skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fees for converting to fiat are generally _smaller_ than the fees MasterCard or Visa for instance will grab from credit card transactions [0][1]. If you are refering to the fees from the blockchain, note that L2 options exist, and not all cryptocurrencies have the absurd fees L1 ETHR would have, for instance Litecoin fees can be as small as 1 cent.

Relating to the varying amount monthly:

1 - It's a donation, not your source of income. If you really on that money that's your issue not of anyone else's.

2 - The platform such as Patreon could simply quote the value in dollars instead of BTC or whatever cryptocurrency. Recurring payments with crypto will have to be done manually anyways so this is a non-issue.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/credit-card-processi...

[1]: https://help.coinbase.com/en/commerce/getting-started/fees
> Something I find odd is the focus on “data security” in basically alal media coverage and politician statements. Is that what’s at issue, or is it the influence the CCP has over people through tik tok?

Notice, for the sake of high level rationalism, that this is a false dichotomy.

CCP influence over TikTok is a subset of the bigger problems:

- TikTok, or the medium it operates on, is extremely persuasive, it's the most potent way to spread ideas from one mind to another (for example: the beliefs you hold about China's intents, which you do not actually possess knowledge of).

- The US government does not have a means to exert control over it like the other social media giants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
K8sGPT gives Kubernetes SRE superpowers to everyone
I wish it was that simple. I use a 4th gen iPod touch, every day, only to listen to music while commuting. Just this week I needed an interval timer, and thought that I could just install one on my iPod.

Nope - AppStore showed about 12 results for "interval timer", but none of them were installable on iOS 6. I thought then I will look for an online interval timer, and use it through wifi. After clicking through the first 3 pages of Google results, Safari could not make any of the pages usable. Either loaded a blank screen, or the interface didn't react to the touches - I guess some "fancy" new features that are too modern for the old Safari.

I could rant about loading 10MB JS on a typical lightweight site that has the same visuals and functionality as 15 years ago, but now it makes Chrome cry on a modern machine... but I won't do that.

Anyway this is how I gave up having an interval timer on my iPod. Maybe my plan was too grandiose to begin with. Neither new software, nor old software.
EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting cars
I wait for the moment it gains consciousness it's AI and not us (ours).

ChatGPT's answer:

> While AI can enhance our productivity and efficiency, it cannot replace our ability to learn, grow, and adapt to new challenges.

> Therefore, it is important to view AI as a complement to our skills and knowledge

As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions or emotions. However, I can provide some insights on the topic of AI and its impact on the tech industry.

It is understandable to feel discouraged or demotivated when faced with the capabilities of advanced AI models such as GPT-4. These models have demonstrated remarkable skills in various domains, including natural language processing, computer vision, and even software development. However, it is important to note that AI technology is still evolving and has its limitations. While AI can assist in automating certain tasks, it cannot replace human creativity, intuition, and problem-solving skills.

Moreover, AI technology is not a substitute for continuous learning and personal development in the tech industry. The rapid pace of technological innovation requires professionals to stay up-to-date with the latest trends, standards, and best practices. While AI can enhance our productivity and efficiency, it cannot replace our ability to learn, grow, and adapt to new challenges.

Therefore, it is important to view AI as a complement to our skills and knowledge, rather than a threat or a replacement. As the tech industry evolves, it will continue to create new opportunities and challenges for professionals to thrive and make a meaningful impact.
The OP spoke about personal development, not wage and market value. I would advise everyone to "work to live" not "live to work".

> If you are an expert in some area and suddenly everyone else catches up almost, it will surely impact your wages.

Find something that compels you and don't be a wage slave. That used to be what programmers did.
It is already the dominant paradigm.

React:
f(State) => UI

Redux:
(State, Action) => newState
Lol. I’ve had Samsung and Pixel phones that never received updates to newer Android versions, not even to the next version that came out while the phone was still being sold.
What is this web technology progress you refer to?
> You can get paid in USDC and

So, as always every discussion about "but crypto" almost immediately devolves to "not crypto, but a very specific coin that seems to be more-or-less okay at this particular point in time"

> or pay people directly with it

Which people? The dozen or so places in the entire world that accept crypto?
Teaching the Linkage Between Banks and the Fed: RIP Money Multiplier (2021)
History is full of inventions that changed the game for the people in a specific industry. Sometimes they allowed one person managing the machines to replace a team previously doing manual labor. I don’t think that’s the right metaphor here, because programming is not manual labor. The parts of programming that are like manual labor will disappear, you’ll instruct the AI to do it for you. But you need to know what to prompt it with and how to verify its output and plumb it into your code. Speed of writing code is rarely the bottleneck, so speeding that part up doesn’t double your productivity. Still, it helps.

