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Yeah my point was that, at the margin, the increase in labor would have more of a downward impact on the price equilibrium of wages than it would (eventually) have in an upward way.

The argument I am arguing against is something like:

Immigrants join the labor force -> They increase the economy -> The increase in the economy increases jobs -> More jobs increase wages.

I think this what you are essentially saying?

The problem here is inflation and productivity. In order for everyone to prosper either:

1. There is no inflation and therefore purchasing power is maintained, or

2. Wage growth and interest rates outpace inflation.

No. 1 will not happen under our current monetary system, and no. 2 has not happened due to:

a) Competition in the labor market has keep real wage growth flat, and

b) The unprecedented (in the history of mankind) money creation (AKA Quantitative Easing) used to bail out financial institutions has destroyed interest rates and created a massive inflation in asset prices.

Another factor is that different jobs impact the economy differently. Or put another way, different jobs create different levels of 'value' in society (the monetary kind not moral kind). The difference between the price of a good or service, and the perceived value of a good or service is the 'consumer surplus'.

Fact is, highly skilled immigration is going to create a higher level of consumer surplus compared to low skilled immigration. Highly skilled immigration in areas where there are shortages is going to also have a bigger impact on economic growth.

I think you will be hard pressed to find anyone arguing against this sort of immigration... the issue that dare not be spoken is the impact low skilled and illegal immigration has on the labor market.
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> Why hasn't the market solved this problem?

The market did solve the problem and then we blew it by undermining the family unit so we have people dependent on the state with no significant family support.

> Believe it or not, its not impossible to manufacture a living space in a factory and assemble it on site in a day, to provide extremely well made and affordable housing structures.

The soviets tried this approach it doesn't work because you end up with a shitload of crappy communist housing blocks. The correct approach is to develop as much high end housing as possible which pushes all other houses down the depth chart. We want the poor living in houses that the rich used to own - not shittier houses.

At some point we have to realize that the issue isn't wealth or even inequality. The harsh reality is a significant number of the population has a several hundred dollar a day drug addiction and no means of taking care of themselves even if they were handed a blank check.
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This ignores the Soviet Union and all of it's allies, which did trade amongst themselves but failed regardless.
> What's the next stage of society?

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, duh.
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Aren't ECC RAM and redundancy able to keep both the dead and the chocolate where they belong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_(engineering)
awesome! now I just need an fMRI machine...
This is some serious awesome tech!
Solving inequality goes against everything in nature. The market is as close to an evolutionary natural state as we can get.
what about hate?
I think most of us agree that SQLite is close to the gold standard for stability and testing. This post reminds us that even SQLite has critical bugs.

But looking at https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/rptview?rn=7 I see a few Core Crash Bugs every month (April has 7). Most of them are not 'critical', to be clear, plenty of 'severe' and 'important' in the list.

I don't want to disparage SQLite. They have a free, fantastic product, go to great lengths to have stability no matter what, and document their processes. I learned a lot of them.

But clearly, our gold standard is not perfect. So now what?

* We might turn to theorem proving. But is it possible at SQLite scale? Are the proofs themselves enough? I remember about a critical piece of software with a proof no incorrect answers would come out. Turns out they forgot to prove the program would end, so they got no answer ever instead of an incorrect one. How do you prove your proofs are complete enough?

* We might turn to fuzzing, code analyses, linting,... SQLite does all of them.

* Or simply admit we are human, fallible, and try to do the best we can while knowing our limits? Sounds defeatist.
The other comments here along with my own experiences suggest that this is no longer the case.
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Well, great for Erlang.

But this hardware is not running on Erlang but on C++. Erlang is used for testing.
I've actually had more luck with ebay recently, in fact I'd say that it's starting to become my go-to for small items.
> Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.

But not having 3 kids when you cannot afford having them might be.
That is the issue nobody likes to address. For driving a car you have to have driving license, for owning a gun you have to have some kind of permit, to made new human being you can just go ahead. No matter if you can raise it.
Would she be better of not having them? Might be, but certainly those kids won't be advancing social ladder, but rather emulating what they see at home: making kids and living on welfare/foodstamps.
Key is not giving away tax money from hard working people away, but providing education (also in context that your choices have consequences).
That wouldn't make them intelligent at all. This idea that there should always be fairness and equality in existence is very naive.
Russia and China have more than India. I believe they haven't used demonetisation.
Humans attach prestige to solving problems the old school way. We have ladders but watch pole vaulting at the Olympics.
The question you're asking is really about the Pandas library and its API, not so much about Python the language as such.

