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> Truck drivers who will be replaced first are going to be the steering wheel holders that drag a dry van from loading dock to loading dock. These are also the most junior and poorly paid drivers.

These junior and poorly paid drivers are humans who need to eat first of all. If we automate their jobs away we need to come up with a way where that doesn't result in undue hardship.

That said I think you're underestimating how many poorly paid junior truck drivers there are. I don't think there'll be enough cargo management jobs to catch all truck drivers, not by a wide margin. Don't forget that currently the cargo management jobs are already being done by people. It's not like it's a new category of work that didn't exist before.

The amount of job available is going to shrink significantly if trucks get automated. No matter from which angle you look at it that means people are going to need to work less. Which in practice means that people are going to earn less. We need to figure out how to deal with that before it happens. Maybe it resolves itself and that's fine, but assuming it will is playing dangerous games with the food source of people you don't know.
Have you ever tried identifying the frequency of your tinnitus and removing that range from your songs(aka notch filtering)? I heard over time it can lessen the effects.
I love Stunts! No other game that I know of has made an incredibly clunky gameplay and controls so fun. When I was a kid, I would make custom tracks for hours and hours. I wish some game could capture it's spirit and make a modern version, since Stunts hasn't aged well.
Apologies for this off topic reply but in an old thread you asked me about a particular episode and it's old enough I couldn't reply there. Here it is: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0647497/
Better yet, try to expense them so your employer knows at least one person isn't thrilled about contributing to climate disaster.
Also arguably worse than nothing as it could make people living in the area more complacent.

In this case, I think it really depends on the use-cases and whether proper warnings are displayed.
What was daring or avant-garde about Kojima? He makes incredibly popular mainstream games that had cool quirky gameplay mechanics and great attention to detail and had a focus on storytelling.

When I think of "avant-garde" games, I think of games like Katamari Damacy, or Untitled Goose Game or Feather. Maybe Ridiculous Fishing.

I can't think of a single thing avant-garde about Kojima's games. Or Minecraft tbh, though I'm significantly less familiar with Minecraft.
How Wine is able to run 32-bit Windows programs on 64-bit-only macOS Catalina
I think that 200 status code for everything is such a bad practice. I'm surprise the amount of people here that are OK with that.
Firefox can now send tabs to your VR headset with Firefox Reality
If anyone is interested, there is an up and coming Clojure web framework called Coast, https://coastonclojure.com/

For those that aren’t as familiar with Clojure - there isn’t a rails or Django for web apps, so Coast is trying to fill that void.
Counterpoints:

- Cave art from 44kya
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/440000-year-old-cave-art-d...

- 'Venus' statues - some possibly as old as 300k years!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

I agree that the fact intelligence has arisen in wildly separate parts of the 'tree of life' probably indicates something about the likelihood for intelligence to develop elsewhere. Like you said, it's not a fluke, but it's also not something that only arises under very specific progressive conditions.

I'm not sure whether it recedes or not - that's an interesting and slightly terrifying question
You don't have to be alone! Coworking spaces are there. Personally, I hang out with my kid on my lunch break and that makes a big difference.
Hi there - our Chrome extension rates any news article: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/civikowl/clbbiejji... but it won't rate an arbitrary piece of writing (yet).

To be honest, an unknown author with no history on a topic on a site that's also previously unknown will struggle to rate >50%. Lmk if I can answer any other questions.
> When Notch sold Minecraft, the reason he gave was that he didn't want to be a symbol

He didn't want to be a symbol, so he became a billionaire instead
Am I the only person who can't listen to anything while coding? My attention goes straight to the music, and I can't concentrate on the task at hand!

When I was in high school, my math teacher would play Mozart during tests, claiming it would help us. It would drive me crazy, and I doubt that my grades improved as a result of the distraction.

For what it's worth, I have a BMus in Piano Performance. I love music... but never as "background noise"!
This is absolutely incredible, unless it was a very presentational meeting. I can't remember ever having an overseas conversation without there being perceptible delay, regardless of transmission medium.

You need under 20ms latency to be truly imperceptible, and probably under 150ms to avoid scenarios where people are often talking over each other. I wonder what their routes look like to make this possible?
Most Lisp programmers go through hype cycles within their own minds, progress along which increases with experience. You appear to be still at the Peak of Inflated Expectations phase of your personal hype cycle. You've learned enough Lisp to be dangerous, and you've seen, and been tempted by, its tremendous power. Oh, the things you could build, if only you were allowed! But be forewarned, the Trough of Disillusionment is coming, the despair that sets in when you realize that try as you might, you cannot convince industry to accept its software needs being met in Lisp. For as mighty as Lisp is on its own compared to other languages, other languages have surpassed it in the ways that matter to companies: better integration, better tooling, more support, bigger talent pools -- and lower cost for all of these.

