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by pjscott | 2025-07-06 02:48:57+00:00
I’m also introverted, and I also found this article overwhelming – if I tried to do it all at once, which seems so laughably unrealistic for me that I just wouldn’t try. Instead, probably the best way to read this is as something to approach gradually. Try just one thing on the list, or two if you’re feeling ambitious. Go for a delta that you can manage. And see if it’s working for you, because often the advice that works wonders for one person completely falls flat for another.

(On a slightly funny personal note, the thing that helped me most with social skills was watching the first few seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in my first year of college. The actors emoted so clearly that even I could understand what feelings they were trying to convey, and that’s how I learned to do body language and appropriate vocal tones. This took me from unapproachable to merely awkward, a huge step up in the world.)
by subitodan | 2025-07-06 02:49:16+00:00
15 year public educator here. There's a lot to say on this topic and generally I agree. Around 2012/2013 many of the codes of conduct changed to try and combat the very real data showing black students being disproportionately supended. Discriminative policies in some case, discriminative people in others.

Like many problems, the situation is a lot more nuanced than OP Eds and news articles about "frustrated teachers" make it seem.

I will say, however,

That I was made to take fruits and vegetables long before the Obamas were in office. The tropey hate against Michelle Obama for trying to do something with school lunches shouldn't solely land on her, they were bad before.

And it brings up the point that it's all down to the states anyway. All of it, everything.

But if certain factions have their way public ed. won't exist anymore, nothing will be funded and the only reasonable education you can get will be if you're lucky enough to have a family that can afford to line you up to a "decent school."
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-07-06 02:50:28+00:00
I’m curious as to why you think this is a good comparison. I hear it a lot but I don’t think it makes as much sense as its promulgators propose. Did fire, the wheel, or any of these other things threaten the very process of human innovation itself? Do you know not see a fundamental difference. People like to say “democratize” all the time but how democratized do you think you would feel if you and anyone you know couldn’t afford a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of, much less some hardware and electricity to run your local LLM?
by j_bum | 2025-07-06 02:50:56+00:00
Nothing inherently, but the problem is that it can be misleading.

Let’s make an arbitrary example. Say a study is designed to measure the difference in lifespan between group A (water drinkers) and group B (coffee drinkers). Imagine there is a true difference in lifespan (say, 87.8yr vs 87.9yr) and the study is powered to observe a statistical difference.

Now imagine plotting the average lifespans between the two groups.

If the scale starts at 0 and ends at 100, the difference would be imperceptible.

But if the scale is shown on a range of 87.6-88.0yr, with breaks of 0.05yr, the difference between the groups would appear quite large. This Y axis scale is shifting your frame of reference to potentially think the difference is bigger than it actually is.

Maybe that 0.1yr is meaningful for some contexts or opinions, but maybe it’s not. This is why reading the units on an axis is very important: so we’re not mislead by the visual difference between two group values.
by toast0 | 2025-07-06 02:51:19+00:00
> How should I structure my resume? I have no past projects other than the work I've put for my past 2 employers?

This part is pretty easy. Include the companies you work for, and the dates. Describe the project and the (relevant) skills you used. For title, put Software Developer, Contract. You can put junior on the one where you had an official title, and leave out a level on the one where you didn't have a specific level noted.

Given your resume is short, include an education section listing your Bachelors degree, and courses included: and list some you think are relevant.

Getting hired is hard, especially if you're working remotely. Try to use and build your network. That person who hired you twice, might be able to hire you again, or know someone who can use your skills; send them an email. If you've got contact info from anyone you were working with, send them something like

Hi X, I enjoyed working with you at Y, so sad it failed, what are you working on now, do you have any openings, or know anyone who is looking for a developer like me?
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-06 02:51:32+00:00
> modern frontier models like o3/gemini/claude4 (at least for well represented languages/libraries/algorithms). The fact that you haven't observed this is an indicator of the shallowness of your experience.

