skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because job demand is not a zero-sum game but a function of supply.

For every job that gets "destroyed" by technology, several new ones are created. The problem is we, as humans, are terrible at predicting the future - for example, try explaining a mobile app developer job to someone thirty years ago in 1989. Now try imagine what jobs we will have 30 years from now, keeping in mind how off a person in 1989 would have been.

Perfect world solution here is that Amazon retrains their workers, but as we're not in a perfect world, that typically falls to the state. As human labor becomes more valuable to fill niche and volatile job markets, due to automation taking large scalable jobs, retraining is going to become even more important.
At first i wanted to say of course insects count against being vegetarian. But then I thought about it...vegetarians don't want to eat living things, but technically plants are alive too.

Is mass farming vegetables as inhumane as mass-farming cows, pigs, chickens etc? probably not.

But mass farming insects may not be anymore inhumane than the life wild insects are already accustomed to (living in tight, dark spaces).

From a sustainability standpoint, there's no question that getting your protein from insects is better for the environment than cows/pigs/chickens.

But some people are vegetarian just because they're generally grossed out by eating bloody flesh...so just from that angle i'd say insects are not vegetarian.
In-app purchases should be off by default.
You have to make the machine to make the machine that allows you to make your final product.

You would still have the advantage of being able to beeline past technological dead ends, but you still have to build up the industrial base. Even then you run into problems with chemicals simply not being available on an industrial scale because previously there was no need for them. The world is a massively complex interconnected system.
I am in the same boat. I don't need a laptop urgently, but would be willing to spend up to 1500 for the named configuration of 16/512g. As it is, the last Apple laptop I bought was the late 2008 Macbook. Which already had 4g of main memory for around 1200€.

There is also an elphant in the room: the keyboards. Until shown otherwise, I wouldn't trust their longlivity beyond the 4 years waranteed by Apple.
Sorry, I worded that poorly. What I mean is that each individual suggestion consists of a single token -- at least, that is what I see in https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/. Compare the videos in https://tabnine.com/blog/deep, where most suggestions consist of multiple tokens.

Deep TabNine (announced today) uses transformers. TabNine (released last year) uses logistic regression.
The graven images actually refer to an ancient Hebrew practice having to do with the Kabbalah.
But how do you tell the difference between an adult and a kid with their parents password and bank card?

If you trust your kid with your bank account and get burned.. isn't that kind of on you?
"When considering human-powered equipment, a healthy human can produce about 1.2 hp (0.89 kW) briefly (see orders of magnitude) and sustain about 0.1 hp (0.075 kW) indefinitely; trained athletes can manage up to about 2.5 hp (1.9 kW) briefly and 0.35 hp (0.26 kW) for a period of several hours."[1]

100W on a bike is easy to maintain for several hours, even for non-trained humans. An output of 1hp (750W) only lasts a few seconds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower
This is a really excellent point I didn’t even think about.
The "just give us your cash, we don't really want any help from you, leave it to the professionals" mentality has probably hurt giving and allowed more fraudulent activity. Things people care about and do are important. Throwing some dollars at a charity doesn't make it real and certainly doesn't create the advocates and friends a charity needs to survive. A charities inability to utilize volunteers is on them and very much a failure of the charity. If a person wants to run a charity learn to understand charity in a personal and community way, not as an exercise in strictly logistics with no human elements. That lack of interaction will cause problems in other parts of an operation.
Which area of Europe are you in? I have enabled international access, did not know it needed to be turned in Twilio for SMS's to be sent to international number.

Apologies, if you could try it again and let me know if you are able to get in that would be greatly appreciated!
They are unless you add a card, and sign in, and enable the ability to pay without using your password.
> You don't need to accept any of it if you don't want to.

Tell that to the people who had their privacy violated by Street View[1]. And the people who specifically disabled location services on their Android devices but were still tracked[2]. Or all the people who have no idea what Google Analytics is and never consented to it, but are profiled by it everyday.

> All of their services are a choice you are making.

I do my best to avoid privacy invading companies, and as a technical user I find it tiring and know I deal with consequences (e.g. broken websites). It perplexes me that comments like yours still pop up. We’re not the only segment of the population that exists; non-technical users are the majority, and they have the same right to privacy as we do, with a modicum of transparency. If even technical people are regularly tripped by privacy invasions we didn’t know about, what chances do non-technical users have?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/technology/google-pays-fi...

[2]: https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
>learning difficulties and the approximate cognitive ability of a seven-year-old child.

so obviously I gave him full control over "his entire savings"
Problematic. It should be 100% of men, given that the pay gap is made up for political purposes (namely, advocating to pay women more money than they've actually earned).
Roads were a necessety for the invention of bicycles. And by roads I mean roads with a certain standard.

