skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It most certainly is true! How many fields are tilled by hand today, instead of by tractor? How many jobs can be done today by someone who is illiterate? History is full of obsolete occupations.

I never claimed that mass technological unemployment had occurred historically, only that the minimum skill level required for employment has been steadily rising over the past ~150 years at an accelerating rate. The observation that "new jobs were always created in the past" fails to take into account the fact that the new jobs have _always_ required more skill than the old jobs they replaced.

Almost by definition, automation will perpetually struggle to replace the jobs we _currently_ consider low skilled. If they were easy to replace with current technology and expertise we presumably would have done so already. Those that remain are complicated enough not to be worth automating (yet), and thus remain the bottom of the barrel (for now).
He has a private train? What is this 1940?
Yes, you can share your screen in zoom and skype.
At first, I wanted just to play "a funny" video over the webcam (instead of my face), for my colleagues.
And sharing the desktop over the webcam was just a "nice to have" feature, in the case, the application does not support screen sharing.
Same thing with the rounded corner of the iPhone X series. One time I was trying to make one of he UIView match the corner radius of the screen and it wasn’t matching until I learnt that the rounded corners of the screen/device is a 38.5 squircle (not sure if that’s the real term). Basically instead of having a sharp curve, it starts much earlier.
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Hm the article didn't make that particularly clear, and on re-reading I'm still not seeing anything to indicate they plan to revert their capacity reductions in time, but I do hope you're right.
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...
sometimes I think Trump makes these dumb quotes just for free publicity... hopefully he doesn't kill too many people in the process...
There's a simple reason for that: the lockdowns are killing lots of people and will kill even more. That's not under-reporting but rather an obvious outcome of clearing the health system in expectation of a surge that never came. Probably the UK will see an extreme form of this effect as people are encouraged to see the NHS as a sort of public park that everyone has to take care of rather than a large mechanical system, as in countries with private/insurance based healthcare.

Admissions at hospitals have collapsed: in the UK they halved. Admissions due to respiratory illnesses however didn't really go up, not surprising when you consider the small absolute numbers. There is now a massive backlog of operations and diagnostics for cancer that health systems will struggle to clear in time.

There's a story with some analysis of that problem here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/26/what-second-coro...

In the past the recommendations of epidemiologists have ended up killing a lot more than they saved, with the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the UK being a classic example. It's likely it will be true again this time.
Every time I am visiting USA, I am flabbergasted at the medication ads on TV. Not just for off-the-counter stuff like paracetamol or anti-inflammation medication but actual freaking prescription only drugs.

And they actually ask you to speak to your doctor about the drug. Haha what? Shouldn't my doctor morally and by default be suggesting the best treatment for what I have? And if I don't trust his/her treatment plan then why not switch to a different doctor?
Go to Vietnam. You can `buy` some Ph.D level there
Here's an experiment: take two zygotes from each of two animals, and do a DNA swap. That's 2x2 combinations of environment-DNA pairings. Compare the 4 offsprings. If this can be done, it has been done a million times already, I presume. What's been observed?
I think some people are commenting from a perspective of a society/environment where a car is basically mandatory, where you cannot really go anywhere or do anything without a car, or where it is at least hopelessly cumbersome to use public transit and dangerous to ride a bicycle.

I suspect some of it is political, if you are right leaning then you may well view cycling and public transport as a step towards socialism. It probably doesn't have much to do with the practicalities.
I gave NixOS a try recently, and generally liked it. I could get over the arcane packaging language and hit-or-miss documentation. The red flag for me was the inattention to software freedom. Most other distros like Debian or Fedora have source packages or SRPMs that include everything needed to rebuild a package from scratch. Nix pushes binary packages, and even stores them in S3, but with no matching source packages that I could find. They tout reproducible builds, but really haven't considered to how to deal with the "disapearing sources" problem, including vanishing git repositories. I grabbed some URLs that pointed to sources in the old Nix Tarball Cache and they all returned 404. Nix has no longer term plan to preserve package sources.
Sometime the discussion needs a reality check.
The (only) version available on Amazon UK runs for 119 minutes.
You can pay the $10~ per month for premium and get rid of the ads. Many people here on hn complain about the ads but are unwilling to pay to support non ad version at the same time.
An interstellar origin for high-inclination Centaurs
I would assume many GPL-licensed applications are GPL non-compliant. From a user's perspective, what are the most relevant problems when this is the case? (Excluding problems of philosophical nature that only free software geeks care about. No intention to be disrespectful; but the more practical the problems, the more likely it is that ordinary users can relate to them.)
Man this takes me back.

I used to play multiplayer with my little brother. If he wasn’t around, I’d just mess around with all the weapons and create apocalyptic hellscapes caked in worm guts.

