skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect catching on some sleep, having free time to let your mind relax, and also time to sharpen your skills will bring you up pretty quickly. Improved self awareness may not bring you the confidence you had when you were 33, and improved humility may also prevent the 'genius' perception, but you're probably already more effective an engineer now than 9 years ago. And even more so after you GET SOME SLEEP :-)
Stopped reading at "Why Java"
I find this sanctimonious _I know better than you_ attitude shocking and inappropriately condescending.

Just because these people are earning less than minimum wage, what makes you think you know better than them what's good for them, and that they "don't have a clue"? Why is this "blatantly obvious"? Why are they not rational actors but you are?

Given that so many people are making this choice for themselves, it feels like it's possible that there's demand for below-minimum-wage labor (otherwise, why wouldn't they go and get minimum-wage jobs?).
Fast hashing, it's not that simple
The scope is much broader than choice of computing language, since it affects the discourse of our whole civilization, and how we think about and discuss societal issues, and where we want to go as humanity.

On the other hand, if you want to be a thought leader, you’ll have less competition.
If true, the guy just had sex, and someone filmed it, how is that impropriety? Make love not war
Most EA money is still about mosquito nets.
Maybe most people will write more now that they have GPT available.
The level of mature, respectful, civil discourse on HN never ceases to impress me. I see this less and less on other discussion boards.
"Modern computing is inconceivable without U.S. imperialism"

"We pay $2,000 for essays"

No advertisement, no signs of any commercial activity.

Beautiful.
> I move further away, and take longer to get to work, and spend that time listening to audio books.

I like audiobooks and it would be nice to get paid to listen when I do. I would not trade even two hours of my day, every day I commute, by moving further away. You would have to be paid more than you value that time for it to make sense.
Cheating Is All You Need, Part 2: Cody Is Cheating
The author doesn't challenge the assertion that climate change is not an existential risk (which I think is a mistake.)

The attitude the author takes is that discounting the short term harms from climate change is morally repugnant.
> you also need some creativity

AIs are better at creativity than us - specifically, better at generating new, creative ideas, as this is a matter of injecting some random noise to the reasoning process. They may be worse at filtering out bad ideas and retaining good ones (where "bad" and "good" are - currently - defined as whatever we feel is bad or good), but that's arguably a function of intelligence.

> and maybe even deviousness to become a real threat

As the infamous saying of Eliezer Yudkowsky goes: the AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
> a definition of "experienced" as two or three years.

Whaa? If you only have two or three years, you're still a newborn baby. :D
This is what you get when you’re tasked with writing about programmers, but don’t bother talking to a single one
As long as we're shaping society, we might as well go all the way: Shape it so people don't have to perform this work ritual and earn their right to merely exist and survive.
> you're still getting robbed of the true value of your labor.

But as someone who has tried creating value from scratch (by starting businesses) … my god having a job is so much easier. Making $200k+ as a software engineer is a piece of cake compared to scraping together $50k of fully captured value.
I agree, related story I lurk on a few dev community discords and I’m seeing more people come in to ask questions to help debug code created by gpt. My optimistic side thinks it is bringing more people in to the communities who are empowered to try things out. A counterpoint is they wouldn’t have to ask for help on buggy ai code if they had used stack overflow instead :)
Somehow I'm still skeptical! Feels like "strict superset of Python, all Python code works" and "several orders of magnitude faster" just sounds like you're trying to have your cake and eat it, too.

I doubt that the Mojo developers have some sort of 'secret sauce' or 'special trick' that will get them there. And even if they have something, I don't see why the Python devs wouldn't just implement the same approach, considering they're currently trying to make Python faster.

I assume that (as long as Mojo wants to stick to its goal of being a strict superset of Python), there will be a lot of things that just cannot be 'fixed'. For example, I'd be surprised if Python's Global Interpreter Lock isn't entangled with the language in a few nasty ways that'd make it really difficult to replace or improve upon (while retaining compatibility).

Then again, the developer of Swift is working on it, right? I guess he's got the experience, at least.
There's signs of change, but it's still not nearly enough. More of the same. "So folks have a real reason to be deeply agitated and concerned about what we’re doing."

We need to be in the streets, screaming at out leaders. We need to be [redacted]. But we're too disorganized and therefore scared for our own safety. I've worked for years with people trying to make a difference, and acting at the appropriate scale feels impossible (so don't say "vote with your wallet"). HN commenters often show me things I've never heard of... is there anything going on that has a good chance of making a real difference in this existential crisis?
> What if there are simply not enough jobs available at the rates that people want to be paid?

Or what if there are, but it turns out there are aspects of employment other than money?

