skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone is confused by this question, afaik Sensodyne does not use Novamin in the US because the FDA has slow-walked bioglass toothpastes, especially ones that also use fluoride, but some varieties do in other countries.

And -ish, Novamin is calcium sodium phosphosilicate, similar in concept as another remineralizer but not quite the same.
Reinventing the E.R. for America’s mental-health crisis
It's not misleading at all.

It here also means that Germany has a strong economy to be able to provide that amount of financial support for the development of the EU. And this strength is not just depending on the number of people (as claimed above), but also on the state of the countries economic development.

> So the EU has been a huge net gain for Germany.

sure, as it has been for other countries
Nope, but you're doing a nice job illustrating the point I made in my very first post in this thread.
Basic income is a horrible idea. It resigns 80%+ of the population to being unproductive for life and living in abject poverty.

If AI is going to automate away all 'meaningless' low and middle class jobs then the government should be stepping in to tax the productivity gains and use the money to educate and employ those people in roles that AI can't (maybe ever) fill. Having the government pay tens of millions of people to further scientific research and innovation would be a massive boon for our society rather than the current ratcheting incrementalism and lack of innovation the pervades in our current system where innovation is always shunned unless it can provide immediate short-term gains.

Unfortunately it's moot to even think about. Nothing will change and the elites will simply let the majority of the population starve to death.
I live in a town that has cruise ships come in (in New Zealand) and it seems they often have activities planned as they hop on tour buses, minivans etc and go off to do things for the day.

I imagine the same would apply to ppl arriving in Amsterdam - being aware of activities to do in the city.

They are unlike other tourists, but I wouldn't jump to assuming that's a bad thing.
>Indeed. Very easy thing to do, in fact everyone can do it! Don't let those luddites tell you majority of the population is regardless addicted. Just ignore all those shiny posts tailored exactly to your reward mechanisms by a trillion dollar sector. If I can avoid, so can you. Just Avoid It, bro! You must try it, so easy!

Can you understand I come to social media for cool posts? I see people doing tricks, information about nutrition, engineering and stuff.

Easy to do, but if outside (I mean my environment) is really that bad, boring and racist, then I have no choice, same goes for this website, people on this website are just better than on the others ones.
History us not just an opinion, it's not subject to personal likes or dislikes. And the modern history offers plenty of support for my "not like".
If you're talking about Linux, and not BSD or something, then I have a bridge you just may be interested in purchasing.
I salute Rudy, but I’m not sure how well his graduate students have made out in the last few years.
> Should we at least demand more specific criteria than "X _might_ save their life", like threshold of suggestive evidence? There will always be lots of stuff that hasn't been closely studied, the effects of which we can only partially describe.

We do, it's part of the FDA process and is determined on a case-by-case basis considering alternative treatments, disease course and intervention safety amongst other variables.

It's how the vast majority of stroke and novel cancer therapies are currently being approved.
65 is the new 45 :) Sounds like there's a perfectly logical reason to do the 3rd startup: you're passionate about it. Best of luck!
> if you can't basically swim you're stupid.

That's a ridiculous statement. There are so many other skills that could save your life one day, not knowing how to do that particular one isn't any stupider than not knowing how to climb a tree to escape a bear.

I agree people should be given the opportunity to learn how to swim but let's look at reality for a moment: Worldwide, almost 60% of humans do not know how to swim and they still get by fine... Wild, isn't it?
So then damn near everyone can do the job? What’s that gonna be worth then?
> Why not just do basic income in this future "total AI automation" scenario?

The oligarchy doesn't want to fund this future, and the federal, state and local governments in the US don't have the wherewithal.
>and D

The D language, that is.

https://dlang.org
Way easier if people outside social media to have some hobbies or have some in depth knowledge, it seems that everybody treats social media the same way, but I got a lot from it, more than the people around me. social media brought literally tears to my eyes (in a good way) and it's still fun, but not as good as back in the day I guess.
Anyone that has ever interacted with a customer service chat bot knows this is pretty stupid.

I’m not sure why people (esp. those in the tech community) think we have evolved the technology in any meaningful enough way to replace people yet.

How do we know this? Those same people would be against AI chatbots replacing their children’s teachers.
Am I allowed to make an assumption?

Chinas biggest advantage over anyone are their industrial spies. China has been unseen in the early 2000s, but they sucked up everything they could! I think the rebuilding Neuschwanstein in China should have been a huge warning sign then. After that they just used their brightest people (and they have a lot!) to spy on every piece of technology they can. How could they have become so big so fast?

German IT infrastructure made it easy to go everywhere and just grab what they wanted...

