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No, we wouldn't. This is politically motivated reasoning at best, Biden derangement syndrome at worst. None of those things aren't terribly bad right now, though if you lived in Ukraine I'd at least understand the sentiment.

Nobody should be "wishing for 2020". Everyone in this country is better off than they were in 2020 at this point.
Having a bicycle stolen is actually a frequentl reason people stop cycling. Getting a new bike sucks.
IMHO it's all about proximity + access to windows (although I don't really have the right experience to know).

Offices are great! Unless they're internal and don't have windows (although some people definitely still like them).

Cubicles are great! Unless they're in giant internal rooms that don't have windows, or don't have enough windows / the right kind of windows for the space (although some people definitely still like them).

AFAICT it's not that cubicles sucked, it's that they correlated with a bunch of things that made the job also suck, but cubicles were an easy thing to refer to about that kind of workplace culture.

...arguably, the same can be said about a chunk (but not all) of the complaints around open offices.
I don't think that is going to be the case, more people today believe outright lies than just a few years ago. If you dress up something as official (ie good branding, etc) looking, people will believe it. Even a fake Epstein flight log floats around and people believe it, now imagine telling someone a video of a politician doing something that never happened isn't real. Might work at first, but then suddenly there is a real video, but people will say it's fake, etc. There were massive account take downs from fictitious people not that long ago, some had millions of followers. That was without AI, with AI it cost a fraction to do that on a much larger scale.

This is going to be so abused heavily, I think people are absolutely naive if they think this will be a smooth ride into the future. AI is going to cause massive problems in the next decade, and tech companies that create it will not suffer any consequences for it, they'll actually grow to be much more powerful. I don't know the answer, but worrying about it and acknowledging this is a likely outcome isn't a crazy idea. As I said, a bunch of upset and distrustful people that can no longer make ends meet because AI took their job is a great way to cause huge conflicts. We've lived in a relatively peaceful time, we take that for granted, it isn't always like that.
Hmm.. No.

There was a business that our system supported that had a peak transaction day on Mondays (55% of the weekly volume flow) and Fridays had less than 7% of weekly volume flow. The rest of the days had a tapering of volumes between these levels. No volumes flowed in during the weekends, but downstream processing occurred on Saturdays (of the transactions that came in Thursday/Friday that still remained).

We deployed on Thursdays. Never on Sundays (simply because Monday was a peak day and we would never recover from business SLA failures if things went wrong when we opened the Monday).

It gave our support engineers a weekday to look into issues, if any and escalate to a developer on Friday, if required.

There is such a thing called pragmatism.
After having experienced and survived this latest pandemic, I wouldn’t describe what happened as a “mistake”. Using that term implies that there is a right way to respond and that we know what that is in advance. I don’t think we do. Perhaps some things are so complex that humans collectively just can’t prioritize, understand, plan and execute fast enough.

What response we had was filled with fits and starts, and many missteps, but in the end truly amazing in the number of lives that were saved.

There are plenty of other less complex problems that we are equally incapable of solving.

We are flawed, and that’s ok. It has to be.
>Have a BS in Comp Sci and work on backend/distributed systems with several years of experience? You'll have no problem finding a gig.

This is me. But I had at least one round of phone interviews with about 40 companies before I landed one. Maybe I'm bad at interviewing. A couple of places put me through ~8 hours of interviews all for nothing. I will also add that 3-4 of the places I interviewed with have since had a chunk of layoffs right up to discussions here about them. Maybe I actually got lucky? It sure didn't feel like it after that many failures in a row. Luckily I landed a new role that I'm finding I like.
> Pixeldrain is now funded by patrons on Patreon. It's working quite well so far.

I'm glad it's working for you. The internet really needs a better business model than advertising. I always mention patronage as an alternative and it's awesome to see successful examples.
> More seriously, reglazing old images isn’t very helpful, since they will amost always be already in training datasets by that point.

And trained into models.
If not OpenAI, competing services are/will inevitably use recorded user input as training data.

Best not to leave it to the users to try to figure out which ones do and don't. They already post secrets to StackOverflow and Github.

Not all about API keys either. Think of it like the new confession booth, and AI is the new priest. Lots of valuable intelligence is run through them.
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The "a few bad apples" line is always darkly funny to me - a complete 180 of the familiar "a few bad apples spoils the barrel."

