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The concern is that automated systems will become better-than-human at enough tasks of economic importance that involuntary joblessness will significantly increase. The usual counter-argument is "human wants are infinite," implying that there will always be sufficient demand for new kinds of or additional quantities of paid human employment to counterbalance labor saving techniques. But that argument neglects time to reach a new equilibrium. It neglects that people displaced from old industries may not be able to fill newer jobs even if they had years to retrain. It neglects that a major human want is leisure time, and leisure time not spent consuming or producing does not contribute to paid employment.
That's a semantic battle you've lost already.
I'm not in Silicon Valley, but I have been in a major metropolitan area for 20 years where jobs have always been easy to come by (with the exception of 2008-2011) and where stock options and bonuses aren't plentiful but wages are high enough for seasoned developers to allow you to easily buy a house in the 'burbs with good schools.
Right. People from all over the world read and write comments on Hacker News. It's a big and diverse audience where not everyone is a native English speaker let alone an American in Silicon Valley. That's part of what makes commenting fun, interesting, and challenging...at least for me.

Based on the rest of the comment, I don't think a charitable reading is unwarranted. But that does not mean someone's negative reaction is unwarranted either. "Get a life" can be and is used as 'fighting words.'
second time I see humor on hacker news today

is that becoming a trend now?
perhaps the square foot is only the footprint of the accumulation of mussels? They could extend out a pretty long way..
If you enjoyed your telecom's support experience in the old days as the customer, you're going to love it even more being the product.
I've never really understood some of the zachtronics games.

Things like TIS-100 and Shenzen I/O confuse me. Why would I spend time learning some esoteric assembler that exists no where else, when you could take that same time and learn an actual assembler?

I really, REALLY wish they had done something really clever, like targetted AVR opcodes or something for their vCPU. That'd make it so not only do you get to have fun, but you learn a marketable skill in the process!

That's one of my major complaints about most of the "programming" games I've seen, in that most of the time, if I'm going to spend time writing code, I'd rather just hack on one of my projects then play a game with no real end-product. At least with personal projects, you wind up with an actual app at the end.

I did enjoy Spacechem and Infinifactory, though I didn't finish each before becoming bored.

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> But sometimes X gets stuck in a way that makes me unable to switch to another virtual console

This is the situation where I recommend the Magic-SysRq[0] keys. Alt+SysRq+r (on a system where /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq is configured) transfers keyboard control back to the kernel. There are other Magic-SysRq keys. My personal favourite is the one that invokes the OOMKiller; and there's one for remounting all filesystems read-only, and one for unconditionally rebooting the system.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
I'm not pushing for any particular interpretation here, but that cattle process could be viewed as early industrialized animal production made possible by the railroad. Graze in open areas, drive a bunch a cattle to centralized markets for transport/slaughter.
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How has HN sustained a relatively consistent content/discourse through growth?
HN has changed over the years for sure. But compared to other link sharing and discussion boards the quality of content/discourse has been pretty consistent.

What is HN doing that other websites don't?
Luck is hard to beat: the difficulty of sports prediction
Agreed. But you could add "domain expertise" and "basic statistics" to that list as well.
ExFat it's great for USB flash drives and a easy way to get around this. But I had a few bad experiences with the lack of journaling working with a HDD.

Maybe not a deal breaker for a lot, but for crucial data, my advice will be build a cheap NAS with Linux inside, and pass all data between OSs over network
> 'We faced resistance from the private textbook lobby, who didn't want to invest in fresh textbooks for Python'

The private textbook publishers didn't want to invest in something that would result in their customers replacing all of their books‽ Is there some structural reason for this (maybe Indian schools pay a flat fee for textbooks or something)?
26,000 MongoDB servers hit in a new wave of ransom attacks
Could you please not post uncivilly like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's teaching you how it's a good idea to have a 404 page which links to an article explaining more.
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But we keep on having this "opposite poles attract each other" kind of narrative in books and movies. I guess that two people agreeing on almost everything from the get-go makes for really boring stories.
Could you create a solar panel that generates energy during the day and rejects heat during the night? Would it be efficient at either task?
The author has either not read "Nickeled and Dimed" or else has read it and summarized it in this article. I truly hope she is not simply plagiarizing the book. As for the title, it reminds me of the attitude displayed by callers to the Dave Ramsey show. They would rather flood you with anecdotes justifying their condition than listen to a word of advice. Having been poor myself, and having emerged from it through my own learning and through following the advice and example of people who were not poor, I would urge anyone who is poor to know the things in this article but to also listen to any well-meaning advice and see if any part of it, taken as is or modified to suit your situation, can help at all. You are most likely to get out of poverty in increments, so don't hermetically seal your mind inside a bubble of justification and victimization.
> Also, if you're willing to suffer through difficult higher education, imagine the pains you'll endure in relationships to make that work also :)

