skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> produce that needs to be weighed

In Spain and France (and probably other countries too) they’ve been doing something that’s pretty neat in regards to the fruits and vegetables since long before self-checkout even became a thing, but which helps a lot now with self-checkout as well.

When you go to the fruits and vegetables section of the store, a lot of these stores have a scale there with a printer.

So when you pick the fruits and vegetables, you weigh and print a label for them there and then.

And then when you get to the checkout, you just scan the item.

You kind of have to experience this in person to see why that works well, but it does :)
I am a bit too lazy to go back into Thiel talks and find the relevant quotes, however, if I recall correctly He talks about Einstein and similar physicists on how they were not compensated correctly and not being billionaires despite their huge contributions to the society and how they made wrong life choices.
It's been 5+ days and nothing happened. Things have only worsened.

https://twitter.com/KhalaDrogo/status/1682747585474207744

#DataPrivacy #DataBreach
Congratulations Jim!

I have seen this subscription-based design concept pop up a lot lately but as an agency, interesting to see you do this as an individual designer.
> All of our devices have been hacked and are being monitored, but I don't have the ability to prove this.

How do you know it's happening?
Here in The Netherlands we don't have that thing where they weigh your bag to make sure you haven't stolen something. They instead have two people for 8-10 checkouts and do random inspections where they scan your bags.

Works great and also gave me a huge shock when I went back to the UK and Sainsbury's treated me like a criminal.
Because the differences mentioned by you between shells and OSes are unavoidable, the C standard specifies that the interpretation of the character string passed as an argument of the system() function is implementation-defined and it must be documented by any implementation of the standard C library.

This does not change the fact that whether a system() function implementation uses or does not use fork and exec is neither specified by the function definition nor relevant for the user, and in any case system() is not the function that should be used when the intention is to simplify some code that otherwise would invoke fork and exec.
What is the response you expect from everyone?

Americans were replaced with off-shore call centers last decade. Now they're replaced with AI. Both are equally shitty because there's a very real human cost here. I certainly don't feel good about building technology that puts anyone out of a job like that. Maybe that person was working there as a means to pay for school to get a better job, and now has to find other work.

Meanwhile, the leadership of Shopify gets to horde more wealth making it also feel pretty greedy to me.

So I can see how, at least some significant share of people, would be "outraged" by that.
There are images for it on Docker Hub. I wrote a Redmine deployment spec for the PaaS I use (Caprover) for my personal app server. It’s a lot like Docker Compose, but as it actually functions using the Docker API, some Compose features are unavailable. If you’re familiar with Compose, you should be able to easily adapt this Caprover template: https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/blob/aaa12a4f37f7...
I think they already can if you prompt well.
It was (sadly) never uber green. It was always mostly coal based. These green bets you are talking about, just like e-fuels today, were mostly greenwashing gimmicks pushed by the industry.
high school students type whatever they're looking for into a web browser, which automatically searches Google for it.

They're not typing "google.com" into anything, but they're using it all the same.
IaC is a silly term. Infra is mostly hardware, which by definition is something else than software.

But hardware needs to be configured. And load balancers, firewalls, clusters etc. are perfectly suited for the declarative style of the Ansible/Puppet/Chef type of tools. That is what people usually mean by "IaC", as silly as it may be.

Those tools really shine when used end-to-end. The defintion of an application can contain which ports need to be open towards backends, database users, and health check parameters for the load balancer. The system can then declaratively sort out the respective templates, and configuration really lives in one place. Shared secrets are defined exactly once, and rotation is deterministic across the entire environment.
For the record, FDA has fast track / breakthrough therapy options:

https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-drug-and-device-app...

Biden's Moonshot program is trying to drive money to support new innovations:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/
My build machine sometimes needs to send logs to attach to bugs or have other humans inspect them. This obviously doesn't have to be Gmail but it comes pretty handy.
If you think that AI only benefits shareholders then you're the one with exceptional short term vision.

Broadening access to AI will massively benefit all humans
A cyber security contracting company.
For the record, there is also Scipio. But yes, very few people in all of history who voluntarily stepped back when offered absolute power.
I had a similar presentation: sudden 1-3% PAC load at rest following an asymptomatic COVID infection. Cardiac MRI showed minor residual scar tissue. I noticed my diet was pretty seriously deficient in magnesium, and after starting a supplement the abnormal beats have nearly vanished.
Not the original commenter, but I've started doing basic piriformis stretches. Even just the first one on this list has noticeably helped my back/sciatica pain.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/piriformis-syndrome-stret...

I've added it as a goal in the Finch app, so I get a little dopamine reward when I do it.

Plus owning a dog helps too, getting regular exercise even if it's just walking.
> I don't understand why everyone (excluding people who were replaced) is so "outraged".

