skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.”

What about the ones that are already digitized and despite their unavoidable convenience for being so, are less enjoyable than they used to be and more loaded with surveillance and advertising?
For context, The Economist calls this the most important election in the world this year. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/04/if-turkey-sacks...
Well if you think through what world this will create - it will create one where all information is available up to around 2023, then once creators and writers have gone bankrupt or just noindexed everything, less and less new data will be available to feed the LLM.

Because there's no way to get any value (money) out of creating quality content, this will either cease to exist, or it will move behind paywalls. For example, I just don't see reddit being indexable by google for long, or quora. They won't get anything out of that deal.

Funnily enough it might be too late already, since all of Reddit's content has probably been eaten by google's LLM. So again - it will only be fresh content that will be excluded from google.

But yeah, 100% agree, this is a new race to the bottom.
Must be nice to be a 1% er
Long story short, fractal has a specific mathematical meaning, and a common more vague meaning, and these meanings are not the same.
Last week I was thinking "I wonder why there's never been a reimplementation of Cedar or Mesa" and here we are with the real deal.
I agree. I think people are looking at this through an "Amdahl's Law" lens [1] when I think it's more realistically a "Gustafson's Law" problem. It's not like we will ever get to a point where we say "oh, all the potential things that can be done have been done", we simply will find out how to do more stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law
Ok let's do a fairer comparison. Avg annual income across EU was 33,500 Euro in 2022[1]. For the USA, that was 60,500USD [2]

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

[2] https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-salary-in-us/
It does seem that every advance in productivity has led to more software jobs, but I see no reason this must continue forever. I can tell that I have no fear for my job from Copilot and ChatGPT, both of which I use constantly. But the next generation of tools, marrying low-code, integration platforms and AI generation of those applications could really be a game changer.
It's becoming increasingly more common for people in various stem areas, social sciences, economics, etc.

Basics of Python courses are very common everywhere, now.
Mean Well has some constant current dimmable 24v power supplies with zero flicker. You'd need 2 if you want each strip to be independently controllable. They also can take a PWM signal if you're so inclined, but I bought them because I prefer flicker-free dimming.
e.g.
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/709-HLG40H-24B
Much the same here. I dug up this page in Wikipedia when I was reminiscing about my university's network. In my first year there was no "internet" access per se, but you could send email from the Vax VMS accounts via JANET to other sites.

Then the next (?) year there was access to the "PAD" (Packet Assembler Disassembler) to JANET, from which one could issue a command to connect to an X.25 address. I still remember the number of NSFNet relay, 00004001018057 [1], which in turn allowed you to telnet to other internet services. I think I logged into Nyx and a few other BBS-like things.

Then I did an industry year at ICL, a British computer company long-since engulfed by Fujitsu, where they were also X.25 focused for big networks and Novell Netware focused for small networks - but the web was starting to be a big deal and I couldn't get anyone to listen. I have an anecdote about downloading the SLS Linux distro via an archive re-mailer that I won't bore you with right now :)

Then, in my final year back at the university, the web seemed to explode and the X.25 stuff had more or less disappeared.

In retrospect it's amazing how quickly this changeover happened, even if it had been bulbbing away in the background for a long long time. From my perspective the WWW looked like the catalyst that pushed everything in favour of TCP/IP.

[1] If I remember rightly, the adjacent address 00004001018056 was another Vax somewhere that hosted a bunch of LaTeX stuff?
bwahaha oh god, this sounds like it would be grating...!
you can flag it
I’m saying the measurement provides almost no information, skewed as it is. That doesn’t indicate that I know the opposite is true.

Sure, we could go elsewhere and look for another signal that might have some value.
One of the problems with supplementing vitamin D is that vitamin D is made from cholesterol. There are certainly some benefits to supplementing vitamin D, but if you get it exogenously rather than manufacture it, your cholesterol will be higher.

Not that cholesterol is anywhere close to the demon it's made out to be, but there is a (much higher than generally accepted) point of having too much where mortality risk increases.
Slack, email, Jira, StackOverflow?
Why Golioth Uses CoAP
Don’t forget taxes! <$12/hr

And If they’re earning so little that taxes do not apply, chances are OUR tax money is instead funding things to help them get by so that gig companies can skirt labor laws.
OP is creating a strawman for people he thinks are socialists (or perhaps what he thinks socialists are). Calling people "blue hairs" is probably an indication he spends too much time online.
It’s feminists. They feel free from social pressure, and social pressure keeps women to have long hair and be beautiful, so they do the opposite, they have short hair, tattoos, piercings and blue hair, and they program. There’s an episode of Silicon Valley where they hire blue haired programmers. Also, the industrial complex persuaded them that dying their hair means they are free, so lowerclass people, who don’t understand the ways of marketing, tend to do it way more.
This is an important point, although I think incentives don't align at all for OpenAI to close their APIs.
I got curious, downloaded and installed it on my computer. Checked the docs, and the next step was to download a stable image. Downloaded 11 (stable) and started it. Then blank stare to screen! What should I do? Lots of things to click on, and no text editor..

