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> It is true however that he was super pessimistic about Python 3 and was one of the leading voices for a long time talking down Python 3.

I strongly advocated against underestimating the cost of migration, which is also why I argued for bringing back the `u` prefix for strings to make supporting 2.x and 3.x work at the same time. I also built a tool to modernize Python codebases to support both at once. I think in retrospective I was not wrong about that the transition will take time.

I don't think the migration to 3.x would have been any faster if I would have pretended it's easy :)
The problem is thinking it’s as simple as resources divided by population, so shrinking the denominator means more per capita resources right?

But a country’s infrastructure is built for a certain population size assumption, and the numerator has a highly nonlinear relationship with the denominator, and the denominator is further broken down into subpopulations that affect the numerator non linearly. It’s not a simple ratio.

You have to manage population shrinkage almost as carefully as growth, if not more carefully. Shrinkage almost happens in an unpredictable way and instead of ending up like Japan you might end up like Bulgaria. Also a country is not isolated — it’s subject to competitive forces in the world so if the labor force becomes uncompetitive, your economy will tailspin in a way that exceeds your proportional savings from population shrinkage.

Improperly managed shrinkage in the extreme can lead to unemployment due to lack of growth, the rise of a disgruntled class which can in turn lead to lots of internal conflicts. There is a lot of system inertia in countries and lots of unpredictable effects.
> is turning 90min of googling into 5min + 30min of rewriting, "revolutionary" ?

I'd say so, yes. The side effect of an arbitrary feature going from 90 minutes to 35 minutes is that I am much more likely to consider features that I'd otherwise not.

I am working on a computer vision project right now that I would have never started without having this kind of access to the various algorithms. Go try to implement a sobel filter in your preferred language using traditional research, and then try it with AI assistance. I think you will start to see the light after going through a few methods like this.
I guess this now extends to "never trust AI input".
Even if the USD fails someday this was a crazy bet. Even the most extreme economic failures like Venezuela and Argentina took many years to get to hyperinflation. The USD has gotten stronger relative to other currencies since covid. There's no way the world reserve currency collapses in the next 90 days.
> It doesn't help that I'm going through a lot in my personal life at the moment too

I think this probably has the majority effect on how you're feeling. Jobs come and go, layoffs happen. I've been laid off and I've been fired, and I've found jobs afterwards. As long as you have a decent bankroll to keep you going through a couple months (easy for me to say as I'm single and have supportive family), I wouldn't worry about THE STATE OF THE WORLD/ECONOMY.
> I have a demanding [...] spouse

Many people can relate to that.

On a more serious note, there is not much we can do about all this, really. We neither have the complete picture nor know what hides behind the corner. So relaxing a bit (while still taking the time to learn some new skills...) is not bad advice.
I don't buy this definition where everyone is having their own metaverse. There's nothing meta about that. If anything is a metaverse it's the internet, and it just sucks as a metaverse because we've let big companies and their walled gardens dominate it and prevent freedom of movement. Practically, metaverse is now a useless word since Zuck and team started promoting/misusing it.

Prior to the misuse, it had always meant a single unified network[0]. I maintain that if there is no one metaverse, there are none. Don't let the confused BS that comes from marketing people change the meaning of words.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
Democratization of XYZ implies lowering the barriers for using XYZ for any purpose whatsoever.
> physically doing a reload action like you would with a real gun

More like physically doing a reload action while wearing a thick pair of well-buttered gloves.

Each game does have small differences in the reloading process, be it pressing a specific button to release the slide or (strangely) pulling the charging handle every reload. Even firearms enthusiasts would have to learn these details.

Beyond that, VR controls are still limited. You have little to no tactile feedback, so you don't intuitively know when you failed to grab the magazine off of your belt or failed to grip the bolt. You have to learn the exact positions and tolerances to avoid slipping up and botching an entire reload in the heat of the moment. I find this to be completely unsatisfying in comparison to mastering a real life manual task.

I also often find myself banging my controllers together, especially when handling pistols.

I think most people find this kind of thing frustrating and immersion breaking, which pretty much defeats the draw of VR gaming.

My favorite VR game is Resident Evil 4 partly because it seems that they focused on reducing the friction of weapon handling. Most processes are fairly simplified and the tolerances are generous, but you still get that heightened level of intractability in VR vs a simple button press.
Look at ACA plan if you're laid off. Will be based on income, and you'd have no income. Likely a bit more complicated than that, but investigate it.
> The idea of taking weds thru friday basically off to loaf and surf the internet while you wait for other threads on your project to get back to you will hopefully die.

that hasn't changed, and has nothing to do with layoffs. projects move at whatever speed they move at, and fires will pop up to steal the attention of others.
Nope, I've watched two 980 pro die already. But I wouldn't be surprised if both 980 and 990 had firmware issues.
To be clear, Trump attempted a coup based on no evidence of fraud. What would preventing him from doing the same, no matter how elections are run?

