skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but I mean post-scarcity in the sense that humans aren't really providing much value to the market in an objective sense, and all of their needs can mostly be met with very little cost to society at large. I also mean this as a gradient process.

In regards to the scarcity of labor, we're clearly pretty well on our way to transitioning past human utility for many physical tasks, right? The value contributed by being physically capable of carrying a given capacity is something that previously gave one the capability to add value to countless endeavors, and now that is effectively adding no value at all. This will continue along this trajectory. And what we're seeing now is the same thing happening for tasks requiring mental proficiency. Most rote tasks regarding formatting data, inputting data, basic analysis, etc, are all thoroughly being replaced by software and ML. What is effectively happening now is that the bar for the minimum necessary cognitive capabilities is slowly being raised, and more and more of the population will become fully incapable of providing any objective value to the majority of the market.

People act like this is a process that necessarily results in a 1:1 replacement of jobs, like "oh but who will build those machines? who will replace them?" As though there's some magical symmetry that keeps the process balanced, but no such force exists.

In regards to the other side of the scarcity problem, the scarcity of resources, we're well on our way to being past that problem. Markets continue to drive the cost of goods down, and the actual cost of sustaining a basic human existence with food and shelter is well short of the theoretical point of absolute removal of scarcity in this regard.

So it's not impossible to imagine that we're well on our way to a point where most humans are capable of adding very little objective value that cannot be solved better by available technology, and available technology is capable of providing humans with what is necessary to live a comfortable life with very little net cost to society at large. What will happen at this point, I would imagine, is that new markets will simply emerge with a much heavier emphasis on subjective preferences and desires. Scarcity of physical space will be magnified, arbitrary scarcity like explicitly limiting attendance to events, things like this. I think that the "artisanal" side of the market that you're already seeing emerge will probably continue to grow, where the product itself is not valued necessarily because of its objective utility, but rather because it was made by a person.

So that's what I mean by post-scarcity. I don't mean it in the Marxist sense where we've eradicated the possibility for markets to exist. And I think that in the future I've described, something that looks like UBI will probably be a necessary instrument to ensure that we can maintain the existence of markets while recognizing that we have the capability to provide humans a comfortable existence at very little cost to society, in a time where they are very unlikely to be able to add any real value back.
I think you are suggesting (but let me know if I'm wrong) that consciousness is not a testable or measurable phenomena, and therefore we cannot make scientific claims about who/what experiences it. All you can know for certain is that you have it (if you have it).

Ok, so you have consciousness; you know it, but I can't be certain. Nevertheless, I hook you up to an EEG machine, and embed electrode arrays in various brain regions. We have a conversation, show you some images, run through some tasks, etc. and then drip some sedative into your IV. Soon you drift into a deep and dreamless sleep. Run the same tasks and indeed you are completely unresponsive. Later you wake up, and I show you how your neural nets respond and oscillate at particular frequencies when u are awake and then show you the marked difference right after you fall asleep. We do this over a bunch of sessions until you yourself can recognize the neural signatures of your conscious awake brain vs your unconsious asleep brain.

Would you say in that experiment we did something scientific to study consciousness?
He also got a personal visit from an unnamed Apple executive.
Twitter has a symbiotic relationship with its spammers: It needs those accounts to drive the metrics their advertisers and shareholders crave.
That's the bad news, only about 4 of it is contingent. The rest we've already started gleefully spending. And it's on stuff we won't need if there is no 15000 worker plant there. I don't even want to get into the fact that we gave Foxconn real estate assets at wayyy below market value. Which assets were essentially confiscated from families that had been on that land for generations. (And to top all that off, the losses we took on those real estate deals are actually not counted in the 4 to 5 billion!)

And then there's the "nice to haves". Believe it or not there is a trolley car they're building in Milwaukee connected to all this. Those are the kinds of projects we should be waiting on until this whole thing is finished, and we're starting to collect on all that new tax revenue (profit) that everyone says we're gonna get. Then we should do that trolley car and all the other "nice to haves". Actually, we probably still shouldn't because we're not likely to be making much money on this deal at all, but if it's something people are just going to insist on then do it AFTER the money starts coming in.

I shouldn't complain, I suppose it's not like Wisconsinites are the only people out there who gleefully spend money before they get it. Worse, before they get it from someone who is CLEARLY doing this deal under duress. They don't even want to do the deal.

Arrgh. It's just the spending combined with the high likelihood that we're gonna be on the losing end of this deal just gets to you sometimes.

