skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what highly paid white collar workers on Hacker News like to parrot but it's sensationalist at best. Even in this article where the evidence points to low wage workers having the lowest percentage of NCA's runs with the click bait headline.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/non-compete-cont...

Regardless, no Subway worker ever GAF about a NCA. They walked right across the street to Jimmy John's and were hired on the spot. And even if Subway had a NCA in place - which I doubt most of the major chains do - Subway doesn't GAF either. The only time anyone would care is maybe if a manager opened another deli across the street and took all the info from their suppliers with them.
I am not convinced, largely because ChatGPT has to have been trained on exactly this kind of pre-existing hallucinatory happy talk.

It has always struck me as not coincidental that it writes, long-form, like a college admissions essay, apologises for massive error breezily like a tech support person, and has the confident certain tone of a Californian software developer.

There were, after all, these humans involved its development.
>No more Toucan Sam or Tony the Tiger. Though the last thing seemed a bit excessive, the cereal does look more generic and I know that as a kid, I asked for name brand cereal.

Nah advertising to kids is a bunch of bullshit. It should not be allowed in general and definitely not for things that are harmful to them.
If you are using any kind of type checking instead of blindly trusting generated json it's exactly the same amount of work.
I would probably start with the Arduino framework to begin with. It works well on ESP32 dev boards and there are a lot of tutorials out there.
This is like when people say that consuming meat is a problem for climate change, completely ignoring the utility of meat.
Obesity is a problem, but at least food, even fast food, even junk food, has some utility, whereas gambling has none at all.
We mostly use it to hard boil eggs: it's incredibly consistent on outputting eggs with easy to remove shells :)
I managed to install HA on a Raspberry 2, but after that I got lost very quick with all the integrations and stuff.
I'll give it a try, thanks!
Yeah. It's bizarre that leveraged buyouts are even legal given how destabilizing it is to local economies; but also Bain Capital (the company which did the buyout of Toys R Us) was cofounded by Senator Mitt Romney, so you can start to understand why the FTC and Congress aren't really inclined stop the madness and regulate themselves more
How insightful
We need exponential growth until the entire earth's crust is converted into widgets.
Situation B is a failure because private equity buys your company and expects $4m a year for 40 years.
There is also a more interactive version if you want to challenge yourself. A Python notebook of interactive puzzles to build an adder with transformers.

https://github.com/srush/Transformer-Puzzles
The Netherlands already has anonymous drug testing centers in a few cities
https://www.jellinek.nl/english/drug-testing-service/
My litmus test for whether someone is worth talking to about this is whether they need to vilify any particular institution or individual.

It's intellectually nasty and petty to spend more effort on pointing fingers than working through systemic failures and fixes.

As you said, everyone on all sides was in the wrong plenty of times.

And about what you'd expect! Having to make big calls on a novel situation with uncertain science. Nobody lucks into 100% correctness.
In the Netherlands it already is possible to test your drugs legally.

https://www.ggd.amsterdam.nl/geintegreerde-voorzieningen/dru...

We had some issues with white heroin a few years ago, it was sold to tourists as cocaine or something else, can't remember.
I’m amazed at the number of people responding to this and answering the question they want to answer, not the question the OP is asking.

> It just feels like anyone could do it.

This.

Yes, you’re 100% right. No, AI will not take away all the jobs, that’s not going to happen, but no one thinks it’s going to happen, anyone calling that out and saying… “don’t worry! AI is just a tool…” are beating a strawman.

The reality is that doing difficult highly paid work will become significantly eaiser and a much wider pool of people will be able to apply to do jobs that previously only people demanding significantly higher wages were able to actually do.

…and that will mean, a surplus of people wanting jobs, to the delight of large businesses who will use it as an (entirely reasonable) excuse to choose to employ cheaper workers.

Flat fact: 20 year of experience and a college degree mean nothing if someone can do the same job for 60% of the pay, and there are 1) people who will accept that and 2) the technology will increasingly enable this scenario.

