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by jmfldn 5y ago
Good point. I don't doubt climate change or anything like that but the world seeming bleaker now than in previous times is, at least partly, a function of selection bias. In the past, even a news-hungry person would consume a daily new
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by jmfldn 5y ago
My first tech job was working for a karaoke company in London. I was hired as a music production manager but was studying computer science in my spare time and convinced my boss to let me revamp all of their tech. They were a tiny company a
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Strongly agree. It seems quite common in the west to go into the deep end without the necessary foundations. Certain ethical behaviours, strong compassion for others, a desire to do this for the good of the world not just for yourself etc.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
"We are monetizing intimacy and sex at a level like nothing before. Sure, it's always consenting adults exercising their constitutional rights and freedoms. But it feels wrong. Like the parent said, maybe I am just getting old.&qu
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Yeah this is essentially my take. I also think this report is drawing a fall equivalence between the impact of globalisation on manufacturing in the 1980s and in white collar roles now. Former can easily be moved abroad, eg steel production
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I am a bit sceptical about this but maybe I'm being complacent? "The new report suggests that whilst previous offshoring has been predominantly focussed on blue collar roles like manufacturing, the “mass experiment with remote wor
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WFH revolution could see millions of white collar jobs outsourced(cityam.com)
2 points by jmfldn 5y ago|4 comments
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I think it will have an impact but not as much as you're implying. Where companies can offshore, they may already have. If a massive saving could have been made offshoring, there was nothing to stop them before. Maybe those companies t
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I prefer the hybrid option but faced with the binary choice I would choose WFH. I'd forego money and even career opportunities for it. As long as I can pay the bills and do reasonably interesting and useful work it will be hard to lure
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Having tasted 1yr WFH I will never work for a company that doesn't give me autonomy in this area. My current company is letting us choose post-pandemic, and were they ever to backslide I'd vote with my feet and move jobs. I think
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by jmfldn 5y ago
That's really tragic that people think like this. Not everything needs a "purpose", in fact many of the most beautiful things in life don't. Doing things for the intrinsic joy rather than for some end is a key to life ac
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by jmfldn 5y ago
A big moment for Scala. I've used it professionally for 5 years and am still in love with it. The expressiveness, the power, everything about it is a joy. This just takes it to another level by removing a few warts and simplifying it w
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I guess a simpler fix here would be to explicitly opt out of certain classes of ads eg gambling / alcohol. It feels like we should have rights not to see ads for damaging products.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I agree about culture and trust, both crucial in this regard. I think something like 10% time can play a part too, it at least gives people the feeling they can do what they want for a fixed period of time.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Sure. I just wonder if there is some sort of middle ground? Does it have to be zero sum here between tenured and non-tenured in this regard? I'm not sure what the answer is but other setups are possible unless you consider this one opt
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by jmfldn 5y ago
True. I think most people can benefit from a bit of this at least. Ie. Speaking of software engineering, at work our 10% time is for us to do as we please. A lot of good things come from that. Maybe 50% time would be too much for most thoug
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Very true. I guess in my original comment I meant to imply this in talking about blue sky thinking and following through on it. For me this is work which is original, out of leftfield, probably intrinsically motivated and which you have the
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by jmfldn 5y ago
"You also need tenure, more than anything else." Sadly yes. An argument that the current uni system should be changed to make this not so.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
To win a nobel prize yes, but anyone can benefit from the general attitude in many domains of life.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
"The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate." This shows the extreme importance of blue sky thinking and allowing people to follow their whims sometime
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by jmfldn 5y ago
It's scary that this could have happened without substantial corroborating evidence. I don't care how reliable you think the software is. Software has bugs! For any enterprise system of any scale, no matter how tight the developme
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The future for which left environmentalism is unprepared(newstatesman.com)
3 points by jmfldn 6y ago|1 comments
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"Progressives struggle with a disturbing truth: the climate crisis is going to get much worse no matter what, and eco-nationalists are poised to exploit this fact."
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Looks like a fascinating project. Worth sharing as a HN thread in and of itself.
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by jmfldn 6y ago
I don't doubt it's possible to come out of leftfield for an AI DJ but I still wonder if it could be a tastemaker like a great DJ. I don't just want great individual mixes, I want consistent, surprising yet tasteful selections
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Podcasts are a symbol of the open web for me. They're free by and large, and largely not controlled by a walled garden platform. I can choose any number of apps to consume them. It's sad to see some big ones moving away from this
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by jmfldn 6y ago
That would be a fun project for sure! So many of the selections that great DJs make are curveballs and surprising choices. This is less true in more samey genres, but true pioneering selectors will tend to surprise you with their taste and
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Awesome thanks. Yeah I'm vaguely familiar with the history but certainly not the state of the art. Will take a look at this open AI project.
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by jmfldn 6y ago
This is a great project, well done. Algorithmic music is fascinating to me, I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential in the concept particularly with more 'complex' genres where higher levels of composition and structu
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Yeah DJ Hero would be insanely hard to do, the machine vision part would be tricker for all the reasons you suggested. Simulating the scratch dynamics from the peripheral would be tricky too since it's not just a binary switch as far a

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