skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reference to those low-paying retail jobs: I have done some research on large US retailers like J.C. Penney, Gamestop, Macy's, Sears and Tailored Brands. It's quite scary to see how dire the situation is for these firms. Shrinking revenues, plenty of debt, hardly any profit in sight.

The most shocking to is the number of people they employ (more than 90k in the case of J.C. Penney), many of whom can be sure to be laid off in the next few years.
I'm still amazed at exoplanets. I remember my ten year-old's surprise at being instructed that there are only nine planets as a matter of scientific fact. I remember my twenty-one-year-old's joy reading Giordano Bruno's Cause, Princple, Unity: essays on magic one afternoon deep within a dusty university library's stacks. I remember my excitement when the first exoplanet observations were announced a few years later.

The NASA link doesn't focus on the "prodigy" aspect. Without that, it's "just another exoplanet observation." My cynicism about that bothers me. I think it's because exoplanet observations have become ordinary to astronomy in recent years. So ordinary that even an intern can find one their first week on the job. So ordinary that the PR department needs to be involved to get mainstream media coverage and focuses who did it rather than what was done.

To put it another way, finding exoplanets has become so easy that "even a child can do it." And claiming there are many many planets no longer gets a person burned at the stake.
That guy is talented, but those songs aren't radio-ready hits. In large part because the music/recording is nowhere near the major part of what makes a radio ready hit. Radio hits are the result of advertising and marketing, not music creation and production.
This is not true. This is nearly a lie.

Private insurance in Canada barely exists, and primarily covers prescription coverage and paramedial (acupuncture, chiropracty, TCM, etc.) Inpatient prescriptions are covered by provincial health. Doctor's visits are covered by provincial health. Dental may or may not be covered. Hospital stays, urgent care, ER visits, routine checkups, mental health are covered by provincial health. Health hotlines (call a nurse) are literally free. There's no such thing as "pre-existing". There's no such thing as medical billing.
Seems like these criteria miss the use case for mm_rb, one of the central red-black trees in linux.

If you need to be able to store intervals (i.e. virtual memory areas) and do lookups based on any address in the interval, not just the base address, I don't think a hash map is the best option.
Station wagons have lots of space and better aerodynamics as well as being only slightly heavier than the same car as a coupé.
I had the exact similar thought: it's the way the touchscreens, voice interaction, and tactile systems melded together felt _intuitive_ instead of showy or glitzy.

While terminals were often just a basic touchscreen, many critical elements, like the chairs on the ships, had tactile input (joysticks, buttons, etc) - to deal with input under gravitational shifts.

It really gives everything a greater physicality.
I know plenty of tradespeople who enjoy their work and find value and some fulfillment in what they do.

Do they love it like I love programming? Maybe; maybe not, but it seems possible.
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-basics/

"Finally, to receive copyright protection, a work must be the result of at least some creative effort on the part of its author."

So the question is, who is the author and if it was machine generated, did it take creativity?
The algorithm took a lot of creativity, but did the output that is being copyrighted?
I mean I would come down on the side of yes, but it makes for an interesting case.
Putting effort into Windows on ARM development made some sense when Windows had mobile phones. Without Windows Mobile, ARM devices don't have enough penetration in the platform to make a difference.

I suspect Microsoft is going to be feeling the impact of abandoning mobile on their other projects and goals for many years to come.
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Again, you are conflating two different things, financial risk and financial stress.

You are also citing a study that looks at the financial stress levels of employed mental health professionals and then trying to use that to reason about the economic choices made by unemployed people.

This is not how you use data responsibly. You can't just use a 30% correlation in an unrelated dataset to justify conflating two different measures without actually doing statistical analysis to show that that there is reason to believe that that correlation not only exists in a different population, but also isn't washed out by an a other factors.
GP is suggesting that the copyright should belong with the robot, I'm pointing out that work for hire would mean that it does not belong with the robot.
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I'm not old enough to be able to run a Linux distribution for 15 years. And I also never run Debian on any of my personal computers. Thus, my anecdotes are definitely way less convincing. In other words, you can stop reading here.

The only two major distributions that I used for a sufficient amount of time are Ubuntu and Arch. Arch "unstableness" is exactly what I want most of the time on my personal computer as it's my to-go Petri dish. "Stability" would mean that it's harder for me to break it apart, and make a Frankenstein out of it. That's exactly what I have been experiencing with Ubuntu LTS releases --- stability.

Most of the time, I want to have all the available LLVM versions alongside with all the GCC versions, with all the available binutils (Qemu, Docker, Oracle VBox, etc.) versions on the latest kernel full of my monkey patched printk's. When I finally get to break its back I dive the Wiki for few hours to restore it.

I can imagine a non-office, hacking desktop OS that follows the Arch packaging strategy being highly successful.

