skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any prediction more than 50 years in the future is pure guesswork. There are just too many interconnected feedback loops and branching possibilities. This applies to any side of any debate, be it climate, economy, social sciences and so on. This applies to doom-sayers and it_will_be_fine-ers. This applies to the original article as well.

That being said humanity evolves having multiple camps, each with their own ideas, fighting, competing, allying with each other. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, rinse and repeat. And we are the definition of adaptability. I would not be worried unless some camp gains absolute power monopoly over a very long period of time. Which is, funny enough, what every camp tries to do with the worse or best intentions.
My experience with ride sharing is that you have the people that you just mentioned, + people doing it professionally, people doing it for fun / get out of the house make a little
Extra money, and people in a short term bind that need to make some extra money
Humans and adaptive algorithms need to studied together
Adaptive algorithms have been linked to terrorist attacks and beneficial social movements. Governing them requires new science on collective human–algorithm behaviour.
How to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth
For me gig work is side income. I do uber and make $25/hr. Closer to $17/hr. once I pay for gas. But I am on the luck side because I get tipped well.
Well, not necessarily, you simply tax it at a highly progressive rate and distribute the tax revenue as social services.

Automation isn't the problem, its control and use to create systems of extraction from the disadvantaged is.
That was the original intention of HashCash, the inspiration to Bitcoin. Antispam micropayments to add some trivial level of cost to online interactions to make scale unaffordable.
I don't think that's true. I find Crockford's argument compelling that js is misunderstood and that the core of the language is a diamond in the rough.

https://youtu.be/47Ceot8yqeI?list=PL7664379246A246CB&t=3792
"Worse for who?" is the question a lot of people should have asked. I'm not responding to this thread anymore. People are still cultish about this discussion.
I went down the rabbit hole on this one and found this discussion from thenakedscientists.com:

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=474...

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Is a potato used as a battery still edible?

This thread seems to be essentially all wrong.
"What does this do to its edibility once the energy has been all used up? "
The energy used to run the clock doesn't came from the potato. It comes from the coal used to smelt the zinc from its ore.
"Not sure how it will taste, but it will reduce the ascorbic acid content."
Probably true, but not a big deal
"Potatoes have a higher content of vitamin C than even oranges do."
Not true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#Plant_sources

"You will also get some metal ions in your potato.
Copper ions, zinc ions, etc, depending on what your electrodes are."
Not quite true, there's no "probably" about it. The energy is released by the conversion of metallic zinc to zinc ions.

"Perhaps some organometallic compounds."
I doubt it; most organozinc compounds are not stable in the presence of air or water.

"Some of the metal ions may in fact be vitamins"
No, they may be minerals which the body uses, but they can't be vitamins since ther are not organic compounds.

Nobody has mentioned the fact that spuds exposed to light generate toxic chemicals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine#Solanine_in_potatoes

The simple answer is no. Throw the used potato away.

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Apparently potatoes are not natural batteries, the conversion of zinc to zinc oxide produces energy.

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They dig zinc oxide out of the ground
The add coal and heat it to get zinc
2 ZnO + C --> 2 Zn + CO2

If they just burned that coal they would get energy.
This way some of that energy is "stored" by making metallic zinc.

When the zinc is oxidised that energy is released.
We Must Fight for Firefox
Well I guess they better start living in tents, prepping, learning survival skills, and buying bitcoin! No, I am not joking: https://archive.is/ifiOt
https://archive.is/cPXsO
Rather the ones we thought were "conspiracy theories" (over the past few years at least) most of them turned out to be true. It might be really unpopular to say it here but the Biden admin really fucked up on this one big time. I presume most people, from all parts of the political spectrum, are not willing to go through another round of pandemic induced lockdowns, deaths of friends and family members, hospitalizations etc just because some careless mad scientists unleashed a lethal virus on the entire human population "by mistake". There is no excuse for this.

Majority of us (99%) do not have any level of expertise to gauge if this sort of Research is beneficial to humanity or not. We can only go by "belief" that those experts who are overseeing this get it right. That "belief" has been shaken big time post 2020. All the flip-flops by Fauci and Co has only contributed to denting the image of this part of the scientific community. And to restart it again, when we still have no conclusive evidence of what actually happened in the previous pandemic (I believe it is Wuhan lab that was responsible but my belief has no weight unless it is actually verified) we should not be restarting any such research.

Also such research must not be the purview of one single country or few countries (US/China). Permission must be sought from all member nations of UN before any such research is carried out as it has potential to wipe out humanity.
I think for many gig type work out would be hard to hit 50 hours. There are only so many peak hours for these jobs in a week.

