skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Carborundum can operate at higher temperatures and voltages than silicon, but it isn't more efficient; it just lets you run the transistors hotter and at higher voltages, so they can switch more power. The nitride is actually more efficient, but it's more delicate to overvoltage. (I think it also withstands higher temperatures, but in a wallwart the problem isn't that the transistor loses its ability to switch; it's that the plastic case melts.)

You can relive my emotions from when I learned about the astounding properties of nitride transistors (in 02017, I think) in https://dercuano.github.io/notes/jellybeans.html#addtoc_1. Unfortunately there weren't any carborundum parts in my list.
That sounds like work for a prime contractor with at least two subs under it. And consultants to help them implement SAFe AGILE.
Why renovate someone's bathroom when real estate investors will pay you more and will throw years of work at you?

Also, housing isn't expensive because of labor costs. In many places, the land itself is worth more than the improvements made to it.
Of course it is because people don't make backups properly if at all.

However, my reply was to someone wanting to pad all of their valuable data with 1MB of fake data so if they were hit with a malware virus it would not actually screw up their data. Nevermind, that 1MB would screw up normal use as the apps would not know how to handle that padded data. But you know, yes, if you totally miss the point of the thread, I could see where thinking the point was the lack of failure of malware.
They didn't call it "electronic drugs" which is sort of a correct translation but losing the context, they call it "mental opium". Which relates back to opium war.
I am not sure that there's widespread belief outside of Fox News viewers that CNN is "openly biased and understood to be so".

If you had grown up in a country where, as I mentioned, "unbiased journalism" was assumed to be a lie from the start, I think you'd read whether or not NPR "carries itself with an air of impartiality" quite differently.

Most of the actual leftists that I know find NPR to be biased in quite the opposite direction than you seem to. They are irritated by its relentlessly pro-business positions, its endless interviews with conservative politicians, even discredited ones, and its almost complete failure to feature actual left-ish ideas other then when a specific politician (e.g. Sanders or AOC) makes a speech about something related.

I mentioned up-thread that I believe that NPR's bias is not really towards particular political or even social positions, but towards a genial defense of "things more or less as they are". They are a supremely "don't rock the boat (too much)" media outlet, and as a result rarely feature voices and ideas from the edges of the current Overton Window, let alone beyond it.
> They buy goods and services

the wonder of economic development is that as a country's quality of life and wealth increases, consumption increases.

the typical american probably consumes about 4000x as much energy as the typical DRC. we still have a long, long way to go before we can accommodate the whole world living like an american.

even as population growth stalls, or even reverses course, the ability of humans to keep expanding its appetite for the finer things in life can never be quelled.
My family all work in labor law. These suits come up regularly. Over-confident and under-educated small-time business owners such as yourself get owned by employees regularly for this very reason.

I have no need to crack a book and cite labor law to you. Use Google or something. Or don’t. Pray you avoid future lawsuits.

You’re ridiculous, but also morally reprehensible.
To show an alert to the user
I had a black Amazon Basics cable that failed, although the insulation had more of a clean break rather than disintegrating.
> physical job for 50 years

I think you’re envisioning jobs with high skill requirements or low demand, or a mix of both. Like landscaper for the town, or garbage truck operator.

Otherwise you’ll generally be met with a combination of RSI, hazardous product ingestion (dust, paint fumes, exhaust…), allergies, injuries, or sheer overwork.

Working a low wage low level physical job is more often than not closer to Amazon warehouse worker than artisans healthily exercising their bodies.
Do you understand what market competition is?
This is interesting, I spoke to a Google recruiter very recently who said that only a very few got approval, so called "unicorns"

Anyone have one of those archive links or a synopsis?
My dad automated cooking meatballs ages ago. I can't imagine a hamburger would be too much harder.

There's folks on YouTube already who can automate the assembly of a hamburger using Lego. It's just slower than having a person do it in a semi automated manner.

