skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, so much of is BS that it's physically painful to keep up. Look, someone reinvented a basic lisp-ism in their mediocre language! Yes, new buzzwords for each part that was a function parameter to the original system! Yay! Now you can reduce your boilerplate by 10%!

The system is still an unmaintainable ball of mud, but at least your for() loops can now have ridiculously high jitter and concurrency landmines thanks to multicore use on a system bottlenecked by disk IOPs.

Part of you wants to play the curmudgeon and say "I like my old simple ways" instead of yelling "you idiots are spinning wheels on useless APIs instead of learning to do any actual engineering analysis on maintainability or performance." It's tough to balance!
Under US law, a 1099 worker(contractor) is essentially its own business. You can deduct mileage and other expenses (including insurance premiums) that would generally fall under 'business costs'.
Then why quit the race if he thinks it's fake?
> then one can simply create his/her own startup, bear all the risks (99% of startups fail) and reap all the rewards.

How does that work? Most of the rewards go to the owners of the capital. That's literally the central idea of socialism.
And it's blatantly obvious why - it lowers cost and transfers liability to people who don't have a clue what those externalized liabilities really are.

That’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that it’s serving the previously untapped market for below-minimum-wage work. If this gig work did not exist, some of the workers would find regular minimum wage jobs but many would be left unemployed.

Many of the Uber drivers I’ve met are educated immigrants to my country (Canada). They are underemployed because of various barriers put in place to protect the jobs of locals. Usually, the issue is that their credentials aren’t recognized because they were earned in another country.

So the question is: what are the gig work companies supposed to do about this? They didn’t make the laws/regulations preventing these workers from getting better jobs. If they went away, these workers might have no other opportunities.

If anyone is to blame, it should be the citizens who simultaneously support an increase in immigration and at the same time erect regulatory/professional credential roadblocks preventing those skilled immigrants from working in their field of expertise.

Of course, another portion of gig workers are people like my father: semi-retired, not professionally credentialed, and doing gig work part time to make ends meet (his pension is not even close to livable). Taking gig work away from him would put him on the street.

Edit: one more thing I’d like to add. Based on reports from my dad, the number of food delivery drivers in our city is increasing so the availability of orders (and hence productive hours of work) is decreasing. At the same time, restaurants all over the city have posted signs advertising the availability of kitchen jobs. If gig work is so undesirable (because it ostensibly pays less than minimum wage), why are there so many vacancies at restaurants (which do pay minimum wage) but none in gig work?
Do founders return the salary they pay themselves if their company doesn’t double in size?

The answer is no, so I don’t see why software engineers should be held to higher standards.
> So much potential, which will be left unused...

Potential as in electric potential? :)
In the most populated regions of the UK it doesn't realistically go below -5c basically ever.

The average minimum temperature in the winter months in London is 3c above freezing.
man... the guardian writer who came up with this sub-title:

>> Muharrem İnce pulls out just days from close election race saying alleged sex tape is deepfake
No, but both my parents spent their careers working in the VA system, which routinely trounces private health care in measures of efficiency.
Not quite anyone...I get the "Bard isn't supported in your country" message when trying it.
I have, though I admit it's been about 10 years since and my memory may be mixing in (pun intended) things from version 1.
Not as cold as the Nordics, sure, but depending on cycles, it can drop a few degrees below freezing between November - March

The main issue is that homes were designed to trap and keep heat in, rather than true insulation, which means that as summers get warmer, our homes turn into ovens, with no way to cool them down properly. Case in point last summer with UK temps hitting 40C and above for a few weeks.

Government are trying to kill off the old gas boilers though, with heat pumps being pushed very heavily, not sure if they're enforcing it yet or not though. Apparently they're also looking at switching out natural gas for a hydrogen mix, but that means having to rework a lot of the piping/valves as hydrogen needs much higher standards than currently applied.
There is usually another reason (and I share it) : they don't have enough money to start their own company without it being too big a risk. It is an order of magnitude easier to take risks when you already have enough money so that your family is not at stake...
Generally people put on an appearance of cheerfulness while working, especially if they are incentivized to make you happy (good review, tips). So I’d take this sort of measurement with a grain of salt.
Good article. There's of course editorial decisions about what to mention but still the in the Nobody part the JS-as-compile-target coverage seems a bit selective. There's of course ClojureScript, Elm, Scala.js, ReScript and TypeScript (the latter is mentioned in passing).
The move slowly thing is likely to account for jerkiness as a thing people do is rush up the slide and wait at the catch position. You want to get to the catch without the inertia of being forced forward so you can raise your hands get ours in and then push. From a physics perspective there’s also the possibility that rushing up the slide forces the stern down faster breaking the about however that Varys massively and I don’t know about it being proven.

