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> Ah yes, I love when my government hassles innocent people to make a point to everyone else.

I also love it when some people are just "Too Big To Jail (TM)"

> Those investigations uncovered substantial evidence "that senior bank officials were complicit in the illegal activity."

> On Tuesday, not only did the US Justice Department announce that HSBC would not be criminally prosecuted, but outright claimed that the reason is that they are too important, too instrumental to subject them to such disruptions. In other words, shielding them from the system of criminal sanction to which the rest of us are subject is not for their good, but for our common good.

> The New York Times Editors this morning announced: "It is a dark day for the rule of law." There is, said the NYT editors, "no doubt that the wrongdoing at HSBC was serious and pervasive." But the bank is simply too big, too powerful, too important to prosecute.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-p...
Or worse. At least those dull and exhausting jobs could formerly afford you a reasonably content middle class lifestyle with a modest home, but that is increasingly out of reach of even some of the most successful in society at least in some countries, if you'd like to live where there are actually jobs.

As we continue down this road to a winner takes all society, I'm not so sure this is what I'd call progress, and I'm easily in the top 20% of income.
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>As Montaigne pointed out, early modern Europeans were at least as cruel toward enemies and captives, they just expressed it in different ways: i.e. via public executions of witches and heretics, or the tortures of the Inquisition and secular courts.

Yes, this was my instant thought. What a naive Eurocentric way to think of history to insinuate that everyone except the Europeans were just barbaric savages who killed and devalued life. As if the Europeans weren't fresh off their own multi-year killing sprees for this and that reason that equally would have baffled Native Americans.
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I wasn't seeking research data.

I wanted to know the source of your conclusions. Are you Swedish? Have you lived in Sweden for decades? Are you a sociologist of workplace cultures?

Or have you heard it third hand, or have you based it on your predictions of what Sweden is like.

Here you imply that you have lived and worked in Sweden, but you aren't clear about how long or how well you understand the history of the transition? (Eg, was it a big topic like the "Ni" question was in the 1960s?)

But really, how do you know if the transition in Sweden is any different than the transition in, say, the US? (As you write "organisation" instead of "organization", I assume that you are not from the US, and may not have the experience in that culture to make a solid comparison. Feel free to use another low-power-distance but not ultra-low-power-distance culture instead.)

BTW, you originally wrote: "the idea that anyone, no matter how important, is ever entitled to an assistant or secretary is almost anathema [in Sweden]." You then wrote "It's not unexpected that the secretary-general of any organisation, even in Sweden, has a secretary."

I interpret your original statement to mean that it is unexpected that the director of a university has a secretary.

If not, where would you place the boundary for where it is expected, and what makes Sweden's "ultra-low power distance" a significant contributor to that?

Because it seems to my non-Swedish eyes that in my limited experience in Sweden it didn't seem much different than my experience in the US.

For what it's worth, I plugged "sekreterare" into the job search at what I think is the Swedish employment agency. One of the results was https://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/Tjanster/Arbetssokande/Pla... . Google Translate says:

> As a secretary, you will assist a friendly, impulsive and simple person with; • write different investigations. • Create documents, such as in excelfiles. The workplace is located in Hornstull and you start your assignment with an introduction. The role can eventually be expanded and become more than the 60% as it is today.

That doesn't sound like a career which is "almost anathema".

I would expect that "maid" is something which is almost anathema, at least in the US. It looks like the Swedish word for that is "hembiträde", and there are no matches for it on that job site.
You're right. Banks just have more money to throw at these problems.

They have regular security audits. When (those systems aren't necessarily any more secure by design than 'normal' ones, often even less so) a problem is found during these audits they can and will pay a lot of money to fix them, sometimes by almost brute force.

For example, rather than fixing the underlying software that causes a problem they might close potential attack vectors at the network or infrastructure level.
Exactly. The authors don't seem to have any basis for their explanations, and the title should really be "neural nets more accurate... on dating website images". Still this is significant, because these are the same images a government or business could potentially access for their own ends.
> writing clean C++ is a bit harder than creating HTML page

False analogy. The counterpart of HTML in the Qt world is QML, not C++. C++ is the counterpart of JS (or whatever backend language the web application uses).
If you are going to criticize, at least get your facts straight.

