skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds as though a few bad experiences have tricked you into overgeneralizing. I'm a property manager and a bit of an appliance nerd, and I deal with dozens of them. Modern toilets like the Toto 1.25 gal models have almost completely eliminated toilet clogs and overflows at my properties. This is experience is pretty universal among plumbers. Do a quick search for Toto on a big plumbing forum and you'll see what I mean. Water regulations forced toilet makers to actually design their toilets, which paid huge dividends in bowl wash and waste clearance. Toto toilets' flushways and bowl washes are designed by computer. There is simply no comparison with the old toilets that I immediately pull out and destroy whenever I acquire a new property.

Similar situation for dishwashers. New dishwashers (I have some Bosch 300 series machines) are worlds better than pre-water-saving dishwashers. I can pack mine with almost every piece of Corelle I own, with no prewashing, and get spotless clean dishes. With their turbidity meters, they actually work better if you don't prewash. A caveat though: you have to learn how to use the machine properly. For example, the Bosch machines offer a "normal" mode, which is both the worst and the default mode. Avoid it and the machine runs circles over any dishwasher from your golden youth.

I've had mixed experiences with washing machines. I have several very nice front-loading washing machines from LG, GE, and Samsung, all working flawlessly for between 6 and 10 years. Again, you have to RTFM, and perform basic maintenance like cleaning the filters. However, we used cloth diapers on our children, and found that our fancy front-loaders absolutely suck for such heavy soils. We actually bought an old-fashioned water-guzzling top load washing machine just for diapers, and it did the trick. On the other hand, we also have a new Maytag impeller-driven top loader, and it's shit. The computer pretty much constantly gets the water level wrong, and either leaves some clothes dry, or uses so much water that clothes don't circulate. I'm considering getting another old-fashioned top-loader for that property. Oldies are goodies in this case.

I like old-fashioned dryers, no doubt -- simple, robust, and thankfully still made essentially the same as they have been for decades. The newer computerized dryers are of dubious value IMO.

And don't get me started about the absolute shit durability of electronic control boards in appliances. Boards that can cost hundreds of dollars to replace. This summer I replaced a control board in a high-end Dacor stove. I had to find a used one because factory replacements cost $300. Plus, Dacor tightly restricts schematics and documentation to "authorized" (and expensive) repair shops.

In my opinion, Right to Repair laws are the best remedy for the declining quality of appliances.
Murdoch was already on Tesla's board of directors. This is simply a promotion.
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The father might fit that description, but none of the second generation who've taken roles in the family business have distinguished themselves.
The people being replaced by automation don't have the means to invest in anything.
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Yep

Octa patterning? ;)
I don't know. Do you ever email people? If so: yes, you do.

It doesn't really matter that you can configure your own little island of DNSSEC since you'll inevitably depend on one of the resources in, like, the whole rest of the Internet, virtually none of which signs zones with DNSSEC. This really all is just security theater.
If you are actually interested in learning and understanding, rather than just blinding following stack overflow procedures to solve instances of templated problems, then I would highly recommend a simpler language like Prolog, a theory-oriented text like the Art of Prolog.
> 6. Responsive design so the site doesn't suck on mobile

It's responsive on my end, I think they changed it this year.
Hopefully when SIMD lands, WebAssembly purely for performance improvement will be a viable strategy!
It defaults to the numberpad on joystick port 2 with 0 being the fire button, make sure numlock is on.

If you need to change the defaults, hit F12 to get the emulator menu.
> parenthesis-ophobes are going to react very poorly to the libgit2 extended example ending in four closing parenthesis

I think parenthesis-phobia is a red herring. The delimiter bytes in s-expressions denote structure, and most s-expression users are happy to render them as parentheses glyphs. Those who aren't are welcome to use one of the myriad preprocessors/renderers which display this structure in other ways, e.g.

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html#Implementat... (converts back and forth to indentation)

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html#reference-i... (converts back and forth to indentation)

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html#Implementatio... (converts back and forth to indentation)

https://sourceforge.net/p/readable/code/ci/develop/tree/src/... (converts to indentation; an 'unsweeten.sscm' script converts the other way)

https://github.com/mjsottile/sfsexp/blob/master/src/sexp_vis... (converts to a graphviz tree diagram)

http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/mwe-color-box.el (shows tree structure using nested boxes of different colours)

The fact that such tools aren't widely used shows that parentheses aren't a/the problem.
At IBM they would randomly send people phish mails, if you clicked on them you landed on the site that provided remedial training! I always thought this would be a good service to offer companies. You could call it "Phish for Compliance" :-)
It's neat how similar this looks to a Bitbake recipe (used by the Yocto Linux project), except that those are written in a DSL that's half Python and half shell-script.