It's like Wisconsinites never heard of "risk mitigation"????

Anyway, I'll stop my rant.
Fill me in, why is a Bridgeport mill in Manhattan amusing? Honest question - all I know is it's a piece of nice looking machinery.
This is because most researchers don't see the paywall with their proxies, it is the institution or company that they work under that deals with these fees.
A tooltip or similar might have helped. If it isn't your goal to intentionally mislead.

If your goal is to intentionally mislead customers, ATT did accomplish.
Do you have any good extension recommendations for VS Cocde as it relates to PHP development?
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How about you educate yourself before spitting out nonsense: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17924864

https://www.joslin.org/info/why_did_i_gain_weight_when_i_sta...
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Seems strange that Python isn't listed as a descendant of SmallTalk.
London becoming the shady Dubai of Europe and free movement for the rich!

Huzzah for Brexit.
Less blockable and less intrusive. FB ads are way less intrusive than others.
Did they succeed? I've seen a man with mental health issues walk in an order a coffee normally, paying money for the coffee, then start ranting while waiting for it to be made and end up being led off by the police because he was getting uncomfortably aggressive. There are conditions for service outside of the absolutely obvious ones.
Anyone have a recommendation for the simplest, easiest solution to solve for "As a user, I'd like to express some concern, frustration, feedback, or questions about your product". Intercom seems like the most well known, but there's a lot in that tool that we just may not need or use and I'm not sure we're looking for something so "robust"... Then again, just slapping a support email alias throughout the product and expecting users to find it and use it doesn't quite solve the problem and it's not scalable. I intend to check out Crisp, Intercom, Drift, hubspot, smooch, pipedrive, and Tawk judging by responses below, but wondering if anyone can help cut through the noise with some personal anecdotes. Just want to make sure users have a way of reaching out and feeling that their voices are being heard
Here's a somewhat related project that aims to make regular expressions more verbose:

https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

Here's a simple example for matching URLs:

const tester = VerEx()
.startOfLine()
.then('http')
.maybe('s')
.then('://')
.maybe('www.')
.anythingBut(' ')
.endOfLine();

The project has been ported to many different languages and it outputs a normal regular expression that you can use to match your text.
One of the reasons I went back to being a vegetarian (and then became vegan) was a video of something like this. I was so creeped out. I haven't gone back.
Yes. See https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/

I know it's currently trendy to make digs at China (increasingly common in HN comments) but it's a huge country with plenty of talented engineers and accessibility advocates. With an aging population [0], such accommodations are becoming increasingly important.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19630110
Use youtube-dl and you can train yourself to go past 2x pretty easily as well.
In past comments I've written about the symptoms and observed effects of wealth concentration, but I don't think wealth concentration explains this. It's a bad fit.

Instead, I believe abundance of supply does. In the past, there were simply fewer things to subscribe to, so a median family would pay for the local newspaper and cable -- and generations before then, just the newspaper. Rich professionals and the elite would pay for one of the premier papers, and finance paper, and an arts magazine. Fans with particular interests would pay for one or two other serials.

These days, content is everywhere, and much of it is available for free. This is impossible to compete with on price, and has been shown to be hard to compete with on quality and depth of coverage, because it chops off large portions of the market who may have paid for convenience of distribution in the past, but now they don't have to. This leaves even more pressure on those willing to pay. In this kind of situation, the classic resolution is consolidation, which is already underway.
Your point that ads have always existed is well taken, but if newspapers looked like a local news site today people wouldn't have bought them (its more akin to the free weekly tabloids than a real newspaper). Newspapers used to make money through classifieds in addition to subscriptions. If only there were local-oriented services newspapers could provide - I hope someone figures out a better model soon.
One solution is to set up a free lastpass account, change all the passwords to something random and only use autofill. They have to go out of their way to enter the password into another domain

Sucks if they want to log in using a new or borrowed device
Statisticians. That's it! And it's one of the hottest job fields right now with the fancy name "data scientist." All the recent improvements in machine learning have done is make certain kinds of statistical thinking possible, and that's it. It's not eliminating anyone's job; it's actually growing the market for statisticians.

Anyway parent poster said "a lot of people will lose their jobs soon" because of "AI." I deny this has or will happen, and people's misunderstanding of it is downright criminal.
As someone who did the move a year ago:

Rent is comparable, but the apartments would be very different. 1BD 10 min walk away from work in SLU can be found for $1500/mo with in-unit washer dryer, secured package room, etc. To get the same level of amenity would require going further out into the boroughs and being subject to the whims of the MTA.

