skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you define the scope of what you're trying to accomplish narrowly enough then of course you can automate. This is what the nocode systems do and they give you a nice and easy to use UI.

Automating all of software engineering is something that will be done at the same time as every other job title - when general AI comes along. Hard to know when that might happen - it could be next week or it could be in 20 years.
...... Or they could be offered an Australian visa and repatriated for their service.
Relevant, recommended viewing: @gutterpeoplefromlosangeles on instagram.

Edit: The name of the page lacks empathy, I know. But if you don't live in a major west coast city, you should really take a look.
Don't forget the massive "NGO-industrial complex" presence.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/exotic-birds-in-a...
There's a wealth of videos on youtube showing AIs finding unexpected ways to cheat at any given task. There's no reason to believe they wouldn't cheat at programming either.
What would be different if they withdrew a year later?
They shipped, there’s a couple on eBay being bid on… if I had to guess Kyocera poached their supplier of 600x480 2.8” e-ink displays with their KY‑01L, which you can buy by the dozen
Taliban Reaches Kabul, Says in Talks for Peaceful Transition
Back to writing asm for you! Come on, higher level languages are frequently a net win for everyone.
Maybe not every business needs to tell a story. I recently bought an enamel pan that I absolutely love. There was no story involved in the transaction. I looked at the pictures, checked the price and the size, and ordered it. I'll buy a smaller one before long, that's how good it is.

Some businesses will need a story (I would consider my own an example). For others, the products do speak for themselves. The initial generalization, that 90% of a founder's work is storytelling, tells me more about the limited, silicon- valley-centric perspective of the author than it teaches me about business.
I was gonna make this comment. I currently use a 2019 Nokia 3310 (3G). Seems to be on par with the Light Minimal "smartphone", except for the hotspot. A hotspot on the 3310 would be nice, it's not like the opera mini browser can actually be used on any site more complicated than HN. And of course the screen on the 3310 is simply crap.
*in order to feel like we did something so we do not have to keep thinking about "will it happen again" every night when going to sleep.

Remark that this does not mean we made it happen less. Just that we soothed the part of our brain that was scared.
Same happened to me. They had to come twice, first time repare service came they had the wrong motherboard. Worst ever laptop ordering experience I had in my life, after more than 20 years of Thinkpad usage. Still sitting on the X1E Gen 1 - afraid to order a new one. I would absolutely like to go to another brand, does anyone have a suggestion? My requirements are:

1) Optimal Linux support (no Nvidia please)

2) Best possible US layout keyboard, centred, i.e. NO numpads

3) Trackpoint with physical buttons below, optimally 3, could live with 2

4) At least 15 inch screen, bright enough to work outside, and as good as possible to the eyes.

5) Option for 64 GB RAM or more

6) Option for 4 TB SSD or more

7) As much autonomy on battery as possible, as few noise and heat as possible.

8) Nice to have, but not crucial, would be repairability and extendability.

I don't care much about CPU power and prefer less power to heat and throttling. So if somebody has any suggestions, I would be very glad.
I intended to expand, not to disagree :) (but the texts do not flow properly because I in fact read something different - I must have been very tired, if unedited). Nonetheless, different statements on the same point can be very useful, as different voices have different efficacies in passing similar information (one skips this, misreads that but gets an other).

Yes, hyponatremia is one possible consequence of overdrinking. I understand that the concentration of salts can be more important of their presence, so over-diluting or under-diluting have consequences.
Purely speculating… I wonder if there were any talks about this. I don’t think the US would leave without ensuring that no terrorism would come out of it, same with the Taliban now keeping civilians and those who surrender unharmed.
Perhaps they made a deal where the Taliban can do what they want as long as they don’t bother others.
Random fun fact-- the only lady on the first round the world zeppelin trip secretly brought on a phonograph!
[Citation needed] on the chain analogy being applicable to complex systems safety. Because the research disagree on that.
It means, I think he's incompetent and the stories he tells about our genetic makeup are, well, just stories, and not based in science.

Considering the topic at hand, you should know who David Reich is. He (co-) wrote every single paper on Neanderthal and Denisovan genetics.
Old Afghan saying from the Soviet invasion:

"They have watches, but we have time."
I think you are on to something.. Such a language could perhaps even have a formal specification? Like a syntax and schematics?
related guy https://www.youtube.com/c/npoddubnov/videos
>It is more straightforward to see using Lagrangian or Hamiltonian mechanics, which are better suited to this kind of constrained problem, if one is so inclined.

Why? He proved it mathematically without needing to Lift the entire system into a Functor. Everything works fine here.

>A mass perfectly on the top of it will just stay there. It would need a force being applied to it to move at the time T.

You didn't read the site. All of this is addressed and anticipated. This is an unsubstantiated comment where you barely read the article.

