skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you can acknowledge that there may be a real scarcity of work for people who have low IQ? In the past, there was always manual labor, which could soak up all labor so long as aggregate demand in the economy was great enough -- and the best way to ensure sufficient aggregate demand, in the past, was typically a combination of productivity gains and sufficient monetary creation. But what happens when all the work that can be done by low IQ people is automated?

You might be willing to respond with "New forms of work will open up that will allow for the employ of those people with low IQs". However, I am asking you to consider the hypothetical where every such form of work is eventually automated by machines that have sufficiently advanced AI.

Between 1850 and 1973 there were immense improvements in labor productivity that completely transformed the world, and for a long time the rising productivity created more new jobs, rather than less. But going forward, we face a situation where increasing automation will still create new wealth, and it will still create huge improvements in labor productivity, but the improvements will only be available for those who have enough IQ to understand the technologies in use.

And much of this scenario might come to pass during the next 50 years. But imagine even further afield -- imagine 200 years now. Do you think the period 1850 to 1973 offers a reasonable model to think about, say for instance, economic growth between 2100 and 2200?

What happens if there comes a day when absolutely everything is automated and humans no longer need to work? We have reached utopia, yes? But you can probably see where I am going with this: eventually there needs to be some way to provide an income to people, when the day eventually comes when no one needs to work.
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In addition to using some of the newly created wealth for paying fixed incomes, as the author mentions, we should be using that money to make higher education free.

The author says, "let them eat cake, smoke pot, and play video games." I say let them study art history (or CS). Who knows, maybe it will inspire them to do something useful in our brave new world.
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The Netherlands has a very attractive 30% tax reduction for knowledge migrants which makes it attractive for foreign talent to come to the country.

It seems to almost be a common denominator that when Dutch companies stop valuing their employees (treat them badly, seeing them as expenses, etc.) they start abusing this tax reduction to recruit cheap foreign labour; often after they've burned their bridges in the small and tightly-knit local tech community.

So ... If you're a foreigner and are considering moving to the Netherlands, be careful with companies where the majority of employees is not native, since there's a good change you won't get to experience the respectful work culture Dutch companies are generally famous for.

If you're already used to a culture with a greater power-distance (e.g. Russia, US, India) it might still not be all that bad for you though and either way it's pretty easy to find good jobs elsewhere once you're in the country.
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according to its release page clang 3.3 (due for release next wednesday) is also C++11 feature complete and apparently has implementations for several c++1y features already.

http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
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Most jurisdictions no longer allow chases for crimes less than murder because of this.
Just FYI: the text of the parent's post is taken verbatim from a comment RMS once made but this text is probably best known as the most popular "copypasta" (reposted text) on 4chan's technology board (called "/g/" from the Japanese word for "technology"). You shouldn't reply to the poster in earnest.

Interestingly enough, /g/ is obsessed with RMS and the regulars' attitude towards him is the epitome of a love-hate relationship. The sheer number of images they've produced featuring him is quite impressive.
I think that's the core of the problem. Once you make an industry out of something it's bound to grow.
A four day work week would help.
Not really, the typical action in many EU countries is to go for pursuit. This is case in Finland and Sweden, for example.
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I would pay for storage videos/pictures/documents etc. This could be one monetization stone. My gut feeling maybe around $9.99 / month or $50 / year.

The basis everyone would except are normal social network features sharing of "items" galleries friend system feeds and groups.
Maybe this part should be an open source solution like for example diaspora.

On top of that you can build an app/service network. Maybe something like app.net.

Important on all parts is that you own the data and you should be able to pull it at will from any part of the network.
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As a disclaimer I like bad shows that they do not take themselves too seriously more than I like your average series.

I would take Cobra 11 over any american police series any day.
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The lisp koans should execute on any common lisp implementation modulo the threads koan group. If you modify the file ".koans"

https://github.com/google/lisp-koans/blob/master/.koans

to remove the last entry ":threads" it should work.
What does a "low IQ" have to do with manual labor? IQ or any other measure of so called intelligence, has never -- and will probably never -- have any correlation with a person's occupation. Ultimately, it is the parent's socio-economic status which usually dictates what jobs their children will have.

The fact that you believe it could be a person's "IQ" which dictates what job they may have really shows how little regard you have for people.
Above Sr. SWE my impression is that the level is less tightly coupled to compensation. There are probably some Staff Engineers getting paid more than some Sr. Staff, and so on. A lot more will depend on how many rounds of equity refresh you have under your belt, whether you've done something that's saved the company millions or helped the bottom line of the company millions; and of course, if you were formerly at another company, what your salary/level you had at that former company.

At Staff Engineer and above, the levels are more about the scope of your responsibilities at Google, and while compensation is somewhat correlated to that, there are other factors.

If you can drive huge amounts of value to the bottom line, either via innovations that save the company $$$ or by working on a project which is "up and to the right", in my experience sooner or later you will be compensated for it --- either at your current company, or somewhere else. Google is pretty good at making sure it's "at your current company".

And so long as you are doing something that you love, does it really matter what level you are at? Personally, for me it's less about the money, since I have enough to be comfortable, and I haven't gotten really expensive habits (like wanting to learn how to fly, or drive race cars, or children to put through college :-). So it's it's more about doing what I love, and doing it in the company of smart people who are fun to be with. Figuring ways of making this intersect with adding as much value as possible to the company is just a bonus.
The gods most people believe in break almost every natural law we know. There are most definitely scientific reasons to be an atheist.

That's besides Occam's razor and "the stage is too big for the drama" and all the other science inspired reasons not to believe.
Can someone in the know comment on the size of the runtime? Why is it so large? Is this problem likely to be solved, or are we waiting for more powerful hardware?
>What happens when there are no human workers to service the robots when they fail?