I think once you've applied the label "outrage" it's very difficult to see what people's concerns are and why. It adds this moral component, where only some people are entitled to be outraged (eg the people you identified as having understandable reasons) and thus by implication everyone else is throwing an unnecessary tantrum. I think that actually obscures what's going on.

I think it's worth resisting applying the label of "outrage," and it becomes easier after that to hear people's concerns and evaluate their merits. Because they don't have to reach the artificial goalpost to justify outrage, they just have to be valid concerns.
All the countries that have won wind parks over Germany still have their nature just fine.

Even better, their nature appreciates the amount of green energy being generated, that Germany still is catching up to.
If you want to go deeper on this, Heather McGhee’s “The Sum of Us” is an astounding book.
Eye of the beholder and all that, I found it rather charming. The defects that exist in generative images I find to be the true beauty in AI art.
Here are the Hub images: https://hub.docker.com/_/redmine
Generative AI/LLMs: I don't know. I'd guess these would be cost-prohibitive for large, fast-paced games with hundreds of thousands of players, unless they selectively applied them to suspected cheaters and/or professional players (for retroactive bans).

Machine learning: Yes, for years. One example is Call of Duty[1].

1. https://www.callofduty.com/it/blog/2021/10/ricochet-anti-che...
You can usually avoid paying the toll if you carpool or drive a motorcycle or just don't take that highway during peak hours. There's almost always public transit along an express lane so you could take that too. It unreasonable and inefficient to allow single-occupancy vehicles to use all lanes of traffic at all times on busy roads.
I resisted using online ordering at Kroger for a long time, then in 2021 I started using the mobile app, and just picking up my groceries... now I have not be inside a Kroger in almost 2 years and have no plans on going back in.

The Kroger App is great, and having them bring the stuff out, load me up, and I drive away... even if they actually go back to charging $5 for the service I am paying.

>>I don't know what humanity plans is

I dont know about humanity, but consumers demand low prices on food, one of the biggest complaints people have today is high cost of food, even if over history we still have some of the lowest costs of food as a percentage of expanded ever...

Grocery is also one of, if not the lowest profit retail businesses to be in, it is not surprising they will look to lower their #1 cost... people.
I don't have great options where I live and both my nearby grocery stores are pretty good with cashier checkout. I have a car so shopping for larger orders isn't really an issue.
Germany has a lot of things going for it, but it‘s weaknesses become really apparent at the moment:

- finance happens elsewhere, no world-leading banks anymore, meaning it‘s difficult to get capital, unless you‘re big corp

- no natural ressources to speak of, so the only indirectly tradable good is ingenuity, unfortunately too little happening in tech or services

- energy prices have balooned, which costs its industrial base dearly

- China has become a testy trading partner, as they now have transfered most of the know-how to DIY

- starting a company is almost surely easier elsewhere (except for maybe France, Italy, or Spain)

- mostly mediocre universities. the best academics are typically leaving and don‘t look back.
I agree :)

7-10 years ago people on this forum thought they were invincible. People who said said software work would be commoditized were ridiculed.

Rate of change is just fast and probably lots of people just thought that a career in tech was a free golden ticket for life. Now that it is threatened people are getting anxious and defensive.

The vast majority of bad things happening in the world are okay as long as they don't happen to "me". Living conditions in sub Saharan Africa are really poor, but noone cares. We are all hypocrites to some degree.
Alternating between sitting and standing is the only correct way to use a standing desk. Prolonged standing is as harmful as prolonged sitting.
Any accidents and you can just call a doctor to fix the wounded.
The House of Lords can't block legislation though, they can only amend it and send it back, and only a limited number of times...and the amendments they propose are only advisory and can be ignored.
They don't possess general intelligence, end of discussion. Thanks for attending my TED talk.
No Bez?
Cloudtrail writes to s3 at intervals, which means it make take a few minutes for the log entry related to your request ID to show.

I've found Athena doesn't appear to search through all log entries (possible user error on my part); I've been downloading the cloudtrail logs directly from S3 and grepping through the logs directly to find the relevant entries to figure out the permissions needed.

If you need to decode an encrypted error message, use `aws sts decode-authorization-message --encoded-message $MESSAGE`. It'll return a JSON string. I typically use `aws --profile limbledevadmin sts decode-authorization-message --output text --encoded-message $MSG | jq .context.action` to extract the needed permission.
Not quite every language. Giving libraries access to every capability by default is a language design decision, not a law of nature.
Let’s update the headline. I seem to recall clickbait is banned on hacker news.
I've been programming for ~20 years and I sit very slouched, with my butt resting at the at very forward lip of my chair.

