skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then again during the industrial revolution and consequent automation, where the work previously done by 10 people is now done by 1.

It's cyclical, and while I will concede that people lose their jobs because of automation, zooming out to the overall jobs market (and figures, which probably don't tell the whole story) things haven't really changed much.

On an individual level though, people lose their jobs and livelihood, and have to settle for a lower paying, dumber job.

That said, a lot of jobs replaced by automation are already low-paying, dumb jobs. Why stand 8 hours / day doing a repetitive manual job if a thing can do it just as well? Why expose yourself to the worst the internet comes up with when you can train an AI to detect CP?

I don't believe we'll see jobs becoming largely obsolete in our lifetime, but I would like to fantasize about a future where work is a choice and everybody can live comfortably (quality housing, food and spending money) even without a job. Not going to happen as long as capitalism and the never ending pursuit of profit and profit increase are still a thing though. But, we're seeing some hopeful developments in that regard, with things like UBI and the like.

(Aside: I don't believe UBI will work in the end, if everyone has a baseline income, nobody does. UBI only works if it's coupled with assurances of housing and that it's enough to cover all basic needs, which right now depend largely on the area you live in. I couldn't get an affordable rental place on my own income some years ago, because first there was a 15+ year waiting list, and later I was earning too much so I was thrown out to the 'free market', and there's a pretty big gap between the most expensive social housing and the cheapest free market housing. That gap is filled up with 'student' houses, think houses split up into multiple units / rooms. But nobody should be forced to live like that if they're out of college and have a paid full-time job.
We have ACeP in our labs and it looks really good while displaying images. It's not high end glossy print colorful, but it's very very close. More than enough for most applications. It's also a stark difference to the color-filter variants that were available previousy. There the contrast was poor due to the filter they overlaid over a regular E Ink reflective surface.
The Geekbench score explicitly ignores thermal power budgets.
If I understand it correctly, contact tracing should rely on bluetooth only. Does it require location services and/or network on Android?
Well, not quite.

It seems like the license went something like this:

MIT > Dual GPL/Custom license > No license > AGPL > No License/Commercial only > Custom license > Different custom license > License with a commercial pricing? > AGPL (3 days ago)

Most of this happening over the last few weeks, and the readme says it's dual licensed.
The author can’t help but drag ownership back in al the time - “my bicycle’ “my living room”. Also the author ignores the tragedy of the commons - what if the last person broke the pasta maker or didn’t clean it. Where is the labor coming from to keep up all this stuff? How much supply is available? How much does it cost to get a pasta maker delivered? Does it come today or a month from now because I have to reserve one of my city’s 3 pasta makers and that was the soonest available? What if I don’t return it?
Just wrote a small commercial app with SSR in PHP and some jQuery added on top for the more dynamic views. Used JsRender for the frontend templates. Great result.
It is not so astonishing that there is any performance improvement when it is 15x slower than it should be in the first place.
It's way more complicated: Rolls-Royce Motors was split off from the (nationalised, bailed out) Rolls Royce Limited and sold to Vickers plc, who then sold the company to Volkswagen Group following a bidding war with BMW.

However, to this day, the Rolls-Royce trademarks (name and logo) are owned by Rolls-Royce Plc, and had been licensed to Rolls-Royce Motors. The change of ownership meant that those trademarks had to be renegotiated, and it ended up with BMW getting the rights to those. Ultimately, the old Rolls-Royce Motors is what is now VW's Bentley division (Bentley having been the "entry level" marquee!), whereas BMW's modern Rolls-Royce company has no such heritage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars#History has a bunch of history of the current VW/BMW split.
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Áed mac Bricc literally had other people's headaches - nightmare superpower.
> I can't find anyone rational who agrees with any of it.

I say this about pretty much everything in the mainstream media nowadays, whether it's WeWank-related or not.
MIT Forensic Statistical Analysis of Michigan Voting
As said below, you already have that HW in many Intel CPUs and all AMD/Nvidia GPUs.

Dedicated HW for specific computing applications are nothing new, back in the 90s you had dedicated MJPEG ASICs for video editing. Of course, they became paperweights the moment people decided to switch to other codecs (although the same thing could be said for 90s CPUs given the pace of advancement back then).

Thing is, your encoding block takes up precious space on your die, and is absolutely useless for any other application like video effects, color grading, or even rendering to a non-supported codec.
Not really, depending on the thing. There (maybe) comes a point where the accounting of who owes what becomes more expensive than the thing you're tracking.

It can also go the opposite direction. Air is free right now, but then see the movies Total Recall and The Lorax (not joking).
OK, but it's weird to blame Google for Lineage's philosophical position. As it stands Google has contributed to LineagoOS far far more non-Googlr-dependent stuff than Lineage has.
Ludwig v0.3 Introduces Hyperparam Opt, Transformers and TensorFlow 2 Support
It's not free. You pay it with your taxes.
> Due to this - "SoftBank racks up $3.7bn in losses at tech stock trading unit": https://www.ft.com/content/0edb7c17-58e6-4ded-acfa-1822440a9...

