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What do you have against multi-agent reinforcement learning systems and why do you think they are not AI?

That would be the French. Germans will answer in English, if they notice any hint of an accent.

Having secure browsers, encryption etc. actually clearly benefits the world. No “but think about the children/terrorists” please.

Research has shown that people like to walk counterclockwise (right to left) through supermarkets, which is why they are arranged like this for maximum profit.

"I may have been early, but I am not wrong!"

"It's the same thing, Michael! It's the same thing!"

How?

> In my team, my rule is: if it’s better than what’s on master, you approve and merge.

This causes unnecessary code changes later on, code changes mean new code, new code has bugs. The team should try to get it close to perfect on the first try instead. They won't, but that should be everyone's target. If that sounds impossible, then the PR was to big.

ChatGPT thinks, that in the US social security makes up about 30-40% of the retirement income of a typical American, while the German system makes up about 80-85% of a retired German. Home ownership rate in Germany is also way lower.

Germany is an outlier in that there is no capital backing for that generation whatsover. The problem has been known for 30 years, they just chose to ignore it.

Here in Germany they also ignored the demographics, so our social insurance systems (retirement but also health) are heading towards a catastrophe, because there is no capital backing them. They are fundamentally relying on the next generation being bigger or at least equal. This has turned them essentially into Ponzi schemes. The taxpayer has to jump in, making the state less and less able to do anything at all. Of course they now collectively avoid responsibility and slowly milk the young - their own children - dry.

It is truly the most egoistic generation ever.

What if the user wants to use the file outside the browser, where they do not have access to the HTTP headers?

Images almost always do.

What about file extensions?

Cultural imperialism.

> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.

A steeper learning curve in a professional field generally translates into higher earnings. The longer you have to be trained to be helpful, the more a job generally earns.

I am already trained.

While it is not Django's responsibility to unite the Python ecosystem, continuing to rely on a tool a sizeable share of the community deems inferior to a popular alternative will keep these discussions open and results in the fragmentation OP is talking about.

Now of course it is not Django's responsibility to unite the Python ecosystem in the first place and they can value other factors and arguments as they see fit.

Although this very thread shows that there might have been something to it.

Type hints are were the whole Python ecosystem is going, so using them is more integration at a deeper level than using an integrated framework, which is not relying on them.

SQLAlchemy was historically a much better ORM than Django's. It's layered architecture combined with Alembic does make a difference.

I still agree that using the integrated thing anyway is probably the right way to do it if you are working in a team. I also think Django should just adopt these components and we would not have the discussion in the first place.

Do not disturb my deep work phases with your HN comments!

New Zealand is also 4 places ahead of the US in terms of human development[0]. It would not make sense for the US to look at a country this much more developed. It should rather compare itself to its peers, e.g. Slovenia. /s

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

The original topic of this thread was environmentalism and Apple having a greener image than they deserve, while they are just a corporation (like all others), which is following its incentives. Now, I never said I wanted to outlaw branding. I am just stating that corporations can escape the fair competition of the market by playing a meta game doing things like advertising or lobbying.

What I am suggesting is to keep the markets and let corporations follow incentives to make the best products, while trying to limit these meta games. This thread shows an example where this is arguably already working. I am suggesting to do more of it, e.g. make corporations publish reports of how they are actually doing in that regard, maybe even as a sort of disclaimer next to their own branding efforts.

I just want our rules to be a little stricter when it comes to false advertising and fraud. Why should a corporation be allowed to say: "We care for communities in America." This is not true. They care for shareholder value. There should be a disclaimer like: "We care for our community. We have no independent proof to back that up. Our main objective as a for-profit is to maximize profits. We are making XX $ / year and have in the past moved our production facilities to the cheapest location."

I am exaggerating here and am not providing a finished solution, just trying to illustrate what I mean.

> But then where do we draw the line?

That is in fact tricky, but I think our society as whole should move a little closer to facts.

From a European perspective, I would never suggest making information about individuals public, not even criminals. Even though where I am from, we seem to swing to far in the other direction when it comes to protecting the rights of perpetrators vs. the victim's rights, I think registries of any kind in that regard are a big mistake.

Nevertheless, it should be possible to set higher standards for corporate communication than for individuals. I am thinking about this more in terms of markets and information asymmetry than personal liberties. I think it is fine when corporations are required to publish what they are doing. There is room to improve how mandatory disclaimers work and for what they are required.

What you are describing would be totally fine, if corporations would not be able to spend money on branding and/or humans were not susceptible to that.

In Germany there is § 138 BGB [0], forbidding a "conspicious misproportion" of price and service. I assume other countries must have similar laws.

[0]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__138.html

It looked more and more like you wanted to say that morals are not an "all or nothing" thing from where it is easy to leap to being apologetic to just a little bit of (systematic) wrongdoing. But judging from your reaction, this is not what you were trying to set up.

You are carefully trying to stay vague and are avoiding to name even a single counter-example. You are just claiming that my examples are wrong. This is the definition of a "No true Scotsman" fallacy.

Name one non-capitalistic system more moral than the currently existing ones.

All rankings trying to quantify morality and order societies by it, are consistently topped by social market economies, a form of capitalism.

> Waving away all morality in moral nihilism is teenage-level ethical sophistication.

It is also something I have never done. With the edits to your post, its nature became more and more apologetic to dictatorships. I hope this was not what you have intended.

So you would say these systems are no true scotsmen?

We have tried systems based on some seemingly absolute moral codex. Some parts of the world are still doing it. Unfortunately it always comes with brutal ways to kill arbitrary groups of people.

I am not suggesting that airlines should see their operations as non-critical (and let a third party make arbitrary untested updates to their critical systems).

But maybe some organizations using air travel can learn from this. I am still hoping that the pandemic will have had some lasting positive effects (on top of all the pain it has caused).

Stopping air travel has probably canceled a lot of unnecessary meetings and slowed down global warming.

Maybe events like this provide value in that they indentify which systems are actually mission critical.

> Makes me wonder if there's a missing format out there that should be built into browsers that describes shapes and connections.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG

Why does it matter which Americans are dying? Other countries are not uniform either, averages are still applicable.