Per the article, we have automated some of bricklaying (for roads), and I've definitely had ads show up for tools that reduce the skills needed to do bricklaying.

We've also automated parts of driving - staying the same speed, parking, etc. The automation all changes which skills are important, and steadily makes high skilled jobs into less skilled jobs.
I’d put my money on stagnate. But, only compared with the exponential growth baseline. You can still have linear growth, and then gradual growth, for quite a while.

The human population is already leveling off. I’d bet any amount of money that, within 50 to 100 years, economic output will also reach some more or less steady state.
Show HN: ShuffleAI, Chat with AI versions of famous podcasters via GPT-3
We’re excited to launch the first drop from Shuffle, where you can chat with famous podcasters via GPT-3 including Naval, the All-In Besties, Kara Swisher, Joe Rogan, and more.

At Shuffle, we strive to help podcast fans chat and discuss episode content with each other. After seeing how often podcast fans bring up inside jokes and common podcaster quotes, we thought: what if we can bring podcasters into the conversation?

Using podcasters' transcripts and quotes, we seemed to have directed the completion model to finish sentences in a way that reflects the podcaster's style and past quotes.

Me: What do you think of Mark Zuckerburg?
Kara Swisher (bot): I like Zuckerberg, he has grown up on me. I don't know him. He seems very cocksure - as he should be - at the age of 25 he built one of the most successful companies in history.

But the harder you push towards reality, the harder the completion model fails:

Me: Who is better, Reggie Miller or Michael Jordan?
Bill Simmons (bot): Funnily enough I just did a piece on this. The short answer is that in terms of career Michael Jordan has been slightly better. But on a per 36 minute basis for his career.....Reggie Miller.

Me: How tall are you?
Joe Rogan: I'm six feet and two-tenths of an inch tall.

Given how few samples and quotes we fed the API, we were pleasantly surprised by how well GPT-3 picked up on the styles and personalities we wanted. At the same time, its inability to answer factual questions in a consistent manner suggests that it has little understanding of entities and real world relationships.

We've shared this with a few fan subreddits[1] and have gotten over 14k messages within 24 hours. Play around with it and see what you find. Would love to hear your insights!

[1] example: https://www.reddit.com/r/MBMBAM/comments/os4ndz/got_sent_thi...
> If you can’t trust the production machine to initiate regular backups by itself, why do you trust the production machine to allow access by the backup server?

If production is compromised, you can't trust either.

> Therefore, a push system is no different than a pull system

Not entirely - a push system can DOS the backups much easier than a pull system (filling the disks, say), and a push system requires append-only backups in order to protect against backup corruption. A pull system just requires read-only access into production, which is much more simple to configure, audit, enforce, and maintain (IMO).
Sexual racism on New Zealand's dating scene – and how apps are making it worse
It's an easy thing to protest, stop spending money on places that want to operate in a jurisdiction that treats you this way. Let NYC become a progressive paradise and move somewhere that respects its citizens.
Why would I want to buy a second VR headset to play some games, when the one I have is already perfectly fine? Keep in mind that playing Oculus games on the Index works fine using third party software, it's Facebook trying to DRM the hardware.

Do you also expect me to buy a Disney TV to watch Disney movies and a Marvel TV to watch Marvel movies? Or do you expect that all games, or movies, use the hardware you already own?
It’s not contempt computer people have for manual labor; it’s the contempt that bosses have for paying wages.
I don’t have a solution for that, but I did just start looking through the large community plugins list — there are a lot that address these types of specific use-cases, so it might be worth a browse:

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/blob/master/...
Don't forget that in ubertechland if you complain about sexual harassment or racism, you get punished! And your only recourse is to complain about it in social media. Or hire a lawyer and go bankrupt. Much better than unions!

Also, unionised workplaces do allow for terminating underperforming employees. It's just that companies need to try to actually help the employee first, and have clearly defined polices that lay out the process and allow the employee to appeal. The tech method of software deciding you get fired and no human can override is soooooooo much better.

