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> This is only true in the most expensive metro areas

This is true in all metro areas. Mortgage lenders are actually having to loosen the "percentage of cash flow one spends on a mortgage" requirements because without spending a third if your income you can't buy into the market. I live in a famously inexpensive housing market and a house that sold for $300k last year is now going for $450k.

This is not just NYC and SF, it's the same story in Austin, Seattle, Atlanta, Columbus, Minneapolis, Dever.

Nobody forces you to live where the jobs in your field are, got it. I cannot understand how people assume that everyone just has the mobility to just pick up their entire lives (like they don't have friends and family), sell their house (which is taking a loss now), move and be able to find a job anywhere.

Like good lord not everyone works in a field where you can work remotely from a cabin in the woods. Some people do actually have to be on-prem. So many people in this thread are vastly overestimating the agency people in real life have to participate (or not) in the systems that surround them. If the SWE job market ever cools off I feel like the tone is going to shift dramatically.
I think https://nsa-codebreaker.org/resources (about half-way down, in the "Technical Resources" section) might answer that?
For me, the question isn't even about climate change, it's about managing variable levels of rainfall. Whether or not the manmade part is significant, the truth is we always get fluctuations in weather and sometimes it is really dry.

Instead of arguing about climate change, we should already be slowing down rivers, pumping cleaned sewage output much further up the water tables so it can get reabsorbed, plant many more trees to hold soil and therefore moisture, stop paving over everything forcing rain into drains instead of the ground etc.
The modern car is an appliance, just like the modern computer. Yes, there's a minority (sometimes vocal) who like to hack on their cars (computers), but the majority of users want something they can push a button and go.

It's a tool to achieve a goal, a means to an end, not a destination itself. I didn't buy my car because I like driving, I bought my car because it gets me from A to B safely and comfortably.

Most people don't buy cars (computers) because they want to spend all their configuring/troubleshooting/updating/optimizing them.
Do you have any examples of apps that use that tech?
On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research
> There's also something to be said for how modern financial capitalism has
> squeezed redundancy out of everything. Supply chains are just-in-time,

Hence the automotive/chips and other recent shortages...
The layers of AWSCDK leads to a lot of brittleness, and that was a huge turn-off for us. I like the thought of building systems in a functional way but the tooling just isn't there yet. I haven't dived too deep into Terraform CDK yet, and Pulumi just had too many problems.
It wasn't the greens.

While you can indeed make an argument about shutting down nuclear power plants while there are coal power plants in operations, the green party was part of the government which targetted the mid-20ies for an end of nuclear energy in Germany - many power plants would have had to be shut down of age anyway. But they also set energy politics onto a trajectory which would have meant to mostly run on renewables by now. It was the Merkel government which first prolonged nuclear power plant run times and then cut it down quicker than the initial plans after Fukushima. All of that could be rationally argued, but not that they mostly killed the deployment of renewables. If they had pushed that properly, we still would be fine. Still, Germany managed to get to 50% renewables in the electricity mix. But indeed, we now have to push hard to take up speed of deployment and fortunately we have now the greens in power to push for that.
Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects
Using Cross-Encoders as reranker in multistage vector search
This is about how private companies work now that the project has been officially declared a “toxic entity”.

But really did anyone really expect working on a money laundering project would be a good idea? Sure it was a new method of money laundering but it’s pretty obviously money laundering
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The one that was rejected because he did not use semicolons in his JavaScript is interesting. So are a few others that were rejected for not knowing specific things about whatever language the company used.

These rejections at first seem idiotic, especially the semicolon one. Surely the company could have simply told the developer "our style standard requires semicolons" and the developer would have been able to quickly and easily adapt. And surely any decent developer could learn in a reasonable amount of time those parts of the language that the company uses that the develop has not previously used enough to memorize.

30-40 years ago that is what would have happened. It was not at all uncommon to get hired for a new job that used a language you didn't know or had not used much, on an operating system you hadn't used, and involving hardware that was new to you.

But 30-40 years ago, we stayed at our jobs a lot longer. I wonder if that is why it was different? If it took a couple months or so to start getting productive and a year to become expert at the stuff that was new to you it was no big deal. You were likely going to be there for the better part of a decade.

So maybe now, if you can only expect employees to stay on average 2-3 years at the big SV tech companies employers want people who start out as experts in as much as possible of the tools they use, so the only training to get up to speed needed learning that company's particular systems?
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Given how low fixed mortgage rates have been for years, hopefully not too many people will see their payments go up.
Correct. Because to do so threatens humanity and many other species. The solution then is to share the existing wealth and build better rather than go hands off, right?

We can simultaneously support development without killing all future generations.
> What could be done to stop it?

