skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worried, but in a measured way.

Craftsmanship is still important and will remain important. Being able to work with systems as they exist is also incredibly important. There will be a lot of apps created and they will need to be maintained, or made to scale, and that will require more programmers as the solutions start to strain - AI code may end up the new "legacy PHP" code.

My prediction (worth almost nothing): A lot of folks will lose their jobs, and average pay will go down, sometimes by a very high amount for developers that aren't at staff level - the "able to buy a house where there are jobs" rung on the economic ladder will keep rising and income inequality will keep increasing until something major is done about it. Business owners will be able to do more with less, and the job of programming will get more difficult as more productivity will be expected.

What I'm doing about it: Let the future come and react to what happens, not what I think will happen. Keep living my life and find things that are important to me outside of work. Remind myself our time is always limited, and make the most of relationships I have and seek contentment rather than happiness.
> In properly designed large cities the metro beats the car by a huge time margin unless they made cars so expensive by policy that nobody has a car and there is no traffic at that city as a result.

What’s a properly designed city? Even in Tokyo a car usually beats the train unless it’s an inter-regional trip. Im a huge Japan nerd and love their train system. But I just got back from carting three kids around Tokyo and daily life is just far easier in my American exurb.

Do Americans have it bad? The median Parisian spends 69 minutes per day commuting: https://www.mynewsdesk.com/eurofound/news/budapest-paris-and.... The median commute time in Dallas is under an hour round trip: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B080ACS048113 (28 minutes one way). And the folks in Dallas live in huge houses compared to those in Paris.
+1 to devenv.
I used to use Nix natively, then switched to devbox and then devenv.
devenv is the most intuitive to use. I just wish that I could just run a command using devenv (similar to nix run) instead of having to declare it in the devenv.nix first.
Everyone else gets replaced by someone cheaper who still believes that sacrifices will be rewarded. That's the open secret.
If you think that Cochrane revises their reviews based on "pressure of an opinion-piece by a non-expert in the NYT" I doubt any amount of research will change your mind from what you've decided to believe. I think it's clear that Tom Jefferson was embarrassed at being called out for misinterpreting the evidence, but he's plainly wrong that she never provided a reason. She was clear that it was due to the "limitations in the primary evidence", something many others pointed out as well.
I've seen hints of this in the past month or so: people who were acting like true general AI happened a year ago now just talking about it as "word generators".

Gemini felt like the tipping point where the flaws became obvious, which they then started noticing in the others.
Sorry, but this just has an air of "My concerns are the only valid ones," that makes it hard to take seriously. I don't want to live in a world where my kids can get shot at school. I guess we just have different priorities, but I think it goes too far when we start saying, "Mine are right."
> But if you concoct a novel problem that isn't found anywhere on the internet and confront them with it, they fail absurdly.

Can you give an example?
I agree, for offline attacks there is no impact. Very interesting article. What is up with $\$$cur there btw? In PHP that would be a gnarly indirection-- even if it's something in FB's codebase, why keep it on the slide like that?
It's also a firehose of misinformation you choose to jump into. One can reasonably watch TikTok with the understanding that it might be good for entertainment or learning about things that don't really matter. It's a terrible news source, just like any other user content driven platform.
What's the reasoning behind that choice? Wouldn't it be more useful to have some kind of integration with git if it really has to be a part of the platform? Seems like it would be very isolating and hinder adoption.

Is the goal as much lock-in as possible or do you see benefits that I'm missing? I prefer the unix philosophy and like to setup my own toolbox so I'm not the target audience, I'm just curious.
You're technically right, my two and a half had only be familiar with colors for six months, but I think it's fine to say that toddlers aren't reaching standard level of human intelligence ;)
Foreign nationals in the US have the same rights (but not privileges) as American citizens.
College roommate told of a history prof who worked for free. Plastic surgeon botched a lipo and caused muscle damage. Malpractice paid him enough to retire his board-flat ass.

He worked for free, or next to nothing, taught the curriculum he wanted to (can’t afford to fire him!). Apparently he brought high end audiophile speakers to school and played classical music on them when not lecturing. The kind that cost half a year’s salary for a teacher.
This article pretty openly embraces degrowth through citing Jason Hickel

> Many commentators have drawn attention to the environmental need to limit economic growth and instead prioritize sustainability and well-being[6,7]

