skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Or is the goal to inhibit change, so that people don't have to apply their minds to figure out how and where they fit into a rapidly changing (improving?) world?

Adaptability is dependent on education and wealth and opportunity, so ideally this tax goes towards helping people who are least able to adapt to sudden automation and loss of income by giving them education and income. We should control change that has a high human livelihood cost so that we do not leave anyone under-served. There should be insurance against economic upheavals.
I think it goes both ways. The physical body affects the thoughts/emotions/personality, and the manifestations of the mind/fallacies/affects affect the physical body.

Regarding spirit, I still believe that that is somehow separate. It's one of the things though that I'm not sure can be proven in the physical realm (e.g., brain) to an undeniable degree.
Maybe I missed something-- how's this different than something like Intercom?
> What fraction of us can claim they have, really?

I think it's larger than you imagine. Just look at the code of GitHub, BitBucket, Sourceforge etc. Not to mention self-hosted commercially-developed FOSS.

> Most developers work at the application layer, the last one.

Well, that doesn't mean they have to work _only_ on that. Each developer uses a bunch of libraries, utilities and frameworks which are either FOSS or could use a FOSS alternative.

> For similar reasons, very few people work on massively popular software.

Well, yes, this is true, but you can work on somewhat-popular or even niche software which is still used by hundreds of thousands, or just thousands, of people. That's still very significant!

> Implying that every programmer worth their salt should have produced code other programmers use is just not realistic.

Well, drop the "have". I think programmers worth their salt should strive to produce code that other programmers use.

Morever - I believe that it's the visible code, and the free code, is what we should use as the model and the target of advice and improvement.
I can see people keeping some Zantac in their car and that gets quite hot (140+) in the summer.

I don’t think the penalty for not storing your medicine quite right should be ingesting a carcinogen.
I'm surprised by the reaction here. It seems fairly intuitive to me. People used to capture part of the value creation with their wages and they are being replaced by robots. That value that used to circulate in the economy now just goes to owners (wealthiest section of society) instead of circulating. This just takes that same value back.

I don't know the best way to implement it, but I think it is necessary if you want to prevent wealth inequality from getting worse, faster over time.
Maybe aggregate salary would be a much better measure than unemployment
You’re being reductionist. At a certain point humans could also be argued as being composed of if/else blocks.
Because the link opens a different news, you click on article A but it opens article B,also the pages work without JS(except the videos or fancy image galleries) only the navigation seems to be broken . A competent developer will show you a blank page and explain that you need to enable Java Script(it could be also not testing the webpage with JS off combined with using JS to layout stuff).

The problem is not JS the language but how it is abused and similar to Flash you get people installing plugins or turning it off in settings and white-listing JS on necessary pages, in my case I will not read the article most of the time or use a private window.
Isn't paper going to be thrown out anyway? And I've read that wax paper especially is difficult to recycle.
It's doubly confusing, as you'll find unhealthy people have a much harder time earning the money in order to get well so they can work.
> What are the goals here?

That's really the important thing to nail down, eh? Wendell Berry has a essay titled "What are People For?" (As an aside, while looking for a good link, i came across a site advertising "BUY CHEAP ESSAY Fast & Safe Academic Writing Service" expletive-deleted what a world.)

Anyhoo... the answers to "what to do about rampant automation" fall out naturally once you settle the fundamental issue. FWIW, YMMV.
Just compile it yourself and put it in /usr/local.
It's more like blocking exploits, I'd say. Which your prototypically clueless Grandma is vulnerable to. So her machine is likely sending spam, or worse.
Lessons from the Cuckoo's Egg
Why is https://github.com/kamranahmedse/roadmap.sh/blob/master/cont... blank?
Is it a good thing that a 60+ year old goes back to work at a low paying job because he/she can't pay the bills?

A 60 year old who is voluntarily retired is not "unemployed". If they later end up taking a job due to financial hardship, that changes the unemployment rate very little; it just adds 1 to the denominator of people in the labor force.
> Every time I wrote a piece of code, I wondered how long it would be there for.

The fix for that sort of thing is to have a satisfying, enduring side project where you're the boss: nothing is upstreamed that you don't like.

Then you can stop caring if your code at work gets replaced, and how fast.
Deep Java Library-Open Source Library to Build and Deploy Deep Learning in Java
Basically all of The Anthropocene Reviewed: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed

Beautiful essays by John Green. I only started listening at the end of December.

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I've also been checking out the Political Philosophy Podcast, and I've liked what I've heard till now: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/

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Again, I can't choose specific episodes, but Heavyweight is pretty amazing too: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight
A very good example of this is how long it took scientists to be comfortable with positively saying that tobacco use caused lung cancer in people. (A fact tobacco companies greatly leveraged in their defense.)

