skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of what I said above applies equally to artisans as it does to artists.

People might be paying a premium for hand-made trinkets now, but if there's a glut of supply from all the new artisans, those prices will plummet unless a huge amount of new demand for these artisonal goods materializes.

Sure, these newly unemployed people might themselves occasionally be able to splurge on some hand made trinket, but it's very unlikely that they themselves will be providing enough income to sustain each other. As now, the vast majority of purchasers of artisonal goods are likely to be the relatively well off, and there's just not that much demand among them to absorb the new glut of supply, so artisonal wages will necessarily plummet.

That's all assuming that the newly unemployed will will want to and somehow magically be trained to make furniture, jewelry, hand-made ice cream or what have you. Doing that to a high enough quality that people will actually buy and value what you make to outcompete all the other artisans making similar stuff is not going to be easy.

Also, it's far from clear that the cheapness of manufacture of AI-made goods will result in lower prices for the consumer. Prices consumers pay might remain the same and the extra profit be pocketed by the manufacturers.

To your final point about investing in index funds, it's far from a certainty that the index will continue to rise in the future. It could fall for any number of reasons, in which case even those fortunate enough to be able to afford to invest in the market will suffer.
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I'd be really curious to see data on this, do you have a link?
If you enjoyed that, I highly recommend Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything," which goes into even more detail on all the historical editors of the OED, and their respective process in approaching the massive project. One of my favorite books I've ever read.
Fiverr, Upwork, plenty of places
Seats in the lowest class economy earn miles at -50%, sometimes even -75%. Seats in business class earn them at 300%.

Yup, if you spend more of your employer's money, you earn a nicer vacation for yourself.
Spot on and I just escaped a company that hired a junior dev as their lead. It was horrendous. I don't want to call out the junior to management because he has kids but he's really screwing up their product and they don't even realize it because they know nothing about technology
I'd be interested to know if there was some sort of priming effect going on. With the wealthier people thinking more in percentage terms rather than absolute price, they might expect that the $1000 tablet would be discounted more in the future (if the $300 tablet can be 17% off, why not the $1000 tablet?) and decide to wait it out.
Quantifying IQ is hard enough - quantifying deltas based on subjective rates of poverty? That'd be a courageous goal.

Authors set out to demonstrate qualitative cognitive differences between people suffering with scarcity (primarily cash) and those not.

People suffering with scarcity have a cognitive load that the 'not' category does not -- I don't think that translates to reduced IQ, but was demonstrated to translate to 'more bad decisions' via heightened and persistent cognitive load.

ADDENDA: From the outside looking in, that phenomenon may be misunderstood by an observer to indicate a causal relationship between bad decision making and poverty. TFA makes the case that causality is inverse to common (by governments, elites, etc) interpretation.
That’s a gross exaggeration re: Android touch delay. You are correct though, Android is not as performant as iOS in nearly every category, including JS/web. And no, raw UI perf isn’t the metric for most of the market. Many teams are successful with the stack and deciding to use it, considering it to have perfectly acceptable performance for their needs considering the benefits of using the web stack (as we can attest to working with many hundreds of thousands of developers using Ionic), hence it not being a “failure.” With PWAs emerging, expect the growth of the web on mobile to heat up.
I mean more integral to the site itself, as in a portion of your subscription fee could go towards it somehow.

It may just encourage clickbait journalism of the worst form, encouraging paparazzi to get even more aggressive.
Here are a few of mine:

* famiROM & yychr for NES homebrew development

* QBasic on Windows 95 for a pet project

* Using Illustrator and InDesign CS2 for my book design hobby

* ReplicatorG for 3d printing as MakerBot's new software is incredibly finicky on my Windows 7 laptop for some reason

* Google Sketchup because it's the only CAD program I know how to use well (thanks middle school 'tech' class!)
I went into a Samsung store to look for a new phone for my partner and I was really surprised how sluggish all their phones felt, even the flagship models. I couldn't tell why it felt that way. Maybe it's the animations, or software bloat. The glass used on them seems to have a high friction, which contributed to the poor feeling. My partner currently uses an ASUS Zenfone 3 which is one of the snappiest phones I've ever used and it's a lower mid-range phone. I ended up buying her another one. ASUS are making some solid phones at the moment. Their ultra-books are nice as well.
HTML doesn't have an <image> tag.
Your first sentence is a bit of an oxymoron. Allow me to explain.