There is a section where he addresses the First law. Then after that section he addresses how your intuition can be helped to visualize the legitimacy of this paradox with time reversal. If I tell you about it here, maybe it will make you interested enough that you'll actually read the site before formulating an unsubstantiated comment.

Imagine that your at the rim of the dome and you flick the ball upwards with the perfect amount of force so that the ball rolls up the dome and rests perfectly at the apex for an indefinite amount of time. Now imagine this scenario time reversed. Boom. Newtons laws are time reversible and so is this scenario. If the time reversed scenario is able can intuitively occur then so can the time reversed scenario which is EXACTLY what norton is describing.

What's going on here is that in the mathematics the apex of the dome represents a place where the mathematical functions do not have a property called Lipschitz continuity. When this property is lost, determinism is also lost.

Do note that Norton is not describing reality as we know it. He is describing Newtons Model of reality and the consequences that occur within the model itself. What happens to a marble in the real world rolling down an actual dome is not something he addressing, he is just addressing newtons mathematical model itself.
I have a Huawei matebook x pro and I would highly recommend it. Great build quality and 3:2 screen.
Hey I know I'm late but that's a great suggestion! Thanks!
An insulin increase without carb intake results in lowered blood sugar, thus hunger.

This is the simplest sort of biochemistry.
The Magic of Silicon Valley
I don't believe the US has much leverage in this situation. Given how the war in Afghanistan is extremely unpopular domestically, any recourse against the Taliban that would involve US military involvement would be a political slip 'n slide.
No not or - I mean atrocities and murders and killings have already happened. And have been happening. And have cost countless lives on all sides for the duration of the war.

People need to accept that. There's some weird push (for interpreters specifically for some reason) to be "saved", as though that will absolve the warmongers of their sins. People act like they are aghast at the idea that some of these people might suffer the consequences of war, but the whole country has been suffering the consequences of war for decades. And if a few people are evacuated, the remaining 40 million Afghans will continue to suffer.
The Hyperloop to the sky calculations are admittedly very back-of-the-napkin. Contributions welcome!

Glad you like the aerial airstrip
For about three years I say openly that if an email is important, my manager will read it out to me. Seems to work and in that time keeping ~100 people somewhat aligned became my core responsibility.
that's exactly what i was thinking while asking this question.
https://bitcointalk.org/

A lot of car forums survived redditification, probably because those communities are run by car enthusiasts who passionately care about every detail and would never surrender control to a benevolent central authority just so that they don't have to do slightly more work maintaining the site than they otherwise would have.

Search for almost any popular sports car and you're sure to find extremely popular forums that date back to either the early days of the internet or when the manufacturer started production.
Yes, the LA to Las Vegas gambling air cruiser would be a profitable route. Sunsets would be fantastic!
really? for which components?
Yes there was an agreement between the US and the Taliban:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Agreement_(2020)
"Afghanistan: Taliban enter outskirts of Kabul as US begins embassy evacuation – live updates"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/aug/15/afghanist...

We have seen this image before, 20 years ago:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/caf1a9685fe81c717224491a3ce54...

Sounds like this next Sep 11 will be a celebration party in Kabul. I could not think of a more inept handling of 20 years legacy. At this moment you run the risk to leave behind members of the 25 to 40 other Nations, that also have troops on the ground, and it seems they are still working on visas for the translators...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assista...
> the only reasons we are still relevant today is for three reasons

Then how we automate creation of the standards? Don’t get me wrong, but now we aren’t punching holes in cards. In the future, people probably won’t be doing a lot of things, which are now typical menial tasks too hard or cheap to automate. As long as an AI with capabilities of reasoning and abstract thought comparable to a human isn’t here, there always will be a layer of tasks that is impossible to automate for one reason or another. Then it was card punching, now it is gluing APIs together.

Automation is mostly useful when you have a very narrowly defined process/standard with little variation over time. Unfortunately, this also requires for the one requesting the automation to know exactly what they want to get at the end of the process. How would one automate creation of a tool fitted to the particular way some business is operating? Video game development? Fixing badly documented code? Granted, many parts of those processes can be, and probably already are, automated away. But there are almost always elements that require a higher level understanding of the whole context these projects exist in.

I would equate it more to a hairdresser having switched from using scissors solely to being able to use a hair clipper. Their work was partially automated by a machine, but the process still is overseen by a human being.
Is it because of the network? Do feature phones (dumb phones) connect to 4g?
How deep?
"Why ... are progressives still opposed to shutting down the street fentanyl markets in places like San Francisco that are killing people?"

Legalization doesn't entail that, you fucking chump, Michael Shellenberger.

