skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author did not make up the story; he is simply relaying a story that multiple current and former Tesla employees said they were told...by Musk himself.

As actually relayed in the book, the point of the story is not that Musk actually wanted to become CEO of Apple-Tesla (the author notes that the story is implausible), but that Musk felt the need to burnish his image by making up such a story in the first place.
It seems to be $9/month if you want things like recurring tasks or sorting.
There is every likelihood that we could in principle just keep drilling new oil. Our ability to extract oil at a cost effective rate scales almost exactly with the depletion of easy reserves. The reason we need to switch out is the devastating environmental impact, and only the devastating environmental impact.
> The company talks a massive game about how inclusive they are. But the messaging app company not only built direct messaging across Slack channels—it was even in production before anybody (anybody being, of course, the entire internet) pointed out that the feature could hardly cater to harassers and stalkers more perfectly.

Can somebody explain this for me? Should’ve slack not have any DMs, is that the point?
I wouldn't use the word "decent" for someone who pokes their nose at your use of the F-word and voice intonation. I would rather use "control freaks".
I would recommend you never sniff a hospital's LAN. The print jobs that you see coming over the line, not all of them are SFW.

(Very few printers in the world seem to be setup to use secure connections unfortunately)
> We absolutely can automate cooking a fucking hamburger, and as soon as it's cheaper than the cheapest labour, McDonald's, Burger King, etc, WILL automate cooking a fucking hamburger.

Curiously, McDonald's is probably as close as you can get to automating burgers and fries without crossing that final step of removing human labor entirely. It's not really cooking anymore, it's process chemistry[0], with some final assembly required.

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[0] - Which I actually consider to be a good thing.
Society is in the middle of a ‘technological transformation,’ Andreessen says
What about Portia[0]? I have often read about the intelligence and eyesight that jumping spiders have.

My pet theory is that invertebrate intelligence is more popular in the universe and among galactic federations or what have you.

[0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5680...
You are absolutely correct. It's a terrible argument, how dare me. Thankfully, let me cast aside my experience and education. I have been shown the blinding and heavenly light of Hacknews comment section! I had a sin (opinion) it didn't go over well, but now I by the Holy Spirit of Winston Smith I am reborn!

Hopefully today, thru your anger, your well-placed debate, and your comments here on Hacker News you can find justice and the Staten Island Amazon warehouse workers. (although only a finding of merit has been found, not an complaint or even a crime.) Downvoting me and responding to my comments will right the ways of the world! There will be justice via social media activism! Isn't this what this article is about?

Long live the employees of Staten Island Amazon Warehouse!
Union now!
#CancelAmazon!
#StatenIslandAmazonWarehouseStrong
#unionsforall

I wish you the best in the search for justice and unionization (if that is what the employees want, via a vote). You alone can solve the problems of inequality that we face in America.

Go with the power of non-offend deity, I truly wish you the best. Build the utopia that we all deserve. Let this response to your comment be marked as in history as the rallying cry!
I worry it’s a bad sign for union organizing whenmiddle-class white fascists like yourself pretend not to understand the problem of forcing people to vote only at one heavily surveiled location to which the Amazon guards had keys.

I get it: you’re a fascist, and fascists love to play games with the truth. I understand that you’ll never respect anybody on this site enough to do anything other than bullshit. I understand you’ll never stop lying and will never be honest.
Most construction relies on fit young men to do the "heavy lifting". It would be interesting to see how the dynamics changesd if technology moved the needle on the brawn->brain scale, so that the core value prop of a construction worker was not their fitness. I'm not convinced it would be for the better.

Also just want to add that working in a physical job for 50 years is much better for your body than sitting at a desk for 50 years.
If laying bricks is so difficult, should we not look for building other types of walls?

And what about adding mortar (or glue) after lego-like bricks have been added on top of each other?
I don't know why anyone would bother to engage on this subject with an account named 'awsthro00945' that was created 44 days ago. Is this one of those infamous Amazon fc ambassador astroturf accounts we were reading about a year ago?
They have been working for me just fine. Perhaps a regional outage?
McDonalds effectively did automate making a hamburger through supply chain and on-site process. It's cleaning that those professionals say is difficult, which seems to be why machines don't handle the very last portion itself 100%.
With human bricklayers, you can find enough people who have that skill that the pay is low. Here in the US, the availability of illegal immigrants means that the pay is often literally criminally low and you don't have to provide benefits.

Replace those bricklayers with a robot and its caretakers and now you need:

1. Someone with technical training who can keep the bot running happily. Since the technology is new and changing, the available supply of trained people is necessarily low and therefore wages for them would be high.

