skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"too fast and people will not have enough time to adapt"

Thing is, this has been the case for at least 200 years, dating from the Luddites. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite , "Luddites feared that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would replace their role in the industry. ... The Luddites were not afraid of technology and did not attempt to eliminate technology out of fear. Their goal was instead to gain a better bargaining position with their employers."

(As a reminder, "It is a misconception that the Luddites protested against the machinery itself in an attempt to halt the progress of technology.")

Or Phil Ochs "Automation Song" from 1964, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbSTnuXv_3Y

Now you've got new machines for to take my place
And you tell me it's not mine to share.

Both of those point out that the advantages of automation go to a subset of the people - capitalists, in Marxist terms. But that doesn't have to be the case.

A strong labor union, or a more socialist form of government interested in supporting labor and workers, could help reduce the hurt of disruption, either by effective trade negotiations or higher taxes on those profiting from automation.
Why do you believe FYGM is an appropriate response?
Now I wonder if the US, as a return favor, shared their intel on the MH17 incident too. I mean that was an actual act of physical aggression by the Russians where citizens died - something that hasn't happened between Russia and the US, well, ever.
Yet another PAYWALL scheme, what is not revealed in the abstract is whether this data was plotted versus age, which would reveal what I suspect is a strong correlation between age and incidence of MI. Likely patients over 60 or 65 much more likely to exhibit. . .
If by highly subsidized you mean taxed at a rate set in 1993 and not updated since, nor pinned to inflation, then yes gas[oline]/petrol is highly subsidized in the US[0]. Also fuel taxes rates in Europe are much higher[1]. You'll notice the US pays $0.46/3.78L(gallon) on average for federal+ state fuel tax, while Europe pays $1.24/L($4.69/gallon). That's an order of magnitude in higher fuel taxes.

I also think we should be taxing gasoline at rates closer to what EU states tax, to help better cover the negative societal/environmental of burning fossil fuels.

[0]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=10&t=10

[1]https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/fuel-pric...
Or corners, or windows, or sinks, or counters, or stoves, or bathtubs. Nor do they take out the trash, or even dump their own waste into the trash. Nor can they do the laundry or the dishes or dust, or fold towels, or go up and down stairs...
If you live in a civilized country and the police is not known to shoot random people i would say its a fair risk to take for some.

SWIM told them he doesnt know about this package and showed them how his address is public for anyone due to owning domains. SWIM only paid a low fee for the little weed they found at his home and was at work in time.
Agreed ... I mean, this is basically the same as the cinema. You're told not to use your phone. People are asked not to be noisy, and turn off their phones, etc. The majority are civil and there's the occasional bad egg, but hey ... it's a gathering of people - there's always going to be a level of compromise.
> [P]roduct is often made up by combining several projects [...] and it's the product managers job to manage the project managers.

So if a product is split, it's like a project manager with a team composed of
project managers? Do I get that right?

And when a product is made of a single project, then what's the difference
between product manager and project manager? What exactly can do one that
is not the job of the other?
Hiring a cleaning service once a month costs as little as $50. It's not really some hoighty-toighty privilege - in fact it's far, far cheaper outside of those NY/SF bubbles.

My mother is a school teacher in rural Maine and hires a lady to vacuum and dust and change the bedding every week.
Your point about collapse of state institutions seems to resonate with other historical genocides, like in Rwanda. OTOH, it seems to be accepted that during WW2, the "Final Solution" was pretty much state-sponsored and mechanistic. So I wonder whether there is more than one possible way people can turn into mass murderers?

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Being Polish myself, I'd like to offer my own view on some of your statements, without detracting from the main point.

> all Muslims are terrorists (...) It's surreal, and it only took 3 years.

That one has been brewing for a loooong time, pretty much ever since 9/11, and we can thank Western media for that. It's a hot topic only now, because it ties into EU's immigration crisis. The immigrants involved come from Muslim countries, so people went all "oh, so you want us to welcome terrorists now?".

> Somehow feminists and LGBT are in the conspiracy too.

They kind of had it coming, though :). People are not blind to the utter craziness of the extreme fringes of feminist movements in the US (which get all the media attention); all that "social justice warriors" mess was observable through social media, and so I've noticed years ago that people locally were starting to polarize about feminism too. It's not about women rights as much the combination of viewing things through traditional (catholic) values + conflating all feminism with crazy American SJWs. But I guess, as it is today and with current governance, it all got bundled together under "anti-Polish, pro-Union-of-Socialistic-European-Republics, crazy lefties".

