skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know almost nothing about how these places work, but I would've thought there would be way more people putting stuff in boxes to ship.
Why Do Experiments Make People Uneasy?
Is there a field of study associated with job creation?

The answer is not actually obvious. There's a lot of research into efficiency, which is almost synonymous with job destruction.

Edit: Thanks for the answers below. I was thinking of academic areas of research. For example, Macroeconomics, Labor Relations, Governance, Management Theory etc.
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> The plaintiff is listed as "Georgia code revision commission", and it's surprisingly hard to find out who that actually consists of

From the federal court opinion [1]:

"The annotations were initially prepared by Mathew Bender & Co., Inc., an operating division of the LexisNexis Group, (Lexis), pursuant to an agreement it entered into with the State of Georgia. Under the terms of the agreement, Lexis is responsible for the ongoing publication and maintenance of the Code, and all editorial, publication, and distribution costs. In exchange, Lexis was given the exclusive right of publication by Georgia. But, notably, Georgia holds the copyright in the annotations in its own name. The publication agreement also specifies what types of annotations should appear alongside the statutory text, and provides detailed and specific directions as to how Lexis is to generate and arrange this content. The agreement also provides that the Code Revision Commission (the “Commission”) supervises the work of Lexis and has final editorial control over the contents of the OCGA.

The Commission is a body established by the Georgia General Assembly in 1977 that was originally tasked with undertaking the recodification of all of Georgia’s laws, a project that had not been done since 1933. The Commission is comprised of Georgia officials, including the Lieutenant Governor, four members of the Georgia Senate, the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, four additional members of the Georgia House of Representatives, and five membersappointed by the president of the State Bar of Georgia. Following its successful recodification of Georgia law and the publication of the OCGA in 1982, the Commission is now responsible for updating the OCGA and supervising Lexis’s editing and publication of the OCGA."

[1] http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201711589....
A lot of the problem is some have, others go over the top. Also, taxpayers don't vote on funding and even then, most federal spending is poorly organized and structured. I'd rather see more legislation that lets more private consumers and private orgs sue for violation instead of only relegating enforcement to those oversight orgs alone.
It's no stretch to assume by "role" they might mean a job title, and that each role could possibly be being filled by 3 people (3 * 8 hour shifts for a 24 hours continuous operation), so now you're looking at 72 jobs. I've no idea if Amazon does run 24 hour operations though.
About time!

I visited either YYZ4 or YYZ3 a few months ago and I was incredibly disappointed. For a technology company, their warehouses were anything but sophisticated.

Their storage robots were surprisingly lackluster, their outbound/cubiscan conveyor belt was incredibly slow and often stopped.

Of course, I am just an outsider looking in, and I have no visibility into the underlying software that optimizes these process, but when you look at companies with fulfillment tech like JD, you really wonder how Amazon's retail arm is able to survive at all.
Video of the CarltonWrap mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1yw05mWnXw

It's actually pretty neat - creates boxes to size on demand.

Doesn't seem like this would be possible with humans at a store, and could really cut down on box inventory.
Because the alleged victim isn't claiming rape. The state's position here is essentially that women don't have enough agency to know when they've been raped so they need to be "helped" to take the correct position. Bravo!
Because the first time it did lapse, you'd probably crash society. I'd rather not make the attempt.
Do you think they're good working conditions?

Also, a pretty large contigent of the left argues for automation.
A great way to play around with shaders (without booting up your editor, compiling, etc) is https://www.shadertoy.com and Shadron (http://www.arteryengine.com/shadron/)
It's too dry!

I do miss living in walking distance of both Bolton's and Pepperfire.

cwage's ranking at https://quietlife.net/2015/07/27/the-best-hot-chicken-in-nas... is older but still pretty good.
I have zero doubts about autism, depression, borderline syndroms, and severe cases of schizophrenia.
ok, if not self-flagellation, then it's feel-good eco activism.

You're doing just enough to soothe your conscience without actually depriving yourself.

The problem is, that's not nearly enough to make any difference. Not even close.

To actually make a difference you and every single first-world citizen would need to forgo

- all imported goods

- all electronics

- all plastics

- all red meat

- all heating and cooling

- all private transportation

- ration electricity

- most industrial goods

- ration food (a lot of GHG are produced by agriculture)

And third world countries would need to all agree to stop economic progress and revert to pre-industrial conditions.

We will all drown in rising flood waters before any of that will ever happen.

It's a technological solution or bust.