And to claim that the US doesn't go after drug distribution, you have to be pathetically dumb or just a fraud.
There were. Keeping Al Qaida “out” and preventing any other terrorist groups from rising was part of the deal. Talks / negotiations between the Taliban and the US started back in 2018.

A lot of people throw the Taliban, Al Qaida and IS on the same pile mentally. But although the Taliban are no friendly bunch. They’ve been the ruling majority in the 90’s, until they made a pact with the devil: Osama Bin Laden. From what I read, they won’t make that same mistake twice. Their interest is purely domestic this time around.

It’s a sad day though, for sure.
If spyware concerns keep you from Lenovo and you then consider Huawei.... I don't know, man.
the whole argument is based on a single unverified piece of data. it also doesn't get elaborated on further, backed up or explained. do those 90000 deaths also include famous "prescription opioids"? etc

portugal arresting heroin users who do it in public is obviously besides the point and good for a "see??" sort of reaction only. if decriminalisation has worked in the places where it's been implemented the case is closed.
> I enabled S3 sleep (Linux compatibility), but the laptops drains the batteries like crazy in sleep. 1-2 days in a backpack and it's dead.

84hrs off power and 45% remaining on MBA. I can't go back.

> - Battery life on Linux is ok-ish (typically 6 hours with light use), but nowhere near an M1 Mac (or even an Intel Mac).

To be fair, my 2019 Intel MBP barely survived 6 hours.
Use dhall and serialise to JSON/YAML!
You can put emojis almost everywhere.
No, but I imagine the US can still make it very difficult for the Taliban, perhaps in a more clandestine way. There are still bases across the border afaik.

There was a long time for peace treaty talks, so perhaps some countries in the (Gulf) region are intermediaries in this new balance of power.
It's right there on the front page.
A lot of people maybe, but polls at the time gave 80% support for invading Afghanistan.

It's easy to see how history repeats in retrospect but it's nearly impossible to prevent it from happening. For better or worse decisions are taken as a mix of powerful people doing what they can to stay in power and the masses acting often on a whim. That leaves a whole lot of blind spots.
Yes, he jumps to a lot of conclusions like that.

The common problem is that forced mental treatment has had a really really bad history. (How) Can we be trusted to do better this time?
If a trackpoint is a hard requirement then you have very few options to choose from.
Vieb – Vim Inspired Electron Browser
"has not been endorsed by The Signal Technology Foundation"

Signal doesn't allow for third party clients. There is a clear risk of being locked out of the network.
Well, if they actually withdrew when they said they would rather than sneaking in the night months in advanced, the Afghan government could have prepared better. If they didn't abruptly stopped supplies the Afghan air force wouldn't have been grounded and some more troops could fight. If they didn't press Kabul to release Taliban prisoners they'd have more cards to play. And someone could have done fieldwork to prevent the predictable defection avalanche (a bit of money to select warlords would have helped). And if the withdrawal process wasn't so transparently lopsided in favour of the Taliban, Afghan factions wouldn't have assessed the Taliban as the winners, which would have again helped to stop defections.

But that the withdrawal was done with maximum spite is just the latest bout of ideological incompetence, and not the real issue. The real issue is how the US is so entirely self-absorbed it can't even begin to understand another country, much less try to act in someone else's self interest. Until that is fixed there's isn't much the US army can do regarding counterinsurgency, aside from the 'do no harm' principle (and this change to the status quo in AfPak is very much 'harm'). And maybe letting smarter countries lead for once.
Toxin Sponges May Protect Poisonous Frogs and Birds from Their Own Poisons
sometimes it feels to me that people collectively forget that writing software (especially FOSS)'s primary goal is to empower other human beings, before anything else - including our own little developer comfort. Closing unfixed bugs because of no activity really really goes against that in my mind.
When I think about a lot of the things I've developed for companies, and the basic chaos which is trying to pull a business rules definition out of a company...I'm not really convinced. A huge amount of what we do is just input/output mapping, and vague requirements essentially mean handling it totally wrong occasionally is completely fine.

It feels like an AI system could easily do a lot of this: what do I need? Some sort of web form which takes inputs, what do I need out? JSON which looks like this based on the inputs or database rows which look like this.

This feels accomplishable in the very near future.
I'm leaving this here... Drew Gooden on Joshua and Ryan a.k.a. The Minimalists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAvs-RqTIhk
Thanks, gonna read that!
It's fine if we automate low paying jobs fuck those people anyway but not the software developers, lawyers and doctors!
If I understand correctly, GP wasn't necessarily stating that Clojure guarantees an absence of boilerplate for every use case, but instead that it doesn't require boilerplate to be written every time you use it.

I'd encourage looking through the documentation for Luminus[1], one framework for writing web apps Clojure, to help you figure out if it suits your personal tolerance for boilerplate. IMO the example for gating API endpoints by authentication[2] is remarkably simple, but you might prefer something more opinionated a la Rails to completely abstract the auth boilerplate away.

