skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative, which I advocate for, is that the lower class form productive collectives, stop contributing to the ultra wealthy, and generate their own real wealth. Much of the worlds wealth exists in wealth-generating infrastructure and information that is accessible to all of us. If we simply divest from the ultra wealthy and build a new economy based on cooperation, we can construct a system that inherently lifts us all. Automation will increase our productivity. In the end, the question is simply how we share the result of that gain. Normal capitalist corporations are designed to funnel wealth to a few board members, but cooperatives could succeed here too, where the wealth they generate is more naturally shared amongst all the workers. It’s not a silver bullet, but I feel as though it would represent a real improvement. We have to do something about how we distribute the creation of new wealth, and I don’t think we should wait for someone else to make this change for us - we must take action to realize the potential here!

EDIT: I also think some billionaires are sympathetic to these issues and would be willing to contribute. But if we form large economic collectives, we can amass enough power to force the wealthy to notice when we divest.
Cwtch
I thought I was the only one. It's so reliable and a page load is only 20kb most times!
Your argument is invalid exactly because you’re missing the fact that difficulty adjusts. Lightbulb produces light by consuming energy just like bitcoin miner produces hashes by consuming energy, but hashes aren’t the product we’re after, the valid block signature is. If difficulty was static we could be arguing that there is more efficient way to convert energy into valid blocks, but since difficulty adjusts - energy efficiency doesn’t matter, market says X amount of energy should be spent and so it will be spent no matter which hashing algorithm or how efficient the hardware is.
I found two other useful resources
(1) Open Source MBA (http://www.opensourcemba.org)

(2) No-Pay MBA (https://www.nopaymba.com/curriculum)
Then give some examples. The "well, we've always found a way before" is just hand waving without specifics. Importantly, if you consider a model where the rate of technological progress steadily increases, it's very possible that rate at one point will overtake the rate at which new jobs are created. When/if that happens, the calamity will come quite suddenly, even if decades and centuries prior we always found more jobs for the ones that technology destroyed.
There are several on-the-record, non-anonymous reports of people presenting themselves at a port of entry and requesting asylum, and ending up with their children taken from them and put in camps[1]. Your comment aligns with the propaganda put out by administration officials wishing to deny this.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family...
Boxers can admire each other and still bash each other's brains out. Lutz lambasts Tesla because he's on the other side of the ring; Murdoch isn't.
BTW, the readme of kdbush and flatbush don't mention each other. Might be nice if they do and clarify how they compare.

(because sometimes, people have an older, not updated library, for example)
is there a reason why you're so intently focused on the metric of intelligence here, as if it's the end-all-be-all of psychological factors?

I work in personality psychology research, so this whole IQ-centric line of reasoning is very dubious to me. There are many other influential phycological factors involved in people's lives that aren't (as far as we know) a direct result of nurture, and when taken together often make a more significant contribution to people's lives than their score in the single dimension of IQ. Learning disabilities and affective/mood disorders are a big example of this, and personality traits are just as impactful in how a person's life unfolds, regardless of intelligence.
> And that seems to be the end of the allegation. I'm wondering, "And then what?"

> Were the experts bribed or blackmailed? It seems like quite a stretch to be charged with such a serious crime for convincing experts to give a lecture.

The actual indictment is more detailed: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1099876/downl...

He's charged with conspiracy, and page 5/6 of the indictment makes me suspect the government gained some access to the conspiracy's internal communications that revealed it as such. It's still a crime to conspire with others to commit a crime, even if the plans you form are never acted upon or carried out successfully.

Edit: Further down in the indictment on pages 10-12, it looks like the accused Chinese intelligence officer convinced an employee of the company to send parts of a confidential presentation and directory listings from his work computer. The employee was later asked to download the files to an external hard disk and carry them to Europe so the intelligence officer could inspect them. It sounds like the employee was cooperating with the government and they arrested the suspect when he was expecting to get the hard disk with the files.
The allegation is

>conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies.

What you are quoting is part of how he went about it.
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> Specific examples?

Microsoft should come clean, admit their wrongdoings and recant doing from the following unethical practices:

1. Bullying the competition with software patents

2. Hijacking the ISO standardization process when they pushed through their OOXML specification

3. Having a man sent to prison for making Windows Restore DVDs from ISO images that you could download freely from the Internet

4. Lobbying lawmakers to block laws which promote open standards and free software for use in the government

5. Preventing users from running their own software using draconian DRM on closed devices (Windows 10 Mobile and S)

6. Enacting restrictive Marketplace policies against GPL-3 software

7. Launching misinformation campaigns ("Get the facts" etc.), Astroturfing and other ways of spreading lies, especially against Linux

So now they basically stopped #1 after already having more or less stopped #7, and while technically still on sale, the market laughed them out of #5. But they have still not owned up on anything, so someone mistrusting might think they could start at any time again.
>If you want to argue about the details that's great, but any discussion has to start with the reality that an unregulated market leads to really unwanted outcomes here.