The only other "solution" is that climate change will reduce human population back to a few hundred thousand and we start all over again.
Fantastic, less human labor in one sector means new opportunities in another.
It is much more about economic reality than ambition. Replacing fossil fuel energy sources with renewable energy sources is an expensive process. Some argue that it is the responsibility of the nations of this world to make sure it's implemented, i.e., the governments, but it's difficult to see how this can be done efficiently through either a democratic or undemocratic process. Getting the state to produce anything puts you at risk of ending up with the Trabant version of whatever product or service we're talking about.

Furthermore, it's difficult to foresee which problems will arise from replacing fossil fuel energy with renewables like wind or solar.
Rule of law is important. And if you want to get rid of old laws, you should just get rid of them by vote. If the vast majority of old laws are functioning well, then you can keep them functioning, if there are a few ridiculous ones then you can go through normal channels of government.

England had a case in the 1800s where everyone forgot that trial by battle still existed from the middle ages. Someone invoked it and it was upheld, but parliament quickly found it within them to repeal the law after that case.

See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton
But if this is the case then why don't we see a massive amount of research and development, like larger than the Manhattan and Apollo projects, to ensure we get a technological solution in time?

Instead we see that EU countries aren't even hitting the miserable EU target of 2.4% of GDP to be spent on R&D let alone the 3% 2020 target, and other nations fare even worse.
Few care to have a discussion with hyperbolics.
That's essentially what I was trying to say. It's incorporation by reference.

Sometimes it's a bit less direct. They law might require a vessel operator to have insurance and the insurance company will demand that the vessel conform to some private code.
Completely agree. Especially misleading and deceptive ads and ads which deliver malware. Also I really wish my state would ban billboards.

In their place, I want to see (and would pay for) high quality 3rd party product benchmarking, testing, and reviewing.
The problem is that as we move forward and keep automating this will become a major issue in our society. I'm not sure if I support automation tax but it makes me uneasy.

I work at a manufacturing company. We are slowly chipping away at data entry, manual processes. It only improves efficiency now, but eventually we will need less people.
I did try to rule out question age as a major source of error in the model by training on a sample of ~1 million questions all from ~2012. But it didn’t do any better on those.

And (theoretically) duplicates are deleted by the moderators.
That scenario has happened:

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_Cessna_172_crash

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack

Curiously they both seem to have been described as “not” terrorism (though I’m not totally sure that was the final conclusion).
This system is far from perfect though. For example:

Forget the hanko home? Too bad, you’re sol.

Have an generic surname? Be ready to pay for an unique hanko, because the generic ones are sold at minimum for 100¥.

Live as an foreigner in japan? Prepare to write your signature again, again and again as the government official requires all the signatures to look exactly the same.

It’s also easily copyable if you know how the other person’s hanko looks like.

I’m just hoping japanese would move into hand written / electronic authentications. They are much harder to fake and you are not restricted by a small item which you may not always have with you.
They may work on it: https://github.com/cloudmarker/cloudmarker/issues?q=is%3Aiss...
I feel sad, because this is not the right debate to have, and I initiated it.

First, I repeat: What he allegedly did is a serious and horrible crime.

Also, people need to see the elephant in the room. These two victims' case is weaponized by some governments to scare whistle-blowers. Assange directly or indirectly exposed many horrible crimes, including war rapes, group rapes, mass murders.
People need to remember this video of soldiers in Irak shooting at human beings from far away while laughing and listening to rock music, and shooting again at wounded survivors crawling on the floor.
People need also to remember the images of war prisoners tortured, humiliated, forced to be naked and raped with sticks.

But, more importantly, people need to make sure that future whistle-blowers fell safe to expose this kind of hideous crimes.

Prisoners' case [nsfw]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
> It would be great if all the jobs could be automated

... If all the capital could be distributed.
Meds aside (which do help, and not all will trigger personality or physical changes), there are some coping mechanisms which you can pick up. Even with meds, you’re really only given a bit more control over your attention, so having coping mechanisms are still useful.
Depends on the dosage, while he mentioned Adderall those are the exact side-effects I had with Ritalin, and that comes in all forms: "normal" (4 hours), long-last (8 hours), slow-release (also 8 hours-ish, different chemical implementation), and more I don't remember/know.

The shorter durations (4 hours) are more effective than the longer, but also require taking it several times a day. And I think neither 4 nor the 8 keep you awake for 16 hours. Occasionally I'd even get the side effect of making me drowsy, and I had to take a nap right there. Thankfully that usually happened when I would take Ritalin for studying at home later in the day, rather than at school.
German trains don't honk at level crossings and Germany doesn't build any new level crossings (for safety reasons). Japanese trains don't honk at crossings either afaik, I don't know about other countries.
> I don't see why we shouldn't transition to renewable energy asap anyway

Most of the arguments that I see concern the low effectiveness of renewable energy sources and the pollution caused by the batteries (either during their creation or when trying to get rid of them).