Goods and eating out are more expensive, but that's because Seattle has its min wage at 16/hr already, and unlike New York businesses do actually pay their workers the minimum wage. (Paying under the table is rampant at minority-owned businesses; those cheap supermarkets in NY Chinatown didn't get there through mystic eastern business practices.)
You're not obligated. You don't have to use the service, or you can pay for the ad-free version.
The Expanse (books and TV show) use that idea pretty well
I'm like you when I do any activity having insulin on board. I'm a T1 using a pump, and I really like the combination of a pump and CGM for staying away from surprises. I use AndroidAPS to monitor my glucose and insulin on board, taking a temporary basal setting of 0% if needed before any activity, so my insulin on board drops to the base level or a bit below.

Soon the insurance replaces my pump to a Dana RS, which supports closed looping with AndroidAPS. Then it's just setting a temporary glucose target to a higher value and the system takes care of the basal rates to keep the glucose from dropping.

The article here is kind of weird. How am I supposed to dose e.g. 0.3 units or 0.75 units of insulin with the pills? The ability for a very fine granularity and the possibility to automate my medication are much more interesting compared to the pills mentioned in the article.
I wrote a lot of XMLT in early 2000.

The idea behind pure function is nice, but in practice you ended up with hundreds of mini plugins in Java or Python.
> Talk about stress levels going through the roof!

(Which, of course, is EXACTLY what you want to have happen when you have no way of monitoring your BG.) Yikes!
It’s also a good idea to read some of the lowest-rated reviews first, to see what the main complaints about the book are, and whether they would put you off reading it.

This goes for basically anything you purchase online. Read a couple highly positive reviews, read a couple highly negative reviews, then read some somewhat positive and somewhat negative reviews. Get the entire spectrum.

Emotions or lack of consideration cause some people to leave inaccurate ratings but still give useful information in the reviews themselves. Therefore you should never trust a 5-star or 1-star rating, but you should still consider why the reviewer felt compelled to leave such a rating.

At the same time, less extreme ratings might provide a fair and comprehensive assessment but the reviewer might have overlooked a particular edge case or issue.
The evidence is mounting that Amazon's New York HQ2 deal is in trouble
You can live car free in Seattle. It depends on who you work for and where they are, but it is doable. People carpool and such to go hiking and to events, and Lyft/Uber is pretty good.
And if there's some kind of bug where the volume shoots up to max, you just go deaf?
How I wish they had a NYC location. I've been ruminating over a product a could really use this to make some parts. NYC resistor unfortunately is not equipped enough.
> > affordable

> Builds them out of Lego.

> Hmm.

Perhaps he should use Mega Bloks instead.
> NYC is currently a boom town,

- The subway is crumbling with no tangible realistic plan to fix it.

- Housing crisis is getting worse. New York is consistently at the top, or near the top of the "losing residents to other cities" list. NYPost recently reported on "The Exodus of New York's middle class"

- With some of the highest taxes in the country, Cuomo recently stated NY lost 2.3 billion in tax revenue, with NYC alone losing 1 billion of that, and now there is a looming showdown on the state budget coming up. Area corporations are seeking relocation to cheaper tax areas. As they say, "Every day is tax day in NYC"
There’s something particularly unedifying - for me, at least - in making a dead animal 'perform' for you before you eat it. I was surprised the bbc adopted such a neutral tone on this one.
Although I can say that most financial institutions are not nearly as scrupulous in checking their systems as you would expect.

When I would work my way through their auth layer, I'd be sending them like 500 login requests every hour. They never contacted the account I used, so I have to assume they weren't checking for abnormalities like that.

The only time I really fucked up was when I tried to do that with a particular broker in Singapore. Singaporean companies have their shit _locked down_. I spent one hour debugging one of their endpoints, and it let off so many alarms that the CTO of their company was woken up in the middle of the night.
It reminds me of how more than one watch company was able to restart its mechanical watch manufacturing after employees secretly preserved old equipment in their home or in long-forgotten attics and storerooms.
Sure, we could all stand to be more well rounded. Liberal Arts majors should be required to take more science courses so they don't fall for dumb stuff like climate change denial or anti-vax nonsense.
It is functionally very different because:

-You dont have to drive around and find a park (less congestion and real estate)

-You can pool your trip with another user (Uber Pool)
> when the government does it, it's what?

