skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, I think trucking can be a very lucrative career right now.

On the other hand, I think long haul trucking will be one of, if not the first job to be 100% replaced by self-driving vehicles. Trucking is limited almost entirely by the driver. Endurance (practically, but also legally) and stops for bathroom/food/gas, stops to sleep, etc. A self driving truck can go nonstop (gas/battery stops notwithstanding) for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Interstates and major highways will be the first roads that we see lots of automated driving on, as it's the easiest type of driving (no cross traffic, pedestrians, traffic lights, etC) and easy to map. I think there may always be a demand for highly skilled truck drivers (oversize and dangerous loads, navigating tight streets in the "last mile" of delivery, etc) but the folks pulling loads from oceanside ports to Walmart warehouses in the middle of the country are probably are among the first to get replaced.

It's also absolutey awful for your health. Full working days of sitting - you could say the same for office workers, but they have the ability to stand and stretch or go on small walks (eg to get water/coffee/bathroom break) as often as they need. Horrible food options on the road - mainly fast food and drinks full of sugar and caffeine. Little to no means to exercise. Hard to have a family or establish roots.

So yeah, in the short term you could make some good money, but I just don't see it as a long term career for a multitude of reasons.
The rise of self driving technology seems to be coming at a very convenient time.

For example: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/aurora-aur-werner-enterprise...
the following article talks about why you shouldn’t read some scientific papers:

https://medium.com/@parttimeben/how-not-to-read-scientific-p...
I once had to move 30 PB of satellite imagery from Aws to GCP. google gave us all these tools to do it, none of it worked. It was rough
Execs probably feel CGI crews are 'easier' to manage too, given the unionisation of a lot of traditional film set crews.
Agreed. I hate videos as part of discussions too. They tend to be a really ineffective method to explain something because they are tailored to the shortest possible follower. Written consent is much more easily absorbed at one's own speed.

Also in video the ads/spam ("by the way look at this from our sponsor") are much more easily ignored.

I hate people replying to IMs with voice messages anyway. Even a call is better than that :)
Brain Charts for the Human Lifespan
bizarre tech decisions have led to insane costs with 0 customers. launch is about 2 years behind. having a lot of trouble hiring senior engineers, when they do they don't listen to them. they have a strange platform that every product team must use. tech leadership has never launched a successful startup before. they have over 300 employees, maybe 400 now. 4 levels of management already, and a _lot_ of them. it's independently funded for now, and has the potential to keep on going like this as long as Dave D. doesn't pull the plug.
Does Netflix have outages? Searching found me suspicious sounding websites for querying whether it's currently down and a story from 2017 about AWS falling over creating a transient slowdown without loss of service.
Yes that would have been extremely impressive in the early 2000s, nevermind the mid 90s.
Just putting a rail line between the port of long beach and the warehouse where everything is delivered to would tremendously help things.
It's irrelevant really. "Late stage" is just a name, to contrast with earlier (e.g. robber barron) and 20th century stages.

Like "modernity" (which refers as a name to a historical period ending sometime before or after WWII, but also to the quality of being contemporary at any era), "late" in "late stage capitalism" refers to the present capitalism stage, and not to the temporal quality of being later (if capitalism exists in 2600 it wont be "later", in this sense, only in chronological sense).
What about your Windows desktops?
Short anecdote to give a quick feel for things here:

I grew up in Waterloo. The home my parents bought in 1989 went up by about 2000% since then. I make more than both combined then, inflation adjusted, and can’t afford that home.

I bought a home down the road in a small blue collar city for 525k. It took 24 months for it to _double_ in value.

I hate this. It needs to stop. The bubble need to be popped.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -MLK

Overall, I'd like to see something other than pure convenience factor in. I think there's a moral (ethos) & logical (logos) cause here, working against the single garment of identity being turned into a corporate run straight-jacket of dominion, and accepting some responsibility, some charge for helping push us towards better, to positively affecting each other, is to me what life is about.

Personally, on extensions versus logins, this doesn't seem like a big ask. Getting a private, non-aggressive, non dark-pattern website is a huge upgrade, for very little cost. Having links I can share easily is a huge upgrade versus linking people to partial fragments & concealed login-walls.

The description for this extension says it only affects Twitter. This is fairly easy to validate in devtools, or if you trust it you can go read the open source, which also proves this claim to be true. This extension will not slow down any other site. This would be great information for the extension stores to make known! Oh, the Firefox site tells you this! Personally I hadn't heard the complaint about extensions slowing things down before. That's a shame. It'd be great for the browser to make more information visible to end-users about the performance impact of extensions. Anyhow, I was able to find this core evidence in less time than it takes a gmail tab to open: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect/blob/5b997ea...