Ugh, I hate it when PNL is reported in pure dollar terms with no reference to capital. I get it, the writer/editor wants to make the title punchy, and $4 billion is certainly punchier than say 4%. However, FT is in some way supposed to cater for professionals and I would expect better from them.

For actual informed use, the dollar numbers is largely meaningless. For a $100 billion fund, losing $4 billion is painful, but not the end of the world. For a $10 billion fund, it is likely game over.
> I have to say, documentation is all over the map, and the old DI / enterprisey boilerplate is still alive and well.

First of .NET has excellent documentation, right up there with the PHP. Still my favorite documentation site to snowball through sometimes.

Second, "old DI/enterprisey boilerplate" is what saves you when you get handed the project 5 years down the road, and have to be productive as fast as possible.

Edit:

> So, what’s the best-organized resource for getting up to speed on .NET these days?

Probably just the official documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/?view=aspnetcor...
> If developed economies' bond yields are correctly pricing in

Bwahahahahaha....

Oh wait I fell of my chair laughing.
Angular team member :)

"Inputs as observables" is probably the most discussed feature request on our issue tracker. I agree that there are strong arguments for going in this direction, but we generally try to keep `@angular/core` agnostic in this sense and not couple it to RxJS (EventEmitter is the only dependent abstraction right now). There are different reasons for that, but I'd say the two main arguments are: out of order component loading and ergonomics.

There are a lot of developers who are comfortable with RxJS and enjoy how expressive it is. Simultaneously, we have a less vocal majority of either beginners or people who oppose such expressive APIs. Both of these groups use Angular, and we need to keep the framework ergonomic for them.

That's why we have community libraries such as `ngrx`, which we consider as reactive extensions of @angular/core.

>- The reactive forms has been untyped for years. It feels weird to ship with a forms module that seems to work pretty well, heavily invest on typescript, and then the forms are simply `any` - I mean what the hell?

We developed reactive forms when TypeScript was still not as powerful as it is today. For the past years, however, the language evolved and it has very strict and expressive type system.

We really want to make reactive forms much more struct :) Our team has been looking actively into that, but it's not trivial to fix the problem without introducing breaking changes in the public API surface. That's something on our radar, and we've been doing a lot of exploration, but given the adoption of Angular, we want to be careful and land it without breaking the ecosystem.

In the meantime, we have community modules that provide much stricter forms implementation.

Regarding fragments and the input/output model, we haven't received much of your feedback, but that's something I'll bring up to the team.
Thanks for sharing my project! :)

To be clear, it is indeed a demo project only. I just like Notion, so I thought it would be fun to recreate some of its functionality.

If anyone wants to dive deeper into how the clone works, I wrote a Medium article about that: https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-build-a-text-editor-like-noti...
And where did the car come from?

The deal is, work is rewarded, not stealing work, or did I miss a meeting?
Technology can't make the police care. Just look at the decline in the murder clearance rate even as DNA and other forensic techniques became more sophisticated[1]. Facial recognition technology might help people like you, but it's much more likely to be used against petty drug offenders, protestors, and political enemies of the state.

[1] http://www.murderdata.org/p/blog-page.html?m=1
I think it's a good point and something I find myself worrying about as well. The hype around GraphQL and Apollo, for example, made me feel that I was losing serious time developing a REST APIs until I finally committed and decided to use it on a project. Obviously there ended up being a lot of trade-offs but in the end it was hard to tell if I saved any time at all. More generally, after falling for this a couple times of I realized that often you're just pushing problems around to different parts of the stack, or hiding complexity in places you'll eventually need to uncover. My experience says that the time consuming parts of building a product are rarely solved by adding flashy new services and libraries, and so I try to worry about these things less. On the other hand, trying out new stuff even just for an hour or two can give you a lot of insight into how much time it's actually going to save you - so worse case you just take it for a test run and see what it's actually all about.
Regarding his identity; I used to hang out on #coders on IRCNet from the mid 90's to the early 2000's. There was a guy there called MostlyHarmless and I think both the age and nationality checks out. I haven't been there for ages and I am pretty sure that the channel was password protected but it would probably take somebody just a few minutes to check around there amongst the regulars to see if they're the same guy. Right now there isn't a user online called MostlyHarmless, which there always was back then.
Try OpenTracks from F-Droid.

And Mapy.cz is quite decent Maps replacement. Acctually better for outdoor activity like cycling and jogging.
Point one C or C++ compiler vendor that has a pure ISO compiler with zero extensions.

