skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you keep paying a plumber once they complete their job? As employee I enter into mutually beneficial (and in case of IT and FAANG - extremely beneficial) contract knowing that I can be fired once the company deems my services no longer necessary.

The backlash comes from highest educated, best skilled people who received high salaries and who have great prospects of being hired again quickly. Why they suffer?

Should these companies not hire those employees in the first place? The employees would be jobless then, our would be hired by companies witch they previously rejected in favor of FAANG.

To me it all seems like reality check for people who for years were bit out of touch with, well, reality. This is what regular people deal with all the time.

Regarding your argument about falling birth rates - education, career, job stability etc. are all negatively correlated with birth rates. I'm pretty sure that FAANG employees have one of the lowest birth rates in society - I admit, I have no data to back this up.
From what I read in the thread you were the one bringing up NATO intelligence and military patch submissions. And you did it in a context of saying that from what you gather even people from non-aligned countries would be banned from submitting to the Linux kernel, too.

Perhaps other people in this thread also think it's problematic that any military or intelligence agency submits patches. But that wasn't what the post is about. It's about a Russian military-associated company. And that's what most of the comments I read were commenting about.

If you want to channel the conversation to your hobbyhorse you can, and did. But that doesn't mean the people who respond negatively to your comments don't agree in general with you. It seems to me that national militaries should be maintaining their own kernels. And just for precautionary purposes intelligence agencies/companies (whether national or private sector) should be generally banned from kernel submits. Bug reports and exploit reports are another thing, but they are too motivated to insert backdoors and exploits due to the nature of their business.
As someone who is both a developer and currently occasionally uses GPT in the course of development, I skimmed this article looking for the one point I think there is to make on this subject.

I think the opposite of what people are worrying about will happen here. AI will create a feedback loop for developers, where there just aren’t enough humans to keep up with the work - exacerbating the existing problem of a shortage.

For me, LLMs can essentially replace large portions of my workflow: stack overflow, googling for examples, finding some obscure syntax, getting started on a problem when I’m coming from a place of little understanding. Assuming I ask the right questions in the right order and get the output running, it can drastically reduce my time to a working solution.

This is the same thing previous tools have done, but with a faster and tighter feedback loop. That will just amplify the primary pattern of software: with every solution we create new problems to solve. And every new abstraction has some hidden cost.

Mark my words: our near future problem as engineers is not that we can’t get jobs, it’s that we can’t fill them all. We will most likely find ourselves desperately chasing automation that never quite gets as automated as we need it to be.

Of course this is both good and bad. But it means that like this author, we need to encourage everyone possible to “learn to code” in some sense.
I find it a bit ironic that you link Wikipedia to make that point. The greatest encyclopedia in the world, a great demonstration of the potential of collectivist projects. I still remember when it was launched and everyone thought it was crazy and impossible and laughed at it.

I would also draw a distinction between web3 and torrent technologies. Torrents work great, and it doesn't even give its users a monetary incentive to seed, people do it anyway. But web3 makes everything transactional and builds everything around individualist monetary incentives, and yet no useful application was ever (so far) conceived by it. So perhaps torrents and the wikipedia (and similar projects) work because it doesn't built everything around the free market libertarian fever dream.
Came here to say exactly this. It's becoming difficult to escape modernity.
First of all, pipelines were not empty. They need to be filled with gas to stay operational on the sea bed.

Gazprom turned off pipelines because Germany and Canada were refusing to return one turbine with proper guarantees and maintain the others (Nord stream one was built with Western turbines, NS2 has Russian ones).

Ukraine tried to sabotage NS1 and 2 for many years as both were basically a replacement for the old Soviet gas transport system that fuels Ukraine up to this day. So, they had a very strong motivation to do it.

But my bet is on USA, as they have even stronger motive and much greater capability to physically sabotage it.
> Celebrities are not your friends.

> Remember all those celebrities who claimed they'd bought Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs?

Well, yeah... This isn't new, it's always been this way.

Remember all those people who said they'd leave the US if Trump won?
“If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost.”

So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos? This seems like a fairly obtuse statement. I don’t watch these hustle porn guys on YouTube but I learn a hell of a lot from smaller tech YouTubers who produce educational content.

The author is clearly quite salty. Vox is just as bad if not worse than these guys on YouTube. Their whole schtick is riling people up for page views with no consideration for the wider societal impact.
Imagining being asked the following as if I hadn't read a ton on the project already this is how'd I'd answer:

Which of the following binaries are associated with the oil project?

A) osh
B) ysh

A probably, not B.

Which of the following binaries is associated with bash compatibility?

A) osh
B) ysh

Dunno, they both look like shells. 50/50 random guess on each.

