skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are literally criticizing jQuery for its best features. Not having outdated libraries and potentially dangerous vulnerabilities is a huge plus for jQuery. Do you think just because you use a build tool for modules from all over the npm-verse that vulnerabilities just magically go away?
PG briefly touches on it here, but one of the biggest factors on being able to consistently work hard is reward.

PG mostly talks about intrinsic reward in this article. We should work on stuff that is interesting to us, and brings us fulfillment. However, I believe that Paul is missing a huge component here, and that is extrinsic reward.

Extrinsic reward complements intrinsic reward. Extrinsic reward allows us to push through the hard, difficult work that we might not be interested in, because we know the work will be rewarded. It is the light at the end of the tunnel for difficult work. PG, and Bill Gates were able to work so hard because they had internal belief that there was an extrinsic reward for all the work they were doing.

In a perfect world, we would all be completely self motivated to work on every task, but this just isn't realistic. Especially in today's working work. People like PG, and Bill Gates are able to fully credit intrinsic reward, but fail to mention that the extrinsic reward ($$) validated the hard, gritty work they put in.
So they basically neglected to make any claims with recent or newer dates, or they were such a small part of their claims the court decided they were window dressing to an action they should have already taken?

I kind of take it from your comment you see a sort of wilful legal incompetence at play (particularly given your link says courts rarely apply laches)?
Rebar reinforced concrete rusts.

Non-reinforced concrete has to be built bigger, but can last a long time. The coliseum is still up - Hoover Dam will also probably last awhile. And that's without much maintenance.

Smaller non-reinforced structures are harder to build. You have to use the concrete to hold itself up which requires a larger structure.

So you're left with reinforcement. There are options for non-rusting rebar, and non-rusting coatings, but I believe they're expensive. Also, any nick or scratch in a coating ruins it. There's also unique and novel research for non-rebar reinforcement - again expensive.

Here in US most buildings are built to last X years. So long as the rebar lasts longer than X, they'll use rebar. Increase X via regulations, and the quality (and cost) of the buildings in that area increases. Otherwise the bidder with the lowest cost of materials is most competitive. Anyone know what it's like in China?
Thanks! I looked up some rough usage stats due to the recent related discussion, but didn't easily find something clear about variability.
This is not counting the people costs involved, kube experts ain't cheap. Complexity is only going up.

Suggestion for next article -> "Software a black hole of unpredictable spend"
Investing your time is just like any other kind of investment; you are taking a variety of risks which have a variety of rewards. Pick the ones which line up best with your preferred balance of risk tolerance and goals.

Don't over index on high-consequence/low-likelyhood risks, but keep them in mind as part of your overall strategy.
All the computer scientists[1] at one point considered software developers and IT in the same light as higher level tooling evolved .

While sure purist view is not wrong that average quality of outcome has dropped since 70s-80s, the quantum of throughput meant that impact has been positive and immense.

Similarly I am expecting this kind of tooling would open up to more types of new developers.

[1] all the mathematicans thought similarly perhaps during 50s and 60s.
They didn't see a collapsing building 2 days ago. The article mentions water damage as early as 1990. Blaming the problem on the last person that touched the building is absurd.
Yes, I only left this out because it was over the horizon at the time. I did find these papers inspiring in the 90s, and as with the Digital Silk Road paper I linked above, the ideas could have been thought of earlier (e.g. capability security goes back to the 60s): http://www.erights.org/talks/agoric/index.html
Silk Road Downfall: How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using cURL in PHP?
How would they contact the owner of the device? All they know is the IP address of the device.
Climate Change: severe weather swings disrupt Panama Canal
> when I have the money to travel in style and not backpack around and stay at hostels

I think that's where you went wrong. The backpacking at hostels is the best (as long as you pick hostels and fellow travelers that do not look like your typical backpacker haha). The thing is, now that I'm 30, I feel it's probably out of fashion. But these nights I spent in big-city hostels had the most fun, stories and affairs.

> Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out.

You can do both. The thing is, you can backpack 1 month per year and still work really HARD for 11 months of the year. 1 month is enough to visit 3-4 countries, and have 20 something night out. Over 15 years, that's over 300 night out. Way too much. And you still worked very hard for most of your youth.
Future Z, the Anti-Vax Campaign Targeting Schoolkids
I agree that Insulin should be free for everyone, it just makes sense. But you make it sound as if Walmart is making money on this. I would bet it barely covers their cost (Break Even). They did this because they have the power to do this (twist some arms). Don't blame Walmart, blame your government for allowing Big Pharma to charge 80% more in the USA than they do almost anywhere else in the World.
Get one from EU (or with EU firmware) and it does not by default. Good side effect of GDPR.
He's got an audience that he is writting too. He's talking about building great things, not how to live a full and happy life.

