skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hired's report is inflation adjusted

per https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100.00&year1=2... (latest data available is August 2023) we've had 3.67% inflation from August 2022 to August 2023

So the inflation adjusted "drops" of 163->161 and 161->156 were nominally increases from 157.23->161 and 155.30->156 respectively, which were less than inflation. Given that inflation is uneven and also that the headline is much more alarming as-is than "after adjusting for inflation" (A huge portion of hourly and less-privileged salary workers get 0% nominal raises every year, just not often in tech) it seems like a whole lot of nothing.
It's just crazy that a earbuds have enough computational power to add new features like this.
The existing users that already have short addresses should be able to keep them (ignoring the trailing 0s), and even the newer longer ones don't need to be 128 bits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro...
They do and they provide a lot of options too.

Right now there's Google, Yahoo, Bing, DDG and Ecosia.
What if i set the wrong dob and i need to change it?
Sure ARM based Mac laptops are great. But x86 laptops are still just as loud, hot with horrible battery life as they always have been.
SBF ~~is being made~~ has been made a fall guy for the crypto ponzi promoters.

This is *not* to say crypto is a scam. The scam is ponzi selling to people that didn't have a clue.

No pyramid schemes are sustainable, all need a scapegoat.

In hindsight, SBF should have known better, should have had better adivsors, should have found time to realise he needed better advisors. However he shouldn't be the scapegoat for hundreds of organised ponzi scammers at the top, of which some of the thousands of followers they have are here on HN still believing. The hundreds of powerful vested interests will keep facilitating negative stories that put SBF in the spotlight keeping them out, hoping for a catharsis where people give up caring, and providing prosecuting authorities found asleep at the wheel a similar catharsis.

I look forward to reading Michael Lewis's new book.
Pulling a zig isn't going to solve all problems, as the zig cross compiler itself runs into problems fairly often. I already use CC='zig cc -target x86_64-linux-musl' (or whatever the target is) with cgo to cross-compile mattn/go-sqlite3, and relatively recently it simply stopped working[1] and a workaround had to do be added to about every single project of mine using SQLite through cgo.

I also once tried to figure out a way to cross compile mattn/go-sqlite3 to 32bit Windows with zig, and failed.

The best way to make cross compiling painless is to not use cgo at all. Which is why I use modernc/sqlite whenever possible now.

Btw, bundling a C compiler is also much harder when you don't build on top of LLVM.

[1] https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/issues/1164
New Pixel 6 Pros are selling for around $400 on eBay, used ones go for about $250. iPhone 13 Pros are priced at approximately $700 new and $500-600 used.

My hot take is that the vast majority of Android users are not specifically looking for an Android; they just want "a phone." There's a minority of hardcore Android fans who are committed to specific models like the Samsung S23 or Pixel. In contrast, there are many people specifically want an iPhone, whether it's for iMessage, the ecosystem, or even just for the status symbol. This seems to hold a lot more value.
My guess: coding will exist, but it will probably be more specialized. The number of jobs will steadily decrease, probably making it harder for entry-level programmers to find work.

Why do I think this? The same thing happened to the field of electrical engineering. There were 426,000 electrical engineering jobs in 1990 [1]. In 2002, there were 385,000 jobs. By 2012, the number was 300,000. [2]. And the numbers have continued to decline. (Note: all U.S. numbers)

So, aren’t EE grads still getting jobs? Yes, but they are doing more software now and less electrical/electronic things. They have specialized. ME’s have had a slightly more difficult road.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/mlr/1992/02/art3full.pdf

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2487847/what-stem-shor...
There's always this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants

Packed with references anyone seeking anecdotes should be interested in.

Right after college I almost went to work at a South Carolina DuPont location under a researcher who had a side discovery from carefully studying a number of abandoned pecan groves across the south.

Turns out when there was no longer anyone on the property and no more maintenance, the productivity of the trees dropped considerably.

But with the same lack of maintenance, after less-affluent families had moved into the old plantation homes, the trees resumed abundant production. Just by people being there.
IME the OLED Garmins don't have that long of battery life if you have the display set to always-on. For me (Forerunner 265), it lasts maybe 3 days. Better than an Apple Watch, but not nearly as good as an Amazfit.
4. Gas and other ambient sensors

5. Rear display, maybe eink

6. 3d lenticular display

7. Infrared camera

8. Mesh network for sms-like relay without service
Official DALL-E 2 landing page shows airplanes as cars
Actual paper from 2009: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jt.2009.16

Link above is clickbait blogspam (like most things on IFLScience)
It certainly was. It remains to be seen if it is.