Hell he declared the elections fraudulent before they happened. What can possibly be done to prevent that from an elections standpoint?
These idiots (and their like) are the people in charge of our industry cause they control the purse strings. They have no vision, and are just degenerate gamblers with money and an appetite for risk.
> It's eye opening to see how much the ChatGPT produced content can fool managers at the top who catch glimpses of neatly composed and verbose documents.

Goodhart's law in action. If "neatly composed and verbose documents" is the metric higher ups use to judge product managers, then documents will become neater and more verbose to the detriment of everything else.

In the end, the alignment problems that plague AI safety research are all playing out in company structures every day. It's hard to give a metric that measures your intended outcome, and any proxy leads to unintended consequences once there's an easier way to reach that proxy.
Taking "some video" on the internet featuring "some physicist"(?) as basis for anything is ill-advised.

Worse, you are actually engaging in character assassination here by repeating that nonsense.
I'm definitely getting better at asking questions, but the tool still seems to have some very rough edges.

Here is my most egregious example. I asked ChatGPT to produce code for a very specific approach. It produced ok code, but I didn't like the approach, so I asked it to do it a different way. It produced a second function, but I ended up liking the first one better.

The first code had a bug though, so I asked ChatGPT to fix it. It apologized and applied the fix... to the second code (which didn't make sense). I pointed this out, and it profusely apologized... and spitted out the same code again. I corrected it once more time, and did exactly the same thing.

After 3 tries I gave up, fixed the code myself, and started a new chat with this code.

Had it been a person I'd think it was a troll, a blithering idiot, or gaslighting me.
That a true but fairly pointless statement. Humans rarely optimize for learning to the extent that you would hit that hypothetical. It's really quite easy for a 21-year old to know the things the OP is talking about. But A) they don't care to know and B) our education system babies kids.

We could be teaching all this stuff at a far younger age, and many countries do.
This reminds me of when people were being rounded up and shoved into white panel vans by people who refused to identify themselves during the portland protests.

If an officer refuses to identify themselves, it's not a lawful arrest, it's a kidnapping. I argued at the time that someone would be entirely within their rights to defend themselves in this circumstance. No doubt the DA would press charges but do you really think a jury would convict?
I do think it's important, I'm just not seeing how that helps people who have lost their jobs/home.

I'm not being argumentative here. I'm not understanding, and want to understand how this would be applied to help people in that position.

The only way I can think is if the solution is that they will all be AI operators, in which case the solution on offer is another variant of "retraining" -- but not everyone will be suitable for that sort of work. But that doesn't sound right, so I think I'm not understanding.
IKEA to ramp up taking store inventory via drone
I feel it is useful to provide actual numbers on conversations like this.

On some brand I quickly googled[1], the bounding box that covers all of their models for electric bakfiet's size is 253cm x 95cm (with no individual bike being both that long and wide). Comparing them with a Fiat 500 and a RAM truck[2] (just for kicks), that bounding box is 1 meter shorter in both dimensions than the Fiat. And their classic model is 228cm x 63cm.

[1]: https://www.bakfiets.com/bestanden/documenten/618-22bakfiets...

[2]: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/abarth-500-2008-3-d...
It's double-worse-than-that, because all these dudes loooove The Punisher and like to post his logo on everything, which is a solid, full step worse than them thinking they're Judge Dredd. It's as if they don't understand the core point of their job. See that great season 3 scene from The Wire with the older officer telling the younger one what police work used to be like before the drug war—far less adversarial, a lot more about building ties with the community. "You call something a war, you're gonna get soldiers", I think one line goes.
> FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate.

That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Can you imagine the wasted effort if it was 1%? And I assume if you're getting a recruiter to email you, you can usually get an interview.

The 1% number I always see should include those who try to apply without recruiters emailing them.
As the population ages you have fewer and fewer workers supporting more and more retirees.
It's all phrases, like there is some "reclamation" of language to mean the opposite of its original intent. I was recently talking to someone who called himself a "pacifist" so I began the phrase "Si Vis Pacem..." (If you want peace... note that the word pacem is the root of the word pacifist), but even after explaining to him that the ancient phrase ends with "para bellum" (prepare for war) he still defended his draft dodging as "for peace".
One trick to build a TLS-enabled IPv6-only empire with only ONE legacy IP
To be clear, this is a transient problem. But it will take several decades for things to balance out, which could be problematic in the intervening period.
If you want to argue the abolition of copyright that’s fine but it’s revolutionary and not the subject of this thread.
unions are inefficient, because they promote mediocrity (regression to the mean) in terms of talent - and union bosses wield abnormal influence.
This is a piece of shared history of computing. It's worth saving. That's different from having funding to do it.
> You can observe this very well in Germany. You have many cities that were destroyed during World War 2, and rebuilt around the car. You can compare them to the cities that were built before, and not destroyed.