Without resorting to identity fraud, its nearly impossible for undocumented immigrants to find work because most employers require a social security number for payroll purposes. Even though they use a fake identity, they still get a paycheck, they still pay payroll taxes and pay into Medicare and Social Security. However, they get none of the benefits. Undocumented immigrants have no other choice but to commit identity fraud. Unfortunately for them, its a necessary evil. Their intent is not to dodge taxes.

I'm not saying all undocumented immigrants pay taxes but most are not opposed to it. A little google search will bring up plenty of research into this topic.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/...

https://itep.org/wp-content/uploads/undocumentedtaxes.pdf

To your point about them breaking housing laws, all I can say is that its true but this isn't something that is limited to undocumented immigrants. Just take a look at the hacker houses in the bay. Maybe what is needed is more affordable housing.

I see where you're coming from but blaming undocumented immigrants for lowering the quality of life is a disservice. The US benefits immensely from undocumented immigrants but its something few want to admit.
Nothing valuable to add. Just wanted to tell someone that I grew up not only playing and loving Llamatron, but I lived just 5 miles from Mr Minter, out in the sticks of West Wales. I never met him. Now I too am a software person, championing the idealism of shareware/open source, but nomading on the other side of the world. I like to think it was something in our water.
While details tend to be proprietary, MMMs are well established and lots of academic papers online. For instance

https://web.archive.org/web/20120813035903/http://faculty.fu...

High quality multi touch attribution models are still fairly new and I've not seen much public literature on the designs. We've had to spend a fair amount of time in development ourselves vs. relying on existing methods.
Nah i just differentiate between the thing and its components. Would we see it as some great victory towards disarming the surveillance state if someone clicked on a link and happened to get caught for it? Thats a very "spray'n'pray" sort of approach which I think could do more damage than it's worth.
I assumed they want to use two sensors as a means of reading depth for their special camera filters, and being able to make one a wide-angle and the other magnified is an added benefit.

It's neat to see all the creative takes on cameras, though. Google seems to have proven that you can get good results mimicking depth using one sensor, but I'm sure there are still benefits to be found with two.
I don't think there's much public info about the compute infrastructure, but here's a blog post about the object storage system: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pock...
What is the site about, how long has it been down? Slashdot has been screwing up all day. I told them they should have a beowolf cluster but they didn't listen.
I think you mean buying in bulk. Buying in bulk is great but often not because if it is food it might go bad before you eat it and if you are poor your limited on space... so huge packs of items don't fit well in your tiny space. Plus the up front cost is a real killer since the money is saved over time. And if you have more of something you might end up using more because it's convenient. And finally if you are splitting rent with many people they will help themselves to the bulk items.
Absolutely. This wasn't the best hill to plant this flag on but it's still something I think the community should be aware of. It was more applicable when people were linking directly to wikileaks dumps for thousands of indexed, TS docs.
As much as I'm really glad the EU is taking a stand on this, they're also taking too long. The shopping case took a number of years to conclude, and the Android case, still ongoing, has been an infringement Google has operated for nearly a decade now. Suffice to say, if we are waiting for the EU to stop AMP, the Internet will be almost entirely AMP-based before the EU forces them to stop.

Similarly, in the US, by the time Microsoft lost it's antitrust case, Microsoft's dominance in a lot of ways was already cemented, and in those ways, still is. (While obviously the mobile shift has cut them out, almost every desktop PC in every business on the planet still runs Windows.)
Fantastic, thanks for putting time in your comment.
Actually, it does. Try it. (To be clear, it was implemented because of the frequency in which developers mistakenly use <image> instead of <img>)
Sometimes We Feel More Comfortable Talking to a Robot
Ask HN: Can you tell me your experiences in testing microservices?
Hello, I am writing a paper on microservices testing strategies for a class on software engineering. I am hoping to survey developers who have worked on a microservice architecture. Your responses are deeply appreciated!

Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfft48xb-H0r3aP75rZmnG-vpiwGMAgRW-FxzPAbUwwryOsAQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
No, OCaml has an object system, but it is an uncommonly used complement to the module system.
But I understand that, so maybe it's a matter of choice.

What kind of brand you want, and set it right away from the beginning because it will define your media channel/production investment.

I think that brands who had strong branding advertising are still well positioned in people's minds, and it's indeed an investment that should be made with a massive ROI.

