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> A significant majority of Americans are medically satisfied with their health insurance provider.

Before some life changes that mooted the point, I lived in fear of needing serious medical care, and as far as things go I'm more privileged than most.

> What I'd expect then is that sentiment in favor of killing insurance company officers over the medical decisions of that insurance company to be higher in older people and lower in younger people.

I don't know man, having the loved ones around you get literally killed by the dollar the insurance companies took from them and wouldn't give back sounds like something somebody too young to be beaten down by reality would feel enraged by. The loving heart can only take so much damage before it starts to break.

I just think that it's a bunch of people who developed with their empathy under attack before their emotional armor fully formed. Abuse begets abuse and we see an abused public lashing out. Extremely tragic, but nothing especially mysterious about it.
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I've been writing code on a mostly daily basis since I was 8 yo. First Basic on the C64, on to Assembler and Pascal on the Amiga, C/C++ on PC; followed by Ruby, Python & Perl, which lead on to Smalltalk, Lisp and Forth. And so on and so forth. I've written more code than I wish to remember.

Since then I've worked in all sorts of roles and companies in different countries. From freelancing to consulting to startups to established product companies. From fullstack GUI to backend to frontend to tech lead and product development.

It all started out as a passion for solving problems, improving other people's lives by helping them use computers to solve their problems. And I got to the point where I was really, really good at it. So good that I needed more leverage to do my thing.

So I've been pushing that angle for quite a while now. Being very clear about wishing to work more with people and processes than writing code all day. And I feel like I have a lot to give, a lot of hard won experience and empathy, a lot of observations and reflection on the general dysfunction in the industry.

But the hiring process has frankly gotten so dysfunctional and disrespectful lately that I'm considering throwing in the towel and switching tracks completely. It wasn't always like this, I remember a time when you could sit down and have a nice, relaxed conversation and then you were hired.

It's like the clueless suckers who ruin everything in this world in the name higher profits have infiltrated the entire software industry, and I would frankly rather starve than help them reach their goals.
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AgentScript is a new AI Agent framework with a novel architecture to build reliable and secure agents.

Our framework has LLMs generate a plan upfront in code (javascript) which we then parse into an AST and execute in a managed runtime, so one gets built-in state management and better visibility for debugging via the AST.

By making an LLM express execution plan as code, Agents can think more abstractly about the task and do not even need to know all the data to perform operations on it or make decisions.

Data is expressed as local variables and can be passed to tools, which can be normal deterministic functions, or LLM enabled ones, built using LangChain or any other library.

State management and Human in the loop:
This is where our approach really shines esp for agents tackling critical/sensitive workflows in regulated space such as fintech, payments & crypto for ex a treasury agent.

Because AgentScript works on AST, not really running the generated code, execution can be paused on each statement or a tool call. It can be serialized and put into a database, then retrieved and resumed from where it stopped.
Each tool would be able to store its state, wait for a user interaction, an event, or some time to pass. They will have built in interactivity and approval mechanisms, so it will be easy to add human in the loop.

Here is a video showing how to build AI agents using AgentScript
https://youtu.be/b3MlCpBoxNM

Here is a link to our Discord
https://discord.gg/hEYMnj62DT

Please give it a spin and help us improve!
This is our alpha release. We'd love to hear your feedback on what to build next.

This is our roadmap:

- Execution serialization and deserialization

- More JS features:

- `if` statements,

- `for` loops,

- template literals

- arrow functions

- unary and binary operators

- Input variables

- Tool state

- Tool interactivity

- Observability and debugging

- Python implementation (any python gurus? ping us!)

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Your comment comes across as markedly authoritative. Are you a climate scientist with first hand knowledge? You appear to be repeating what we all read in countless reports almost daily from innumerable organizations and have done over the past few years. I'm pretty sure like many here I could probably offer an impromptu talk like this at the drop of a hat, covering the same points.

I do wonder why we accept the reports from a number of rather distinguished climatologists and physicists who do not accept this 'scientific consensus'. Given the very significant swathe of the public who are convinced by the latter, why isn't this academic divide finally put to rest and the skeptics shown to be demonstrably wrong in their selection of data and their interpretations? It does not seem to happen. Why not? If this is an existential crisis I would have thought that such public debates at a very high level by extremely well-informed experts are well overdue. Yes, some occur but they are never definitive?

