skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even simpler is to prohibit payments for these experimental treatments, but let people who whould die anyway participate in them as long as it is free for them. In return the drug companies could use the outcomes as data points towards their aproval applications.

That would never happen for good reason. Drug companies would have every incentive to bias the results towards approval by giving the drugs to detain patients. I’m not exaggerating when I say this might be the worst idea I’ve read in this entire thread.
With additional politics and a massive focus on prestige. You can essentially only work for a school that is lower than your prestige, not higher. In industry you often climb the latter by switching companies, but this is harder in academia.
It should also be free after it's approved by the FDA.
You can heavily sanction any nation that doesn't enforce it.

I also don't think many nations would be willing to face off against the US Navy, whether it would be legal or not.
When I was at a company that went all in on AWS. I went from 100% of time working on product, to easy 75% of time working on AWS. Even though we had teams who just set up infra on aws for us to use and it was supposed to be "so easy". There was far more time setting up AWS infra than writing code.
Melodramatic? More like realistic, as shown by history.
One of the best back stretches that I've found is hanging from a pull-up bar (wall-mounted, removable door frame bar, power rack).

The recent version of Stretching[0] also has computer-specific stretches in it. I was recommended this book by a physical therapist and it's great.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/561546
This is just the start, just wait until most LLM can outperform junior devs on the quality of generated code.
I don't know about you but I'm mentally exhausted at the end of most days once I'm off work. It's relatively uncommon for me to even have energy to invest in my normal hobbies, let alone self-improvement/ learning new skills.
I reviewed peoples Resumes on Fiverr! It was only for people in the tech industry. I would thoroughly review them and give 2-3 pages worth of feedback.

Made around $50.
Now that it is beyond doubt, do not forget how German media and journalists have been misrepresenting and lying about their green energy successes for decades.
Oh no. I thought tech only took jobs away from “low skill” people, e.g., cashiers or baristas and let the smart retire early… I guess the days of pushing a couple emails with cushy AF perks are over.

This is sarcasm BTW (somewhat).
>Please explain to me how the states which dissolved their bonds with the United States and declared their independence from it were different in exercising the right to dissolve political bonds?

Non American here. Honestly, I'm perplexed by the question? Are you being genuine?

The difference is that they're the traitors from your perspective. You're American. They seceded from America. Thus they're traitors.

The same way that Americans are traitors from the perspective of an Englishman.

How is this even a question? There is no absolute right or wrong. There's not even an absolute right. Nothing says you can or cannot secede. It all depends on your perspective. If you're American than the South were the traitors.
They already tried by not raising inflation-adjusted wages for 50 years, and the solution to that problem was: lower the interest rate and push people to borrow to consume.
> Or the third to to illustrate the argument in another context.

This is still case 1.

I actually agree with you that some people with bad security habits will never change their behavior, but do you really feel that someone using passwords in a notebook because that's what they're comfortable with is in the same class of behavior as someone addicted to nicotine?

Feel free to have the last word here. 1 on 1 HN threads more than 3 deep rarely result in productive conversation. Cheers
Indeed, well, that's because you don't have all of it. It's a part connected to another external part. To own something physically, it needs to be self-sufficient without external parts. Otherwise you don't own it physically.

I wish there was a law defining this. And people to learn to demand it.
I hate this kind of misleading two step:

“ per capita GDP in the former GDR is higher than in many regions in northern France. Unemployment, at 2.9 percent, is well below the U.S. or EU average, even though Germany took in a million Syrians in 2015 and another million Ukrainians in 2022. Berlin remains the biggest financial contributor to the EU”

But?

“ The country’s economy is fragile, and the rise of the AfD makes its politics as unpredictable as those of Austria or Italy. ”

That’s it. That’s basically the whole article. Germany still has an exceptional economy but it has a right wing party that is surging (like everyone else) and it’s economy is somehow “fragile” which apparently is justified by “German GDP has roughly stagnated since 2019. And German manufacturing is the main problem: Industrial output lags pre-pandemic levels by some 5 percent.”

I don’t know, seems fine. In any case, seems a very weak case for the sky to be falling in Germany. It’s just some mundane challenges in a still robust economy dressed up with a provocative headline.

(By the way, “roughly stagnated” can be translated as “not stagnated”. I knew that even before finding https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp because it’s a weasel term)
Avoiding re-serialization does avoid a ton of issues, yea. Though I would suggest building in validation for e.g. no duplicate keys immediately, because unexpected duplicates are a common source of bugs and security exploits (e.g. it's a fairly common issue with http headers when requests cross multiple systems).
Phone tree support is awful. AI of GPT4 level works because it is 100x better than that. And it will only get better in the next 5 years.
> That would accomplish nothing.

