skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We absolutely can do loads of stuff onshore with some investment

"Some" investment is a gross understatement.

Manufacturing is highly skilled work. This project failed because they simply did not have enough people involved who understood the forging process; they tried to build an automated system to perform a process that they did not fully understand. Making metal into shapes involves a near-infinite array of subtleties, nuances and gotchas; automating that work requires a deep understanding of all those edge cases. HN readers should be able to draw clear parallels with the failure modes of large software projects.

The fundamental bottleneck in any effort to reshore manufacturing is the supply of skilled labor. Skilled American manufacturing workers are retiring faster than they are entering the workplace. We are plugging the gap with automation, but that only gets you so far, as this example illustrates. Reversing that decline will take a generation or two, because there's a chicken-and-egg problem. Good manufacturing workers need years of on-the-job experience, but the number of manufacturing jobs is limited by the lack of skilled workers to fill the vacancies that already exist.

"America first" is a jingoistic slogan that devalues the manufacturing workforce. China did an incredible job of creating a world-class manufacturing economy. Cheap labor was an important stepping stone towards that, but it's no longer the decisive factor. If you don't respect your rivals, you can't understand how to compete. American manufacturing has a network effects problem and there's no quick or easy solution to that.
source code: https://github.com/lamarrr/stx

you aren't crazy, I also thought it was very weird that there weren't any links
I either want to look at 2 things at once, or I'm often only looking at one monitor at a time. Besides, my chair swivels lol. I'm certain the common posture of how many look at their phones (neck down, for many hours over the course of a day) is far more damaging to the neck than a 30 degree side turn.
We are not short of housing or food. Artificial and market scarcity don’t make it so.
The top comment in that link is literally advocating for what I am advocating for. Forget the 30 year old junk and buy a modern business class laser printer...and you are set for most use cases.
"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low." -- Wallace S. Sayre
Distributed would be peer-to-peer. Decentralized can be client-to-node with no central node. A lot of people use these terms interchangeably and call distributed systems decentralized since distributed systems have no centralization either, but this system with federation is also a valid decentralized system
On my M2 Macbook Air, I see everything generally executes on the E-cores. The P-cores only see load when there's clearly something that needs lots of processing power.

I presume there's logic in the scheduler to prioritize E-cores for battery life purposes.
Alibaba to overhaul employee ranking system
I ran across a random stackoverload thread with benchmarks claiming it was about 2x the cost of doing a naive gettime(). But frankly, hard to figure out when you factor in all the various caches, OO execution pipelines, etc,
...Yes, because addressing the problem created by the mere existence of data brokers is apparently far too hard.
automated voice support is a small subset of all automated customer support
Decathlon in France also has RFID bin + digital readout. It is quite magical. It's interesting how much coaching the attendants did so that we would be comfortable (I guess we looked clueless).
So in other words they did get doxxed, you're just happy about it. You say not to take the blog seriously but then affirm his claims

It's very short-sighted to gloat about someone else's anonymity being lifted just because you don't like them. You may not think you have something to hide today, but that doesn't mean you'll have nothing to fear tomorrow

The claim that this is "Every economist on Mastodon" is of course a stupid exaggeration, but it's still a significant enough event to warrant reporting
> square peg through the round hole ... Why do we want to make this hard?

I work in a job where I don't get to make product decisions, I just have to "make it work" on the cloud.

Despite this, the only applications I've worked on in the last three years have all been ASP.NET web apps with SQL databases. Even with this pretty vanilla combo, I found hundreds of bugs or interoperability issues in Azure. These aren't esoteric things, they're not round pegs and square holes. These are Microsoft-shaped pegs that ought to fit into Microsoft-shaped holes.

Things get messy the instant you step off the "tech demo MVP" happy path.

Like I said: Third-party code that talks to SQL, Storage Accounts, or SQL databases other than the one of their two Platform-as-a-Service offerings!

Even if you stick to just functions and Azure SQL Databases, there are still limitations and issues.

Templating is painful or impossible. Data-plane RBAC is missing in action. Etc...

If you're a solo developer working a tiny app deployed with click-ops to a single region, then I suppose it is "fine".

For everyone else, it's not so fine...
> By the age of retirement, your profession has become a big part of who you are, and the justification of your existence

> I haven’t posted as much lately as it is summer, and I’ve been doing a lot of family trips

I mean... I hope his family doesn't read this?
> The only thing that's missing is the political will, and that's because US politics has been bought by the oil industry, which benefits from inefficient transportation.

That's just not true, and I'm a bit tired of the tendency online to blame "big bad boogeyman conspiracy" whenever it's convenient.

