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>And even where Asian products are popular (e.g. big home appliances), European alternatives do exist.

I can think of Miele. That's the only one that's propely German still. Bosch/Siemens are both very much Asian on the inside. They do some assembly in Germany as far as I know. Can't think of any other European brands in this space.
I don't think there's enough meaningful work to do. Or, whatever meaningful work there is can't be done because it doesn't pay the bills. The reality is that people work for money. Companies exist to make money.

Startups do what they do because they hope to find gold.
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Looking for test scripts for a Apache Pig to Spark&Flink compiler
We created Piglet, a code generator and compiler that creates Spark or Flink jobs from Pig Latin input scripts: https://github.com/dbis-ilm/piglet/

I'm interested in real world Pig scripts and input data to test the implementation. Is anyone using Apache Pig actively?
Meaningful work doesn't grow on trees.
Ah yes "if your life sucks, just be one of the small percentage of people who succeed in overcoming the massive challenges stacked against you, there's nothing unreasonable about expecting that out of every individual".

Unless, of course, you're saying we need to start a civil war to free all the office workers...
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>Most people middle class and up work way more than they strictly need to for simple wellbeing.

Sort of. For the week, I would agree, for a lifetime, not so sure about that. I mean what happens when you are unable to work? That could come sooner or later, but when it does come, you will need a chunk of change to get you through the rest of your life. Also, at the other end of life, children can't work until 16, so someone needs a chunk of change to take care of them too.
So rise up and fight. Worst case you're already dead.
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Nice, I've never heard that one before. What a stunning contribution to the discussion. /s
Unpopular opinion: It is easy to work less or nearly work nothing and still get by fine (in the context of the modern western world!), the issue is more that people spend their money in bad ways and make bad long term decisions. If you live reasonable and don't spend money on things you don't need you also don't need to work so much...And I often heard from people now "I don't even know why I work so much, I don't need the money". I am sure most people would prefer to work less if the system would allow it.
Are there helpless people who depend directly on you to avoid suffering if you miss 2 or 3 paychecks? If not, then what are you going to do about this situation you're in?
At first I did not like that the 3rd law spoke about 'sites' when it could be applied to applications as well (or any other usable thing). Then I realized that these are most probably citations.
I find that B&H Photo has great prices and fast shipping!
While the chances were always slim for survival in this case, if you have accepted death as equally good to life, you can risk everything.
You don't have to be very far "in" AWS to try Cloud. The bastion server will let you connect from anywhere, so the idea is that the only infrastructure you need is a laptop and an internet connection.

That said, we understand the value of a local development mode and that is possible in the future.
When it comes to my day job building software I choose opinionated languages and libraries because they limit the choices I have to make which makes me more productive.

But when I'm playing around in my off time I employee alternative ways of doing things with unusual or niche languages so I can explore details in more depth.
I find the use of this statistic really frustrating, if you're say an average westerner with $10,000 of debt and $2,000 savings - your net wealth is -$8,000. If on the other hand you sift through garbage somewhere in Africa and earn 50c per day your net wealth is ~$0. By this metric the garbage site worker is wealthier than the Westerner fresh from university.
> Google's latest captcha specification (and similarly sophisticated systems) must be completed in a small window of time, change rapidly, have a varying number of "rounds", and are extremely antagonistic to being reloaded in e.g. a frame.

Hmmm.

I've observed the timing thing myself - I'll sometimes hit the captcha first while I fill the rest of a form out, then it'll expire, and I'll need to do it again.

What do you mean by "change rapidly" and "varying number of "rounds""?

Regarding avoiding loading the content in a frame - what about making the initial iframe load happen on the machine of the person filling the captcha? Why can't this work?

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> Practically speaking, you can't consistently outsource that to a third party API that uses humans to click and verify the images.

I'm both very curious and somewhat surprised this is the case.

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>> It sounds plausible that one could simply sign up for the captcha-filling service multiple times, and submit captchas to defeat in parallel. Could this work?

> Sure, but what are you gaining? ... you'll be paying the same as just sending multiple requests to the API, and the concurrent requests are routed via the API's backend to different human operators for a solution.

This is what I'd strongly expect, but I very much wonder if captcha-filling services ratelimit the number of filled captchas per account.

