skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I know is that the bond market thinks it’s a positive sign, and foreign investors aren’t rooting for Erdogan:

”Investors reacted positively to both the new polls and İnce’s withdrawal from the race, pushing the price of Turkey’s international bonds higher. A US dollar-denominated bond maturing in 2030 was trading on Thursday with a yield of 8.54 per cent, down from about 9.2 per cent at the start of the week.

”Bond yields fall when prices rise. The cost of protecting against a default on Turkish debt also declined, with the spread on five-year credit default swaps falling to 490 basis points from above 550 bps earlier this month, according to Bloomberg data. The spread had risen as high as almost 900 bps last summer.”

(Financial Times)
Covid mainly was a threat to life for the elderly. I'd be curious to see a covid death by state chart side by side with the states average age. If Florida has more elderly a middle of the pack performance might be exceptional.

If you contrasted nursing home covid deaths to high school covid deaths you'd see high schools "did better", but that probably has nothing to do with policy.
How's your vision, hand-eye-coordination, and fine motor control?
> Modern computing is inconceivable without U.S. imperialism
> Some technologies are class traitors, you could say.

"Wanting a different future is stupid because the tools you use were made by people with different value systems" is not a good argument.

If I can work at a FAANG and have home ownership in a reasonable location (flyover state, but not in DR Horton suburban hell) be a pipe dream, then I must imagine how impossible comfort and security is for people working real jobs. From there socialism is the obvious conclusion.

If the cold war was about determining which system was better, socialism (we can argue that the USSR was actually state capitalist but whatever) or liberalism, then I would argue that when the wall came down, the American ruling class thought that liberalism had won.

But the thing about ideas is that you cant ever really kill them. You have to constantly convince the next generation that your system is worth buying into. The arguments in favor of capitalism keep getting weaker and weaker. Why is it citizen's fault for looking at a raw deal and saying "no thanks". The ruling class should instead be sweetening the deal.
Agreed.

I’m not a biologist, but I always assumed the self similarity of plants and trees is definitely some recursive process with some boundary conditions or external constraints as an implicit parametrization. Which is very similar to how you can describe (some) fractals.

It feels very unlikely to me that the tree dna for thick branches is completely different from that for thin twigs.
Meh, mypyc and codon both do the same thing as mojo. Codon seems to have similar speed improvements and the source code is available.
> around $600K per MWh

So if enough solar gets built that the electricity price falls to near zero every day, batteries are now cheaper than natural gas?

That's a very impactful change that I honestly didn't see coming.
You're possibly thinking of an Open Cycle gas turbine, where we burn gas, it spins the turbine, and the hot exhaust is lost energy. The UK has a negligible amount of this in electricity production and obviously with higher fuel prices there's ever less reason to use that small capacity. The 30GW or so gas turbine electricity in the UK is Combined Cycle, so the exhaust heat runs a secondary steam turbine bringing them up past 50% efficiency.
They probably understand the idea of externalized liabilities. Or, at least, we have no reason to suspect they have any less understand of the idea than us. Probably they have more understanding of it, given that they are living the experience of having liabilities externalized onto them. (Although maybe some of us here work for these gig app platform companies and have a heightened understanding of the phenomenon their company is abusing).

I think it is more likely that these folks just don’t have better employment opportunities. The race to the bottom on quality of life is a big collective action problem, right? We know the solution, minimum wage laws, it is just that we prefer cheap services to making sure everybody gets a humane living standard.
How do you know for sure your body stopped producing Vitamin D? Are you going out in the morning? That's when your get vitamin D, almost nothing in the afternoon.
I meant fish stocks, if fish stocks ever recover, will they get bigger again.
We should wish for technological progress causing more efficient (and in turn less) use of resources. It does not seem to be the case.
Maybe an online group like a Discord or irc for like minded people to hang out?

Talking with people with similar level of experience and knowledge definitely is amazing. I used to spend time with a few ex-colleagues from time to time. We had amazing discussions since we knew each others’ experience and level of intellect. I went to other meetups and it’s difficult to find people of similar background and experience.
Left-libertarianism is a subset of socialism. Socialism is a wide umbrella term for multiple economic systems that put the people doing the work in charge of the workplace. It has nothing directly to do with a 'harmonious society'
Perhaps I was not sufficiently clear: the moral choice is between saving existing lives and suffering versus preventing future lives and future descendents from existing at all.

For example, birth control would be completely unacceptable since you could lose an immense number of future people regardless of any benefit for the living out their limited number of direct descendants.
The likeliest answer is that it's too hard to tell - it's too small of a populace (1-2% or less likely) that's hard to reach in an unbiased way to sample properly for a poll (without it getting expensive, I guess). People are mostly speculating based on his attitudes and positions.
Dude, you are absolutely not being productive in the 12 hours of indentured servitude. You need to find a new job.

