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Don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is a problem all wealthy countries face.

As GDP increases, you have to pay workers more or they will find more profitable work, as is being suggested in the article. That, or a lot of workers must not be allowed to reap the benefits of economic growth, and that will be tremendously destablilizing. The problem is, growing wages make domestic production less and less competitive with foreign production. So wealthy countries import goods from places with lower production costs.

So, as wealth increases, if you're trying to maintain any semblance of income equality, anything requiring human labour must increasingly get outsourced to cheaper countries. Wealthy countries can only competitively produce high-value goods and services that require e.g. massive capital investments and high levels of technical skill and education.

It follows that wealthy countries will eventually face a labour crisis: They have, as a historical leftover, a large class of labourers who no longer have employable skills, and can't even theoretically be re-trained into more current working roles, as there simply aren't enough of those to go around. "Productivity increase" is just another way of saying "more unemployment".

I'd like to propose a kind of trilemma here: High median wage, High employment, large population - Pick two. Having all of these can not be sustained IMO, and I think the current political upheavals in the west largely stem from this. You either have tremendous income inequality among workers, you have a large unemployed class, or you have a population consisting largely of highly-skilled specialists.
> Price transparency. Require medical providers to publish a price list for every service they provide, then let there be Expedia for scheduled medical procedures.

Good one.

> This wouldn't really work. The nature of the insurance market is they predict how much it would cost at what probability and then add a percentage as a risk premium. If you lowered the risk premium in absolute dollars against the same level of risk and cost, nobody would provide insurance. If you lowered the cost of claims for the same absolute dollar amount of risk premium, more companies would provide insurance and the competition would reduce the absolute amount of the risk premium per customer back to the original percentage (which is based on risk-adjusted reward) of the now-smaller cost/risk -- which is what they're trying to prevent.

Hmmm...that's an interesting point. You might be right. However, it would incentivize them to control costs that are in some way unique to them. In other words, it'd incentivize them to negotiate deals with providers, or incentivize their customers to reduce their spending. Because while it is true that the equilibrium is the same level of profit for them, in the shorter run, each incremental unit of downward price movement they get within their own customer base is valuable to them. But I definitely agree my point here isn't as strong as I thought it was, thanks.

> What you need is for people to be buying less insurance, i.e. insurance covers what it's supposed to -- losses greater than what you can afford -- rather than covering routine low and medium cost procedures and removing anyone's incentive to care about prices when choosing a provider.

Ya, totally agree here too. I was just contemplating the fact that I pursue this exact strategy for my own insurance...when I pay for it out of pocket. My employer provides health insurance, so I choose the platinum-plated super deluxe package, and pay only a bit of the cost myself. For my car insurance, which I pay for on my own...I pay for the financially correct amount of insurance: insurance against ruin. I want to be insured against an unexpected cost that would financially ruin me...and aside from that, i'm happy to eat the costs of random fender benders myself, and rely on my own driving habits to minimize those costs.
Carthago delenda est

As I recall, Mr. Zuckerberg was no fan of Google either, so why should Android be the salve to sooth a sore ego?
I find the picture they're showing also quite confusing, my guess is that they're using some kind of a hardware hypervisor and that runs different VMs.
Did you hear about smartphones?
And, it doesn't seem to do anything other than place the bricks. That's not the hard part of "laying bricks"...
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Reminds me how the leader of Japan’s Central Bank bragged in 1989 he had never even purchased a single stock. He said this to show his independence from the stock market, which was (somewhat) understandable at the time.

Either way it ended in a 30 year depression that continues to this day.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/30/business/the-evolving-out...
this code can crash on platforms where unaligned access is not allowed. you need an alignas on public Bar. and of course the catastrophic bugs if the size of opaque is not kept in sync properly. the point is: the module system should be doing something like this for you behind the scenes.
US education system mostly, so if you are located in another country, you aren't going to get much customers anyway.
One of my favorite teams! Looking forward to the time when I won't hear any background noise on my calls anymore :)
The argument the great filter is ahead of us though is based on the observation that even with slower then light spacetravel, over the timeframes of the existing universe a species could still colonize the entire Milky Way in something like a 100,000 years with von Neumann probes (of which organic life would be a good basis for building one).

