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There may be more overall developers - they won't be writing code directly. There will be fewer people writing code directly.

They'll be using tools that utilize AI to build software. The AI will be writing the code. In the future there will be a lot more jobs watching and assisting and using robots in factories as well. The net count of factory workers will be lower than whatever the peak was (whether we're referring to the peak in eg the US or China).

This is how corporations will boost margins even further in the tech field. AI writing code will be considerably cheaper than what big tech has been paying (which isn't to say big tech will eliminate all of their code writing jobs, just a lot of them). Peak code writing employment has occurred in the US, the latest tech layoffs are the end of that era (and will be recognized as such in hindsight).

Software developer will typically no longer be understood to mean a person that writes code, the terms will change (and most likely that'll happen this decade). Only older developers will still think of it in those terms.

Oh, you mean, like, you write the code directly? Dude, what century are you from?
IMO it is a stronger line of argument to just assume the gig workers have the same amount of financial literacy as the rest of us (I mean have worked in retail jobs, and I’ve worked with engineers, and the retail workers seem to have a pretty good gut feel for financial problems that engineers never bump into!). Whether or not it is technically true, assuming we’re all equally educated circumvents the bad-faith “how dare you assume these people aren’t able to evaluate their own financial positions” attacks.

Minimum wage solves a collective action problem. You don’t have to be financially illiterate to have been fucked over by a collective action problem.
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I'd say they're betting on their possibility to extract wealth from Turkey, and their bet, with their money on the line, is that Erdogan is bad for their possibility to extract wealth from Turkye.
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I've seen it said that newsfeeds/ads/etc. feed you what they think you will engage with, so you may want to wonder why you're seeing that type of content. I've never seen anything of the sort on any large tech platform, and I'm probably in an appropriate demographic to be recommended that stuff.
Yeah, I tried them when they started and for me it didn't make my tinnitus worse, it just made me notice much more when it's there because suddenly I had breaks from it, and THAT was worse. I used them a few times and quit because of that.
So rather than try to improve the situation by teaching them techniques for doing this winnowing and skimming, which would a) reduce the stress on their students (both in the class and in the real world), and b) increase the efficiency and productivity of the students once they were out there working, they instead chose to perpetuate the significantly more negative status quo.

That sounds like bad professors to me.
> The former school headteacher and longtime member of the Republican People’s party (CHP) said an alleged sex tape circulating online was a deepfake, using footage taken from “an Israeli porn site”.

This seems pretty easy to determine then. Surely someone will recognize the original video, if it came from a publicly available source like that?
Who controls Turkey/the Bosphorus is critically important this year. The election (and attracted shenanigans) is only a piece of that
Not that I disagree but you are accusing OP of shilling/astroturfing and I suspect its one reason why threads like these get downmodded.
There’s been 5 amendments to the US constitution since 1960. In 1971 it took 100 days to pass the 26th amendment lowering voting age to 18.

The largest barrier is it doesn’t have that many rules people want to change. It’s a short document and many things like requiring the president to be 35 just don’t come up very frequently. The few things that apply frequently such as free speech have broad support.
Oh cool, thanks for the heads up. I didn't know that :)
Ideally minimum wage should be coupled with higher taxes on the wealthy, a generous social safety net, a job guarantee fronted by the state, and a sovereign wealth fund which pays out a minimum basic income. This would eliminate shitty jobs no one wants to do and get rid of business models which depend on them, which is a net win for everyone.
>formerly TextEdit IIRC

TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.
So who's going to enforce it? The Spacing Guild? The Bene Gesserit? Shaddam IV? The Landsraad?
I’d be really interested in reading a history of the codebase: from classic Mac Toolbox to whatever it looks like today. Is it still mostly C? A weird mishmash of C, C++, Obj-C, and Swift? What UI toolkit does it use?
Also 1080p videos, which are surprisingly high quality. It seems like a much higher bitrate then Youtube or Instagram '1080p'.
Sublime Text is suffice for me. Cross-platform and extendable.
It's magnificent that this work has been made completely practical and diversity was on the minds of the many researchers involved. It would be great to get other genomics labs in even more parts of the world to contribute genomes and help develop tools. Great job researchers!!!
it's not much more overpowering than other ides - just close anything you are not interested in.
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I jerry-rigged something similar:

- Android e-Ink tablet

- Vise-grip style holder that connects to a VESA mount

- Two-arm VESA monitor stand, with my main monitor on the other arm

It's not quite as smooth as I'd like, but it works.
absolutely use this on a regular basis - congratulations "boston" edit!
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If we are to do that, I'd say Battlefield Earth is the superior choice ;)
It doesn't take 4 hours to code review a few lines of code for generating random QR codes.
In general, taking the easy route stiffs development. Relying on AI to speak for you is a major crutch.