This reminds me of a quote from Paul Grahams' "How to do What you Love" (http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html): "If you think something's supposed to hurt, you're less likely to notice if you're doing it wrong. That about sums up my experience of graduate school."
Redhat was never a big contributor to BTRFS. This still means less users, but not less devs.
In a BFT protocol based cryptocurrency, an attacker who acquired 2/3rds of the tokens in the network would be able to double spend at will and censor transactions to gain control of more of the network.

They would not be able to rewrite past history.

The only response to an attack would be hard fork.
They're "choices", frequently, in name only. If you have ever been as poor as you claim you'd know and understand that. That's why I am skeptical of your claim. You can interpret it as an ad hominem or not.
I live in the Turks and Caicos Islands (Providenciales). We were lucky hurricane Matthew missed us last year, I suspect however that we won't be so lucky with Irma.

It's worrisome to say the least.
Have you considered the Golden Rule?
Houston is some of the flattest land you'll find in the states, but at least we're not quite below sea level.

I'm from Austin, and have lived in Tokyo, and I used to joke while in Tokyo you'd go stir-crazy missing trees and greenery, despite the large parks there; in Houston you go crazy missing hills and topography if you're used to it.
What does any of this have to do with YouTube blocking PIP?
This is amazing, thank you. I feel this way every day - I have a lot of motivation and every day not actively working to learn or make something feels like a waste. It feels like I just spent the day in some kind of lazy heavy fog with nothing to show for it. To be honest I highly doubt I have ADHD, but I think this advice might help me regardless and I'll consider seeing a therapist to help with this.
The scroll hijacking on the docs pages is annoying.
I have this same idea of creating an online journaling for self-development and goal tracking/insights/self-reflection/bullet-journaling that I have been ruminating for a month! I would totally love to work with anyone to create it online for personal use. I do my journaling via pen and paper but I'd love something online.
Most doctors are heavily committed after 10+ years of education

This is an interesting claim, because I've read various things claiming the opposite (that medicine is a career with a high rate of people leaving it, because the eventual pay and working conditions are simply horrid).
Where I live, a good software developer can make between 120K and 145K as an FTE and easily bill from 70 - 80/hr as a W2 contractor. Bonuses and stock options aren't too much of thing either way. Maybe about 10-15% of compensation.
> a physician and a bartender who are dating but not married have a zero percent chance of getting divorced!

That's only true if they also have a zero percent chance of getting married.

Getting married will still increase the risk of divorce, because it bumps the odds of getting married up to 100%, but two dating unmarried people have, in general, a nonzero risk of getting divorced.
How many kilometres did you walk and how much of the trail mix did you consume each day?
Gmail. Google Maps. Google Search. Youtube.

I could go on. Those services do not exist for free!
No. The ground around the pipes will heat up very quickly.
why you dont install to your parents Signal? that's what i did, extremely simple UI, but still knows even SMS, video and voice calls, it's gotta be easiest messenger out there full of features
One interpretation would be that civilization needn't worry over the large scale, but people born into an certain time periods certainly do need to worry - particularly when it appears that the economy might veer off course with a correction not apparent within their own or their children's lifetimes.
>but it's worth mentioning that currently Bitcoin transaction fees for a simple transaction involving only 1 input at current USD exchange rate is about $3.

What? I was able to clear a transaction last night for less than 0.0001 BTC/KB, which works out to less than $0.25 for a typical transaction. Granted, it probably wasn't included in the next block, but it was confirmed by this morning. Based on the mempool chart (https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h), it looks like most transactions with fees above 0.0001BTC/KB are included in the next block.
I read the question as the OP wanting to go through a didactic exercise in building a programming language from the ground up rather than building a DSL, in which case, lexing and parsing is a fundamental concept to cover, among others. I agree with keeping it LL(1), but it may also be worth it for the OP to understand what LL(1) means. I agree parsing is not at all the most important thing to learn in language implementation, but it seems to me almost a necessary thing to cover in order complete one's education in the subject. To omit it would be akin to omitting a discussion of limits in a study of calculus.
Not from the docs, but a pretty clear community example is that tickets for RustFest are more expensive for people who don’t belong to an underrepresented group.

Edit: replaced “minority” with “underrepresented group”, as that is the language used on the website [1].

