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The government should do precisely NOTHING.

Exactly. It is not the job of the State to make sure everybody has a job. Arguably all the State should do is protect property rights, enforce contracts and provide some notion of a "justice system". And really, all three of those things can be debated.

The best way to think of it, IMO, is the way Bastiat[1] put it by describing "the law" as "no more than the collective extension to our individual right to self defense". (paraphrased slightly).

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
> Think outside the bubble, though.

A single family homes and car mindset is the bubble, though.

The US and much of the developed world has a problem of over-consumption, and shuffling to more power, some green, does not solve it. We need green energy, but if we want to reduce emissions we need to cut usage as well.

The amount of energy needed to cart single occupancy cars, on hour long commutes through sprawling suburbs of energy guzzling single family homes is horribly inefficient, no matter how it's powered. Nearly a third of the energy consumed in the US goes to transportation.

It makes no sense for multi-ton hunks of steel, plastic and lithium using tens of kW in energy to transport a 150 lbs person to work.

Denser cities and towns organized around public transit, cycling, and walking knocks out a multitude of problems.

1. Reduced distances between home, work, and shopping and allow for healthier, emission-free walking and cycling

2. Increased density reduces per capita cost on infrastructure and services and makes fast, frequent transit a realistic alternative

3. Denser multifamily development offers efficiencies in shared heating and cooling systems, a major consumer of energy

4. Cutting back on sprawl reduces the amount of land developed and contaminated by development, and frequently preserves productive agricultural land from being permanently developed

These aren't radical ideas. We have models throughout the world of greener, denser and healthier cities, mostly built before the auto.
No, less profitable than not owning it.
One mental burden I often suffer from is an inbox full of administrative tasks, i.e., not programming, that I have no desire to do yet they are obligatory.

The way I fixed this was by just thinking of always putting the ball in the other person's court.

Important messages comes in. I reply, then archive their message.

Not my problem any more.
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Just turn them into community colleges, or satellite university locations. Put up some apartments and offer the full experience. You have plenty of parking.. plenty of land.
Thank you for the unsurprising reference asserting that much of psychology is garbage. I submit that not reading the book based only on that reference would be a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Totally agree that the contents of the bathtub by weight are mostly dirty water. It's worth getting your hands wet for the baby though.
Strictly speaking, you're "right" ... however, it belies an incredibly inhumane approach to life. Although I concede that reality doesn't always reflect intention, _my intention_ for government is to provide services and protections for all of us; every citizen.

While yes, that shouldn't mean one is necessarily entitled to anything, I want my tax funds going towards helping people who have unforeseen things happen to them. If they lose a job, or get sick, or their head-of-household/primary income passes away, or they are the victim of abuse ... I want my funds to help those people.
I've noticed that even doing it one or two times a week can have a sizable impact on my day to day. I probably should do it every day, like you, but it's fascinating how much our brains will rationalize how "busy" we think we are.
> Most people would consider nuclear waste to be polluting

Then 'most people' don't know what pollution means. Nuclear 'waste' is a controlled output of a process that can and is controlled to not effect the environment in any way.

In terms of nuclear arguing what 'most people' believe is utterly pointless because 'most people' don't understand even the basics of nuclear physics.

> and nothing is perfect, sometimes you get a Fukushima

Nothing is perfect. But somehow people don't point to all the deaths that happen on solar installations and so on.

The fact is that nuclear is the safest form of energy.
Make the title something like "How to approach dreaded tasks", or maybe something a little more creative than that.

The topic really doesn't have to be about the brain. We all have experience confronting tasks we dread, but we don't have to know anything about the brain to talk about that experience.

Now, maybe neuroscience comes along and tells us something new about how that dread happens, how to confront it, etc. If so, that's great--but it should be properly cited. Also note that simply invoking the brain does not necessarily add anything: if you find out dread involves the XYZ subsystem of the brain, that is irrelevant to a discussion of the experience of dread, until you say what we've learned from it being the XYZ subsystem.

So my demand is intellectual honesty. Which parts of your post are grounded in science, which are personal experiences, which are just fluff?
Based on your comment I think you'll really enjoy this book - I'm about 75% through it. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/280466/the-value-of-everythi... The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato. One of the best economics books I've read in a very long time, well argued and not too heavy in Jargon.

The thrust of the argument is that we've misconstrued value and thus don't properly account for all the activity in the economy, overcounting things which aren't 'productive' in the historical economic sense (like finance, FB's ad market), while undercounting other activities, including those of govt - before everyone jumps on me, both Marx AND Smith agreed that finance didn't contribute to productivity, merely enabled it.
Subscriptions have higher chances of survival than permanent licenses because developers have intentionally deferred revenue. So 6 years from now, the motivations to continue operating the business will be higher by a team selling a subscription at $99/year than a permanent license at $299. This way your workflow relying on that tool has higher chances to survive new operating operating systems, new formats and other forms of obsolescence.

