skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not destroying your body lifting heavy weights for 50 years seems like something people might like.

We automated looking after the house after it's been built, no need for people scrubbing floors and clothes any more, freed up 40% of the workforce.

My partially automated vacuum cleaner, clothes washer, dish washer, food cooker, water heater, all work well.
I just wonder if anyone can identify with me, thinking it's absolutely crazy to invest energy in any feature or app that has a "nested" (hierarchical, tree) data structure as your primitive, when for any project with dependencies, what you need is a graph structure - meaning, items that can be blocked by multiple parents. Basically, if your item can only have one parent, you're already doing it wrong. I know it's a hard problem, but we haven't even scratched the surface of what kind of UI/UX features there are to make it easier to deal with. This is the problem people should be iterating on, but it's like no one wants to deal with graph data structures.

Outside of the apps with way too many features like MS Project and Omniplan (it doesn't need to be as complicated as Gantt charts or even PERT charts), I know of only two pieces of software that try to tackle this in a graphical sense: Flying Logic and Taskheat. Taskwarrior has some support for it but it's clunky. Orgmode barely has support for it via org-brain but still clunky.
Hubei gov deletes report claiming Covid-19 could damage male fertility (2020)
> we haven't automated picking tomatoes

I wouldn’t know whether their claims hold water, but http://www.automatorobotics.com/autonomous-single-tomato-har...:

A robot that can reliably detect ripe tomatoes and harvest them with consistent quality at a rate of 10-12 tomatoes per minute.

[…]

reducing the harvest costs by 50%

(The videos give me the impression that “10-12 tomatoes per minute” is best-case)
Maybe. Remember that the house can be:

1. Split multiple ways due to multiple children.
2. Sold to finance retirement living.
How do you get informed about whether a high-priority issue exists?

In particular, who is auditing the old version of the code that you happen to be running to make sure it doesn't have vulnerabilities that are now gone after a non-security-motivated change like a refactoring or a feature removal? Probably not the upstream maintainers, who generally only maintain HEAD.
FWIW, the Internet Printing Protocol (and IPP Everywhere in particular) make printer setup in CUPS far, far easier, but distributors seem reluctant to encourage it. I wrote about my experiences with IPP back in June (https://lwn.net/Articles/857502/). I expect to never have to hassle with printer drivers again...
Dilution depends on future rounds and company performance. Consider if in three years they have to give up serious equity for enough funds to keep operating, or have a down round
Thank you for checking, I was dubious too about that claim.
Madman Muntz
You don't have to be callous to be a psycopath. And you don't need to be a psycopath to be callous. If you think someone is an a-hole, call the person an a-hole. Please leave diagnostics for professionals.

Musk said he is in the asperger spectrum.

I dated a woman on the Autism spectrum. This has been discussed in many books about Aspergers: People on the spectrum can resemble sociopaths and psychopaths on the surface. They are not. However, the appearance of insensitivity can often look like it to laypeople.
1 dose of an experimental vaccine so I can work out at a gym? Where are the riots?
I think what this misses, which I saw in another comment, is the take here is an individual one.

If someone leaves and gets a 20% raise, while it may be an isolated incident, I believe it's more often than not an example where the market rate has shifted up and a company is slow to catch on.

While you may find someone new who's willing to accept $x instead of $1.2x, there is likely a large difference between the person being hired and the person leaving which represents the 20% discrepancy. And there's a cost on both sides that's not captured in the 20% differential.

As others have said there's the loss of institutional knowledge and know how. But the new person may also be more junior or is switching domains and so has less experience and thus willing to accept a lower salary.

It also takes a decent amount of time to hire someone new. Usually at least a few weeks. And I'm sure it can take longer. Sometimes 1 person leaving also means you really have to hire 2 people to be as effective as you were before. And of course, the new hire may end up asking for $1.2x anyway if they negotiate.

When all this is said and done, my personal belief is a 20% raise is far cheaper for retention just by the numbers.

There may be several non math based reasons for not offering a 20% raise to retain someone, but purely by the math I think its always going to be cheaper to give a 20% raise.

TLDR: I think this possibility is a false equivalency that just because you can hire a new person at $x means you're in the same spot as before.
> The number of computer programs is incredibly large. Even assuming a dense packed instruction set, even 512 bits is already enough to contain more programs than can be assigned to individual atoms in a universe! That's right. We could label every single atom with a number that would fit in the AVX instruction registers. That scale is mind-blowing, but it's true.

You're going the wrong direction. The issue isn't fitting atoms into data. It's fitting data into atoms. You can give every atom a GUID, but you can't give every GUID an atom!