Suppose you can get a job at minimum wage, but then you have to own and maintain a car to get there, and sit in it for three hours a day uncompensated, and have an inflexible schedule that rarely lets you see your kids.

Or you can spend 8 hours a day driving, but all of them are compensated, so you have 8 hours of work time instead of de facto 11 hours, and you set your own schedule. But you get paid 20% less for 28% less of your time. Or consume 10 hours of time for the same amount of money as 11 but are now paid "20% less per hour" because 3 hours of driving time weren't being accounted for as work time.

Are we so sure the people taking this deal are victims who need to be prohibited from doing this?
The reason why I stuck with Rails is because I am already a Ruby user. I like PHP and all but I am way more comfortable with Ruby.

I don’t think there is anything Rails can do that Laravel cannot and wise versa.

It’s about taste.

I think Rails + hotwire hit the sweetspot for me!
This improves the chance of Erdogan's main opponent winning the election because opposition votes won't be split across multiple candidates.

So despite the weird sex tape business, this is a positive event if you think Turkey should move forward from the authoritarianism and incompetent economic management of the Erdogan era.
we should all take note of this, and where we can give a meaningful tip to the workers. Every time I use a service like this I tip on average twice the delivery cost ~£5. Very few of these services are essential, there here to make our lives easier, I tip them for that.
then one can simply create his/her own startup, bear all the risks (99% of startups fail) and reap all the rewards.

market should have found equilibrium, otherwise there is literally free money on the table.

why would engineer work for 150k when he/she can create startup with multi-million valuation?
Pharo looks like a blast from the past in a good way. It harkens back to the era when a lot of work was put into carefully designing language, IDE, and UI/UX environments cohesively with an eye toward using the computer to maximize human capability and productivity.

Then we dumped all that and abandoned it and moved to today's visually and ergonomically inconsistent hodge podge. It mostly happened because of the web but also because the velocity of the industry increased to the point that it felt like a waste of time to think deeply about anything. It'll just be obsolete next year. Slap it together, get it out the door, repeat.
And 7th highest median age, so 20th for deaths per capita for a virus far more lethal by age would be positive performance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
Ads are a cancer on modern society. People act like they're OK, but I feel like these ads are constantly using up brain space that could be used for something else. Constantly being surrounded with messages telling you what you need, what you want, who or what you should be, how inferior your life is if you don't have X product. Ugh.

They will pry my ad-block from my cold, dead hands. I will sooner stop using YT altogether than give in on this.
I want to point everyone to the "No creating content" clause of the terms. I don't fully understand it but I think it'll substantially limit what can be done.
They probably would, it's just that the question would be immediately closed as a duplicate of something almost completely unrelated.
I read that same line, but came to the opposite conclusion than you. I didn’t find it amazing at all, instead I found it banal.

Essentially the author is saying that fern leaf doesn’t grow as single line, and then subdivides. Well, no shit. Literally no one ever thought that. It betrays a lack of imagination where the author is conflating a single algorithm for the construction of a fractal to an actual fractal shape. It’s the same as complaining that something similar to a Sierpinski’s Triangle can’t be a fractal because it wasn’t made by placing atoms at the midpoints between it and a randomly selected exterior vertex.

Are fern leaves technically fractals? No. (And no, I am not talking about the sophomoric objection then lacking infinite regression.) Are they similar to fractals? Yes. Is it useful as an illustration of both a feactal, and how complex body plans can be encoded in DNA without actually specifying every point like a literal blueprint? Yes.

None of this is different than the discussing the similarities fractals and coastlines. No one thinks Britain is a literal fractal.

Honestly, this idea of fractals is very similar to the idea that the irrational number phi shows up it nature. When you actually look deeply at the purported examples, you’ll find out, it’s not actually there.
> It might surprise you to learn that a non-negligible number of the people who write software for a living are socialists.

not really - most of the programmers i've ever worked with have been of fairly liberal/left-wing view.
> actively working doctors, lawyers and c-suite execs

They do work in some sense. They manage resources and dispense expertise from time to time...

> own moderate to significant controlling portions of companies

... but it's a gray area because they're also part of the owning class
This is not Kemal Kilicdaroglu who is the main challenger to Erdoğan, and in fact could help his chances.

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-la...
Is it OK for old people to be culled from time to time? Or should Florida, knowing they had a higher than average number of obese, hypertensive, and elderly people, have done more to protect these vulnerable populations? Control for age, and it just shows how awful Florida's response was.
As long as engineers are ok with returning 2 years of their pay if their work doesn’t allow the company to double in size, I’m perfectly ok with doubling or decupling the salary of said engineer.
Paying or not paying into an unsustainable system is not moral, or immoral, it is only stupid. Youtube, just like Uber, Amazon and Alibaba are temporary things that cannot survive. They won't survive the influx of new "creators", and the quality is already racing to the bottom, as is the money paid out to Youtubers. I enjoy them, aware that certain events are RACING towards us.