"Current surveys may underestimate climate change skepticism evidence from list experiments in Germany and the USA" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8262789/
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I'm not japanese, but in the english speaking manufacturing industry, I've heard it pronounced like "show slay", as you suggest.
No, it doesn't. It just needs to brake slightly less hard than the antilock braking system is capable of. There is no complexity there. The only complexity is in ensuring that the E-stop processor can reliably override the rest of the car's control systems.
I’m building a serverless platform with the familiar interface of Kubernetes: https://kapycluster.com. Does this fit your expectations?
For me it is about having the option to sit at my desk or on the couch with a controller. Saves are synced, there is no an annual subscription, and I don't have a full PC next to my TV. It just sits on a shelf next to the Switch that hasn't been touched in years.
macOS is detecting Docker as a malware and keeping it from starting
Routers are much simpler to use when you connect to them with an Ethernet cable.

Not all abstractions and simplified services are good in all situations.

I really wish the 9mm headphone jack wasn’t being replaced with just Bluetooth. 9mm has worked for me 100% of the time. Bluetooth is regularly a piece of garbage.
Haha, never thought about that!
Calling it lost cause is a bit mean IMO, "truly accurate" pronunciation is never possible without substantial training and context switch into the target language. It's okay so long that messages go across(so key cars in place of kay cars is a bit problematic), asking for perfection is just unreasonable. Whatever the language in question might be.
> That's what they would reduce our PCs to.

As I've spent weeks of my life getting kernel modules to build/sign/release properly in a secure boot environment :D
Shameless plug.

I work for a community project that is building a descentralized orchestration mechanism that is intended, among other things, to democratise access to serverless open compute while also being cloudless.

Take a look at the project at https://nunet.io to know more about it!
Probably a transfer, but lol at professional engineering team. Zero chance. The resignation system is probably outsourced to at best some edu-tech company and at worst is basically the most cursed Sharepoint site that's ever existed.
Increasing wealth and overall hygiene.

99% polio cases are nowadays in developing countries.
Now we see the true business value of AI to a CEO: when you justify a layoff because of AI it makes you seem smarter.
A good reason to build a non-distributed monolith, though.
It is wild to me that the bulk of responses here seem to take how this is being described by the poster at face value.

As well as the question of interfering with registration, he has also gone about this in a way that causes reputational damage (& UW have probably caused their own, but that's not necessarily relevant here), which I cant imagine they'll take that kindly either.

But I work in a public university in the EU, so my understanding of how these institutions probably operate is likely a little skewed.
I think that's because during the shortage, they still reserved production lines for companies building products out of Pis.
Or far from as good, if you happen to like psychedelic 70s stuff - which I do, although I wouldn't want it in every room.
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Just because the plan requires a low ceiling doesn't mean the end result needs to look like a dead midwest shopping mall.

It doesn't have to be like this specifically, but it demonstrates the point: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=moscow+subway&iax=images&ia=images
But it's entirely possible to me that TSMC lacks some of the hardware knowledge that Nvidia has. A fab has a lot more than just TSMC equipment in, hasn't it?
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Digital tracking can be helpful as a proxy, but what matters - and what big brands still measure - is how marketing correlates to sales. Statistics can figure out a lot of this, though the data is noisy.
Somewhat related is the idea of "Mental Models"... I sometimes see list of mental models that are kinda akin to what you're describing.
I couldn't agree more. I feel that the block-coding and rasterized approaches that are ubiquitous in audio codecs (even the modern "neural" ones) are a dead-end for the fine-grained control that musicians will want. They're just fine for text-to-music interfaces of course.

I'm working on a sparse audio codec that's mostly focused on "natural" sounds at the moment, and uses some (very roughly) physics-based assumptions to promote a sparse representation.

https://blog.cochlea.xyz/sparse-interpretable-audio-codec-pa...
Hong Kong in 1998 had small stores with professional software piracy. "There are no software companies here" was the rumor.. all tech companies that had regular income and employees sold hardware. Any software development professionally was associated with a hardware company of some kind at that time there.
>the world is owned and ruled by men

These kind of extreme statements just help to feed the divide. Sure in one sense it's a true statement, but it is a very small minority of men that actually have any of this power or wealth you speak of. Why should the rest, including the marginalized men who are worse of than many women (in terms of suicide, working dangerous jobs), not be defensive as a response to such claims? It is completely irrelevant to them that Mansa Musa was the richest person in the world and a man long before they were born. It is completely irrelevant to them that the president of the united states is a man. They don't stand to gain anything from that.

Focusing on class is a much more fruitful endeavor because it unites the groups that are actually harmed instead of dividing them. Anything else plays into the hand of the elite, and if I was them I would be laughing at you for taking the bait of continuing this culture war.
The utterly lazy and unsatisfactory answer is that generations change. You mostly don't have bowling leagues or halls for groups like the Knights of Columbus any longer either. Now you can point to various societal changes that affect all those things but it's probably rarely one single answer.
I see you’ve chosen not to reply to this question so FYI this article was not AI generated in any way.
> asking them to perform actions they don't understand is a terrible idea both in terms of usability (because the process is difficult, intimidating and error prone) and security (because you're training them to follow instructions that can easily put their system in risk when requested by a malicious actor).