Certainly, other roles will appear in other areas, but face the blunt reality: the days of scarcity based high wage roles for programmers such as there are today is numbered.

If you want to maintain your income and level, you probably need to start looking around for ways of doing that now, before there are 60 people applying to do your job on Fiverr.

If you stand still, you are correct, you’re basically screwed.

…but, you don’t have to stand still.

Remember, you are better than the majority of the people who will be able to do your current job in the future using AI. That’s why you have your job now.

Lean into it with your professional development to make yourself better than you are now using the tools.

That seems like the only really sensible advice I’ve seen recently.
> Everyone who's ever had a feast knows you can gain enough weight in a weekend it'll take months if not years to diet off.

Is this actually a thing? I've definitely massively overeaten for short periods before (e.g. Christmas dinner). But the effect on weight was very transient.
See my sibling comment with a link to the estimated properties of SARS-Cov-2 variants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36337757
Can't agree more. Imagine you own a resource that every one on the planet needs. Pretty much everyone on the planet is your customer. You have a monopoly. Little to no competition. You control the prices. No need to pay taxes. You are the government, the police and in some cases even the religion.

Ellison can't beat that.
The world’s most electric city – Future of Cities
I was never much impressed with that article (given its title, I say—given its title) from the first time I saw it, probably around 2010, and it has aged poorly. Some of my complaints about it:

• It tells a verbose story, rather than just telling you what you need to know succinctly. (Seriously, the 3,600-word article could be condensed to under a thousand words with no meaningful loss—and the parts that I consider useful could be better expressed in well under 500 words. As a reminder of where I’m coming from in this criticism: the title of the article is “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)”, so I expect it to be, y’know, absolute-minimumy.)

• It spends way too much time on history that even in 2003 wasn’t particularly relevant to a lot of people (though yeah, if you were working in the Windows ecosystems he was working in, you would benefit from knowing about some of it), and which is now (twenty years later) completely irrelevant to almost everyone.

• It portrays UCS-2 and UTF-16 as equivalent, which is disastrously wrong. (As in, “if you do that, you stand a good chance of destroying anything beyond U+FFFF”.)

• As far as I can tell (I was a young child at the time), its chronology around UTF-8 and UCS-2/UTF-16 is… well, dubious at best, playing fast and loose with ordering and causality.

• Really, the whole article looks at things from roughly the Windows API perspective, which, although what you’d expect from him (as a developer living in Microsoft ecosystems), just isn’t very balanced or relevant any more, since by now UTF-8 has more or less won.

• It doesn’t talk about the different ways of looking at Unicode text: code units (mostly important because of the UTF-16 mess), scalar values, extended grapheme clusters, that kind of thing. A brief bit on the interactions with font shaping would also be rather useful; a little bidirectional text, a little Indic script, these days even a bit of emoji composition. These days especially, all of this stuff is far more useful than ancient/pre-Unicode history.

• The stuff about browsers was right at the time, but that’s been fixed for I think over a decade now (browser makers agreeing on the precise algorithms to use in sniffing). (He’s absolutely right that Postel’s Law was a terrible idea.)
I’ve had a Remarkable 2 for about 2 years now and use it for hours every day. It’s the tool that’s improved my work more than anything other than a computer. My use case is probably 98% making handwritten notes and 2% marking up PDFs like resumes, short articles, contracts, etc. This seems to be the use case that Remarkable advertises the most directly. They call it a “digital notebook” not a PDF/ebook reader.