What I do not see is why we should not transition to modern thorium-based nuclear power plants.
There is so much wrong here, I'm not even sure if I should start answering to that. Why do you write this? You must be aware that it's easy to fact check. Are you desperate or really so heavy misinformed?

You should have seen through you charts that the small difference can't be related to the actual amount required in Germany. Germany sells more energy elsewhere...Much more: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/p... The main problem right now in Germany is that you don't have the transfer infrastructure to deliver the amounts of energy generated by renewables everywhere. https://www.energy-charts.de/energy_pie.htm?year=2019&month=... You also HAVE to let coal in even if you don't need it and turn renewables off because of standing contracts with the providers. Germany is still paying for coal plants that have been turned off because of this. This is the main reason why energy is so expensive in Germany. There are newly build coal power plants which will never run because nobody needs them. And the amount of renewables is rising: https://www.energy-charts.de/ren_share.htm?source=ren-share&...

PS. there is also Gas but you don't seem to care about all that I guess because I can't imagine how one could overlook that.

There is not a single reason for Germany to turn to nuclear again. Its time has passed and no, Germany doesn't need Frances nuclear power...
For those that know... how is this difference more/less than the spicy/hot chicken from Church's (aka Texas outside US) or Popeye's Chicken?
AOL before it was "A" even had term flagging for some of its chat channels, saying "script" in some of the Chicago Online text chats would get a moderator on you in second. "skirpt" didn't. That would have been 1990, 91? Don't think I saw "script kiddies" used until 94+ in the modern sense.
It's particularly malicious as it's using a phrase that is literally true and accurate description of the problem to dismiss the existence of the problem!
Automation isn't the problem. These jobs being lost are terrible and no one should do them.

The problem, as always, is capitalism. Amazon wouldn't be where it is today without its massive workforce, including its army of factory workers. None of the people losing their jobs will benefit from this increase in productivity, though. Those gains will go only to the people at the top. Meanwhile, there will be more competition for the low-level jobs that still exist, creating downward pressure on wages.
Not unless you consider lard plus cayenne to be hot sauce.

https://quietlife.net/2014/11/16/nashville-style-hot-chicken... is a nice breakdown on the variations.

https://www.nashvillescene.com/food-drink/article/13022673/b... is an example recipe.
> ... If all the capital could be distributed.

Why? We didn't contribute much yo the development of Amazon's specific machines.

Oh, you're saying you are entitled to it?
On the scale of millions of years, Earth's life will adapt to the new, extremely warm climate we are causing to occur.

On the scale of centuries, in this extremely rapid warming event we are making happen, a majority of life on Earth will die, including most humans. Evolution is slow, global warming is fast.

In the very long run, yes, palm trees (or their evolutionary successors) will flourish in Antarctica.

In the short run, meaning a length of time that exceeds human written history, we will live in an inhospitable ecological desert, and billions will die.

That's something YOU won't hear about, because it doesn't fit the agenda of the people that are lying to you for profit.
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It sounds like a gradual transition to me, not replacing all packers overnight.

> A key to its goal of a leaner workforce is attrition, one of the sources said. Rather than lay off workers, the person said, the world’s largest online retailer will one day refrain from refilling packing roles.

and

> The machines have the potential to automate far more than 24 jobs per facility, one of the sources said.
Roughly how much did you save up? I just turned 27 and am also in NYC. Have 85k cash. Just wondering.

But yeah, I would ease into it like the others said. If you have a well-paying job that you kind of like, that's not a bad thing. Me myself, I've taken long travel breaks before so I know what I'd be getting into (with tweaks from maturing).

Take a 2 week vacation and disconnect. If you like it, then ask for a 2 month sabbatical. If they say no, then just quit and go for a 3 month slow travel trip around Europe or SA. Hit some meditation retreat and a music festival.
Look at quality of fabric, fastners, and stitching. No matter if 10th generarion grandma or last years sweatshop worker on a worn out machine, the result is where the value is. Cotton, nylon, hemp, even rayon over polyester, ykk zippers are still the best, look for triple stitching, nice tie offs at ends of hems, yank the seam to see if its too tight and will bind and break...

Better yet, many custom outfits can be specd and ordered online for a modest fee if you are like many who don't seem to fit americian vanity, nor asian sizing.
My House in Cairo
I think people are latching on to one person’s very poor choice of rhetorical flair. The case has nothing to do with terrorism and no one involved has actually been accused of terrorism, outside of this hyperbolic rhetoric.

