skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever the parent is describing, it's an extreme outlier, or a loosey-goosey definition of "carpenter."

My father came from a poor family and went to college on a scholarship, but after graduating and finding that he couldn't afford to complete graduate school, he went into carpentry. He started with basically nothing, but ended up making a decent living after years of busting his ass. Ultimately he was pulling in six figures before retirement.

I can think of two ways the parent's statement might be true-ish:

1) The "master carpenter" is some kind of artisan, doing bespoke pieces (essentially, artwork) for incredibly wealthy individuals. Perhaps they come from wealth and already had connections.

2) The carpenter is not a carpenter, but a business owner. This is eventually what my father did - he used his own labor exclusively at first, working for other people. Once his network expanded he started taking on small jobs on his own. Once that expanded he started hiring people to help. Once that expanded he was able to save enough money, and eventually he got his general contractor's license.

At some point along the line, although he retained and sometimes still utilized his own carpentry skills, a vast majority of his earnings were generated by the fact that he owned a business and employed other people to do the labor. And yet, he still made maybe 1/4 of what the parent post's acquaintance does (adjusted for inflation).

For 1), you would need to be both incredibly talented and incredibly good at marketing. For 2), you need to be good at "business" more than you need to be good at carpentry.

This isn't a straightforward path. For everybody like my father, I knew people in his orbit who never made the leap to ownership. They worked doing manual labor for other people, and the toll it took on their bodies was immediately evident. The kind of physical work that you can do in your 20s and 30s starts to grind you down quickly in your 40s or 50s. He knew plenty of peers and colleagues whose pain became unmanageable, and drug addiction was the result. Others who ended up on disability being unable to work at all.

"Rich tradesman" is a low percentage play. I suspect that the extent that it's possible to be a $500k/yr carpenter (for somebody really starting out in the trades - not somebody coming from wealth/privilege and starting off with a business or art connections), you may as well be trying to become a professional athlete.
I wonder if you notice the lovelessness in hating them and pitying them.
> “take a novel problem that they haven't seen before and break it down”

But who does that professionally as a stand-up performance, clock ticking, a judge breathing down your neck who has been equipped with a script that tells him things like “if candidate doesn’t do X within the first ten minutes it’s very bad”?

Doing well in that situation depends more on social performance skills than problem-solving skills. You’re essentially trying to infer the interview script that the interviewer has in mind and act it out convincingly.

If someone says “I’d like to start by taking ten minutes alone in another room and think it out first”, will they get hired? Probably not. It’s not the expected performance even if the solution is fine.
You get that there’s a fundamental difference here, right?
> businesses wouldn't benefit from having poorer consumers, so it doesn't make sense to increase productivity at the cost of consumer power.

I think your logic is impeccable here, and yet we frequently see businesses making decisions that do exactly that. The growing wealth gap seems to be indication enough. I can posit all sorts of explanations for why that might be but I'm much more curious as to what you imagine a fix for it might look like, from your model. Or do you think it will simply fix itself once things "bottom out" as it were (and not to present a false dichotomy).

> relieve humans of mundane tasks

In the economy/system we currently have, mundane tasks are entire classes of jobs. Jobs not frequently pursued out of passion, but necessity since it is very difficult to survive without a source of income, and a baseline of health insurance. And even more difficult to grow. So while I love the vision of that future, I'm much more interested in what the bridge to getting there looks like. Because traditionally we haven't built those bridges, we've just hoped enough survivors will learn how to swim.

> resource-based economy where money becomes less important

In the current society/economic system, money is a proxy for the abstract concept of resource. Do you mean a more direct resource foundation, like a barter system? An economy that moves without the lubrication of a finance industry using the abstraction of money to provide liquidity? Something different?
Data from my Tesla Model 3 SR+ 2019, France, average consumption 151 Wh/km

Lost rapidly 9-10% from the new range (386km IIRC, I didn't write it down) since then range seems to not move much, up and down.

date range odometer
20190921 0km
20200815 363km
20201024 364km
20210606 360km
20210703 362km
20210803 357km
20210926 353km
20220205 356km 49593km
20220407 350km 55761km
20220411 353km 56055km
20220625 356km 64213km
20221008 353km 69588km
20221207 354km 73195km
20230407 353km 83100km
There's a 4th - AI is a bicycle and I am riding the bicycle more and more every day.
One of the great Silicon Valley stories-- before the place got tooo fancy.
Maybe it's just me, but I do good things to help people, not to be remembered. Though, I think the people I help do remember me.
Well I read that and it's part of my life I won't get back. Was there any point?
> notes die when you don’t engage with them

That is an interesting idea, but not something I would ever want in a notes app. A note may be important but never opened.