I moved from one of Australia's largest software firms into a union role and got a 40% pay rise, and it's set in contracts exactly what I get paid and what increases I get. Which I much prefer than my pay rise depending on whether management would prefer to reward their friends.
AI replacing humans as workers will not result in basic income. It will result either eradication of non-ruling classes or humanity itself.
The thundering herd problem isn't really about high levels of traffic. To the extent that that's a problem, it's just an ordinary DOS.

The thundering herd problem specifically refers to what happens if you coordinate things so that all your incoming requests occur simultaneously. Imagine that over the course of a week, you tell everyone who needs something from you "I'm busy right now; please come back next Tuesday at 11:28 am". You'll be overwhelmed on Tuesday at 11:28 am regardless of whether your average weekly workload is high or low, because you concentrated your entire weekly workload into the same one minute. You solve the thundering herd problem by not giving out the same retry time to everyone who contacts you while you're busy.
The world3 model is not really something you can use to make predictions- it’s got variables like “resources” with no units. And the conclusion you get from it was programmed into it.

I’d put my money on “steady state” or maybe “steady state but after a contraction due to climate change”, but not due to the world3 model.
Nor would I. There is a balance to be made and everyone’s financial situation is different.
What's your thoughts on moving it up another level to the banks? E.g., if tenets can't pay the landlord, the landlord gets a temporary interest deferment from the bank. I've heard this discussed as essentially recompense from the industry bailed out 12 years ago by the taxpayer
>> the unions tend to try acting as a cartel

At least on this, the calculus may change if the company is a monopoly or cartel.
The sequel actually goes there by name
Hans Rosling's presentation "Don't Panic" (produced by the BBC) is pretty good:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

It's an hour long; really interesting.
One of the most fascinating uses of generators I've come across is a recursive generator

>>> def count_binary():
... yield "1"
... for prefix in count_binary():
... yield prefix + "0"
... yield prefix + "1"
...
>>> cb = count_binary()
>>> next(cb)
'1'
>>> next(cb)
'10'
>>> next(cb)
'11'
>>> next(cb)
'101'

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ovjubg/whats_the_mo...
Context is important, specifically the abstract assumptions of fixed cost for each life, and fixed innovative capacity.

Sorry for the mis-attribution, at the same time both the quote, your explication of the quote and the chapters you cite seem consonant with the longtermism the article (rightly imo) criticizes. One point the article makes is that reasoning this way can justify anything.

Reasoning with based on "Infinite Value, Long Shots, and the Far Future" is inherently fallacious, is no more plausible than arguments like pascal's wager. The only limit on "long shots" is one's ability to cook them up (which alien landing should we be preparing for anyway, etc).
LOL. This is sarcasm, right?
If you create a new Firefox profile alongside your usual one, and do not change any settings, can you reproduce the copy paste issue you’re seeing?
I like the free tier, it satisfies lots of gadgets' requirements:

Door lock.

Window shade.

Light switch.

Washing machine.

BBQ.

Pet feeder.

Sprinklers.

...or as we saw a few days ago: desk raiser/lowerer.
I've been thinking about your comment on and off for a few days. It's nice to hear some sympathy for criminalization from a legalizer, with genuine empathy for the addicted.

Is there a natural tension between a healthy society where most citizens find fulfillment in normal life and therefore there's scant need/little consequence to legalization (of whatever variety); and an unhealthy society where far too many citizens are already addicted, the problems of drug abuse are evident for all, and legalization solves none of this?

A little open-ended because it requires an honest interrogation of what a healthy society looks like, and USA by and large is not an example of this. How long does it take for the high of a change of President to wear off to realize that the most significant electoral event will effect little improvement in the life of the far majority of citizens?
The fact is that these particular situations are much more complex than a false dichotomy of "good" and "evil" corporations, or "large" and "small" corporations.

