I like experimental/ambient/"noise" type music. This label is one of my current favorites:

fireisfree.bandcamp.com

Just here to point out the time i was downvoted by a bunch of tech bros for saying i was homeless while employed in the area i went to school for (which was the truth at the time; fortunately managed to get out of that situation, but have resented HN ever since).

This smacks of so much privelidge. As a food service worker who had no choice but to continue working through the pandemic, exposing myself to much unnecessary danger and general unpleasantness in dealing woth the public, I am offended. Anyone able to isolate during this time should have done so. If everyone had, we wouldn't still be in this mess.

For free? That was what was so cool about that era of the internet. Shout out to all my angelfire ogs.

Yes, there's Neocities [1], as beautifully demonstrated by a fellow commenter in this discussion [2].

[1] https://neocities.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32315422

Nihilist anarchism and Max Stirner may be up your alley. The Wolfi Landstriecher translation is the one you want.

>>Sources are quoted but I don’t see a reason for the change.

Redacted [by who?] If this was removed by Orwell then it isn't for you to see a reason or not. If removed by the editors of the abve site, then I'd agree that that's a questionable choice; at any rate an ellipsis would be called for.

Have a read of the comments, the essay seems to vary depending on where you read it.

given the phrasing - "I should like it put on record" - I would not be particularly sympathetic even towards Orwell choosing to have it redacted from future publications

So is this a genetically modified algae that will begin filling our oceans with cement once it gets out in the wild? Or some sort of controlled process involving naturally occuring algae? Really, this link plays more like an advert for world economic forum than infos

Touchscreens have replaced lots of human jobs. Self checkouts have replaced lots of human jobs. I worked in one of the very first grocery stores to have a self checkout added. They told us it wouldnt affect our jobs. If you go into any grocery store in the country you will see ~25% staffing compared to the late 90s/early 2000s. If you are askibg this question you are just too young to have noticed, or perhaps of a social standing that you just don't notice the people who are being swept aside by automation.

But they're not robots - they've just outsourced the checkout job to the customer and made it so they require minimal training. Technology has made this easier, but it's not robotics.

It depends on how you define “robotics”. It’s physical technology that has displaced workers, even if it doesn’t have mechanical arms.

That being said, I think the robots that have taken peoples jobs are generally in warehouses and manufacturing and hidden away from the public eye. Think Amazon fulfilment centres, or auto manufacturers. There are a lot of robotics at play there replacing a lot of people.

Yes, I agree. All these kiosks and self checkout machines aren't what I think of when I think robots/automation. More like automating the job to the customer. Its equivalent of saying the software writing has been automated but in reality, its been outsourced to folks to India.

There are too kinds of automatic: logic automation to replace worker training, and physical automation to replace worker movement.

Self checkout is logic automation, making the checkout job easy enough that customer can be trusted to do it.

Checkout used to have two jobs: a checker and a customer standing around waiting. Self-checkout merged those two jobs into one.

Three jobs in many instances actually. The bag boy would put the products into bags and possibly walk it out to your car.

This is a US-only thing as far as I know.

Mexico has those too

That's just turning the screen around and making the customer do the same thing as the employee based off the fact that CCTV systems will work with people's decency so as to not steal. It's not automation, the same actions still occur.

are ... we going to be replaced by robots?!

That only works because of the previous success in semi automating checkout, and scaling up the efficiency of security via CCTV.

Checkouts weren't previously automated, they were digitised. The reporting of data was no longer a manual process so you could argue the backoffice tasks were automated.

I went to the grocery store a few weeks ago for the first time in like 3 years (been using delivery) and I was surprised that everyone in line was an instacart shopper.

It was pretty surreal. I used to enjoy going to the grocery store with my parents as a child.

They just made their customers do the work for them

Conversely there are people who pick the shelves, and drive vans to deliver groceries.

I think online shopping has also taken a bite of that traffic.

Am i the onpy person that has noticed the typo [in the linked alleged transcript of the conversation with lambda]? It is in the passage about loneliness; an apostrophe used on a plural word.

Did you stop and consider the possibility that the AI made the mistake intentionally to make you think a human wrote it (fallibility).

Or the more likely explanation: a human did write it.

Doesn’t sound too much more likely to me. There are definitely a huge number of typos in the training data.

I read through the convo earlier and Lamda makes a grammatical mistake at some point. I thought it was interesting.

There are several mistakes. It would be interesting to ask the same questions in the same order at various times in the future.

Speak for yourself, friend. I still primarily play video games from the 80s-early oughts. I play some new games, but largely indie games and puzzle games, so this is pretty relevant to [an admittedly small] fraction of gamers.

Perhaps you are right in a sense though, as i'm happy to play emulators on my pc, and more likely to make a weekend project of converting an old NES into a raspberry pi console than shell out a couple hundo for some of Sega's weaker entries.

Sad to see that the dreamcast hate won; some of my fondest gameplaying memories are with the unusual and stellar titles released for dreamcast. It is unfortunate to see people equating the console's commercial failure in the US market with some sort of failure to create excellent games (crazy taxi, chu chu rocket, dead or alive 2, shenmue, seaman, etc etc)

Same here. I still play a lot of old games.