You don't have to put it in terms of economy. Our rate of growth for energy and data are unsustainable. Current growth would hit a wall informed by our understanding of physics somewhere very roughly in the thousands-of-years-range. So either we go beyond our needs for space and energy or growth slows down. Both of those are a big change from the status quo.
Construction costs are cheaper than ever? The prices have skyrocketed in the past year. Is this something special to Germany? I would've expected that the pandemic shows equal effects elsewhere.
I didn't say anything about working extra hours, I specifically said low effort during your billable hours.

Sounds like you're talking about the extra time that some places seem to expect. If that's what we're talking about - I totally agree that it's not worth it.
Yeah, the USA.

The IRS rejected my e-filed tax returns a couple of years back, and demanded everything in paper form. Hundreds of pages.

The stated reason was due to possible fraud. Hilarious, in light of the fact that the return in question indicated tax owed, not a refund.
Emergency Medical Services [video]
Those are probably treated for remain 'indefinitely fresh'. Is a little dirt secret from apple markets. Is not genetics, is vegetable hormones sprayed on the skin. Just avoid them.
Yeah I guess decent people are dummies for not wanting to live in the world made in the wake of geniuses like you and Harvey Weinstein.
Could be a lack of clarity on my part. Make it into a meme might be more accurate?

I'm not just imagining people making image macros, but more likely to talk about or gossip about it, more likely to ask other people for help or opinions, more likely to pick up on the trend and write about it in some blog or article or go on YouTube about it?

I just imagine a Dell laptop to be majority provided/owned by a company and so such complaints end up going to IT support who ends up swapping it out or something. Whereas a Mac is more likely to be owned by creative professionals, or journalists, or people more generally inclined towards sharing memes in a contagious way or otherwise striking a chord in the cultural zeitgeist?
I guess that’s where they need to be for their current market valuation? But this article also illustrates why I pay this premium over third party budget stuff.
Because people have great skill in exploiting other people as well.
I’m talking about the coverage on news sources aimed at Democrats like CNN/MSNBC that fawned over her and papered over her major flaws as a politician. My personal favorite, as a south Asian, is how the media portrayed her nomination as a major victory for us, despite little enthusiasm for Harris among the group. (Everyone I know who supported her is white.)

This sort of coverage is a liability for Democrats because it insulates them from information. A glaring example of this is Elizabeth Warren. It should have been news from the beginning that she had failed to establish personal networks with Black or Latino voters during her tenure as Senator. Her Super Tuesday supporters were 80% white, for an electorate that was only 50% white. When Democrats win elections by turning out Latinos in the southwest and Black people in the south, Warren won just 5-6% of those voters on Super Tuesday, behind Michael Bloomberg.

Elizabeth Warren was a dead-on-arrival candidate because minorities didn’t like her and they’re 40% of the Democratic Party. That should have been a huge story. Instead, the media fawned over her for months because they personally loved Warren. Super Tuesday this blindsided everyone, even though it should have been predictable given what we knew about Warren from the beginning.

If Biden doesn’t run in 2024, expect to see similar fawning coverage of Harris, focused on her “historic” identity and papering over her flaws as a politician. That creates a very real risk that Democrats nominate someone who their own base doesn’t like very much.
It’s not though. Companies function with significant amounts of waste that are related to internal fiefdoms and have very little relationship to the bottom line.
"Because I was inverted."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ump0N5yOpkM
Good point! (And this is how I’m currently operating). If your list will be stretched over a team or over multiple days, I think it’s worth it to prioritize the specifics of what has been done and not done.

However, for a single day, personal todo list, I’d prefer to have fewer lines in my list and keep the details of what exactly is still pending in that partially complete item in my head. Seems easier to glance at. It would be nice for markdown interpreters to have an option for this for those who want to use it. I wonder if this could be added as a CSS tweak …
People get punished. Corporations receive (at most) a small fine that usually amounts to far less than what their crimes netted them.
I used to work in a family construction business and now I do machine learning contracting. When I compare the value you get for 300k worth of construction to what 300k of ML specialist time buys you, it's hard to agree with your comment. I understand the reasons, but generally I'm blown away by how cheap most labor intensive things are, compared to how much people will pay for software projects.
You don't have to think of companies as evil. They are not inherently immoral, but they certainly are amoral. They will let you go the moment it is no longer profitable to keep you. Have you been through a layoff before? The executives wring their hands, talk about what a tough decision it was, uproot dozens to thousands of lives - and then get a nice fat bonus when the cost savings reports come in, and the stock value goes up.

