skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art is in the eye of the beholder.

Just like it ain't only "mundane" work that is being replaced [0].

Imho right now most of humanity is still in denial about the consequences of these changes, just like with climate change.

But in the long-term automation will leave us with a whole ton of "surplus humans" that will struggle to find any meaningful economic activity to engage in to finance their own survival.

Right now a whole economy exists around these mundane jobs: All of the warehouse workers [1], delivery personnel, and a ton of others do their "mundane" jobs in the logistics chain, because that's what they can do. For many people, their driver's license is the only real qualification they have. But in the long term, not even a pilot's license will be a qualification that ensures employment [2].

What happens to these people once autonomous driving becomes adopted on a larger scale? Are they all gonna start working at Boston Dynamics, creating more autonomous tools? Will they all learn to code and start writing apps? Will they become successful artists? I seriously doubt that.

Will they work in newly created auxilareily industries? Maybe a few of them, but the "new jobs created" from this will never make up the number of jobs lost because the change to automation is also an increase in efficiency of productivity, meaning that the same work can now be done with way less effort.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603431/as-goldman-embrace...

[1] https://youtu.be/5iV_hB08Uns

[2] https://pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.pag...
My best guess was that the person in question was suspected of being bigoted against trans people. That comes from the fact that she was actually called a bigot in the discussion that supposedly triggered the firing. That probably came from her suggestion that one could get around using pronouns they didn't like by using a more generic "they". Sort of like a racial bigot wanting a definite list of words that were racial slurs that they could avoid using.

Is suspicion of bigotry reasonable grounds for a firing? Well, if it was, there would be whole areas of the world with no employment. Normally people with such ideas merely need to keep them to themselves while at work and while interacting with coworkers.
Some context, although really this is the culmination of a five year breakdown in community trust and there's way too much background to sum up briefly.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334575/dear-stack-e...

https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2019/10/05/stack-overflow-fias...
It actually used to be that way (payroll tax) until the tech industry pushed through the gross receipts tax. But taxing office square footage is also a reasonable approximation for headcount.
For fish run (or store in config.fish) `fish_vi_key_bindings`
>Noisy information still contains information.

I didn't use the term "cooking", but I agree, which is why I don't take the numbers at face value.

Also, why does Elon get a pass with the China stuff? Here we are in a trade war with this country, who consistently attacks our IT, economy and culture, who are commiting atrocities in their own country, and yet Musk is given kudos for building factories and raising money over there from the "save the planet" crowd. Astonishing.
> and probably conservative if they hold views that would cause them to leave a liberal state.

People move out of California because of affordability more than ideology, just like people move to California more for economic opportunity than ideology. (It's true that the realization of ideology through policy affects both affordability and economic opportunity, but people moving because of the conditions on either of those dimensions are often not motivated by ideology.
How does language play into this? Is it a skill you have or is it part of the self too? Do you use language while you deliberate on these things?
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...WeWork, Theranos,...
Harpa's not what I was considering a mid-sized venue. It's big and fancy and probably won't let your brand-new band play in front of 100 people. I was thinking more of NASA and the one I can't remember the name of that was on Hverfisgata.

Never been to a show at Háskólabíó, is it decent?

Is Gaukurinn still going?
I imagine you use something like GDB which has different commands to do that stuff. For example quick Google search reveals [this](http://www.it.uc3m.es/pbasanta/asng/course_notes/debugger_co...) for conditional breakpoints (haven't used a command line debugger in forever tho)
Great idea :) My only question is how the authentication works there...? User has to be logged in on the worker phone's app in order to do something on Instagram. I mean, I don't think anyone shares his Instagram password with an 3rd party software. Or you provide the services which can be done from another(your) Instagram account - which is then signed in on all worker phones?
If you're an English [native] speaker, The Baron in the Trees just received a very nice new English translation (published by Penguin on their Vintage Classics imprint in the UK). I love Calvino so much as an writer, but that's probably my favourite and the one I find I can recommend most successfully; it's imo more straightforward than his other more famous books, with less of the linguistic games.
Thank you, this is very interesting!
There are no perpetrators. In 2019, anyone with a pulse in the United States can find a $15/hr service job. In most of the country that’s a living wage. (Except for California, ironically, one of the places instituting the policies people here advocate for). In fact, a couple making 60k is in a position to buy a house in most of the country.

Now, will most of these people save up and become millionaires and by a condo in San Francisco? No. But life isn’t fair. I wish I could afford a few Supercars and an oceanfront villa, but I can’t and I don’t blame that on income equality.
I know. I’m concerned the application will get changed in between uses. If it’s complex enough that I couldn’t use just screen or a short script I write myself then that means I’m depending on the behavior of a webpage to remain consistent for some process.