Now, it's a long term game. Doesn't suit the status quo like you well said.
Ah. I wasn't aware that the source document had already been released. But whether or not someone could get in trouble for viewing an un-redacted doc is an open question afaict. The quality of the redaction probably doesn't matter.
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Precisely - "marketers" these days don't grasp the concept of brand building.

I'm not sure that's true. Some people are just working on a different scale.

Brand-building is fine if you're Coke or BMW or McDonald's. You have millions to spend, you can saturate channels, and then people might actually think of you in preference to your competition when they're in the market for a drink or a car or a burger.

On the other hand, if you're a bootstrapped startup and worrying about affording this week's ramen, ttul's "tiny budget and short time horizon" is probably all you've got. To a first approximation, the only thing that matters for online ads in this environment is how many people you can get to take some immediate useful action, even if it's just volunteering an email address that you can use to follow up, or sharing your site with someone else they know who might be interested.

Of course, in the longer term, brand awareness is valuable as well. But branding isn't worth squat if your business won't be around long enough for someone to remember it later.
> But Google is big enough to shift into other growth markets like media manipulation/lobbying and defence contracts etc.

They're already the number one single company in lobbying, beating out AT&T and Boeing:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYe...

I imagine DoD would love smarter autonomous drones and tanks. They bought Boston Dynamics awhile back, makers of seriously creepy things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Dynamics

They'll do just fine when the ad bubble bursts.
I believe that cryptologists use the word "cipher" to refer to a character-substitution type of code.
I’m sure you’re being sarcastic, but for a lot of people - yeah that isn’t far off the purpose of a smartphone.
You forgot to include Little Rocket Man in your powder keg.
I call BS that its due to "illegal" immigrants. Undocumented immigrants mostly work in agriculture, the restaurant industry, or taking care of american households. The few blue-collar jobs that undocumented immigrants do take are the low hanging fruit that require little to no education or skill. If americans expected to forever be able to support their families on these types of jobs, then some people really need to step up their game.

These people are no longer competitive because they failed to innovate. They're priced out because their own government is and has been unwilling to do anything to help the non-wealthy and alleviate the level of income inequality.
Myself, obviously.

Sometimes it's Patreon or Netflix between me and the content creator

Other times they show me a video that attempts to influence me to go to the store, pick up a different brand of detergent, then the store gives money to the multinational behind the brand, then the multinational gives the money to an ad agency, then the ad agency give the money to Youtube, then Youtube gives the money to the content creator. Except I buy store-brand detergent, so this pipeline leaks a lot.
I'm not sure having reproductive rights has any bearing on weather or not we can find jobs people are exclusively more qualified to do.
I predict that techies and other classes will be increasingly in the same boat as real estate prices grow beyond even high-end tech compensation. San Francisco prices out tech and becomes entirely the domain of real estate investors and the global .01%. Traffic congestion and transit crowding let up as the occupancy rate plummets. Some form of vacancy tax is passed, but it’s toothless.

Might not be this year, but within the next 5.
Some people think being poor is living paycheck to paycheck. The reality can be much worse.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
It seems like folks aren't aware that KaiOS is that runs on the JioPhone, a super cheap & popular feature phone in India, bundled with a super cheap data plan:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/jiophone-...

To get some sense for the importance of this phone, this is the only feature phone you can get the Google Assistant on: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-assistant-coming-fea...
I can kind of see where your head's at, but it's hard to really know where the value is because what you're describing hits on so many different points.

What would this 'database' (which seems in context so loosely defined it could mean almost anything for the end-user/buyer) do that either replaces or enhances existing fraud protection measures built into the online shopping experience?
It's the new math of money
Cookies are used and track both the ads you've seen and clicked on. Combine that with on-site analytics tags and you can see the campaign and traffic sources. View-through and click-through conversions are very standard in advertising.

Also yes, Google is an advertising company. I'm not sure when perception around that ever changed? Their biggest new avenue though is their Google Cloud Platform which has the potential in the future to make more than their entire business combined.
It's not a big job to wire the detector you're talking about in your first sentence - it's more or less a relay and a capacitor (albeit a big capacitor, or maybe a battery if you put some more wiring and a charger in the circuit)

