skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Preventing such replacement is definitionally anti-progress

You can have automation while also ensuring that people do not lose their livelihoods. It's not anti-progress to say that automation must not come at the expense of the lives of the people it is replacing. This wilful misrepresentation of Luddites was bad then, and it's bad now.
The right applies to government involvement, not social.
I like that idea, basically the first HTTP request ensures the worker gets spun up on a lambda, and the task gets picked up on the next poll when the worker is running. We already have the underlying push model for our streaming feature: https://docs.hatchet.run/home/features/streaming. Can configure this to post to an HTTP endpoint pretty easily.

The daemon feels fragile to me, why not just shut down the worker client-side after some period of inactivity?
I can think of an entire body of people who should be excluded from such a role; people who spent multiple years working at OpenAI.
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs
Now they can release Fortnite on iPhone using their own in-app payment system without any of those pesky parental controls.
This same logic can be used to justify any system of exploitive power. Companies control my ability to eat and be housed, these companies drive global politics. If the voice and ethics of the people are not allowed to influence these, then what voice to do the people have? Is my choice is to keep in line or starve how is that any different than any other despotic system?

You're own profile says "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." but clearly this only applies for the 8 hours of the day I am not at work (less if I work late)?
Nice to see the main Dutch evening TV news spend several minutes covering his legacy...
> Your insurance carrier won't deny you a bone marrow transplant because you're 85 (it costs over $1m).

Your experience with insurance in the US is very different from mine.

My experience is insurance denying my 34 year old sister's MS meditation until she ended up in the ER.
The market, both illegal and legal, has gotten very at taking advantage of us during our moments of non hyper vigilance. No one can be vigilant at all times. Eventually you will be taken advantage by someone.
I partially agree, depending on the topic being protested. I was writing a reply to the above commenter before it got killed, but it is an open question to all who oppose such demonstrations.

> Would you have any suggestions of what else could the guy have done, that would've brought similar media attention to the topic?

> The line between "annoying/childish protestors" and "folks legitimately raising awareness" is ill defined for me, perhaps if anyone else has better suggestions I would be happy to hear them.
Maybe the very availability of short stays. You looked for a stay before AirBnB, didn't find one, didn't go. You look for a stay post AirBnB, always find one, go.

This is true especially for tourists (in combo with low cost flights) but it opens up opportunities also for workers that didn't have the same flexibly of movement and/or couldn't make the cost of a stay fit into what they get for their services.
I'll delete this comment shortly, but posting here because there's no other way to let you know -

Because you posted with a throwaway account, you should know that your dropbox link is revealing your full name when people open the image.
Just 3 quotes from South Africa's case which I linked above:

"South Africa’s case is that those acts and omissions are genocidal in
character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent (dolus specialis) to destroy
Palestinians in Gaza as a part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group."

"South Africa is acutely aware of the particular weight of responsibility in initiating proceedings
against Israel for violations of the Genocide Convention. However, South Africa is also acutely aware
of its own obligation — as a State party to the Genocide Convention — to prevent genocide. Israel’s
acts and omissions in relation to Palestinians violate the Genocide Convention."

" More gravely still, Israel has engaged in, is
engaging in and risks further engaging in genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Those
acts include killing them, causing them serious mental and bodily harm and deliberately inflicting on
them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as a group."
Nice to see the main Dutch evening TV news spend several minutes covering his death and legacy...
Because it came to mean an undesirable compromise in between hot and cold already, so there is little value indicating if it's slightly toward hot or cold. It's a bit like +0 and -0, they exist, but we just say 0, and in most contexts don't bother differentiating between them.
other reasons to need optionally-volatile storage include secure encryption key generation (reusing randomness often fatally compromises it) and device drivers (if you restore the internal state of your device driver from a checkpoint, but not the state of the device, you will probably crash the system the next time the driver tries to frob the device)

despite this, virtual machine checkpoints in qemu work well enough for many purposes
I’d love to get to a point where “dev mode” is just “build mode plus”, as in the build is identical except for additive things like automatically launching a local dev server, some notion of live updates/HMR that doesn’t require different dependency sources, dev specific affordances as environment flags rather than separate modules…

For my own (edit: as in personal) projects I tend to just “dev in build mode” with some subset of that bolted on, because I’ve been burned so many times by “works in dev” issues.
You have no idea what this person was being seen for.

It is fairly common for someone to be advised to seek emergency treatment out of precaution to ensure that a minor symptom is not indicative of a severe problem.

For example dizziness can be a completely nothing-burger inner ear problem treated with a bunch of motions from youtube, or it can be a stroke. The ER exists to make that distinction.

