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Seeking advice on innovation in light of recent advances
Apologies in advance for any ignorance I may exude: I am a CS major in my junior year of undergrad.

If anyone wants to innovate in tech, is being born lucky (rich parents/good location ex. SF) or pursuing a PhD the only way now?

I think both of the Google founders were PhD students, and the CEO of Perplexity has one as well. And every OTHER founder of a household-name tech company has one of, or both the prereqs (Zuck, Gates, Bezos, Altman, etc).

Since we're in an AI hype cycle, the ones with the most compute resources and theoretical understanding seem to have a monopoly as far as innovation in the field goes. I'm not born in a prime location, nor am I rich or a US citizen, and my gut tells me that getting a PhD for the sake of ticking an item off a bucket list or expecting something from it isn't the right way to go, but I don't know what else to do.

The other piece of advice I've been seeing is that you don't need to innovate, rather you just need to optimize something already being done to capture market share, but as far as real innovation goes: am I doomed to a life of grinding leetcode and closing tickets till I'm 40, and then die a slow and nameless death? That doesn't sound too enticing.
You don't need to have any prior manufacturing experience to build cars if you don't want it.

The car industry followed the semi industry with the fabless model, where not every brand needs to build a new factory for every model they sell but they often, especially for lower volume models like Fisker, subcontract manufacturing out to dedicated contract car manufacturers like Valmet[1] or Magna Steyr[2] who have their own fabs and experience and make cars for established big brands. They're kind of like the Foxconn of the car industry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmet_Automotive#Production

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Steyr#Produzierte_Fahrze...
I've tried with an exotic keyword of mine that I use as testing for search engines.

Worked well.
Not sure what modern typescript means, but you only need one or two dependendencies (esbuild and tsc) unless you are doing something more involved, in which case deno alone might not work either.
I agree with what you're saying, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with the article.

It doesn't suggest that people are having fewer children because they are "antinatalists" or consider having children a "selfish choice". It's right there in the title: they think they just don't have time due to their work/life balance. As I said in another comment, that's more likely to be an economic problem (specifically, housing) rather than a philosophical change as you seem to be saying.
JSR = JavaScript Registry (from the site). It seems fairly clear this is a package registry, i.e. an NPM alternative.
You could just get a custom keyboard that is comfortable for you. Key mapping is generally an independent step. Most of these keyboards are completely programmable with custom keymaps and layers. Many come with blank keycap options, you can also rearrange a regular keycap set.
Wait what? Since when can you use Whatsapp on a laptop? That and maps are the only reason I still have a smart-phone.
I've seen people criticizing Go for not being correct enough, e.g. for its way of handling dates among other things. But I think Go has a saner balance of correctness vs. simplicity. I don't like being forced to do stuff correctly all the time.

I somewhat agree with your point on having an explicit way to indicate JSON input. OTOH, in practice I'd rather prefer having a section about limitations in the docs.
> Free ranking feedback

Free spam SEO ranking in practice. A spam site has 1000x the incentive to upvote its result than you have to downvote it. YaCy did a distributed index with filtering lists and you effectively had to keep a list of who you trust / your own filter.
No I'm nearly 50 and I don't regret it at all, never have in the slightest.

I see all the strings my friends have, having to book meetings months in advance. Where I can go out dancing till 6am whenever I feel like it (which I do a lot) or wake up at 3pm on a Saturday. I don't think my life would have been so full if I'd been so tied down with a family.
I like your confidence, but it also manifests lack of experience and understanding of what engineering is. Expert tools have much lower tolerance for user mistakes because there are big money at stake (or sometimes lives of other people). A typo in Instagram post is not the same as a wrong number in CAD. I have personally seen a construction project where incorrect input in CAD resulted in several dozen foundation piles for a 16-story building installed outside the site boundary. Just because an architect responsible for aligning the building on site made a mistake working in a hurry, confusing two fields in the UI. Of course, there was a chain of failures, each next step costing more than previous one, but it could have been prevented if the software cared about the user and did not assume he is a superman.

It is so easy to squeeze as much functionality as possible on a screen trying to optimize productivity, but then quality of labels is sacrificed, click zones become too small and feedback is reduced to a barely visible message in status bar. It takes one sleepless night or a family argument for the user to get distracted and make a wrong but very expensive mistake.
Agreed -- the popularity of giant vehicles is basically a tragedy-of-the-commons situation, and probably regulation is the only way to fix it at this point.
Political Alignment, Affiliation, and Attitudes
What ?
It is. 2T means a 70kwh+ battery, an heresy on a planet with limited resources.

