skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunate this topic is usually dominated by crackpots[1]. There is some serious research out there that is quite troubling though - this research paper is an academic review of limits to growth done in 2014, published by a researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia

http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/M...

"Based simply on the comparison of observed data and the LTG (limits to growth) scenarios presented above, and given
the significantly better alignment with the BAU (business as-usual) scenario than the other two scenarios, it would
appear that the global economy and population is on the cusp of collapse. This contrasts with other
forecasts for the global future (eg. Raskin et al., 2010, Randers, 2012), which indicate a longer or
indeterminate period before global collapse; Randers for example forecasts collapse after 2050,
largely based around climate change impacts, with features akin to the LTG comprehensive technol-
ogy scenario."

Now, there probably arent a lot of collapse sceptics who would do this research in the first place, so in all likelyhood it contains some bias. Then again society seems to have a way of ignoring scientists who report back with too much bad news.

I have 2 further pieces of trivial data to add to this post, 1) I have a general interest in end-of-the-world type literature, probably because my parents were millenium bug preppers (I spent all my high school years eating stored rice hahaha) - and my opinion is that collapse isn't that likely overall. Why/why not is a long debate but I think we're overall probably safe. I think we have some very serious problems that should not be ignored, but they can all be dealt with if push comes to shove, and many are being handled though probably not fast enough. I'm an engineer though so my internal bias probably leans towards coming up with solutions. 2) I recently caught up with an old colleague, another software engineer, and this topic came up. It made me wonder if there might be some internal bias in the way we think that we both maintained these ideas even though objectively we are both doing pretty well at life. We really need more quality research conducted, unfortunately its hard to find.

[1] Shoutout to whoever else from here is on /r/collapse - it's not me cross-posting all the "AI will kill us all but also take all the grocery bagging jobs" articles from HN. If you're not a reader I'll summarise, its 80% paranoid crazies with 20% interesting doomsday porn. Not a place of serioua discussion. The author of this piece posted there and is basically doing an AMA.
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Qt has been LGPL as well for years now.
Would love to see how it performs before the plows reveal the pavement.

This isn’t as impressive as I was led to believe. Those roads are completely exposed!
I work in part of the education sector. It's valuable tool as a way of keeping in touch with various institutions, publicly thanking people, disseminating news alerts, answering queries. I only use it for these purposes, I never see any bad or impolite behaviour
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Which part interests you about agents?
They will be using it to detect criminals next.
Like in everything, the more precisely you define your software, the faster it will run, but it will have a higher development cost.

So either pay in programming hour, or in hardware. Often you just do something in html, make some compromise because programming hours are much more expensive than hardware, and hack you way through it.

I just wish wasm will even things out, because at the end of the day, Qt is also another hack to make some interface code work cross platform. Qt might be fast but it's not easy to come by since it's maintained by only one authority.
I am kinda new to hackerrank and I don't know what it means when a comment is grayed out (it doesn't sound like a good thing), but I totally agree with you. I read the first part of the article and I just couldn't read further. It's like the article is about how great of an accomplishment that study is, instead of the data that supposedly came out of it.
I already did.

But PT is not seen as viable, people enjoy living in suburbs and being reliant on private cars for anything, culturally less sensible to ecological matters overall compared to europeans (even though in Europe it scales, and I've felt people enclined to think ecologically most in Switzerland and Germany), mass consumption (people really love Amazon... I mean Europeans do too but Prime is less of a thing here).

Also in healthcare threads (which I browse a lot since that's my original field) I've often seen comments about massive weight loss, illnesses esp diet/digestive or diabetus related (like, in a scale I don't see as much amongst my regional communities). Also how people seem to discover once in a while what a healthy diet is (culturally less prevalent in the US than over here it seems).

This is probably especially shocking to me since I have above average interest in these topics, granted. But I'm still very shocked by the US culture which imo shows and prevails here in subtle things. But every now and then I'm like "ah, true, this is most probably an US user". At least it calms down the lust I could have after working there :)
And this quote is specifically advocating for actions meant to embarrass bank CEOs, nothing to do with crime.
As a C++ developer who finds javascript painful to work with, I know I am orders of magnitude more productive on Qt.
Because of HN I just finished the left hand of darkness. It was a smooth read, the book requires no motivation to pick up after putting it down. I felt the cold, the landscapes, the atmosphere, even some of the sexlessness of the Gethenians eventually became real. Not many writers can do that to me. That said, someone commented here that it was possible to state what the left hand of darkness was but that you only truly understand after reading the book. I must says, I didn't experience it that deeply. It was nice, but it didn't alter my thinking as some books do. Some aspects kept me thinking: like Estraven and the miscommunications, the shifgrethor which seems to exist in some culture here in some form. But it didn't change me. Did I miss something profound?
So there is a business model for Qt technical support and has been for more than a decade (maybe 2 now?)

https://www.qt.io/

I would expect that they would know everything about qt.
It seems like you didn't read your own post.