In theory (now I think about it) ratelimiting would hurt the service provider so this might be unlikely, but where I want to play with massive parallelism I do wonder if sharding hundreds of requests across multiple accounts would be useful or not. Sharding across multiple providers would probably increase parallel throughput by a small amount though.

Thanks for the feedback!
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I note that all three points you make:

1. I agree with and
2. Don't contradict anything I said

The question at hand is whether there is reason to believe that Pittsburgh's future growth will outperform its past growth because of CMU's output.
No, but the package supports sending binary responses - e.g. it can be used for dynamic image generation without storing the images on S3.
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In America rent and healthcare are two big expenses that you can't escape from. You could live in rural areas and then you don't have a job or you do but you're spending most of your income on car expenses.
This depends a lot on what country you live in and whether or not you have children.
If the blood test becomes widespread you could end up with more false positives than true positives. So probably not useful as a routine test with this error rate.
> If you want to change things, just do it.

If only that was as easy as saying it. People have responsibilites and stomachs that don't like (naturally) staying empty. Sometimes you just can't do it.
Anything can be meaningful. You might not think making sushi for 60 years is meaningful, but a guy named Jiro does.

Even if you have to have an "interesting" job, most people aren't but a few years of schooling out. Hell, we're in tech where you're a few years of study and practice from being world class and/or making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Yeah, you've got to work at it, but that's really meaningful work.
Sort of, I’ve washed dishes for a living, bussed tables at an Outback steakhouse, worked as a line cook, stocked groceries at Kroger, and am now a professional software engineer and hobbyist artist.

My favorite gig was probably stocking groceries, as I enjoyed my coworkers and working at night.

Almost all of these jobs have been “truly boring”, but I’ve also been unemployed and completely without direction. That period of my life was very difficult, and I found that work, no matter how boring the job is, afforded me a dignity and purpose that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Of course, others may feel differently, and I understand that.
A lot of gas stations also have people who can help with directions! :)
If you do a serious amount of travel each year there's no substitute for a good quality piece of luggage. I know this from personal experience from years back where cheap stuff just falls apart.
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In a world without jobs, there would still be projects. It's a fallacy the idea that people will not create things if they're not compelled by the risk of starving to death.

The problem preventing a jobless society is the reverse: what happens to you if your personal projects are not valued by society enough to pay you for them, and therefore you can't sustain yourself from them?

Someone without the skills to create marketable projects can decide to work towards projects created by others, and be compensated for it; that's what a "job" is.

For a jobless society, you should be able to pursue your own projects without starving in case that they do not sell. These projects may involve pursuing leisure, starting charitable deeds, or taking care of your family, all without the direct beneficiaries paying for it. For this to happen, we should:

1) find a way to provide a basic livelihood for everyone in that situation (Basic Income is the most talked about); and

2) value people pursuing their own projects, more than we value people being the most productive* they can possibly be.

*(where "productive" is defined as "building stuff that people will pay for". This is the most common understanding of productivity, but I find it somewhat circular).

In essence, in order to exist, a jobless society should value you being happy more than it values you accelerating the velocity of commercial capital. This doesn't require radically new economic theories; but it requires an adjustment of the parameters by which we measure "efficiency" in what we consider an "efficient economy".
With a 1% false positive rate that won't work I guess. False positive rate needs to be much smaller.
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I had similar thoughts about the meaning of it all. But I didn't question life per se, I questioned the rat race. "Why am I working all day?", "Why do I spend the best parts of the day in an office?", "Why can't I still afford a house even though I make good money?" and questions of that nature.

I wasn't as unhappy as you sound, I just didn't see the purpose of it (working) anymore.

And so I decided not to do it anymore. Instead, I've decided to buy a small amount of land, live sustainibly, start a market garden, and spend much more time with my family and integrate with nature more.

Life isn't bad, but it sounds like you're stuck in a rut. Perhaps you just need to find your passion, and make a plan to transition from where you are now, to where you want to be?
Don't get me wrong – VHDL is a terrible language for design and verification (just like Verilog). Some of those new high-level languages are actually better than VHDL and Verilog, but not sufficiently better to overcome the momentum of the old languages.

> VHDL predates FPGAs

I was using "FPGA design" as a placeholder for digital logic design in general, given that by far the most VHDL and Verilog is written for FPGAs today.
I am guessing if the person borrowing believes that the asset that is being used as collateral ( ETH in this case ) will appreciate in value.
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You've lived a charmingly sheltered life if you believe the majority of people live in that situation. The social support and education that allow people to easily survive while hardly working are not evenly distributed throughout society.
I am so sick and tired of disgusting C code that I would argue that it is only easy to learn how to write a code in C that compiles but not to learn how to implement projects in C.