Huge surveys long showed a correlation between smokers and increased incidence of cancer. But it took decades of research to rule out confounding factors. For example, it may have been the case that industrial work was causing the cancer and industrial workers just happened to be more likely to be smokers.

There is one tool that really nails causation fairly quickly which is a double blind controlled experiment. But usually in social science it's very hard to or even immoral to conduct such experiments.

For example, assigning babies at random to be smokers or not for some period would be pretty hard to carry out and certainly be immoral if you thought the smoking may lead to cancer.
What do people use straws for in the first place? Just drink out of the cup.
Lem wrote in Polish and his work is notorious for being hard to translate.
A billion is probably a very small number when compared to the cardinality of the set of all possible/reasonable books.
Peter Thiel on Eric Weinstein's The Portal.

John Carmack on Joe Rogan - not really impactful but still a really good episode.
There are at least 6 giant and contentious subjects covered in this one, short article:

- Code duplication (when it's appropriate)

- Code cosmetics/legibility

- Code scalability/flexibility

- Code review (protocols, how to perform them)

- Accepted widespread coding wisdom (abstractions, and shirking them, in this case)

- What defines a "junior" engineer (there are wildly different perspectives in this thread)

- Common courtesy (coworker interaction, etc)

Almost all out these are highly circumstantial to the type of project, codebase, language, culture, etc. I would like to see a productive conversation regarding any of these topics, but discussing so much at once in such circumstantial ways just leaves us talking past each other (the threads here are pretty clear evidence of that). I don't think this article has enough substance to cover any of these topics in any depth.

It's like if someone asked "What vehicle is the best vehicle?" Some people chime in with how much they like their brand of vehicle. Others say how trucks are better then cars. Others say that electric is the only choice. Others say cars made after 2010 are the best. The question is too broad so the responses aren't effective.
Searching for "pole and line caught tuna" will turn up a bunch. If you are in the US, Wild Planet probably has the best grocery store distribution. Raincoast seems bigger in Canada, but has some US distribution. American Tuna sells on Amazon and is great.

One of the other differences that most of the line caught tuna brands cook the raw tuna directly in the can, rather than cooking first and then canning. This results in much better texture. Other than price, it's a superior product in almost every way.
I also question the value of retraining programs, because I think that most people are capable of learning new things.

I was a D student in high school, and I didn't get my undergraduate degree until I was 30. I learn new and interesting things every single day. I really don't think I'm especially intelligent, and so if I can do it, why can't others?

The things you can learn for free through Khan Academy and all sorts of other free online learning platforms are pretty incredible. We have a great number of public libraries. Just a month ago, I was able to check out two books on structural engineering from my local public library. None of this stuff cost me anything!

What's the difference between me and other people? If there is one, it's that I have a different philosophical approach than some others in my cohort. I don't believe that learning is something you do for awhile before you live your real life.

EDIT: On the other hand, perhaps I am wrong! I know that I have also benefitted from classroom instruction (once I had made the shift in my mind give learning another shot), and that there are others that have different learning styles. I don't mean to neglect anyone in my rubric here.
I wonder if "Cauc" would be flagged.
This is not a left or right issue. When Obama was president and unemployment rate was improving under him after the 2008 crash, Trump openly used to claim the same thing. Go google it. We are fighting between left and right while the politicians are laughing all the way to the bank.
In a democracy, getting regulation passed is also a complicated distributed problem subject to all those problems.
Huh. So maybe my problem is some mix of blocking ads and popups.
What would you say is better: him using an imperfect study, or you just expressing your opinion?
>In a recent analysis, we found that 53 million workers ages 18 to 64—or 44% of all workers—earn barely enough to live on.

>The majority of low-wage workers (77%) have less than a college degree,

So there are 53 (1-0.77) = 12.2 million workers with college degrees who are only able to earn "barely enough to live on".

Poor instruction or irrelevant majors in college? Or drug use, criminal convictions, disabling disease or injury after college? Long term career success has a lot to do with parents, friends, spouses, and children as well as a large helping of luck.
>Everyone is suddenly twice as rich

Not everyone makes makes minimum wage.
"I develop software, and just want to get things done" - exactly why i am a continuous windows user since win95(ie. ever). linux and (free)bsd always interested me but they were always impractical and eventually only a time wasters.
I ran into that same issue with startkde being renamed.

However, that's my fault for not reading the release notes beforehand. I wasn't frustrated with FreeBSD. I was frustrated with myself for not reviewing those release notes. Spending 5-10 minutes checking out those notes would have saved me the hour spent troubleshooting that problem. Now I always read the release notes before running updates/upgrades/etc. As a bonus, it's good for discovery of new/updates features.

