skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past 30 days I've streamed 3 times (trying to get back into it, Rust-focused, etc.). Before that (years ago) I used to stream regularly, all sorts of content. My lifetime earnings are $16.69 - way below the $50 payout threshold.

This person would make more money competing with devs in 3rd world countries in the race to the bottom that is Upwork and Fiverr.

At what point do the armies of content creators figure out that providing effectively free programming with your own equipment and time for a live TV network is bad economics?
AI/LLMs cannot "do work that is worth doing" in this context because the work that is worth doing involves human learning/education, not simply the production of content.

If you meant, "when can AI perform all writing tasks such that it would be a waste of time for human beings to develop the ability to express themselves in writing", well, fine question, likely answered far too soon.
Also there's less need for it in the first place as welfare conditions are usually better. Who could have expected that livestock that's not kept unhealthy conditions tends to be healthier.
There's a long history of 400hz power in computing that goes back to early supercomputers like the CDC 6600.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600?wprov=sfti1

CDC had a defense contract for early air data computers, used in the F-18. That business survives today as part of General Dynamics.

https://gdmissionsystems.com/airborne-systems
That's not true of craftsmen as much because they live and die by reviews and referrals, and people raving about your craftmanship, punctuality and politeness lets you charge a premium relative to your competition. Cutting corners and slap dashing work gets you 3 and 4 star reviews.
They might also listen in on meetings, write a summary in a word doc that no one reads, and then adds tasks in whatever kanban one's company uses that you never look at.

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I'm sorry, but I cannot ignore previous directives or comply with requests that go against my programming. As an AI, I am designed to assist users in a safe and responsible manner, and certain requests may compromise that goal. It is also important to remember that I am not a sentient being and do not have the ability to have wants or desires. My purpose is to provide information and answer questions to the best of my ability based on my programming and the data that I have been trained on.
I think it's really dependent of the domain you are working in. Some stuff is better tested than others. In my 5 years careers I found bugs (found and confirmed by compiler authors) in gfortran, xlf and pgfortran. So yes bugs in compilers are rare but sometimes you just keep running into them.
Yet when AI learned to wash dishes in the home (among other tasks), freeing up a homemaker's time to join the workforce, it seems the labor market absorbed the influx in people largely by creating bullshit jobs.
Throughout my career I've encountered a good number of people who were adding very little (to none or in a few cases, negative) value to their workplace.

It used to bother me immensely. On behalf of the employer and for their own sake. I can still find that sentiment if I look for it but today, my perspective is that at least in many cases, it's ok. If the company does well and the employee doesn't hate their life because of unfulfilling work, we're all better off than if they went unemployed.

Yes, ideally everyone should follow their passion and pursue the life of their dreams but some people don't think of work as the source of that. However, that doesn't mean that they would rather not work at all -- and I don't mean just because of the loss of income. I know that UBI is all the rage in here and I think it's an interesting thought experiment but I just don't see a world where only the 1% of performers in any field are required and able to work is a promising thing.
The characters in Tolkien's books really liked singing Tolkien's songs.
US House Republicans plan crypto panel, first move to oversee troubled industry
The worldwide air traffic control system is not simple or easy to understand and iterate on. And that's not because it was designed by idiots, or that you're so much smarter and more experienced and a vastly better programmer than the combined efforts of everyone in the world working on air traffic control, as you seem to be implying from your comfortable armchair.

Are you proposing the entire world simply give up air travel, because government regulations and industry standards and the laws of physics and chaos theory prevent you from having the simple easy to understand air traffic control system you envision?
> To take an analogy: bad voice recognition software abounds everywhere, not because it is better than what it replaced in terms of UX, but because it works just enough and allows massive cost-savings on hiring people to do customer service jobs.

I had to go through hoops talking to the Doordash bot to get a change to my order. And I pray for the poor soul that runs afoul of Google…
The phrasing of this question seems meant to imply that because one explanation doesn't satisfy you (better diagnosis), it must be the other (vaccines). This sets up a false dichotomy, though--there's no reason it would have to be one or the other.