The people at your current job aren't your friends. They've let you arrange to give away a full 50% your life (most of what's left must be occupied by sleep, pissing, shitting, eating, and paying bills). Not a single person in your life has said anything or tried to get you out of the office earlier?

You should have at least one friend who cares about your wellbeing and doesn't view you as an object to be exploited without limit.

Good luck, my dude.
I found this article difficult to read. It never really makes a point, or even finishes a thought. It reads the way I sound when I have too much coffee.

Still, it's a good discussion prompt.

There is a sort of tech aristocracy who thinks that because they get paid well, they are of a greater caste than their median wage-earning colleagues. They don't just earn more, they deserve to earn more. They let themselves believe that they can tackle any societal problem by throwing tech at it.

Others just lose touch with the reality of their peers, having earned far more than them since they left college. They are aware that they have it pretty good, but forget how much.

I don't hear too many tech workers worry about their work concentrating wealth in the wrong hands, their blue collar colleagues not getting invited to the offsites, or their participation in various destructive ventures. As long as they get paid, it's all right.

I'm not sure if there are truly that many socialist software developers. They only feel like they are workers when they can't afford a backyard. Champagne socialists, as they say.

I do meet a few socialists who play with code, but they tend to apply their skills very differently, at very different organisations.
Siths will be Siths
Instrumentalists and singers are just instruments a producer plays. And now we have DAWs and VOCALOID.

Just as the Beatles would be no more than a skiffle band playing bars without George Martin, Stock-Aitken-Waterman is responsible for huge 80s hits from Dead or Alive, Rick Astley, Bananarama, etc..
All promises, no delivery

Google is very uninspiring right now

Just playing catch up

Lost the lead and now missing the train in their own field
One cool fact is that rowing offers a bigger efficiency advantage over swimming than biking over running:

The efficiency advantage of biking versus running is around 2.66x, the hour record on bikes is currently 56 km (56km/hr), and the fastest marathon run is around 21km/hr.

On rowing vs swimming, the current freestyle 1500m record is 14:31 (6.2km/hr), whereas the best time for single scullers is 2km in 6:30 (18.5km/hr), for an advantage of around 3x.

* I tried to pick roughly similar distances to compare.
"The $40 trillion in stock market wealth in the U.S. is almost 60% of the value of all the equities in the world."

Americans make up 4-5% of the world population.
"Libertarianism" was originally an adjective used for the more anarchist-leaning socialists. It was later appropriated by right-leaning property fetishists.
Would you share your setup?

I'm interested in building the same but if yours already works well then I see no point in duplicating important work.
To some people, city living is akin to being locked in a zoo.
I have a friend who needed to generate 400 random qr codes. Did the first half in 4 hours, going one by one through an online website.

Learning about it mid through that process I told her to try asking chatgpt to write a python script for it (she knows a bit of python, knows how to run a script etc.). Needed a pip install of the qr code lib, but other than that worked right away.

ChatGPT turned the next 4 hours of menial work into 10 minutes. This is the true incoming disruption.

People who just vaguely know how to program, getting a powerful tool that can assist them 95% of the way for simple automations like this.
Costs have decreased for 2018 tech, but not for 2023 tech.

"First, it is odd to me that these are priced completely identically."

Well they're competing with each other and have similar prices on basically all their offerings.

Nothing weird about any of this
>> pushing with your legs first, then torso, then arms

I think that makes sense, i’ve got a rowing machine so i don’t know if it translates perfectly to real rowing but that’s the motion i do. Use the big leg muscles to move as much “oar” distance as possible first, then use your hips and core, then arms for whatever space is left between oar and chest.

I never feel my hips or core are tired but if i screw up this sequence my arms will get tired.
> (just like we are becoming obese through the ready availability of massive amounts of fatty foods)

Not to derail, but: fat in food isn't what leads to fat people. As far as diet, the culprit is too many calories, and particularly foods which lead people to overconsume calories for various reasons.
That's not the topic at hand, the greater implication is that people are saying LLMs are going to replace writers and writing as a whole because they are apparently as good as humans and apparently also more creative.
> Yet.