And now we are whining about their technologic advantage.
They almost cost nothing to start again

https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1681951312492253185
It is a strange turn of events that DRI did not supply the dominant OS for the IBM PC. Before watching this I didn't know that CP/M-86 went for $240 and PC-DOS for $40. Gates' shrewdness (I'll call it that) enabled him to control the PC (as in IBM PCs and clones) market. Sounds like Kildall was a great guy and a genius, who did not win in the "business is war" competition. I remember working at Egghead Software and GEM being superior to the Windows of the day, but it never took off. Xerox (who should have owned GUI computing) made Ventura Publisher based on GEM. Now Gates wants to be seen as a kindly benefactor to us all.....
I watched someone try taking a freaking step ladder through the self check out and the machine scanned it okay but then wouldn't proceed to the next item or cash out because "item must be placed on scale". Really?
Interesting read.

I wonder what went into the decision on the ratio of P to E cores. Naively it seems like more of the die space should be dedicated to E cores since they're so killer for workloads where efficiency or throughput matter. Obviously some jobs can't spread the load across multiple threads and are sensitive to single-threaded latency, but those workloads won't benefit from so many P cores anyways.
I mean sometimes waterfall is required depending on the industry, especially industrial or space and some of government and medical.
I expect this trend to grow significantly.
It's hand-written by me although I'm sure the writing style could be improved a lot. My process for the tutorial posts is to come up with the simplest functional code I can (admittedly using ChatGPT to double-check it), and then write the text around the code examples. I try to keep the text relatively simple so that a) the code does the talking, and b) non-native English speakers can still understand.
The problem is that this history shown here is too simplistic.

After our "war against whales" that lasted more or less until 1960-70's, the removal of cetaceans created a "big hole" in the ecosystem . Krill was free to grow and its levels exploded exponentially. For a lot of time there was a lot of extra krill in the ocean waiting for a predator. And the predator came quickly to take advantage of the situation and fix it
I was working with it in a job some years ago, and I remember that it has a great wiki (we used for internal documentation, sprint docs and other things) because I am in a new job and we are working with gitlab (comunity edition) and the wiki is worse.
>Personally I find the fact that Keynes's 15-hour work week never materialized despite massive improvements in automation to be fairly strong evidence in favor of Marx's Labor Theory of Value.

I don't understand the train of thought that lead to the sentence above. "Marx's Labor Theory of Value" is a well-known phrase, but its meaning is probably more precise for you than me.

Do you not think, broadly speaking, there is some economy of scale with longer hours (compared to 15/week), that gaining experience more quickly has some value, that overhead like shift handoffs or putting work aside for the next day becomes more significant the shorter the day/week is?

I'd also suggest it's plausible that automation changes the nature of work to increase the efficiency of long hours. The more education and thought a job requires, the longer it takes to "get up to speed" and to hand off work to other people.
I don't see how this is an argument. When we say we must condemn nazis for crimes against humanity - do you raise an objection that "non-nazis committed crimes too, and if we sum up all the crimes in history of humanity, they'd surely dwarf the nation crimes?" I don't think so. Pointing to somebody else having committed a crime is not a defense.
Damn, the wheels on those goalposts must be diesel-powered.
> Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (2015)

They forgot the part where Syria has oil and the US want it.
Agreed with everything but AirBNB - tourist areas have hotels located in specific areas to maximize control of the tourist disruptions; AirBNBs have sidestepped that in many areas (often the areas that are now clamping down on short-term non-hotel rentals).
At my work we have a couple of different roles that get involved in each ticket, so we created custom fields in Jira to assign those roles.

So each ticket gets a Primary Developer, Primary SME, etc, but might get assigned to some one else to do one small bit of work (e.g., it'll get assigned to a different developer for code review, but whoever's listed as the Primary Developer is still responsible for it).
https://archive.ph/4hgcL
Same thing in Poland. I’m very surprised that this is not a common standard. I saw rage same in Austria, Italy… basically EU countries. I’m very surprised this is not common in US which is usually known as a place where many retail technologies have emerged.
By the way, the plastic bag must not be wasted. If I take a few bananas I do not take any plastic bag, I just put a sticker on one of them, and then drop them all into bag area after scanning so that total weight matches expected. Same applies to many fruits which do not need a separate plastic bag (apples, oranges, …).
Are there no referral fees for such things? I always assumed that there must be.
> and many software developers and startups actually think that their skills are worth so much. Sigh?

Supply < Demand.