"The Art of the Essay"[0] describes the process of formalizing thoughts and ideas into structured arguments and logically unfolding them as a result of trying to put them in writing.

This also dovetails into the notion that communication mediums can support only certain information. "The medium is the message" [1] is the phrase coined for this idea.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Related:

BBEdit is 30 years old today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008290 - April 2022 (104 comments)

BBEdit 14 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27905644 - July 2021 (159 comments)

BBEdit 13.0 Release Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156348 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)

BBEdit is turning 25 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602488 - Dec 2018 (14 comments)

Bare Bones Software Celebrates BBEdit's 25th Anniversary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17052289 - May 2018 (2 comments)

What's new in BBEdit 12 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15487561 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)

TextWrangler to Be Retired as Bare Bones Software Focuses Development on BBEdit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13779768 - March 2017 (3 comments)

Why would a front-end developer on OS X use any editor besides BBEdit? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9214963 - March 2015 (11 comments)

Back to BBEdit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8479905 - Oct 2014 (3 comments)

Macintosh Text Editor BBEdit Turns 20 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3833672 - April 2012 (32 comments)

Bare Bones releases BBEdit 10, cuts the price - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781942 - July 2011 (3 comments)
WebStorm and VSCode both have OK debuggers, but in my experience they are even more finicky than the Chrome one, which as you noted does have issues. Firefox and Safari are likewise fine, but not as good as Chrome.

More importantly though, if you are that distrustful of Chrome, you probably should not be using Node because it is based on v8, the Chrome Javascript runtime.
New York and California steal (at least) half too.

At least in Europe you get something for your taxes (okay, except maybe Germany).
It's the cost of living. The cost of living in the SF baybarea is 79% above the national average. A living wage is simply more here because it costs more to live here.
36 years ago a very young me took a programming class in 3rd grade where learned "Small Talk", which was going to be how everybody worked with computers in the future.

I still credit most of my skill at programming to the fact that I was introduced to that and Forth in elementary school. I also miss those C64s....
> Worth noting that unlike, say, the USA, Turkey does not have a constitution that was written two hundred plus years ago and is virtually impossible to change or update.

That’s a feature, not a bug. It’s what keeps the USA from devolving to the 51% mob rule flavor of the month after each election.
I'm a big fan of writing as a crucial skill for thinking.

But I wonder if this concern of AI-assisted writing harming this will actually play out the way people think.

Until quite recently, if you wanted to write music you had to learn an instrument first: needing to learn piano or guitar or similar to a point where you could compose your own music was a pretty big obstacle to getting started.

Now, thanks to software like GarageBand, you don't need to develop those skills first. You can jump straight to the fun bit.

I wonder if the act of sweating over word choice and spelling and grammar in order to explore your ideas might turn out to work in a similar way?

Maybe we'll find out that people who didn't spend years developing their fundamental writing skills will be able to excel in a new, LLM-assissted world where ability to write well is no longer a pre-requisite to using writing to explore, develop and share their ideas.
I've been using BBEdit since college and I love it. I was and is my primary text editor for all of my development (except Java and Swift which basically require an IDE).

Also, it's funny: I am only marginally older than BBEdit. I can't imagine running a software project for so long, let alone so successfully.

Keep up the great work BareBones!
> 150k is an astronomical sum for most people on the planet

This assertion (regardless of the dollar value) bugs me, because it never considers the cost of living. Sure, if I lived in Vietnam, $150k would make me a relative millionaire.

But I don't live in (for example) Vietnam. A vast majority of people working a job that pays $150k don't live in a similar place either.
That seems like a problem with the alternatives - no one else is giving them the flexibility or the additional hours they need. Make their day jobs pay better and offer more flexibility so they don't need gig work, don't make the gig work they need harder to get.
My #1 go-to for dealing with large text files. The Electron based stuff like VSCode et. al. completely break down on anything greater than a few MB.
I wonder if anyone has experience with this and Amber (https://amber-lang.net/) and can compare the two? The languages at least appear to be very similar, but the latter uses a web browser rather than a fully custom UI like Pharo has. I assume you can't just open a Pharo program in Amber (or the other way around)?
> but you are supporting him

That's not how that works.

I believe you are commenting in an entirely politically-motivated way and are not responding in good faith to my reply to your original comment. At this point I don't think we can have a productive conversation, so I wish you the best and I'm going to move on to a better use of my time.
Ahh that gets me nostalgic for the pre-VSCode days.

