skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why there is a shortage of software developers?
What does the shortage of developers look like? Here are the most interesting statistics right now to highlight just how dire the shortage of talent is:

Around 40 million technical jobs go unfulfilled due to a lack of skilled talent.
The US Labor Department estimates that the global shortage of software engineers may reach 85.2 million by 2030.
By 2026, it’s estimated that there will be 1.2 million engineering job openings.
Job openings for software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers are projected to grow by 22% year over year between 2020 to 2030.
Globally, companies risk losing $8.5 trillion in revenue because of the lack of skilled talent.

What aspect of software development is difficult? Why is it difficult?
Is there any relevant and credible reference on this topic?
If you read German, the posted book review seems to me to be a trimmed-down version of this article (also written by the author) from 2022: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wie-drei-heldenhafte-aerzte-die...
Do you use any framework for PHP?
True, MECSA is also interesting:

https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/en/
You are aware that these detectors can fail? Its up to you to believe them or not.
why not? i found it interesting
It’s absolutely economical. Apple only has to support a tiny number of devices that they themselves manufactured, they have the easiest job in the world.

Think about how many devices Microsoft has to support in Windows, it’s orders of magnitude more.

Apple doesn’t want to support older devices because they don’t see a benefit to themselves.

5 years of support is pitifully short. Pretty much everything I own lasts longer than 5 years, my phone is one of the things I have to replace most often, not because the hardware is broken, but because it stops receiving updates.
> Russia is corrupt, but they lack the sophistication and resources to apply effective propaganda.

The interesting thing about information warfare is that it doesn't require sophistication and much resources at all. Set up a bunch of troll farms, pay tech-savvy teenagers to do your dirty work, give them some vague talking points, and let them loose on social media.

If you really want to scale this cheaply, deploy AI instead. Russia might not have those capabilities yet, but China certainly does.

BTW, I'm not picking sides here. Just pointing out that it would be absurd to think Russia or China aren't engaging in this type of warfare. They would actually prefer it, given that they can't compete with traditional physical might.
The need for some things to require statistical evidence and for others to be accepted wisdom, devoid of evidence or maybe a hand wave at most, is a form of politics itself. It is why we have agile, open plan offices and shite docs!
I did learn one new thing from browsing the is-odd source code: Number.isSafeInteger(n) checks that n falls within the [Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER] interval.

...
if (!Number.isSafeInteger(n)) {
throw new Error('value exceeds maximum safe integer');
}
...
NYT doesn't reproduce the contents of the dictionary or encyclopaedia.

And even if they did it will be fine because those sources allow for it.

The point is that OpenAI never asked NYT for permission to use their data.
What isn't a bottomless pit? haha, anyway, thanks for the recommendation, grabbing a copy. I totally get that feeling but fortunately I seem to be able to enjoy my steak nonetheless.

I have been dipping into this ever since I got my first fast internet connection back at uni in the 90s and came across Operation Gladio. Back then there wasn't too much drivel and interesting investigative journalism was quite readily available, if you knew where to look.

I think the trick in enjoying your steak is mostly in enjoying it regardless of how fucked some things are. Also, not overcooking it, and invite people over to share ;)
Use one of the BI tools. They'll do this mapping for you as part of their ETL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38791575
Whoever operates the LLM, in this case OpenAI, engaged in copyright infringement through the unauthorized modification, reproduction and distribution of content to you.
> Netflix and Discord don't tease people with content

They do.

> Google Image search is almost useless

So your issue is with Google and not Pinterest then.
Pretty much all relevant ceuntries also pleged to triple renewable capacity in 8 years, which seems mostly doable, while with the typical (western) construction timelines for nuclear they would have to pretty much start tendering the new plants now, while currently mostly only vague promises exist.

China, which the country building the most nuclear right now, is falling behind its own plans and downscaling its nuclear ambitions in favour of renewables.
I believe this video is a part of psyops since it talks about a real phenomenon then diverts into irrelevant bushes.

P. S. Half way towards the end they admit of it. Still, wasted my half an hour.
There's probably a very equivalent story that a lot of Russians believe in.
Now i wish i stuck with it. Ridiculous flying saucer speculation is a guilty pleasure for me. But here is a better story of reverse-psyops, of when the public created fake flying saucers to trick the UK military.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41110193
Would it be far fetched to say object oriented programming is inspired by nature/physics?

And thus, "more natural" than, let's say, procedural programming.