Peak oil did happen in the 1970s. American peak oil, that's it. The reason we have had the last couple of decades of Middle East adventurism is because the US stopped being the largest oil producer back then. OPEC would not even exist if that was not the case.

Conventional Oil has supposedly peaked sometime in the 2005-2010 timeframe, though you are correct that more innovative extraction techniques have compensated the lost of conventional sources so far. However, you grossly overestimate the capacity of price signals to conjure up solutions out of thin air. Instead, what has allowed a more or less sustained living standard on the face of steady per capita oil consumption are countless hours of engineering devoted to efficiency.

At the end of day, the tragedy of the Peak Oil movement of the past decade is something that happens to a lot of geeks. They were able to calculate a fairly accurate mathematic model of the raise and fall of production, but their predictions of doom failed to grasp the fact that society adapts to changing conditions. Their economic models turned out to be too simple, and both private and public sector reacted by taking measures that would have been imposible to predict on a quarterly profits only analysis.
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More data supports the hypothesis that inequality is rising because some people have more money than others, and currently it's easier to earn significant returns from capital than from labor. Of course, not everyone agrees, but Piketty et al have some evidence for the hypothesis. Is there anyone with data-driven support for the claim that changes in overall inequality are primarily driven by divergence in high-skill vs. low-skill labor incomes? To be clear, I obviously know there is a difference in high-skill vs. low-skill labor incomes, but it's not clear its magnitude is enough to account for the changes seen in macro-scale indicators like the Gini index.
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There were a couple hours between the two posts, and I was actually pissed off when I wrote the first one -- I'd had more time to think about it and cool down a bit by the time I got through with that second one.

As someone who is in the class of people actually affected by developers' choices on how to "reduce latency on mobile", I reacted really badly when presented with a page that had a massive increase in load time because of JS -- when JS was being presented as the solution to a problem on mobile connections. (Frankly, I hate the way JS is being used on the modern web as it tends to make my experience browsing the web absolute hell for a couple weeks each month after I hit my bandwidth cap. I browse with it off by default, and my experience is usually better on the majority of otherwise well-designed websites.)

After reflecting on it more, I acknowledged that the article does make a good point -- don't make lots of small connections to the server if you can avoid it since connection start up time can be large -- and people in the replies reminded me that the average performance I'm seeing isn't necessarily the worst case performance, and problems with the way this site was put together didn't necessarily mean the technique is bad.

Now that more time has passed, I have to wonder why didn't the author just use chunked transfer encoding of HTML instead of JSON for the results? You'd get basically the same effect without needing any JavaScript at all -- and as the author brought it up in the post, he/she is clearly aware of it. That's really the first question I should have asked...
I wonder... how common was heart disease before saturated fats were demonized, and ultra-processed plant oils were pushed as the "healthier" alternative? What about after?
"Work being done" refers to the output, not the way in which that output is produced.

For example, let's say that the task is to add up a list of 10,000 numbers. It might take a human a while to accomplish this accurately. A computer won't take much time at all. The computer is accomplishing the same work as the human in a much shorter amount of time. The computer could handle a vast number of such tasks per day for a lower price than any human, with better accuracy.

Similarly, imagine hauling cargo across the country. A human could put the packages on their back and walk, or alternatively a human and freight train team could haul them by rail. The human and freight train team accomplishes vastly more work than the human alone, and is able to haul much larger and heavier packages at a much faster speed.
If you're confused about why the article is weird, look at the source.

“Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several
generations of German philosophers and social theorists
in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the
Frankfurt School. According to these theorists, a
“critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional”
theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory
is critical to the extent that it seeks human “emancipation
from slavery” [0]

In contrast, the fitness of a "traditional" theory is only related to
its correct modeling of reality or it's usefulness in making accurate
predictions (depending on your opinion of instrumentalism/scientific
realism [1]).

