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I don't agree with your comment. $50,000-$100,000 of well placed funds with the right software consultancy can generate a project that pulls in enough cash flow to pay for itself multiple times over in just the span of months.

Machine learning is not a high return investment on its own. It is only leveraged as a technical piece of an already cash flow healthy larger pie in most organizations.

The division of labor and supply of various workers makes most labor intensive tasks self-explanatory in cost.

$300,000 can buy you a property that takes years to double in value in comparison. They're completely different categories of capital utilization.
Note: for married couples, the tax bracket thresholds are doubled, except for the highest (37%) bracket, which kicks in for couples making more than roughly $625k but for singles at roughly $520k.

The actual effect is that you need to actually have a huge wealth disparity between partners' earnings for the so-called marriage penalty to kick-in. Fox News notwithstanding, the overwhelming majority of married couples will not see a marriage penalty.
>>>why would CIA interfere other countries? Why can't the US just leave other countries alone and mind our own business?

Because our entire economic system is built on dominating international finance via the PetroDollar. Countries are starting to wise up to how this is a raw deal for them and want to explore other arrangements. The US will fight that tooth and nail, by every means available. The death of the PetroDollar will likely bring the death of American hegemony and Pax Americana, and include a crippling economic crisis for the US with the expected quality of life impacts on the citizens as well.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/072915/how-petro...

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-...

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36733213.pdf <-about the Iranian oil bourse
While I don't work in an warehouse/fulfillment center, the security guards in my building at AWS are contractors. And the badge visible hanging from the guard's vest doesn't look like any Amazon badge I've personally seen.

It's quite unlikely that the guard was a direct Amazon employee.
Please stop. The only ‘skill’ human beings bring to picking fruit or vegetables is their willingness to work for minimum wages because we as a society have failed to keep up with tech even as our population’s food needs exploded.
Wind and solar are cheaper sources of energy than fossil fuels and are going to be a lot cheaper soon. They're going to fuel a boom we haven't seen since the energy crisis of the seventies.
> We decided to disable this deprecation temporarily (for 2 weeks, until August 15, 2021) to provide more time for websites to address the issues caused by this change, or enroll affected origins in the origin trial.

Most sites aren't even gonna find out about it in a two week period, let alone be able to fix it.

(Side note: Google has broken the text selection on this page, at least in Firefox. Didn't try in Chrome. Copy/pasting a paragraph was a trial.)
Absolutely agree that it should be built into the site.

The whole reason I created this was because I was frustrated using their UI while searching for something to watch last Saturday and ended up creating this.

Agree that the scores could be more accurate, right now it just takes the scores as is, but I guess that can be improved upon by weighing number of reviews and ranking as you said.
In theory, would SiC be a further improvement over GaN?

There's a slow transition underway from Si to SiC power-semiconductors in industries such as automotive.
My favorite version of this is reading from /dev/dsp will capture audio from the mic. I would cat this audio to /dev/dsp on another host over ssh in the school lab.
Robots that can identify and pick up things in the environment haven't materially improved since the 60s. What has changed is how factories and warehouses are built, so that the 'environment' and the 'things' are strictly constrained to enable robotic arms to grab and move them. But let one thing get a little out of place, or worse, let a human get between an industrial robot and the thing it's trying to pick up and.. well. RIP.
It should be noted that there's not much fancy tech in a streamdeck, it's just clever use of pretty old tech.

It's an LCD and touchscreen with a mask and the buttons are optical-grade-ish plastic with a pad that triggers the touchscreen when the button is pressed. Ford uses something similar in some of their center console screens; there's a wiper under a dial glued to the screen.

They do not use individual screens, despite the author's claim (which is common so they can be forgiven for it.)
I have done some workplace automation (building support tools to automate away stupid paperwork) and I've never ever felt contempt for the people I'm building tools for. These people do extremely intelligent work and make evaluations on complex scenarios - my tools only help them minimize the silly BS that slows them down, building layered tools on top of poorly designed assistive tools or breaking out greenfield solutions to help tackle problems that need to be done entirely manually.

I really disagree that almost anyone who has built tool assistance into someone's workflow will view their workflow as simple and view the employee with contempt - actually getting to know the BS they have to put up with on a daily basis actually deepens my appreciation for what they're doing. Sure I can cherry-pick examples that make folks look bad - employees today, even millennials, are for some reason allergic to learning keyboard shortcuts and will use right-click to paste. That's somewhat on them, but more on the company for not providing training time to teach better data entry habits.

