skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a false dichotomy. I have been a contractor for most software engineering jobs I have done for many years and all of them were very complex. None of them were for a particularly high rate like $300/hour.

The rate actually has generally been fairly unrelated to the complexity. Possibly the biggest determining factor in my rate has been how much savings I had (usually close to zero) when I needed to find another contract. That determined how selective I could be and how long I could spend looking. If your option is to take the next contract or miss rent, you take what you can get, often for a discounted rate.
Its crazy to think about where things will be 10 years from now. Will we have beached 1nm? Then what? Is there actually a feasible roadmap for after that?
This thing has been out for at least 1 week, so pretty sure its over.
http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html ?
Well Google decided to stop releasing their AI research.
Or honestly just include it for free since there was a time when Google was literally just giving the minis away.
Those specs aren't true, or at least the distribution is very far from uniform and they're failing to explain it even a fraction of the way. You don't get corruption that often.
Google and their associated properties have felt stagnant and boring for a long time now. Imagine if everything they had announced at IO 2023 had instead been announced a year ago, prior to ChatGPT becoming a household name. They had all the money and talent in the world to reinvent themselves, but chose instead to rest on their laurels. IO 2023 could be summed up with "we're going to be doing everything Microsoft has already started doing".
Thermal generation is much more constrained than PV via waste heat.

LWRs also can't even match current world energy consumption for a variety of reasons.

On top of that, energy isn't quality of life. Happiness indeces and life expectancy are not better in Bahrain, Qatar and USA than Uruguay, Switzerland, and Spain.
...Swift and creator of LLVM and Clang.
32k tokens is 500-1000 lines of code, so more like thousands of dollars, unless you're comparing against a landing page or CRUD tool arranged through Upwork. On the flip side, before I dove into AutoGPT I couldn't get GPT-4 to iterate on something as simple as a TypeScript function that deeply converts { foo_bar: string } to { fooBar: Date } without running out of context and cyclically reintroducing regressions.
Only if you can get that result in one pass.

The real utility of LLMs is that they can be called in a loop to scan through many web pages, many code files, issue tickets, emails, etc...

There are already demos and experiments out there that for every input, 4x outputs are generated, then those are fed back into the LLM 4x for "review", then the best variant is then used to generate code which then automatically tested, errors are fed back in a loop, also with 4x parallel tries, etc...

It's the throughput compared to humans that is the true differentiator. If hooking up the API in a loop up ends up costing more than a human, then it's not worth it.
Not sure why you’re downvoted because it’s true.

People desperate enough to use payday lenders have no other options. And the high interest rates reflect the risk.

Take that option away and the need doesn’t magically disappear, they just go to black market lenders where there really is no backstop at all.

Far better to regulate.
Change PSU for lab grade one, this one is nasty.
JEP 439: Generational ZGC in JDK21
> That’s allowed in America.

Not only is it allowed in America, but its is likely sometimes correct, insofar as a matter of interpretation can be said to be (at a minimum, the Supreme Court has been wrong, one time or another) as the Supreme Court has reversed itself on the meaning of Constitutional provisions.
I know you mention "your Mac", but there's a lot more of a community in "the Linux world" for free software/open source coders.

Joining one of the big projects will bring fun into your day, and potentially some real life meetups and conferences if you want them.

Not sure about ageism there since I mostly took part when I was younger, but we very much respected our elders back in the day (though that was maybe respecting their experience, so your mileage may vary).
A while back I saw the original unveiling of the Next Cube, when Steve Jobs called computers a bicycle for the mind - it was so apparent in what they demoed.

A machine that helped people create rather than just consume, even simple things like having an inbuilt dictionary. We still have that but it is always running off to the internet to do what was done in 1987. And that leap to something external is not just for convenience, it is a leap of how we used these things.

