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> But hasn't it always been that way? Copernicus was a revolution to philosophy. Newton was a revolution to philosophy.

Yes, that's why I specifically cited Newton. I could have cited Copernicus as well, and Galileo, and a few dozen others but I didn't want to get too long-winded.

> Is it just that we're more aware of the current philosophers, who will be forgotten in a century or two? Or is the philosophical opposition actually stronger now?

If anything I think it's weaker now than in the past because the fruits of science are so evident to everyone. It is plain to everyone that smart phones did not come out of philosophy departments. The niches in which philosophers can make meaningful contributions are getting narrower and narrower, which makes them more and more desperate and shrill. But I predict they will eventually go the way of the alchemist. Or maybe the astrologer. Astrologers figured out a way to eke out a living as charlatans. Maybe philosophers will too. (Maybe they already have.)
Yes, because we're threatening to become a true middle class again.

Don't fool yourself: Software engineers are working class.
I'm assuming you mean 500Mb/s or are being facetious? 500Gb/s is internet backbone speeds.
I am playing with this tonight, but I have twins! So i'm curious about trending difference between babies - so meta! Very cool!
Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices, translate them to other languages
We're launching a free cybersecurity awareness campaign for employees. Our goal is to make them more familiar with existing threats, so they can better protect them, and your business as well. If this course is well-received, we'll continue to extend it with practical information and guides to create a safer work environment.

We'd love to hear your thoughts!
I don't really buy the "evil money people pressured innocent big tech into firing under priviledged tech workers" narrative. First, big tech, tech and start-ups have all the incentives to reduce headcount, and cost, without third party intervention. Second, a lot of companies over hired during Covid, and then corrected. Everybody else followed suit with general cost cutting measures. And again, no outside pressure needed.

Claiming otherwise, especially the way Wall Street is usually portrayed, smells of conspiracy theory BS. But I guess someone has to be responsible if someone elses comfotrable bursts through contact with reality.
SROs used to exist to fill that gap, but were largely banned over the last hundred years. The stupid thing is that now they basically exist again in the form of regular hotels, except city governments are the ones paying full price to house otherwise homeless people.
I have managed to use async rust for over 4 years and never once use tokio. Primarily this is possible because I just avoid 3rd party libraries with async if they are tied to a particular async runtime. It is limiting, but I think it's important to be lean on 3rd party deps, so it's almost a good thing
My interpretation is one of “good cop bad cop”. Something similar happened to my employer but it was some activist investor demanding changes that sounded similar to what the company had been rumored to be wanting to do (but were difficult/unpopular). Then within a month the current CEO is fired and a new CEO, who was from the outside and I know had been courted for a while, joins, and begins implementing many of those rumored plans.
You could go the route of having a zoo of many small libraries and just version the library, so mod-x becomes lib_x. That, dependency management, is not a convincing argument for something 'new' called "module". You can do it with libraries as well.

The question (then) remains: are modules really just libraries? Was it always just about coexistence of related functions?
I understand the stats. The issue though is that rather than closing the gap from the top (reducing executive pay), the answer is to close it from the bottom (increase worker pay as a percentage of revenues to historically normal levels, which I believe is the real issue here). If workers made enough to thrive, would anyone care if CEOs also made $100m? I wouldn’t.
In what way do you manage a single monitor more efficiently than your coworkers? (Genuine question)
That will only work for open source libraries. It won't work for libraries provided in binary form (which is common in commercial contexts I've worked in so far). I also tend to dislike the preprocessor and other forms of syntactic programming in favour of solutions working on the semantic level. The more I know about the preprocessor, the less simple and more puzzling it is to me, especially after implementing it.
What is kind of bizarre is that big-tech companies recruit largely based on their brand image, not purely on high-pay. They receive so many applications per month that even if they just lowballed incoming college-grads, the ones that choose to take the job rather than go to a competitor would still be perfectly fine. Deal with the rest through normal attrition and in a few years you solve your wage/RSU problem. This is how smaller and less famous companies do it.

Yet why risk having to stir up some kind of illegal price fixing or collusion nonsense as a hedge fund manager? My guess is that the paradox is solved if you consider the saved cost of compensation vs the cost of litigation.

Proof point: Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon doesn't pay nearly as much as Google or Facebook in terms of total comp, yet they have no problem finding employees.
But if it becomes unprofitable (for some value of profit) to rent, they will stop renting, unless you force them at gunpoint to continue renting even when it loses money.
Show HN: Auto-select the right Google account for your Google Meet call
I've been waiting for Google Meet to do this for years. After one too many "Ask to join" fiascos, I finally cracked and made this.