If one of these highly skilled agricultural workers was given a robot that used scent to determine which fruit trees likely had ripe fruit that needed to be harvested - I'm sure they'd appreciate it for what it is, a tool that lets them concentrate on more important things. And, if we as a society are moving into a era where automation becomes so widespread that jobs are much fewer and far between 1) we'll waste a lot more time building freemium games or whatever BS labour sink society comes up with next and 2) we should realize that taxes need to go way up on the people still employed and UBI or other social services are needed to keep us functional as a society. Having too much productivity is such an easy problem to solve - you just don't do what America is doing and let it all coagulate into the pockets of a few hundred billionaires... and then everyone gets to live a good life.
The phrasing of "genuinely curious" implies innocent curiosity rather than snark. I assume you're referencing this yourself though through use of the same phrase, haha
As someone also living in Canada, we unfortunately have a vocal minority that wants to feign offence at anything it can find to criticize. Ignore them.
When I was first learning Linux many years ago a friend and I got intoxicated and catted /dev/hda into /dev/dsp. It was all basically static with sometimes very structured patterns that we would try to guess as to what filetype was producing them. He had download and forgotten about a long uncompressed audio recording of a piano performance on his drive that suddenly started breaking through the static in chunks of varying length. We came to the conclusion that this was probably just what the kernel source sounded like.
> I thought I wouldn’t get valuable feedback on lousy prototypes.

That's some really good advice that I should take myself
I've been using SuperProductivity and other than the sometimes junky Flutter UI, I wouldn't replace it with anything else.
I have absolutely no contempt for the skill. Why would I? But I do recognize that building costs are expensive and that building stuff could be faster and safer and thus think that automation would be good. Same goes for my job, really. Automation has so far been a net good for humanity and if we ever transition to a true post-scarcity society, it will be through automation.

Also, if you speak with people in ML/AI, they will not tell you it's around the corner. They know that physical stuff and robotics in general is hard.

Also, builders and the like often have a great amount of contempt towards any desk job - is that OK? Why?
A fully functional and useful one would go a long way to getting me to give Firefox another chance, because it would make it possible to fix the things about Firefox that drove me away.
We have not automated driving. Phoenix is step one but there are parts of the world that get weather other than sunshine. Yeah those cars are cool, but the roads in Phoenix are better than any other major city in the US, the weather is binary, sun or rain, the city is modern, and the stop lights communicate with audi (I think its audi) cars and you can see when it's going to turn green on the instrument display. Phoenix is the absolute ideal place for self-driving cars. Again, its a great achievement. They are doing great work, but I think it's a stretch to make the general statement that we've automated driving.
I suspect part of the problem is that bricklaying is a human designed activity… what would a building process optimized for robots look like? more like 3d printing?
Yep, that was my takeaway from this experience as well.

I also realized that if you're hiding from someone and you call 911, you should expect your phone to ring/buzz if you hang up. Better to stay on the line silently, covering the speaker!
I would say that monarchism is similar to democracy in terms of its lack of an ideal goal.

As for economic systems, I suppose you could say that the philosophy of communism is more future-looking than capitalism, but that is largely due to the fact that capitalism has already been implemented whereas communism has arguably never been fully implemented.

For comparison, suppose there are people out there who think that society was organised best under feudalism. They would support a move towards reinstituting that system, presumably in stages, so they would be equally "utopian" as the communists except they would have the benefit of an existence proof that their ideal society was achievable and sustainable (at least given certain initial conditions).

Fascism has also been tried before, and there are probably more people who support its return in some form than support the return of the feudal system. I can imagine its supporters suggesting that their policies would lead their nation towards an idealised future too, so I don't think that utopian thinking is common across the political spectrum and becomes more pronounced the further from the status quo its adherents want to take society.

(Side note: I'm also not a fan of the term "dog whistling", as I find it slightly ambiguous. For what it's worth, what I meant by it is that you were attempting to signal to like-minded people what it was you were really trying to say, without "saying the quiet part out loud". There might be good reasons for that on a forum like this, but I decided that the topic of your comment was potentially too important to not be subject to scrutiny).
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Programming is the conversion of ambiguous human requirements into machine readable instructions. To automate, computers would need to understand ambiguous human requirements. This is AGI.

By comparison, brick laying is trivial.
"adherence to the scientific norms of restraint, objectivity and skepticism"

This is science. It's what science is made of. Abandon these and you abandon science altogether. Which is fine, I guess, but it has no connection to reality.
Permits are a local government issue. Maybe your local government is extremely reasonable and punctual when it comes to building permits, while my local government is lazy or stupid or corrupt. Maybe you have no problem with building permits because you don't live in a county where the authorities slow-walk anyone who doesn't buy them a case of whisky.
Perhaps you mean to imply that the bulk of this export is just throughput or transport. A lot of it is real produce, coming from the country itself:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...

