skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently there are about 3 million people working in call centers in the US alone and millions more in other countries [1].

Given the technological trajectory, over time there will be less need for people who serve purely as the ‘interface’ using minimal skills and knowledge. At the same time, we still need many more people to work in the physical world: cooking nutritious meals, construction, and caring for the elderly are some examples.

Since we cannot assume that everyone can develop skills needed to thrive in demanding technical or knowledge-based jobs, a key priority in many countries should be supporting certain segments of the population to develop the skills and attitude necessary to work in these physical jobs: Most of which are too complex for AI and robotics to effectively replace in the next few decades.

In addition, vocational education should be improved and updated to make use of appropriate technology to increase productivity and reduce physical demand on the body.

[1] https://info.siteselectiongroup.com/blog/how-big-is-the-us-c...
going by the latin translation, ancient languages are just flying + boat
Yep, that!
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Yeah kind of weird that the article didn't even consider it. It seems like a non-starter with a pilot.
>The market is already so heavily overloaded with introductory texts on computers and computer programming that one must have rather specific reasons to justify the investment of one's time and energy in the writing of yet another "Short Introduction to the Art of Programming".

In 1971? I seriously doubt that...

>[people] who identify the programmer's competence with a thorough knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of one or more of the baroque tools into which modern programming languages and systems have degenerated

This, however, is as valid as ever...
The environmental impact of technology devices is getting worse
Quite an insightful thought for 1971:

"With the advent of what is called "large scale integration" (being a term from the computer field, its acronym LSI is better known!) it seems to become technically feasible to build machines more like "clouds of arithmetic units" with information processing activities going on simultaneously all over the place, for shorter periods of time even independently of each other. Programming for such machines will pose completely different trade-off problems: one will be willing to invest in potentially useful computing activity before its actual usefulness has been established, all for the sake of speeding up the whole computation. But although I know such machines may be coming, I shall not touch these problems for the following reasons. First, as far as general purpose applications are concerned, I have my doubts about the effectiveness with which such forms of parallelism can ever be exploited. Second —and that is the most important consideration— parallel programming is an order of magnitude more difficult than sequential programming."

Also, the first mention of "cloud", although with a different meaning.
We took the victory bit out of the title altogether.
These are excellent questions. I often ask Google researchers, "How Deep is the Mind?" They don't seem to know. You see, it all comes down to democratizing the blockchain, and the only way to do that is with AI in each and everyone's hands. Together, we can make a more open AI, for everyone! And for you too! The only trust required for CryptoMinds is trust in proof of work, am I right?
Hi Justin.

Any thoughts on building relationships early with investors before you’re ready to take an investment?

Seems to be split opinions between “yes, it’s great because you’re not putting too much pressure to invest on the VC” to “It’s not great to waste someone’s time”.

Would love your thoughts! Thanks!
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Uber's new slogan: We can kill you on the ground, we can kill you in the air.

It sounds like the typical corner-cutting Uber.
Here are the slides from Percona Live 2018:

https://www.percona.com/live/18/sites/default/files/slides/A...
Fighting fascism, supporting Stalinism.

Good thing that they were betrayed and a very good thing would have been all of them being killed in the war. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.

Those guys that wanted revolution should have started it in their own house first.
- consequences for negative actions <--- big one

And probably more important, rewards for positive actions. Positive reinforcement is pretty powerful in general.
Does it identity you as the same person to two different websites? I.e. Is it for building up advertising profiles like google oor facebook logins?
If unable to operate without one of its motors, I wonder what the emergency procedure is that avoids hitting the props. Maybe active-braking the motors and quick release with chute.
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What I find surprising is how easy it is to understand functions as being made up of other functions (+), as opposed to functions that are not (constant functions).
Glassdoor is hopelessly spammed by HR departments, “Advice to management: none, they are wonderful!” and so on.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again.
Hovercraft might be future technology, but "hover" and "craft" e.g. "vehicle that hovers" or "carriage that hovers" etc is not.
That is by definition not fine grained permissions that I'm in control of. Of course apps can do that. But we know that will never be the default way of doing it. I want the OS to be in charge, not only asking the developers to play along nicely, because they will go where the money is.

