skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Automation crisis" reminds me of "peak oil." Take a current problem (high unemployment, high oil prices), ignore the reasons for them (the global financial crisis, disruption oil supply along with increased oil demand), and instead construct a strange eschatological reason for the problem (machines are taking all of our jobs, we're almost out of oil).

Let's look at actual measures of automation - productivity growth. It's been very low over the past decade[1] when compared to decades past. Prime age employment has been returning to pre-crisis highs[2] - despite people claiming that the old jobs were gone and new jobs wouldn't replace them (the machines were supposedly going to take them all).

[1] https://www.bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.htm
[2] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300060
You can start with the Hour of Code, some lessons are easy to grasp for preschoolers.

There is also a nice LEGO Mindstorms game, Fix the Factory - they can learn the basic concepts, and then try to recreate them in the real world using actual Mindstorms blocks.
Anyone know if there's a way to get the Oreo "Recent apps" feature back? The new one is fairly terrible in my opinion, it now takes many more swipes to get back to the app I want.
US 13th Amendment keeps slavery legal for punishment of a crime.
I did not see that coming. Also, your username checks out. Also, I realize that I am not on reddit. =))
In their early days, escalator's were disruptive in that "elevator operators" were eliminated. I wonder if that contributed to the reluctance to use them at first.
The US military has been using drones to kill people for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator
That link seems to describe a hack of a vulnerable C&C protocol rather than basic radio interference?
The long hallways that don't end in rooms bug me; no one would build a structure like that.
Like if there were a public restroom near that area. It's at a subway terminal, I'm sure other people have "needs" as well. And if a homeless person needs to take a private crap, well, all the better.
Sure, but I think non-preprint cultures would instantly become only-preprint cultures because I believe (and this might be folly) that most researchers rely on work they are confident about based on experience with the authors and details from the paper. I don’t know if this is that bad of a change since I admittedly do this already.
Many Big Pharma companies literally have their PR department run their clinical trial studies. If someone is surprised that a paper sounds like a press release they have a lot to learn how "science" works today.
Greek here. You said:

> no collapse of Greek industry.

In fact, Greece's industries have collapsed during the late 70s, 80s and 90s, when Greece had the Drachma.

The reason is economies of scale: local industries cannot compete with global ones.
I'm ever more opening my eyes to how much crucial tasks for the functioning of the society are being done by low-paid workers under terrible conditions. We do have alternatives, but the profit motive comes before the quality of life of these people.
Unsplash [1] is a nice alternative that I’ve checked out a few times. Use for any purpose is free. No attribution required (though it’s recommended). It has proper documentation on the license, privacy policy, etc. There are even apps available to browse, download images from the site and use. Anybody can contribute images to it.

P.S.: I’m not associated in any way, except as an end user, with Unsplash or any other photo/image service.

[1]: https://unsplash.com
> Has anyone had any luck finding a way to put perspective on it, or figure out a lie that helps keep you going?

Don't lie to yourself, it's no good trying to build some delusional version of the world, your subconscious mind knows how to look through the cracks of the mirror and the dead weight will rear its head at some point and pull down at the worst possible moment.

Getting some perspective is about learning to take a step back and contemplate (practicing mindfulness and meditation may help in strengthening the matching neural pathways). Yet keep in mind that it does not mean being indifferent[0]. Pick your fights, choose to act upon what you can and desire to[1]. Find balance.

[0]: (Warning: copious profanity) https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck

[1]: https://i1.wp.com/thebestintent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/...
"strange as if it were familiar"

Don't you see the paradox you have introduced. What came first the strangeness or the familiarity?

We are all very good at meaning/structure making post hoc.
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"The world" is a synecdoche in that context. These people don't literally think we're going to make the earth disappear.
Not unlike Apple bullying Cupertino. They got their huge HQ without much alteration.

Speaking of Cupertino, right near there, a huge battle to allow I think 1,000 units replacing a dead shopping mall. All the usual complaints of traffic.

So 1000 apartments would have intolerable traffic, but 25,000 people in one building won't, seemed to be the argument.
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I don't think I could grasp basic algebra until about 14 and my classmates too XD
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I can provide you the following opml extract of my RSS feed reader.

Most are custom blogs, I also source from HN, Lobste.rs, a french news feed (Developpez) and dev.to, and I also shamelessly provide my own blog under the category "Artemix".

You can import what you want from it.

Here's the dump link: https://hastebin.com/agigejubuj.xml
There is much less swearing going on than in the last few rants. Usually that means Linus is extra serious.