Another necessety was a certain type of middle class which would actually desire individual transport. If you are a worker why would you prefer a bicycle over a wagon that transports all tools? If you are an aristocrat, why prefering a bicycle over some comfortable carriage, especially when you don’t even know the way?

It is no accident, that the bike was invented by a certain type of rich middle class in cities with good infrastructure. More as a toy first (basically a horizontal bar with two wheels and you had to push with the feet), but more serious later
I mean, people ride unicycles too. But there's a reason most don't.
You do research to make sure your not getting F'ked by some scheme fronting as a leukemia foundation. That should be obvious unless you like to just throw money at strangers.

>I disagree with the idea that growing should be part of a charitable organizations goals.

Why not? What's wrong with maximizing the amount of good an organization can do?

> It is not a business and should not act like one.

It is a business, non profits register with the govt and must have a form of liability, especially with volunteer labor.
most children are using their parents' apple IDs.
It's a bloody goddamned nightmare. For example, a brief review of my devices:

>Phone A. Type-C port limited to USB 2 data speeds but supports HDMI out via DisplayLink.

>Phone B. Type-C port that supports USB 3.1 speeds but doesn't do video out.

>Tablet A. Type-C port that supports USB 3 speeds but only charges through a MicroUSB port.

>Tablet B. Type-C port that supports USB 3 speeds and charging, but only charges at 0.8 amps through the type-C port and relies on a pogo-pin dock for actual 15-watt charging.

That's not even mentioning all the devices that advertise one thing and then break the standard in a hundred different ways like the Switch.
Texas DMV does the exact same thing.

Article: https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/how-the-state-sells-y...
I'd prefer if articles like this tried to nudge the tech community towards using the (imho) clearer nomenclature recommended by USB-IF: “High Speed USB” for 480Mbps products, “SuperSpeed USB” for 5Gbps products, “SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps” for 10Gbps products and “SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps” for 20Gbps products, instead of USB X.Y Gen Z which is sort of ambiguous.
Giving a smartphone to an underage person is also like giving them a credit card, a phone that can be used to call any tolled number, a way to access inappropriate content, etc, etc.
These games were not just on Apple's platform. I think these types of games are predatory. What is wrong with just selling a whole game? It is hard to find any game these days that comes out complete. Blizzard did it with Star Craft 2 and for that reason, I refused to buy it.
The story I heard was that a horse is good for about 0.5-0.6HP continuously. The farmer lied about his horse.
That assumes your bodies need is static, but unless you are living in a place without seasons, consistently exercising the exact same amount, and not aging, that is not going to be true.
Given a positive result. P of having the disease are 2%. Given a false result, it’s about 0. Given 2 positive results, assuming independent results (I think that’s unlikely but let’s assume) then the probability of having it is 0.04.

I’m not disagreeing that there usefulness to tests, but there is danger too.
Both factors are relevant. Modern mountain bikes with pneumatic tires (for example) would have been very useful going back to medieval times when roads were pretty rough. And, as you say, given streets, even low-grade bikes can be useful.
The amount of crap in the app stores that encourage this sort of behaviour is truly, truly shocking.

The gaming community often lambast companies like EA etc for loot boxes ("surprise mechanics"), which is definitely a problem that needs to go away, but from this article I suspect there's a lot of examples of absolute bottom of the barrel shovelware on the app stores that's raking it in from accidental purchases from children or vulnerable adults.

I remember Apple saying they were putting together some sort of curated program for high quality games, maybe with a subscription model. Which is cool and everything but creating a two-tier system doesn't solve the underlying problem.

Maybe any transaction should have a 2FA style system where the cardholder need to explicitly approve it through their phone. Or maybe a daily spending cap or something like that
One would assume that children spending was authorized by their parents.
While efficient conversion of rider input to forward motion is obviously important in bicycles, it’s not the only attribute that matters. Recumbent bikes make efficiency gains here in some riding scenarios at the cost of a great many other attributes, which is why they have never really caught on.

Also, they are really hard for young people to pop wheelies on, and that’s important too :)
If I'm remembering correctly, it's not that far off from the (blue?) color coding with the USB A connector to indicate USB 3 support for particular ports? Either way, when power gets involved as well, that is a terrible user experience.

I had a friend bring over a Dell laptop with a USB C port that I naively assumed had TB3 support (it was listed as being "optional" on Dell's website). Turns out that the only way to actually know was to either watch it not work with a Dock, or to go into the BIOS and witness some missing settings that indicated TB3 support was not present.