I don’t care about security I care about the application written by the device manufacturer (who I trust from a security standpoint) not changing (which it will, because some business/marketing/“UX” guy always comes along and breaks things and I won’t have a way to get the old version of the application that I needed to drive the hardware)

I mean the idea that webpages will want hardware access is concerning and I’m sure a lot of them will ask for it for some reason and that is a security problem but it’s not at all what I’ve been talking about. Maybe try rereading my other replies?
Which makes me think, MBS may not be as amused as we are and the odds of Neumann falling in a meat grinder are non null...
>can't you use accounting techniques to twist this?

Yes. Elon literally said, "Profits from here on out!" the last time they made profits. Then, Tesla proceeeded to lose 700MM the next quarter.
The point of having a plan and realistic estimate (or even considered guess) of how long it might take for a community to take off is that it might preclude 2 pivots after less than a month each, especially if nascent traction emerged in one of them but no lightning bolt of monetization spontaneously emerged.

How long might it take for a self-sustaining community to emerge? Surely longer than 6 weeks unless you pour a massive amount of money into ads or other pump-primers.

To be honest, the approach did resonate as fairly “aimless” to me. You may have a different opinion and that’s also ok.

Edit to add: “throwing shit against a wall and seeing what sticks” is an idiom of sorts. It does not mean that the literal thing being tried is being called “shit”.
Could it also be alcohol consumption? Seems consistent with drug use.
What's better than Vim? Vim and Emacs: http://spacemacs.org/ (use the dev branch)
A major use case this articles misses is having to manipulate files on a remote server.

When you’re SSH’ing into your server, VIM is incredibly efficient to make quick edits.
What exactly is the problem here? That middle American whites are falling out of the middle class? Or that the middle class is less white? Those are just two interpretations I could think of, but I am genuinely curious about what problem specifically you say Democrats are ignoring?
>AMD has been operating at a loss for most of its existence

And this makes profit irrelevant how exactly?
I think only the first few versions of TP were limited to 64k binaries (.COM files), and that may have been because they were mainly aimed at Z80 CP/M systems more than the IBM PC.
Heh, Ben Shapiro likes to make a point of "liberals" expecting his wife to work for free.

Yes, in the majority of societies "free" healthcare is free at point of access and subsidised by taxes. Much like trash collection or road renovations. It's underlying infrastructure for a healthy society.

FWIW the US actually pays more taxes towards healthcare than europe, but that's because your medical industry is price fixing and gauging.[0]

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/16/americans...
A Decision Tree for Undoing Things with Git
5k possy represent
Just like "dark side of the Moon" does ot mean "unlit" (it gets the same amount of the sun as any other side), but that signals from that side don't reach Earth.
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>In 2019, anyone with a pulse in the United States can find a $15/hr service job

Source?
> If you make a deal to buy a bus (or 1000) today, what tariff would you be incurring as a result of Brexit?

Nobody knows! That's the problem. WTO tariff on cars is apparently 10% but I didn't manage to find out what it is for buses.
Or bankrupt anyone.
AMD Zen 3 Launching 2H 2020, Zen 4 and Zen 5 in Design by 2 Teams
Reagan started the "trickle down" BS, and manufacturing globalism really started in the 80s. You are right that Clinton promoted it and Reagan didn't.
> until the root cause is addressed: income inequality.

There isn't any evidence for that root cause though. If someone has a comfortable, secure life with food and shelter they aren't going to be unhappy no matter how much someone else has.

Fixing "income inequality" completely misses the actual root cause. I don't know what the root cause is, but I have lived next to some people who were substantially wealthier than I was and I didn't feel anything negative. Some inequality is healthy and nobody knows how much is ideal.
scatter plot please...?

if not, maybe a distribution of values in the given time instead of just statistics? i'd be happy with sorted ranking of any kind.
people should ditch their SUVs and get an ROV (Rodent Operated Vehicle as described in the article)
The best thing about Qutebrowser is that it's not only standalone but also it's 100% controllable via keyboard.

This is simply not possible with other browsers where the UI outside the actual website was only designed with a mouse cursor in mind. And that contradicts the idea of not constantly needing to switch to the mouse and back.
> Literacy will not fall, but writing will be uncommon.

I wonder if this is already a reality for some. I can't remember the last time I had to write more than my name.
As other people have mentioned, Safari doesn't load/run tabs in the background. What happens when you switch to each of those tabs so you can use the site?
Doesn’t SF have some kind of municipal tax that the employees pay?

I work in a different city where I live. But pay ~20% municipal tax (not US) that pays for infra etc that I use.
>I think, maybe, you're mistaking the community that forms around religion (e.g.: churches, friendships, church groups, etc.) for religion, itself.