Regarding the order of operations after the catch that’s because a stroke is similar to power clean sitting down. You are effectively maximising the lever arc.
Yes, the US was concerned about dealing with Russia after the war. No, not to the degree that they were willing to nuke two Japanese cities just to spook him.

Agreed, and I edited my comment to clarify. It's funny how it had that effect, though, isn't it? War might change, but Russians never do. They respect force and violence, nothing else.

My response was to coldtea's snark: Or how Hiroshima and Nagasaki were so much better with the advent of nuclear fission technology? Since technology basically just makes us richer and safer and everything! Yes, in fact, it absolutely did make Japan "richer and safer and everything," by ensuring that the country didn't become the scene of an epic, likely-endless battle with Communist forces for control of the Pacific.

For an additional gedanken exercise, contemplate the likely effect on the net well-being of North Korea's population over time if MacArthur had been given a free hand by Truman.
IMO it's a good tool for web scraping. The reason: you can do web scraping with Parasol (i.e. Selenium [1]) and then if you need visualization tools then you can immediately use Roassal [2]. The thing is: Pharo and the fact that it's more GUI-oriented than other programming languages, allows for data visualization a bit easier. Also: you don't need to know database specific. You can just store the data and save the image. Super useful for small web scraping projects.

Another use-case is: open-source software where you want to encourage users to just open up "the damn code engine" and hack straight into it, seeing it change on the fly. Like, can you just right click in Windows on a pixel and change the code that underlies it? In Pharo you can! Commercial parties would find this horrible, but it's amazing for full open-source software. Note: I don't think any other language is capable of this!

For web apps, B2B works quite well. B2C, I see scalability issues.

[1] https://github.com/SeasideSt/Parasol

[2] https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3
There's a lot of reasons to both use or not use PHP, but of all the ecosystems I've developed in, PHP has the most lovely dev tooling.

Every popular piece of dev tooling in the PHP ecosystem feels like it was made to solve a problem, do so as simply as possible and let you know all the information as cleanly as possible.

There's contemporaries to most of those tools in every other major language, and all of them have problems or annoyances that I feel simply don't exist in PHP's tools.
What about trying the Godotalk [1]?

[1] https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/godotalk/
With LLMs, we are either headed towards socialism+UBI or neo-feudalism.
The same people will turn around and talk about how great China is, and how Chinese imperialism is different for ... reasons.
How can you count yourself as working class? Even outside top US salaries most of us could probably take several years off the job without any huge issues due to savings/investments.

I mean of course we are providing labor for money, but this is very different than a blue-collar worker living paycheck to paycheck doing hard manual work.
> It's something I REALLY miss about working for the MIC. People did their jobs, talked about baseball, and went home.

The MIC?
To-do list sucks. Let's fix it
Choosing not to have children yet, some of whom then wake up one day to find it's too late.
reasonable statement. I think of programming as a discipline with three core skills, those being choosing what problem to solve, writing a solution, and debugging the solution. I suppose it's the writing that's gotten a lot easier with the addition of GPT, debugging has gotten slightly easier, and choosing what to work on has gotten a lot more competition.

From that framework, debugging is the new code monkeying... anyone have thoughts on that analysis?
Other people are saying his voters are more likely to split towards Erdogan. Which is it?
Yet, we spending all our resources on malaria prevention is also wrong.

We need balance, we need to invest in the future while also taking care of the present.
The talk around AI and developers makes me think of Jevons Paradox [0] where more efficient use of a resource increases it's consumption rather than decreases it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
On the other hand, 150k is an astronomical sum for most people on the planet—and no one is being forced into accepting that as a market rate, or even living in a high-rent city, particularly post-COVID.

I still don’t understand this idea that labor supposedly has some sort of intrinsic value. The value is derived from the labor being done in the context of a system created by someone else. As others have said, if you want to reap the full value of your labor, you’re free to go it alone.
Military Industrial Complex. FAANG people sleep on how cool the engineering they do is.
Building more housing, does that sound like overpopulating the SF area, with predictable effects on the ecologic footprint which they’ll accuse the rich to be the cause of, like in Europe?

I much prefer cost-of-living indicators to be an cruel indicator that the area is populated enough. Stop basing your model on everyone being able to move to the SV. Remote work is much better as a social model, if not just for the ecology.
Yes! We understood within weeks how the virus infected cells. We had an INCREDIBLE head start than if we had to build all this science up from the ground.
There's a substantial difference between a socialist and a libertarian despite them both being "leftists". Stallman is clearly the latter.

