skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2008 financial crisis is a pretty expansive event but it's unclear whether or not Economists were "surprised" to the extent the public has been led to believe by somewhat biased media coverage.

For example, the quote from my original comment was from an internal report by the IMF on the IMF's own forecasting/reporting in the period leading up to the financial crisis. It even calls out a presentation made by it's Chief Economist (at the time) which warned against risky behavior that was wholesale ignored by the fund's management (from the Economist article before):

> Even when some of its officials had different ideas, the fund's management seemed not to be listening. Its then chief economist, Raghuram Rajan, concluded a presentation at the annual Jackson Hole conference of central bankers in 2005 by arguing that “we should be prepared for the low probability but highly costly downturn”. But the IMF now admits that:

> "Despite the importance of the Economic Counsellor's position, there was no follow up on Rajan's analysis and concerns— his views did not influence the IMF's work program or even the flagship documents issued after the Jackson Hole speech."

That presentation by Raghuram Rajan is now fairly well known as having fairly accurately predicted the crisis (in 2005) but fell on ears deafened by prosperity (he was the Chief Economist at the IMF and IMF Management completely dismissed it). Here he is on a different list of 6 economists who "predicted the global financial crisis":

https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2015/07/07/6-economists-...

He later went on to be the 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

I am by no means an expert on the subject so take this all as a layman's loose following of the topic...but it seems to me that the lack of recognition of the dangers by Economists is only part of the problem. It also seems that many major organizations were incentivized to turn a blind eye or even actively downplay concerns in the face of overwhelming financial growth. Even before the crisis, there were Economists writing about the dangers[1] (2006); so to say the entire field of Economics were completely blindsided is itself a bit of an exaggeration. In reality, many large Economic organizations were incentivized to downplay concerns by rampant growth. No one wants to be the one that says, "Hey let's slow down," when the economy is booming.

[1] http://keenomics.s3.amazonaws.com/debtdeflation_media/2007/0...
Having experienced a winter car accident on a highway involving a semi truck where the truck wasn't damaged but my car was totaled, I am extremely grateful the truck stopped and its driver allowed me to wait in the heated cab while waiting for police to arrive.

The idea of all these massive trucks autonomously operating on our highways strikes me as a very dystopian future. I appreciate the humans in the machines accompanying me on cross-country road trips. Without the truckers, much of these vast spaces will become far more desolate and dangerous to travel through.

I'm fine with technology assisting truckers, but am hopeful there will continue to be a requirement of people being present with ultimate authority over the vehicle.
And the idea of fascism is newer than 1780, as you quoted. Not to mention, grassroots campaigning of this ideology across the internet is also rather new.

And summoning up the specters of fascism isn't a scare tactic. It's what happened last year in Charlottesville. White supremacists of all types had a big march. Even killed a counter-protester. Maybe you saw it? We even had a neofascist group do a march here in my local city. And right now, there's flyers espousing the "goodness" of fascism.

You can argue all you want from people from 300 years ago. I know if these people get say-so in government, I and my friends will lose rights, become disenfranchised, and possibly murdered. They say precisely that. So yeah, I do have a rather strong claim to not want fascists to take hold.
I think you trade one complexity (fixed vs variable routes) for many other complexities (larger vehicle with more demands). Think of the complexity of getting a driver license for a passenger sized car vs a commercial driver license, there's a lot more rules (physics and human regulations) around a CDL. So yes, you have a fixed route, but is that really the hard problem to solve, the route to take? Isn't the hard part monitoring road conditions, identifying objects, stopping for emergencies, etc?
Human hands are incredible manipulators. Really, compared to what’s in robotics today they’re fabulous. There’s some other promising developments in non human hand style manipulators, but human hands are still really good.

It’s really good practice for your AI system to try it on a human hand. If you can make it work with a human hand you can probably make it work for other manipulators, but it’s a great place to start!
Read sykhic's comments below. These unsustainable sweetheart deals were negotiated by the government employees and their unions.
Eats? I don't think so. I heard it's one of the fastest growing verticals at Uber.
They also have regulatory issues, loading and unloading issues, safety issues.

How do you deal with a self-driving truck thats just had it's load shift in the middle of nowhere, a hundred miles from human help?

It's not even close to the same effort as self driving cars, which is already so hard they might be a decade away.
That doesn't answer the question. Responders who see the idea as valuable are more likely to answer, which could skew your data. (this is more or less the definition of non-response bias) What is your solution to this? Original response proposed a pre-selected population who have incentive to respond either way.
Can confirm. It's just not worthwhile trying to convince those who are against it, as their minds are already made up & closed.
Smashing analogy! Oh, except that society was in fact negatively affected by the early unfettered press, and accordingly came up with all sorts of methods of regulating and managing it. It’s where we get libel laws, for one thing. You print something provably false about someone, and you’re going to face consequences for it.

