skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> More surprising though, was the fact that the median level of experience held by those who were let go is 11.5 years. So, it's not necessarily true that these are all junior workers with little experience who could be quickly replaced or possibly even have their roles automated. One possible reason for this statistic could be that longer-serving employees tend to receive higher salaries, and cutting them could help businesses meet their financial targets.

Exactly and quite frankly unsurprising.

There is a complete delusion and a myth going around on HN that ‘seniors’ are not affected by these layoffs and proponents of that could not have been more wrong.

It is perfectly reasonable to fire them as they are totally expensive and a giant cost center to the business and to keep some extra cash would be to just reduce or remove the deadwood. Some juniors can be kept and paid less but most of them can also be let go as well if they are not quick to learn.

It was unsustainable anyway. A well deserved reset of the tech bubble that finally corrected and burst.
Does this work for more advanced maths? It's a shame the amount you can spend per book for self-study, without access to the exercise answers needed to confirm your comprehension.
This and the author's other books are really great. There's CGI animation for some of them too and they are really well done. My family are huge fans.
Faster chips are only time savers
I've generally been a very optimistic person, and even when surrounded by "doomers" I've avoided joining them. But I'm increasingly of the opinion that there is no smooth way to solve the problems we've created (and are currently creating). Housing is an example of this, medicine, feels like AI's impact on the economy will go this way.

If there were a point where things got bad enough that we finally had the will to push for real change through normal political processes, we would have reached it years ago.

Without being too dramatic, I don't see this ending well.
The example was very well chosen, because:

1) it's exactly the type of infectious disease that public health experts deal with routinely. See the first link I provided for a long list of others.

2) it's not an "extreme" concern in the sense that there's no real danger of syphillis posing an immediate existential threat: it's a very mundane example

3) there are limitations on rights today, in most developed countries, centred around the chosen example. There are tradeoffs in place today which, similarly to seatbelts, are generally well tolerated by society.

4) it is in some sense better than the seatbelt example because it involves population dynamics (exponential growth and all the models we must make use of to make well-informed policy decisions), which are a different beast. Seatbelt behaviour is linear and has an individual blast radius. Infectious diseases are non-linear and have a collective blast radius.

There's a reason there was no trucker convoy protest over seatbelt laws: people were panicking because they didn't know anything about infectious diseases and didn't understand the motivation for taking public health action. It's an almost-classic case of fear of the unknown, and yet there were always similar types of measures in plain sight.
Sorry, the idea that artists are synthesizers of the past art is ludicrous.
The human is not the machine. There are a billion factors for interpretation in creating a personal style. The A.I. image generators are just machines which produce average from all previous artists. They have no personality or agency (yet).

> Stable Diffusion trained its algorithm on data sets collected by the German nonprofit LAION, which has collected billions of captioned images from art shopping sites and websites such as Pinterest.

And it has done so without consent, causing artists and advocates to raise copyright concerns.

https://bit.ly/3FU4OSa
Calling things you disagree with "really dumb" is not an effective way to change minds.

Unless you are part of the 0.01% richest (or something like that), governments are not your voice or strength, and you have essentially no ability to influence their actions. Governments are composed of politicians and other people who will act in what they consider to be their own best interest. Those interests will generally be very different from the interests of most other people.

Getting money out of politics is impossible. Politicians are not going to vote to make themselves less well off, and lobbyists will rarely fund the campaigns of those who would make lobbying less effective.

Instead of looking to governments for solutions to problems they are neither capable of solving nor willing to solve, we should try to solve those problems by voluntary cooperation whenever possible.
If elon saying it’s worth 20B then 2B sounds about right
You are correct that AI writes cliched, boring stories. I've tried writing stories with GPT since GPT2. But currently it looks like it'll only be very useful at GPT-5 levels.

That's why writers like AI way more than artists. Writers get to design the interesting stories and characters. While AI handles all the prose and detailed dialogue. That's still a massive acceleration (100%+) compared to the old ways. Writers don't usually enjoy hammering out the words, coming up with ideas is fun, writing it much less so.
“ The Pentagon took pains to point out that the new study “does not imply that military service in air crew or ground crew occupations causes cancer, because there are multiple potential confounding factors that could not be controlled for in this analysis,” such as family histories of cancer, smoking behavior or alcohol use.”

so they didn’t control for the three biggest contributors to cancer risk - how is this useful? It’s like finding that strippers have higher risk of cancer than “the general population”, and implying that taking your clothes off is a risk factor for cancer…

Doing this kind of meaningless study doesn’t help anyone, including the service members and their families - if, for example, the major risk comes from higher rates of smoking among the military, then let’s focus on reducing that risk factor: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489722/
I use the XDR Pro Display and have wondered if these will work as a replacement for a large high res monitor.