Most cops are probably not horrible people. However, the current policing system protects the worst, and punishes anyone for speaking out - sometimes violently.
I totally buy the 35 hour thing, but I don't think these companies really have a reason to care. They can push workers to the breaking point to extract whatever diminished returns at no additional cost, then "manage out" the resulting burned-out husks and replace them with fresh meat. With a side of ageism in hiring to ensure that you're getting the freshest, least-distracted minds as grist for your CRUD app mill, it's win-win. Another win is that by focusing on attrition rather than sustainable retention, you can lag inflation in your compensation since you only have to match it at offer time.
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I think better time would be spent getting Full Vulkan on MacOS with proton support. The amount of people wanting to run Linux on Macs is waaay lower than with Windows PCs.
> p.s. What I'm sick and tired already of is the word "boomerification", and that's the first time I've seen it.

Ok boomer.
It seems that they have "soft forked" act as well. I worry that they will spend more time maintaining all their forks than doing any original development...
If AI really is poised to automate away large segments of the economy, the correct answer is to bring on UBI, financed by heavy taxes on AI companies. If there's no work to do, it's time to chill!
I like how people on Reddit cannot distinguish between ChatGPT itself and its web front end. I thought Reddit is programmer friendly. Has anyone checked if the services using the API have been affected or not?
My feedback for those who helped me or are interested in following up :)

Pyinfra was the perfect match.

I have used their "operations" to pile up the actions that come with the next release:

- A new package (apt)

- an updtated pip dependency

- checking a file

- and docker-compose actions to update all containers

I was able define my "inventory" easily, which allows me to update my whole fleet with one single command. One caveat here, the timeout is not properly configurable with a ProxyJump. Discussion opened on stackoverflow.

Pyinfra idempotency and dry-run approaches allow me to run the update as many times as I want.

For the next release, would I need to change anything different, I will simply add a new operation. The beauty of it is that all operations are strictly executed in the order I define them, which mean that any devices that would not have been updated with the first release, would be still updated appropriately with the second release.

Cheers !
While very true, sometimes failure/shutting down/bankruptcy is a deliberate decision as it maximizes profit elsewhere. <the latest crisis> is just an excuse to save reputation for an action a large portion of the population would view as pure greed void of morality. Its fairly common in the startup world in the form of being acquired by companies like amazon/google/microsoft and then shutting down not long after. The acquiring company gets many benefits from this including substantial realized tax losses (among many other tax opportunities), accelerated absorption of assets (or cash if they liquidate), customer relationships, and valuable employees, etc. This can be especially profitable for large companies during poor economic times as they can acquire at usually significant discounts.
Yes, internally, we have separate models that produce tests the final data has to pass before being presented to the user. In addition, you can define your own tests on the platform, and we will ensure transformations produced will pass those tests before deployment. We also have helpful versioning and backtesting features.
Not sure the Roblox and Minecraft exclusions make sense. Maybe they used to in the past but they act as all other current forms of metaverses do, like VR Chat or Second Life or GTA Online.

The consideration of Steam and Xbox Online as a metaverse is one I'm not too fond of. It kind of messes the entire idea up as you're not really using 3D avatars to communicate with others in a way that sort of replicates reality. If Steam and Xbox get considered as metaverses, we're now suddenly calling Twitter and HN also metaverses which is a bit absurd when we have perfectly reasonable names for them.

Also while the current implementations of metaverses are quite limited and mostly game related, people are setting their sights on future goals. Mainly interoperability. Right now you can't go from Runescape to VR Chat in any seamless way, you lose your friends lists, items, accounts, expectations and standards, etc. There is some work being done here, for example Epic created EOS as a layer of interoperability between any games without the usual restrictions, however the project is still very much in early stages and acts as nothing more than a universal friends list/account for now.
Even though humans are just a barrel of filthy monkeys, speeding through the void of space with no idea what they're doing?

I guess we won't be having discussions with the AI about "Expeditionary Force" book series.
You've not addressed my main point - that our hierarchies are of competence, not of privilege. Not just anyone can take a few hundred thousand dollar investment and transform it into billions. Leaders of successful corporations are extremely competent and hard working. I would consider fortunes by the likes of Buffet, Gates, Bezos, Jobs, and Musk to be self-made, given their ROI is many orders of magnitude above market. Many of these folks also work 90hr weeks.

This is further substantiated by the fact that 70% of intergenerational wealth transfers fail, and by the third generation, 90% of people with wealthy grandparents are middle class. Raising competent people in a privileged environment is very hard. In our hierarchies of competence, the incompetent offspring of the wealthy tend to fail. Competence is simply something that can't be bought. If our hierarchies were of privilege then this would not be the case. Also grit as a key differentiating factor of economic success is highly substantiated by research.

> rinse and repeat until you can afford apartment complexes and commercial properties

What you're describing is a real estate investment business. Not just anyone can run one successfully. Otherwise these business would never fail, which they plainly do.