I also maintain a few compute servers for 10-20 people. They are on Ubuntu LTS. The packages that I need there are always the ones that just work and don't let anyone do anything "cutting edge".
Second GCP as the most secure. You might look at their Identity Aware Proxy. You can provide access based on account or group, and not have to expose the services to the internet
No. That's a Dr. Feinberg but not the Dr. Feinberg I think.
Do you have specific experience that suggests that hyper-generalizing code before you even know about multiple use cases is beneficial over carefully extracting shared logic only when needed?

If I to pick one single practice junior engineers employ that ultimately bites everyone in the ass, it's a blind adherence to generic code and DRY at all costs.
With the programming language Haxe and the library OpenFL you can actually create "flash" games for HTML5 using the old school flash API and everything.
There’s a difference between having the right to the concept of an axe and having the right to my specific axe. I think GP was speaking more towards the latter.
Which is why such property rights are supposed to fade with time. Corporate interests have just pushed that time frame to eternity in recent laws.
If you want to have fun with the English slang, change it to ‘Joost De Tip’. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Just%20the%2...
Wired has started doing something strange.

This URL doesn't load in my version of Firefox (old and heavily tweaked, I admit). And it crashes Midori.

But this works fine:

$ w3m -dump https://www.wired.com/story/the-fda-announces-two-more-antac...

Edit: OK, it works in my Firefox if I hit escape as soon as the page has loaded. So maybe there's some non-content module that loads more slowly, and triggers the problem. It could be a "turn off ad blocker" popup. Given that I block popups.
> If they made roomier cars I’d be all for it, but they don’t.

I drive a full-sized Volvo wagon. I've also driven a full-sized Ford Taurus wagon. Plenty of room for two tall kids (my son is 6'4", my daughter is well on her way to 6'), and in the days of my Taurus, it would carry a child, a baby seat, a stroller, even a bicycle and a trailer.

Besides a thing about SUVs versus car form factors, I have test-driven Volvo's equivalent SUVs, and while they often claim similar cargo volume to the wagons, I find the wagon's long and low profile more useful for the kinds of things I tend to carry. Bikes are a lot easier in a wagon, in my experience.

YMMV.

Of course, there are F-150s and Chevy Suburbans and extra-long Escalades for those who absolutely, positively want to drive a truck.
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> they’re not inflicting any real violence in the process

Are you suggesting violence can be only physical in nature? Even if you aren't, your choice of the word violence is intentional because you want to avoid words like "harm" which more fully capture the socioeconomic implications of being fired without due cause from a position which your livelihood depends on.

In an ideal world, nation states would provide UBI for their citizens. A company is not going to provide UBI for someone who does not add to their bottom line. And that's why the American government, for example, could be considered a business instead of a real government. A government by nature serves its people, a company by nature is served by its people.
You having vast financial resources depends on the rest of society agreeing, otherwise what you have are numbers on a server somewhere and an angry mob around your house.
I see this as a new tactic from the left. Since they can’t complain about unemployment in the record lows since forever, they complain about the jobs themselves.
Is it a solved problem?

Did you know that developed countries export thousands of tonnes of plastic waste to developing countries?

https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2019/3/6/1570...

> The U.S. Census Bureau recently published complete 2018 export data for shipments of plastic waste (officially called “waste, paring and scrap”) generated in the U.S. and sent to other countries. As shown in Figure 1, 78% (0.83 million metric tonnes) of the 2018 U.S. plastic waste exports were sent to countries with waste “mismanagement rates” greater than 5%. That means about 157,000 large 20-ft (TEU) shipping containers (429 per day) of U.S. plastic waste were sent in 2018 to countries that are now known to be overwhelmed with plastic waste and major sources of plastic pollution to the ocean. The actual amount of U.S. plastic waste that ends in countries with poor waste management may be even higher than 78% since countries like Canada and South Korea may reexport U.S. plastic waste. The data also indicates that the U.S. continued to export about as much plastic waste to countries with poor waste management as we recycle domestically [1].

Whereas:

https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2018/08/01/epa-u-s-p...

> The EPA’s Facts and Figures Report states the U.S. in 2015 recycled 9.1 percent of the plastic generated, down from 9.5 percent during the previous year.

Then there's this:

The U.S. used to export waste to China. Until China decided to ban importing waste, leaving the U.S. waste disposal industries with a problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK20t11He14

And finally I'll leave you with these:

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-plastic-polluti...

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/06/14/china-plastics-b...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/18/uk-recyc...

https://www.plasticsforchange.org/blog/category/why-are-plas...
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You might be interested in Gene Weingarten’s Pickin’ up where the Apostrophe Protection Society left off,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weing...
> This sounds like the outcome of bad culture.

