skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've advanced the position that 1) we should agree to tackle the root cause of the problem primarily but not exclusively and 2) we should identify and agree on what the root cause is. I'm not clear if you agree with the above.

I've explained what I believe to be the root of the problem. You have not. I've explained some ways we might ameliorate the problem. You have not.

It's difficult to have a conversation when the interlocutor won't state their positions and take a stand. Even more so when they accuse you of "screaming" and acting in "bad faith."

I'm left to infer what you're thinking. I imagine it's that inequality is not linked to the rise in homelessness. (I disagree.) That people are more susceptible to drug addiction than before. (I'm very skeptical.) And that if we punish people more forcefully the problem will be resolved. (I doubt it, but that's not to say we can't protect our public spaces more vigerously.)

If I pegged you wrong, I apologize and look forward to being corrected. If not, then let's agree to disagree.
SnapOn stuff is mostly great, albeit unreasonably costly. I also see a lot of SnapOn products these days that I have a hard time believing they developed and manufacture 100% in-house. Think CAN/OBD readers, digital torque wrenches, and other electronic tools. I mean, maybe it's all made in the US, but that seems pretty implausible.
The greater good argument is repugnant in this case. He is going to die, and deserves an opportunity to do whatever is possible to save himself, including new and little-tested, and likely ineffective treatments. He literally had nothings to lose.

And in this case he would be actively helping humanity as well by being a test case. We would all gain knowledges and information from his treatment, if he could get it.

This policy hurts all of us.
> Are you sure? Why would a build machine need access to GMail?

Because some people like to use remote desktop with it. And because some people's "build machine" is a VM, or a physical desktop in the office for some others.
Procreate (one time purchase) + pictures of real coloring books might work. You can also get PDF coloring books and load them as layers. As far as I know Procreate has nothing in it that should cause problems. It can access the file browser, but that might be controllable in parental control settings.
> "I think Prolog really shines as an embedded query engine[...] It's perfect for declarative configuration, very easy to write powerful queries once you wrap your head around it."

Can you explain more, or give any examples?

VoidTools' Everything gives me a fast search over all files on my disk, it's some carefully optimised low level code, and I can search with wildcards or regex. Even if it supported it, I wouldn't want to change `cat*.jpg` to `findall(file(F), (file(F), name(F, FName), substring(FName, _, _, _, "cat"), append(_, ".jpg", FName)), Files)`.

That's horrible so it's probably not at all what you're thinking of; on the other hand I'm endlessly pleased with `?- apropos(string).` in SWI Prolog. What kind of things are you thinking of where it could/does shine?
Yeah, Germany is bad, Europe is falling etc.

My pet peeve theory is that some Americans discovered life in Europe has several advantages and are thinking of moving. This is not ideal for the American economy so a narrative is created making people think there is something bad happening in Europe (bad and good things have been happening all the time, so basically you can write anything you want depending on which part and timeframe you pick and still claim you just describe facts).
The value of a junior dev is not the code they manage to produce. It’s their potential to become mid and senior later on.

What I’m trying to say is that LLMs don’t change anything here. Juniors are not hired for the work they can produce when hired.
It probably fails to scale well, but I have found it to be much easier to manage using Docker.
i think things will move towards rfid eventually, then you just roll though the checkout and everything gets detected. We have an increasing number of packages with statiegeld, you get some money when you return it to the store. The annoyance is increasing there too but if the tags can be reused it would be interesting.
Wrote a little 300 word essay on this, and I was prepared to add the comment until i realized it does not really matter. The situaton(or at least my opinion/response) can be explained in a simple phrase: Good, 10-20 years of failed policies get you this. Especially everything post 2015. Not 'happy' per se at this analysis/realization, but the fact is that Germany and Europe (or at least the western big european powers, wink) reaped what they sow: detrimental policies NOT willed by the european citizens.
For sure. Or become a new entry point for sql injection. As it is conversational, maybe the combined attack could be called a "speak-ql injection".
Thank you. I really appreciate your patience and your careful replies, as well.
1) Deutsch Bank ruined their rep.

2) talented/skilled workers?

3) They committed energy suicide by removing the nuclear option

4) What?

5) True

6) Seems to be happening all over though, degradation of education
If the beam shaping catastrophically fails due to the magnet failing completely, as I understand it, you can get a beam excursion from the beam track that results in a hell of a lot of irradiated earth as the beam does what beams do to everything in its way.

IIRC from my short time intersecting with the finer points of collider discussion, they locate them in such areas where generally if such things happen, it's a non-issue; but take great pains to ensure that such events don't happen, as it would require potential excavation and removal of a lot of hardware to replace the irradiated sections to restore a contamination free loop. It's also, if I recall correctly, part of why circular paths were chosen instead of things like ovals or capsules for the path shape among other factors I think like optimization for cheapest construction.