This is clearly us heading to a similar point online. Cowering behind common carrier exemptions and appealing to fundamentalist understandings of “free speech” aren’t going to wash for much longer.

Speech has consequences. It astounds me that it’s so often the supposedly pro-market right who get outraged when market forces sock it to publishers of dross like InfoWars
That is completely insecure. A MITM would just block access to the tls-on-connect port, forcing the sending host to retry on port 25, where they would strip the STARTTLS advertisement.

Unless you're recommending to not fall back to port 25 after a failed connection to the tls-on-connect port. In which case, see the comment you were replying to where I said it would be backwards incompatible.

Both of the solutions I mentioned are backwards compatible, and protected from a similar downgrade situation.
Pensions are not inherently unsustainable. They exist in the private sector in other countries and there are still some well funded private sector pensions in the U.S. They don't work well if they are not properly funded. Corporations got rid of pensions not because the concept is inherently unsustainable but because it's more profitable to do away with them.

My pension plan is not a good one. You characterization of one group of state employees giving a dream set of benefits to another is not based in reality. Administration does not negotiate strongly with us the contract won't be approved by the legislature or signed by the governor. Our wages relative to buying power has not been going up or remaining steady.

If pensions are inherently unsustainable then you must conclude that it is unsustainable for a society to care for itself.
Wow, this is a really cool application. I needed to cut down a song this week and this is a very cool approach.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=629800775
I've been using https://www.fakespot.com/ to check review for fakes on Amazon.
I've actually heard this idea bandied about in talk about the artificial-magnetosphere proposal - just getting things to a point where environmental systems are less expensive and temperatures are easier on hardware.
? You could manually analyze the reviewers for suspicious non-specificity, typical of paid reviewers for whom it is not cost effective to write a tailored review when they are being paid pennies per post.
Also over time you could compare the quality of products that it says have fake reviews vs ones it says does not.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/formatR/index.html
Are there any companies out there that are brutally honest about their desire to make money, and skip the bull about mission, team, etc? I think this would be incredibly refreshing and appealing.
Yes:

"Wikileaks withheld a batch of emails showing a $2.2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a Russian government-owned bank, according to a Daily Dot report." https://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-may-have-withheld-key-russian-...

"In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents from Democratic operatives allegedly obtained by Kremlin-directed hackers, Julian Assange turned down a large cache of documents related to the Russian government, according to chat messages and a source who provided the records." https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

Don't forget the time they came out against anti-Trump leaks: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817322050297745408
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That might be the point. After all the GP post is about how standards are lowered for diversity candidates, then they go on about how they're hired without necessary knowledge. How is this not lowering the bar ?

And, if your claim is that this doesn't happen: I have to say, I've seen people hired for many reasons. Because they're related to X (perhaps including that they can't find a job otherwise). Because they or someone in their immediate environment is disabled (which gets your boss a tax advantage). Because ...

So I would argue in Europe, it's almost the opposite. People are really treated as interchangeable, and hiring for ability is really more the exception in many companies. Hiring to make the boss look good, hiring fox tax reasons, ...

And before you say "that doesn't happen at fancy FANG company", I would like to remind you that all of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook have LARGE Irish offices, and I've visited the Facebook one: not many Irish (like 30% of the office at most, and they apologize during the interview for trying to get you to Ireland, so it's not like they like it. I'd bet good money the other companies are similar).

How much do you want to bet that the "dutch Irish sandwich" tax avoidance scheme requires a minimum headcount in Ireland ?

So let's just state this as a fact: ALL the FANG companies hire less competent people because of location (this must be the tradeoff) in trade for tax advantages in Europe.

Every last one of them.

Every last one.

And if they do it, which are these mythical companies that hire because of the bar, wherever ? We complain a lot, but when it comes to employees, nobody really doubts that FB, GOOG, MSFT, AMZN are the top, la creme de la creme. Who is this mythical company that does not lower the bar ? And if they do lower the bar, why would they not lower it below whatever you consider a reasonable level, especially for positions where they can't really hire well anyway ?
Big difference between lobbing bomb briefly into space and putting someone on the moon.

How many innovations between the first thing and the second?

I will give you many same people involved.
I actually think the answer is simpler and more immediate than that. The government made a promise. If the government does not keep that promise, can it be trusted with other obligations?

