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>previous 'computing saturation is at 100% or close' pronouncements go back to 1953

Yes, pronouncements can come early. They can also come at the point in time that they hold. Previous pronouncements having come early doesn't mean the same pronouncement will never hold.

In any case, those pronouncements didn't match an 1:1 (or even 3:1, considering laptop+work computer+smartphone) ratio of computer to person.

>obviously (?) such a computer can't be manufactured by current manufacturing techniques, but also obviously it will work once you figure out how to make it.

In any case, fitting "400 quadrillion such computers into the space of the human body", even if possible, doesn't require 400 quadrillion programmers. Or even necessarily that much programmer. After all programmers genereally don't increase based on the count of cpus (that's a less strong correlation), but based on the number of individual software programs.

Such a development might not even require more programmers than there are today. In fact, if LLMs improve similarly as original GPT to GPT 4, or (even worse) if AGI is achieved before those nanocomputers, their software might require exactly 0 programmers.

In any case, the eventual (?) achievement of those "400 quadrillion such computers into the space of the human body" (while still waiting for flying cars, robot servants, and cold fusion) would be so far ahead to make the point moot regarding the job prospects on programmers in the industry given the raise of LLM in the next 30-40 years.

>as for corporatism, corporatism seems very unlikely to become established in the current political environment outside of backwaters like argentina.

Outside of backwaters? Corporatism has been the status quo in the US for several decades now...
“Gotta start somewhere”

We’re about 40 years into “getting started”.

One of the main problems was identified in 1985.

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI
40% LOC != 40% of the value, which is what your comment stated.

My most recent experience of needing to hand-craft queries because SQLAlchemy was doing something truly hilarious was on 1.4.40-something from 2022 (I think possibly .41 or .42?).

I don't have the specifics in front of me as it was for a prior job but rough outline of what I observed:

A simple select including several related tables with filters on each table resulted in an individual subquery for each *filter* being applied. The resulting SQL was incredibly large, selected data in a poor way, and when replaced with a simplified single query that let the DB do its thing sped up about 100x.

Those days may be gone now with 2.0 but I don't consider barely a year ago "long gone".

I think there's a great place for Create/Update/Delete, and generally when doing trivial Reads. But the lesson I've learned with basically every ORM is that once a third table becomes involved you probably want to write your own SQL because they'll break in some weird way.

This is essentially how I use SQLAlchemy in current projects and it's been great in that regard.
Where does that sentence specify the legislature shall ignore indirect or shared harms?
This is a really big "get" for WordPress. Despite being challenged on all sides with numerous alternatives, this does prove the staying power of their platform as a CMS.
I haven't found the average 16 year old to be significantly stupider than the average 40 year old. Is there a point here?
if you dump your shitty code into piles of non-shit code, of course people are going to look at you like you're a degen. especially when they're forced to clean up your mess
No numbers, but anecdotally we turned off DKIM. Telling end users we are rejecting their otherwise email because they don’t have DKIM implemented. SPF and DMARC compliance got better over time but DKIM compliance just never did get better.
Both papers use the phrase "regular expressions" and there the resemblance ends. The linked manuscript uses regular expression to realize a grammar and then memoizes logic masks. I want to know why FlashText failed to cite:

Baeza-Yates, Ricardo A., and Gaston H. Gonnet. "Fast text searching for regular expressions or automaton searching on tries." Journal of the ACM (JACM) 43.6 (1996): 915-936.

Eltabakh, Mohamed Y., Ramy Eltarras, and Walid G. Aref. "To trie or not to trie? realizing space-partitioning trees inside postgresql: Challenges, experiences and performance." (2005).

Zhang, Yijun, and Lizhen Xu. "An algorithm for url routing based on trie structure." 2015 12th Web Information System and Application Conference (WISA). IEEE, 2015.
Now that Raspberry Pis are hard to find (in mid-2023), the Dell/Wyse 3290 makes a very nice print server for a reasonable price.

https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/3030/
In a just and fair world, the lawmakers elected by corrupt crypto-barons' misappropriation would be chastened. Unfortunately, we don't seem to live in that world.
A license change wouldn't be compatible with the Open Source Definition, but people moving away from Big Tech open source projects would be. Switch away from their languages and operating systems.