I'm not chasing the AI train to be on the bleeding edge because I have better things to do with my time

Also I'm trying to build novel things, not replicate well represented libraries and algorithms

So... Maybe I'm just holding it wrong, or maybe it's not good at doing things that you can't copy and paste from github or stackoverflow
by GianFabien | 2025-07-06 02:53:11+00:00
OK, I'm not in the cohort you are addressing. After 20+ years in industry, I went back to academia and got my PhD in SE at one of Australia's top unis.

Nothing really changed. Ageism is still a hurdle. While I was in academia my industry contacts have gone stale. Agencies that used to source excellent contracts fail to connect with requirements which are overly specific, e.g. Java, or SAP, or whatever. Having a higher level of knowledge together with decades of experience is not competitive in face of outsourced resources from the big international consulting firms.

I have friends who work/worked for top law firms, consulting firms, some are medical doctors. Most are overworked, burnt out, frustrated with increasingly bureaucratic managements, facing relationship issues, nursing a variety of addictions.

My only piece of advice is: optimize your life for quality not income. Prioritize your health, happiness and relationships.
by nerdyadventurer | 2025-07-06 02:53:28+00:00
> get updates for X years, sync with all your devices and use it forever. If you want updates after X years buy the newest version again. If its good enough as is - and that's the goal - just keep using it forever.

While this sounds good deal, with this approach

- You have to charge total cost of subscription at once (1y or 2y),

- Still have to keep servers running for syncing, also you have think about cases where user syncing 1y of data in a single day.

- Have to keep people on the payroll for future developments.

(You are here thinking only in developer perspective.)
by dluan | 2025-07-06 02:53:43+00:00
QiuShi is the official political theory magazine of the CCP, and they are now openly discussing 内卷, which has many names in English - involution, overproduction, overcompetition, race to the bottom, diminishing marginal benefits, etc. Most people outside of China know the symptoms of it as 996, aka China's recent phenomena of overwork. But really it's just personal and corporate competition taken to the extreme, spreading from the economy to high school students taking gaokao.

It's pretty radical that the government is openly acknowledging this, but also that they are signaling that this is a problem to solve.
by SllX | 2025-07-06 02:54:03+00:00
You didn't miss anything, the author of the piece was just wrong. They either screwed up the math or didn't read their own link correctly, or both. Moreover, it is trivial to search for the US Dept of Education's budget for 2022 and fact check this.

It's also cited as evidence that Amazon is now more powerful than the US Government which is just factually fucking false. It really is a different breed of person that thinks some millions of dollars > sovereign power. It's like, yeah, they lobby, but they also have people lobbying against them, including near-competitors. The dynamic is not as simple as spend some $X millions of dollars and get some amount of equivalent benefit. You lobby because an entity with sovereign power can trivially destroy your business.
by netsharc | 2025-07-06 02:54:06+00:00
The default should be a clutter for new users, and the customization option should be make the UI customizable by hiding things you won't ever touch because you use shortcut keys.

The other way around is yeah, hostile. But of course it looks sleek and minimalistic!

On the early iPhones, they had to figure out how to move icons around. Their answer was, hold one of the icons down until they all start wiggling, that means you've entered the "rearrange icons" mode... Geezus christ, how intuitive. Having a button on screen, which when pressed offers a description of the mode you've entered would be user-friendly, but I get the lack of appeal, for me it would feel so clunky and like it's UI design from the 80's.
by zaptrem | 2025-07-06 02:55:21+00:00
Alternatively:

-- In such a future, people will have minimal income (possibly some UBI) and therefore there will be few who can afford the products and services generated by AI

-- Corporate profits drop (or growth slows) and there is demand from the powers that be to increase taxation in order to increase the UBI.

-- People can afford the products and services.