Then it's a good thing nobody here, least of all me, asked for "unregulated markets". Literally your entire post is either responding to points I didn't make, or makes arguments I already addressed, making this exchange a complete waste of time for both of us.
I'm sure this discussion will be civil
To put this in perspective:

"Since 1928 the S&P 500 has seen 325 days w/losses of 3% or worse. That means it happens roughly 3.5x a year on average." - @awealthofcs

I don't think these losses are significant in the long term considering we're coming from all time highs.
I will remind the doomsayers in this thread that someone getting a job is not mainstream news.

You should not treat humans as machines that are only capable of performing a single task. We are not left to the dustbin of history if replaced by machinery.

Humankind's desires and creativity seems to be limitless which gives me optimism when thinking about the future.
Origin launches protocol for building cheaper decentralized Ubers and Airbnbs
Recently I have gotten very interested in Guix, after 16 years of only Debian. Guix keeps surprising me, most recently its container system. This page is exactly what I was looking for to get started with my own packages.
Everybody who thinks this believes in some replay of the 19th-20th centuries - personally I do not buy it because I think computation is qualitatively different to mechanization.

Moravec's Paradox strongly implies that the middle class is automated before the working class is. I think anybody who doesn't understand that isn't worth listening to since it's the most concrete result in A.I for half a century.

It's not about the bottom - it's about the middle and underclasses - that is different to the past.
Do you have a license for this post?
Not necessarily. One can use tabling (memoization) to prevent that.

Also sometimes reordering clauses in the body of a rule is enough to avoid infinite runtime.

Datalog (or SQL + recursive CTE) don't have this problem.

Mozart/Oz or Alice allow to specify the search strategy.
We label fridges to show their environmental impact – why not food?
The thing is, they probably could tell the court, if it came to that (nevermind that most people couldn't afford the time or money to take it that far). Just because someone isn't being candid about why you owe them money, doesn't mean you don't still technically owe them money in a way that can be proven. I don't know if a judge would have the discretion to waive a debt that wasn't fairly "divulged".
Overall though, more people have healthcare, more people have housing, and more people have food than ever before.

No one is arguing, 'cellphone, hence no poverty'. People are merely arguing that the lowest 10% are no longer destitute.
> Hmmm... perhaps Prolog and Lisp?

"when the proof search accidentally returns the trivial case"
Maybe the father, the sons are not better than leeches.
>There are not enough emotional jobs that can be created to fulfill 7 billion people

I hope the number of emotive-based jobs increase in the future, because mental health is an under-served problem. But the number of emotive-based jobs will never be enough for everyone because those jobs require a certain kind of sensitive, agreeable, or sociable personality.
The rediscovered original manuscript of Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon
That is correct, though it would be more correct to observe that this rate is only about 0.3% for white Pittsburgers but nearly 10% for black men. (Black males make up 12% of the population but about 80% of murder victims.)
You have two [3]s, just fyi
Origin employee here.

DApp (Mainnet beta) live at dapp.originprotocol.com

Happy to answer any questions!
It's a good sentiment, but the replacement of fast-food workers with robots won't really open up a whole new field in the same sense. Robotics and AI are wonderful and interesting fields, but honestly, let's not kid ourselves, most people who are flipping burgers probably aren't going to go on to work in the field of building their own replacements.
IMO it's all about the connections. Defense people are probably very well connected in Washington.

The Murdochs are scum, but hey, if you're a world leader and Rupert Murdoch calls, you pick up the phone. Tony Blair only became PM because he sucked up to Murdoch to gain his papers' endorsement.
What about PGP?
I upvoted this!
They say the law is to prevent vandalism but teens that go around trick or treating are less likely to vandalize than those who are just out and about, no? Candy is relatively cheap, if somebody wants to dress up and collect candy why is that so wrong?
Even without guns, it's much easier to break a robot than it is to operate one. I think the economics of the physical economy favor the physical masses over the paper wealthy.
I'm not sure. It might wind things back a bit for a short time. But during a time of economic down turn the environment becomes a low priority for a lot of people. Then when things recover there is no guarantee that things will be done any better. I'm of the opinion that we need stable governments and economies to tackle this problem.
That's really interesting because in my undergrad (which I hold a BS in Physics) overfitting and error were big topics in all labs. In fact, most physicists I know complain about overfitting in current ML models and how people are making these models and just blindly accepting results.
No, I kept going and I’m pretty happy that I decided to stick with it
I don't think I did any namecalling.