> sugar is never good for you

Fruits contain sugar, fruits are very good for you. Does that answer "what is your point?" The OP of the thread said "Fruits are high in naturally-occurring sugars and they are among the healthiest things you can eat." That's what we are discussing.

> which is why it is recommended not to drink too much fruit juice.

Nobody is talking about fruit juice in this thread.
> When I read the article, it doesn't seem to say that Chinese cash is propping up real estate prices.

Try this one on for size:

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/explosive-b-c-court-ca...

And the only reason it came to light was because it is a civil suit between individuals, the Canadian legal system most definitely isn't trying to catch anyone breaking laws as described in this story. Despite confessions on record in Canadian court, there will not even be an investigation of these people, as there won't be for those laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in casinos in broad daylight, or paying people (and getting reported to the media with extensive reporting in the newspaper) for phony job offers for immigration scams.

All of this very clearly has the blessing of all levels of government in Canada. Whether it is merely for the much needed economic boost or if there's something more sinister in play, we'll never know.
Thanks for pointing that out. I missed that explanation. The transaction is:

1. Own property.

2. Borrow big bag of cash from Bad Guy.

3. Gamble or spend the cash.

4. Pay back the loan from clean sources.

I understand it, but I guess I have never dealt with the KYC people at a casino. I still see obvious choke points (for the conversion of drug-laden currency into gambling chips, for instance) at which Explanations Must Be Made, but perhaps there are channels that I do not know about.

Let’s just say my experiences with the KYC systems have been rigorous.
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Not only that, but such any "evidence" acquired by this route would surely be inadmissible. You aren't allowed to break the law just because you think someone else might have done it first.
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If there is somewhere the meaning of life, we did not discover it precisely yet. It means, it must be beyond our scientific knowledge. Therefore, anyone who helps to expand the knowledge in any way, helps to find the meaning of life. The catch is to take part in this process hoping that the answer might appear already during the life.
The government can sell the shares to the public. Or the taxed individuals can can sell shares to the public and pay the government with the money. My point is that the company's illiquid assets needn't be used to pay the tax; they can be used to back liquid assets that pay the tax.
I second that R is nice to have, but not needed. I’ve been doing science in Python for a decade without ever needing R.

For powerful GPU viz, have you considered vispy? Four authors of four independent Python science visualization libs got together to build it.
Any programming language that you are proficient in. A solid understanding how a computer works. Solid basis of statistics. Anything else is just sprinkles, trends and field-specific.
I will say that cost is largely the most important metric, especially when building millions of devices.
I work for a consultancy (both general consultancy and engineer), and the phrase they like to use is "a T-Shaped consultant". Meaning that you have a broad base of skills and one specialism. For us, most people fitting that model works pretty well.
I would encourage people during signup to keep kismet in their profile so as to spread the word about it. The kismet word + auth code may be enough to make me curious and look it up. Alternatively, a replacement string may be suggested once auth was done, like “I’m on Kismet, come join to meet random HNers like me.”
They must have backtraced it. IP addresses ending in a 5 are chromes.
It can and has been done:

http://ddunleavy.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/28...
lets just say the vast majority of canadians arnt going to shed any tears that chinese money cant inflate real estate prices to an even higher extent than they already are.
Me: Horses can run faster than people!

You: "Faster than people"?! That's a hopelessly vague and unhelpful comparison. No horse can ever go faster than a human if by "human" you mean a human equipped with whatever tools the human may choose to use, because those tools would include the horse against which you would have it compete. So the comparison only makes sense if you restrict the human in some way.

Me: Um..

:-) The other stuff you say makes perfect sense, but that first bit is more pedantic than fair, I think.
The software is going to be cheaper than the hardware for any company producing quantity of hardware >1000.
You mean if they don't comply with the GPL3.0 portion of their licensing [1].

It's pretty disingenuous to say that complying with the GPL is more expensive and restrictive. Purchasing a comparable closed source software suite, or developing it in house, might be less feature complete and more expensive. It's "restrictive" in the sense you need to comply with the GPL which probably gives much more freedom than most closed source licensing terms [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Licensing

[2] http://www.binpress.com/page/licensing
Sure, that quote might sound like that, but the article didn't.