If they'd been made a performant (as in, non-x86) low-end CPU, then they wouldn't have lost mobile and be competing with ARM now.

Intel of the past few decades learned the wrong lesson from their history. You can climb the value chain to riches, but once you're at the top you still need to seed the earth for the next generation of profits. And that means cheap entry points and volume.
I agree. I've also noticed, ctrl + c, ctrl + v fails really often, especially on chat apps, and I realized why: they'll copy your chatbox contents (empty) if you accidentally press ctrl + c, and so whatever you copied is now gone. I was going nuts because it could happen to me on every single OS I would use, copy and paste is like being destroyed by "helpful" application designs. If I'm not highlighting text, don't copy for me!

I'm looking at you Teams, Discord and maybe Slack?
No, but given how stark the slowdown often is after an os update… I don’t think that’s what has happened
Did you even read your own citation? Apple slowed down older phones when the battery degraded because the other choice was the phone would shut off.
This reminds me of something from “The language instinct” by Steven pinker. One thing that stuck with me was a story of a girl named Denys who is or was severely mentally handicapped, but speaks perfectly.

She can’t read, write, handle money, but confabulates engaging and convincing stories about receiving mail, haggling with her bank, her boyfriend. She speaks with proper grammar, intonation, etc, but doesn’t demonstrate any understanding of what she talks about beyond the words. She doesn’t have a bank account or a boyfriend.

Trying to find more and I can’t find anything about her on the internet, I would have to look at the references. Maybe it’s questionable.

Anyway, I like to think about what the hell we even mean when we say we “know something”, and where we should actually put the bar for AI. Where is the line between confabulation and knowledge? Is knowledge just confabulation that happens to be correct?

I feel like it’s possible that Denys could feel that she “knows” what she is saying, but is simply trapped in, with a working knowledge of the world and is just unable to translate it into actions, and words are just her only degree of freedom.

I don’t remember where I was going with this, but I agree that “confabulation” is a much better term to use, but we also shouldn’t discount what it means to be able to confabulate.
I miss my Pebble. I have a Garmin now, but it lacks many basic functionalities, especially around notifications. For example, if someone texts me a few times in a row, I can't scroll to get to prior notifications. Lame!
What is the source of this data? Does Hired have inside info into what people are getting paid? is it crowdsourced like Glassdoor or do they survey employers? It doesn't seem like they do both
> Google has been successfully using their custom silicon.

Have they? Every review I’ve ever read of the Pixel phones says the phones are fine but the Tensor G* chips are a disappointment. And their TPU chips might be great, but they sure don’t seem to be helping Bard hold a candle to GPT-4.
It's not just about the value. It's about sustainability and screwing customers over. They should at least make spare parts available.

Just telling the customers "just buy a new one" if they have a cracked screen is just not acceptable in 2023.
Someone here commented that it takes 2.39s for tsc to check types for `console.log('Hello, world!')` [1] (esbuild does not check types).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765713
did they know about the Pythagorean theorem, or did they know about the square root of two? It seems that people did puzzle over this quantity for a while.
There definitely is: https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/RIVN/short-interest...
where are u located? im in miami
It's look really creepy :D
Sorry I didn't quite get this. This is also the first time I heard of "tracking". Il admit may be there is resentment re elite schools folks having more etc but I understand that is a fact of life. We are human after all :) The "elite" will find a way to be exclusive etc. Is this what you were getting at?
>Fake News Detectors Are Biased Against Texts Generated by Large Language Models

As it should be.
Larger, older less popular tech, blue state gov or federal orgs. I encountered LGT folks at IRS, GSA, NASA, Lockheed, IBM, HP, Cisco, JPMC, MS, going back to the 90s. Not universal, NASA MSFC won’t be like JPL, and none were paradise or places to be a rebel but coworkers were expected to get over their hangups with others and be adults.

Older orgs have process. Unicorns and move-fasts are winging it.

Good luck. It’s hard to say set it aside, but you have to get stable in work and space first.
Exactly, right? Thanks for sayin' it! :)
> The point of the whole sub thread is that a merchant can always accept a credit card but still incentivize use of debit or cash by giving a discount.

