skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had OP removed the last part of this sentence:

> Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not and most likely never will be.

To read:

> Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not.

Or

> Some jobs have been automated, but many more have not and most likely will take a while.

You would have nothing to complain about.

As often with AI / automation, the things that seem simplest to humans are the hardest to automate and vice versa.

As another example, look at translation: take an average English speaker and ask them to translate Japanese texts. They will take lots and lots of training to get good.

But provide them with a literal word-for-word translation of the Japanese text into English as cheat sheet, and after a few hours of practice, she will become pretty good at rewriting those into fine English translations. Given long enough text snippets, she'll mostly be able to figure out from context how to resolve ambiguities.

(She won't be perfect, of course, and professional translators bring additional skills to the game. But she'll become pretty proficient pretty quickly.)

Try to do a machine to translate between human language, and you'll notice that doing the literal translation part is what's really easy for the computer, but all the context is hard.

(Incidentally, that's why in the stone age of AI, people thought translation would be easy, but playing chess well would be hard.)
>> Guard labor is wage labor and other activities that are said to maintain (hence "guard") a capitalist system.

> Isn't it kind of a waste of time for scholars who want to study guard labor to focus on capitalism?

No, it isn't. That's a lot like saying it's a waste of time for political scientists to study democratic governments, when they should be focusing on (mostly defunct) Soviet-style ones, which is nonsense. I've never heard of this "guard labor" concept before, but it seems to actually lend some insight into the still-existing system that we actually live in.

Honestly, your comment kind of reads as an attempt (maybe even subconscious) to distract attention away from contemplating and critiquing the capitalist system.
Even playing a lawyer on TV seems rough.
I'd think of it more like 4000 miles a week, which is roughly a weekly roundtrip cross-country (US) flight. I wouldn't do it, but some people do, and it doesn't seem absurd enough to assume a typo. 20k miles is a quarterly cross-country trip, plus an extra one, which is barely anything if you're considered traveling a lot.
Your statement is completely and utterly devoid of facts.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Is it really junk or are we lacking in time/money/tribal knowledge to understand how it deeply works?

I like to think that I am a Very Good Engineer™ but I am sure that I would produce a similar piece of "junk" if I was under the same lack of requirements, training and time.

who wrote this garbage???
> git blame
oh crap, it was me 2 years ago!
Yes, exponential growth cannot continue forever. Fortunately exponential shrinkage of the population is baked into the world' populate pyramid. As for economics, we can still get wealthier on a per-capita basis by generating more and higher quality activity per-person, though at some point one does expect decreasing returns.
Keep going into the office? Different strokes
That's not an accident.

> Our promise to “street pricing” means things cost the same here as in town.

https://www.portofportland.com/about/pdx
Stuff like this is surely part of why modern tech companies design their products to not be opened any more.
Advances in hardware and software.
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People will believe everything (negative) they hear about amazon. And not bother to verify any of it.
I'm pretty partial to this vignette by Bryan Caplan[1] about how many headaches and road bumps there are, for even the smallest, simplest business you can think of.

"Back in February, I got the idea to create a COVID vaccination t-shirt (now on sale!). Reflecting on my past experience, I figured it would be easy...

My thinking: The whole process would be pretty fun, so I’d only need to sell a few dozen shirts to cover the cost of the contest and count the project a success. I’m still optimistic, but the process has definitely been much more aggravating than expected. A chronological list of snags...

And selling t-shirts on Zazzle is virtually the lowest-hassle business I can imagine running. Which makes me picture the horrors of creating and managing an actual business.

Indeed, I suspect that anyone who’s ever run an actual business has been rolling their eyes at my self-pity. Twelve little snags? Real entrepreneurs face more challenges every day. Unlike me, they have to coordinate a long list of products, each with their own attendant baggage. Unlike me, they have to manage a physical space. Unlike me, they have to hire and direct employees. And unlike me, they have to cope with a morass of government regulation.

I don’t care if actual businesspeople do roll their eyes at me; their can-do attitude in the face of endless obstacles still fills me with awe. Note further that in this very blog post I’ve already publicly complained more about my business woes than most businesspeople ever will."

[1]https://www.econlib.org/businesspeople-earn-every-penny/
You do know how the vaccine works right? The virus still infects you and quite possibly reproduces for awhile. It is just that your immune system has been primed to recognize the virus and kill off cells that have been infected. In other words, vaccinated people can still spread the virus.

https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immu...
That’s a great reference, and it also puts into context his push for an infrastructure bill. It is clearly something he has cared about for a long time, not just a jobs program to mitigate CoVID’s economic impact.
My father was a lawyer and genuinely enjoyed his career. He did fit into that “elite lawyer” category. In retirement now, he has been approached several times to return (for obscene money) and its always a firm no from him. He doesn’t want the headache. He loved the networking and people-relationships of lawyering but the actual work was tedious and exhausting even with an army of supporting staff and associates around him.