For example, I have a note in Craft with my bike serial number and a picture of me standing next to it. If my bike is ever stolen and recovered, this note is proof of ownership. I have not opened this note since creating it, because my bike has not been stolen, but I would obviously hate to lose it.
There's also the issue of scalability.

Grinding leetcode at least scales horizontally to a huge number of companies.

Homework is typically useless outside of the single company you're doing it for.

I generally refuse all takehome assignments unless:

1.) It sounds uniquely interesting and fun to do.
2.) The company is prestigious enough, or pays well enough, that making any effort to try to get the job worth it.
Them: "Ok, Boomer!"
Me: "No problem, Embryo!"
'Sovereign AI' does sound like a phrase that ChatGPT might come up with if you asked it to make up an article about Brexit and AI. Either ChatGPT or one of dozens of websites trying to be a British version of the Onion...
Hmm, well I totally understand how it drives spacecraft design and I don’t know off the top of my head the length of greatest eclipse but it cannot be greater than a small fraction of the period (upwards of 1/12). This is significant for a spacecraft itself but as far as a regionally integrated power grid is concerned it is a clear improvement over current solar PV systems.
I get that there maybe some fatigue here with the idea and blue sky optimism that comes with SBSP, I think there are valid criticisms to level at it orbit selection and corresponding ground tracks and eclipses are not one.
https://files.catbox.moe/lrism9.png

wtf
It was very obviously happening in replies, which is different from "For You". The reply system had a different sorting algorithm that AFAIK prioritized verified accounts even before Elon came along. It was very visible now that the "pay for verify" system was available where you'd have a viral tweet with a solid wall of verified replies for pages before you'd see the far-more-popular unverified replies. The quality hit was bad enough I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter is quietly turning down the weighting of Verified in replies, because it's so extreme.
The key problem the UK is facing is that a load of good investment ideas get announced and then proceed to spend decades drowning in red tape. In order to overcome this you need to announce some initiatives and then ensure over the next 5 years that they really deliver. But we're 13 years in Tory rule and there's going to be an election next year, so there's literally no chance of this being a success. Even back in 2019 when the levelling up stuff was happening it was like "Um, we're going to show some results in 2030" and it's like... well, you're not going to be here in 2030, so it's kind of academic, and the stuff you started in 2010 that should be paying off now? You massively cut capital spending so there is no pay off now.
That's exactly the point. It was theirs at some point. Nowadays, Hawaii is basically a colony of the USA.
Maybe this is a bit too shameless of a plug, but I created EXACTLY this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458826

It's just a regex that filters out "GPT", "AI", "LLM", and "LLaMA" :)
Remember when photoshop was going to rewrite history? I do.

It didn't happen.
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Unattended security gates at a local campground are being used to gather data. To get access to the campground, you have to provide your plate number, vehicle make & model, and vehicle color. The gate only checks for the plate number, but the images captured can be used to build out a vehicle make/model ML model.

Maybe partner with such a system to gather your data?

I have several thousand images of vehicles on the roadway and parking lots that I used to understand the backend ML of an ALPR system. Selecting cameras was the most difficult part of the project. I did not attempt to determine the make/model. My patience for labeling had worn too thin.

Overall, as invasive as ALPR system are, the cat has long left the bag. I doubt the cat will ever return.
I personally just use my calendar + Notes app + reminder app on my iPhone and that’s been more than enough for me.
Every time there’s some giant violation of privacy, the rejoinder is “well, it was in the privacy policy, you all agreed to it.” The moral of the story is that we have “to extrapolate from there.”

And they have clever lawyers to write their privacy policies. We don’t, so we have to “round up” in a sense unless we want to be blamed for agreeing to things.

The Qualcomms of the world created this situation, we just have to deal with it.
I'm sorry but you're responding to an imagined argument that I didn't make. This is an article about adding telemetry to 1Password so they don't have to only listen to the loud voices. Look again at my post, my exact words were "If you only listen to the people who are talking..." -- I'm saying they need to listen to the whole customer base, not just the loud voices. I did not suggest that people shouldn't voice their concerns, nor that companies shouldn't listen to people who speak up. The idea here is not to underrepresent the people that have nothing to talk about.
Yeah. I trust my team mates, but we use PR’s and approvals as a means of doing code review to make sure things don’t slip through and that everything has had multiple eyes. It’s not about trust, but improving quality, because we’re humans and humans miss things or make mistakes. It also provides a nice record of why changes were added, a place to link tickets/documentation, automaton hooks etc.

I love PR’s as a concept and tool. I also often use PR’s to merge changes on my personal projects even when I’m the only developer.
Reminds me of the plot line of Metal Gear Solid 2. It seemed so goofy and far fetched at the time: a machine with ubiquitous access to digital information capable of rewriting history and news such that it controls the narrative.

