skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's right, Turchin himself pointed out the "overproduction of young graduates with advanced degrees”. The problem is the inability of society to support an excess of people who expect to be in the elite.

If the US really is producing 25,000 more lawyers per year than it can employ, that's a real problem. Multiply that across many other disciplines and that could easily be hundreds of thousands of people with credentials they cannot use. We see this in the UK as well where there is a growing cadre of graduates every year going into jobs that don't need a degree. This leads to growing numbers of people that expected to be in the elite, but aren't.

The source of unrest is resentment among people that don't think they're getting their fair share, and have the organisational and communications skills to do something about it. Investors that don't work for wages don't strike me as a likely group to develop growing levels of resentment.
I mean, to some extent, yes, probably. In an aging society, as the fraction of the population doing productive work falls, this sort of thing is likely to become a problem.
Ah, like the war in Iraq.
> Is it time for a protected legal definition of "buy" which excludes this nonsense? Does the EU already do this?

No, no country in the world does this, because it's basically impossible to do if a work contains other licensed bits of copyright.
To pencil out even further what my sibling comment mentioned; you want to be able to say

"you repeatedly did x and this is explicitly against our Code of Conduct that you said you'd read before your first contribution"

instead of

"you're being a jerk and as such we will be refusing any contributions from you going forward".

The second example is completely arbitrary, and is up to the whims of the core team - whomever they might be. With a Code of Conduct you're (ideally) told up front what you can and cannot do. This reduces ambiguity and arbitrary decision making.

I can also tell you that a Code of Conduct isn't a change to how I personally govern the projects and communities I'm in charge of. Instead, it's about writing down what I would already remove people for anyway.
I'm not aware of any, and any such platform that is comparably featured would be susceptible to the same problem. This isn't a platform problem, it's a law problem.
Much of the conversation here misses the point of CoCs (and org policies in general). I've led 200+ person community orgs and helped put in governance for Fortune 500s, it's all the same - policies are an exercise in leadership, and are exactly as effective as the leadership in place.

Rules, policies, laws, Hammurabi's Code - they're all just leadership decisions made in advance. The problem here is that the leadership clearly doesn't really care. They got a complaint, they "investigated," and they moved on. Classic "governance" - totally ineffective.

After years, my favorite governance approach is still the one from a college club. It read in it's entirety: "No !ssholes." It makes clear the goal, who will be enforcing, and what to expect: The goal is no !ssholes, I will be enforcing, and I will do so by calling you an !sshole. It's just social pressure - and for anything outside of the judicial or corporate systems, that's all there is anyway.
I feel like it’s just that those of us who had our formative years in the 1980-2000 range are finally old enough and have enough disposable income to collect the things we could never afford back then and/or the things we loved and wish we hadn’t gotten rid of.

Across all my hobbies, from cars to retro tech to various small toy/comic/whatever collections, everything from that generation is sky rocketing in prices now.
There are data scientist out of the Silicon Valley. In France, salaries for data scientist are mostly 30k€ after tax and social contributions, especially outside of Paris. 1k€ is still largely manageable on this salary but it isn't insignificant.
Just loaded the initial page;no other action - 105 requests, 4 MB(2 on the wire).

Was your comment just an attempt at some growth hacking?
Then, you know Ferdinand Porsche designed the original Volkswagen, which, with some changes at Hitler’s request, was produced as a literal “people’s car.”

Say what you want about the Nazis, but they had a sense of style. No other army in the world went into battle in uniforms designed by Hugo Boss.

...and, that’s about as far as I’m willing to go in praising Nazis.
> From my perspective Julia is sacrifising some amount of "duct tape UX" to gain speed, and that's the wrong direction.

What particular language features of Julia make that trade-off? (Not a rhetorical question, I'm not disagreeing with you, just curious; I'm familiar with Python, not really familiar with Julia.)
What about interpreted languages? I was taught a Python web server can do $NUMCPUS+1 concurrent requests and therefore 32 1 CPU VM will perform as well as a 32 CPU VM.
Cool diagram. Putting the shellcode in headers is very innovative. I didn't have too much assembly knowledge to trim it further during the competition.
Seems like a perfect area for patreon to expand into.

Support a user/artist on patreon, get access to their vids also hosted on patreon.
A lot of medical stuff seems to suffer from this problem of caution paralyzing the behavior of professionals, not just in IT.