We can automate the service of robots.

>I think the whole, "robots are going to take our jobs" argument is a little blown out of proportion. People have been saying since the 50's that they're worried machines are going to take their jobs and it hasn't really happened on the large scale people like to think it has nor will in the next 50 years.

It "has happened", but it's just called automation of the industry. Service jobs have replaced a lot of the jobs in the industry.
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>but i think he didn't try to make apple dream without him thats why i think apple will be not the same.

Well, Jobs said that he did prepare Apple to "dream without him". There are guys there, like Ive, Cook, Eddy Cue, etc that have been in Apple for a decade, working with Jobs. And tons of others, in lower ranks. They know what to do.

That said, when there is just one man talking most of the decisions, it's can be better than when the are 3 or 6 (and might disagree or have different ambitions, etc).

But Apple will do just fine. At least for the next ten years or so (which is like a century in computing).

People tend to forget that the iPod was created in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007. After 6 years. And they already demand a new "revolutionary product category".

For one, I could care less if they make a revolutionary new product. It's not like anybody else does. Let's see:

Microsoft: the same things they do since 1982. An OS, and office suite, enterprise tools. Last product that was new and made any impact was XBox. And that was just another console, comparable to Playstation etc, not some novel twist on console (like the iPhone was to phones). The Surface is just a me-too iPad with a bundled keyboard case, and it flanked in the market anyway.

Google: the last innovative thing they did was Search and Gmail. All other stuff is me too. Android is an iOS/iPhone copycat (the first Android phone appeared one year later than the iPhone, and Android concept designs shown just pre-iPhone were all like the BS phones of the time, with keyboard, small screen etc). In anyway, Android can be better in some ways, worse in some ways to iOS, but it's hardly novel too. As for Glass, that's something new, but it's non existent in the market, and looks like pre-alpha stuff that's doomed to only ever appeal to geeks.

And that's it. Those are Apple's 2 main competitors. And compared to the company that owns:

1) the laptop space (Air, Retina, etc get more profits than the top 5 PC laptop makers combined),

2) music downloads (iTunes is the largest music vendor in the US, including physical stores),

3) App stores (iTunes App Store is the most profitable by far app store, several times over the Android store),

4) the mp3 player market,

5) created and has a huge percentage of the smartphone market (including most of the profits, ahead of all Android manufacturers combined),

6) owns the tablet market (iPad outsells other tablets 8 to 1).

7) Computer retail (Applestores are the most profitable retail tech stores).

8) Customer satisfaction (always comes on top on surveys)

Well, they don't amount to much.
You are also assuming that your self-reported behaviour will match your actual behaviour. So it's probably rather less than a single data point. :p
We are exiting a relatively short period in history with mass employment for cash wages. "People need a purpose and to work" is at best a bald assertion in light of a longer view of history, and, at worst, a pretty bad assumption about the kind of people who you want to make sure are tired at the end of the day and not out at night.

Why is work good? N.B. this is not the same question as "Why is income inequality bad?"
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Always interesting to see applications/algorithms sped up with GPGPU implementations. It looks like they get a great amount of speedup by parsing each line in parallel (in the thread blocks), followed up by parsing each individual regular expression in a separate blocks.

Admittedly, I assumed this was already the case after reading the article title, since parsing each line in parallel would present a great deal of parallelism with growing filesizes. Indeed, they also came to the same conclusion:

we realized that it was a much better idea to parallelize across the lines of the input file against which we had to match regexs

That was also a great choice for future scalability, as no doubt you would get greater parallelism with a growing input file (while also allowing opportunities to speed up more complex expressions).
After being hit by a car when I was young, that's exactly how I navigate traffic as a bicyclist/pedestrian.

Traffic rules create a useful abstraction but, if you want to be safe, the only non-leaky abstraction is seeing traffic as a collection of objects moving at various speeds which can optionally change acceleration or direction based on things like traffic lights / your presence / cats running across the road after the required reaction time has elapsed.

It's a bit less relaxing of a way to travel, but it sure as hell beats waking up in the hospital with brain damage, a leg whose foot no longer points in the direction it should and an arm that's no longer moving or ... not waking up at all.
It's not all that difficult, since io-streams has attoparsec support and aeson is an attoparsec parser... coded directly in the input box, I don't have io-streams installed so I can't see if this typechecks:

import Control.Applicative
import Data.Aeson
import Data.ByteString
import System.IO.Streams
import System.IO.Streams.Attoparsec (parseFromStream)

parseJSONFromStream :: FromJSON a => InputStream ByteString -> IO a
parseJSONFromStream = parseJSON <$> parseFromStream json'
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Unfortunately this is not happening with the NYTimes, only a story link in the "International" section towards the bottom of its front-page. Across the Atlantic the BBC, Le Figaro or der Spiegel have made it their top story.
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>As to the hypocrisy, I consider myself an adult, and did not appreciate you speaking for all of us, so it was meant as a correction, not ridicule.

Well, as an adult you probably have heard of "figures of speech" and "generalisations".

I know some people have a difficulty with the mechanics of casual conversation, but a phrase like "ridiculing others has been fun for adults for several millennia" does not mean it necessarily applies to ALL adults.

Just most of them.
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>But would you go yell like that at a real person in real life when working at the office?

Definitely YES.
The later part of the above statement is an incorrect. You can change a job while your green card is being processed provided,

a) You have applied for your 485.
b) Its been 180 days since you have applied for it.

This process is called invoking AC21.

In my opinion and experience H1B candidates are paid on par with other candidates. I saw no salary discrimination at least with decent and reputed companies. I agree H1b is exploited by some companies but those are typically consulting or outsourcing companies.
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