But I do think it is bad practice for the state to turn up the rhetoric in its legal disputes when it turns a legitimate adversarial dispute about the legality of actions into an improper attack on a citizen’s character. But on the other hand, there are plenty of circumstances where we feel it is totally proper (e.g. criminal prosecutions, but probably also lawsuits for fraud, gross negligence, and intentional physical injury). It is hard to balance the state’s dual roles as neutral arbiter/enforcer of the law and adversarial participant in it. The executive/legislative/judicial split helps, but does not solve it.
The abstract says cryptoverif is a proof assistant, but the cryptoverif page says it's an automatic protocol prover.

Which is it ? (my understanding is that a proof assistant is interactive, like Coq, Agda, etc)
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So the 'pick' part of 'pick and pack' still needs humans. This machine glues a cardboard box together removing the need for the guy with the tape. The article stresses that this is about efficiency rather than reducing head-count. This is a good thing as that means more optimally packed items being ferried around the country. However, for other online sellers that do not have this semi-automated packing this is not so good news, they don't have the scale Amazon does to have the robot support engineer on site. They have to pack the old ways, with lots of labour.
Capex on new solar is cheaper than opex on old coal. It's not an expensive process, not any more. Objections that it is are just out of date - fairly common for objections to tech.
Where are the new opportunities here?
Does the number of people employed designing and manufacturing these machines come close to the number of people put out of work by their creation?

Let's not pretend that Amazon is some benevolent force here. It's the same company that sets work targets high enough to force employees to have to pee in bottles and penalises sick and pregnant workers for taking time off or breaks. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-hav...
This is a platitude that is said often, but there is no evidence to support it. There is no law of the universe that says whenever a job gets automated, a new type of work pops out of the aether to employ displaced people. It is wishful thinking at best.
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There should be a service to research, test, benchmark, and otherwise review products. I'd pay for a service like that, and would expect them to never ever accept any kind of compensation from companies making the products they review.
I agree that cost is likely a factor; but not so much renewable cost as cheaply available natural gas due to fracking which changes the economics of every other energy source; including nuclear and renewables.
It doesn’t become more revenue. It maybe a cost reduction which in turn may increase profits, or reduce consumer prices. Either is a good thing.

Amazon has a long track record of aggressively reinvesting its profits.
> There is a lot of law, at the federal and state levels,

And that law is of very abstract, and ephemeral kind — the very criteria of fault in how USA approaches official crimes.

And as I stated above, most of that law is state level patchwork and case law rather than federal level statutory rules.
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IME in certain american social circles there is often an expectation for people (especially women) to come up with 'new looks' for social occasions, and not doing so is a sign that the person lacks taste, class, or wealth (or a combination of all 3). The most common noticeable thing is if a woman is attending many weddings, a husband may notice she insists on not wearing the same dress to each wedding. This is because if she does wear the same dress, she is highlighting that she lacks wealth or class at weddings, and if anyone notices her repeating dresses it is considered an affront or disrespect.
The state is saying Malamud called his own actions "terrorism". I think it's irresponsible how the lawyers worded this in their suit. I also think it's irresponsible for the NYT to print this without this context.

From the suit[0]:

Carl Malamud, has indicated that this type of strategy has been a successful
form of “terrorism” that he has employed in the past to force government entities to
publish documents on Malamud’s terms.

Consistent with its strategy of terrorism, Defendant freely admits to the
copying and distribution of massive numbers of Plaintiff’s Copyrighted Annotations
on at least its https://yeswescan.org website. See Exhibit 3.

I wonder what Exhibit 3 is and if it actually shows Malamud referring to his actions directly as terrorism. I wouldn't know how to look that up. Does anyone?

EDIT: It's from the prologue section here: https://museum.media.org/eti/

It's a joke that the lawyers used this as justification for sneaking the word "terrorism" unqualified in their suit.

0 - https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/ga/pro_v_georgia/gov.us...
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And do you think this browser is dethroning Chrome because "it's just so good," or much more likely, because Google's services are officially and unofficially being blocked/given the cold shoulder by many local businesses/local governments in China, while Alibaba's browsers gets to be put into everything else?

The "huge Chinese market" is just a mirage created to lure greedy American companies into giving away their tech so that the local companies can be propped up/improve.
How does it redefines speed and acceleration??

"While the P100D Tesla versions are even quicker off the mark than the hottest landshark from Stuttgart, the repeatability of such a task is what allegedly separates the wheat from the chaff."

Not sure what is wheat and what is chaff in this context.
So, work with your psychiatrist or GP and try something else. Vyvanse is not the only option. Even stimulants are not your only options.
It would be great if everyone had good working conditions and decent wages.
I'm not commenting on the legalities, only the humanities.

One can either build an overly-tight system that can incidentally put innocents in trouble or an overly-loose system that risks criminals getting away. Interesting that the Europeans seem to have gone with the latter.