skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10-20 years of experience in software engineering means around net €30k in Sweden, even in Stockholm. Tax and social security fees are the highest you will find, which means the cost of this might be around €70k-90k to the employer.
Playing the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin
>Otherwise we are just going to entertain and eat ourselves to death

How did you want to die?
I killed a dozen rats for my undergrad thesis.
I'm strongly in favour of a UBI. It totally makes sense, at least in wealthy Western societies; there's a whole expensive bureaucracy involved in means testing, prosecuting welfare fraud, and so on.

But to make it work, it has to be Universal, i.e. everyone gets it automatically.
Adobe Photoshop comes to mind, probably the most successful SaaS until today.

Users are generally not so happy about the monetization model, though.
Indeed, this is already happening. This company is using human artist works for now, but the leap to a model producing such art is quite small at this point: https://art.art/blog/portia-de-rossi
The exploited consumers that give up all their sweet sweet data to the surveillance capitalism complex?
I want the opposite. I like the complexity of Dwarf Fortress, but the fantasy element makes it not as immersive as Rimworld for me.
You are selling a framework, not an application, so why in the world are you comparing yourself to a SaaS which means literally "software as a service", which you are not. No one is going to pay for your "framework", less of all developers.
"Look, I can make it say things after it studied those things for weeks!"

super.
I wonder - is there an existing script / tool that allows a user to copy a chunk of text and then automatically apply their private key to sign the text and paste it back with the signature?
Job offers should go into https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
> You still occasionally hear people saying that founders don't deserve to be rich, because their employees created all the value.

What I actually hear people saying (including at least one person from YC) is that founders need to share the potential wealth more fairly with early hires. With various rationales, including that execution is everything: having an idea and raising money for it isn't execution -- and the founders need the early hires to execute successfully.

> But the falsity of this claim becomes increasingly obvious as automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees.

I'm not following the logic, but the initial assertion seems like it'd tend to be received sloppily, anyway. Whether founders deserve to be rich seems like a diversion from the usual question: why do founders with a successful exit get rich when employees get even less than they would've been guaranteed at a non-startup tech job.

> In the limit case, you're left with just the founders. And we're not far from it. Instagram had only 13 employees when it was sold for a billion dollars.

So share the wealth with those 13 employees. "I have an idea for site/app" and getting some funding isn't worth a billion dollars. Successful execution is.

> And a billion was if anything below market price. People mocked that deal at the time, but in retrospect it was a bargain.

Isn't part of the job of those founders to make sure the exit is at market value? Were the wealth spread around more evenly, so that everyone who made the success possible can get rich, the founders might have more motivation to get a good price. :)

(I suppose that an exception to this would be if a startup is actually closer to an investment scam, propped up by other startups in a portfolio as customers, and they expect all the workers involved to do only mechanical tasks in which individual creativity/ideas/brilliance/etc. doesn't significantly affect the success of the company.)
> At the time everyone assumed that Apple wanted to diversify away from Samsung for other reasons which were not necessarily financial.

When Apple was dual sourcing chips from both Samsung and TSMC, the Samsung version of the A9 had a ~10% reduction in battery life compared to the TSMC version, although the performance was nearly identical otherwise.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/iphone-6s-a9-samsung-vs-ts...
I went to work every day when my kids were small and taught roomsful of college students. I still got poisoned by my little vectors who were a magnet for every virus in the Metro DC area.
Yeah, exactly.

Guess how many times anyone has called a recruiter and heard "Oh yes, you got the job - I've been waiting all week for you to call me about it"?
> You have the prestige of having worked at AWS

> I’ve heard nothing but terrible things about working at AWS,

wut?
I am very curious of two things:

1. Are you actually transacting with others directly in USDC/USDT? I.e. are there shops where you actually buy things through your crypto wallet, or are you converting to USD/Naira and using that?

2. Are you self-hosting that wallet, or is it actually an account on some exchange?

Either way, I doubt that working remotely as an employee of US companies is a very common way of life in your country, so I don't think this supports the GP's point as much as it appears.
unfortunately? AI/GPT will a bigger positive affect on humankind than Crypto ever has.
then wait until it hits the music space...
No not really. If I generate $1m of value for a company and they pay me $90k a year that isn't really sharing profit.
You can audit Moneros math and source code, therefore you can audit the supply. It's more work than with Bitcoin to be sure, but it's still possible.

Monero already uses zero knowledge proofs, but in a different way than eg ZCash.
Whatever Elon Musk’s shortcomings might be, he applied his intellect and skills to self-evidently useful domains such as EVs and space travel. It seems Vitalik is convinced his tech is beneficial to a similar extent, but I don’t share his enthusiasm, at least not at this point.
There is a typo in the title on HN. It should be invades, not invaders.
But don't parents getting sick at work and bringing it home to their kids help the kids get exposed?