For 90% of shops outside the cornucopia of SV with unlimited budgets and internal customers only, the client drives decision mercilessly and ruthlessly.
I remember reading somewhere that the biggest buyers of SUVs (albeit compact SUVs) are mothers / young parents who think minivans are too ugly. SUVs have lots of space for kids and a large boot to take everything from bicycles to shopping. And of course the better SUVs do have lots of safety features.

Car manufacturers know this, which is why 7-seater SUVs are now a thing. Luckily they’re also working on hybrid and electric models.

These articles on female car-buying habits are interesting. These (and many other articles) note that boot space and seat comfort are big factors in making the buy decision.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/women-are-more-likely-to-d...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/time-car-companies-wake-wome...
Right; but you're conflating individual action with societal attitude. If you want to be vegan, no-one is stopping you. If you don't, don't. There is no need to sit on the fence all wishy-washy.

I strongly disagree that it's not convenient.

By that line of argument making any active choice at all is "not convenient".

You specifically call out nutrition as an example. You can pretty much literally directly switch out meat for substitute meat.

It's not convenient to say, cycle 30km to work instead of driving, without making major life changes. It takes substantially more time, changes the way in which errands are done, etc.

Buying a different thing from the supermarket and cooking it is trivial. If anything eating meat is more faff because the risk of food poisoning is way higher if you e.g. cook chicken badly.

I don't like coffee so I tend to drink tea. Is that inconvenient? It makes no sense to me as a concept; even if it is (it's really not), who cares? I don't want the coffee?
Unemployment is NOT very low. The government publicizes a fake unemployment number which includes a HUGE imaginary subtraction called "discouraged workers", which was originally imagined during the Clinton administration. To get a real idea about EMPLOYMENT, including those pesky minorities that Clinton excluded, see the employment population ratio, ages 25-54:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

When Obama left office we were STILL in an economy destroyed by Bush, STILL at employment levels BELOW the bottom of the past 2 recessions!

Now that Trump has been in office employment has grown NO DIFFERENTLY THAN UNDER OBAMA, for the past 3 years the Trump difference is INVISIBLE.
Cause, Principle, and Unity: Essays on Magic (1584) [pdf]
Calico is focused on longevity (reduction of aging effects) research, while Verily is more general purpose life science research.
> Why wouldn't this be the case?

One possible legal theory: because the algorithm was trained on a text corpus upon which the algorithm's owner has no legal claim.

In this particular case, I don't think that theory would hold much water.

However, consider, e.g., a model that produces encyclopedia entries and is trained on a half dozen existing encyclopedias. IMO, if that model is using techniques similar to SoTA and isn't producing utter garbage, then the owner of that model should have a very difficult time claiming that the output of their model is anything more than a sophisticated round-about way of copy/pasting from existing encyclopedias.

But still, in that case, the output is still covered by copyright. It's just that the owner of the training set -- not the owner of the algorithm -- is the one with the valid claim to copyright.
Sport wagons also look awesome, in my humble opinion. Euro and Australian sport wagons are surprisingly aesthetically pleasing. Not to forget the golden era of 90s Japanese sport wagons.

Granted the sport version power trains weren't always economically inclined, but there was always a standard option.
Discussed a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719575
That's distinct from copyright, and even named a "sui generis right" (meaning "of its own kind").
Exactly. The definition of 'employment' is the crux of the matter. Is a 30-hour week at minimum wage with no retirement or health 'employment'? Were serfs of feudal lords 'employed'? Is someone making valuable contributions without wage or recognition 'employed'? Are those serving the poor voluntarily 'employed'?

The term is mechanical, reductionist, and carelessly 'employed'.
This is only a problem if you think the state is the most important idea and institution that should exist.
It's also possible that people with jobs you are judgy about won't tell you they actually like the work that you look down upon. This is one of the ways prejudice is self reinforcing.

People tend to frame things selectively in response to the audience in question. People in vulnerable positions are usually aware of it and acting to protect themselves.
Meaningless without metrics such as energy cost per kg removed, etc. Do we have adequate means to reuse or dispose of the waste acquired? Does it have value that improves the metrics, or are there additional costs once the boat comes in? This technology is more useful once we have eliminated the waste SUPPLY, I suspect.
I know multiple poor people that had their cancers cured without cost to themselves, no "emergency" required. The reality isn't as bleak as you are making it.

The US has the highest cancer survival rate in the world, which would not be possible if poorer populations were not having their cancers proactively treated.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

Clinton found a way to exclude all those pesky minorities. He renamed them from "minority" to "discouraged" workers and dropped them off the books! Pig ...
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I would guess that we aren't seeing electric SUVs due to cost.

