skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this is the second graph you should have used: The labor force participation rate.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

Unless you believe more people are wealthy enough to live fine without needing to work (the opposite seems to be true[1]), what matters is not the employment rate, but labor participation rate. That's not even considering whether average wages for those who are employed are are keeping pace with rising living costs. The good news is that, eventually, automation will reduce living costs. The bad news is that fewer people will have jobs enabling them to afford even those reduced living costs.

From the BLS website glossary: '"Productivity": A measure of economic efficiency that shows how effectively economic inputs are converted into goods and services.'

I don't see why productivity as an economic measure would increase in the early stages of a process where narrow AI and robotics start to take over human jobs. Until costs come down, when AI software and robotics becomes more generic, and standardized, and adopted outside of narrow industries, the economic effects won't be as dramatic.

The only escape from narrow AI and robots taking human jobs is the creation of more bullshit jobs (see: Graeber), or genuinely new job sectors, but I have yet to read any compelling predictions of new job sectors that will employ large numbers of people and can't be automated.

Creator jobs? How many people on youtube, or patreon, or self-publishing books, earn even minimum wage from the time they put in? If you dumped 1 million, or 10 million, additional people onto those platforms and told them their new job is to create full time, how many of those additional people could make a living wage, or even minimum wage, for the time they spend?

Service jobs? While the wealthy (let's say, upper middle class and above) might want human waiters, human voice support on the telephone, etc., I think that's vastly overplayed as an opportunity for human labor. I don't think that many wealthy people would prefer to deal with humans over good AI, and I don't think it would create that many service jobs even if wealthy people did mostly prefer to pay a premium for human service.

[1] With increasing numbers of people working beyond retirement age, more debt, and more couples both working (I have nothing against that, I'm just pointing out the labor statistical reality that families' standard of living requires that more, now).
This basically seems like marketing paraded as research.
It's inconvenient to use Alexa for shopping, but I use it because returning is free for stuff bought through Alexa.
Ah, I should have made clear the admonishment about straying was intended to be self directed. Fun side topic, but I didn't want to miss on the original question. I see the OP updated with their answer backwards. Not sure what the answer says for the way we interpreted it. As you, I am just not around that many churches. So, I expect that has some influence on the answer.

Per the word choice in suffering, I know it is the common word to use for things like this. I'm sure I use it some myself, I just try and avoid it when I can. I have no doubt this affects my methods of thinking. But, having never known the other ones, really, I can't say much else about it.

It is funny how I always thought of myself as just not visual. Never really considered it was because I don't see as much with my eyes closed, per se.

The really mind blowing experience for me, is how I can find things I did in the past and have almost zero memory of the visual aspect of it. I knew I spent time on something, but I don't remember how it looked as a finished thing.
It would be good to get an early start on quantum mechanics and string theory if you want to start slow, that's kind of babying your kid too much though.
Genuine question, if you do not have lungs does asbestos have any negative impact on you? Marine animals either hold their breath and come up for air or have gills.
Ferrying is crossing a river, by propelling oneself (either swimming or in a boat) diagonally across and against the main current. In e.g. a canoe it's easy to do so without being pushed downstream at all, while when swimming you will lose some ground. The skill is knowing the best angle to take.

"ISTM" is "it seems to me", in any online discussion. b^)
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I've been keeping an eye on Luna for a little while now. It's very interesting but I have to wonder: has anyone built anything substantial in it yet? What was your experience working with it? The last time I tried it out was pre-1.0 and it was too buggy to really feel like I could get work done in it. I hope 1.4 is more stable.
Indeed it is enough. As a former "dance music" producer, I always struggled with the classifications. I think other types of music suffer the same sub-genre affliction though.
The changing role of DBAs in an “as-a-service” world – Opensource.com
As an Italian, that... "things"... in the article are not pizzas
Yes, but as long as they don't pihole works beautifully because the ads are killed before they are downloaded, in stead of stripped after the download (like with uBlock).

Especially on data capped devices like mobile phones it works wonders.
Go to a highly educated Silicon Valley tech company. Survey around. How many of these people eat beef? How many take frequent vacations via plane?

Per capita, especially due to the plane travel, their emissions are probably as high as someone in a southern red state. Personal convenience beats doing the right ting.
Exactly, we haven't achieved that much actually. Most of the technology we use for harvesting energy is not much further from what people could imagine in 19th century. Turbine was invented in the 19th century.