I think you greatly overestimate the understanding of nontechnical users. Why is

1) double click icon -> click here -> click there -> type in box -> click ok

usable and secure but

2) open powershell -> type command -> hit enter

not? My suspicion is a surprisingly large fraction of nontechnical users have limited understanding of what they're doing and just blindly follow instructions. What does it matter if they are doing that with a mouse or with a keyboard?

> If the actions to follow are really that simple, they should be automated in full; there's no reason why you would show the users anything more complex that a start button to trigger a script, and a confirmation dialog explaining the risks (and maybe requesting elevated permissions).

I completely agree.

> But if the process is not so simple that it can be automated behind a single button, then why on heaven would you expose them to an interface that requires a complex interaction (copy/paste various large texts from a web page), shows cryptic messages as feedback, and gives no clue on what to do next if any step has errors?

What, like this doesn't happen with GUI applications? Those problems have absolutely nothing to do whether an interface is graphical or not and have everything to do with bad usability in general.
While it sure looks like fun, it doesn't really seem useful. All the use cases the author makes are more gimmicks than anything really useful. Actually, the thing influencing compasses seems really annoying. You'll never be able to have your smartphone show the correct walking direction while holding it in the hand with the magnet.
If you use AWS CDK the DX is amazing.
The irony is almost painful: using the freedoms guaranteed by democratic systems to claim they're being oppressed by those very systems. If this is the best example of "persecution" they can come up with, perhaps it's time to acknowledge that crypto-libertarian talking points about government oppression are running pretty thin.

What words do we have left for people actually fleeing torture and death?

A country (Spain) with robust private property rights, free enterprise, and EU membership, is somehow dubbed a "Marxist dystopia" - just throwing ideological buzzwords at social democracy.

The fundamental dishonesty here is striking: the author is able to publicly criticize their government, freely move their assets, maintain international business interests, and come and go as they please. What an "exile"!
I bet it would. I read the comments before watching the video, then I watched it. All the comments saying it's a stressful and dangerous situation because it could potentially become a dangerous situation make me facepalm. It must be American "(over-)abundance of caution"...
You can't replace most of the current welfare state since you are ultimately going to have to provide food, medical and housing payments directly because people will blow all their UBI and not have those things. Unless you are willing to let people starve to death since they wasted their money you will end up with both systems.
They still make small and normal sized cars (for now), they just aren't as popular anymore.

I just did a check of the msrp for a cheaper Toyota Corolla near San Francisco and it's MSRP is almost exactly the same as the base 2000 Corolla when adjusted for inflation.
Probably pent up rage w.r.t. beurocracy we've all experienced in college?

I agree with you that it seems that there might be something missing from the story.

The standard response and advice of talking to a lawyer I think is still good and stands regardless of how full or truthful the OPs account of the situation is.

I don't personally think that most university staff in the US are out to get people in this way either, so either there is something about the story we are missing, or this is a really big deal and this particular university is out of control.

My experience in university in the US was never this dramatic and I didn't see actions like this taken (but I also never constructed a project of this nature that is directly related to the university beurocracy).

In other words, this is kind of weird in a US context too and I feel the same weirdness about it that you are probably feeling viewing from the EU.
Simple monoliths are much easier to reason about and debug. And the costs are much easier to estimate.

Serverless functions are quite interesting for certain use cases, but those are mostly additions to the main application. I'd hesitate to build a typical web application with mostly CRUD around serverless, it's just more complexity I don't need. But for handling jobs that are potentially resource intensive or that come in bursts something like Lambda would be a good fit.
Very happy this was fixed, I was just about to ship an update to my Lovable app when this happened..
That's brutal they'd execute the stand-in after the celestial omen was deemed to have passed. I wonder if the person standing in knew it was coming? Was it a great honour to take the king's place during a crisis, or was the person put there in a more deceptive way?
I checked it out the first episode, and I enjoyed it. One thing I would suggest to include the source book(s) used for each episode in the notes.
It's as if the federal government doesn't realize nobody trusts it. Whether due to ineptitude or dishonesty, the only thing we can be sure about this is that we can't be sure about it.