Animals can be modeled nicely with objects/classes.
Physical objects do have internal private state and public interfaces. Also in nature, usually, you have multiple similar objects that work the same but have different internal state.
I use a Pixel 4a as a second phone and consider Google’s approach to be rubbish…

3 years worth of updates is pretty shit… my son’s iPhone 5c got updates for over 5 years (and I think there were some security issues they patched after that even)

At the moment I’ve got a perfectly usable Pixel 4a that I’m going to have to replace as it’s not secure enough for work related stuff anymore
I would also propose ease of use as a solution to our problems that the wolf in sheep's clothing took care of for us.

We basically handed over how we communicate to make it easier (Emails, Team Communication such as Slack/Teams, etc), essential internet infrastructure (Cloudflare, Amazon etc), banking, etc because it was easier..

My worst nightmare is somehow being locked out of my accounts, the only means is either emailing the CEO directly, posting on HN until it's hopefully solved or just moving to the country, and eat a lot of peaches.
> For running mail you don’t need upload bandwidth, and in my country certainly outside of mobile, CG nat isn’t a thing. Static IPs tend to cost a pound or two more a month from many ISPs but not all.

The thing is it cannot just be mail thing, to make it economically and time wise worth it. I can pay relatively little per month and have Apple/Google/Microsoft to take care of all of my needs, from email to file syncing to photo and phone backups, with the big risk that I can get arbitrarily locked out at any given moment.

But to offset this convenience, people would need an all in one, easy to setup, plug and play device that does it all. Something like a Synology NAS, where all they have to do is answer a few prompts about their domain and at most, swap in and out HDD when and if the disks or the NAS fail.
Probably because the contents are what's posted, i.e. if someone would post a link to an interesting video behind paywall / login and there was an easy mirror available that'd be posted too.

If I could just buy one article for a coffee without entering a bunch of PII or go through a time-wasting process I would agree on the moral equivalence between the examples.
In the UK, given it's northern latitude and great wind resources, you'd be best overbuilding mostly wind.

Here's a worked example based on real weather data that suggests a wind capacity of double peak demand and converting about 8% of all demand with power-to-X would be the the low cost option.

https://www.wartsila.com/energy/towards-100-renewable-energy...
I think that governments should offer one free email account per citizen for life. Which you could use or not, but is there for you as a digital inbox… which are the options?

- Self hosting is a bit elitist - not for the masses.

- A paid-for option (proton, tutta,…) would be cataloged as elitist. People perceive email as free.

- A free option provided by a Corporate player will gravitate towards monopolies and lack of privacy.

- A free for life government issued, easy to recover digital point of contact where all your government interactions are pointed towards would be a great step. You could still have a separate one if you don’t trust big brother, but at least your “recovery” address would be secure for life.
The enemy is inside the house and those aristocrats always wanted democracy gone - Thiel admitted it openly.
Personal anecdote != universal, global experience.

> have one at a smaller mail provider

a) [hosted] Mail provider
b) Server (colo/dedicated/VPS/whatever) provider

Choose one.

> not uncommon for companies to either have a local Exchange Server

Yes and it's PITA to pull it out of the lists of some shitheads, like SpamHaus.

Source: guess it
All models are wrong but some are useful. It's easy to say that someones worldview is incorrect in some respect. Can you be more specific as to what common misconceptions you would like to see corrected?
I think the study you posted is valid, but I'll bet that some individual nudges really are effective.
I'm not trying to say anything. I'm simply reading the article and stating the obvious: a cherry picking tactic that sensationalizes an important issue is bull shit.

- It has not place in journalism.

- It has no place on HN.

It's a distraction. We're wasting time debating the merits of a turd, and it is a turd. If we're going to do better than we need to expect better. The study might be sound. The article as present is shite.
Yeah, decades of credible research on the discipline of software development. Pretty easy to search for.

tl;dr: Complicated, takes years to go from zero to employable, requires talent and persistence, tools and languages constantly changing, employers generally not willing to train or mentor.
I think the biggest problem is in the alternative OS. Non-official OSes typically are unstable that I personally find not worth the time given phone is quite important piece of communication. As others have already mentioned, certain lines and brands, such as One Plus, Google Pixels, etc have unlockable bootloader so people are free to install custom OSes.
And as Bent Flyvbjerg mentions in "How Big Things Get Done", projects that last for a very long time are all but guaranteed to encounter one or more black swan events and/or recessions.

Bent makes a sensible argument for SMR reactor technology in that book too.
agreed - it's sketchy when universities make claims with these detectors as a basis
the relationships you mention are just product properties...you relate different products that have the same property with the use of a query
I would say no because the site was happy to serve the content publicly,
whereas your proxy is breaking a contractual agreement. Now we get into terms of service of a website, and even if you visit for free you agree to them. Which is a possible point. It is quite grey IMO. In terms of HN I reckon a mag would love the free brand rec. vs. the archive not being shared. Where it hurts them is if someone is avoiding paying for a subscription by continually using archive sites.
If ChatGPT is based on neural networks, with no actual save-and-replicate facsimile behaviour, it no more "copies" original work than I do when I tell you about the news article I read today.