Things like that teach me that corporate "good will" is an elaborate show. You are an expense to them, a necessary expense to achieve a certain output. You are paid your market value, not penny more. If they can pay you half your salary to get the same output, they will. If they can lay your team off and get significant cost benefits, they will. You are disposable. That doesn't mean they're bad people, they're just doing what any self-serving profit-seeking bureaucracy would do.

Thus the relationship between an employer and an employee is always transactional, and any feeling otherwise is an illusion. It's not evil - it just is.

The only asterisk to all of this is if you're at a more community-focused organization like a non profit. But the vast majority of companies that employ HN readers are not that.
CUPS exist because not all printers are HP.

Magic in printing is still an arcanum. PPD files. Windows 10 as a print server. (some print devices are not networked)

Prelude files. in-printing logic like line reversal, density adjustments for photos. Double sided printing meta-signalling, n-up..

"oh, I don't need that stuff" fine, fine, nc is going to work for you, at the end of a bumpy road to a printer which supports it. And, right up until its 2am, you want to colour print that late birthday card for your favourite aunt, and the printer is stuck on nc...
Bricks are easier to remodel and repair than concrete. You can take them out, replace them, etc.
> They had a news crew, in front of my house, showing it off.

Sounds like it did its job - it got some positive publicity for the people that bought it and manufactured it, and the fact that it doesn't actually work is a problem left with taxpayers and town employees.
The article is specific critique of the idea of longtermism. The article puts together a number of arguments and quotes showing people following the logic of weighing purely hypothetical far-future people against the actual interests of real people and advocating resource transfers accordingly. I've shown a bit of this in the quote above.

That quote in isolation is also evidence-free

-- Are you implying some caveat or extra bit of information could make the quote OK?
I see this pretty frequently in manufacturing. Oftentimes, larger products will have curves, design changes, layering complexities, and judgment calls that simply can’t be performed via machine, further, the parts will come in at different times and assembly lines themselves will have to be flexible and optimize for the given real estate.
Its not from Toby Ord, it is from Nick Beckstead's Thesis.[1]

The idea is introduced as an couple sentence thought experiment in a 200pg thesis (emphasis mine):

>To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards, at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards, saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal.

Context is important, specifically the abstract assumptions of fixed cost for each life, and fixed innovative capacity.

You could easily turn the premise around with the opposite conclusion. Improving the innovative capacity in poor countries is more important than saving lives in rich countries, provided you foster more innovation innovation in the poor country than is lost in the rich one.

It looks like an interesting read, covering many topics discussed in this thread.

Chapters include:

Should "Extra" People Count for Less?

Does Future Flourishing Have Diminishing Marginal Value?

A Paradox for Tiny Probabilities of Enormous Values

Infinite Value, Long Shots, and the Far Future

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=ON+T...
I'm just saying this because every but-actually poster says something like this, but I think homes come with more amenities now than they did in the 70s, so buying a home isn't really any cheaper adjusted for inflation.
Sharing memory is pretty easy when you have a garbage collector. Even if you have concurrency you can use messaging without having to put the communicating components into separate processes. And having separate garbage collected virtual machines wastes a lot of memory if you want to have enough headroom for performance in each one.
Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go into the Office Again
The short answer is that this is how it is in a growth industry with high talent demand. If you were, say, a grocery bagger, you wouldn’t see that kind of salary jump. The moment coding is no longer an in demand talent, this won’t happen anymore. Hope you retire before that happens.
Musk's 5 steps:
Design
Delete
Simplify
Accelerate
Automate

Based on that a framework would end up as a set of simple add-ons, rather like Unix.
Tesla's worth as a publicly traded company is not determined by "the world", but rather by the tiny percentage of people who trade stocks - and even then mostly large investors, not individuals. So it's not exactly representative of the society, either.
Hmm this comment was nuked. Probably one of the highest upvote counts but substantially far down the page. Guess I struck a nerve, perhaps with the very man himself, as he undoubtedly reviews anything here that involves him. Shadowy HN is my favorite HN.
> you shouldn't make arguments about life experience either way

These two arguments are not equivalent. Mathematically speaking, one side has to find just 20+% counter examples and the "vast majority" argument crumbles.

This thread has so many different people, from different parts of the world chiming in to say "this is not my lived experience", and you are still digging in to say "I'm right, the vast majority fit this mould".
No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore?

The way you put it sounded like the thing didn't even exist. Whereas, it was just a name change. If that wasn't deliberately misleading, it might as well have been. Someone who isn't familiar with these issues might have looked things up briefly, then concluded that someone was lying.