I liked Microsoft Money but it is not anymore around. Had it been Money 365, it would still probably be around.
There's a government program that forgives federal student loans if you work for long enough in the public sector or for a nonprofit: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancell...

The idea is to incentivize work that isn't always profitable but needs to get done- teaching and social work, for example.

>they don't get discharged through personal bankruptcy

My understanding as to why this happened is that some people basically did the following:

1) Get expensive, hard-to-earn degree in lucrative field (e.g. MD, PhD)
2) Declare bankruptcy prior to working
3) Immediately start work and cash out
Those things already serve most shopping malls. The idea was that the venue would provide everything people needed to keep them happy until they sober up, but they would of course be free to leave by means that don't involve DUI.
Education and myopia–assessing direction of causality by mendelian randomisation
If you can try exercise in the morning.
I think if nothing else, this whole thing is a lesson in why non-free/non-OSI licenses are a bad idea.
Residential vs. non-residential zoning always tries to tilt towards non-residential, because it has a better potential of return.

Although both pay property taxes and both require utility services like water, sewer, and waste collection, non-residential properties attract both in-town residents and outsiders from other jurisdictions, who then typically spend some money in your town. Meanwhile, residential attracts new residents, who may or may not take jobs in your town, could be spending money in other towns, but need high-cost social services like public schools and community programs in your town.
Very interesting article. Do you also by any chance know of studies about adult myopia? I wonder if it light exposure. makes a difference there.
Dopamine overload. Less intimacy when it comes to real sex. There is a generation of young men who can't ejaculate without the use of porn suffering from an early ED.
You would probably get a lot of artist feedback if you started an announcement thread in http://polycount.com/categories/technical-talk
Aside from the fact that it leaves a window where there is no /bin/sh on the system, because it is not using atomic replacement, that is not what the script is doing. This is a Debian package. /bin/sh has been the Debian Almquist shell for almost three quarters of a decade at this point.

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/07/msg00027.htm...

* https://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup#Using_a_faster_sy...

* https://wiki.debian.org/DashAsBinSh

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh/Spec
Almost everyone does, though.
The total US tax revenue in 2017 was $3.422 trillion.

If you split that evenly among 300 million people, each would get $11,000, which is half of the poverty line of $22,000.

Even if you thought that little money was acceptable, to afford it you'd have to cut:

1. all military programs

2. all existing social security programs

3. all government infrastructure projects

4. all education programs

5. ...
>If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?

Nothing
You may think you would never be stupid enough to force /bin/sh to /bin/bash, but other people who are brand new to Linux may not know that random things on the system behave differently depending on what /bin/sh points to.

That makes no sense, because the whole point of the script is to replace what /bin/sh points to, because their application behaves differently depending on what it points to.

And I agree we shouldn't castigate the developer, but this wasn't published by a developer, but by a company. It's supposed to have a process to prevent human mistakes like these from getting out to the clients.
So, wait, are you saying "the US doesn't have a social mobility problem, except for the large social mobility problem it has"? I don't really follow.
Is Following Your Passion Beneficial for Your Work?
About that fine art project they mention (it doesn't work): https://twitter.com/edent/status/1006248586395508737

> I don't understand the blockchain hype. A startup has certified my artwork & placed their verification on the bitcoin blockchain. Now art dealers & auctioneers can feel secure that I am the original artist. One small problem… I am not Leonardo da Vinci! https://www.verisart.com/works/23f2c64a-08c6-4a42-8013-84ac8... …
Which mall was this? Randall? Parmatown? Tower City? Arcade sounds like one of the old downtown ones....
I'm conflicted because the carbon footprint of another kid is substantial.

Then again, individual action is utterly meaningless. With ~8billion people it just doesn't matter what I do. Only large-scale action that brings about systemic changes matters. And hey, maybe one of my kids will be the one to help fix it!

Then again, if people viewed 2 as a nominal max then we'd still be on the right path (a bit below replacement rate would be OK generally speaking)

But I already brought one life in to the world when I worry about global collapse and am not sure I want to do that for another.

But siblings are pretty great!

But if I have an only child I can afford a better school for them..

Anyway, still thinking. So is the partner.

Also, "fuck the job" is easy to say except it's not my job, it's the opportunity for my partner to do the thing she's wanted to do her whole life and has worked her ass off for. It's crazy hard to actually build a career in museums and heritage (related... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16792942) and maybe she shouldn't have to give that up.