While working at Tesla, we definitely all built great things but that's all we did. I left, took a 70% paycut to start my own consulting business and work 4-5 hours a week while being a 'Digital Nomad'. I've never been happier and guess what, that nagging feeling of 'I'm not doing real work' or finding 'idleness distasteful' goes away when you don't feel like the whole team has a gun to your head.
Good on him for coming out and saying it straight. So many people go through such discomfort and are constantly pressured by their environment to put up with it. You're not encouraged to say no. It is seen as unnatural. It is career limiting. I do believe the tech industry puts an unhealthy obsession on public speaking, to the extent that you aren't considered fit for leadership if you can't give public talks.
> The researcher here allowed 9 months for them to fix.

The researcher is basically allowed to do whatever they want here. They can wait 0 days and just post to the full-disclosure mailing list. Or they could never disclose it.

Personally, I've done both. I took DJB's "Unix Security Holes" class, where we had to find 10 vulnerabilities in OSS as the class's final project. All of those got 0-day disclosed because that is how DJB rolls. I've also independently found bugs, and I was satisfied by the resolution from emailing security@ that company.
I've run a YaCy instance at various points, but I don't think it has much to offer a company that doesn't intend to peer with instances run by other people. It's a really cool idea, but the relevance of the results it returns seems pretty rough, especially for stuff that isn't in your local index. Development also seems pretty slow, at least from my subjective perspective; I come back to it once every couple of years and everything about it looks exactly the same as when I first looked at it. It's also a royal pain to run behind a reverse proxy.
Your resonse is valid and interesting, even moreso without the first sentence!

I think one thing that could be added is that the metric of success is not necessarily monetary. Financial success often depends more on socioeconomic conditions, rather than hard work. But intrinsic satisfaction seems to be based on truly earned achievement.
This is moreso automation-assisted theorem proving. It takes a lot of human work to get a problem to the point where automation can be useful.

It's like saying that calculators can solve complex math problems; it's true in a sense, but it's not not strictly true. We solve the complex math problems using calculators.
> If so, then this AI will never generate novel algorithms.
This is true, but the most programmers don't need to generate novel algorithms themselves anyway.
>It is extremely common for people with ADD to focus better when they keep the part of their brain that distracts them busy.

They should cater to those people as opposed to other people for whom bite-sized learning works better? When did we become a society that expects everyone else to cater to our specific needs? No one is being "excluded".

If that's the way you need to learn, fantastic. There are options out there for you. It wasn't that long ago when none of this existed.
> "It's good to go on vacation occasionally, but when I go on vacation, I like to learn new things. I wouldn't like just sitting on a beach."

There are few things I enjoy more than just sitting on a beach. When you go on vacation, actually go on vacation. Turn off your phone. Leave your laptop behind. Bring some fiction, or maybe select non-fiction (biographies are great). Put sunscreen on. Get a cold beverage. Fall asleep with the book on you.

I recommend learning new things while you're on vacation! But learn about the place you're vacationing at. Learn about the culture, the people, the history, the geography. Expand your horizons and waste time.
I think you and PG are actually in agreement on this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1404321931491430403

It depends on what your life goals are. If you want to travel the world, do that. If you have big ambitions™ then work hard. Either is OK.

This essay is not a call for everyone to work hard, it is a guide for those who choose that path.
The Gov.uk site, so far, has been head and shoulders above the crowd in terms of providing a site that is both functional and usable for all users. Their proposed improvements seem to carry on this trend except for the mobile optimized pages (mobile-optimized usually meaning: hidden information, too much whitespace, mobile only buttons that don't work on real computers, etc).
I see a very common arch of "I want to achieve" -> "Okay, life is about more than that, I'm going to practice balance" in these comments. I have also gone through it.

Around 19-24 years old I was working like a dog and making some great career progress. That helped me today, like you said, but I'm now the happiest I've ever been by enjoying this fine summer and working when I feel like working.

I look back on those years and truly wish I saw the other things life has to offer at the time.
This is great news, adding to a report in Nature that the natural immunity produced in people who have already had covid may last a lifetime.[1]

In case you hadn't heard, the Cleveland Clinic--consistently regarded as one of the top hospital systems in the United States and in the world--recently shared a study of 52,238 patients showing zero incremental benefit from the jab to the previously infected, recommending that "people who’ve had COVID-19 don’t need to get vaccinated."[2]

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

[2]https://www.healthline.com/health-news/new-study-determines-...
The mRNA vaccines have been the silver lining to the whole COVID-19 disaster.