I remember reading a chef (might have been Bourdain) who said something like when the head chef is shouting "Where the fuck is the fucking lamb you useless piece of shit" then things where basically on track, but if he calmly said "can you please hurry up with the starters for table 6 and 7" then he knew he was in deep trouble and really had to pick up his pace.
"...%30 of African Americans can’t vote in Florida because of their dealings with the “justice” system..."

I'm not a southerner. I'm certainly no Floridian. But I strongly suspect that's not a "coincidence". I think the current system was likely set up as a political "gimme" meant to appease Southerners.
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It's always interesting telling americans that there is still slavery in their country and it is completely legal.
Quality can't be defined.

But in this specific case it is about the amount of quality work that went in to the material.
Many of the popular journals in cancer biology have strict data retention policies. If that was the case in your example, you should probably contact the editor but also appreciate that mistakes do happen and most people are not cheating the system.
Why is knowing any history important? The Western Empire's collapse in 476 is considered a major and important event in world history, but it's knowledge is of conceivable value to any future human endeavour. We value it because we like knowing where we came from.

To the question of obviousness - lots of things are obvious but wrong. It was obvious that Earth was at the centre of the universe. It was obvious that heavier-than-air craft couldn't fly. It was obvious that the aether existed. Studying obvious things is important.
On the company's copier, of course. You don't want to have to pay for something like that yourself, like some pleb, do you?
Narowcasting to the rich child-free urban hipster segment. First thing I did was disable voice ordering, or my kids would have ordered 75 xbox consoles by now.

Its worth considering that buying an echo doesn't necessarily show up in toilet paper sales; it might show up in amazon music, or audible audiobooks. My amazon music purchases went from zero to a very small amount. Alexa does audiobook reading better than my phone apps, and obviously doesn't drain my phone battery. I've spent more on audiobooks than I have on echo dots.
‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear
Things are going to get a lot tougher climate wise, and unnecessarily so, which is a shame.

But we'll still be here, making science and art. That much you can rely on.
As a UK user it's just nice to finally have it back. Good to know things are still going swimmingly despite the GDPR setbacks.
Second-generation A.I.-powered June Oven cooks faster, smarter, and easier
Good to see the 6 months Premium for EU users, but I am still unconvinced; I switched to Pocket after the GDPR fiasco, is there any reason to switch back?
Building an adobe home in the woods of southwestern New Mexico
4%+ of people who receieve the death penalty are innocent. This is unacceptable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-...
Is it possible that there is a universe in every particle?
Thanks for the shout out to IKS (ibm cloud). you have no idea how obsessed we are with this service so it's always great to see someone noticed. :)
> AND if the EU forced all phone makers to stop bundling USB cables and chargers with every phone.

If all bundled cables were the same, people could reuse them more often.
Hmm. I think you're conflating issues. My parents didn't drink at all. But we were poor. Also buying 4 bottles/cans doesn't mean you drink them all at once. I'm with the parent comment... I can have FOUR evenings where I sit on the deck and sip a delicious beer (alone or with my wife and dog or a friend, etc) for the same price as a single pint of beer at a pub.

Of course, it's not a universal "or" - sometimes I want to sit a pub with people and try a single pint of beer I've never had before. The (great?!) grandparent point of comparing all these options is a reasonably healthy habit you can build, that often comes from experiencing poverty, and using the options available to you to avoid it in the future.
With wisdoms such as:

> There were two decent solutions that would have ended this crisis within a year or two. One would have been that Greece default on its debts, paying back for example 30% of outstanding loans. Another would have been for Greece to leave the Euro Zone and go back to using the drachma (their currency before the Euro), and pay its creditors in the new currency. This new drachma would quickly fall in value as the Greek central bank would print more drachmas, making it easier to repay the devalued drachma loans.

How would defaulting on debts have solved any problems? Still nobody would have bought new Greek debt and since Greece was running at a deficit before it still would have run at a deficit, just without any additional funds. They still would have had to get their administration in order to actually collect taxes etc.

The second proposition is even more ridiculous, nobody would have bought the new debt, the Drachma would have been entirely worthless and any sort of import (of, e.g., medicine) would have been impossible.

