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> Why are we are inundated with the false idea that "things are so bad" by mainstream media?

Maybe because it's not false and it's actually happening to an alarming degree in the U.S.?

https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-wages-arent-growing-in-america

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/america-s...
Plus given the amount of trucking on certain corridors it might be possible to get some lanes ‘roped off’ for automated trucking only, further reducing the risk.
The biggest fractions are personnel, operations, and health care (last I checked, the Defense Health Agency spends more than the Marine Corps ... and provides health care for 8.4 million Americans. The ones who are that strongest military). But the DoD budget actually pales in comparison to Medicare and Social Security. The US Government is a well-armed insurance company, not a weapons dealer selling health insurance.
I make all my own clothes. While I still need to buy fabric, it's a great way to dress ethically.

You might even enjoy it. I do.
Ask HN: Niche high skill trades?
Recently, a commenter on HN pointed out that high end watch making/servicing is under increasing pressure to find and train novice watchmakers due to the retirement of Baby Boomers.

This turns out to be true and training to become a watchmaker appears to be fully subsidized by industry.

I find these kinds of niche, high skill jobs fascinating and would love to hear about others that are seeing a similar generational turn over.

There must be other niche opportunities to be exploited in this significant demographic shift.
Message in a bottle has a really shitty bitrate.
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here is why:

housing and pensions are obligate sinks of wealth.

the wealth of the rich is purely for investment, luxury, or speculation. the tiny fraction that is obligate overlaps with the rest of the public's.

that's why there is outrage. the rich have tens of thousands of times more wealth than normal people who are heavily (to the point of poverty for 1/6th of them) struggling to even meet needs that come before the "obligate" mortgage/401k.
This is a common question. I suggest you think of it like stocks on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Does every IPO decrease the value of the already listed companies? Just as Comcast and Dish are both television distribution companies that manage to serve different markets, so to can different coins coexist. This is especially true when the coins have completely different objectives and are not just chasing the retail point of sale niche.
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> We like to justify these laws with biological categories but what do we do when faced with situations where the categories break down?

Change them to suit the world as we understand it.

The reality is that classifications as strict rules are a fantasy we choose to believe in, but at the end of the day, classifications are descriptions, and so we have to mutate them to help us describe things as best we can.

The reality is we work to the level of detail and accuracy we need. Rigidity in labels and classification is probably a sign of a lack of understanding, because almost everything ends up being broken down more at some point, and exceptions are found that break the rules.
I seriously doubt Google wants to be beholden to Republican stewardship of the US Government budget cycle.
Having malloc.h as an include is bizarre, anyway. The standard location for malloc and related functions is stdlib.h, and removing that include should let it still compile on any reasonable platform.
> don't forget, USA's founding fathers were terrorists,

This gets repeated all the time, but that doesn't make it true. When did the founding fathers deliberately do mass killings of civilians? They basically won by fighting pitched battles with the British. They had diplomatic relations with several countries (Denmark and France being the major ones). There was a command structure with clear lines of authority (Continental Congress -> George Washington -> other commanders). In addition, there was at least an attempt made to follow international laws.

They were rebels, yes. However, it was more a coalition of existing colonial governments (especially the elected legislatures) deciding to part ways with the British.

By and large, the terrorists of our times are not at all like that. They are not part of a legitimate civilian government fighting an enemy using a formal military organization.
My Xiaomi Mi5 won't power on after 2 months of use. My friend's Mi5 won't power on after less than a year. It seems it's a common problem: google "Xiaomi Sudden Death". For warranty I have to ship it to China, which I knew when I bought it so I'm not complaining, just not recommending Xiaomi in light of the "sudden death" issue.

A sample search: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mi+5+not+turning...
wow, I had been meaning to ask something similar on HN for a while, and was still figuring out how to best word the question.

Basically: How do you make sure the effort that you put into building something for the long-term, isn't wasted and forgotten when you die, especially if you're kind of a loner and have no friends/family who would care about it?
If it weren't from gov.au I'd say the story of trying to decipher a message in a bottle in anticipation of sunken treasuries only to find out it was part of hygrographic studies is sure a classic canard - it's even a classic Uncle Scrooge plot.
I believe the point is that the $900k in ordinary non-retirement savings is being used to create more wealth by investing in businesses. The widening is made worse because the rich have the means to get richer.
In general, the real bottleneck with theft at scale isn't the actual theft. It's turning the stolen goods into money afterwards and disposing of the evidence. Items being slightly easier to steal doesn't do much to make them easier to fence.
const is one of the reasons why I prefer strongly-typed languages based on reference types. I want to love the no-overhead policy of C++, but value types make const annoying (e.g. no vector<const string>) and require complicated rvalue-reference mechanics to be efficient when working with nested data structures.

