skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>- Farmers in Alabama are fretting that crops may rot in the ground for a lack of workers to bring in the harvest.

The oil field boom in ND didn't have a problem getting skilled workers from across the country to live in tents because they paid them well.

They AL farmers are not worried about finding workers, they want to lowball American laborers so they can throw their hands the air and claim that they need a supply of immigrants laborers, which they can exploit.
Some developer is a Tolkien fan:

https://www.crossing.us/intersections/rivendell/middle%20ear...
Doing those tasks intuitively requires intelligence - and has still not been done. Doing these tasks brute force by exhausting the problem problem space never required 'intellegence', only computational power.
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Rebuilding the index might require actually reading all the books over again. The whole point of an index is that it is 1000x smaller, so it makes absolutely no sense to throw away a paper copy of it.
It's excellent to see you're taking the issue seriously.

Comparing this carefully considered reply to all the others also gives me some more evidence that those that excel at technology are often remarkable people in many other aspects as well.
Ye there are all sorts of modules. There is also a free version, while the paid one is $27/yr.
Thanks!

Well, the preferences on this subject will probably vary. For me, server-side has been more helpful in practice.

And you really don't have to embed PHP into every project or site that you do. You could build a small internal service that generates the privacy policies in HTML for each project and then include those policies in the individual projects without any additional requirements on the server side.
I'm not opposed to offending others. : ) Just be aware when you do, and why you're doing it. The parent post simply seemed blithely unaware of how deeply hurtful the phrase can be to people. (Imagine typing that phrase out every day when literally your own great great great grandparents were dragged here in chains and were considered the personal property of someone. That's simply f'ed up and would suck beyond belief, and not even being willing to acknowledge that harm is crazy to me.)
Like any other form of capital equipment, robots have other costs besides initial purchase and electricity such as maintenance and reprogramming.

Various forms of farm machinery such as combines automated farm jobs for the better. So true with robots in factories and artificial intelligence that replaces lawyers for standard contracts.
Without hope and without despair
Non-technicals for most corporations will always make the buying decisions because it's about $$$. There is IBM's fundamental problem, "next few years" which means we're guessing today and guessing tomorrow.
Your last point is why I've never understood the claim that Wal Mart subsidizes its low wages with public welfare.
If the sonar is hitting these animals, shouldn't the sonar operator be able to detect it? Can you beamform sonar? Would it be feasible to narrowly direct the sonar towards your target?
As a lead developer building a platform dealing with the intricacies of union agreements and labor restrictions, this summarizes exactly the thought process that my team has gone through in the last year.

We started with a simple problem that plagues HR departments in every conceivable industry with unions, finding substitute personnel and erroneously assumed that it was a simple fix. Over the past year and a half we have accumulated a great deal of knowledge after interacting with as many people as possible and have finally released a version that meets our original criteria (and much more). It was obviously not a simple fix.

If I have one thing to tell anyone who is looking for business ideas to try out their new programming skills on, I strongly suggest taking the time to learn as much as possible about the people to whom you want to provide a solution, then recruiting one of them to help you build it, lest you become another project that solves a non-issue beautifully.
Awesome write up. I can't wait to try out LFU with our usage. I have a suspicion that our cache hit ratio will see a nice bump.

I've said this before and I'll say it again...thank you for all you do!
Using pen and paper for everything may be a competitive advantage. I know so many medical professionals who say the worst part of their job is the computer system. The programs are poorly designed, take forever to do basic inputs, etc.

A friend of mine spends literally hours per day-- every day-- doing data entry after hours because the software is so bad and so complicated that he can't properly do data entry while helping his patients.

It's pretty easy to train people with a notepad and a pen and a really basic form. Paper doesn't have connectivity issues. It doesn't fail to work due to bugs. It works during power outages....

I don't actually think paper is superior in all things... It's harder to share between locations, for instance. But I think the best medical system would be very paper-like. Maybe it would even just be paper. You jot things down, then scan them in to associate them as documents against a patient's account. Dunno. But the current state of medical systems is terrible.
Man oh man could you ever game a tax like that. Start a small company and hire your own family at minimum wage would be cheaper than just paying the tax.

That would introduce a ton of perverse incentives.
Religion has a way of self-moderating as it grows. There's already a huge movement of ex-Mormons, and it's inevitable that pockets of Mormons with a different (and more open-minded) view will form as it spreads further from the source.