I think that’s more likely “and rebuilt according to the old plan”. Very few German cities escaped with limited bombing damage.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/air-war-germany-map/:

“Of the 54 largest cities (>100,000 inhabitants) in Germany, only four survived without significant damage: Lübeck, Wiesbaden, Halle and Erfurt.”
It's not that bad, those cities aren't very large geographically.

I think the parent commenter might be eating a lot of garlic since his move. :)
Remember how prices exploded when we had supply chain problems last year? Labor is not exempt from supply and demand, and an individual's baked-in demand for labor doesn't decline just because they retire (in fact, in a lot of ways it increases).

With a slowly tapering demography, you can do a lot of neat tricks like using technology to improve productivity and make up the difference that way. When your demography falls off a cliff, there is no recourse - the cost of labor is going to massively increase. This is great for working-age people but retirees end up having to pay most of the cost (or rather - it comes out of their pensions both public and private). So a social problem is baked in with this and possibly an economic problem as well because at some point the working-age cohort is going to have to have its resources redistributed to the retiree class to support them.
> we see responses that range from good for the planet to apocalypse.

That's because logistic map is a known source of chaos.
It seems so bizarre that an adult would never learn to drive. Like you might not need to drive for daily city life but it really limits your options if you ever want to travel.
Maybe compare the output to the expected format and see if it looks like it has been manipulated?
This is a perfect example of how mainstream doesn't get eccentrics like Balaji, Trump, Elon....

Through this bet, Balaji instantly increased FOMO among a lot of people waiting in sidelines. This bet has gone viral (and contributing to current BTC's increase).

Balaji has made more than a Million $$$ through this bet, while mainstream is focused on irrelevant details about the bet and laughing at him.

Balaji got what he wants.
This doesn't make sense. What would a mandate for remote work even entail?

Positing a cartel in employment wages doesn't explain RTO.
Don’t worry, the CEO is taking FULL responsibility
We live in a society with massive corporations venerated as “job creators”, even given tax breaks to come to a city and employ us. We can employ each other, thank you very much.

Many people who choose full-time work for corporations would not have an experience any differenr whether they worked in Soviet Russia or USA or Feudal Japan. These corporations (especially in Japan) are intertwined with our lives and even sense of self-worth. In Japan they coordinate with your landlord. Here they are who gives you health insurance etc.

If we had strong safety nets, none of this mentality would be an issue. You’d be jumping for joy that a project or warehouse has been automated and you don’t have to be a cog in a machine or warehouse wage slave.

That’s if we had UBI and Universal Health Insurance too. People would work on projects because they want to, whether that is art, science, open source, wikipedia or other gift economies. At the end of the day, that’s where DALL-E, ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot get their content to ape from. It’s our collective work product! We humans have given it away online for these companies to scrape and build models from.

Be proud. Stop demanding a living wage and health insurance from a corporation and start demanding a Universal Health Insurance and a UBI in your community. We have to start valuing stuff the market doesn’t.. raising children instead of government schools, taking care of our own parents instead of nursing homes. Look around … if you and your partner are working 10 hour days just to make ends meet, the problem isn’t robots taking your job. It’s society not truly valuing human beings authentically living their lives!
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Left landing gear collapsed when landing, causing it to skid off runway.
More info:

https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/18/weak-landing-gear-spri...
All of that together still hardly changes things. Even if we're very generous and say that you managed to spend an unrealistic 16 hours a week on one topic in university (unrealistic as you are rarely doing only one class in uni), that's still tiny compared to the mandatory 40 hour work week that you will have at a full time position.
> ask someone how 'typing in a textarea in hackernews' works, and you will be surprised

How does it work (or rather, what answer are you expecting from this question, from an interviewer standpoint)? I'd say something like, your keyboard sends an input event for each key that's captured by the OS, then translated to a letter, then transmitted to the application, in this case the browser. Or I guess the browser might also capture the key event and translate it itself rather than the letter (which would be how key rebindings work in online IDEs).
Not as many as cheap energy from fossil fuels are lifting the global poor out of poverty.
So it's basically an implementation of transparent of M:N scheduling, right?

I remember that early versions of Rust had that but dropped it because building a single implementation of that that scales to all platforms is hard (tm).
Microsoft wants changing default apps in Windows to be less of a mess
It sounds a lot like a cache issue (CDN caching something from the API layer? new cache sharding? run out of keyspace?).