Dunno. If you learn your product is being used to commit crimes and can’t figure out how to counter it, you should stop building it. (Or at least pause and call a lawyer.)
> Aren't we more than that?

I don't think so. I think that we're a brew made of very simple ingredients that results in something that strives to live and reproduce. That's the main missing ingredient in AI for me; desire, or preferences. We just show them a bunch of things in turn, and tell them if they're right or wrong with some reduction of those things. They don't even desire our approval, we've built systems that process, they don't desire.

I think it's because we've nearly figured out cognition (which is ultimately simple), but not the desire to live or to reproduce (which as people we half the time think of as sinful desires), which we probably have deeply hardcoded within ourselves. The desire to emulate others derives from those more fundamental desires (without which we each wouldn't have existed in an unbroken lineage from the first cell), because we can look at others as experiments to model ourselves after, or when we see them fail, make guesses as to how they may have been mistaken in their choices.

We're physical things. The really mysterious part of our situation imo is how our perspective (for lack of a better word) attaches to our bodies (and minds.) Why am I me and not you? Why am I physically located in this mind? Would a perspective attach to a machine with cognition and desires? Would there be any physical way to prove that one hadn't, so would we morally just have to accept a machine's experience as similar to ours? We can't prove other people aren't machines, so we (generally, with extreme difficulty with people very unlike us) just take them at their word.

That's actually a reason I'm against full AI, because it involves creating a bunch of machines that we wouldn't have the moral authority to shut down. Especially if we haven't refined the technology and it's just as power-inefficient as what we have now. Sparking neural networks where electricity isn't used for the signal, just as a potential within the cell walls, and the spark is a little cough of neurotransmitter that is immediately sucked back in. That's just unbelievably low power (even though iirc it's still half or more of the calories you eat.) And brains are so space-efficient. I could cram 100 people in a room full of one AI, and the 100 people would consume fewer calories.

We're accidental automatons that are very cool and very difficult to reproduce, and still very mysterious in a fundamental way.
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Incremental Reading: Reading 10 Books at the Same Time (2021)
You're right. I definitely worded that poorly. My distaste for animated gifs that are _meant_ to be funny, but I find sensorially painful and detracting rather than enhancing definitely leaves me in poor humour.

All in favour of animations that explain things and definitely enjoy a well-placed joke or anecdote.
I hope at some point we'll get a reverse-engineered or otherwise "open source" T56 Magnum, CD009, or similar transmission, so all the driving enthusiasts can continue to maintain our passions with bulletproof, standardized, stick shifts.

I need the thrilling man-machine interface in my life, but with slightly more convenience/safety envelope/practicality than riding a motorcycle.
I agree with a lot of this. It's about finding the nuance and letting people work in the way that's most effective for their context. There's no reason people shouldn't be able to work from home if they need to. But I think what gets lost in this conversation is that a lot of people aren't making altruistic decisions about how to do work best - they just want to do what they want. Some people who like working from home would benefit from being challenged to return to the office and some people in the office would probably do better working from home.
time overlaps, it doesn't accumulate. two kids takes maybe 20% more time than one kid, not 100% more. and as kids get older, more kids means they can occupy themselves more easily because they play together, and are not alone seeking your attention.
Not entirely wrong. I think it's entirely possible for "free will" in the sense that it's normally talked about to not really be a thing. After all, we're taught about "nature vs nurture" in psychology, that is, learned vs inherent behaviors passed through genetics. I think what we call "free will" is itself curiosity manifest from random decision making. The overwhelming vast majority of our decisions are based on learned behaviors though, and decision making itself is known to be a cognitively taxing process; so we're predisposed to routine, simplification, and working with proxies.

Edit: to your point about needing validation: the desire for acceptance is simply put, the desire for a positive feedback response on a personal or societal level. Remember, our brains are big reinforced learning machines and crave feedback as quickly and unambiguously as possible. The desire for acceptance is both a thing that keeps behaviors "in-line" with societal expectations while allowing for changes in those behaviors to shape societal behaviors (and expectations) over generations (time), and therefor make progress, or at least change.
Abuse of side effects to save code is just a reality of working in limited or embedded systems once you have run into their limits. On one of my current projects, the target has only 8K of program memory. I had to do some things I'm not proud of to get the required functionality to fit because the alternative was to say "It can't be done, scrap everything." The target is an embedded hard-realtime processor core, so there's no way to add more memory to it. It's a component integrated into a larger system so I can't demand a larger or more capable device without incurring significant redesign costs. Quite frankly, I won't be considered worth those costs. Nobody's doing to take on the expense and effort simply because I can't hack it. I'd have a hard time blaming someone for doing the painful to keep a project alive, considering I'm doing exactly that. We can always agitate for better conditions next time around, but this time we must go to war with the army we have, and sometimes that necessitates fighting dirty.