Yes, the auto and related industries have had huge impact on the design of our cities that now seems really unfortunate. But I don't think it was some big, evil master plan. People seem to forget that for a really long time people loved driving their cars.

Just compare old vs. new cities in the US. Older cities (think NYC, Boston, Chicago) generally are a lot more dense with comparatively great (though unfortunately not always well maintained) public transportation. When other "post WWII" cities boomed, though, people wanted space out in the burbs, they wanted a private car. It's only relatively recently (last 30 years or so) that there has really been a re-evaluation of all the downsides to that sprawl and being trapped in long commutes.

In Austin, TX, our public transportation is generally really bad and there has been a huge push to build more of it. At this point though, the geography of Austin and existing land use patterns make the cost of doing so enormous. And we've built a ton of protected bike lanes in the past couple decades, but it's also been over 105F the past two weeks, so it's not hard to see why a car is pretty essential here.

Yes, I also wish things had developed differently. But comparing Amsterdam with most cities in the US is just a silly exercise in general that accomplishes nothing.
What is a current effective way of getting CoQ10 in the system?
All of the examples I gave had a proper UI. Automated customer support doesn't have to be delivered via a chat or voice interface.
Memory.

The key issue in early computing, and the one most people miss, is how memory-limited computing was. IBM had electromechanical arithmetic working by the 1930s, and electronic arithmetic working before WWII. Programmability was still plugboards and cams, because there was nothing suitable for storing a program yet.

Take a look at the IBM 601.[1] IBM introduced this in 1931. Add, subtract, and multiply, a few registers, and programs on a plugboard. This was the first commercial programmable calculator.

But only a few registers of memory. That was the hangup. Everybody involved, especially J. Presper Eckert, who went on to work on ENIAC and UNIVAC, recognized that. All the approaches to memory required building wheels or relays or something for each digit or bit. They had arithmetic and control. If only there was some way to store lots of data...

Bulk memory suitable for program storage finally appeared with delay lines, magnetic drums, and storage CRTs. Eckert again.[2] Architecture was not the problem. Hardware was the problem. Computing needed hardware reliable enough that you could have a few thousand gates, and memory reliable enough to not drop bits. As soon as memory had been cracked, and there was somewhere to store the program, stored program computing took off.

Memory still had a huge cost problem. Memory was a million dollars a megabyte as late as 1970. But that's another story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_601

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
SimpleX Chat v5.2 released: message delivery receipts
That is a bit circular. The economy isn't like weather where some places just have less rain. China's cost of living is 40-70% lower because the people doing the work are willing to charge less.
Additionally, Intel Thread Director only works under Windows 11 and whichever version of Linux that implemented support onwards.

Windows 10 and prior schedule in the blind, so to speak.
iTools and .Mac previously had smaller limits. MobileMe was 20Gb?
Automated customer support usually has a normal user interface.
Reminds me of the "Three sisters" agricultural planting technique.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
Talk to any E.M.T. in a major city in the U.S.
Thanks for the reply!

Sounds like family background (for Irish and hence EU citizenship) and timing (before more restrictive Czech laws) worked out well in your case. Also sounds like it's harder today. But maybe with dedication, and by working with an agency (as you suggest) it's still possible. And as the first job you mentioned (in Brno) demonstrates, personal networks are also very important.

The TEFL idea is also interesting as a "retirement job", even if in the end you found other opportunities.

All food for thought.
Red-black trees have the same "black height" from the root to every leaf; red nodes do not count toward black height, but are limited in number: a red node cannot have red child. Thus at most half the nodes can be red in a given path to a leaf, and that keeps the tree sufficiently balanced for efficient search operations.

A 2-3 tree is formed from red-black when red nodes are absorbed into their parent as an extra child. We get a height-balanced tree (as required) since the equal black heights become actual heights.

When I learned that years ago, I lost interest in 2-3 trees.
Did he voice the WinAmp intro ("it really whips the llama's ass")?
You haven’t experienced the full inadequacy of the US health system until you’ve paid out the nose for a night of “observation” at the hospital.
Iirc it was the same precovid...
Thank you! Your summary makes for an interesting read and makes much more sense than the article.
> It’s so much more complex and nuanced than what you think.

If there was an easy answer to poverty/mental illness, then they would hardly be perennial issues of humanity; they'd have been solved long ago.
Does anyone else like going to archive.org and just browsing old websites from the early 2000s?

I kind of miss it the ascetic and web 1.0 feel.
That means there are two classes of citizens and the law doesn’t really like to make that explicit and is horrible

I think there is a western country that has a law effectively saying if a person has dual nationality and they commit a horrible crime, that person can be stripped of their citizenship which makes citizens equal
I have made secure emulators for simple CPUs before. Seriously, you only need a handful of opcodes and they only need to operate on a big array. It's hard to do wrong!