Unfortunately, with no jobs the products and services could become exclusively entertainment-related.
by cobertos | 2025-07-06 02:57:31+00:00
I hate articles like these. Every city and township has their own set of ordinances that makes generalizations like this not possible. They might define RV differently, or they might only allow it for a limited amount of time, or only during the building of the dwelling. I've looked a lot in Michigan, and it's definitely possible in some places.

You have to go to the source yourself, per city, and figure it out. And the ordinances change over the years too. Something I wish someone would solve with an LLM and the mountain of data companies like LexisNexis have on local ordinances.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-07-06 02:58:55+00:00
My experience is the opposite. I run mainline starting with -rc1 on my gaming pc, its been literally flawless for me since I switched to an AMD RX 7900 XT about two years ago. Ten years ago there was a 50/50 chance -rc1 would fail to boot on at least one of my machines, I can't remember the last time that happened.

Look at all the syzbot automation on the kernel mailing list, as an example of how the process continues to improve.

IMHO the best Linux experience really is to run bleeding edge versions of everything. I wasted a great deal more time backporting patches before I started doing that, than I have spent chasing new bugs since.
by SulphurCrested | 2025-07-06 03:01:54+00:00
The article suggests a “simple, well-labeled rotary control ... would accomplish the same function” as a power button and “prevent the user from accidentally activating the control in a way that is no longer hidden”. But a rotary control itself has a serious problem, in that it can mislead the user as to the state, on or off. If the power has failed and the machine does not restart when it comes back, the rotary control will remain in the ON state when the machine is off. From memory, Donald Norman called this kind of thing “false affordance” and gave the example of a door that needed to be pulled having a push-plate on it.

So my iMac, among many other devices like the light I wear on my head camping, has a button which you long-press to turn on. It is a very common pattern which most people will have come across, and it’s reasonable to expect people to learn it. The buttons are even labelled with an ISO standard symbol which you are expected to know.
by dv35z | 2025-07-06 03:04:01+00:00
This book is the "Gold standard" in starting a successful makerspace / hackerspace. Highly recommend. Covers tool organization, to staffing, to standard operation procedures, agile, entrepreneurship, funding and more.

Direct link: https://www.maker-works.com/operations-book

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Intentional-Makerspace-Operations-Dal...
by hinterlands | 2025-07-06 03:05:02+00:00
Are controls uniquely important, though? There are hundreds of things in a car that could be made better (more durable, longer lasting, better looking) for just $10 to $100 extra a piece. But it adds up.

It's not just cost, though. The reality is that consumers like the futuristic look, in theory (i.e., at the time of the purchase). Knobs look dated. It's the same reason why ridiculously glossy laptop screens were commonplace. They weren't cheaper to make, they just looked cool.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-07-06 03:05:10+00:00
That's a very, well-explored domain. It's usually called planning. Some parts are called constraint, satisfaction problems. You should look at top, commercial products and survey papers in each to assess the stage of the art.

Also, before improving it, you might want to lay out what's wrong with it. What specific problems in the real world did you try to solve, what solutions did you try, and with what results?

If you're not doing the work, you probably won't have the experience to meaningfully improve it. It's better to work on solutions to problems in industries you're familiar with.

If you did the work and hit limitations, your interim goal should be to improve planning for those problems. Such narrower, specific goals might help you both succeed and get talented help. That should be in your problem statement or on your landing page.

That's all the help I can give since I have no time for developing stuff these days.
by bityard | 2025-07-06 03:05:26+00:00
In my opinion, The Martian had better writing. You could tell Weir was having a blast writing it, and his enthusiasm translated directly to the main character's love of science and enduring sense of humor in the face of almost constantly dying.

Hail Mary felt like it was trying to capture the same magic but missed the mark. The plot felt constructed rather than spontaneous and I couldn't relate much to the main character at all. I agree about the Hollywood motive. I'll probably watch the movie.
by strken | 2025-07-06 03:06:41+00:00
I get this. It sounds superficially like you're doing something wrong, but if you "cut someone off" by just not inviting them to stuff and then they either don't notice or don't make any attempt to reconnect with you, it means you were doing 100% of the work in the relationship. You've been putting in effort to drag them along to events they don't show any indication of enjoying, when they won't reciprocate in any way or ever make the first move, and that can be emotionally draining.