In Java, where everything is an (expensive) reference type, building an immutable LabeledPoint2D class is a no-brainer. "final String label; final double x, y;" - done. I find this much easier to reason about than the C++ equivalent where the const-ness only emerges from how you use the class.

Add Objective-C's system where Array<T>, Set<T>, String etc. are all immutable, and only their derived types (MutableArray<T>, MutableSet<T>, MutableString) are mutable, and you get a reasonably effective and efficient implementation of tail-constness without extending your type system.

It's bizarre how C++ and D both try so hard to implement const, yet higher-level languages that could easily have better const support don't really bother (think Java, where you never know which List<T> is mutable).
At a whim, you and your family/friends can stop using Facebook and use any of literally hundreds of other excellent options for communication.

That's control. And privacy is much better now than it was in the "glorious early days of the internet" when your two choices were SMTP and IRC and both were subject to monitoring by local sysadmins and pretty much any node your packets passed through.

Just because the present is not perfect does not mean the past was better. I much prefer the privacy and control of today's internet over yesterday's internet.
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...How is it perfect for jq?
Bank Tellers have however as a result turned into entry-level-retail with often impossible quotas for sales.
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String handling that makes sense

No more long type

Division that works as expected

Annotations

No more xrange, iteritems etc, instead you get iterators everywhere

f-strings
Specifically, he calls for a global tax on all capital, regardless of whether it's real estate, financial assets, homes, bonds, bank accounts. That way people can't get around it by shifting their assets overseas or into different forms.

Obviously this would be difficult to implement, but it can be done by individual states, then countries, then by groups like the EU, etc.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497690 and marked it off-topic.

It definitely isn't fair for someone to post private info about your interview process, and we've redacted it below. But it also isn't so fair to reply to a job ad with this kind of a complaint in the first place. Your comment might be absolutely legit, but it might also be disgruntled distortion—those are pretty common too. Since there's no way for outsiders to know, and no way to substantively answer the complaint, it really doesn't add any information. So these comments are off topic in Who Is Hiring threads and we've taken to detaching them.
Interesting. The fund creates another potential source of revenue for them and at the same time, the more people that invest in it, the higher it's likely to go.

Why would anyone choose to invest in a fund that is basically the same as investing in the 4 currencies they currently support directly (without fees or limitations on trading)?
Wait, what? If poor people knew .... ?!

There were riots in England in 2011. There has been rioting in the US.

Usually this rioting is kicked off by police brutality, but it seems to me that it quickly descends into looting.
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I can get per-browser content switching, but blocking by proxy is a malpractice. Probably driven by some bot abuse, but certainly a very wrong way to deal with it.
On a Pixel 2 using Chrome, clicking the top-level hamburger icon does not work for me.
No, I wouldn't trust US Health and Human Services because the government cannot manage to serve a much smaller population through Indian Health Service without racking up years of tragedy and mismanagement. If they cannot succeed with a smaller group then why would I trust them with a bigger group?
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But the pension funds invest in businesses too
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I also use this Lastpass feature but take it one step farther. I have all the info stored on copies of encrypted usb drives stored in multiple secure locations that my loved ones have access to. The password is stored on Lastpass. So if I croak they can request the password but also need physical access to the thumb drive. I have set up the same for other family members with assets worth protecting. Of course this all fails hard if Lastpass disappears, anyone have a better replacement?
You just have to look at the first graph you know that something is going extremely wrong. That trend is not sustainable and will split society apart.
I don't think that's it. I could definitely manage without having a community around my editor. The only packages I have installed in Sublime Text are syntaxes and colour schemes. Sublime actually supports TextMate syntax for those (.tmLanguage and .tmTheme,) which was a good way to bootstrap a useful editor before it got a community of its own.

If you want linters or code intelligence, there's an emerging editor-agnostic solution for that as well. The guys behind the Language Server protocol[1] realized that making an editor plugin for each language in each editor was inefficient and it slows the adoption of new languages and new editors.

[1]: https://langserver.org/
I'm not sure why you switched to worldwide when it specifically said DRC. Most economic indicators there have been flat or declining for the last 50 years. Vague platitudes about the world as a whole are unhelpful, and if anything only serve to reinforce the mythology of universal progress.
I'm not sure how "often" but some do.