2. Drivers to get the bot to the worksite. If they stay, they are doing essentially nothing when they could be laying bricks. At that point, the robot is saving you basically nothing. Or they go off and drive for other jobs, but now the logistics of coordinating multiple work sites get harder.

You could argue that robot bricklayers are better for the workers' health. But contractors don't pay health benefits and don't care about that externality at all.

If a contractor gets one of these bots, now they are obliged to maintain it and keep it busy to amortize out the expense of buying it. That puts them in a precarious position of maintainence prices change, the bot company goes out of business, or work dries up.

Meanwhile, labor (until COVID) has been getting cheaper as the gains of the labor movement have been steadily eroded.

It is absolutely no surprise to me that we're still paying people to build brick walls, even without accounting for the fact that bricklaying is a pretty skilled activity.
My grandfather was a brickie and has seen the transition from hand-laid brick to precast slabs and facades.

It seems at least in homes, brick has become a luxury reserved for pizza ovens and fences in fancy suburbs. Given that, the automation doesn't really make sense. We already have a cheap commodity product, and nobody wants a luxury good than bogans can afford (not even bogans)
Printing is hard primarily because of misaligned business incentives, which form a bubble of suck that's eerily resilient to market optimization.

Automating programming definitely seems like an easier target in comparison.
I went to that site, and still haven't seen Workflowy. It says it will help me stay organized and then wants me to sign up, without talking about what it actually does.
Solo-founder question regarding marketing
Super early stage start up focusing on blockchain tech and being a solo founder, there are so many things to focus on: tech, talking to potential users, posting to build following, etc. My challenge/question is regarding consistent posting and building the tribe… being a solo-founder (not married to it but here we are) is paying for assistance in building the brand and talking about the product a good idea or stay away from it? What methods have you used to create awareness about your solution while also focusing on many other aspects of the development?
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Not a fan of overloading V for both version and verbose. Since starting to write Go / working in the industry, unabbreviated flag names have really grown on me.
>Which is such an incredibly vacuous statement that you deserve a downvote for saying provably incorrect things.

Where's the research? Where's the white papers? Where's the detailed technical blogs of some security related issues he's handling?

The guy is an impostor. He's been an impostor his entire life. He's just highly intelligent and really good at it.
the best part is programming has been getting automated since it began. the assumption that since that process of automation hasn't cut into programmers' salaries and job prospects yet that it won't ever, like making software is something special.
OP said this might be 25% efficient. Peltiers are 1-2%?
I think op meant to link to this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/03/world/covid-delta-va...
I started using Obsidian recently and have been using it for markdown checklists. I tried to create collapsible sections, but found that as soon as I enclose a section with a <details> tag, Markdown rules are no longer applied, so if I want my items on separate lines I need to at <br> tags. It’s not the end of the world, but I’d love a workaround if you’ve found one.
I have a feeling that people are just going to think my comments here are hyperbole or give me a lecture on how I don't understand economics, but I will say it anyway.

And please read to the end because I believe my opinion is different from the normal sides taken.

Money supply and debt are increasing in ways that are unsustainable in the current system. At the same time, there are reasons that this is being done, and it boils down to the fact that a fixed supply just doesn't work either.

However, I believe that our money is too simple and our global political systems too disorganized continue this way. Essentially, at some point some countries have too many problems and cannot morally tolerate letting other countries produce money and throw debt into a hole while forcing them to live up to their obligations.

If another system that is fair and based on sound cryptocurrency is not put into place, the result within the next few years may be a global war. The first part of this is using blockchains to prevent people from constantly cheating as is the current case. Also, I believe that a fixed supply is absolutely not appropriate, but so is an infinitely expanding supply. But beyond that, I think money needs to become a high technology. So rather than having a few valves that can be turned on or off by lucky people near them, there should be a lot more data involved and more levers. Such as connecting money in some way to real resources. Or regulating use for different purposes in different ways.
> Firefox on the Desktop is really good

I strongly disagree with this statement. My opinion is that it's the opposite.

I always get sad when I think about modern Firefox. I loved Firefox dearly before the transition, and I tried really hard to love it after the transition, too. But it failed me and lost much of what I loved about it. Then every subsequent release was just a little worse, excising more of what made Firefox great.

Eventually, I just had to give up on it.
You might be interested in my sibling post with a more complete statement. I think it is a lot less appalling in context.
Extremophiles are in no sense rare. They constitute the most diverse collection of branches of the tree of life. We are on one of those.

This is not accidental. There is more genetic variation in humans in Africa than the whole rest of the world, and more variation in English dialects in England than the whole rest of the world. We -- everything we knew existed until recently -- evolved from extremophiles. They came first. The world changed around them. Some changed to match, eventually giving rise to us, while others found places more like what they were used to. The latter are still to be found in those places, and in many others they have also adapted to.

