skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economics goes behind the limited analysis of this article. The main problem with train and metro drivers is that they need to be hired and trained to a certain level, and you also need other position like traffic regulator, etc. Here in Switzerland there is a lack of train driver creating problems as some services cannot be maintained to the expected level. In my city a suburban train line had to go from one train every 15min back to one every 30min, because of a lack of trained resources regarding traffic regulation (seems that 2 peoples were sick and another one quit), and cannot be as easily replaced.
>because if you sprinkle magic on top, you can sell people anything.

WeWork?
>>Doesn't this kind of argument work for almost every type of fraud though? "The customers were paying for the fraud, not what was advertised."

Duh... why else would people still be using fiat currency?
So this is where my parallel computing professor got his material from. Definitely a good read for parallel computing, but that matrix multiplication problem was discussed to ad nauseum in the first few weeks.
In what sense are the IPCC conservative? They've overestimated temperature changes since their first analysis in 1990.

Maybe calling institutions "conservative" because they are the lowest of the over estimators is part of the problem here?
"A related trend is the emergence of local news sites in the US that are run by politicians or are closely linked to political causes or entities."

I can't help but notice that ABC news spiked the Epstein story, NBC suppressed the Weinstein story (both for 'editorial standards'), yet both blared Kavanaugh allegations nonstop.

It's not just small news sources that are steered by politics.
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still moved me to eye-rolls and "ok, boomer" sentiments. like fine, we get it, you think movies-- sorry "cinema"-- in your day was better and now popular culture is moving in a different direction. ho hum...
"You sounded happier when you said ‘photography’”

See also "Clever Hans"[0], the horse answering questions correctly because it picked up the subconscious reactions of the observer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
That why I hate it and made my cmment. I strongly disagree with the narrative they push under the guise of a joke. Very arrogant and shallow
> We don't need more science, we need better science.

Exactly. We have to increase signal to noise ratio. I'm trying to stay current with progress in Computer Vision and the amount of junk being published is overwhelming. I'm pretty sure it's the same in many other disciplines.
And that is not "Bauhaus". The building in question definitively looks like a Corbu clone.

https://www.archdaily.com/806115/ad-classics-master-plan-for...

I've always admired Nervi's concrete works:
https://www.google.com/search?q=nervi+concrete+buildings&btn...
Yes, you’re right I mentioned some things that you could do. Though I’d also like to point out that whether the policies are liberal or not is not very important to me, they are just natural reactions people will have. Restricting immigration or child rearing is a logical consequence, and it doesn’t make people bad. If you like things the way they are, you’ll protect against population explosions.

One of the issues here with doing something like building an apartment complex means now you have to live in the apartment or move your family and become a landlord. You do become displaced, and you have to sever neighborhood ties you have. In an era where many people are searching for meaning and community, I’m not sure that having your neighbors move and build an apartment complex on the lot next to you is a good thing.
You will potentially have conflicts with increased road usage, or maybe property taxes increase to pay for a dozen more children to attend a school that previously didn’t. Although some here have suggested property taxes are meant more so for distributing wealth than to pay for services. At some point somebody pays to build a new school. If you’re a home owner a lot of this just seems like a bad idea. It makes more sense to maintain things how they are.

With respect to rent, I’m not sure. Maybe it makes more sense to tax rental income than the property. Ultimately we have a few problems that aren’t easy to solve, and unclear goals. I don’t think apartment buildings everywhere is a good thing, and that’s the future of the Bay Area. I’d want to develop a tax and property rights structure that encourages medium density mixed use development. We have to question home ownership too - passing on a home to your kids means because you happened to be here first locks others out of the market. Why is it considered fair that I can’t afford ably buy a home in Tahoe just because someone was born before me? Maybe it is fair. Maybe it isn’t. Tough questions. And even if you raise property taxes, rich people won’t care. They’ll still live in Tahoe and I’ll still only be able to afford to life next to cornfields.

Idk.
Hmm...wasn't it also Leonardo's favorite painting? I heard he carried it with him everywhere he traveled.
Yes, of course - a language extension can often give you better ergonomics than a library interface, both in implementing the code and in diagnostics reporting. The downside is that it's more effort to implement a language extension, it's more difficult to evolve it, and it restricts user's choice of implementation to those that have implemented the extension. For example, Microsoft Visual C++ supports only OpenMP 2.0, from 2002.

An interesting question in this context would be, is there anything preventing adding an OpenMP extension to Rust?
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IDK, it's like Twilight books: sure they're way more popular than they deserve, but if it gets people reading... if Mona Lisa gets people in the door, then that's great.