If you know someone on the Google Meet team.... please ask them to implement a seamless version of this!
Happy user for two years and going strong.
I want to like bitwarden but 1 year subscription ended without notification. Then they disabled 2FA a no go. Now I use KeepassXC better to have full control over sensitive data
If those 4.5B lived like Americans, yeah, that'd be the cause of all of our problems. Luckily they don't. But if you want to cull population based on carbon footprint, you should start with the billionaire class, then work your way down the income brackets of the US and then the rest of the West.

The Earth's resources could comfortably sustain the current population. In terms of resources we could also feed and provide shelter to every single person alive today, which would reduce population growth as child mortality, lack of access to reproductive care (including safe and legal abortions) and parental socio-economic distress are the biggest contributors to high birth rates. But we can't do all of that AND run the Global North's economy the way we do AND afford a billionaire class. Alas that seems to be what we are currently doing.
Subscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon
6-8 hours of meetings in a day is unpleasant. 6-8 hours of meetings _every_ day is probably an indicator that WFH vs RTO is the least of your organization's problems.
>I’m not sure how you’ve arrived at your conclusion, irregardless of my feelings about the innate evilness of humanity.

You go to bed in safety
wake up in safety
you are highly unlikely to be randomly harmed.

What's more likely that humans aren't innately evil or that they are acting nice because of laws and repercussions?
> Is there a law against rich psychopaths being psychopaths with their own money

Being an abusive psychopath should not be a protected behavior just because the behavior is driven by money.

There is something deeply wrong with our society if $$ === correct. It's not. We need to speak up and do something about the disgusting precedent this sets.
Slightly different though.

"Cut Piece" worst case: she end up nude

"Rhythm 0" worst case: someone ends up shooting/stabbing/killing her, or rape.
Erlang/Elixir are async by default.

Non-blocking non-erroring send ! and optionally blocking/non-blocking receive, with pattern matching, are built in to the language.

Not a monad in sight.
By those making many millions per year. Yes. They are two classes of people, albeit the 400k class is not the lowest on the totem pole.
A Story of Matrix Multiplication, Cache Access Patterns and Java
Exploring Java matrix multiplication: Cache optimizations often overlooked in basic algorithms for performance gains.
Alexa has been building their own LLM stuff for years now. Their models are also available on AWS. This Anthropic investment sounds much more of an AWS investment. If the Alexa LLMs were popular and capable like the best models, Amazon wouldn't invest in Anthropic. Currently if you want to use OpenAI models with better rate limits, you go to Azure. Since openai models are the most popular rn, that creates a problem for AWS. So they invested in the second most popular, which is still significantly more popular and capable than the Alexa models.
> Depends on your moral code, I think? Who made you a moral authority? You don't get a say in what I consider moral.

I don't care what you consider moral. If you don't like it, you can do as you please. I would have thought that would have been obvious, since this is the internet and the only control over you I have is through text on the screen.

Repeating this is tiresome; take your aggressiveness and peevishness elsewhere, because I'm about as obligated to care about them as you are to consider what I say moral. You're not sorry, so you shouldn't say so, which is a pet peeve of MINE.
I remember in the "microsoft office <> Generative AI" demo, one of the motivating examples was a parent generating a graduation party speech for her child... [1]

The first half of the video is demonstrating how the parent can take something as special as a party celebrating a major milestone and automate it into a soulless box-check – while editing some segments to make it look like their own voice.

Definite black mirror vibes.

[1]: https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224
We've seen countless subjects on which philosophers argued for centuries solved by physicists and mathematicians.

We've yet to see one example going the other way.

At best philosophers provide interesting questions. At worst they are just paperpushers categorizing the work others did into pointless and arbitrary categories and arguing about them :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291812/

> A high-fat, high-saturated fat diet decreases insulin sensitivity without changing intra-abdominal fat in weight-stable overweight and obese adults

https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/63/7/2356/3433...

> Despite comparable weight gain after 49 days, this double-blind trial showed that overeating energy from PUFAs prevented deposition of liver fat and visceral and total fat compared with SFAs. Excess energy from SFAs caused an increase of liver fat compared with PUFAs. Further, the inhibitory effect of PUFAs on ectopic fat was accompanied by an augmented increase in lean tissue and less total body fat deposition compared with SFAs. Thus, the type of fat in the diet seems to be a novel and important determinant of liver fat accumulation, fat distribution, and body composition during moderate weight gain. We also observed fatty acid–dependent differences in adipose tissue gene expression. The significant decrease in pancreatic fat in both groups during weight gain was an unexpected finding that needs confirmation due to the low amounts of pancreatic fat in this lean population.
Unfortunately, the article says it's currently attested from a single inscription made by people who didn't necessarily even speak the language themselves, so we may not manage to learn very much about this language for the time being.
I was briefly homeless this year (technically still am, but I lucked out and now bumming with an old friend) I was out of work for a long time and my lease ran up. I found myself stuck in one of the most overpriced (in terms of housing housing costs vs avg local pay) markets. There was no support for me.

