skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that they don't provide any value, it's that their value isn't competitive anymore.

We could be talking about automation or outsourcing, and it would be the same - labor (especially unskilled) is generally getting cheaper. For outsourcing, there is different labor than us that is benefiting, and that's good. That allows them to prosper and buy food and have a life. We also have robots, which are basically virtual slaves that only benefit their owners.

Overall, you could say that there would be an overabundance of labor then. And we hit this before, with the industrial revolution, and new waves of technology in general. What about all the human telephone operators? Or the candle makers? Maybe it really is different this time. Maybe it's not. Nobody really knows for sure.

It sounds uncompassionate, but these are the same forces that drive down prices so everyone can shop happy at walmart (which I do too). Providing cheaper living is great for everyone as well, and nobody remembers that when talking about fewer people working.
You're right we should just build humanoid robots for the guests instead.
Ah, apologies. I thought you were asking in good faith instead of trying to score some semantic point. In that case, you describe Marx as a "communist thinker", which would make the Frankfurt School(who were Marxists) communists by the terms of your categorization.
You think your job is making the world a little better place isn't it? Do you think all or most people can think the same way? That everyday the 8 hours of their lives are making the world better/not wasted? The comment you replied to used the imaginary job of 'dog kicker' to say that's not always the case. In real life, there are jobs who are censoring internet, who are profiling teenage to find better advertisement opportunities, who are monitoring regular citizens' communications. The list goes on. And there are programmers that develop those tools to enable those jobs. Do you think people working those jobs can be confident saying they are making the world at least a little bit better?
Many people I know in low-wage jobs have either trade-skill jobs on the side or degrees in things like business (eg finance). The latter say they're under or overqualified for higher-paying position. I got the same overqualified stuff from all kinds of businesses out here, too. The businesses are systematically blocking talent.
I'd argue that those companies that have squeezed the humanity out of their workers are the first ones getting dislocated by the market. E.g. Blockbuster being bankrupt and our local independent video store doing just fine. Or McDonald's vs Waffle House.

If you play was "we can provide a worse service for less" then yes, you're going to get steamrolled by automation. If your business is run around adding value (like informative parent of yore in the ticket booth), then your value is going to increase until strong AI (if that ever happens).

Assuming people like talking to humans. Sometimes I wonder about the HN crowd...
Energy: It's getting cheaper and cheaper thanks to competing technologies. California's wholesale rate went negative (due to solar) for the first time ever in April. If you are unemployed and on UBI, you have more freedom to to take advantage of time-of-use rates. Or better yet, hook up some cheap solar panels and some lead-acid batteries and make your own energy.

Time: If you are unemployed and on UBI, you have more free time. If prices spike for food, then you can always grow your own. If prices spike for gasoline, then ride a bike.

Space: With UBI, you no longer need to cram into a handful of high-growth economic areas. You can move to cheaper areas, grow your own food, and ride a bike everywhere. People with a lot of free time, and not a lot of money, will be a lot more price sensitive than in our current environment (where time = money). If prices rise due to inflation, they will either do without, or find/create a substitute.
It is quite clever. Computer worms were much more common in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm

The lack of highly available and remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have made them less common.
While I agree with your statement on the movie theatre ticket counter, I would say that I enjoy talking to the cashier at walmart. I usually ask how they are doing, I might ask about their name if it is an interesting name, or complement them on something. Some cashiers end up being short and don't seem to want to talk, but I often have great interactions. Granted, Walmart pays more than minimum wage, but I don't think it matters.
And may be providing Apple an inside track with MSM to this day...
99 according to RT: https://www.rt.com/news/388153-thousands-ransomeware-attacks...
Costs are what are given up to obtain something.

Value is what you gain by the use of it.

Price is the common agreement between those who have a thing, and those who want it, net of all other circumstances, to mediate an exchange.

If price exceeds costs, then that trade is equitable and sustainable.

Where a wage is offered that does not meet the provisioning costs of a good or service, that good or service cannot be sustainably provisioned, and the exchange is only sustained by the net transfer of wealth from the seller to the buyer. Such exchanges frequently occur, under a "backwards S-shaped" supply curve.

Here, the short term costs of a good or service may be met, but its long-term costs are not. A paradox is that as wages are pushed down, working hours increase, because the only way a worker can afford sufficient food is to increase the hours worked.

Similar dynamics are seen in oil, e.g., the $0.02/bbl price of oil low hit during the East Texas Oil Boom ~1929 - 1931. (Daniel Yergin, The Prize, chapter 13, generally).

As Adam Smith observed:

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

(Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 8 https://redd.it/2311mb)

What Hazlitt describes isn't a business. It's either a scam, or a charity, operated for the benefits of the owner, at the cost of the workers.
1. A blog with a loading spinner?

