skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and also consider the relationship between knowing an answer, being confident in your knowledge, and having the time to explain details or find sources.

People (who are intellectually honest) say "I don't know" when a question is specifically addressed to them, and so they feel a responsibility to give an answer. They don't respond at all when they don't know the answer and they haven't been addressed... except if they are motivated by curiosity and wish to indicate that they, too, are interested in the answer.

Incidentally, the mistake of assuming that everything on the Net is addressed to you is a common failing among people who have little experience. It happens on Facebook all the time...
Normal people are horrible! Back in my tech glass tower to write a tracker to target advertising for loans, away from this filth.
Do you mean to say "for a short-term, monetary profit"?

Because there are other types of profit, more subjective ones, like feeling good, emotional well-being, long-term sustainability etc, which are more elusive by definition but nevertheless super important.

Because if you're really talking about a lack "profit" in the very general (aka inviting a straight loss), then the question simply becomes: Who will pay for this loss, and why?
> China is 92% Han

Only because the government keeps redefining what is Han.

I lived in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Ghongzhou for over ten years. There were Hakka, Canton and Chui Chow people but few ethnic Han. That has since changed as factories are filled from all over China.

The government desperately wants everyone to think that China is for all intents and purposes one people, but it's a patch-work quilt of different ethnic groups, cultures and languages who are often at odds with each other.
I went into a Decathlon for the first time the other day, after long assuming Amazon would always be cheaper for outdoor+active wear...so wrong. Totally surprised at a high street store having a huge range of better quality merchandise, at lower prices, and no need to shop around amongst all the clones with very similar appearance, but varying quality. My faith in the bricks-and-mortar stores has been partially restored.

And for safety-critical purchases...no way am I risking buying something like angle grinder discs or fire extinguishers off Amazon. Fake headphones mean a bit of distortion, fake discs might mean a lost eye.

So now its just low-cost, low-risk purchases where I don't care too much if the item is junk.

On that note, where do people buy electronic hardware if not Amazon/PC World? E.g. for SD cards - Amazon carries the risk of counterfeits, and PC World carries the high street premium.
I’ve said this since before vr was released, but the closest analogy is sound cards and 3D video cards when they were first released. Most people with PCs weren’t spending $100 for a sound blaster so they could play games. They waited until sound just came with PCs.

VR won’t be a thing until headsets just start coming with new computers, and the base models of new computers have video cards fast enough to run them. It might take 5-10 years before that happens.
This glorious utopia will last for all of five minutes until the last surviving SJW decides robots need rights.

And honestly, would xir be wrong? If we ever get to the point where robots can fully take over most human jobs even intellectual ones, we will have had to reach a level of artificial intelligence where even many not so radical religions and philosophies will wonder whether we are exploiting them.

When Tesla delved and Google span, who was then the gentleman?
I don't know why but I'm actually less excited about Fuchsia than the old Singularity/Midori. As Joe Duffy said [0] when they worked on Midori they also wrote UI, editors, browsers and many more applications in months so it's not surprising Google engineers also managed that.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k

For me it looks like the classic Not Invented Here syndrome - we already have microkernels, even formally verified ones (seL4) but AFAIK Google didn't want that to "be more flexible".

Using C for kernel also looks like a poor choice nowadays, unless Google has some magic static analysis (for example Singularity/Midori had custom languages with ownership tracking akin to Rust).

Maybe Fuchsia is for bringing microkernel architecture for masses using "boring technology"?
UK based here as well and I'm not renewing Prime this year.

Apropos fake stuff and fake reviews, I won't buy anything of value from Amazon now, I can't be sure any more that I'm not going to receive a counterfeit. I'm in the market right now for a couple of new electronic gadgets, but I'll just get them from Halfords and PC World, their prices aren't that different from Amazon's.

My other annoyances...

Over the past few months I've noticed their so called "Next Day" delivery randomly isn't really that. For example this week I ordered a thing that was eligible for Prime next day. It was on Tuesday and I was well within the cut off time (by 7 hours or so). Oddly that item then showed as "Get it by Thursday" which is not Next Day. I thought it was specifically that seller or product that perhaps had ran out of stock. But no, every Prime eligible SKU was showing as "Get it by Thursday".

Upon querying this with Amazon they said: "One day delivery starts as soon as the item is marked as dispatched. We will aim to have your item with you in One day."I didn't have the energy to point out that the previous Tuesday all their Prime eligible SKU's were showing as "Get it by Wednesday" i.e actually and really next day.

They seem to vary this throughout the year to suit themselves. I did order the product though and on Wednesday I got notification that the item was dispatched and out for delivery. Sadly it didn't turn up and when I checked the parcel tracking sure enough it'd been bounced back to an expected delivery of Thursday again.