That is why developers are paid well. When demand softens, or supply increases even more, what developers are paid will change. The difference between software developers and other highly paid positions is that there is not enforced, artificial scarcity, such as licenses, advanced education requirements or required tests.
Communication preference is one thing. But what a lot of modern "online" support is really about is preventing people from getting support and forcing them into a dark pattern doing what the company wants and not what they want.

If I could unsubscribe, deal with billing errors, resolve complaints, etc online I'd love it. But most support systems try and trap you in some Kafkaesque faq hell that never lets you get near something that would solve your problem. That's the real reason people want a person.
Lots on snark in this thread. Adding a few real projects to the discussion:

There is the UN Trillion Trees project that aims to work to restore global forests [1]

CMU engineered a self-planting seed carrier that can enable mass planting by aerial platforms [2].

China’s Gobi Desert Reforrestation project “The Green Wall“ [3].

Nature Conservancy Billion Tree Project [4].

Yale University report examining the pros and cons of large tree planting projects [5].

[1] https://trilliontrees.org/

[2] https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/february/engi...

[3] https://youtu.be/lbEkCeKvpb4

[4] https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/plant-...

[5] https://e360.yale.edu/features/are-huge-tree-planting-projec...
you have to ask yourself: does it scale?

You don't have to ask yourself that because almost no one actually agrees with this person that the 'industrial revolution had disastrous effects on the human race'. They don't even believe it.

What if the current population of the earth would want to live in a log cabin in the woods?

They don't and no one said anything about that.

The woods would no longer be the woods.

That's what we have now because that's what people want.
"The drastic changes in Shopify’s approach have led both employees and customers to question the company’s integrity and commitment to its original mission of empowering small businesses. Many see the company as straying from its roots, becoming more akin to the corporate giants it once aimed to oppose."

This seems to me like most start ups or companies as they grow and get big, they start out by disrupting and fighting the way things are done, mixing up the space and taking on 'the man', then they become that which they opposed and then pivot to act in the same way, until someone new comes along and the cycle repeats.
I just learned hops are named exactly for that, jumping on plants and sheep and the town crier or whatever. A Germany / England thing from the very early Crusader Kings timeframe.

English Germanic words are so much shorter and straightforward then all our Romance and tech piffle. :)
I suppose one has to ask the question, what is the definition of "suck"? For whom? When? Did the Spartans have an obligation to peoples unknown thousands of years in the future to write down what they were doing?
Homesteading is a lifestyle.

Government can't "end" it any more than it can end partying.

If you're talking about the ability to live off the land you don't own and owning land without paying taxes, that's a different story.
Yeah, I've only seen that term used in Rust, though the concept is very common in C++.

They explain it there: "No RTTI, memory allocation, nor exceptions."

Basically, nothing that has significant "runtime" cost....dynamic_cast, new/malloc, throwing exceptions.
The idea that tenure == freedom turns out to be a Big Lie. (...) The life of a professor is, first and foremost, a never-ending Sisyphean treadmill of writing grant proposals. At the end of the day, it's all about the money. (...) The only real freedom is having money of your own, and even that comes with strings attached because then you have to manage the money and deal with people asking you to write checks.

As a tenured professor, I can confirm all this as an accurate description.

Furthermore, to add to what you said, you don't even have real freedom on things like where to publish - the typical question of "why don't you just refuse to submit articles to exploitative for-profit publishers like Elsevier?" - because you are almost always working with PhD students, postdocs, etc. And while your career may not depend on where you publish, theirs does. (A possible exception to this is mathematics, and maybe some other research fields, where many papers are single-author. But that only happens in a minority of disciplines).

There is something where the freedom is more or less real, though: choosing research subjects. This year I wanted to do some fun experiments with LLMs, not very related to my usual research. I found a collaborator, did that, had fun, and it's part of the work I'm paid to do. That's a kind of freedom that most jobs don't give you. Even that is quite restricted because most of your research has to be on things that funding agencies like, but at least it's something.
The places that manage to organize tourism flows benefit quite a lot. But yeah, cruise ships aren't a great public.
Never has my lack of attention to detail cost so many lives.
I lived in a city with a Publix, Walmart, and Kroger. While I agree re: the deli, most of my family's grocery bill came from things other than that.

In a routine week, where I'd buy the typicals(dairy, meat, bread, canned good, etc), Kroger would be about $90, Publix would often be ~$120. (If you couldn't tell, this was a few years ago, before massive inflation).

I want them to take care of their employees too, and part of doing that is not replacing them with machines.
There is definitely a lot of things the US can learn from countries like the Netherlands and Denmark (my country).

