skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There’s little evidence of any interest in doing so, but theoretically, self-automators could organize, and distribute automation techniques among middle- and working-class coders, giving rising to an industry that could actually enjoy that 15-hour workweek. It seems a rare opportunity—perhaps, with the advance of AI, one of the last—to try to set the terms for a mode of automation that puts people first."

This was a pretty good article until the conclusion. It's like he's totally unaware that all the information is already shared. I guess it could be a weird plea for some sort of blockchain union or something. Homie should just google "task automation github".
No, it’s not middle class.

If you recently bought a $1M plus condo in SF, you are most certainly upper class. I don’t care if it was a 2 bedroom apartment.
I live in San Francisco, and get around the city as a pedestrian. I have to cross about 10 streets each way of my commute.

If I had to guess, I'd say that I've seen at most 35 cars run red-lights in the last year.

Am I just not noticing them? Are we counting "running a red-light" differently? I'm having a hard time figuring out why our numbers are so different.
Alex Martelli quoted this in his “Good Enough” is Good Enough! talk at EuroPython some years ago:

https://lwn.net/Articles/557406/

https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/europython-2013-notes/...
This is why equity is the best compensation and it’s going to be even more important to negotiate for it as our profession evolves. You can never be automated out of your equity.

If you create something that generates continuous value for your employer, you should share in that.
It's easy not to care how good you are at your hobbies when you're already really good at something else. It takes a tremendous amount of time and energy to really master something. There just isn't time in the day left over to master multiple things.

I'd like to think I'm pretty good at programming. I spend many hours a day doing it, have studied it for decades and pretty much have been completely obsessed with computers my whole life.

From that standpoint it's really nice for me to have a few hobbies that are much less intense and where I can be "not good" but just enjoy myself. The position this article takes.

That being said, if I wasn't an expert in my field, I may not be able to find that comfort in being middling at best in other areas. This I think is a lot of people's problem. The fear of failure (and in the west, anti-intellectual culture) stop people from even attempting to be great. Not at hobbies but at everything.

So I think the article is correct, but missing hobbies are a second order effect after missing primary passion.
Zombie startups can hurt people in more ways than just a lack of a big payday.

I joined a zombie startup. I wasn't there for the quick money or the get rich quick scheme or anything like that. Yes, the potential of a payday was part of the equation, but I joined because I hadn't been at a startup in 15 years and I was in a place in life where I had alignment on motivation, financial stability, ability, and desire to contribute. I went in wanting to work hard, do great things and have a lot of fun in the process. If there were great financial rewards that would've been great.

So, it's not all about the money. I lost a year of my career working at this dump that turned out to be a zombie. And it's a facepalm now, but all the warning signs were there: great coverage in the press, awards, prizes and so forth, a continuous source of funding through VCs and private investors, lots of customers, etc. I didn't see the warts until it was too late.

It wasn't until a few months in that I realized that it was operating like a comfortable place to just put in 8 hours a day for most people. The bureaucracy was worse at this 200 person company than it was at the large company I'd left.
Yeah the newer zynq-MP have a 4 core A53 as well as two realtime class cores on there.
They come close to that here, a gate level simulation of an ARM1.

http://visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html
The opposite also happens. Almost fifty years ago at a large insurance operation in downtown Los Angeles, there was a programmer who programmed and maintained a suite of reporting programs. But his programming skills were limited, so he was actually just keypunching the needed reports into his programs as hard-coded data. If you get what you pay for, why care?
Unfortunately yes, though another path is making a lot of friends so that you can network for the decent jobs, temporary though they might be.
And yet they still justify whaling.
I'd bet many employees would be happy to work an hour or two per week. I'd be few employers would be happy to have employees work that little. It's not just a fear of being fired. It's a fear of the managerial mindset of "if they can do more each week, they aren't being challenged enough."
Recently an elite marathon runner collapsed just before the finishing line - it turns out that "elite" athletes seem to simply ignore their bodies danger signals

I honestly don't want to push myself that far. 10 minutes a mile is fine
It’s a cool demo. We’re definitely getting better at making humanoids. I would guess this is a pretty “hard coded” demo designed to work for this exact room setup only.

It’s going to be some time before we have the machine intelligence necessary to do enough for this robot to find a toolbox on its own, retrieve the necessary tools, unload the drywall from a truck, carry it to the room in question, install it, and complain about OSHA all autonomously.