I think the poster above was suggesting anti-trust lawsuits though, get the US government to split them up.
At $700k/day that would put it at ~260mil/year, with 200mil in 2023, I think this start-up is doing a lot better than most. That 700k can probably be lowered and has probably already been lowered. You would also assume they set the price of the subscription to scale with the user's use. Even at the price right now, lots of the users I know of, are super happy with their subscription, and share it with their family members (similar to Netflix).
In the US, leave no trace means pack out everything... Including even used toilet paper. For wilderness areas biodegradable isn't enough to avoid causing damage to the ecosystem, creating wildlife used to feeding off humans, etc.
Also, discussed 10 days ago? I mean, I dunno dude, that seems kinda fast? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36995944
StarCraft was never meant to be played the way Koreans played [video]
Calling CMake a build „system“ is an overstatement given how unsystematic it is (you have to memorize everything)
I (we, my company) have offered to become maintainers. This is something we are passionate about.
I assume that the young citizen is a resident of the state of Montana, and is potentially being harmed by the state. What other "direct connection" to atmospheric gasses and climate change do you need? That's what gives the child standing.

This talk of "hiring" is just trolling, but since you brought it up. Montana is currently considering weakening its child labor protections, so there's that.

https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attac...
Politicians are just a perfect role to disrupt. Problem is of course they are a monopoly so can't be competed with and are protected by law/constitution so can't be changed directly.

Their whole job is to 'represent' their constituents. A LLM can poll the sentiments of the people far more effectively than they can. I'm sure it could be programmed to accept bribes too to weigh rich people's opinions higher. I'd love to see votes done by 100 different LLMs instead of Senators (a hyperbolic, non literal statement but interesting as a thought experiment I hope)

Politicians should still propose new and altered legislation but actually voting, and being informed to vote, could be massively improved.
Well, most people do not consider "mountain biking" to be anything done on a mountain bike. If I sit on a trainer in my living room on my mountain bike, I am not mountain biking.

Mountain biking was an example of a hobby that is very difficult to pursue unless you have child care arrangements, whether it is day care, a baby sitter, or only while a partner has free time on a weekend.

I don't even mountain bike. I'm very confused how you're reading so much into the example, and simultaneously not by saying riding your bike in the city is what I was getting at.
>Somebody might interpret this statement as if nobody (in their context) should worry about writing good code.

The comment you quoted refers to great/eloquent code. But you took it to mean something different.

Given the rehashing of these same memes in dev communities since the dawn of programming, I don't believe there is a strong agreement on what "good code" even means practically speaking, even though we mostly agree on abstract principles.

IMHO, I think there is an understandable hesitation among developers to accepting that they're doing 'job for hire' work, instead aligning more with the idea that they're put in charge to produce something "beautiful".

Ultimately, it's all messy machine code with goto's and jumps everywhere and "elegant" data structures turning into bits mashed together in memory. The comments, naming conventions, coding formats, etc are all long gone.

This is in stark contrast when producing something physical where the finer engineering aspects shine through in the final product.
On behalf of my fellow English majors, may I just say: What??

I love Hacker News because it exposes me to a great deal of things like this. I intend to do as deep a dive I can muster into the provided lecture notes. But boy howdy, are certain topics I encounter here humbling.

If I were fully honest with myself I would avoid a certain subset of the content on hn. Sometimes I think it only fuels my impostor syndrome.
> What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some [people] you just can't reach.

Knowing how to adopt an assertive mindset while maintaining your humility, and learning how to make and receive constructive criticism are key, in my opinion, to fostering an open dialogue that works to keep everyone on the same wavelength and more or less aligned with the common goals. It means everyone is comfortable with asking questions and raising concerns without fear of being met with hostility or an overly defensive posture. Issues are then addressed more quickly, before they can become entrenched problems, and without giving anyone an opportunity to stew about, nurturing resentments.

It sounds simple (and in many ways, it is) but it’s surprisingly counterintuitive, and usually requires conscious effort and practice before it becomes “normal”. Humans tend to be non-confrontational by nature, and practicing effective critique necessarily requires confrontations, albeit civil ones. I had a very small textbook from a college photography class I took that focused entirely on how to engage with criticism formally, and I believe that it made me a better photographer than any of the theoretical and practical study specific to photographs. I believe it also contributed significantly to my personal growth and professional development, as I became exponentially better at working with a team.

I tried to list some of the specific ideas that I took away from it, but it started to sound like a self-help advert, so I’ll leave it there. Learning to have hard discussions gracefully and pragmatically can be a superpower for a functional team.
It’s not hard, use a tow truck. But getting a tow truck to every incident (especially in the bay area, not know for functional towing services) is the hard part.

Since there’s no driver present and the controls are presumably locked, you cant push the car to the side of the road which is what would normally happen with a stalled car.
> The lesson here is always do your own homework. Or get a trusted financial advisor

No, because you will be wrong and your financial advisor will be wrong too.

The better lesson is: don't try to outsmart or time the market.
I suspect there will be pressure to return the money, particularly if it was through straw donors, lest anyone be associated with taking dirty, dirty money from a criminal.