I really suggest watching this talk by Smil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4 and if you are interested reading some books from him about energy and oil. Really insightful.
Sorry — didn’t try with YouTube — it was working with Crackle and if I remember correctly the AMC app. That’s odd though because I’m pretty certain it blocks the YT adds on my phone (unless that’s the Purify/1Blocker add block apps which it may be).
Instapaper relaunches its premium subscription service
Maxed out Mac Pro is $6K...
OpenEMR patches serious vulnerabilities uncovered by Project Insecurity
Did I miss something or was there no mention of the plans for the next ten years?
I wrote more about this in https://twitter.com/vesirin/status/1026807849970614273?s=21. Vulnerabilities in package managers is a scary thing.
I use word based filter in my rss reader that hides certain topics I'm tired if hearing for millionth time. Recently when I was adding "Trump,Putin,Russia, Russian" I discovered my previous filter was "Ebola". I realized that I haven't heard about Ebola for very long time just because of this filter and it made me really happy.
Furthermore, if your kid is an introvert that wants the easy escape of doing things alone on the computer, then force them to do things with other kids anyway. I wish my parents had done that with me. The existence of great programmers before the rise of home computers is proof that programming can wait for later. Some things are not so easily learned later.
Remember The Clapper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny8-G8EoWOw

Seems like a solution for the privacy minded? (Wouldn't work in my house though because all might lights are switch controlled ceiling lights.)

DISCLAIMER: I have no idea how Alexa controls the lights.
WannaCry Outbreak Could Cost TSMC $170M
Aren't limited powers of the Presidency also a tempering force? So are checks and balances.

Yes, direct representation encourages mob voting, but there are hundreds of distinct mobs that can check one another.
Trump carried WAY more counties in 2016 despite losing the popular vote. That alone should tell you the map isn't a good representation of overall sentiment. Plus, Trump v. Hillary isn't necessarily a good proxy for "conservative v. liberal."
Any culture can redefine what pizza means.
I would suggest he goes for "socialist EU".
Preferably implemented with neighborhood based DC generators as Edison intended.
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/static/home/data/platform.pd...

ctrl+f EPA
ctrl+f Regulation: The Quiet Tyranny

It's really not that difficult.
Can Self-Serve Data Prep Really Work for Business Users?
Here in South Africa we've had NFC payments (Android only) for our phones. I use it every day!

Apple needs to come to the party
You could add up all the market caps of all of a country’s businesses, but thst only captures publicly traded companies... So, not sure it can be done directly, but indirectly by extrapolating onto private cos and enterprises, but that still would not capture grey market activities, etc.
For all those times I'm in my house without my phone or laptop to order something?
Colorswall web tool to play with colors and palette
Even Financial Raises $18.8M Series A from GreatPoint, Goldman Sachs, Others
SQL database, operated by different vendors, would allow double spending.
Bringing Vulkan everywhere
The anti-meat crusade is really strong these days on here, but that is not a concern that even registers in most peoples' heads.

Very few people have the luxury of considering anything outside their immediate circle of concern.
In most places you prevent tyranny of the majority through the constitution. Then in the bounds of the constitution, yes, the majority does get to decide. That's not the same as mob rule.
PowerSpike raises $500k to build live streaming influencer marketing tools
Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
Debt-to-GDP ratio is a reasonable measure to use. Giving any special significance to 100% is the problem.

It's similar to debt-to-income ratio that creditors look at. A debt-to-income ratio of 100% is considered fine as long as it is low interest. Someone with a $100k mortgage on a $100k income is in great shape, they could actually afford a much larger mortgage.
The plots and data visualizations are good, but all the tiny flying text boxes and transitional animations are terrible. Would it kill them to include a version that had static text and graphics that you could print out? Bad, inaccessible format for simply reading.
> I wouldn't have heard of it before, because before then scientists were telling us that the climate was going to get a lot cooler...

That's massively misleading.

The scientists that predicted that predicted it because they forecast that the cooling effect from particulate pollution such as smog would be bigger than the warming affect from greenhouse gases.