In fact, this problem of unfunded pensions has impacted municipal credit ratings and wound up costing taxpayers more in higher interest rates than they would have had to pay in higher taxes to stabilize the pension funds.
What industry spends the most on R&D?
That's a really good point. I also wonder if the cyclist accident changed the mood and/or culture at Uber when it comes to autonomous vehicles. I have to be honest that it would absolutely gut me inside to know that my software caused a death.
> If it was an easy and profitable problem to solve it would have been solved by now

No one said it was easy. The issue was easier than another problem that is also not yet solved, not easy in some absolute sense.
How do you determine a review is bullshit? Do you only flag reviews for items you've bought?
Star ratings in general are just poor. In a 1 to 5 star rating, 3 is average but most people would perceive 3 stars to be above average. People tend to leave reviews only when they are displeased with the product, really pleased with the product or get something in return for making the review, in this case free products.

I tend to just filter on reviews that are 2 or 3 stars and use those to work out the cons of the product. These reviews are the most likely to be honest and can often give you the information that other reviewers forget to mention. Unfortunately, 2 and 3 star reviews are the least likely to be posted so you can only find them on products that have been reviewed hundreds of times.
In my view, yes, for at least a couple of reasons. First, because people survive whether you want them to or not, and driving old people into poverty will end up burdening you in some other way, probably worse. We pay a lot for not having a decent safety net.

Second, old people vote. If you drive a political wedge between the young and old, I can't say what will happen, but it won't involve the young ending up on top.

Third, retirees are a huge consumer group, and also a non-obvious but important source of support for families.

In fact, telling young people that they will see nothing of social security is a propaganda position intended to drive that wedge.
> More serious would be the loss of productive farmland in the US for perhaps a decade or so, but that wouldn't be anywhere near extinction-level for humanity.

I'm not sure about that. Maybe not on the surface, but I could easily see a 40% drop in U.S. agricultural output (number made up) causing massive global turmoil, even potentially leading up to a world war.

Our world is so interconnected that a strong enough shock in one area can arguably start a runaway positive-feedback loop of destruction.
So true..
I like the Flying Fisherman San Jose sunglasses and have gotten them from Amazon under <$15 in the past. Not quite as cheap and as disposable at $30 IMO.

https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Fisherman-Polarized-Sunglasses...
Probably very few. NORMAL ramjets (ie not magic space fusion ones) are quite old; the first ramjet aircraft was tested by the Soviets in 1940, and the US tested ramjet missiles in the late 40s. And scramjets (supersonic ramjets, where the internal airflow is supersonic) were meant to be the next big thing since the 50s, though they’ve never really worked out.
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It is, and it's huge. It's 10% of their revenues now. Which means it's burning more cash than any other vertical at Uber by far. Why does Uber need to fund this "business" for years to come? How does it benefit them to keep throwing money at it?

Answer: It really doesn't. It's a huge distraction that might never be profitable.
> Is Uber Eats next on the chopping block? That would probably be my choice.

Are you saying this because you don't use Uber Eats and don't see a value for it? I and people I know in my city heavily use Uber Eats and it provides Uber drivers who are already on the road (here in over abundance to the point that they're barely making any money) additional income.
Are you kidding me? You are saying in the current market, there's no demand for highly skilled and educated R&D employees?
How does one protect oneself from these? Are there secure / private browser extensions that might cross-reference those reviews to other sites? Is everything fake news now?
Really? I think most people perceive anything less than 4 stars (or even 4.5 stars for some) as "bad". I for one won't buy anything that are "merely" 3-stars.
I can't help but think of my father, who has been a firefighter for the last 20+ years. He lives a comfortable middle class life, and still works even though he already qualifies for retirement.
But even when a city says to unionized workers, you can keep your pension but new hires get moved to a 401k, the unions say no. See San Jose as an example
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It will likely be more valuable than a Big Mac though, due to its collectable and limited nature. Just because it can be exchanged for a Big Mac, doesn't mean that's its value. Just like silver dollars are worth more than a dollar.
I immediately became lost in quest to trace the source of a quote near the top of the article, and returned to bookmark this piece to read thoroughly, but here is the fruit of my almost instantaneously easy etymology search:

The quote
"" “Unitarianism [Wheeler's nominal religion] is a feather bed to catch falling Christians” (Darwin); ""
is from not one, but two Darwin's.

Here is Charles Darwin quoting Erasmus Darwin in his own slant:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00115-00015/5

The source is a Charles Darwin ancestor, Erasmus Darwin.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/566632-the-life-of-era...
Can I suggest you read at least the abstract of your cites?

“This negative effect [of four years of anti-Nazi messages] was fully undone in just one month after Nazis got control over the radio in 1933 and initiated heavy radio propaganda.” (Emphasis added)
A great comment. Usually the US state taxation is ignored when making comparisons.