In fact if I could, I would like that writing in C was prohibited by law to permit holders only, the jury being rob pike and richard stallman themselves!
This gets into how you identify a human (I'm saying for the sake of simplicity that humans are the only things eligible for rights, and ignoring animal rights and such) Is there something inherently human about humans? How about coma patients whose functions are limited? Is there some necessary set of functions a thing must have to qualify as a human? That seems to get into dangerous territory for some handicapped people.

The reason this matters is it's conceivable that an AI in a robotic frame could emulate practically all the behaviors we associate with a human (including behavior to display artifacts humans interpret as emotions, like smiling or crying). At that point, is such a thing a human? Or is it merely a fully-realized model of one? Does it make a difference?

This is the subject of tons of speculative science fiction. From a strictly computer science perspective, though, you can easily define a "square" class that fully implements all the behaviors of the geometric concept of a square. That doesn't make instances of it a square, though. They're merely digital models of squares. This is also the significance of the famous "There is no spoon" scene in The Matrix, when Neo has a realization that everything in the Matrix is a model which he can reach into and alter the properties of. Therefore, there's a strong argument to be made that from an objective perspective, even an AI that perfectly mimics human behavior is just a perfect model and not a human. However, humans being emotional creatures the objective argument will almost certainly not matter in that scenario.

This also has implications for the science fiction concept of "copied personalities", which Black Mirror loves playing with. If you make a digital copy of someone's mind, do they still have rights? I'd argue no for the above reasons, but again, there's an emotional angle which will usually override the scientific angle.
Related:

> Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one stumbles upon some obscure piece of information—often an unfamiliar word or name—and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly.

It was there all the time, you just didn't noticd it.
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No, everyone likes work. We call it "hobbies" when its not formally productive and "vocations" when it is. Capitalism, as a system, is awful at allocating this work that people love to the people who love it. They either can't at all, or they are forced to fit it around wasted time, or they have to gamble on trying to build it up from nothing, and often losing their stake and their beloved work.
Further thinking.. instead of scribing a horizontal line, scribe a vertical one at the top, cut that. Then scribe a horizontal line from the back corner towards the wall, cut that. Should then fit flush to both ground and wall.

I should go find a bit of paper and scissors and try.
Worth noting that because of anonymity, they couldn't go back and check if those 7 people actually had cancer and just didn't know it.

Recently the woman who could smell Parkinson's Disease got one test wrong but when they rechecked they found that she was right, it was just undiagnosed in that person.
Totally agree, still a decade off at least.

For me that is what makes it interesting though that you can still get in at the ground floor and have plenty of time to figure out things and be an expert before the crowd.
What's funny is you can buy embargoed goods on Amazon.
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I don't have the references right in front of me but I'm pretty sure the 7 +/- 2 in Law six is now thought to be 5 +/- 2.

Wiki puts it at 4 +/- 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_memory
The Internet was very clearly useful in many ways, from very early on.

Blockchain has no real use cases so far except libertarian fantasies and get-rich-quick schemes.
>I learned IPA at school

That's why people use their ad-hoc systems. Because many many many people don't know IPA. It's so far removed from English and uses so many letters that don't occur in English that it's close to being a completely different language.

The word "ɪn·tərˈnæʃ·ə·nəl" may make complete sense to someone who knows IPA but to to the many people who don't, it's complete gibberish.
Why would I jump into a thread, on any site, just to say I don't know? There are thousands of threads just on HN that I just let scroll by without participating because I don't know enough to add to the discussion. Explicitly calling out my lack of knowledge on every thread would serve no purpose to anybody.

Online written communications will never follow the same patterns as direct communication, and that is a good thing.
A former Turkish colleague who moved from Turkey to Germany told me the same. The material side of things is covered well in Germany. And because of this, because basically everyone has all their needs covered by the system, people do not need to rely on each other – and they don’t. The vast majority has the means to help themselves and never have to ask anyone else for help.