Edit to add: And what happened of course proves that these two "alternatives" would have been ridiculous. Greece could easily have (on its own) decided to default or switch to a new currency. No outside power could force them to stay in the euro or pay their incurred debts. Yet somehow they decided against these measures and instead took the horrible low-interest loans offered to them.
They've studied SO2 injection in the atmosphere but I'm not sure it's a good idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

A less dramatic thing to try would be a carbon tax of say $50/ton combined with a similar credit for sequestration efforts like seaweed farming.
Like a fever :)
That's abuse, not neglect.
That would be awesome and I think everyone would like to do this but funding for that barely exists. If you’re in the United States, complain to NIH, NSF, and especially your rep.
Why did you decide to license under MPL? Just curious as I haven't seen many projects licensed this way. Most projects go MIT or Apache2.
This seems to me like the eternal tech discussion about the beauty of, say, Haskell vs. what it produces in the real world. For some people, the intrinsic elegance of the language is enough, while for others the language is just a means to an end.

While I can perhaps appreciate the perspective that a game of football could be beautiful to someone when there are no shots, to me the movement and positioning and passing are all means to an end: setting up scoring opportunities. In general, I get sort of annoyed by things divorced from reality: math and science need their engineering, programming languages need their killer apps, and football strategies need their goals!
I agree.. people can be dishonest and hurtful while being perfectly polite, just like they can be honest, kind and caring while swearing like sailors. That is the difference that matters. When you ignore that and just look at the form, you get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

Here's Linux talking about being straightforward, and why he cannot afford ambiguity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=35m51s
> My preferred solution is to give each actor multiple inboxes so that unrelated messages don't get conflated.

This is definitely an option, and I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually end up with something like this, though I'm not sure yet how the garbage collector would handle this.
It should also be said major parts of the Python scientific ecosystem was written by computational biologists!
Do they expect to have any EU user after being out 2 months? I've been chatting with the support and I heard only the classic "soon".
They make you comfortable as they attempt to give insight to something they don't understand, but it's not too personal and since they know little about you, there's not much room for judgement.

Kind of like a one night stand, same principle (though much like a real relationship is much more rewarding, it's also a lot more work, the parallels here are fairly apparent)
So, can you give a definition of a non-typical and obtrusive hobby where MA would exercise prior restraint? Given that MA is made up of 352 municipalities (all of whom hate each other), and no significant county government, I'm finding it difficult to understand the statewide prohibitions (with the noted exception of fireworks) that you find limiting.

Also, as I'm sure you know, while MA gun laws are statewide, issuance is done by the local police department, which means that you don't even have to get outside of I-95/MA-128 to find a "shall issue" town.
They’re referring to the use of an inexpensive, commonly available drone, not a four million dollar weapon.
Any pipes connecting game -- very similar skillset to casual programming. I consider most programmers digital plumbers! It's also why games like BioShock and Deus Ex have them as mini games for hacking/programming.
I had a lot of success with code.org's Hour of Code. First with my five-year-old, and then two classes of elementary school-aged children. It's extremely visual, introduces kids to actual code syntax, and lets the kids choose what theme most interests them. We went with Star Wars, but there are lots of other options.

Every kid will get it at a different pace. So don't stress it and just enjoy the one-on-one time. The most insightful advice I ever read was, "Even if they don't get it, you have still spent quality time with your kid."
In it's current form it's literally welfare for a certain class of people.
Not rude at all! There are precious few textbooks on ILP, it's mostly a bunch of scattered papers published in various journals and conferences. Nienhuys-Cheng and de Wolf are an excellent first point of call. You can also try the following books:

Logical and Relational Learning - Luc de Raedt [https://www.amazon.com/Logical-Relational-Learning-Cognitive...]

Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming, Theory and applications - Luc de Raedt, Paolo Frasconi, Kristian Kersting, Stephen Muggleton [https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Inductive-Programming-L...]

And this book chapter (although it's probably nothing new compared to Foundations of ILP):

Inductive Logic Programming: Theory and Methods - Stephen Muggleton and Luc de Raedt
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0743106694...

Unfortunately, there are, as of yet, no textbooks on Meta-Interpretive Learning and I don't expect there to be one for a few years still. MIL is a very new area of research. The first papers were published only in 2015 and we are basically still working on it furiously. It will take a while before there is enough material for a textbook. All the same, I am planning to do a few internet postings regarding MIL, at some point in the near future.

Please feel free to contact me via my profile email, if you would like some pointers to MIL and more general ILP resources other than the ones discussed above.
Your sqlite package totally fits my needs. My biggest problem is that I hate the database/sql layer. Connection pooling is completely unnecessary and surprising in a sqlite context. I honestly have no idea how anyone is using it with sqlite. The concept of a sqlite "connection" goes out the window. You can no longer use sqlite transactions in any normal way. You get locking issues if you don't force it into shared cache mode.