In my view, intellectual honesty demands taking care not to create such misleading situations, even at the cost of strongly "scoring a point." Especially at that cost!
The start of the article seems to conflate/confuse the economy of the support services of Manhattan (subways, dry cleaners, serving .3% of the US population) with the US economy as a whole. It has howlers like “commuting is good for the economy” and the “vital office-adjacent economy”. There is certainly discomfort for those particular dense urban sectors, as there is comfort for exurb support sectors and WfH support industries. And precisely who “loves” a commute (when, even in the most pathological cases, you can simulate your delightful commute by sitting in your parked car or a chair in your domicile)?

It settles down towards the end of the piece to responsible prose. Feel sorry for the writer who seemingly was required to hack some copy to placate urban politicians and real estate interests by whatever CNN is nowadays and did her best to redeem herself at the end.
Why do you assume construction costs are the only factor that drives property value?
Cost of lumber, cost of land, cost of equipment, cost of permits, cost of inspections.

It really isn't a box for $300k. You can buy a mobile home for what $60k?

Permit process isn't broken.....this is a view often held by incompetent contractors. I have performed various jobs like building retaining walls, bathrooms, electrical, decks and never had an issue as long as my work was up to code.

Permits can protect a homeowner, when the contractor bails without finish the work.

But back to why a home can be $300k, it is a lot of work and materials.
From an article, "According to NAHB, the average material cost to build a house is $296,652, with the average square footage of a house being 2,594. That means your cost per square foot is $114.36 ($296,652 / 2,594)."

You are underestimating how much it costs to get lumber, copper(can use pex), brick, concrete etc.

You sound like someone saying, I can have a wordpress site for $1000, but why does it cost $500k to build an ecommerce platform.
Anyone have any suggestions for a B&W laser printer that will work "driverless" on Linux over USB?
Could you elaborate? I am genuinely interested.
> Yet I'd still say the food export fact is a crazy one, as you would expect that to very much be surface-related.

I would expect food production to be area-related. Rotterdam is Europe's busiest seaport, and one of the busiest seaports in the world, so I'm not the least bit surprised that the Netherlands is one of the world's top food exporters.
US law does care where you're located. Physical nexus means the local county can tax me. The business is actually domiciled in another state where I used to live.
> ...And bricklaying, while conspicuous and important, is still just one job in construction.

My understanding is that bricklaying is a bottleneck. You can do things before bricklaying, and things after, but not really at the same time.
According to the article you posted that only applies when and where employees are working. Union literature is given special treatment in that companies must allow it to be distributed in non-work areas such as the break room, which is where it was distributed and confiscated in this case.
> Current growth would hit a wall informed by our understanding of physics somewhere very roughly in the thousands-of-years-range.

A thousand years is a very optimistic estimate I would say.
World3 (which is still on track of its predictions) predicts before 2050, which seems realistic considering the current
context.
Good, offlined backups.
You don't want to stay in an org that allows such behavior, or you're wanting to take a career break? Maybe it could be good to decide which of those it is?

If you just don't want to stay at that company, maybe find a new job first, before quitting? 400k in equity is a pretty decent amount. Also, although hiring and salaries are crazy right now, so are the interview processes.
That's fair, actually. This is an argument in the article. I would summarize it as "focusing on long-term risks necessarily means un-focusing on short-term ones, and that's bad". Would you agree?

-- I'd agree with the addition "risks so long term that any calculation of their value is wholly implausible, risks such as the risk of humanity 'not colonizing the galaxy'"

-- And yeah, the article pretty explicitly puts the situation as, this is the long view taken to the level of absurdity.
There are different kind of things one law can forbid

- things that are in itself bad. (E.g. killing, stealing, ...)

- things that are neutral, but could be used to do other illegal things (encrypted message, selling weapons, ...)

The second category of things doesn't need to be illegal since the perpetrators would only be doing something bad if they violate a law for the first category and therefore can be prosecuted for that.
But making it illegal prevent the potentially good use of it.
> 12 PM = noon is something I remember learning in kindergarden, and should be common knowledge for most adults in the US.

Well, maybe, although assuming a commonality between others' education and mine is always dangerous; but I've got way more respect for someone who understands a concept but doesn't know about an arbitrary exception to it, than for someone who understands a pile of arbitrary rules and doesn't know how to fit them to any conceptual framework.
> Not so much actually: 00:00 is on the day that is starting, 24:00 is on the day that is ending.

That makes a lot of sense!
The CUPS web front-end also has rough edges; Apple maintains CUPS these days and OS X now ships with the web interface on :631 disabled.

If you still need a print server, it can be well worth the extra $100 or so to buy a business-class printer with an IPP server in it, so that CUPS runs on a chip inside the printer instead of on a separate computer. (Generally anything that supports "Airprint" will do this, and also at the mid range you avoid the "printers whose ink cartridges are more expensive than the printer" zone.)