Any loss of beam containment would continue on a tangent ensuring one and only one segment of the collider would potentially have to be replaced; other shapes would end up with magnets that were relatively more catastrophic to have fail due to the excursion geometry having more opportunities to escape along a path near parallel to the track, allowing the irradiation of additional accelerator segments. Which would be a hell of a lot more expensive to remediate.

I sometimes laugh, because in the business world, people like to talk about what is 'reasonably forseeable'. I'm a bit of a stick in the mud at such times because I can generally say that exactly no one in the room is actually interested in ptobing the actual boundaries of the reasonably forseeable, as that would require doing too much math. I'm regularly right in that regard.
And you lose quality of service with each move like this. Generic call centers serving a myriad of companies are completely useless to the customer, just read off a script and can't fix anything. AI is essentially the same.
It sounds almost exactly like the mechanics of a session cookie as implemented on nearly every website on earth. Exchange a password for a bearer credential that is randomly chosen and revocable. There are only so many basic ideas in security.
I've done a ton of research on this, and "main frame" in the computer sense originated with the IBM 701, which was built from various frames such as the power frame, the storage frame, and the main frame (which performed computation). There is a direct (but complicated) path from this to the modern meaning of "mainframe". The "main distribution frame" in a telephone exchange was unrelated.
We have that in my US grocery, I just worded it that way because it doesn't affect the point I was making.

Though personally I use those scales but not their printer. I scan every item as I add it to my cart, and those scales display a bar code too.
Totally agree. It’s just an analogy to illustrate the gamboling nature of getting rich and how the starting conditions are more widely available than many people think, it’s just start to finish is very risky low chance of success. For example, as an average well paid engineer, I could afford to gamble with a lot of money and my company even offers reduced pay for extra stock plans but I don’t take it and I sell every RSU I get the moment it vests. And that choice means I’ll never get rich off the stock.
Do you have a Whole Foods? For basically the same amount of time it takes to make your grocery list, you can have your groceries delivered. This saves the shopping time and the driving time.
It's Twilight of the Mods for Bluesky and Reddit
Especially because every senior dev alive was once a junior dev.
> When the odds are against survival, there shouldn't be any rules limiting treatment, if it means even a slightly higher chance of winning.

I agree with you. But the FDA would ask you to rigorously define "slightly higher chance of winning" -- and prove it. In the event you cannot do this, they believe that letting you try an experimental drug would be more unethical than letting you die of neglect.

So I'd rephrase that statement of yours: "When the odds are against survival, there shouldn't be any rules limiting treatment, regardless of type of treatment or odds of efficacy." ("When the odds are against survival" can be quantified, e.g. a 90% chance of dying within a year.)
> cost a lot of money with nobody using it because it sucks.

For sure it could. Haven’t dug into the details yet but the #1 cause I’d expect if that does happen is if the government contracts the actual implementation out to…surprise, one of those same shitty firms, Intuit and H&RBlock. And they would build it to suck basically on purpose. I hope existing players in the paid tax return space will be excluded from being part of building whatever this is, as it would be a huge conflict of interest.
I would love to see some sort of directory that helps me chose companies where I can talk to humans, not phone trees and robots. Would gladly pay a premium.
Is it a luxury though? Almost everyone needs a phone, and many businesses and other organizations basically assume that you have a smartphone nowadays, or at least have internet access, and a smartphone is one of the cheaper ways of accessing the internet, especially if you need a phone already.

A smartphone is not an absolute requirement in life, but what is? Food and water. Other than that, not much. After all, there are homeless people. But we wouldn't say that a home is a "luxury item" or "discretionary purchase".
First they said #LearnToCode when the robots came for the factory workers, for I am a programmer and my job is safe

Then they said #learntocode when the robots came for the cashier and bank teller, for I am a programmer and my job is safe

Now that the robot is learning to code it seem they no longer desire progress
I see. Yeah, I mean more like the type of work where -- if you go back and read the initial papers -- the motivation was primarily engineering-related is long sense deprecated. And there is no reasonable new motivation. But lines of faculty have been working on it for long enough that everyone forgot why they still care about these "open problems".
i NSFW'd it. it isnt radio version for sure.
Thanks, that was the funniest thing I've read all week.
But Germany hardly has any renewable options.

Why’d they screw up Nuclear so badly?

Their “green” approach had a lot of problems
Wind turbines kill such a small number of birds compared to cats, cars, windows, powerlines etc.
This looks really good, congrats.

> in Rust

> Egregoria is an indie city builder, mostly inspired by Cities:Skylines.