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
What will.the shift be to ?

A few possibilities, at least short term:

Some manufacturing returns to the US with help of robots. Maybe even as an exportible industry.

Maybe it's possible to simplify those complex jobs that more people could do them?

It's possible for the some of the new,highly automated industries to be a net job creator. For example one scenario for self-driving is that it will be partly remotely-operated ,i.e. jobs , instead of people driving themselves.

Things may become cheaper and people will spend the money left on human based experiences/services ? Or even an whole economy based on human interaction because that's the one thing robots couldn't do?

Or like we always did , we'll find some useless thing(like consumerism) that will create jobs and build society around it ?
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that made me realize,

if you had a bad data set and let the computer train beforehand with the learning data, the human will need to "retrain" as they go (eventually realizing past stereotypes are failing in this atypical data set) and of course are going to do shit.

In a fair test both humans and computers would get to study the learning data.
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>The Americas went from 50-100 million people to fewer than 5 million natives because of disease.

Disease which was quite forcefully spread by Europeans as an act of warfare....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep...
> You can see the switch flip in people's eyes as soon as their tasks are up on the board.

Does that mean people are tuned out when it's their team members' tasks on the board? And if so, is the stand-up still useful?
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When I hear Dunedin can't help but think of the Dunedain [1], who had a lifespan three times a regular one.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAnedain
OK, so what were they going to do with the evil cracker's passwords.... steal from him? I'm no lawyer but how in the hell is this not a felony? They intentionally distributed malware that steals passwords. Jesus christ, some people, man... some people...
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So, does that mean that cultures currently engaged in war are less civilized than cultures currently disengaged from war?
I actually just migrated a small Rust application to C++ with Qt because I have to use DBus and Qt has a very nice DBus library, which Rust has not. (In general, DBus hates runtime environments that don't have an event loop.)
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In the luddites' case that 'person' was willing to work for less using the weaving machinery because they were desperate. The Napoleonic Wars made them lose their livelihoods, homes and families.

After the industrial revolution, the enclosure movement was used to strip peasants of their land. After being dispossessed, they were then desperate enough to accept the paltry wages and disgusting working conditions offered by the factory owners.

Today, a Chinese factory worker may be saving money because they need to care for their infirm grandmother living in a cancer village because the state provides little to no social welfare support for her.

Do you think it's germane to argue on a moral basis that because China provides no welfare for that grandmother that American factory workers ought to take a pay cut?

Personally, I think trade policy needs to be intimately connected to human rights and environmental and labor conditions. No improvement in those sectors, no deal. That isn't the world we live in though. We live in a world where Obama tried to excuse Malaysian slavery in order to try and enact a trade deal so that American workers could be forced to compete with slaves in Malaysia.
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If Python were statically typed:

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- It would be unusual for a Python library to come without (nontrivial) types

- It would be unusual for Python code containing type errors to be distributed

- Many classes of runtime errors (e.g. no such method) would be unusual in Python code that does not contain type errors
Yet another poster on HN, just echoing the platitudes of keto/paleo...

> Modern fruit obviously pushes the definition of "natural" to it's absolute limits

Modern fruit is not much different nutritionally from wild fruit[1]. Sure, some ancient fruit like bananas were pretty inedible, but that is a far cry from what keto/paleo dogma suggests. As an anecdote, I am living in Borneo right now, and we can go out into the jungles of some of the most untouched land in the world and find the sweetest fruits we have ever tasted.

> it's at least deeply unintuitive that something that consists mostly of fructose, a little fiber, trace metals, the rare vitamin

I think by "deeply unintuitive" you mean "when compared to my beliefs". Fruit is some of the most nutritionally dense and healthy foods you can eat (I don't think I need to source this, but will if you refuse to yourself). HIGH in fibre, vitamins, phytonutrients, antioxidants, enzymes etc.

