skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just seeing someone else's tutorial on scraping Amazon prices. They also ran into an issue where they needed to scrape twice instead of once. Not sure that it's the same issue you're facing but I thought I might drop my two cents.
How about:

(You should contact the guy at BackBlaze who does their hard drive stats blog posts, and pay him to do this for you as a side hustle - and release this data analysis quarterly!)

:-)
It's easy to forget that only one wireless device on a channel can send at any given time, even if they're on different networks. And that every channel overlaps with its neighbors.
Given how much the orange idiot lies and spins the truth to suit his purpose[1], I don’t think it would make a difference.

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-calls-buffalo-protest...
I love both Prisma 2 and Hasura! 2 awesome products!
City disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here's what happened next
How will you prevent this from becoming a snake-oil sales vector? Similar sites have been overrun with cure-all peddlers until they either shut down or became heavily moderated.
It feels like you and many others look at things tertiary to the core of engineering (certifications, sign-off, etc) and see them as the defining aspects somehow. You could take those away and it'd still be engineering.

Dictionaries aren't perfect but Merriam's definitions closely capture what I think of as engineering really well:

2a : the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people

b : the design and manufacture of complex products

Programs obviously aren't made of physical matter but it's otherwise fitting.
Thanks for posting this reminder. I never met Roberts but whenever I lead a tour at the Computer History Museum I walk by the Winnebiko. It's on display there, looking just like the top left picture on the above page. (Also, I have spent a lot of time in Friday Harbor so can attest he's chosen a lovely place to settle.)
The number of people working on the asm! for Rust on the more obscure architectures is likely less than one.
The data you are putting out there is completely wrong.

You can check this subreddit for publications:
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/

All most all the publications from the past 2 months show an IFR if 0.1-0.6 or at most 0.8%.
I prefer to call it checksum errors in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records

:)
I definitely don't mean it as in "AGI is invented; humans need not apply", but in the point you've covered:

> The article states no evidence that there's been any past effect of "increasing automation" and assumes the near future will look like the recent past.

My point was that predictions of AGI being so far away may be false, as explained the article I linked. If they were false, and we ended up with AGI, I don't think the article's assumption about the near future will apply. This does not need to happen overnight, it can take time, but the kinds of jobs we could automate would change drastically over time (and the time scale in the article is two decades long!)

On your second point, though. Part of why humans are difficult to work with because we have our own emotions and motivations and sometimes decide not to do things other people want. An extremely intelligent AI that did only what it was told to do would probably not be as difficult to work with?
It's really cool that she got to go down, but I think the more interesting story is around Vescovo and his team. [The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-tho...) has a long-form article published in May about it.

One of my favorite lines from the article:

“And the next day, around lunchtime, everyone went ‘Fuck this, I’ll go for lunch.’ Patrick retrieves a piece of equipment from the deepest point on earth, and it’s just me, going, ‘Yay, congratulations, Patrick.’ No one seemed to notice how big a deal it is that they had already made this normal—even though it’s not. It’s the equivalent of having a daily flight to the moon.”
updated the list. Thanks for the catch! sorry about that. I'm using an `in` keyword which just checks substrings ... that I meant to change. Woops
Dr Richard Jordan Gatling underestimated human craving for violence. His prediction has accuracy of a Gatling gun.

Note: huge fan of Gatling gun
I suspect so, another one:

> Yet once those avian features were in place, birds took off.
Domino Model Monitor
That is very cool, thank you. I just sat there and stared at it and had a Pale Blue Dot moment. This thing is so beautiful and here we are fighting about everything.
So do you critics of the article adhere to the belief that the current state of the universe is predictable from the initial state and the laws of physics?

Does that prediction take time? If it doesn't, if it is instantaneous, it's just a hand-waving god. If the prediction for any given instant takes trillions of years, it's meaningless.

How am I supposed to see it as anything other than an obstinate adherence to a principle, an unfalsifiable dogma?
We are only a couple years away from automating most customer servicing. You’ll still need a few, but if we collect data on the few it’s possible to scale those answers to millions.

That’ll put millions out of work and is basically text generation... easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and we probably already have the technology just not productionized.

Now, those people will be retrained to do something. Maybe even just do more detailed customer service. So I’m not too concerned - just saying automation is coming
> Are they saying that higher a job pays, the more likely it is to get automated?

Yes. "Simple economic theory predicts that, all else equal, employers are more eager to automate jobs with higher pay and more workers. So these two factors should predict job automation. And we do in fact see such effects in Table 3, though more consistently for pay than employment."

