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Well, I have had jobs that have paid well, but not for long. If you're not working backwards from an accidental pregnancy, you just have to consider the volatility of your life, and the prospects for the future. My dad had me when he was 21, accidentally, in a time not so long ago where various alternatives weren't super available, and made it work (horribly) until they divorced, in one of the poorest and most isolated cities in Canada. He has however managed to work the same job for 30 years, and bought a house (with help from both sets of grandparents financially. Now, he does have the house, but he's had more kids in that time, and still works at the same company, but doesn't make enough to keep anything for later; it all goes to childcare and life.

In order to make something of what was an incredibly volatile childhood and an interest in computers, I eventually moved to a much more appealing and more expensive but larger pond that I could pay for at the time; my hometown just didn't really have a market. I'm also 31 now, nearly 32, and have only managed to bring in an income for a maximum of a year and a half since 18, have ended up without a stable housing situation for quite some time, and that's really difficult to pivot from if you consider that the bet you made on the thing you were capable of, just hasn't really panned out (frontend development apparently). What's next now that that the hypothetical prospects I'd have had in previous years have functionally evaporated? I'm not sure, but I'll pay for this basement apartment and drain my savings as I figure it out, going into my second year with no job of any kind.

Ironically, the people who got into trades that they had no prior knowledge of, and that didn't pursue the ambition to explore beyond the confines of their hometown, have the most stability. Me the idiot picked the computer thing and nobody taught me how to be sufficiently obedient or whatever.

So although I've been in positions where my salary was relatively higher than I could have ever imagined as a kid, I've always known it was going to disappear the next year in a layoff or a firing or a pandemic, and prospects for the future would always be just tenuous enough to barely be able to get by on my own or even with a partner. I don't take out debt, and all my money which stays liquid eventually goes to rent. I'm always in risk mitigation mode, because there's always been risk, and although I've never been compelled to have kids, some amount of that is predicated on the knowledge that it doesn't seem right to bring a kid up if I can't even figure out how to hold a job for 2 damn years.
I worked with a defector from the Soviet Union. He told me the reason Soviet programmers were so good was that they had very limited access to computers. If you had to program using pencil and paper, you wanted to make it work first time.
(Coincidentally we were working for Honeywell).
I have found them to be quite clean (though yes, rare). The cleanest place in the Stanford Shopping Center is the men's room at the American Girls store. Or rather, it was until the store closed last year. But that men's room was very rarely used, and the changing table was pristine.
> How did André do this, with no tool but a pencil?

Using his brain. Intensively ;-)

Reminds me a story that happened to me.
I was doing some heavy changes to some library, then started running the tests.
The tests were failing, and without looking at log I knew immediately where the bug was.
So I fixed that, launch the test and again same story.
And again.
At the 4th time, the cause was not immediate so I was considering looking at the log when I noticed I was not actually running the program at all, but was executing something else!

So to find bug, you just need to ask yourself where it will fail, and fix that ;-)
If two or more people rent the same "household" (house, apartment, couple of rooms) they are only counted a single time.

1 homeowner and 1 renter = 50%

1 homeowner and 2 renters in the same apartment = 50%

1 homeowner and 200,000 renters in the same apartment = 50%

1 homeowner and 2 renters in 2 different apartments = 33%

It's a ratio of homeowners to the number of buildings the rest of us rent out.
These machines are networked and covered in cameras, so Waymo has these people all on video, right?
I mentioned in another post here that I believe that one major reason LLMs aren't ubiquitous right now is inference cost.

I'm going to guess that one major reason Copilot fails at complex code is because it can't read enough of your codebase to suggest complex code. The technical reason is because inference cost is too high right now for very large context queries. Therefore, the major bottleneck is inference cost.

That's why I'm investing in TSMC because we will need a lot more silicon to reduce inference cost.

I imagine a world in which future GPT versions are at least 2x better than GPT4, context size is 100x higher, and inference cost is 100x lower.
Thanks for mentioning oxide :) kinda cool to see people find my stuff exciting.

As for the statement that they don't respond to requests for source that they are obligated to release. They have everything that they are obligated to release on GitHub, and they have always released updated toolchains (that include a bunch of source) when. requested of them. They have been kinda late with the latest request, so yes they aren't timely right now. I've been poking what contacts I have, but I think a bunch of people had some extended vacations around the holidays or something.
I doubt the same time devoted to studying written word would leave you worse off.
https://www.st.com/resource/en/programming_manual/pm0214-stm...