Currently on this same site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901889

So here's my attitude: if I'm falling to my death out of a plane, the end result completely out of my control, I hope I'll spend the time fantasizing about elaborate ways to save myself and generally enjoy the way down. Same with Youtube and other gig economy "let's underpay everyone!" attitude ... I'm not convincing myself nothing's going wrong. I'm aware fantasy doesn't change a thing. I'm aware I don't change a thing and the only thing that can keep this system going is investors hoping for profit (or a greater fool). And so I enjoy the fall.

"And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
Aren't elderly people entitled to life?
I built and maintained open source frameworks in both. I left PHP for Go.

1. with http://sqlc.dev I don't have to write ORM or model code anymore. Define all your SQL in an easy to audit file and all your models and interfaces are generated for you.

2. with http://goa.design I can have well-documented OpenAPI API's that any team can generate a client for in any language. It also generates the HTTP JSON and gRPC clients/servers for me so I can focus on my logic.

3. with https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen I can define GraphQL revolvers that play well with sqlc (any RDBMS) or I can use a key-value store.

4. speaking of key-value stores, Go allows them to be embedded! Even SQLite now has the https://litestream.io/ project to make it super simple to use a durable, always backed-up SQLite database even in a serverless context.

Go is faster, uses less memory, uses types, has built-in formatting, package management, benchmarking and testing. Go supports multiple cores in the same process, and has really-well designed stdlib without all the bugs I used to face trying to use the PHP stdlib.

After writing millions of lines of PHP for years, there is nothing I miss anymore. Laravel still wants me to write models, controllers and views by hand and make all the client changes as by-hand code refactors.

Go lets me focus on the actual logic instead of waste my time in PHP writing all the implementation details like controller requests handlers, db fetching logic, and input validation.
The problem with RTO is a fundamental axiom, "If >1 person on a meeting needs zoom, everyone should stay home". Hear me out, that one person can be the CEO in the hamptons, Jenny who just had a kid and is easing back in after matleave, the sales prospect from another company, etc. All it takes is one and it makes everything a giant waste of time. Because for everyone in office, they had to commute, find a conference room, spend money on lunch (usually), then sit on a zoom call in the office.
I've tried all the teleconference thingamagigies, cameras on whiteboards, all of it. If > 1 person has to be on zoom, then everyone might as well be at home individually on their laptops showing a powerpoint or using lucidchart(or similar) to whiteboard.
Yes if everyone is at the office sharing a conference room, white boarding it out, that can be great. However, at any office of sufficient size that is a RARITY! My last company we had teams all over the world, so it was silly to sit in a special conference room and try to get zoom to show our whiteboard or whatever.
End rant.
Decent Inbound traffic. I literally need to fix some technical issues to get more conversions. But I get stuck with my other business a lot more. This project needs a bit more love and can do wonders. It also has the concept of Scheduled functions and not just cron monitoring.
It is one of the many things being worked on. The truth is that no part of the web standard bodies has WASM as a priority, so it moves slowly.

Anyway, on practice all that means is a bit of lost performance on the DOM interaction. It's a big deal if you do a react-like framework, but the DOM has bad performance anyway, so people tend to not create react-like frameworks.
China, India, and Africa ‘way off track’ from climate goal

FTFY
Indeed, and there's a nice list of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_...

It's also worth noting that there are other ways of "measuring" fractal dimension that do not always agree so it can be informative to also look at e.g. box counting dimension too.
> Like it or not, most people are not willing to dramatically alter their way of life over this

Frankly, it's up to people with influence to tell people what they want. I don't want this to be true, but we got here because influence-seeking entities (corporations) convinced people to buy a lifestyle that was unsustainable.
I think it is unhealthy to be in an environment where mistakes are weaponized.

But keep in mind that 50% of managers are below average, and that means a significant fraction of new managers have only experienced below average managers...and a significant fraction were selected by below average managers.

But also, it is possible that what you heard is not what was said...or what was meant.

Good luck.
Speaking of Python speed you gotta hand it to the core Python devs having some really dedicated numerical analysis folks. A really good gentle introduction talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGkV37Kbxk

Python really has earned its place as the language of choice for scientific, research, and ML. I've stolen quite a few algos from CPython.
> Also, BTRFS (albeit a modified version) has been used successfully in at least one commercial NAS (Synology), for many years. I don't see how that counts as "gone nowhere".