Think about how many variations on Christianity exist in the US. If Mormons hold to the trend of every other religion that's gotten distant from its origins, I don't mind it replacing the thousand variations on other stories about some guy having adventures in the desert.
>i Series

i has always been a garden wall and I don't think it's realistic to expect that platform to open up at this stage. That's why Linux on Power exists - tell your boss he/she would have better luck retaining/attracting people if they'd spin up some Linux lpars.

The older IT generations like i just the way it is.
Are temporary field hands the future of the US economy?

Many construction workers can't move to high demand areas because they are financially locked into the areas they currently live.

Most planes could function with 1 pilot due to automation but regulations won't allow it.
When I was in sixth grade, our science teacher had us go bird watching every school day and document the birds we'd saw.

Eleven-year-old me immediately became obsessed with red-breasted nuthatches. To this day, when I see one, I'll yell out to my wife, "Look! A red-breasted nuthatch!"
Meh, southern democrats exist because some southern voters still associate Lincoln with today's republican party.
Nearly all of that spending was simply added directly the national debt, very little actually came out of the general fund.
It's "trolled" because the OP clearly did not actually understand what he was trying to argue for. He was just going for "gotcha" responses.
You can't give fractional GPU instances with this card. The K80 had two logically separate chips that were separately-addressable over PCIe. This allowed them to send two different PCIe devices to different VMs. The M60 doesn't have this. The V100 is supposed to allow time slicing to do this kind of thing, but that's not out, nor do we know how well it'll work.
Oh, interesting, didn't know that.

> Some browsers require third party cookies to use the P3P protocol to state their privacy practices.

Which browsers should this be today?
I'd say this is as good as any other hill from a empathy perspective. That's the thing about empathy; it's the ability to participate in the feelings of others, not yourself.
In classic MacOS, the full name was "application program".
> but then you're using Ansible, which is locks your deployment procedure

The good thing about Ansible is that it took about 5 min to find a pre-written YAML file, and it's easy to understand it and translate it into something else if necessary.

I have yet to find a solution that eliminates all vendor lock-in unfortunately. It'd be great if there were an open-source format for describing infrastructure, and it had lots of compatible build tools...

I'm going to try out the DEB option, though! Thanks!
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Pre-WWII, the US absolutely taxed the hell out of foreign imports to protect northern industry. It only switched to a free-trade policy after the war wiped out most of Europe's industrial capacity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_...
UC Berkeley tuition and fees comes to about $13k per year for California residents. The average private school tuition is over $30k per year.

Not sure why you think that it's so expensive. I went to school in Georgia (much lower cost of living area) and UCs are only about 15% more expensive than our flagship schools (Georgia Tech and UGA, and GSU).
The other poster is comparing wage growth, not gross salaries.
Skinny Puppy had a hidden track like this too. I think it was on Brap but I could be mistaken.
Because designing a type system that is sound and expressive and simple is bloody hard. Haskell frequently has a number of `{-# LANGUAGE ... #-}` directives at the top of source files, OCaml has acquired no less than six different ways of doing runtime polymorphism: as an extreme case, the module system has morphed into a fully functional OO system in addition to the one OCaml already has.

Runtime type checks allow you to greatly simplify the difficult parts of the type system or make it more expressive.

People often forget how many expressiveness shortcuts we take so that our type systems keep working out. We have integers (which are in actually practice often just elements of a finite ring), but introduce natural numbers and suddenly a lot of static type checks stop working out. How about interactions between the natural numbers with and without zero? Integers modulo your wordsize vs. infinite precision integers? Can you statically check overflow or underflow? Dart has both `num`, `int`, and `double` types, and `int` and `double` are subtypes of `num`, but `int` is not a subtype of `double`; readAsBytesSync() returns an `Uint8List` that conforms to `List<int>`. From a mathematician's perspective, computer science type systems are usually painfully simplistic. They usually capture something about the representation of the data, not its actual mathematical properties. Their role is often is to prevent undefined behavior, not to capture the actual semantics. Computer science typing often tends to be opportunistic rather than semantically oriented, based on what's easily possible rather than what one wants to express (see the entire family of covariance issues).

As an extreme example, consider GAP's [1] type system. We're dealing with computer algebra here, and some of the types simply cannot be captured at compile-time. Any type annotations would have to be checked at runtime, other than the trivial ones (and even integers are basically a subtype of the rationals or any polynomial ring with integer coefficients).

If I want to do effective implementations of matrices and vectors over finite fields, I pack several finite field elements into a machine word and extract them; no static type system in existence has even remotely the power to statically typecheck these operations for me, unless layered over a ton of unsafe code, and then only for some languages.