Searched for a tutorial on the website, and found nothing! I don't want to spend 30 minutes to look at some random videos of Virtual Reality in Thames or whatever, or read "Pharo for Rubyists" (I use mostly Python). I just wanted to explore a bit, and maybe if it seemed interesting, tomorrow I would continue exploring it. But now I've deleted Pharo!

Warning to other project maintainers: just show a tutorial, or an hands-on doc, so that newcomers may get a feeling of what it is. This is especially important for relatively unknown projects like this.

Some projects that have done it right:

- https://www.djangoproject.com/start/
- https://go.dev/ (Search for Try Go in the main page)
- https://www.python.org/ (Carrousel showing some aspects of the language)
- https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021
- others I can't remember now..
They should learn what "domain squatter" really means. Owning domains is not squatting. It's like owning land you don't use - it's your right if you pay property taxes, in this case, renewal fees.
> ChatGPT turned the next 4 hours of menial work into 10 minutes. This is the true incoming disruption.

Problem is how do you know if it's correct? If you have to verify it all it may take even longer. And when it's wrong it's back to square 1.

> People who just vaguely know how to program, getting a powerful tool that can assist them 95% of the way for simple automations like this.

Is assuming it's correct.
yeah, people seem to have forgotten all those derided developers that spent their time copy/pasting code from stack overflow into their project. which is basically what gpt is doing.
> you lose 10% of your raw intellect if you stay healthy

this is not true, and not substantiated. maybe you meant “if you don’t stay healthy,” but it’s still not an accurate number, or even a thing which is specific enough that attaching a number to it could mean anything.

there is some improvement in cognitive function from exercise, but that applies to all age ranges.
Offshore is still more than twice as expensive as onshore. But yes, if you can’t build them onshore or if you don’t want, offshore is a great option.
The existing sparse housing is much worse for the environment than dense housing.

Build some tall multifamily buildings in SF if you want to lower the carbon intensity of the residents.

Source:

https://jalopnik.com/nyt-report-confirms-that-density-reduce...
That assumes human brains will be able to cope with intelligence tuned beyond their reach. We are already at the stage where many PhDs aren't capable of producing outputs coming from LLMs in some areas. The only approach regular humans used when meeting "superintelligence" were belief systems.
I mostly agree with this sentiment, but I think it ignores some of the wealth feedback loops that exist, and the leverage they afford businesses over employees. Our society is filled with information assymetry, and therefore power assymetry. Offsetting that asymmetry with things that aren't necessarily "fair" may be required to make things more fair as a whole.
A developer does more than just write text and that’s all these AI programs can do: generate text. There’s not a single AI that can generate source, attempt to compile it, fix any source errors like the infamous missing semi-colon, and then produce a binary.

Anyway, I think advancement of technologies which generate text can make an individual developer’s task more efficient, e.g. the compiler. But, because of this efficiency on the individual, then more individuals will now be able to take part which means more jobs will be created.

To restate, I don’t think “AI” will make people more productive, it just makes doing the task more productive. This seems like a ridiculous statement, but consider the cotton-gin. Because of the tool, we could throw more and more people at the problem of gathering cotton.

That’s what the development of new tools gets us, more work with the tool that does the job.
You're going to make me cry...
What's your argument? Why will they get fucked over?
Most of them were financial industries, and a gov body in charge of tax processing and that stuff.
Ok good. That’s good to know there was something positive.

Still seems that we sort of created a pretty terrible problem to use our new knowledge on though.
Amazon, most people got trivial market adjustments. 1-2% increases when cola was way above that for social security has realistically translated to paycuts which are compounded further with poor stock performance and sign-on bonuses starting to ween down.
While I generally agree with your post, I would like to add that there is a plethora of tasks humans currently do that we have struggled to write acceptable algorithms for for a long time. This has blocked software development from further encroaching into those spaces.

The function approximation that AI offers is good enough to open software development to entire new aspects that have long resisted it. Even something seemingly so simple as order taking from a drive thru window has required algorithms that we have simply been unable to effectively create. We still haven't created them, but we can now approximate them.

These function approximations can now write creative stories and draw pictures of an astounding variety that would have simply been considered impossible even a decade ago. Soon that gym you mentioned will have 100 wide ranging automated app designs to pick from, or even a thousand automatically categorized by style. There will still be countless developers in the mix but they will be working on much more interesting tasks than writing a gym app that we currently allocate Human resources to.