That being said, most commercial software seems to be way worse. There was the article the other month of a windows 10 machine automatically updating while a patient was being operated on forcing them to be kept under for an extra few hours.
As much as pragmatics would point in this direction, saying "let's be realistic here .. etc.", perhaps nurturing that part of us that dreams in alignment with Vannevar Bush's dreaming up the "memex" or Douglas Engelbart's vision of "augmenting the human intellect" is still valuable if the urge is strong enough. Maybe the seeds of the next information revolution are lurking in such dreams .. especially given the progress we've made in NLP.
I think it was more training them how to launch it, so they can better identify it domestically.

I know some guys in military intelligence in that neck of the woods, I doubt there was any malicious intent here.
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Your experience already show the difference between my generation where doing anything required programming (8 bit home computers) and a couple of years later.

Somehow a lost experience in today's hardware.
>But, are those echo chambers communities? Or are they audiences disguised as communities?

These are certainly communities. In fact I would go so far as to say they are rather neutral in terms of their politics or at least should be.

The interesting thing is that I'm there for the original purpose and politics sort of comes up. This wouldn't become a big deal as that should at most become epistemic bubble based on the average bias of the community. The problem is that they have become echo chambers. They are hostile toward anyone posing an alternative viewpoint.

This isn't something new in the last year or something. It has been building for 10 years or more. It's not social media because social media isn't involved at all. My going theory is that it's a political schism caused by identity politics.

When looking at history, these never turn out well. I have seen quite a few democrat aligned folks calling for civil war.
I think people who don't work in healthcare don't realize the complexity of this proposal.
There is nothing wrong with reloading a page. Hackernews is doing it.
On the other hand a page not working because webdevs deemed your browser outdated really is problematic.
Docker hub will limit the pulls, I have considered making a free hub. Comments?
You're talking like the leader of the right in the USA was tolerant of any different viewpoint than his own viewpoint around him. He's publicly rejected and shit on people very publicly that were his allies/staff for years the moment they have a dissenting opinion. Come on, not a left or right thing.
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> You and the other comments are right -- this isn't the same as Amazon or other digital stores where you have no ability to download the content.

You do have the ability to download films on Amazon.

(They're DRMed, and you can't transfer them to another device, but they don't expire).
I'm always reminded of the phrase - One persons propaganda, is another persons politics. Which if you look at political manifesto's by mainstream parties - does make for a very fine line depending upon how interpreted.
Maybe hospitals should escrow their data with NSA.
Append only backups. Get ransomware, restore from NSA backup. Make all that storage capacity useful.
1Password. It’s really polished and works well everywhere I need it. There’s a Linux version in beta now, but even before that the browser extension available on Linux was all I really needed.
I don’t really follow. If you hold a talk after being invited, and the organizers receive complaints, they just don’t invite you again. I’m a bit uncertain what the speaker gains from having any further involvement in that process.
> Apparently motivation to learn increases with age in my family.

"I was friends with one highschooler who constantly showed off his math knowledge. He much preferred to leave people (many of whom were poor) with the impression that he was superhuman, rather than proactively explaining that his father was a mathematician, his mother taught him at his Montessori grade school, and his family was very well-off..."
The Internet is getting lame. What's next?
Could you give some examples of such critiques? The idea seems interesting and I'd like to read a more long-form argument.
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Besides Aix mentioned on the sibling comment, mainframes and some non-POSIX embedded OSes.
Some basic plots would go a really long way to make the results more understandable at a glance.
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I started working on this during the COVID lockdown - with all that extra time. Helped keep me sane(ish). I call it OpenDMP: https://github.com/rhinoman/odmp

Anyway - this project is meant to help with a lot of the low level plumbing that goes with managing data in small-ish organizations that do DS, ML, etc.

Still in the early phases of development. I definitely need to make deployment easier (DevOps is not really my forte), and a number of features are still lacking :)

Some tech info:

- Backend is primarily Kotlin and Spring Boot. It relies heavily on Apache Camel.

- Running inline Python or Clojure scripts is supported.

- The Frontend is a Clojurescript (re-frame) app.
In general you should do your absolute best to avoid downloading and running binaries.

