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The machines aren't going to operate perfectly at first. This is likely a trial run on very specific types of goods (dimensions, weights, etc).

After 6 months or a year, the lessons learned about what worked and didn't will get rolled into the next round of automation, or an entirely different approach will be taken instead.

I used to work at a water filter factory, and this is exactly what happened there. One production line used the old, 7 person crew, and a new, more automated one was brought in for a different filter size that needed only 2 or 3 people. The ways that the two lines could cause batches to fail varied, and the company gave it some time to figure out which line ended up being more cost effective over X investment payoff period.

I didn't stick around long enough to see which one "won" out, but the automated process wasn't a clear winner by the time I had left.
I spent most of my time in the mid 90s through early 2000s as an op in #HTML on Undernet. Good times. I actually got my first job through there.
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I think HN's tune would be quite different if someone came up with a technology that eliminated half of all programming jobs. Not quite so many people would be saying, "This is great! I for one look forward to technological advancement."

I do think the future should involve more automation, I just think we should be -- I dunno, a little less gleeful about it and think about the people it's impacting.
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Absolutely! But much like protocols (strict in what you emit, liberal in what you accept), reality is complicated and not conforming to a desired standard.
Is it completely impossible for a coin to fall into the ocean in Kilwa (Tanzania) and just get washed to NE Australia? 1000 years is a long time and could account for a lot of movement in the ocean.
We don't really know what threats have been delivered to them, only Assange is high-profile enough for whatever happens to him to send message. For all we know those other journalists received a friendly phone call and capitulated immediately - or more likely, they're simply not as big a target.
+1 I just recently read this book and i was met with gem after gem. Also made me start looking at the world in terms of feedback loops, is it a balancing, goal-seeking or reinforcing feedback loop? How tight are these feedback loops? etc. Definitely a must read!
It's about consent: if he knowingly endangered someone there should still be consequences even if he got away with it, just as you'd want for, say, someone driving drunk even if they didn't hit someone that time.
Probably gone due to social unrest.
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The American working class won't do anything because they hate to be identified as a working class, they prefer to think of themselves as millionaires in the making
Strangely enough, there's the same sort of renewables-only electricity choices in oil-obsessed Alberta, Canada. The city of Calgary's rail transit system runs solely on electricity purchased from wind farms.
I recall sixdegrees. I was invited to it by the same person who got me to sign up classmates.com and Friendster.

As far as websites with useful social networking functionality that resembles what we have today, I would say the PHPbb/vBulletin style forums were there early on. Sometime around 1999, I joined a forum on ezboard.com(1) which ended up turning into a long running discussion and meeting site. It was moved to a private server after ezboard transitioned in some way and deleted everyone's content circa 2003. It was the most prominent online resource in our artist community until it was replaced by Facebook and then Instagram.

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> People are excited to have these features in their language, they may like the JS implementation better than others or vice versa, they may talk about how much it improves the language or how it's a detriment to the language to have it included, but I haven't seen anyone claim that "javascript invented this".

I've seen people say javascript invented non-blocking I/O or had the first practical implementation. I've even seen people say it was the first mainstream language with map/reduce/filter.

> But that argument also misses the point. I'm happy to talk about the pros and cons of languages, I'm happy to discuss how erlang's message passing makes some things extremely easy to develop, how python's collections make many kinds of programming much easier to read. But bringing up how other languages have had a feature "years ago" once it's arrived in javascript isn't discussing pros and cons or offering reasons to switch, it's turning tools into sports teams where you are "rooting" for your favorite.

That's a failure mode, sure. But being aware of where a language stands on the innovation spectrum can also help you learn more about what else is out there. If you know JavaScript is getting a feature today that OCaml had 20 years ago, you might start looking around for language features that JavaScript will be getting in 20 years' time that are available in other languages today. That's information you can act on, and might draw attention to a tradeoff you weren't even aware you were making by using JS.
> The problem, as always, is capitalism

So other economic systems aren't interested in efficiency gains and exponential growth?
They're usually evangelicals. Evangelicals outnumber Catholics in the US, and also outnumber all mainline Protestent denominations (Methodist, Lutheran, etc) combined. They're fast gaining ground in Latin America as well.