2. Well, J. J. Abrams and some writer.

3. Is J.J. flipping us the bird in that picture?
Chili's is already starting down this path. At the location near me you can order drinks and pay through a device at the table. They haven't jumped in all the way as food orders are still through a server.

Though, as someone who has had a credit card stolen via gas pump several times, I'm really hesitant to use a card at one of these devices. They're probably not very secure to begin with and then you couple that with the fact that anyone can sit with one of them for an hour or so with no scrutiny, it's just ripe for exploit.
> As incredible as it is, Ryzen has buggy VME implementation; specifically, the INT instruction is known to misbehave in V86 mode with VME enabled when the given vector is redirected

It's much more incredible to me that our computers work, at all.
Proving a negative is awfully hard - well studied doesn't quite cut it. RSA and NSA have a history that precedes the apparent invention, so it's interesting that the tech was allowed to proceed (patents can be seized and kept secret.) I've pointed to an assumption, you've assumed a belief on my part - that's something of a conspiracy theory on your part, it's nothing I've said. The history of cryptography is replete with examples of assumptions of safety that were spectacularly overturned, and that's all I'm pointing to.
Intel, Samsung Gang Up on Qualcomm to Back FTC Monopoly Suit
> You should go read the writings pre-Bolshevik revolution to get an idea.

Oh, if your just talking about Leninist vanguardism a d it's Stalinist, Maoist, etc. descendants, sure.

But that's not all of post-Marx Communist thought, and its a subset that shares common and fundamental deviations from Marx, and it's been criticized by non-Leninist Communists since day one.
SpaceX Must Pay $4M for Thousands of Underpaid Employees
There's a nice capability that allows non-root binaries to use low ports, too!
This doesn't necessarily change anything about computing neural nets. You need to view the genomic variation as representing the complexity of each neural unit: its connections (in and out), it's propensity to fire, and function it operates by. The genome is just the code representing this information.

Basically, each node in a neural nets is unique akin to each neuron.
Works fine here in Chrome on macOS.
Perhaps we should take this into private messages, I'll message you my reply.

Edit: oh it looks like hacker news doesn't support private messages, I guess I won't be replying.
They are easily fixed with a refactor, but many of the solutions are either easier to implement or not much more difficult to implement than the example code.
Microsoft used to do decent testing of their updates.

In the last two years, they seem to be saving money by letting their users to the testing.

When a patch comes out we need to weigh the unpatched security risk vs the risk of the patch breaking things.
“You're Welcome”: A Moana Parody for Mother's Day
I remember a discussion at work where my boss said on IRC "how do you know when you're having a nervous breakdown?"

The other four of us, his sysadmin team, we have all worked so hard we had a breakdown from it. It's a hazard of the job: it draws people into overdoing it. We told him to sign the fuck off for four weeks, with possible antidepressants. (He didn't, but he did take his next two weeks off without logging into IRC.)

I've had depressive and stressed periods and I'm happy to publicly say so, so this is not secretive but normalised.

Watch your coworkers and take care of each others' well-being.
How much of this do you think may be due to more advanced aerodynamics on modern automobiles?
Not only is value a conserved quantity, but value must decrease on a full accounting, through the process chain.

That's the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Corollary: accounting of costs, prices, and values is badly flawed.
Ticos: Social Customs and Attitudes
I don't have to picture anything, just look in mirror.
Is OSX affected ?
Yes! Exposure-response therapy [1] has been by far the best treatment I have received. It's scary and painful, because it literally forces you to draw the anxiety out and face your darkest fears head-on without compulsions, but it's the only evidence-based treatment for OCD currently out there. I'm already noticing I'm getting my "mind" back, learning that scary thoughts are just thoughts, and I don't need to battle with them for hours.

There's definitely an element of learning mindfulness that's key too. Learning to accept the uncertainty of random "terrible" thoughts that pop into your head, learning to not engage with them and letting them pass, etc.

I recommend two books: The Imp of the Mind by Dr. Lee Baer [2] and The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD by Jon Hershfield and Tom Corboy [3]

[1] https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/treatment/erp/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Imp-Mind-Exploring-Epidemic-Obsessive...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Workbook-OCD-Overcoming-C...
I just switched to iphone se 4 months ago, and I couldn't be any happier.

Tbh i did like android, but the only problem for me was 2 year only update. That is not enough. Not even close when similar products from apple get 5 year suppurt. Specially now, after passing a threshold, our phones SoC are capable of handling ordinarily jobs (like if you are not into playing AAA games) for more than 4 years, performance wise.

P.s. After using iphone for 4,5 months i have to say , their i products are awesome. Far superior than android in term of consistent performance and fps.
I like that game :)
Yes, but 100 million years is quite a few 521-year half lifes.