IMO, OSS documentation is one of the major areas where there's a large gradient when it comes to quality. When there are projects like FreeBSD and OpenBSD that write good documentation, it's definitely worth it to take advantage of it.
Yes, I live this first-hand. It's quite crazy making stuff.
Well now I don’t know who you’re replying to OR what your bottom line is.
Yeah, we still have the "top-level" issue of allocating scarce resources, even after automation "de-scarce-ifies" many things.
I disagree, how interesting. :-)

I presume that you're allowing finite time execution of the equality-to-zero operation (I.e., a function that says if a number is equal to zero). If you don't, I suppose one would conclude (by applying the same arguments, whatever they are) that neither can a function that, say, adds numbers or does similarly trivial operations finish in finite time, in which case this distinction of finite- vs infinite-runtime functions isn't very interesting.

Any number that isn't zero and that starts with a zero (at the left of the dot), will always have a finite number of zero digits after the point. In other words, the only number that has a zero at the left of the dot (i.e., of the form 0.xyz...) that has an infinite number of zero decimals is zero itself.

I guess where we disagree is in this claim: "As you surely know, real numbers may have infinite amount of digits after the point". The only real numbers with this property are the integers. Every other real number has to have a finite number of zeros.
There are also other projects working solving similar problems.

The other is sqlx[0] serving as an asynchronous crate connecting to mysql and postgresql that validates the queries at compile time and is built as a new ground-up implementation using async/await and async-std.

And our project is quaint[1] which builds on top of existing tokio-based database crates giving a unified interface and a query builder.

[0] https://crates.io/crates/sqlx
[1] https://crates.io/crates/quaint/
> ideally this tax goes towards helping people who are least able to adapt to sudden automation and loss of income by giving them education and income.

What is your estimate of the probability that that will happen contingent on a tax being enacted.
Having a heartbeat is a "pre-existing condition". It's vexing how often Americans will discuss treatments + checkups as though there's some chance that they _won't_ see their health degrade as they age.
Depending on how defined, it could easily include: a self-service elevator, 3D printers, CNC mills and lathes, a farm combine, automobile service lifts, farm irrigation, power tools, construction equipment, pneumatic tools, power screwdrivers, a dishwasher, an automated telephone exchange, internal combustion engines [or even steam engines for that matter], intermodal container systems, an IVR, spreadsheets, word processors, microwave ovens, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, automated boilers, sous vide circulators, any web-based order lookup system, automated parcel sortation machines, possibly all of e-commerce...

It seems insane to me that we’d seek to tax productivity improvements in order to encourage maximizing the amount of human labor required to accomplish a given outcome.

“Spoons Not Shovels!” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
Recently noted down my favorite podcasts I love. It's a bit hard to keep up at times even with 2x/2.5x speeds and smart speed on with Overcast. There's so much good content out there.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/podcasts
Until an example that “doesn’t fit” ?
Aliens
top-secret files that prove alien life exists
>America has a weird sense of superiority about its lower unemployment numbers vs Canada.

I've literally never heard anyone in America discuss Canada's unemployment numbers in any context whatsoever. I think your premise may be off.

Canada is also pretty tiny (smaller than California; much smaller GDP than California) so I'm not sure why we would care.
>cooperation dynamics too complex to model realistically. “We want to distill the essence or the logic of this problem, make it as simple as possible, and then understand this very simple model

So you're taking a high (100s-1000s) dimensional problem and projecting it onto a 2-10 dimensional space where your conclusions are based on a form of clustering which itself is purely dependent upon your (probably ideologically driven) assumptions. In such drastic oversimplifications it is extremely east to paint whatever picture you want, even unintentionally.

>So if it’s the case that only the two of us are playing and you get 99 percent of the initial endowment, then we will never get cooperation started. Simply because of the fact that you already have 99 percent of the wealth, right? You have zero incentive to cooperate with me, because there is very little you could gain from me

Case in point. Those evil fat cats simply hoard stolen money and don't interact with greater society in any other way, right? Nevermind driving social policy, producing jobs, and building indirect relationships where large and small actors do benefit from cooperation. Those evil tech CEOs wouldn't have any cash if there wasn't incentive for the poor exploited proletariat to spend their money on goods and services, and offer their time to provide the same.

This study also ignores that competent individuals can be highly socially mobile in modern Western societies, even from vastly unequal starting conditions. It further ignores that most of us aren't competing with the 1%. The pitting of one 99%er against one 1%er is totally removed from reality.

I don't understand how anyone can take modern economics seriously.
Replacing symbols with meaningless numbers is almost absolutely unjustifiable outside of the job description of a compiler.
Of course, the downside to doing anything with a Google product is that it could be deprecated next year...
Library of Congress Storage Architecture Meeting
> UNSUBSTANTIATED sexist generalisations

The field of gender studies is chock full of "men this, women that" generalisations. Where do you think terms like "mansplaining" come from? Yet gender studies professors keep their jobs.
I also take a weird pleasure in running `scanmem` on some of these io games (not the multiplayer ones) and just messing with the values so that I can win everything.