Not all evangelicals are so adamantly anti-reason, but I'd be very confident in saying most are. Evangelical Christianity in the US is lazy and cruel. The Bible is used to justify their worst impulses, while they ignore all the parts about loving your enemies, etc. It's not a demanding religion. It's easy. Their god doesn't care about charity or peace that take effort and compassion, but only that you are on His team.
Your apparent theory that online information only spreads through word of mouth is especially weird given that you prove it by linking to resources of known quality from media, academic, and non-profit sources.

That's surely what would happen if we banned advertising. One can already get plenty of great product information without advertising, and from the same kinds of sources you link.
Any article that you suggest for knowing more about JD's fulfillment tech?
True and this also applies to almost every other industrialized country. The layers of law and bureaucracy that we expect and even sometimes demand to live safe and predictable lives really conspire against more relaxed food systems.
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UBI. Then we can be gleeful about more automation.
True, 16 hours was over the top. I think my concerta bottle (methylphenidate, same ingredient as ritalin but extended release) says something around 12 hours.

My point however was that if you take medication which can keep you awake for X hours less than X hours before bed, you could have a bad time.

> Occasionally I'd even get the side effect of making me drowsy, and I had to take a nap right there.

I've read about this, for some taking ritalin actually helps them sleep since it makes the brain shut up and be quiet, instead of racing all the time
If you’re just doing automation, while all of the major languages have decent SDK’s, Java or C# is overkill.

Python is the go to language and at least for AWS, there is one module - Boto3. For C#, every AWS resource has its own Nuget package.

And no, K8s is not the magic bullet. There is a lot more to managing cloud resources than just K8s. It doesn’t even begin to cover the different managed services.
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Video games tend to be highly stimulating activities - many people with ADHD can keep their attention fixated on a singular activity, so long as that activity is stimulating enough. Video games, sports, or whatever.

Hyper-focus like that doesn't mean you have ADHD - but people often use it to rule out ADHD as a possibility, and never get tested, when maybe they should.
Just out of curiosity, what's worse than billions of deaths?
> it ruled that “the whole work done by the judges constitutes the authentic exposition and interpretation of the law,

And on that "the whole work done" is also another prominent anachronism of US flavour of British common law.

Other common law countries, let alone mainstream civil law countries do not maintain automatic correctness, authoritativeness and infallibility of institute of justice, from which stems the absence of unqualified immunity of judges in a lot of nations.

A scope of legal authority must be very strictly and clearly defined, and based upon constitutional and fundamental legal principles, with easy pathways to invalidate it if done in wrong. In other words, there must be critical criteria of its validity.

In US on other hand, in principle and in theory, a judge or juror can issue a ruling completely contravening a law in most the most antithetical, polar way, and nothing will be able to do anything with him, and his ruling will be legally valid.
Distributors in China certainly know the quality they’re dealing with. If they are establishing a brand, they are seeking repeat business and a good reputation. That’s opposed to ordering unreliable labeled or generic goods from an unknown seller on Amazon who could disappear at any time, and may operate ten another store fronts. So, like the principle I concluded with, a known brand will provide a higher quality.
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Universal basic income seems to be the only viable way forward. So far I have not heard any other good solution to the societal problems automation is causing. The other alternative would be to slow the progress, but that’s even worse. We need to let people learn new skills, and universal basic income makes that possible. There will be obviously freeloaders, which is the main issue with this approach. This is extremely difficult problem to solve, and the current political climate makes it even more difficult to find acceptable solution
Are there any other viable alternatives? How can we help people who don’t have marketable skills get back to work and contribute to the society?
How about some pun around "add" being adding a family and ADD. "justaddfamily"?
I am somewhat open to the content of your point, but put off by the vehemence of the language. Of course, you don't have to care what I think. But, I'm just letting you know that a more tactful and less heated way of phrasing the exact same content, would be more persuasive. Feel free to ignore this advice if you don't like it. Btw I'm not one of the ones who downvoted you, but I'm guessing at least some of them were affected similarly.
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"Terms of service" is not copyright infringement. Especially when when dealing with public records.
Source? Claiming it's the realest mental disorder is a bold claim.
Never mind that the "secret" was out a long time before 2005, when the author left for grad school. There was even an Insomniac episode from 2003 that featured Prince's. I think the fact that nobody in her family had heard of hot chicken speaks more to her and her family than of the general population (white or otherwise) of Nashville.
The legal definition of rape is one that is restricted by the law, but the moral definition is not. If I say a biscuit is a cake and legally it is made so, does that mean it is actually a cake?