They seem “unreasonably effective” against COVID, basically if you had a genie that you could ask to make a vaccine, it would be hard to do much better, other than the requirement for 2 jabs.

In addition, the mRNA technology has broad applicability to other issues such as other viruses (such as flu) and even cancer!
my house is well over a hundred years old and was built out of wood, it's been well taken care of (still has the original roof, even!), why exactly would I want to rebuild a perfectly good building? These buildings have been standing a long time, they aren't exactly going anywhere
Yes, but AI isn't the same as automation.

Automation is a force multiplier. AI is a cheaper way of doing what humans do.

And the AI doesn't even need to be "true" AI. It simply needs to be able to do stuff better than what humans do.
Surprised at all the managers here who are well-intentioned, but don't seem to understand that there's a power imbalance here that means even innocuous, carefully-phrased sentences must first be checked for threats.
> “That’s political propaganda!”

proceeds to link to political propaganda
You will need to use millionshort.com or a similar niche-based search engine for that. Otherwise, it is the equivalent of asking Apple to let you filter out apps that use Facebook SDK; completely futile.

The overwhelming majority of websites being created today include some kind of tracker, even if it's a single analytics script. And knowing the HN audience, that's still one tracker too many.
Maybe not electricity, but sacrificial anodes are otherwise a thing on bridges, boats, water heaters…
Consider the de Soto bridge in Memphis, TN, the one that carries the I-40 over the Mississippi. A crack in a main truss was found earlier the year during a scheduled inspection, and the bridge was closed immediately. Some guy on a holiday took photos in 2016, and the crack was visible then: https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/05/18/photos-show-i-brid...

So - yes, things hold up until they suddenly fall over.
>> and changed their minds after being repeatedly screwed over.

I both sympathize for you and still don't think the "changing your mind" is helpful here. My personal example here is in my dating life. I only got married at 38. Before that I had probably 15 semi serious or serious relationships that ultimately didn't work out. Each one of them would have been a good reason to say "oh, well, it's not for me to find love" or "I am doomed because my parents divorce messed me up" or "everyone out there's not good enough for me" or whatever.

But while I would be "justified" in thinking that way, I'd also actually doom myself by thinking that way. Instead I kept looking for changes I can make (mainly in how I feel about and value others in this case) that eventually allowed me to meet an amazing woman and start a family together.

The paint I am making is - we have agency. Whatever shitty work situation you have, do you have some room to find a better employer? To beef up your skills so you're more valuable? To contribute more to the org and be deeply recognized? To build such a network that if something ever happened you can find another job in a matter of weeks? In my experience, almost everyone has SOME leverage they can use to improve their situation. If they continuously use it, their situation is statistically likely to iteratively improve (and give you bigger levers over time.) If you get jaded and give up, nothing will magically improve and just get worse.

So no matter how much you may justify jadedness, it's not a thing worth accepting because it will just kill you.
> The benefits to me of not having physical menus is huge

But the negatives are also huge.

- My phone is slow, so it's painful to navigate the menu

- Half the restaurants have horrible UI for their menu

- You can't casually peruse the menu, you have to go item by item down the list.

At least to me, it's an awful experience.
BLS says that $110k is the median.

It's not about eventually becoming a millionaire. It's about using Gates and other successful outliers as a pattern for normal people. There are tons of smart and hardworking people out there who are not very successful. There's a lot more going on than just hard work.
Building a $0 startup as self-taught developer
At least 100% common for wifi routers? Not sure why all wifi routers have one though.
Sketch – Developing an Industry-Standard Design App for the Mac
Interestingly enough I think Ops work is far more resilient to automation than SWE work.
I strongly agree with you.

Reminds me of something I read that claimed when drum machines came out, the music industry thought it was the end of drummers. Until people realized that drummers tended to be the best people at programming cool beats on the drum machine.

Every single technological advancement meant to make technology more accessible and eliminate expertise has instead only redefined what expertise means. And the overall trend has been a lot more work opportunities created, not less.
We'll "need" to take periodic boosters to improve Moderna and Pfizer's profit margins.

That said, given its safe, I'm happy to do it to help fund / drive investment into the mRNA supply chain.
Why would it be worse?
I recently went on a date and had to explain to the waiter that we are old, and it's going to take us a while. Which was funny, but I don't have a QR reader on my phone, and I wasn't going to haphazardly install something at a restaurant just to see the whiskey menu.

Luckily, my non-technical date had a mainstream phone that came with a QR reader. Using it redirected her to a word doc hosted on a google drive. And there was no link to this word doc on the restaurants official website.