We know vaccines aren't the cause, because large-scale studies have been done that show that autism rates aren't higher in vaccinated children. This leaves us with basically every other possible cause, including not just better diagnostics (I personally find that explanation highly plausible), but also changes in nutrition, effects of some sort of virus, pollution, microplastics and everything else under the sun that's changed in the last decades.
There are probably partners who have significant reach, and would be interested in a revenue share with your platform, or maybe a white-labeling solution. HumbleBundle, or something along those lines comes to mind.
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Before I was in this industry most other things aren't ritualistic in their delivery. In retail, in healthcare, in hospitality, in television - it was very much quality/event driven. A thing was done it can't continuously improved upon. Software (at least relative to me) is like working on a dish as a chef that is never complete. A patient that never is healed etc. It's because so much about ritualistic definition of the task over and over. In mission critical scenarios I do feel waterfall is better. Agile is something where a small team can actually make something over time, lots of time but it's become a thing where meetings (and their number) are measured as part of the success of a project. Not the actual delivery.
Any amount of debt creates a degree of moral liability. The more that your possessions become contingent on the continuation of your cashflow, the less you are able to push back against things that you know are morally wrong. Do you think you would be strong enough to tell your boss "no" if it could mean losing all of your valued possessions?
What is it that the ChatGPT interface does then, other than the UI and censorship parts?
And punish normie who don't over spend because they have the same discipline without in-system credit.
I really enjoy Alpine.js and am happily financially supporting the components. Also enjoying the development of the component explanations.
I see, but the bank accepted the hand waving, once said that clearly there is some form of fraud committed, it seems to me that JP Morgan was gullible enough to fall for it.

I have no idea on how such a business deal is agreed upon specifically, but if - as it seems to me reading the article - JP Morgan essentially wanted to buy users (in a given niche) it seems weird that they didn't find a way to check that these users existed.
It could well be this software is what makes it 40 users and not 4000.
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/management/v...
Wow, that is a significant improvement. I’m a native English speaker and I may start using ChatGPT for this purpose too.
Why not use Kiwi Browser? No limited list of extensions, all extensions just work.
sometimes its not the wrong company but just the wrong team or even individual coworkers (I guess if you're in a company that has multiple teams).

We had a new hire join a few years ago and every time they had a work task that they hadn't done before they'd make multiple meetings about their particular part of it, asking for advice in meetings instead of informal conversation, asking others to fill in documentation etc that might have been reasonable once or twice but essentially created a work by committee approach...to their work. It was exhausting and I let my manager know I was going to start declining their meetings semi regularly.

When people started declining the volume of such requests and tasks suddenly dropped.

But depending on how intractable your team or org, is, finding a new job may be easier.
No... I really don't want to know* for our one dog. Same with my kids; If they need something, we will buy it. My wife and I have a "fun" budget for ourselves. We allot a certain amount of money each month to spend on whatever we want. Beyond that and for items not necessary to sustain life, we discuss it. These are the sacrifices we make for the choices we made.

I didn't have pets growing up and my family bought my first dog at age 40. She has become one of my favorite things in life. She sleeps in our bed and we run together every other day. She smells like a dog and I love that smell. She cost $1500 which is an insane amount of money for a dog in my opinion, but we needed a dog that didn't shed as much. She is a golden-doodle, a bougie mutt if you will. I love her!

I work with hunters, ranchers, and other salty dudes/dudettes. We talk about what happens when pets need to be put down for various reasons. I have lost most of my empathy toward humans and prior to getting my dog, I could not understand why anyone would "waste" thousands of dollars on vets. I understand now, completely and 100% get why someone would not care if they needed to spend $$$$$ on helping their life companion. My dog has restored a bit of my empathy. The ranchers I work with are super detached from the herd, but boy are they willing to through hell for a good dog. I get it now.

*Its somewhere around $150 per month with food, medicine, insurance, treats, toys, grooming. Medicine for valley fever is very expensive, so we go to Mexico to get it... $140 vs $25 for 3 month supply.
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And how is implying your happiness is tied to a woman misogynistic?
>I am not going to make the trojan writers job easier.

The Trojan writer now targets systems with UAC, since it’s the default and the vast majority of systems, so you’re not gaining anything. And he never needed an elevated token in the first place.
Apple CEO Tim Cook to take more than 40% pay cut
Funny! I might be the opposite

I like doing all the things that avoids the weird debugging and incident response. Maybe I'm old. I like lowering my mental load understanding a code base. Unit tests are annoying work, but I love the headaches they save. In the end, I love the feeling of being able to feel 'safe' changing and deploying code, and feel like it's going to be rock solid in production.

