skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the purpose of society is to compete for evolutionary fitness status by hoarding socioeconomic tokens...seemingly for the eventual purpose of turning every part of the environment including the human body into a sooty tern egg and a fungible asset, then that IS a single cause of homelessness, ethnic cleansing, authoritarianism, metabolic syndrome and the rest of the parade of monsters.

If the point of the lives we lead is some seemingly positive direction for the human soul, individually or communally, maybe the single cause of homelessness is that we have lost our way, perhaps irrevocably.

But maybe we can be optimistic and imagine things becoming so horrific in the future that the survivors stop doing the things that led us to build a world that either wears down the people or the living ecosystem or both.

It's hard to walk past a homeless person without condemning the society you live in. It's even harder to do anything substantial to change their situation, especially yourself. But to not blame anyone is just morally disorienting. Eric Weinstein, in a podcast that was posted here a day ago, kept harping on "there are intentional causes and emergent causes."

But maybe people are just basically hypocritical lying jerks.
Can't you pay a human to do that, if you're willing to pay thousands to have it done for you?
It's certainly true that any individual's actions and choices are unlikely to make a significant change, but if we are willing to justify not making individual sacrifices based on that then we're already in the wrong frame of mind to make progress towards a solution.
I'm trying to convince my wife to move there, I want my kids to go see their friends on bike, not organise car transportation for play dates.
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If you looked at the tallest and the shortest nations in the world, you would see, that most of them are not ethnically diverse at all.

My point is, that the height of a person has nothing to do with the income, but rather with his anchestry.

And because the US is extremely etnically diverse, making any conclusions is pointless.
That's because it's fantastically difficult to manipulate soft, flexible fabrics. Building a [plausibly person-sized] robot that can reliably manage the entire laundry cycle end-to-end is hard to imagine doing on current tech no matter how much money you have. We're only going to see these sort of semi-partial solutions for a long time to come.
Eh, it depends on the topic. Binary reversing stuff rarely gets much love, but there frankly just aren't too many people doing that stuff. Web security things get lots of love, usually -- I both launched and sold a web security class via HN, very successfully -- because there are just so many people who are interested in it; it's the bread and butter of the industry nowadays. And anything privacy-oriented or seriously pwned always gets clicks and upvotes.

But yeah, this stuff is good content but doesn't have much reach.
Stripping the conversation of all nuance isn’t the intellectually honest way to have this conversation.
It's called Excel and self-discipline.
> If I stop working, I'll get kicked out of my house and will probably die of hunger. Does it mean I am forced to work?

This is such a bad argument in my opinion...living is working...it might not be at a job in an office, but if you want to eat/drink/shelter, you're going to have to work one way or the other...your question kinda seems like complaining about the fact that consuming calories and water and making shelter to live is not forced already, when it is by nature...
Then pack your selfie stick and have yourself a time! I'm not saying there's a right way to travel. The tweet suggested there's more economical ways of "expanding your horizons" than being a chronic tourist. Given the cultural diversity in my own backyard I think the statement is more empowering than gatekeeping.
> So you set it to $1000. Now the parents are still late and also argue about the insane fine, so you get no money and end up staying later than you would have anyway arguing with the parents.

Except that you do ultimately get the $1000, because you have a valid contract specifying that, and the premise is that some people are willing to pay it. Which is great -- you get paid $1000/hour to stay an extra hour. Well worth it. (And if not, specify the amount that makes it worth it.)

> How about instead of a fine you give the kids to CPS. You go home on time, the late parents never come back, or if they do they're never late again, and you win.

At which point you still receive no money but have to spend time arguing with them anyway when they show up at your house with an army of lawyers (or a machete) because you left their kids with CPS. And then you lose all your business because no one will trust their kids to someone who would leave them with CPS.

> I guess the point is that monetary punishments don't seem to work when companies can consider it as 'cost of doing business.' If we start taking away the company's hypothetical metaphorical children when they're late to pick them up then they have a reason to listen.

But we don't need them to listen as long as they're paying. Just take their money. It's worth more than their compliance, by definition, because the amount is explicitly chosen that way.
His own brother thinks that it's good that he's in prison because he wreaks havoc and fathers multiple (state supported) children when out of prison. From this perspective, 6-12 months would be the option that reaps "profound negative consequences".
If one views blockchain money in the distributed spirit of Bitcoin, the idea of a "private cryptocurrency" will seem like an oxymoron. If it's a private blockchain JPM controls, JPM might as well run a traditional database. Yes, I agree.