It's insecure and it's very prone to error on Linux. There's almost always a better way (and anyone who says differently is probably trying to sell something to someone.)
Because resizing in a linear colorspace is more costly. JPEG can be resized without shifting colorspaces VERY cheaply, but requires loading into RAM if a change in colorspace (or gamma shift) is performed. The hit can be quite significant. On a phone or laptop it would hurt battery, on an online service (dynamic resizer service) it would impact latency.
I actually felt at home with XCOFF, a UNIX that used the same ideas as Symbian and Windows for dynamic link libraries, including import/export definition modules.
To add: clicking + on the wiki page does nothing and inexplicably calls out to the https://domestica.app/api/v1/budget/payees endpoint resulting in HTTP error - whilst the UI stays silent and displays nothing.
Where did you see he didn't care?

https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/1321627567737069568?s=19 he said their decision was fucked up.
I remember some people using this to launch java applications.
Why didn't the sellers in this deal do why the buyer did and examine the cards before handing over the payment? That seems to be an extreme failure of due diligence. Can you imagine buying a house without looking inside first? They must have a lot less respect for that kind of money than most of us do.
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I've been writing for several years, and the more I blog, write training materials, or just write to customers, three things keep helping me improve:

1) Less is more.
A) Write all you like, and then cut out all the stuff that doesn't matter. Like the way you just said the same thing 3 times in a row.
B) The less you say the less someone has to argue with. The opposite is also true
C) Stick to main points and save gory details for later, unless you're in the "Gory Details" section already.

2) Read your writing out loud. What looks great on the page might sound terrible aloud. If it sounds terrible aloud, then it'll be awkward for others to read, too.

3) Just write. Get the words onto the page. This is the hardest but most important thing. Don't pay attention to form, redundancy, spelling, grammar, or redundancy. Just get the words down. These so-called brain dumps will help you get expressive. Then you can edit the heck out of yourself as mentioned in 1 and 2.

4) Okay, a fourth. No matter what you write, read Steven King's "On Writing" to find out what it means to "kill your darlings". Epic book.
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Not really. People who come into a hospital unresponsive may need emergency surgery. In that case, obtaining consent from them is impossible, yet, ER docs, anesthesiologists, and surgeons clearly have no ethical problem administering general anesthesia without consent, in such a case.
I thought we'd agreed on hating parenthesis.
The example on Flutter's landing page shows 9 lines of square, rounded and curly braces with some sprinkled commas and semicolons.
An alternative version of this joke: What's the difference between the Soviet Union and the USA?

In both countries you have freedom of speech, but in the USA you can use it more than once.
> an entire class of argument [...] mostly vanish if the underlying data model in the de facto standard was rich enough to support the actual work of software development.

Interesting idea. You think we could develop a unified data model that covers source code, static files, documentation, project management and community management as a single unified thing?

That’s certainly ambitious, and I’d love to see it. For the moment it seem that Git has won for source code (in a pretty crowded field) because just that part was hard and it was a big improvement. The collaboration tools it includes, mostly around email, appear to be inadequate for most projects. So now we see a healthy ecosystem that adds rich collaboration on top of / next to Git.

> no widely used DVCS is actually distributed in practice

I think this is due to economic and social factors rather than technical ones. Fully distributing a Git repo is very doable, but harder to think about than the Github model. Plus you have all the normal P2P problems around who’s online and how good their connection is.

> tooling around version control is subject to platform monopolization

Again, I think this is simply the social network effect more than anything else. Making a website for your project let’s people find it, use it, and contribute to it. The bar to entry is lowered further if it’s a common platform, where people already have accounts and know how it works, and where they can get a consolidated view of all their activity.

Centralized hosting makes even more sense as projects grow and you only want a subset of the code on any given development machine. Eventually big monorepos preset serious scaling challenges.

Still... I completely agree that it would be awesome to have a more self-sovereign computing architecture writ large. I’m just pessimistic we can get there from here.
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Hey nice product and I like it. One suggestion and enhancement would be to add link to HN directly in addition to the link to the content!
Why is this kind of thing so common at conferences? What mechanism encourages it in that kind of environment?
Yeah but even if we accept passive investment is a form of productive labor, there's a limited number safe/good investments for those good investors.

As we saw in the 2008 recession when more and investors pile on even the safest investments (mortgages backed securities) the quality of those investments tends to be diluted (via CDO's, errant ratings companies, exploitative real estate practices)

This is what's making me nervous about index funds right now, the demand seems extremely high, but what about the supply how would you determine such a thing?