I'm sure North Korea or China say some people are criminals and must be executed. As an outsider should we just agree because 'the situation in your own jurisdiction is irrelevant here'? I think not, morality and truth should not be restricted to the definition of the law where it presides. It's possible what Assange allegedly did was in fact rape, but illegal or not shouldn't be the defining factor when assessing the truth of that claim.
Sure, that would be great and there could be a discussion around how that should be funded. But it's hyperbolic to suggest that because the law and annotations are only available for free at libraries in print form that they're not available.
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If you mean by ocean currents then yes. Coins sink even in a fast flowing stream, ocean currents are slow. Beyond that it would effectively need to climb a mountain at the other side.

A general idea was it was found on the top part of here: https://opentextbc.ca/geology/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2...
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I've been out of web dev for a while and am supposed to be doing a site today, check my comment history for how well that's going. My design process has resembled your comment quite closely.
You nailed it, many of us are "1" or "1"-adjacent.

Consider this... if you don't think The West should be fighting a massive trade-war against India/China around climate change, if your solution to a GLOBAL problem is a NATIONAL solution, then you're just spinning wheels. Trump's tariffs are ironically the greenest policy choice he could possibly be making and he's not exactly getting praise for it.

EDIT: Thus, I think the most likely "solution" to climate change is for humans to adapt or die. The most likely scenario in which we adapt best is the one in which our economies and technology grow the fastest, such that massive-scale geo-engineering becomes possible, so I support those economic growth policies instead, because they don't suffer from prisoner's dilemma defection. This happens to look exactly like climate change denial to leftists.

EDIT EDIT: I don’t care about karma but my post will be “dead” soon, along with many other people who dared to share the same position (and the chilling effect on people who choose not to even speak up). So I ask how I can communicate my position more constructively? Maybe my opinion is just wrong, but I’d like to be convinced by someone who is willing to dialogue with a potential ally.
Very comprehensive. Nice work
The simple solution would be to just remove MCAS and take the certification as a new plane. Boeing might have to eat the retraining costs but it's got to be better than eating the cost of the planes should they be deemed unfit for purpose and Boeing sued by every airline to recoup the costs of the now useless planes.

There's also the possible hardware fix to add an additional AoA sensor and change the software to limit the total deflection allowed + add a way to disable the MCAS only while keeping the electronic trim. The plane itself isn't irredeemable by a long shot though.
Sure, but the language matters. Since 9/11, in the US we’ve allowed the rule of law to devolve to the point where if the government can label you a “terrorist”, they can throw all your rights out the window, whether or not you’re a US citizen.
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The fact that rising automation is an issue bothers me.
Automation is miraculous! Its has steadily been removing the necessity for humans to engage in drudge work.

The solution is simple and obvious. Most people no longer need to work. This has probably been true for decades and is only becoming moreso. With automation, a small number of people can provide the food / water / electricity / etc. for 1000's.
Everyone should be provided with the food, shelter, etc. they need for free.
Thats it..
The actual problem here is remediating our obsolete society and cultural values so they are once again practical in the light of these automation developments.

I'm not saying it'll be easy, there will be plenty of wrinkles, some people (eg. farmers) will still need to work. Do they get more? Do people take turns? But these are just wrinkles.

Overall its very clear what the actual problem is and what we need to do.