Grit without competence is simply not enough (neither is competence without grit). Our world is getting increasingly complex to navigate, and that leaves behind increasingly high numbers of people who simply do not have the attributes required to succeed. Also, there are plenty of self-made, property-owning, middle-class folk in the trades. Many of them started poor. All they do is work hard and run their businesses competently.

If you've a degree in English, History, Politics, or Philosophy; a pile of student debt; and you're struggling to find gainful employment, then that's on you. Choose a career the market demands.
That argument existed now for how long? Depends if you are doing just the ""barista equivalent tech job"", but it seems there is more to it.
> "You would probably have to demolish large areas of London and replace them with high-density housing to match demand - but obviously that's never going to happen."

Nah. There's still many areas of fairly low-quality, low-density housing near the centre of London. In fact, just about everywhere you look there are residential towers under construction: there must be hundreds of them going up right now! There is still plenty of scope to greatly improve the quality and efficiency of housing in London without sacrificing open, green spaces.
At the risk of being downvoted and such..

It seems that going into a profession based on how secure it is or how much money you will make is at best a gamble, and at worst a recipe for existential disappointment. Looking back (and up to) the engineers of earlier years (1970s, etc.) they look like people driven by passion, going into the areas where they were to remain forever branded as “nerds”.

And the sentiment I see related to layoffs is that people who are genuinely interested in the tech and love it for what it is are not affected as much or even if affected would be quickly welcomed to another place that has resources to appreciate what they have to offer.

So yeah follow your passion and all.
There have been studies available for years now that show people only spend about twenty minutes at a time in vr. It's ludicrous that Zuck was willing to bet the future of his company knowing that.
The three topics you propose are hard to teach, maybe hardest. You have to shove the entire thing in the head at once to do much of any of it. By entire thing I mean architecture, coding, unit testing, exception handling, and especially debugging. You can't leave one out and have a successful assignment.

Lets compare with a graphic library; you can learn the DrawRectangle API without learning the DrawLine API.

Not so with Concurrent. Some kids won't understand the debugger (if any LOL) Some kids will get stuck at coding. Some kids will have weird conceptual hangups. All the kids need to learn all of it all at once. Its a big chunk.

Same problem with Network. Pre-reqs are seen my uni admin as a way to restrict tuition income, LOL. You can't assume the kids are up to the level of a Net+ cert or even an A+ cert. Its a big chunk all at once. See above, you "probably" can't do network "correctly" unless you async it. Does the class system even have a pre-req that includes the concept of a TCP/UDP network port? Its just a HUGE topic to inject all at once.

When people say DB they are usually unclear. I took a senior level DB class and learned Codd-Normal forms and all that which makes SQL query writing pretty easy. The problem is your interns aren't graduated seniors yet and they probably eliminated that class from the curriculum because "No-SQL movement" or whatever new hotness caused a distraction. I think you'd be a better logical thinker about organization of data if you know your Codd-Normal forms or have at least been exposed to the general concept. But other kids want to learn mobile app dev or frontend or whatever new hotness.

Finally a lot of uni work is filtering. Must be smart enough to learn up to this level even if you never use diffeqs again. So the kids you're interviewing don't know anything useful, but they're smart enough to learn, and it'll turn out OK, probably.
If the site is worth the asking price I certainly wouldn't mind.

There aren't a lot such sites, though.
> GitHub Actions wasn't supposed to be a CI/CD alternative at the time when it was released

Not sure what you mean by that, what was it supposed to be then?
I strongly agree that in the long term it's better for everyone to have lower or even zero population growth, possibly with negative growth for a while. I love that more people are shedding the presumption that growth is a necessity for well-being in posterity

The problem is in the short term, as the current population starts to skew older, there will be fewer working-age people supporting the increasing numbers of elderly people who retire and eventually can't support themselves even if they want to. This is both a macroeconomic problem (not enough income/production to pay for everything) and a microeconomic problem (literally not enough qualified caregivers, limiting supply of care even as demand increases, and therefore making it much more expensive).

Thus we need to figure out a way to make it through the transition out of our current high-positive-growth without creating a crisis of poverty and suffering among the soon-to-be elderly.

The answer probably involves nation-state governments creating a shit ton of money to make it all happen. But in the USA at least, we are already very deep in unknown zone of debt-to-GDP ratio above unity, the cost of debt service itself beginning to grow (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S), and an uncertain future around our ability to control inflation with monetary policy. Not to mention the pesky habit of large corporations and wealthy individuals to funnel money out of public expenditure in the form of economic rent.

If we could actually stop being greedy for two seconds and try to plan ahead, I'm sure we could figure it out. But when has that ever happened before?
I loved biking into work when I lived close enough (7mi) but honestly I would never have done it if I didn't also have shower access (was a small company but the business park had a shared shower).

Doubly so if you're doing any hills with a passenger on board.