Most of the other homeless people I met were older individuals. I didn’t talk to them much, but there were no open drug users (they were probably out there, but I stuck to there parts of town where they didn’t congregate, including staying away from shelters) and I assume most of them were on fixed income and simply got priced out of the market.

There’s no aid I was aware of. As you noticed, for many things, there’s massive waiting lists. Even the cheaper apartments out here have waiting by lists, and when I looked at the price to rent just a room, I was floored. People were often charging more to live in a room out of their house than you would pay for a low end apartment. And they still wanted first/last/security/credit check/background check etc.

I’m still not sure if I’m going to make it out. I’d have to find work that’s going to pay enough for me to make it past the jump, and that’s looking less likely by the day. I’ve thought about just saying screw it, and moving to a cheaper area, but then I’m in the same position, in a foreign environment where I know nobody and have no network.

I was speaking to my old neighbor a couple months before my lease was up about the economic situation. I was shocked when she told me that back in 08, her landlord actually lowered rents.
And one that is known, to a lesser degree than Davos but still, to the general public. I call conspiracy theory BS, based on some pretty standard cost cutting measures by reducing headcount. Besides big tech, every other industry has those rounds quote regularly.
There is a weird phenomenon in software where the open source solution is held to a higher standard than other software in the space. I also have premium Bitwarden and I love it. My org uses a different "Enterprise" grade password manager and it's way more complicated to use and the interface is slower.

I just have a rule that if I can get 80% of the same features with an open source solution I'll use it, even if it's not "the best."
Thoughts on Miniflux
> Why would Apple ever be "truly committed" to something which gives them less money?

Because they claim to be!
First step would be to stop looking to YC or the general VC tech sphere for any kind of validation or role modeling.

If you want to do something, have realistic expectations/goals and do it for you. Anything else is setting yourself up for failure.
Last time I tried Prometheus was years ago. So I don't know how much might have changed... I gave it a good month or two of effort trying to get the stack to do what I needed and never really succeeded.

Just my opinion, but I honestly don't think the scraping model makes much sense. It requires you expose extra ports and paths on your servers that the push model doesn't require. I'm not a fan of the extra effort required to keep those ports and paths secure.

Beyond that, promql is an extra learning curve that I didn't like. I still ran into disk space issues when I used a proper data backend (TimescaleDB). Configuring all the scrapers was overly complicated. Making sure to deploy all the collectors and the needed configuration was rather complicated.

In comparison, deploying Filebeat and Metricbeat is super simple, just configure the yaml file via something like Ansible and you're done. Elastic Agent is annoying in that you can't do that when using Fleet, or at least I have yet to figure out how to automate it. But it's still way easier than the Prometheus stack.

I've tried to get Loki to work 2 or 3 times. Never have really succeeded. I think I was able to browse a few log lines during one attempt, I don't think I even got that far in the other attempts... The impression I came away with was that it was designed to be run by people with lots of experience with it. Either that, or it just wasn't actually ready to be used by anyone not actively developing it.

So, yeah, while I figure a lot of people do well with the Prometheus/Grafana/Loki stack, it just isn't for me.
Why not just list every job title where there are at least 3 employees with that title and the average salary for that title.
I would say Elon cutting 80% of Twitter to no real consequence is the real driver. Everyone is asking "are we Twitter 1.0?"

Edit: actually increased engineering velocity
I mean Apple laid off recruiters and heavily slowed down hiring fall 2022, tried to force everyone back into offices and was.able to reap many resignations, and still laid off an undisclosed amount of working in the spring.

it sounds like Apple did the same crap, just with better pr and more strategically.
Yes, but wage-compression is a thing.

It is the inverse of minimum wage increases putting upward pressure on incomes above them.

That is one reason why solidarity works.
> the experiment tells you something about human nature

Hardly told us anything new tho, so trivial result as such. Water is still wet.

Quite gutsy of her tho, I'll give her that.
Funny enough, they’ve been around for 12 years and I’ve been a member for 5.

They feel like a one person shop. The turn around is slow and the system isn’t the slickest, however, it was the only place to get 4k discs for a very long time.
Those are different from the places where the vacancy rates are low, people have trouble finding vacant apartments at any price, and the rent increases are limited. It was a nightmare finding a place to rent in Lausanne. The rents were affordable compared to my salary, but the competition for units was fierce. Since bidding wars weren’t allowed, landlords would use other criteria to select tenants (being a foreigner was a negative).
> what option would you provide them?