If countries are having difficulty replacing it is there really a meaningful distinction? Even Europe doesn't have as much atheism or deaths of despair as the US.
What kind of software jobs are you looking for?
> Last year Stripe funded an anti-homeless campaign just $1 shy of the reporting threshold

I don’t get the sense that San Francisco’s homeless problem can be solved by throwing dollars at it. San Francisco chooses high housing prices by restricting construction. Its NIMBYs block tackling its homelessness problem.

Money won’t change those choices by San Francisco’s voters. It will just swell another city bureaucracy.
Run your own vault instance in CF
Extension to use VS Code as a presentation tool
Your link only examines data up to 2003, accounts only for poverty vs. other measures of economic opportunity, and does not account for the steeper decline in life expectancy among white Americans vs. other groups.
Come on, that's slightly unfair... "office windows overlooking parking lots" - but with a pretty nice sea view. And the path seems like a nice place to jog at lunch. Maybe even go for a swim?
I'm so sorry you have to go through this. I hope you pull it through; there is no version of the future that is better with you gone. I know it's really hard, and I have little advice. Just wanted to tell you I'm rooting for you (and voting to make things hopefully better, but that won't help you directly).
Not a strong 'case' but okay.
I’m speaking within an American context. The decline in organized religion in the US has been very rapid (since 1998, really, after decades of stability), and other community constructs have not arisen in their place. For example, living with parents or extended family is much less common in the US than in Italy or Spain (which have particularly low suicide rates).

Likewise, the drop in fertility rate has been steeper in the US. Rates dropped from almost 4 in 1960 to 1.8 today. Sweden dropped from about 2.5 to 1.85.
Don't forget about measuring your own weight in "stones".
Agree, but it was definitely suppressed last election cycle (see negative coverage of Bernie until Hillary lost). And even now, Trump's racism gets magnified in a way that overshadows anything he has to say about income inequality -- not that there aren't good reasons for this.
Don't talk out of your ass: https://justgetflux.com/research.html
I feel like I'm in need of this kind of help. I have a lot of physical and emotional issues, which I'm pretty sure are related. However, that kind of language does put me off. I'd prefer if someone just uses normal language to communicate.

So if you know someone who communicates the same ideas in a different way, I'd really appreciate it.
I'm not in charge of that part of things, so I'm not sure, to be honest. We do sometimes give folks more on a case-by-case basis.
> one thing that gets overlooked is declining religiosity

Maybe people are realizing that prayers don't pay bills.
GDP per capita only increases living standards when wealth is spread. Income inequality is significantly higher in the US than in Europe, so the middle classes in europe tend to have more.

But your points are valid, there's not many large cities, people tend not to have huge homes or sprawling lawns.
Wow this is a bizarre esolang.
Except that the person wasn't seeking "a definite list of words ... that they could avoid using" (emphasis added). On the contrary, they were objecting to arbitrarily compelled speech ("use whatever word X might prefer you to use, even if you don't know with any certainty what that word might be, or else!"). These two stances couldn't be more different. Objecting to compelled speech, especially if entirely arbitrary as in this case, doesn't make you a bigot; it just makes you a reasonable human being.
Thanks for the correction. I've included Bernie in my comment.
Why are all these companies in San Francisco?

Because that's where it was the place to be for cool tech companies, start-ups, and venture capitalism.

Now that companies realize they can just move to Witchita, Kansas or wherever else they want, they will.
I was born in the USA...lived abroad for a time...had to return to the USA as my health deteriorated as a result of the American surgeries, which resulted in work aspect of European immigration failing, and then fiancee abandoned me right before our marriage so I had no legal way to stay. I never wanted to return to America. My life would never be amazing because of what was done to my health, but it was much better there. Here it's a dead end for sure.
50 years after NASA discarded the wet workshop, a company aims to revive it
No, you are trying to be wily and ask a loaded question in order to shape the language of the conversation and position yourself as simply in search of the noble truth and I as someone who doesn't wish to see eye to eye, but it comes off as an obvious and hamfisted attempt.

Honestly, this kind of self-victimizing behavior leads me to question whether you are entirely self-aware of the nature of your interactions with your father and brother and can even trust in your own interpretation of them. You and I are not even able to have a meaningful conversation because you are bent on framing me as incapable of reasoning with you while ignoring everything I'm saying.
Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, the UK has also seen an intentional and systematic erosion of the basic institutions of a welfare state by the neoliberal bloc, including the Blair "labor in name only" governments.
Sure, the public's exposure to the term so far has pretty much only been in connection to nasty stuff.