The rest of the stuff is entirely valid though. A programmer that cannot be managed is worthless, and someone who is unwilling to accept correction is a liability. I wouldn't refuse to work with him because unless I'm his superior I don't get to make that call, but I would probably go out of my way to avoid interaction. (And if I were his superior, unless he's got political juice or something, I'd have him shown to the door if he won't work with the team instead of against it.)
How about the folks whose retirements are guaranteed to never happen now? The millenials are the most financially fucked group in modern history.
Checks out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code
While the term recall seems dramatic, most automotive recalls involve fairly simple fixes. Cars are complicated machines, and it's pretty common for issues to pop up over the years.
In my view human intelligence is being cracked open like a nut as we speak. It's a matter of decades - honestly, I think years - before all kinds of shit will hit all kinds of fans. However, irrespective of the societal impact, intelligence is very interesting and there is a lot to be gained from decoupling it from the human form.

I've handled this by looking at the (mis)usage of language. "Automatons", "pattern recognition", "statistics". These are words. And they all carry with them a palpable sense of dismissal, of a certain arrogance that I think is misplaced. Note: If you use these words fully egoless and objectively, great, that is excellent, but I don't think most do.

If you'd start to regard intelligence in it's abstract, non-material, form as a "divine" gift to all "living" beings the picture starts to change. There is a very real, very deep sense of wonder to what is happening that gets lost whenever you call intelligence - biological or digital - "just pattern recognition" or something to that effect. You reduce the wonder that is intelligence to something you hold in your head as simple and reductionist. It is in that very moment you diminish it and make it non-interesting. It's like calling human embryos just a bunch of cells. It's not wrong per se, but it's said in a way that reduces the complexity of the system to ridiculous levels. Even without invoking metaphysical/religious beliefs you can imagine an embryo being a highly-complex physical system with astronomical levels of emergent properties that are effectively incalculable, for us at the moment if not at a fundamental mathematical level.

If you look at machine intelligence like perhaps a small child would, full of awe and wonder, I bet your outlook on things can change. Humans are carriers of this "intelligence", they are not optimal and they are not alone. Who cares? Do we need to be the sole proprietors of intelligence in all its forms and shapes in order to be happy? I say enjoy the ride.
Yeah it sounds bad but it could also be described as "Potential problem on Ferrari is so rare, that it hasn't been noticed since 2005"
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As a data scientist, one of my favorite Python packages is tsfresh and I regularly use the feature calculators. Unfortunately, on large amounts of data, I found it to be painfully slow. I've implemented most of the feature calculators in C in this repository: https://gitlab.com/tsetu/etu

Using that library, pgetu is a wrapper that allows these functions to be called directly from SQL SELECT statements in PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB. This is significantly faster as it is compiled C code and it avoids needing to extract the data from the database to the Python environment.
Sadly not much of an article no, but read it and thought others here would appreciate it too :)
From the privacy page:

> After each emulator use, we uninstall the app and remove the app data through .

It seems like there's something missing in that sentence.
Agreed. I think how you deliver your unhappy truths is 99% of keeping the other party from going bananas. There are very few things that cannot be reframed in a more positive light.

Being able to sell a "no" is much more important than being able to sell someone on a shiny piece of bullshit.
Those parties you mention are often just as unserious as our current crop of "leaders", which can be seen from the lack of support for nuclear and the lack of acknowledgement that to complete the green transition we need MORE fossil fuels in the short term, not less. What do they think is going to power the factories/infrastructure that make all the solar/wind/battery/nuclear stuff at the scales required? Where do they think plastic comes from?

We also need a lot more mining. We need more lithium, more cobalt, more copper, more aluminum, among others. It's not a matter of "just pay for it", the material inputs for a GLOBAL green transition do not presently exist at any price without more mining. But mines are environmentally damaging and require fossil fuels to get started, so those same parties often ignore the need. Hell the good people of Maine recently voted down a measure to import clean hydroelectric power from Quebec because they didn't want to destroy a small stretch of forest to build the transmission lines. That bullshit FernGully flavor of environmentalism has to go extinct

If we're going to be serious about de-carbonizing the economy, then we need to purge the various environmental factions of their nature-worshiping ideologies and focus on the dry, economic, technological, sometimes nuclear, localized-nature-destroying methods that will actually do it.
Right. But still the expectations mostly are, that it might be, as warming continues. The only exception would be a failing of the gulf stream, which for central Europe would be a huge reset in temperatures with a more Canadian climate.
Many companies, not just financial are the same. They usually fail silently, too, so you sit around wondering if the text ever sent.
If you don't think C or C++ are sane languages you are never going to write any thing sane for Von Neumann computers imo. Much less something cross platform.
After learning on a manual, and living with automatics for a good couple of decades, I intentionally got a manual again (a subaru).