Firefox came into the mainstream because of power-user recommendations and the browser ballots.

It should be illegal for a significan platform (say 10mln users) to make its own browser, or any really, the unquestioned default. Users should be prompted on first use, giving a randomly ordered selection of any capable browser. If users can just click through it the choice should be random.

This is the only way to maintain healthy competition and ensure independent yet functional standards. Otherwise incentives will continue to centralize power.
Because the trials sometimes take on people with very little time left.
Seems like Google could just build some routing around their existing archive service and give all of their employees a stale copy of the web for 99% of cases. Use LAN for communication, etc.
> many times I've used support and the person is some entry level tech who has no idea.

Yes, roughly all the times. every single time. As far as I can tell, most “first line of support” reps are empowered to read you FAQs, and to maybe perform actions you are better able to do yourself online. If like me, the caller is only calling as a last resort after figuring out the task is impossible online, they just repeat a FAQ or tell them misleading garbage information, blame a third party, or transfer them in circles.

Oddly, the “social media support” reps that cell phone companies have that you can message on Messenger or Twitter DMs are 10x as competent as the phone people, with the bonus that you can work through the problem asynchronously, which is a godsend for busy people.
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Your link is to the newest one. Mine is to the one before that. The original post is about the very first issue. You claimed there are only two editions. My link proves there were more. Understand?
I don't understand why everyone (excluding people who were replaced) is so "outraged".
Many "human interactions" are little more than automated bots, since they are cost-optimized call centers with scripts they are locked into with no power to act autonomously.
I never really understood the appeal of standing desks. Standing still seems less natural to me than sitting, and I don't think it is particularly healthy, unlike moving. Personally, I can walk for hours, no problem, but I can't stand still for more than a few minutes at a time. Most jobs that require standing usually involve some moving around. A clerk for instance may leave the counter to bring the things you bought.

Out of all the usual recommendations, like better (sitting) posture, regular walking breaks, exercising, etc... Extended use of a standing desk seems like the worst to me, though alternating between sitting and standing seems like a good idea.
If you're going to a normal dentist in USA then they don't even do wisdom teeth, that's done by an oral surgeon.
Grant you, 'elites' should have been in quotes—and I wasn't referring to populist stuff but rather to those who are sufficiently powerful enough to launch influential memes that become part of the dominant discourse whether their effects are beneficial for society or not—society doesn't have effective filters against such discourses.

Also, look at the facts, commoners have had precious little say yet the slide downwards has occurred anyway.
That just breeds more misery and does noone any good.

If you've done something bad, then forgive yourself and be kind to yourself, because you need to do better in the future. This is a better lesson that will do everyone more good.
Relevant to the HN crowd and a helpful explainer of at least one psychological reason why projects are often underestimated:

"In one series of studies, people predicted how quickly they (or others) would complete various work projects and whether they would meet their deadlines. They were overoptimistic about themselves (but not others) because they focused on their industrious motives and intentions rather than their past behavior or the behavior of others in similar situations (6)."
We've never had a gpt powered customer support though. It will be fine tuned on all of their recorded customer interactions ever. I could see this being way better than typical customer support where you have minimally trained, low wage employees who barely know how to use a computer just reading a script.
I don't know about an external one. But the standard track pad is in the center of the screen/keyboard layout and quite close to your body. Its non-ergonomic.
> He has a notebook of passwords, that's how he works and he won't change.

So do I for some passwords, physical security is way easier.
I use my computer lying down. Once you discover the utility and comfort of this approach, you'll never want to give it up.
>...it's your job to help me...

>You are my music production assistant. Your job is...

I just use broken english in a kind of Google keyword-search way, and that usually gets me what I want. I've never tried the "You are a .../ Your job is..." thing. Other times I'll just give commands:

"Write a function that can sort through this but skip things and stuff. Ensure that it does a thing. Write this in python. Use the sneed library in your examples."
No it does not. This is a bizarre way to look at things, that is all to common in the US but very much alien in most of the world. Why are those two dimensions important to you (white and male)? What about affluent/poor, educated/uneducated, ginger/blonde, immigrant/native, enthusiastic/bored, religious/atheist, left-wing/right-wing.

The only problem here is the insistence on seeing things through the clownish lens of the "race-sex" combo. It makes it sounds like you can pretty much interchange "white males", like - "I guess I've already got a white guy friend, now I need an asian, and a black one". Nobody sane makes friends like that.

I would be really surprised if you didn't have a:
"Indian guy - Room mate of employee"
"Indian guy - Room mate of employee"
"Indian guy - Room mate of employee"
network in many Indian startups. Except each of those dudes would be a different person, with different experience, differente world view, different likes and dislikes, so what does it matter that they are Indian?
Them: People are using Java for this because there aren't alternatives

You: If it is the convenient alternative than it is a good choice

Me: That is a bad justification for something being a good choice

You: What criteria then?

