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I think this is pretty much all of programming.

Or life in general.

There’s plenty good and plenty bad. It’s no use fixating on things you can’t change. Focus on what you can do.
> and extremely high population density

I mean, Belgium and the Netherlands and more dense than the UK, and Germany is only a bit less dense. Plus onshore wind can be placed in agricultural areas, in the middle of cropfields.

But the UK's offshore wind potential in incredible, so I get why we do that instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension

Not only are fractals very well defined in mathematical terms, but there are further mathematics based on those definitions.
Developers who'll use AI as a crutch will be no different to entry-level, PHP-only developers of yore who relied on StackOverflow and will be reviled for the same reason: their code will be buggy & inconsistent.

I was an experienced polyglot developer and I occasionally used PHP for rapid prototyping, but the hate knew no nuance on HN and elsewhere.
Not hard. Many software services built to do that sort of thing
Paywalled, so I can't look at the details. And the details are going to really matter here. What's the paper's exact definition of "impartial"? That's going to determine whether the paper's proposal is sanity itself, or insane, or somewhere between them.

I think it's become clear, though, that "follow the science" has become an inadequate epistemology. Some scientists lie. Others do bad science, where the evidence does not support the conclusions. Then some non-scientists lie about science, and others find pieces in the "science" that support their desired position, and construct fine-sounding but cherry-picked presentations designed to mislead. Then people choose sides, and argue with their fingers in their ears for the position they prefer.

That is not an adequate methodology for arriving at the truth, either individually or as a society.
Sure, sure, but that's why you might take a commute which is two hours each way instead of one which is eight hours each way. That doesn't remove the perverse incentive, it just attenuates it. Eventually. And generally not before you're doing something quite inefficient.

Notice that you're also e.g. screwing around on the internet on the train instead of screwing around on the internet at home. People regularly already do that for four, five, six hours a day. Who wouldn't choose to get paid for it?
> The two are so fundamentally different I do not understand the complaints.

You will find that many people do not dig into details. You can post on Mastodon, you can post on Bluesky, therefore they must be similar.

It does mean that learning about things becomes a superpower, because you can start to tell if a criticism is founded in actual understanding or something more superficial.
University of York’s favourite mallard is a dead duck, fear staff
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Don't use?
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Even at a domestic scale you can install solar and batteries for your household/heating/car usage -- assuming you have the roof space -- be self sufficent 10 months a year, and have a payack time of about 12 years last time I looked.

The other 2 months a year sure, you've got either grid power or an off grid oil/gas generator.
Some sort of organizational method. I've thought about it alot, its more of an inventory system with an unknown amount of items and categories.

Simple things become organizational nightmares forcing you to rethink you're bench layout for example: I put my LM317s in a small bin because I only had 3 but now I have a bag of 300, I guess I need to get a bigger bin, or do I just use the small bin and save some for later but where, but how many, how do I know how many I have in total?
The question is about the purpose of framing "51% mob rule" as something other than democracy.
"once a week" was maybe a too extreme example. For my case specifically: lost data can be recomputed. Basically a bunch of compiler outputs, indexes and analysis results on the input files, typically an order of magnitude larger than the original files themselves.

Any files that are important would go to a separate, more reliable filesystem (or uploaded elsewhere).
Yet another option here might be "tempus consuit" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consuo#Latin)

Although the translation would then be more literally about sewing than knitting, it feels like there's a neat pun that I can't find that's to do with the phrase "a stitch in time".
Yes modern CPUs aren't using neural nets in hardware or anything like that for branch prediction. I was referring to TAGE not being a simple state machine. That makes it sound like modern CPUs are just using a basic two-bit branch predictor.
If you care about the products, the emotional investment in your work might propel your income, which is the reason why you're working in the first place, so ostensibly a follow-on goal of that might be to raise your income.
Now THAT looks more familiar!
Agreed. That's the idea behind capacity markets, but the idea to pay people for capacity rather than for energy provided seems to be politically difficult, and (some) economists argue it's not needed.
Having the primary author not attach their name to the paper that they’ve secretly been asked to write and disseminate is typical?
That's fair; amongst my general friend-group it tends to be pretty left-leaning (very left-leaning by American standards, probably just left of center globally), but having worked with a bunch of engineers in New York and California, just the general vibe I've gotten has been the libertarian style I mentioned above.
Peloton recalls 2.2M bikes with seat posts that may break while in use
This. It’s kind of like how, for office workers, the IRS/your company will reimburse you for travel between offices and meeting places, but not from your home to your main office
Netlify Gotrue - Open-source API for managing users and issuing SWT tokens
It's terrible indeed but Laravel pushes for this kind of "fluent" apis
As is EMC Isilon.
New semaphore puzzle lights up at Adobe HQ
One empirical study of this is the Georgia land lottery of 1832. For the first generation, median wealth increased. But by the 2nd generation wealth reverted to the mean, and by the 3rd there was no measurable affect by lineage.
So, what language/ecosystem do you prefer nowadays if you were free to choose?
been using BBEdit since I got my first mac after graduating university, absolutely wonderful editor
Our statements don't exclude each other.
Right? That's because it's not a philosophy but a fig-leaf of a justification for the status quo.
ReadyRunner: Alternative ChatGPT App for Desktop
Nice, that's roughly a 250-page book based on average word counts.
This is more like a game about shitty management communication. The rules are fairly arbitrary, and you're not told about any of them until you screw up, and even clear-cut cases like someone posting someone else's phone number are used to slap your wrist (apparently the second person consented, but nobody explains why that's your problem. Surely the second person can post their own phone number). Some advertisement is okay, other advertisement is forbidden. There's never a policy about which is which, you just have to guess. If this is how social media websites handle content reviewing it's no wonder the industry is a cesspit.