The paragraph before:

> … One of the things I found interesting researching this book is that there are a lot of people out there, experts in law enforcement and criminal justice, who really think that the situation we’re now in is a direct result of a lack of ambition and creativity and guts among prosecutors in some of the biggest countries in the world, including the U.S. The thing is, prosecutors do not like to lose cases, so they’ve taken, in general, a very conservative approach to what cases they’re going to bring because they don’t want to gamble on losing. They’ve built up these very impressive win/loss records as prosecutors. Some of them are undefeated. And they boast about that.

They went after low-level guys because the big fish have better connections and better lawyers and much riskier in terms of publicity if you lose your case.

That sounds like the opposite of the "rule of law", to me at least.
Maybe I'm being dumb here, but twitter doesn't look like a product from the outside that has many features. Are these focused on advertisers, analytics or what?
fruits are good because of things that sugar doesn't have.

and it seems you haven't read my comment past the first sentence, because i specifically wrote about fruits there.
I am still angry that banks too big to fail were not nationalized at this time.
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> Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

This is the simplest and most sound nutritional advice so far. Nothing complicated, has stood the test of time, maintainable when done reasonably, shown over and over again to be extremely healthy [1][2][3][4][5]

1. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/plant-based...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565018/

3. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PII0140-673...

4. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/halt-heart-disea...

5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315380/
Sexy yes, but also true. Or do you think the Fentanyl and other criminality is spread evenly through all demographics? I'm curious where you might you have picked up this idea, because it certainly didn't come from the newspaper - perhaps intuition?
I still enjoyed the whole series.

I need to read them again...
>In a nutshell, FlightSimLabs installed a password dumper onto ALL users’ machines, whether they were pirates or not, but then only activated the password-stealing module when it determined that specific ‘pirate’ serial numbers had been used which matched those on FlightSimLabs’ servers.

We installed spyware on your PC, but trust us, we didn't use it, we only used it on the people we didn't like...

>“This method has already successfully provided information that we’re going to use in our ongoing legal battles against such criminals,” Kalamaras revealed.

We're going to introduce documents into a legal process that were obtained through illegal means and hope we don't get counter-sued.

It looks like once again, a gaming company has decided to stop working on making games, and start working on a convoluted game of cat and mouse with unemployed anonymous nerds. What could go wrong...
There is a Bande Desinee with a plot just like that: https://www.bdgest.com/preview-1673-BD-nous-les-morts-les-en...
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or the gains for being lucky and fortuitous are more and more extreme, and the cost of being left out is more bleak.

The Economist just ran a profile on Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg’s second-year roommate, who, by virtue of being his roommate, lucked into a huge net worth from the early stage creation of Facebook.

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21737016-and-d...
>Personally, I think trade policy needs to be intimately connected to human rights and environmental and labor conditions.

It's never ever ever going to happen. Be careful what you wish for. If what you wanted to happen happened, you would be paying over $100 for the same shirt that costs you $6 in Walmart right now.

I also want to point out that, yes, in a globally competitive world wages become globally competitive. If a Chinese worker with an infirm grandmother is surviving on a lower wage than an American was making without an infirm grandmother, then that American needs to find better work, do better quality work, or take a pay cut. We would never force consumers to buy products produced only by ethical means or only by human-rights approved conditions (if that were the case, no more chocolate!). Why would we do that to multinational companies?

There aren't other options available. No President is going to preside over the term where all the trade deals were made alongside human rights conditionals and all the goods skyrocketed in price leading to another Great Depression.

> 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.

You can boohoo about it all you want, but your chocolate, your coffee, your clothes, and your computer parts are all made by or had their materials harvested by slaves, and most likely you would scoff at voluntarily paying twice the price for all those commodities. I'm not saying everyone should be enslaved. But if consumers have the right to purchase such ill-made goods, then companies have the right to offshore their labor forces to such places too.
The channel you're not aware of is that explanations don't have to be made - everyone knows it's happening, and it has the blessing of at least the powerful parts of the legal system, if not the odd idealistic beat cop here and there. Not too much to worry about.

EDIT: Is the downvoter aware of some criminal charges being laid sometime within the many years this has been known to be going on? If not, what might be the nature of your disagreement?
> two distinct manipulations of Libor

I'd argue that there were three.

The first, and unquestionably illegal, was what Tom Hayes did i.e. collusion between actors at multiple banks to move Libor. I don't think he should have got the sentence he did but prison was definitely justified.