For what it's worth, being a lisp, Clojure could certainly support a framework for writing web apps that's highly opinionated, and takes in config for tweaking some defaults (e.g.: auth), thanks to macros.

[1]: https://luminusweb.com/
[2]: https://luminusweb.com/docs/services.html#authentication
I am happy for Debian even though I am on the Fedora family side (since I worked at Red Hat as a packager and it stayed with me). Congrats on the release! It's good we have options and what would Ubuntu do without Debian anyway? :)

Some people in the discussion mentioned old versions of packages. I would like to mention that in the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL we now have modular packages and therefore various versions of Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL at once. Maybe something Debian can steal.

If modular packages or a good SELinux policy sounds like something you might like I am putting together a book on deploying web applications to get people started with Fedora/Rocky/CentOS defaults: https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
Sure, let's destroy all archaeological value so that tourists can watch gleaming pyramids.
>When I start a new C# project, first 40 minutes I am mindlessly writing a scaffolding of classes, data structures and helper functions that I will need from the beginning.

I share this sentiment but the recently announced changes to file level namespaces, global imports, top level definitions etc. have the potential to eliminate a lot of pointless boilerplate.

Now the structural patterns - those are self inflicted - you pay that cost to keep the thing consistent and maintainable down the line - but people often can't evaluate when it's not worth it (and often even don't understand what they are try to achieve but instead treat it like boilerplate that has to be present)
Aren't software implementations royalty free anyway? and even if they weren't, could they not classify a neural network as a software implementation? (from the patent enforcing point of view) Because if that is not the case, this idea would be applicable to a lot of things right? Seems like an easy hack
Impossible to know without asking the creators, but probably chose.

There are dozens of other things called Opus. Just check the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus

It would be pretty hard to choose that name without becoming aware of at least one of these. The creators most likely just deemed these other uses too obscure and unrelated to matter, which is fair because it's pretty hard to pick a good name that hasn't already been used somewhere.
No official Linux for Framework yet. While its certainly possible to install it.
Is that surprising? Basically everyone says that you should solve a problem you yourself have if you want to start a business, as that's basically already validated from the start.

This is just a consequence of people taking that old adage to heart
Sanity check: all you can eat restaurants are not free. You still pay for the food. And there's only so much you can eat during opening hours.

Your problem is that you presume food is abundant because it just is. Reality is that food is being produced, by people who want to be paid for it. Take away that payment, and they will stop producing.
I'm sure Sirius XM would be interested in something that outperforms AAC v2 by a large margin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon
Well, there are two more Denisovans according to their mitochondrial genome. There isn't enough nuclear genomic data from either to measure the distance to Neanderthals or confirm the alleged admixture with Melanesians. Too bad, because if it wasn't there, it would confirm my conjecture that the flow was from modern humans to Neanderthals.

The "hybrid" is just more confused terminology. If we simply acknowledged, that Neanderthals had higher genetic diversity than previously thought, the Denisovan and the so-called hybrid would just be a Neanderthal. We don't talk about hybrids of Europeans and Africans either, do we? If I remember correctly, the admixture wasn't confirmed in the hybrid, either. I think, nobody looked.

The root of this nonsense is that Neanderthals were thought to be genetically very similar, especially their mitochondria. The reason is that prior to 2009, it wasn't possible to routine sequence the mitochondrion, let alone the nuclear genome, of some random fossil. Therefore, all fossils were pre-screened using a PCR test for a mitochondrial mutation specific to Neanderthals. But not all Neanderthals have that mutation, so those that were sequenced were very similar due to a technical limitation.
This only concerned Windows and non thinkpads from Lenovo. Dont spread FUD.
While you're here... what is a Ph ring with an O substituted, and an N opposite it, called?
There are lot of teenagers and young inventors who can do great things in Sri Lanka

However, the lack of a good startup ecosystem and education system not willing to support hem, they don’t make it beyond these articles.
Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work
No Linux support yet. Which is a real shame. If you sell an open laptop Linux should be the first OS you support.
UK Space Command Officially Launches
And there I was hoping this'd be a tool to convert papers to look like illuminated manuscripts.
I wasn't asking if you watched a product demo I was asking if you'd actually used them. My company does, and they are greatly helpful to our writers.

I was talking about copywriting more than whatever it is you do so I should have been more clear. Good job rage quitting HN btw, hopefully you feel better today lol.

"The fact that writing about personal grief and marketmuse are being equated as like things is rather disturbing, in a sociopathic/psychopathic sort of way" MarketMuse doesn't write content so this just shows you don't know what you're talking about
The rise of the one-person unicorn