It's not super smooth.

It's not the height of efficiency (yet still 5mpg better than the best of my automatics).

But that's on me, not the car. It's a skill I can develop, and it's a skill I'm proud of developing. If I want to drive smoothly, I can. If I want to drive like a bat out of hell, I can do that too.

And no, I can't really do the latter in my automatic CVT, at least not comfortably. Stepping on the gas to overtake causes it to downshift erratically (yes, a modern CVT emulates a manual transmission and downshifts), bringing me close to a redline before it shifts (again, WTF CVT?) back up to avoid the redline.
I wish they would expand the participation to anyone who’s interested in code breaking or working at the NSA. I’d love to take a crack at it myself.

Also, some of the best security researchers I know never went to college. So people with non-traditional academic backgrounds are excluded from this which is a bummer
yes there is, it's the oldest justification in the book. for some reason it's not well seen but it's there and has been for a long time.

it's justification of might and power. summed up in "might makes right".

there's also something of this in the reasoning behind the phrase "history is written by the winners".

this is only an instance of power being wielded by the powerful.
I've wondered this too. When my dad was learning to program, this was the culture. When I was learning to program, the culture was no longer fresh and alive, but its spirit was still strongly felt; the torch was being passed to us. Have we preserved that light? If my son learns to program, what will "hacker culture" mean to him?
Exactly. For a simple example, look at the criticism about Lithuania’s LNG terminal[1] a few years ago, built to reduce their dependency on Russian gas.

I think they are pretty happy about that terminal now.

[1] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1111346/five-years-...
How much is Bitcoin worth if the only way you can buy is by meeting someone in an alley with cash?

Surely something, but probably not $23k a coin and forget $60k a few months ago.
HN post title is misleading. GitHub suspended (and not deleted) the 3 accounts of the org owners of the tornadocash org on GitHub. Going through the commit history, I have not found a single contributor (i.e. other than the 3 owners) which got suspended or deleted.
Efficient from a energy perspective != efficient from a convenience perspective.

Hydrocarbons are incredibly energy dense and cheap. It’s possible to pack so much more energy in such a lighter, more compact space with them that the overall vehicle can be dramatically lighter and have longer range at the same time.

Additionally, doing so is so cheap, it often more than makes up for any efficiency issues, especially if the comparatively better end to end efficiency (and lower pollution and maintenance costs) of a EV comes with convenience issues like reduced range, lack of infrastructure, etc.

For mid-sized commuter vehicles, it’s trending more and more towards EVs as prices drop, charging infrastructure improves, and usage patterns make it convenient (such as at-home or at-office charging).

It still has a way to go for things like commercial or heavy recreational trucks, RVs, etc. It also has a way to go in smaller vehicles like Motorcycles, where the reduced range (due to some pretty fundamental weight limits) makes them more suitable for moped like inner city commuting or very short range trips.

And that’s compared to normally aspirated gasoline. It’s harder still to beat diesel, especially if super/turbo charged which has better energy efficiency, higher energy density, and except for some jurisdictions cheaper fuel prices.
I would be willing to buy a significant chunk of them at least. If you're interested, please email me at lampspites@proton.me.
> trouble w/ Electron is that you have 30MB of runtime for any application

JavaFX has the same problem? Or you rely on user's JREs already installed? I'd think 30MB really isn't much any more.
What were your issues with Pulumi?
What is not used to launder money? What separates pre-sanctions Tornado from any other tech that can feasibly be used for something evil (e.g. cash money, PayPal, any cryptocurrency, e2ee messengers)?

Should we ask the government to publish a registry of approved technologies to ensure own safety?
So fix that by hiring more ops folks...? Ops should scale with the dev teams, if they aren't you're burning them out and will have even more problems.
What about valve clatter? I’m positive you can hear that.
I didn't have a cell phone until work issued me one around 2018 or so. (I never really liked the idea.) Generally, I don't have many single points of failure tied to the phone not tied to work...certainly nothing related to my banking.

You can still live in 2022 without one, although the assumption that you have one gets more annoyingly entrenched year-by-year.

I don't quite know what these single points of failure are, but they must tend not to exist when you have a "hard no--I have no such device" in your back pocket...you can choose services that don't require it, use hardware token 2FA, or something. Somehow, it does still work out to simply not have one, but it seems hard to avoid reliance on it once you've got it, since you don't see a service and think "well, I guess I just can't sign up for that one", but instead whip out the cell phone and comply.