There should be life everywhere it's possible by technological panspermia - but we don't seem to observe that. What stops elder civilizations from doing this, is the big mystery.

Unless of course, as a poster above notes, if we fire up the JWST and discover chlorophyll-fringes in the spectra of just about every rocky planet we can see. That'd imply a lot.
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Unfortunately that block wall it built looks quite sloppy if you really inspect the interblock spacing and vertical alignment between layers. And these are dry blocks with no mortar to let them slip and slide. Stand at the corner of a a block wall built by pros and look down the plane of the wall. You're going to see perfection. I do it any time the opportunity strikes and amazed at the consistency.

No doubt a well supported robot with appropriate sensors and placement techniques could exceed the accuracy of a human, but this doesn't appear to be that robot quite yet.
Isn't that kind of what increased productivity implies?
US cities are a mess because middle class families abandoned them for the newly built suburbs in a coordinated, subsidized, and regulated movement.

Individual families were not expected to walk out into the fields and personally make them habitable. They certainly weren’t turned away by policies designed to preserve the status quo, compensate/empower those adversely affected by a proposed change, etc.

Highway construction, planning codes, development and mortgage finance, public debt, subsidized infrastructure, etc. were all assembled and optimized to make it as easy as possible for suburbia to happen precisely as it did.

That was a choice. We could make the same choice about urbanism. (Imagine an Interstate Highway System-level investment in urban subways). We don’t.
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Doxygen can generate a list of all class members, including those from all ancestors. If you wanna do that checking header files you'll have to keep jumping between files going from parent to parent class.
Off topic, but as long as I trust the state, I trust basic income.

I put different amount of faith in different states, but not very much in any state. Not in the long run. The problem is, the state is going to dictate more and more conditions for receiving that income. Couple it with oligarchic interests and no good can come of it.

Problem is, I don't see much good coming from our current systems either, subverted as we speak.
Their system uses some custom adhesive as do some of the other systems around.

The catch is how will this adhesive hold up in 30 years and are you brave enough to be that it works well on your house compared to the saving of using conventional systems?

This is why innovation in building is slow.

Fail fast is not possible. And there are often side effects. Just ask people with a metal framed house that creaks when it expands and contracts.
Somewhat related:

One of my favorite Youtube channels is Rambalac. It's just videos of walking through various places in Japan, from crowded streets to peaceful natural areas. No voiceover or explanations - almost every video is as if a video camera were moving around on its own and recording everything it saw (occasionally he interacts with things). Super relaxing to have on in the background, and really cool to watch to get a glimpse of everyday life there.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Rambalac

Here's some of the videos, there's a huge variety:

Shibuya at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qGiXY1SB68

Shinjuku evening walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHr4qSQ-5XU

Kyoto's Kiyomizudera in the morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAeN7TdGq4o

Cat island (Tashirojima): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnfzALzLNgY

Playing with deer at Nara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4GJwCpX2w

Shibuya Halloween: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkm522cTpzE
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I left their whole enterprise, I was just sick of them from top to bottom.

I still use twitter, but I keep my distance, and it’s hardly a social platform.
This is precisely the problem that a basic income would solve...
Allo is canned?
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Yes Also trivially easy and lightning fast to import csv to table using copy command in Postgres.
I think historically a lot of businesses were bootstrapped on cheap labor.
I refuse to give these kinds of interviews. They don't really tell me much other than they know algorithms and data structures. And with thousands of articles and even whole books dedicated to passing those sorts of interviews, that's not saying much at all. What I really want to know is:

- can the candidate get the work we need to do done?

- what do they prioritise when doing the work? What do they value?

- can they do it well? In reasonable time?

- how well do they fit in with my team? Are they somebody my people want to work with? (Probably one of the most important things)

- how much will they grow? Are they open to feedback? Are they focused on getting better?

A whiteboarding session doesn't really tell me much here. But if all the answers to the above are positive, I'm sure the candidate has the flexibility to find and learn what they need to solve a problem.
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This is amazing! Full props to the Nvidia team that accomplished this.