But setting that aside, here's my best guess at what JPM is trying to do: Maybe it's not the blockchain as storage that matters but the programming API that their institutional customers can use for transferring money between accounts.

Maybe instead of thinking of JPM's blockchain as a broken version of Bitcoin's ideals for public money creation, JPM's main use is to let the big customers move money on their own -- using a forked version of Ethereum (called Quorum). Some of JPM's code examples on github.[0]

There are pre-existing places where JPM customers can move financial instruments. Their dark pool exchange called JPMX is one example.[1] JPM's customers can trade stocks there outside of NASDAQ/NYSE.

But what about cash instead of stocks? I think that's what JPMCoin tries to be. Yes, their's already the SWIFT network[2] for wire transfers but I don't think banks want to expose that to account holders to the same flexible degree that the Quorum programming language would allow.

So, JP Morgan wants to enable their customers to instantly transfer money with their other customers without the legacy of SWIFT messages. For obvious reasons, they won't use the PayPal API, or the Stripe API. Instead, they use a flavor of the Ethereum API to let their customers execute "programmable money".

The real Ethereum is too volatile for business-to-business money transfers. But with JP Morgan's financial backing to reliably convert JPMCoin to $USD, that would instill confidence for account holders to use it.

In my opinion, JPMCoin isn't that revolutionary since it's only intended for their big institutional customers. Time will tell if their customers will adopt it or ignore it.

[0] https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum-examples/tree/master...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pool#Broker-dealer-owned_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT_message_types
While I don't disagree with you in general, it does seem that there are a lot of things that can be done that our modern society simply won't tolerate.

I think we could _easily_ provide shelter and food for every single homeless person in America right now. But I can tell you that most of the homeless people won't take that shelter. Because you'd have to remove weapons, drugs, violence, etc... to make the shelter safe. So then you have a jail system.
There have been numerous studies showing how even extremely subtle things can influence people's perception. If you specifically asked someone "would you be willing to pay more for a good if you see unrelated expensive goods in the background?" Most people would say of course not. And yet studies show that the average person actually would be willing to pay more.
I'd be shocked if something as blatantly obvious as height would have no impact on someone's perceived authority. Anecdotally, I can say that I find it much more natural to act as a leader around people who are shorter than me.
> He's not a foodie

You might enjoy watching Rudy Maxa's cheeks instead, then.
You only need the energy to pull the trigger of a gun to release the energy of a bullet.
My (not very original theory is that the CIA, who provably coined the term conspiracy theory to discredit any sort of unfavorable research, is making sure to spread obviously false theories to discredit anyone who's associated with any conspiracy research (You doubt the official 9/11 story? Tell me more about how the Earth is flat, must be them chemtrails getting to you)
I think it is some measure of the quality of an organization how easily they allow and even encourage employees of all titles to take on leadership. It becomes a business advantage when done well.
in this instance there is an administrative layer right under the law: how the enforcement is organized and how much money is spent on which issue.
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And here I thought earthquakes were the one kind of natural disaster we still couldn't bring upon ourselves
And means of production are just one type of possession. I am arguing that humans inherently seek personal possessions, of which one type is means of production.
Phone numbers are pretty ok as a second factor. For a general purpose website I doubt any more than 10% of people will ever get anything like a Yubikey. As for using a TOTP app such as Google Authenticator, I myself have been personally burned when I wiped my phone and forgot to backup the TOTP codes.

Phone numbers combined with SMS are not perfect, but they are something the average user has, something that the average user can recover (if they lose a phone, they can get a new one but still keep the same number). No, they are not perfect, and if you are being targeted, they will not help you, but most people are not targeted, but they do use bad passwords and using phone numbers as the 2nd factor improves security.
I am usually radically Greenwaldian in arguing against deplatforming of any and all legal political speech on internet platforms, but it feels like a different set of principles apply in this case. To me GoFundMe is not a common platform for speech, it's a provider of material aid in the form of privately organizing fundraising. It's not that we need to let them be and convince enough people not to support these ideologies, it's that we've _already_ convinced GoFundMe to stop helping. I'm not sure!
> Did the Weather Underground grow because of the Internet? Did left-wing communist terrorist grow because of the Internet?

You're inferring a causal connection here? Where's your evidence? Where's your evidence that left wing terrorism won't similarly grow?

You're making a lot of assumptions to conclude that a medium which allows all people to congregate with like-minded individuals, will only foment aggression among a specific sub-population. Terrorism on all sides waxes and wanes due to many environmental factors. Assuming the internet is a causal factor, then when those environmental factors tilt against left-wing agendas, left-wing terrorism will also increase again.