I know a lot of time and effort goes into game development, and that I should take the time to appreciate the rhythm of the story and the nuances of the gameplay... but I am an addict.

I don't casually play games. I'm all in, or not at all. I will play day and night until a game is finished and then I will move on with my life. As an adult with a full time career I can't do these marathon sessions anymore, and so cheating is a great means for me to accelerate through a game, tick the mental block of completion, and then be refreshed Monday morning with my mind focused on work.
Those same technical people get to help grandma when that simple webpage has eaten the blue e. PEBBAS - Problem Exists Between Browser And Site/Server/Storage.
except it's open source...
> It is the forceful physical violation of one’s person or property.

But not all property is physical. And increasingly, our property is just data located in somebody's servers: your Dropbox contents, your Steam games, the money in your online bank account.
To be honest, this looks...low. 5 papers in 2019? They've been around for 5 years, with 100s of scientists and dozens of labs? I wonder if they're keeping the best learnings back.

That said, a few of these look pretty interesting:

"Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783610/

"A lysosomal switch triggers proteostasis renewal in the immortal C. elegans germ lineage"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936623/

"How a mutation that slows aging can also disproportionately extend end-of-life decrepitude"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5526670/
Is it unsubstantiated because he doesn't link to a study right there that he is referencing? Or is it unsubstantiated because you've read every paper ever written on the topic, and you know those sexist generalisations could not possibly be true?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417700/

> We find strong evidence that incentives have differential effects on the effort allocation decisions of men and women
Minimum wages benefit people already in low paid jobs, at the expense of people who are struggling to get one.
I think people who are sensitive are basically human censorship. Freedom of speech does not truly exist when people are sensitive.

To achieve true freedom of speech, we must be empathetic to those who are angry and listen to their stories and help wherever we can so they can accept their situation.

Which is something the professor didn’t do. Why did he post that article? He grouped a together people who may be marginalized by society and gave them a label. That’s not how you help people.

I hope the professor learns to be truly empathetic and people takes away the right lesson from this so that one day we may have true freedom of speech.
Yes, it looks pretty obvious that V@lisure is running a scare campaign to boost traffic towards their services. I wonder if there's another play at hand here, though.

Did they get in a spat with suppliers? Are they trying to dump the price of ranitidine and nizatidine to buy up at markedly reduced value? Perhaps drive down demand from drugs with less margins towards higher ones?

For those downvoting: this is business as usual in entrenched markets like pharmaceuticals -- especially since the FDA has no capacity to enforce anything.

And on more thorough review, it looks like the hysteria has spread to many other countries as well -- how quaint.

For those that really aren't aware of what good hysteria marketing looks like, please take a look at: https://www.valisure.com/blog/uncategorized/detection-of-ndm...

Anyone that works in the world of marketing/PR can see it plainly.

I don't feel like digging into what strings they had to pull in order to get this viral, but anyone possessed by curiosity should take a look at their team: https://www.valisure.com/about-us/ After reading their profiles, two members should instantly pop out at you.
Because robots are not taking the jobs away. Some of the wealthiest, biggest companies in the world have more employees than ever in spite of having the the most resources to invest in automation. Successful businesses tend to add people, not replace them. What automation does is allow people to be more productive but that is not the same as replacing people.
There’s a safety issue here. I can conceive of these code blocks diverging more with time. Plus is there really a cost of duplication.
Why do people resubmit while the old one is still on the front page? Why does HN even allow this (it used to redirect to the old submission, at least sometimes)?
In the sense that they do not get sent out of the country for refusing to make dinner they are.
There are a lot of robots in agriculture for some time now ( just naming 2 : the tractor and the milking machine ).

What is different now?
Generally, the most efficient thing to tax is the thing you don't want.

What you are proposing is a good thing (greater efficiency) with a negative side effect (tilting economies towards the rich) but rather than tax the bad thing, you're taxing the good thing in order to reduce its negative side effect.

For whatever reason it seems like taxing robots is more socially acceptable than taxing the wealthy.
Fighter Pilot Podcast -

1) B-52 Stratofortress
2) Mig-29 Fulcrum
3) SR-71 Blackbird

The Seen and The Unseen -

1) Our Colorful Past
2) The 2019 Elections
3) The India-Pakistan Conflict
4) Kashmir and Article 370

Lapham's Quarterly -

1) William Dairymple

The Joe Rogan Experience -

1). Edward Snoweden

NPR Throughline -

1) The Dark Side Of The Moon

Podcast series -

1) 13 Minutes To The Moon
2) The Chernobyl Podcast
please give a link to source
What is average proportion of growth generated by word of mouth?
Around 10% of our growth is generated by word of mouth. Is this standard, good or poor? What does that stat look like for you? Know any benchmarks (maybe for particular verticals)?