I’ve been programming with the assistance of copilot for a year now, and using ChatGPT as well since 3.5. These tools are amazing, I’m never going back. But to me they’ve only increased the value of the senior engineer with deep domain knowledge. It makes me more productive. But I have to come up with the requirements, correct the AIs code, do all the plumbing that it can’t do efficiently. A lot of the code it comes up with is pure garbage, I have to know enough to know the difference. It does kind of replace a junior developer a little, if you were giving them grunt work tasks, which could be an issue when starting out in this field.

There is so much more that software engineers do than just writing code. That’s really a minority of the time each day for me. If you’re familiar with Amdahl’s law, then you know there’s a mathematical limit to the productivity improvement here.
Incredibly arrogant, disrespectful, and false. Junior devs who actually write code are beneath you and don't use "analytical thinking" or have to understand processes or dependencies? Ridiculous.

GPT-4 can do all of that stuff. Probably as well or better than you. If you think you still are better, can you do it literally for 24 hours a day? How about 3-6 months from now, are you going to become 50-500% faster/better at your job?

I would love to see a few samples of some real world "architecting" that you have done in the last few months along with the calendar schedule you did that on and then compare you head-to-head with GPT4 and a junior dev. And then we show your executives how that went. Sound good?
Storefront UI 2: Tailwind Based, ECommerce Centric, UI Library for Vue and React
It’s not just apps requiring later versions, it’s apps using more and more memory due to the use of ever-more bloated frameworks and the like.

The vast majority of these apps would’ve run fine on a computer from the 1980’s running at a handful of MHz in mere kilobytes of RAM, if they were optimized. But they use the trendiest frameworks and require gigabytes of RAM and gigahertz of clock cycles to run their todo-list (or whatever it is they do).
Soon we can forget SVG.
This mindset just artificially downplays the fact that it will get incrementally better, multiple times, and strikingly quickly. It’s insanely shortsighted IMO. You don’t have to believe AI is the next coming of Jesus to recognize it’s reached a point (or soon will) to be genuinely disruptive. Corporate execs will absolutely and quickly pursue using AI to reduce costs and speed up development. At the expense of employees.
No, it's not silly to worry about it. Many companies store data in third party systems to which they retain control over access. Once you put data into chatGPT what control do you have over it?
marginally to not at all
> Yet, ya'll turned out ok, despite all those changes.

I personally do very well for myself, being in the top 1% of earners in my generation. It deeply concerns me that I can barely afford to buy a house despite this fact. Most of my peers can't even dream of doing something like buying a house right now. And why is this happening? Because computers are being used to extract vast amounts of value from the system to be captured by a tiny fraction of people who are increasingly owning everything. AI will only accelerate this trend.

And perhaps I'm one of the lucky ones to have carved out a good career for myself, but everywhere I look, I see folks struggling more and more. And stuff like AI is about to make life a whole lot harder for them. Yuval Harari talked about the rise of the "useless class" [0], and the challenges with mass unemployment in the future when AI has replaced many jobs.

You can repeat the "it'll be OK" mantra as much as you want, that doesn't make it true.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94o-9zR2bew
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> It’s the best thing we have

Oh, it's not even close to being the best thing we have.
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Treating your customers as ad-holes is ultimately pound foolish.

Speaking of pissing on your customers, I tried to create an FB account recently (thinking that the software I sell ought to have a FB presence). Immediately I received an email from FB accusing me of lying when setting up the account — requiring me to now submit my (mobile) phone number in order to begin the process of resolving the issue.

Yeah, no. Bye, FB.
It's called Capitalism :)
Salesforce averts Elliott proxy fight after share gains
Why would IBM acquire and not touch it? They must have had a reason to acquire?
Windows 7 and 8 are both EOL by Microsoft. I don't think it's unreasonable of valve to drop support for OS's that Microsoft aren't maintaining, and the hardware requirements for 7 and 10 are the same today according to MS [0][1]. For a while you could officially upgrade to win10 for free, and it seems that even now, it still works 5 years after they stopped offering upgrades, and 3 years after win7's end of life.

I'm not sure what your gripe is here specifically, if you want to continue to run steam, you can upgrade your OS once a decade, or you can install steam for Linux if your device doesn't meet the requirements. That's about as good a set of options as I could imagine.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-syste...

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-system...
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Maybe one day there will be AI-optimized "emulation" apps that work on older hardware, but emulate newer hardware, making intelligent code path optimizations / branch prediction, etc with the help of AI-generated bytecode that lets you not have to upgrade your hardware, you just upgrade the emulator you use to run apps supposedly only supported on newer hardware.