Another annoyance are these "Add On" SKU's (for example cleaning products) where there is simply no way to order these products without spending say a minimum of 20 quid on other stuff. Some marketplace resellers seem to game this by stocking these SKU's but the delivery price is almost as much as the SKU itself. No thanks, I'll just get these from the supermarket next week when I drive into town (I live in a rural area so having stuff delivered makes sense to me).

I also have an ethical problem with the seemingly ridiculous workloads, hours and low pay their delivery drivers have put upon them, I'd rather not fund these abuses. I know for a fact the that the usual fella that delivers to me is doing at least a 10-11 hour day, and that's screwed up.

So anyway, I don't really order enough "new" stuff to make the Prime next day worthwhile, and tbh I can easily wait a couple of days for an order to arrive. I also tend to only order books these days, and will hold out until I can get a decent used copy at a fraction of the new price.

The other thing that's deeply annoying are these add-on channels where you need to pay a monthly subscription for, on top of Prime. Films/TV that you could previously pay for are being silo'd into these channels with no option to just pay for the film itself. Sure I could run with the 10-14 day free trial, but that soon gets old.

Finally there simply isn't enough compelling "included with prime" video that interests me.
Why would bitcoin collapse a Nobel laureate?
Same as BestBuy. Actually, they price match plus 10% of the price difference. Which is awesome because I get to go pick it up, but don't have to fear the amazon knock-offs.
>it is lacking so much.

Stripe API documentation is the best i've ever seen, I really don't see what could be improved

Do you have any exemples in mind ?
Which Ripple wallet did you use?
I do not trust cloud even with unimportant documents. Especially if you can be locked out of your cloud account without reason. I only keep non critical offsite backups on cloud drives.
Yes, but compared to R&D for creating a new drug, it's a fraction of the cost. Also, I would think to save costs, they would do it the cheapest way that is proven and reliable.
If you like work in general, then either you are very easily entertained, or you have never had a truly boring job.

Have you ever worked on a factory line for 40 hours a week on minimum wage, doing something only slightly too complicated for a machine?
> Automation is definitely helping to free us from a lot of work.. but the world we live in today feels like a preview of what an automated world feels like. In reality, our material lifestyle is still supported by a very large number of people working away in countries most Americans can't find on a map for extremely low wages.

I don't know about you but the homes, roads, cars, plumbing, healthcare, energy, food, and most other things vital to our lifestyle do not come from China or Taiwan. And even where Asian products are popular (e.g. big home appliances), European alternatives do exist.

I feel like people in the tech sphere can't look or see beyond smartphones, laptops, and other tech gadgets.
Monero is definetely not the only one in this club. For example: there is Numeraire which is actively used by data scientist on numer.ai. NMR has true value as long as Numerai hedge fund is using it.
$700 for a suitcase. Good grief. Surely far more likely to draw the attention of an unscrupulous baggage person.
I like to work. If I had a choice, I would be using my skills for something more directly beneficial to mankind than what I do now. Unfortunately, that just doesn't pay as well, and I have student loans and other financial obligations to worry about.
I don't see how a jobless steady state is compatible with the zero-sum game that is the natural desire, in all of us, for power and sex.
I tried to upvote you, but hit the downvote button instead :(. Oh well.
It is interesting that the article’s discussion of the history of work begins with Marx, as the modern conception of work lies in the industrial revolution, of which he was a crucial byproduct. His entire Weltanschauung presumed that organized work was the default activity of humans, and with that as a given, proceeded from there. Modern economics, including neoliberal economics, uses his vocabulary by default, making discussions of alternatives, in a weirdly Whorfian way, hard to have.

This article also correctly places the roots of the conception of work as the core of human identity as side effects of Europe’s Protestant movement. Amazingly, given that this is the Guardian, they failed to invoke the lazy trope of “colonialism” for the spread of this culture worldwide — for in this case it is accurate. The British empire, in particular, once it became run by the government, spread this model to the “lazy natives” as part of a cultural package. (It is no coincidence that the standard worldwide business attire — as with military uniforms — is based on 19th century British aristocratic fashion).

The final piece of course is the cultural reform required for UBI. Just as our conception of work is modern, our conception of money as a reserve of wealth is modern. Even back when Augustus personally paid off he national debt, the conceptions of money and power were backwards to where they are today (“Plutocrat” is another Industrial Age idea). Money was a way to show off your power, not a way to acquire it.

But money also serves a more much more important function as a signalling mechanism (a change in price indicates that there is more demand for T-shirts and less for TV sets) — one of the many fatal flaws in communism was a failure to understand this, and the current obsession with banking in the western economies demonstrates a related misunderstanding. When we have a robotic economy with a marginal cost of production close to zero, why should “wealth” reflect a bank balance? What would be the point of accumulating one?
"Win-win"...not at all.