Which of the following binaries is used on programs written in the oil language?

A) osh
B) ysh

Dunno, they both look like shells. A) looks like it's related to oil though so maybe that one again.

Now flip ysh for olang...

Which of the following binaries are associated with the oil project?

A) osh
B) olang

A and B both seem likely.

Which of the following binaries is associated with bash compatibility?

A) osh
B) olang

A is named like shells, probably that.

Which of the following binaries is used on programs written in the oil language?

A) osh
B) olang

B about repeats the question back so B, also I'm now doubly sure osh was the bash compatible option in the last question.

I'm not saying olang is the right final answer but the name should first try to make sense THEN try to sound clever. "ysh"/"soil" lack any self description and require you already know what they do to understand the name instead of the other way around.
Wishing you and yours happiness, health and peace.
It could be a consequence of overconsumption biased media. We should confront received info with everyday reality and do not let virtual sensation take our mind. So I don't think it's new normal to have people freaking out everywhere because it is not what I observe around me.

Do not let media think for you.
Not sure what it's like in other anglo countries but in the US, there's a strong association of having a large house, a lawn, and a backyard with middle to high income families. Apartments are associated with low-income ghettos.
I have the 64gb version + a 256gb sd card and I'm satisfied
> You are free to negotiate for such a clause in your contract. And to refuse contracts that don't have this clause.

You seem to have missed the post you’re responding to’s point, since it’s making the exact point that you can’t do this; due to power disparity.

They will coerce you into mostly unenforceable non-competes and 2yr window signing bonus stipulations to scare tactic you into being a “loyal” cog, but will do nothing if you sign a contract, move half way across the country, change your entire livelihood and then decide to pull your employment offer at the last moment. And you can’t do a damn thing about it, unless you’re a .1% top engineer. That’s literally the definition of a power imbalance.
Ask HN: What are some good sites for non tech people to keep up with tech?
My wife was just asking me how we should prepare for old age and what we should watch out for.

One of my suggestions was making sure that we keep up with technology.

What are some good sites for people, who may not be deeply into tech anymore, to keep up with what is going on?
It's gone from 'triple letter' to '3x' and is '2x' now double letter or double word, confusing, but thanks for sharing, great fun, at least until NYT buyout ;) Suggestion: dark mode?
Agreed, I am not near the lines I know others are so very close to, and yet so far from achieving any financial goals it feels as if I am stuck and unable to do anything but preserver and hopefully not get (too) unlucky.

While I would say I work hard and I would appreciate a significant raise if "fake jobs" become a thing, there really is so much money out there we can absolutely afford it.

They should also mostly be all remote work jobs - while we have mountains of cash in some places (not banks if you have followed the news the scumlords of techno-industry land have raided those establishments, not that banks have ever been solvent but actively destabilizing them is something different), we do not have enough petrol, batteries, or plastics to maintain the jobs we do have indefinitely. We will need to be living sustainably at home with biodegradables and renewables, perhaps figuring that out can be part of what those "fake jobs" entails - given money to live and figuring out how not to lose your sanity or induce harm to the environment which keeps you alive.

Of course panoply of threats is a growing concern, I agree that our phones do not reflect our lives but they do reflecting growing misfortune - having a phone is an indicator that your life will not look like what your phone is talking about.
Yes my point was that encryption is not an obstacle to having assurance that the person you are communicating with is who you expect them to be.

Keys can be generated directly on the secure element of the CCID card, this means there is no other copy. Alternatively employees physically go to an office to collect cards prepared by the security team where the security team has access to a secure facility where key backups are kept. The enforcement is done by the nature of the CCID cards not actually ever directly exposing the keys.
It sounds like the argument is that gambling is a form of spending money.
Compressors are actually easier to repair as all the infrastructure is on the land, while underwater pipeline requires a lot of effort and very few ships can actually do such work.
“The Thick of It” was fuelled by my anger at the Iraq war [On truth and belief]
No one is stopping you from going back to jQuery. But there's a reason the world moved on to React and others
Bold to assume Discord is any different when searchable history is inevitable as the biggest criticism of people moving their technical support to it.
How bad a future do ML researchers expect?
Sails? Modern approach?

I thought the modern approach would be to use Flettner rotors?

Then there’s the cost maturation bit. Is having the added cost and complexity worth it? Are they reliable enough?

For something like a container ship large structures would get in the way.

I’m all for it, but engineering for the sea isn’t trivial.
I'm not quite ready to embrace that line of thinking, but the thought did cross my mind. Regardless, if someone was trying to maneuver things that way it may have backfired, making it more difficult for alternatives:

First, the speed of action & (so far) efficacy of containing and stabilizing things while keeping all depositor money safe is both an endorsement of traditional regulated finance as well as a sharp counterpoint to recent crypto collapses that were neither contained nor safeguarded customer money.