100M isn't that much money for political campaigns in 2023.
> you must think that layoffs only occur because of over hiring

No, in fact, I think “overhiring” is mostly based on another misapprehension of management’s function. Hiring rapidly when conditions are favorable and firing rapidly when conditions change isn’t “overhiring” and then corrections, its two different sides of the near-optimal-as-possible management of headcount int the context of capitalism.

Is it bad for workers? Sure, but there’s a reason it’s called “capitalism” and not “laborism”.

Obviously, management makes mistakes. But rapid reductions in staff are not particularly a sign of that.
Is there a torrent or something available of this complete archive?
Yeah I agree here. If you're doing mostly transactional work then it can work for the 99%. As soon as you step towards analytics queries you start to see things fall apart and it's better to hand-tune your queries.

In my recent projects that's essentially what I do - I use SQLAlchemy for very basic CRUD and then anything analytical gets handcrafted.
I still can't use C++20 modules with a macOS app (Clang). I tried, and compile times balloon 10-30x on some files.

Maybe I should give up and try Rust. Does Rust give you _maximum_ control over performance the way C and C++ do? I need that and that's I why I used C++ in the first place.
Google sells your attention, not your data.
Oh wow, their tech stack is a little confusing then, they’ll be using WP for CMS and duet for the actual publishing. But isn’t WP kinda terrible as a pure CMS, like the whole power is that you get an easy barebones cms with a really powerful front end… at least that’s how I see it.
>> it's that they'll cause a lot of economic devastation to people who make a living through labor requiring skill and knowledge, especially future generations of skilled labor.

Occasionally I would see clips from or read reactions to Idiocracy, and be left scratching my head, because somehow, somewhere, there have to be the people who are thinking. The whole conceit of the film is that there are no smart, curious people because it's being bred out of the population. That never made sense to me because you still have to have some smart, curious, creative people somewhere to keep things moving. Our society is quite dependent on the people who silently keep things running in the background.

I can however envision a world where early curiosity is discouraged, and supplanted by a technology that can fill the holes of the entry-level smart people. When everyone is discouraged from starting, and the existing participants age out, then maybe you can get a world where there are no new smart, curious people.
and Free Software is software that doesn't come with a pile of inane rules that bind the recipient. i.e. it's not a virus which attempts to extract as much value from the recipient as possible.
How so? I’m not quite following the analogy.
> even when you tell them they don’t have to pay it back ever

This is really the key part. Because if you're going to be upset when they don't pay you back (totally understandable) you're going to be losing a friend because some of them will not pay you back.
I don't think SQL can be more brittle than untyped object-oriented Python. The latter is as brittle as it gets, as we all know from ML code. SQL is common for ETL exactly because it's not brittle, (mostly) declarative and easy to test and modularize.

What Python give you is more flexibility, at the expensive of exponentially more brittleness.
"disgrace through superior performance" is a current meaning. AA does a thing, and then (especially if AA appears to be getting praise for it or appears proud of it), BB either does it better or does something more difficult (usually accompanied by a derisive remark about AA or AA's work).
7 notebooks you should know about OpenAI
This is great! How do i self host it (no open ai)?
i don't see how saying that 20-nanometer-diameter sram cells and switching elements will work could be any farther from handwaving; they're already in mass production, forming the bulk of shipped processors for cellphones and laptops this year

the only handwaving in the bit you quoted consists of saying that it's not possible to build computers where the entire computer is less than a micron across with current manufacturing techniques

it's certainly true that computers don't require programmers. i think it's easier to reason correctly about the issue the other way around; programmers can do anything, but they require computers to do it

50 years ago, if you wanted to cycle the current in a voltammetry lab setup or make your windshield wipers intermittent, you designed a circuit. if you wanted to get a screw machine to cut a new kind of screw, you probably cut some new cams out of steel sheet. if you wanted to retard the spark timing on your engine ignition, you adjusted a screw

now in all those cases you just write a program, or perhaps even change some parameters to a program, because all those things are controlled by computers now. so suddenly you have lots of programmers working in these areas

today, if you want a ditch dug, you don't write a program; you rent a backhoe or pick up a shovel. but that's just because your dirt isn't programmable yet

the flying cars problem is well documented to be a question of regulatory obstacles and governance, not technical capabilities. lots of people do fly ultralights today, you can find videos on youtube

will the same problem force you to move your dirt with a shovel 50 years from now instead of just telling it where to go? yeah, plausibly, but that's just a question of amish-style or tokugawa-style rejection of technology, not a question of saturating the possibilities

as for corporatism in the usa, it definitely isn't a thing. possibly you just don't know what corporatism is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
Most record players don't even play 78's. I had to go out and buy some borderline novelty player to play a few Soviet 78's.

The whole point of copyright is it's a limited time monopoly that must end at a reasonable time, at which point works fall into the public domain.