Not long after, we actually made fairly strong clean air laws and greatly cut back the particulate emissions, thus changing the assumptions that the cooling predictions were based on. The scientists that had predicted cooling, which had only been a small minority, then agreed with the rest that we'd have warming (assuming we didn't also get the greenhouse gases dealt with).
Aren't there 2 kinds of asbestos? 1 kind is dangerous to humans due to its particle size, and the other is larger and is filtered by your body...?
The other consideration FED and other gov. entities hold a sizable % of the debt. Which creates some BS accounting e.g. FED collects interest than transfers it's back. The danger is FED acting not so much to control the money supply as backstopping government and acting as buyer of "last resort" if there are no other takers for the debt.
Plain rivers in the place I originally from are usually either deep or fast, so to go through a rapid you can dive to the bottom where the stream is slower, then swim some time underwater, usually at some angle. A series of dives was much more efficient compared to surface swimming.
I was hoping there'd a be a Dylan Moran one... No luck there. Thanks for the link though, this is getting added to my regular podcast rotation.
Maybe humans wouldn't, but what about goblins? Orcs? What about dwarves digging exploratory tunnels, or following ore veins?
Or even kids tracker!!!
> gerrymandering or the electoral college

Look up just how many races had exactly one candidate and say that again. US politics has been adjusted based on it's ridiculous rules, different rules would have vastly more competitive races.

IMO #1 change would be nationwide proportional representation for at least one side of congress which mean every single vote counts and 3rd parties are viable.
This is a great analysis, thanks for saving me some time :) I've noticed this pattern too.

You should write a pithy blog post and link it in response to these types of articles.

I've thought of doing that for posts on HN that are preaching some technology without showing what the author did with it.

In other words, I want to see what you did; I don't care what you say. I ignore "advice"; it often seems to come from someone trying to be a "thought leader".

If you show me what you did, then I can decide if that approach is worth emulating.
And are we sure it’s not voat.co? Either way, I’m not surprised.
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Tesla Powered Audi S5 Conversion
Yeah, it's not implemented. There's P2K[0] and crofflr[1] that act as middleware between Pocket and Kindle.

[0] $3 per month subscription https://p2k.co/

[1] $5 one time payment https://www.crofflr.com/#/home
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We all know by now CO2 and CH4 leads to a warmer planet. We also know what's driving greenhouse gas levels to rise across Earth. Contributors are deforestation, intensive animal farming, and primarily the combustion of carbon fossil fuels like coal, tar sands, oil, natural gas etc. But here is the underlying problem, despite us knowing how bad things are, (97+% of scientists who study this field agree we are causing the planet's climate to shift away from the temperate climate we thrived in) not enough is being done at present to truly solve the problem.
What really is disheartening and what no one in the media and government is talking about is how in 2015 CO2 levels rose by the largest amount in human recorded history. 3.05 PPM
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html
We are being lied to and mislead by our governments that uniform actions are being performed to save the planet for the future of man. Vested interests in the fossil fuel industry continue to drive climate change. Yes, solar energy is starting to become incredibly efficient but not enough of it is coming online in proportion to fossil fuel burning that persists and is also installed annually. If we do not rally against it, our ability to live on this planet is at stake. The lives of our posterity are also at risk because of the burning. It will not be until we take extreme actions not on a country level but as humanity together that we will slow the burning and save ourselves.
What are these actions you might ask that will actually be effective? These can range from banning fossil fuels entirely, global carbon pricing system, banning deforestation, changing human diets, extreme uniform investment in renewable energy and potentially fourth generation nuclear reactors, more funding for developing nations to install alternative energy sources, and to shift the transportation grid towards sustainability.
Agreed completely. Folks should be careful what they wish for...
Its not the bottom we should be worried about, its the middle.

AI is going to outright replace a whole bunch of what are currently decently paying, stable, office jobs: accountants, clerks, schedulers.... and AI-augmentation is going to allow 1 person to do the same work that currently requires 2+ in so many fields.

Law and Medicine, two fields that have historically been good pathways to the middle class, are likely going to see AI hit them first in the middle, with the need for non-senior/non-specialized doctors/lawyers dramatically reduced as AI-assisted tools become standard.

As the middle gets cut out, more people are pushed towards lower-skill jobs that require physical interaction, likely pushing down wages in a buyer's market and decreasing the incentives for robotic automation.

That's going to be a massive blow to the US and global economy, all without having to build a single robot.
Are we sure? Did you read the thread? Or is my sarcasm meter broken this morning? reaches for another coffee
The 25% Rule
The problem is that the loss of our manufacturing base eliminated Democrat leaning organized labor outside the cities.
You forgot the URL.

[Why does this has an upvote anyway?]
This is basically what conspiracy theories (and theorists) do. They make connections between things and then pin that connection on whatever their conspiracy is about. Find a new topic of concern for your intended audience/echo chamber and repeat.