Like Rushoff, for the last 15 years I have been trying to figure out ways to return a little of that of that isolated but functional style to computing. I no longer try. Every attempt has just been meet with further disappointment. Unlike others here advocating for pushing through, I don't think we can. In pushing through it is merely providing more fuel for potential missuse.

I still use modern technology but only that which is basically forced on me by the rest of society. Even then its impact is minimized - I think Hacker news is the last regular thing I really engage with in this space and that is slowing down with time as well.

Maybe there is a part where spectacle is the main driving force that allowed these technologies to become so pervasive in our world? That is to say that if we never went down this path computers would be treated more like we treated type writers. A neat tool but something few would get obsessed with.
And yet...

>One day you’ll find yourself wearing shorts. Fair enough, it’s probably hot out. One day you’ll also find yourself wearing a t-shirt. Again, fair enough. Unless you’re playing a sport, however, you will not be wearing the two together because you’re also no longer a ten-year-old boy.

Fucking boomer hypocrite. btw I am wearing shorts as I type this.
Is it terrible at the content or the delivery of the content?
I find it to be bad at the prior but rather useful for the latter.

If you asked chatgpt to generate a document, its generates one that reads well but has terrible content. Eg. Super broad or just plain contradictory. But given some not so well written piece of writing, it can clean that up fairly well.
I am honestly curious what issues you hit with JavaScript that you find difficult for developers to avoid. I do think JS has a lot of weirdness and pitfalls, but I feel like the things you are actually ever reasonably likely to hit are easy to enumerate and learn:

1. Understanding truthy/falsey

2. The difference between null and undefined (but this is an area where Typescript helps).

3. == vs ===, but this one feels pretty easy to avoid, e.g. just set up eslint to forbid == if so desired.

4. Understand the details of how JS treats 'this' in different contexts. I think this (pun intended) is probably the most important thing to understand.

5. The bizarreness that typeof null === 'object'.

There are of course other issues, but I honestly feel like I rarely if ever hit them, and I've been coding in JS/Node for many years now. I mean everyone loves to point out some of the insane implicit casting rules of JS (e.g. the JSFuck language), but I don't ever hit those in my day-to-day.

I just feel Typescript plus some strongly opinionated eslint rules take 99% of the "gotchas" out of JS.
Legal frameworks that end in settlement costs that amounts to X% of quarterly profit.

We can clearly see where the incentives are aligned.
EU lawmakers' committees agree tougher draft AI rules
>It's a fascinating path permutation of the human condition / state space traversal.

that raises the question : do you somehow attribute value to human action based on unique-ness? If so, why? It's an interesting philosophy , but I don't understand it as far as 'human improvement' goes.

> I think the world is a better and more interesting place

I think it's unique, but I also think it could possibly set a (yet another) dangerous precedent among net celebrities seeking the next illegal-yet-doable way to make a name for themselves -- I think that itself and things similar to this are a net-negative for the world at large -- it'll likely lead to more dangerous behavior that is then punctuated by larger and more broad legislation that will reduce personal liberty for the sake of some YTers whims once.
I should have specified "normal browsers out of the box."

I've considered setting up a pi-hole at home but never got around to it. Same with browser extensions... Getting the ad blocking without additional effort appeals to my lazy self. :)
I use assorted long boxes roughly the dimensions for storing CDs. Then I wedge stuff like cardboard and packaging foam periodically so the bags don't all tip over and pile up on each other. It's literally garbage, but it works well enough for being free.
If being religious makes me a nutjob, I'll take that label because it makes it meaningless.
I personally find their products beautiful, they remind me a lot of Dieter Rams.

Which designs would you consider aesthetically pleasing?
This piece argue in circles, and has no interesting or novel argument to the topic.

I wonder on how it scores on an ai detector.

The various "reviews" are also unsatisfying. A single photo of a photo, in great light condition on a close, inanimate subject is all we get for supporting the claim of great photography. The rest is lifted straight from the specification page.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demand

Definition 3b.