The fact that so many people now are still slaving away engaged in pointless bullshit white collar jobs is a tragedy. Such a waste of potential happiness. Also we are wasting massive amounts of resources carrying out all this pointless work, and furthering the destruction of the environment for no reason.
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In nontraditional, I recommend Towerfall and Nidhogg.

Guilty Gear is generally recommended in my circles, but I dont play it.
> I think HN's tune would be quite different if someone came up with a technology that eliminated half of all programming jobs.

We could easily eliminate half of all programming jobs if we just stopped creating work for ourselves. As it stands, we're the gatekeepers, our work is so opaque that no outsider could accurately estimate how much time we are wasting.

Luckily for us, markets aren't very good at eliminating this kind of inefficiency, see "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber.
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> It's a terrible article. My understanding is that the state has an agreement with Lexis/Nexis to have the laws annotated. In exchange Lexis/Nexis can publish and sell the annotations. Presumably, in order for this relationship to continue, the state must defend its copyright to the annotations which Lexis/Nexis has produced.

I don't understand why they need a relationship.

Good annotations are incredibly valuable. When I was in law school, both West and Lexis were publishing annotated versions of both federal law and the law of every state, entirely on their own. Pretty much every lawyer bought the relevant West and/or Lexis products for their practice areas, and pretty much every law library bought more complete sets of these products.

Has something changed making it so the publishers need financial encouragement from the state to make annotating worthwhile?
ADHD is both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed.

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Your notion that there is only advertising and word of mouth is obviously wrong. There already exist other channels. Journalism, for one. Experts blogging, for another. Conferences are a third. These are popular and useful today, and they would only become more so in a world without advertising. Likely new things would emerge as well.

If advertising were vital for learning about new products, nobody would use open source software. Nobody would use Hacker News for that matter. They do, which should tell you there's something wrong with your theory.
And from there to fund already rich parties to continue to enforce control in a way that washes Bezos' hands clean of any wrongdoing. Outsourcing the task of maintaining inequality, per se. (Billionares funding millionares springs to mind).

Or, stated with less emotional rhetoric: Funding 1$ to the wealthy returns 0.7$ to the economy. So, from 'there' nothing, because Bezos' pocket is keeping it.
I spent way too much time on undernet during the same period of time, mostly on #asp. I got my first and second programming jobs through friends I made there.

Wasn't there a site ran by one of the #html ops, htmlcenter or something like that?
My entire life I have lived in a state with no billboards. I still manage to find products and services.
Right. But the question the person above asked was "or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers."

Isn't that drop shipping?
to be honest I am not sure your going to find warehouse work that isn't demanding. they usually all have metrics by which they are judged but we hear very little of other companies simply because Amazon is big and therefor an easy target.

be careful what you wish for, automating manual labor jobs just pushes the value of such labor lower which can further put these people behind. as labor costs rise automation will continue to push people into positions that are not easily automated or the cost doesn't suit them but I doubt the workers will always be better off.

unlike industrialization we are not bring people in to do new jobs but instead displacing people this go around. so the real work that needs to be done is to find jobs that we can train people for that have some longevity fully taking into account that many may not be able to train to do them
Well, if you look at history it keeps happening. Imagine if you said in 1900 that almost all farm jobs would be eliminated in 100 years. The future would be almost unimaginable, but we've turned out okay.

However I think the problem is we're at a point where things are churning so rapidly that many are being left behind. Your 50-year-old truck driver is not in a position to learn a new skill every 5-10 years to stay afloat, or uproot his life and move to a new city where they need workers.

Furthermore, there's conceivably a point when we won't need very many unskilled workers at all -- when we finally run out of things for average people to do -- and humans don't tend to treat other humans very well when they aren't needed. However, that's further off than the churn economy we have right now.
would you prefer the current: (?)

let global = typeof window === 'undefined' ? global : window

// do something with global.theGlobalProp

(this is used to refer to currently available globals which are not going away anytime soon)
I think you are correct with everything but...

> maintain any illusion that we live in a free world

That would require the crimes betrayed through the leaked information to have consequences. There also needs to be more control exercised on people responsible, that this cannot happen again. Otherwise, you could skip this trial as well.