Unremarkable and not newsworthy?
The users disappearing might not be noticed, but the PR crapstorm that would arise would definitely be noticed, especially over a long enough timeline.
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Not wanting to turn into a Nazi apologist but to play devil's advocate for a minute, that very same research put people in space as well as creating our current communications infrastructure.
> The short, simple, and most crucial reason: it didn’t work. How do I know? We A/B tested it. Over a fairly long time and a large number of people.

I'd love to see the actual numbers. The screenshot OP posted suggests they've been running A/B tests with 115 + 108 users, which is just not a big enough sample to derive any conclusions.

IMO Intercom's plans are too pricey once you've more than a few users, and its specialized competitors are usually better. But methinks it's a sane choice regardless for most early stage startups: you get a good enough version of just about every tool you need.

As to the other complaint (popup is too familiar) they might have been doing it wrong -- as in like a sales in a retail store showing up asking "can I help you?". Only show the popup when something interesting that you're digging into happens. And man the fort, to make sure there's someone answering at the other end when an actual user replies; else it's pointless.
Mixed-language webpages is an interesting problem I hadn't thought about.
As, I think Douglas Crockford said, the best thing that XML delivered was UTF-8.

Then we have built a whole new domain on things on the top of UTF-8.
That app doesn't even do anything special. The link to the mp3 is right in the page source code, which Bandcamp intentionally doesn't obfuscate. They justify this by asserting that if somebody really wants to pirate, they'll do so with or without Bandcamp; ergo, it's better to keep them on-platform.

I also like that this fits in with their general marketing of lossless files - sure, you can download the 128kbps mp3s. Go ahead. They're inferior - just previews.

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/360007902173-I-h...
> Are you okay to pay for your slacking neighbor (even if she is the exception and UBI turns out to be overall good)?

Finnish society has already shown this willingness to pay. All mainstream political parties support the existing welfare state for the most part, and any Finn knows a few people who live on benefits and want to avoid any kind of hard work.

Furthermore, over the 20th century the Church and other forms of private philanthropy have dwindled away in Finnish society. The average Finn today does not want to have to make an effort to personally help out other people, and engage in uncomfortable social interaction, even if we are talking about their neighbours. (After all, those living in blocks of flats rarely even know their neighbours.) So, Finns are quite happy to have a wide social safety net provided by the state – even if it is sometimes "abused" – in order to save them the effort of returning to a charity model where real effort and personal interaction would be expected of them.
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Don't feel required to answer, but I'm curious, does that mean you just run high (>150mg/dL) all the time? I find being low (<70mg/dL) or high makes me feel physically poor, and keeping in that narrow range is what I mean when I say it takes constant attention.
Ads and Tracking are two different things. Just because you don't see ads related to the tracked data in spotify does not mean that information is not used by the third party elsewhere.

If pay spotify and you listen to metallica, you might not get ads on spotify, but you might get a link to Metallica merchandise on another website.
I'm with you. Spotify can serve ads if they want. Users can block the ads if they want. Spotify can block any users (unless they are paying, then it becomes another issue) if they want.

That being said I also think Spotify (and other sites) should be held liable if they serve malware through their ads.
And it's completely fine to not want to trade getting the ads for getting music. I think their point is that it's available for free in return for ads, or for a fairly reasonable cost. To decide neither is for you is just fine, but it's less reasonable to choose no money+no ads.
“Nothing matters once you’re dead” seems inescapable until you realize that it’s based on the rather flimsy presupposition that presentism is true and eternalism is false.
> "The fiber has plenty of capacity" seems like an argument against data caps, considering that getting/keeping the fiber in the ground is the major cost.

No, a huge part of the cost is the active equipment, which also requires maintenance and upgrades. Have you priced aggregation routers with 10G ports recently?

> Is there any real advantage to using separate equipment for TV vs. using the same hardware resources to provide more data capacity and using IP multicast?

Yes, injecting the TV signal as RF over glass is vastly simpler, cheaper, and more reliable than using IP multicast. There is also the fact that it pre-dates streaming services, and is an outgrowth of the analog CATV distribution systems that were in places for decades before streaming Internet TV.
By and large, rich people invest in real estate because, in most urban areas, it is an increasingly scarce, and therefore increasingly valuable asset. It's a good investment.

The solution is not to give up and stop building real estate, making it an even more attractive investment. The solution is to build so much real estate that we tip the balance, and make real estate unattractive to speculative investors.
That’s my point. If it’s an investment it’s not a cost center, but a profit center.