I tried to find out what techbuilt with and it seems like it's Unity and C# which surprised me a bit, but it's cool to hear.
American produce aisles have these as well, but now I have to create the waste of a printed sticker and most likely a bag as well to get groceries I could have otherwise purchased by weight.
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels
Maybe I just don't see the point. They are different in the sense that the actions are different. But they are the same in the sense that they are both useless activities you do for fun. Some people can have more fun playing diablo than they would ever have playing a dark souls game. I'd even dare to say that more people prefer diablo over dark souls by the sole fact that diablo is the more popular game.

Anyway, my point is that they can look different in the surface, but they are not truly very different. They are just a pastime.
> Unfortunately, the best I can point to is a series of blog posts and informal discussions, I'm not aware of any formal published evidence. I remember a blog post on ACX post aducanumab (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/adumbrations-of-aducan...). The "FDA delenda est" catchprase leads to several more posts.

I'm a radiologist by training with an interventional oncology component in my practice so I can really only speak to acute care emergencies and cancer with any degree of expertise.

Cancer, heart attacks, strokes, aneurysms are different because there's a time crunch. In these situations FDA approval comes quickly for new medical devices and imaging tests. New aneurysms occlusion devices, stent grafts, and thrombectomy devices are all quickly approved with shortened review processes. Sometimes this has been to our detriment (e.g. early abdominal aortic/EVAR grafts which all leaked and caused disasters when the patient needed re-operation).

In these cases we did exactly what you're suggesting with:

> One idea is to make trials somewhat less costly by relying more on post-approval monitoring

How this translates to other diseases like Alzheimer's is not in my wheelhouse. I assume the process is more strictly adhered to in these cases, but it presumably should be because the potential harm of delaying is seemingly less important unless we're discussing disease-modifying treatments that require early initiation.

In your post the author mentions COVID-19 vaccinations, these were made available before full FDA approval. COVID-19 was highly politicized and the entire process did not follow typical medical procedures. Honestly the evidence that has come out for them isn't very compelling (omicron and later) and largely why most places have dropped vaccination requirements. I'm not sure that this is a good example of the "FDA's failure".
Yeah I don't think he has adequately explored what happens when the website gives him a giant token to enter and then it can't be stored in a cookie. What does he think is going to happen next?
> You kind of have to experience this in person to see why that works well, but it does :)

Nope. Your description of it is enough. This sounds like a great solution to the bulk goods issue (produce, nuts, beans, etc.)

I love self checkout at Home Depot. It’s just a wireless barcode scanner. No scales or annoying “unknown item in the bagging area” admonishments. Just scan scan scan scan done. You can leave all the items in the cart.

Uniqlo’s self checkout is also cool. All RFID. You dump the clothes into the bin and they instantly tally up on the screen. I didn’t know this the first time I used it, so it was magical.
Beautifully made. There's a certain sense of wonder in meaning varying with level of zoom or scale.
The discretionary purchases still exist as the line to the self-checkouts go thought shelves with check-out merchandise
Is Germany on a fault line?
being a hipster and being a socialist aren't the same.
There is an 80-year old astrophysicist at the local government research observatory here. The government doesn't pay him anymore, but he has his own grants. He is almost certainly the most productive person at the facility, running circles around people half his age.

And he does everything. Is a leader, guide and mentor for all the young scientists. He does serious intellectual work. Sometimes spends all day out in the sun, improving/fixing/maintaining telescopes. They held a conference in his honor last month.

The lesson is not to judge people's productivity using just their age as the gauge.
Green party is irrelevant in this.

Germany had huge scare from Chernobyl. On 2006 there was no single student graduating from nuclear energy, in entire country! How did they bet on nuclear energy?
Or like Apple banning smartphones among the people that do iPhone development
I don't like self checkout because sometimes I'm clumsy and forget to scan an item or two, oopsie.
Almost every encounter I've had with "human" tech support in the last 5 years or so has been: 1. Me asking a question, 2. Support entering it into a computer, 3. Computer does something, 4. Support tells me what computer says. They aren't empowered to go off their scripts, exercise human judgment or to solve problems. Sadly, this work might as well be an AI chat bot at this point.

In a just world, the profits and cost savings captured by AI and automation would go to the displaced workers rather than the owners and customers, but that's politically impossible at least in the USA.
Bald eagles, buzzards, griffon, sea eagles, red kites, ospreys, harriers, merlins, eagle owls, kestrels, Egyptian vultures and so on do not fly in to houses on a daily basis.

What a ludicrous comparison.
I thought they were all like family?

Seriously though, what are the mental implications of surprise layoffs?

You stop trusting everyone's word, specially when you're just a number? How does a structured capitalist society hold with this?

Or you just double-down on the false belief those fired deserved it?
The software for SnapOn is definitely US-based (Chicago suburbs) although from what I've heard through the grapevine it's a low paying revolving door.
Maybe it's just because self-checkout has always played into my intorvertedness. But i have become very effecient at self checkout no matter how much i buy.

