skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything having an awful phone tree doesn't seem like we are a couple years away from automating customer service.

What's happened is companies have restricted the customer service they offer (the phone operator can't do anything the customer can't do on the website). That's not automation getting closer, it's the service getting shittier.

(seriously compare calling a hospital and talking immediately to an operator that connects you to the person you want to listening to 3 selection lists with the same virus warning at the beginning of the each one and then talking to an operator that connects you to the person you want...)
My point had nothing to do with politics. This thread is about the need for a code of conduct.

The post I'm replying to said they agreed with Peterson, who apparently says that "We are not built on a hierarchy of patriarchy, but a hierarchy of competence". The implication is that a code of conduct is not necessary for open source software because it is a meritocracy.

I'm explicitly and directly refuting this position by using a recent example - out of millions of potential examples - from actual history.

An honest look at the world suggests that it is built neither on a hierarchy of competence nor a hierarchy of patriarchy, but rather, a hierarchy of privilege. It just so happens that white men - myself among them - are the most privileged.

A code of conduct is necessary and good for technical projects because it reduces the ability of one person's privilege and bigotry to be used to subvert another person's merit.
Volatility also open roads to predatory management. Last year I felt how job blackmail felt. It's near invisible, no one has to say a word. Your boss can just bully you and if you happen to like and need that job, you have to decide to harm your own daily life or suffer his ways.
I wonder if the code was not working, how you plot the results?
I agree with you, but probably not for the same reason.

I think Millennials are less comfortable talking with people and are willing to put up with less flexible and less powerful automated solutions where their parents would not. Expect customer service to get even worse with automation, not better.
did you misread the source? The provided numbers are 8-12% in the general population, and between 40-55%(!) among sex workers.
Widespread face mask usage can bring R0 below one
I use pandoc too, for both epub and pdf. I wrote a tutorial for customizing pandoc for pdf generation [0] (though I need to update it with newer things I've tried)

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...
It's so disappointing that dtrace is neutered by System Integrity Protection on MacOS. When I want to do this I have to stop and transport my workload to a server or VM, which may or may not reproduce the issue.
It's almost not even a pun, just a literal statement. "Fledge" just means "to become feathered". https://www.etymonline.com/word/fledge
The sceptic in me wonders how much capital the fast food industry is willing to invest to replace cheap labor. I'm not really arguing with you just reflecting on my own experiences with current start of the art tech.

"Did you say at fries to that?"
No
"Added 27 orders of fries, anything else"
Arghhhh!
> ... there is still so much that stands in my way ...

I keep reading this on HN and I am surprised every time. It is so much easier nowadays to develop software than it used to be. Back when I started out there was no HN, no Stack Overflow, no online software developer community that I had access to. I had to learn everything from books and often had nobody to ask. It is so much easier nowadays. I honestly would love to understand what it is that makes it feel hard? Does anybody have a good insight as to why?
The post implies that the authors' paper has received limited attention from the economic establishment due to its heterodox conclusion, but elides any supposition as to why its heterodoxy should be so controversial. Why should it be?
Star Wars used painstakingly crafted models and photography effects to produce the film. Now, people using modern tools can do much more, with considerably less work. The 'jobs' analysis wouldn't necessarily reveal that.

Sit through the credits at the end of an effects-heavy movie and look at the thousand or so people involved. The physical effects operations were never that big. I visited Kerner Optical, the physical effects end of Lucasfilm, once, and they had maybe 100 people. (They're gone now, spun off and didn't make it as a standalone company.) Overall, the number of people involved in a major movie seems to be up, not down. Much to the annoyance of some people in the industry, who, 20 years ago, thought they'd be able to make major films with 30 people.
I feel sorry for you. And I understand it is a very difficult situation. If you speak up and report it with evidence, yes you should have evidence, it will be really good for the community. And I believe there are good professors will support you and would like to advice you because you're as honest as them.
Is there a lot of Portuguese specific wordplay that is lost in translation? For instance, I loved Don Quixote but have read that the best English translation, masterpiece as it is, pales in comparison to the Spanish equivalent because of the loss in translation of language-specific jokes.
You win HN for the day imo!
Many animals are occasionally bipedal. Apes and monkeys and similar of course.

But also bears and no doubt many more.
You nailed it. 100% agree.
Speed vs. endurance. Depends on which is more valuable in a given environment.
All those capital letters seem annoying to type to me, though. Is PowerShell case-insensitive?
Lucky you. It's not just a feeling though (although there is that). My bosses have basically all constantly asked me when I was coming back if I tried to take more than a few days, and with no chance to earn vacation time there was no chance of it being paid out when I left.
The Amish are actually some of the most successful businessmen.

So... its probably not all just "friends and family values" in the Amish world. Despite a luddite-based culture and "technically" an 8th grade education, they're probably one of the hardest working people around.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/06...