Extension reviews are also great. Looking for some low reviews, & finding if anyone has anything particularly technical & noticeable is a great easy filter to put extensions through, to keep your experience quality high. Trying to socialize both the utility & hazards of extensions is a huge challenge for the web, and something I'd love to see us get better at, so we can more effectively be augmenting our user agency.
I think it’s more about the business need rather than the art. Many blockbusters these days are in a pretty extreme crunch. The business “can’t afford” to release late, and there’s so much CGI that everything needs to get done as quickly as possible.

I’m sure many (most?) CGI artists would enjoy taking more time, but the business need (and their need for a job) trumps that. You can draw parallels to software development there too
The central valley isn't where the tech jobs are, unless you're working remote. In actual tech cities a basic house would be a million or more USD.
> maybe homeowners don't want to have their neighborhood become overcrowded.

Then it’s time to collect your scarcity-generated windfall and move someplace rural you’ll like better! Super-common, and you can even complain self-righteously about the terribly governed crime-ridden hellhole you’re leaving behind.
Yeah, this looks like a very deliberate effect to me. I don't think I'm a fan of it, but this isn't what trying and failing to blend the background and foreground looks like.
Well, they had 150 engineers sitting around for a product that required at max 3. Need to give them something to do to justify those 300k salaries.
The Ghostbusters Are an Antidote to Lovecraft’s Dismal Worldview (2014)
What a click bait title, these are little kids not toddlers
Now include installing node/npm initially and setting that app up for CI/CD
L-1 can be extended a couple of times (up to 7 years total I think?), so "soon" is relative (especially given that it gives you a couple tries at the H-1B, but only if you can hold on to the job).

I think my main point still stands: you can't always just pack up your things and leave (or rather, you can, but the consequences aren't always a simple job hunt, sometimes they involve relocating internationally) so you may be willing to tolerate more abuse or conditions that are less than perfect for you.
Last Week Tonight was the eighteen wheeled equivalent of projecting a crappy rookie game-dev job onto all of tech. Nobody who doesn't want to is putting up with that after they've been in the industry for any appreciable amount of time. It's the kind of thing you do for a few years to put experience on your resume.

The asterisks are you have to live in a truck, work crappy hours and be jerked around by dispatch, just like every other steering wheel holding dry van job. It's also not salaried so that "starting at 95k" is based on some number of miles. Walmart historically pays well in order to have their pick of top drivers. While they are a primarily dry van fleet, they're no Swift of Schneider so they expect high quality work to go with that pay. Driving over someone's planters will not sit well with them.
Rubbing things together. Seriously.
AWS gives away literally tens of thousands of pounds to start ups. Granted, it's to lock them in down the line but getting free credits gets you further than not having credits.
I think you got it. Russia is so geopolitically unstable that they are unable to have relations with the people they are borrowing from. That risk should be priced into the fundamental economics of transacting.
The website of the team excavating the archeological site where this object was found contain more information and fascinating pictures:

http://www.griffinwarrior.org/
The point is that this is only one part of the problem. "Wealthy-ish local people" protesting a condo development is not enough to explain this absolute explosion in home prices.

The government may be faceless, but there are lots of things that could have been done - including more "development-friendly" practices. However, there's always a cost - do you sacrifice environmental protections? Democratic government principles?

You can't just blame whatever out-group you dislike at the moment. If those neighbors you described vanished as of 5 years ago, the prices of houses would have risen just the same.

The reason that I blame government is because they explicitly had a responsibility to protect society from this. Officials have either neglected or outright contravened this responsibility.
Im not in debating the morality, but rather asking what markets will make of this new type of default.

Default is bad because being too poor to pay up scares away creditors. If Russia maintains the ability to pay the debts to creditors when allowed, how will different creditors feel about that?

Traditional default is undesirable because of what it means. It remains to be seen what this default will mean.
The problem is even when you sign up, they restrict your account for commenting or liking something!! Now they want your phone number!!! Fuck you Agorwawol!! I hope this musk do something about it, although I doubt it!! They are all scumbags!!
Physically demanding? How many truckers do you know? It is among the most dangerous jobs in the US though; that's true of basically all transportation jobs.
That rail line would need to go through a union and that would be complicated.