I don't care what you think demand means, you already said you know what I mean and you keep being obtuse about it. I'm not moving demand and supply curves, I'm saying if the price of oranges goes up, some people are gonna substitute them with apples. Yes, some people are gonna keep buying oranges anyway because they value them at more than what the price increase is at. But overall fewer people will buy oranges.

You keep giving specific examples of where employers might keep employees even if they have to pay them more, maybe to convince yourself that this is a complicated issue. I didn't say all minimum wage employees lose their job when the minimum wage rises. But there are fewer jobs. This isn't complex, there isn't a special nuance that requires a PhD in economics and an MBA to understand. Some employees are barely worth it at the current price to some employers and not worth it at a higher price. Minimum wage laws don't magically make employers value employees more.

The effects of minimum wage laws are visible. Increased unemployment, primarily for teenagers and young adults, automation, and outsourcing are commonplace everywhere with minimum wage laws.
One day you will find yourself a sanctimonious old man who desires to pass on his "wisdom" to all those callow youngsters. Don't bother. You will still die having had no discernible effect on the world. You would have been better off trying to enjoy what time you have left than teach us your forgettable little lessons.
Not exactly. C# had never gone through the change on c-like for-loops.
The materials for a gwh/yr of solar are a strict subset of the materials for a gwh/yr of LWR with the exception of silver (which is about 4x).

Except the solar is improving rapidly and doesn't need to be buried for decades at EOL.
I thought Ubiquiti was American?
> Eh, loop variable scoping has bitten me a single digit number of times in the eleven years I’ve been using it.

Go ahead and ask them to remove this from the Frequently Asked Question section then.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines
Anecdotally I left a high-pressure high-pay tech job in the US to come back to Australia and work a 9-to-5-except-for-oncall job. I ended up losing about 20kg and regaining a lot of lost productivity. This was ironic, because I was actively trying to be less productive, but cutting out the bullshit leaves you with nothing but actual work.
Neat. It makes me wonder if there is work on mechanical computers at around the atomic scale.
Couldn't students just insert profanity into the ChatGPT-generated text after the fact?
A practical 4 day work week might do the job. It’s also not impossible that there are environmental contaminants or changes to what people do which are causing the trend.

Even simple things like office culture and the perception of falling behind might be enough to skew the stats. If I care for my career, taking 5 years off doesn’t sound like the best idea - despite being the practical early childhood window for a family of 2-3.
Real-life fractal zoom [video]
Having spent 10 years inside I can promise you that you are right.

Of all the things you see on TV and in the movies about prison, the worst two are not shown: total mind-numbing boredom, and your cellmate's farts.
> People desperate enough to use payday lenders have no other options.

Not always true, some folks misuse them for a variety of reasons.

Take the option away in the UK and a friend’s boyfriend wouldn’t have been able to use an app to take out a bunch of short term loans in her name for Xbox games…

So I think sometimes these facilities are used frivolously. You’re right that a portion of users in real hardship would turn to “informal” lending if these lenders were to disappear. But it feels like we as a society should come up with a better solution there really.
I agree with you - it is just not interesting. It is in the same vein as many corporate promo videos. Here is a Red Bull video of someone riding a BMX bike in a bowl suspended underneath a hot balloon at 2000ft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mnizjZat3Q

The point of these outrageous videos is to get attention and promote a brand. Does it really work on their target market: jaded young adults?

Also, I can't tell if any of these videos are real anymore. I don't care because the novelty, the shock, the wow factor wore off years ago.

So someone jumped out of a crashing plane. Whatever. Could be fake. Could be real. Definitely not interesting anymore.
I buy a flagship I enjoy and replace it every 4-5 years
CIAM is not nearly as popular of a term as it needs to be. When most developers build apps today, they still look at their cloud provider's IAM or Active Directory for inspiration in design of their customer-facing systems. I think this article is actually understating the complexity. Conway's Law rules all and sometimes your systems and users won't even necessarily be in your control. I urge folks to look into policy engines like OPA[0] and ReBAC systems like SpiceDB[1] rather than reinventing the wrong wheel.