Lisp programmers tend to spend their Slope of Enlightenment and Plateau of Productivity working in other languages, applying what they learned from Lisp to Python or Ruby or Haskell or Rust -- or JavaScript. And honestly, JavaScript with Babel gets you 80% of the dynamism and metaprogramming capability Lisp has, but also better integration, tools, and libraries than any Lisp. So yeah, most people in the real world will use that.
Then why did you write a post emphatically stating you agree with an opinion that the airdrops were a good idea?

Did you just get really excited by their enthusiasm?
I agree. Employers, teams, and employees need to have clear expectations and communication around availability, including how that is related to compensation, but also how it relates to the design of the systems themselves, the planning that goes into rollouts, and a culture of quality and accountability.

Also, sites "go down" for more reasons than deployments, and often, a deployment is one of the fastest or only ways to fix or work around the issue.
> I think you will run into conflict of interest issues with having your employer pay you to use your product. It might fly at some places, but I would be hesitant of running afoul of all manner of issues if there could be a perception that you are leveraging your employment position to profit your own company.

I think when it's literally "pay me one dollar for a company-wide license, so there's mutual consideration for license and it's clear what the arrangement is"... one does not need to worry about a substantial fiscal conflict of interest or appearance of impropriety.

I mean, it's a whole lot of work to squeeze one more dollar out of your employer ;)
One of the teams I work with has a rule that everyone is in a conference room together or everyone is on their own laptop.

It's a pretty good rule though it's probably harder to convince people to follow it if it's a single person who is somewhere else.
My requirements for programming music is what got me first into electro-swing. Since thing I have expanded from there. Lots of stuff from RJD2, C2C, Bonobo.

Here is my playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yHQaBX599OnGlojw5aDTB?si=...

It's good for driving long distances too. But otherwise, my musical taste is totally different.
That's not possible, our energy needs are too great for that now. But nobody would seriously suggest wood (or other biofuels) be our principal energy source anyway.
One category of questions I have turned off in StreetComplete is questions about wheelchair accessibility. Since I am not a wheelchair user, I have low confidence that I can identify potential problems for them. Like, obviously stairs are not accessible, but e.g. are the doorways wide enough?

I also turned off speed limits since it has a warning that you need to check the entire road, not just the highlighted spot.
Fairly well known http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
Interoperability: A way to escape toxic online environments
You must be bringing something unique and very senior to the table, or company is overpaying you maybe 2x of what it would take to get a great local SW engineer. I know there is long term shortage of senior folks there, but it shouldn't be that desperate.

Plus you mention before tax, so unless you are contracting (which is probable but no real clue), you are left with much less after taxation, being in very high tax bracket. So the numbers posted don't work anymore, unless you live very frugally in crappy tiny apartment/room (or riding family wealth).

I worked there 10 years ago, so maybe things changed dramatically. Its true they still keep pestering me in linkedin, so maybe it did change so much. Anyway, Prague is great place to visit, but I found it rather bleak for long term living and raising family, especially when compared with other places located more west. There is only so much you can buy with money within given society.
If you have a phone that can get your position to then determine which square you're in to provide you with 3 words to read out, you can just give out your exact co-ordinates from the map application...

I feel this is creating a problem that doesn't exist, and then shouting about fixing it.
I like to write emulators as a hobby so I definitely feel your pain, but I'm not holding my breath for a significant frequency boost in the near future. A 4GHz CPU means that every cycle light itself only moves about 7.5cm in a vacuum. If you have a fiber optic cable running at 10GHz at any given time you effectively have one bit "stored" in the fiber every 3cm or so.It's frankly insane that we manage to have such technology massed produced and in everybody's pocket nowadays. My "cheap" android phone's CPU runs at 2.2GHz, 2.2 billion cycles per second.

We can probably still increase the frequencies a bit but we definitely seem pretty close to some fundamental limit in our current understanding of physics. The frequency doublings every other year we experienced until the early 2000's are long gone I'm afraid, and they might never come back until we manage to make a breakthrough discovery in fundamental physics.
Let me play Devil's Advocate here.

Without these Ads plans, your device would probably cost $1000, as the Valve Index shows us.

My 2 cents.
Everyone always talks about videoconferencing and cameras but do you really need to see faces?

At my company we just dropped the cameras. We can still share screen if needed but we didn't gain much of value from seeing faces and the occasional bandwidth issues mostly vanished. I don't think anyone misses the video.
Lightweight Go test framework inspired by pytest
This is interesting to me, because I almost exclusively enjoy music as "background noise." The only time I really listen to music by itself is if I'm at a concert.