If tried to work more you'd find yourself just waiting for jobs a lot of the time and your average hourly rate would drop even lower.
> technology is far more likely to cause our extinction before [the Sun goes out] than to save us from it

Surely there is some middle ground between this neo-ludditism espoused by the author and the outright fascism of longterminists that can justify any current action if it's somehow even marginally likely to decrease existential risk?

For example, we could agree that current lives and suffering are morally superior to possible lives in the future, and that technology can help us solve our quintessential human problems, such as competition for resources, disease and death.

We are a technological species since the first rock hit the first bone, and what "humanity is" is first and foremost a question answered by the technology of the era. We have no idea what future humans will want and value because the technology that will define them has not yet been invented. We're just along for the ride.
That’s what it might mean on paper when you get philosophical but I’m more curious what it means day to day.

Is this just a giant opportunity cost risk where a bunch of wealthy people are donating money in X potentially wasteful “charity” instead of more local/timely Y organization? Or is there some more tangible harm?
Fact? It's frankly discrediting to refer to the lab-leak hypothesis as such because GOF is definitely a huge risk vector that we should address even without high-confidence conclusions like "fact" regarding COVID's origin (which we don't currently and probably never will have anyway).

GOF is dangerous and should be stopped regardless of its causal relationship to COVID in particular.

I.e. if we were ever to find certain evidence COVID was not caused by GOF research, it would still be a very good idea to ban GOF research.
My god man, use your logic: 'pay workers illegally under wage, then can just work 60 hours a week to make up for it!' at least before we make it an issue.

If there was no minimum wage, wages in some sectors wages would drop to where they are in the undeveloped world aka $2/hour. Little communities with favela-like structures with limited heating/electricity would pop up, and if you think the 'dollar store' is cheap, then wait for the '25 cent store' where they sell stuff as they do parts of India and Brazil.

It's funny how people don't think this could happen in the 'modern world', I suggest they don't know what makes the modern world modern. For a hint, go to where the illegal workers in Cali or Texas live and exist. Those communities resemble pretty much the standard of living of Central American countries, aka 'down the economic ladder'. Because they are.

Moreover, having secondary low-wage markets will put downward wage pressure on other jobs. Extra surpluses will mostly be yielded by financial asset holders.

The solution here is simple, require people pay minimum wage. If you look at corporate profits in the US for example, there are plenty of surpluses available to pay people.

Some jobs will go away, that's fine.

I can't believe what I'm reading on this thread, the only other time I've been suspicious of 'ideological paid bots' is when I see a ton of people defending the CCP.
"Stern look at requiring a FB account to enable developer mode on the Quest"

That is annoying out of principle to me as well, but on the other hand, why care as you don't have to use it?
You're mostly correct. The detrimental effects come primarily from not sleeping but the problem is that the drug radically decreases your sleep quality and makes it more difficult to fall asleep
Yes true. I over-simplified. There are people who earn well from these types of gig markets. But it provides the flexibility to also allow those who really can't or won't find ordinary jobs - due to reasons ranging from their skill level, to their scheduling requirements - a way to earn.
I found that a high fraction of my mid-day trips (commuting to/from our downtown office or taking it to/from the airport morning, afternoon, or very early evening) were from essentially full-time drivers. Friday/Saturday night trips to/from restaurants were mostly from part-time drivers, which is probably not that surprising a result.
Random mysterious keybinds that nobody asked for
This is where a lot of high-performance stuff went in the last decade or so. HPC, HFT, AI training, several storage services, and clouds pretty much all do their networking in something other than a kernel. It turns out you can get huge performance gains by not using a one-size-fits-all networking system.

It only takes a few more steps for this model to trickle down to general applications, as HTTP and RPC stacks pick it up.
Average size is still smaller according to data. Google the stats according to age range. The results still point to the generality that Asians are smaller.

One metric for intelligence is IQ. If you don't think IQ is a good measure of intelligence then let's not talk about things with vague definitions. Replace every usage of the word "intelligence" in my post with "IQ". Now we can talk on more exact terms.
Worse for everyone. It's absolutely wild that you think elementary public health is a conspiracy.
Miro board?
Ask HN: Are theoretical computer scientists abandoning their field for AI?
And if so, why?
> ability to predict the future

And

> hindsight is the mother of all survivorship biases

Increasing the chances of success is not predicated on predicting the future. Another strategy (given our knowledge of evolution by natural selection) is that we can increase species chance of long term success by enabling more degrees of freedom so that the good “choices” survive.

Multiplanetaryism is such an example. Another is to avoid authoritarian structures because you don’t know a priory which ideas will turn out to be best/right. Hence, you want idea competition and not suppress dissent.