I would offer them this choice:

1. Present your evidence in public, and let it be tested by the court;

2. Keep your trade secrets secret, and find some other line of defence.

Secret courts are not compatible with public justice. The UK's Family Court Division is a notorious example, and UK jurists are (slowly) coming to acknowledge that secrecy in matters of children, divorce and so on is corrosive to public confidence in the Family Courts.
Getty Images Makes U-Turn as It Launches Its Own AI Image Generator
It is perfectly possible in a competitive market to have terrible work conditions. While the average conditions tend to improve over time, not all workers are in a good bargain position viz-a-viz employees. There are information assymetries, transaction costs for changing jobs, short-term biases, market failures and a lot of other issues in the real world.

This view also assumes that skills are perfectly replaceable, that there's no cost for requalifying for another profession, and that this is instantaneous or that people have some magical way to offset the opportunity costs of requalification while they train for another job.

The problem nowadays (and this is not exclusive to HN, although it is especially salient here) is that people like to fall between two ideological extremes: Either that the government is a inherently neutral and benign all powerful institution 100% of the time, or that free markets always exist, and are always pareto-efficient and that governments action is always some sort of rent-seeking parasite.

In the real world things are a lot more complicated. Not every thing can be solved with the heavy hand of government, neither the market itself is always able to reach the most humane solution. Politics is still needed, and we haven't reached the end of History.
There's no need to seize any buildings: the issue is that building dense new housing is illegal. If cities allowed much higher density ("upzoning") then we'd see prices for new units fall to not much above the cost of construction.
So perhaps the solution is more affordable senior housing built in lower cost of living areas? If we’re subsidizing the housing, medical care (Medicare), income (Social Security or a bridge to it), you don’t need to build in expensive urban cores; location is not as important. Suburban cores are probably fine if the land cost is reasonable and close enough to public transit.
I think the point of where goes the money they make from this is still a valid point?

Derivative work and all that jazz.
Oops, missed that announcement.
I viewed this differently. This wasn't a parent having an AI step in to read their kid a bedtime story, it was a parent and a child using AI to discover an interesting story together.

It's just like reading a "choose your own adventure" book with your child, but it can be much more interactive and you both come up with ideas and have the LLM integrate them.
What’s scientism?
I can't speak for all engineers, but I've worked at mid-size companies, huge companies, and startups. At each one, I was granted stock options that I had no faith in the value of (and most of which actually declined in value). Many of my coworkers talked about their stock options as part of their TC though. My experience is probably not the norm though
I think you misunderstand. The reason people cut staff was fear of the upcoming recession as a result of the overnights rates going up. It still might happen as it is clear people are feeling the pinch of the rates.

Your argument is a bit of a stretch. Class warfare is some strong rhetoric that I don't think many people have adopted.
My main motivation for having a Rust alternative is to allow stronger typing of the edges of the graph. Going through gstreamer typically means dealing with byte slices and string-typing the input and outputs of each node...
Getting too close takes you out of the "far field" and into the "near field"[1] where the device just won't work at all. It's probably actually connecting via reflections from the walls if stuck right on top of the router. You need to be at least 7.5cm away from a 5Ghz router with 15cm antennas to be in the far field, and anything within about 4.5cm will be entirely inside the reactive near field (and have very poor coupling with standard antennas designed for far field use).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_and_far_field
can you expand upon that? What else other than policy decisions would have a major impact? demographics?
> yet they have no problem finding employees.

Citation needed. I know Google has a problem finding people fast enough.
> The new voice capability is powered by a new text-to-speech model, capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.

Sadly, they lost the "open" since a long ago... Would be wonderful to have these models open sourced...
Extreme increases in rent are extortion. It's abusing vendor lock-in. Moving costs a lot of time and money, so people will feel forced to pay more for a house than they would have paid if they were looking. The landlord is abusing their position of power.

In plenty of countries, you can fight rent increases if you feel they're not justified.
Obviously most people do not need that but sugar is good for quick energy.
Who is the one that started fighting someone with a loaded gun? Well done I suppose, most people would have just watched her die.
Engineering is viewed by business as a cost center to be moved to India.

The only value viewed by business is themselves. Everyone else is a cost.
> This means taking wealth away from those who have amassed too much, and returning it to those who had it stolen from them.

This is what inflation does, partly. Assuming of course that wages keep up.
It has always seemed like OpenAI succeeds in spite of itself. API access was historically an absolute nightmare, and it just seemed like they didn't even want customers.