Toy projects don't count.
Spam and fake accounts are the big problems to solve for seemingly all popular sites, and unfortunately they are especially hard to solve in decentralised systems.

Do people still remember Geek Code blocks?[0]

In theory, all existing online dating services could be replaced by a global decentralised system, where people upload a somewhat standardised dating profile[1] and crawlers would compete to find as many of these as possible and match compatible people. Of course they would also compete in terms of how nicely they presented this data and how easy it was to create a profile.

One approach for stopping spam would be to limit the number of messages that each profile (owner) can send per time period. For example, the profile could contain a "send-introductions-to" field, specifying the node that stores their inbox, and a "max-introductions-per-month" field which tells a sending node how many other introductions a user can make while still being allowed to contact them.

As usual with federated systems, there is then the problem of nodes deciding which other nodes to federate with, but it should be fairly easy to test if a node is not enforcing spamminess limits. The other problem is stopping people from generating profiles on multiple nodes, which might require either a centralised service or some sort of economic system like "proof of burn"[2], unless email providers were to all start issuing time-limited anonymous tokens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code

[1] I'm imagining using the taxonomy of Wikidata, allowing statements like { "has": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202466" }

[2] https://99bitcoins.com/what-is-proof-of-burn/
Don’t forget libcaca haha

Unfortunately, in those cases, containers and VM’s are probably the best choice.

For make, if it’s only make, you can specify the destination usually. I keep a .bin and .opt directories on my home for those.
LOL Lars is that you?
Cushing’s Triad: Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and More
The term is speed-up loop[1].

[1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
I am in Europe and I do not see anything close to what the author is describing.

Nothing is really at no cost. It is paid for with tax money or directly. The author is not specifying "for those who could not otherwise afford it", but describing it as at no cost for everyone. Most universities cost money to enrole and attend. Does your baker give out buns at no cost? Is the grocery store giving away all the food at no cost? Has it all become a service at no cost?

Nope, none of that has happened and it will not happen, as long as everything needs to be a good business in a capitalistic sense. The single person business or small business or any business cannot escape the reality in this system.

Show me that country or even that city please. Show me the social experiment, that tries to get people to work without pay, as long as they have access to "all the things we need in our daily lives". As far as I know, it has never been done. What if you have any extra wish? How will it be supplied, without tracking your every move in such a society? How would different needs be satisfied, everyone having slightly different needs?

So that's why I call it pure fiction. You are welcome to show me that model city, which self-sufficiently makes it happen. I might move there.
> add fake data to your posts, misdirect AI tools

This wastes your time and provides no value. Your fake data is insignificant noise compared to your real data signal.
it wasn’t even 15x slower than C

i feel like a lot of people’s ideas about c# performance are from before .net framework 4 which was years and years ago
That's really just the Disco Stu Fallacy of economics at play. Assuming that things _will_ get better and passing the buck onto your descendants is madness. Also how much growth has been stunted by the weight of ancestral spending?

Birth rates are declining and the cost of maintaining our infrastructure is at the point in most high-GDP locations (New York, California, etc) where obligations cannot be met and credit status changes were inevitable _before_ Coronavirus. Look at the insanity New Jersey has gone through with the criminal pilfering of infrastructure/development funds to pay pensions (aka, Christine Todd Whitman should have gone to jail).

We're looking at cascading failures in a complex system. Nobody can see enough of the picture to predict what's next or realize that it's already dead. To assume that we'll right the trend with growth will most likely require either war or (a technical) revolution.
Absolutely. But how many of those hardware blocks exist for what you want to do? If you care about H265, great. Let's say you get a dozen specific hardware accelerators, that's still only 12 tasks. That might end up covering the vast majority of web browsing tasks (to pick one example), but particularly as an engineer there is always going to be something else. And not all intensive tasks are amenable to hardware acceleration, e.g. compilation. That's why we care about general purpose CPU performance - at some point you always need it.

Incidentally, this is philosophically the idea behind processors with built in FPGA capability. The hardware acceleration would just be a binary blob that could be loaded in and used when necessary. It could be continually updated, and provided with whatever software needed it.
Yes, this was first stated in the late 70s. Back then duping 10,000 cassettes took some backstreet criminal a fair amount of investment. Now we are all that backstreet crim.
Will we at least get to rent out artificial affection from the OnlyPornFansHub sexbot of our choice?
> Products or services are only free either because - you are the product or - temporarily to kill any other competitors, become a monopole and start charging a lot

I try to be careful with this phrasing. Because I do believe it's true for most things.

But then look at open source software, which powers SO MUCH of our society. Much of the most essential software in the world was written for absolutely free. These days there's lots of open source that is written for corporate PR, but that wasn't always the case.

So, just be careful. Products and services really might be labors of love. We need to leave a tiny gap in our cynicism to allow for some goodness to come in. :)
This seems right to me, in performance.