From the computer science side of things (I have a background in formal methods), type systems are underpowered specification languages that just pick a small subset of a formal spec that happens to be convenient to prove. They can express only a subset of program behavior (compare what types in even (say) Haskell do to a full-blown formal specification in Z) and often not even the interesting ones. As a result, I don't particularly stress out over whether checks only occur at compile time. Runtime type checking is simply a different tradeoff in that you move from the set of types that you can build a sound type system around to predicates that can be expressed at runtime. It's simply a different set of tradeoffs.

[1] http://www.gap-system.org/
That makes no sense. Taxes come from wages. When the gov't gives you something, it's paid for with the money they received from you through taxes.
Sure there are subtle implementation details, but let's not put the cart before the horse. The political and moral will to do it comes first, the details of how to work it out happens later. If we get to the point where the actual ruling class (not just the vast majority of Americans when polled) is willing to give in to the citizenry and give them universal healthcare and starts saying healthcare should be provided as a right to all Americans, there will be no issue getting the financial details worked out. They have an easy job; it's inherently more efficient (larger risk pool, no middleman), implementing even the expensive policies being proposed right now lead to savings of trillions. Though those savings are concentrated among the poor and middle class for whom health costs are huge and taxes are smaller, not senior vice presidents of health insurance companies . As it turns out in aggregate, it's not only already "free", it saves money.
Australia’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Encryption Law
I think you don't understand what "heeling" is. It's not "violent".

Furthermore, dogs (at least mine) do indeed have rules of engagement. They attempt to identify who is entering their home, assess their body language and "vibes" and then make a decision as to what needs to be done.

I trust my dogs. Having them around greatly reduces the likeliness of me ever having to resort to real violence (you know, where death is involved).
That cash is then reflected in stock price increase, which is preferable to dividends for tax purposes.
To each their own. Appreciate the discussion.
Monogamy isn't dead as the author seems to imply by the falling marriage rates. Many people I know are not married but are in 10+ year long-term monogamous relationships (myself included). We don't ever plan to get married because I don't like the government telling me what to do and how our assets must be split in the case we decide to break up (though we never plan to). We also are vehemently anti-religious and would never support an institution like marriage for that reason either.

I personally don't want to have children because my life is fulfilling as it is and I don't want extra distractions when there is no void to fill, but I think this notion of "illegitimacy" is very outdated and should be retired.

I think a lot of the long term economic and population concerns will be solved by workplace automation and biotechnology revolutions in human lifespan respectively, so they are largely overblown. I also don't think a future child-raising industry where children are raised together in government sponsored and supervised systems would be as dystopian as depicted in Brave New World.
A lot of employers try to offer so little for unskilled jobs that it costs more to commute to the job than you could make. Those jobs will go unfilled because no rational human is going to pay someone to be their employee even if they dropped out of high school most people can do enough basic math to know whether a job will cost more to commute to than they can make.
Sydney startup Assignar raises $3M to fund US expansion
The US has the H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...

No idea how many people use it.
What product is this competing against if any?
I am guessing someone in the farming field may know more about what to do with the program but for the layman an explanation or some instructions as to how you use it would be awesome.
A Brave New World!
> Saying that [a group of] people think all people, globally, are the same is really ridiculous.

I'm always curious whether these mistakes are intentional or not. I said "most". I was being partially hyperbolic (I honestly don't know if it's half or not, it depends on what conversation you observe really).

> they even do things like use them in debates about ways to improve our healthcare, for example

That's another commonality you will in public discussions: depending on the topic of conversation, cultures/genders are sometimes considered unique and sometimes not, by the same person. Their opinion changes depending on the topic of discussion. You see it online, you see it in the news, you see it in debates (online and real world).

If a politically correct person just came back from an overseas holiday, they will speak of the "richness" of the culture there, how they do some things in a different and often better way. (I agree with this perspective.)

The very same person, on the topic of immigration, will insist in complete seriousness, that there is no noteworthy cultural difference. Oh but also, we absolutely must have more immigration, because it increases diversity (despite the people not actually being different), which is good.

And I suppose it's necessary for me to explicitly point out: not all people do this, only some people.
I might accept that difference with the understanding that if AI is analagous to flight, we're currently at 6th century Chinese kites and not 10 years from Kitty Hawk (which seems to be the perception when the flight analogy is made).
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>Making an effort to colonize Mars does not carry such a cost. People who are interested in solving this issue will not magically do whatever you'd like them to do instead.

The same holds true for every calculation of opportunity cost. It's not about whether you WILL do Y instead of X, but about the relative cost of doing X vs Y.