Which of course is surface-related, so the remarkable/surprising fact is the intensity of it, and the stunning yields.

"Feeding the world" from a very small surface and with very little human labor is quite a marvel. I think any farmer, from any other country in the world, will have their minds blown when they see it with their own eyes.
FYI, GDP per capita of belgium is higher than UK (and than France), do not make the mistake of considering it "close to eastern european countries" [1]. Belgium COVID death rate is also higher than the UK.

Overall, the total death rate is nearly the same, and the economic impact is as well. But no one is condeming Belgium for "crazy policies", because...they weren't. I live in Belgium, and our policies were extremely close to what France and the Netherlands were doing (even quicker to respond than the Netherlands, who also somehow tried the herd immunity stuff for a few weeks).

UK next door, despite being poorer, got overall less measures (got some friends living in London, so we loved to compare), and a slightly lower death rate. That's a nice tradeoff there.

Note that the sight difference in death rate can almost certainly be explained by the general density of the population and other similar factors. But the fact that we try to explain these number differences with local/cultural/demographic details shows that in the grand scheme of things, the outcome of the policies were largely similar. And in terms of measure, we largely got the same calendar as well, again with a slight advantage for the UK.

As a consequence, you can't just call UK measures "completely crazy" and praise western Europe handling of things. They overall got the same results. The sole reason those measures are being condemned is because of people general disdain for BoJo. I honestly am not a fan either, but if you look at the measures themselves and their effect, they are on the OK-ish side, with a bit more focus on saving the economy and societal impact than on direct impact on COVID patient count and death. Nothing more, nothing less.

[1]: https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/belgium/uk?sc=X...
Return on investment, essentially a zero barrier to entry, and immediate gratification, and it's wildly flexible.

It takes about 10 minutes to learn the basics a spreadsheet, and what you get back is immense.

You couldn't get python up in running in 10 minutes, then you need to learn the language, the syntax, and how to structure a program, frankly I'm tired just starting to type out what needs to happen even before you can do *ANYTHING*.

Some people can get YEARS of productivity from those first minutes with a spreadsheet. The return on that initial 10 minute investment justifies spending more time to learn the more esoterica aspects of a spreadsheet, but even then, most people don't want to be bothered with learning how to "program".

Why do so many people start playing guitar/piano/drums/etc, but so few finish? Because it requires a significant up front investment, no immediate gratification, and a long, slow return on that significant up front investment, learning music is somewhat flexible, but you need to be highly skilled in order to exploit the flexibility.
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I think many programmers do assume that their job could be automated. I showed GPT-3 to coworkers and they immediately took that into consideration.
Is it not interesting because there's nothing to argue? If the author focused on something from Limits to Growth, it would be possible to argue about whether the world was actually that way. As a logical argument based only on historical trends and physical impossibility, it's a much stronger argument than it would be were it possible to pick holes in the detail.
Was/were the leadership(s) that is blamed for this catastrophe Muslim?
not sure why you are downvoted.
Completely agreed.

Keeping 0-days for yourself and making security standards weaker, will just weaken your standing.

Even if this information might be useful (and without backdoors or bad advice), I just cannot trust them (so I won't click on the link).

In terms of security, I trust the hacker community much more (going by ccc or other groups advice is definitely better).
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Do you feel this goes against the ideas of coworking spaces and building community where you work? Even local coffee shops can have communities, but this idea seems to want to get away from that.
Banning alcohol would probably be a good start.
Most people don’t buy brick houses. They buy vinyl siding which is 1/5 the cost of bricks and bricklaying.
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This is quite true, I could say that as a korean. It's a mixture bag of canary version of modernity and archaic sentiment.
As others have said, the fact that beaches and trails are kept tidy near one of the world's wealthiest cities proves nothing. There are plenty of American beaches that are filthy with plastic. Look outside your bubble.
This plays exactly into the OP's comment - but if that is your sincerely held belief there are ~4,000 bricklayers~[1] in America today and you could make a whole boatload of money if you could automate their work.