What is investors are smart but there simply aren't enough good investments out there? Are they going to give up and become doctors, lawyers or engineers? Or just spend more time with their kids?
> heterodox leftists today, in the spirit of Chris Lasch,

Any book or article recommendations that you might have easy access to? Reason is I've only recently started to read some Lasch and I genuinely like his writing, and on top of that I've also become really interested in fringe/heterodox left-wing writings as of late (I say that as a person usually on the right when it comes to politics). If it matters I'm also a fan of Jacques Ellul (which Lasch mentions among others as one of his inspirations).
Think of the inverse. It's possible to arrange a living creature to provably not have a human (or animal) style consciousness. By definition we say that plants are not conscious the way humans are conscious. Even if they do possess a soul they probably lack the ability to perceive the world through pain, vision or thought. So just build a human shaped creature that lacks the ability to perceive the world. Therefore consciousness is a property that is created by the creature itself.

The conclusion is that you can build a conscious robot. Instead of thinking about turning it off you first have to think about turning it on. Is it ethical to bring children into this world, knowing that they will eventually die? If so then it would be equally ethical to do it to a robot.

So if you have accepted that your robot will be turned off eventually it is no longer relevant whether it happens. Rather it is all about the situation in which a robot will be turned off. We accept that all humans eventually die but we also wish for humans to delay their death as long as possible. It would be similar with robots. We will turn them off when the situation requires it but we also want to avoid it as much as possible.
The Supreme Court and what army/purse? Brown v Board wouldn't have had teeth if Wallace was the president, for example.
>>Genuinely “brainy” people can find new ways to contribute to society, there can never be too any of them.

While we're on grand theories of politics and society... I think one of our modern/liberal theses is (perhaps) being played out currently.

Assuming that "brainy" is not totally unrelated to academic/educated, we have ratcheted up the supply of braininess. That does include empty credentialist trends, but it also includes people trained in science, engineering, mathematics and such. We have more of all of these people.

A lot of the logic behind producing them (ramping up university enrollment massively over decades) has been that productivity and income are a product of "human capital." IE, an engineer/doctor/etc. is n% more productive than a dock worker and therefore earns and produces n% more because education. Educate more people. They'll produce & earn more.

This was, like most social theories, part economics and part romanticism. People view/viewed economic gaps between poor and rich countries this way. IE, besides physical capital, you could turn a poor country into a rich one with education.

I don't think this was totally untrue. That said, I do think reality has given us some reality check nuances. There are other limits/factors on economic growth than education. To some extent, education was a proxy for wealth/power.. not it's source. Income does not necessarily reflect productivity, and productivity itself can be subjective.

To put a blunt end on it... "clerk" was, 50-100 years ago, the entry level white collar job. It came with entry level bougie status & income. Today, "clerical jobs" are very common. Those clerks are more highly educated. PCS are basically clerical super-efficiency machines. Yet, modern clerks don't have the modern equivalent of old timey clerk's status & income.
termdown is worth a mention https://github.com/trehn/termdown

It's a countdown timer that uses figlet to render the countdown. Here's a pomodoro timer script I use fairly often (`bup` is another script that emits a low pitched beep (a bup)):

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo $0: usage: pomodoro time_expr
exit 1
fi

TIME_EXPR=$1

get_time ()
{
date "+%H:%M"
}

START=$(get_time)
termdown --font big --critical 0 $TIME_EXPR \
&& bup
END=$(get_time)
echo "$START - $END"
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I’m sure this has been discussed at length before, but why does GM only offer super cruise on Cadillac models? Is this not a technology that benefits from scale, data, and testing? If they have a good product, get it out the door before the competition catches up, right? I’d buy a super cruise Suburban today but will not buy an escalade.
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This is exactly why I've stopped buying movies. The argument is that if you want to watch it again then you'll have to rent it again, and after a couple times you would have saved money by buying it. That's not true if there's a decent chance buying it still wouldn't let you watch it again in a couple years.

I've just accepted that I'll only be able to watch things once and that's fine, I have much better things to do with my life than watch movies (like starting arguments on HN.)
Does it permit it 100% of the time, or do you pay to discover that there’s a bunch of exceptions?

And I guess once you stop paying, it’s all gone?
Hi, I am David Stillwell. I can confirm that Kogan's app "thisisyourdigitallife" was his own endeavour and unrelated to the Psychometrics Centre. I'm not sure why Wired has written this now. They actually already wrote an extensive article about the Psychometrics Centre here in June 2018 if you want the real story: https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-who-saw-the-dangers-of-c...