Then again, being in an industry where employment is that tenuous sounds like a crappy way to spend life.
This might sound a little melodramatic, but it ruins the product for me.

Sugru is the type if product I want to throw in my toolbox for when I need it, because when I need it I NEED it. But instead I have to buy it online, takes 3 days to arrive, and by that time I've already used duct tape and moved on.

It is a good idea and a great product, but the short shelf life is a huge problem.
My wife and I deep cleaned the house then made a visual task board with different small (less than 30m) chores assigned to one or the other, on rotation, on a weekly basis.
The house has never been less than acceptably clean (to a mother-in-law standard) since :)

Also, decluttering and reorganizing all storage spaces using the Marie Kondo method (where it made sense) helped a lot and once done it's hard to relapse.
This is the reality ... it's happening. Industry will always optimize, and as technology marches forward, they will replace human workers with technology when it makes financial sense to do so.

The discussion should be, "what do we do when that happens"?
The simplest solution is an automation tax which is revenue neutral. Any time automation moves in to an industry, the tax's revenues can be used to help transition those workers into other work, or give them at least an automation relief stipend.

If we don't tax automation, what's to stop increasingly cheaper automation from replacing increasingly expensive first world workers? Especially when businesses are expected to increase salaries yearly, provide expensive benefits like healthcare - businesses would rather pay up-front for automation.
Absolutely. I actually agree with you- this is playing with fire- I just thought it'd be helpful to point out the general dilemma.

This is sort of awkward on HN, because there's a culture of stoic self-reliance that's very helpful for, well, startups. "Create your own destiny" and "you don't have to bear the burden alone" don't mix well.
That's exactly the point. Humans rely on jobs, what happens when robots take over?
"You're close to the sea everywhere, very strong boost for your your family's immune system"

Why is that?
I listened to Drive by Daniel Pink and subsequently started focusing more on "Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose".
I was going through a bit of a career crisis (Is my career headed where I want?) and this put a lot of clarity into what I was feeling and wanting that I couldn't figure out before. It had enough impact on my thinking that I bought a couple copies for friends.
FlatAssembler is amazing.
I remember people making fractal images using only preprocessor [1], JVM bytecode compilers and a lot of other cool stuff.
Also it is a powerful editor, you can abuse 'file', 'load', 'store' directives to make existing file modifications.

[1] https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=2265
That’s just not true, taking it for a month daily will not work. I haven’t looked at studies recently but the few psychiatrists I know, none believe you can take a bento for a month daily with it still being effective. Same with people taking it. Placebo can be a powerful thing.
Governments can either print money or steal money from those who are making them.

Anytime I see on HN suggestions that government is the solution my pessimist for the future gets some boost.
We're talking about a world where automation has consumed say 20%+ of jobs. You presumably don't want to let these newly unemployed people starve, so what's to be done? It's naive to think that continued rising mass unemployment while a small amount of robot owners get richer and richer is a stable model of society. The automated economy would end up in public hands soon enough, one way or another.
The article features three views. 1. A paper from the Roosevelt Institute [1] 2. the McKinsey Global Institute and 3. Michael Strain, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Summarized ideas introduced in the article:

* Allowing for inflation to tackle unemployment (from 1.)
* Less monopole granting intellectual property laws (from 1.)
* Work-sharing programs (from 1.)
* Publicly funded higher education and training (from 1.)
* Subsidized education and training (from 2.)
* Making job benefits like health insurance and retirement funds more “portable,” (from 2.)
* Expanding the earned-income tax credit (from 3.)

Interesting pre-assumption from [1] that might be dominant in economics but maybe not on the internet:

> This set of proposals is based on the idea that the emerging wave of digital disruption won’t result in a permanent loss of demand for workers, but rather shifts in what types of work the economy needs.

[1] http://rooseveltinstitute.org/dont-fear-robots/

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/overview/2017-in-review/automat...
I make my own Sugru: simple silicone caulk and corn starch. I have no idea how well it compares to the real thing, but a repair to the rack inside my dishwasher has lasted for several years without any noticeable degradation. The benefit of this is that the caulk and corn starch last for a while and don’t cost as much as Sugru per unit volume.

Source:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Your-Own-Sugru-S...
"all citizens should share in the windfall"

Maybe we all get assigned a robot as our "work" and we get the robot's pay.
It is owned by Murdoch.
That’s a very selective response, but ok, I can do that too.

In terms of nuclear arguing what 'most people' believe is utterly pointless because 'most people' don't understand even the basics of nuclear physics.