(c) 1960–
Lebron recently spoke briefly about his journey with his oldest son and balancing the desire to play with him in the NBA with respecting his sons wishes and being a good parent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuNP3QaNpZ0
Fruits Are Now So Sweet That Zoos Had to Stop Feeding Them to Animals
I don't think the debate is very open about assumptions, and this is not science, this is basically at the border of philosophy and religion. I personally think that a lot of long-terminist thinkers today have separate sets of simplifying assumptions (which they do not question), but come to some sort of negotiated compromise on what the future holds in order to fund projects, for example. This is the worst of all possible forms of discussion.
Banning AI saved humanity in ‘Dune.’ So why can’t this work for us?
Can we please delete this post? The “study” is absolute garbage. It’s an internet survey with no verification. Reading through the “study” was a complete waste of time.
If you're putting all your eggs in one basket you are the only one to blame I guess.

It's sill weird to me how many and how much companies relly on Github infra.
Isn't less fragmented votes a worse situation for Erdogan?
Ditto for any language. I think it is a good sign for someone to recognize the trade-offs a language makes, or even accept that they can complain about it while acknowledging they don’t understand the trade-offs.

But when a dev says X is objectively bad, that is not a good sign. Languages are tools, not a way of life.
> penalised for making a responsible decision

You're applying a lot of judgement there. I too base all my life decisions on whether they're good for my employer.

> I'm just going to hire someone who lives 30 minutes away instead

That and the time you no longer waste from a long commute sounds pretty good for the urbanite so it evens out.
USA, largest per capita contributor to global warming, for over a century responsible for emitting more CO2 than the rest of the planet combined, can't stand poor countries trying to be less poor. Stay poor please, and don't mention the past 100 years' data.

FTFY
I believe Pharo evolved from Squeak SmallTalk. I'm not sure if they started calling it a new language because of the number of extensions on top of SmallTalk-80 or if they introduced any breaking changes from SmallTalk-80, or if they just didn't want to be bound to strict conformance going forward.
The problem is that U2F/FIDO2/Webauthn was 100% used as a second-factor. Passkeys are pretty much just a variant of Webauthn, so you are now replacing token+password with solely a token.
It would probably be a billion times less powerful than a silicon chip (and only last a few days), but I wonder if one could make a potato into a cpu.
>does that sound like overpopulating the SF area

No. Asia has many denser cities than the Bay Area. The temperate climate and a dense urban setting with good public transportation make the Bay one of the most environmentally friendly places in the country for people to live. Even the usual California bugbear of water use is pretty small per resident in the Bay.

>Remote work is much better as a social model, if not just for the ecology.

All the remote workers moving to Montana and Tennessee ultimately consume more resources and damage more fragile ecosystems than if they had lived in cities.
> the poor in the US are much poorer that the poor in most (possibly all?) developed countries.

My source[1] disagrees with your source. It seems fairly close to Italy/Spain and slightly better than the much vaunted place on HN (Japan).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/233910/poverty-rates-in-...
Sure, reducing demand also works. My point is that when people have enough money to survive and have extra income, but not enough money to hope to ever afford their dream life, they tend to use that money in ways that result in confused articles about the rise of socialist engineers.

Bernie-ism is basically people who were promised a comfy white collar life in exchange for getting a college degree and are pissed to learn that this ship has sailed. The decent jobs are here and the affordable houses are there, take your pick.
> And don't be afraid to pick up hobbies

Oh, so much this. I've always had hobbies, but the older I get, the more value I get from them. They improve my outlook and quality of life generally, but are also of professional value. Even ones that seem unrelated to development (backpacking, etc) make me a better developer by teaching me new ways of thinking, new skills (it's amazing how many unrelated skills turn out to be more related than it seems), and let me unplug my dev brain and exercise the other parts.
Ten articles in a 1980s computer magazine by sci-fi author Ted Chiang
Searching the Internet Archive, I found lots of articles by sci-fi author Ted Chiang in back issues of an old computer magazine from the late eighties from when he was studying computer science at Brown University. The magazine was called ProFiles: The Magazine for Kaypro Users.

October 1985 - Assorted Sorts:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_3_Number_3_1985-10_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/32

April 1986 - Pop-Up Desktop Utilities:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_3_Number_9_1986-04_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n35

July 1986 - Multi-Format Programs:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_4_Number_1_1986-07_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n35

April 1987 - Getting to CP/M's Graphics:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_4_Number_9_1987-04_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n57

September 1987 - Data Compression Programs:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_2_1987-09_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n29

December 1987 - Data Encryption:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_5_1987-12_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n72

March 1988 - Graphics Programming in GWBASIC:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_8_1988-03_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n27

April 1988 - QuickBASIC and Turbo BASIC:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_9_1988-04_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n30

May 1988 - File Recovery Utilities:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_10_1988-05_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/n44

June 1988 - Hypertext: Linking Related Documents:

https://archive.org/details/PROFILES_Volume_5_Number_11_1988-06_Kaypro_Corp_US/page/18
Hilariously, those are the four parties. This sentence claims the voters will predominantly give their votes to one of the other parties.
People who are complaining about the article:

There's this trope about physics and math envy, which I think ultimately boiled down an envy of the funding that physicists received in the cold war (it lead to a lot of equations in Ecology, for instance).