The second was swaps traders getting their own setters to go in high or low. I'm not at all sure this was illegal. Given that Libor was completely broken at the time, I'm not even sure I'd argue that it was unethical. As there was, essentially, no uncollateralised inter-bank borrowing, any figure was wrong. And, as you say, the effect was minor and not particularly directional.

I think your second point, the systemic low balling of Libor by senior management, is, by far, the most important. It's also the one that has had the least public attention. What is particularly problematic about it is the influence that governments had. Because of the latter, I'm sure that it won't ever be properly investigated.
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OK - would you agree that this presents us with an ethical problem?

How about a societal/practical problem? Is an unequal society sustainable?

What actions can be taken to mitigate the ethical and practical problems presented by inequality?
my feedback: there is not enough explanation on how you would access my finances and hence I would be very wary on using it...
Most of the paint on ancient sculptures that didn't make it to the 21st century would already have been gone by the 16th century.
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Most things I tried were slightly changed from english to japanese just once, then converged. Maybe it's just my lack of imagination!
Bingo.

You've as a country determined that an institution is too important to your population and your country's stability to have it go bankrupt. But instead of growing your economy through it, you through actions deem it okay to siphon money to the private owners instead of the people paying for it through taxes.
/r/programming is one of the most pedantic forum I have ever seen but I also see it as a place where programmers flee and shelter from the non-technical bullshit and vent a bit.

If you submit anything there, be prepared for harsh criticism. There is some real value in there, but encouragement and cheerings won't come from there.
To own a house. To not be on abject poverty as I grow old. Two goals that should not be this hard, except we are now in a society of rich and poor and I'm not rich, I'm poor.
No, we are moving from jobs that are actually productive, to bullshit jobs.

Advertising doesn't produce anything useful in itself, it simply shifts and amplifies demand, and yet, Google, Facebook, and a vast slice of the rest of the economy is dedicated to producing ads.

Even companies which are nominally dedicated to producing things of importance (eg pharmaceuticals) are mostly focussed on marketing.

Then there's the entire middle management strata of the the economy. Mostly a useless but noisy zero-sum jockeying for a rungs on the socio-economic ladder.

The economy is already large enough to produce plenty for everybody, guarantee food, housing and healthcare for all, and with shorter working hours at that.

Unfortunately we're trapped in this bizarre economic system that works us to the bone in pointless jobs we hate, and can't even guarantee us the basics.
Then why would he say things like:

>What you see is two cultures separated by an almost unimaginable amount of time, distance, and history. The clash that occurred would have been hard to prevent whenever it happened.

Because surely there was more they had in common than that made them different.
I'd gently suggest basic CLI Perl over BASH for cleaning up files, as it combines grep/sed/awk in a language thats more generally useful.
it does not work on my first test:

My program is i=1
and the Java program it produces is:

class Program {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
i = 1;
}
}

which is wrong because "i" must be defined in java
as in "int i;"
May I ask why you want to own a house? I am kind of realizing that the majority of people in the world do not own a house.
Clock speed does not necessarily equal computational speed. I remember how ~15 years ago people predicted that single-core performance was not going to improve any longer, and that we would get more and more CPU cores over time.

My first multi-core machine was an Athlon64 X2 with two cores running at 2GHz. Today, my work laptop (ThinkPad L540) has a dual-core CPU (plus 2-way SMT) running at 2.6 GHz (3.2 GHz with TurboBost). But single-core performance has improved notably. Not as much as was common in the 1990s, but still. And for most desktop systems[1] more than two or four cores seem to be pointless, anyway, since they will sit idle most of the time.

[1] I am not talking about developer workstations, CAD machines or other high-end use cases, but the kind of machine where some office drone runs Outlook, Excel, and a web browser.
> fruits are good because of things that sugar doesn't have.

> sugar is never good for you

You are contradicting yourself. Would you like to amend your original statement?

> and it seems you haven't read my comment past the first sentence, because i specifically wrote about fruits there.

I am not refuting the fact that our diets have too much sugar. I am only addressing the sweeping generalizing that "sugar is never good for you".
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Meaning of life isn't going to be found by scientific knowledge. Sorry to burst your bubble.
What do you mean by labelled accurately? The AI only predicts how an individual self-labelled on a fairly public dating service, not how this person feels or behaves in any other way. There are so many headless torsos on Grindr (or any other gay hookup app) because many men don't want to self label as gay when they look for sex with other men. These men could very well be looking for women on Tinder.
Sounds like perhaps you should use this skill more often then, perhaps become an interviewer for a remote company like this? https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/141116/freelance-expert-inter...

Best of luck and keep your chin up :)