That half-life is the time it takes for the link between half of the bonds between nucleotides to break (http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11...)

So, after 1042 years, only a quarter of the bonds will be intact. After 100 million years, only 1 in every 2^190000 bonds will be expected to still be intact. Taking 2^10 = 1000, that's 1 in every 10^57000. I think that's quite a bit higher than our estimate for the number of particles in the universe (https://www.quora.com/How-many-particles-are-there-in-the-un...)

TL/DR: I wouldn't bet on it.
It was inevitable. We are going to hieroglyphics.
Never. Only plain objects in JS and structs in C++.

IMHO OOP is a trap.
The section on macros notes that they can do the transforms but don't have access to compiler information. The compiler toolkits section doesn't have any LISP examples. It's worth noting that sklogic's tool (2005) is a compiler/analysis toolkit in LISP w/ DSL's and I think he said it facilitates accessing compile-time information. I know he does that somehow. There's also tons of existing DSL's that can be used interchangeable to aid expressing complex systems. The company whose name is on it uses it for design of static analyzers.

https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase

Might send it to rsc given it he probably missed it or might have some insight after glancing at it.
> That's the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Thermodynamics does not address value.
I think it does, actually. In-N-Out burger pays more than minimum wage, and I'd say it's some of the best customer service at a fast food place. Paying that bit more means they can be choosy and pick the best people.
If MS, for whatever reason, bricked an entire country during wartime, the war would likely be over before most folks could figure out Bittorrent.
I am more optimistic than you two, i think for mide range and high range devices, there is incentive: competition.

But i have to agree, for low end devices, even from famous companies i dont think they will update their phone even with this.
Or a 64bit host running a WinXP guest.
That was not the point. Bluntly, I don't care whether the employee benefits; I, the customer, don't like talking to them and would prefer a machine. Want humans in the loop? Have them do something that they can actually do better than a machine.
So if someone just happens to distribute the source code for Hancom Office before this is resolved in the courts, would he or she be in the free and clear?
Bill Gates owns a very significant amount of Microsoft stock.

Since when is $11.3 billion held by one person in one company, not a lot? It's one of the largest single positions held by any person on the planet in a given company. That position is so large, by itself it would nearly qualify a person into the top 100 richest list globally.

Top Microsoft mutual fund position: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, 155 million shares.

Bill Gates: 167 million shares.

He'd be the seventh largest institutional holder in Microsoft - a $528 billion company.
Yup, agreed on all points! You've hit the nail on the head about article scope. We do mobile VR and these are all definitely no-no's at the end of the day. Discussions on perf will come later. Thanks for pointing these out though!
Right, so essentially you are doing per process memory management because the layers lower down aren't smart enough to handle this transparently. I'm fairly sure that the nvidia libraries do support releasing memory and from what I see on my own machine memory usage of the GPU does go up and down when running longer jobs. So maybe it isn't so much a structural problem as a problem in one particular module that you exercise a lot?
/Dev on Python Team chiming in/
You can use conda + PTVS. About half of my python installs are Anaconda and it works well for me. When you right click on your environment in solution explorer, you can select to install packages and change between pip, conda, and easy_install.
Concise statement of the trio's point: http://physics.princeton.edu/~cosmo/sciam/index.html#faq
Not really to do with partial evaluation or the unrelated idea of a partial function.

A key motivating (non-Haskell) example behind continuations is the idea of replacing "return" with a function call. This is continuation passing style, and obviously when you call a subroutine in CPS, you need to give it a function to call when it completes: a "continuation" which is contrived to be equivalent to what would happen when that particular subroutine "returned" in normal direct style
Interested in joining a support group for founders?
Are you a founder and feel like you could use some emotional support? I sure could.

Seems to me starting a company should naturally produce extreme stress and emotions for a normal human.

My partner (early Aiirbnb) and I are putting together a support group for entrepreneurs through our project Campfire.

It’s a safe space to talk about the things we keep private to present strength. To get and give support from our peers. The focus is on the emotional and social issues of entrepreneurship (vs. business strategy).

The small group (5-10) will primarily meet via video (any device) weekly, led by a host. There will also be a persistent messaging channel.