In addition to users reporting other users' summaries, this user and two others report seeing someone else's email address in their pay-to-upgrade flow: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp...

> When I'm finally able to get the option to upgrade to Plus to work, the contact email is not the email address I used to subscribe. And you can't change it.

> EDIT: Got it to load again, and it's a completely different email address now. If I pay, who am I paying for?

Which all makes me feel like this could be APIs getting over-cached.

Incident status at https://status.openai.com/incidents/jq9232rcmktd

> We are investigating an issue with the ChatGPT web experience.

I swear every successful web company has had their cache leaking issues moment right after they've hit product market fit and began scaling up. They've made the big time!
For people who point out this is already being done: I hope you see the recursive nature of this ;)
Global talent isn't constrained by US laws about IP, NDAs, non-competes, and taxes.

Nor are they on the same timezones.

Nor are they comparatively cheap to fly out, if needed.

There is a big reason why offshoring has been tilting more and more to Mexico City... or Alabama.
>Pirating YouTube, Spotify and games as well as torrenting seemingly make up 90% of desires of an alt store. I expect this from 14 year olds, it’s frustrating to see it on HN. “I need to not only block all ads on YouTube but all sponsor reads too. They’re sooooo annoying!” Grow up. Content makers need to be reimbursed.

So blocking ads is pirating in your opinion?
I'm sorry, but I have better things to do than deal with malvertisment or watch the same old adverts for the latest VPN honeypot or online casino.

The fact that people consider the mere circumvention of advertising as piracy shows very well that the forced propaganda of the content mafia in front of their inferior films serves its purpose...
A pragmatic pessimist is just a realist, no?

I gripe _all the time_. It's part of my being. It's just what my family does. I'm Jewish and so I also associate with it culturally. But importantly, it doesn't get us (my family) down. I consider it just observing the world. It's quite stereotypically Jewish to complain and then say "not that I'm complaining." My daughter inherited this lovely (that's sarcasm, another thing that runs in my family) trait from me. My son did not.

I really have to check myself before complaining around other people. And around my wife. Because I recognize that a lot of people, most even, don't want to hear it.

A friend once said about me: "Some people think the glass is half full, others that it's half empty. You just think the water sucks." :-)
In most of EU, are in serious trouble when they catch you riding such a speed pedilec without license and/or license plate.

Cops already had mobile stations to check the max speed of scooters, and they now just added those ebikes to the checks.
Yeah exactly. I feel that recklessly opening new projects and then abandoned them, or refactored multiple times with different teams, quickly added up to the number of rss no one owns.

Last couple of weeks the whole data org underwent a forced upgrade of certain components on Google cloud and we got quite of clusters no one knows who owns.

I don't know but I'm itchy to start finding ways to build new projects because that is the best way for techy people to grab ownership and promition.
Yes but instead of being a 35-year-old accretion of mistakes, a user-space network stack is likely to be part of a more typical software lifecycle, that gets updated more easily and ultimately replaced. Also such things are dramatically easier to debug.
Well if the inefficiency is blocking a couple people who all make $100k/year...seems pretty easy.
It looks like the tech industry is cutting or has already cut about 150k jobs at this point. Is there really that much elasticity built into the features these companies are building? 30k is a really large number of employees to cut anywhere. They really have to shut down many many projects to achieve that. If that is the case, it should impact growth and revenues quite a bit. The implications of this are huge. For example --

1. The management has so completely screwed up that they don't deserve a job.

2. Is the management approving projects that they don't believe will impact the bottom line? Did all of the companies mature at the same time and became risk averse?

3. What does it mean to immigration and cap on it?
Then go ahead and do it, but why should the Asahi Linux people take this into consideration? The entire point of the project is to get Linux running on ARM Macs. That's what they personally want and there's no reason for them to make market share considerations.
> I don’t think that’s fair. The artist community seem to have a genuine and legitimate grievance.

Insofar as its about treating “style” as a proprietary entitlement against the rest of the world, despite that it has not ever been proprietary, a kind of entitlement to an extension of copyright which itself is not even notionally a matter of fundamental right but privilege granted in the expectation of externalized utility, I am not convinced that it is a legitimate grievance, even to the extent it is clearly a genuine one.

> Arguing that they’re only saying that because their jobs are being affected is, well, not the best looking argument I’ve ever seen.

I didn’t argue that. I argued that the motivation is not that the threat to their jobs from the thing this would correct even if it worked, but the threat from something which it does not, even in the most optimistic view. That is, yes, its because “AI art” threatens their existing mode of work, but not because “style transfer based on their current and future artwork” moves the needle, in any meaningful way, on the threat. It is fundamentally (whether they are entitled to their existing mode of work or not) misdirected for the motivating concern.
I've never found a good recruiter - how does one go about hunting one of those down?