Socialist: harmonious society is the highest value

Libertarian: personal liberty is the highest value

These frequently come into conflict. For example, a socialist would support policies that benefit the collective (e.g. new rules), while the libertarian will frequently oppose them because they incur a cost to individual liberty.
People absolutely might order fewer burgers or order fewer home deliveries if the price of those things were to rise. In some cases employers also have the option of automating tasks that are currently done by people.
> as is explained in the very short article

It’s a straw man. The fractal is an analogy; nobody seriously thinks you can zoom in or out of a cauliflower infinitely. We know about atoms and stuff. It’s just pointless pedantry.
I learned to use two spaces for indentation back at Xerox, the way God writes code.
They said that AI would've disrupted the language translation industry, it actually helped it a ton.
Most of this project is "Raspberry PI and ADSB" which has been done before, the interesting part is taking pictures. Unfortunately, this solution is very niche. If you happen to live in a location where planes only fly in a very specific location, you can take a picture. It's cool for a one-off solution, but probably not something most people can use.

https://skybot.cam/about is a little more generically interesting as it takes a camera and points it at the aircraft. Then some vision detection to verify that a plane was actually captured, then post it.
I am so annoyed that Google Fi is available but was just disabled by default in these same setting.

My entire family has been using custom secondary gmail accounts JUST TO USE GOOGLE FI.
> AI-assisted coding products drastically reduce the barrier to entry to becoming a “developer.”

Regardless of the “random person thinking out loud with nothing but their own opinion as evidence” aspect to this article, they really are on the money with this one little fragment of their post.

Lots and lots of developers, and no meaningful difference between someone who took a two week “how do I write prompts” course and someone who spent 4 years at university. Learning programming. Or law. Or business. Or teaching. Or writing.

That’s the future I see coming, in probably the next 3 years.

However, as great that might be for companies who like cheap ass labour, it may not be great for individuals…

I think it’s fair to say it’ll be disruptive, that’s for sure.
> AI-assisted coding products drastically reduce the barrier to entry to becoming a “developer.”

Only reason FANG employees are not paid McDonalds salary is because of the barrier to entry.

The barrier will go down yes, but so will wages.
And I think that the argument would be that during the return to backstops you would increase the speed of the boat's shell -- leading to a drag term proportional to v^2, in addition to the mean speed of the boat, effectively demanding an increased power on your behalf during the drive to compensate for it. If you move to front stops slower, the bow doesn't surge as much, and the required power is therefore more constant.
> This would solve basically all of the legal and moral problems.

er...no, having my ramen delivery bike rider have to operate a ltd company to be paid below minimum wage doesn't solve any of the moral problems.
Correct. I had a use case where I needed to run an app on 30,000+ servers and the app would be updated regularly with new features. I wasn't going to use PHP for that because it would involve not only copying the PHP binary around (and maintaining that version), but also my own app code. golang ended up being a perfect solution because I could cut the binary down to about 3-4 megs with compression and build flags. More importantly, it was just one thing to install and maintain.
Oh hell... I cannot believe I missed that pun... :D
Even an ebook in English that's not Amazon/Kindle would be great. I'm happy to pay for an epub or other format.
> By the time we got to Omicron the vaccine appeared to be doing next to nothing and China was still locked down.

It’s funny you say that. China disallowed their citizens from using western vaccines including Pfizer, Moderna and Astra Zeneca. Chinese citizens were only allowed to receive Chinese made vaccines. For all we know, they needed their lockdowns until so late because their own vaccines lacked efficacy in baseline protection.
> If you've found an interesting creature in nature, then write what makes that creature interesting.

this is literally what they did.

I think you just have a bias against queer people. you say in another comment “actual cool people laugh at those blue-haired weirdos” and in this one that an article “doesn't (ever) need to include what a lesbian writer thought.”

these aren’t legitimate criticisms, and your claim that an unfalsifiable argument is meaningless is not a valid criticism either. you can’t falsify the theory of evolution, but the the theory still has meaning. in many cases, you can’t ethically set up control groups for medical interventions which save lives, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reason about those interventions. an unfalsifiable argument can certainly still have meaning and utility, and claiming otherwise is ridiculous.

saying “actual cool people laugh at those blue-haired weirdos” is also ridiculous. first because it’s obviously biased. second because cool is subjective, and you were just complaining about OP being subjective.
Ah, but where is the "System Card", ala GPT-4 [1], with pages about alignment research and red-teaming?

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf
Well I was hoping to take the easy way out and someone would have done it already. But I'm not averse to setting something up. I'd like an old school forum type thing - but then worry about spam and moderation. Still it is probably worth doing
Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism
I think you might be mistaking making a choice with having a choice. These people don't have another choice.

Many gig workers do gig work around other work and pressures (eg childcare). The work they do isn't what they would choose all other things being equal but the soaring cost of living, the lack of affordable and convenient childcare means people have to do sums that end in them doing a few hours a day in a shitty extra job.