Python objects can have both callable methods (e.g. mean()) and properties/attributes that don't need an explicit call (e.g. mean). For whatever reason, it looks like Pandas' describe() method returns a result with a different interface when called with an argument than without one.
Yeah I didn't think so.

We only use x86_64 for convenience during active hacking on our workstations, then we simulate ARM for local testing and intermediate CI, and do release candidate CI & deployments to ARM target hardware.
OP here, thanks! I posted a few more details here[1] and will follow up with an in depth blog post covering as much as possible rest.

For the smart home setup I am mostly using Elgato Eve SmartPlugs, their door and window sensors and Homebridge for everything that does not integrate with HomeKit natively. Any light source I cannot directly plug into a power outlet (ceiling mounted e.x.) is at least remote controllable via RF, not IR, and I am currently working on figuring out how to send the control signals through an PI or Arduino with an RF transceiver.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17966311
[2] https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
Jungle.com was pretty big in the UK back in its day. Unfortunately issues with supplier confidence due to the original dotcom bubble burst were its undoing (supposedly).
>Ericsson was/is Intel's large foundry client

That is actually Nokia. Not Ericsson
Reference please.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ranks Australia as 13th, at 2% of Australia's GDP[1][2].

Which is below the worldwide average of 2.2%, although given our geographic remoteness and relative security, I absolutely agree that it's too much.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies places Australia at 12th.

[1] https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/1_Data%20for%20all...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
Just as an counter example to your reasoning... there are actually whole movements of people focusing on dangerous low probability events to increase the odds of good worlds coming out of them. Given very real prospects like dangerous races towards AGI or pandemics in the future, it seems like a very bad strategy to advocate for the status quo of not caring. If you are not willing to do anything yourself look at the possibility of donating. That does not disturb your world too much but actually makes a difference. I would love to see comments like yours point out this possibility more prominently as we would all be better for it, you too :)

For more concrete insights regarding the role that everyone can play have a look at: www.80000hours.org or more generally at www.effectivealtruism.org
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I am in London and hoping to find a non technical co-founder with a digital marketing background.

Have others went on this journey before? Any tips to save me from wasting my time. Right now, all I have is meetups on Meetup. And I reckon 90% of them won't bear fruit. I'm not sure about any of the "seek co-founder" type sites.

Thanks

FYI:

I launched https://fintechreport.info at the beginning of the year as an MVP and have received positive feedback etc.

This type of product strongly relies on content marketing, which is not really my area and as such, seeking a co-founder to manage that side of the business while I manage tech and build out the site features I have in mind.
In Poland now I have 100GB for 29zł (so around 8$). Also sim-only.
+1 for this excellent book on core Python

It can be complemented by:

- The Python 3 Standard Library by Example
- Python Cookbook
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I hope this reaches hospitals and patients soon. I recently had to pay ~$1k for a transvaginal ultrasound at Stanford Hospital. That is what I paid AFTER insurance, I think the hospital billed the insurance company another $5k or so. Absolute highway robbery, and prohibitive for many people in need of these assessments.
> I would argue that any Linux or vSphere admin with any real amount of experience should be able to read any of the documentation I linked and be able to confidently work through it in an hour or two.

Having glanced through those documents, I agree that it doesn't appear to be overly complex. However, considering how much CLI there was in those instructions, I'd argue that it's evidence that this feature is not what could safely be called "well implemented" (or perhaps "well integrated" would have been better for me to use) and probably not "well understood".

If it actually only ever requires that hour or two and nothing ever again and isn't brittle, that's great. If it ever needs debugging, especially if a critical performance problem crops up, a rare expert might be needed after all.

I realize my overall point is, essentially, FUD, but, absent a large enough installed base, that's not a totally outlandish stance for a decision-maker with an already-working solution.

> Once VFs are created and assigned, it largely "Just Works". The only real caveat I know of is that seamless live migration of the guest is no longer an option

If they have to be individually/manually (or automated, just not already integrated into the usual VM management mechanisms), wouldn't this also prevent other forms of virtualization flexibility?

Ultimately, though, especially in this case, it seems like virtualization is a solution looking for a problem. That there may be (even nearly complete) mitigations for some performance issues doesn't mean that there won't still be some overhead and, more importantly, at scale, the virtualized options are always going to be noticeably more expensive than bare metal.
Second that. The best on the subject. Tons of real life examples.
"half the stuff is fake, the other half is ads"

You and I have had very different experiences with Amazon. I am not sure where this sentiment is coming from, I have literally never seen "fake" products on there. I appreciate that there are obviously some bad actors on that site re-selling stuff, but I cannot say I have experienced them and I use Amazon a fair amount.