Me: An understanding of the engineering principals/ domain

Am I accurately summarizing this conversation so far? This isn't about alternatives, or what else they should have done. Something can be a bad fit and the right choice.

As an example, I could say "Java dominates that section due to historical artifacts of business, not technology. Java is a bad fit for this type of work otherwise because of the complexity involved in implementing a Java VM in hardware". I can then also say "Java is the only real choice because of those historical artifacts so I have to recommend that you use it unless you're willing to build your own hardware from scratch".

I actually don't have to propose any alternatives at all, hopefully you can see that - we can just evaluate Java as a language (complex VM, assumes a heavy runtime) against the constraints (custom hardware, low energy) and see that the fit is weak. Obviously people overcame that and made it work, and because of that Java is the obvious choice for this technology.
Both German export to China and German automotive industry faced disruptions. China's economy slowed down and China anyway can do without German technology at this point. And German automotive industry cannot compete with EV's yet. BYD is replacing Volkswagen.

End of cheap gas is just a cherry on top (de-industralizing German Chemical sector which moves outside Europe).

But Germany is capable country in crisis. They will overcame...

> During the last 26 years the exports of Germany to China have increased at an annualized rate of 11.8%, from $6.58B in 1995 to $121B in 2021.

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/chn/partner/d...
Show HN: Fastest way to convert a PDF table to Excel
We built a Windows app to convert PDF tables to Excel. You just have to take a screenshot of the table.

Why try yet another app when there's so many PDF to Excel converters? It's faster, easier to use and more accurate than other converters (including Excel's Power Query).

I would be interested in hearing any feedback.
What if replacing people's jobs is helping people?

Milk men, computers (the people kind), horse carriage chauffeurs, people who light
lamp posts (when they were oil based) we could go on here.

You are clearly coming from empathic place, but I am not sure your premise is nuanced enough. Lots of progress has "victims" but that doesn't necessarily make progress had.
SnapOn hasn't been mentioned! 4 billion USD, 12,000 employees (mostly union), 100% US made. They sell direct to consumers now (they used to only service whole plants/shops). Originating in my neck of the woods - Kenosha & northern IL - their tools are held in high regard everywhere I've gone and jobs there are highly sought after. To call Craftsman an 'American' tool company is a stretch(Made in US "with Global Materials"), and from what I can tell, they're only the largest when you add in their sister subsidiaries (deWalt, Stanley, BOSTITCH).
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> The particulars aren’t so important. What matters is that guys start clocking quality time together, preferably without wives or girlfriends along.

> Boiled down: Women talk; men do stuff. While women can maintain ties through conversation-heavy engagements, the experts say, men are better served by side-by-side bonding. That is, they participate in activities together, during which community and camaraderie are established. On occasion, between rounds of bocce or even rounds at the sports bar, the men may bring up how much they hate their boss or the results of their latest stress test. Behold! Male bonding in action.
Yes, this just makes it easier.
How can we deliver when there are laws where anyone can block wind energy only because they don't like how it disturbs the beauty of the landscape?!?

Back home in Portugal there is no discussion, wind parks are built and that is it.
> I disagree. There, proven wrong. Happy?

On what basis do you disagree? What is your explanation?

> Then we are in agreement that the Pfizer CEO acted fully correctly

No, the CEO did not act fully correctly. In fact he lied to the world when he implied that the vaccine prevented infection.

He knew at the time that it had not been tested for its ability to prevent infection but he implied we should take it to protect our loved ones. [0]

> and you shouldn't take this video as any evidence he hasn't taken the vaccine yet?

Yes, I already agreed several comments back that I hadn’t checked the date of the video when I first posted it. I also agreed that it isn’t evidence he hasn’t taken the vaccine since the video was taken.

[0] https://twitter.com/rubiconcapital_/status/15808948848187269...
You are obviously deeply and aggressively ignorant about pharmacology. Thalidomide is an effective immunomodulator which is prescribed for multiple conditions beyond just leprosy.

https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a699032.html

As with any medication there are risks and side effects but that hardly makes it "worthless".
Are you sure you understand what my position is? Care to strongman it?

Fwiw I think you're actually right that HN tends to spend way too much time on semantics, and I'm certainly guilty of that myself sometimes
Keytruda, and other PD-1 blockers, have good science behind it. Many oncologists believe this is the true path to defeating many cancers.