E.g. a business that does X will not "magically do Y instead" just because X incurs a big opportunity cost. But that's beside the point -- it will bear the opportunity cost whether it's willing to switch to Y or not. If the CEO is stubborn and doesn't even want to hear about Y and wants only to do X, doesn't mean the company wont suffer the opportunity cost of not doing Y.

The same holds true for humanity. If the people spending resources to go to Mars wont ever direct them elsewhere, we (as humanity) will still have an opportunity cost of going to Mars vs spending the same effort on something else.

(And it's not like that's our premise a given -- that those Mars resources can't "magically go to something else instead". Pressure on the government for example could cut NASA's budget and Space-X subsidies towards some other cause).
I also feel it is a vital and noble calling. But fewer people share our views now, as compared to 1970. And like it or not, the prestige of a profession strongly affects the number of people who seek to enter it.

Fewer will choose to become professional librarians when municipal library systems employ less with formal training, and task those who have it with serving the prurient interests of transients and homeless people.

Sure, some of those people will also be helped to create electronic resume documents, and to access job boards, and to enroll in online education courses, and to generally make their lives better via access to information, and that is what librarians want out of the job, but they will also be crapped on--both by those who feel entitled to the services they provide, and by those who feel they are obsolete relics.
But then there are two options:

- We have to integrate with the system they are currently using. This is a lot of work that may not be reusable for other vets, if they don't use the same system.

- OR We have to change the system they are using day to day, which I expect means fighting some strong inertia

Both are doable but will require a lot of mental bandwidth, which makes me uncomfortable for a side project.
Costs are contained by limiting treatment options and have a limited formulary.

e.g. If you don't have the money a 75 y.o. doesn't get a heart transplant.

IMO if you don't have the money you aren't entitled to the best care but this discussion needs to happen and be debated.

Our current system encourages good money to be spent on lost causes.
Like I imagine many HN readers, I had a visceral negative reaction to a lot of this post, since it directly attacks a lot of the new cultural norms I grew up in (and cherish).

On the other hand, it does seem to raise some interesting points, so I hope it doesn't get flagged. Our new culture is relatively untested; a lot of our ideas about sex and relationships and children are only a couple generations old. I'm happily married with no children (maybe some to come in the future? Not sure). In this thread I've seen people propose polyamorous communes, and long term life partnerships with children but not marriage. These things may work out, but there's not much of a historical precedent for them, as far as I know.

I recently came back from a trip to Oman. I talked with a ton of people there, and their cultural perspective was very different (and interesting!). While a lot of the younger adults were wanting to get married and have children a little later, there was still a pretty sizeable contingent of the population my age that already had several children. And it was clear that Islam there was such a community-driving force, I could see how their traditions were pretty robust.

All this to say, I have my doubts that my concept of "prosperous, liberal, Western civilization" will live on for the long term. But if the people are fairly content and happy as it fades, is that such an issue? I'm not sure. My biggest regret if it dies is that we may never figure out all the secrets of the universe. But alas, thinking of all my highly educated PhD scientist friends in their 30s, there's only one child.

edit to add: I completely forgot to mention probably the most culturally interesting part (to me) of the Oman trip: it was for a wedding of a friend, but it was a mostly arranged marriage (the bride and groom had veto power, but their parents found the match and they only knew each other for a short while before deciding to marry).
So wait... Your hovercraft actually can get full of eels? Whoa!
Nice tool, it reminds me of http://etherape.sourceforge.net/
The story of why a tiny town in Kansas has Russian-themed street names is pretty fascinating (to me anyway):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munjor,_Kansas
Have you ever tried gloves or hand tracking? Without the haptic feedback that you get from a controller they're also extremely clunky and unintuitive.
I've never heard of a manager who is content with $100,000 and does not immediately wish for the position a couple rungs up up on the ladder where they can make $150,000 or $200,000. Nobody is content with stagnant wages, management or labor, especially when costs are constantly increasing.
`function weather() { curl "http://wttr.in/$1";}`

Not sure why it needs to be more complicated than that.
And student loans, car loans, and credit cards.
Best i can tell, win32 binaries are still programs, UWP binaries are apps.

All in all i can't shake the feel that apps are more "restrictive" in how they can be used...
Disney World was built in a swamp. Money and time solve all engineering problems.
Australia plans law to force tech giants to decrypt messages
AKA the non-starter business model.

In the unmarried pool, male and female strategies are incentive-incompatible. Both parties in that pool have unrealistic expectations for what they are able to offer (not making normative judgments here), hence the difficulty in finding partners in the first place.

Believe it or not, the culprit here, again, is wealth inequality.