1. According to the BLS link below it's actually closer to 50,000.
Sounds more like a problem with your area, or maybe you're doing different type of work compared to what I'm doing with my house (residential vs commercial maybe?). I've been applying for various kinds of permits (building, electrical, plumbing, still need to get mechanical) and in all those cases, I applied online and the permit was issued same or the next day (& precon inspections that I went through have all been scheduled for the next business day). Total cost was in the ballpark of $1000. This is in WA. I did not need any structural changes so the process for the building permit was cheaper & quicker than it could've been. I also had some work done that did require structural engineer & submitting drawings - it was a fraction of the remodel cost anyway.

OTOH, insisting on permits potentially saved my ass at least in one case - I had a contractor remodel my bathroom say that "they do everything up to code". Their work did not pass inspections on the first try (had to fix things up both for plumbing and electrical).
Who the hell is in charge over there, and what compels them to incessantly break the web?

Google has a vested interest in doing so, and change is their weapon; it keeps control of the web in their hands when no other organisation has enough brute force to keep up with their changes.
This makes great sense in the economic sense (at least maybe short-term) but what about the contradiction between demanding people show up to offices, then laying them off because the work can be done cheaper elsewhere?

This contradiction makes executive personnel decisions look like the execs choose personal power over their employees every time.
> I can see an automated tomato picker working well for tomato varieties that are uniform and grow on largely uniform plants. But those tomatoes are bland.

Throughout history, our main trick when solving a problem with technology was to constrain the problem to something that's much easier to solve, by changing the environment.

For example, all-terrain mechanized transport is hard, and to this day, nobody except hobbyists and militaries even bothers to try tackling it. Our solution was to flatten the terrain into roads, so that we could just use wheels. We've been iterating on that idea ever since.
But you are allowed to breathe peanut dust which could kill the right person. Freedoms extends to the entire public space and you breathing is a natural process. Society tries to balance the freedom of everyone.

Spraying bullets in public spaces like the woods are common and are legal, welcome and governed by local laws. Similiar topless beaches areas exist where other areas of the beach do not allow this. This balances the needs of different groups.
I didn't say that you shouldn't care about it. I am saying that a 95th percentile negative outcome for climate change is still probably limited in its existential impact, not that you're gonna like it.
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Automating any repeated sequence of actions is a valid concept that doesn’t need to be rebranded as “convenience tooling”. If decision-making is required, that sounds more like an autonomy requirement to me. Autonomy is a concept distinct from automation, and not mutually exclusive.
Automation of a field:

(1) increases the value produced per unit of labor input in the field at the low end of quantity, but potentially resulting in reaching the point of rapidly diminishing returns faster.

(2) and, increases the domain in which creating/maintaining automation has value, increasing the value of automation work and pushing out the point where automation work reaches diminishing returns.

Which is why programming (viewed broadly)—itself part of automating any field—keeps being resilient against adverse impacts from automation. Because as long as we are increasing the scope of automation generally, we’re pushing out the diminishing returns point for programming, and automation of programming isn't pulling that point down fast enough to offset that effect. And automation—both of programming and of everything else—keeps pushing up the starting value of programming work. (It also makes it more abstract and about providing input to higher-level automation tools.)
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Union is fine as long it's voluntary. If I can keep doing my job and choose whether I join one or not, there's no problem as far as I'm concerned. But does that happen? Unions typically move to mandate that everyone has to be their member, typically making bullshit argument that everyone benefits from their presence, so everybody has to be their member.

Anything that's not voluntary is wrong. You don't force your friend to be your friend. You don't force your wife to be your wife. Why would you force people to join your club if they don't want it?
This made sense back when the states were actually mostly self-governing polities, and there were relatively few pertinent issues on the federal level. But this is no longer the case today, and in practice, EC and Senate result in a "tyranny of the minority", where the minority can not only veto the majority's agenda, but actually push their own instead.
"Thundering herd" problem is how I have always heard it called.
I find the biggest problem I have is that as time goes on too many people come to recognize me as a person who can likely solve their problem. Somewhat ironically this makes it more difficult to accomplish things over time because I'm constantly getting pulled into things to give my $0.02.

I fully recognize that some of this is my fault and possibly poor boundaries and time management. But it's easier to just leave every few years and also more lucrative. So there's zero incentive for me to stop this from happening.
Is that really the case? (I mean i know in theory, but in practise does it matter?). Its not like http has its own checksum, and i've never had problems downloading over http (yes https does have better checksums, but i suspect it would just fail and not auto retry, which has never happened to me)
Coping test seems to work fine in Chrome and Safari, so don't think Google broke anything in regards to text selection/copy/paste on the page.
Meanwhile:
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
He specifically mentions guard labor toward the end of his post.
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