If the idea is to implement some measures to reduce all forms of terrorism and extremism, then the qualifiers are not appropriate in that context. In so far as some forms of terrorism may require measures that differ from those required by other forms, then qualifiers are appropriate. That isn't the case when you're asserting a mission statement or a larger social goal.

However, the data suggests that left and right wing people are not that different, cognitively. They each exhibit similar motivations to deny science, a similar propensity to believe fake news. They differ primarily in their moral foundations, and so their propensity to violence will only increase when the environment is unfavourable to those foundations.

> The left wanted to call ISIS simply "terrorism" because terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. But the right insisted that it be called "radical Islamic terrorism" because in the words of my family member "you have to call it what it is to defeat it".

Because ISIS is a radical Islamic terrorist group. They're not left-wing terrorists. If the subject of a conversation is a specific group, then qualifiers are appropriate.
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If you're looking for a good role model, I would point to John Baez, a wonderfully gifted mathematician who has changed course mid-career because he thinks this is the most important problem facing humanity: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/about/
Thank you... couldn't agree more. It's probably the best option I've encountered for configurations... Hell, look at apache, Ms config files, xml config files, they are all nightmarish compared to YAML. Short of an actual shell script language, it's about as good as we'll ever see.
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It's better for everyone for them to become fluent in English. People with blindness aren't refusing to become fluent in sight.
I've been writing servers in Rust and I don't really agree. Granted, these may not be traditional HTTP servers - they're AWS lambdas, which puts them closer to the "some function" than "some server" depending on how you look at it.

They work great, I've been able to iterate extremely quickly on a system that has had its requirements changed quite a lot over time.

I haven't spent much time optimizing my code at this point but they execute extremely quickly, much faster than my Python lambdas.

Regarding the author's complaints:

I haven't needed any async. I use threads and it's fine. When async/await is a thing I'll use it, maybe - I really don't think it's going to make a difference but it might free up some memory that I can throw at caching.

Error handing in Rust is still a bit uncomfortable. The failure crate has been working for me but it doesn't always feel 'right'.
Couldn't agree more though I am on a bit on the fence.

I do not believe banning or censoring blatant misinformation is bad. We have more information at our fingertips than ever before and I personally believe that we should be able to access all that knowledge freely without censorship.

There is some information better not shared though and this is where I am divided. We do not have an obligation to inform or influence anyone's decisions - but when those decisions harm childrens' lives then I think action needs to be taken. This is the most obvious action that could have been taken and I'm glad it was.
Deep learning denoiser. I don't know if NVIDIA came up with some marketing term for it. It's what allows RTX to produce meaningful images at all despite the renderer running at 0.5-2 samples per pixel which looks little better than random noise. I kind of assumed they'd call it DLDN because they called their deep learning supersampling DLSS. I guess not, go figure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjTPV2pXY0
And it was still probably cheaper than the US
If you visit Holland, this becomes pretty obvious, Dutch and 6'5" myself. I speculate milk culture might be a factor.
Every culture has it's own definitions. The problem is that the world's cultures are mixing online, and the lowest tolerable level will win out. So, it doesn't matter what I think, it's what every combined culture, religion, government , etc... will choose.

And they will choose anything and everything that threatens their power. The actual contents don't matter.
You may find some comfort in the fact that the proposed solution wouldn't actually work. Humans are extraordinarily robust creatures. Our best efforts at exterminating them, even using state-of-the-art technology on industrial scales, have, for better or worse, barely made a dent in the population.
I absolutely feel that. I've heard "they should make XYZ illegal" (talking about a type of media or discussion) more this decade than I have the last.

Censorship by private business is totally fine with me, and I'd do the same if I ran a user content business, but this of course creates a demand for "alternative" sites that hold the disallowed content. What is not okay with me is hearing "the alternative sites are bad because all they do is attract XYZ media/discussions." No, they're good because they exercise the right of free speech, which is useful when private content services go too far.
I have seen a C++ quant position paying 500K a year. There are definitely opportunities.
I did not say the 10 years was to now, I've been in tech for the last 20, my time spanned late 1980s to late 1990s... the time you speak of.
There's another advantage for which human workers that don't get nearly enough much credit: flexibility.

When Tesla tried to create the world's most automated assembly line for the Model 3, they learned the hard way why Toyota and others have abandoned the idea: complex automated systems are, perhaps necessarily, tightly coupled and complicated. For Tesla, this led to cascading errors and insurmountable "debugging" challenges. Eventually it became evident to Tesla and Musk that, even at first-world prices, human workers were the better buy. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/musk-tips...]