Take any organization you think is "worthy" of being attacked in this manner, and consider all of the implications of such an attack. Think about the people inside the organization, and those outside of the organization that benefit from that its continued operations.

I think it's fair to say the public opinion of oil companies is fairly low; however, arguably the biggest impact of the Colonial Pipeline attack was not on the executives running the company, but on the end customers of gas stations unable to fuel their vehicles due to the shortage (whether truly real or created by panic). I would argue that everyday workers unable to get to work or to the store to buy food is more important than a few executives not getting their bonuses or having their shares lose value.

This isn't to say that these corporations are above all reproach and should be allowed to continued operating in whatever way they see fit simply because they have employees and customers are relying on them. But it's also the wrong mindset to think that it's OK to attack corporations in this way just because they "deserve it" in some way.
I'd encourage you to read some of the testimonials in the bug tracker - the applications this is breaking are not tech-debt-laden monstrosities, they're very simple examples like repl.it and educational coding websites where the IDE is hosted in an iframe and you can run your code in-browser. I can think of many more derelict features I'd have removed first if this was really about cleaning up code smells.

And regardless of whether you think `window.alert` is a giant pile of tech debt: "we don't break userspace" is a mantra that web browser teams would benefit to heed.
A little bit of tongue in cheek:

As a tradesperson myself, working in a highly automated part of the metal fabrication process, I feel an urge to say something like:

The only thing standing between a programmer and unemployment is a sufficiently advanced compiler

But only because I great contempt for the hubris on display in these sorts of threads.

At the end of the day though, it's a-little-bit-form-column-A-and-a-little-bit-from-column-B.

We went from not-flying to landing robots on another planet in a handful of decades, who knows what a little bit more processing power and a few more layers of abstraction could bring.
I can no longer edit my original reply so I have to create this new one to address your edit.

>Jeasus christ, before you try to shut something down, know your facts:

>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-cancer-lawsuit-i...

The article you link discusses a legal case. It isn't a finding in research of glyphosate being a carcinogen. Indeed the article describes this fact in the very last paragraph.

I'm not sure what facts you expect me to glean from this piece but there are none supporting glyphosate as a carcinogen.

>Its one of the reasons Monsanto merged with Bayer - to "cleanse" the name of the fact that glyphosate is liquid cancer in a bottle.

This is hyperbole.
My only interaction with unions directly has been when I was an underpaid wage slave in high school, before I got into the professional workforce. The union steward at the store I worked at stole from the company and did drugs /at work/. I was forced to pay union dues even though I firmly rejected membership, as they were taken from my paycheck regardless of my membership and I was harassed by the steward and other union workers for not wanting to join the union. As far as I could tell the only benefit offered was a guaranteed $0.25/hr raise every year I stayed at a company where I was not intending to remain employed any longer than necessary, and the downside was they effectively took $0.17/hr off my wage to cover the union dues.

I'm sure if I'd planned to work at a grocery store until I was 40, the union would have been of great benefit, but since I had an intention to go into tech as soon as possible and leave the small town I grew up in, it wasn't of much benefit to me. Meanwhile, I was exposed to the grift, drug use, theft, corruption, and underhanded tactics that the union members used, sometimes in direct furtherance of stated union objectives. Based on the hearsay of family experiences with unions, this seems commonplace, at least in the US. Unions had mob ties back in the day, and they still exist primarily as racketeering organizations, but on more legal footing.

I don't consider them anything like an insurance company and my relationship to them as an employee would be nothing like my relationship to an insurance company as a customer.

Nothing I am saying here in any way defends Amazon's heinous actions. I believe that employees absolutely have a right to unionize and that unions can also provide necessary and essential functions to protect workers. But they are not perfect, and it's not hard for me to imagine the experiences others have had. You asked why so many people dislike unions... well there's why I dislike unions and would never join one myself.
Old technologies do stay in use for a long time, and while it’s annoying to need to send a fax occasionally, they’ve made it brilliantly easy to do by providing fax services for < $0.50 in any convenience store in the city (there are like 50,000+ of those). Generally don’t need to though and for the most part I’m using more advanced technology than in the USA (like the transit payment cards, which with Japan’s recent cashless push are accepted in most stores).