I'm not particularly extroverted and being organised doesn't come naturally to me either, so this type of thing is even more of a nuisance. I'm putting in effort to set up fun things to do using calendars and spreadsheets and research, I'm making notes about interests and mutual friends, and the other person can't even set up a two month calendar event then write "Hey, let's get coffee"?
by dartharva | 2025-07-06 03:07:10+00:00
No, this is intended for everyone, but the purpose is wrong.

Leil Lowndes' How to talk to anyone (the source) is not explicitly about expanding your network. It's just guidelines (or rather suggestions, or even better - hacks) on how you can start and hold conversations with people. What you choose to do with them is your own purview.
by netsharc | 2025-07-06 03:08:09+00:00
To respond to Grandfather comment, modern Office files are really just ZIPs with different extensions, they even have the magic string "PK" at the very beginning of the file.

I do wonder, since a lot of tools outside of the MS ecosystem can read Office files (e.g. LibreOffice and Google Docs as well as plenty of other online tools), if indeed the hack as described by the article is possible. One would just need to figure out the ZIP stacks used by said tools.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-06 03:08:24+00:00
A critical flaw in arguments like this is the embedded assumption that the creation of democratic policy is outside the system in some sense. The existence of AGI has the implication that it can effectively turn most people into sock puppets at scale without them realizing they are sock puppets.

Do you think, in this hypothesized environment, that “democratic policy” will be the organic will of the people? It assumes much more agency on the part of people than will actually exist, and possibly more than even exists now.
by tekacs | 2025-07-06 03:09:58+00:00
I was in the audience, asking the question at the end of the video!

I didn't quite get the question across and got an answer to a different question, so to re-state my actual question (that I asked David later), I was curious how heavy a lift it would be to preserve enough information in production ClojureScript compilation to allow re-hydrating. The aim being to re-hydrate enough in production that e.g. in the event of issues or errors, you might attach a REPL to that production build and poke at it.

The answer (which I mostly knew/expected) is... quite a heavy lift. I can imagine some possible solutions, but I'm mostly-Rust nowadays, so no solution from me soon. :)

I also really recommend the other [1] talks [2] from this event!

[1]: https://youtu.be/8K4IdE89IRA (Aaron, on using lenses, this sorta stuff [3])

[2]: https://youtu.be/fcSJAuUGVs8 (Ben, on a core.async error handling strategy that I had totally missed and totally changes the ergonomics of using c.a!)

[3]: https://github.com/tekacs/factor/blob/master/src/factor/lens...
by dluan | 2025-07-06 03:11:17+00:00
If I had to guess, it's many factors all combining. The main one has to be the economic one, which is that intense over-competition between companies is now affecting domestic production - the race to the bottom is no longer producing the profits it used to when it was competing for overseas customers, and is now undercutting domestic production.

Another is definitely declining birth rates, though this is happening worldwide, but a lot of people seem to think juan is also a factor. It's not necessarily that the amount of money needed to start a family and have kids is too high, but just that young people are delaying it more and more. Plus the recent economic downturn and too many educated young unemployed people.

This whole thing started off as an internet meme in 2018 with a video of Tsinghua university students riding home on bicycles, and there's one kid with a laptop open studying while riding a bike. Then in classic internet fashion, it escalated with other photos of someone eating noodles while studying while riding a bike, and it continues. The concept is now a part of daily life for a lot of people. Though, this was studied and acknowledged in past theoretical work, notably Indonesia's agricultural development where it was studied. But these days it feels like a catch-all sort of easy to blame reason for daily life getting harder.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/635/cpsprodpb/1628E/producti...
by the_af | 2025-07-06 03:11:22+00:00
Well, my main argument is that it's replacing humans, not that the quality is necessarily worse for mass produced slop.