My colleague felt alone, even though he lived with his girlfriend. I think our material abundance fosters isolation. There is no reason go to your neighbor and knock on their door. You live isolated in your home, you move anonymously through traffic, you work in a closed environment, you go home, and the cycle repeats. There is little room for accidentally making friends or even just having conversations.
Well they are more wealthier till that debt is paid off. However, the metric does not include cash flow. The westerner has a greater cash flow than the person in Africa. However, what happen if that person looses their job? Suddenly, their quality life will probably drop. They might even end homeless unable to pay rent. However, the westerner is probably better off overall.
Reorganization of society need not be implemented in a top-down manner. Encouraging small changes in the activities of individuals can gradually sum to major changes over time. We have the brainpower to enact a project of this type, not every revolution has to be at gunpoint.
I found it in his submission history: https://github.com/kakwa/libemf2svg
That only works for 45 degree angles. The reason is left as an exercise to the reader.
I still buy on Amazon, but only what they sell directly. Nothing 3rd party.
What pertinent "special circumstances" do you mean?
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In your case, there would be an overlap. A digital interface is UI. UX is multi disciplinary, it would focus more on the human centered process of building an application that fits the user needs.
Ergonomic specialists would take into account the job (task), physical environment, user need, equipement (does the worker wear gloves...). Some are trained to be able to work on both fields (Human factor, cognitive engineer...)

UX could also be called cognitive ergonomics.
> And for safety-critical purchases

Yep, I avoid anything that's going to need a wall-wart power supply, I really don't need to wake up in the middle of the night to find out it's burned the house down. Some of the PSU's Big Clive[0] has dismantled and studied are downright scary.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos
what a load...

Conservation, momentum, trying to force people to use physics concepts for UX, for crying out loud, is anybody taking this seriously?
Now we know where Little Kim orders his oil.
If your life sucks so bad that you're sitting on Friday morning posting to a place called Hacker News, then your life really doesn't suck that much. You've already got more than most ever had, so leverage that.

Not a fan of learned helplessness or woe is me. If you want to change, you can. It might not be easy but if you feel like waiting until you die, there's not much to lose, anyway.

What does saying "my life sucks" solve? The world isn't kind to most people, you have to make the most out of it.
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Your honor, as our neural networks are the ones designing these torture programs, ethical considerations do not apply.
The approach is helpful, perhaps not very practical (do I maintain N different browser installations in my qube for N different tasks, or is it a single installation where malware can therefore affect all qubes?). But remember that OS and libraries have plenty of bugs too.
OK, first, that sentence does not mean "smaller things are harder to click or tap". That sentence would still hold true if smaller things were easier to click or tap. Besides, in 1954, when Fitts' paper appeared, it was already understood that this was the case.

I'm not being overly pedantic here -- Archimedes' principle is not that "whether an object sinks or floats depends on what it's made of", that had been known since the dawn of time. Archimedes' contribution was to give it a quantitative formulation, which is what we now call Archimedes' principle -- the force is equal to the weight of the volume of liquid that the immersed object displaces. Similarly, Fitts' law is not that larger targets are easier to hit, that has been understood forever; it's quantifying this statement, and the end result is what we now know as Fitts' law.

Second, the implication "make bigger buttons" is not at all valid in every circumstance -- which is why I warmly suggest reading the actual paper to anyone who cites it.

Fitts' work applies to repetitive movements of equal amplitude and speed, not necessarily made with active cognitive involvement, and assumes that targets are known in advance and -- although not explicitly stated, but implicit in the experiment -- easily distinguishable. It will tell you nothing useful about the size of buttons in dialog boxes, for example. (Edit:) this blind interpretation would also suggest, for example, that making the macOS menu thicker would help, but it doesn't; or that simply making buttons thin, but placing them on top of the screen, would also help -- which holds is only partially true for mouse-driven interfaces, and not at all for touch interfaces.
When I worked at a financial services company we constantly had to find uses for whatever tech the CIO had bought without our input, yet really had no use for. Inevitably there would be an article on the company's website by him about how wonderful the tech was and how it was making everything easier. We suspected (and later were proved right) he was getting massive kickbacks. Long after I left he was walked out the door when a new CEO was hired.
In the UK the maximum average hours for a driver under the GB rules is 48 hours (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles/ann... 5.6 weeks leave too).

IIUC the maximum driving time in 24 hours is 10 hours, and the maximum duty time is 11 hours. (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/drivers-hours-goods-vehicles/2-g...)
Isn't there still a danger of co-mingling fake stuff with what looks like a genuine item sold by Amazon?