Anyway, once you look at the Mona Lisa and are annoyed by the crowds, a literally 180 and you're faced with amazing artwork that, because everyone in that room is there to see the Mona Lisa, you can look at unmolested.

(at least when I there last, it may have been moved / rearranged).
Serious as in minimize loss not serious in they now care about security.
In the era of the Internet, you don't even have to look up "is mona lisa worth seeing". Just by looking up "mona lisa" you can see what the painting looks like. Voilà.

On the other hand just the fact that most people who go there to see it take pictures of it with their mobile phones means that they don't even go to the Louvre to see it, they just want to show others they've seen it.
The other problem with wealth taxes is that they don’t work. If we tax wealth beginning at 50mil suddenly we will have tons of 49millionaires. Just imagine if the wealth tax began at 50k rather than 50mil. The hottest growth job would be tax lawyers.
If you can ethically do something (show ads) or not do something (not show ads) it's equally ethical to run an experiment where you do the thing some of the time and measure the effect.

Internet companies run A/B tests all the time, and it's not controversial.
I was taught this concept around 2011 (marketer turned hacker), and have read his books, so it's had some time to sink in.

It's similar to the concept of "tech in use." What people ACTUALLY use your product for.

It's about discovering features and use cases you did not know you had. The main job of the morning milkshake is a source of entertainment on a long commute... not just hunger or sweettooth cravings.

What B2B products can learn is that your product may have mad benefits, but at the end of the day it's just the 2020 strategy for a VP to keep up w the industry trends. Focus on your buyer persona.
Reminds me of Orson Welles story about cold reading.

https://youtu.be/IjPsnfysrp8
It's a bit underwhelming in person TBH.

There's nothing about it that's better in person than looking at a high res picture of it.

The sculptures at the Louvre, however are astounding. You can't see just how good the artistic interpretation of musculature and sense of motion the statues have from photos, because (a bit obvious in retrospect) 2D photos don't represent 3D lights and shadows well.

The Venus is excellent, but the bronze garden elsewhere in Paris with The Thinker (not my favorite at the garden either) is something you can just feel.
So poorer countries are going to skip a vital step in their development process and start producing "green tech" and "fast trains", easy as that? Doubt it.
The experience of the wealth tax in france is that it costs almost as much to collect than what it collects, plus creating unintended effects.

Turns out it is not straightforward to estimate what every asset in a country is worth.
That actually seems fairly reasonable to me. If there's something causing daily pain to me or someone in my family, I'm much more likely to spend time, attention, and money on that than on something that is another city's responsibility and is not affecting me directly.

This is a natural and beneficial form of decentralization. I don't expect you to be concerned that my grandmother broke her hip. It's properly a big deal to my family, but not even a blip for yours. I want daily/several times per week updates on her progress; you don't.

We all have a finite amount of time, attention, and money, and while I probably know more about the origin of the Flint water situation than the average American (owing to the latter being near zero rather than deep expertise on my part), I'll be honest that I'm more worried about the water quality in Cambridge, MA and in the schools my kids attend.

There are millions of unfortunate or even tragic events unfolding in the world in any given week. It's unreasonable to assume that everyone should care about all of them or judge the situation to be "of course horrible" when we don't. We'd get nothing done as a society if we stopped to mourn every tragedy everywhere or to get weekly updates on years-long remediation efforts.

I sincerely hope that the city of Flint is able to address the entirely city-inflicted (though funding related) water quality issues for its residents. If they aren't able to do it alone, I hope they ask for and get help from the encompassing county, state, or feds.

At the same time, I conclude that there's nothing with a productive return-on-time that I should be doing, because people who are far more informed, more educated on water treatment specifics, have devoted >100 times the amount of time as I have to understanding the issue, and are in a position (spatially and with authority) to make productive decisions are working on the problem.
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> Democracy is nothing more than a system that replaces swords/bullets with votes. That's it.
> (...)
>Democracy is more tolerable because no people die (in the open) when the landscape of power changes.

Leaving rebuttal of your other points aside, can you see how that is not the same thing at all? It's like claiming "a plane is nothing more than a system which can move through the air the same way a boat can move through water. That's it". The two lead to very different consequences!

>The fight for power (aka. resources) it inescapable and the only thing that democracy did, was to change the field that this fight is fought on.

It also opened up the field for consent on all sides. There is not way to wage a war in such a way that all sides win, a way to fight in a way where noone gets hurt. Democracies with minority protections (aka one of the ways we differentiate democracy from mob rule) make true win-wins possible.

> The only problem is that the warring factions know this and will do everything they can to conceal the reality of the situation so that the people do not exercise the power that they have.
> The amount of people who believe that democracy is somehow inherently good for the people is beyond my belief.