In all after playing for about ten minutes, I have to conclude that this is some kind of corporate apologetics for bad content management. The pointless timer really drives home that this problem could be solved by spending more money on training content reviewers and hiring more of them. I came away from the game feeling like it's a sequel to Papers, Please.
The "Future of Humanity" article your link cites is a wonderful illustration of the phenomenon I'm describing, and thank you for providing it. It nitpicks percentage probabilities of environmental catastrophe (and the downstream effects of those catastrophes) in order to distinguish them from the real threats, which are characterized in part by Bostrom's assigned percentage probability ranges to such things as nanotechnological breakthroughs, neurotechnical rewiring of brains, and the vast, uncharted possibilities of (checks again) prediction markets.

I'm happy with what this thread says about our respective positions! We disagree, and that's fine.
> It's childish

Well that should be easily relatable then.
If only they could generate electricity from light drizzle.
I'm so sick of these paradigm religious wars. There's nothing wrong with object oriented programming. There's nothing wrong with functional, either. You use them for different purposes. These people like Crockford who talk about "Java programmers are stuck in this inferior way" are the ones who are stuck and not all that educated on programming.
ISTM one could design a filesystem as a Byzantine-fault-tolerant distributed system that happens to have many nodes (disks) partially sharing hardware (CPU, memory, etc). The result would not look that much like RAID, but would look quite a bit like Ceph and its relatives.

Bonus points for making the result efficiently support multiple nodes, each with multiple disks.
Again, "compile to an IR" isn't exactly ground-breaking. The devil will be in the details.
Oh no... am I the only one disappointed that they made it fold the wrong way? I was hoping for a phone that's half the size of Pixel7 when folded...
https://symfony.com/doc/current/page_creation.html

Apparently there's now something called annotation routes. Which appear to be inferring functionality from comments.

You made me look though. I suppose I had it coming.
yes, but it also sees a lot of buggy code this way, because users are no longer experts and write lots of buggy code. Remember, GPT cannot decide whether code is correct or not, it is just a parrot that tells you the code that it sees most often. Try to ask it about some esotheric language like supercollider or J. It will just hallucinate some code that it thinks looks like the one you want. GPT need a certain critical mass of information to give reliable results.
Absolutely, having worked with Laravel I can only recommend not to use it, Symfony does a much better job.
> What percent of your monthly profit is from Premium viewers vs Ad-watching viewers.

Around 5%
The Atomic Waltz: Unraveling WebAssembly Issues
And now there’s just BBEdit, which is free, but has some features turned off unless you pay. I use the free version, and it is powerful!
Yes! Thank you Simon. Takes like this will make this conversation a lot more well-rounded.

Of course writing is important. Writing free-hand on paper is beautiful. But so are the ideas, and the organization of the writing, and the style, and the plot and the characters.

Of course playing instruments is important, but I'm reminded of the Rick Rubin interview where he talks about how he's not a musician, and he doesn't know how to do any real technical music production.
You've made a lot of claims here without providing evidence. Care to post some links like I did?
I wish. My wife and I both work at different big tech companies as developers and the only thing health insurance does is guarantee we won't go bankrupt in the event of an emergency. Last month on top of spending several hundred on the monthly insurance cost, I spent $300 on rather mundane pediatrician appointments for my two kids who had ear infections. Ironically I had much better healthcare coverage when I worked at a steel mill.
Unironically one of my favorite uses of chatgpt is to tell it to rewrite things as a Homeric epic in the style of Tennyson so it's more pleasant to read aloud and I have a better chance of remembering it
Yes, I too have learned that I'm happier being a dev than being a manager.