I downloaded the Mac app they provided [1] which I highly suggest everyone with a mac tests out. I ran it on my old MacBook Air 2013 using daily.co. It worked like a charm. Definitely using this in the next group chat, where there is always someone who forgets to turn off their microphone.

One cool side effect is that it actually removes the reverberations that happen when you have two computers on the same call, where the mics keep picking up on the output of the other computers and a large high-frequency noise happens (that I'm sure we all have experienced). The system simply removed it and I didn't even know it was there until I turned off the app.

Amazing work and I really hope that Skype, Apple, Google etc implement this into their voice apps, or even phone providers build this into phones. Maybe in the future, we actually can have phone conversations in windy weather and on the streets.

[1]: https://krisp.ai/?utm_source=Nvidia%20blog&utm_medium=downlo...
This is the first explanation I have understood of this perplexing phenomenon.
There is literally no reason a fitness device could not do everything locally.

Would be interested in such a device if they were available.
I know a lot of HNers hate udemy because of the piracy and shady sales tactics but for me at least it has been an invaluable resource. I was able to learn Vue in almost 2 hours including some advanced concepts very quickly.

There are some great teachers on that site like Maximilian Schwarzmüller who are not only great at explaining concepts but also show you how to create real world app. Also YouTube is another great resource, for some reason a lot of paid courses are uploaded on youtube by the authors for free too.

One last thing. My secret sauce for learning is a chrome extension called video speed controller. I generally watch these video tutorials at 4x to 6x speed.. it not only saves you a lot of time but I think I'm able to learn much better at faster speeds (maybe as it doesn't let the mind wander)
The "one pass" solution to find the middle of a linked list visits each element twice (or more precisely, it visits half of the elements twice). It is hardly one pass.
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How is Amazons deal in any way equal to your $1 an hour analogy? This is a serious question. Amazon will bring high paying jobs to the area. Those workers will pay taxes. They will also patronize local businesses. Yes, real estate will go nuts and infrastructure will have a tough time scaling, but your $1 an hour analogy is dishonest.

I grew up in Seattle. I know what Amazon will do, but again, your $1 analogy needs a citation. This is beyond hyperbole.
How much has the productivity of low wage jobs increased? Are waiters today serving 2% more customers than two years ago?
... doxygen, no. I'd rather take header files than doxygen.

I hope he meant something else since he said "nowadays". Doxygen is ok if you haven't setup your build environment. But for when you actually are in the code (and somewhat familiar with it) I very much prefer just reading the header files than switching to a browser.
Australia has extremely strict building regulations, codes and inspections. (My brother just built his own house there...)

I feel extremely confident this has been tested thoroughly, and it would not be allowed if it has not passed all tests.
> Your entire post just described, by definition, a race to the bottom.

Every negotiation is "race to the bottom" for the side that is paying - they want to pay as little as possible. However, there is the natural bottom for it - as soon as the deal costs more than it brings in - in fact, as soon as the deal costs more that what it brings in, including reasonable profit - the side that is dissatisfied would refuse to make a deal. What would be the point?

> It's absurd to think Amazon is doing NY a favor by bringing more than $0.

Why is it absurd? If Amazon is doing NY a disfavor, why NY wants it? Do they hate themselves? Are they gluttons for punishment? Were they forced into the deal by a secret Amazon ninja army? No, I don't think so - I think they want the deal because the think the deal is good for them. Of course, you know better, but I think for most people your argument is not exactly obvious. Or correct.

> they say to me "Well, you currently earn nothing, so you should be mighty thankful we'll pay you even $1/hr".

They can. And you can say "go fish, I won't work for $1". And then they'd say "well, how about $10 - would you work for $10?" And you'd say "now you're talking!"

> The corporation would make more money.

No they won't - people wouldn't work for them, and corporation rarely are able to make money when having no employees. That's why only about 2% of the workforce earns minimum wage. One would expect the greedy corporations to pay absolute minimum, right? But they pay way more. You'd have to find a theory that accounts for that. I have one, but looks like you do not.

> Do we want people to get paid $1/hr?

We want people to get paid whatever they can get paid. As we can see, it's in about 98% of cases more than both $1 and minimum wage.

