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Question regarding your last 2 points: how do you reconcile the fact that "there is always something to learn" with "I'm basically just learning a library/framework that does the exact same thing but with different names in the API"?

I'm being a little hyperbolic here, but after a few decades in the industry it's kind of baffling how few novel ideas are in these new frameworks. There is even a trend to go back to server side HTML and SOAP-like APIs. The tech industry sometimes just looks like the fashion industry. But maybe I'm just too cynical :)
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The 50% solution with CCGT making up for variability seems to be working just fine. Wind is a lot more consistent than you think, especially offshore. Does mean we're dependent on gas for the medium term.

Nuclear and pumped storage takes a very long time to build. The other storage systems are starting to make inroads - tiny ones so far, but growing rapidly. The "fast frequency response" market provides them economic support.
Do they? I don't.

In fact when I was last employed (I'm now freelance, or at least trying to be freelance) I very much did not work on my OSS project, or use it in client work, because while I had verbal assurances that the company would not assert their rights, the contract I signed included an IP clause that was a little too broad for my liking.

As to the OP, It would be nice if I could figure out a way to make my OSS project earn enough to cover my rent. I would be really happy if I could get it to pay its own rent - hosting the project's home page is not $free.

(Obligatory spam of the project's home URL: https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/ )
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Maybe think of business relationships as recurring rounds of Prisoner's Dilemma.

If you approach every transaction as mix-max, you'll get pwned by the long game.
Let me flip this argument on its head. Consider this: About 5 years ago several key SV people including Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk became suddenly very concerned about AI ethics and started OpenAI. What if they, with this insider status, had already seen a GPT-3 like system at Google, Facebook, Baidu or wherever and its capabilities for political and social manipulation so concerned them that they started OpenAI in an effort to bring this tech out of the shadows and into the sunlight so we could debate it and regulate it. GPT-3 might not be a state of the art breakthrough. It could be just catching up with where the big tech companies were 5 years ago so that we can finally see what they are capable of. Corporate secrets are a normal part of doing business and maybe the tech companies didn't like the PR they would have gotten from publicizing something like this. Remember the blowback from Google's project that called business for their store hours? They already struggle with regulators across the world as it is. Do we really believe that little OpenAI is so much farther ahead of Google like the posted article posits?
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But younger engineers can be had more cheaply than experienced engineers. There is also a culture of having to prove yourself which often leads to junior engineers taking positions with companies that are toxic and which dramatically underpay them in order to get some years of experience. I think in our pandemic world, there is also a problem where people who may want to change jobs, due to poor working conditions, will stay put in fear of losing their pay check. These things and more, I'm sure, all compound against all of us, but I think can be felt more strongly at the lower end of the experience range.
>it’s not a moot point because that’s potentially billions of dollars that they cannot use to fund service

In fact, it is somewhat of a moot point - the USPS has been accruing, but not paying. Service is being funded.

The USPS actually stopped paying meaningfully to PSRHBF back in 2011. At this point, they're somewhat over $47bn behind in payments.

Please take a look at the USPS 10-K to get the fine detail here.
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I'm curious about the attraction phase.

Can you describe what you do/have done on your day job, and what you are doing on your side project to prevent boredom on day job?
It's ironic that you cite social security, which is a giant unfunded liability. Pensions don't actually have to be funded by the next generation. That's just the asinine way we have it set up here in the US. It relies on a never ending baby boom and economic expansion. Surprise surprise, it doesn't really work all that well. Hence social security funded at 70% and many city and state pensions funded at less than 50%.

What we should actually be doing is pay as you go. You pay into the pension and you get out what you paid, plus growth. We could have switched to this model at any point over the last 70 years if American society wasn't so addicted to endlessly kicking shit down the road and punting on problems.
A friends company is planning on bringing 50% back to the office in October.

Which effectively means instead of 4-8 hours of Zoom meetings at his house, he can take them sitting at his desk in the building, while the other 50% sit at home.

Not sure how well that is going to work out. This is an old school Financial company though, so it's not overly surprising.
Same. Pretty sure the Windows support isn’t there yet. Last I checked anyway....
That might also be the case, but that was not the point of the comment. The point is that owning a mansion, if that is what you crave, won’t make you happy if you never have time to experience it.
You should be paid well enough that free food isn't a factor. This is truly a FAANG world problem.
>Named arguments don't do a lot for the first group. It looks like the big point in favor is not having to look up a reference for which-arguments-go-where in functions anymore, but a good IDE already does that for you.