I'm only half kidding, the programming manuals are pretty good these days. Honestly there's more in common with the arduino and a modern uC than there is different. If you want to use the knowledge in anger you need to learn linker scripts, makefiles, gcc, gdb and jtag so you can deploy and debug code on boards that don't have self-flashing bootloaders and FTDI baked in. There's also some tribal knowledge about how ISRs work like keeping ISRs as short as possible (no print statements) but I don't know what books cover that.
You are right about the inference cost. The real economic value-adding tasks (for example replacing a whole team of developers with a technical product manager plus AI code generation) are already almost feasible (enough to see what the future will bring), but severely constrained by context limitations, processing speed and ease of integration into development workflows. Since both computing power and clever algorithms can be brought to bear on it, it will prove to be a situation featuring a Moore's law with a very short doubling time.
Lot of blame gets placed on women too and sometimes it's misplaced. At-home sperm testing kits should really be covered by insurance considering how cheap and easy they are[0].

[0]https://yospermtest.com/
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here's the real kicker to me: you cant sort the search results these days by date.

whoever fucked this up thinking he's doing good for humanity deserves to be hit with 65,535 lightning bolts in exponentially increasing amperages.
28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid
You’re right, anyone would have an easier time learning a language with actual spelling rules, not just those with reading difficulties.

Nonetheless, phonics-based learning is better for any language.
> Edit: the replies - y'all are out of touch.

If you're in the minority, maybe you're the one who's out of touch?

It's not that they can't afford having children—many of those who are less fortunate than them still have children. It's just that they think the cost of raising children, which likely affects their current lifestyle, is not worth it.
The list of related articles looks really weird, and seems to be algorithmically generated
Maybe at some size corporations _should_ become public entities to avoid dragon disease and only those corporations having the means of production. After all, they did grow enormously big by consuming public resources and labor.
I suspect that AI and tech in general are _extremely_ well correlated. Indeed AI is just a subset of tech. Because they are so well correlated, your strategy really does not provide any hedge, you’re just all-in on tech. I’m very bullish on tech as well, but your described strategy makes me worried because I sincerely think you could lose your job and then find that the AI stocks don’t do well. Eg, consider the scenario:

1. We hit sudden limits in computational density, energy efficiency, and energy storage technology

2. We face another AI winter (which happens surprisingly often!)

I don’t know the industry you work in, but for many in tech that could lead to a layoff and then underperforming stocks. I think you can imagine an equivalent scenario for yourself, based on your industry, etc
I found this, although some of the other information might no longer exist due to the changes at the time. https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/T13eedc32...
The nasdaq is 1500 companies, seems the article is about the Mag7. People are putting money back in the sector, it may not be MS or Nvidia, but the money will move to the next big thing that pops up in the nasdaq
It’s a liability only if consumerism is your only value. Which for a lot of people, is absolutely the case. And it’s only logical if you only care about your own individual desires.

It almost isn’t worth arguing about, though, because the reality is that society is ultimately made up of people that have kids. All the rationalizations in the world won’t change the basic facts of biology.
>I agree that it's better to whip around virtual desktops with a hot key than to twist your neck between two monitors. But we have to agree on the monitor size first.

I have 3 32" screens in portrait, which is the equivalent to one 55" screen. I'm not sure where this "twist your neck" nonsense comes from. I can assure you I never, ever have to "twist my neck" to any degree to see the entirety of my 3 screens. My eyeballs might have to move half a centimeter in either direction, if that much, but no, my neck never has to move at all.

>Is it better to have a 24" 2K monitor with a 4x4 virtual desktop, or a 50" monitor with no virtual desktop?

Why not have a 50" monitor with virtual desktops. I do it all the time, and it's an amazing thing, far better than a single small monitor with a fraction of the pixels/real-estate.

>For things that your attention is riveted on, switching virtual desktops is fine.

Multiple screens is even better.
What about Supernote or Kindle Scribe, are they worse? I am considering RM2 but some recommend Supernote. The company looks shady as heck but hackability would be a big pro
I agree.

I spent Christmas playing around with the GPT4 API. I quickly discovered many ideas on how to use it. But many of my ideas depended on much lower inference cost and much higher context sizes.

I equate this problem to the cost of loading a website in 1996 vs 2024. My wild guess is that we are probably in 1997 right now.

Therefore, I concluded that not only would LLMs be ubiquitous in the future, I should invest in companies trying to solve the inference cost problem right now.
I feel like if you live in SF and don’t own property or don’t work in tech, the rise of the tech industry has been bad for you.
And leaving her nude for hours taking photographs of her? Come. This is torture via shame. They easily could have offered any form of cover in a safe and controlled way but chose to humiliate her.