Leader of X country is related to leader of Y country. This is evidence of a back room secret cabal, a nepotistic dynasty stretching all the way back to the [American revolution, English Monarchy, time of Christ, Catholic church]. Now that we've cleared up that bit of history it's clear to see that the current situation is designed to [undermine, enslave, confuse, take over, destroy, conceal] the fact that [popular news item, pop culture figure, first world leader, common everyman problem] is actually a secret ... bah I'm tired of this, you get the point.
The taboos of polite society when talked about openly create a sort of mix of intimacy, unexpectedness, mild revulsion that stimulates laughter.

Trying to find consistent logical reasons in comedy is a pretty futile game.
I think the chargers are already OK - they use a cable and they output via USB. Most phone makers here provide you with a charger and a cable or, sometimes, just the cable (and you can use an Apple charger if you want - I do because the design is good and I have a bunch of them). For Apple, it'd be a no-brainer to ditch Lightning, except for the fact it's a bit thinner than USB-C.

If Apple goes pocketless, putting a USB socket on the charging platform is a no brainer. Lightning is much smarter and does a lot more than charging, which is not needed for this.
That sounds great :)

Have you ever looked into Ponylang? Would you be able to do a similar comparison?
Having graduated in 2008 and being totally unable to find employment in education with a STEM degree, it's not totally sensational to me to say that I spent several years with extremely low earnings as a result of having to take any job that would hire me. There's probably $250,000 of lifetime earnings that I've lost so far because I graduated a year too late. And the things I had to do at that point to survive have made me extremely cautious about building up a safety net and not taking on debt.

For reference, school districts in my area were not hiring mathematics teachers. I had to take a job clerking in a warehouse for a technology company, and I spent the next 4 years working my way over to their engineering team. I was incredibly lucky, and I suspect there are a ton of people in my cohort who are still severely underemployed.

So no, it's not total sensationalism. It's just not rigorously scientific, which is not the same thing.
How did "new uses will be reviewed by the EPA on a case-by-case basis" turn into a circlejerk against the free market?
Give the EPA a break guys, they're doing asbestos they can.
A few scientists thought global cooling could be an issue. It was an immature theory and was ultimately rejected when more work was done.

The science underpining the theory of global warming on the other hand is far, far more robust. I don't feel the need to recount how robust it is but I'll just note that it has withstood "red teams" funded by the Koch brothers, as well as Exxon and the other major oil companies who now all accept the science behind global warming.

It is highly disingenuous to equate it with global cooling.
Economic downturn. This stuff happens all the time, just ask your local dungeon developer. Or don't, because those guys are mostly jerks.
When Germany decided to cut their nuclear they picked up more coal and natural gas. They have put in a lot more other clean energy options, but since batteries and smart grids aren't good enough yet this causes a pickup. It'll be fixed later (unfortunately time is of the essence), but at least for now turning off nuclear wasn't a green move (like they say it is). Consider France and Sweden, who are also the top performers.
Considering how much food we overproduce already (about half of the food grown in the world is wasted), any slow-moving disaster has plenty of time for people to adapt, just from stockpiled production capacity. This is even considering that a large amount of this capacity is devoted to feeding livestock, producing ethanol, and producing low-yield, expensive, high labor input luxury crops. The likelihood of a climate event destroying more than 50% of the world's yield in one growing season is so scant as to be unimaginable. If you ever find yourself living in a world where almost all arable land is devoted specifically to the most calorie-dense staple crops, with almost no meat being produced, and maximum technology utilization to increase yield (greenhouses, drip irrigation, etc) you can worry. We are eons away from that point.
Frankly, I can barely tell the difference between pre-2008 and post-2008. It's nothing compared to the Great Recession, just look at some archival footage of the time.

Also, the blame is once again put on "corporations" and "wall street gangsters" instead of the failed government policy that caused it (and continues to cause it).

How could Millennials be some massively in debt? Price inflation of higher education caused by government-forced loans backed by fantasy money. Literally the same reason why the housing bubble became a bubble in the first place. And the government gets away with it by blaming those "evil corporations" for taking all that money that was presented on them on a platter.

How could so many people die from opiate overdoses? A government that allows opiates for doctors to prescribe, but then bans those same doctors from prescribing them for the resulting addicts, turning them to black-market.

It was the government that created a health insurance system that doesn't make sense and continues to not make sense under both republican and democratic administration.

Lastly, upward mobility is hampered by preventing the rural population to move to cities that have become unaffordable because of zoning laws and taxes.

Blame the damned government, at least a little bit.