If you're going to do QR codes, the menu should be available from the website, there should be a printed url under the QR code, and it should be an actual webpage. Preferably lightweight static html.
> It shouldn't do that, and we are taking steps to avoid reciting training data in the output

This just gives me a flashback to copying homework in school, “make sure you change some of the words around so it’s not obvious”

I’m sure you’re right Re: jurisprudence, but it never sat right with me that AI engineers get to produce these big, impressive models but the people who created the training data will never be compensated, let alone asked. So I posted my face on Flickr, how should I know I’m consenting to benefit someone’s killer robot facial recognition?
intel/amd me running second own os on everything. One malicious lib, GG security theatre.
These days, it's not difficult to create products that are far better than your main competitors' products in every respect. The hard part is merely getting the attention of customers so that they know that your product exists...

It's extremely difficult to create this scenario whereby a prospective customer will actually compare your product against a competitor's product. If people were more open to experiment, it would be easy but network effects are just too strong. Likely propped reinforced by endless money printing.

Infinite money printing just allows the economy to maintain its structure forever. The winners always get bailed out so they always stay winners and the losers always have their competitors bailed out so they always stay losers.
I feel the same. I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else. I cannot feel good about myself if I cannot sense that I'm making progress learning a skill, and am stuck for hours looking down at a blank page as a result.

But what's dangerous for me is that this alarm system does not trigger consistently. I might spend too much time on HN, for example, because my impression is that HN is a place to have intellectual discoveries. I might spend too much time on YouTube because I can't think of anything else to do. Ironically there is a wealth of knowledge contained in some games that would be more worthwhile than a bunch of highlights on YouTube, but YouTube is just too easy to go back to.

When I work on some of my programming projects, I come out with the feeling that I'm just using the act of constantly working on them as an excuse to not have to worry about the fact that my life outside of them is one-dimensional and currently stagnating. I work way too hard on such non-work projects and burn out only to stop and instead spend weeks anxious that because I'm not doing anything, I am not growing as a person. I still believe this is true; I don't think I am much different from the me of two years ago, except that I've made some progress on programming projects.

But it's weird because I enjoy programming. I think it is because I enjoy programming so much that I become blinded to things that I should have seen as more important. I think I am already good enough at programming to not need much more to learn, and am only applying the skills that I happen to have built up for years.

But when I turn back to the other hobbies I always told myself I wanted to spend my life doing, all I find is a void of interest, and I ultimately accomplish little.

I also believe this was a result of how I was raised and the coping mechanisms my upbringing/college ingrained in me.
Maybe PG should include some draft reviewers who are hard working but not rich. Seems like an echo chamber to include the reviewers he does. Unbelievable.
Descript does this well. It transcribes a video file and you can click around in the notes window and it jumps to that position in the video. Very handy tool/service. Free for the first fews hours per month(10 maybe), then paid.
this whole pandemic thing really worried me. I leave my phone at home on purpose all the time. I really struggled with everything from food to doctors. phones are becoming a requirement.
The Seattle Times appears to host a copy of the same article without a paywall (at least I'm not getting one):

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-unlikely-survi...
Then your best bet is most likely to adjust your expectations. Otherwise there's a good chance you will never have enough to live the life you want until it's too late to enjoy it. Figure out how to live happily now, is my advice.

You don't have to be rich to enjoy your life while you're young. Not every experience worth having is expensive!
> 1. Yes.

Not really. You need to know the person's SSN and a bunch of other pieces of information (eg. name/birthday/address). It's not like presenting a 9 digit number will cause banks to give you thousands of dollars in loans.
Traveling the world is a life goal for shallow people only if you never meet people, have fun together, and maintain your relationships. Staying longer term or returning to the same location regularly over weeks- months- years- is superior to moving on to new places every day.
I was discussing with my current spouse about how we spent our time before The Now Times where we now have many more entertainment options, as well as being far more wealthy than we were back then, allowing us to things other than watch TV. :-)

My conclusion was that my ex-wife and I watched a lot more TV than I watch now. And I'll bet that Miami Vice (a staple at our house back then) aged just about as well as one might think (was it really just War on Drugs propaganda, as I recall it?). And we watched Moonlighting, which gave Bruce Willis his start, and that's a show I would almost go back and watch. Other than that, I couldn't tell you a thing that was on in the '80s. All I know is that we watched the screen, but only those two shows left enough of an impression to remember 35 years later.

Ask me what we watched in this era thirty five years from today, and I'll bet I'll give you a list as long as your arm. The Wire, Battlestar reboot, Game of Thrones...
Will "millionaire" still have the same meaning in 30 years as it does today?
"Sign up and get three months free, then only $4.95 per month."
which regions and industry do you see them used? In west coast buildings, its uncommon.