The police are entitled to take measures for their safety, but this is abusing that right. There is a line, but the fact they’re allowed to cross it without reproach is why there is so little public trust in the police. They’ve become oppressors in safety’s name.
The headline of the article does not match the posting, which breaks a rule I believe. Could we at least correct the posting's grammar? To "How SSH became Port 22".
> it was you’d see the powerful banning everything they didn’t like

As far as I can see they are a good way to there, so yes? To the extent possible the powerfull is banning or attempting to ban everythjng they don’t like.

> the powerless banning everything they didn’t like

If the powerless bans everything they didn’t like then they are not powerless. That is the definition of power.
>it makes me feel bad (though not too bad at this point) that I have to log off at quittin' time, sharp, to go relieve my wife of some childcare and make a family dinner.

It shouldn't make you feel bad. I have no children and I have strict policy of logging off at the end of my work day (unless in truly exceptional circumstances). No one shuold feel shame (children or not) about finishing the work when they are no longer paid for it.
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Of course it's a combination of the two.

In the ancestral environment, kids "just happened". There were people who specifically tried to have more children, but they would only have a small advantage over the vast majority of accidentally made children.

Fast forward to modernity. Now, children are only being born to people who specifically choose to do so. A small change in socioeconomics accidentally privileges people with a biological quirk.
Two-Wheeled, Self-Balancing Gyro-X vehicle from 1967 [video]
From here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342357
Some people will claim that fixing broken windows and therapy session just generates GDP! Yay for booming stock market lead by therapists and window installers...
3.x support will come to toltec, I've been blocked by stuff outside of my control a couple of times. Including things happening in my life that I won't get into.

You can see the current progress here: https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec/issues/820

As for the comment on the kernel change, that was actually an ask by someone in the community: https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/issues/8
If the edges were all made as small arcs with extra actuators to rotate them either flat along the surface or outwards to form something that can roll. Might need to do the same for diagonals to get it to roll smoothly?
Northeast England's Semiconductor Nightmare [video]
So far most of the use cases of AI I see in the wild has been some stupid chat bot, replacing specific job groups or magically solving a problem with AI.

All of these attempts fail miserably. It‘s Blockchain and NFTs all over again. The promises are so far fetched from current capabilities that it is not even funny.

Not saying that AI is useless, there are many impressive achievements made possible by it, but I do think it’s currently overhyped and filled with empty promises.
That's what I was expecting too.
This. I am genuinely excited when I am faced with a problem set where I don’t know something (e.g. need to research, explore, gain a skill, or otherwise educate myself) — seriously, it’s the best. The only thing better is learning (or being told) that I was wrong about something and then re-evaluating my belief/understanding stack in order to find and correct the error. I have such little patience for folks fronting or faking knowledge/expertise - it’s such a fucking waste of time for everyone else.
This is beyond any reasonable form of acceptable extrapolation from tiny non-random sample data. Even the most cursory glance at the 'study' should throw up major red flags (Vienna, loudest city in Europe? Seriously?)

As a longtime tinitus suffrrer I'm very sympatetic to the cause, but this sort of abysmal publication does real harm to the credibility of the very real concern that is noise pollution.
> If your car runs out of fuel in the park, it is no longer breaking the vehicle rule

Unless you put some fuel in it. To get it out of the park.

But then that would be violation, so leave it there?

I think all this meta disagreement, and the diverse counterintuitive reasoning arrived at by different attempts at consistency, demonstrate how hard it is to reach convergent agreement.

The hyperlogical pedantic reading makes the most sence from a game rule perspective. But agreement on initial perspective is difficult to obtain, even given “clear” instructions.
I really like this aspect of ceramics.

Plus, before the clay goes into the kiln and is glazed it can always be recycled, so no guilt.
Because if AI is good enough to permanently end my software dev job, it should be valued much much much higher than the stock market today.

I imagine a world where anyone has an AI powerful enough to make apps that used to require a full team of professional software developers and do so much quicker. If we get to that world, I don't see how the stock market wouldn't be significantly higher than today, even if it's in a bubble today.
> The financial side is convinced developers are 10x as productive with copilot and AI tools.

The opportunity is bigger. It isn't 10x existing developers, but making everyone 3-5x as productive by turning everyone into someone able to automate a basic system. AI could tackle pretty much every knowledge job in the lowest tier of a job pyramid.
It would be absurd to downlevel these folks. Probably the mismatch is an investment and both org and employee will need adjustments that are mutually beneficial.
Those are called "bachelors", plenty of historical precedent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor
Happens in the best of places. Berlin, which normally is pretty peaceful, looks like a war zone around new year. Just non stop explosions for days on end before and after new year. It kind of tapers off asymptotically as people run out of fireworks. Usually a few cars burn out, a few hundred people end up in hospital. Some people lose eyes, fingers, etc. The combination of people being drunk and having access to things that go boom in a loud and pretty way have some obvious consequences.