Patents like this have "threat value", which is often happily exploited by "IP monetization" companies, contingent law firms, etc.

This is the kind of stuff that turns into 100x $50k settlement demands.
I know that there are probably a billion technical hurdles for this, but in my perfect universe, CPUs would all be FPGA based; at that point, couldn't updates be almost as simple as a software update?

I know that laws of physics kind of preclude this idea, but a guy can dream.
Such improvements tend to spread from rich to poor. People in developing countries choose those horrible factory jobs because they're still better than subsistence farming. China is lifting huge numbers of people from abject poverty every year. Eventually wages rise.
QubesOS is dealing with the problem you describe. It implements security through isolation. But the vulnerabilities in CPU break everything.
I'd say "are in the workplace way more" ...

>"Now, the workday is ripe for another disruption. Research suggests that in an eight-hour day, the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes." https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver... //

Other studies show the most productive workers take long breaks (~25% of working time).
Agree about the creative space but I'd like to point out there's several high quality content creation apps from other sources:

https://www.gravitysketch.com/

https://www.masterpiecevr.com/

http://lyravr.com/

http://nvrmind.io/animvr/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/606920/EXA_The_Infinite_In...

https://mindshow.com/

That's not even mentioned lots of other non-game applications. I've been trying to keep tabs on what's available on Steam and the Oculus Store: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwqLF3CpYWxZ6kipzWGH...
> A submission for a £3bn three-lane motorway link was made to transport officials in April 1981, files released by the National Archives show.

£3bn! Seems positively cheap by todays bloated public contract standards!
Do you know that 8 people in the world have as much wealth as 3.6 BILLION people. That inequality is STAGGERING.

Where do you think the problem lies?
> Random JavaScript hate is so last year

It isn't random.

Firstly I think it is mostly directed at the abuse of JS that we see.

Secondly while there has always been good reasons to avoid running code in the browser unless there is a good reason.

This year added one more with the CPU level bugs that could be exploited through client side JS.
What’s wrong with collaborating and using the collective knowledge of the human race to achieve this? It’s really no different than using private contractors to do the same thing.

NASA can’t do everything themselves, so why not let Russia launch the rockets while the US and other countries focus on other parts of the mission?
>You should file bugs! We care deeply about the legibility of error messages, and the whole --explain system is there to try and go above and beyond.

Next time I do some Rust I will. I also need to check out that --explain system. I didn't see that when learning Rust.
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Or space them out more. Of course these concepts seem trivial when you implicitly shave off half the content and then fit it to your own pre-conceived solutions.
That's very neat. I think there's a lot of power in having physical spaces mapped to VR. Essentially you can simulate what AR will be like in 10 years without having to wait.
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So why aren't for profits the most profitable then?

And the simple fact that a non profit can spend 6M USD on compensation to its CEO loudly advertises the healthcare provider market inefficiency.
Your point 4 has quite a problem with incentives alignment. You expect the SaaS vendor to spend resources in order to minimize your payment to them - their revenues. I can see why that would be somewhere among the lowest priorities.

Also, point 6. I understand where you come from, but you should also understand, that you are using release shared by several/many customers. If everyone had a veto power over rollout, nothing would get rolled out, at all. Therefore, if something gets broken, use your SLA, it is much easier to fix a specific bug, than delay the release.
Got stopped in our firewall with reason "Sex"...
If actual slaves were able to escape and make their way to freedom and satisfying lives, then surely office workers can do the same.
I think you answered this question yourself: some forms of value are subjective. Some vitally important benefits to the people around you don't show up on a balance sheet. People will gladly pay to be a patron of the arts, or just to make someone they like happy, and it doesn't have to involve a quantifiable return on investment.
3 employees doing 20hrs costs more than one doing 60hrs even if the pay is the same. That said I'd expect 3 employees to also bring more value and have greater productivity.
That was all under Jobs. How much longer will they keep that position?
This case would probably be easier as self-employed, but then the income is not guaranteed.
I think most people would keep working even with ubi. Just on things they care about and choose to work on.
Forceful reorganization of society inevitably turns into bloodshed in 100% of cases, and that rarely improves standards of living. The human civilization is in a state of constant chaos and nobody can tell or influence where it will be taken next. Accidental discoveries and pointless inventions have shaped our culture, and with it our minds and way of life with nobody being able to predict or control them. It's like a childhood fantasy - when I'm the king I'll make you all...