[1]: http://blog.rustfest.eu/this-week-in-rustfest-5-tickets-dive...
Kernel 4.8 and newer have a new ticketed enospc infrastructure that should avoid this, there's also earlier changes where empty block groups are deallocated automatically. If you're already using 4.8+ then try 4.12.6 or newer, which includes commit 4a309747.

Due to past long standing enospc challenges, more experienced users are in the (bad) habit of micro-managing Btrfs manually with filtered balance, e.g. -dusage=15 -musage=15. Really we kinda need to stop doing that to find and fix the remaining edge cases; or worst case upstream should deploy a systemd timer / cron job to do these partial balances maybe once a week.

Anyway I don't balance at all on my drives and haven't run into enospc in quite a while. So chances are you're hitting an edge case, and there's a bug that needs to be tracked down if you're already using 4.12.6+.
Yeah, it's basic algebra. I just wasn't seeing it for some reason, possibly because I only think about converting exponents like that when trying to solve something (usually when helping my daughter with her Algebra homework). Yet another example of context affecting cognition, I guess.
Seth Godin is a marketer and talented self-promoter. His job (which he does well) is to write pithy stuff that captures your attention.

This is an agency problem with a lot of business advice. The people who really know how to launch a business on $1K are almost never the ones writing about how to do it.
Women report higher happiness after divorce on average while men lower happiness after divorce. The women initiating divorce more often then men might just be both groups doing correct guess about what follows.

A lot of peole of both genders (meaning dudes too) see male role as breadwinner supposed to work a lot of hours, but not really supposed to do logistic around children or even spend time enough with spouse to keep relationships alive - it is not even possible with over 60 hours a week schedule. You can see that attitude in tech community often. With such arrangement, her loss of job makes her a bit more depressive, but relationship kinda can continue almost the same. His loss of job is personal catastrophe for him, loss of identity, familly role and lot more stress overall.

It is not just money, it is identity and self respect going away for them. Such change is hard on marriage even absent financial stress - which makes everything double hard.
> Mostly because building weathertight buildings is a solved problem. The solutions are just not evenly distributed.

Yes, but these two things are connected. Cheap, fixed, weathertight buildings are a solved problem. But as soon as you fix a building to the ground, you enshrine a rent seeking opportunity, and that space will then be subject to market rates, which will make the resource unevenly distributed.

If we had cheap, mobile, weathertight buildings (and another of other mobile amenities around them) then you could decouple the living space from the market locked to the location, and you could get something closer to even distribution.
Rust Core team member here.

Our code of conduct [1] has been the fundamental cornerstone of our project and community since the beginning. Every large institution ends up having to choose explicitly or implicitly how they deal with conflict. We wanted to put our beliefs up front to enable people to choose if they want to participate with us, or not.

When you boil it down, it's really "don't be a jerk". It doesn't seem to be that big of an ask that people don't harass each other, and for people to understand that everyone's situation is different. A lot of people have been discouraged from participating in tech, from active things like aggressive or rude language and sexualized imagery, to passive things like not providing for child care or mothers rooms at conferences. These are all things that are pretty simple to manage if you're aware of it.

It's our belief that not only is this just the right thing to do, it's our best strategy of growing our community. I don't have any proof, but I do attribute our welcoming community to why we have 1,856 contributors to just our compiler.

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/conduct.html
Not to mention the huge loss of a learning opportunity to have players learn programming language basics for specific real world code
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It's not "He's actually a girl." She's a woman. Use the right pronouns.
The anti-monopoly case against Google
If I visit a site and they can't manage to tell me - clearly - what they do, I presume they don't know either. I quicky move on.

The whole "it's free to try" routine is tiring at best. It's your product...communicate to me why I should care. If you don't know why that might be, it's not my job to figure it out for you (or for me).

The problem is, such tactics (artificially) inflate the new users KPI. Retention? Actually using the product? Ha! Who cares!! No one ever asks about that.
> I found customers by putting an enormous about of effort into marketing, and finding only some of it paid off (but what did, really worked).

What worked and what didn't?
Evan McMullin. I know this, because I voted for him.
My god, that could be a great asset to communities in water-starved regions of the planet.
This one is also pretty nice: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2017/09/09/1200Z/wind/surface/...

Especially there are many options to play around with (projections, etc)
I was in Hugo in 1989 where I had no power for over a week (and was lucky). I totally agree. Residents in the Southeast should start preparing today while supplies are still in the stores. Board up your windows. Bring in outside lawn furniture and decorations so they don't become missiles. Go visit relatives or friends. If you can't leave (and you really should..) have water and shelf-stable food for a week (NOT bread, milk and steaks). Get your prescriptions refilled. Scan your insurance policy if you don't already have a PDF. Make a video with timestamp of your house and all your possessions.