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They just figured out where to focus their business chops. Organic foods, hand-crafted customized furniture, etc. etc. And the Amish have a huge reputation as among the best craftsmen and freshest foods for these sorts of things.

Their sense of community probably also helps keep the various Amish businesses alive since they help each other so much.
"If new tech was breaking the frontiers of automation and making it possible to automate jobs which couldn't be done before, these features should've changed."

This is definitely not self-evident, moreover, I'd totally disagree with it.

The authors are essentially missing the point by trying to categorize jobs or features of jobs as 'automatable' when in the grand scheme, it's just not how it works.

Everyone's jobs are evolving due to automation.

1) Automation has been steadily happening due to progress in IT for decades.

2) AI, in particular, is a nascent field, moreover, it's really on a 'tool' in the tool chest of IT systems overall. The time horizon for impact for direct impact of 'AI' will be a long way off, and when it is, it won't be directly apparent in most cases. There will be very few jobs where we'll be able to say 'AI replaced me'. Maybe Taxi drivers.

3) And my point - is that automation is tremendously difficult to measure in reality, and that it changes the nature of some jobs more than others, and in ways that cannot be measured by using employment numbers.

The 'AI replaced the taxi drivers' example, derived from our 'Industrial Revolution' thinking about automation and productivity, is an outlier.

Seeking to find ways in which 'AI replaced cab drivers' is probably worthwhile on some level, but it's going to miss 95% of the revolution.

Think of an Amazon product picker - their jobs have changed tremendously due to automation. There may be all sorts of flavours of AI baked into an Amazon warehouse pickers job now and in the future: a lot of AI in the vision/3D control for the robots which incrementally replace humans. AI in the route optimisation, AI in labour scheduling (no longer done by humans), AI in facilities management (ordering parts, service automatically).

All of this may lead to considerably more efficient workplace and yet not a single job may be lost nor might it lead us to think of some magic tech replacing some workers in a specific way, rather 'the system got smarter'.

The economic equilibrium may in fact lead to considerably more people being hired to do 'different kinds of more automated picking', not fewer.

The AI revolution is the same as the information revolution and it's happening across the system in myriad ways that will be very hard to measure as we would like.
I use a Node-based static site generator called Hexo [1] for the blog I'm most active with. I actually wrote about my experience setting up Hexo on that blog. [2] I went with Hexo because of the availability of themes, plugins and documentation.

My workflow goes like this: 1) Write blog post in markdown, making sure to include the YAML front-matter (JSON's also an option), 2) Generate the static pages from that blog post using `hexo generate` in my CLI, 3) Use `hexo server` in my CLI to preview my changes locally in my browser, 4) Upload my files to my remote server (I haven't automated this part yet)

Alternatively, I've tried static site generation & deployment with Node, TiddlyWiki [3] and GitHub Pages. Although TiddlyWiki's not meant to be a static site by default (nor a blog), there's a lot of helpful documentation out there [4] that explains how it can be used in that way. I got a static representation of my TiddlyWiki digital garden [5] up and running in an afternoon, whereas Hexo took me a few days to figure out.

[1]: https://hexo.io/

[2]: http://practicing.design/2020/05/02/my-review-of-hexo-a-node...

[3]: https://tiddlywiki.com/

[4]: https://nesslabs.com/tiddlywiki-static-website-generator

[5]: http://meet-me-in.space/
HN thread: not serving a purpose since n-gate exists
The rise of left-wing rage mobs in America
I definitely don't intend to deprecate modern precision-guided munitions. They obsolete nuclear-tipped ICBMs as thoroughly as ICBMs obsolete muzzle-loaded rifles. My complaint was strictly that the article's title, unbelievably, failed to mention any of the attributes that constitute that difference. It was like seeing a chimpanzee describe a sniper rifle as a fast rock thrower.
"Paedomorphosis" doesn't sound that different to the "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" observation.

Adds an interesting perspective on the controversy.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
The article discusses the switch of a major plant in the UK to compressed wood pellets, sourced from the US. I would think that Germany (and most of Europe) would have a good climate for wood pellet production.
Just started using Zola recently. Early, but after comparing with several other engines it seemed the best suited to my application. So far I'm happy with it.
> What evidence do we have for being closer to AGI today than we were twenty years ago?