That being said, I'm not sure why you are being aggressively downvoted as your basic premise is correct. Most people are not going to buy an inferior vehicle (eg small, uncomfortable, slow, less capable, expensive, etc) just because it is green. I know people on HN might, and good for them for doing so, but that's not going to be the case more broadly. If we want mass adoption of green vehicles, either the vehicles have to be relatively on par quality wise with existing non-hybrid gas vehicles, there has to be social status attached to owning one (eg Tesla), there has to be a regulatory change, or the operating cost of gas vehicles has to go way up (ie fuel needs to be taxed aggressively) to cause operating costs to figure strongly in the buying decision.
Are you discounting social security and Medicaid here? If you have to live on social security alone, you will have a meager existence, but you need not starve. If you want a better retirement, saving along the way is strongly recommended.
>one thing is unequivocal, the moment real wages go up the inflation catches up

Hard disagree. Inflation is affected by wages, but it's not a 1:1 relation and I'm not aware of anyone seriously making that claim. Of course there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages, but not seriously advocated today as far as I know.

>Inflation is further segmented by demographics

This is actually a really interesting point. Elizabeth Warren made exactly this point in her 2004 book The Two Income Trap, with regard to middle class families with kids having higher housing costs due to competition over school districts.
'Interpersonal communication' is not a skill. It is a weasel word for when you don't want to say 'social status' for whatever reason.
I drive a fair bit, and I'm here to tell you:

The type of person who cuts another driver off does not do a lot of thinking about the relative consequences. I've seen plenty of tiny sedans with oversized tailpipes, wings and a dozen mod stickers cutting off big SUVs.

Heck, they even dart in front of semis on the highway. They do not care if you're in an XC 90 instead of an S60.
I used to think side projects / businesses needed to replace my income for it to be worth it. After I started getting into the habit of budgeting I started to realize that a even a few hundred extra bucks a month can go a long way. Since this is a one time sell product there's little support to spend time on (just give them a refund). The author also has organic marketing with SEO.
"...we need to rethink the fundamentals of our economic and social policies"

They suggest fixes in the next paragraph that are not fundamental, have already been implemented, and have directly contributed to the problem:

"Federal, state, and local governments can take a number of steps to improve workers’ economic security. Boosting wages through tax credits, a higher minimum wage, or supporting sectoral bargaining; supporting families with high-quality child care; and giving workers more control over their time via stable scheduling are just a few options."

A fundamental shift occurred in 1776 and has been slowly bastardized since. Read Thomas Sowell, Peter Schiff, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mesis, Ron Paul, etc.

The central planners are the problem.
Why do you suspect there are 160+ comments on this thread if, as you say, it’s a non issue?
Absolutely!

Sustainable, low emission recirculating aquaculture comes at a price. It is not yet clear whether customers are willing to pay the premium for products from a good solution.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/employment-population-rati...

Pre-2000, 65% of adults 18+ were in the workforce; Today that sits at shy of 60%. You'd expect the cycle of liquidity crisis driven by reserveless lending would result in a stable graph over long periods of time, instead over an elongated period of time, it's pointing downard.

The problem with this is you leave a lot of people on the sidelines\wayside, and it takes years of working, of gaining experience, even doing something like janitorial work, to be considered competent.

Walmart has a drug rehab program today they run at many of their stores; they drug test 100 applicants, 99 fail the drug test. They have no other way of finding people to staff basic positions.

The entire concept and point of minimum wage was to ensure people wouldn't fall into this kind of disarray and businesses that complain about minimum wage hikes are parasites that have to literally eat people alive to survive, except today they hire PR Firms to cover it up. This is not the way to run a society. A lot of the reason our government allows this to go on has to do with controversial tech firms like Uber being funded by foreign entiteis with questionable morals such as the Saudi Oil fund, the US Government allowing china to buy 100bn+ in bonds every year, and other such "arrangements". We had 2 presidential candidates last election the Russians government admitted to compromising.

Congress has sold certain segments of people up the river and genuinely doesn't know how to get them out.

If you look at the growth rate in US Census data and private studies of men over 45 never married, no chilren, and look at the trend and how that has been correlated with a declining fertility rate that's starting to rival the USSR's collapse.

We haven't even begun to recover from 2000, and there's one heck of a powder keg forming.

And none of those people who make up that powder keg care about whether or not our health system is superior or inferior to canada's.
This is extremely pedantic and misses the point entirely, and I'm sure you know it.
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For a single individual, if you make $18K gross you make too much for Medicaid. In 14 US states, if you make $0 you make too much for Medicaid.
Boyan Slat was on the Joe Rogan Experience about a month ago. If you're interested in the topic, I recommend you watch (or listen to) it!
My first impulse was that was a troll name and I wondered if the journalist verified it. I'm sure it's possible, I just haven't heard it or variants of it before.
I've used this one: https://github.com/automerge/automerge

The OP may be referring to this one: https://www.npmjs.com/package/delta-crdts
Can you point me a specific brand of canned tuna? I was totally unaware there were line caught options.