I tried productivity / desktop on my quest 2 and it was awful.
> What’s the point of evolution

Evolution by natural selection has no objectives, goals, direction or, for that matter, point. It has no purpose, it just happens. Every living organism on earth is the result of an unimaginably large series of random mutations across an equally unimaginable span of time, all completely absent of guidance.

AI, however, is different. We set the objectives. We decide where we want it to go. And, based on this, we setup artificial selection to make it happen.
Laid off would imply that they could be rehired at some point... let's just call it what it is... mass firings.
Ask HN: Hypothesis on Post-GPT-4 Future Demand for Software Developers
I think GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 with certain Plugins could increase developer productivity by 3x to 10x. The ability to run code and get feedback to iterate will allow it to get much better at solving unseen problems.

Consequences:

* Harder problems will be solved by top 10-20% of developers, much more quickly than ever before.

* More common apps and components can be custom made-to-order by near-future-GPT-plus-Plugins as specified by smart end users or system analysts.

* If the amount of software work does not increase proportionately, the demand for software devs will decrease.

There will likely still be limitations for problems far from the distribution of the model's training data. Only full-on human-level AGI can solve that sort of problems, and no one can predict with certainty what the world will look like once it emerges.

What do you think of the above hypothesis?
OK now show me the deaths.
That’s awesome.

For what it’s worth, I had a C# dev who’d never dealt with Rust at all before get themselves setup, and then compiling and running the Rust app by themselves in about 10 minutes flat (our internet is slow) and I definitely think the ease of the setup flow contributed to that hugely, so massive thanks for making it so nice.
You won't get very far. The EU is an anti-democratic organization.
> and allow outsiders to find and fix security vulnerabilities, freeing up Twitter engineers to figure out how

...to boost Musk's tweets.
How does this thesis contrast with the absolute collapse of industry leader FaZe to $0.67? https://www.google.com/finance/quote/FAZE:NASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2a...
Side note controlling a blender with GPT is the first step to a full gore robotic annihilation of the human species
pronounces the relevant initialism as a series of transients, Czech-style

That acronym.
The results are not deterministic either since random sampling is involved.
This.

> Then at some point he describes his first time writing a game in software. He goes on about how running all the variations he tried in software would take a skilled engineer months of work, and he had done it in a couple hours - and was ecstatic.

I am sure everyone felt ecstatic at some point, regardless of their trade or field, when they worked on something all day or longer and got it done. The sheer joy it brings afterward makes your mind completely calm; past and future cease to exist for that moment. There are always going to be people like that.

AI or no AI, 20 years from now, people will still be writing software because it just makes them happy. Sure, the nature of problems will change, but these are the people who will keep pushing the field forward.

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.” - Grandpa Einstein.
Yes, JSON-LD is just a different serialization format for RDF.

For anyone looking for a solution to the link rot problem (as well as versioning and dependency management), they might be interested in Plow[0].

We built it due to frustration with
exactly those drawbacks of the semantic web/data space. At the core it builds on a model very similar to Cargo, with a public index and checksummed artifacts, that allows for easy mirroring for use-cases where all transitive links always need to be resolvable.

We are also looking to build out some tooling in the future that makes keeping up those properties easier, such as a linter that ensures that e.g. all referenced concepts in the dependency tree have a definition. (We already have a primitive version of that, but that's just on a single package level.)

[0]: https://plow.pm/
Most esports is marketing by the game developer, produced at a loss to retain player interest and sell the dream. Having pros to watch makes the game more fun and feel legitimate. There's a reason casters hype player skill non-stop.

Ex. Valorant, Overwatch, WoW, LoL (maybe actually profitable?), DotA.

Scenes actually run for the love of the game are Melee + anything tiny

The only independent esport that is kinda self-sustaining is Korean Brood War, been divorced from blizzard for a long time and still going strong w sponsorships and ad revenue.
You might be surprised to learn that companies still existed/exist under communism, with not a single investor around ;)
Very well aged, thanks for sharing.
Yep it’s just hypermedia. And as we know, cool URLs don’t change. Of course there are hypermedia solutions to even changing URLs, but that would require investing in using the actual platform rather than constantly rediscovering parts of it.
Just a question on a tangent: When you refer to Yugoslavia you mean the Federal republic Of Yugoslavia? The one that constituted Serbia and Kosovo? Or are you referring to the old Yugoslavia (the one that Tito ran)?
Further, does this mean the end of SEO?
I would appreciate it if you would directly answer the question with either a yes, a no, or a yes under specific conditions.
This sounds like a useful corollary for a high income individual that should apply generally, but if you watch videos on the "death of the middle class" videos you'll learn that the middle class in America didn't actually die recently, its actually just as big as it ever was, it's just stuff like spending on cars and housing is wayyy more expensive than ever so even us well paid software people are functionally poorer than we should be.

https://youtu.be/0sj-8pjt9Xk

IRL the vast majority of these consumer spending things don't play a massively damaging role in the average consumers life / upward mobility... at least relative to history or other regions. But a few things do. When you start getting serious about personal finance people tend to obsess about the small less important things we're wasteful about. Mostly because it's more obvious locally and easy to feel guilty about (consumer electronics, clothes, restaurants, etc).