The problem is sheet music, music recording, likenesses, photography, and written works all have radically different interpretations of this, or have sometimes become perpetual due to corporate $$$ lobbying.

PS: Fuck the RIAA. They're risking the preservation and archival of human art for all time at the behest of a few big money corporations.
Sorry this article was EV specific but I see now the OP meant electricity costs in general
It has been my experience that, despite workers being paid a bit/lot less, German employers are in general much more respectful of them as human beings, and this seemed to apply to government policy as well. Mostly referring to much more time off for vacation.

So I will concede that if there’s one place this might work, it would be Germany. In America, however, it’s generally best to assume the employer has explicit incentives to screw the workers over.
Except, you aren't necessarily choosing that if you have adequate, dependable childcare arrangements, like a universal early childcare .

It's only, essentially, poor people who have to give up on their pursuits if they also want to raise a kid.
You have chatGPT, come on
Coal dug up, or oil pumped up in one place, ends up burned elsewhere.

So it doesn't really matter where. Fossil dug up / pumped up = fossil burned = CO2 emissions = contribution to climate change. So Montana is contributing to climate change, regardless where its coal goes.

Dig or pump up fossil, and you're contributing to the problem. Got it?
What? Germany is a net exporter of electricity[1] - this was in 2022 and the trend is that net exports will increase this year. France (65% nuclear) imports more electricity from Germany than it exports to Germany.

I don't understand why this lie about Germany is repeated so regularly on here and yet is so easy to google/check.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-...
From the article.

"The CWA has also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board as a result of the return to office order, arguing that it is retaliation against union organizing."
Significant slice of the U.S. workforce believes their jobs have no purpose
Very interesting. What’s the best way to contact you?
I don’t know if Cruise cars stop if cell connection is lost or not. However the remote operator can help unstuck the car. So it could be the car got stuck for some other reasons and then ROs couldn’t help.
Probably not, I'm just wondering why a C++ toolchain is supposed to handle this though.
I'm interested to find out about the agendas of the corporate open source projects you mention, what kind of things do they want apart from killing copyleft?
It depends on what you mean by maximum performance. In general Rust is pretty fast, but safety checks do cause slow down, and even with the unsafe escape hatch there are code patterns and use cases Rust currently can't address that well.
Don't worry, I had the same reaction. But you're not an impostor for spending your time learning whatever it is you're learning instead of this.
And it's proven to be unequivocally true hasn't it? Just take a look at the accumulation of wealth since 1970.
> A few things that always stand out to me... - the calm demeanor shown by both ATC and pilots. Even in situations that make me cringe sitting at my laptop, everybody involved is steady. I know it's their job, but it still amazes me.

- "not an emergency" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bugknVx5NZ0

- "delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIiPt1YVkP8&t=581s
> Ah the biannual ‘we’ve found silphium’

It's worse than that, this is a Greek paper picking up the news from 2021 out of a Turkish university.
Might be true, but it is also an easy thing to say when it is still new
They got him far. But eventually he flew too close to the sun.
Except

> But there’s more going on here than the fact that the R1T is heavy.

> As it turns out, this excessive front tire wear can likely be tied back to Rivian’s “Conserve” drive mode.
What NASA's Parker Solar Probe discovered in its first 5 years looping the sun
Once you're refining specifically sugarcane down to just sugar, "stuff in grasses" is a really confusing way to describe it. And it's not even right with corn, where the starch has to be chemically altered first.
What Happens When a Pop Star Isn’t That Popular?
.ts is typescript, FYI
Question is, did the recipients of these Calendly links receive the same T&Cs?
I let out an "oh" so long and loud it revealed my location
It's worth reading this comment about the use of beer to disinfect water:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/delet...

It puts forward that the purpose of small beer was mainly because water is boring to drink all the time.
How about no? They don’t want private ownership of power grids or microgrids — unless it’s for their exclusive benefit.
Yeah, I’ve wondered if Cruise and Waymo get tickets for this stuff. But if they do, paying them is probably not a big expense for these large companies.
Parker Solar Probe Imaging of the Night Side of Venus

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/202...
Stupid question: Doesn't a (social or legal) norm to return money donated by crooks make politicians more willing to sweep their donors' misdeeds under the rug (and push judges to do the same), in order to avoid having to justify themselves?
These shapes roll in peculiar ways thanks to new mathematics [video]
This happens where I live without robo taxis: we have a lot of effectively one way residential streets (one way because parking is allowed on both sides, not because the street is really one way). And some delivery truck will just stop on the road, put their blinkers on, and make their deliveries. Sometimes it’s an actual moving truck, you need to reverse out of the street somehow, but if someone is behind you, your stuck.
As much I hate YouTube ads it makes sense they fight hard to prevent ad blocking. It must cost a fortune to run something the size and complexity of YouTube