Second, some of the most crypto friendly finance partners are now gone.

Sure, Bitcoin is up, but from the point of view of growing an alternative I think crypto as a whole has taken yet another hit. Whatever struggle the sector would have had regaining momentum after the past year now just got at least a little harder.
Counterpoint: France is doing extremely well in Europe and is the only country that is doing well (I'm talking energy-wize). France is a nuclear energy country.

So yes, there is 1 pretty great solution to the energy problem and yes it has existed since the 50's..
This article from Armando Iannucci contains a core most important point:

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> Seeking to justify the invasion, even though it had become clear the raison d’etre for the war, Saddam’s WMDs, didn’t exist, [Tony] Blair said: “I know this issue has divided the country … I’m like any other human being – fallible … I only know what I believe.” //

It feels real, an appeal to the heart, an offer of vulnerability, but that phrase “I only know what I believe” is a false friend: it sounds casual but actually subverts the tradition of empirical inquiry we’ve been successfully using since Aristotle. Normally, if we have a hunch, we test it. If we’re looking for an explanation, we eliminate every available solution or possibility until we find the right one. On a day-to-day basis, to survive, we first believe what we know. //

Blair’s “I only know what I believe” is an unsuspecting admission that, for him, decisions are made primarily from gut feeling and a pool of emotions rather than from objective reasoning. This is perhaps understandable if you’re - if you are something else than a decisor [words from the submitter]

===

Repeat: a reliance on belief may sound casual - typical before ignorant -, «but actually subverts the tradition of empirical inquiry we’ve been successfully using since» ancient times.

Thales proposes water as a Principle because he has noticed that sources of life are humid - the origins of the tradition of Thought point to an inquiry that seeks foundation. The conquest is ancient (and predates traditional philosophy - survival requires objective competence).

As it often happens, it seems in fact weird to have to state what should be obvious - e.g. that "children believe and adults know" (i.e. that belief is at most a preliminary stage); even that such "belief" is "a closet of dangerous material" (strikethrough correction: it would be good if it were closed as a closet - it is unfortunately active).

The point of the critical importance of reflection, verification, and inquisitive doubt, remains paramount in a society in which many factors have boosted decadence - a "society of children" -, especially in terms of forgetfulness over the elements constituting "the Basics".

Said point is far from confined to dangers in politics (where some operators have stated that "politicians are forced to delegate thought, since they have no time to exercise it" - as if a surgeon were made unable to look before cutting). It is also relevant to the many voices which have in recent times presented a weak idea of General Intelligence, in which reflection, evaluation, criticism, truth-orientedness, investigation (etc.) would not be a Primary component.
Interesting to call it a safe space. I'd say the internet is a very dangerous place for your mental health. It comes with how easily able someone can step away from it.
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>It has nothing to do with "crisis in Western societies"

Yes, which is why I said RICH countries, not western countries. It would have been strange for me to focus on western countries, given that this thread is about Japan.

>and because there are no social or economic forces coercing them to have kids.

This is kind of implying that the primary reason people have children is for economic reasons, but in wealthy countries children have been more of an economic burden than benefit and yet most people still choose to have children, though usually just 1 or 2.

In fact, this research (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/06/chart-of-th...) by the pew research center shows that within a single country (in this case the united states) birth rates are often inversely correlated with economic strength. It actually shows the birth rate increasing between 1940 and 1960, despite the fact that children were an economic burden that entire time.

I think the idea of higher income leading to lower birthrates only really applies to countries leaving deep poverty where it is common for children to work for an income. While women might not want to have 8 children, there are a lot of women who would like to have 3 or 4 children, enough to keep the birth rate at or above parity. Among that population, many won't have as many children as they want because they can't afford either the time or the cost of raising them.
I think they have to be gaudy to fool cameras.
My website introduces a lot of terms in a different language.

Instead of using definition lists, I link to glossary pages.

In Markdown, I use wikilink syntax for those links, so [[Anmeldung]] translates to a link to that glossary page.

Then I use a bit of JavaScript to make the link open a tooltip instead of a separate page.

I find this approach easier for me and for the readers. You can see it in action here: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/anmeldung-in-english-berli...
The recent “revelations” definitely looks like an effort to fool people of how it was really done. Too much Hollywood in it.
Weird take on social policies, or maybe I misunderstand.

Giving basic food, shelter and health care is not socialism.