But in practice for healthy well employed workers 80-90% of the time self-imposed poverty comes down to two things: cars and renting housing.

Cars ranks #1 easily in terms of actionable things, if you asked 90% of middle class households making >$100k you'll find car loans/costs are easily the biggest burden on disposable income. People buy cars they can't afford and getting $30k+ loans plus the associated costs of nice cars (damaging them, insurance, etc) it becomes very apparently the biggest thing stopping someone from having extra money that could be invested in 10x+ more value like paying off high interest credit card loans (rather than adding another +interest car loan) or simply investing in better things like real estate, small businesses, personal development, stocks, etc etc.

The other elephant in the room that far, far outweighs spending on vanity consumerism is housing. This one involves plenty of personal responsibility but of all the things in Americans/western life this is the least to blame individuals.

Stopping Americans from buying stupid expensive cars is a very hard mostly social problem, but housing is something that could be solved much more simply through stuff like ending zoning and anti-NIMBY laws.

We could gain plenty from working on the smaller tier consumer stuff at the same time (every dollar really does matter and you don't know until you track it) but education about cars and gov action on increasing housing supply would be the most productive work in the short term.
sentry.io is pretty good at catching N+1 queries.
Honestly, you're running it already.
Very interesting. Photo 4 is a significant step in the right direction. It's refreshing that it doesn't veer towards a Gaussian look either. Thanks for sharing.
Wikidata builds on RDF at its core (the data model behind JSON-LD), and also supports queries with responses in JSON-LD format.
> Suggested alternative: The "End Political Corruption Proposal"

I'm probably in the minority on HN, but I think this is a good thing. It should be a matter of course, in a democratic society. Free speech doesn't live solely in digital communication (universally owned by some company) any more than it does in the classified ads in a newspaper.
In a few years it will be called Pilot instead of Copilot.
> find the right fuse flags or risk bricking your chip with the wrong clock settings

Is it actually possible to totally brick an AVR chip that way? Can't you always recover them with high-voltage programming mode?
I use juicefs and it’s the way to go.
The problem is health insurance. If we got rid of health insurance, prices would necessarily drop to levels where patients could simply pay for health services.

That's how it used to work. I've seen invoices from the 50s where the cost to deliver a baby is $200. $100 for the doctor, $100 for the hospital.

With a 10x inflation adjustment, that's $2,000 total. That was enough money to deliver a baby in the 50s.
As somebody who also taught CS at the graduate level what exactly are you testing with such a question? Are you teaching people to be human compilers?

Anybody who thinks an exam is a place to prove their own cleverness relative to their students shouldn’t be teaching. How pointless.
> And he could have gotten out of it by paying a $1 billion cancel fee, something like that

I'm not sure why people are still repeating that. No, he couldn't, that fee would have been due if external influence would have prevented him from completing the transaction (e.g. the government banning the sale somehow).
I agree. With this in mind, can government ever fully work?

It seems like it’s becoming a behemoth that will need to be killed and redesigned in the future, just like it happened in the past
Clearly the joke didn't come off. As I said he was the architect of digital jails, it is just that nowadays the folks we have are so much worse.

But yes, under his watch he made the most locked down operating systems and distribution system we had ever known.
Heh Heh Heh

Isn't the general term for that a "problem with authority"? ;)
I would join a guild for at minimum protection for our fellow h1b visa holders. They’re constantly and regularly abused.
> How much should it be taxed to factor in the external cost?

I don't know. But that can be treated as a technical problem to figure out. (Problems being technical is good! Much more tractable than political or social problems.)

> Air fuel is taxed very little due to the Chicago convention.

I'm not quite sure how much the Chicago convention would hinder a clever law drafter. Judging by what I can see at Wikipedia on it, I would imagine you could technically tax not kerosene itself, but the burning of kerosene inside your airspace.
Rocket league for one receives sponsorship from car companies, nike, movie studios, and even football clubs regularly. Their nike paint finishes were selling like hot cakes.
That seems much more specialized than what I'd imagined based on the prior description.