How is TextMate doing these days? I know they spent forever for TextMate 2.0, and that somehow fizzled out...?
I suspect most gig workers do it as a side hobby or side project before having the necessary experience to start scaling a business of their own. Or to supplement other income.
> As a maintainer of several large JS packages, and being so dreadfully burnt out on JS, there are other words I'd use to describe the whole thing than "delightful".

My first project that used JS was in 1996, so I've been along the ride every step of the way. Up until today where I am working with all of this on an Angular 15 enterprise project.

I actually would describe it as delightful, compared to what it was like only a short 10 years ago. 1996-ES6 was painful.

I understand your pain as maintainer and am also burnt out on ... um ... 27 years of JavaScript. Yikes.

But now it can just be written in TypeScript and I'll let the transpilers and other tools handle the details.

It is so much better.
Usually 3-4X of yearly profits for smaller projects like these. If it is growing at a decent pace, then you can ask for a bit more but don't expect to get more than max 3-5x of yearly profits. For example, if I sold it today, I would expect around 40-50K minimum. If Growth was better and I was spending tons of time on it, I would ask for more.
Do you have a 3d printer? Spend some time cloning this:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/689699-REG/Giga_Pan_E...

That's what I did. This time around, I'd just buy that.
That is indeed what factories preferred since the beginning of industrialization.

I’m not concerned so much about AI taking over my livelihood as I am of businesses treating humans as automatons, and have been for over a century, if not more. We even adapted our education system to crank out more automatons (John Taylor Gatto’s book).

The flip side is understanding what a true autonomous agent is from the lens of Promise Theory. At the core of it, you trust humans to do what they promise to the best of their abilities. This is the heart of voluntary cooperation. For AIs to be truly autonomous, they cannot be proxies for promises humans make to each other. (Being a proxy for humans is how AI safety ethicists are approaching this). Instead, AIs have to be capable of making and keeping promises in their own right, and we have to trust they do what they promise to the best of their capabilities. … but not every business can’t seem to do that with humans.
$4 is better than 0 dollars and perhaps some people have looked but couldn't find other work. Maybe they have a criminal record, businesses definitely discriminate even though it's illegal
hacker news, obviously
Despite how it often feels, "20 years ago" wasn't the 1980s.
The amount we spend on malaria prevention rounds to zero. We are at no risk of spending all our resources on malaria prevention. Like I said, this is Bond villain thinking.
It leverages the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) https://mlir.llvm.org/ which is a follow-on from LLVM, with lots of lessons learned: https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/12/27/lessons-from-llvm-an-sc21...
I don't think people want the legislature to cede its power to the other branches, but I do think the other branches are easier to understand. When the President issues an executive order, or a court issues a ruling, there are one, three, or nine people. It conforms more to what people think of as "rulership," and it allows for "easy" "victories" that route around the long and clumsy process of legislation.

But you do point out a significant problem, regarding polarized constituents. More than just communication, it's usually the most polarized members of a party who take part in the primaries. This has the effect of dragging politics towards the extremes, rather than the center, and makes cooperation between parties essentially impossible.

Removing first past the post, through ranked choice or some other mathematically superior method of handling elections, would do a lot to correct that.
It is astonishing, even more so that some in this camp are smart people.

I chalk it up to "hype aversion" -- an internal heuristic that anything with so much hype around it must be bullshit. For some, there might also be good old resistance to change, to the unknown consequences of all these developments.
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> Now, thanks to software like GarageBand, you don't need to develop those skills first. You can jump straight to the fun bit.

It might just be me, but I find it weird that one would consider the act of actually playing music not to be precisely the fun bit.
it's ok, my synthesizer GAS (and retro computing GAS) has been taking a backseat to ski gear GAS for the last few years, and the last thing I need is for it to resurrect. I haven't lust-scrolled matrixsynth in years now, I really need to not start up again :-)
Exactly, and my wife and I spend easily tens of thousands a year out of pocket for things that would be "free" or close to free in the EU. Things like healthcare, transportation, childcare, etc. Its not uncommon for health plans have a 10k deductible per year, 20k for the family.
That series has a corner piece which is very deep. I got rid of it in all an international move, but I made a workbench with two of those desks one wall, a corner piece and then one more desk on the adjacent wall. It was nice to have enough space for keeping multiple projects out and felt deep enough in the corner for a PC and monitor. I like that it's very configurable too, you can put legs instead of storage units where you want more legroom.
> the CHP

This is Kilicdaroglu's party. Also remember that there can be a runoff election, either candidate only needs to clear 50%
You’ve perfectly captured the reason why people won’t let go of emacs.
21kmh for a marathon is absolutely insane. Somehow I've never put two and two together on that before.
Well, now that Microsoft has embraced and extended open source, I think it's time for us all to let our guards down, because it's not like they have some kind of "third step" to their business plans.
Maybe the males are fighting for breading rights, and the bigger you are, the more likely you are to win. I think this is an example of sexual dimorphism.
> Within years, the average fish size of those caught at any popular vacation destination fall precipitously as can be observed by vacation photos

Must be taken in mind that the photos don't support that claim.
This is just a fantastic page, why aren't more on the internet like this, with specific parts lists and sources? Very similar to the stations we had when I was doing computer repair a decade ago (no, I will not fix your computer.™) and out of everything on there, be sure to get a good ESD mat, or else you'll never stop chasing random glitches.