That will change when more normal stuff is available on the dark web and the privacy aspect gets more pronounced (privacy being a major topic these days). And "we're providing access to the free internet to everyone living in countries with authoritarian regimes that try to restrict information and oppress their citizens" is a powerful narrative. They'll be less likely to consider it evil if it's compared to the BBC German Service during WW2, broadcasting to Germany in German, unrestricted by the Nazi government.
> index checking is expensive

Seems a little gung ho to disable guaranteed index checking in a video codec no? I know you still do the checks, but it sounds like it's not in a statically guaranteed way.
Ask HN: What should an ideal ML engineer/scientist interview process look like?
There was a similar thread about the ideal developer interview process (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585677), but hiring machine learning engineers is quite different as you need to assess both CS and ML skills.
Electrification is a huge thing in the European market after stricter emission standards and additional taxes for car buyers were introduced, and has nothing to do with dieselgate.
Not all areas experience extreme weather. Where I live, there's basically no extreme weather ever.
When running large production systems in the cloud, is quick fiddling with files via SSH really such a common occurrence in 2019?
Yeah! Have you tried https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/natel-plotly-panel? I'm pretty sure Ryan, mentioned in the article, wrote that....
>They're not invested in the place, they artificially skew the local economy to cater to them, e.g. by inflating rents (e.g. through AirBnB) for people who do live and work in the place, they bring extra pollution (often-times being 2-10x the resident population of some place per year), they feed a class of rent-seekers (literally rent-seeking people like hotels, rooms to let, private beaches and exhibits, and so on), and they also bring the distasteful demand for bland services (from souvenir shops, tourist traps, BS dance clubs, fast food chains, "authentic" tourist restaurants, etc, that the locals could not care less about, but live on because of the tourists).

Eventually it comes full circle and the local identity is built around some perceived vision of self importance (coping mechanism?) and being quaint and catering to tourists. These things the locals "could not care less about" eventually become the culture, disgusting as that may be. I grew up in such a place.

I could write a novel but it suffices to say that everyone who didn't stand to inherit a business fleecing tourists (or fleecing people who fleece tourists) got out as soon as they could resulting in a morally bankrupt society where you cannot trust anyone not to screw you for personal gain and I (and thousands of other people who "got out" over the years) am very much rooting for global warming to wash them all into the ocean.
Unilaterally is not an accurate description. Your link has exactly one relevant sentence:

>Roughly two-thirds of consumers contesting credit card fraud, fees or costly loans received no monetary awards in arbitration, according to The Times’s data.

Note that

1. This excludes non monetary awards

2. The categories are cherry picked and they give us no data on arbitrations overall

And even under those conditions they show a third of consumers win something, which is hardly a unilateral loss. And of course it's impossible to know how many of those cases were frivolous, and they didn't bother to compare to small claims court and see how consumers fare there.

Anyway it's not relevant to this case, because he's not suing for one of those categories, plus he presumably has a lawyer (lots of arbitrations are done without lawyers and I'd bet that they have lower success rates).
One has to assume Wood Norton was also a target
So should Apple have kept the silicon required to support 32 bit apps in their ARM chips forever?

How long should they keep backwards compatibility in watchOS - which is very resource constrained? Going back further - should they never have dropped 68K support? PPC support from MacOS?

Even Microsoft dropped 16 bit support from the 64 bit version of Windows. Before someone posts “proof” that you can still run 16 bit apps on Windows, please read the part about “the 64 bit version of Windows”.
> Older streetlights are high-pressure sodium bulbs, which produce a warm yellow glow around a color temperature of 2,000 K... Many of the LED streetlights on the market have much cooler color temperatures of 3,000 or even 4,000 K.

I feel like referring to 2,000 K bulbs as “warm” and 5,000 K bulbs as “cool” has got to be one of the worst screw-ups between scientific terms and common terms in English. And probably a missed opportunity to embed some latent understanding of thermodynamics in the broader culture.
Arbitration is cheaper for both parties than court, in general.
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I encourage readers to see the original CDC report [1]. It full of facts, but quite easy to read. Skim over the data, it’s presented in graphs and tables.

Unfortunately, this is one of those subjects that numerous commenters see through their own political or philosophical perspectives of the headlines without consulting the underlying data. Check out things for yourself.

There are some disturbing trends I noticed while looking over the data on my phone. Homicides, suicides, and accidents of young men have continued to increase and appear to me to be pulling down overall life expectancies (which have changed a small amount in the last few years).

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus17.pdf
I mean, you're not wrong necessarily, but some people specifically chose gitlab because it was _not_ being hosted elsewhere or harvesting data.

Choice is good, more things like this mean that there's less of a differentiating factor between hub and lab.