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All in all, you make a solid point on just how quickly things can flip around. The change may be brewing for a long time, but when it happens, it's pretty swift.
They're trying that with Windows 10 S.
You can't predict the future of computation. Look at the cost curve of Bitcoin mining. You may say you ("you" not "we") will learn from that. You are suggesting it's ok to trust your assessment of encryption strength. Show me a multi-decades track record of your predictions holding up when cryptographers designing secure systems don't have such a track record. Your idea amounts to Russian roulette where the gun gets more bullets over time.
Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that redirect isn't in place.
Over a long enough timeframe everything will potentially be automatable. The only timeframe I care about though is the one between me and retirement. For now I am quite safe no automaton can manage to deal with my daily nightmare without pulling its own plug.
Not just bad health IT, but spectacularly bad health IT
Most likely Graphicraft, which was the paint program he used during the Amiga launch.

I found it quite amusing that they describe it as a "completely unknown file format" - it have taken them minutes to identify the paint program used if they actually read any of a number of accounts of the launch prep.

It's described on page 284 onwards of Commodore: The Amiga Years (Brian Bagnall), and many other places. (EDIT2: Note that specific book was not published when the article was written, but a very similar account is present in an older book by the same author - Commodore: The Amiga Years is the second volume of what started as a second edition of his previous account of Commodore)

EDIT: "Graphicraft" is even present in the images in the article..."
How about we start treating internet as a public utility before we start demanding that web apps are.
How do you handle SPF records? That was the main reason I switched to Fastmail for my domains even though they all still filter into Gmail - they have a rewrite source address function
Skimming the paper it seems that many of the people they identified were not exactly operational masterminds — they tweeted the addresses linked to their illicit transactions.
> Project management usually takes some fixed bundle of work and aims to ensure it is within scope, on time, on budget, to acceptable quality.

And project manager does that by what means? What useful things can a project
manager do to achieve these goals? Barring telling the team how to do their
work (micromanagement) and reordering project goals (this is supposed to be
product manager's job).
I know it is not the point of the article, but it is possible to do this with one VPS if the provider offers an API to update DNS records. I have this working with Digital Ocean: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#update...
How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
Know about it? I’ll take that bet. Plenty of smart janitors out there.
It depends on the API implementation, really. The criticism back in the day was that Cell was difficult to program for. I would imagine this was because its functions were at a lower level, which buys you power at increased development cost. Think the difference between Vulkan and OpenGL. Sony didn't seem to value development value over capability, which led to the PS3 earning the reputation of being an underutilised console: https://www.cnet.com/news/sony-ps3-is-hard-to-develop-for-on...

Apple's heterogenous computing functions on iOS are higher-level and much easier to use. Instead of manually writing code to do FaceID on iOS, possibly involving graduate-degree levels of theory, you simply create a biometry type which abstracts much of the details, many of which developers aren't particularly interested in fine-tuning. This is how someone on a budget like Bank XYZ can use FaceID to unlock your bank app.
> digital things can't have value because they aren't real

I don't think he's saying that at all. Google is pretty digital but has value because it has millions of paying customers. With things like dogecoin the value proposition is more questionable.
I'm not a standards guy, so I might be wrong, but this is the only reference to recursive calls that I could find from the C11 draft [1], Section 6.5.2.2 item 11:

Recursive function calls shall be permitted, both directly and indirectly through any chain of other functions.

Stacks, I don't know. I only care about the concept (and semantics) of function calls. The call stack is an implementation detail. I wouldn't be surprised if the concept of a call stack was not part of the standard.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
Don't these things move in cycles?

1. The first computers were huge machines that everyone logged into with thin clients

2. Then the PC era where computing became decentralized and all computing took place on a single machine

3. Then the internet, which went back to the thin clients connecting to large central servers

If you believe that the reason for the shift away from decentralization was to enable coordination of multiple PCs so they had access to the same centralized data (for reading or shopping or whatever) then its really not a stretch that distributed consensus algorithms could be a way back to decentralization.

> and no, blockchains don't count for now - if anything, cryptocurrencies are a lesson in just how quickly systems centralize

Not disagreeing with you on the current state, but I believe that is because the people most engaged right now are the same types who day trade penny stocks and options, i.e., low-information high risk seekers. Many of the structures of the cryptocurrency market seem lifted from a student's textbook about how markets can or should work. I see zero discussion of why different structures like open outcry exchanges and centralized regulatory agencies existed originally and what roles they serve now. Maturity, both in the users and the infrastructure, should help this.

I recently had a discussion with a trader-type about why exchanges should exist at all for cryptocurrencies given the volatility cause by a combination of high volume, few market makers, and lots of friction between exchanges. The responses were about price discovery and how would we trade? I don't think they believed me that, as a stock trader, you have almost certainly never traded a stock on an actual exchange and high volatility means its value for economic price discovery is nearly useless.