Or do you think kids get enough exposure at school? (assuming schools don't keep going remote too)
I assume you're currently intentionally working the least hours at the laziest job you can for subsistence money.
TSMC Raises Arizona Chip Investment to $40B
Ethereum and Bitcoin don't break because they thought about "What happens if we get DDOS'd" and added a fee market, something Solana still hasn't properly addressed which is why it still falls over when attacked by spam.

A network falling over because of high usage or (in this case) one validator had a misconfigured node is extremely bad.
If this is depressing let me tell you about quants and consultants, the true black holes of human capital.
Interesting question. I think reducing electricity cost (with technology improvements in solar/wind) will definitely increase total energy demand. But that will translate only in a limited capacity to decreased fossil fuel cost. Fossil fuel costs have a ceiling based on how much it costs to get them out of the ground. Prices won't be able to fall (in the long-term) below the marginal cost of production.
Because of the competitive nature of business (and humans).

If you can build a factory that can build products more efficiently, it means you can sell them cheaper then your competitors, meaning you can move more volume and thus make more profit. So you are definitely not going to run that new shiny factory for only 3 days a week.

Eventually, competitors will notice your improved output and react with their own improved factory. If you sit still in your shiny new factory, you will eventually be outpaced by competitors as they catch up.

In the end though, the throughput per human is greatly increased as computers and machines do (most of) the work. This has increased prosperity greatly.

Unless you can accept living with less then the competition, you are not going to work less then your competitors.
Your reply sounds harsh, but it's valid -- I had the same reaction. I'm tired of seeing people posting screenshots of their conversations, and I noticed it was souring me on the technology as a whole... but then I realized that I hadn't actually tried it yet.
* Intelligent Insights
* UDFs
* PostgREST support
* Trigram indexes
* TTL is now GA
* Stronger failover, backup testing, + security tools
* Improvements to MOLT
* CDC Transformations
I think it could happen. AI and automation have the tendency of amplifying ability. The ideal company has zero employees. Similarity, the ideal world has zero employees and everyone does want they want. If that scares you, give your head a shake.
I'd love it to be faster, but (when I bought in the UK) a lot of the things my solicitor checked were things that I'd definitely want to know before handing over money:

Whether the seller actually owns the property or lease, if there are other people who would have a valid claim on the land/building (or historical covenants that would prevent the construction of the building there etc). For leasehold, verify how long is remaining and so on.

Environmental information (whether the property is built on land that regularly floods, whether the site has a history of subsidence that could cause a significant risk to the building etc).

Also, if you're buying with a mortgage, the mortgage company are going to want to have a look at the property to know that they're going to get their money back if you default on the mortgage and they have to sell it themselves.
> What about having offspring gives life purpose?

Each child is basically a project that you spend lots of time working on and care about deeply.
I disagree, we've made a lot progress treating mental health issues.
Dwarf fortress should be in the UX hall of fame as an example of how an incredible product can be made completely inaccessible to 95% of it's target audience purely through bad UX.

And I say that as one of the 5% who still played and loved it.
Meta’s Targeted Ad Model Faces Restrictions in Europe
i know it has been a staple throughout human history, and i'm not contesting that. i just posit that the proportion of it, nowadays, might be inflated by social media and mimetic behaviors. edit, a very enlightening comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879136
It's a trending topic on tiktok. Willing to bet that's the culprit.
Construction Begins on Square Kilometer Array Radio Telescope
Thanks for the link. Yeah the world is complicated. I assume the plots above are driven by globalization. Fwiw I’m pro reshoring and isolationist.

Below is a link to single motherhood rates by year. The lift off precedes the drug war so to my mind this discredits the idea that drug war is solely responsible for single parent growth, though I’m sure it has contributed. Thankfully it looks like we may have hit a peak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_stru...
> That would make me lower my trust of that author.

Would it? How would you tell? How can you prove that a piece of text was not written by an artificial intelligence?

> (likely because the author is human)

I think that's the real problem we're facing right now - humans are no longer the only plausibly intelligent beings on the planet, to the point where the meme-ish line between artificial intelligence and natural stupidity begins to blur. The only way in which you can tell these two apart at the moment is via approximation, just as you've used the word "likely".
Last time I interviewed for Amazon, I couldn’t understand one of the interviewers spoken English. Combination of bad audio (their side, I have a good headset) and accent. I kept asking him to repeat himself and eventually gave up, and tried to guess at what he asked.