In Europe there is decent EVs with a 1.4-1.5T weight (Zoe/208/fiat)
Hmm, curious too. Maybe, given the few hints, an alternative to npmjs.com registry.
Polylabs: AI-powered 3D assets you can use in mobile games
We have created a 3D asset marketplace that contains a set of (expanding) categories of AI generated 3D base meshes that are mobile compatible with free AI-texturing. You can change polycount and also turn mesh into voxels, pretty cool for putting together assets for Roblox and Minecraft type of games. Go check it out and we welcome any feedback!
Sometimes I wish we had our daughter a bit earlier, the energy requirements are real.
What model are the other MacBooks? Possibly it's something not optimised or even not compiled for arm.

Wifi can be a very mixed bag, the usb-c charging issue sounds like something worth taking/sending it back for (assuming it's not something obvious like a crappy usb charging brick).
> If node.js decided to include functionality similar to what is available on Bun/Deno, both projects would probably lose traction quickly.

I believe this too. The big appeal for me is not having to install typescript, eslint, jest AND then set up all the configs.

deno has nice defaults, though the importing via URLS and browser compatible API do make deno very tempting
CAUTION: if you put 1997-era software on the public-facing internet then you have 25 years of known security bugs to worry about.

In 1997 I worked on a commercial/intranet web app using Perl 5, with CGI.pm, behind Apache httpd, on a Unix box. I think we supported Dec Alpha, Solaris, and IRIX?

These all (well, not really the OSes) still exist in modern forms, mostly unchanged, so if you really want to make it public, at least have a modern Apache facing the world. If you use a late 1990s Linux distro like https://archive.org/details/debian_1.3.1 you'll be using effectively the same environment.

What I did in 1997 was to implement my own template language, so I could have Perl process it to add the header/footer. It was something like "$$ insert filename.html $$" or something else dead simple like that.

I used xemacs as my development environment, though of course many used vi back then too, and I used NEdit for a while in the mid-1990s, which is more like Notepad.

We used CVS for version control.

To publish content now, using your home computer, get your router to forward external connections for a given port to the M1 Mac. Then use a dynamic DNS service so others can connect to your machine by name.

I haven't done this last step for about 12 years and don't know how it's done these days. Back then I could set it up with DynDNS but they stopped free hostname services back in 2014. Also back then I could use the built-in Dynamic DNS tooling in my router.
This sort of overemphasized paranoia about security is something which makes me, I dunno, irritated. If you decide to go to extreme, everything is unsafe but you don't want an old device even as a secondary device?

I'd rather work on my paranoia than on getting a fully secured device.

By the way, I am writing this on a mobile with 2 GB RAM and running Android 9 as my other mobile got broken.
My "lifestyle" is just having more time for my hobbies and entertainment with a lot less stress, so I figure for you kids are more rewarding than those things, but to me (and a lot of other people like me) they are not.
Yeah I’m skeptical, a meat hook makes a lot more sense than a telephone hook.
You can specify the apps and domains that screentime tracks. I have set a daily time limit for social media and certain domains like news sites and hn but don‘t include maps, mail or messengers
What kind of entrepreneur? You should search out opportunities you believe in, not what somebody else is saying is the next trend.
The movie industry is enormously wasteful, they could easily make the same movies with 10x less money if they cut out a fraction of their waste and corruption.

Anyway, it's not my problem. It's their problem.
Bleeding edge still image early influencer Billy Hogarth suggested craft beer was (is) better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane
There's a tonnage limit for all vehicles. The only difference is +400 kg allowed if it's an EV.
> The change had the unintended consequence of causing IPv4 addresses to start being passed as an IPv4-mapped IPv6-compatible address to our IP Allow List functionality.

Sounds like this bug: "Unable to reliably distinguish IPv4-mapped-IPv6 addresses from regular IPv4 addresses" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37921 .

Use https://pkg.go.dev/net/netip instead.
No thanks. Don't like kids.
The thing that's most interesting to me (and not mentioned in the article) is the crazy split between results depending on the arrondisement.[0]

Only one (the 6th, both rich but also rather low on parking) had results that were closer than 60/40 or 40/60.

[0] https://www.paris.fr/pages/plus-ou-moins-de-suv-les-parisien...
Weight is the best way to tax vehicles.

It correlates to the amount of energy needed to move it, generally with the size of the vehicle, and highly with the particulate pollution from brakes and tyres (yes I'm aware of regenerative braking), as well as the amount of wear and tear on the roads and infrastructure, etc.

European cities were never built for large vehicles, we should be going towards smaller vehicles, a Fiat 500 EV would be well within the limits described (at only 980 kg) even without the extra weight allowed by EVs.

Even if one argues an EV is good for the environment... they could still be better for the environment by being smaller and weighing less as it would take less energy to move them.