I just want to add that the best way to get over starting friction is to have everything ready to go like this. IMHO it's much easier to take care of the low-hanging fruit of arranging and cleaning, than it is to have to do that and THEN work. I struggle with organization though, so I treat that as an active exercise and devote 15 minutes at a time to the chore, rewarding myself with a cup of coffee or whatever afterwards.
> If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS.

Yet Microsoft seems to have no concerns about changing out functional, fast, easy to use components for worse replacements.
I accidentally discovered that not zooming in quite as much, but getting down on your hands and knees is a really fun and unique experience in Earth VR. You get a closer view of the dollhouse effect that goes away when you zoom in to ground level. Probably looks particularly strange to the outside observer though.
Pharo by Example is a good book to start with.
I believe the financial literacy problem is more widespread than retail workers, it actually affects a huge portion of all workers (and non-workers).

Just look at the average credit card debt, etc. The average person has terrible credit because they do not pay their bills, they are not reliable or trustworthy financially, not because they are bad people, but because they are incapable of managing risk appropriately. Of course, there are legit reasons to have bad credit (medical bills etc) but most americans are not that.

If most people you know are financially literate, I think you may be in a bubble. I was too, until I had my first few bad jobs.

> Minimum wage solves a collective action problem. You don’t have to be financially illiterate to have been fucked over by a collective action problem.

Also true and kinda obviates the need for this discussion at all. This crap should not be legal, full stop.
The starting salary for an SF police officer is over 100k. At some point money isn't the only issue.

Also like any other job, the best way to get good police officers is to have lots of competition. If you are desperate for staffing, you aren't getting the best.
Yeah I think you're right. Phones have been pretty much the same since the first slab came out. I mean screen-size got bigger, DPI got higher, "stuff scrolls really smooth now!" These -- to me -- are just incremental changes to the same features from 2013 and aren't great motivators to drop the phone I have into the landfill and get a new one. It seems phone companies are casting about for a new gimmick.
If you are interested in doing other modifications yourself, also read about UEFI variables, how they control menu options and can be tweaked with just grub
And TextWrangler formerly was BBEdit Lite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBEdit#Freeware_versions)
When youtube.com sends me an HTML file full of links to videos, I am stealing nothing by ignoring some of those links and only watching the videos I care about.

I have no moral obligation to waste my time according to Google's preference.
It rubs me the wrong way that Google fired their whole AI ethics team and then got on stage and talked about how AI can be bad for people and we need to guard against people using it unethically.

They've realized that, at this point, they may well have lost the AI chatbot war, and now they're pivoting to "we can keep these other, rogue LLMs from being as bad as ours would have been if we'd gotten there first".
You can hold it to your ear with your shoulder.
It's interesting the vitamin D level dropped if over exposed to UV. I wonder what caused the drop.
Thanks for the information, it has never been said before in HN when an improvement to Python happens and I am sure there is still someone out there thinking that Python is fast.

BTW from the PEP:

“Motivation

Python is widely acknowledged as slow”
Then 'we' would miss out on the learning inviting larger mistakes, more likely, at grander scale. That starting over isn't viable is powerful knowledge. The network, if you like, as a learning organism with chaotic knowledge distributed and embedded within.
I am open to the idea that someone from a background outside of academia could come up with some really brilliant scientific work. I just know that I am not capable of discerning what is solid science in fields different from my own so I typically rely on signals like an academic background (although not exclusively) to help me gauge the trustworthiness of a claim.
I don’t understand what the opportunities for startups are these days.

Anyone know?

I feel like the world doesn’t need more saas companies or otherwise you’re doing a chatgpt api company.
Perhaps there will be higher quality startups… I don’t know, it feels like prior to 2020, the market was in overdrive and everyone’s ideas were getting funding under the hype growth path to monopoly strategy. And during this time, how many Forbes 30 under 30 people have been found to be incredible frauds, some of the biggest economics has seen? With money not as cheap, I do wonder what will happen. The startup “rules” for 2023+ seem a bit different now and hyper growth tactics may not work as well now (or be incentivized as much until late stage growth rounds…but I’m not an investor). Anyway, I’ll now lean back in my arm-chair…