I usually defend Amazon (used to work there and enjoyed it) but the last interview cycle was really unimpressive.
Current capitalistic system defines what is valuable or what is not. As long as your solution to a problem generates a profit, the thing you are doing is valuable....
I wonder if it's mod-friendly. All the sprites drawn to be looking to the lower left while moving right is much more distracting than I expected.
I made this exact argument in the early 2000s when open source starting getting popular and many in the tech community thought I was ridiculous.

I think it's ridiculous that open source developers give out their hard work willingly and then seem to think big companies are 'taking advantage' by not hiring them or funding the project.

It has nothing to do with ethics. Startups didn't steal anything. The developers gave it out willingly.

This sort of attitude has soured me to the entire open source community. They want to be able to give their work out for free, but then have a say in who uses it and how it's used, which is exactly the opposite of free and open.
Indeed; artists will get wise and stop the AI exploitation from plagiarizing and laundering their product.
This is this thinking of "Automation reduces workforce". The next argument then is always "We need Basic Income" because of this.

But this is ignoring the fact that automation never replaced workforce as such. It moved the focus of the workforce. At the end more automation even required more workforce.

The thing is, you cannot engineer the process to be automated. You need to keep maintaining the automation. This includes not only daily maintenance, but also to keep up with obsolescence. You need to keep-up with new upcoming technologies of automation to replace your old once. But all this distracts and takes-away focus on the development of you product. So you need workforce to basically run your business, while you can still stay focused. But even then you can't stay focused, because it is also your job to decide what newer automation processes to chose. As this will have an impact on your own product. That again takes away you focus for the development of you product. So again you need workforce to help you to stay focused. At some point you need workforce to manage your workforce namely HR.

So there is a cycle when you get more and more workforce so that you stay focused to develop your product.

All that of course assuming that you need to develop your product even further after launch.
To be honest, I already got to the “why bother” state by seeing on the internet how many human artists are so much better than me.

And, on the other hand, if you actually have a specific vision of what you want to create, it is often quite difficult, or actually impossible, to get an AI to generate an output that fulfills your particular vision.
> You are saying that anyone that doesn't have children automatically empty and sad.

No I am saying that is what they seem to me. Just like people with children are shells of their former selves to him. You are splitting hairs and putting words in my mouth to make an obvious point. In the end you are just proving me right that one can not express any kind of negative about being childless without having people jump down their throats.
I'm no genius, but in a world where I was born in a nation with UBI (or just expected a fat inheritance) I would have taken that masters in Bioinformatics scholarship and continued my research instead of writing shit code so businesses can make money

Lots of people who graduated with me followed the same path for the same reason
Once we develop bots to automatically perform our consumer functions (damnit, Alexa, you were the chosen one), the loop will be closed and we can return to the trees.
I can't do anything but reject his claims when he presents Instagram as proof. It's crazy to think seriously that the value was created by the 13 employees + founder of an electronic glossy billboard. Influencers and advertisers indirectly treated as cattle. Goddammit Paul.
> If some recent headlines about declining sperm counts are to be believed

Spoiler, they probably aren't.

There are questions with the quality of the studies used:

> Even so, Marion Boulicault of Harvard, Sarah S. Richardson and colleagues, publishing in the journal Human Fertility, suggest weaknesses in the data, such as men’s ages only being known in two-thirds of the cases and other missing crucial information.

sperm count is not linearly tied to fertility:

> Who says the sperm count observed in the ’70s in the “West” was the species’ optimum? Sperm count above a critical threshold “is not necessarily an indicator of better health or higher probability of fertility relative to less,”

and finally, no one as far as I am aware is able to present solid data on any causal link which makes projecting the trend out to apocalyptic scenarios another 30+ years in the future a very fraught endeavor in the first place.

https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/2021-05-10/ty-art...
wine em, dine em, OS 9 em!
> The platform has more engagement than anyone has seen in years...

Yes, you get more photos of a train wreck than a routine train passing through town, too.

> Twitter is also finally taking child exploitation seriously.

There's no real evidence of this (in both that Twitter wasn't, and that Musk changed something). The tweet thread that put this talking point into play was immediately debunked in various spots, like the claim there was no CSAM reporting option when there had been for years.
> The paper will be delivered Tuesday to The Times' 330,000 weekday print subscribers, and will also be available on newsstands.