I have a sibling that is a lawyer and they want nothing to do with being a firm slave on the partner-track grind. They are happy just being internal corporate 9-5 counsel in there little area of specialization. I know many of there friends from law school tho are not in great positions several years after graduation…

I have a bunch of other friends that went to law school with various levels of success. It does seem to mint a respectable amount of middle-class jobs but none of them are getting rich doing it.
Yeah, I imagine something like that so I could work on my lang/db engine (https://tablam.org).

But then, I wake up!. So moving a bit here and there and hope to find a small numbers of non-millonaires... hard, but possible?
Regular transoceanic air travel, like on the order of once a month, can hit that number.
You know what would make requirements like these much more palatable? If there was accommodation for people who already have antibodies (ie have been infected and recovered).

There is mounting evidence that people with naturally acquired immunity will not significantly benefit from further vaccination [1][2].

This is a strong argument for strategically targeting our vaccination efforts toward the highest risk populations: elderly with comorbidities, and people who have not yet been exposed and lack access to modern healthcare facilities (ie rural populations in developing countries).

Alas, the rhetoric from the top continues to maintain that - as quoted in the article - this is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated".

As a final point, what also seems to be chronically left out, is the evidence that combinations of existing medicines have proven very effective at preventing hospitalization and death [3].

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...

[3] Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
Yeah, that footer looks surprisingly normal. But I don't see a whole bunch of closing tags just above that part. Why did the font size suddenly revert to normal? Is there something that means "reset everything"?
Tampa's airport is basically entirely local options after a revamp a few years ago.
We're very far from exceeding the limits of available energy on Earth. Between enormous reserves of carbon (the U.S. has an insane amount of natural gas in proven reserves), nuclear, and solar, we're good for a long time. Of course, I am considering that negative population growth is baked into the world population pyramid, which means that we'll see some slowing of energy demand growth in a couple of decades. I think most people would be very happy with 15-20KWh/day, which is roughly what Americans are used to.
Thanks for pointing this out. I had no idea it was illegal and thought I was saving money with a simple hack. I will be more careful or pay for the drinks or opt out entirely in the future depending on my risk assessment.
To clarifymy stance, now that I have a bit more time this evening… unprivileged userns is the only way forward for linux sandboxing on a bare-metal host past the boundaries of POSIX isolation. so from a security perspective I do hope most distros get this turned on at some point, and that these bugs stop being so commonplace.
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Chess is now more popular than ever before.

Not sure how important Netflix is here? There are lots of chess players on YouTube, too.

Go also get much more popular in the West for a while when Alphago came along.
I would think COVID might have scared more people off

Or talking to doctors, or listening to what doctors write and say: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n...
Excel data is usually on a scale that DBs have no problem with, even doing full table scans. I am assuming this for something that starts life as a spreadsheet, not a database first where the sheet is initialized via a query.
In indis at least, there is this "airports authority of india" which leases shops to well retailers and stuff. What they do is, they set a monthly rent and that has to be paid. So last 2 years there hasnt been any air travel but guess what, AAI demands their rent. As a result, I have seen 60+ year old shops fold because they cannot pay the rent when there is no income. Either that or they have to Jack up the prices to make up for the rent paid for the time no one was flying causing high prices.
Yeah: https://mynorthwest.com/900612/ivars-leaving-seatac-airport
Layoffs to goose stock prices are not actually that common, it's also very short-sighted.

In the face of a major recession, execs are not laying off to 'goose the stock' they are adjusting to the situation.

Of course it does happen, but in the grand scheme of corporate development across all industries, it's not hugely common.

There is a difference between 'loyalty' and 'doing a good job'.

It's not expected that companies will keep contractors for the long term, but they still would be expected to 'do a good job'.

And of course companies do not lay off talented people unless they have to - that makes no sense.

Even the most darkly cynical and Machiavellian Execs will try to keep talent if they can, otherwise, they can't make money. So more appropriately, employees will at least be held onto to the extent that they materially create value.

But again, even in that context 'Do A Good Job'.

Honestly, if even it's a crap company, it still makes sense to 'Do A Good Job'. Even in the face of grind.

The only time I think it makes sense to 'not' do a good job, is where it would be truly utterly futile or illegal etc..

If someone is in a bad situation, they can eventually move on to where their 'good work' is more appreciated / better compensated.