Saying that I can just choose to use apps that do it "the right way" is the same as saying "you can just not use a smart phone". I can see the value in smart phones and in popular apps. What I'm asking for it a pragmatic choice where the OS puts me in charge, because it's not working to just ask the developers to play nicely.
Can you please avoid this sort of low-quality tit-for-tat discussion? It's not what this site is for, and goes on forever if you feed it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"CoreOS technology to combine with Red Hat OpenShift to drive hybrid cloud-native services, will power fully-automated Linux container platform stack, from the operating system to application services, across the hybrid cloud"

This is so overloaded with buzz words it took a few attempts to make any sense of it.
In specific the field of homomorphic encryption. It's a somewhat new field. Some libraries and methods require hours per bit operation, whereas OpenMined and PySift are claiming to do similar things with orders of magnitude less overhead.

I ask because if their claims are valid they are doing some very interesting things.
I like the visual appeals, but what does it mean? Can you explain?
What's wrong with carving symbols into bamboo? Kids these days.
I have a Dell XPS 15 at work and it's so difficult to install and setup Linux between the M2 SSD drive and the Nvidia Optimus GPU. Would not recommend.
Why is 3:2 better than standard 16:9?
8 big announcements from Google I/O 2018
Can we at least require you not to call yourself 'whatever news' if you're not at least trying to present factual information?
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> A: It could mean single- or two-factor. FIDO2 and the new YubiKeys support an on-device PIN that isn't shared with the server, like conventional smart cards. This allows the key to act as both "something you have" (the key itself) and "something you know" (the PIN for the key). The PIN is optional, though, so both the single factor and two factor use cases are possible.

No, since passwordless login is available, the lowest denominator applies: single factor. Despite all your efforts it will most likely be possible to perform a passwordless login even when password is required in a few years (as these things get broken). The something you know is useless, as it can be ignored. And because it can, it will. Either by force, by negligence or by laziness.
This does not rewrite your database. It optimizes the live in-memory machine code of the mysqld (MySQL Server) process. It must run on the same OS host as the mysqld (MySQL Server) process being optimized. So if you are using this on the master and not on the replica, the replica won’t be touched. Hope that makes sense.
My last two laptops were an HP Pavilion and an Acer Swift. Linux Mint installs and works without a problem.
How do you deal with the people who emphatically insist that this isn’t a cycle, that this is new, and that there are no cautionary tales from the last cycle that they have to contend with?
These people make me tired, and it feels like they are everywhere.
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>Microservices are also lighter than SOA. While SOA services are deployed to servers and virtual machines (VMs), microservices are deployed in containers. The protocols are also lighter. This makes microservices more flexible than SOA

Both of these are wrong.

A SOA service of yore would be much lighter (in CPU, if not memory) than a microservice of today. Heck, it had to be -- in the 90s they couldn't afford to run a JS runtime to power their service. It was either C++ or Java.

The protocols were also lighter, then, not now. Except if the author means simpler and easier to work with. Else, CORBA or DCOC are lighter than serializing to JSON and back.
That sounds more like a sandboxing/permissions problem... Also, it doesn't help that JavaScript is a terrible language.
A lot of things today are overhyped.
I read a lot of EWD texts last year, and he transitioned from typed to handwritten later in his life, about halfway through the number of scripts that he published.

From his Wikipedia page [1]:

> Dijkstra never wrote his articles using a computer. He preferred to rely on his typewriter and later on his Montblanc pen. Dijkstra's favorite writing instrument was the Montblanc Meisterstück fountain pen.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
Form over function should not be a thing.
>SOA was not that big of a hit because the time wasn't right.

Huh? It dominated the 90s, especially in enterprise, in a way that micro-services today don't.
Actually, I had to work with a line printer that didn't handle CR-LF but LF-CR. The printer was designed to have people rip of paper cleanly and the easiest way to do that is to have a button that locks the printer head on the left side, which causes it to engage a gearing on the line feeder which prevents it from moving. That allows a human to press the button and rip of the paper. The process was fairly fast and without it the linefeed would slip and you would rip out half of the paper from under the printer head. Unfortunately this also means if you issue a CR-LF you will first hear the printer head moving and then a jamming noise from the line feed followed by the printer blowing a fuse.

So any device that uses it usually requires a special adapter that converts CR-LF to LF-CR otherwise the printer could be damaged and buffers input while the printhead lock the linefeed.