I was replying to the point made by the parent; it wasn't a meta comment for the whole thread. Most merchants aren't happily accepting a 3% surcharge because it's causing customers to spend more. While that happens and it's a big reason store-branded cards exist, I'd hazard to say most credit card transactions are for the same amount someone would pay with cash and the store just needs to eat the 3% because people don't like carrying cash.

>> Debit cards exist and partially solve the inconvenience of holding cash. But, they're really inconvenient in other ways.
> What inconveniences?

I gave an example further down in that paragraph: "If there's a breach at a merchant and my number is stolen I don't have to worry about my checking account being screwed up for however long it takes to sort things out." It doesn't even need to be a security issue. There's been no shortage of incidents where a merchant double-charges, charges the wrong amount, doesn't release a hold in a timely manner, etc. where my cash is locked up with no recourse. To limit such impact, I have a daily spending limit set. That's helpful, up until I need to make a large ticket purchase. I'd love to see a debit card system that addresses these problems.
The only reason v6 is dual stack is because they're changing all the existing addresses and routing. If you're only creating a second header format that everything is updated to support, it can be mostly unified. Routing tables etc would all shared.

> end-to-end connectivity is how the internet is supposed to work

This is the secondary motive of ipv6 that makes it not happen, cause not enough people agree with this statement. Most home and corporate users have little interest in outside connectivity, or when they do, it's easy to forward ports. And it's important how even the cheapest router or least savvy user won't accidentally expose local devices to inbound connections; see another user's note on unsafe defaults https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37765946

If you personally would like to go NAT-free on your network, still all you need is plentiful addresses like v4.1, but it wouldn't be the default that everything is optimized around.
This isn't a response to the OPs point, where they've stated their beliefs and their logic for them.

To it, you've basically said: "well in that case defend the times some other people have been incorrect if you're sure this time".

Why should they? The OP might be wrong, but whether they are or aren't has nothing to do with whether some unrelated, half-remembered third parties were right or wrong when mispredicting something else. You haven't addressed the content of the OP's actual argument at all, nor established a basis on which it may share similarity with other mispredictions.
Being able to mix what you have seen before isn't an accurate representation of any popular model for human intelligence to my knowledge.

It is akin to a backronym "well that sounds similar so is the same" while ignoring the real differences.
While many replies point out that you can charge at night, this would defeat one of the main reasons I use a smartwatch, which is to have an alarm that vibrates to wake me up without waking up my wife. Other people use watches to track sleep. If you don't ever use it for either, I guess charging every night isn't an issue (though it means one more cable to bring whenever you travel). But for those of us who like the alarm or sleep-tracking features, that's pretty much a non-starter.

I understand that they're getting to the point where you can charge just while showering, but aren't quite there yet.
You're assuming that Copilot Chat and the regular completion are the same model. Do you have a source that says so? I'd assumed that they were two different models, since they're quite different tasks.
I love typescript for prototypes. If I’m picking Python it’s because I’ve got loads of data to pipe around and its multitudes of awesome tools for those tasks are too hard to turn down. Otherwise I find typescript a lot more expressive, and I prefer having type “scaffolding” at the end which I can kind of finesse and finalize in a type system like Go or Rust’s without much effort.
I don't think it's true at all, you can just write C/C++ with SIMD intrinsics, just like you can on ARM or x86, and the instruction set is mostly awesome. OpenCL would just be an extra layer to get in the way. If you want to just run some existing OpenCL code, I guess that would be nice, but I doubt any OpenCL code written for a GPU would actually run well on Hexagon anyways.

The article also complains about VLIW in the same paragraph, but I don't think VLIW makes things harder, it just makes problems more obvious. If you write ARM or x86 code that has dependencies between every instruction, that's going to suck too, you just won't know it until you run it, but VLIW will make it obvious if you just look at the generated code. For the kinds of programs that make sense to run on a processor like Hexagon, VLIW is fine.

The whole Hexagon environment is just so much better than any of the other similar DSPs I'm aware of: you can use open source LLVM to compile code for it (so you aren't stuck with an old version of GCC), and the OS is much closer to standard (e.g. thread synchronization is just pthreads).

I did a bunch of work on Hexagon and I like it a lot. It is my favorite in its class.
My watch never buzzes me. I don’t think I ever set that up, it must carry over from the phone.
That's been a historically really good bet for processor architectures -- developer volume beats hypothetical performance.