The first sentence describes the removal of democracy. The second claims that this is evidence for democracy not always being good for the people. Compared to ruling by force, yes, democracy is inherently good for the people
Not necessarily. Mold grows in certain conditions: food availability, right temperature, water/moisture.

Ideally you would want your insulation outside of vapour barrier:

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkfAcWpOYAA&t=22m58s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTwq-qUnr9I
Only a poorly designed wealth tax would have that property. This is exactly why progressive tax systems use marginal rates. People wouldn't stop saving at 49 million when they had to pay tax of 1% on the money above 50 million. they wouldn't stop at 99 million if they had to pay 2% on the parts above 100 million.
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Do you also ignore reviews on Amazon etc. because why trust random strangers on the internet?

"Is X worth seeing" is essentially searching for reviews of an experience.
One shouldn't forget that some practices that appear pseudo-scientific from today's point of view made sense historically:

"It made perfect sense for ancient man to believe in astrology. The influence of sun and moon on earthly affairs is obvious. Likewise the stars can be seen as influential by their association with the seasons. Heavenly bodies are the prototype of self-motion, which is a property also possessed by beings with a soul as opposed to inanimate objects. This leads to the idea of the soul being a "piece of the heavens" and thereby to personal horoscope astrology. The heavenly bodies are associated with personality traits in a manner that have a straightforward justification in terms of objective astronomical properties of these bodies."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCFvtiAig7I
One of the references cited:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689675/

> Childhood lead exposure is associated with region-specific reductions in adult gray matter volume.

> Affected regions include the portions of the prefrontal cortex and ACC responsible for executive functions, mood regulation, and decision-making.

> These neuroanatomical findings were more pronounced for males, suggesting that lead-related atrophic changes have a disparate impact across sexes.
Interestingly the paper they cite for more-constitutional alternatives to a wealth tax actually includes a wealth tax in its suite of options and argues in favor of the constitutionality of a wealth tax (p 25)

E: I should add it disagrees with the central argument that this would be a “direct tax” and mentions ways the wealth tax could itself be structured to give the Supreme Court less of a leg to stand on. Personally I’d rather run a candidate that would even bring this fight in the first place. Maybe if it’s on the news then the >99% of viewers will realize that the <1% are able to beat them down easily in any legal fight imaginable despite their incredible small numbers and harmful distribution preferences.
In China, that wouldn't be an unreasonable policy.
In FF just toggle the reader view and refresh. That worked for me.
Probably all of the factors you mention are important, but lead certainly didn't help. The main reason to mention lead specifically is the horrible way the situation with water pollution was handled by pretty much everyone, from city officials to Obama himself with his completely disrespectful "take a picture of me pretending to drink the Flint water" media stunt.
Obviously, otherwise capitalism couldn't exist.
Is there a technological reason that it needs supervisors or is that an administrative requirement?
The Jevons paradox most concisely is an observation that greater efficiency acts precisely as a reduction in cost, inducing demand. Unless there are other fundamental constraints (e.g., humans can only eat so much food in a day, even at caloric surplus), it actually is remarkably consistent in occurrence.

I agree that exponential growth cannot continue. However you'll find a matter of faith in mainstream economics that it can. Even severe critics, as Thomas Piketty, state this, as in this offhand passage from Capital in the 21st Century:

The median scenario I will present here is based on a long-term per capita output growth rate of 1.2 percent in the wealthy countries, which is relatively optimistic compared with Robert Gordon's predictions (which I think are a little too dark).

That's still doubling every 58 years.

The cornucopians are far more explicit and optimistic. Kahn & Simon, Maddox. Tom Worstall, here:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/timworstall/100017248/i...
> A student there mentioned she wasn’t sure what to specialize in – photography, graphic design or maybe industrial design?

It was also the first element in the list. Humans tend to sort by preference, often subconsciously.
Recently tried Hasura, big fan.
Notice how nobody got outraged by the "and studied theater" stereotype? ;-)
Banner seen at the start of the Video can be translated as "Starting May 22th this Building is going crazy.". Its a play on words that also means that the building is being moved starting May 22th.
Allowing someone to err and redeem themselves doesn't mean letting the erring go unpunished but to mitigate the punishment to reflect the redemption. This is exactly what happened in this case. His later positive contributions were considered when determining his punishment and his sentence was much lighter than would generally be given for the crimes committed.
A garbage truck man is also a dream job for many people. Then the reality hits. I don't think we should simply not improve something when there's an opportunity because "there are other jobs to automate". Well yeah, there are, but the opportunity is there, not with the other jobs. There are many people in the world, we're capable of parallel innovation.
Former fortune teller here. I used to sit on the sidewalk and read the I Ching to anyone who asked me to, pay-what-you-want. No one ever called me a fraud, but I still quit. A couple folks were just trying to have fun tossing pennies at a smelly book, but the vast supermajority of them were feeling highly anxious because they needed reassurance that their future plans would work out. What if my kids come to America to live with me? What if I divorce my husband? What if I quit my job? I feel sad and guilty about answering those questions by tossing coins around because I think I could have helped them more if we had cut the magic and just talked honestly about what was going on with them.
>You're moving the goalposts on land area.