Check out a similar recipe here
https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/maste...
Notably, Damore makes pretty much the same arguments against using race in hiring as he does gender, but failed to provide any proof for his arguments, he only really gave what he interpreted as evidence for his gender beliefs. There's little to disprove except for Damore's interpretation of results as being proof for his argument.

When right wing trolls attacked a female CS lecturer, she wrote a long response here:
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopole_antenna
Yes, we plan on finding a way. That's why we're discussing alternatives. We can find a way by accident.
Looking at the GM board of directors, I see:

- Former GM officials,

- Ex-managers of defense companies. They build machines too, right.

- Ex-joint chiefs of staff and business school head. They know management.

- Insurance and such. GM has a large workforce and managing that a good portion of activity.

Newscorp is a large organization too, but it seems more different from Tesla than the US Army, Cummins or even an insurance company is different than GM. So on it's face, it seems like the board knows something about manufacturing and managing large organizations. With Jame Murdock, it seems likes you could say "know something about spin", which might not be comforting.
I doubt it, since he's still active on Twitter.
The SEC seems to be sorting the list of ICOs by level of criminality and size, and working down the list. First they went after the ones which were large, obvious, out and out criminal enterprises. As in [1], or "they really didn't have the real estate and diamonds they said they had." And [2], or "they really didn't have deals in place with PayPal, Boeing, and Disney".

Then the SEC went after the ones that were merely flaky. As in [3], or "a blockchain based food review service with in-app purchasing of tokens". This actually got going, not that anybody used it much. They hired a "YouTube influencer" and claimed “199% GAINS on MUN token at ICO price! Sign up for PRE-SALE NOW!”

Along the way, the SEC found some ICOs from the usual suspects in the penny stock market. Those got shut down.

Then they started sending out letters along the lines of "Hello, ICO promoter. What you're doing is probably illegal. Do you want to give the money back now, or do we bring out our big hammer?" This stopped a lot of potential ICOs.

If you haven't seen it, see the SEC's fake ICO site.[3]

I have yet to find an ICO that resulted in a real, operating, profitable business that wasn't some other cryptocurrency/blockchain based thing. We're not seeing ICOs to build factories or farms or do real stuff.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-185-0

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-94

[3] https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/pr...

[3] https://www.howeycoins.com
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We stopped using Cloudflare a while ago.
I think hiring people with right attitude is the only solution. You can try to create a strong culture around them, but it's like taking a horse to water. The drinking part can't be forced. I am not saying right incentives and good culture is not necessary. That however only takes you so far.

Another thing that comes to mind is peer pressure with right people can do wonders.
You do not need to be a socialist to understand there is something inherently going badly wrong for the masses here.
The gun owners are typically on the other side of the aisle from those who support redistribution of wealth. Not saying that couldn't change or that desperation can't trump principle, of course.
And, interestingly, there are Github repositories of people implementing the material in this book, e.g.:

https://github.com/rm-hull/wam (WAM in Clojure)

https://github.com/rupertlssmith/hak_wambook (WAM in Java)
It's certainly doable. I contributed Envoy to Nixpkgs (built with bazel) and developed the current incarnation of the RubyGems/Bundler build infrastructure.
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Or: don't include gender in the training data.
People don't compare themselves to how people lived 80 years ago. They compare themselves to other people, today. So saying "Look poor people, who cares if you can't afford decent housing, or health care, or quality food - you've got a cell phone!" will not quiet the social unrest that a growing underclass will cause.
Utility tokens aren't securities, but the problem is that there are no utility tokens. Everything calling itself a utility token isn't, because they're all marketed as investments (maybe with the exception of SiaCoin).
Wouldn't a socialist be happy that the laborers are no longer being exploited?
We've been replacing jobs with automation for a century. It already is the norm. Why are you so worried?