For the second one... you'd need to maybe consider tapping into the CAN bus and listening for a door unlock event, then powering up off that, and/or stripping everything out of the kernel and services that isn't needed... you could probably get that boot down to 10-15 seconds
"manage to accommodate" is vastly underselling the societal effects of industrializing. Of course there are winners and losers as there is with any sort of disruption. However, the positives vastly outweigh the negatives. Longer lifespans, higher quality of living, increased wages, more productive and interesting work. We should expect more of the same with advancements in AI, to think otherwise is foolish IMHO.
But...the ice levels are well below record lows during the satellite era according to the article. When are we going to stop kidding ourselves?
next the tundra melts and releases an insane amount of methane. we are so screwed.
I guess there’s a reason penny wise and pound foolish is a saying
It's stupider than you think. If you're a Red subscriber and you visit, say, the UK, then suddenly you can't play videos in the background any more.
Mine did. It has existed for about 90 years, maybe even longer. Without going into specifics, I can imagine that it could be automated as is right now, as it's not particularly complicated, and the whole role could be designed around so that it's not required anyway.

(I believe I'll be out-of-work within a few months because of implications from the latter statement.)
"chalk powder is a great health hazard"

Nonsense. Some individuals with pre-existing breathing conditions may have those conditions exacerbated by inhaling chalk at unusual levels, but to say that chalk powder by itself is a great hazard is nonsense on stilts.
Do you know why she had a clean urine sample? Mistakes happen, but my experience as a whole in the hospital that night lends emphasis to the mistake. It is not just that the infection was missed accidentally, it was that the management of my diagnosis and my stay seemed so ill-informed and counter-intuitive to my needs.
Reading classified things will not be grounds to put anyone in jail. Not sure where you got that.
One can find good cryptographers outside MIT, you know.
A little "positive stress" can increase performance in the short term.

The classic example of escaping a hungry lion translates into modern-day scenarios like meeting an important deadline.

It's when stress is sustained that major health problems arise.
For an indie effort on a limited budget it was fine. I got the point. I don't need to see the actual candy. If you don't already get the idea of weird candy from other countries not sure illuminating it more would make much difference. If it were me I would have invested a bit more to make 1 or 2 remixes of the ad content to see if one had more traction than the other. But yes, I'm not a successful web marketer.
Possibly relevant: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-tow...
beach front property owners should worry
I wonder if Differential Privacy will be a solution to GDPR restrictions. If the user’s data is purturbed enough that it can’t be used to identify the user in it, do some of the restrictions the law mandates to its use reduce?
But it's a Chinese hoax, right? Invest in coal!
and anybody owning stock in companies that insure those properties....
And I'm sure some of those are obscure meanings, but the likelihood is I'm never going to look them up. Exclude those many definitions of "run" and either make the dictionary a bit smaller (easier to search) or include several rare word definitions in the same space.
I apologize, that part was poorly written. What I meant is that the kind of weather variation California's been experiencing will become the new normal, and the worse said variation is, the worse yields will become in general.
Homographs, attack
thank you so much! I didn't know about that and using those files looks extremely doable. I'd assumed that ltrace used DWARF or something like that to format arguments.
It's not xenophobic. As noted in the original message, "In my experience." I have first-hand experience with this, as a former apartment complex employee who had to deal with a slew of damaged apartments, as well as people trying to find former residents who left the country before their court dates.

While it might make you feel better to tell yourself it's just a stereotype, in my experience it is real.
OED is a standard for most of not all English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language classes from as early as the first or second grade world wide (depending on the country) this alone pretty mush keeps it in circulation since it’s essentially a companion text book.
A better ad could have been made a lot cheaper and faster too by just having a friend (or an actor) opening the box and eating the candy and enjoying it with a voiceover explaining the benefits.
I think a lot of the people who are enthusiastic about the ML module system are either faculty, students, or alumni from Carnegie Mellon University (including the author of this blogpost), and the same set of CMU people have also done a lot of work on defining and teaching Standard ML.
Considering the number of touchbased phones and tablets sold world-wide, compared to traditional PCs, I think the hype was understated.
Apparently not in HTML5, although major browsers retained it for the purpose you mentioned and back-compat.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11928566/img-vs-image-ta...
$3k/month for a billboard here
Look into the Neo900 and the DragonBox Pyra
As Americans, we're all on the hook for it.

https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/a-broke-and-brok...

"The government-run National Flood Insurance Program is, for now, virtually the only source of flood insurance for more than five million households in the United States. This hurricane season, as tens of thousands of Americans seek compensation for storm-inflicted water damage, they face a problem: The flood insurance program is broke and broken.

The program, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been in the red since Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005. It still has more than a thousand disputed claims left over from Sandy. And in October, it exhausted its $30 billion borrowing capacity and had to get a bailout just to keep paying current claims."