If you think saying degrowth is the only solution to climate change is not political, I have a bridge to sell you.
Yes - this. I can't just forget all of the wisdom I've gained over the years and throw myself into another meat grinder.
I would imagine it's extremely hard to prove though. The prospective employer could just maintain that the applicant "wouldn't be a good culture fit" or similar.
People thought those techniques would ultimately become something intelligent, so AI, but they fizzled out. That isn't the doubters moving the goalposts, that is the optimists moving the goal posts always thinking what we have now is the golden ticket to truly intelligent systems.
A broader goal is to have the kind of society that engenders large vibrant research communities and the benefits that come with them.
I know my team and project manager. I was sent the contact of my on-boarding buddy who is on my team. In a matrix organization, it's common to not have any day-to-day contact with your manager. In my current organization, I have no idea who they are. I'm sure if I signed into the HR help portal and looked up by profile it'd say who is my manager, but I've had no interaction with them. Just got an email containing my year-end evaluation, no conversation. Maybe there name was in the email, maybe it was just the app that sent it.
Doesn't a Belgian corp (InBev) own the Mexican Grupo Modelo in Mexico?

And in the rest of the world too excluding the US.
Pretty much what I think.

And we’re collectively and individually not as powerless as we think. We can vote with our wallets.

I know I will not buy an other Apple product until the situation changes significantly.

I also boycott Google and Meta products, so this is not entirely convenient but frankly not that difficult.
Anyone who has lived in a rural area that hasn't been subsidized can tell you why spreading out kinda sucks. The power company charges you $100k to run a line to your house. The phone company charges you $20k to run a copper line to give you 100kb DSL. Water has to be pumped from a well which costs $30-50k to drill.

We don't really need to cram people in elbow to elbow like New York City though. We just need walkable downtowns where you can pop on down the street from your apartments to the market to get ingredients for dinner. Even just building our houses closer together and putting in dedicated pedestrian paths is enough honestly.
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What a wonderful lecture. Thank you for sharing. What a treat to be able to consume such high quality knowledge for free online.
I don't think anything, im referring to allegations.
taking credit from the drivers of tools to give credit to the tools themselves as PR? Yes, depressing. No one says "Unreal Engine Presents Final Fantasy VII". It's an important tool but not the creative mind behind the work.
When is the humanitarian relief for dishwashers in Kentucky expected to arrive?
It's one thing to intuit something but it's another to actually show it.
Didn’t we do this in the 2000s too?

rip DreamWeaver
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Have you seen Technology Connections on YouTube?
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Some people are incapable of learning. Therefore, LLMs are AI?

As far as I recall, the turing test was developed long ago to give a practical answer to what was and was not practically artificial intelligence because the debate over the definition is much older than we are
> If for example the US Department of Justice were to sue TikTok, what law or regulation would it allege TikTok to have violated?

That's exactly what DOJ would be tasked to do, build the case against them. Surely if the risks are so dire, they can find something to persuade a judge.
>The point is: he's no more qualified than anyone else.

On the other hand to what you're saying

He had to make fuckton of decisions over his whole time as a CEO and that's where it brought him, so he definitely had at least some idea, vision, direction supported by some traits.
demod this. The ability to interrupt the language model is very cool, However, i notice, it failed to move onto the next slide often. It could never get to the final slide without explicit mention to go there, and when i got to the last slide, i asked to go back to the first slide, it would say "ok lets go to the last slide" everytime, these are probably more control issues than language model issues but i thought id point them out, just in case.
Whole University Catalog
> Affordable isn’t only about price, but price relative to income.

> Not everyone can have a location independent job. Many places that seem “affordable” lack decent paying jobs.

We don't have to hand wave about areas that "seem 'affordable'": we actually have the data for both income and home prices. The math isn't complicated: housing is affordable to the average person in much of the US [0].

The conflict here isn't driven by people who couldn't afford to move elsewhere, the conflict is driven by the sheer number of people who choose to live on the west coast. One group of those people already owns homes along the west coast and wants their neighborhood to stay the same. Another group would really like for there to be affordable housing along the west coast.

But at the end of the day, there isn't anything stopping either group of people from getting a job in one of the green or yellow areas in the map below and living there with a very decent ratio of income to expenses.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...
Selfish question: any problems with cell phones in the US?
Applied :)
Hard agree. I see the advantages but the initial learning curve is incredibly steep. Funny how this mimics my experience with Rust.
I'd construct a sad caveat to this, but Randall Munroe did it better than I can already: https://xkcd.com/1683/
You probably want Zig, but it'll be a while until the 1.0 release, maybe 2027-2028
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It only works for established technologies. New inventions are by definition not in the training dataset. What then?
I’m struggling to imagine how less densely packed housing could be better for the environment
Huawei AppGallery, Tencent My App Store , XiaoMi MIUI App Store. Apple only have about a 17% market share in China.
I definitely feel like it's the opposite. A lot of jobs require a proven track record with the number of years being like 5+ YOE. I graduated last may and still haven't gotten any offers. That being said, it's probably just me having a skill issue XD.
That generation has some serious scars from the Great Depression...
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>doing boring non-cutting edge stuff like aerospace or signal analysis

hehe, how the world has changed
>If you get billions of smart hard working people, you still only get a few hundred billionaires. The only differentiator is luck.

