to fly to India, have the procedure, and fly home. Plus you get a nice vacation out of it. If this becomes mainstream there I'd do it in a heartbeat, I've always wanted to visit New Delhi.
Stop deleting-and-resubmitting posts on Hacker News if they don't get upvotes. I had seen you submit this post 2-3 times today.

Instance of previous submission which was not deleted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13988921
It makes sense. If you're a scientist who has been using yours in the lab for 30+ years and one day it is ruined by the battery leaking all over the electronics, how much would you pay for a replacement? The new calculators are faster and the screens are better, but I'm surprised at the low build quality and how little features are actually available. Like why can't I run R or APL on my handheld calculator? I don't mean that strictly as the batteries wouldn't last long, but I should be able to do a variety of graphs and functions coupled with a language better than TI-Basic.
Dilution is inherent aspect of equity financing. However, due to the extremely small amount of equity that employees receive in exchange for such a large amount of their overall resources, the effect on their personal outcome is disproportionately affected by the dilution that occurs with series.

To the point where the risk and reward involved make it a losing proposition. As a rule of thumb, I anticipate the value of employee options to diminish by an order of magnitude between the angel round and IPO/sale. This would make an initial stake of 0.5% in a company that sells for 100 million dollars to be worth $50,000, before taxes.
It seems likely that they would as the purpose of the virtual machine seems to be to make porting to other systems easier. If you can extract the data files from the SNES version (or another port) then it is possible that the pack_tool (from https://github.com/RyanMallon/TheLostVikingsTools) will be able to extract the chunks containing the virtual machine programs. The format of the virtual machine programs might be a bit different. For example the load/store instructions for globals in DS may not be directly portable to other architectures (at the very least I would expect global offsets to be different). The rest of the vm design appears to be fairly portable though.
Actually it's necessary that enough, if not most, things do, else the lost jobs will be lost forever.

But you're worse mistaken than just in quantity: there's no mechanism to make things that can't be automated more expensive. If anything it's exactly the opposite: they'll become cheaper and more plentiful:

a) automation removes N jobs

b) people who previously did those jobs turn to whatever they can find -- and they mainly turn to do what can't be automated.

c) we now have MORE people doing what can't be automated: the people that were already doing it before automation, and the people who lost their jobs and turned to "doing things that can't be automated".

d) Abundance of workers making those things (or offering those services), drives labour costs down, fills the market with those things/services and makes things/services that can't be automated get more devalued.
This is true. For example, carrying an apartment's worth of furniture up to the 7th floor will drastically improve your cardiovascular health. Or kill you.
Amazon uses lots of open source software created in large part by altruists for free.
Lawyer's perception of open source licenses
Cool! Back in 2001 I had the domain TheLostVikings.com

Wow, it's still on the ISP hosting. I haven't seen this in years: http://homepage.eircom.net/~lostvikings/
The download links are broken but lots of animated gifs are still there.
I really hope you end up releasing this C book. Sounds like it will be a keeper.
When I wrote "work" I didn't mean in the limited sense of "employment".

Every example you gave is a form of work in the general sense of effortful goal-directed activity.
So this may be dumb, but as far as I can tell this is comparing a 64bit double to a different data type that uses many more bits -- the example implementation uses an additional 9 bytes (ignoring padding/alignment etc). Of course that has better precision - it has literally more than doubled the size of the representation. I am on phone (so actual code review will take time), but I'm not convinced that you can get rid of those extra bits.

That said the absence of -0 is actually a problem for some math - you need it for some operations to come out correctly given that you are using a finitely bound representation.

I'd love to see a clearer paper comparing precision, etc with equal size constraints.
I think that MWI is pretty much like any ontology, in that you find a lot more interest in it when you're not dealing with physicists. At the end of the day, it doesn't change the math, it doesn't change much of anything, and it probably isn't testable. For me, that has all of the hallmarks of an uninteresting topic.
buy counterfeits from India
Or do what SMUD near Sacramento, CA did...

it's a public park!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating...

(it's actually a nice area and the lake is decent.)
Correct. I believe Certificate Transparency existed prior to any of the issues with Symantec, but CT was indeed involved in exposing some of the Symantec shenanigans.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/already-on-probatio...

> Ayer discovered the unauthorized certificates by analyzing the publicly available certificate transparency log

That article also links to the primary source, https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-security-policy@lists.mozil... which in turn links to a public viewer for Certificate Transparency logs.
Automated X is cheap and plentiful.

Handmade X is expensive and rare.

People will want handmade X.
Positive sentiment is often an excellent signal that the emperor has no clothes. Most people will ignore what they can see with their own eyes if everyone around them seems to see something different.
Sort of OT but do people regularly write their cv in the third person? It screams of narcissism and impersonal to me.
I thought that Montréal was already the AI centre of Canada.
They could install stair lifts?
Smile is an awesome library. If you use it in Java, Tablesaw is a data-frame-like data-munging framework that works well with it. https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw
No. I never said that "code replaces statutory law." I said it was strange to see the evolution from one extreme where code trumps law to the other extreme where technology can't solve policy problems. Lessig was mentioned in between those two extremes.
More than 90% of world PV module production is based on refined crystalline silicon, and the United States is a top producer of refined silicon. (Silicon "ore", silica rich rock, is hyperabundant; refining rather than mining is the bottleneck.)
Cool. Is the data not compressed in the SNES ROMs or were you reading the data directly from memory? In the DOS version the DATA.DAT file contains a bunch of chunks, most of which (including the vm programs) are compressed using an LZSS type compression.
>The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

Now thats wisdom of the ancients.
Oh boo hoo. Companies pay these kind of salaries because they can extract significantly more value from the work than what they are paying.
For the full picture it's worth mentioning that weak CAD also means less expenses when converted to USD. Also basic health insurance is already paid with taxes. But it still doesn't compensate the difference.
Westinghouse's business model was to try to break even on construction and make money servicing and selling fuel rod assemblies.
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As a quick aside, your source also advocates for free-market healthcare and rejects national healthcare legislation and Medicare under the guise of individual choice.

It has _also_ published such gems as "The Scientific Case against the Global Climate Treaty" and “New Perspectives in Climate Change: What the EPA Isn't Telling Us”.

In light of that, I'll take their advocacy with a grain of salt.

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On topic, while I can't comment on the EMA specifically, during my (extremely) brief period working alongside a medical device manufacturer, fear of FDA was oftentimes the primary motivating factor in keeping them honest.

While that's entirely anecdotal, when there are _significant_ financial incentives on the table people's morals tend to get more than a little flexible. Pharmaceuticals represent an area with _significant_ financial incentives, and, while I do agree that the FDA takes more time than is strictly necessary, it's a little fallacious to say they "kill vastly more people than they save" through regulation.
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> taxes already on the books that they might have previously unintentionally evaded.

I agree with Grover Norquist. It might be counter intuitive but I would rather leave it to Turbo-tax to figure out the details than signing the form sent to me by IRS. Let IRS do the extra work of catching me if they think I am filing fraudulent taxes.

Grover Norquist's view might be counter-intuitive but I a agree with him.
It depends who's doing the recognizing. I don't see why it wouldn't. And I'm not sure where you got the idea that it was unix-likes only.
So no police report?
What about:
1. California ballot initiative
2. Free software (start a TurboTax 100% free alternative) to reduce incentives to have laws like this
Is the problem portability though? Or is it stable ABI / easy interoperability? What good is a fancy language when at the end you would still expose low level API and headers specifying functions that take unsafe pointers to raw memory?