> what does 'employment' refer to exactly?

Number of people employed.
General advice without knowing anything about your life.

Your nice $150k a year job could disappear tomorrow.

Put $100k in your savings account.

Put $50k in one of the investment recommendations given here. Index fund, etc.

Save it for a rainy day. Forget about it and move on with your every day life.

You’re young. You have your whole life ahead of you. That money could come in handy one day.

Congrats!
"Money doesn't buy happiness" is just something we tell the poor so they don't revolt -- this also applied to communism -- the communist elites lived a much better life materially and socially.
Sure, average Ivan was "happy" because his neighbors had just as crappy flat, just as crappy car, just as crappy job, just as crappy food and so on and there was no way for him to "better" his life because money was meaningless because thats not what Ivan really lacked -- he lacked freedom to do as he pleased with his money.

My point was that people are competitive, social animals and social status is very important; sure, communism castrated a lot of those impulses and some people claim they were much happier back then, but its mostly bullshit nostalgia.

I was very young back then, but I remember the deprivations, my kindergarten educator slapping me for not applauding "dear leader", my parents just leaving me alone in the flat because they had to go the communist parades, being lectured in kindergarden how my parents jobs(doctors) were in fact less important than the jobs of other coleagues worker-parents jobs who "perhaps" made the syringes my parents could not do without; I remember people having to work on saturdays, night shifts and so on.
The max example is listed in the very last paragraph of the paper as one of the failure modes.
I have never worked with a client who did not test their DR solution. If they were not under regulation to test, they had customers who demanded they test. Although yes it’s mostly quarterly.

You’re right it’s not fun. It’s not easy. It’s all hands on deck at most companies. But disaster recovery isn’t something you can build after the fact so even a neglected DR solution is better than none. If a tornado or earthquake rips through your main DC, you’re not getting those machines or that data back. How much good that does depends on how much you like staying in business.
A programming language in Ancient Chinese
Not invented here.
If the author reads this, the link in the Google sheet to the Battle of Algiers goes to Algiers, a totally different movie.
Ender's Game and the "side-quel" Ender's Shadow.

Every single time I've reread either I've found some part of the book that resonates precisely with a situation I'm going through in my life. Even parts I thought didn't apply to me at the time, upon rereading struck a chord.

For example, when I was younger, I identified with Ender but as I've gotten older, I identify more with the adults in the book. Especially now that I have children.

On a side note, the 25th anniversary edition has an introduction that has some gems all of it's own. Notably, there is a line where Card mentions something along the lines of: when I was a child, I never thought of myself as being less of a person than an adult. I just thought of myself as a smaller adult person.

That has always stayed with me since I read it and have always tried to apply that mental model of childhood to any interaction I have with children. It has been particularly impactful now that I have my own children.
> We are only a couple years away from automating most customer servicing

The paper rigorously questions such assertions of faith. It merits a thoughtful response.

As Deming said, "in God we trust, all others must bring data."
Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System [pdf]
The headline (and paper) are titled "No Recent Automation Revolution." We might very well be on the cusp of one, but prediction was not the goal of this paper.
The jury was 10 white, 1 asian, 1 latino.
Given our experience Google so far it probably wouldn't be that great.
Overall I don't think it is a convenient way to program. Besides, you still need to test it.
Show HN: A curated list of resources for Cryptoeconomics
Tell your boss that if they are willing to pay 2x your normal hour rate for work done during your vacation then that's OK. If they are not then clearly the work isn't important enough for your vacation to be interrupted.
Compilers kind of suck at filling branch delay slots :(
I didn't say anything about "raw coding ability". Being a good developer has nothing to do with being a good interviewer.
> Tcl/Tk is still the fastest way to get from zero to functional GUI that I've ever seen.

PySimpleGUI seems pretty great for that.
As an academic, so a full-time writer, getting to the point of 'decent writing' took years and about 50% of my work-time so far. The key was never stopping writing (500 words per day on a weekly average) coupled with external, sometimes brutal editoring/reviewing (in this case, from my supervisors).

I think external editing/reviewing is key. A sentence you've reworked ten times sounds perfectly reasonable to you because you've read it hundreds of times, but to someone else it may unintelligible garbage.