This is very comfortable and relaxed and puts no pressure on my back at all. I keep my monitor high up so my head is elevated. If the need arises, I can do this for 12 hours a day without being uncomfortable or sore at all by the evening.

Sitting ramrod straight in the proper "ergonomic" position seems like a disaster waiting to happen. It's super uncomfortable and stresses my back, my arms, my neck.
> The criticism is that the performance metrics are often in opposition or irrelevant to the stated mission(s) of said academic institutions.

This is something I deeply believe.

Goals: educate individuals and produce original research.

Metrics: h-index (h papers with >= h citations), frequency of publication, academic service (politics).

Teaching is generally not considered an important metric. H-index biases to quantity of papers rather than quality, and there is a pseudo-pursuit for novelty while the most important thing in science is reproducibility (hence our crisis). I would say that evaluation of academics is nowhere near aligned with the stated goal of academic institutions and there's a reason several Nobel prize winners have stated that they do not think they would have made it in today's system.
I would like this, if somehow the people giving you the things were required to do it for free. Because without that, it just looks like writing a blank check to fraudsters.

It doesn't matter if insurance companies aren't required to pay for it. People will max out credit cards, borrow from friends, and mortgage their house. All for something that could sit anywhere on the continuum of: does nothing to kills you immediately. Probably with a side of "did this rather than something that would have actually worked".
Core services like identity, subscription management, payment, and backup seem to be emerging as the role of the operating system on modern devices.
> No, I am saying it does not help typical developer.

What's a "typical developer"? If we are talking today then typical developer is just typical white-collar employee. I see many of those in my gym, some of them even use it correctly (that is they get in, do deadlifts, and get out =))

> My personal opinion is that it is damaging joints (including spine discs). My trainer also does not recommend it. But I am not really qualified on this subject.

Well you should get a second opinion. Obviously I don't know your personal history but for most "typical developers" if you get some coaching, use trap bar, don't go to failure or 1rm and don't use straps, it's super safe.
What do you mean by “work problems”. Writing regex? SQL? Exclusively software development?

Outside of this, even using for “summarizing” documents, you are lucky if it doesn’t distort or twist meanings such that it isn’t useful, except now you have spent as much or more time checking it’s work than just doing it yourself. Checking others’ work is much harder than writing it.

Every time I’ve attempted to ask it something I can’t answer myself or through immediate googling it has been completely useless.

I’m unconvinced that it isn’t just developers with a poor eye for nuance who aren’t realising how much information they are giving in the questions who rave about it. Horses can count, if you give enough context.

It seems to be generally good at novelty style transfers.

> It's like when you win the lottery and get the support person who's been at the company 15 years and knows everything in and out. That's what these LLM's can be.

This is pure fantasy, extrapolating what you want to see into an arbitrary future where it’s true. More likely it gaslights the customer onto thinking problems are their fault until they give up, but this scenario is mildly cheaper for the companies who don’t need to pay humans to do the runaround.
That's right, but it doesn't give you a guarantee in every sense of the word. A panic during unwinding will still result in an abort.
Yes, and management discounts that .. if you make me, a product expert, working on application software.. deal with this stuff, I am going to do the worst, most rapid, half-assed, security and everything else be damned job.

I have clients, product, scrum masters, tech leads, and others breathing down my neck on feature delivery, and you're asking me to figure this alphabet soup out, lol.. don't expect happy results dudes.

I've been a domain expert in a field for 20 years, what value do I bring to the client in dealing with this alphabet soup of AWS networking/security? Either it works and client gets what they want, or it doesn't and they don't.

This stuff is a full time job and should be respected as such. If you think you can push it all down on app dev, you are going to have unhappy results.
Same thing happens even if you build a house. Every square foot of land human take, removes a square foot of land for animals, bugs, plants, fungi. It may be less impactful to the human psyche when it's indirect damage, but it's still damage.
Be careful, if you get too close to supporting medical regulations and evidence-based medicine, you will awaken the crowd who thinks vaccines are poison and quacks should be allowed to sell ivermectin for every ailment. Surely Tim Ferris should be allowed to sell supplements because the free market is absolutely perfect (unless a member of the free market is deciding to enforce masks as a condition of entry or something).
I see that you're trying to imply that SARS-CoV-2 was pre-adapted to humans, while SARS wasn't, so this is going in a conspiracy-theory direction.

I guess the Wuhan Institute of Virology also produced a special deer-adapted version which they released into the wilds of North America, and a mink-adapted version they released on farms in Denmark, and a hamster-adapted version, and a cat-adapted version, and on and on. Both SARS and SARS-CoV-2 have shown an ability to infect a range of different species.
This is awesome. I like cities skylines but I prefer the simulation aspect to the gamified aspect.
>Berlin remains the biggest financial contributor to the EU

This is unsurprising for the EU's largest population, though.