How am I moving the goal posts? I literally started out saying it's a fixed resource and the only way to increase is to colonize space. Your response is "but we can use more of it than we're using today" - sure, but it's STILL a fixed resource. We can move portions of it from one place to another. We can come up with creative solutions to utilize more of it than we are today. NONE of that changes the fact it's a fixed resource, and if/when we happen to use or destroy it all, it isn't magically going to create more on its own.

>We're so far off using anywhere near all of even the easily available natural resources on Earth that considering it as a limited quantity is fatuous.

*In your lifetime. If you look at the rate of development and destruction caused by humans, to claim we'll NEVER do it is RIDICULOUS. We'll never destroy the rainforest. We'll never take down all of the california redwoods. We'll never kill all of the bison roaming the plains of the midwest. We'll never... Sorry that I'm concerned for my great grandkids (if I happen to have any) and the generations beyond those, not to mention the entire human race. My purview of the world doesn't begin and end with me.

>Desalination for potable water includes filtration which removes microplastics along with everything else.

Uhh, no. The current method of removing microplastics from seawater includes using chemicals that are deadly to humans. Potable desalinated drinking water includes our tiny friends.
>it seems like whatever the wealth-building factor is, it would also follow a Gaussian distribution...
>You never encounter anyone 1000 times taller than average

If I compare myself to Shakespeare / Einstein / Elon Musk I do feel that their abilities outstrip mine by an order of magnitude more than one would expect with a Gaussian distribution.
What's wrong with either one?

Ok,they claim to take security and privacy seriously,so what?? It's a freaking company! Would you prefer a thoughtful post on medium that uses simple language like "we were wrong and we accept full responsibility,here is what we learned..."? How about no response at all,is one owed to you?

Shouldn't they take privacy and security seriously? How is claiming to do so by itself a wrong? How are thoughts and prayers wrong? How are declarations of good intent mutually exclusive to meaningful action?
I’m sure every other country with America in its name would be.
A lot of people don't understand marginal tax rates. If the population you are taxing doesn't understand the tax system, they will behave according to their understanding of it, rather than reality.

I have met plenty of people who say "don't give me a pay rise, I don't want to hit the 40% tax rate", even with a marginal tax scheme with no discontinuities.
I am not saying it is not well paid. But when you try the work (I did for a day), you realize that you spend whole days in tunnels, mindlessly pushing a button, waiting for a computer to finally and rightfully replace you. Even worse job than being a bus driver (which is IMHO way worse than being a taxi driver).
Regarding your edit the problem here is that you assume that U2F/FIDO is some sort of a new, separate thing when in fact it can be just one 'program' or applet of your device which can support others, that are more suitable for logins. FIDO just wasn't designed for it.

Just because this or some other Yubico devices might not allow it doesn't mean others don't. AFAIK for instance Feitian ePass supports GIDS applet, which you can install on smartcards too. And yes, you can install U2F applet on smartcards also.

https://www.rcdevs.com/docs/howtos/epass/epass

https://www.ftsafe.com/Products/FIDO/NFC

Why people are not rooting and fighting for an ability to extend things with open source is beyond me.
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Roma people are a bit special, they live on the edge of society and try hard to not integrate (prevalent alcoholism, other addictions and frequent incest certainly don't help). We can send 1000 Roma people into NY Central park and bam! you have barefoot kids running all around Manhattan 24/7 picking trash cans.

That doesn't suddenly make US a 3rd world country, does it.
Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage
Looks like you didn’t read the link. Quote:

When the EROEI of a source of energy is less than or equal to one, that energy source becomes a net "energy sink", and can no longer be used as a source of energy, but depending on the system might be useful for energy storage (for example a battery).

If oil is made to compete against batteries then it will lose. It may have higher energy density but it’s also non-rechargeable, requires a heavy and complicated and high maintenance (compared to a very simple electric motor) internal combustion engine, and produces large amounts of greenhouse gases.

About the only thing it would still be cost effective for with a negative EROEI is aviation fuel, but even that application is facing competition from batteries [1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/electric-aircraft/index.h...
Getting a vote instead of a bullet to the head seems like a pretty significant upgrade to me.