Probably cheaper to build a port from scratch in Baha and build a rail line to there than fight that fight.
you do know that being seated for long periods of time is tremendously unhealthy, right? It's also a stressful environment with a lot of unhealthy road food options. I don't imagine truckers living a very healthy lifestyle, but that could just be my own internal biases showing.
Alternatively, you could see it as a good thing because more people can access a previously “elite” field. There are so many examples of this. The alternative is that fewer people who might be excellent can’t overcome the barrier to entry. The raw number of very good coders or CGI artists now is probably significantly higher now that more people can access the field.
Chomsky: US Policy Toward Russia Is Blocking Paths to De-Escalation in Ukraine
If I know the default login, how would fail2ban help you? Doesn't it mine only the failures?
Do you think squashing the PR is the superior choice? Why?
I always assumed that when they stop dropping the price of older instance types, storage types and other such things, that’s their subtle way of encouraging both new and existing users to chose or migrate to the newer ones in order to not just get the new features but to obtain the cost savings.
That is completely unreasonable.
Addictive substances directly effect the biochemistry of motivation. Directly acting on some subset of receptors (or other mechanisms) in the brain on neurons and glia is entirely different from something coming in through your senses.

One is direct and one in indirect. For video games to become addictive they actually have to be fun and rewarding; probably in a random interval operant conditioning pattern. For methamphetamine to become addictive you don't even need to be having fun or experiencing reward. That's a big difference. Addicting drugs are usually intrinsically addicting. No video game is.

Most video game "addiction" material is from for profit private treatment centers and rarely peer reviewed. It is not represented in the legal medical codes or in high impact journals.
If you actually follow any CG or effects artists and listen to them discuss their work, you'll find they are extremely passionate and skilled, and tend to care a great deal about the quality of their work. However, they also aren't at all in control of the time or budgetary constraints they work under.

You also have to consider that 99% of digital effects nowadays are unnoticed because they supplement the scene (like vehicles or crowds or physics simulations) rather than act as a point of focus. You don't notice all of the things that work right, you just notice the things that don't. And nine times out of ten, that's just because of crunch.

These people are the hackers of their domain and it's disappointing to see people on HN dismiss them as hacks simply because they work for large studios. Meanwhile having FAANG on your resume in any capacity automatically signals you as an elite among elites.
So is smoking, but I wouldn't call it physically demanding.
Does this mean Alex Jones was right all along..?
Learning to Play Settlers of Catan with Deep Reinforcement Learning
See this older sibling comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30950842
What I want to know is how he got all that funding? And from Stripe!?
This damages their reputation too I would think.
Seems to be the case for any credentialed job. The thought of being a lawyer or a doctor whose entire livelihood can be removed with the stroke of a pen scares the shit out of me.
So in other words you're just talking out of your ass and assuming who and what people are based on a few words on the internet.

There's a term for that.
Why are there no articles answering this question? Please link if you find one!
I think he's saying he would rather the "block" function not block the ability to read the tweets, just the ability to reply to them.
Wouldn't a more natural point of comparison be installing the ruby interpreter?
You argue Fauci is a wonk, but lots of what he said was obviously wrong at the time.

I think Fauci is hyper political, he's just not optimizing for truth but for institutional staying power. And it worked! America suffered the consequences, but he held onto his job and half the U.S. worships him.
I'm not so sure the sub-millimeter details are so mysterious if a sub-millimeter mark in hard stone is easy to feel with the fingers.

And if that's how they did it, this is still remarkable work.
Axie Infinity raises $150M to help reimburse hacked user funds
Deep learning is probably not the right tool to generate a taller human. We've mapped the human genome. You could probably create a statistical model that pretty accurately maps different versions of genes to height. Then it would mostly be a question of swapping different versions of genes to get the result you want. With a statistical model, you would need a relatively small dataset (hundreds, or thousands of human genomes), and you wouldn't have to worry about errors being introduced.
There will be in person positions for people like yourself. A remote position means no traveling either.
> It is indeed a mystery how they did it,” said Stocker.

How about using a Pantograph?

> The ancient Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria described pantographs in his work Mechanics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
For me getting a kid actually accelerates the feeling of existential crisis. But maybe sticking with it for a few more years and kid can help solve that. Not 100% sure.
There's also the driver being liable for the safety of the trailer they pick up, even though they've never seen it before they get to the yard, and the other parties (who are not liable) have every incentive to pressure the driver to just pull aged, unsafe equipment.
In particular, the dead guy and the arm holding the sword. It uses light reflections very effectively.
I think as long as you kept your mouth shut about doctrinal matters, you'd be fine. Almost all of the scientists who go in trouble with the church were busy writing commentary on religious doctrine outside of their scientific work, and that's what got them in trouble generally speaking. The Catholic Church for its faults funded a lot of astronomers and other scientists in the medieval period and into the Renaissance.
Jack up interest rates to trigger a recession, and now not only do you still have a housing market that exists in its current form due to perpetual undersupply but with a recession on top.