Thinking these basics are socialism is indeed the problem and why the US is destabilizing itself with now a good part of the population living like in a third world country.

It’s refusing to address the shortcomings of capitalism (exponential accumulation, wealth and GDP not representing good for society and happiness, externalities not priced in, irrationality of people easily exploited with money, finite resources…) that are known to destabilize society since the 19th century, with now even more data and environmental problems on a far larger scale, and an effective dictatorship in the form of oligarchy.

What was dismantled since the 70’s is seeing the corporations as a mean to serve society and not the opposite, and what prevented capitalism from self destruction. It’s not socialism either, it’s Adam Smith, notably the dangers of collusive businessmen conspiring against the public good.

Russian and Chinese influence online is only a bit of fuel to that fire.
If you said "hey I'm bored let's add more squares. Let's move some pieces around or maybe change their movement rules" or "let's play checkers instead" then a human could adapt to this situation pretty easily. A reinforcement learning model like AlphaZero would be like "Whoa whoa whoa not so fast. Let's fire up the GPU cluster." Maybe one day we won't need GPU clusters. But ultimately we're the ones who create all of these tools and decide how to use them.
The search isn't on hold, we just do it differently nowadays.

SETI@home was great for its time, but distributing data to lots of end user machines just isn't the right architecture any more. Modern radio telescopes produce so much data, you have to process it onsite - these are pretty remote facilities, and the bandwidth out is much less than the bandwidth the radio telescope can produce.

Arecibo is also a couple generations ago - the Green Bank Telescope is more powerful, and the next generation of SETI is with the arrays, the VLA in New Mexico and MeerKAT in South Africa.

I wrote some other stuff about the state of SETI here:
https://lacker.io/physics/2022/01/21/looking-for-aliens.html
That's like a project manager blaming the missing of deadlines on "the opinion of certain people in the company and the bureaucracy within the company".

Not sure if that would fly.
On the other hand, if it replaces large parts of your workflow, that means your work is now very different. It will perhaps be more about making strategic decisions, less about implementing the details. So depending on what type of work you are good at and enjoy, it can be a good or a bad thing.
We have been trying to do that for a good two decades or so. The article mentions several programs Japan has implemented to try and make not a PITA to be a mother. Doubtless we will also continue to implement more of these programs as the problem gets worse.

You are seeing these “breeding machine” type posts because people are extrapolating from the current poor success rate of these programs and thinking about what more drastic steps might be taken. (Do note that I don’t approve of forcibly turning women into breeding machines, just like I don’t approve of forcibly turning men into killing machines. I did call it unconscionable.)
Not the one you're replying to... So what? I still don't get what your point is. Including quantum mechanics topics in a collection of articles doesn't make that collection science.
Those employees work at a company that treats its users like sheep. How can they expect to be treated differently?
What is the energy deposited over what area and time period on the retina? That's what defines the damage done.

Personally I would never mess with a DIY laser, and especially not one with a wavelength outside of the visible range. Invisible lasers scare me, because the blink reflex isn't there to minimize damage.
What I find distasteful about these fellas is that they’re not adding anything to the world. They’re taking away.

It’s what I love about HN. Sure, most of us wouldn’t mind being rich (sorry, ‘financially independent’), but it’s not the driver. The driver is to make something cool; to make something better.

I couldn’t imagine being the sort of person who sold people cheap Chinese shit just so I could buy a ‘Lambo’. Even if, by the book, that is a successful business.

I have no envy of these people.
What a fallen awful disgraceful argument. What lies do you think anywhere remotely match the vile soul-splitting known-falsehoods Fox spun for the ratings? Say one thing, say anything. You got nothing. Screw this pandering excusism. There's nothing like the aggressive at-an-cost lie-machine of instigation going on anywhere but in the vulnerable, sad, hurting Fox neo-world that these monsters have fictated into being with their absurd woe-begotten misery trail of falsehoods. There is no equivalency what-so-ever. This has been long dwelling cancer in the psyche of America & it's utterly unshocking there's some records of these monsters being savage demons, the only surprise is it took so long to come to real light in such undeniable obviousness.
People complaining about politics isn’t the same as securities fraud.
No, but now I'm seeing it everywhere!
Nowadays a modern radio telescope, let's take MeerKAT in South Africa, can produce maybe 10T of data per minute. The total bandwidth out of the site is orders of magnitude less, because it's in the middle of nowhere in the desert. Same thing for pretty much all the radio telescopes - the technology improves over time, and we capture orders of magnitude more data, but the internet connections to these remote locations stay very slow.

So we have to do most of the processing on site.

AI training is similar but not quite so extreme - when you try to use a bunch of consumer machines, bandwidth becomes the limiting factor.