I, for one, never particularly liked this last argument.
It’s only a loss if you’ve been invested for a short time. The market is up a ridiculous amount. It would need to drop close to 40% to be back around 2014 levels. You could still sell shares from 2010 that would be sold at a profit, if you’ve been investing for a decade
Really it's the wrong example. The best way to distribute "demand response" is in systems which have a big thermal mass attached to them. You can turn an industrial freezer off for half an hour without anyone noticing.

An 80/20 compromise where most of the power is from renewables and the rest made up by CCGT seems very much within reach for the UK.
Both DeepMind and OpenAI were founded on the premise that we are in an AI overhang. OpenAI, in particular, believes in scale. Scale will get us there based on the algorithms we have, such as the Transformer. With each new release, they add evidence that they were correct.

The call for legislation neglects that there exists a global arms race to make this technology succeed. Legislation in one nation will simply handicap that nation. Against that backdrop, legislation is probably unlikely among the nations already leading in AI.
I'm the same age. But I am also guilty of old habits when attempting new frameworks or languages. For example, I always want to set up the environment with the least amount of "auto loads" of libraries etc. I do not use NPM. I still play around with new JS libraries by direct downloads from the official websites or Github and always use local copies of .js .css etc. I don't even connect to CDNs for fonts! I want to know all dependencies etc. I am paranoid like that. And this can be exhausting.
Having worked at a newspaper, someone in web production was likely asked to search a stock image site for "influenza virus" to illustrate the article, and the caption is copied directly from there. In this case, it looks like you can blame the folks at https://www.sciencesource.com/.

It'll be someone entirely separate from the folks who wrote the text.
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> I'm literally listing facts

The second post you made in reply to someone asking you to clarify is thought provoking and fact intensive. the first post you made is very unclear and its meaning is not obvious. I think you got downvoted because it was more easily (mis)interpreted as sarcasm or as a troll.

HN does have a little bit of thought policing, but I dont think this was it.

EDIT: specifically, the phrase "If you think long and hard" is rhetorically redundant and shifts the tone from helpful/discussional to condescending and patronizing. IMO, anyway, but also probably in the opinion of others as you got downvoted by others.
This is true overseas as well. Israel Post used to have huge issues with deliverability, but whenever an Amazon package showed up they'd get priority and was rarely, almost never, lost or delayed.

In fact, they even have a partnership now and text you when an Amazon package arrived ("a package has arrived from Amazon") but not always when another vendor's package arrives, even if there's a phone number attached to it.
France's startup scene is quite like this.
I cannot agree more with this comment. CAD software is still so dominated by proprietary systems that maintain their own version control and feature set. And since all the major players offer a "suite" of tools, there's no incentive to seamlessly interact between products. You spend so much time trying to figure out how you are going work with importing a neutral export (meaning you've dissected the data from its version control), and maintaining any data accuracy.

I was honestly extremely hopeful when OnShape hit the market. Granted it was still a proprietary tool, but felt it had the tooling and integrations to bring CAD systems into the "modern era". Then they crippled their free offering, removing it's discrimination from tools like Fusion. And now with their purchase by PTC, I have no hope in it making any further waves in the CAD space.
Wouldn't listing education without a graduation date basically mark a resume as "old"?
Out of these, only Google has substantial share of revenue from the ads.
This is kind of what drives me nuts about software engineering. I would love to work a 9 - 5 but in software you have to constantly be learning, it ends up being a 50+ hour a week career. It does pay well which is great so I have little room to complain but I feel like I am always at work.
> If you're running Docker in a VM on a bare metal server you're doing it wrong. You should be running Docker on a bare metal server.

Until a bug in Docker, or the CNI abstraction, or some resource hangs/panics the kernel on the bare metal, and then you have to reboot the whole thing taking out all the containers.

This gets rarer, and rarer, as the bugs get ironed out, of course, but In my 20+ year anecdotal experience, a kernel running just a bunch of VM's crashes far less frequently than a kernel running containers.
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Renewables today are displacing energy 1:1. So, directly offsetting the fuel that would have otherwise been burned.

You're correct, that there is not a 1:1 reduction in fossil capacity through the construction of renewable capacity. But the fossil capacity is used less, as the marginal cost of the renewable energy is near zero.

Most pumped hydro today (at least in the US) was built during the nuclear build-out because nuclear can't easily be "load following." So, we had to build out additional infrastructure with low capacity factor.

IMO, tax emissions, let the free market figure it out.
>If I link an AGPL PDF-generating library with my monolith service which runs financial reports over my business, what happens?

No one uses AGPL for libraries, except maybe by mistake. LGPL is used for this purpose.

>Do I need to now publish my SQL queries that access sensitively named tables?

No. The FAQ from GNU makes how this works pretty clear:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AGPLv3InteractingR...