Perhaps wages will decline, but the work will be a lot more interesting :)
I disagree. Think about it like this: Excel can do more than punch cards can, but it's also harder to learn. So you can put in more effort and get more out, e.g. you might need 130% of the knowledge, but you get 150% of the result.

These new generative AI algorithms make things easier, but they produce worse results. E.g. you can put in 50% of the effort and get 80% of the result. By lowering the amount of knowledge required to build something, you open up the labor pool to more unskilled labor. So while technically the "number of developers" will increase, the ranks will be increased with unskilled labor and the profession will cease to be desirable knowledge work.

This is very similar to how craftsmen and tradespeople were replaced with automation. For example, "Luddites" are known as people who dislike technological progress, but they were really textile workers who opposed having their high-skill jobs replaced by low-skill laborers with the factory owners pocketing the difference between the high and low skill pay.
on mobile its unusable
I don't remember using a book for this part of the course.
Probably lower than you expect a lot of people have done basic research on fusion and understand it makes no economical sense.
Thanks, I was confused with the downvotes as I was just relaying the facts of my experience!

Good to hear someone else has had a similar experience. Nothing against PHP at all, but it's definitely not suited for scale.
>I want the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly way to do it, which is large scale production.

Industrial farming isn't environmentally friendly. It's only cheaper because the environmental damage is considered an externality.

>If everyone lived outside the system we would need to find a new way to tax people.

If everyone became a communist, you'd be desperately figuring out how to revert it? Absolutely bizarre.

Why are you so obsessed with taxes? There are other, much better, ways to distribute wealth.

>If no one is working a w2 job, then yeah.

Is this a joke? You really expect IRS agents to seize produce from community vegetable gardens (given away freely already), and believe this is a productive use of time and resources?

Where would these vegetables go, anyway? And for what purpose?

>I have about as much sympathy for you as I do a libertarian that commits tax evasion because he believes taxes are theft.

hahahah are you for real dude? non-profit community food programs are tax evasion?

you've lost the plot (pun intended)
Well, they do have MLIR, which is probably the closest thing to "secret sauce" they've got. I'm excited by some of the performance-oriented features like tiling loops, but they'll need the multitude of optimization-hints that GCC and Clang have, too. They also have that parallel runtime, which seems similar to Cilk to me, and Python fundamentally can never have that as I understand it.
This is a good idea, much like the usage of Bitrex in certain household items, mainly cleaning solutions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34592137
> 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).

In my experience this isn’t such a problem. When technology makes it easier/cheaper to solve problems, the response is usually to try and solve more problems rather than spending less.

Your local gym might be able to afford a small app now, but I bet the big gyms start adding personalized nutrition/fitness routines into their products.

If we’re going by the history of software engineering, a more likely scenario is that developers start using generative AI to replace a lot of the people/management roles and capture even more of the profit. Of course, things aren’t the same as they were in the 70’s and 80’s, so maybe things won’t work out the same way, but I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion.
41% of U.S. citizens carry some sort of medical debt, and 24% are considering bankruptcy to solve a medical debt issue.

https://www.debt.org/bankruptcy/statistics/
There certainly will be more developers because coding will be more accessible to people without software backgrounds. So that's a net positive for the world.

Also, I think that software engineers in general will get more productive because there will be almost no reason to spend hours pouring over docs anymore. That's a big productivity enhancement. Also, if want to work in a framework or language that you're not an expert in? That's easy peasy now. AI will be a boon to companies that have legacy systems that they were previously struggling to find engineers to work on.

I think the big issue for software is going to be that engineers are no longer the bottleneck and the focus is going to shift from _how_ we build things to _what_ we're building and even more importantly _why_. Engineers should be rejoicing over that because it means that software development is going to be a lot more focused on building and creativity than the mechanical details of how do you get framework X to work with data Y.
If Chinese imperialism really exists it is so insignificant in the history of the world that it's not even worth mentioning.
> It’s absolutely impossible to use any sort of adblocker on twitch.

I have never seen any ads on twitch. I just checked with DevTools and it seems like uBlock Origin simply blocks a script called "v6s.js", that is apparantly responsible for serving ads.
The thick branches, of course, start out as thin twigs.
24 inches (60 cm) is not deep enough, IMO. It's incredibly irritating that IKEA stopped selling reasonably priced 75+ cm deep bench tops (except for in a few markets, like Germany, maybe IKEA thinks they still use CRTs there?).

Also: I see that your photos include a proper solder fume extractor, but the BOM doesn't. I think it makes sense to include one.