Making it too expensive to buy a home does 'help' with prices, but it's more like treating the symptom than the cause. The result is there still isn't enough affordable housing in places where it is needed.
When markets are rising so rapidly, there are very few people who might lose money on a sale. There’s a lot of fat in the process, but it’s not particularly relevant when prices are going up double digits each year.
Thanks for bringing that up. I actually posted another Ask HN about that because of your thread :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952648
Have you heard of ostrich races and emu races? Birds can carry reasonably heavy loads. Quickly.

Edit: much more energy-efficient than a drone delivery service, and probably not that different in speed for medium distances.

The difficult problem, as with any mechanical replica of a biological mechanism (tensegrity energy recovery locomotion in this case), will be long term reliability.
The article would be almost indistinguishable from a satirical article on a site like Fox News or Bablyon Bee making fun of the far left. They are concerned that Musk supports free speech and at some point "appear to mock gender pronouns"?

I've often though Musk is a bit out to lunch, but reading this it looks like Twitter employees (and I'm sure it's a tiny minority that are saying the things quoted) are going to get a dose of something marginally closer to the real world. I hope they can empathize what it must be like for the regular people working there that just want to do their jobs and not be subjected to radical politics.
This is really the way to do it. No one ever complains about Mac OS being unstable because an update breaks their install on a no-name generic laptop. Instead, they run it on hardware that Mac OS supports. Same should be the case for Linux.

For example Lenovo maintains a list of support laptop versions, and which Linux distros are certified on them. I believe Dell and HP have something similar. Just stick to the supported hardware/distro combos (well, you can typically run whatever distro but at least you have a good baseline), then you should be fine.
This position advertises "home once a week", so whether you are on the clock waiting or not, you probably aren't doing exactly what you want much of the time.

https://careers.walmart.com/us/jobs/1456060BR-truck-driver-8...

The $87,500 they post probably requires having the 30 months of recent driving experience, plenty of miles and safety bonuses.
It is also partly your friend's mistake. These things should be in writing for many reasons -

- the recruiter could just possibly lie that she never mentioned remote work

- the recruiter could have left the company and could possibly never answer your messages

- the doc would stand as a point of argument with the company without involving another person into the discussion
>Disagree. CGI is getting "easier" in the sense that even low budget films can do things that used to only be reserved for large budgets (...) But at the end of the day, you still need good direction and editing

What you disagree with? Because that's exactly what the OP said: “I believe CGI is getting worse even as the tech advances.” (the tech being CGI tech, and the first reference to CGI meaning "CGI as applied by most current films/directors").
I remember my friend buying one of the first Pentium desktops and plugging in the Carmageddon demo... WOW

Before that I had only used 286, 486 and 586.
> regular people working there that just want to do their jobs and not be subjected to radical politics.

There's a place where that doesn't happen?
I have no idea if they could have used a pantograph, but the Hero of Alexandria apparently lived 1500 years after this artist.
Probably not, it has depth and is carved into agate. If you've never tried to carve stone, it is quite difficult.
What distro(s) do you use?
Thanks :) that is in fact my point!

https://hbr.org/2016/04/if-theres-only-one-woman-in-your-can...

There are more CEOs of large U.S. companies who are named David (4.5%) than there are CEOs who are women (4.1%) — and David isn’t even the most common first name among CEOs. (That would be John, at 5.3%.)
To be frank, "tweaking amp settings and mic positioning" was never a requisite for good music.

Just an obsession, inspired by the Beatles and later bands "use the studio as an instrument", that often worked to the detriment of traditional musical skills, and is part of what turned the focus from songwriting to production, that enabled today's "just scroll through presets".
Great story.

It will be super interesting to see how this plays out over the next decade. Everything relating to US/China military relations is fascinating at this point, esp. WRT how intertwined and weaponized technology/the internet/all comms have become.
It's not from a founder, but I like this paragraph from the preface of The Go Programming Language:

Go has enough of a type system to avoid most of the careless mistakes that plague programmers in dynamic languages, but it has a simpler type system than comparable typed languages. This approach can sometimes lead to isolated pockets of "untyped" programming within a broader framework of types, and Go programmers do not go to the lengths that C++ or Haskell programmers do to express safety properties as type-based proofs. But in practice Go gives programmers much of the safety and run-time performance benefits of a relatively strong type system without the burden of a complex one.

I happen to like this idea of gaining safety through the type system. Sometime's when Go's frustrating me I have to remember - it's that I'm be expecting and achieve something it just isn't intended for.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say - that because some "undeserving" people will get more as well, nothing should change?
Because https://reddit.com/settings didn't exist on old Reddit so it can't take you there.

https://reddit.com/prefs is similar but not actually the same page and, conversely, this old page will only load with the old interface regardless of your preference as it doesn't exist in the new interface.