None; I agree. But we have no evidence we are 20 years away from it either. The article I linked gives reasoning for why we shouldn't assume the latter, and prepare for the former.
this should be smaller than sth like lunr.js?

https://lunrjs.com/guides/getting_started.html
I've always been curious about this. What's the best practice for loading a large JSON file for large sets of search results? I believe when working with lunr in the past, I ended up making large network requests to load the entire JSON file at once. What's the proper way to deal with this?
I believe this will enable new form factors given PPW and higher performant systems free of power and thermal constraints on desktop. It may take some time, but I think this will lead to significantly greater long term sales and market share. Apples lead is rather significant in this space and the only computer with that soc will be a Mac.
Well, I guess rebutting mindless clickbait, getting insulted by idiots, and dealing with the kind of people who think "weird" is a reasonable criticism (I guess we know what table you sat at in high school, gullible pseudoscience blogger boy, and it wasn't the nerd table) seemed like it would be a fun way to spend my Tuesday night.
Thanks for recommending VWO. And sorry about replacing your internally built a/b testing tool :)
The ideal developer experience for me has nothing to do with technology. The technology matters very little compared with the people you work with. I am equally productive in C++, Typescript/React, Haskell, whatever. It doesn't matter. What matters is having a great boss, great people working with you, and a project that has real positive impact.
It is well known that large companies in China get assigned a CCP delegate. They are then made extensions of the CCP.
Thanks for describing your process as well as the tool, jaden! I appreciate your pursuit of efficiency in the download and implementation. This is inspiring me to add Wasm to my Rust usage.
FWIW, green used to do something completely different than it does today (make a window full-screen)— it was the (somewhat poorly named) “zoom” button and, in a properly-functioning Mac app, resized the window to fit its contents.

Its functionality gradually shifted towards a more Windows-like “maximize” over the years as more cross-platform apps moved onto the platform and apps that don’t have an explicit content size (like web browsers) proliferated, but the original implementation didn’t really have the strong connection to the traffic light metaphor you describe. It was more of a “red closes the window, yellow moves it out of the way, and green resizes it randomly in a way that may or may not actually be what you want”.

(I don’t recall whether or not this made it out of beta or not, but early OSX builds at least also had a persistent “ focus mode” button in window title bars— a button off by itself at the far right would shift into a single-window mode and hide everything else.)
You mean "below 1".
Ben, your thought process on A/B testing has been a big influence. The deck of yours on effective A/B testing (above) is pure gold.
> Interesting, we still use 'em which probably derives from the original English pronoun, not a shortening of "them" (we don't normally chop "th" off the beginning of a word).

This is not a strong point; "them" is not a normal word. We freely reduce all the pronouns.
I suspect that for every customer they lose for someone needing to boot natively they will gain more than one from performance, cost and form factor flexibility enabling much more desirable machines. Batteries add both size and weight so you can get thinner and lighter and still have a functional keyboard.
You first need to decide what your plans are for the future and what your appetite for risk is, if you desire to own real estate one day, or not, etc.

Research all the different ways you can invest it and come to your own conclusions.

Or blow it on a 5 star round the world trip.

Stock market is volatile and is at all time highs during a pandemic, so think about that and only invest if you are prepared to hold for many years to ride out a big crash. Not saying there definitely will be, but it's a risk.
In my view, that's a straw man. I don't think physicists believe that. I think that most physicists are comfortable treating some phenomena such as nuclear decay and shot noise as truly random. Whether that's a useful model or a fundamental truth is actually something that's not of practical interest outside of perhaps a very small cadre of theoreticians.

But one of my physics professors had an amusing comment: We can't calculate the energy levels of the hydrogen atom in years of CPU time, but the hydrogen atom can compute its own wavefunction in a femtosecond. Aside from microscopic phenomena, at least macroscopic systems can compute their own future just fine.

My own view is that free will is a theological / philosophical solution in search of a scientific problem.
NY Police Union Head: “Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs ”
Author here.

The list (both on my post + the google sheet) should be correct now - I underestimated how many different releases of the SAME movie title there are ...

Thanks all for catching the mistakes.
A quick check of cloudflare's isbgpsafeyet page

IBM Cloud - unsafe

At least AWS signs their routes I think.

If you can't even sign your own routes - hard to have a ton of pity.
Where to Start Research?
Yes, this is one community I've been checking every single day for the last 10 years. I wish it remains the same for the years ahead.

I love that now there's a dedicated "Show HN" page on the top!
"...racism built through governments and banks and developers acting hand in hand."

Easy to make up some conspiracy theory by all these powerful men and attribute the problem to it.
I've spent a significant portion of my life on github...
I was looking for something similar (client side text search) and landed upon MiniSearch[0]. While it doesn't support some of the advanced features of lunr (like wildcard search), it was perfect for my needs. The accompanying blog post[1] explains the trade-offs pretty well.

0 - https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch

1 - https://lucaongaro.eu/blog/2019/01/30/minisearch-client-side...
Perhaps I "aspired to" would be clearer. I very much think that prohibition has, like other things, made it more dangerous. But it sounds like hard, dangerous work with likely damaging effects means other professions should be preferred.
The author has a couple arguments, some stronger than others.