While PD-1 blockers may cause the immune system to attack another part of a patient's body, we have quite a few ways to treat those autoimmune issues.
I don't understand: why would botox prevent wisdom teeth from growing? I fail to see the connection.
The simplest, best form of exercise is under threat
Academia isn't supposed to be about markets, and I'd argue that framing it this way is at the root of issues such as the reproducibility crisis. Academia's mission is to educate and research for the public good. These are not things that can be captured well by markets. Success of their goals are fuzzy and take a long time to manifest. This doesn't mean it operates in a fantasy world. Take the difficulty of evaluating employees in industry (which is generally not straight forward), and make it a lot fuzzier but put an even larger stress on these metrics.
Because of stupid decisions like shutting down nuclear plants.
The greens are going to lose big time in the next election.
But nonetheless AFAIK Germany is still one of the largest countries pushing for renewable energy.
I would say it is getting harder. Walmart for example I think has switched to largely self-checkout with some helpers thrown in.

Other stores where had more than 3 or 4 human manned lanes, now have just 1 most of the time.
I would think that the "obsession" your peer group has with retiring early comes more from the realization that they can retire early (they have the ability to if they want) more than anything else. Your observations of your peer group may have some selection bias present. Cast a wider net and you may come to the opposite conclusion.

I agree that many people do not find much meaning in their work, but most people also do not make as much money as software engineers do. Most people cannot fathom retiring early. It simply is impossible. A lot of software engineers are going to realize that, hey, if I save up and invest money aggressively for roughly 10 to 15 years, I will have enough to live comfortably for the rest of my life without having to do work that I do not like. However, most professions do not make nearly enough money to achieve the goal of retiring early, so they really have no reason to discuss or even ponder early retirement. It's never gonna come up.
As a customer: because the quality of service I get from a robot is much worse than the quality of service I get from a human being, in general.
Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society
None of this is true. Germany has had a conservative government from 1982 to 1999, and from 2005 to 2021. The Green party has been in the government as a junior partner only once from 1999 to 2005. The conservative governments mainly bet on nuclear (until Fukushima) and on cheap russian gas, while neglecting renewables. Coal consumption has dropped significantly in the last decades with a small resurgence last year due to the russian gas embargo. Nonetheless, the gas supply for heating never ran low since the russian invasion.
Yeah, we don't want ads, but also don't want to pay.
What you are describing is (to me) the pure essence of what it means to be an artist. There are a lot of days where I feel like software and systems engineering is more about creativity than it is math and science.

Try things, take risks, etc. The really amazing thing with software is that the cost of iteration is basically zero (+ your time). You don't even have to go buy new paints or brushes periodically. You can reset your digital canvas a billion times per day if you desire. You can even cheat and set waypoints in time that allow you to instantly teleport to any arbitrary moment with perfect recall. You can create infinite copies of your work at various stages. You can trivially blend your works together. There is no other media on earth that comes close to possessing these same attributes.
no the govt should just pay ubi because we're at the point of needing it. it'll only get worse. Businesses should automate so people are needed for less menial stuff and can just enjoy life and shit.

Not far from now even intellectual jobs will be a.i.

post scarcity star Trek civilization is very possible if we stop letting greed control us.

disclaimer : I run an ai automation agency, and support the fight against poverty and for universal healthcare and stuff, but the faster we automate the faster the govt is forced to roll out solutions to fix the problems automation creates.
House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees
They did win the war with Athens…
I don't think the metformin trials prove much, but I agree, it could have been worth a try.

In moments like this, I think it is appropriate to find a second opinion, sometimes just to attempt something new.
You should take an half an hour out of your time to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvKNNtkUSU
Exactly, almost everyone who reads Hacker News have built their careers on technological progress.

Outrage now that it's coming after their jobs just rings hollow.
The Half-Life mod scene was something else. Something new came out seemingly every week, and since the scene was fairly small, you could always find people playing the mod du jour. Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, The Specialists, Action Half-Life, and so many others… good times. We have many more multiplayer games these days, but the niche stuff loses playerbase too quickly.
When I took Admiralty and Maritime Law in law school, the professor handed us (aside from the syllabus) two sheets of paper on the first day:

1. “Admiralty and maritime law is a couple thousand lawyers fighting over a few dozen ships.”

2. “Beatings will continue until morale improves.”

It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
This "balance" still cuts out a lot of employees and still removes the social interaction for most use cases. My local Home Depot, FWIW, still has a person to do checkout... but I think it is only one person, not even two: the rest of the checkout opportunities are self-checkout.

Also, btw: it isn't so bad to do self-checkout of large items as they have a wireless handheld barcode scanner at each self-checkout stand; it isn't like you are having to lift each item and place it on the platform. There is something similar now at Target, and I routinely self-checkout large/heavy furnishings.