The AGPL is not viral in the sense that all client software accessing an AGPL-licensed service are required to use the AGPL, but rather, such clients are entitled to the source of that service. It puts no obligations whatsoever on client software.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AGPLv3InteractingR...

Maybe you should actually read up on the AGPL license before you make assumptions about it? It seems like you don't really understand it.
> Deepfake technology is not sophisticated enough to mimic an entire phone call with someone.

With modern voice conversion technology it is perfectly possible actually.
> I'm leaving aside the consent piece, because frankly it's unlikely that they ingested this data without receiving it from a third party to whom you did give explicit consent.

Well, I definitely didn't. Even if I did give consent for processing my data, sharing with Facebook isn't something I would ever in a million years agree to. An explicit consent should have been specific about it. Evidently Acxiom shared my details with Facebook. But let's leave it aside for now.

> You can prove that you have access to that email, but you still need to prove that you're you.

That's where the huge imbalance lies, isn't it? They link my email, along other details, and they also share my email with Facebook. Yet, when I'm contacting them, from the same email address, then suddenly it's not enough.

But let's say one piece of info isn't enough, they have other pieces? let's match them. Send me a letter, give me a phone call, give me the postal code and ask me to complete the address (or other parts of the address), provide a reasonable way for me to prove my identity. Without effectively asking for my entire address history, or compromising even more data about myself.

> it incentivizes companies like Acxiom to be as strict as possible when verifying identities for access requests. They'd much rather be forced to defend the stringency of their access policies than to be strung up by the EC for enabling large-scale identity fraud because they weren't vigilant enough.

We completely agree on this one. They're as strict as possible when subjects try to exercise their rights, but loose as a cannon when it comes to sharing data, making sure they get real and explicit consent etc.
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All these articles about the market forget to mention that tech jobs are hyper concentrated in a handful of city around the world (silicon valley, new york, london).

The rest of the world is struggling to get any job. It's not unheard of to have one hundred developers for one role outside of the major capitals.
Nice and thanks for sharing. I have a question, did you use a framework or did you code that from scratch?
The UK also has London with the congestion charge. EVs are exempt from the £15 per day charge. That works out at a £3750 'saving' over 50 5-day weeks in a year. Combine that with the incentives to buy an electric car, finance schemes to spread payment and the benefits of EV (lower fuel price) and you wonder why more people in the suburbs are not buying EVs. Sure you see some but not that many. Money is not the problem given how many expensive German cars are on the streets.

There is still range anxiety so anyone with an EV and living in London's suburbs will still want an ICE car for when they visit the relatives in the shires or go to their weekend retreat. The Zoe lacks in that area due to range. Meanwhile the Tesla offerings also fall short due to their size which is not what you want on country lanes or in city centres.

Parking at home and on-street charging is a problem so having an ICE and an EV is not practical in the way that it might be in a typical US city. There simply isn't enough space on the street.

Then there is public transport. This is good in London and out to the suburbs, you would want to get the train/Tube to get into London if you had an ounce of common sense, taking a car in is just silly.

The UK is not just London but then it is. There isn't a lot of money to go around in most regions. Plus commutes can be long, too long for range anxiety. Then the people with the money - the boomers - are sceptical about EVs. The UK is therefore going to be stuck with lousy ICE cars for a long time to come.
Very much agree with this. As someone who’s managed people 20+ years my senior, it always annoyed me when I overheard them complain about reporting to someone younger. I don’t hold their age against them, it should be reciprocal.
How so? Can you elaborate?
Deutsche Post / DHL service quality has absolutely declined as a result of this and keeps getting worse so I don't know what argument you are trying to make.
Golden handcuffs. Slowing the world's development since.. forever.
Have they lost their building muscles, or are they just not building what you want how you think they should? At 55, I'm not as prolific as I used to be, but it's not because my skills have atrophied. It's partly because I tend to work on the bits everyone else is avoiding (often because they're difficult), partly because I try to do things right instead of hacking and slashing, partly because I find it hard to concentrate on doing things within the absolutely insane structures and idioms my younger coworkers have created.

Example: the almost universally used service infra where I work is a nightmare of excessive context switches and tuning to avoid starvation/deadlocks. Why? Because the kidz who developed it apparently didn't read enough to know that the basic paradigm it's based on is known to have such problems. The people around me think this is normal or inevitable, and just live with it, but even the person who did most to popularize these ideas recanted a decade ago. Too bad; we're just stuck with it, because it's the young folk who refuse to learn.