Yet we see examples of informational and societal manipulation all over now. Kojima might have been about out there on the details, but on the general thesis, he was dead on.
Lol, I get what you're saying but comparing meat eating to slavery makes you seem even more unreasonable.
lots of issues with that article, but the most obvious one are the graphs: OECD GDP data was misread and then they wrongly applied CER’s doppelgänger model.

in reality UK GDP is about 6% higher than in Q2 16.

i don’t know why they do this kind of sloppy reporting, but they do have form. another priceless article about Germany itself: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inflation-bankr...
+1 modal.com is the first thing I checked after reading the readme.
Challenge: Open up your favorite website (not HN :D) and watch the XHR's and network calls in your browser's devtools. How many of those are for the same origin? How many of those are ad calls being blocked by your extension (which also has access to your data)? How many of them are calls for a single pixel gif? Some javascript? favicon.ico? Do some spelunking on WHOIS for each of those domains. All it takes is one of them to proxy the headers. Proxy the headers and check if ad was served by looking at logs of both ad request and page request, if no ad request was found, require them to disable adblocker...
A man called Ove.
> that is to be able to take a novel problem that they haven't seen before

But with platforms like leetcode and more, the candidates are split into those who have had the time to prepare (and see the problem before) and candidates who can’t put in that time. And most modern interview processes do not give you credit for thinking through it. You only get through if you solve it the right way, and fast. There is no time to “think and solve a novel problem you’ve never seen before”.
As a random aside, if anyone wants a fun read, check out An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1
Your history classes sound a lot more useful than the ones I sat through in the US - ours was mostly delivered as a set of settled fact.
Reminds me of the old Bismarck quote about Spain

“I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success.”
It's entertaining that this article clumsily lumps Apple in with Google regarding this stealth data collection, but without offering a single shred of evidence that Apple is doing this at all, let alone doing it secretly.
That’s why he says this approach is more likely to produce false negatives than false positives
> Then it all descends into zero-sum status games.

Cough! Theoretical particle physics. Cough!
I don't get it. In most circumstances, if one doesn't want to be called immoral for performing an objectively cruel act, the standard course of action would be to stop doing it.

Why would one who inflicts or remunerates mistreatment, slavery, and death upon animals expect to be shielded from criticism on the count of it potentially hurting their feelings?
Yea, they used actors to maintain consistency while manually animating quite an bit, and it still looks janky.

It’s an interesting process but more trying to include X in a workflow than a significant advantage. Imagine trying to do a flight scene where characters are tossing fireballs at each other with that workflow.

That said, it’s very possible for this to be used on a specific movie. The pick a plot that works with the limitations and let the jank be part of the art stile…. I doubt you could watch it for an hour without getting headache, but used sparingly it could work.
This may point to a key problem in the hypotheses, theories and conclusions. When you are in Africa, a "think horses" paradigm, may lead you very astray in your thinking.
> Also a throwaway to say "eating meat is bad?" that isn't a crazy controversial stance haha.

Can't speak for op, but it feels like 50% of the times I bring it up here, even when trying to be careful, my comment fades into low contrast…
Overuse of antibiotics in livestock is certainly a problem, but this is also true for many of the pesticides we use for plant farming and our lack of standardized irrigation water testing (in the US) which has lead to issues like the recent E. Coli outbreak in lettuce. In general modern farming of all kinds has issues that need to be addressed, I don't see any exclusivity in the meat category.

I will continue eating meat, I believe it is *good* for both individual health and collective health. In fact the amount of vegans I've met in life who didn't look like they were suffering from some illness has been very rare, only solidifying my position on this.

I'm comfortable with meat prices going up if it resolves the antibiotics issue, but I'm unconvinced by the moral arguments you disguise as health arguments.
I'd love a userscript that autohides/downvotes every "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." post. I'm getting tired of doing it manually.
People should believe in themselves because they will always be useful. Many jobs will go away, but new ones will appear. The key is to work with AI, not against it. Everyone must start working together with AI to find their place in the future world.
Jane Street wasn't all that prestigious when they started using OCaml. The way they put it is "it was easier to find great programmers in the empty set of people who know OCaml than in the huge set of other programmers" (roughly). So, on the contrary, I think it might help boring cludgy company find quality talent.

I think there is a fallacy being repeated in this thread, namely that the choice is between mainstream and weird, or between old-and-tested and new-and-shiny. No, that's not the choice. The choice is between tools and abstractions that are helpful and productive, and those that aren't. Some of the helpful and productive things are old, some are new, some are mainstream, some are niche.