Ikebukuro is the nearest place to where I live that has a reputation for being “dangerous”, with a homeless population and a large yakuza-dominated nightlife district, but by that I mean there’s like 20 harmless old drunk men around in the plaza sitting around, and a high concentration of sex shops - not dangerous at all though by foreign standards (small women can still feel safe walking around at 3am if they felt like it).
The text isn't rendering at all in Safari/Mac. (Momentarily too lazy/tired to find out why. 2am here.)
People also tend to ignore that automation minimizes craftsmanship and art to a MVP. I know a few masons and they are literally artists. Sure, you can lay bricks and have a wall but it's not the same as a mortar-less stone wall crafted with artistic skill. They are completely different objectives and render completely different impressions. Automation eliminates the humanity of a task by existence. We will lose those unspoken qualities when automation breaks into the mainstream and no one will know everything they have lost in the process.
> This means that if you want to do the most good, you should focus on these far-future people rather than on helping those in extreme poverty today.

Lifting people out of poverty means you're just increasing the consumption that produces global warming. Lifting people out of poverty is therefore not an environmental good.

Therefore, it is not a valid argument if you want to discredit an environmentally-linked viewpoint. It is neither here nor there.

If you want to (at least somewhat) discredit longtermism, you have to show that if all human activity around the globe that is geared toward reducing environmental harm were to adopt longtermist values, and made decisions accordingly, then the environmental situation would get worse than otherwise. That would tend to indicate that longtermism is just a smokescreen for living it up and not caring about the environment.

What we have here is just pathetic whataboutism, instead: "never mind the future of civilization in the light of climate change; what about all the poor people here today?"

"You know I'm tired of hearing about people; for a good many of them, it's their own fault. How about all the toddlers with cancer?"

"No way, to heck with your toddlers with cancer, how about $GROUP_I_FEEL_SORRY_FOR?"

Oh my god, someone in the world doesn't care about exactly the same things I care about. Doesn't believe in the same god, or the same politics, use the same apps, like the same music ... outrage in 4, 3, 2, ...
It’s not a moral compass.

It’s a rational decision: Their method of making money is to quietly and without a fuss extort money and have the victim pay.

Attention just brings heat to their operation.
> If you are used to call backs, promises, tick() calls or closures, it will be natural to reach for them a lot, and be disappointed at their state in the Python ecosystem.

Maybe - but at the same time, generators are side-effectful and quite general. That means, when someone uses a generator, now I have to understand what happens by looking at the code. If someone uses a promise or a closure/lambda, then the scope of what can happen is much more limited.

It's like looping vs. mapping. You can use "for ... in ..." syntax or you can do "map(..., ...)" but I generally prefer the latter (minus the syntax overhead in python), simply because I easily see at a glance what the intend is.
Because they’re pleasant to look at. Half the time, the wall isn’t even “needed”, other than for aesthetic purposes.

Whenever a wall is purely functional, it’s almost never made of small clay bricks today. I’m talking about foundation walls, subsurface retaining walls, and similar things. The types of walls that aren’t meant to be looked at, but instead meant to hold something back or up.

Whenever you see a wall being made of red clay bricks, that’s because the builder wants it to look nice. I suppose you can cast a concrete wall and apply a façade of bricks. But there’s still a skill required for that final step.

Of course, you may have a different design aesthetic, wherein exposed concrete or large modular sections are both functional and pretty. But brick laying is all about looks.

CMUs are a different story, and kind of prove your point. They’re much larger and so reduce the piecework involved, but still small enough to allow for onsite flexibility in construction.