Part of all those logistics and resources should be used to shunt people to the correct treatment center, but liability suits and extreme profitability mean that the incentive is to treat them in the ER.

Put into other terms, if you were hospital admin incentivized on billing, and could bill someone $5k instead of $160 for a non-urgent issue, wouldn't you? The fixed costs are the same, the ER is running 24/7 with a trauma team, might as well make it profitable.
I'm sorry, but I can't fulfill that request. Is there anything else I might assist you with? ;)
Flying cars and VRs are zombie sci-fi technologies that rear their ugly heads every 10 years. Moller is still working on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
How long do the refills last? I would think that even with the cheaper cost of medicine, and the discounted telemedicine visit, it would still be more expensive than seeing a doctor annually and getting refills for all prescriptions for the rest of the year without needing additional appointments. But perhaps I'm underestimating how cheap these platforms are (both the meds and the docs)?
How is it even still legal to operate 737 Max after all its failures? Is Boeing lobbying or something?
Recent and related:

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618673 - March 2024 (980 comments)
Infostealer malware is coming for your ChatGPT credentials
Yeah that's fair. I could see it going either way. But I think when ambiguous it doesn't hurt to ask. And there's a lot of fighting and arguing so I'd rather ask than escalate conflict if there is a misunderstanding. I think we all know how easy it can be to miscommunicate.
Possibly this:

https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/macwade-v-kelly-challenging-n...

> This case involves the NYPD's practice of stopping and searching subway goers without just cause. On July 21, 2005, the NYPD announced that it would begin a new program of searching the belongings of those seeking to enter the subway system. Since the program was implemented, the NYPD has searched tens of thousands of people without any suspicion of wrongdoing. On Aug. 4, 2005, the NYCLU filed a complaint in the District Court on behalf of five individuals. The complaint alleges that the NYPD program violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments...

> On Dec. 7, 2005, the District Court ruled in favor of the defendants and refused the plaintiffs’ request for a permanent injunction. The decision stated that the random subway search program was not “impermissibly intrusive” and was constitutional. The NYCLU appealed to the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. On Aug. 11, 2006, the Second Circuit upheld the District Court decision, stating that the program constitutes the “special need” exception to the Fourth Amendment.
What is the rate of return?
On any other topic maybe, but here the risks seem to outweigh the rewards. By all means, if I said something you disagree with, say so, and I'll read and maybe respond. Maybe I'll be persuaded, and maybe I won't. But for what I think are obvious reasons I am reluctant to expand the scope of this discussion.
Google's shiny new Bay Area office reportedly has terrible Wi-Fi
Just a heads up, looks like you made a throwaway account but your name is visible on the Dropbox link. Might want to remove those and use a different host if you care.
Yeah, the fact that Epic is the one makes it really hard to care. They really need a better standard bearer. It's kind of like watching ManU play Chelsea. I'd be really happy if both teams could lose.
This is not accurate. South Africa's intent was to convict Israel of genocide. The case they submitted to the court makes that clear.
Have you given any kind of training or lessons in programming (honest question)? Everything can break down!

This is exactly what I’m talking about:

> The binding b points to the same value that a points to

It may look obvious to you, but someone will interpret “the same value” as literally the same. So they might expect a change in a to reflect on b. Whereas if you tell them the “a box contains 22” and “the b box also contains 22” you prevent that misunderstanding. They might not have any concept of references/pointers yet and are just trying to make sense out of everything. These are the kind of silly mistakes people make when learning programming, or a new language.

It’s not about being right or wrong but providing a safe path to understanding that can be built upon. I did not mean the binding/tentacle abstraction is wrong, just that there might be a simpler one to introduce the concept. The book is still great regardless.
I can see your full name on Dropbox dude
I'm still a bit unclear here; I'll have to give examples.

I have "several" quadcopters. I don't actually know how many I have at the moment, but in addition to enough components to fill a couple of five-gallon buckets, the three I use most regularly are:

* an Autel Evo 2 Pro
* a 5" FPV quad
* a 3" FPV quad

The Autel is a dedicated photo/video quad. It's stupidly easy to fly, to the point that I can put the controller down and come back 20 minutes later to find that it hasn't moved.

I use the 5" for fun, mostly freestyle stuff. The 3" has enclosed props and is intended for videography. Neither of these have GPS. While they do have flight controllers, they are optimized for minimal input latency and do not attempt to automatically keep themselves upright whatsoever. Flying them is much like balancing a dinner plate on top of a broomstick; it requires constant input adjustments. That's difficult at first, but after ~20 hours of practice it starts to become unconscious. I've been doing it for a few years now and really don't even think about it anymore.

Prior to the availability of ARM STM32-based flight controllers, I believe there were some fully analogue solutions out there that allowed similar flight characteristics.