However please don't emulate our habit of flying to exotic destinations during our summer vacation. That would probably be the final nail in the coffin for the global climate.
Thank you and appreciate it very much.

I came to know of Statecharts (from UML) long ago, but had not bothered to study it properly, thinking it was just a "more complicated State Machine representation". Seems i was wrong and there is much to learn here - https://statecharts.dev/
I think what I’m suggesting is that if you think McDonalds and Walmart are a net negative (I’m sympathetic) you just ban those businesses. Not some derivative customer base.
That requires decision-making and rationality of the sort that OP shows may be some of the first things to go.
Are you calling all automation "AI" now?
> Again, Apple/Siri is just a front end

Sort-of. It's also a remote-capable front-end. I can turn my lights on/off from an arbitrary internet connection through it which means it's also a cloud service of some kind.

This is the issue though and it's the same issue we have with smart-displays/TVs. There are way too many ways to accomplish the same thing. You want to turn volume up with an AppleTV connected to a display? Maybe it works through the volume on the Apple remote, maybe it doesn't. Do you have a remote control for the TV? That should work except you have HomePods or a soundbar or ... something.

Bringing it back to smart locks: Do the locks support only NFC or is NFC one of the options? If it supports WiFi, is it also calling out to its own cloud endpoint while playing nicely with these other ecosystems? Why do we have more than one mechanism to access the lock? From a purely security standpoint, each additional mechanism offers yet another weakness. From a consumer (prosumer?) standpoint, it's more options for convenience. The market will often choose convenience and we end up where we are today.

I have a little smart plug/power meter that I love. It's great at what it does but there is one huge flaw: when it isn't plugged in, it shows the last status (on/off) in the home app and in the app specific to the tech. Let's just say I learned not to plug a refrigerator into it. This leads me to know that status mechanisms are definitely not fool-proof in this ecosystem. Then I consider a smart-lock and think, "nope, not for me."
How does this compare with libvips?
https://www.libvips.org/
my first year of hop growth was fantastic, the temperatures were a bit lower during the early summer than they are this year. my second year (this year), the growth is way down and a large percentage of my hops are ready to be picked (about 2 months early).

it will be nice to enjoy fresh hop beer early this year, but I haven't enjoyed the weather that has brought it to us, and not enjoying such a lower yield than last year.
Their passengers don’t pay hotels, often eat most of their meals on board, inject far less into the economy than someone staying in a hotel but still take up valuable resources of the city.
I don't think it's completely guaranteed that you can choose such things anymore. Some scheduling work has to be done at the hardware level and it's certainly going to be hijacked as heterogeneous CPU micro architecture becomes more pervasive and the gulf of difference in feature set between efficiency and performance cores becomes wider.
Sorry, I'm having trouble following along. Non sequitur?

In what world is software comparable to apples or oil? We need a different analogy.
I would have guessed so, yes, (being in a skyscraper is fine, my concern is having to be outside it) though I prefer to say aesthetic concerns. There are studies showing that murders are more likely in locations where no trees are visible, to give an example of the effect of landscape on state of mind.

I'm guessing you believe that height restrictions are driven largely by owners of existing buildings conspiring to keep rents high.
I'm in favor of letting the machines do the shit work to free us up to do things like parenting, gardening, local politics, etc.

My point is that a corp or org that thinks of dealing with it's customers as a bullshit job is probably not one you want to patronize.

If I were running a company the folks that talk directly to the customers would be pretty high status.
Not them, but no, I wouldn't have a similar reaction if it were "according to google", because in the context of a blog posted to HN I'd expect it to mean a cursory bit of research, which is way better.
> but you still need a Personal Access Token to integrate pull requests and issues with your Git client

(Nitpick from a former GH employee) PATs really are almost exclusively intended for personal testing with curl and such. The strongly preferred way for apps like you describe to work is a pseudo-OAuth flow (“GitHub Apps”) which yields a token that is not a Personal Access Token. Better in just about every way: more ergonomic, more secure (revocable, shorter duration, predictable fine grain scope with a mechanism for requesting additional permissions as apps change, etc), and requests are attributable to the application which generated them instead of just the user. If you use an app that actually requires generating and pasting a PAT, it’s either extremely old or made by someone who is not prioritizing security and user experience. It even works well in CLI apps, cf. the `gh` command line utility.
It is kinda clownish to note that the coworkers are white males when it's followed by the fact that they're all room mates. What is the comment trying to draw attention to? Are they trying to highlight the fact that hiring is biased toward recommendations from employees? Then why mention the sex/race? Is it evidence of "structural imbalances as they exist in society right now" that three white males live in the same apartment in bay area?