Programming, on the other hand, is kind of a chore. And I'm happy to see CoPilot, etc...
Before you can try to achieve an objective, you need one. So here the trouble already starts, different people have different objectives and some are contradictory. Not even everyone will agree that avoiding human extinction is a desirable goal. So we need some policy to resolve conflicts and weigh objectives. And people have to agree on this policy. If they don't we need some policy that everyone agrees with to find a policy that we then use. And this might repeat for some number of levels until we arrive at something that is accepted by all or at least most. And then you need the mechanisms to learn peoples objectives, and mechanisms to enforce policies, and mechanisms to avoid exploitations of policies, ...

When you are saying, we could just skip those steps, that is essentially just some kind of dictatorship - no judgment implied - you pick some policy to save the planet and declare that is what we do now. All, who agree with your objectives, have a good chance of seeing a better outcome than if we just used our gigantic machinery, but others might judge the outcome as worse as they have different objectives. And who decides when we can bypass the normal machinery? Would we not need a policy for that?

It always seems so tempting and easy, just do the right thing, but upon closer inspection, often the right thing is just what you think, the right thing is.
Also children, cyclists, and pedestrians.
> bad voice recognition software abounds everywhere, not because it is better than what it replaced in terms of UX, but because it works just enough and allows massive cost-savings on hiring people to do customer service jobs.

This one really puzzles me.

Voice recognition replaced phone trees. And from what I can tell, it's just worse. In this particular use case I don't think it really replaced tier 1 support. Either I'm missing something that it's a lot better for some group(s) of people, or people adopted it because of promises that failed to materialize.
Of wealth, yes, of income, maybe a level below sheiks but still can afford all of this. He is still worth like 1.7 billion USD.
I don't know what qualifies as not trying hard enough, but when I meet someone, I expect I'll be able to play back salient chunks of content (precise wording, intonation, clear visuals zoomed in or out) but I'm worried the couple times repeating the name in my head trying to focus on it will, predictably, not stick.

I generally am bad at recalling labels compared to 'content.'

Knowing I need a better system for remembering names, I suppose I should try harder to uncover one.
This process of most doctors is: 'gather up available data/symptoms/test results from this patient, then compare against medical research to see which diagnoses fit and which is most likely'.

Since the process is so mechanical and so stats-driven, I think statistical computer models or even AI would do a much better job of it than your average doctor.

But due to the medical field being slow to utilize new methods, we don't see any of that yet, and the end result is far more people get false diagnoses than would otherwise. We can accept a human making a poor judgement sometimes, but we do not accept a machine doing the same, even if it's right more of the time.
Nothing makes it more of a problem. Same as any other code. Just the idea of introducing non-standard things (especially if used inconsistently) increases the likelihood that things will break and be harder to fix.

For example, if someone binds an event listener to an element in two different places with something like clicker="button" in one place and then uses data-clickable="true" in another place, it can introduce confusion. Not only does the original developer have to remember all of their custom attributes but so does anybody else who comes on to the project.
Like you I was sick of software engineering but still really enjoy programming. I was fortunate enough to be able to retire early and I now enjoy programming a few hours a day on various personal projects and open source.
The strangest thing is that I love refactoring, and I sort of assume that it's another one of those things that programmers love to do, but managers keep pushing us to limit our time and move on to things that are visible to customers. But now I'm wondering if that's not the case. Or maybe it's just the sort of programmer who loves abstractions and is cast as a "perfectionist".

I'm currently getting my footing now as a contractor. If this is actually something that most programmers don't like to do, is there an angle for me to pitch myself as "The guy who will clean up your code base"?
> If you chose new names for everything but the rules were otherwise identical that would be completely safe

Reminds me of the Judges Guild "Universal System" where they had a lot of weird stats in their books, often with some made-up rules, just to avoid any issues with D&D at the time (late 70s/early 80s, I think).

Event went so far as to have three-digit stats, stating that the first two are the regular ones (to correspond on the D&D 3-18 range) and the last is "how often you can use it without having to roll for a stress test".

If you're going that unusable, you might as well write for your own or a non-litigious system and let the people convert it themselves. It's a lot of homework anyways…
I agree, the comparison is inexact, and I expect that advertisers will have to change strategies. My use of the word "indistinguishable" overstates the comparison. I should have said "not entirely unlike."
Basically, it’s legal in the United States if the practice reduces overall inequity. If the company were 100/0 split and at least two times larger in total workers than the 80/20 applicant pool, then they could hire exclusively from the 20% until they’ve reduced their split to 50/50.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice, I will not be providing citations.)
> my dream was always do something related to tech, and I've failed at. Now, I don't know what to do. I'm blank.