> and next to no protein or fat could be considered healthy.

And here again you reveal your beliefs/dogma. The MACROnutrient content of a food tells you nothing about how healthy it is.

1. https://deniseminger.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit/
On what basis are you differentiating between agreeing to something that allows then to access your stuff, and "telling it" to access them?
Qt Widgets has supported CSS stylesheets for at least a decade: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/stylesheet.html

However, even with styling, you cannot deform the widgets and layouts entirely. Which is a good thing in my book, but appears to hurt designers' feelings.
That's true, but for exactly this reason I am responsible for many machines.

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The article does seem to ignore the licensing side of things, where QT is more expensive/restrictive if you're not developing open source projects.
And licensing. Qt is LGPL or commercial. HTML is (in practice) more liberally licensed.

(Edit: not GPL, but LGPL. Which is almost as bad for embedded systems as GPL itself is. How do you let the user relink Qt or replace Qt with their own version, in the field? Nightmare. Just pay up. Qt LGPL is (or was) fine for desktop apps pre app stores. Now, not so much.)
I don't think the poster was insinuating that - if he's read Bernal Diaz, he no doubt has few illusions about medieval europeans. They literally did stuff like murdering fat people so they could use their fat to treat the wounds of their horses. Nobody could read 'The Conquest of New Spain' and come away with the impression that Cortez was anything but an absolutely awful, atrociously evil person.
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> The thing they were replacing was a bucket of edge cases none of which they knew about.

Can I get this on a T-shirt?
What do I know, I am not very good at this either and I respect the author's willingness to get other people's perspectives and attempt to reach a conclusion.

But I would like to critically consider the "indicative trends" mentality of the author. Entities with ML algorithms that could replace jobs enmasse do not yet exist, so past or current economic trends shouldn't indicate anything. ML algorithms did not gradually takeover Go, for instance - the transition to AI should neither be so gradual. Maybe if someone did micro-studies on Uber's effect on Taxi drivers, it would server as a proxy but even Uber isn't a self driving car company (yet).

That said, I really enjoyed reading about what is causing unemployment or the loss of jobs. It's an interesting observation that disabilities is rising as the reason for unemployment in the US. But again, attribution of these trends is always difficult.

Anyways, thanks to the author for doing the explorative work.
> Fruits are artificially high in naturally-occurring sugars. Fruits we have today are all fruits of artificial selection of the most sweet.

Source? Here is some information to the contrary:

https://deniseminger.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit/
>I don't see AI/ML following the same pattern.

AI/ML which can mine through sports footage to create highlight reels and funny clip collections, etc will create tons of consumer goods (videos) which can all be monetized on Youtube. Just one example.

How about Netflix? They use AI/ML quite a bit. It seems to have driven quite a lot more people to watch movies and tv than before.

Amazon uses AI/ML in its Echo, which was quite a high-selling consumer good last holiday season.
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I work at a games company, I get that hackers take up an enormous amount of developer work but reading this article made my jaw hit the floor. This couldn't have been a single developer making the decision. There must have been multiple levels of management involved and no-one saw the legal or moral issues?

To make matters worse, the additional statement at the bottom of the article they outright admit they used the tool and it wasn't a mistake:

>We found through the IP addresses tracked that the particular cracker had used Chrome to contact our servers so we decided to capture his information directly
I find it best to use Scala's implicit stuff for things that would be completely invisible in another language (e.g. "this line might fail with an error" or "this line accesses the database"). That way if you're reading in a plain text editor you're no worse off than you were in, say, Python, but if you use a tool like IntelliJ (and you should!) then the GUI is enhancing your experience, telling you more about your code and reducing the need to click around library code to understand what the code you're reading is doing.
The "rule of law" isn't about committing a crime, it's whether or not you are prosecuted and potentially sentenced for it.
Maybe. But I am trying to convince everyone around me to it. As I am the most reputable person (in that regard) around this usually convinces people. And that compromised machines will be wiped vigorously.

I assume that most people around here are pretty good multipliers.