You need to go further however, as the vast budget deficit is ultimately an inflationary tax on the US people (we'll follow the Japan scenario, and debase the dollar to deal with it over time, hammering the standard of living). You can see that represented by the dramatic damage to the US dollar during the Bush deficit years, which simultaneously sent the dollar plunging, commodities soaring and all other nation GDP figures soaring (when priced in dollars).

Total spending is about $7.1 trillion, between Federal + State + Local. What kind of return are Americans getting for their $22,000(!) per year? An absolutely horrendous return, that's what.

The US state + local spending is like an entire extra Federal Government stapled on.

I'm not concerned with slashing spending as some are, I'm overwhelmingly concerned about using that spending effectively instead. There's vast progress to be had in focusing just on that.
We do have massive deficits.
Star Trek ships had Bussard ramjets! Though it was rarely mentioned: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bussard_collector
There are already rules in place for human truck drivers that push the limits of what a human should be called upon to do for many hours at a time. Human truck drivers already have regular accidents due to fatigue. Replacing or augmenting long haul trucking can only be a positive.
What's not so easy to understand for an imperative programmer is this: Why should I jump through those hoops just to have a readonly structure? Why not just, you know, program imperatively?

I think this is a big part of the problem explaining monads. If you don't have the problem, you don't care about the solution. And if you're an imperative programmer, this looks like saddling yourself with a problem you don't need to have, and then jumping through bizarre hoops to deal with the complications caused by a set of restrictions that you didn't need in the first place.

I think instead the right approach is to sell people on the benefits of immutability, and talk much less about monads. When they start to need them, they'll start to see why they want them. Once they see them solve some problems that they actually have, then they'll start to get it.
> You'd think that Amazon would have the machine learning resources to detect likely-fraudulent items with high accuracy, should they be interested in preventing such obvious fraud.

They must not be interested. After all, they still get paid and have a level of legal insulation due to how they've structure Amazon marketplace. I wonder how long it'll take for their overall brand to take a hit over this, though.
> Pensions are not inherently unsustainable.

Please read the link I posted above:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/10/demise-d...

Defined Cost pensions are sustainable. That's what we in the private sector have: 401k and Roth.

Defined Benefit pensions aren't sustainable. That's why nobody outside of government has them, and the ones sponsored by the government suffer huge deficits and are slowly but surely edging towards bankruptcy.
I'd love to hear more about why intellectual property is an oxymoron - you have piqued my interest :D
I supplied the right link. I suppose we're reading the page differently. If you don't think that page is evidence enough that CoffeeScript inspired much of ES6 then I suppose we experienced the times differently.

Here's a nice article showing that CoffeeScript was on Brendan's mind when he was working on Harmony (ES6): https://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/

He calls Ruby/Python/CoffeeScript "unsyntax" and he doesn't like it I think :P

edit: apparently he does like it, he just doesn't think it would work on the web, he elaborates here: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/11/25/Hobgoblin-of-Little-...
PHP is JIT-compiled, which helps.
A fly-by-wire system can't fix a blown tyre or an improperly-secured load, both of which are very common occurrences.
> He really doesn't make that much (50k-65k)considering he is at the top of the pay scale

~~I find that surprising, but it may be because he works for a large trucking company. The vast majority of truckers on the road are Owner-Operators and can easily pull down 150K+.~~

While looking for some facts to back this up, I came across this link [1] which talked about how even though drivers earn 183K on average, expenses eat that away and the average take home is 50-60K.

[1]: https://haulhound.com/blog/owner-operator-driver-pay/
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If they platoon or draft (or whatever the word is where like five travel right on top of each other and save fuel based on avoiding air resistance incurred only by the front one), there can be substantial savings if that is automated.
They were formed as being something more than [ed: for example] https://cryptome.org/

Specifically with aim of getting more publicity in mainstream media.

There's always been some concerns about why Wikileaks felt the need to rise so much money:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101210045502/http://mail.kein....

Note: personally I'm happy both cryptome and Wikileaks exist - but critising Wikileaks for being a media organization - one that claims to do some journalistic work, and hence apply a certain viewpoint - misses the fact that that's the whole reason it exists.

There were other leak sites, earlier leaks - and deafening silence in mainstream media.

It's sort of the difference between "room 614a" and Snowden.
See Shell Oil's SmartPump...from 1997:

https://robotnews.wordpress.com/2006/04/07/service-robots-sh...
They are trying to automate these on the Mississippi with machine learning and sonar maps, I met a developer with that task not so long ago in New Orleans. Can't imagine Lake Charles would be too far behind.
What's the R&D spending on healthcare administration (e.g. hospitals/clinics)? The 'healthcare' sector spends the most on R&D, but I would imagine that is almost entirely because of pharma/biotech.
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