The argument that changing constraints dramatically change system function, and thus enable top down control, is good. It is why we can program computers without being quantum physicists. Additionally, the point that if determinism is true then all texts were encoded in the initial conditions is also good. And finally, his point that determinism undermines the rationality of morality is also good. The book "Life at the Bottom" maked this point vividly, where criminals seem to be unanimous that their actions are out of their control.

Where his argument falls apart is explaining the source of top down causation. The author makes the supervenience fallacy, conclusively demonstrated by Jaegwon Kim. There is no logical possibility of top down causation within materialism.
Wages are going up, so McDonalds is reducing the number of jobs. If you come inside to order, you have to fill your own drink; if you drive through, a robot does it. Stores have ordering kiosks and app based ordering so less staff needs to take orders. They've experimented with call center drive through processing before (it didn't work well at the time). It's harder to see, but they do lots of labor saving in the kitchen too.
imagine if Slack called itself webirc...

We'd all be better off, as we would know never to type that command.
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

IMO, John Ford's best movie, hands down.

Unfortunately, it is not actually available on Prime without "CBS All Access" [Edit: ah, I see that this is not just "Included with prime", but all movies]
Their definition of "automation" isn't a binary toggle, but a grade scale based on expert research:

> For our purposes, a key ONET job feature is “degree of automation,” ranging from “not at all” to “completely.” [...] (Note, these scores are expert judgements, not model predictions. Such scores for all jobs are found here: https://www.onetonline.org/find/descriptor/result/4.C.3.b.2?...)

From the linked paper.

> The economic equilibrium may in fact lead to considerably more people being hired to do 'different kinds of more automated picking', not fewer.

I think you agree with them, then:

> Labor markets change more often due to changes in demand, relative to supply.
What Investors Should Look for in AI Startups?
I feel like using a straight bloom filter will get you some false positives and may not be a right fit, but it is an interesting take & might be good for a first-pass.

mdbook (https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) uses elasticlunr (http://elasticlunr.com/) as an inverted index and is generated statically.

The same is done for zola (https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/search/).
The back and arrow buttons on the slideshow look like they're part of the app. I initially clicked away because I thought it was a single screenshot.
> unix-based operating systems are under your control

Except when they're not.
I think this is a better link and should have been posted instead. These sound samples are pretty wild! Scary accurate.
IBM bought the technology part called the Weather Company. That's the part that gathers weather info from all over and makes it available.

The cable TV channel is still independent.
Unpatched Microsoft Systems Vulnerable to CVE-2020-0796
This. Docker Swarm, and by extension Docker EE / UCP, is barely in maintenance mode. Go compare the Moby and docker projects on GitHub vs kubernetes.

To be clear, I use Docker Swarm in my home cluster due to simplicity and ease of use. Unfortunately that pattern hasn't scaled to the Enterprise.
For me the biggest things with newer luas would be things like the bitwise operators, 32bit numbers and utf8 support. I haven't played with 5.4 yet but the garbage collection changes look rather nice too for some of the embedded work i've done with lua
Yes, we're comfortably profitable as we're based out of India.

Having a big team is the reason our customer support [1] is best in industry. We have a large team of dedicated and passionate people ready to guide customers for all their problems.

[1] https://vwo.com/why-us/customer-success/
I really wonder how people get value out of a meta status page when my experience is that status pages are often incorrect about what the actual status is. Whether they're manually updated, or it's a case of "your 9s are not my 9s", it seems like a compounded broken telephone problem.
Beware the 'Inside View'
Batteries are good for N cycles (to simplify) and take M carbon to produce. If it cycles N times and is charged with fuel that emits <M carbon, that’s going to be a net carbon output surplus. This is expected and desired from solar to have some carbon output as a tradeoff to supply bursts of demand, but needs to be compared with eg a comparable coal plant (or “wood pellet” plant I guess) in order to figure out how much improvement it gives.
It’s a great revenue given that they’re based in India and more so because they are self-funded.
HBOMax pulls Gone with the Wind
Do everything in your power to find out what's actually happening with a bug; don't just guess.

- SQL

- Your metrics system's query language

- jq

- sort / uniq

- grep

- awk

- pyplot

- mapbox (if you have geospatial data)

- your environment's canonical profiler, and how to connect it in situ

- how to poke the relevant APIs with your bare hands (curl, grpcurl, etc)

- how to MITM and inspect the communications between your components (wireshark, charles, certificate trust stores, feature flags to disable pinning, etc)
For vendors using metal it could be seamless. There would also be gains had through ML and neural engine in image, video and audio processing. Not to mention dedicated video hardware decode. Time will tell, but I don’t see adobe being punitive there. They make money on software subscriptions and are already bringing native photoshop to iOS.
I remember! That internship stint at IISc ended up with this paper on modeling a gene network in E. coli: https://bit.ly/3flh6nh
How does this compare in practice to things like dissenter?