There might be people with special arrangements but if you are like the people I interact with then you probably engage with an assisted living agency for anywhere from $18-$30/hr. Let's take the low number as an example. $18 * 24 * 365 = $157.7K per year. How many people can afford $150k just for care? Not very many.

And $18/hr is on the very low end of the spectrum. If you're at $30+/hr that's $250K+ on up not including medical, insurance, etc. IME, caretakers are normally paid out-of-pocket, too. It's expensive business, especially if you have to do it for any period of time.
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Not a small country. A large transnational corp instead. Especially a one which has a hand/tentacles deep inside the world wide communication web plus large AI development plus great aspiration of not being evil ... Just imagine yourself in the position of wanting to make the world a better place and actually able to herd the world into that better place.
I try to buy from Patagonia.

They were one of the first major brands to popularize the environmental impact of their clothing, especially cotton. They made a major push 25 years ago to educate consumers on the impacts of cotton, and switched to entirely organic cotton to help reduce those impacts.

They also helped create 1% For The Planet, were an early adopter of Bluesign, early adopters of recycled polyester for their clothing, and most recently have been promoting reselling and repairing used clothing.

I don't think its hyperbole to say that Patagonia was one of the very first companies that started the line of thinking you see in this QZ article.

On a personal note, most of my Patagonia clothing has been very durable. I have Patagonia stuff that is 20+ years old that I still use every year.
> You buy a ticket ahead of time picking your exact seats.

the whole package sounds great, but I would be sold on this detail alone. I hate having to choose between sitting in the theater for 30-45 mins and getting a bad seat at popular films.
Also:

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I don't know the numbers so I'll use some made up ones as an example.

2.8% of 10 tonnes of textile waste leaves 9.72 tonnes to landfill.

8% of 1000 tones of textile waste leaves 920 tonnes to landfill.

Herein lies the problem.
The GoodOnYou app takes a stab at evaluating a brand's ethical and environmental choices.
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I know many people who work for large multi-national defense contractors that definitely have "souls" as well, but hiding behind moral relativism won't save you from the fact that in the real world moral bright lines exist within societal contexts. And that said, I'm fairly confident how history will see our current drone program.
Why does jq need arbitrary precision floating-point numbers?
> Some people will still pick wrong for a multitude of reasons. Hopefully, those people can pivot.

We are lucky as software engineers, but I was also making the point that if your line of work gets automated, hopefully you can pivot. This applies to everyone, and is similar to when you are no longer enjoying your field of work. Changing careers is not always an option, but let's not forget that it usually is when we talk about automating an entire industry and putting them out of work.
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I don't entirely agree, but thanks for providing a different viewpoint from the usual "We must find a way to save local businesses!" groupthink.
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I'm guessing that eventually, Azure and Google Cloud put enough pressure on AWS that the whole elastic solution situation is affordable enough that people stop skimping on affordable hosting.

At the moment, there's a fair amount of pennywise/poundfoolish behavior because of crazy high cloud egress costs.

There's a huge pricing chasm between, for example, a cheap Digital Ocean non-elastic hosting solution and AWS. Digital Ocean, though, is moving closer to an actual cloud, and the big 3 seem to be starting to compete on price.
So much of "fuck", "shit" and other George Carlin words, and it all sounds really forced.
> This gets repeated all the time, but that doesn't make it true.

You left out the “if you asked the British monarchy” part, which was fairly critical; they were leaders of a rebel movement which clearly included terrorists (both by modern standards and, even more officially, in terms of armed combatants deviating from then-current norms of warfare, by what might be imputed to be the standards of the time, though of course the term “terrorist” had not yet been applied as a proper term for those behind the still-in-the-future Terror in Revolutionary France, much less evolved to it's more general sense.)
Well, I don't think anyone has the complete history in terms of patches. It just doesn't exist, without being reconstructed.
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I have set up a Linux box for Docker work and I actually found Docker for Mac much nicer to work with. The installer and GUI are all really well-made and make it easy to tweak the resources that Docker VMs can utilize.

Meanwhile on Linux, I had to wait for a month or so before the Docker PPA was updated after I'd upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10. (I've since migrated to an LTS-based distro, lesson learned.) I also like to use Kitematic for reading logs, which was annoying to install, and which looks out of place on Linux because it's an Electron app skinned to look like a macOS app.
I had Android One phones back when they were called Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, and they stopped getting updates after 18 months. I know that things have gotten a little better on paper, but Google really has to prove itself to me now. They've been dicking around too much for too long. Fool me once, etc.