But ignoring the reasons for math envy for a moment, there's also a push among some of the more computationally inclined to try to explain other sciences using their tools. This has been going on for a least a few decades, with "holographic universe" ideas, Wolfram's "New Kind of Science", and the like, and of course actual computational modeling such as weather models. And conflating a prediction engine with intelligence (like that guy at Google did).

It's good to show that these reductions, at our current level of computational technology, are not that accurate. "Computational hacking" is really no different from "P-hacking", in that it is easily abused by the lay audience and scientists who conflate possibly fictitious correlative modeling with reality.

The model is not the thing. The P-score is not the thing. Mechanisms are the thing. Mechanisms are the core of science. All else is preliminary, at best.
So we can't depend on reports from people themselves and instead we should make decisions about their work from our ivory tower?

Bluntly, we should listen to the people working the jobs. They can all do basic math. What do they get from gig work?

We can also go read their conversations between each other on places like reddit, and many of them still like gig work in that context.

It's beyond rude to assume you know better than someone's direct words.
related: a very useful little command line utility that'll give you the github status for each of their subservices plus a link and description of teh ongoing incident.

it's come in very handy this week.

https://github.com/abennett/ghok
That doesn’t really make sense though. The people who get most of the profits of a successful startup exit were never in a position where they would lose their only source of money for living expenses for 2 years if that startup had failed.
True, but diagonal measurements were broadly comparable since for most of TVs existence non 4:3 aspect ratios were really uncommon. It wasn't until HDTV and the broad adoption of LCD monitors that this became really deceptive.
I'm younger than most of the folks commenting here, but I've noticed very clearly that my eyes aren't nearly as strong as they used to be. I'm wondering how older folks deal with this beyond just wearing glasses.

Additionally, some other things I'd like to learn about: Any subreddits geared for older developers? Any supplements that are great for older engineers/knowledge workers?
Regarding rents too high: all true!

Though there's also a labor shortage, something like 300k over the whole national economy.

That said:

> Cambridge: £1300/month for a one bedroom flat in an okay neighbourhood. There are almost no <£1200/mo 2br flats on the market at all.

Try Cottenham and other similar-distance villages. Writing as a landlord of a one-bed flat in that village… well, when I saw the "cost of living crisis" headlines I told the agency not to increase the rent, but what they were suggesting as the new high was £800/mo.

I used to live in that flat, and the cycle commute to the science park was fine.

Now I'm living a long cycle ride or moderate train ride from the Polish border, and I can say from having lived in Sheffield (Heeley) and having briefly visited Słubice as part of a day trip, that I share your belief about the relative economic situations of the two.
I disagree with this.

You need to know more method signatures to write any program in it. For example things like: someCollection do: [ :someArgument | "some code" ]. Stuff like that. It's still a lot less than most languages though.

I found that this really helps [1] and I find it more representative of how difficult the language actually is. The postcard example is a bit contrived.

[1] https://gist.github.com/jdevoo/8e8866cd6087e05790841d0f20b2e...
I think there will be more developers, not fewer -- but they might not be the same kind of people. If a subject-matter expert plus an AI Wrangler can create software as well as two programmers, why shouldn't they?

But I also think that if, like the author, your optimistic scenario is that things will be better "software-ized," you're in for a disappointing century. The incentives that lead to most software being crap are not going to change in the slightest.

Instead, more things will get software. Some of it will be good, most of it will not.
ECMAScript Language Specification 13th Edition / June 2022 (846 pages):
https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-2...

Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++ from 2020-01-14 (1815 pages):
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/n48...

I'm not sure what's the "correct" spec for the current C++ standard is. Still a big difference between these languages, but 846 pages isn't exactly small either.
As someone who is aligned with these general politics, I would strongly encourage folks working towards a "post-capitalist" world to start by clearly and explicitly stating what that means. What would qualify as "post capitalist?" It's hard to work towards something vague and undefined.

I think this is worth raising because the article sweeps across a broad range of topics that -- in my humble opinion -- are not necessarily "post capitalism." And it may be the case that some political concerns mentioned are in opposition to a post capitalist world. For example, what if the fastest way to a post capitalist world is a changing American politics and then using American hegemony to export those politics?
They are not wrong. They are lying, and we know they are lying, and they know that we know they are lying, but they have to speak to the pretense of societal good in order to get business and money.

Look at SBF's 'effective altruism' schtick to see this in action. Everyone involved knew it was bullshit, but it had to be said to keep the money flowing in.