For better or for worse, though, that's a manufacturer problem - they could have easily just not allowed _any_ USB C charging and stuck with an AC adapter, or spent the extra coin to make all of the ports work with a TB controller, etc. Companies have been making user-hostile decisions in the name of cost cuttings (1366x768 screens in 2018) forever, it seems like USB C is just another avenue for that.
This is disgusting. Yes parents should be aware of these things but shifting the burden of locking down every system a child uses when this could be handled at the app store or financial processor level is ridiculous. It seems that some of these people are claiming that the game is not distinguishing well between fake and real currency. There are definitely games I've played where this is ambiguous as well.

IMO there needs to be a more rigorous opt-in process for different types of apps. You can opt in for automatic purchases for utility type apps but not for game purchases for example and it needs to be off by default. There also needs to be ways for people to get their money back in certain situations. If a child has a cognitive disability of some kind then holding them accountable seems kind of exploitative. Parents can prove these things with documentation and if proven the money should be refunded.
I had the same idea and tried lchf and it works great. Caffeine never did anything for me.
Teaching AI systems to learn language from letters, not words
Since it's too late to edit my comment, I'm replying to note I was a bit off. `undef` actually doesn't propagate all the way to the conditional; instead, LLVM replaces `undef < 150` with `false`, and the same for `undef > 120`, and then `false || false` is simplified to `false`. In C, comparing indeterminate values is undefined behavior, so LLVM would be allowed to replace `undef < 150` with `undef`, but it seems that LLVM itself has slightly stronger semantics.

See also:

https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#undefined-values
Personally.. I don't really like the idea of an application developer knowing my age or gender or any other personal details.
Just to be clear, I was making the point that Marc is making a move against his former employer Autodesk by funding Blender like this.
Murder was killing someone against God's will. It wasn't against OT law if it was willed by God.
Right. And one point that cannot be stressed enough.

Good steel, in quantity, only goes back to 1880.

Lots of things that "could have been built in antiquity" foundered on that basic fact. Before Bessemer, steel was as exotic as titanium is now.

The alternatives are not good. Cast iron? Too heavy and too brittle. Wrought iron? Maybe, but not that great. Lead? Too soft. Brass? Could work, but expensive. A king's kid might have had a brass bicycle.

If the iron workers of Cizhou, China, who had an air-blown steel making process by about 1100 AD, had made the next step to a Bessemer converter, history would have been completely different. They were close. Right idea, limited steelmaking capability, existing iron industry. Coal was available, but apparently not too easily.

The few places in the world with easy access to both coal and iron ore started the Industrial Revolution. Then came railroads, and the resources didn't have to be so close.
Hundreds of people applied to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
> I run a company that helps FAANG-rite-of-passage-waving software engineers find contract work.

FTFY.
I’m furious, this is outrageous. I paid for product and now they took it, this is a crime. Worst thing there is no-one to protect the consumer. Where is my guarantee that some other app developer will not do that tomorrow? This is more of Apple Appstore issue, they need to regulate this.
As the old joke goes: programmers are just machines that turn caffeine into computer code.
“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
Analyzing revenue across franchises using R
> "I cannot put even a minimal effort in keeping an eye on my children, so I will blame someone else for it and make it their responsibility."

For centuries, it's been trivially possible for parents to manage their children's access to funds. Nineteenth century homesteaders could send their kids off to market with appropriate funds to buy what they needed. Now all of a sudden this doesn't work and kids by default have access to near infinite (at their scales) lines of credit because of internet purchasing.

Why is this burden suddenly on the parents? Why can't app vendors (and in particular their middlemen who manage the purchases) make even a minimal effort at not having this system be broken by default?
Armchair expert case in point. If you think you know a better way, then do the work and propose a rational solution to the problem at hand.

Saying, 'experts have been wrong therefore my opinion is just as valid' is a poor contribution to a rational discussion.
I'm from the nordics and I when I was younger I thought of the US as the ultimate place to be.

Now, having been there quite a bit, I must say that it really doesn't impress.

The impression I got visiting the US in general (NY, Seattle, San Fran, LA), is that it all seems quite ran down, full of inequality and social problems, and lacking soul, mainly from being so consumerist.

And although I would concievebly earn a lot more working over there, the total cost of living would probably more than make up for that increase. Especially considering having kids.

My friend who is a US citizen with a well-paying engineering job in the LA area, is considering moving back. The work culture is quite hectic, and the amount of trouble they've been through with child care, insurance issues etc are making them reconsider. Not to mention that the area is super-busy and you spend a large portion of your free time in your car.