> and letting Amazon pay less than they should is exactly the same, and has the same outcomes.

No it does not. I welcome you to consider why business-to-business transaction is different from person-to-employer relationship (hint: people can go hungry and sick, but corporations rarely die from not being able to locate headquarters in New York). It's a business transaction, one that NY made voluntarily, and one that they expect would be very profitable for them. Of course, as everything in life, they might be wrong - sometimes business transactions go bad - but declaring this transaction is wrong because you could've gotten everything and more for free makes no sense. You couldn't have gotten it for free, and dreaming about it doesn't make current transaction destructive for society, quite the opposite - it brings jobs and investment.
I'd love to read some comments explaining why we are upvoting this essay.

All I gleaned is that the author thinks "old money" people should have more influence in society. Somehow that is what populism is about, and apparently it's good.

Did I miss something?
I use https://github.com/mjspncr/lzz3 - it generates header files and source files. If feels quite weird and nice. :)
> I was almost in tears by the end of dinner. The cutlery scraping against the plates made me want to tear my hearing aids out and stomp them to pieces.

I have never been deaf, but this bothers me too. I guess it's mild Misophonia.

When someone is eating something in the other room, the scrape of the cutlery on their dish means I can't work until they're done. Often with the door closed too.

I live with someone who seems to take 10 minutes to crunch around a chocolate bar wrapper before/while eating it. This raises my adrenaline for no reason I can discern.
Your approach is kind of how indirect function calls are implemented in WebAssembly, if I am not mistaken.
No, pc is simply saying that the fat pointer solution is not in line with the goals of the solution presented in the paper.
I'm not sure what you mean by the broken video - most likely you have an ad blocker enabled.
Absolutely brilliant editor! I use it for my projects - https://writingstreak.io and https://nulis.io.

I've also recommended http://letterpad.app/ to use it and they've switched to it now.

I'm a huge fan, it's insanely powerful and customizable, you can build anything you want with it.

The only problem is lack of documentation and tutorials, it's really hard to figure out how to use it beyond the very basics (for me at least). They do have a great community in the slack channel, they've helped me a lot, but better docs would make a huge difference.
The letter Q is already taken...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28programming_language_fr...
Btw, they’re not a trillion dollar company. Yes their stock value landed them there, but the market is overvalued. Last I checked, Amazons dropped 25% from all time highs, Netflix is in pain. Apple is in bear territory. Your running away with sensationalist news headlines. Even if Amazon hits $1 trillion, it’s numbers on paper. They’re a growth company facing economic headwinds with rising interest rates. If shareholders owning amazon cashed out, they would collapse.
Is it the case that companies are actually struggling to fill positions, or are statements to that effect just an aspect of the metagame?

There's a ton of stuff that goes on outside of the actual mechanics of 'company hires for job and person applies for job'.

Unless you've been pretty lucky you've almost certainly dealt with euphemisms at work when it comes to discussions around pay, for example.

It's kind of annoying that we can't just speak frankly about these things, but such is life.
Fine. Then television. Or phones. Or email or the internet.
Well, that nomenclature works well for classes and objects, but if you use mix up cases within an object, I think we call can agree it's really bad code?

As for R Shiny, those examples all look fine, but wasn't the case with my code.
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Privacy should be a non issue with strictly enforced GDPR, for Europeans at least.
They are using glue instead of motar. It is being added just when then brick come out of the arm and then gravity is doing the rest.
That seems orthogonal to testing though. Implementation code can be hard to understand with or without a test suite, at least with test, as you point out, you may be able to understand the behaviour at some higher abstraction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid this was rather popular in certain parts of the world in the early-mid nineties not just in the former USSR but the former USSR satellite states as well. Pirated software arrived from Austria weekly on QIC 80 tapes, got copied to ArVid/VHS in Hungary and sent on to Ukraine and it spread from there. The gigabytes capacity looked utterly ridiculous at a time when Lands of Lore with its eight floppies taking a whopping 11 megabytes was a crazy big game.

Later the pirates switched to 2GB DAT tapes and even later hard drives. By the time I left that world (early 00s), FTP existed, it sure did but there were quite a bit of problems with both storing and transferring enough so the weekly packages didn't stop.