EDIT: more thoughts

I just finished reading an Asimov novel written in 1955. There were computers in this book. They were people. Computer was a job title. Now we have machines that do that job, and we have an entire new industry employing lots and lots of people that didn't exist before that one job, Computer, was automated.
https://flaterco.com/xtide/

XTide is a pretty cool concept. So, I'm linking it here.
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But in practice though it is quite expensive to build up a personal library of music, whereas services like googles provide you with a vast catalog (Googles, I find is quite comprehensive, I haven't checked other services) at a small fixed cost. Its like buying a book and renting it out of a library, for some books it may make sense to buy, where as for very many others it is better to rent.
It is literally not a crime. There are criminal immigration offenses, overstaying a visa isn't one of them. Words have meaning. Facts matter.
I googled the judge's name plus the name of the case and the first result was the hearing transcript.

If you're a Kamala Harris fan, prepare to be traumatized.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2781830/people-v-velas...
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I'm not a ML guy, but reading this, it almost sounds like the training data needs to be a fictional, idealized set, and not based on real world data that already has bias slants built in. Possibly composites of real world candidates with idealized characteristics and fictional career trajectories. Basically, what-my-company-looks-like vs what-I-want-it-to-look-like. I'm not sure this is even possible.

Its an interesting questions. On one hand, a practical person could argue: "Well, this is what my company looks like, and these are the types of people who fit with our culture and make it, so be it. Find me these types of candidates."

VS

"I don't like the way may company culture looks, I would rather it was more diverse. This mono-culture is potentially leaving money on the table from not being diverse enough. I'm going to take my current employees, chart their career path, composite them (maybe), tweak some of the ugly race and gender stats for those who were promoted, and feed this to my hiring algorithm."
Prolog is a standardized programming language for doing backward chaining with multiple mature implementations eg. you can ask for solutions to discrete graph search and other predicate logic problems as described in TAOP book. Prolog is also used for implementing more advanced/complete logics than just resolution with negation-as-failure such as various description logics. "Business rule management system" such as Drools do multiple things, but are understood to perform mostly forward chaining based on RETE where you assert some facts and rules and the BRMS evaluates all logical consequences (unlike Prolog where you ask for a particular goal). BRMSs aren't standardized; the closest to a standard would be IF ... THEN ... rules using OPS5-heritage syntax (OPS5 was an "expert system" during the original AI spring followed by the infamous "AI Winter" around 1988). But the matter of the fact is Drools and other BRMs don't use interchangeable syntax and engines. Drools in particular is a Java-/maven-/XML-heavy solution sold to enterprises so that "business can define accounting/rating or other business rules" themselves. If that sounds like too good to be true, you're right. The Drools-based apps I've encountered are usually written and maintained by developers rather than mythical "business users", and apart from being in need of maintenance because no-one wants to develop using Drools also lack basic testing and other engineering discipline so become a PITA in any modern test-driven environment.

TLDR: learn Prolog
Or how long until Tesla starts making gasoline powered cars?
The masses still need to eat or are we just letting them starve?
Thanks! Just read the white paper. Super interesting. Just signed the petition
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Most likely two outcomes. Either everyone will be given a basic income for meeting their needs or the robot revolution will make goods so cheap that very little money/effort will be needed purchase things. Most of the jobs may move to the entertainment and healthcare industry.
Great project, looks like a big step in the good direction
> Those were armed terrorists intent on killing people. Not a mentally disturbed person (like the article we are discussing).

And the police deal with both, including trying to distinguish one from the other.

> The police around Westminster are armed with MP5 sub-machine guns and assault rifles and are highly visible.

The dead cop did not have firearm.

> So what is your point?

The opposite of yours. Police need to be armed.
Functional programmers work with infinitely recursive structures and data all the time and it doesn't really bother them, so this isn't automatically an absurd thing to say.

Just because structures, rules and trees are infinitely recursive doesn't mean no insight can be created from them in finite time.
Yes there is certainly a middle ground. The poor, middle, and upper class all have a GREAT choice available to them. Instead of spending 10, 20, or 30 years paying back your loans: spend 3 years working and have 0 loans.

https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/montgomery_bill.asp

Bonus points.. you learn skills/trades/work-ethic/survival-skills/basic-medical-training, and will be useful in an emergency for the rest of your life.
It does indeed, but I feel like it's an important part of HN (some people arrive here allthc time) and retrospecting about it is something all engineers should do, so I felt the need to point at I again.