So, again, you don’t need to predict the future to increase chances of success.
Vortigern and Rowena
After four years of unobtainability and ridiculously high prices for consumers, Raspberry Pi leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source
The problem with the app explosion is the UX in that they constantly sign you out and you have to renter your password and the login interface is crap. I would think 50% of the churn they see are people canceling because of that dynamic.

The only people that figured this out is Amazon via the Channels app which just works basically and you only have to remember one password and you basically never get signed out.
Why?

I work for another auth provider (FusionAuth), so always interested in learning about other solutions.

What's Logto's special sauce? I see it uses the MPL and is a CIAM solution, written in Typescript. What else is unique about it/why should someone pick it over the other options?
> The project no longer involves collecting new bat samples or working with live viruses. WIV has no role beyond contributing more than 300 whole and partial genome sequences of SARS-related bat coronaviruses from its collection, Daszak says.

From the article there's also supposed to be additional review of further grants to deny anything that might look like gain of function research.

My laymen's take is that monitoring viruses for spillover is still important, maybe more important than ever, and gain of function research has negligible benefits and probably shouldn't happen? On that basis, what's presented in this article seems to be on the right track.
"I would go on living my life with literal airborne HIV... [other] people are still cultish about this discussion"
Found the article:

https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-professor-rants-daughter-lowe...
Have you considered trying to organize such a group? Set up discord, invite your friends you know, ask them to invite their friends of a similar age, then share it on HN to make it a little more global :)
This is just one task it fails at, hardly enough to generalize from.
Whatvare the arguments for gain of function research? Is there any reason to think the mutations gained as a virus adapts to mice with human lung tissue will resemble the ones it makes when it crosses in the wild? Or is it kind of like the old giant nuke plants, a way to peace-wash war tech?

Edit: Vouching for the reply wasn't enough to resurrect it. It was a claim with no support other than an appeal to authority, but that means you reply to it with a counter not bury it. It sidestepped the question of whether adapting an animal virus to humans has sufficient gain for the risk.
Same web pages but with ctl-+ pressed a couple times?
I don't think so either, don't fence yourself off.
? Minimum wage is the law, not a 'market pressure'. Gig employers are not immune to that. Either they pay minimum or are fined and change their ops.
> Well sure, if you include time not working in the denominator, the pay rate is going to be low!

So dragging around tickets in Jira and taking the next one off the backlog isn't working either?
https://archive.ph/nipAk
> Random mysterious keybinds

And who gets to be the judge of which keybinds are "random and mysterious"? Every single OS has it's own different keybinds you need to learn if you want to be eficient with. MacOS has different. KDE has different. Gnome has different. Windows has different. It's not their fault you don't know them or haven't bothered to look into them for the OS you daily drive at home or at work and remain "random and mysterious" to you. Every switch to a new OS involves a certain learning curve for any user.

It's called basic computer literacy in my country and it's also must have knowledge for most white collar jobs as it's part of the curriculum out of high-school.

If you don't have the basic skills to Google "hotkey keyboard layout switch Windows" or something along those lines for your OS, then "you'd better get used to asking people if they want fries with their order", as our instructor used to say, since you're not getting into any tech career if you can't google basic stuff.

> that nobody asked for

As a multilingual person who has to type in 3 languages on daily basis, the keybinds to quickly switch languages are defiantly something I would have asked for and I'm glad they exist.
We spesifically deaigned legislation to make sure workers get paid for all their time, a chef waiting for orders and not cooking is still working. A fire marshall on duty still gwts paid if there is no fire, etc.

its amazing how all the progress was undone by pretending workhours don't count when an app says so.

I am very disillusioned by our industry, it seems half the revenue was generating by techno-cheating laws.
Compate Hiroshima's fate to that of Pyongyang, and maybe a one-time atomic bombing doesn't sound so bad. It was necessary to give Stalin something to think about -- even if our own planners didn't see it that way at the time.
None of the Nordic countries have a statutory minimum wage, btw.

Edit: Any skeptics don't have to trust me, they also have the option to trust the International Labour Organization:

https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/wages/minimum-wages/settin...
Taiwan is running low on engineers
Because in exchange, significant amounts of budget would need to be cut. If this were acceptable, it would have been done during negotiations.
"Because of all the conspiracy theories"
Why do you call them theories when they play out as described? Really it should be stated "Because of the government conspiracy to enact totalitarian rule..."