From what I’ve seen on HN and /r/RemarkableTablet is that the people who dislike their Remarkables the most are the people who buy one to use as a PDF/ebook reader rather than as a digital notebook. The experience just doesn’t seem to be as good — and that shouldn’t be surprising.
Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2, Descent, Descent 2 and Duke Nukem 3D are pretty much the only games I've ever completed because Steam didn't exist and that was basically all there was to play at the time. Now it's easy to get stuck or bored and move on to something else.
GPT-3 powered summary:

The author emphasizes the importance of the "move fast and break things" approach, which encourages shipping products quickly, but believes it is often underrated and overlooked outside the tech industry. They argue that this approach forces simplicity and minimalism, which can lead to stripping out valuable features and neglecting important aspects like code refactoring. They discuss examples of companies that took ambitious and unconventional approaches to create outstanding products.

The first example is 280 North, a team of Apple alums who created 280 Slides, a web-based presentation tool that rivaled native applications in terms of performance and aesthetics. They achieved this by designing a new programming language called Objective-J and rewriting OS X's Cocoa library to build a suite of tools for web applications.

Figma, a design tool, is another example. They developed a full graphics editing tool in the browser by implementing underlying graphics rendering technologies using WebGL and creating a programming language to optimize it. They also implemented a realtime change management system for collaboration.

The Browser Company is highlighted as a recent example of ambitious technologists. They built Arc, a reimagined web browser, and took the audacious step of writing a Swift compiler for Windows to ensure performance, security, and native UI. This decision required tackling technical challenges and investing in a team to port the Swift tooling to Windows.

Superhuman, a power-user email client, and Zed, a high-performance code editor, are mentioned for their dedication to quality and their willingness to go beyond what is commonly done. Superhuman created their own CSS layouting framework to achieve typography precision, while Zed built a GPU-powered graphics library instead of relying on existing platforms like Electron.

The author concludes by acknowledging that the move-fast-and-break-things approach is generally good advice, but there are cases where it stifles progress and incremental thinking. They argue that being an ambitious technologist can lead to remarkable achievements, even if commercial success is not guaranteed. The goal should be to create something exceptional and be proud of it, rather than solely focusing on quick market delivery.
Is there a way to do a text search on those magazines?
Personally I don't believe in "reasons for having children". You either feel naturally compelled to do it, or not. Any reason for/against having children is a bad one.

Anyone trying to do a "pros and cons" list on this topic will eventually arrive at the logical conclusion that it's not worth it.

Whoever did such a summary and still decided to follow through is in for a bad time, because "pros" inevitably include someone else's expectations.

That being said I've seen people postpone or, eventually, eschew having children entirely due to lack of support in the time window they had - especially from prospective grandparents applying pressure.

And herein lies the crux of the issue: some people support bringing another generation to this world, others don't. As it stands the latter have slim chances of ever having grandchildren.
I'm working on a project and have been thinking along the same lines. Are there any modern cross-platform tools any language that are good for building like the good old days?
> The family has certain beliefs about the medical establishment.
Namely, that medical staff (especially doctors) are trained in medical school to have an inflexible way of thinking

This belief saved my mother's life.

We came with complainst of lung issies, for some reason doctors decided allergies are mosh likely but we wanted an X-ray. Months later they finally did a scan and found lung cancer.

I don't know if they are following a flow chart, but when dealing with NHS doctors I sometimes feel like I am talking to a bot.

They have the same routines, for exanple they will never ever check for Vitamin D defficiency, etc.

I cant imagine what will happen once real bots / chatgpt becomes widespread.c
Yet most people don't exercise, obesity is skyrocketing and personal responsibility is failing.

But hey, you got yours so who cares about others, right?
I'm thinking along similar lines, the more I use it the less it scares. I'm simply seeing it as a tool to be used to help enable tasks and even products I build. It's hard to know how sentient gpt8 will appear and if it can do everything to completely replace developers. I'll have to keep an eye on it and ensure that I change with those times, perhaps the role of developer will be drastically different by then. It's the same with any tech, keep up to ensure you're still relevant.
Good advice in general. I hate turning off the lights to go to bed and seeing LEDs glaring everywhere. I've banished most such devices from my bedroom for that reason.
Richest man?