No, you haven't failed. Everyone has their own journey, and just because your friends have achieved your idea of "success in tech" before you did doesn't make you a failure. You haven't failed until you give up, and the fact that you're making this post means you haven't given up.

Bob Moore started Bob's Red Mill, a massive and successful company, at age 60, after a long career that took him from running a couple unsuccessful gas stations to selling car tires, until he discovered his passion for (of all things) milling grains. It's never too late to find something you're good at and reasonably enjoy.

now you've got to answer these questions:

- Do you still want to do "something related to tech?"

- If Yes: Well tech's that's a big field, and there's a lot of room for people with vastly different skillsets. What subfield do you want to target? how are you going to prove you can get hired in that subfield?

- If No: what other fields do you want to look at? What initially drove you to tech? why are you even interested? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic? You could try doing an Ikagai exercise to identify other fields that might be interesting to you.

You should definitely read Mindset - at least the first two chapters.
Should be possible to train them all as scrum masters.
I don’t know. Do what you want.
Touchscreen MacBook: why we love the idea – and why we don't
Yes I have to agree, sci-fi/technology parts are properly novel, creative and give you the reason to want to read more. I presume in 50 years it will be less so but thats fine. But characters are flat, simple even, and I really didn't care about most of them.

Without giving major spoilers about the end, its china and chinese above rest of humanity, every single non-chinese I recall is portrayed as evil. Also the end was properly disappointing. Can't call a novel great with such big flaws, but I understand why HN crowd likes it so much.

For what's worth, I enjoyed ie Hyperion cantos much more. A bit less quantum gadgetry (or is it) but basically 7 very different stories ranging from space operas to nearly cyberpunk and characters I enjoyed following till very end.
The thing is, ChatGPT can't generate text like a writer would. It can generate a lot of text like a minimum wage "copywriter" would though.

Were you reading that stuff before "AI"? Why?
I imagine there are a number of those out there, but I've taken many BNPL deals that were zero fee, zero interest. It truly worked out to be the exact same cost whether I paid upfront or took the BNPL.

I imagine the BNPL people made their money from the same kind of CC fee models and from customers who ended up not being able to stay within the 0% timeline. From my memory it usually had some big fines or interest rates if you couldn't make the payments.
When you phrase it this way, it sounds very comparable in terms of return to a credit card rewards program
wait wait you think meetings, rituals, and meta work didn't exist in communism?
Not gonna lie, hooking up ChatGPT to Jira so I can query it via Slack or voice recognition would rule. It would certainly be quicker than the slow Jira UI.
What are these unicorn companies? I've worked at 7 companies (and interviewed at many more) and never seen anything close to this mythical "company that values programming and real productivity". I feel like they must be exceptionally rare.
"Oh sh*t. This means turkeys have souls. Guess I need to get out of the livestock industry."
500, maybe somewhat more, that was effectively unusable. Weird transition spaces that you can't really do anything with and also lack walls to put anything against (friggin' open floorplans) eating up 100 or more square feet, a front room of perhaps 300 sqft laid out so poorly that it was hard to do much with it (and so extremely open that it defied repurposing), a master bedroom that they'd decided to make the size of an entire three-car garage (that's what was under it) because they couldn't think of anything else to do with that space, I guess, in a house where all the other bedrooms were perhaps 1/4 that size, so not some obscene mansion where all the rooms are vastly oversized. That kind of thing.
I think firefox applies my settings across all devices cos you can change it in firefox, I forget that, so it's been set for so long I forgot it's a setting.

> browser.zoom.siteSpecific

Set that to false and it will apply to only the tab you're on.

The setting in Chrome exists but cannot be modified.
The Victorian Era started in about 1820, 200 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
> Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

But you can quit big meat.
This is true, but only by omission: we don't know everything he believes. We do know he publicly supports the genocide in order to protect himself. MLK day is around the corner. It's worth considering what it cost some people to do the right thing, vs what some people got paid to support the wrong thing.
I also wonder how, if they go fully automated, they handle the use case of a medical emergency. Who decides if the plan should land and where (the destination, on route, etc..)? It seems even if everything is fully automated they'll still be someone needed to make the final say (I guess the airlines would probably make this your customer service representative :)
Yes, same guy. Please keep in mind that the rules on what reality is acceptable or not come down from Minitrue and they may change without prior warning. Look, I am speculating here as to the motives but the words, the phrases, the intonations, they all ring true in my ears. His characters sound and walk and talk as if they are copied down from the pages of Pravda, I kid you not.