The suggestions at https://www.ready.gov should be considered a starting point, as they assume that relief will arrive sooner than recent storms have proven.

EDIT: Get your off-site backup started so you'll have time to Fed-Ex it out of town. If you have a business, make sure your employees will be fine, then start your continuity plans. Which should include some cash to pay bills in case the power goes out (no ATMs, no card machines).
The author was poor because the author chose to get a degree in English lit and rather than getting a full time job in Starbucks she chose to get an internship. Her experience demonstrates that it is largely a choice.

Experience of truly poor people is also largely a choice. I used to be very poor. It is called "crap happens". And it was a choice during those years to put one's head down and do it over again and again and again and again regardless of how helpless it felt.

The biggest issue that poor people have is misallocation of time. They have a crapload of time and very little money. Unfortunately, instead of leveraging their time, they try to leverage the money the way those who are not poor do. That's a mistake.
During the nineties, plenty of people thought Microsoft did plenty of evil things. Truly evil things, so I'm not sure the argument that Microsoft is incompetent, instead of evil, is very persusasive.

An outsider often sees evil where an insider sees good reasons.
As someone who is very unknowledgeable about this subject area, what kind relationship between humidity and lost heat rejection would there be?

I ask because as someone who has lived most of his life in southern Florida, this kind of device could reduce electricity bills massively around here, as long as the humidity isn't too much of a problem
Solaris support ends in November, 2034. Yeah, 17 years from now. No need to hurry ;-)
Good luck out there, and stay safe.
Exactly this. Same as "build a side project as a marketing channel for your main thing" – as if that side project markets itself. People seem to assume just because something is free, it automatically reaches a big audience.
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This only really works if you sit in a chair all day. Why not just exercise instead? You can still fast, but eat once a day in the evening if your heart is set on it.

Nobody with a physical job could pull off days of fasting like this, it's totally unsustainable.

This is basically just anorexia.
But that's just it -- it is NOT scaleable to any measure that would make a difference. The manufacturing effort alone would require quantities of raw material that would dwarf all construction efforts ever undertaken combined. There is the issue of mining, refining, manufacturing, transporation...
not to mention the installation and maintenance of a hundred thousand square miles of reflective shields in an incredibly hostile (to life) environment. Even if the whole of humanity could agree this is the most pressing issue of civilization, we would wreck the earth to save the ice. It would be easier to build a shopping mall at the bottom of the ocean.

And the sun will just get warmer anyway. It is folly to think we can play God. Climate change is normal, and natural. It has been happening since the beginning of time, and will continue long after all traces of life on Earth are gone. Who are we to attempt to interfere?
Would this be easier, or harder if it were FUSE based?
I think that it was not so much about open space, as an opportunity to establish an economic independence. The likes of which the equivalents only exist in different forms today - much akin to dreams of startups today.
Unlike traditional BFT algorithms that have multiple validators with equal and static voting power, what
Tendermint does is each validator has coins staked to them. These coins can be either the validator operator's own coins or coins that are "delegated" to them by other users (think of these as Proof of Stake "mining pools"). Their "voting power" in the BFT consensus is weighted by their coin stake.

Validators can come and go as part of the protocol, so essentially the previous validator set signs on the next validator set. Also, more people can delegate stake to existing validators.

When a validator leaves, there is an unbonding period before they are allowed to withdraw their coins (this is the to put a minimum time length on a long-range attack). Tendermint also solves the nothing-at-stake problem because if a validator doubles signs on two competing blocks, this is byzantine behavior that is recognized and punished by slashing their staked coins on both forks (staked coins act as both weight for BFT voting power and as security deposits).

One assumption that Tendermint makes as opposed to Nakamoto Consensus systems is that at least 66% of validators have to be running in order for the system to make progress. In Nakamoto consensus, even if a lot of miners are down, the existing miners can still propose blocks. This is, however, a double edged sword, as what seems top be "down validators" might actually be a network partition. In Nakamoto consensus, even a temporary partition would lead to parallel forks, while in Tendermint, this would not happen, as the system will stall instead of forking. Nakamoto Consensus is availability favoring, while Tendermint is consistency favoring.

Tendermint works very well for both Proof of Stake and Proof of Authority systems, which is makes it particularly useful for both public and private settings, and deals with byzantine faults in both, as opposed to just crash faults as in protocols like Paxos and RAFT.
because we are always fucking working. I know, I was half of a computer engineering couple.