Android One says "two years of upgrades", but I see no promises about patch schedule reliability. Motorola also promised to bring Android 8 to the G5+. Maybe it will happen in 2018. We'll see. That's just not good enough.

Also...2 years is an impoverished standard compared to the 5 years that iPhones get.
This vaguely reminds me of the old bug in 8-bit Microsoft BASICs when you input 35072121 as a line number (the real bug is when the line number is six digits or longer, and the first five digits are in the range 35072-35327, of $8900-$89FF).
>I would focus on pre-death interactions rather than post death mausoleums.

Truer words have never been spoken.
Please don't post this sort of distracting flurn to Who Is Hiring threads. It's fine in general HN discussions but obviously off topic here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16496229 and marked it off-topic.
Patagonia is also known for its use of recycled bottles to make its polyester fleece jackets, which has expanded to many of its products.

Their warranty and repair program is fantastic as well. I brought in a shirt that I had worn the elbow out of and they first offered a replacement from one in the store. They didn't have the same pattern (the shirt is probably 5 or 6 years old), so they sent it in for repair for free.

A couple of years ago they sent out a repair-mobile. They not only repaired Patagonia gear, they repaired items regardless of brand. Pretty damn cool.

http://www.latimes.com/fashion/alltherage/la-ar-patagonia-la...
I'd also recommend processing. But if you wanted to try your hand at GLSL you could also play around with shadertoy [1], though the learning curve is likely to be much steeper. It has genuine demoscene heritage, coming from a talented demoscener named 'iq' [2].

[1] https://www.shadertoy.com/

[2] http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/index.htm
How come Litecoin, which would be #5 by market capitalisation is missing? Yet many I've never heard of are included. Has some fan of an alternative deleted it or something?
Yeah there’s a real risk of a blitzkrieg sort of situation where some country builds a drone army that just picks a traditional army apart on the battlefield.

Eventually someone is going to cut the cord and have truly autonomous armed vehicles and whoever does it first is going to have a tremendous tactical advantage.
> That trend is not sustainable and will split society apart.

Has society ever been together? The middle class is a relatively recent thing.
A conspiracy theorist will see a lack of evidence to the contrary as evidence of the affirmative. I.e., aliens exist because government officials let us in to the military base so we can see for ourselves there are no aliens there.

Whereas a reasonable person needs evidence of affirmative to believe something. I.e., news that NASA probes have discovered bacteria in subterranean wells on Mars.

The former way of thinking can be used to "prove" just about anything. So yeah, in some sense, most data points helps fuel more conspiracies because certain people are conditioned to believe anything.
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I always try to buy clothes that are made of heavy durable fabric, preferably american made.
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Hi everyone,

I'm a founder of Humbot and only after launching I learned about Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem. We launched in November and our goal is to make tutoring significantly cheaper by mixing humans and tech.

Tutoring companies today are largely marketplaces. What they don't realize is that advancement in tech is going to replace most of tutoring in the coming years. That's why we're owning the tutoring competency and building internal tools that make our tutors more efficient and effective.

We're super early stage, so any feedback or thought is welcome!
If someone said, "That trip is 20 hours of driving, but we could get there 5 times faster if we fly," then what would you think they mean? I would think 4 hours.

Yes, the language "five times cheaper" is imprecise, but common sense says they probably mean the simple interpretation.

In fact, because they aren't speaking precisely, it isn't reasonable to apply some kind of super technical methodology to interpret what they're saying.
And when this algae died it eventually became oil?
It's not quite the same. Lobbyists money pays for election campaigns to persuade citizens to vote for the lobbied politician. Traditional corruption involves doing something wrong/unfair/criminal for personal profit.
this link appears to be a python 2 book trying to sell you the python 3 version?
I don't know that he's thinking more deeply than willing to be a bit contrarian... he seems to loosely throw around concepts without seeming to care whether they make sense or could withstand scrutiny in context. He seems perfectly happy with half-baked thinking and poorly defined buzzwords as long as it sounds good for a moment.

Example: "Reagan deregulated business and defanged anti-trust, and so newspapers were snapped up by private equity funds that slashed their newsrooms, centralized their ad sales, and weakened their product. When Craigslist came along, these businesses had been looted of all the cash they could have used to figure out their digital futures, and they started to die."

He laments this as an example of a more tech-neutral but also "complicated" story but it's not just complicated it's also, you know, easy to poke holes in. It was merely the "deregulated environment", not craigslist. Right. I could spend half an hour on this but "neoliberal capitalism" means I have other stuff to do right now, so...
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