As far as that goes referring to Danish people as Dutch could also be considered less than civil.

Maybe it takes me a lot of words because I am an especially prolix person, sorry, I hadn't realized how damaging verbosity was to your feelings. I do realize however brevity is the soul of wit so let me cut it down:

Everybody knows that taxes pay for hospital costs in Europe.
The context of the conversation was being charged money at the birth of a baby, which people in Europe are not. To say that I paid 0 at the birth of my children was not an untruth but the exact truth. That I have paid taxes in the past and will pay them in the future does not change that.

Given that I was accused of lying, I think I maintained the appropriate level of civility.

Given your hectoring tone here, your insults to my nationality, complaints about my wordcount, and accusations of wiggling I worry I've been too civil.
TRESATA IS THE NEW UNICORN
tldr: Using sex to sell beer on TV is unethical.

I think that emotions, feelings, and reason are all pretty good tools for humans to use with other humans. The real problem is that we are less and less dealing with people in-real-life face-to-face interaction.

In the last few hundred years there has been a huge increase in what some call super-stimuli where humans are now out of their evolutionary element and are responding poorly. Amplified voice, radio, TV, motorized transport, telephone, internet, video calls, social media, credit cards, a smartphone in your pocket that can do all sorts of crazy things (take pictures or video, contact anyone on earth, let you go into more debt to get a hamburger, etc), foods from refined sugar to trans fats, refined and artificial drugs from liquor to fentanyl. Couple this with the rise of the scientific study of human psychology and the advertising and PR industries, its pretty amazing the we are functioning at all. I wonder what the number of minutes the average American spends each day interacting with each other face-to-face. Not much and less every year.

An honest appeal to emotion done by a person face-to-face with your best interest at heart, great. Not what one really is getting these days.
Are electric cars genuinely seen as part of the solution to climate change? Surely there is no place for cars in our utopian green future, they are terribly inefficient means of transportation and completely anti-social and anti-urban. The future is in advanced metro systems, high speed rail, cycling etc. In this future, cars would become decided niche.

I had never thought of Tesla being one of the 'good guys', especially with Musk's backward - even reactionary - views on public transport.[1] It hadn't occurred to me that this might not be mainstream thought.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-t...
What if we're not satisfied with mincome and soma, and we want something more? With no framework to provide for useful productivity, what will young people end up doing? A lazy population with no way to differentiate and striate financially will find other ways of anteing up over each other, including criminal acts...
My point isn’t that blocking won’t work, it’s that any software solution provided probably won’t work for most people because it’s too easy to quit with no accountability and then because it won’t work for most people, Apple and Google have every incentive to implement it in their operating systems (which they are already doing) and your business is gone
Also, all time highs are scary. Nobody likes a bubble.
Not really, you missed the point that the Linux kernel is actually irrelevant for app developers on Android, to the point that ART might in the future run on top of Fuchsia and no one would notice.

There are no Linux kernel specific APIs in the list of stable NDK APIs.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

As of Android 7 using non-stable APIs will kill the APK on launch.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/android-ch...

Only OEMs get to deal directly with Linux kernel.

You might naturally create an NDK application and do a bunch of syscalls, just it doesn't mean that the APK is guaranteed to work across all Android devices.
I understand that there’s a yearly limit on how much you can bring over per person.

Lots of evasion tactics:

hiring mules to use their limits.

finding someone that needs to send money to China, then you can make 2 domestic payments and everything is settled.

Buying goods in a China for export, then accepting payment into your western accounts.
Yes, I agree the lowest 10% are no longer as destitute, but my point is the dangerous social unrest that is likely to be caused (some would argue already has been caused) by widening inequality is not something that absolute measures of living standards will have much bearing on.
I liked the article! But I don't think that Rust has static gc because it would imply that C has it too. It would make the term gc meaningless. I'm a fan of having words mean what people think they mean, even if it is not technically correct. And when people think of gc they think of an explicit method of disposing objects that is executed during program runtime.

Also, it is not Go has so great escape analysis that lets it elide so many allocations. It is that it passes objects by value which, for example Java doesn't:

person := Person { ... }
doPerson(person)
...

Go knows that doPerson can't modify person so it is free to allocate the variable on the stack. In the equivalent Java code, Java can't make that assumption (unless it introspects doPerson) because it passes references.

The escape analysis algorithm is detailed in an old article from 1999, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320386, and afaik both Java and Go uses the same idea. But Java's escape analysis is much less precise due to the described differences.

The weak generational hypothesis I believe is related to problem complexity because all algorithms are in a way reductions. You have something big and you make it smaller. A larger fractions of the variables used in an O(n^3) algorithm goes out of scope than in an O(n) algorithm.