I'd say the only real reason the Piratebay links thing you mentioned is not the norm is purely because those media sources have done a better job of striking fear into people doing that, so it's gone more underground. I.e. they're better terrorists.

There's no fundamental, moral reason why Piratebay links being posted and raised to the top would be wrong.
That these are thought of as government goals may be a very convenient belief for powerful commercial entities and other concentrations of wealth.

Based on spending it's quite undeniable that vast majority of propaganda is commercial (ads most obviously, but also various lobby organizations).
Toll noticable only back in those days or even in the future?
In the example from the article, it very clearly points to all the sources used.
Trackers are necessary if someone is doing math based on panels perpendicular to the sun. Of course they are rare, but are needed when doing the conversion. Whether the tracked pannel cast shadow, or more panels recieve less-than-direct sunlight, the math is the same.
"Shortages" just mean companies don't want to pay market rates. It's almost always disingenuous when people talk about labor shortages.
Wow. It was working great at the start before people started spamming nsfw content and injecting html and css into the page. Will be taking down the site in the morning and working on version 2. I guess from this I can say there’s some demand?
Ah yes, a government owned email service, what could go wrong?
FAFO
The US is by far the largest and most succesfull at psyopping, if it was another country on the top they'd probably do the same thing.

Singling out some relatively tiny economies as the bad guys is in itself an impressive display of the effectiveness of american propaganda.

You should remember the US more or less propped up dictators through CIA left and right for decades, and it's still going on.

Iran of today was because of the west trying to loot for oil : https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-fina...

The empire is the empire and the empire controls the narrative, and as a europeean seeing the US - the worlds largest military by far - cry about various tiny media operations coming from the wastelands they and the rest of the west has created by pillaging foreign resources is a bit laughable.

Much of the south americas has been pillaged by the empire, the middle east to, the rest of the world not much less. Deaths squads, millions dead, forever wars and economic plunder but no it's some tiny russian or iranian operation we should worry about, so vote democrat, vote republican, just vote for more war!

This is what many europeans thinks, though we aren't much better with our operations in say northern africa.
> Here I'm aware of the data. It's not close. Modern cars are much, much more reliable and durable than ones built at any time in the past

Is... Is this a joke? My 1991 vehicle made before planned obsolescence has a few questions...
You're not saying what you think you're saying with those facts.
GPS spoofing might be a solution when such problem occurs. Just make the electronics think, the train moves along equator at 30 mph. I assume the malicious software does not check if train moves on some tracks or just moves.
Well if this talk is anything to go by, it doesn't have to be people anymore.
I remember a CTO at a startup I worked at who said "we want the product to be so intuitive that no docs are needed ". I think that is a lovely goal, but the truth is:

* People will anonymously scout docs to determine if your product can help them, especially if your docs are public but you require a sign up for your product (a very typical case)

* If public, docs are discoverable by Google, which means they are part of your marketing awareness effort

* Writing docs is cheaper than shipping code, and therefore can be worth implementing to compensate (as you wrote)
So if compress nytimes articles into a vector database and query it is a vector then that's okay in line with your reasoning?
The flip to "Russia == Evil" when they invaded Ukraine (the most recent time) was impressive.

I'm not an apologist, I think Russia is currently [insert long list of bad things here], I'm just impressed at the speed we went from indifference towards Russians, or tacit approval (oligarchs in London), to sanctioned hatred.
Well, what makes "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" an actual hit and not one of those cult following shows?

It was ranked #16 in 1966-1967, #18 in 1967-1968, and #27 in 1968-1969.

1966-1967 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_televi...

1967-1968 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_televi...

1968-1969 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_televi... says The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was ranked 27.
I'm pretty sure that was an intentional joke. I do wish it'd have been a bitwise AND with 1.
Gee I don’t know. Why don’t you spent 15,000 euros for a court case and find out. See the problem now ?
IoT aka mafia with chips strikes again

I worked with PLCs for some time and the whole "a dozen different versions" rings a USBell for me.
if I Google newag plc programmer at linkedin, I promise you the number will be the same as the number of versions found in the trains, all branching away from one initial version by one initial programmer.

Ocassionally a fb gets exchanged on a USB stick, but the whole version controller magic never reaches the team.
> people want a simple model of reality

> War is Bad.