There are no billion equal people.

There are other differentiators than just opportunity: environment, background, culture, childhood, experience, vision and maybe traits.

>It's purely the logical conclusion. Some people get inspired through quotes like that, and it's probably good to lie to yourself that your hard work will inevitably pay off. But we should all know that it's ultimately a lie.

That's not a lie, it just doesn't guarantee success. But it increases probability (when you talk in general, not some specific person).
I think I'm good with how things are working presently, but thanks.
It's also hard to explain this difference in life to somebody who doesn't want to live that life.

When I tell people I hate driving so much that I'd rather sit on public transit (or even walk!) for 1 hour if the alternative was a 20 minute drive they are flabbergasted.

I go to the grocery store 3-5 times a week and that amazes people because the default assumption is a grocery trip involves getting in your car and buying a cart full of groceries for a week. People find it so hard to believe that I actually enjoy my 30 minute outings to the grocery store and carrying my groceries home. I got a granny cart for Christmas one year because my family thought "oh hey we can save him time if he can bring a bigger load of groceries home" but it doesn't occur to them that I don't even want that.
It's impossible to debate TikTok while people still are not on the same page about the fundamentals which makes this an unusual company that's not comparable to other social networks:

1) TikTok is indirectly owned and therefore controlled by Chinese Communist party.

2) Given the footprint and influence that TikTok has in the US, the platform has the ability to editorially control what people see and therefore influence perceptions of things such as elections and other hot button issues.

3) The widespread installation of an app indirectly controlled by the CCP creates fundamental risk. Eg a number of popular TikTok influencers were actually members of the armed forces who were recording videos in their residences on military properties. Gps and potentially camera access provides information such as troop movements and troop readiness to a potential adversary. At a wider scale, there are similar risks with mass location information of members of the public.

The reality is that US companies are not leaned on by the US government for this kind of information about foreign users.

Until we acknowledge that this is not a normal situation, it seems moot to debate TikTok under normal trade custom and practice.

I've never used tiktok, I've never created an account and I've certainly never installed the app.

I was a senior product manager at Uber for a number of years where I witnessed both the encroachment of the Chinese government into our operations and also the significant responsibility of having a GPS enabled app installed on a vast majority of the populations phones while holding all sorts of sensitive demographic information such as the places you visit, your social graph via your contact address book, etc.
Hang in there buddy. We hire qualified people of all ages who like to learn and get their work done. I'm GenX and I've heard all the age stuff before in my youth as well.

(1) Be yourself
(2) Provide value
(3) Take on some of the boring stuff that adds to business continuity

Number 3 is not sexy, but good management notices.
I wonder if AMD would adopt this too?
Of course not, because then the AI would get trained on the proper answer! /s
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Reminds me of "Principia Discordia", this is going to be a fun rabbit hole.
I mean. "AI" has meant "whatever shiny new computer thing is hot right now" in both common vernacular and every academic field besides AI research basically since the term was coined...
Dunno where you've worked but up-or-out ejects most people destined for "out" long, long before they reach the point where ageism is even a consideration.
I'm amazed that the car stayed on the ground. Both Stanley and Doble made steam cars that had more power than the suspension could handle. A speed record attempt:

"As the Steamer started its run, it was silent except for a low, soft whistle. This rose to a faint whine, and a jetlike white stream flowed from the tail of the car. Soon the head of the driver could hardly be seen in the blur of speed. The car passed the 100 m.p.h. mark and surged up to 197 m.p.h. As it was about to touch 200 m.p.h., however, the racer hit a slight bump on the beach. The light car took off like a wingless glider, soared for about 100 feet at a height of 10 feet, then crashed to the cement-hard sand in an explosion of steam and flames. The driver was flung clear, badly injured but not dead."[1]

[1] https://www.americanheritage.com/stanleys-and-their-steamer
> It's fine for your early 30s, but if you hope to be part of the "professional class" then that form of living takes it's toll exceptionally quickly.

Why it doesn't take a toll on members of other classes?
That's not responsive.
Are you sure this isn't about Apple trying to prevent users from accidentally installing backdoor VPNs from apps that Apple hasn't vetted? I've run into the same thing on Windows. You basically can't even run a Golang app unless it's signed, and code signing is basically a racket (~$400/year) unless you distribute through the official stores.