Loyalty isn't a huge requirement, but doing good work is.
The purpose to avoid quick charging is to avoid battery degrading, but Qi is really bad for this due to heat.
I dunno, I tried causing a positive impact, but management is deaf. That $5M new software we don't need? Don't bother explaining. You will be ignored. They will spend a fortune on it, fire/recruit, and realise it wasn't needed 2 years down the line when the execs have been made famous for being early adopters of the technology. They probably got to speak at some conference or were made an ad about how great they are

Best to keep my head down, don't want to push elbows with this lot
When we eradicated polio with the miracle of vaccinations and stopped having children in iron lungs
I'm not sure classic procedural content generation like in rogue-likes is all that comparable to using a GAN to run the whole game?

Have a look at the video, it's quite impressive.
This is a toxic comment.
I bought AirPods Max but still haven't bought Lightning-3.5mm cable due to this reason and the overprice.
> I still prefer their attempt to be somewhat more appealing than Subway/Burger King/Dunkin Donuts/whatever other garbage tier food option used to be in the same spot

In my experience Subway has a 100% hit rate of being better than a $26 airport hash brown, egg and bacon muffin, and small coffee.
200k miles a year is very easy to hit for US folks working in the consulting sector, especially if you end up serving clients on the opposite coast. It’s also normal for consultants to rack up unholy amounts of frequent flier points and take lots of nearly-free long haul trips each year.

Source: am consultant. Have hit 200k miles/yr multiple times.
Complaints that there aren't enough workers in the labor market are equivalent to complaints that wages are too high. Your proposed solution is really just a restatement of the problem.
Prices in NYC are much higher in general than the rest country, but (surpringly) someone on quora does a much better job of explaining why than your speculation: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-New-York-City-so-expensive-when...
> It's not about putting the blame on specific individual or teams for their insufficient communication or testing.

We don't need to put the blame on anyone, but to your point on learning from bugs and making sure they don't happen in the future, how can that happen if we're fatalistic about why those bugs were caused?

I don't know what the Chrome team is doing differently now to prevent another situation like web audio from happening, because there was never any followup about process changes. The only thing that we were ever told during the web audio failure was that we needed to trust the Chrome team, and that they cared. But that never turned into anything tangible or visible. And X years later and X broken feature launches later, we're still having the same conversation.

If avoiding blame means we can't talk about why something went wrong, then that's a broken process. You're telling me that reaching out to developers is futile, and unless we pay a ton of attention to the mailing lists we're going to miss stuff, and that testing is the only thing that can save us. That's a regression from what I heard from Chrome devs during the web audio debacle. The team seems to have gotten more insular, not less.

We don't need to assign blame, but it would be good to actually learn from these situations. Nothing is changing, the dysfunctional communication between the Chrome dev team and developers is still just as bad today as it has ever been. Is the Chrome team going to do anything at all to help make the situation better?
>(my note: the future for all developed countries is Japan)

Would it be fair to say simply, “eternal growth is not sustainable”?

Can we get out of the growth-focused finance system and use some other metric such as “well-being”?
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Open up city zoning laws so "local" food actually effing mean local and not within 8h truck shipping distance.

Lots of city dead space, roof tops, useless alley ways that can be turned into gardens that provide simple food source
Oceans are filled with plastic because politicians, regulators and company leaders are 'not doing a good job'.

So many, especially systematic problems would be much better resolved when people did their jobs a little better.

Montreal just built a rail line for $500M that may likely become redundant. That's bad, it matters. It's mostly a leadership / management problem of course.
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I use F# before Rust, and find it much more approachable than Haskell. Somehow Haskell look pretty interesting (when I read long ago http://learnyouahaskell.com yet unable to figure how use it, when with F# was almost immediate. Is like how I get Vue yet not Angular...

And in the case of Rust, it fit even better than F# (to me). I write "better" functional code in Rust than in F#, and the fact I can easily do small imperative code here and there is a big plus.

Anyway, I know most features of Rust are not innovative per se, but find the way is mixed pretty easy to grasp.
I know it's technically accurate, but the description of Starbucks as a "local option" is extremely amusing.
If economy is not an important thing to count in the future, that is a strong case for This (status quo) Can't Go On.
I'm curious how you feel about having to show ID to enter a bar or buy alcohol?

To me, it seems that showing your home address to every bouncer is a much greater invasion of privacy than vaccination status.
Wonderful book!
All y’all on the thread depth are grossly underestimating the compliance costs these companies go through.

If you think it’s pushing a case of beer through a scanner, you sound like the hated “idea/business person” who thinks writing code is easy and can be an afterthought.

