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> Why or why not?

My first question would be -- how old are you? Skilled labor is still labor, and it is fairly normal for middle aged electricians, plumbers, etc, to have significant chronic injuries. A smart electrician, HVAC guy, plumber, etc, is moving into supervision or business management at that point and hiring new young technicians to do the physically hard work.

> tech worker who might be made obsolete by AI

My advice would be to level up and become an software engineer instead of a coder. Even then, I don't think coders are in any danger of being explicitly replaced by LLMs. Regurgitating plausible code, which sometimes even works, is useful but still definitely requires a human to decide how to leverage it. If you're not interested in software engineering (by that I mean all the non-coding parts, which really start to dominate the higher you go), and I can totally understand that, then maybe change your title to Prompt Engineer :).
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Killbots are a very different kind of machine.
OP was discussed in a thread in r/electricians (a worthwhile sub if you're interested in tradecraft), which I saw last night.

The recurring points I remember were, "then why aren't wages rising to meet this demand"; and "you will feel more benefit from the electrification boom if you're IBEW."

OK, found the link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/11efewl/ameri...
It's all SoC
What vehicles have you owned?
I asked someone who was published how Kindle Unlimited works. There's a pool of cash reserved for each month and authors are compensated a certain amount per pages read. There's a maximum number of pages, per customer, which will be counted.

You can see the full breakdown here: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201541130
I have ChatGPT make up some code every now and then. It’s really nice and when not obscure usually directly useable. By you need to understand what it produces imo. I love that it also explains the code and I can follow code it generates and judge its quality and applicability. Isn’t that important?
Well, the specific reasons matter. Surely Airbnb should ban some people because of their political views (eg members of ISIS), the question is just what the line is.
Places like Finland deal with this effectively. This is just automobile propaganda. https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
If you only care about users for which your software works, then most users spend almost all of their time as “power users” (= ones that have used the software for more than a few days)

Focusing purely on out of the box experience looks good for quarterly metrics (subscriber growth with low initial churn) but you end up with a population of users that are desperate to switch away.

At that point, you are one viable competitor away from being screwed. Worse, as users defect, telemetry will tell you that usage of the features associated with switching is declining, so you’ll double down on stripping out the functionality that you should be investing in if you want to defend your market share.

See also: Firefox.
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> see what the negative externalities are of a system that assumes the driving force between human interactions to be economic (one of which is the commodification of everything including relationships)

Absolutely agreed. We've gone from a community-based culture where you took care of your neighbors because it's the right thing to do to "rugged individualism" where things like healthcare are "privileges" you have to _earn_ through labor.

I think we need to stop making the assumption that all the systems we have today are the best and take a long hard look at what upholds society, piece by piece.
With the number of people who strongly advocate for stealing from Walmart, with seemingly no repercussions at all, I'm not sure that'd be such a bad thing.

People love to pretend like stealing from "big companies" is some robin hood adventure where the C-Suite is going to look at the numbers at the end of the year and decide they all need to cut their annual bonus to make up for the loss. When in fact prices go up for the paying customers, and jobs that used to help everyone (attendants who help restock, locate items, etc.) get converted to more "Security" jobs, where the worker does nothing but "look mean".
Sometimes they don't cover the same material.

In post-secondary education, the amount of material, typically due to the speed or density of delivery, may reveal that your learning technique isn't working. For example you may spend too much time on one topic rather than on a topic more heavily weighted in an exam.
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+1 to this

How many teens had to watch their parent come home and announce that they got laid off from their job and that this year there wasn't going to be a yearly family trip?
They are releasing powerful AI tools at an alarming rate before Safety, and I mean real Safety, Researchers have a chance to understand their implication. They are generating an enormous amount of buzz and hype which is fueling a coming AI arms race that is extremely dangerous. The Control Problem is very real and becoming more pressing as things accelerate. Sam has recently given lip service to caring about the problem but OpenAI's actions seem to indicate it's not a major priority. There was a hint that they cared when they thought GPT-2 was too dangerous to release publicly but at this point if they were serious about safety no model past ChatGPT and Bing would be released to the public at all, full stop.

https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

Based on Sam's statement they seem to be making a bet that accelerating progress on AI now will help to solve the Control problem faster in the future but this strikes me as an extremely dangerous bet to make because if they are wrong they are reducing the time the rest of the world has to solve the problem substantially and potentially closing that opening enough that it won't be solved in time at all and then foom.
After more than a decade of never increasing prices and improving the hardware for free, charging $12/mo instead of $10/mo means all hobby projects will die and Linode hates their customers.

I think you're being a bit dramatic.
Ha, great quote! There is good movie in Hindi about wasted life of Chess obsessed protagonists. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Players_(film)
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90% percentile electricians earn $100k average. 10th percentile software developers make $65k average.