Do you have some examples?
> ... without proposing any solutions...

While I don't necessarily agree with everything the poster is saying--implying that someone is only allowed to discuss topics in which they have a readily available solution would likely ruin most discussion on the internet and it would certainly put a damper on scientific work the world over.
One time I used a system that, when setting my password, it converted all letters to lower case, but it didn't do the same when trying to log in. I figured out that's what happened when I called them and they told me to give them the password over the phone (yep) and then started giving me hints about what was 'wrong' with the password I gave them. This was a financial services company.
The clock might have been 4MHz, but the actual MIPS was only 0.5, IIRC.

The beauty of that cpu/architecture is that you could write in machine code easily, no assembly required. For example, MOV a constant to a pointer in memory was code 012737 with 01 denoting move command, 27 specifying the first operand as a constant residing in the memory immediately following that instruction, and 37 is specifying the second operand as a pointer, also in memory.

010102 was MOV register 1 to register 2.

I self-taught myself this while in the high school, because Basic was too slow there.
> Why hasn't the market solved this problem?

Well my elementary knowledge of economics suggests that the market equilibrium price is the intersection of the supply and demand curves. There is additional demand but at a price lower than can be supplied. It is not profitable to supply housing further, and some demand is not met. This will always be the case (according to my elementary understanding of economics).

That is where socialism comes in in most countries. Since profit motive cannot solve this problem, compassion motive can. Supplying low cost housing without disrupting the rest of the real estate market is managed in a variety of fashions in different countries to greater or lesser success.
I recall reading somewhere that the code of SQLite also has some UB. Which makes me wonder, if they use runtime sanitizers, like ASan, UBSan, etc.
Please try to be charitable, not adversarial, toward the counterparties in a discussion on HN. I will try to do the same.

I was characterizing what the parent appeared to be saying, so that I could discuss it (that greed is a part of human nature). I was not justifying greed.

I rent an apartment and I don't own a car.
Agree, simply in that by changing my driving style I could get 30+ miles per gallon of gas using a manual but not an automatic of the same type of car. It's interesting that people don't even know that anymore. Additionally, manual can be very useful in a snowy/icy climate -- starting into 2nd can get you going on a slippery road where some automatics will have trouble. Much more control of torque.
One very easy and still possibly higly impactful way of making a difference without having to concern yourself too much with dangerous low probabilities events is to donate to charities which focus and work on these matters effectively.

It would be awesome if you would consider this possibility when this topic comes up again in the future or even better investigate this possibility for yourself. It is not that hard and you can really have an impact :)

For more information have a look at 80000hours.org or effectivealtruism.org
Regulating a service and providing it at public expense are completely separate concepts.

Europeans do not have cheap healthcare as a result of price controls on private medical practices (regulation), but as a result of redistribution and subsidy (spending).
At the last place we were at the designer used not only a retina screen but also had sight problems meaning he always wore his super sharp glasses that meant he saw everything sharper than anyone else ever did.

It was difficult to explain to him that things he thought looked great would actually be a problem for many people.
Well, the description of how the system works, in the article, makes it sound like it has a database of passport photos for US citizens, and a database of photos taken on entering the country for citizens of other countries:

>> The new veriScan system developed by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority—with guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection—scans the faces of travelers approaching the gate. The system then compares the photo to a gallery that includes images of that person—either their passport photo for U.S. citizens or the photo taken of foreign nationals when they entered the country.

So that's definitely not just the passports that have been checked into the flight- foreign nationals in particular may have entered the country at any time and place other than before boarding a flight at Dulles.

Which is why there are privacy concerns in the first place- because it can be used to track the movment of people across multiple trips.
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So: only the wealthy should have children. Got it.
Right, but had you graduated with that debt, you would have been able to pay it off due to the salary you'd earn with your CS degree, right?
I wonder if there is a way we can block these. This is getting really irritating especially in the electronics category where there is a ton of Chinese off market brands which take up a lot of space and then you get to the ones you need
I had mostly cuba in mind with this comment
Bloody hell... Covox!!!

I remember making a knock-off and having doubts if something this simple would work. But it did and it was absolutely magnificent. The PC stopped beeping and started making proper sounds. The sunset of the age of tangible computer wonders :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
Thanks ... So the link without the https should work, I'll get to fixing the proper site when I can back to my desk.