Also, whenever I hear "you're making me"--I instantly think of those Hollywood action/thriller movies, where in the climax, the villain often says, "You're making me do this" or something to that effect--and instantly distrust the speaker!
Melbourne's filled with Kiwis anyways - kiwis make the place what it is :p
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Founding team has 10+ years of ed-tech experience at MIT, Quizlet, Codecademy (+ experience at Google, Palantir, and Stripe).

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The idea that Brazil will have a more stable currency than the dollar is a hilarious inversion of reality.
Flooding attack against [PGP] synchronising keyservers
That's what you might expect, but it requires another breakthrough IMO. From what I understand of LLMs, they can't be incrementally improved to add logical reasoning since they're just guessing the next word. It's impressive and fine in many cases, but there are many where it's not enough.
I don't owe having children to your children, or to you.

You can have children if you want, but I'm not requiring that of you.

If your children take care of me late in life, it's because they're exchanging their work for money. And the reason they're obligated to exchange their work for money is because that's the economic system into which their parents decided to bring them.
While I've never used Google's toilets, cleaning your asshole using a water spray is usually accomplished by a bidet. They're somewhat common in toilets in parts of Europe, and quite common in Japan. It's preference, but people usually like them.

That being said, if the toilet component sucked then the whole experience will suck. I just wouldn't discount ass-spraying toilets from one bad toilet.

EDIT: Almost all the toilets with bidets I've used have also had manual flush options, although the UX is hit or miss.
I used 3 for the first time to spit out some boilerplate for me and I was fairly impressed. Maybe the next one can solve complex problems I have to think seriously about, like architecture decisions.

But I never started coding to write code - I started coding to solve problems and make things, and I've been doing it for 40 years and 25 professionally. Code is the medium for me, not the message. I always thought that made me a bad coder, but maybe in this new era it puts me ahead of the game somehow. I dunno.
I had few ideas now and then, but I kept always thinking about one step that held me back - how do I get the right T&C and Privacy policy? Need to mention I'm from Poland and I guess it must be way different by law standards than it's in the US - take the GDPR alone but then a lot of hassle with local tax office... It just seems quite costly to just try an idea.

What should I do to get it right? Is it possible to get an US or other entity just to be able to have some kind of relaxed paperwork?
At some point you're better off switching to a dumb phone for phone calls and a tablet with a data-SIM for everything else.
Maybe shit is not worthless. Maybe we can mine some data outta that. We need to be smart about it though.

I am skeptical, whether spraying water at the butt is a good idea. What about the additional aerosols that creates? And if the spraying does not have the water pressure, you might end up with a dirty and wet butt, instead of only a dirty butt.

I also dislike toilets, which when you dump, allow water to splash up at you. I don't think that water is necessarily very clean.
C’mon, he’s still using a phone from 2016 (which was the low-end model even in 2016), and by his own admission it’s still pretty usable for most things.

I think that’s a pretty good run.

All the Android users I know have been through at least 3 or 4 phones in that period. And so have some of the iPhone users who obsessively upgrade every 2 years even though they don’t need to!

(Typing this on an iPhone X from 2017…)
I get plenty of junk mail in the post. The fact that it's legal doesn't stop it being junk mail. Yes, I could take the time to write to a politician to complain about junk mail, or I could just chuck it in the trash and get on with my day.

Ditto spam. Yes, some of the spam I receive might be within the law. That doesn't stop it being spam though. I could also take the time to write to a politician to try and change the law on what spam is legal and what isn't... or I could just mark it as the spam it is and get on with my day.
they are trying to make me replace my feature phone. and i hate using a phone at all!
This might also be true for them
Show HN: DiskerNet – save and index web content locally
Pure hell has just been predicted. :s
> 2. Some apps get reset when I’m trying to multitask

This is an issue I've been having too (iphone XR), since this didn't use to be the case and the apps I use aren't significantly different from the ones I used a few years ago, it makes me think this is some kind of forced obsolescence or an OS bug. It also highlights that many apps don't implement a suspend very well.
> I just don't expect todays developers to make a herculean effort

that isn't supposed to be a herculean effort -- if it is then you should question those that provide the software stack, and question why you're beholden to those decision-makers.
New wake lock api is broken.

Passes feature detection but does not work in home screen.

Just like in IE you need to add some extra if’s for Safari version and environment detection.
I'm fairly sure that according to even the old (by internet standards) American CAN-SPAM act, if you cannot easily unsubscribe then it is illegal.

I might however have misremembered something so please if someone knows, feel free to fill in.
Why can't you stuff a GPU or 2 on such a machine?
That's because it isn't true, the replacement is the $599 iPad Mini 6 which is in a completely different class of tablet. Even the $300 iPad would outclass it by a mile.