A taxi driver drove around with a dash cam a few years ago and filmed 20 minutes of the madness. Amazing stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVOV9YrMFCs
It's also a zero-sum argument. Participating in society is likely to amount to giving, not taking. It's like Marxists thinking there's only so much wealth to go round and thus anyone who has any should feel ashamed.

The argument could be made that those who have children are the parasites, selfishly diverting resources to the useless ineffectual new humans that they've made for the fun of it. This argument would be nonsense too, but it wouldn't be worse than the other one.
pebkac ?
I think the expectation is that as companies begin drawing moats around their data, it will be harder for new players to enter the market. As these models progress, it will just get more expensive to compete, so only the big players will have a shot. OpenAI might only have a slight advantage at the moment, but they have proven they can do it, they have the talent necessary to continue to innovate, and some great backers, including the government through Larry Summers. All they need is a boatload of money, and that's exactly what they are getting through their huge valuation.

I have no idea if that reasoning is sound, but it is at least plausible. I've compared most of the big LLMs, and OpenAI still has a really solid lead imo., mostly due to tooling. But I also suspect they are very close to GPT5, but will wait to release it until they have serious competition, eg. through Gemini.
It is much more akin to the dotcom bubble. NFTs are entirely useless, the dotcom bubble was just too early (many dumb ideas then are successful now).
Both options seem irrational. For starters, coffins don't have pockets. Spending free time during youth beats having nothing to do during seniority years.
True, I was thinking of colleagues who had moved from Eastern Europe to Ireland and were telling me that it was much more common to have homes without a mortgage, they weren't as likely to be a vehicle for getting rich, NIMBYs weren't such a big thing, etc. Maybe it's a holdover from the Soviet Union.
When I started my career Linux and FreeBSD weren't as good as they are now. People we're not playing around with them nearly as much. So UNIX experience was hard to come by, and the big players like SCO, Sun, SGI, etc were really the only game in town. When Linux got good suddenly finding people with UNIX experience became A LOT easier. This also had the effect of decreasing the value of UNIX experience and all those people who had learned on big company UNIXes were now competing with kids who had learned UNIX systems from messing about with Linux.
Didn’t he quit?
Did I? So developers should be paid the expected value even if they do not deliver, is that what you're saying?
Programmer Exists,

Bug Kausing Almost Certain.
Alternatively: only people who were into it enough to handle doing things on paper and with limited access to computers kept working afterwards.

So: was it a good way to teach or a good way to filter out less motivated people?
They release software updates for both devices at the same time. There was no hacked version with all the same feature upgrades, it was, and always has been the official software update. They to this day still release all the same features to both devices.
People have been complaining about housing affordability in Australia for years. I remember endless discussions of it, media articles about it, and feeling its pain myself, 20 years ago. No denying it has gotten worse, but it was already rather bad.

That said - we bought our house (NSW Central Coast) in late 2015 for AU$550K. At the peak of the COVID price surge, those property value websites were saying it was over AU$1 million. Now they are saying it is only AU$850K. Still gone up a fair bit compared to when we bought it, but also fallen a fair bit off the peak. Of course, those websites are not completely accurate, but what they say is consistent with sale prices of comparable properties in our neighbourhood
I suppose also the table it rests on stays horizontal, the hands that hold it stay similar enough, and there's no subscription fees to the app store :-D
That’s exactly the same principle as reaction wheels. Indeed they have to keep spinning to maintain a certain angular rate.
Depending on the definition of "dev", they can be the ones who define the requirements and API.
Romans used lead everywhere, even for cooking.

Roman bones also show much higher levels of copper. It is well documented that the brains suffering from Alzheimer's lack copper. (from autopsies)
Why are people so obsessed about it I have children? I'm married and we've decided we don't want to have kids. It really bothers me when people say "oh you're missing out, that's such a shame". Please think about what you are saying.

It doesn't matter if I'm gay, infertile, poor, depressed, or just don't want them. Please keep your judgements to yourself or even just stop judging others.
The current issue with the plug door is. MCAS is the second sentence. And I'd still consider that a process failure, when engineers only ever tested the upgrade variant AOA indicator and didn't notice the non-upgraded glass cockpit advisory didn't work and nobody is specifically responsible for making sure the code is reviewed.

And oursourcing wasn't new. The here praised 737 NG had parts delivered by subcontractor Ducommun in the early 2000s that were allegedly so defective, they had to be rejected entirely. Except the Boeing of the early 2000s caught it, and late 2010s Boeing didn't.
My experience is that it's a skill like any other, I was bad at it, I wanted to be better at it so I did it more often and now I'm good at it.

Being able to anticipate and find nice design level general solutions for hairy real-world problems is where systems design becomes most rewarding.