We need a blue ribbon commission on transparency, honesty, and good governance desperately. Let's reduce any federal agencies that make any sort of direct-to-citizen recommendations by 100% and instead spend that on rooting out bad incentives, misinformation, etc.
The bit that feels dishonest is they share a brand, and publicly present themselves as a charity, and actually it's for personal gain. Sure they dotted their i's, but it seems like the key difference between the RPI foundation and the Captain Tom Foundation[1] is they have better lawyers.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/21/captain-tom-...
Most of these systems are randomized, but given sufficient oracle access to the APIs you should be able to detect which messages are likely to get summarized as non-spam.
It won't; predictions of what a company thinks it might do five years in advance are generally worthless. From the company's point of view, saying "yes" will please shareholders and has no consequences, saying "no" will displease shareholders. I'm actually surprised the number claiming this is so low.
A Dell U2414h 24" - cost 220€ over 10 years ago. It is 1080p, can be detached from the stand with a single button press and fits easily into my Osprey 80l backpack (its more a suitcase than a backpack). For protection I guard the screen-side with a piece of cardboard that is cut to match its size - then make sure to place the screen against the backpack framing and secure it with the straps that are in the backpack.

I travel with a mouse but no keyboard, had to buy one real cheap.
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I have no idea if this might be related, but citric acid is known to speed up mixed absorption of non-protein sources by inhibiting proteolytic enzymes in the digestive tract (it is even used in some medicines that require faster absorption because of this).

To that effect, perhaps the glucose in OJ is absorbed faster than the glucose in other SSBs specifically when consumed with other foods, leading to this anecdotal understanding that OJ is "worse" than other SSBs among diabetics?
The movie Natural Born Killers apparently inspired several mass shootings (most notably, Columbine)

Even if media (social or otherwise) can influence people to commit violence, does that justify censorship?
In my industry, we mostly use the term to refer to mechanical features, typically keyways, that prevent connectors from being mated incorrectly.

Suppose you have a module with 50 pins worth of connectors, but because some of the signals are in different harnesses which get installed at different times, you can't just use a 50-pin connector. For this example let's say it's sensible to break it up as 20+20+10.

You wouldn't use two identical 20-pin connectors since they carry different signals. You probably do want to use the same family of connectors so they use common pins and have a common board footprint. So you get connectors which are the same except for having different keyways, and are often molded of different colors of plastic, by convention.

If you've ever been working on a vehicle and seen identical-looking connectors where one's black and one's gray, look closer. Along with a color difference, there's a notch on the housing in a different place.

This increases the number of parts that must be stocked, but the decrease in assembly errors is worth it. (And they all share the same tooling, so the manufacturing complexity isn't bad.)

Note that this isn't required if the connectors aren't candidates for mismating in the first place. If they appear in completely different places on the harness, then it's totally fine to reuse the very same connector for the amplifier speaker signals in the trunk, and the steering column (turnsignal stalks and stuff) module signals up front. This reduces parts count without increasing errors.
Any technology which gives you the ultimate power, to do whatever you want...also gives you the power to accidentally blow off your own foot.

Techno-utopians seldom mention that.
Ambien, to me, is an extremely scary drug. People in my life have become extremely reliant on it to sleep and it has strange side effects. Sleepwalking with no recollection is one of them, not going to the kitchen, but getting in the car types of sleepwalking.
> houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia
> Since so few scholars can read the languages on the tablets—the overwhelming majority remain untranslated

This would be an awesome job for AI. Get these scholars to train the AI, then have it automatically translate all the other tablets

Also, are there online scans of the tablets? Maybe the problem is not the scarcity of scholars, but gatekeeping?

On a tangent:

> These tablets, which likely come from Sippar, a Babylonian city in modern Iraq, were acquired by the museum more than a century ago and date to between 1900 and 1600 B.C.

Is "acquired" a euphemism for stolen here?
Fair enough, I mean that I hope at least one juror is willing to return a verdict of not guilty based on their desire to achieve jury nullification.
It's only dangerous to the people behind you if they are following you and each other far too closely. Also, the vast majority of multi-car pileups in the US kill zero people. In the record-breaking 168-car pileup two years ago in Louisiana, only 7 people died, an average of 0.04 deaths per vehicle: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/louisiana-fog-i55-cras...

Also, as multiple people have pointed out, all non-self-driving cars already have this feature; it's called a brake pedal. Providing it should not be controversial.
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You can, though the supported combinations of browsers and operating systems depends on the service. Netflix will do 1080p on Linux, but only in Opera for whatever reason. Other browsers, even other Chromium-based, are limited to 720p.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081
1. Speed
2. Price
3. Vendor locked-in

* https://einaregilsson.com/serverless-15-percent-slower-and-e...
Let’s not underestimate the power of human whims:

https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistrum

https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roentgeniani_radii