If you’re interested, apply here:
https://www.campfire.care/founders-support

Or reach out to me at benjamin@campfire.care with questions.
Send it how, do they provide an email address and helpfully send it back by return mail? A tor hidden service maybe? I'd have assumed they just take the money without bothering to decrypt anything, but maybe they are looking for repeat customers.
This is, of course, actually good news for Bitcoin, because
"Speak for yourself. There is nothing more aggravating to me than self-checkout, it is slow, ... "

Oh, man. I never use the self-checkout. It's part of the invisible work movement--stuff someone used to be paid to do for you, now you do yourself. Same thing with pumping your own gas. I miss Oregon, for how there was always someone to pump your gas for you. Is gas cheaper here in Washington, where you have to do it yourself? Nope. Invisible work. Screw that.
Same on mobile with chrome, left without reading.
Good idea. It fits now more than ever. I have said this before. Right now SoC's are passed the threshold performance wise. For e.g if you are not into playing high end games your phone cpu is enough for 5 year if you only doing web browsing watching movies and reading mails.
Thanks! This is helpful. Now I just need to find a good time to bring this up...
No one in this thread claimed to be God. It's worth remembering that the whole point of Hospital IT is to facilitate the doctors' and administrators' work.
Ask HN: Are you using Asana premium and do you find the pricing misleading?
Was getting ready to try Asana premium but was rather frustrated with their pricing setup. It is advertised as $7.50 a month "per member per month" That number goes up as your organization falls into different pricing tiers.

But they don't actually charge you "per member per month" they charge you for the maximum amount of members you can have in the tier you selected. So 16 members means you pay $11.99 x 20 = $239.80 per month. But 16 members x $11.99 = $191.84

https://i.imgur.com/rMfccsh.png

Seems very disingenuous to list your pricing per member when you are actually just pricing it per tiered level.

I was about to pull the trigger as I had convinced myself I could get over the arduously slow load times, but the fancy footwork with the pricing scheme makes me want to switch to give Trello a try. (Where aparently $9.99 per user per month means $9.99 per user per month.)
> Little pictograms for buttons are often extremely vague and open to interpretation.

True. I remember Lynda Weinman refered to this as "mystery meatball" navigation in one of the books she wrote on web design somewhere between the mid 90's to early 2000's. Probably it was the book Designing Web Graphics.3 [1] as looking through the Google results the cover of that one looks the most like what I seem to recall.

Tying into what was said in a sibling comment about the icons used in programs like Photoshop, I think the important thing to keep in mind is the context in which you consider adding icons. For a professional market piece of software like Photoshop where you expect your audience to put many hours into learning how to use the software and where you expect them to become power users, you can allow more in terms of UI elements that might steepen the learning curve, but which when learned can be employed by proficient users for faster and more productive workflow and which therefore will make the additional time required to understand them increase the value that your software provides.

Meanwhile for tools and websites that are used only occasionally, or where you don't expect repeat use but want to provide the best value for your users still, you should hold their hand more and make it immediately apperent what everything does and how to use it.

I've been thinking a bit about interfaces that would evolve with the user but my conclusion thus far has been that the amount of work required to implement that successfully would take a lot of time and might even never be worth it. That instead it still seems better to me to decide wether you are targeting heavy repeat use or not, and to optimize your UI accordingly in the manner I stated in the above paragraphs of text.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Graphics-3-Lynda-Weinma...
Leave. It doesn't get better.
Once it's reported that paying for (your specific one, or even just some) ransomware doesn't give users files back, you loose a lot of money. Ransom only works if it's believable you have something to ransom.
I think Apple Mail actually strikes the right balance here.
There are icons, but they have text below them by default. If you want a cleaner interface once you are able to easily identify the feature by the icons, you can right-click and turn off the text.
It's like training wheels for the UI. I used the text labels until I no longer needed them, and now I only use the icons.
The judge could decide that there is enough evidence that Uber is benefiting from technology stolen from Waymo, that the judge requires Uber to halt part or all of its self-driving car program until the trial is decided.

The trial is currently scheduled for October. But that doesn't mean it will happen then. There are a lot of things that can delay a trial. Waymo could even deliberately help some of them to happen. So the Uber program could be delayed by anything from five months to a few years. If Uber thinks that the battle will be won or lost within five years, that delay would be pretty catastrophic.
> Alternatively, have you considered implementing an input method provider as the means of inputting passwords into your apps? I know that on Android you can create your own input method apps.

Yep, that would be ideal :)

I'd like to use KBFS' multiparty private storage for shared passwords too though, which I think would be far easier to implement with a proper DB than text files.

The issue then is that if KBFS just comes as an 'explorer' view within Keybase app, I wrote have no way to copy a password for use. Hopefully cross-app access or a fully mounted drive is on the cards though.
It shouldn't be a surprise after the Gracie Challenge showed most of the arts couldn't deliver against well-trained, well-rounded fighters that systematically exploit their weaknesses. My favorite example on someone from a kung fu background is the video below since it shows how helpless they are without ground training. Also, Rorion's excellent narration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN6PvPCrStI

Edit to add: "At this point, Royce could apply the choke but he elected not to. There's many variables in groundfighting..." Nah, Royce is just an asshole who was putting another asshole in his place with humiliation. He had a God Complex when I met him that didn't fit his fight record. ;)