Common types like us are adapted to currently common conditions. When the environment changes radically, and all the life we knew of up until recently is extinct, the extremophiles will radiate a new ecosystem adapted to new conditions.
We’ll have more automation, sure.

but only they most vile fascist fuck would argue that means labor should have no rights in the interim

Though I understand that this is a vile fascist website, that is intended to appeal to authoritarian right-wing assholes like yourself.

Daniel Gackle works hard to ensure that leftists have no place on this website. He’s a morally abhorrent pile of dung who lied straight up about me and my previous actions. Just a zero integrity pile of human fucking misery.
Where's the robot that can actually pick up and move pieces on standard chessboard, with no special guidelines or restrictions on pieces?
"preventing the productive from being rewarded" plays strongly to the Amazon model of competitive warehouse labour. I get what you're saying but this also is a reflection of what piece rate, and "fire the bottom 10%" does to the nature of work.

The strangling of marginal industries: Yes, I also see this. The problem is that around 2 in 3 startups and small enterprises fail, and oftentimes, amongst the losers are unpaid workers. Small companies starting on unrealistic expectations need to balance asking workers to do "more" for "less" and meeting legal minimums. If the employer really only worked off their family labour, and had no basis to hire for pay, then has the union really been the reason for failure, or just the trigger? It could have been the public health board, the bank, or any of the other creditors: If the cost of labour was the sole reason, then there's something to talk about here but it goes to the VC funding, and where money flows in small enterprise.

The last one, Look I get get, I know these things happen. They happen in construction labour, wharfside labour, in the print unions in the UK (News Ltd 1970s)_and coal mining. They don't seem to happen in garment work, in office work, clerical, health, banking, ICT. It's not a charactersistic of unions per se, as of .. a generation of specific unions, in physically intense labour, or protecting a very small circuit of rights.

The wharfies basically lost. Intermodal carriers won. The miners lost. Construction labour unions usually lose in the longer run. Gang infestation of construction unions in Australia has been a huge problem, and mega-union mergers fed this to some extent.

I don't have "rebuttal" to what you say. Except to note, Those are not predominant features of what unionisation "is" worldwide. This isn't the experience of unions in most of Europe, or Asia.
I’d add to the list of why partial automation isn’t worth it: it’s more satisfying to build a brick wall than babysit a bricklaying machine.

Doing the physical labor is difficult. My father was a bricklayer from ten to fifty, when he finally had to stop working. But he loved showing me the buildings he built. He helped build city government buildings, schools, libraries. The pride he felt, that he’d built something with his hands that would outlast him, kept him going.

We don’t need to solve just for the physical actions, but also for the human experience of building and the feeling of mastery. Particularly for physical trades.
These are super helpful responses. Makes me want to instabuy.
That's not true. Bloomberg bought the NYC mayor election and into the top 4 of the Democratic presidential primary. Considering he (a) only became a Democrat in 2018 and had held office as an independent (after running for office as a Republican) (b) waffled on whether he was even going to run for the first 8 months of the election and (c) skipped the first four states that's a really good result. He still bought himself into the debates.

And that's buying it for yourself. I think we can easily see the history of rich people buying presidents if not the presidency.
Solid-Fluid Interaction with Surface-Tension-Dominant Contact
Why would Fred say this aloud? As in, what’s the game theory of telling people to get ready to pack their bags and make themselves redundant in an orderly manner.
Why don't we use (something like) Legos?
I dislike this trend of "pay $$ to get to choose your upgrade windows"
The article addresses that nicely in it's 4th sentence:

" ... one day I would like to do the math on the “great leap second gyroscopes” that we could mount near the poles to steady the Earth’s rotation, so we can stop talking about this. We may occasionally have to desaturate these gyroscopes with huge rockets also."

I have an alternative solution, which is that we stop earths rotation and get it tidally locked to the sun, so it's always 00:00:00.000 midnight at Greenwich UK. This'll screw up the ski resorts in New Zealand, but anyone who's spent a winter in Invercargill on the South Island there will agree that it'd be much much nicer as a tropical paradise.
The incentives are opposing; the original author wants clickbaity headlines, since it increases hit counts and therefore ad impressions, and ad income. HN readers would like descriptive (non-clickbaity) headlines so that they can choose not to click on a link.
In the context in which the text was written the meaning was perfectly obvious, since it was directed at exactly the sorts of abuses they'd just finished fighting a war over. "An establishment of religion", for example, referred to establishing an official state religion. "The freedom of speech, and of the press" was literally about speaking to each other and owning and utilizing printing presses—the use of "the press" as a general term for journalists didn't start until around 1921[0].