330k subscribers on Twitter would be..what, a D-list influencer? I think of NYT as the preeminent newspaper of America. Granted, we're talking quantity versus quality. It's still jarring to consider the audience of individuals versus a media conglomerate nowadays.
Thanks! It should be on sale for Christmas within 24 hours
SpaceX to Launch Rival OneWeb's Satellites on Tuesday
The abysmal experiences with chatbots have burned the floor for the next decade like Crypto has done for fintechs.
I've only tried it once, the other day. I asked it how I could improve my AoC day 4 Python code.

It responsed with three points and potential modified code. Its understanding of the code I had written was impressive - it noticed I was looking for overlaps between two sets of data, and it made three suggestions for improvement.

All of them looked great, but didn't work when tested. One worked when I changed it (having been pointed in the right direction), the other two just didn't work better than what I'd written, and were moot in terms of improvement.

However, what I did notice was its comments to go along with the code were authoritative in tone, and I felt like I'd been schooled by a grand master. But that wasn't the case - it had a hit with one and a miss with the other two.

I got the feeling it was like a certain kind of salesman; loud, confident, but in this case wrong.

Good job I checked the code it came up with, otherwise I would have felt pretty bad.
Once Theranos's patents lost their teeth, devices similar to what was in those patents appeared on the market within a few years. All from big pharma companies. Today, a lot of blood testing machines can run many tests on a few hundred microliters of blood.

When you go get blood work done, they collect a vial, but often use only a few drops at a time.
> Children who score [IQ]145 or above would then be offered a life-long genius award.

Sounds like it would create MASSIVE incentives to cheat on the IQ test or pay off the graders to give you a good score as well

It would literally set your kids up for life
Unconditional free money for everyone. Nice story for 5 yo children, but not for those who have even the most basic of grasps on the history of the humankind.

Unconditional as in mousetrap cheese it will be.
On that note: my best “purchase” was moving from 1password to bitwarden. Every interaction I had with 1password support over the years left a sour taste in my mouth. It was gaslighting in the purest corporate sense.

I finally broke the shackles and moved to bitwarden. Now I’m paying 10 usd for their premium service and that’s because I want to support the product. I don’t even use or care about any of their premium features.
For me, the biggest problem with all of this will be what we always face as animals living in a civilization. A lot of power and wealth in the hands of a few people. That's where the evils always come from, regardless of technology.
It's only established by Bitcoin maxis. You need performance on layer 1 too, the world isn't black or white.
This is great, although I'd say single ranges from -10 to 10.
Oh Sequoia. The company that put $41M in a single seed round into a company that did... nothing: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the--did-color-raise-a-c...
Maintaining time for a good amount of coding.

Good architects write code or become more disconnected and more similar to management.
https://loodio.com - Hardware company - Solo founder - No employees and same here; I don't see the need for any in the forseeable future. Don't even need capital as my burn rate is ~$50/month except when I order new stock. Weird times.
When I was an architect, my job was to scale my knowledge and save others time. Not 10 minutes of googling, but several weeks or more for a team who would need to sound out a solution. An example would be spending an afternoon designing a slide that represented the main transactions we were building for as an M/M/1 queue (or other queue) so that devops could decide in a couple of seconds how many VM instances we were going to need, and the likely compute costs - instead of scheduling several meetings where they needed to sort out their internal power struggles of who was right to move the decision forward.

I might spend several days (or more) going through code and interviewing developers about how they implemented an authentication protocol so that I can draw it in BAN logic on a slide, which other projects can use to integrate their code with, and our certification/accreditation/infosec people can reason about so the project doesn't get spike stripped at the production gate and delayed a quarter while a post-hoc security analysis gets done on it.

I would meet with our vendors and tech service providers and establish whether they in fact provide the services they said they would, and what that physically means. A great example is whether an o365 tenant supports OAuth2 federated logins with non MSFT tenants or not, and how we are going to enroll users based on the amount of friction the realization of this feature causes(or not). Another one would be pushing standards down into development so nobody would roll their own protocols, and so I could have a short answer to what we implemented. You might see it as ticking a box, but an enterprise is like an airport, and some people get to fly while others don't. The ones who don't are usually stewing over some counterfactual.

I would meet with external consultants, often security and regulatory people, and provide them with the technical details and assurances that would keep them from taking a pound of flesh from the project in the form of a 6 week analysis engagement.

What makes an architect something different is they recognize that when there is direction or demand for a tech project, that creates opportunity for a lot of other very sophisticated technical people to inject themselves into the critical path of the project and use their leverage to extract money, management authority, and other concessions from it. As an architect, you see these people coming, and make sure they do not derail your tech.

I enjoy it because it's solving problems at a higher level of abstraction. I also like doing product, but the architecture urge sabotages that, as in product, solutioning comes at the cost of listening and scaling your listening out to architects to solution stuff.