Let's be cynical for a moment. A lot of Hollywood (and adjacent) movies are effectively slop. I mean, take almost all blockbusters, almost 99% action/scifi/superhero movies... they are slop. I'm not saying you cannot like them, but there's no denying they are slop. If you take offense at this proposition, just pretend it's not about any particular movie you adore, it's about the rest -- I'm not here to argue the merits of individual movies.

(As an aside, the same can be said about a lot of fantasy literature, Young Adult fiction, etc. It's by the numbers slop, maybe done with good intentions but slop nonetheless).

Superhero movie scripts could right now be written by AI, maybe with some curation by a human reviewer/script doctor.

But... as long as we accept these movies still exist, do we want to cut most humans out of the loop? These movies employ tons of people (I mean, just look at the credits), people with maybe high aspirations to which this is a job, an opportunity to hone their craft, earn their paychecks, and maybe eventually do something better. And these movies take a lot of hard, passionate work to make.

You bet your ass studios are going to either get rid of all these people or use AI to push their paychecks lower, or replace them if they protest unhealthy working conditions or whatever. Studio execs are on record admitting to this.

And does it matter? After all, the umpteenth Star Wars or Spiderman movie is just more slop.

Well, it matters to me, and I hope it's clear my argument is not exactly "AI cannot make another Avengers movie".

I also hope to have shown this position is not self-contradicting at all.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-06 03:11:41+00:00
I'm sympathetic , but think it's a disservice to the designers to present it like that:

> Every control in the car is visible

No. And that would be horrible.

Every control _critically needed while driving_ is visible and accessible. Controls that matter less can be smaller and more convoluted, or straight hidden.

The levers to adjust seat high and positions are hidden while still accessible. The latch to open the car good can (should ?) be less accessible and can be harder to find.

There are a myriad of subtle and opinionated choices to make the interface efficient. There's nothing trivial or really "simple" about that design process, and IMHO brushing over that is part of what leads us to the current situation where car makers just ignore these considerations.
by papertigerau | 2025-07-06 03:12:24+00:00
Please do!

I learned this one during a period at work when I was the host of 10+ large events per week and I needed to move around the room. Spending more than a few minutes in any one conversation was a problem and so I landed on this as the best way to break away without creating awkwardness for the other person.

Key to the "follow me" strategy is to just start walking - 99% of time they will follow you rather than stand there alone. If you know them well enough / the context is OK then a light touch on the shoulder / elbow to point them in the right direction also helps.

The flip of this is that if YOU don't know anyone else in the room then ask them something like "do you know anyone else here?" / "have you spoken to anyone else interesting at this event?" - usually that provides a pathway to someone new and you say "Great! Can you please introduce them to me?"
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-06 03:12:38+00:00
I think it's more like saying "Stars exist, therefore nuclear fusion is possible" and then breathlessly writing a ton about how amazing fusion power will be. Which is a fine thing to write about even if it's forever 20 years away. This paper does not claim AGI will be attained by 2030. There are people spending their careers on achieving exactly this, wouldn't they be interested on a thoughtful take about what happens after they succeed?
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-07-06 03:12:43+00:00
>exclusively entertainment related

We may find that, if our baser needs are so easily come by that we have tremendous free time, much of the world is instead pursuing things like the sciences or arts instead of continuing to try to cosplay 20th century capitalism.

Why are we all doing this? By this, I mean, gestures at everything this? About 80% of us will say, so that we don't starve, and can then amuse ourselves however it pleases us in the meantime. 19% will say because they enjoy being impactful or some similar corporate bullshit that will elicit eyerolls. And 1% do it simply because they enjoy holding power over other people and management in the workplace provides a source of that in a semi-legal way.

So the 80% of people will adapt quite well to a post-scarcity world. 19% will require therapy. And 1% will fight tooth and nail to not have us get there.