Still, I’ve never seen this before. We are making progress. Just keep in mind that an actual robot that would do this commercially is probably 20 years away. Someone else said 10-20, and I’m inclined to think 20+ is more realistic. As in, you hire robots for your construction because it’s cheaper/better.
> Please tell me all your crime and don’t omit anything.
There is. It is much harder to categorise materials.
AI is already being used in waste management; specifically image recognition to help sort plastics. This is similar to techniques used in fruit/veg production to grade/bucket produce.
They are. We're pretty close to Pentium Pro in terms of patent expiration.
And they are preventing a union.
That changes in a couple years though.
> Additionally, and this is something I really didn’t get into, languages aren’t inherently compiled or interpreted. You could have a C interpreter.

Of course; I was only addressing the confusion that other posters mentioned. While one could have a C interpreter (or any interpreter), for the purposes of the article this seems to be only a marginal point. In practice, C is (almost) never run that way, but your choice of words could suggest a parallel between the C abstract machine and the Ruby or Java VMs, and I think the way usual C implementations differ from those is more informative than how they are alike.

You do explain later that the C abstract machine is a compile-time construct, but many people read selectively and react immediately, as evidenced by several posts on this page.
Hobbies can be just for enjoyment. If you're not growing in some area of your life though (relationships, family, career, hobby, knowledge) you're stagnating.
I'm sure I'm overlooking something, but if its possible to beat the market by actively trading stocks, how come a vehicle like this doesn't exist?:

I'll give you $100,000 of mine to invest.
I'll pay you $7,000 up front to manage it.
You can invest the money however you want to.

In exchange I want:
- The ability to get out whenever I want (within 3 months of request)
- An APR on my $100k principal of 1% over the S&P 500

For example, if I stay in for 10 years and the S&P 500 appreciates by 10% (259,374), you owe me an 11% rate of return (283,942). This gives me a "true" return of 10.25% or 0.25% guaranteed over the market. If the market plummets and has a rate of return of -20%; you owe me -19%. Simple.

If the market is easy to beat, all you have to do is take my $100k, invest it in actively-managed mutual funds (the 7k can cover the fees) and keep the spread. Yet nothing like this exists. Why?
Thanks a lot!! When you request a custom app you can pick the option to have it just for yourself and not for your co-workers.
It's a little tricky to upgrade the CPUs in the Xserve as they are special versions with narrower lids. You can't use stock Xeons, you have to delid them yourself. It can be done though.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/xserve-processor-upgrad...
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The later PDP's had a built in boot system and you only had to enter by had if that malfunctioned.

The PDP11/03's had a monitor you could use to enter the code from a terminal VT52 or VT55
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In the United States at least, there's a very popular hobby which many people won't admit to practicing:

Consumerism.

And thanks to the internet/smartphones/social media etc. It's practiced 24x7, while driving, from bed, from the toilet, it's always going on and it displaces time for and interest in creative pursuits for most.
It's an absolutely, ridiculously over-engineered site. But it's sort of beautiful in a way.
Startups I'd want to fund if I had the $:

* Flow batteries

* Hydrogen research (production, distribution, home & automotive fuel cells)

* Stronger permanent magnets

* Cost effective superconductors (rather than room temperature semi-conductors)
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I have used it off and on from the time it came out and love how it aggregates many of the apps I use everyday. Nevertheless, I find myself leaving Station for standalone apps/web apps for three reasons:

1. By aggregating all the apps I use, it invites almost as much distraction as the open web :) I would love it if there was a distraction free mode that locks Station for X amount of time in a pre-chosen cluster of apps. That way, I get to work with all the apps in my current workflow while being protected from the big bad web out there.

2. Resource use: not only does it become slower with multiple apps open, my laptop fan spins like crazy. Not the silent meditation I want as I attempt to enter a flow state.

3. My mental UNIX wants to work on one thing at a time and do that well. When I am in UNIX mode (i.e., whenever I am not distracted by the spawn of Zuck and Jack) I use the native/web app for that specific use case. I know switching out of that one app into another takes time, but it's still under my control.

In all, I am wondering if by recreating a full-fledged OS for apps Station is replicating the very problem that it's trying to eradicate.
Does "increase their productivity" equate to increase their pay? In most cases that's a no unfortunately. It's up to the "automator" what they make of their time imho. If they're wasting time playing games it's their loss since these opportunities don't come by too often. If they use it to grow their knowledge and skills that's great and well earned since the company only expected them to do their workload, the hard way. And it's fair.