I think many would rather choose a better paid job compatible with modern life. They just don't exist.
$request->user()->orders->create($request->validated());

This looks so wrong from an architectural point of view! A request has a user (which in the context of HTTP should be more or less only an authenticated principal), which has orders, which are created from the same request, where the journey started. There is no separation of technical and business concerns.

See: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-a...
This is so vague, it's got my puzzling over what the point is. "A few desultory anecdotes about mostly failed attempts at pursuing something I am calling socialism, based on how I choose to define that term" is what I would call it. Not as punchy of a title, I grant you.
the problem with below minimum wage labor has never been that there's no demand for it...
> Part of you wants to play the curmudgeon

Where I currently work, I'm being mentored (even at my age and experience!) by a developer who is in his early 70s. He really is a curmudgeon, but what he actually does is perform. His code is some of the best I've ever seen, and consistently outperforms that of the younger crowd. Then he just points out when he's using an "obsolete" technique to run circles around them.
>I propose a simple lens to settle this debate: look around you and count how many products or services you use regularly that you wish are better digitized or “software-ized.” Unless and until that number is 0, there will be more developers, not less.

While this is a great argument that there will be more software in the future (something that I don't think anyone disputes), it's not an argument in favor of the proposition that there will be more developers, because the whole point of AI-driven development is to automate what a developer does.

One reason there are a lot of businesses still using antiquated systems is that 1) the systems work for their purposes, so their need is not acute; and 2) custom software development is expensive. Your local gym can't afford to pay someone thousands of dollars for a custom app (or even hundreds of dollars for a customized version of an existing app). But AI-driven development promises an order of magnitude drop in cost. So yes, we should see a lot more digitization as it becomes available.

I do agree in the short term that it won't drive the number of developers down, since for the foreseeable future skilled people will be needed to oversee the AI product. But it will vastly increase productivity. Unfortunately, if history is any guide developers will not reap any of the rewards for the increased productivity, and their real wages may actually decline.
I took care of my health in my 30s and now that I'm in my 40s can't sleep a full night if I have a single beer. I have no choice but to take care of my health.
The Maker: Software Developer Builds Fully Functional Superhero Helmet
Atlanta-based Kris Kersey builds heads-up display for superhero gear powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics.
Sounds like an ideal labor force.
> IQ itself means nothing other than you manage to score higher on an IQ test relative to others who take the same test.

This has been proven again and again to not be true. IQ is highly correlated with many measures of success, it absolutely mean something other than just your ability to score well on the test.
Sure, just as growth of new tech will always create more jobs. But there is a twist: a whole generation of people get fucked over. Or maybe multiple generations. Sure, they can always learn new skills, right? RIGHT?

Downvote me as you wish, plesbians.
Hospitals put people on respirator who should have never been on it and then in New York in 2020 it was compounded by sever lack of nurses which led to shoddy care - essentially intubated and sedated patients were on their own with no help or monitoring. Relatives were not allowed in. When you are on respirator you have few days to recover and then you are starting to die due to lung damage - and 3-7 days were not enough to fight COVID so people just died. The same people would have been fine and recovered from COVID on their own.

To be fair, doctors noticed it fairly quickly (but too late for New York) and now usage of respirators for COVID is much much rarer.

My guess nobody talks or highlights blunders of New York because it goes against doctors/nurses are heroes of COVID mantra and not very relevant to current debates on COVID.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...
Isn’t Mojo compiled? While Python needs to be interpreted.
FSF and Open-source is more about freedom, not anti-capitalist or socialism.

it is closer to libertarian movement imo
yes, I am sure the people who rely on your custom and want a nice tip are extremely positive when in your presence.
Meantime, she gets to rake in the top rate for being first. (Or at least, first to get some press to give her some free advertising for it.) Good for her.
Sort of? Most of the engineers I know are generally fairly left-wing from a social perspective (pro LGBT+, pro-choice, etc) but also tend to skew a bit more towards the "Ayn Rand" libertarian economically (though generally less dogmatic).
I have this same TV, but the Google TV version. However we use Amazon Firesticks instead of using the Google TV. Very much like the TV.
Looking forward to MSFS refusing to use this because it's not Bing.
That was my intention - glad it worked!
There is confusion between "commute time" before and after my shift and "driving time" required between deliveries or job sites.
> AI can reduce the barriers between languages and cultural customs as well.

Languages, maybe, but cultural customs? I highly doubt that. Perhaps the perfunctory sort (e.g.: "vous"-ing and "usted"-ing), but there are real differences between cultures in both the work place and and personally that AI can't help you with. Nothing but compassion and a willingness to learn will help you with that one.