The part of sandboxing that's hard is dealing with I/O, or giving useful tools to the sandboxed code, or implementing data structures for the sandboxed code. You don't need any of that for a multimedia decoder. You just let it manipulate its big block of bytes, and make sure you bounds check.

A Java VM exposes tens of thousands of functions to the code inside it. A barebones sandbox exposes zero. It just waits for the HLT opcode.

And when it gives you raw RGB data, or raw PCM data, there's no way to hide a triggerable malicious payload inside. If the code does something bad, the worst it can do is show you the wrong image.
France (at least all the places I've shopped) omits steps 6 & 7 because the scale has item lookup.

Also if they see you're a clueless foreigner, they will have an attendant go label them for you while you're in line - keeping you uncomfortable so you won't screw up again.
Contrary to the stereotype, most Americans have health insurance that covers inpatient and outpatient mental health care. That's why we can't get a universal socialized system implemented: too many Americans already have good enough insurance that they don't want to change it.
This looks like a very useful utility, but why would you use iCloud if problems like this are this frequent? Compared to Dropbox, for instance?
https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies gives you access to 70 million IPs. You'd have to be a little insane to scrape millions of tweets like this though because the bandwidth costs would be very high as even with massive volume you're probably not getting any price lower than $5-7/GB. Fortunately Twitter doesn't rate limit by IP (at least as long as you're not posting), they allow guest access and they have an endpoint that lets you get 100 tweets at a time so it's not very difficult to scrape as I described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667225.
Is returning:

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No server is available to handle this request.
Amazon support is amazing, there’s an option for chat or a receiving a call and always pick call.
It could be, but it is not.

In JavaScript you can say:

let v = myOb.myFunk();

or you can say:

let v2 = myFunk.call (myOb);

Those the two different syntaxes you can use to make a method-call. They have the same result for all arguments. So you can say one is syntactic sugar over the other. Their semantics are the same. In other words they have the exactly same meaning.

BUT if you write:

let v3 = myFunk();

the result is different. And you get an error if your source-code assumes that 'this' is not undefined.

That shows that the semantics of the 3rd example above is different from the semantics of the first two. In other words the semantics of a function-call and of a method-call are different. Therefore, we can say that method-call is not syntactic sugar for doing the same thing as a plain function-call.
Why do you cite Russel's philosophy book written for a lay audience and that has received criticism (see wikipedia), rather than, say, a classical scholar?
The train simulators that have city building as an afterthought often feel much more like a game than the city builders; probably because you have external forces acting on you and driving your decisions
If the solar panels are tilted to optimize winter production, then during the summer much of the sun will strike the ground between the rows of panels.
Hold hand? Seems you are being quite presumptuous about what the contact was regarding!
I should have added: anything material (that is subject to laws of preservation of energy and mass).

On the flip-size, only immaterial things can be freely modeled as non zero-sum without conflicts
The mental health epidemic is real enough in terms of presentation to the ER. The numbers are quite shocking. Where I live in Ontario, Canada, psychiatric emergency calls involving the police have increased about 200 - 300% over the last decade. Many municipalities cannot currently respond to ambulance calls adequately, in large part due to responding to so many psychiatric cases. [1] This is not for any particular underfunding or mismanagement; the call volume has consistently increased far greater than anyone anticipated or planned for. [2]

COVID-19 greatly exacerbated this, but the trend goes back to at least the early 2010s.

The role of emergency services is clearly transforming; becoming rather routine really. We have scenarios where people are engaged in behaviour where the response is ambulance or police, at rates many times that happened just a couple decades ago.

I don't really know what to make of it. I think probably in part, it reflects genuinely worse mental health in society. But I think it may also reflect a change in perspective/view. I think we are more likely to believe we need expert outside intervention when presented with disturbed individuals; previous generations may have been far more reluctant to call the police because they would have not interpreted such a scenario as a situation that requires police or outside intervention. (The cops, as they will usually admit, know no more about how to handle a crazy person than the average person does.)

I'm not sure about elsewhere, but one major hole in the healthcare and social net here in Canada is that there is very little care available between acute crisis and normality. There are services (largely overwhelmed these days) to help people at the very bottom. But not much in the way to prevent their slide to the bottom in the first place. About half of people who present to the ER for a psychiatric reason in Ontario have never seen a doctor before for their mental health. [3] And it's not typical that they just snapped suddenly one day. They had usually been suffering for weeks or months, possibly longer, before ending up in the ER. We do need something like mental health urgent care, or ambulatory clinics. Like the clinics for when you have a broken bone, but aren't dying. Take some load off the ER.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/paramedic-chief-ottawa...