But please resist the urge to conclude that what is happening in the cryptocurrency markets has any bearing on the potential of distributed consensus algorithms.
Also note that integer linear programming like in the article is very different in practice from continuous linear programming. Relaxing to a continuous problem often doesn't help much.
I had remapped <prefix> w to cycle to the next pane so I had no idea of the window list. Thanks for that.
We do SPF. Gmail does fine without SPF if you teach the Spam filter, every other major provider seems to really have issues without.

Cant say anything against Fastmail tho, except surely we are cheaper as we dont have to provide these kind of interfaces and space.
There are degrees of enthusiasm and positivity. Everywhere else I've interviewed, people have been relatively positive since they want to sell the company to you and give you a good impression. At Google, it was way beyond that. I think cult-like is a good take on it; it was frankly a bit creepy and weird.

And as for the "recruiters", they didn't really try to sell Google at all. I think they assumed that the Google name was sufficient reason to want to work for them. (It isn't, or at least was not for me.)
Not exactly the same, but http://nixos.org would give you some of what you want.
> Obviously I'm not spending enough time in the right places to be targeted for a scam.

Or you don't look like an easy mark.
But the postman who delivers the post will notice that he's delivering the odd bit of post for somebody who doesn't live there.
Reminds me somewhat of this synthetic 'jellyfish' made from rat muscle cells attached to a polymer: https://www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-...
You introduce a strong point with the issue moving structs over the barrier. When I do it, I create constructor functions in C, and only send pointers over the bridge between the non-C and C. I'm happy to do this, but recognise that it is boilerplatey, and should be seen as a different tradeoff choice rather than a trivial alternative.

Agree regarding C++ ABI also. I don't have much experience with C++. My usual approach is to use C for system calls and bare-minimum surrounds, and then use the wrapping approaches described above to get to a high-level language. This is why the struct issue didn't come to mind for me.
It doesn't matter who might care. If someone does care in the future they won't have much trouble depending on how careful you were.
It's true, but web dev jobs didn't go away...quite the opposite.
I know a few, and lets say... you would be suprised. Some deals with shady characters also need a certain kind of opsec btw.
I think that, given the historical evidence (specifically the french revolution being driven by the price of bread), it's more likely that there will be mass unrest and those who own the robots may get executed to cheers of those whose jobs have been automated.
Interesting. My experience is from central europe, or essentially the 3 german countries where people are heavily advised to use their real names.
> Collecting data has never been about making better products.

That's a strong statement. Especially given that I know for sure data that is collected exactly for that purpose within my company.
We're getting hung up on semantics here. What's going on is really a negotiation tactic. Here's what the company is thinking:

- dizzystar would enjoy working remote

- it would be hard for dizzystar to find other remote-working opportunities

- hence, dizzystar would be willing to work for a discounted rate, in order to be remote

In their perspective, there is no "right or wrong". It's purely a matter of negotiation leverage. You have a couple options here:

- admit they are right, and accept a discounted rate

- claim that your rates are final and not negotiable

- claim that you don't value remote working, but because you value them as a client, you're willing to negotiate on your rate

Option 2 is more likely to get you a higher rate, but also more likely to drive them away. Option 3 involves accepting some discount, but at least you minimise the leverage they think they have over you.

This discussion over semantics is not helping anyone. Just treat it as a negotiation game, and play it the way you would any other negotiation scenario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 ?
and yet - most people still can't do it (webdev), or do it poorly, the expectations are higher, often the stakes are a bit higher, and many people try to skimp out on the lowest priced vendor (or DIY). Will we see those same trends in ML over the next 10-20 years?
I presume this was already suspected?
The last time i had a virus i was warned by a doctor not to use gym for a while as it could cause heart problems.
I only wear a helmet if I am going to be biking along a busy road, and I bike more dangerously with a helmet because there is less risk of getting hurt in a crash. So it makes sense to me.
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UBI or we riot. Literally.
This is LOC as BS performance metrics again. Days can go into a one line change, while klocs can be auto generated in seconds. The (un)productive lines are pretty bad as well - there are good reasons to stub out, or delay properly implementing some things until next commit/day/week. I really hope it doesn't get popular and no non-technical manager find it.
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Indeed. Someone did that in a meeting I was in and was informed (not by me) that if he did it again he would be subject to disciplinary procedures.
Don't forget to use shielded addresses, though.
I frequently receive mail for people who haven't lived in this house for a decade, so I challenge your assumption. The postman isn't paid enough to care.
For anyone willing to take the risk, another 3rd party service currently free was promoted on HN 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856277#14858784

>opie34: A friend and I put together a free dynamic DNS service [1] offering cool custom domains aimed at the Raspberry Pi community (and similar hardware hackers.)
It's not strictly a hardware project, but it's a crucial building block for any network-enabled Raspberry Pi project, and we'd love your feedback.