For completion sake and closer on the story, here's the same account 11 years later reflecting on himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661824
Paranoid, cynical garbage. Silicon Valley also produces affordable, reliable, high resolution ultrasound diagnostic devices that save many lives with noninvasive procedures, but it is more gripping to talk about taxis.

The biggest problem with inequality is the floor and that is a problem UBI robustly addresses. Once people are off the floor they have many options and are not forced into the gig economy or any other specific option.
Public donations to foundations and similar stuff are:

- public relations

- tax deductible

So it's PR the taxpayer pays for.
"Prolog for the 21st century" is Erlang.
Horrible things, of course.

I imagine exactly such concerns lead to the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine in the first place. After the end of the cold war, there was a frantic chase to secure nuclear warheads across the former Soviet Union. The US and Russia cooperated with this.

I am not saying it was a bad idea to relieve Ukraine of its nuclear arsenal. I am saying that a country that has them can keep a much higher profile in general.

But as for the "fall in to separatis hands" in a situation similar to this... very unlikely.

a) the central government would guard these systems more than anything

b) even if by some chance such weapons would fall into separatists hands, they would have to be very quick to launch - because the Russian allies would sweep in as fast as possible to stop them. And they would want to avoid having separatists control nuclear weapons as much as the central (Kiev) government would. Given the central government would have remaining nukes to respond with, the response would not go to Donetsk (maybe one to make a point), the response would go to Moscow.

And we are not even talking about what other European powers might do avoid a "broken arrow" situation. It's their backyard too.
We're using:

* Trello for project management

* Notion for note taking and for internal documentation

* Standups.io for daily async video standups (we're a distributed team and use our own product for this)

* Google Drive for shared docs

* Github for source control

* Slack for team communication
But lead where? Without domain knowledge..?
Just use your replicator to make another replicator and send them that!
This is Facebook. Public shame is the only way to reliably get them to change policy even slightly on something they have already made a decision about.
And also happens to be one of the best books ever written on computer programming.
poop-gravity whaaa?
Strange way for rate limiting, allowing replies on one comment but not another.
I though prime video costs like 12 dollars a year, that's what they charge in India.
The nuclear option actually limited the war. The Syrians were scared of going past the Jordan river, because of Israeli nuclear threats to Damascus.

"On the night of 8 October 1973, Israeli PM Meir authorized the assembly of thirteen 20 kiloton tactical nuclear weapons for Jericho missiles at Sdot Micha Airbase and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft at Tel Nof Airbase."
https://fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/farr.htm
Yes, and now farming is mostly automated... and manufacturing... and soon service sector jobs. What's left after that?
There is no reason given to why they take per-student expense out of the picture, other than 'we just don't think it should count'. And that seems to be the entire basis of their finding that rankings are riddled with flaws.

There is much research (once you sort through the partisan fluff from research institutions with obvious bias) that supports the positive impact of revenue per student on academic achievement on standardized tests. It's actually funny this article popped up, I legit just read a paper from 2015 called "A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Per-Student Expenditures and Academic Achievement". I genuinely read that this morning. Weird. The authors found that "There was a significant correlation between revenues available per student and ACT scores as one outcome measure of achievement." And just to drive that point home, they replicated the findings from a 2002 study, further solidifying that sentiment.

And that's just the most recent one I've read. I'm sure there are more recent. And that is definitely just one in the series of research related to per-pupil expenditures.

Also, I'm afraid this piece serves no purpose other than to be self-congratulatory to the 'lower taxes at all costs' group and right-to-work proponents. Why I say this: research pieces probably shouldn't include snide comments like

"high-tax, high-spending progressive utopias."

"punishing taxes"

Maybe that's just me? Am I off base?

edit: also, the comment section on that article is awful. Just awful.
So, the first shift was manual labour being automated during the industrial revolution. Now slowly intellectual jobs are being replaced. The only unique aspect a human has after this are emotional jobs (psychiatrist, etc).

There are not enough emotional jobs that can be created to fulfill 7 billion people (a quickly rising number). I think we're going to need a shift in the mindset of people. Jobs aren't required, we should instead look at increasing recreational activities available to people and try to enjoy our lives.