A good chunk of my childhood was spent with downloadable split-screen PC games like Liero, Destruction 2, and Paintball Party. I owe a lot of memorable hours to those devs.
But if a system allows code execution on its host CPU, and the host CPU is Turing complete, this means the system itself is Turing complete too by extension.
In order from most to least, all concerns but some that I'm usually happy overlooking:

* Poorly-implemented versions of theoretically-interesting ideas

* Poor implementations, technically

* Lacking merit compared to its best competitor (insofar as free software has competitors)

* Lacking merit compared to its main competitor

* Deep philosophical and moral disagreements

* Toxic and obnoxious community

This isn't to say it's bad, of course. It's just something I dislike; I seek no wider war.
Yes, I meant the Mahü.

1908 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Mariahil...

2006 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Mariahil...

Today - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Wien_07_...

Smoking was definitely the much bigger problem. The average Austrian, if he doesn't life in Vienna, is simply not confronted with smog. I guess what helps tremendously to cover up the smog problem is they constant wind we have. Honestly I only realized that it could be a lot better after my London visit. Until then I only have seen cities which were much worse then Vienna w.r.t smog.
The default nixpkgs channel has over 40,000 packages. I've found NixOS compares pretty well with other Linux distributions in that regard.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
I feel like this whole thing will also make cash payments extinct as that requires touching dirty bills. I even think the credit machines will become tap only so you don’t have to touch dirty machines used by thousands of others and enter PIN numbers.
It is not ironic; it is in direct response to what he wrote. He mentions extensively the importance of building one's brand, and that even he is a victim of that mindset. Therefore I am curious IF he has a blog, and I am curious what that blog contains in case that it exists.
I need to clean a few things up before being able to do so, chief among them my initial rookie mistake to name the users table "user", which in retrospect wasn't a good idea when moving the thing to Postgres - so while I've got a neat little "migrations.sql" that has served me fine over the various versions, it just can't work when ran against Postgres.

I'll fix it up in the next few days and will reply in a comment once it's available.
Hello Human trailer is intruiging and slightly sinister
Thank you for the link. We mostly have debit cards in this part of the world. It’s hard for me to understand laying any interest for consumption goods purchases.

It is still not fully clear when does the settlement happen? At the end of each month, with a ~1.5% interest applied on the negative balance?
I work in devops (devsecops) i get more recruiter mails than before now...

Talked to others in AI/ ML. They also feel like they get more mails than before... Automation definitely is now more on the radar then before.
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GeoServer 2.17.0 Released
Time of year doesn't matter for his point though. What we care about is mortality, not whether it happens at the start or end of a winter.
Call it what you will but if python 1 and 2 were still supported, I'd have customers demanding I support them indefinitely.

This way there's no expectation, I get to wash my hands of it all. And without an awkward "I'm moving to Viper now chaps". It's a system update paradigm that people understand.
Saying that it could be is wide use but you wouldn't be able to detect it is an impossible to falsify claim though.
I saw this coming BUT I thought if they were clever they might get the code from the Singapore government (Who I think developed OpenTrace) direct?

You can release you code as GPL. But you can also release you code however, separately if you want.

Also it depends on OpenTrace's libraries and if it's been contributed to.
Without source code, you cannot trust what the app does. This is particularly bad for an app that will supposedly track your every move.

Also, non-compliance with a copyright license effectively means “stealing”. So the government is effectively buying stolen goods from Amazon and Boston Group.
Shameless plug opportunity! On the topic of "more complication on top of cloudformation", I made a tool that lets you split up cloudformation files with import syntax.

https://github.com/magicmark/cf-merge
A lot of people say socialising is important, but I disagree. My coworkers are not my friends, and I might keep in touch with one out of 20 once I leave a company. Might. I usually don't, and I don't miss then either. Being completely remote for years now helped me avoid the mistakes that I see in some relatives and friends, such as

A) dating or casually fucking with coworkers. I've seen this multiple times and it never lead to a happy ending.

B) reducing your social circles to your coworkers. My sister fell into this problem where her co-workers took over the friends, and they worked, ate, did sports and outdoor activities together. She hates her job but was afraid to leave because she was about to distance from her friends. This turned ugly when point A) happened, and she left with emotional turmoil and the need for therapy.

Coworkers are a 9-5 business relation to me. I do not hand out private phone numbers because I don't even want to talk to them outside of work. When it happened, discussions rotated around work, even in the pub. Not my definition of a good time.
Tokyo is the opposite of what i would call bicycle friendly. People there are probably much more careful than in other cities, but i was amazed at the lack of infrastructure for bikes when i visited the city a few months ago.