This is very much broad-brushing and there are plenty of exceptions, but in general I've found that startups, FAANG-style companies, and companies that seem more focused on making products as a vehicle for using new technologies (as opposed to using appropriate technologies to make better products) tend to have a greater prejudice in favor of younger developers.

If such a company interests me, I'll absolutely apply to work for them -- but I don't really expect I'll hear back from them past the initial interview.

Although I have had good experiences as an older dev working for software companies, I've found that I have the best experiences working for companies that aren't overtly software. My current job, for instance, is at a company that makes industrial equipment. The software isn't the product, it's one of the components that makes the products work. It involves several currently-fashionable technologies, though, such as machine learning, so it's not like I'm working in a technological backwater.

My general approach, really, is more about setting proper expectations in my own mind rather than trying to pinpoint "older dev friendly" companies. If a company is doing something interesting, and appears to be the sort of place I'd enjoy working at, I'll toss my hat in the ring even if I suspect they'd consider me to be too old. I just won't get my hopes up with them.

I've also found that a big indicator is when I physically visit their offices and see the makeup of the other devs working there. Even a casual glance can reveal much in terms of how youth-oriented the company is. If I'm the oldest person in the building, they're probably not going to hire me.

I don't know if any of this helps. I'm a believer in not prejudging things too hard and don't really let my perception of their age culture be a significant factor in my decision-making. There are no hard lines here, and I have been hired and welcomed into companies where I was the oldest dev in the place by a large margin.
> You cannot zoom into real-life fractals infinitely like in those math animations, only a few times?

The point of the paper is that these are not 'real life fractals', so your correct declaration about the obviousness of real life fractals being bounded in their depth is not relevant, and does not make this paper pointless.

It's not obvious to me that fern branches are 'anatomically variable and non-iterating bifurcations', rather than a recursive process that bottoms out at a size boundary. Now I know.
Wdym? That's exactly what people do. If they can't look at a piece of content they close it and move on with their life.
reminds me i need to fold all of the laundry that is hanging on my C2 drying rack
I'm a hyper-productive person, but productivity for productivity sake is literally pointless.

All productivity is a means to an end. You are producing something, by definition. What is that and why?

While I do have an "emotional itch" to work on "something" most of the time, I don't leave work to go do more work just for the sake of it. There are specific things that I want to produce because it makes me happy. If I don't work on those things, then it's not that I feel guilty, it's that I feel a void in my life.

In the past I have had so many hobbies and not enough time to dedicate to them all. I would get bored of one and move to another. Some might view that as recreation, but they were always making and producing something. For the last couple of years my wife and I have been performing magic as semi-professionals and as I find myself feeling less and less enthusiastic about modern technology after 25 years in the industry, I'm starting to see a scenario where I retire from tech and we take a major risk and go all in professionally. That can't happen if we don't put the work into it today. Not that you or anyone else should, but there's purpose and motivation behind the decision to produce that.

I don't live for the sake of my employer and I'm not motivated by money (at least not at this stage in my career, I have enough). There are things I want in my life that I will never get if I don't work towards them. Sometimes I am too tired, and that's a good signal that I'm not resting enough. But every single "productive" thing that I do, be it for my employer or myself, has a motivation behind it. No one should feel pressured to produce something just for the sake of producing (unless they are living parasitically off of the efforts of others but that is a whole different conversation).
I'll do you one better.

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."

(Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Hydroelectric!
Bard still not using PaLM 2. Using it from India

Question: are you on PaLM 2 right now?

Answer: No, I am not on PaLM 2 right now. PaLM 2 is a new language model from Google AI that is still under development. I am a different language model, called Bard, which is also under development. I am trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and I can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. I am still under development, but I have learned to perform many kinds of tasks.

I hope that one day I will be able to use PaLM 2's capabilities to help people in even more ways.
Mine will only be cured by my death. Hopefully not prematurely under a tipped over pile of test equipment...
Yes. I have used it to open db dumps (SQL files) that are hundreds of MB.
pg's observations are equally applicable to all of those domains, all of which are likely to become AI-mediated by default.
Slack off a bit during work if you can get away with it, and either be personally productive then or use it as leisure time.
simplified:

Exchanges are a group of public companies. Each company has a market capitalization, calculated by the number of shares * the share price.

Apple's individual market cap is greater than the aggregate market cap (sum of all companies' market caps in the exchange) in many other exchanges in the world.