When you think about it, the work involved in building software systems may only be economically justifiable right now because computers can perform certain tasks many orders of magnitude more efficiently than humans can. In the physical realm, the differences shrink tremendously (or even reverse), making it far more difficult to compete with human workers.
Japan has ridiculously low crime rates, yes, but they also have extremely high suicide rates, so your point about mental illness rates doesn't hold water.

Also, crime and murder rates in many western European countries are also quite low, though not as low as Japan of course. It's only America that has terrible murder rates (esp. by guns), but America is not like other Western nations in many ways, so you shouldn't lump them together, just as you shouldn't lump Japan and China together.
One data point: in NYC, wash and fold laundry service costs me ~$15 every 2 weeks. It would take 5 years (133 loads) for the robot to break-even and that's not counting soap or the time-value of money. Granted my clothes are relatively simple and non-delicate, but if the robot must handle delicates it will likely increase the costs as well.

The number one blind-spot for robotics projects is ignoring the availability of cheap (and often illegal) immigrant labor in most major locales. Western programmers think of most physical labor as abhorrent but working in a laundry in Western countries is often much better paid and comfortable than the alternatives back home. Plus your children typically have access to much higher education and opportunities.
* Raise your rates. You need to charge _way_ more than your FTE rate. _Way_ more.

* Say "no" to prospects that don't fit your practice/price.

* Avoid freelancing/matching sites.

* Don't bill hourly. Don't track hours.

* Specialize.

* Be prepared for clients to be very late on payments.

* You can't stop selling when you hit capacity. Be intentional about smoothing your utilization out.
Because that legal fiction is only employed when it is convenient for the owners of the fictive "people" in question.
Yes, for example setting a breakpoint in your input method engine while it's relaying your keystrokes to the terminal with the debugger tends to go poorly. On the other hand, gdb supports the "commands" command, which allows you to automatically run a script when a specific breakpoint is run. That way, you can do essentially everything you can do by inserting logging statements directly into the code, but without having to restart the process.
On paper this is the most reasonable advice but it's not very realistic and it's definitely not the only choice. When I was thinking about quitting my job, I've encountered this advice a lot and it was very discouraging.

So I just wanted to reiterate for anyone really struggling in their day job, looking to quit: if it gets too unbearable, there are MANY options.
This doesn't necessarily mean what you think it would mean. As always the problem with social sciences is that correlation != causation. For instance taller people also have higher IQs. [1] Its for reasons like this that I think we're rather more likely to recreate Frankenstein than Gattaca.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence
Alternative alternative explanation: they caused what would have been 4096 magnitude 3 earth quakes (0.2 magnitude difference corresponds to 2x energy per wikipedia) to merge together into a single magnitude 5.4 earthquake. Since they reduced the coefficient of friction enough to allow all that energy out at once instead of in small steps.
Who needs to hire Junior engineers when you can hire very senior ones at half the price in another part of the country/world?
I am referring to unboxing videos that are targeting kids. I myself watch unboxing videos for laptops and phones and find them useful.
The distinction between "consulting" and "freelancing" and "contracting" is pretty much fictitious; it's like the consulting version of the "is it really a startup?" game.
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> When laid bare, it's an appeal to ignorance.

Or you could say that it's an appeal to numerous studies (psychological and sociological), most of human history, and prudence...
Rust addresses C/C++ security issues, but that's where the security benefits end (that's still a lot of benefits though!)

I really wish "units of measure" types took off in the langdev world. "String" is woefully inadequate to describe the actual type of a string; Imagine a world where string data is of type <string:urlencoded> or <string:xsssanitized>, and display functions would only accept strings of the correct type. I know F# has this, but unfortunately it never caught on elsewhere.
At least one of the comments is saying you worry too much, but I appreciate your worry and wish other people would worry more, not less.

And one of the comments suggested that you can offset your carbon impact by paying someone to plant trees. I'm not seriously considering that for the next time my wife and I fly anywhere... And possibly just to offset our yearly carbon footprint anyhow.
I don't see anyone advocating taking away their decision.
The government is democratic, so it has to respond to the wishes of the voters. That said, it does seem like the Japanese government has made top-down efforts to change various things about the culture in that country, such as pushing companies to not overwork their employees so much.
But why would you want to do that? Why would you prefer no-transaction over one that generates a $300 profit?
I don't see anything in the OP asking for an extended semantic debate about the meaning of the word "consultant" or any problem any consultant has that could be solved by it.