Your older coworkers probably haven't lost their "building muscles" and aren't reluctant to learning anything. They're reluctant to repeat or build on past mistakes. Overall, your comment seems like a good example of how older programmers are often misrepresented by those who don't share their experience. Let people represent themselves.
Have you considered working in the US? Seems like we're perpetually in a shortage of good web devs (e.g. can do more than paste together frameworks and Wordpress sites)
wellllll there's no GREAT answer. Usuallllllyyy this is why some lightweight authentication is a good idea? Some kind of TGT/token scheme, and then rate limit based on that? But does make it all a little less "just works"
Are you dealing with anxiety from covid/quarantine/everything right now? I think a lot of us are in this same boat, want to get out of tech, etc. I remember what it was like making a $45k paycheck though. I had such little agency in life. Obviously people can get by on that and do much better than I did but I've gotten so accustomed to having the freedom to basically buy anything I want (obviously in reason) when I want. I don't even flinch at a $150/mo gym membership which theres no way I could afford back then. I remember wanting to learn judo and kendo when I was around 23 and being shocked at how expensive it was and I couldn't do it until I was in my late 20s.

Do I need any of that or is it worth it? Surely not. But the freedom I feel now making 3x what I did when I worked in retail is something I can't really put into words well.
You can't really improve this until the lead author doesn't have a final say on how to treat outliers.

In any given study, there are going to be hundreds of special cases in the data that you didn't anticipate, and you have to decide whether to include or exclude them.

Any researcher will subconsciously be more sympathetic to arguments to exclude subjects that go against the principal theory, and less so to subjects that confirm it.

And it's a battle of reasonable arguments, most of the cases aren't bright line fraud or misconduct, they're just humans finding some arguments more compelling and the impossibility of escaping our own biases. (And yes, sometimes it's fraud, but fraud is just the tip of the iceberg if we're talking about genuinely improving the reliability of scientific findings.)

Prepublication is helpful, but more and more I'm convinced that the only way to do proper science would be to completely disaggregate study design from study execution.
so you're telling me because Trump is trying to get back at Bezos, he's telling the Postmaster to prioritize Amazon's packages over regular mail delivery?

Do you believe Russia is involved in this too?
I think the writer's intent would be served if you deleted "blithering your" from the sentence.
> this isn’t how large business can operate

Why not?
I see endless Leafs for sale (the older original ones) for only $5k. Granted their batteries are pretty degraded and I'm sure only gets 60 miles of range when blasting AC or heater.
The down votes are probably more along the unnecessary line about unions.
That's true, but that's exactly why this strategy can be so detrimental to the long-term health of a project. The core product has to be just barely good enough to solve a problem for enough people; once it gets popular, it can coast on that momentum for a while, even as it ossifies.

I can think of a number of projects in the "big data" space that seem to have fallen into this trap.
As someone at a non-silicon valley non-FAANG company, how are those guys treating their hardware teams?

As an embedded hardware engineer, I've been coming in to the office on an "as necessary" basis. Reading between the lines, I'm rolling my eyes. 99% of what I do can be done at home with the equipment I have, yet our business unit has been the one R&D group expected to have butts-in-seats the whole "shutdown" due to being an "essential" (i.e. medical devices) business.

Hearing all of these tech companies taking the pandemic seriously is giving me some serious grass-is-always-greener feelings.
I fear Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.

A CS lecturer of mine told us that when he was a student he had a lecturer who advised him to be sceptical of AI revolutions. That was nearly 20 years ago. I've no doubt we'll see further steps but I'm not going to hold my breath for something transformative.
NASA is an engine for tech transfer. Prove it works in impossible domains at great expense. And re-purpose for civilian terrestrial usage. This seems to be precisely the case here: on-board computer, solar cells, powertrain, sensors all required pain-staking miniaturization. Having done a bit of drone cinematography this summer, these innovations, as well as autonomy, will be welcome additions even in full G, dense atmosphere environments back home ;)

https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/2020.html
Plus using email more.
Life happens in your 30s. Meaning you get a spouse, house, and kids. Suddenly work becomes less of a priority and even if it doesn't you have a lot less time and energy to dedicate to it.

I also think there's a frustration limit. Like if your spouse is being a jerk, the kids are being dicks, and the plumbing broke you don't want to mess around with a new technology. You want something easy and easy is what you already know.

>I feel so broken because of it and I know my next job is going to be a third of what I'm paid now because it won't be software.

I would not do that. You're probably just burned out. Take some time off and switch jobs before switching careers. Especially one that will pay 1/3 of what you make now. At least start saving up 2/3s of your salary for a while to see what it'd be like.
This makes me wonder how would one go about adding an authentication key to audio? We have seen in the past encryption for text shared via email and watermarks embedded in images but I haven't come across something for audio. Happy to hear if someone has worked in this field.