At the most detailed level, all of them are sending a PWM signal to each individual motor. Controller input is translated from 4 axes (pitch, roll, yaw, throttle) to the appropriate changes in the PWM signal for each motor.

I _think_ I could probably set up a fully manual quadcopter and get it to fly predictably without a flight controller, by using the radio receiver on the quad to output PWM directly to the individual motors. I'd have to set up the controller so that input on each axis is "mixed" appropriately to the respective per-engine output channels. The result should be (barely) controllable. I bet wind and the dynamics of lift would be much more difficult to deal with, but I think it'd be doable.

Is that "manual" by your definition?
Maybe they couldn't really give the treatment that was required.

Or maybe the patient didn't know what was required.
So I guess regulation is good after all... perhaps we can get some traction with that in US?
Osprey.. the Corvair deathtrap of the skies.
>> If this automated future automates the process of dismissing popups as are employed by this site, I'll welcome it.

Amen to that brother. The level of obnoxiousness of this site is hard to match, even in today's dysfunctional web environment.

I'll never open a technologyreview.com page again, they should go fuck themselves and die in flames.

I also flagged this post, this sort of crap shouldn't make HN front.
it came from reading about effective altruism and longtermism since before they got those names
.NET/C# instrumentation for search-based software testing
Please consider contributing data from this to https://www.data-liberation-project.org/

https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/

Awesome work!!
lol of course it's overengineered. but it's also cool, and that's okay sometimes.
All of the above have nukes.
Mistake #0 not using an adblocker which removes "Sponsored" results.
Two words for you: Jon Skeet.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/15/thanks-million-jon-ske...
I agree. Im just saying that this is not uniquely bad or unfair in context.
I would think that there are very few scenarios where an email isn't cheaper than the alternative.

I would guess that fully covering patient emails would save insurance companies money in the long run, but why do that when you can boost short-term profits?
The Crypto Dysfunctional Map
Oh such fond memories of this game. My friend had it and spent so many hours at his house playing it together.

IMHO those times were the glory days of gaming - so many interesting and "odd" ideas that got tried out since there wasn't too much prior art.
Accounts on twitter claiming to have been on the airplane recounted that the aircraft went off the runway first, and that the gear failure, if there was one, happened after the plane left the runway.

"737 Max suffers landing gear failure" is a sexy headline but it may be prudent to wait for a bit more information before jumping to too many conclusions - just because Boeing is fresh in everyone's minds. Wild speculation is inevitable under present circumstances but it doesn't necessarily need to happen here.

Not that Twitter is a great source of reliable information, but, well, nowhere else is either when it comes to something that happened like 2 hours ago.
> Video footage captured the moment when the tire from the Boeing 777-200 came off the rear landing gear seconds after the plane took off.

> Records show the plane was delivered from Boeing to United 22 years ago.

This is a 20-year old 777, not a 737 MAX. Where did the title change come from?
I had not heard about that movement, but here is their own introduction:
https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-e...

At first glance, terms like "long-term" and "altruism" resonate with me, as I care much more whether we can avoid the heat death in 500 million years than about what happens tomorrow.

Also the main "doctrine" seems to be one I can agree with, namely to find "unusually effective ways" of helping so that with the same ressources, more positive impact can be achieved. (I did the same when I had to decide which charity to support - since I am not a millionaire, but experienced at research, I focused on identifying highly effective charities to avoid wasting my humble charitable contributions.)

However, where things get problematic is when utilitarian ethics get adopted, a paradigm considered problematic in philosophy because it tries to quantify good in order to measure how to maximize it, and the most good to the most people can often result in outcomes that people of good will agree are unethical, namely the suppression or extermination of minorities. For example, the link above compares pandemic deaths with terrorism deaths and concludes that pandemic deaths are the big ticket numbers and in comparison terrorism deaths are small.

While the numbers reported are possibly statistically correct, I would personally object if one drew the conclusion from them that a small number of deaths does not matter, or that they mattered less than larger number of casualties.
Utilitarian ethics, which is often appealing to engineering minds who are used to think in terms of optimizing a variable, has issues with protecting minorities and with justice [1].

From a recent article in the WSJ, it appears that NIST have larger problems than a potentially strange leader: the building substance of the Gaithersburg campus is rotten to the core, to the extent that equipment got destroyed from dampness or water damage etc. A complete overhaul seem due, yet plans exist to cut -- rather than expand -- its funding.

[1] https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision...
Brevian comes out of stealth, announcing a $9M seed funding round
Security at Frankfurt this past December felt like a lighter touch and better organized than TSA in Orlando or Houston, but still attentive and likely to catch something that shouldn’t be taken onto the plane.
Why not spinoff the maintenance and responsibility of 737 MAX to Foeing and keep the profitable ones on Boeing?