Note defending the current state of things, but I can understand how we got here and it may not be malicious on Apple's part.
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We all knew corporations won the AI research game when Uber bought the CMU lab

This was in the before transformers times but after alexnet revolution
Because regulating "AI" has the potential to encompass all software development. Many programs act as decision support. From the outside there's little difference between an application that uses conventional programming, ML, RNNs, or GPT.
What is the market for actual digital charts for this plotter?
Ok, sure, but that doesn't really apply here. This is a well known neurological change that can be seen in brain scans - for instance the hippocampus will shrink/be underdeveloped.
Oof, $80 is encroaching on Aliexpress N100 Mini PCs and used "Tiny/Mini/Micro" territory.

I have the original and updated Pi Zero W-- unbelievable bargains at ~$15 but if I needed any horsepower I think I'd rather have an x86_64 so I can run whatever.
Yeah it does cut both ways.

In industry with just enough experience to be useful but not enough wisdom to avoid being exploited.

Who wants to hire someone with kids, a mortgage and a life outside of work?
Also, the absurd level of car ownership is dragging us down a lot. The fact that old people who should absolutely not be driving HAVE to drive is absurd. If we could make it so only 50% of people NEED a car it would be a huge step in the right direction. Right now there are 0.9 cars per person in the United States. Those cars take up tons of valuable space and resources.
Possibly the high water mark of such things was the "Secret Life Of Machines" series. Here is their episode on fax machines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUyt9RG7pk
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This is maybe the least complicated business problem ever. Businesses with fixed asking price but variable cost do it literally every day. This is how it is done: you look at your records and figure out average length of stay, giving you your average cost per customer. You can base your price added to the room on that cost, plus say 20%. Hiding the cost in tack-on fees is not necessary and it's clearly just a method to increase visibility for your property and add the real cost in the back end.
On the other hand, given the query "facial recognition in paper wasps", Perplexity just gave not only an answer in accord with my prior understanding derived from reading in the field, but also surfaced a paper [1] published two months ago that I hadn't yet seen.

I expected less, and I suspect a researcher could easily find gaps. But from the perspective an amateur autodidact, that's still a fairly impressive result.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1918592117
Sarcasm aside, it was the end of the fairness doctrine that led to this era.
eating out at panda express or other fast food restaurants is quite the luxury and not achievable every day for most of society. I'm always perplexed that a poorer person would ask for something so costly. At costco I can get whole wheat for about 70c per pound. Which means I can make an entire days worth of bread for just 80c. Beans, 2$/day, greens are mostly free if you know what to look for and where, or grow it. These are all about x10 to x20 cheaper than panda express or other fast food.
And I’m an Audi convert after 13 years of an A7 from new and put 120k miles on it.. Best car I’ve ever owned (40 years, 17 cars).. Yearly service, oil change each time.. Transmission and diff. Oils at 50k & 100k, and all that’s needed doing beyond that is the stupid Aluminium brake dust shields, and exhaust heat shields that just seemingly dissolve when exposed to, anything.. Oh, and the slidey outey screen failed due to the power cable, but cost £50 to fix.. Cheapest maintenance car I have ever owned..
Well, they’re right. When the changes you want are part of the stdlib, then you may have to take on many changes you don’t want just to get the one change you do want. It’s a well known trade off.

A good middle ground here is to have official crates/pkgs managed by the core organization that can be upgraded separately.
When I worked in car insurance, besides our own telemetry, we got at least

- Willis Towers Watson (WTW) aggregated driving data

- Verisk (afaik this was mostly around vehicles, not people)

- Various reports directly from state governments

- LexisNexus (multiple different report types)

Really any mobile app that has accelerometer or gyroscope access (even without GPS) can estimate driving safety. Using phone movement and angle, you can estimate driver vs passenger.

Cambridge Mobile sells equipment a lot of insurers use and afaik also data

The magic keyword to look for is "telematics"
Yes and for this reason I support a similar ban in my country of large scale American owned social media. Given they are all guilty of the above claims.

What the American owned social networks have done to my countries populace, including its youth, is nothing short of a disaster. It’s induced complete brain rot.
going around and saying that its "their fault" when he fails/go bankrupt
I like that. A nice generalisation.
Density spoils many of these examples, being in close proximity to a random collection of people has downsides.
Why would I go to a theatre with people who cough and talk, when I can spend a couple of months wage to have a better experience?
Why would I go to a crowded expensive bar when I could have the space to host at home?

People pay for the better experience, there are very few places where the apartment experience is desirable, only some where it's a bit less shit.