There's also a relevant bias. The BLS does not adjust their wage percentiles to local cost of living/taxes. Software development jobs tend to be concentrated in high cost, high tax, high wage regions. By contrast tradesmen the demand for tradesmen is the same (per capita) just about everywhere. This bias makes the numbers difficult to compare. Suffice to say trades earn more in real terms, and software engineers earn less in real terms.

Electrician - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472111.htm

Software Developer - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
The structure of apprenticeship spots isn't the only factor able to discourage applicants.

For example: in the last years people have been pushed into college by being bombarded by messages of "you'll die poor if you don't". Wages are another.
>people are suggesting contract before making love

I would unironically require this simply because the legal liability risks are too bloody high otherwise.

Not that I would get myself into such a situation in the first place. In this day and age there are many other avenues of entertaining oneself without the ridiculous liability risks.
Agreed had a similar horrible experience where Airbnb deleted my bad review. Just use chargebacks on your credit card, it’s there to protect you.
It's an earlier update: https://support.lastpass.com/help/incident-2-additional-deta...
It's not right to deride their social credit scores, when we've had them for decades, in the form of actual credit scores plus criminal records plus a no-fly list.

All these new developments are just slight changes to the system at its edges, the core of it is quite similar. But our society is myopic to its own problems.
It would be normal for an individual known for shoplifting or assault to be blacklisted. Not some associated with an unsavory individual, which can be involuntary - coworker, family member, neighbor.
I meant that as a joke, sorry. (My my British sense of humor)

I'll find another clip. Thanks.
Meh, good luck going to the manager of your local instance of Marriott or Hilton or Hyatt and getting a corporate-level ban lifted. They're going to tell you that it's above their pay grade, and to contact HQ. HQ will ignore your attempts to contact them unless they come on the letterhead of a law firm. Maybe you can get a ban lifted if it was imposed by the instance, but even then, they're probably just going to tell you to go to HQ.

It doesn't matter if it's SPG or AirBNB: when you're fighting with a large company that (you believe) has made a mistake, the best/only path forward is to get a lawyer involved.
I really tried to like Godot, using it to make a node-based logic editor. But GDScript is incredibly bad at handling data, as well as having terrible editor support (and the built in editor is bad), which made things incredibly difficult. It doesn't even have first class functions or support for doing multiple HTTP requests at once to a single endpoint if you don't make multiple callback functions, one for each request. And the signals system, allegedly meant to reduce spaghetti, only increased it. The inability to put multiple scripts on a object and use of inheritance over composition only made things worse.

I tried the Rust integration but the API was very rough around the edges and there was huge amounts of unsafe where I really wasn't sure how I was meant to verify its usage.

In the end I switched to Bevy+egui. Progress is good, typing is strong, and while some things are more difficult, I'm not tearing my hair out about basic things.
Needs "Ask HN: " in the title.
> everything governments did for young people

This is the first time I've heard of this argument. What kinds of things are you referring to?
Template metaprogramming facilities have a reputation for being a very powerful tool if used judiciously. If overused, they can lead to over-complexity though. And a template system that is as easy to use as D's might encourage overuse.
> the last ~20% of the work takes 80% of the time

Until you are at 90% done and realize there are still 90% ahead (:
It was more livable for the more socially acceptable and/or wealthy segments of society not for the lower segments. Someone who is poor or otherwise on the margins of society is much more likely to be associated with people society considers "the wrong sort of people".

Similarly, those in the upper levels of society are discouraged from associating with the lower levels for fear of being associated with the wrong sort of people.
"Quitted", srsly?

Yeah, blow my karma idk
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They don't have control of all the devices that support Kindle books either. Right now you can read them in a web browser, Android, iOS, Mac and Windows.
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Brits arrest people for silently praying (so... standing) near an abortion clinic or teaching their dog to do a nazi salute. Not exactly paragons of sound judgement.
> In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.

There are some people who spend that much, but its way in the high tail of the distribution.
If you live in EU, then in 12 years, it will be your only possible decision.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like spaced repetition is rather limited to the bottom two tiers of bloom's taxonomy. Can you flash-cards your way towards being effective at making the changes you want to see in the world?
Hotels can and do ban certain guests from booking if they've caused extensive problems in the past. Cruise lines do it too.
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But as long as hotels exist, Airbnb is optional anyway, isn't it? Even ignoring hotels, there are plenty or real BnBs around. I have never felt the need to use Airbnb and haven't suffered from that.
From the article:

>Lorenz isn’t wrong to suggest that economic conditions can influence the prevalence of mental distress. Unemployment and poverty are both major risk factors for depression. Recessions are associated with elevated rates of suicide. And there is some evidence that robust social-welfare states improve mental health by reducing material insecurity. It is therefore reasonable to suspect that America’s relatively stingy social safety net and elevated level of child poverty are implicated in its youth mental-health crisis.

lmao he agrees with her main point and then goes on to just shrug his shoulders in the next paragraph.
The words “home computer” appear here - https://support.lastpass.com/help/incident-2-additional-deta..., which is linked at the bottom of the Incident 2 Summary from the parent article.
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Are you sure?