It's really much simpler than people make it seem.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/press
It never is. It would've been eliminated otherwise. There's some core of value being delivered, wrapped in a layer of corruption. The question is, what's the relative size of the core to the grift layer?
Hey, I want to take a break from the normal HN flow to wish everybody a happy Tuesday. Take a moment to appreciate the people around you. It's easy for life to speed by.

Anyway. I better quiet down. I'm sure the robotic bricklayers will be here to take our jobs soon enough. No need to rush it.

(Well actually, laying bricks is one of those fiendishly complicated problems at scale...)
Why 1 dose, why not fully vaccinated?
I don't think this is it.

Computer people tend to work in office settings. The reason the old joke about threatening to replace people with shell scripts works is because a lot of office jobs can be replaced with shell scripts. This is because, rather than physically working in the real world, most office jobs entail manipulating symbols, which is easy for computers but hard for humans. (That's why we invented computers).

A lot of work in the real world entails some decision-making component that can be expressed in terms of symbol manipulation. This overlaps with the part that many people find difficult, because people are naturally good at physically manipulating the real world. So when we talk about automating driving or picking tomatoes or bricklaying, we are only accounting for the difficulty of automating the symbol-manipulation abstraction of that task.

(This is basically the conceit of "Manna", a science fiction story where a ton of jobs are "automated" by a computer that just gives a continuous stream of verbal instructions to a poorly paid human being.)

If you're measuring the skills of manual workers against the standard of how hard it is to build a robot that replaces them, they are surprisingly hard. The same is true for the skills of trained animals. Maybe we should start worrying about replacing human beings with robots after we've managed to figure out how to replace dogs with robots. Once we have enough bomb-sniffing robots, drug-sniffing robots, livestock guardian robots, police pursuit robots, search and rescue robots, and so forth, to the point where we don't need dogs, then maybe we can start to worry about the human jobs. (Or maybe not--dogs have a really good sense of smell that might be harder to replicate than some human capacities.)
You can buy a box to live in for $50K. A place to put it, on the other hand....
The externality of fossil fuel consumption by far is the most problematic part of our economy. We have more energy than we ever meet from the sun, nearly all of which is uselessly radiated out into space, never mind what we don't use when sunlights hit our Earth.
I agree. The book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling is an excellent read about the topic.

Yes, growth in economy and population can go on and will likely result in an S-bend curve in the distant future.
As a hiring manager, a “bold public profile” is not what I’m looking for. I’m just looking for someone with the skills I need, who seems sane and competent, who has not fluffed up their resume with BS, to apply and interview well.
They've even eschewed the standard way to opt-in iframes to powerful, dangerous features like `alert` and `confirm` - you can't even `sandbox` the iframe to allow it. You have to enroll your website in a Chrome Origin Trial[0], which only lasts until December, and also requires you to create a Google account, agree to Google ToS, and you might be blessed with the ability for your perfectly-fine-before-Chromium-team-came-along web app to keep working.

Who the hell is in charge over there, and what compels them to incessantly break the web?

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/origintrials/#/register_trial/2...
I suppose if someone performed exactly as in the study(fixed withdrawal rate, adjusted for inflation, no variations), but surely if yields flattened you'd be able to recognize it sooner than when your nest egg is nearly depleted. That might mean returning to work in your 40s or 50s part time or full time to fill the gap, but again you're no worse off than the average worker who was working all those years anyways.

It definitely is justification for those people to make sure they build in a buffer though since its unlikely they'll be able to immediately return to their peak salary before retirement.
If you look at earnings since inception, they're still down roughly -$5 billion.
I don't know about all that. It's not like shooting in the dark at ISO 32000. It's a sunny day that you've stopped the aperture down a couple of stops. Which means you're probably already shooting at low ISO100. Cameras can easily push to ISO800 with no noise being introduced. Newer sensors can easily go higher than that. Hell, my BMD camera's base ISO is 1600.

So I'm just going to come out and say claiming that pushing the ISO and introducing noise during a daytime (albeit cloudy) shoot and pushing the ISO a few stops to counter stopping down is fake news and scaremongering.
- "If I want my items on separate lines"

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“There is no second-grade product-market fit. Product-market fit only comes in one grade: first. Either a product fits the market… or it does not.”
That's the trouble. Our boss loves talking to real people and hates reading.

I'm thinking about cargo-culting Amazon's "Everyone has to read this before the meeting" or maybe just preparing a statement like, "This is my status update, plus type your questions out and don't interrupt me, this will take exactly 90 seconds..."
Absolutely, yes. I've taken jobs because it was a 15 minute commute, only to have an EVP decide to move the entire IT department closer to his house, necessitating a 30 minute drive or a 50 minute bus ride.