Edit: Downvoters either explain yourself or go fuck off.
Garbling Netfilter ipv4
There is no getting rid of cars for the foreseeable future, making them electric is the obvious next step for reducing their environmental impact
That is exactly what I want! I wonder if it will get added to Linux.
That logo/mascot thing must die, though...
I do too, but it breaks down on me for some specific:

* ORDER BY

* INNER JOIN

etc
Guix and Nix just run scripts. I've less experience with Guix, but in Nix you can just run a bash script which stores the build products in a path given as `$out`. For example, the following is a perfectly valid Nix package, if we replaced the nonsense names and commands:

with import <nixpkgs> {};
runCommand "package-name-goes-here"
{
buildInputs = [ build tools go here ];
envVar1 = "hello";
envVar2 = "world";
}
''
bash command 1
bash command 2
mv my-amazing-output "$out"
''

For example, I've never written any Go, but I was able to package some Go programs by copy-pasting their install instructions into the above template and putting the relevant build tools into `buildInputs`: https://github.com/Warbo/warbo-packages/blob/master/packages...

In contrast, the automake/autoconf support is actually a very complicated tower of helper scripts, override hooks, etc. which is built up on top of the system's built in support for running bash scripts (actually it runs whatever we call `builder` with whatever we call `args`; `runCommand` sets the `builder` to be bash and the `args` to be a file containing our script).
London's fish market, Billingsgate, moved from its historic site to new digs in 1982. I couldn't find any footage as remotely as interesting, though:

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1982-newsround-bi...
high skill jobs are at risk too.

It's reasonable to assume, given recent tech developments(AI, low code for software, generative design for graphic design/engineering and architecture, blockchain for professions working on trust in transaction like accounting, some automation in the legal field, automation in insurance) that many high-skill professions will suffer unemployment too.

And can someone with high-skill job always shift to another high-skill job? pretty hard, many high skill jobs have very high barriers to entry. And could they aim for the low skill burger flipping job ? Who will get the job, some spoiled engineer, or someone who is used to working hard doing hard labor for low pay and may be younger ?

So why is everybody under the assumption that high skill jobs are safe ?
The RoC consider themselves the rightful "China" too. Some Taiwanese politicians have advocated declaring themselves an independent country but that's never been the official government position.
To be fair he's used to doing that from his father.
You are right. It was not a good ad. Felt very awkward and forced.
Since stocks are denominated in dollars, I like to say:

US Dollar Soars In Equity Purchasing Value
One concrete step can be getting rid of the capital requirements (by regulation) to invest. The idea of 'qualified investors' is literally a way to keep poor people poor, and rich people rich, by cutting off poor or middle class people from the major vehicles of wealth creation. It is ridiculous that I cannot invest in the IPO of a company in my local neighborhood because, while I have enough money to satisfy the business, I don't have enough money to satisfy uncle sam's onerous requirements.

But yes, cooperatives like Mondragon are good examples, and also incredibly traditional.
I only have 2 data points of experience on this issue. Which I know doesn't mean much, but I'm left scratching my head after looking at their list.

I spent the first 14 years of my life in Las Cruces, New Mexico (the state's second biggest city), and the schools I went to were not very good. I did high school in Maryland and the school system was a lot better (I initially struggled because I was so far behind everyone else - a friend of mine who moved to North Carolina for High School told me he had the same problem). In the author's ranking list, they place Maine at #48 and New Mexico at #41. I find this very hard to believe. There are so many problems that New Mexico has that Maine doesn't seem to have (gang problems, drug problems - at least at the magnitude that I saw in New Mexico). Unless Maine has some pretty bad schools, this just doesn't add up. US News lists Maine at #6, a ranking drop of 42 spots seems really significant.
The problem is math is entirely abstract. So you must learn the abstraction before applying it. Otherwise, you learn how to add 2 + 3, but you don't learn how to add n + m.
You're right, but I would still bet that the sheer ease of working around the issue stunts the development of formal legal approaches to it.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd rather have established practice dictate the law than the other way around.
GPM costs around $1.2 per month in India, which is a reduced rate compared with the USA, and which I think features the same catalog available in the USA.
I feel similarly, but if you look at where the DJI and NASDAQ are now compared to where they were in January the year starts to look a lot more bearish. I'm not very well educated in finance though
And if anyone wants to correct me or spin more nuance here I would be grateful.
50.9% on 32B$ for TSMC[1] vs 62.3% on 62.7B$ for Intel[2]
That is closer than I expected it to be. In terms of actual cash (if you are wondering) Intel ended last year with $22B more of it than TSMC did.

[1] http://www.tsmc.com/download/ir/annualReports/2017/english/p...

[2] https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_financials/2017/an...