Management is being reckless with shareholder value by not doing that.
What worries me about WIP commits is that dropping them via rebase -i might not be trivial if quality commits later depend on them.
https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/travel/jsx-small-carriers....

JSX security advantage may not last forever
To find value ahead of other market participants.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/15/nvidia-holdings-disclosure-p...
I'm not saying it is, but technically, yes, it could play a role. For example, US-backed Israel has used an AI system to decide where to drop bombs. They likely need lots of storage for videos of their drones killing people. They likely used databases with the locations of journalists so they could murder them. Just a few examples, but compute and storage can definitely play a part.
I feel like the expectations here are reasonable.

I wouldn't want another employee interrupting my meeting like that either.

As for the rest of your "salve owner" commentary I think that's an absurd comparison.
Yeah, the Google employee should've done this in front of Biden or Bibi. Nevermind feeling as though they had no choice but to protest in whatever way they could against a plausible-genocide.
The only situation where there would be no jobs is if all of your needs are met by machine. If the machines are not doing everything for us - then there will still be things for people to do.
> It's not anti-progress to say that automation must not come at the expense of the lives of the people it is replacing.

Yes it is, we shouldn't deny 10000 people shirts or cars or fresh bread to save 100 jobs, but that's almost besides the point. This piece is arguing a far more straightforward and hilarious version of Luddism than you are.

The piece argues that military drones and homeless-harassing robotics are bad not because of their nature, but because they are taking human jobs. It advocates for "restriction of automation to only the most dangerous forms of work" (hope you like churning your own butter). It is such a ridiculous piece of work that it almost seems like a false flag, a piece intentionally made to portray "moderate" luddism like the degrowth people (already extremists) seem even more insane than they already are.
He's your father. It should be easy to ask him how he managed to buy 10 houses.
It really depends on a lot imo.

If you still get days off it can be nice to have them during most peoples work week so you can get errands done easily. As long as it's not consistently every weekend so you can still do weekend things with other people.

It can also be easier to get stuff done on the weekend when most other people/distractions aren't around.

I actually am really happy with how my current team works, where you will be on call during the weekend but only expected to respond to pages so usually you just need to be able to respond and not actually working.. if lots of things page it's even more incentive to improve your systems to not get bugged on the weekend. But even if nothing pages you we still take two days of our choice off the next week.
I hope they can learn to love each other. Makes me so upset when developers and business people can't figure out how to solve this outside of court.
It's simply that the anonymity of the internet lets anyone become contrarian easily to prove a point.
JetBrains TeamCity critical flaw exploited; 1.4k servers compromised
As was said, this is normal in the US. Private businesses can refuse service to anyone for any reason. There's that paint color that is allowed to be used by all but one person because the inventor doesn't like them.

On the other hand, I'm definitely not saying this is okay or sane just because it's standard practice in the US. It's also how we got legalized segregation and we had to pass laws carving out exceptions to create protected classes such that you're not allowed to refuse service because a person is black, for instance. Just doing this splintered the country and created the modern GOP with its southern strategy.

So it's nice to see these large web companies having to respect the laws of other jurisdictions and not just the US with its hallowed history of property rights over all else, going all the way back to chattel slavery. If the EU can force saner norms on the web, I'm all for it.
No, you're right. In Russia, China and 18th century England, suppression of speech is done either out the barrel of a gun or whisking people off to jail. In America it's done by sending the speaker to the unemployment line, or the food bank, or the homeless shelter - it's very likely that this employee will be blacklisted by the industry and never have the opportunity to live a stable life again. Apparently this outcome is fair & just, because the government wasn't involved.
I assume you'll want to fix the real-name issue other commenters are pointing out, so I've temporarily buried this thread. If you fix the issue and email hn@ycombinator.com, we can restore it.

Edit: restored!
Well, a macbook is not the only thing in my bag. If you want to keep down the weight of your pack, you shave off the ounces where you can.
Yeap, dangerous AF because of a failure to design from first principles.
I had a prescription that I used to get updated at my annual physical. I would schedule my next physical when I'd leave the office, but then they started telling me that they couldn't schedule anything more than 6 months out. I waited, and when I tried to finally schedule the physical they couldn't see me for 9 months. So now I order the medicine from India.
I never thought of this as a peculiarity of the X Window System (though the client-server aspect of it was a lot of what made X, X), but I keep forgetting that this is not something modern developers know about.
Thanks. For weight lost I guess the initial grounding is to gain a healthier body.

But then again, I probably have no idea what I am going to do with a healthier body.