I shop for myself, spouse and 4 adolescent/teenage children. I can typically ring myself out faster and more orderly than the cashier.

Most cashiers are super wasteful with bags and just pack things illogically. These aren't the trained baggers of yester-year afterall.

Either way, my favorite way to shop at my local wholesale warehouse has been the app which lets you ring up as you load up the cart, pay and simply walk out the door.

Cashiers are not in fact still necessary, the self-checkout lanes are merely a stop-gap yo better automation.
Your initial intent was clear. I was simply trying to move this towards something productive. Clearly I failed
The First Computers

History and Architectures

Edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681377/the-first-computers/
Huh? I literally said that.

But that's not the main problem here. You would expect the FDA to approve everything by that theory.
Walking. (I think the title is click-bait)
The newer ones seem to have them. Which to me is like a breach of the unspoken contract.

Publix has always been more expensive, but gave you great people experience, a cashier, and usually a bag boy asking if you wanted help out to the car.

Now that they're moving to self checkout, what the hell are we paying more for?
[citation needed] on local storage being more durable than cookies.
As a German i gotta say the current government is really incompetent so naturally our economy is weakened
"read off a script and can't fix anything" has been a hallmark of customer service for the past 20 years. If anything, the shift to AI offers a path away from this and towards offering actually useful feedback.

Would anyone whose been keeping up with LLM progress be surprised if within the next 3 years all AI powered call centers are significantly more useful than all of the current call centers?
From my experience with Shopify customer service, I would say firing them all sounds like a great idea.

Let’s free up some humans for other tasks. They weren’t performing the previous tasks that well anyway.
Germany has a few premier universities, but they still haven't recovered from the Nazi era.

German universities tend to have an idiosyncratic research group structure that tends to underpay promising young talent, and mires that talent in a few extra loops of bureaucracy. A few of them are introducing a more "standard" tenure-track, which will help young academics make a like-for-like comparison.

It's unlikely that they'll be pay-competitive with American R1s, though.
I've found some wrist stretches from yoga practices that have helped after a day of too much trackpad use, but I agree avoiding it as much as possible is better. If you have to use a laptop frequently, getting used to doing everything by keyboard will save your wrists some work.
The problem is that, for most politicians, this kind of campaign would be political suicide. One particular side of the typical US political spectrum are already screaming at the top of their lungs about how the US is apparently the wild west with grandmas getting gunned down in the middle of the street (despite generally lacking evidence to support the claim), anyone running on a "looser on potential crime" campaign is going to get eaten alive in a primary or general.

It's hostage politics (we all have to deal with this nonsense because of a few loud loonies), but that also generally describes US politics as a whole for the past nearly-decade.
so, you are a thief. congratulations
My theory as well, the most obvious one is the FUD around the real estate market in Spain

2024 will for sure be fun to watch (US presidential election)
I got a cake delivered upside down. So convenient.
You do understand that your comment is self nullifying right?

If the majority of support people are "minimally trained, low wage employees who barely know how to use a computer just reading a script." then how exactly is the AI going to be better by using the recorded interactions of "low wage employees who barely know how to use a computer just reading a script"
How I read all headlines like this now: "Shopify just opened themselves up to be less dominate (or non-existent) in the market."

The destruction of brands on the horizon is creating a ton of opportunity for new businesses to develop. One's that can only succeed if they reject the religion of "automate all the things with AI" and take a quality/human-first approach to running their business.
No problem. I appreciate the discussion, it's good for me (and medicine in general) to be challenged on held beliefs as things tend to devolve insidiously in this field.
That's theft.
> 2) talented/skilled workers?

In three places: Munich, Hamburg, Berlin. Everywhere else it's pretty difficult to find solid people.

> 4) What?

Haven't you noticed how much of the auto industry know-how moved to China? German auto industry bets on China to grow.
Relying on individual developer's ethics is not going to work. "There's always someone willing to write the kill-bot software." I've in the past objected to (and refused to) develop ethically questionable software. It doesn't make a difference, because Bill, two desks down, is happy to write whatever software boss tells him to write.
If the promise of AI means I can do 1/2 the amount of work and maintain my high quality life, then I'm all for it.

However, every advancement that has come in the last 100 years that improved efficiency has only meant we're pushed to work more and do more. So I am now expected to do 2x the work.

If you're really dreaming for AI that can wipe-out entire classes of decent middle-class jobs in one big swing, don't forget that we're going to take down the world economy with it and it's going to be a very long recession where nobody will win.

Meanwhile, those lucky enough to have made it to the top will continue to horde all the profits.
That's the fault of leadership, not the humans.
Ah, the commute may be the thing I'm not accounting for. My last office jobs were about a mile walk from my apartment, so I actually got more movement and fresh air as part of my daily routine. Agreed that car and train time seem less than ideal.