And it is only not fair to the peers whose work cannot be automated, and as someone here said, it's a temporary privilege to be working in programming, we're in a different world, higher pay, more learning opportunities, more leverage than other jobs. But, nothing lasts forever. We're going to be automated away eventually.
Yeah, I would recommend it in certain circumstances. EKS has $150/month base cost for the control plane, so for small environments it's too expensive. For groups with existing experience with Docker and Docker Compose but no experience with Kubernetes, it's fairly easy to get things working on ECS. If you don't have a whole ops team with time to build out all the tooling to make k8s use easy for devs, then again k8s probably isn't the right answer.

Kubernetes is great, but you're not being honest with yourself if you can't acknowledge the difficulty in going from 0 to production-ready. There is a ton of complexity and lots of grief on the path to a fully functional k8s environment.
Doesn't make much sense to me. Apart from the fact that a humanoid could walk to the workplace – which it probably can't. For the actual task it would be much easier to use a non-humanoid with a carriage and several axes.

Also it is a bit of a hoax because the whole humanoid reporting kind of suggests the robot is autonomous while one the image you can see a camera mounted on top of the wall and there's probably some huge computer in the back.

EDIT: Here's some actual information about the project: https://www.aist.go.jp/aist_j/press_release/pr2018/pr2018092...
That is not so much praise of mediocrity, moreso praise of excellent strategy (which will result in positive outcome no matter how it is executed).
A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2012)
Wow that is so much better! Thanks a lot.

Btw, the color on other pages is still #6c6c6d. Given how readable features page is, it'd be nice to see #000 on others as well :)
That's a bit of an oversimplification, but culturally I notice we prize success & effort & grit in the moment, and pay very little attention to training. This results in athletes who drive themselves over the brink trying to make up for their lack of training.

A favorite quote of mine:

The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare
I think this could go further in terms of making it declarative.

A simple declarative approach could taking this:

LET google = DOCUMENT("https://www.google.com/", true)

and instead of thinking about it as an action (get this page), think about it as giving you an object. The result is a tuple of the URL, the time fetched, and maybe other information (like User-Agent). This helps with exploratory scraping, where you want to be able to repeat actions without always re-fetching the documents. And you'll be constructing a program, unlike a REPL where you always write the program top-to-bottom, including all your intermediate bugs.

Changing DOCUMENT() is easy enough. Things like CLICK() are a bit harder, though if you extend the data structures you can have a document that is the result of clicking a certain element in a certain previous document. Again to do it the first time you have to actually DO the action, but later on perhaps not. And you'll be constructing interstitial objects that are great for debugging.

Then what could make it feel really declarative is having more than one presentation of an execution. You can package up a scraping, and then you can answer questions about WHY you ended up with certain results.
Does Akihito justify whaling?
What about benefits?
Or is the taxpayer going to shoulder that bill? Like it does with Walmart workers?
Horrifying in what way? In the sense of being nearly impossible to navigate taking into account their gravitational effects? If these black holes are just as dense as in the galaxy, wouldn't that make navigating the galaxy just as difficult? The distances are longer, but that just means corrective burns have a stronger effect on the future trajectory.
It is exploitation at the highest levels.

Employer pays subcontracting company $30-$35/hr, subcontracting company pays the employee $15/hr or lower and pockets the rest. Subcontracting company offers benefits at almost 1/2 of your paycheck every month, and nothing else. Subcontracting company offers you nothing of benefit except for the job you could've gotten without them if the parent employer posted the jobs but they don't because then it would be FTE. Parent employer only provides the job openings to the subcontractor. This is all done so the parent employer can avoid paying any benefits.

It should be illegal in my opinion. A lot of lower level tech jobs and now even software development are going this direction. It's very big in Seattle and in my field it's impossible to move jobs unless you're willing to drop your salary $40k/year and wait for a potential FTE opening in which that company will hire you FTE, but you don't know how long you'll be making minimum wage.
Good question. There's a LOT of material out there, and it could take a lifetime to parse through it all. So my own approach has been to skim a lot and latch onto whatever superficially seems interesting at first blush, do a deeper dive, and decide whether or not to keep digging. As it happens, one of the first things I latched onto was abductive inference, and an approach to automating same called "parsimonious covering theory". I've been working on my own implementation of PCT as a way to learn that.

I also think there are some interesting ideas in Minsky's The Society of Mind approach, so I've been going through some of his stuff. That and the old "Blackboard Architecture" model, which I see as having a tenuous sort of connection.