Bikes are either merged with car traffic, or simply go on the sidewalk, but i haven’t seen a single bicycle lane..
In my nearest city quite a lot of the problem is traffic travelling via the centre. If someone wants to go West to East they will travel through the centre rather than around the outside.

What you really need is a shift so the closer to the centre you get the more you are forced out of the car and onto public transport and ultimately cycling or walking. Cars should be for when you want to leave towards the highway.
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or even worse from a potential depression
It was interesting to hear a lead story on the nightly news talking about data privacy issues related to where the data was stored, saying that the data would be stored on “American company Amazon’s Servers”.

No mention of Australian regions or GovCloud etc.
> Non-compliant. The CovidSAFE application heavily uses source code from https://github.com/opentrace-community/opentrace-android which was released under GPL v3

That's not to say its non-compliant, they could have reached out to the (one) contributor and licenced it separately.
It's a very good plan. We would have lower pollution, fewer deaths, higher living density, lower carbon emissions. It is, however, very unusual and unpopular.
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It's mostly visual. I would add location and latest weather to any software trying to recognize the mushroom. The mushrooms that people commonly forage for are not that numerous, so the algorithm needs to know about a dozen or two varieties. Chanterelles are easy to tell from images. You can probably have an AI chanterelle identifier coded right now and for most edible mushrooms very soon if not now.
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An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA (ribonucleic acid) as its genetic material.

RNA viruses generally have very high mutation rates compared to DNA viruses

Numerous RNA viruses are capable of genetic recombination when at least two viral genomes are present in the same host cell. RNA recombination appears to be a major driving force in determining genome architecture and the course of viral evolution.

In the article that you point out, the authors are trying to understand this genome architecture, as it is important to understand how fast the virus will evolve. They used several tools (some for short reads, and others for long reads) to analyze this genome, as no single tool is perfect.

I guess the answer is, yes with this architecture it will evolve quickly.
DVDs had unskippable content sections, usually used for ads (i.e. trailers for other films).
Yes, I'm aware -- though many people are not. So thanks for adding that info to the conversation.
I don't really understand the criticisms of Nix being non-standard or a hard to grasp language. The language is basically JSON with semicolons, scoping and lambda functions. It has a really minimal syntax and few built-in functions, it's untyped and comes with no complex concepts like typeclasses, exceptions, monads, etc.

Replacing it with a general-purpose language is almost guaranteed to increase the cognitive load required to write a simple package or configure NixOS.
This complain sounds a lot like "Why didn't you pick <my language>, which I already know?", to me. Nim, besides being newer than Nix (~2003), has support for metaprogramming, parellism features, OOP... which is all nice but it's far too much for a language intended for writing packages and configuration.

I agree that the documentation is a major problem when learning Nix/NixOS but the situation is improving. My recommendation is to start by reading the Nix pills[1], which are a great introduction to Nix but also develop into a detailed explanation of the inner machineries of Nix and Nixpkgs.

[1]: https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html
Cruise ships exposed thousands on board and helped spread virus globally
Screen share in Zoom normally takes up a lot of space and is annoying in my opinion if it isn’t by someone leading a meeting. It isn’t naturally via your webcam.
I'm a Premium user but between permanently enabled uBlock, Pi-Hole, and (almost) always-on VPN to use all that I never payed attention to the ads aspect. The most obvious benefits for me were that I can download the music and listen offline, including with the screen off which means I can connect now my Sonos system to Youtube.
Practicing quarantine _inside_ a home is terribly hard. The air exchange is very limited and there are too many shared surfaces. Even if you're paranoid about cleanliness and bleach everything twice a day, in the long run you will get exposed to the microbiome of the other people in the household.

Another factor is that masks get wet after some time. This makes breathing harder, which is not a good thing with any kind of physical activity. Also, the humid feeling makes people want to touch their face more.

Edit: people infecting you is not that easy to defend against. You'd neet N95s or hazmat equipment for that. Situational awareness is key to defend against "drive-by infections".

In the long run though, I assume we are all likely to be exposed to the virus. Let's do everything in our power to avoid it where possible to ensure the dosis is low enough that the infection stays asymptomatic. In the best case, it might grant us some immunity.
Sure, that's out of reasonable walking distance: Depending on your day, the occasional bicycle isn't out of question. Even in rain. (To be fair, I'll walk daily anywhere that is 30-45minutes most days).