This is a violation of the well-known rule, "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison".
AMD has know about CUDA for decades. Everyone has been begging AMD to put resources into AI since 2014.

AMD doesn't care and it's difficult to blame that on NVIDIA.
> The problem was the politicization, the dishonesty, the corruption.

This one part is correct. For example, when they admitted to being wrong about masks after they had better information, lunatics claimed they were lying and corrupt. And they have been spreading wild-eyed propaganda to this day.
> dominant memory model in use by, well, everybody.

"...by, well, x86"

Fixed that for you.
Time for you to enter consulting!

Your services will be even more valuable in assisting others who are completely dependent on whatever form of AI is doing the programming.
A lot of grey-beard type embedded programmers, who programmed in assembly through the 80s and 90s, really got attached to their architecture of choice, whether that is AVR or MSP430 or 8051. That crew tends to be very conservative with tech choices, for both good and bad reasons.

Some then learned to tolerate ARM Cortex M.

But Espressif, this weird new and unknown Chinese manufacturer, came out with their own arch and instruction set that no one else uses (xtensa). A lot of old timers were wary.

Their price to feature ratio is unbeatable though. That go them in the maker/hobby community fast, and lately I've heard of more and more companies using esp32 for actual professional products.
Yet modern VR games usually don't work like this for some reason.
Who thought an instant pot air purifier was necessary?
I was watching the NBA playoffs and I found that the numbers of ads from betting apps was higher than any other category. I don't think this is a healthy trend. Also unlike last year, this year we did not see any crypto ads.. so that's a good thing.
They have two in-house restaurant reviewers.
They won't tell you, or give an exact figure, other than this nonsense:

> Guardian Media Group increasingly relies on contributions directly from readers, rather than advertising, for its income.

Which is no wonder they 'seem' to be continuously begging their readers to pay. Now after this, I should expect them to be begging even more aggressively, unless someone is funding them grants or what not, since they are still not telling us something or giving an exact figure.

Either way, one-sided publications like the Guardian is hardly worth paying for regardless.
Sorry which ML subreddit do you follow? There are many when I search and most are pretty noisy
A couple of angles. Firstly can you try to elevate your skills to more of an architect role and delegate most of the specifics to AI. Wrangling AI to produce something fast and good and cheap will be a highly sought after skill until AI takes over completely.
Secondly can you moderate your expenses. Even here in Silicon Valley there are lower cost options for places to live for example modular houses (many large parks here) or possibly downsize into an ADU in someone's back yard.
How much is a human head?
A friend of mine is on the LLaMA team at FAIR. They had 8,000 Nvidia A100s at the time. The only reference to your 2048 number was a report where someone at Facebook "estimated" they used 2048 GPUs for five months. My understanding is they used that number as an average over time/power to attempt to calculate carbon usage and the real number varied quite a bit - my friend had an interesting anecdote about detecting uncorrected and otherwise undetectable (even with ECC) GPU VRAM memory errors at that scale.

In any case I think when you're talking A100s in the thousands my point remains. No one is just showing up cold to a cloud provider from a website link and spending at least tens of millions of dollars.
> the ai managing those jobs would have to suck to not notice the jobs of their direct reports are being done by an ai!

What if the employee's AI just intentionally fails the inverse Turing test?
Crank up the ulimit. And what is this 1 req/second nonsense? 1 req/sec/domain maybe. I have to agree, my first thought is "why this is not a single node in Go?"
The fuel will only burn when oxygen is available. Dynamited buildings would expose more raw wood that catches fire easily to the outside, but with everything on the ground, it is difficult for all of the fuel of the building to burn simultaneously. Just like with wild fires, the intensity of urban fires will contribute to how fast they spread.

The author was not able to conduct A/B testing of two different strategies, but there is a long history of city-destroying fires involving pre-twentieth century fire-safety standards and wooden buildings.
https://archive.is/nMw0M
Lots of people. I know several wealthy people with 1-3 full time staff.