It means what we already know: Apple is a very large company (it's the largest public company in the world).
The real story: Datadog LOST a $65M/year customer.
Cython was, of course, "modern and actually good Pyrex."

In the end the way the industry works guarantees a endless stream of these before some combination of boredom and rentiership result in each getting abandoned. It's just a question of whether Mojo lasts 1, 3, or god willing 5 years on top.
Ad blocker?
Well, in this case it all boils down to a personal choice of what you label "reasonable".
> how do you explain the increase in the standard of living over the last 100 years?

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

That will catch up to us. It already has, in many parts of the world, and it's not looking like it'll get better soon.

And let's not forget, it's not just people who have paid the price.

> The contemporary rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate, the historically typical rate of extinction (in terms of the natural evolution of the planet); also, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

The ecocide which we've inflicted on the planet for the last 100 years will some day be seen for what it is - an atrocity.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

All of which is to say nothing about the inequality in how that shareholder wealth is distributed, which is incredibly short-sighted for literally billions of reasons. 8 Americans own more wealth than 4 billion humans. It's perverse beyond comprehension.
I loved the part where I lost a bunch of time to attend a mandatory nerf battle then got fired for not doing enough work.
I thought the interest revolved largely around space mines and industry. Helium, solid gold asteroids, etc.
I think at some point you have to accept that life is not 100% fair and no system of scoring is going to do the right thing all the time.

Downvoting doesn’t have a dominant effect on HN dynamics the way it does on Reddit, I think many people take a small insult way too seriously.
Very likely before. Generally, in the US, I have seen averages for driving a car around .50-.60 cents a mile. This includes cost of gas, the cost of maintenance, insurance, and the cost of depreciation.
I work in AR, and am inspired to think how an app like Clearspace could help make AR something that enhances our mental wellness instead of degrades it. I feel like the stereotypical expectation is that AR will result in our views being cluttered by advertisements and digital content at all times. But I wonder, could "Clearspace AR" filter out the billboard over 101 I can see from my apartment? Could it help protect me from distracting, negative, plainly unhealthy ad and outrage-driven media content around me every day?

What I'm really hoping is, one day you can filter People Magazine out of the grocery store checkout line ;)
Depends on operating regime, but newly installed pumps typically are used in a way that gets close to 3.

You can generate electricity with a gas power plant at 50%, use that to operate heat pumps, and you will warm your house more than directly burning the gas.

Or put another way, in a gas dominated grid, switching from gas heating to heat pumps saves carbon gas emissions.
There's also Numba, which seems a lot more active and compiles directly to LLVM IR.
> real EE work

Oof, we must have different concepts of what that means; I thought just the opposite. The dummy-load is awful and prone to oscillation on certain sources. The o'scope is entry-level, 50MHz (100 with hacks), and doesn't support any advanced analysis. There's no discussion of scope probes whatsoever. There's only one power supply, for cryin' out loud, and it's neither precise nor clean. The DMM is 3½ digits and there's only one of it. There's no AC isolation transformer, variac, or current-limit box. No signal generator, frequency counter (no, the scope isn't very good at that), etc. An ESD mat but no strap or tester.

Further, there's nothing of what you'd want to actually bring a product to market. No EMI/EMC precompliance setup. No hi-pot tester. No ESD gun.

I mean, this is a very capable setup for someone poking at arduinos and stuff. But I wouldn't want it anywhere near analog, audio, radio, or power. It's a great start for a hobbyist with modest ambitions, but "real EE work" would be the last description I'd reach for.
or you waited until you were 40 to have kids.
Copy-pasting a fallacy definition doesn’t make it true, nor does it advance a conversation.

If you believe my comment was unconnected, consider you might not have understood what I meant (then ask for clarification) or that I might not have understood your original point (then clarify it).

Don’t start by assuming malice from the other person, or a productive discussion becomes impossible.
I believe you can create a TTF font with embedded bitmaps in it. At the specific size, it should use the bitmap font. At other sizes ... , well, don't do that.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/97#issuecomment-5...
> What Elon Musk means when he says "exploring and colonizing Mars":

> - Setting up in a place where no human laws reach

> - Bringing indentured servants along so that he and his wealthy friends will have people they can effectively own

> - Making a fully stratified society with himself as the highest stratum

This is probably some variety of horrible -ism but I gotta say that the more exposure I have to expat white South Africans the more I think they shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of... anything. Like you start talking and it's just a matter of time before certain things start to come out.
I've come across good and bad devs at all ages but the best have always been older than me.
That's about the level of retort I expected.
Think like a designer when creating data visuals.
It is art. Lovely.
In commercial world, it is for low level people -- think --:
Hope they do all magic for us :)