Cheers.

Edit: temporary fix in place - working on the rest of the site now 8-(
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Glad to see the fun police are still out in force here.
They're capable of pushing down the odds, at a price.
I would love to do this but too many sites use web fonts to provide custom icons with crucial functionality. E.g. media playback controls or e-mail actions.

Without web fonts a lot of app style websites become a guessing game of which squiggly box does what. :/

Really, what Id like is an easy “functionality level switch”. Base level (default): article websites. minimal js, no mouse events, no keyboard events, no fonts, no css hover effects. Level 2: apps. Fonts, full css, more js, still some limitations. Level 3: full trust / compatibility mode.

If there’s any such plugin, I’m all ears. uMatrix is a step, but not exactly in the right direction.
"I think the only thing I would like to have automated but have not yet is getting photos from our phones on the server, right now they still go through iCloud."

I use Nextcloud for this, every picture I take is directly synced to my own basement. I can browse them and share them directly from the ui. Nextcloud also offers a nice webui for your email and allows syncing of you calendar and contacts from iPhone or Android. For me it allowed me to switch away from Google for my phone's back-end.
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You're missing the forest for the trees. Yes, it is true that the bots was suboptimal and made elementary errors, notably around vision. However, overall they did really well. The mere fact that they could coordinate with each other without explicit communication was very impressive.

On each of the poor utilization of skills, I could counter by saying there were other objectives in play. For example, you didn't mention that the "skill that does more damage for every point of missing health on targets" also happens to freeze the target for 1.5 seconds. Perhaps the goal of the bot was just to hold the enemy in place.

Honestly it's pretty easy to sit around saying "yeah nothing impressive here". But I've been playing this game for a decade and fact is, if I had seen OpenAI 5 a year ago I simply would not have believed it was possible for bots to play this well.
Breaking out of poverty requires a mindset that not everyone can acquire. Given the opportunities that the U.S. has you would think that there would be NO poverty. Yet there is. At a very simple level, you would think that working hard and saving your money would get you to a higher economic plane. But to get to that point you need to be able to learn how it's done and not lock yourself into situations that that will make it so much harder to scape out of the bottom such as teen pregnancy, gangs, drugs, alcohol, and even bad role models.

The biggest problem is role models. If your family or friends live a certain way then you tend to copy them unless you're able to think differently or have someone to advise you thru your early years.

Not only that, getting out of poverty is a long-term process that requires hard work in the right areas. But even hard work is not enough. I can do very hard work all my life at a minimum wage job and never get ahead.

At a very basic level getting out seems very simple. All people need to do is to study to get a good job and work hard. But in reality, that's not enough. You need the support system and the right mindset to get you out. Many people can do it but as we see over and over many people can't.

I think the throwing jobs and money at the problem is not enough. I think what would work is to consult young families and young kids that are at risk on what they need to do to get ahead. This needs to be done not once but for years and on a regular basis. It would be similar to a regular check up the way we visit the doctor or dentist.
Only if you’re already well off, or have an income stream. No jobs in the middle of nowhere.
What’s wrong with the idea of sharing?
Yeah, that's the crux of the matter. I'm one of the rare (outside the HN bubble at least) tech users who try hard to retain control of data and avoid cloud providers. I've never used Gmail, I have a Google account but almost never sign into it, I don't have a Facebook account, I aggressively block ads, tracking scripts, etc, etc. It seems like the main cost I'm paying for that isn't the setup effort (setting up a mail server for instance is mostly a one-time effort), it's the lack of some really neat features. I don't get Google alerts relevant to items on my calendar, the photos I take with my phone stay there until I manually transfer them to my PC, I don't have an easy way to look up which restaurant I visited in another city 2 years ago, and the list keeps getting bigger.

I really like the idea of having centralization at a personal level, but it seems like the most you can get out of it is fairly hassle-free synchronization of your stuff between devices. Which is nice, but I don't see how it could provide Google-style features that are useful mainly because of the aggregation of many gigabytes of user data per day.
> This is a business-model problem, not a technical problem.

The technical solution would be to introduce a highly optimized first-class browser API "just send everything I do to these trackers" without JS or including remote scripts.

Browser vendors adding thin veneers of security (while also introducing side channels) and web developers finding ways of circumventing these mechanisms, with some of these circumvention mechanisms being standardized again is a bizarre ritual dance that benefits no one. (Add to this the fact that the biggest browser vendor is also the biggest beneficiary of the whole ad racket.)