Essentially the only time it's gone the other way was when there was a toehold in a critical market, where the benefits were so obvious and profitable that they made up for the difficulty (e.g. graphics).
> Being able to mix what you have seen before

But humans clearly do that. It's not all we do, but we clearly do that. And given the impressive results that LLMs produce, my guess is it or something like it, will play a significant role in the AGI of the future.
Every group who ever managed to build a building with a rectangular foundation figured out the relation between the side lengths and the diagonal. The Egyptians used Pythagorean triples to measure right angles way before the birth of Pythagoras.

But that's not a theorem, just an observation. It becomes a theorem when you prove (i.e. explain why) this relationship always holds, based on more evident things. The Babylonian tablet mentioned in the article doesn't seem to do anything like that, whereas the Greeks definitely did (we don't know whether Pythagoras himself did it, as no writing of his survives, but later Greeks knew how to do it, and attributed it to Pythagoras).
> LineageOS is not the answer

Could you expand on that?

I am curious because I have been using LineageOS on Pixel 2 / Pixel 2 XL phones for a while (and it works very well, I might add), but I am kinda clueless when it comes to Android security.
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“Now it’s double” is what they will write on the tombstone for this era.
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Okay, I'll bite.

In the early and mid 00s we had means to do all these things without notification spam. Even in the 90s, were these things problems? In which emergencies were you not able to reach loved ones or were unable to tell a tornado was coming? A lot of the public warning systems we have are from that time.

What you say makes sense if you go further back, but I feel like you're ignoring at least a decade where we had all these conveniences but no spam.
This. I think this is the reason why so many people are in denial. Is All of intelligence simply trying to find the best fit curve in an n-dimensional scatter plot of data points?
Fitbit Premium appears to cost $80/year, but side-loading an app so you can play with data yourself is free.

On the other hand, the Apple Watch requires buying a macbook ($1000 one time) + a $100/year annual subscription for ad-hoc distribution to run your own app on your watch and play with data.

I assume the majority of hacker news users who buy a smart watch are going to end up writing a few simple apps/widgets/whatever for themselves, so it seems to me like, even if you do buy the optional fitbit premium subscription, you'll end up paying less per year than for an apple watch.

I'm quite hesitant of smart-watches that lock writing and running my own simple widgets behind a subscription.
Nothing is truly waterproof, but IP55 is really weaksauce by modern standards. Modern flagships are IP67 or even IP68.

I live in an area where's it very humid and rains a lot. My phones get wet, a lot, just due to nature. I had one die after I got caught in a massive squall line at an outdoor concert on what was supposed to be a sunny day.
My Brain Doesn’t Picture Things
I fail to see how this makes us different from LLMs.

LLMs are a bunch of computation running on silicon in order to predict the next word, and out of that all sorts of behavior arises, including intelligence, insigt,creativity, humor, and confabluation.

Human brains are a bunch of computation running on carbon in order to <<X>>, and out of that all sorts of behavior arises, including intelligence, insigt,creativity, humor, and confabluation.

We don't really know what <<X>> is. Why couldn't <<X>> be prediction as well?
Is the regular Samsung model too big for you? S22 and S23. It's just the right size for me and I prefer small phones (or what used to be normal sized phones).
Welcome to your job in the meatpacking plant, washing and packing cow pancreases.
I cannot. Perhaps I'm misremembering some details -- but I cannot even find any YouTube videos where a strong YouTuber resumes replays to play out with other people. So no matter which details I have right/wrong, I'm unable to find the video.
Sorry - don't have actual advice. I remember the developer relations community being inclusive. Maybe you can DM some of them for specific advice or just someone to talk to. https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy comes to mind. Hope it isn't bad form to suggest someone on their behalf but comes from respect.
Like that blowhard friend who has an opinion on anything.

Yes. I just keep getting reminded of the episode of TNG when Data learns to smalltalk by mimicking an infamous blowhard from Starfleet [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/9FqFm_vmVnE
>our children will only work 3.5 days a week thanks to AI

And they'll work the remaining 3.5 days no thanks to AI at all.
An electron app might be a good fit.

This course is from the Laravel community. I've met Marcel at Laracon, his products are worth the price of admission. He's putting out some amazing stuff.

https://desktopappswithelectron.com/

This course teaches how to add licensing to your Electron apps to distribute and sell them easily.

His course covers licensing so you can charge for your app.

Good luck, sounds interesting.