The device was to my knowledge not very popular, incredibly old and irreplaceable as part of a legacy application written for an old 8bit computer system.
.app on the Mac and .appx on windows implements self contained apps you can copy around as necessary. Appx is a bit newer on the windows side you see them called "universal", or "store apps" depending on the marketing era they were made in. On the mac .app is the universal way to distribute apps since Mac OS X took over (and before that on NextStep).
> Nowhere near the scale of this though, just some background noise I'll ignore

Same situation here. However being on the receiving end of a "formerly" Russian camgirl site makes this a little more than just noise. Any good ideas of what one could do with that?
Why 7 days? 24 hours should be enough - who connects devices but doesn’t unlock in that time? Can’t think of a scenario for that.
Cooling to liquid helium temperatures might be easier on asteroids.
Yeah this seems to be the disconnect. A lot of people will intuitively think (myself included) something like this. "You said Hillary had 90% chance to win, but Trump won. Therefore your prediction was WRONG". It actually takes a little more thought to understand that a Trump victory was a possibility in the model all along. And that you cannot say whether or not a prediction model is accurate based on a SINGLE result.
And that's probably about to change! :D
Please take a look what CTRL-labs are doing.

Keynote at O'Reilly: https://wp.me/P9TsXm-53
That sounds a bit too juicy to be true. Any citations?
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These specific tests we did were read only where the working set fits into memory, so SSD vs HDD doesn’t matter because they were CPU bound tests to highlight the performance improvements. So storage isn’t a factor here. If that wasn’t the case then faster storage would help make it more CPU bound and Dynimizer would make a bigger impact when using SSD vs HDD.
"RMS runs the ship", "RMS has shot down things he didn't like before".

> If you think any exercise of rightful power is authoritarian

No, not any - this particular one, and in general one that is done "because I want it so, and your opinion doesn't matter because I decide here".
The flaw stems from the fact that an attacker can thru social engineeung acquire that root crendential (password or biometric or token). Once they have it, they can clean out all your banking, stock and home equity line accounts in one sweep. You as a user may not know that credential is compromised - maybe it was a key logger, maybe it was social engineering the cell phone provider to port your number and then qualify their phone with an sms token. You don’t know when that happened - you just see empty accounts.

With personal password managers, no third party is issuing tokens for access - just you. So it’s unlikley to be chosen for an attack - because it’s too hard for the attacker to acquire the credentials for access without detection.
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Google itself (Google Search) is extremely wary of being used by "bots" and uses string of captchas to screen them out. But search is just a machine.

That Google would create bots to talk to real people is horrifying. This is only possible if Google doesn't in fact think of working people answering the phone, as really human.

This is like doing war with drones instead of soldiers. This may sound over the top, but bear with me.

The implicit contract in war is that soldiers are legally authorized to kill because they are risking their own life. Killing people at a distance without risking anyone's life on the side of the shooters, breaks that "contract", is fundamentally unfair and fuels terrorism, because terrorism is the only possible answer.

Making a telephone call rests on the same convention: you are allowed to make someone spend time on the phone with you, because you're spending your own time.

But if one side is a robot that has no costs, then the relationship loses balance and becomes unsustainable (and this is the reason why Google bans bots on its own servers). This is one more step breaking society, again.

The only answer is to either stop accepting phone reservations, or put captchas on the other side.
You didn't factor in current user data and potential user data. That's worth something these days.
Well there is initial setup at the very least. Hooking up whatever landline the client has with the SaaS solution.

Then whenever a significant change is required, you need to call back your "expert". New location? xk$, etc.

But I think the biggest concern is that suddently the owner does not understand how his reversation system works. He used to be able to call Joe and know what's going on...
"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the house of commons."

Hitler was as involved in the Spanish civil war as Stalin. During the following great war, the allies decided that Stalin was the lessor of the two evils, and I think that history has largely judged that to not have been the wrong decision.
> Being the first tech blogger (handwritten!)

It's not a web log (for which “blog” is short) if it's not on the web.
This means it is only 5 years out of date then?

Unless it is one of those scalping Springer research books there is really no way for it to match latest research...

And just do you know, most books are made to sell and this one does not strike me as a technical (enough) one. Though it is well written (based on the preview), I would not trust the conclusions. It really tries to sell a paleo diet which is an instant red flag because we do not have good evidence for efficacy of any diet, even less so for so-called paleo.

Nutrition science is finally starting to move fast beyond preconceptions hopefully.
Was thinking about that too. Even humans could start developing their personalized own shorthand lingo, think cattle auctions, ATC, or other narrow topic applications, that don't need formalites emphasize on less ambiguity, speed and confirmation. Could easily speed up Computer to human calls a very significant amount.
Great post, many thanks for writing it.
Fork!! no Urdu?
Will gnome-terminal work? What about a clipboard manager? A screenshot tool? OpenVPN?
This is even more fun because in the modern age, what very often ends up happening is:

electronic charts -> pdf -> fax -> fax machine as a service -> unsecured email -> pdf -> electronic charts

Compliance can sometimes help, but ultimately the data needs to flow, and people will do whatever it takes to make that happen. Until security is so easy that it's the default, these little loopholes will continue to be abused.
In the book 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', the author gives several examples of how introverts can make good CEO (Bill Gates is one of the more famous example).
It was a 9 yo model so somehow they didn't really regret changing. It might sting sentimentally but 9yo is loong in these days for LCD TVs :)
You are right, I meant more in terms of software developer popularity, apologies for my bad phrasing.