It has been proven the government was wrong about all of their Covid predictions and the methodology for care was flawed because it ignored basic care. Many people died because the government ignored actual science and set out to squelch those that disagreed. This is exactly what our government shouldn't be.
As a rails developer - my introduction to Pharo started with this video:

https://youtu.be/HOuZyOKa91o

If you're not a ruby/rails developer you can still see how awesome it is, but for rubyists specifically it can really be quite mind blowing.
This is one example where OIDC support would be great. Elixir has a library with OIDC support: https://hexdocs.pm/openid_connect/readme.html
> Similarly the current article. Expensive energy kills apparently, so what's the cheapest source of Winter heating? Wind powered heat pumps in well insulated homes? Probably not worth mentioning, just underline that without Russian gas we die.

Bingo.
But those interfaces [to allocate bytes/pages before other bytes/pages, allocate bytes/pages in the middle of bytes/pages, to prune bytes/pages before other bytes/pages] to manipulate said parts are non-portable between *NIX implementations, usually limited to certain filesystems with specific implementation-specific minimum byte sizes.

So like how the OS pretends filesystems are in a tape, the filesystem pretends that the files are in a tape.

And tape splicer is optional with a not-standard interface (logical volume management, fallocate, etc).
Yes indeed, as of last year:

StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023343 - Jan 2022 (79 comments)
How is not having minimal wage for any job better than having it for only some?
Also, now that you are on the edge and your form submissions are web scale you likely need to model eventually consistency for the processing so you will need a highly available queue running somewhere.
In my 20s I worried about losing my intellectual abilities in my 40s and 50s

What you really just lose is patience for BS :)

Sure, yeah, you lose 10% of your raw intellect if you stay healthy[1]. You probably more than make up for it in experience and wisdom. But hell the thing that demotivates me is the recycled insanity of large organizations, egotistical tech executives, hype cycles, and all the other BS. Eventually you can learn to laugh it off, but you don't take it as seriously as you did when you're younger. It motivates you less. You stay focused on what interests you outside of whatever external factors happen.

For some, of course though, this just leads to burnout on the whole field. Seeing one dumb hype cycle after another, with self-described visionaries chasing trends, rather than defining them, heartlessly laying off staff, etc, even when profitable. Its enough to drive you crazy if you let it.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906299/
> The solution is heavy policing

This whole ordeal with Telegram started precisely because of this. Free speech shouldn't be a cover to hate speech and criminal conduct, take it from Germany, who is dealing with it still to this day and will for the foreseeable future [1], what you mention is a clear example of Paradox of tolerance[2].

> They can ask for whatever they want. They should not be censored just because you find it outrageous.

People are entitled to their own thoughts, but they weren't asking for every family to be fed properly or for everyone to get puppies, their actions ended up with riot, damage to public property, people injured and road blocks that prevented people to get medical attention in life threatening conditions.

> Shows Lula's people interacting with and assisting the vandals and just basically doing a whole lot of nothing about them.

You mean the staff with heavily ties with the previous government, and that was suggested by them? Were the people that invaded and vandalized the congress and the supreme court Lula supporters too?

[1]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
People can spend their time and money on whatever they want, but a lot of these longtermism organizations seem like a massive waste of time and money. I liked effective altruism when it was about donating mosquito nets, but the AI stuff seems like pure nerd larping. Honestly, with all the research they've done, they don't seem to have anything interesting to say about recent AI trends.
Other folks have already commented that most folks in this line of work will have 2nd and 3rd jobs. But, I want to explain a different perspective. One that explains how gig work affects one's living (and ultimately leads to people needing to take on multiple jobs to survive).

Gig workers cannot control how many hours of work they receive a week. It's similar to shift work. When your manager is making the schedule and ensures that no one works 40 hours or more a week so they don't have to pay you benefits.

A major problem of low-wage, non-salaried work and gig work is that is an unreliable source of income. This breeds anxiety and stress, not to mention a host of other problems.
Those late 80s and 90s Cherokees lasted a long time, I still see them around town. Most of the survivors have that great inline 6 that was a carryover from the AMC days.
There's no evidence for a lab leak, while there's evidence supporting direct zoonotic transmission.
Qwik is basically more granular code splitting combined with a smart loader. We were already doing this ten years ago, just manually without a compiler.
So you think Reddit is going to replace their actual content… with very believable generated text? And that’s going to fool people at scale? How does that help Reddit (or other org) combat bots? You can just put garbage text that seems real but has nothing to do with todays news (or politics or science).

I’m really struggling to understand how you think this is going to work and result in harm.

This assumes both the site and the reader are really dumb.
There is no evidence that the pandemic was a man-made disaster.
It is not far off from Google Earth. Most of the cities have handscaped 3D models, while the rest of the planet is procedurally generated.