It’s The point, because it’s their representatives that have stopped all progress in the space for decades. We’re not getting our nuclear power unless they change their minds en masse, period.
You can do a screen with a CRO for low six figures
That would be myopic - scooters are more city friendly - almost zero pollution and waste less energy. Instead they should expand the bike lanes everywhere. One serious advantage of scooters over bikes is that you don't arrive full of sweat at your destination.
Just hire Ving Rhames to provide security. Problem solved.
Reflow batteries have low environmental impact, and are cheaper than lithium ion. The only real downside is that they are about 25% mode bulky for the same energy storage, but for many domestic installations this isn't a big problem.

Many solar plants are now pairing with large scale energy storage facilities too (eg, liquid salt, pump hydro, even some batteries).
Rastrea2R – Collecting &Amp; Hunting for IOCs with Gusto and Style
I second this. I did this while I was at University and it helped not only ease up my backpack (went from carrying a big gaming computer on my back to a 2 pound chromebook) but it also allowed me to work almost anywhere anytime cause of the battery life and the fact that essentially the entire campus was connected.

Couple this with some x-forwarding for GUIs and you got basically the same high end computer anywhere you go.

Highly recommend giving it a go.
Amen to this, for coffee. I buy coffee grounds for $10 that last me 3 or more weeks, with 2-3 cups per day.
> Plume’s subscription service will cost $60 per year, or $200 for a lifetime membership.

I really, really hope that buying the lifetime membership unlocks your pods (or whatever, or however it works) - and that Plume going out of business doesn't fuck you over and lock you into the "free" tier.
Reverse Engineering Unity Based Android Games – Part One
How to Benchmark Performance of MySQL and MariaDB Using SysBench
Would you answer this question differently: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should Society Do?
Snap is surging after releasing feature that allows deleting of unread messages
So you're saying that even though the government promised us that exalted "job creators" deserved tax cut to create jobs and increase wages; and even though those same corporations took those tax cuts and paid themselves and bought robots with it instead of meaningfully boosting wages (where is my $4k every worker was promised?); and even though most of that money stayed at the top; and even though we'll be paying off that money far into the future; and even though the government continues to erode worker's rights; and even though this system has created people who have more money than they could possibly spend in 10 million lifetimes while others are starving and homeless; you're telling me that despite all that, it's our own damn responsibility to find a job, and the government plays no role here in a future where the game was rigged the entire time so that capital owners could control everything?
A Futile attempt to solve the Tigress challenges using angr
> Articles such as the one here tend to gloss over patient adherence to post-surgery self-care, which is one thing I believe makes or breaks successful LASIK (in my personal experience and from what I have read). This means eye drops on schedule round the clock, antibiotic eye drops on schedule round the clock, eye protection at night for the first week, avoiding dusty conditions for however long the doctor prescribes, avoiding getting water in the eye for however long the doctor prescribes, etc etc.

I had LASIK from a well-regarded doctor in 2015 and I wasn't told to do any of these things, except avoiding opening my eyes under water.
It's referring to Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which after ten years of payments while employed in government or other specific jobs loans the remainder of your loans can be forgiven.

A House bill proposed getting rid of it. I'm not sure tbh how that implicates DeVos or what the current status is.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancell...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/06/house-gop-bill-could-elimina...
And despite all of these concerns, the NYT frequently and consistently advocates for increases in low-skill immigrants, the very people who will the government will need to support when the 'robots come for [their] jobs'. The question is which of those 2 arguments are disingenuous?
Microsoft is a very big company, with everything from interns and developers only with Windows experience through to seasoned nix developers.

This error is actually a good thing from point of view - it's an anecdatum that the whole* company is engaging with open source, not just the bits that know it well. This is something we should encourage and educate. The advantage of educating someone at Microsoft as that their institutional knowledge will persist some fraction of it, so that the next person that comes along is less likely to have issues.
That price is a microaggression! Respect readers!
Is there anything that can be done from the user perspective to improve your streaming experience. Beyond bandwidth.
I don’t understand what you think is misleading here. It clearly says new power. That means it’s growing faster, not that it’s the biggest.

Your Bill Gates analogy doesn’t work. He’s still making fantastic amounts of money from his investments. If picking money up off the sidewalk was actually his biggest source of new wealth (which is an odd way of saying “income”) then that would be huge news.
Should I believe him? I'm not sure. He has done nothing to stop the rampant identity theft and fake comments on the FCC's website. He has lied repeatedly in public. He clearly has no problem with lying for political gain, and playing the victim to make net neutrality supporters look deranged would clearly be to his benefit.

I don't doubt he's received death threats. A lot of people hate him and I'm sure some of them would threaten him. But does he actually fear for his life? Maybe, but I won't take his word for it.

And the article is ridiculous. I won't hold that against Pai because he didn't write it, but it's sure not doing him any favors.
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