Sweat/stink is what they're avoiding.
We started by sponsoring newsletters and google ads. But it didn't convert and we didn't have the budget to keep experimenting.

Then I started being active on indiehackers.com and reddit to first ask for feedback, then eventually sharing my learnings and lesson in blog post format. This showed promise and got us to a couple sales per week as other founders got curious about us and then considered us when they needed a logo.

Eventually what really helped is twitter. I started tweeting in summer 2021 and talking about what I was going through, and noticed people cared and it led to more traffic to our site. So I decided to go all in and dedicated hours per day on it, trying to bring value and grow. After a few months we 10x revenue and it hasn't came down since (although it fluctuates).

The other thing from twitter is that I met so many people in the industry, this led to hundreds of SEO backlinks from people's blogs writing about us from interviews, podcasts, recommendation articles and so on. This was really the spark that made us go from invisible to visible.

Now this year the big push is to write high-quality blog posts about branding for startups. Hopefully to get some SEO traffic and grow sales even further.
Firms that choose to use it indiscriminately will also be exporting domain knowledge (likely including those that give them a competitive advantage) into ChatGPT.

This doesn't matter in roles that are complementary to where the most value is generated (the phrase "commoditize your complement" exists for a reason) but that's not all roles.
Well, if someone wants to help fix it, they're hiring security engineers [0] for $200 - 370k per year, although you'd have to move to San Francisco.

[0] https://openai.com/careers/security-engineer-detection-respo...
Sounds like you need a motion simulator.

For example:

https://www.yawvr.com/
Getting recruiter email is the same as getting spam, everyone gets it.

FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate.

So, don't assume that just because you got a recruiter email you'd be qualified to make it
One direction into resolving this, which may seem counter intuitive, is to put more money into police training, and have higher salaries for desired positions.

This in turn (should) attract more people and thus get a better pool to select candidates from.

However the nepotism and in-group mentality does make this difficult to another degree.

Though to play devils advocate, it’s human nature to pull more into an in-group when you feel anyone outside that group is attacking you, and threatening your livelihood for the actions of others.

We should condemn the officers that act wrongly, but calling all of them bastards and such just makes the problem far worse.

Now there’s even greater incentive for police officers to stand with their own, and not call out inappropriate behavior.

Further, now people don’t want to be police officers, making the talent pool very low. And I don’t blame anyone for that. I had a desire to also be an officer at one point, but if I were a kid today, I’d steer clear of it even if I wanted to do more good.
Maybe all the dark matter turns out to be cloaked Von Neuman probes...
>This is a "you can write bad code in any language" paradigm.

It's extremely true! The fun is that bad code looks totally different from each other. The "bad" Scala type astronaut code would be unrecognizable from Python raw dictionary enthusiast code.
Yeah, not to mention it ignores the questions of "how many teams still haven't finished" and "is it the same management that made the excess growth that is looking to explain where they should be?"

That last is huge, btw. Leadership setup a disaster to require a few layoffs. I'm assuming leadership is having to take on some pain, as well?
I’ve had a dark and terrifying thought recently. John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who lived outside of Chicago appeared to be an upstanding citizen, and preyed upon the most vulnerable boys and young men in society.

And I started to think about how vulnerable many of the high-profile victims of police were. The conclusion that I just can’t shake is that by far the obvious career choice for a legitimately pathological serial killer would be the police. It’s a position with authority, and that is largely respected. Not only would such a person likely not be arrested, but they would be vigorously defended.
The expenses would also start shrinking though.
Most economies are built on the assumption that there will be more young people than old. If that assumption ceases to hold true without some active planning to deal with an older population there will be too many retirees and too few workers.

This problem is almost certainly solvable with some planning, but humanity as a whole isn't always good at that.
> Oumuamua is an interplanetary object that was able to be studied for days by multiple telescopes as it passed through our solar system. Not some "fast blur on some airplane's sensors".

No, not a fast blur on aircraft sensors; rather a fast blur on telescope sensors.

All those telescopes saw was a very dim dot of variable brightness. They couldn't even see what shape the object was and even today nobody really knows what it was shaped like. From the period of it dimming scientists have inferred what shape it might have, but they don't really know because there are many geometries which could explain the observed data. It might have been cigar shaped, or it might have been more of a flat disk (a hypothesis favored by Avi Loeb I believe, one of the authors of the OP article). Nobody really knows because nobody actually got a good look at it. The limited data the telescopes were able to get leave a lot of room to interpretatation making it perfect UFOlogist bait, just like those videos from the airplane sensors. Actually the airplane sensors got a much better look at their objects than any telescope got of Oumuamua.
Yeah, ironically the problem here isn't a lazy engineer, it's the management or poor systems.