In any field where I don’t have experience,
I try to remind myself that most of the iceberg is under the water.
> Money isn’t magical. You can’t create infinite value out of nothing.

It's not 'nothing'. It's something, just sold over and over and over again.

Remember that MV = PQ . Fundamental equation of macroeconomics. The average price of all goods (P) times the total # of goods (Q) is equal to the total amount of money (M) times V, the total number of times a dollar is spent in the time period in question.

You can make the total cost of goods be anything depending on how often that dollar is spent in a year / decade / whatever.
》but take a walk around pretty much any American urban metro area and it’s working amazingly well.

I choosed SF bcos you wrote this. NY etc have similar problem. Modern US cities are not capable to accept and absorb large scale immigration of people who are not already integrated into society. People who do not speak local language and have very different culture.

Martial law was suggested as a way to force homeless into shelters and rehabs. SF gets around 700 people per year, and it already abandoned basic humanitarian principles. Look at recent Louis Rossmann video, this mishandling is systemic problem in US: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGjCeFyr1g&pp=sAQA

》USA is amazing at assimilating immigrants

I disagree with that. I will leave it here.
Most apps are made to create a need and fill it at the same time. That's one way to "innovate" in that space.
In fact, in some cases, the virus will break through meaning that not only do you get the virus but you show symptoms. Also there are cases of vaccinated people infecting other vaccinated people.
I'm in California and I had a water leak on the property that cost me $500 on my water bill. My water provider offered a credit for the overage if I can prove that I fixed it. A local plumber charged me $400, provided me with the exact paperwork to send in, and I got a $500 credit.

What a wild economy. I have no complaints, I understand why it works that way. And all my plumber had to do was smile, provide a bit of customer service, and repair one pipe.
Thank you for sharing Philip Greenspun's blogpost. I read his blog 10 years ago and now I rediscovered it through your comment. I think his post is even better than the one I originally submitted.
Unfortunately, Facebook heavily subsidizes the cost of the Quest 2, while Index and Reverb G2 have to be sold at a profit.

Facebook is also deep in bed with Qualcomm making Quest 2 work fully standalone and getting the XR2 SOC at a steep discount. Index and Reverb G2 require desktop PCs and high-end GPUs, and other companies using the same Qualcomm SOC have to pay full price.
Correct... we're not actually creating an ETF... but we have found that using the term "ETF" makes more sense to more people than "portfolio" or "index".

What we are doing under the hood is... 1) you pick the index 2) kick out companies you don't want 3) we'll construct a portfolio of companies at the new index weights of the rest.

Wrt/ tax efficiency... it's going to depend on if/when you want to rebalance. We are not an RIA (yet) so we are not going to do that automatically today (but make it single click easy and we'll prompt you if/when it makes sense). In comparison to an ETF... if you buy and hold an ETF for 10 years... you'll have a big tax liability at the end from the capital appreciation over 10 years. Practicully speaking... if you direct index through us and rebalance once a year you'll pay smaller/incremental taxes on some things each year (net of gains minus and losses in the index). But no big liability later and you have lots of flexibility over the 10 years.

401k here's are the dream, but not an easy nut to crack. We are looking at supporting TD and IBKR as brokers too and those have IRAs. We currently support Alpaca Markets and their account is taxable (they also have a paper trading account you can use too!).
Has financial independence been worth it?
Ivars lost their lease and left in 2018. Anthony’s seafood is also gone.

I think there might be an Ivars kiosk.
So far Google's self-driving cars have vastly fewer accidents than humans have per mile. Or what kind of performance are you interested in? I am sure, they could also be made to drive faster than humans and still be safer on average thanks to superior reflexes and foresight.

But what do you mean by 'across the board'?

As far sources, a web search gives many articles about safety of self driving cars. See eg https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-could-save-ma...
Isn't it less there being a shortage of houses, and more there being no way to dislodge market jams and speculators?

I know the claim recently was that there were more unoccupied homes than homeless people. Even if you factor out the undesirable/impractical ones, I'd expect if we had some means to unlock that capacity, it would glut and crash the market down to (much closer to) affordability.

It feels like this is one of many problems that are trivial to solve in the abstract, but intractable as long as we worship private-property rights. A simple fix would be an >100% annual value tax on unoccupied dwellings. The vacant-50-weeks-a-year vacation house, or the 'investment property' you're holding to sell in a few years, becomes an instant financial grenade, where it's better to hand the deed over to your pizza delivery guy as a tip than to be not living in it when the tax bill comes due.
Airline club lounges are a racket of their own. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.