But looking at things like the Mercedes EQS SUV (3,375 kg), I drove behind one of these at the weekend and it is huge, it was scary seeing it pass a cyclist on a narrow London street. Living in a dense capital city, I would love if London followed suit here.
Sure you have similarities with a competitive game and life, but that's simply not enough to say that they're the same. People can and will do things in games that you don't do in life because... it's just a game.

> If you block the game of capitalism you stunt all of the growth and innovation that comes with it. It’s how people tick.

Where's the evidence for that? People help each other much more than they hurt each other, despite the common perception. What kind of sucker helps his adversaries?

Because a few people with power want to exploit everyone else, we somehow assume that everyone is like that. It's simply not true.

When we keep reinforcing these "winner takes all" scenarios we're playing into the hands of those few that truly believe that's how the world works. People cooperate and we only got here in the first place was through cooperation. If this capitalism mentality existed back then, our species would have simply died. Now we survived, thrived and forgot that our real strength is in communities, not individuals.

The individualist capitalism mentality got people with hook, line and sinker. Most can't even comprehend that there are different ways.
We are looking at how you can take an existing in-memory datastore (e.g. Redis) and migrate it to use non-volatile memory (NVM) such as Intel Optane NVDIMMs for fast persistence. Similar pitch to this paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/zhang-...
But better obviously :)
Huh, my wife and I still go to restaurants. Nice ones, too. We just bring our 2 year old daughter.

And there’s always delivery.
> Could this be seen as kind of a good thing?

At face value, absolutely.

The cynic in me sees it slightly differently: once more under the scrutiny of the FAA (still trying to cover its own ass ever since the MAX crash debacle they contributed to), Boeing scrambled to find the most obvious problems that would show up in the up and coming investigation. Miss-drilled rivets would be the first one, as it was, according to some internal source, the original production problem with the Alaska Airlines MAX. And instead of having the FAA do the obvious thing of ordering a delivery stop, (tanking the share values even further) they put on a big show of internal investigation and overly cautious preemptive delivery stop to mitigate their share value loss.

Language elements such as "While this potential condition is not an immediate flight safety issue" (spoiler alert: it is, see that Alaska Airlines flight) and minimizations such as "two holes may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements", should immediately trigger your BS detectors.

It's bad, and they know it. And as internal sources are pointing out, it has been bad for a long time, and they have know it for a long time. So, in short, no, there is no reason to believe, at present, that they are drastically going to change their ways.

Link to the previous HN thread and article mentioning the rivet holes:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111494
Check out wezterm too. It has mux capabilities among a ton of other things.
No, turns out physical chorded keyboards are a lot worse than I remember for code.
I can picture the EU-philic types that flagged this article in order to sweep legitimate criticism of the EU under the carpet.

In the UK during the Brexit campaign I encountered the cult-like Remain campaign, with their faces painted blue, and their doomsday promises of mass unemployment and empty shelves in the UK if we dared to leave the EU (neither of which happened). Support for the EU is purely ideological at this point.
I assume it's an npm competitor? Likely with a different technical design.
I switched from Tmux to Zellij ~2 months ago. What I like most about it is the floating panes feature that makes it really easy to create terminals for running stuff in the background without taking up space in the main window.
Less so when you could afford a house, a car, 2 kids and a stay at home wife on a single salary. It was also much easier when people didn't move to foreign countries and/or far away cities for their jobs, losing their family network &c.

I'm in my mid 20s, in tech and couldn't afford that at all, I could barely afford my gf being unemployed. I don't have a car and live in a small flat. If I can barely afford a comfortable but frugal lifestyle while being paid more than 60% of my peers I'm not too surprised most people literally can't afford kids
sure but is that a bad thing? this regions probably see next to or zero use and cutting them frees up money to be used on other things.
I reckon you haven't had the pleasure of commuting on the tube in London. You can forget about reading anything on a train packed beyond capacity.

And that's every day.
Thanks, I'll have to read that.

Fortunately that capture is mostly voluntary: nothing but loss of mod-cons prevents anyone from descending from the platforms* of the eloi and seeking the caverns of the morlocks.

Then awa tae the hill to the lee and the rocks
Ere I own a usurper I'll crouch with the fox

* each of which is filled with screenshots of the other 5?
LXD Fork Incus Looking at Bcachefs Storage Driver and Upcoming LTS Release
Nice idea, I do the same with Ollama and local models, except my client code is in Common Lisp, Clojure, and Racket. I have three books for these languages with Ollama examples, all can be read free online https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson

I have been paid to do so-called “AI work” since 1982, lots of early work with neural networks and symbolic AI, then more recently deep learning. I have never been as excited about any technology in my life as I am about LLMs.