[0]: https://www.openpolicyagent.org

[1]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
> I should be able to tell it I'd like it to reach 85% charge as of the time my alarm goes off in the morning, timing that in a way that minimizes battery heating.

Isn't this precisely what adaptive charging does?
Its because A) its hard to find a good job in general, B) its very hard to find a good job in a hurry, C) most people don't have much savings when they lose their job, so they need to find another one quickly), D) these jobs are VASTLY easier to get quickly than most jobs, E) these jobs don't allow for much savings or breathing room, so stopping to spend a significant amount of time looking for a different job can be at risk of not being able to pay expenses.

When you are stuck in survival mode, you take what you can get. You're not picky. And they are not bad jobs in some ways.
That's a different problem. An important problem to be sure; but different. It's the kind Reality Defender are trying to solve to the extent it's possible and I am afraid it's just a matter of time before we see the effects of this in some crisis point when we can least afford the time to make sense of the firehose of falsehoods (nice phrase btw).

https://realitydefender.com/
IMO, this kind of pressure is needed and helpful to let people upgrade the vulnerable OS versions. Without it, people may stay forever with Windows XP.
I picked up a lightly used iPhone SE 2020 (128GB) for $195 USD last year.
Meanwhile, Intel just confirmed more layoffs.
> I suppose Senior developers, my self included, enjoy fast paces straight to the point learning resources. One of my favorite websites is https://egghead.io/ but some people do complain about behind a bit too fast. Overall, there is heaps of great tutorial on youbue.

I enjoy fast, straight to the point resources as well, but I was disappointed to learn egghead.io seems to be all videos.

Not fast enough for me when I can't jump into it and skim for the useful parts: why, oh why did the videos win?

Aside from personal, non-egotistical mentors (so you can interrupt them to move on to more interesting things), I still find "boring" reference docs the best.
The author of this article literally spent ~$500 on a phone.
Many people think the change is only applied to "for-range" loops. However, in fact it will be also applied to traditional c-like "for ;;" loops, which at least will produce two surprises to old Go programmers: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60078#issuecomment-15443...
Prisoner Transport Services is totally inhumane. The sheer number of horror stories I've heard from fellow inmates of their weekslong journeys across the USA in the most rotten conditions imaginable.
Since you took the liberty to replace slot machines with "casino's free buffet" - an especially disingenuous misrepresentation - I mean do you want to say that people go to casino for food, and when I specifically avoided using the word casino... Can I go ahead and say that you all are acting like addicts being called out? I mean, did I use say we should block YouTube?

Talk about the "lengths" people go to defend their addiction. This is my general impression of the lot here on HN. You guys are so deep into cult of bullshitting that normal argument feels like an attack and invites downvotes.
It’s gotta be somehow automated like that - can’t imagine any other way it would be scalable to the entire engineering base at Apple.
I don't agree and my job requires that I program in C++. It's different, yes, but it's only strange if you learn about C or C++ first.

Whether you agree or not, I definitely think that promoting loop variables to be heap allocated is consistent with the rest of Go.
To your question, there’s the obvious freelance sites, but also working on open source can be rewarding in more ways than one. I found a couple companies in a conference that were looking for open source solution consultants part time / custom time.

If you can’t find them online, I can check my conference swag to see if I find the name.
I was curious about the reason for the 96dpi number and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch#Computer_monitor...

There's interesting history behind these numbers.
I feel like this is just a foreseeable consequence of any for-profit organization that operates on "getting people out of a tight spot".