During exceptionally busy periods I frequently hire someone full time for a few weeks or a month to handle all of the things I can't.

It's super common.
I use feathers a lot in hobby level projects. I wish they could use a 2s battery instead of 1s only. Other parts of my projects sometimes need the extra voltage and it would simplify things if the feather could handle (and charge) a 2s.
markets they don't want to enter or which they prefer to have a partner deal with
Some developers derive career stability by being the only person who understands a complex system at a company. This 'trick' has been undercut in a huge way.

It is much easier for another dev to understand your complex system now, which makes you replaceable.
My wife, an ER doctor, doesn’t believe that the doctor read the script to the patient. She thought that was completely absurd. She started laughing when she got to that part of the article.
A couple more links:

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinu...

https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/the-true-face-of-the-anti-n...
The type of person that buys an instant pot is definitely the type of person to buy an air purifier. Probably a gamble on brand loyalty/recognition.
While everyone is talking about heroin/cocaïne, i think big winners will be steroid users, finally a perfect way to assess gear quality
What setting do you use for that?
...and reviews.

The amount that the market pays to inject adverts into youtube product reviews versus 'proper' content is staggering. A good guitarist is better doing a review on headphones, than actually playing a guitar. A runner is better doing a review on the latest Nikes rather than giving training advice.
he also mentionned competitive pressure; basically competitors were also letting go of many folks due to AI and he had no choice but to do the same lol
Title is misleading. The company failed because it was bought by private equity firm with leaders that loaded the company with debt and then ran it into the ground. A fate unfortunately too common for companies that dance with PE.
I've worked at a couple of mid level undertakings of the kind. Smart people do it on the down low and milk it for years. The inner circle draws fat engineering salaries, and they keep surfing on the latest tech hype wave.
In that case, make sure you check out https://esphome.io/guides/getting_started_hassio.html

Once setup, you can open any HA on a computer of your choice, plug in an esp* via usb, and flash it from your browser.

Once it's flashed over usb once, you can disconnect from your computer and flash it via OTA (i.e. remotely) in the future. You can connect whatever sensors or outputs you want and change it at any time.
> Maybe things have changed drastically though.

On the used market I'm sure you can get some decent kit for a homelab. But if you want a production environment, with anything close to the latest speeds (≥100G), you can't get gear for love or money: all the Big Players are taking all the inventory, so lead times are slightly ridiculous (assuming anyone has stock).

We were looking at IB in Feb 2022, and the earliest for IB switches was Nov-Dec 2022. We ended up going a different route for other reasons, so I haven't kept on lead times, but it would not be surprising if things were roughly the same.
Wow that SO post is really good, I'm 100% keeping it in my tool belt for dropping niche articles on unsuspecting co-workers. Thanks for sharing.
"Herbal drugs such as cannabis , i.e. marijuana and hashish, or medicines, anabolic steroids or sexual enhancers are not examined."
Show HN: Removing esbuild reduces bundle size by 30%
It's not actual empathy. It's writing that seems empathic.

The problem is that, exposed to enough writing that seems empathic but isn't, a person will learn that empathic writing is not sincere. We lose that as a society in the same way that if I check my email and see a "YOU'VE WON" subject I don't get excited, because I know it's fake.

Do we really want that? A world in which when you see an empathic message, the first thing you think of is that it's fake? I find the idea to be quite sad.
I don't think most people are very good at doing that, rather the media ends up shaping their reality itself both subjectively and eventually objectively.
If you chug down 3 lites of vegetable oil, and it somehow all ends up in your lipid stores rather than giving you an unpleasant visit to the ceramic throne, you gain at most 2.8 kg.

This may indeed take months to shift, but it's not even close to the maximum possible damage to someone's finances from gambling.
Just quit out of slack when you need to focus. I’ve done this before at gigs where people abused Slack notifications. The strategic solution is to improve the culture around chat notifications.