Commercial APIs from Anthropic, Mistral, and OpenAI are great tools, but I get off more on running smaller models locally myself.
I believe some of the reasons for RTO was for that reason. It makes sense because at this point, everyone agrees WFH is much preferred overall and would probably leave over it, so I agree with you. I just don't see how well this will play out for these companies. I guess they predict that they'll come out on top at the end. Top-performers probably cost more than others too.
> Living a full life is about experiencing life fully. Raising children is a huge part of this. Going to a restaurant twice a week with your partner, when you're 40+ and no kids, will get very repetitive and boring.

Then don't do that. I go clubbing a lot and I'm almost 50 and I really enjoy it. My partner is pretty polyamorous like me so we're not really monogamous either, making it even more interesting.

Maybe this doesn't work for you but I don't like the idea of society saying what I should want to do with my life. I'm very happy as it is.
Could you elaborate? I don't see the connection.
I'm not sure about plenty. There's a common structural issue where properties and what you can do with them is controlled by local authorities elected by the locals while locals are also protected from the housing market using rent control.

Since the locals already got theirs and experience a lot less of the market pressure non-locals experience, restrictive housing policy follows fairly naturally. This is true for both renting and renter locals.
Try using any extensions which let you block websites (even better if there's a schedule). I found a lot of my browsing came from just muscle memory opening it, which once you disconnect, actually ends up being fine.
Was one of the first 500k users on Quora and loved it. Had a chance to get education and knowledge from top VCs and entrepreneurs directly. Even showed up on some meetups in London. Even was a published author with Inc, business Insider etc who were grabbing content from Quora.

It went downhill as it got gamified and you saw the rise of powerusers. I remember there was a guy who'd answer a question within 2 minutes of it being posted. Mostly based on first page Google results and he was the #1 poweruser.

And people assigned him an authority based on the fact that to up that point most quality users were also important in real life. But this dude seems like he was just a Quora addict with no outside credentials.

These guys quickly gathered what kind of answer gets you the most upvotes and so Quora became a pretty ugly biased place. There were still small micro topics with high quality.

Then couple of VCs/Entrepreneurs started using it for content marketing. And after that you've only had marketing interns from companies doing content post there. Add to it lack of monetization.

I've had millions of reads and answers, it was a good source of credibility I would think but I deleted my entire profile some year ago with all my some very in-depth answers.

I owe a lot to Quora though, it was a goldmine in the early days. It got me on the track of learning to code and advanced my education. also writing answers itself makes you research and double check and lookup sources. If anyone from Quora reads it thank you.

Edit: oh yeah, the person mentioned in the article was one of those early powerusers that made people like me leave the site. How funny. Seems like it worked out for her though. I just hope the same thing won't happen to substack.
Last time me and a coworker tried out Zellij (a few weeks ago), there was noticeable input lag compared to tmux. Used the most recent macOS release, running in alacritty w/ zsh. Anyone else had an experience like that? I think for terminal-based tooling like multiplexers, low latency should be a hard requirement.
The same price is doable, they just can't be bothered to lift their ass.
That's sad, but on the other hand - I bet nobody now has to deal with broken bottles, urine, and the other dreck that festive gatherings tend to produce.

Modern society is definitely more deliberate in how people interact. You lose some poetic spontaneity but gain in peace and order, which make society scale up. I'm not saying it's all good but it's a trade-off.
Piracy isn't difficult to compete against. Just put all content under the same (affordable) subscription and everyone will pay you.

And quit the crap about one subscription -> one household. I pay extra for two simultaneous streams, I'd better get my two simultaneous streams.
It’s interesting to note how the convergence of science and engineering wasn’t always obvious. Both scientists and engineers are almost always really nice people. So to paraphrase Killer Mike: I’m happy that I have a lot of scientist and engineer friends!
Not being able to use VPN with certain providers really put me off. What is the reason that I pay so much money if they blacklist the vpn's ips I use because my network is not secure enough? I was not even trying to go through a different country or anything, just the same country I reside and I made my account.
> freed cognitive surplus changing the world

I think it's freed economic surplus that does this. If you have enough money to buy an electric car, you fund future electric car development. If you have enough money to buy a ticket on a rocket ship, you fund future rocket ship development.

The problem with cognitive surplus is it needs something to aim at. If there's nothing new being invented or pursued, it reverts to attention: better marketing, nicer recruitment, etc etc, that just increase competitiveness within an established field. That's all nice, but it doesn't unlock progress that would obsolete human effort or polluting methods, or anything technoutopian like that.
Life with kids has always been problematic, but it has got much harder in the last few decades as social attitudes have changed. Levels of parental involvement and attention that were perfectly normal in the 1970s would now generally be considered criminally negligent. Across most western countries, the amount of time that parents spend with their children has dramatically increased; that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does greatly increase the opportunity cost of having children.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/parents-children-pare...