I don't fully understand how someone wants to spend their career in programming and not actively seek out what is helpful and productive, rather than what currently gets the most questions on Stack Overflow or has a big pool of people who put it on their CV. It's not like all languages are equally good. It's a wasteful approach.
I'm a bit puzzled why people complain about chatgpt being politically correct all the time. In which cases is that a problem really? Would the solution be to not censor anything? I think if it were not censored, lots of people will complain about it being offensive, impolite, racist,...
It'd be more sensible to invest this money directly into Google DeepMind, which already exists and is based in London.
"I don't know what the solution is"

I'll get hate for my comment too, but the answer is less people.

Resource consumption (for multiple resources) and freedom are competing interests. You have to trade freedom to restrict resource consumption. But even if you do that for this topic (meat). You have to look at the secondary effects and still need to do that for other topics to make any impact.

For example, if you do away with meat, you would also have to do away with egg, milk, etc products. In some cases these products are used in things like formula, vaccines, etc. Every alternative has some trade-off too. Some may be better, some may be worse. If you're still producing eggs or milk for these other purposes, then you still have meat as a byproduct. You'll also end up with people raising their own, which is less efficient and possibly worse for the environment if done on a mass scale. Certainly worse for health impacts is done illicitly in high density areas.

I do agree that there are many people who are disconnected from their meat source, among other things (eg people who think hunting is cruel but happily eat mass produced meat, or want their almonds/almond milk). I'm not sure licensing will really fix that. Either it had to come with a wide restriction to local only production to remove many environmental issues and force people to see production issues more visibly, or we slowly reduce population so we can maintain our desired lifestyles.

My estimate is that we will see restrictions in historical freedoms and economic pressures on everyday activities. This will led to some natural reduction in population. But it will be precarious because there will be people who don't agree with the restrictions or nations willing to fight for resources.

Edit: If you're going to disagree, please say why. Specifically, why is it not true that reducing resource consumption to truly sustainable levels won't require lifestyle restriction or a population decline? And not just that some unknown future tech will save us from out current situation.
That's actually not likely at all. There's no reason for Apple to trash its reputation by doing something stupid like this for Qualcomm's benefit.
It's only cute while there's enough young people around to soak the necessary nasty/heavy/dangerous/grueling jobs, leaving comparatively lighter stuff for elderly people to do. Once the demographic collapse forces elders to pick these other activities as well, people will stop romanticizing it.
the UK gov has on occasion had good digital teams, for example their web design team regularly posts articles on accessibilty and design that end up on HN, and generally seem competent. This being said, I'm not confident at all this will end up that way
Boston used to have a viable computer industry but it's all largely faded away with the minicomputers. Oh well. They've got the drug business now.
Not everything in the world has to be Safe For Work. The world is not a giant workplace (yet).
That's an interesting use case.

Why not just include a photo of the receipt as proof of ownership?
RIP. All together now: Day-o!
Note that this is primarily a syntactical choice -- there isn't _currently_ much in the configuration language that actually resembles the functionality from regular lisp languages. I've been thinking quite a bit about how I could make use of the s-expression based syntax to turn yuck into a more feature-rich, actual lisp language, without completely going out-of-scope ^^
It's pretty simple; many (I'm presuming) white people have a deeply nasty habit of conflating their own experiences with others because it makes sense to them, and THAT problem should be recognized.

Just don't do it. or at the very least serve it up with a heaping helping of "I would imagine that many..." so we know that this is JUST YOUR SPECULATION.
Nailed it. How companies line canon and Nikon haven’t jumped on this already is absolutely mind blowing.
“Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)
My sense is that most people do not have enough time and or energy to try to change laws. The status quo is absurd. If there was some weird law on the books that made all these lawn-only requirements go away in 2024, how many people do you think would actively try to reinstate the lawn-only laws?

I clearly hang around different people, since just about everyone I talk to thinks its bonkers that we mandate lawn-only, and fine people for doing otherwise.
I have no great love for BBB, but they saved me countless times when I was looking for last-minute gift ideas. The store closest to me was always packed, and prices were just enough higher than other stores that I figured they were making bank. As the #1 place people think of for just about anything domestic, I don't know how they could be mismanaged so badly that the whole chain goes under?!

On the flip side, they remind me of all of the ills of the 2000s: McMansions, SUVs, 19 Kids and Counting, excessive wedding registries, homogenization of cities, globalization, just on an on, a fiscally liberal/socially conservative vision of 'Merika which I don't subscribe to. So I guess it makes sense that they imploded as people abandoned materialism post-pandemic?

I think most brick and mortar stores will close by end of decade. To be replaced by drone delivery and service work until 3D printed androids take over those jobs too. Commercial real estate may never be priced higher than it is right now. It will be curious to find out what's keeping rents so high, but I suspect that money is funding retirements and policing the world. When young people pull the plug, it will be interesting to watch more entrenched power structures crumble.
It does. It even works on macos iirc