And while it's more "90's" than "80's", I've also been reading a lot of older literature on Multi-Agent Systems lately. There's been a lot of talk lately about "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" so I'm interested in that entire space.

Really, there's a thin, tenuous thread connecting most of my interests in this area (with the PCT stuff being sort of un-connected w/r/t the rest)... MAS's, Blackboard Architecture, Society of Mind, all deal with the idea of multiple "things" (call them modules, agents, components, whatever) working together in some fashion. I suspect there's "some there there" in terms of unifying all of these various AI approaches and achieving something useful. I could be wrong, but this is where I've been directing a lot of energy lately.
I love tennis and anytime someone finds out I spend money on lessons etc the response is typically

Them: you know your not 20 anymore so you have no chance of going pro right?

Me: Yep

Them: (stares dumbfounded)
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I used to work with a guy who would say, "It's better than good; it's done."

I don't know if that was his original, but I haven't heard it anywhere else.
Well, you are making quite a lot of assumptions here:

- currency is very different from equities - while one could argue that a central bank deciding to peg it's currency to $ is a realistic scenario, it simply doesn't make sense for equities (an equity is basically a right for present and future earnings of a company - good luck 'perfectly' predicting that !)

- as you note, there would still be speculators, since there is always uncertainty. There are numerous examples of countries pegging their currencies and then when unexpected happens...

- traders / sales would still compete for order flow of the clients (and get the cut), so there would still be a game to be played albeit for smaller margins
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Franklin created a daily schedule and followed the routine as per the schedule. This article explains about his daily schedule https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/how-did-ben-franklin-g...
so how many LE's do these cores consume compared to a similar RISC-V or any other CPU design? Are there advantages just beyond familiarity of ARM?
> The entire history of computer science is this.

CS encompasses way more than automation. Graph theory, ADTs, complexity analysis (just by way of example) are all very relevant, even if the computation is done manually, by hand.

A lot of computer science presumes a very abstract computer; a human and a modern machine apply equally well.
shouldn't they be rewarding you generously for making it?

Yes, in theory.
In practice, an employee's power to negotiate wages is limited. At some point, the employee just needs to work to eat/pay rent/etc.

Now, in most areas (of the US), software developers already are paid generously. Even in lower paying secondary markets, software dev are usually paid significantly above local averages.

And, anecdotally, that pay is often for a much "easier" job, where "easier" means less stress and fewer hours than professions that generate similar salaries (engineering, accounting come to mind).
Could you comment on what increases seed funding chances when pitching a "big hairy goal" ?

Team?
Progress so far?
Clear road map?
PoC & tech feasibility?
" I think it is a bit short sighted, however, to worry that you will end up like the guy who automated his job and was then fired and replaced by a lower skilled guy - who cares, you SHOULD move on at that point if the company doesn't want you to automate something else"

Yeah, but that person still has to feed and house their family. And in some areas there are "plenty of companies", but not in all.
I wonder why you got downvoted as I am always wary of what that kind of (sneaky) direct job automation can cause to the people who are discarded.
just guessing. host you site with fotos feeds etc on jamstack and enrich html with some solid and rdf tags. rehost on storage with solid enriched http2 jamstack host as soon as available. modify github for windows to work with you solid useflow against gitlab and lfs. use some cdn hosted web workers mean while.
i have not read solid stuff. so take with spoon of salt.
Actually Java had jMonkey and LibGDX before Unity became the engine it is today. Which initially was Mac only and only used Boo and Unity Script as programming languages.

Khronos does have some official OpenGL specs for Java. There are none from them for .NET.

Java runs on iOS via Codename One and Gluon AOT compilers.

Native interop in Java was made hard on purpose, as Sun was pushing for WORA. Oracle is in the process of improving the situation with Project Valhala.

I love both stacks, truth is that .NET still has a bit to catch up outside Windows, while Java lost a bit of its mojo on desktops.
1. Less boilerplate, so you can focus on your algorithm; best practices built in, so you might be surprised at how your speed and accuracy may improve

2. Very close integration with PyTorch. fastai is designed to extend PyTorch, not hide it. E.g. fastai uses standard PyTorch Datasets for data, but then provides a number of pre-defined Datasets for common tasks

3. fastai is not slower than PyTorch, since PyTorch is handling all the computation. It'll othen be faster than your handwritten PyTorch however, since we went to a lot of effort to use performant algorithms.
nope you loaded code in as OCD octal coded decimal to boot the system if the bootstrap processor failed or was not present