But honestly, the bicycle is cultural as it would be better to prioritize bikes so it is faster. Same for public transportation. Car-first infrastructure and lack of pedestrian/bicycle/mass transit are political decisions.
A minimal manual of contributing to illumos
“Thoughts and prayers”
I've noticed this seems to be a problem with F-Droid as well. Seemingly half the packages are marked "the source is no longer available", which renders them non-free in practical terms. It's great that they tell you, but why is it a problem at all?
This pseudopsychological explanation for an rational response is really ridiculous. These 16-year-olds are developing their resumes not because they're narcissistic. They're doing so because everyone's very plausibly saying that being middle-income is getting harder and harder to live as, and they're anxious to get into a good university to help their career prospects.

> All that building your brand and trying to convince people of your identity in place of actually having one

Well, that's because college admissions value seem to value identities like robotics / programming club president more than identities like having fun with friends and trying different things together (secondarily to the friendship), which seems to be a more mentally healthy pursuit and better for cultivating a healthy identity but not what admissions are looking for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle
Please don't vote this up ;)
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What is your password management setup?
Do you use a text file, an online or offline password manager? How do you synchronize passwords across devices?
You might not ever reach 100% confidence, but formally verified code is a whole lot more likely to be correct than code that is not formally verified.
I am just thinking of the metro here in Barcelona. Rush hour is fairly packed. No chance for social distancing. (I cycle the majority of places, as its faster provided you are willing to bend the rules).
Somewhat surprisingly, studies ([1] in French, sorry) show that on average drivers breath worse air than cyclists actually. The main reason they bring up is that the relatively airtight cabin accumulates particles, whereas people traveling in open air can get short high peaks but lower pollution on average.

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2014/03/13/auto-metro...
How can a contract that gives both parties equal chances of winning equal amounts of money be exploitative?
I see this topic come up but I don't know the answer, but let me put it another way. I will change go out with travel, but I think it also applies.

If you never leave your house, you will never get covid (give or take, lets assume). If I am sick, and I never leave the house, no-one will ever get sick from me.

But why is your(others) right to go out more important than mine? People that don't want to get the virus can stay home as much as the sick person no? If people are so scared of people on the street having the virus, they can just stay home and protect themselves

And on the other extreme, and this is what I hear a lot, it comes from people that have 'good' homes. A room for everyone where they can be alone, a warm house, wifi and facebook/IG/Steam and are either working from home or getting some benefits for staying home (not all countries are giving checks to everyone, and some people really are screwed). Now if you compare this to the other side (and not even extreme a lot of people live like this) where there is one room for 3 kids, no wifi, 4 tv channels and a moldy old house that is freezing. It seems to me it is easy to say 'stay at home' when we live like 'kings' and don't think if that person doesn't go to work cleaning some stairs or whatnot, they will have no food at the end of the month.

You can apply this to travel I think, by saying some people really need to travel for work (wether airport or a subway), so why is non-covid people more important that covid-positive people?
> Also, non-compliance with a copyright license effectively means “stealing”. So the government is effectively buying stolen goods from Amazon and Boston Group.

Do you have a good source for that? (No, a random tweet isn't a good source.)
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Uhm, no.

Once your code contains GPL code that is not yours, it has to be GPL. Particularly in v3, where a number of loopholes were closed. You are free to attach further non-conflicting clauses to it, but the GPL of the original code must be respected. That’s the entire point of the GPL.

Double-licensing requires you to have ownership of the entire codebase. At that point, you are licensing everything, so you’re free to pick any license that suits you.
"Park and ride" is common in the UK, but I never see it in Spain.
When the majority of people are using a platform in an unhealthy manner, I think it's reasonable to conclude that the design of the platform itself is at fault. The occurrence of a few successful interactions doesn't change the fact that the majority of social media platforms today exhibit glaring systemic flaws when their interaction models intersect basic human psychology.
Hey everyone,
Me and my co-founder having hard time to find great content because of the all the fluff content out there. There is a lot of great content out there but it's so time consuming the find great ones. We had to open dozens of tabs and read/watch 10 content to find 1 great.

So, we are building content search platform which you can find content

- rank content or search results
- create and follow collections to learn new things without the hustle of searching.

We're focusing on startup advices and programming right now.

What do you think?
Is the Go community not interested in safe embedded applications?
More trees [1], less particle pollution, you say?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.co.za/georgia-helicopter-causes-...
covidly.com ?
Any addiction is a disease. I have just read an interesting article on this issue here - https://addictionresource.com/drugs/fiorinal/ . Pretty informative
For most I think it's just finding friends to play with, then finding time/priority/scheduling to actually get playing.
Source for what? It’s in TFA...?
Again, you are conflating city centre vs remaining city. If a shop owner has a shop next to a 4 lane road - what the hell was he thinking?

I'm talking about creating boundary around downtown to which remaining of metro can travel to by either means.
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Very nice UI indeed, although the data does not seem to be up to date
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