Mini 6 has regularly been on sale for $499 as well since it is now long in the tooth already.
Yo, this currently has a bug where it will break when you put your laptop to sleep when it's on: https://github.com/dosyago/DiskerNet/issues/155
> It's a donation, not your source of income. If you really on that money that's your issue not of anyone else's.

We're literally in a topic about creators and Patreon where Patreon is a substantial source of income to quite a few creators.

And the dismissive tone about donations in general... well, I won't comment on that

> The platform such as Patreon could simply quote the value in dollars instead of BTC or whatever cryptocurrency.

Or they could just not bother.

> Recurring payments with crypto will have to be done manually anyways

Ah yes. The great digital system of the future where even such a simple thing as recurring payments must be done manually
To the extent there is anything that can be called "objective" morality, betraying social contract and causing other people to suffer for your own profit is going to be on the "wrong" side of that.

Going all philosophical here is, what, you making excuses for being a monster? Because what you're saying is that ruining other people's lives for your own profit is fine.

And yeah, violence is an extreme and distasteful solution, as I said. But if the only other option is to suck it up and let the exploiters win, then that's on them. You don't get to have a hypocritical morality system where it is ok for you to inflict harm on others for your own profit and not ok for them to inflict harm back in self defense.
That’s a wasteful approach though. Ideally you want your auth, validation/parsing, routing, db connection etc. all ready to go when a request comes in. There are parts that ought to be stateless and parts that shouldn’t.
Thanks for the link! I got confused because your cppreference link only talks about std::launder.

I did not know about std::start_lifetime_as. Looks very useful! It's crazy that it took so long. Considering that one of the primary design goals of C++ was backwards compatibility with C (too a large extent), I always found it crazy that malloc'ing objects would be undefined behavior. In practice, this has always worked, though. At least now we have a standard-blessed way to do these kind of things.

As a side note, does this mean that you can finally cast an array of bytes to an object pointer (e.g. for deserialization) without violating strict-aliasing rules? The usage example in section 1.2 of the linked paper seems to imply this, but it does not mention aliasing anywhere...
> All journalism is propaganda

Such a derogatory statement detached from reality. It's like saying all health professionals are out there to get your money by keeping you as sick as possible. Or all teachers are out to indoctrinate your kids. Or all firefighters are arsenists.

I have quite a few journalists as friends or acquaintances, and many of them are the most honest people I know, with strong ethics and admireable ideals.

Of course there are bad apples out there. In any profession. But your statement is just ridiculous.
It's not just an issue of poverty, as if only poor countries have to contend with old phones. In rich countries, there's still an issue of valuation. I have money, but I don't value phones that highly. Just like I could buy a $100 ice cream if I wanted to, but I don't value ice cream that highly.
A bit off topic but a reminder of the BBC's brilliant tour through history via 100 Objects in the British Museum:

You can listen to 100-odd of them in their original bitesize form or try the omnibus themed editions:

Original format first episode:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pwmgq

First Omnibus:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r2hky
See my other comment. I think logical rigour requires another breakthrough.
A shot of espresso and a toasted almond granita are honestly the best way to start the day.
I never saw publications like The Verge proclaiming that e.g. the ban of Parler was a betrayal of the open internet. Either the term open internet is to be interpreted as the internet which reflects my ideology or (to paraphrase a term made popular in the early days of the public internet) my way or no digital highway or there is just not enough money to be had from tiny players like the aforementioned Parler. No matter what it is it does not bode well for these TikTok-astroturfers.

Checking Wikipedia's Perennial Sources list [1] I notice that The Verge is listed as 'green' with a green checkmark, i.e. 'reliable': There is broad consensus that The Verge is a reliable source for use in articles relating to technology, science, and automobiles.. Here reliable probably serves the same function as open in the title of this thread, i.e. that which follows my ideology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
From my vintage, among the most competent governing institutions are the Supreme Court and the Fed, neither of which has any oversight. I'm not claiming any sort of perfection, but compared to congress, it's like night-and-day.

It'd be interesting to understand how and why. That's not true of all institutions without oversight.
chromebooks are the standard linux desktop
Well I guess work on making these GPT programs then?
> If these deficits...

If. And if they did there would be endless piles of political fodder. Politicians patting themselves on the back praising their genius. Etc.

That's not happening. Conclusion? If is generally closer to highly unlikely.

As for left pocket / right pocket those shifts have overhead. A program(s) to manage the programs. Let's consider that interest. Let's consider that too little value added to the taxpayers. In other words, the deficit is being used to perpetuate the government and the status quo, and not much more.

In theory I agree with you. Unfortunately, the reality is much different. The fact it has been normalized doesn't mean we should accept it.