>I knew that even before finding https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp because it’s a weasel term

Looks to me like ~1% annual average since 2018 which is not promising to put it mildly.
Are you against windows as well? Those kill billions of birs.
Let me just drop in to recommend the Kinesis Advantage 2, a keyboard I bought about 6 years ago after first noticing wrist pain. It's probably my only purchase that beats Factorio in "benefit-per-dollar". I absolutely love it. Haven't used the 360 (it wasn't available when I bought it), but that looks even better.
I think the automation trend can be annoying when it fails, but self checkout is a weird thing to pick on. In the UK at least they always have a staff member on hand to override the scales. They're soooo much better than waiting in a queue for a human.
Parts of HN continue to live in an alternative reality. I fail to grasp how this obviously factually wrong comment can even exist, let alone be a top comment.

* Germany's coal use is now at a historic minimum, comparable to the 2020 COVID year outlier

* Germany does not use coal for heating

* Germany does not struggle to heat its homes. Even if it did, it was around 16 degrees Celsius around new year's, so people did not need to heat much in the warm winter

* Solar, wind and renewables in general are one of the most exciting and fastest developing industries in the world

Could people check basic easy to find facts before posting?
We are just about there, if not past. Check out "Copilot for Pull Requests", "GPT Engineer", and "StarCoder LLM".

Friends and I have all been working to experiment with these sorts of things locally, to reduce the cost to basically zero.

I am sure we can guess what 1-3 years from now starts to look like, as technical project managers and sr devs are able to harness many of these tools (see langchain) and just write english unit tests.
> there's nothing special about "this" or "self"

It is special in that when a method executes say in JavaScript, the 'this' has a very specific value even though you did not pass in an argument of that name nor did you ever assign a value to a local variable of that name. Depending on the language you use trying to assign to the (pseudo-) variable 'this' may or may not cause an error.

The "automatic" value 'this' has makes it special, different from other variables and arguments. That automatic value ties the method-call-syntax into the semantics of what it means to call a method as opposed to calling a free function.

This can be exemplified in JavaScript easily:

let funk = myOb.funk;
let v = myOb.funk();
let v2 = funk(); // throws error

In this case the error gets thrown if
myOb.funk internally refers to 'this'
and tries to access some field of it.
That causes an error because 'this' is
undefined inside 'funk' when it is called
as a plain function.

When you call myOb.funk() there is NO error
in the same case, because 'this' is then
NOT undefined, its value is 'myOb'.

You can access any field of myOb inside
the code of myOb.funk when you call it as
myOb.funk().

That is a big semantic difference, not
just "syntactic sugar".
Bigger problem is lawsuits by relatives.

And if you protect the drug companies and doctors against those lawsuits, then you open the door to them exploiting desperate people.
The authors don’t want to tip off their bosses that they have a drug habit obviously
Sounds like defeatism. By writing such comments you only help Google and make people resign from doing anything. Good job...
It won't be easy, but it is not impossible to change the world. There are many, many intelligent people around. We just need to work together to achieve our goals.
BTW EU has shown, multiple times, that it is powerful enough to impose regulations on tech giants like Google, Facebook or Apple.
All the folks in my peer group who followed their left-leaning parents mantra of doing something interesting, something that you love, got absolutely screwed. As much as I hate big tech, I cannot blame anyone for pursuing it.
I have noticed here on HN that a lot of people don't have desktops and think they are as good as laptops in terms of performance. lol
Nice thing about whole foods - there is person there to help you with the self-checkout (in case something doesn't scan, price isn't right - rare) - but there isn't any scan or check of bags/receipts. It's close, fast, and convenient enough that I just do my shopping every day for most stuff, with a few exceptions like Milk that I might buy a weeks worth of stuff. The Palm Scan Instapay thing is awesome too.
Yeah, I don't really have problems interacting with most people. If I wanted a pizza right now I'd have no problem with calling my local pizza place and heading over there to pick it up.

But at some point the idea that we should maintain low-paying, pretty boring (although there are lots of customer interactions) "bullshit" jobs so we can eschew automation pretty much falls apart. (And different businesses will draw different lines.)
> "...many candidates were simply unable to clearly explain their past work and make a clear pitch for their vision and work (even with slides)..."

This is interesting, why do you think they fumbled? Is it a lack of practice/experience in presenting these ideas or is it an indicator of a grad student who has become a foot soldier for a PI?
Where I live there are a lot of non-fruiting cherry and plum trees planted for shade, so I can imagine people grafting on a fruit bearing branch here and there.
Plus there are some customers who misscan stuff to pay less (they buy a lot of "bananas").

also the discretionary purchases that occurred while waiting in line disappear - no gum/chocolate bar or celebrity/gossip magazine sales