But I do think microservices will become bigger, we'll have to wait and see how k8s pans out.
Eyeballing the lower and upper quartile looks like the shape of the front page distribution is roughly the same. Now if we do this for subsequent pages and can fit past and present shapes with linear scaling, I'd say there's nothing to concerned about here.
Can you please not do technical flamewars on HN? The value that should drive discussions here is intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), not nitpicking or irritable fault-finding.
There is nothing about microservices that dictates the use of JS. Our microservices is written in .Net, and I could write it in C++ if I wanted to.
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The article makes it sound really bigger than it is. From what I experienced the opposition is quite small, signs anti-google are only visible in a few specific locations in one neighborhood, and in general only a few people are vocal against it (mostly anarchists or anti capitalists activists). I would expect some level of opposition from a fringe of the population in any city where Google or other tech giants want to open offices.
> To solve for this, GitHub allows employees to meet each other as long as there is a business need.

What do you mean by "allow". Is it, in general, not allowed for employees to meet each other in remote-first companies, but GitHub notably allows it? Or did you say it that way to emphasize they must meet only for business needs and not for anything else. If so, why? Would you be able elaborate on that sentence?
Oh dear, polyglot to audio steganographic phone calls, the audible message doesnt even has to be the same then the one encoded in microgaps and envelope shifts and all kind of modulations.
We live in a world where MongoDB is at the butt-end of all Database and ACID jokes.

But the award should go the Windows Registry, a Key-Value store that combines the drawbacks of a half-assed filesystem with the advantages of piping your database to /dev/null.

A Database would be capable of using an index to traverse all the keys. The Registry does a linear lookup at each pathnode.

There is a good blogpost [https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-regist...] that details the insanity of a database that managed to be worse than MongoDB at the lowest level of jokes before MongoDB was even invented.
> The platform that those apps run on is just as open now as it was in the G1 days.

It never was open.

Sure, Google ups a bunch of source code to AOSP after the release of a new version but there is no actual OSS-style development going on. All development is behind closed doors, only done by Google and the public cannot contribute.

I cannot check out the latest development version of Android from github, fix some issues and send a PR. It's all a one-way street.
An example of Core Erlang usage:

- fez ( https://github.com/kjnilsson/fez ) is an F# to Erlang compiler (compiling to Core Erlang)

A good intro with some word about core erlang too

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/11312-fez-fsharp-type-s...
The problem of taking sides is that there were no good guys in this story.

My grandfather's father and a substantial part of my grandmothers family (her father, brother, ...) were killed by anarchist because they were Catholics and because they were bourgeois (on one side they were a declining industrial family and on the other side they were doctors and pharmacists). They came one night, they put them into trucks and they never came back.

That was their crime, to go to church every Sunday, to be richer than the average, and have studied at the university. So the part of the family that survived had to support Franco, it was a question of survival.

Franco's side did the same with communists and anarchists, so many people had to join radical left-wing militias, more radical than themselves, just to survive.

There is nothing to romanticize about the Spanish Civil war. There were no good guys, it was all chaos, injustice and death all over the place, and today we still pay the consequences of so much stupidity.
> Pure black text and backgrounds with white...

Title should mention the white. Pure black is fine if it's on a muted light background.
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Plenty of way parents can heavily influence you. I would have turned out much different if my father didn't teach me programming. The current POTUS wouldn't be who he is if he didn't get a small loan of a million dollars.
It's awesome but I prefer muscle memory: after a while I already know when an icon is before it appears so I can open it without searching for it.
"Google campus will only have 6-10 employees"

Kreuzberg is...special.
> How long am I supposed to be swiping if there's hundreds of open tasks?

It's a phone with a small as fuck screen, not a workstation with a big monitor. Why do you even have 'hundreds of open tasks' on a phone ?
> My guess is that Uber simply wants to maintain some hope of future growth, particularly with their autonomous car program in shambles.

They also benefit from future free advertising. Everytime you'll see a bit of news talking about autonomous drones, flying taxis, or the like, you can bet that the writer will mention Uber, thus giving them free Brand recognition. The same happened with Amazon's delivery drones, or Uber self driving cabs.
container linux was always pretty much useless to search for help for.