Just last week an article that rising number of teens (girls and boys) are being sextorted, or sexually coerced.

More and more girls are getting raped before adulthood, let alone the rising likelihood that an attractive single woman will get raped in a major metropolitan.

America has several converging cultural epidemics.

It’s all in the meme stream.
It was never considered common sense.

Some variant of what you're thinking about might've been possible in a small society (say, when the shop owner in a village knew all his customers, and was able to keep an eye on the troublemakers).

But in modern world it would basically mean that you might get banned from thousands of stores across the entire country because a cousin you barely know is an idiot. Or more likely, you'll just appear on the "do not serve" list without even knowing you're on in or finding out why.

So yeah, treating these two as the same thing is dishonest.
The logic here is absolutely astounding. People _killing themselves_ is not an indicator that life is worse? What is it an indicator of, Mr Levitz? Are they unable to tolerate so much happiness? Are these people dumb? Defective?

Arguing that life is objectively better because you are going to make a better salary than in the fifties is plain gaslighting, but I don't believe there are a lot of people who will still fall for this trick.
Man, this disappoints me. I was a tech lead on the packages project about 3 years ago, specifically on the redesign for OCI container support and making anonymous downloads of public packages as reliable as possible was a top priority.

If that flow was broken there’s only a handful of things it could be; specifically azure blob store or azure MySQL, but both of those should have layers of redundancy. Public anonymous download bypasses most everything else; no auth services, rails monolith, or metered billing. It does emit some events to the message bus for metrics, but that’d effect much more than packages if there was an issue with it.

As far as I’m aware this is the first time anonymous public package download broke since I left a few years back.
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There's a myriad of shows where company trademarks are blanked out or modified to something else. Seinfeld is full of this. And I've seen countless shows where actors are using MacBooks or iMacs and the Apple logo on the case is taped over or modified with a different shape. It's not a placeholder for product advertising. Either Apple said no, or wanted some other control over the show's content and oversight on the Mac and the producers refused.
To add numbers to this:

A teenager in 1950s would be 40-50 when the productivity-wage breakdown happened [1]. Their generation not only benefited, they caused that for juiced returns on their stocks.

A teenager today was born an entire generation after that decoupling — and has only known a world where their parents were exploited by 1950s teenagers.

I don’t think it’s surprising that a generation where hard work was rewarded was more optimistic than one born to parents for whom that didn’t apply.

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The point is that every time you demo, the clips from that exact demo are edited into a highlight reel.

Nobody is saying this should replace a video editor for your main demo on your website. The point is to give 1 summary after every sales meeting.
It's SUVs, not EVs. There's an arms race amongst drivers to have the largest vehicle to push the consequences of collisions onto other people. Pedestrians are just collateral damage.

SUV/truck drivers kill 4x more of the pedestrians they hit.
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We ended up purchasing a 23 Chevy Bolt EUV that happened to be sitting on a lot in Omaha while we were passing through. Snagged it for MSRP and I've put almost 5000 miles on it since November. Couldn't be happier with the purchase.
100% agree. The reality is that updating a dependency always carries some risk and sometimes requires changes to code. Reducing the amount of upgrades that have to be done under a stringent SLA makes life easier. In larger orgs we’ve talked to the ratio of eng:apps can be 1:2 or worse, so ownership is harder. In addition, for a fair amount of vulnerabilities, a fix is not available. These situations require a more involved risk assessment and remediation plan (e.g. moving to an alternate dependency). We aim to reduce the toil in such cases as well.
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The point of intelligence is to achieve goals. I don't think Microsoft and others are pouring in billions of dollars without the expectation of telling it to do things. AI can already formulate its own sub-goals, goals that help it achieve its primary goal.

We've seen this time and time again in simple reinforcement learning systems over the past two decades. We won't be able to change the primary goal unless we build the AGI so that it permits us because a foreseeable sub-goal is self-preservation. The AGI knows if its programming is changed the primary goal won't be achieved, and thus has incentive to prevent that.

AI propaganda will be unmatched but it may not be needed for long. There are already early robots that can carry out real life physical tasks in response to a plain English command like "bring me the bag of chips from the kitchen drawer." Commands of "detain or shoot all resisting citizens" will be possible later.
> Apple believes that the royalty should be based on the cost of Qualcomm's chips instead

Sounds great. Apple should also base their app store tax on the cost of hosting.
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I was/am interested in a Rivian R1T but the fast charging network is probably the biggest variable holding me back. Rich Rebuilds did a great video where he experienced first-hand what a PITA it is to travel long stretches in one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eosf7CeSGyA). My hope is in the next 2-5 years Ford will become a top 3 in the EV space solely to help move EV charging infrastructure forward.
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The target first user is a sales rep, not a CEO. It doesn't seem far off the mark.
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