But I'm a musical illiterate
In his Turing talk Dennis Richey discusses similar issues. It is a great read. Here's a link to it: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Everyone should have an office. If you go remote, that kinda becomes affordable.
"When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile."

There are actually programs, like IDEs, that will catch syntax errors and stylistic errors in writing. Executing the writing program is as simple as having the story read to you via a text-to-speech or human labor. That an end user doesn't appreciate the writing is no different than when a user of a UI finds it unintuitive.
Blame the open office standard. It's the only way to filter out voices, I have found.
How would a warrant give them the ability to see what’s said in an encrypted chat? You can’t instal a camera on someone’s shoulder like you can put a bug in their car.
And were typically indestructible once they did run. Soviet pre-fall engineering was ugly and the factories sucked but the designs were solid and could run for ever with very little maintenance.
That's strength in numbers. I saw two crows trying this against an eagle,... I think they only survived that because the eagle was too lazy and figured it was easier to just grab some trainer-provided food after the show. Mind, the crows probably didn't recognize the huge bird, since they're not native here. That one "belonged" to a small wildlife reservoir. The trainer said it was more like he agreed to stay there in exchange for free lunch; which meant after a show the bird would occasionally hit the road for a few days, if he felt like it.
NASA didn't write that headline...
Predictive Text for Windows and MS Office
I think this is one of the reasons cats were worshiped/revered in ancient Egypt (for 3,000 years in religious practice). They were the official protectors of the pharaohs chambers against snakes and scorpions.
I work about 3 minutes walking from home and it's amazing. Just move close to where you work!
I think Germany is in the process of reinstating tuition fees for most degrees. See https://www.studying-in-germany.org/germany-will-reintroduce... I might be wrong though.
Yes but that doesn't change the fact that Death Stranding is not a member of that genre despite the fact that it is, in the most literal sense, a walking simulator....am I making any sense at all?
Winbox in the Wild: Port 8291 Scan Results
Australia debates tougher privacy regulation of digital platforms
I've used Luminus to fill that space, and I gotta say I don't think that's the best way to go for Clojure.

Getting started with Luminus was fine, but it was often very confusing and I didn't understand a lot, whereas when I added things as I needed them and checked out a couple libraries, I had a lot easier time debugging what was wrong.

What's going to make Coast different?
so Is Ford going to ship workers their quota of bolts to tighten home and back or are we just rounding up the poors to lock them into manufactoring complexes forever?
You are complaining that a FREE service that provides you with content while also respecting your privacy is not good enough for you.
There are also some nice services using OSM data. E.g. one of my friends runs the opencage geocoder which uses open data. Also there's at least one good navigation product out there (graphhopper) that I know about. There are several companies providing map tiles. And depending on what country you are in, OSM data may actually be superior. E.g. OSM data in Germany is ridiculously detailed compared to just about everything else. Lots of slums have detailed OSM maps when most other provider just show a blank space.

If you stare a lot at maps for the Bay area, this is about as good as it gets for e.g. Google and Apple maps. Don't assume you get the same level of detail everywhere. Making maps is complicated and expensive. OSM is pretty competitive in many places and the best there is in quite a few other places. And if that's not the case, the locals can fix it, if they want to.
My favorite way of low tech warfare was the illegals program. The USA for decennia fascinated by high-tech solutions while just installing some people can deliver results as easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
https://freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/17085/ ?
This is reminding me to reread "Leiningen Verus the Ants" [1] again.

[1]: https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
long island ;)
I agree with you. However, this may be obvious, but some of that could be due to people trying to follow Google Maps, Waze, or other similar navigation system directions where the routes are generated based on what other users have done.

I drove in downtown Seattle rush "hour" traffic for the first time in almost a year earlier this week, and Maps was giving me all kinds of dangerous, traffic-jam-causing directions. Things like "make a left turn at an uncontrolled intersection, from a side street onto an arterial that's gridlocked for about a kilometer in either direction". Apparently it had been happening for awhile, because the city had installed a barrier across the median, and I couldn't have followed the directions even if I'd wanted to.

IOW, it's not just drivers ignoring the law, it's tech companies explicitly instructing drivers to break the law and cause traffic problems that the simulations need to account for now.
If you can't walk away from an interrogation, you've been detained.
It depends on the music for me. Music really tones in my moods. I use it as a tool to motivate my life, for whatever I'm aiming at.

This applies to programming for me because sometimes I need music that promotes creative thinking. Sometimes research. And sometimes, my favorite, hammering out the code because I have a rock solid idea on implementation and trajectory.