I've always wanted just a pure sqlite package with a one-to-one mapping of functions. Your driver is totally what I've always wanted to exist.

I've put up a preview version of my package if you wanted to look at it.

https://github.com/bvinc/go-sqlite-lite

My project started as a fork of https://github.com/mxk/go-sqlite/tree/master/sqlite3

I ended up removing a ton of features, removing the database/sql driver, getting rid of all the "caching" of information that it does, removing callbacks (which I plan to re-add later), and renaming the methods to match sqlite function names.

It still has some niceties that I plan to keep, such as the Scan method to extract several columns with a single method call, and a RowData type to extract rows into a go map.

I found your project in Github and I'm going to suggest some things. There's a particularly nasty footgun that you might have by not having HAVE_USLEEP defined on UNIX. I'll open an issue.
Lightbot is a fun way to introduce some very basic ideas.

http://lightbot.com/
Meanwhile, Instapaper just killed their Apple Watch app: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/08/03/instapaper-apple-wat...
This is a human universal. The stranger on a train phenomenon is one way we describe the same thing in the west. If you've ever been a traveller, you'll know that people on the road open up to you in a way that few people at home will.
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I tried pi-hole (a few months back on an rpi3) and am pretty sure it got hacked, making something like 100,000 DNS requests in a few minutes during a low use period. I'd guess that's some sort of advertising impressions hack.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to sort the issue, so can't guarantee I didn't err. But I stopped using it; which was a shame as I really liked the device usage reporting in particular.

Anyone else had similar? Make sure to check your stats.
I would have loved/expected a short explanation as to why GDPR compliance took so long to achieve.

I really love Instapaper and use it a lot. Especially the send to kindle feature. Luckily for them I did not stumble upon an easy 1:1 replacement.

But not even explaining the challenges seems quite a bit off and suspect. It is not like I keep my health records there (at least to my knowledge :) )
I wouldn't say "outstanding", I'd say original. For example the app that mapped the Samsung Bixby button to something else, Greenify, Island and Helium. There are others, but these came to my mind first.
My personal journey. My first editor was vi. Then I learned about emacs and used it for a few years. But I still had to use vi when I logged in remote machines that didn't have emacs. When vim came a long, it was almost as good as emacs and I could use it everywhere.

Conclusion: vi/vim was everywhere already.

Now days I use sublime. I still use vi/vim when using *nix servers.
eLife is excellent.
You can board a flight in the United States without ID as well, though I'm not sure you're strictly allowed to.

This happened to me in 2007. Arrived at a regional airport at 6am bleary eyed and without my wallet. Had to jump through some hoops and I assume some regulations might have been bent/broken but I made my flight. Someone made a judgment call and waved me through.
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Maybe its for accessing utilities/maintenance.
Mine is on a Debian VM too, I already had a server to put it on and my RPI is busy running 4player super bomberman :-)
Canada is the same as the US, maybe more so. I'm guessing Australia and New Zealand are similar.
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The code base is new, so mostly modern C++14. Qt/QML, Mac/Windows/Linux, Boost, FFMPEG. Experience with backend technologies and Google Cloud would be a plus.

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The kind of processing power needed for good-enough speaker-independent recognition at home has been cheap for several years. For speaker-dependent recognition, it's been cheap for decades. Amazon, Google, and Apple like to sell the myth that the cloud is necessary (because processing power!) but it's simply not so. The real reason they say these things is to get your data.
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> If you look at IQ and the kinds of jobs people sub-100 IQ can retain, you begin to realize very quickly that about half of the population is going to need to be retrained in some kind of intellectual job going forward.

This is a troubling thing to think about. What I can see happening is that increasingly, the utility of the labor of people in that subpar, but still adequate, IQ band is steadily decreasing as automation tears out the bottom of semi-skilled labor. You can take somebody with an 85 IQ and put them on an assembly line, and they'll make a good living in 1970, but you can't realistically send that person to a dev bootcamp and make them into a web developer in 2018. So what do they do? Low skilled service industry work sure isn't the answer. My suspicion would be that the trades are most likely to combine reasonable return and resistance to automation, along with a probable shortage once the boomers retire, but it's a thorny question.

I think it's become obvious that the "Everybody needs to go to college" narrative has been borderline disastrous, given the mountains of student loan debt and stunted development that my generation has experienced.