I did some research a few months ago for a suitable model available in the EU. My research ended up with this one: Weller ZERO SMOG EL KIT 1. About 700 EUR + VAT. (Didn't pull the trigger yet - curious about thoughts on this one.)
Nope, not with a well-designed permaculture setup
You're really doing a disservice to others with opinions that are so out of date.
If only they could regenerate them for my head :(
https://jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/
I acquired a desired domain this way. I kept silent about it on any service that might detect my interest in it and hold it hostage.

For about 3 months, I checked the whois weekly. Some company was holding it. I never visited the domain in any way, to help the domain feel dead to their analytics.

Then one day, the whois result matched what you get from whois-ing a bunch of random letters with .com. It was finally released. I registered it from a company like namesilo or porkbun for the standard .com price.
May Flowers Spring COSMIC Showers
It sounds like you haven't touched PHP in a very long time. Your comment reads like a 2015 forum complaint - which, to your credit, certainly would have been all valid points 8 years ago.

The language has evolved since. The ecosystem has evolved since. Most of the things you're complaining about are solved paradigms that no one does manually anymore unless they're trying to drastically improve on ecosystem tooling.

Even your complaints about Laravel are solved by open source tooling in its own ecosystem.

Nothing about your preferences are really unique to go - most, if not all of these tools exist in many popular languages.

The one solid point you have is that go lets you do many of these things by default without adding anything. To which I say: Duh. Go doesn't have a massive ecosystem of backwards compatible projects to continue supporting. It was barely used outside of niche cases until 2-3 years ago. In 10-15 years time, I'm sure people will say the same things comparing Go to a newer language.
> may work for some bloggers and news and news-adjacent publications

Yes, for creators who have managed to establish an audience that had high intent to consume that creator’s content. But good luck to people who are trying to make money just by delivering useful niche content where the consumers don’t even know of the creator.
But that's not how it would go.

The moment you make commute a cost for the employer they're going to start discriminating based on your commute. You don't live within 5 minutes of the job? Go find another job.

Or better yet - employer offered housing! You don't want to live on the workplace-campus? Sorry! We need somebody to buy from all the businesses we contracted for our workplace campus.
There seems to be an obvious answer...
> In France, apparently you can go on unemployment for 2, up to 3 years to start a startup. With up to 80% pay.

Then why does France have such a low rate of new business formation (5.3/1000 people) - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.BUS.NDNS.ZS?most_rec...

Or as another indicator, number of tech startups per Million is 234 for the US, while only 24 for France - https://www.startupranking.com/countries
This really hits the nail on the head for me. My last two companies "globalized" parts of the team to the UK and India. Now the only time that works for everyone is 6 am PST.

And now we are still on zoom calls, just at the office instead of at home.
Thanks for the feedback! This model will evolve over time, we are planning on pushing a much higher resolution soon. Skill wise we will publish a paper in the next few months.
Session: https://getsession.org/

Briar: https://briarproject.org/

Jami: https://jami.net/
I would hazard to guess many don’t have a choice due to the flexibility compared to a minimum wage job. Are they doing it out of “happiness” if a 9-5 is impossible to fit in their day?
Soon everything will be deep fake regardless of being deep fake and we all will just have to believe or not.
Show HN: Cedar Policy Agent – Run AWS Cedar Like OPA
It's just the process of converting every cost center role into a more efficient half-IT and half-HR/Accounting/OPs role. No one will train anyone so what's the next best thing? Automate stuff; or at least pretend to and pay lot's of money to back the idea up.
Founders do invest savings into creating the company, and can be condemned to prejudices if they fail to manage money properly. And every startup is managed at the edge of bankruptcy all the time, so founders can easily be found guilty of mismanagement.
And there are less roles (in numbers)
Google’s new Labs page lets you sign up for its AI experiments
I've done this but for observing the sun with a DSLR/telephoto for long periods. I've seen several projects to do this, a related project is https://opensamofficial.github.io/OpenSAM/ but that's more of a stabilizer.

When I built my own I hit a number of challenges: the 3d printed plastic parts melted in the sun (switched from PLA to PETG, printed in pure white). DSLRs with telephotos are heavy so I ended up using gearing. I should have put more time into balancing the camera to reduce the motor demands. I don't think a DSLR is ideal- I'd much rather use a small, cheap industrial camera, but I've never found the equivalent of an affordable 300mm telephoto that is C-mount and goes on industrial camera. I used stepper motors, not BLDC, without feedback (other than a zero-position limit switch) and a simple realtime algorithm for pointing; it worked, but wasn't really good enough to make the sunspot timelapses I wanted.

I think for this it makes more sense to buy a quality telescope motorized mount, a nice refractor telescope, and then put a DSLR at prime focus. It'd be about $3K but would save a lot of time compared to DIY.
You're only proving my point about the value of being able to take on risk.