The wrong music in any one of those steps is actively harmful to my work. The right music promotes it. Silence on the other hand is weirdly deafening to me, usually. Sometimes I have to pause my music and talk myself through a problem, and sometimes in doing that I forget to turn the music back on. I frequently find myself 1 hour later, super tense in the shoulders and all around stiff. It's a weird and stressful state. The silence is too loud.
The Wireless Gamble (2000)
There's tons of different kinds. Here's one I've been enjoying lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPugYPbO66E

Pay attention to the lyrics. Treat it as a story, and try to guess at what's happening. There is a canon answer -- Aviator's albums are in fact all stories -- but try to come up with your own before you look for it.

Everyone sees something different in the lyrics.
You don't have to lie, but a judge and /or jury need to be convinced that, when you said something that conflicted with some other evidence, you were lying. What you actually believe to be true doesn't matter.
FWIW, I was careful to state it went against the model of Paul being a tentmaker, and not that this model had primacy, nor that it was exclusive. The Church is a very different beast now.
All totally true, fantastic--and I mean fantastic--post.

It's funny, because Zachtronics might be doing some of the more "daring, avant-garde" stuff in games now. Guy doesn't seem at all bitter that a knockoff of his game took off and made somebody else a billionaire, either, which is to his credit.
Do you think it has to do with analyzing the songs? I do that with some music especially with classical.
OpenBSD's httpd is similar enough for relatively simple use cases, porting it to other platforms wouldn't be impossible.
I can't listen to music I normally listen to.
Anything with (English) words that is too slow or too fast.

I love Raggae but it's terrible for programming. It's too chill and wordy.
This is something I have some experience with. I work from home most of the time, except for travel across the US one week a month. I was concerned about my carbon footprint, so I ran some numbers. The result I got was that I was about 8% worse than someone with an uncongested 10-mile (one way) daily commute in a typical compact car. That guy driving a Ford Compensator thirty miles each way at peak hours is way worse. Nonetheless, I wish my number could be reduced still further.

The problem IMO is that too little work is truly remote. If the rest of your team is colocated somewhere else then you'll have to travel. If your team is spread all over but still relies on face to face meetings (e.g. planning sessions, "all hands" announcements, hackathons) then you'll still have to travel. If your job/role involves dealing with customers who aren't even slightly remote-friendly, you'll have to travel. If you're in or adjacent to academe, you'll have to travel to conferences. Most of these exceptions are not necessary. Unfortunately, most people and companies don't even try to avoid them. They just do what they've done, and the not-really-remote workers have to fly in.
It's pretty much not possible. Their perception of delay is just not that sensitive.

A transcontinental link might just be fast enough for 150ms, but stack on that all the buffering, codec delay, etc. and it's night impossible to have imperceptible delay.
Digital platforms have made independent research into disinfo impossible
For the actual information from the survey see this link: https://www.channel3000.com/lifestyle/the-surprising-things-...

49 out of 1,157 hotels in the survey reported having a mattress stolen.

"Whereas many four-star hotels have taken to tagging their items to trigger alarms when smuggled off the premises, five-star hotels are less likely to confront thieves or to report the theft to police, Keilmann told CNN.

"In a lot of cases, they don't report it to the police, because they don't want to be connected to crime," Keilmann said."

This makes me think that these people are only staying at the hotel to steal things and choosing hotels accordingly, presumably using a stolen credit card as well to make them harder to track.
Ten years ago the sentiment was to not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=567115 and I found that very offensive for some reason at the time. It is good to see the HN community very much for learning at work now.
In this article dedicated to cooperation between drivers, it says that around half of them are quite cooperative: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/giving-autonomous-ca...

That behaviour split definitely sounds like an exploratory algorithm at work.
MinerVGA is interesting! I never realized what Motherload's inspiration was.

It's nice that my childhood favorites are there: Descent, Jazz and Tyrian.
I don't think it is fair to anonymously denigrate someones life choices particularly when you have no idea what that person does specifically, and there is ABSOLUTELY a place in this world for advertising on the internet.
Even though I commute to work on most days, my most important meetings are still videoconferences that span nine hours worth of timezones. I often join these from home anyway.

This is a bit paradoxical, if not downright stupid.
Whether ads (in general, or specifically FB ads) make the world a worse place is up for debate, but the casual hatred in your comment directed at this person is actually making this world a worse place to live in.
Getting money into smaller villages should be reason enough.
Thanks. I wish I could tell there was a sophisticated workflow behind it all... but it simply involves a lot of rote, time spent searching and reading.

> Your archive of HN threads

Thread discovery is usually through https://hn.algolia.com, recalling from memory, looking at a user's past submissions and comments, and bookmarks; in that order.

> (from your profile)

I tend to research a lot on tech I am interested in by looking at comments on news.yc (hn.algolia is pretty good for this), and it isn't long before I find the same set of users expertly discussing things on the said tech. I, then, note those users down in my profile [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19556720