In the market, I think M1 systems will not alienate Apple-app-only users (Logic, Final Cut, Xcode-for-iPhone development) and may attract some purely single-page-application users.

Mostly, Zoom call efficiency will drive its broader adoption this year among the general population. If the Air is fast, quiet, and long lasting for Zoom calls, it will crush.

I won't buy one. I have a 32GB 6-core MBP that will satisfy my iOS dev needs until M2 (and a clearer picture of the transition has developed). But I might start recommend Airs to the folks sitting around our virtual yule log this year.
So don't host it on a cloud provider. You can host it from home, or somewhere else. For example I rent a cheap dedicated server with a 1TB hard drive and unmetered 1Gb bandwidth, for £8 a month, which would work great for something like this and there is no chance of unexpected costs.
:)

I feel you, but I do have some respect for the markets no matter what they say. At least enough respect to be cognizant of what is being priced in, despite my personal views.
Note the word 'sell' in your remark.
I wish newspapers in the UK would provide APIs to download scans of their front page like the New York Times do.
Great, I ship engine software that gets used by game developers.

A strategy games, FPS, and fighting game all have the same networking model. An MMO is the only one that doesn’t, and yet you still have a subset of the prior in the later. So no, engines should provide more.
Yeah it's bad. They're busted. How did they think this was going to go unduscovered? I guess Pravda was supposed to work on us.
Washboards Are Flying Off of Shelves
1) The assets are not liquid.

2) Because the assets are not liquid the “value” of the assets is highly debatable. (Value of your stock portfolio vs private equity holdings).

3) Some assets are not free to own. Simple example being property. It’s worth a lot but also costs a lot (taxes, Maint, ...) to own it. This is in theory valued into the asset value but really on a point in time basis. If the asset isn’t “productive” in earning income then having it on your books with those expenses just keeps eating away at funds elsewhere. Think owning a paid off rental property that doesn’t earn enough to cover its annual costs. Worth a lot in a fire sale, but terrible item to have on the books long term.

4) Companies can have negative goodwill on their balance sheet, especially if there are questions about the quality of the fundamental business or management team. Outsiders may say the company owns a lot of stuff but it’s so poorly managed that that that stuff isn’t worth what it’s normally worth. Yahoo had this issue where the market cap of the company was less than the stock Yahoo owned in other companies. “Yahoo the company” and its team was literally considered to be worth negative dollars.
A/B Testing for a K:V, key(“button-color”) = “red” for 10%, “green” for 90%

In a Enterprise, where there are multiple teams wanting to manage their own K:V store, having a global K:V is helpful. Also being able to refer to a project to refer to their K:V

if key(“price”) = “100” is set in Global and one of the projects is setting it again to a different val or same show a warning that you’re rewriting that.
I'm starting to think that Brave New World is looking better than where we're actually headed. In BNW, the Alpha and Beta classes are chosen based on objectively desirable characteristics.

Where we're heading, our top castes will comprise mostly of people who are manipulative, short-term thinkers, vengeful, insecure, arrogant and psychopathic. Not great for society.
I would like something like this but with the actual news/blogs that would interest me day-to-day. Then I could make it a ritual/rule that the only information I can consume would be from this display away from my office whilst standing.

Then I will block all news sites from my computing devices.
As a related benefit to a non Mac user - ARM64 support for packages at build time is going to greatly improve over the next few years!
Idols? Famous guitarists that have bubbled under your nose? What about new guitarists?
I have been reasonably happy with Spotify’s discovery. It hasn’t been impressive as YouTube recommendations, but it’s still the primary way I find new music. Their generated “Discovery Weekly” playlist is a favorite of mine.
I've read Brave New World the other day that sort of envisions this kind of utopia (although there's serious eugenics going on as well), where people "work" for a couple hours a day and spend most their time er, frolicking. I don't recall it being portrayed as a bad thing, other than a disdain of 'older' media like books and the like.
I remember Omni magazine articles from the late 80s saying that they were the path.
Another Amateur Art Restorer in Spain Has Demolished a Once-Beautiful Artwork
It congealed from an amorphous mass of nutrients in the bowels of the earth. What does it matter where it came from? Stealing deprives the owner of their good, copyright infringement does not, therefore they are not equal.
I feel that "post scarcity" requires some definition. In the west very few people go hungry and the vast majority of people have a mobile phone - something that was an expensive status item just a couple of decades ago. It feels like if we made everything "post scarcity" by today's standard, we would have a load more things that people would be striving to acquire. On the other hand maybe post scarcity is what some buddhist monks who give up everything are closer to achieving than anyone in the west.
> https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview

WTF? This makes me extremely uncomfortable for some reason. There was some hope in mind that Snowden was exaggerating but this is just insane.

It feels like liberty has failed. There's no other option but to give in and accept.

I submit to the overlords, but I'm not happy about this.