I'm not sure how your different edited drafts differ. Are they details? For me I first sit down and think of the 'one' story I want my data to tell, from there flows only one single possible draft.
Fortunately for you the whole thing is written in unobfuscated .NET so the source can be easily recovered.
Also in the customer service segment, we continue to accelerate the move to wipe out fast food jobs. Four million people work in fast food restaurants in the US. I'll be surprised if around 1/4 to 1/3 of those jobs don't vanish this decade. That is part of the automation revolution and it is underway. Just the process of automating ordering at fast food restaurants as we already easily can, will remove several hundred thousand jobs permanently.
> Because compilers almost never write better code than humans

Compilers almost always write better code than most humans.
So is the goal just to have something to work with in order to get back online? I guess that is more achievable than trying to maintain continuous service, which is what ours are about (failover isn't just for black swan events, but for ordinary outages too).
What James Baldwin said at (around) 34:46 reminds me so much of the political posturing we see from business leaders (the Reddit guy, et. Al.) and politicians (almost all of them).
We have been leasing bare metal servers since the pre-IBM Softlayer days.

Over the past few years we have experienced quite a few network-related outages. Not usually to this extent, more generally a failure of some piece of network gear that takes out either backend or frontend traffic from a particular data center. We seriously priced out a migration to another provider recently, but in the end what held us back was cross-AZ transfer costs on AWS. We found it would raise our operating costs significantly, so the matter was dropped.

We were much happier with the service and support we received prior to the IBM acquisition.
This seems pointless except as a excuse to use AI.

Isn’t this what compilers are for (converting one language to another)
Ted Chiang made a similar point a few years back. (well not that phallic, but also about psychological projection as a reason for the AI fear)

"This summer, Elon Musk spoke to the National Governors Association and told them that “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.” Doomsayers have been issuing similar warnings for some time, but never before have they commanded so much visibility.[...]AI redesigns itself to be more effective, it might decide that the best way to maximize its output would be to destroy civilization and convert the entire surface of the Earth into strawberry fields"[...]

"This scenario sounds absurd to most people, yet there are a surprising number of technologists who think it illustrates a real danger. Why? Perhaps it’s because they’re already accustomed to entities that operate this way: Silicon Valley tech companies."[...]

"The idea of superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie that solves all the world’s problems, or a mathematician that spends all its time proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-dang...
Probably time to add some mute-shaming by having a large red button "X is un-muted" next to such participants in the participants list. To those who are actually speaking, this shouldn't be a bother anyway since they are, well, actually speaking.
Slight anecdata. Lots of secretarial roles do take handwritten notes. It's an odd time because it's clear that human intervention is almost not required anymore.
PXE Boot w/ NFS root - you won't get the bandwidth (about 112MB/s over gigabit Ethernet), but you'll definitely see the response time improvements (IOPS + latency).
> but everything has to be measured to quantify if the decision was good or not.

Do you measure your romantic relationships or marriage or family interactions? Do you measure any human relationship?Because hiring and working with someone with fundamentally a relationship, not a data science or math problem.

I had a manager once who said, "if it can't be measured, it can't be managed." You sound like him. Good luck with that approach, and i hope we don't work together :)
Chrome team to remove ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist’ to be more inclusive
It would be pretty easy to say something like "Go far enough back, and English and German (and Dutch &c.) were the same language...."
No. Not exactly. Having control over manoeuvrability until final strike is recent thing.
Sort of. We do have unique problems to solve given the nature of our products. But to some degree, you are correct. We would have eventually done it to scale, but right now we did it to survive.
> I'm willing to be clued-in. This isn't an ideological fight for me. I have nothing against solar and wind. I want what you want. Ideally, if you could point me to an example of 100% or near 100% renewable smart grid that is running primarily on wind and solar - the discussion would be over.

You are giving the "nothing can ever happen for the first time" argument.

Grids right now use fossil fuels. This does not mean that a fossil-fuel free grid is impossible, or that IF fossil fuels were excluded, renewables could not do the job. It just means that the policies to ban fossil fuels are not yet in place.

If you model what it would take to produce a 0% fossil fuel grid, using plausible numbers for the costs, you will find in most cases that nuclear gets optimized right out of the picture. It's just too expensive. Instead, some combination of wind, solar, possibly hydro if available, short term storage (like batteries) and long term storage (like hydrogen) is cheaper.

Your focus on what exists now is irrelevant to what I was talking about, which is what would be cheapest in a ground-up fossil-free grid using costs as they exist today. The nuclear plants in Ontario are sunk costs. They would not be built today as new plants. As historical remnants, they will eventually disappear, and likely will not be replaced with more nuclear.
Fast food automates tasks more than jobs.

Which the link doesn't particularly seem to be analyzing. McDonalds eliminating ~1 near minimum wage job at every store isn't going to be reflected in wages of the remaining employees.
There's a hard cap on hydro. You can't make it rain more. Wind and solar are SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper and quicker than nuclear for initial installation.