If your motive is to make money, you are always going to have the incentive to take advantage of the imbalance of power created by said tight spot.
I just finished this book recently, prompted by reading this great piece. It was an interesting book. A little slow in places but the author describes her internal thought process exceptionally well. If you meditate at all, this will be fascinating as it describes the process of her inventing meditation all on her own. I have to wonder what her reaction would have been if she read some of the texts written about meditation available at the time.
The entire concept of a "code smell" is something which is often but not always bad, so I'm not sure why rarely seeing things as 100% good or bad would lead to you avoiding the phrase.
They have the upper hand in many many ways, hardware, ability to scale, access to high quality information, that's just to name a few.
Fair point. I have no data, but assume that's a minority of immigrants.

Also, there are some requirements to support those family members:

"You will also sign a Sponsorship Agreement, obligating you to financially support your sponsored relatives if they cant provide for their own needs. The new permanent resident will not qualify for government assistance, even after the sponsored person becomes a permanent resident, separates from you, or leaves the country."

"To sponsor a parent or grandparent, you must obligate yourself for 20 years of financial support."

https://greenlightcanada.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-sponso...
What millennial wrote this?
The war on drugs has substantially ruined entire generations by convincing people drug abuse can be solved purely by throwing people in jail and through shame.

To think it's taken until ~2021-2022 for a federal administration in the US to finally admit there needs to be better solutions in place, it's absurd! All those deaths could have been prevented.
I ordered the Omron blood pressure monitor (made in Japan model) on Amazon. The price is double the popular one but is Amazon's choice.
That is an interesting contrast. I don't know the smallest number of clues a kakuro puzzle can have, but I made easier ones with many clues, and harder ones, that also have many clues, generously fitting the heart shape, but I'd only be willing to spend tens of CPU hours on optimizing it.

https://www.curtiswmoore.com/kakuro/v0.2/kakuro_with_solver....
Techno optimism has always been naive about capitalism and about human relationships (especially at scale). If you let your disillusionment strip out the naivete and don't let it turn you bitter or resentful then you'll find there's still some good things in tech to be hopeful for, and good things in tech to work for.
Thank you! Their tone meter is just what is needed.
You're welcome :)

> someone actually did a tree interface for ChatGPT!

In case anyone is interested, UCSD Creativity Lab has a couple DAG UIs that offer richer interactions and visualizations:

- Sensecape: https://twitter.com/HaijunXia/status/1646919380704559104

- Graphologue: https://twitter.com/HaijunXia/status/1646917869115166720

According to the discussion on the thread, they are in the process of open sourcing these two projects.
Many folks don’t realize it, but sudo offers a sudoreplay[0] to do something similar. Obviously this won’t cover things they do outside of a sudo session, but you could construct permissions on the machine such that you would require them to use it for things you care about.

This isn’t to trivialize the work of Tailscale (like the famous Dropbox comment). I just wanted to point out a cool thing that sudo does that most people don’t know about.

[0] https://www.sudo.ws/docs/man/1.8.13/sudoreplay.man/
I hoped someone would mention Swappa, I've managed to get some fantastic deals on year-old devices.
Leaping from "I get to decide what's on my website" to "you've created a society" is pretty silly. Your argument is missing any meaningful linkages. It would be stronger if you articulated them instead of handwaving about plausibility.

Personally I don't think social media speech is that important. It's ad-based, convenience-driven, and fickle. If it were to disappear people would just move to different media.
We have a real resource problem that can not be fixed by printing more money.

Printing Money (expanding money supply) creates inflation now as supply cannot match demand.
For problems that are still computable, what’s the upper limit to hardness? BB(n)?
It's not clear to me bit does the F3 have a built in mic or does it only use the XLR inputs?
Apple still isn’t using USB-C for phone charging. How good are the MagSafe equivalents in android land?
This will be a fairly contentious opinion, but I believe if there exists a class of business that is recognizably harmful to that level, which we only keep around so as to prevent criminal alternatives, then such businesses should be replaced by government run services.

In fact, I personally believe this scenario is likely the most essential use for government run services.
A plan to address the world’s challenges with math
It's hallucinating and/or making mistakes, not lying to you.