Society cannot be ruled in a top-down manner, period.
> it can’t even put astronauts in orbit anymore

But this isn’t really a NASA problem, this is a US government funding problem right? I can’t imagine how anyone can put people in space without the budget for it
Jinja2 or Django template language?
Autopsy of a Failed Holacracy
Sorry to be offtopic but I think the sibling comment by @moring should be unflagged, don't know why it is…
> I've lived in a handful of cities in Denmark for about 20 years and this view of public transport is a typical eastern bias

I'm not sure what you mean by eastern bias? I've lived in Denmark for 24 years, and South Korea 1 year, along with traveled a lot of the world. Denmark has a top-class transportation system, one that doesn't close around 24:00 (like Japan), and one that is still affordable.

> Outside the top ten, it's useless

Well, if you go below top 10, then you have cities with less than 50k citizens, compared to 1.3 million in Copenhagen, and then 270k in Aarhus (the 2nd biggest city).

I'll agree the transportation doesn't get you everywhere like they do in the bigger cities, but they can still get you around.

I don't think it's fair to expect a whole country to be completely interconnected, and you have like half the population living in the top 10 cities.
I love work. I love building things. I just don't love the constraints of doing for most other people, particularly if they love power and politics.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. This is spot on.
I think you've got a slight problem with this approach, that a diagram should illustrate if you draw the board as a rectangle and not a line. Thought experiment time:

Let us assume that you rest the board in such a manner that the angle between the edge of the board and the vertical wall is 45 degrees. The edge of the board is tangential to the corner of the wall and the upper floor, and you scribe the horizontal line, then cut it.

When you now flip the board around so that the cut you made will rest flush against the ground, the other end will still be a line that's tangential to the 90-degree join between wall and upper floor; it won't be flush against the wall.

For a 45 degree angle, you could go "oh, I'll just scribe a vertical line upwards where the board is tangential to the corner, and cut it." When you do this, you'll find the board may be flush to the ground, but it extends past the first floor, because you basically cut it too long. You could, by careful repeated cutting, shave off enough from the bottom to get it to fit flush to the floor, and flush to the wall... but that's a lot of cutting.

Now, you could apply some simple (?) maths here, and realise that for a 45 degree angle, the answer is that the board has to be some multiple of square_root(2) long, but that's maths, and that's not allowed. :)

Back to the physical approach. What if we did that horizontal cut, then rotated the board so that it became a vertical cut? Well, now it should be flush against the wall, but the end on the ground is resting on the corner of the board, not a face. You could cut it so that the "back" (furthest from the wall) corner was flush to the ground, but now the top of the board will be a few inches lower than the upper story.

This is non-trivial :) It gets worse if you're not using a 45 degree angle which makes things symmetrical.
From my understanding the fission part is "easy", the hard part is taking the heat and converting to electricity efficiently and reliably.

The Mars Curiosity rover among other probes use a thermocouple based generators to create electricity from the fission heat[1]. Extremely robust , no moving parts, but extremely inefficient just a few percent converted to electricity the rest to heat. The heat is very useful on mars though due to the low temps, kinda like your combustion engine in your car, the waste heat can be used to provide useful heating, but still most needs to be rejected and it only puts out about 100 watts of electricity.

This new one looks to be striling engine based which means its going to have much better efficiency since it is a more standard heat engine with moving parts, prob 20-40%. Hence the higher output. However that comes with much more complexity and things to go wrong over long term use.

I still wonder if there is much more efficiency to be had from thermocouple's if the research effort was put into it, it would be similar to solar cell improvements over the last few decades. You just don't hear about thermocouple R&D and if it where improved to say a typical solar cell efficiency of 18-20% it would open all sorts of doors.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Your dissatisfaction comes from looking to work for meaning. There is no implicit meaning—only that which you create for yourself.
> VR only works well for some (fairly unpopular) gaming genres, like hardcore flight- and car-racing simulations

Those two genres are a strange choice considering the most popular VR titles fall into entirely different categories. The VR gaming ecosystem is actually fairly diverse. The main issue is 1. too many shooters and online multiplayer titles 2. Most games are short (mainly because the economics of the size of the market pushed things that way right now)

> wearing a VR headset for more than 30 minutes becomes really uncomfortable

I'd dispute "Really". Very much depends on the headset.

> the new sensation quickly wears off, same as motion controls, everyone is back to gamepad, or mouse+keyboard

This isn't true for me and many others. I'm over a year in and still regularly have that "wow" moment again. I don't think we've scratched the surface of what's possible in VR even with the current technological limitations.
Won't those, once complete automation is achieved, be automated?
The question will change. In your scenario, it will be an outdated thing to ask. Language change all the time following social changes.

It might be like:

- What's your recent?

- How's your hobjob?

- How's your AI farm?
You just described my life for the past 3 months. It's winter though, so I just attributed it to that. Also I'll be quitting my job soon and then go somewhere where I don't have to deal with dark, cold winters anymore.

I guess there's an upside to being a long-time single with no attachments.