Additionally, you can run energy islands from solar and wind.
How will you help other people if the economy breaks down?
For me, not having Visual Studio, Jetbrains, etc has made life easier overall. I have to design code with low intellectual overhead, since I no longer have fancy tools detangling spaghetti for me.

So I use BBEdit and Oh My ZSH for just about everything.

For git interaction I love Fork.
Is she the first person to do both? That's gotta be a pretty awesome feeling.
Ok, so what you're saying is you want the employee to be able to optionally enter a non-compete at quitting time at a price the employee negotiates to, as long as that price is at least the employee's previous salary. That sounds like a reasonable proposal.
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Have used this for Awk and Sed.
I met a traveler from an antique land,
Who said — “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Interesting, still checking this out. It might be great for remote team building too.

I spotted a small misspelling: “Pass the conversation to someone who has been quite”. I think it should be quiet.
I unfortunately don't think it makes any good points -- just about every one of its arguments is fatally flawed, sadly.

With respect to consciousness being tied to quantum physics --

There doesn't appear to be any shape that matter can be sculpted into that allows that matter to "freely choose" the outcome of a quantum experiment. (Change the distribution yes, but not select particular outcomes from a wide distribution). Free will doesn't emerge from quantum randomness -- if it did, it would be analogous to setting up a two-slit experiment where the photon is capable of freely choosing to go through the left slit every time, under the power of a conscious spirit and in defiance of the predictions of quantum probabilities. Our brains do not have this power either. Whatever the quantum field fluctuations are occurring inside our brains, our rational thought is at best recording it, most likely is robust to it, most likely not formed by it, and certainly not consciously selecting particular favoured quantum outcomes.
Agreed, it would be surprising if the Zetas were able to develop hypersonic drones. But I don't think the hypersonic part is vital to their political assassination capacities.
I've been reading Ryan Holiday's book Perennial Seller, and it's great to read as a developer, and someone who is learning the importance of being able to sell.

The big take-away so far, is that it is all about editing. Get something down, and then work it again and again. When you write a sentence, that's just the beginning, not the end. If you take that approach, it may help.

I now view some of my writing as "wordsmithing". Sure, I write, but then I re-write and review, and get feedback, etc. etc.
"fast on the heels of" gives you an idea of how to connect the senses
Latte-dock with auto-hide for a dock, and custom KWin button arrangements to mimic macOS. A top panel with Window Title + Window Appmenu Plasmoids for a global menu. System Tray and Event Calendar Plasmoids on the same panel, the latter of which has a drop down calendar like in macOS. KRunner, or either the Search or Application Launcher Plasmoids to replace Spotlight. The Screen Edges setting can mimic macOS hot corners. Widgets on the desktop is a compromise for a Dashboard replacement, as is the Launchpad Plasma Plasmoid. Workspaces, Activities and various Screen Edges views can replace Mission Control. Dolphin can be configured to look like Finder, and you can set Finder keyboard shortcuts, too. There's a setting somewhere to make menus transparent and blurred, as well.

Most of these are extensible or scriptable, and have actions that can be triggered with custom shortcuts. KRunner in particular is extensible. Plasma lets you change or set shortcuts for everything, so, for example, you can mimic the Mac screenshot shortcuts well, since KDE's Spectacle is comparable to the latest updates to screenshot functionality in macOS.

Oh, and symlink 'xdg-open' to 'open', or create an alias.
i'm fixing this list ... just realized a few bugs in the code. sigh
These drones can actually take away control from machines and give it to humans. Learning from history, it is not a good thing in long run. Humans are good at judging the situation but they come with bias and emotions
If you're avoiding war and you don't have the ability to win war, you're not peaceful or virtuous, you're just weak.
What you DON'T understand about work/life balance in socialism is the pervasive undercurrent of fear: work in socialist countries was legally required (and, yes, people went to jail for failing to have full-time job, and there even was a special word for people like that: тунеядец).

Your parents did a good job shielding you from that fear. And, no, they didn't have "more life", as life in constant fear couldn't be considered as anything better.

(Disclaimer: I'm old enough to remember living in a socialist country as an adult.)
One thing I haven't seen surface in the conversation on police violence is discussion of the use of steroids by the police.
I'd say this is very much on gopls. VS already had lots of time to perfect their LSP client implementation, it should be just plug and play
If your OS needs special tools to keep it from being a privacy joke, your OS has larger issues.