In this example, would rails only cache models that fit certain query parameters? Or is it a configurable LRU? How does the in-memory cache work when you have multiple puma workers? Or does this mechanism rely on something more esoteric? Given that this technique is part of solving the performance problems of N+1, I'm assuming things like votes and comments are included, and the high degree of write volume would imply that all of the caches need to stay up to date- at least with a fairly high degree of consistency.
The dictator has to beat down the rebellions every time, but the rebels only has to win once. Is that what you meant?

As long as there are people there will be struggles like this. Being on the winners side makes things easier, so losing once makes it harder to go back, but it isn't impossible since we have gotten here from much worse situations.
This isn't an all-or-none scenario. It's not like all textile factories got auto-looms and the labor market collapsed overnight. Tools will improve, productivity will improve, and the demand for software development as a specialty will wane dramatically. Making simple tools using prompts will no longer require knowledge of data structures and algorithms, efficiency, networking, or anything else we get paid to know, and over time will shift to something white collar workers put on their resume next to MS Office. A tiny handful of specialist engineers will control development, and software creation as a commodity will essentially be automated. We will feel the impact of these changes LONG before that process is complete.
Can you not provide a seed to an LLM the way you can with some of the image / video generation models I’ve seen?
There’s an interesting detail that the article omits, which is that in that long expression, it’s possible to end up with complex numbers under the cube root sign even if the roots of the polynomial are all real! The formula was discovered before mathematicians accepted the idea of imaginary numbers which made the formula suspect in its early history.
The original case of tech startups was that if you gave people a living wage (such they were comfortable), then the fact that they're not keeping up with the Jones's becomes meaningless, and then how they thrive is about how interesting their job is to them.

This is seen, at least partially, as what drew a lot of people to the current "big tech" companies. They wanted to work on interesting problems. The pay was high, but it mattered a lot less than that the work was actually rewarding.
Interestingly, if you call you glue "reflection" and "annotations" or "attributes" and not "combinators" and use them in a modern language with good editor support, it becomes a reason to deride a language.

Java for example has some very interesting ways to meta program it, for example you can relatively easily dynamically select a number of classes based on different features and say for example: "apply all these to the input and count each output as a vote on an input."

But except for when listening to or talking to long time users I never hear about it. Two reasons off the top of my head (but I guess there are many more):

- many educators teach Java in an extremely uninspiring way.

- the long and sad history of old enterprise Java (and later, Spring, although Spring was a force for good for a while)

Edited to mention "attributes" as well as good editor support.
> using GTK

Maybe Qt instead?

Suggestion that because the Qt docs tend to be much, much better + it's realistically cross platform, thus opens up more possibilities.
I am aware of the etymology you refer to, but in this case I am referring to something different.

The noun "termo" in Spanish is formally recognized by the RAE to refer to a vacuum insulated food jar (such as the ones sold by Thermos®), and that is the word I was referring to, as it is the most widely identifiable use of the word "termo" in Spanish.

https://dle.rae.es/termo

i.e.: "Pasame ese termo por favor?", "Se me ha quedado el termo en mi casa".
A good CRT was arguably the pinnacle of monitors/TV in general.

If the function of a monitor is to accurately represent an image then LCD was a total failure. I never seen an LCD screen that could accurately represent even a single color, let alone a whole image full of them. Filling the whole screen with a color like #FF7D00 always results in strong gradients, especially around the corners.

Sometimes I think we were all fooled by marketing into thinking that HD resolution was the only thing that mattered just because LCD screens were less expense for companies to make/ship/stock when really we were giving up accurate color representation, faster response times, better viewing angles, zero motion blur, and extremely flexible resolution/refresh rates. I also resent the loss of the degauss button, which was way more fun/satisfying than it had any right to be, but maybe that's just me.
There are low cost AVR programmers, such as [1]. Similar are available for much less on Aliexpress.

You can also easily use an Arduino, a solderless breadboard, a few jumpers and some software as an AVR programmer [2].

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9825

[2] https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Program-an-Attiny85-Fro...
I say one does need a house (well a home).
@dang (2017)
It's exactly the same amount of paperwork you always need to file for a backdoor Roth. It just means you end up with a $1 on a specific line of 8606 that would otherwise be a zero. You'd still need to fill out 8606 either way.
You can open an s3 object as a 'file object' in python and it is at least seekable.

Other than that I think you're best to treat s3 as a huge kv store and not a filesystem at all.
IMO the bigger part is that numerical root finding works really well in practice. There's plenty of times you need to solve for roots of equations, but getting within 1e-6 is often good enough.
A romantic partner should not, but some people believe that they deserve authority over their romantic partners. It would be nice to believe that all relationships are handled healthily, but this is something a surprisingly large number of people struggle with, partly because it's not something that you can take a formal training course on.