Come on!
https://twitter.com/KenneyNL/status/1738549235119751531
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I wouldn't go with anthropolgists on the highly complex subject of the history of monetary systems and debt. That field us best left to historians specializing in that question either working with economists or being economists themselves.
Snitching on Colleagues and Strangers
Don't miss the Q&A, it's great!
It is very common. Farming is hard, margins slim at best. And farmers are given great leeway in how they may make money from land. Regulation is lax. Many fields have been turned from the production of food to the production of electricity, while countless factory rooftops sit covered only in tar and asphalt.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38792095

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38791575
Hi, I'm in the UK and interested in knowing more about Matic. Do you have any plans to ship to the UK any time soon? You mention the device is private by design (this is a huge selling point for me). Does Matic support MQTT or any other open protocol to allow integration with Home Assistant?
Shame it was flagged. Would've been handy for a project I was working on. Had to work around not having a performant null
>Buying an iPhone and keeping it for 6 years is a great strategy and when amortising the cost of the phone over those 6 years, it's price competitive with Android.

What's stopping you from keeping your Android 6 years making it an event better value? Most people I know don't throw away their Androids after 3 years but keep them as long as iPhones. Basically until it breaks/dies. So far I don't know anyone who got hacked and suffered damages for using an Android that stopped getting updates.
IMO the reason we need better right-to-repair laws is because it's pretty hard to think about repairability at buy-time instead of at "when-it-fails"-time. Even more since companies that used to be good in the repairability front aren't necessarily still.
There are tons of other practical problems. The HLS generated verilog is name mangled. This makes it really hard to generate all the various control files you need to run the EDA flow, the software that assists in turning verilog into manufacturing files. If you have a super stable design, like a codec, then you can deal with it because it’s basically a waterfall development cycle. But if you have a design whose requirements are changing as you develop it, like most things. HLS doesn’t fit into the existing organizational structures and you’ll end up with a less optimal circuit.
I find the claim that people are generally more well informed about the state of the world in countries without a free press and independent institutions quite absurd. The western societies are certainly not perfect, but the messy information landscape in some of them is in my view an indication that different views are able to clash and make their cases with relatively little intervention from the authorities.
Miele for most stuff is unfortunately no longer better than the competition. They only come with 2 year warranties and the you can find lots of complaints on the internet of their appliances failing within a few years.
First program I ever wrote was to bypass an anti-afk program in a game: it needed to click on a button which was x vs y pixels, and would appear on random positions on the screen every time. I manually inserted one line for each viable position using x-1 and y-1. In v2 I implemented a for loop which made the script go from tens of pages to not even a single full one - computer magic! (EasyUO language)
I once saw that the only thing writing &1 instead of %2 does is making your computer yawn
Surely you can produce examples of obviously false things that are close to universally believed by “the West” then?

Usually when people make this claim they go on to list actually ambiguous or actually controversial topics.
> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually.

Yeah.

Hearing ATC repeatedly calling in and receiving no response is a gut wrenching experience.

And maybe I just watch way less news than two decades ago, but reporting of the air incidents is way lower, especially if it happened somewhere elsewhere.
The prices for 80s-90s 4wds like the Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrols are climbing like crazy... Nissan even still make the 1990 model Patrol (GQ/Y60 frame) for the UN and Saudi Arabia.
It would be more like "at night (or when there is little solar), you pay progressively more for your electricity." A lot of places do that already, you just do it to a slightly-palatable level instead of to the true cost. Partly because of, as you guys point out it's politically nonviable, but also partly because it's electricity from cheap coal as opposed to green solar + super expensive batteries.
This would probably work in a lot of European countries or places with high levels of government trust. I could see the German post office for example offering something like this and getting wide acceptance.

You’ll have a lot of distrustful Americans commenting how terrible this idea is and the government can’t be trusted. They’d rather get it from a corporation and be subjected to unlimited surveillance capitalism and manipulation.
I have a side. The truth. The most links in this rabbit hole point to the operations of the USA agencies as a whole.

Russia has crumbled in the 90s and now is just starting to wake up.

If I have to measure threat and I am an American, I would ask: How on earth China has developed this enormous economical advantage over all of the world?

Who financed this growth? Who benefited the most? And why, after living through the Cold War, we are heading in a similar direction?
Given what they’ve seen almost 60 years ago and today - can they extrapolate what will the computing field look like in another 60 years? What tools/techniques/methods from the past do they miss the most? Which of these do they think could/should be adapted to current realities and used to greater effect? What are their top 3 do’s and don’ts from those times?
They made me configure MTS
IDEs we had 30 years ago
You affirm that the study is valid yet still decide to override it with your gut feeling.