This obviously doesn't describe the entirety of the United States, but sometimes I wonder if people from the US are aware of living conditions in other western countries. I'm not so sure that the US is coming out on top any longer.
Not OP, but I checked for Austin, Texas, and a part time entry level position is 20$ an hour.

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Waste%20Collector&l=Austin%2C%...

That was one of the first results, but it seems like the average is generally lower, around $15 an hour. My first tech job was as a Linux sysadmin in a web hosting company in Houston circa 2011, which paid 17 an hour.

This was with no formal education or experience (I'd played around with Linux at home and wanted to work with it professionally). So I'd say the claim that garbage collectors make the same as programmers appears to be generally untrue.
I think both of those explicitly denounce any expectation of a fitness for any particular purpose in their licence, so if anything they'll be going backwards (according to their metric)
I don’t think anything’s ever going to beat Thompson’s “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold”
Probably has to do with people not wearing seatbelts. I remember years ago the taxis had covers on back seats so you couldn't even reach the buckles. Then Shenzhen enforced belts on all seats and things got better there. I wonder if it spread to other cities.
The comparison isn't wrong, it's nonsensical.

It's like comparing the mortality rate of heart surgery to that of psychotherapy because they're both performed by doctors.

If I died from talking to a therapist then, yes, I would see that as a major problem. The mortality rate of brain surgery wouldn't factor in to my decision making in this regard, because it's unrelated.

If I died on a Boeing aircraft with an inherently dangerous design flaw that makes it relatively more dangerous than other planes then, yes, I would see that as a problem.

The sad fact that driving is more dangerous does not mitigate that... because it's unrelated.

I think you're arguing that the relationship between activities doesn't matter, but when it comes to expectations, I'd argue it's the only thing that matters.
Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” remains my favorite (and very funny) exploration of this.
Falling asleep after lunch in your late 20s is super common as you go through "second puberty". You should consider cutting carbs out of your lunch meal. This happened to me as well, I tried fixing it with caffeine. My solution was to change my lunchtime diet and eat a 200 calorie meal around 11 and another 100 calorie meal around 1-2pm depending on when I got hungry. What was happening was I would eat a carb-heavy lunch (hamburger buns, french fries and a coke) and my blood sugar would spike to the moon. Two hours later my blood sugar would crash and the only way to stay awake would be to take a walk. Around 4:30-5pm I would finally feel ok again.
It all comes from Watt trying to calculate how to sell his machines to the owners of the mines, who depended before on ponies:

http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/103_fall2003.web.dir/Chris_Peter...

"Watt was working with ponies lifting coal at a coal mine, and he wanted a way to talk about the power available from one of these animals. He found that, on average, a mine pony could do 22,000 foot-pounds of work in a minute. He then increased that number by 50 percent and pegged the measurement of horsepower at 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute."

"A horse exerting 1 horsepower can raise 330 pounds of coal 100 feet in a minute"

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a26074/hors...

"his business partner Matthew Boulton standardized the figure at 33,000.

The number wasn't quite scientific: Watt looked for horses at peak performance, and for his purposes, it didn't truly matter how accurate his measurement of a horse's power was as long as it was close enough to be believable. Much like his engine, the metric struck."
Also misleading because of this, right at the top of the article:

> What is true for Microsoft is also true for the Google and Apple cloud solutions. The cloud solutions of these providers have so far not been transparent and comprehensibly set out. Therefore, it is also true that for schools the privacy-compliant use is currently not possible.
> - Hessian commissioner of Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Related quote from the computer game Alpha Centauri:

"Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a [computer chip]. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken."

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/2325
Kind of makes sense.

It isn’t milk. It is good that big grocery isn’t allowed to mislead people so easily, but I’m less convinced than I was before I typed out my comment.
Any recommendations on the easiest way to set up a blog? Is relative anonymity possible?
Curious too.
Anyone help pointing a way how to verify the possibility?
Which Hemingway would you like?

You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings; before even the ice wagons come by with ice for the bars?
- To Have and Have Not

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
- The Old Man and the Sea

Then there was the bad weather.
- A Moveable Feast

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plains to the mountains.
- A Farewell to Arms

Robert Cohn was once the middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
- Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Each one of those opening sentences asks more questions.

Is that really what it was like in Havana?
Why hasn't he caught fish for so long?
Where was the weather bad?
Which river, plains and mountains?
Why did his boxing career stop at Princeton?

I do enjoy Hemingway, but especially I find his opening lines compelling.