Excuse me for sounding glib. My point was btrfs isn't considered a serious competitor to ZFS in many of the spaces ZFS operates. Moreover, it's inability to do RAID5/6 after years of effort is just weird now.
In Google Cloud Vertex AI, you can play with it straight away
I agree. However it will increase the bimodal distribution between normal developers and the extremely skilled developers.
Salaries on the whole will drop, and we likely see an increase in outsourcing.

AI can reduce the barriers between languages and cultural customs as well.
The first time it did that to me as well. Now I'm used to it.
Besides business cost deductions how does this solve the problems?

How would having it be a business make it different than the cost benefit they could do right now? I feel like "just make a business" doesn't actually help that much, especially not morally - I'm unsure what that means in this context, or how being a business solves it.
It is you who brought up that hypothetical of a deliberate leak (when referencing "people youve met), not me. It is veey unlikely it was deliberate. What probably was deliberate is the initial Chinese response, deleting data, not being open, other aspects of their response. For this there should be consequences, but of course they don't have to mean anything like war.
Yes, it is sometimes used as a database, and there is Gemstone [1] which brings it to another level.

[1] https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/
Absolutely. All they need to do is prove that she knew it was false, that it caused them financial harm, and she did it with deliberate intention of causing harm. The way Fox News was demonstrated in the Dominion case.
Just an FYI - the "is a hotdog a sandwich" part is actually from a super popular podcast called exactly that (in that the people giving the "answer" and arguing are the hosts of the show). They go into tons of other topics. I assume this is more just showing off some popular people rather than being an actual answer.
Introducing Pixel Fold: Google's first foldable phone
Does anyone know of any (perhaps open source) hardware that's suitable to aim a DSLR-sized camera in a suitable direction with a reasonable kind of precision? I guess medium power (around 10-20W?) BLDC motors combined with hall effect sensors would be suitable for this application since they are used in gimbals?

It would be neat to have an auto-aiming and tracking camera with a telephoto lens and record a close-up video of the aircraft instead of a wide angle photo.
Opens up the article, and starts reading about class traitors, American imperialism, and utopian ideals.

chuckles walks away.
And it's an important distinction.

We've seen this name come up in different ways in different time periods. Recently, it's 'late stage capitalism'. Or it's a failure of neolibetalism as a monetary policy.

And these failures are old enough that even Marx and Engels saw it in the 1800s, with their critique of capitalism.

Exploiters will exploit in a capitalist economy. It'll always be easier to exploit than to make laws to prevent exploitation. Or in this case, yet to make laws to prevent it.

The billionaires didn't get rich on hard work. They got rich on your hard work, and by keeping the surplus on every transaction. And with "gig work", they take their cut from both sides, due to information asymmetry. But you do the work, and you keep the pennies.

And anyone smart enough can put together that scams like Uber count on no commercial insurance coverage, not being paid for wear/tear/gas/time, not getting essentials like workers comp if injured.

Remember, 'gig work' a Shrodingers Job: it's a job until it isn't.

And you also have to remember what money is: it's a crystallization of goods+services+time. What if there's not enough good jobs, due to mass automation? If it's a socialist country that planned for it? It's a good thing. It frees people up to do their interests. There's 12 Earth's of food made per year. Why are there hungry people.

And that answer: neolibetalist capitalism. Having hungry, homeless, poor people is the 'stick' in this system.
How much time is spent going to and from work when you have a normal job, maybe 10%? (actually, more, the average is 59 minutes: https://uk.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/commute-to...). That cuts the gap to almost nothing right there. They cite that logging on and looking for work as factors in the calculation, this seems like a one-sided manipulation to make the numbers look bad to me if you don't include commute time on the other side. The study (shockingly!) seems to have an agenda based on the conclusions it came to:

"The self-employed who are dependent on platforms to make a living are urgently in need of labour protections to shield them against the huge power asymmetries that exist in the sector. This clearly warrants the expansion of the current ‘worker’ status to protect them."

I do not think they need shields. There are plenty of reasons on both sides. We can educate them on the plusses and minuses, but let them make a choice.
Why should anyone bother to read this crap especially if it's autogenerated?
For me it’s extremely useful for revealing information I know I need to know, but I’m not yet sure how to query it.

That’s a skill I’ve developed over the years, and I’ll still need to use it, but it’s often a major time sink. Skipping it lets me focus far more on learning and applying rather than grasping in the dark for a while, digging, sorting through sources, verifying and validating, etc.

GPT will even surface studies pertaining to very specific topics by linking regular language to more sophisticated, field-specific jargon. I wouldn’t use it to learn what’s in the papers, but it’s extremely useful for simply finding what I need to know.
An unpopular take. I think you may be onto something though. This is what I see in latam: countries with very strict labor laws end up with a huge portion of the population working informally (40% BR -70% PE).