[1]: https://www.legitdns.com
I'm curious to how relative wealth (in regards to income inequality) impacts ones Standard of Living. After the bare necessities are acquired, is all 'standard of being' relative to how you perceive your place in reality?
> Collecting data has never been about making better products.

I’d argue that Google Maps is a much better product BECAUSE it collects a whole lot of information from its users. The most visible one is the traffic information, you literally cannot provide that information world wide without collecting data from your users (unless you want to burn all your money on installing sensors on every street corner in the world)
I disagree. The frequency hopping would make it harder for a signal jammer to prevent a legitimate transmission. If you can't predict the frequency on which the transmission is being listened for, you'd need to jam a broader spectrum, needing much more power to perform the attack.
The big price driver on it was the 50kt speed requirement. There's a big trade off between the threat of swarming small boats that can go that fast and the fact that the big boys fight with supersonic cruise missiles or naval gunfire.
Usually you are supposed to add a year to older articles :)

Curious if you looked into other mail server options? I mean Postfix (not Postgres) easily handles the load of a single user, but it is still rather hard to configure and modify.

I recently started to work with Haraka and even thought its ment for high traffic use cases i wont ever look back to Postfix (not Postgres).
>It's the general crowd who isn't really there for the music

I guess it wouldn't be surprising to find that it'd be the people who are most interested in doing something or going somewhere so they could tell people about it, rather than for the experience itself.
> Now my choices are BoA, Wells Fargo, or stashing bills under my mattress.

For many, many years, I used an online-only checking/savings account. Its pretty viable, unless you have frequent urgent needs (like getting paid, and needing cash from that check the same day).
At my company we have weekly all-hands meetings. It lasts about an hour as ~15 people take turns giving updates. I’d say 95% of this meeting is just verbalizing the kanban board. I’d say 80-90% of the meeting isn’t applicable to most attendees except the owner who needs to be aware of everything.

I work remote so I attend via a slack call. I just mute my mic and keep working until my department comes up. The on-site folks have to just sit at the conference table.
Why even leave the house then if your life is so terror filled? It's a concert not a war zone.
s/Postgres/Postfix/ ??

In any case you should ask the author, as they are currently active on another discussion where they linked their article in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238501#16238845

>perlgod: I've spent years tweaking my mail server setup (Postfix, Dovecot, RSPAMD, LDAP...) and did a full writeup a few months ago. I've used other guides online but found most of the rest lacking on details
exactly... he didn't mind times > 20 years ago, where 99% of the population blindly consumed what was said in TV/radio without questioning, without having any means to cross check it with any other alternative.

I don't think anybody here considers those 2 companies as something holy and pure good, but they are pretty clear in their mission. While doing it, they provide extremely useful tools to billions and ways to communicate with other human beings or learn anything known to human species, for free.

Just use parts of the toolset that help you, ignore the rest. Oh, and use good ad-blocker. None of these companies will prevent you from using their products, although ad revenue is their biggest source of income. Or if you are bloody pissed off at them, don't use them at all. Good enough alternatives exist.
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You never know how their orders may change, however. We’re seeing people deported for minor crimes committed decades ago, before they were legal adults, and most people would have said that wouldn’t happen until the last year or two.

Another, in some ways more important, point is the reminder that all of the people who spent years spamming forums about how bitcoin is secure & anonymous are not good sources of advice or analysis and whatever they’re promoting now should be treated very skeptically. You can still find people recommending that people in countries with oppressive governments should make blackmarket transactions in a public ledger!
I get at least 2 or 3 letters a week for previous residents of my house (and I've owned it for 10 years). Probably 1 or 2 packages a year too.

(Yes I follow the recommended process for dealing with it.)

UK: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...

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It's my address but someone else's name

We deliver to addresses rather than names so our advice here would be to put a cross through the address and write on the item 'Not known at this address' or, 'No longer lives here' and post the item at your convenience - you won't need to apply any postage. Where applicable we will return the item to the sender hopefully allowing them to update their records.
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It's a remix with a single cut and paste.
Yes, absolutely. The trick is to use a very directional antenna—it listens to what you point it at and blocks out noise from the sides. The canonical tool for this is a handheld Yagi, either home made for a few dollars in tubing and screws or ordered from Arrow Antenna.

What replaces the expensive satellite tracking system? A top notch neural network with high endurance myelin-actuated 6-dof arm. You.