[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
You can't teach 20 years of experience in a year. The people we once had with 20 years of experience found other work.
“ Today's subtle announcement at the tail-end of a 2000 word essay is not our grand reveal of Commune.”

Yes it is.
Most companies frown on employees working multiple full time jobs, so yeah, gotta quit the existing job to take a new one. Companies can operate multiple lines of business.
Imagine if these people made posts like "I edited user32.dll to dummy out random functions I deem unnecessary like RegisterClass or CreateWindowEx and now nothing works! This is proof that Windows is broken!"

It will forever be a mystery for me why people deliberately make their browsers work in ways that contradict the standards the web is built on and then manage to find blame in others when stuff doesn't work. It's already difficult enough to support all major browsers when their interpretations of the standards differ very slightly.
“By default, WASTE listens to incoming connections on port 1337. This was probably chosen because of 1337's leet connotations.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE
Yes, it definitely beat the OSI standard for one thing.
I think you might have inadvertently revealed why he was so toxic to the electorate here
We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. Google is not more important than most states, you underestimate the scale and power of states.
Your comment is needlessly snarky and patronising.

Your link would have been sufficient.
A city builder really designed around zoning and free-form lane plots would be interesting - especially if you only could control the general zoning and not how they would subdivide the land and use it.
Bing provides links to sources so you can evaluate the things yourself. I expect this to be the way most search will work. The AI will mostly just be filtering the searches you use. Which google already does, the AI will just do it better, since, as I mentioned earlier, Google is getting increasingly bad.

I expect even searches that are not explicit, obvious LLMs like bing search to be using AI in the background.

I really don't understand your issue here. Your search is already algorithmically mediated. The algorithms are just getting better.

And all of this is of course a tangent on the original point which is that asking an LLM a related question is in _no way_ the same as having an LLM write the article.
They are a large portion of ER cases and ambulance calls. If you go to an ER in an urban area, especially late at night, there's always a few crazy people raving in some sort of episode.
Running a PCB line in the US generally requires that you comply with a whole host of regulations about toxic emissions that China simply ignores.

PCB lines are nasty and noxious.
Last I read this is how Instagram rate limits IPV6. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687694

So apparently not enough false positives for them to care.
I wonder. People definitely talk differently online. Is it possible for someone to filter their online presence enough to not be able to glean much of a diagnosis?

Does seem interesting.
Sure, but it needs to be enforced for imports as well.

Currently we have draconian emissions rules domestically, and a complete blind eye when it comes to any offshore production.
> and suddenly allow what was unconstitutional before.

To be fair, this isn't as much of an obstacle as the rest is.
The problem isn't knowledge, it's skill and understanding. Plenty of people spend three years doing a CS degree, read a stack of textbooks, learn how to recite all the right buzzwords and still come out unable to write FizzBuzz.

Manufacturing is really hard. Getting good at it requires a lot of hands-on experience. China (and Japan before them) didn't just Xerox a bunch of American knowledge and become world-class manufacturing economies overnight; it took decades of investment and hard work to build up a skills base. If America wants to reverse the decline of their manufacturing sector, it'll take an equally determined effort.
You can in most modern IDEs/editors (e.g., editing over SSH or clipboard support over remote X/terminal)
i refer to them as the ancients, those who RTFM and independently learned to program, when there was no such thing as a computer science class.

most of these people would be well into senesence by now.
It might not matter for you. It does matter for the people making a trip across the country. Some people need cars for more than just a 50 mile daily commute.
But, putting aside your tone policing, do you see any flaws in the argument?

Pretend Elon Musk disappeared and you got your $8 allocation from his fortune ($180 billion over 8 billion humans), would that really make a difference to your life? Even for people living in complete poverty where $8 might be more money that they see in a year it is still a pitiful amount of real resources. As a one-off payment.

The existence of very wealthy people really isn't the thing holding back median living standards.
This was my experience with DeWalt too back in the late 80's when they first came out. Sadly, they too have fallen.
I knew nothing about him but very, very quickly got a “right of center troll” kind of vibe.
California Looks into the Future – and Sees Fewer Californians
Aside from criticizing the particular number of trees proposed and planting the wrong kind in the wrong places, what's wrong with wanting to plant more trees? I'm asking because I honestly don't understand what the commotion is about. I've planted dozens, and I don't understand why that would be a problem.
Lots if people get by without knowing how to read too. That doesn't make it a good idea.

Like reading, knowing how to swim can save your life or the life of someone nearby. And swimming is much easier to learn than reading. There's no good reason not to learn to swim if you have access to a pool.
I'm not saying it's "right", just how it is; it's that way (or worse) in many places.
He did not speak the ordinary language
Memories of Oppie, from a Manhattan Project physicist