skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it's obviously an enormous challenge and totally beyond our current capabilities, but my point is that it's not at all impossible, it's just a matter of priorities. Humanity could do it if they really wanted to. The physics aren't that hard or in the realm of sci-fi. (I'm not sure the resulting ship would survive, but that's another matter. They'd really need to make many of such ships to make sure at least one survives the trip.) It would require developing significant capabilities for space-based construction of course, which means mining operations in space, manufacturing, etc., none of which we currently possess, so it's not even something that could be done in a decade like the Apollo moonshot, but if humanity really wanted to do this, it could be done in a century I think.

Humanity doesn't really want to do a project like this, however.
How much does someone need to live a decent middle/upper-class lifestyle in Europe? For example Ireland, UK, Spain or Portugal?

I'm intrigued by this idea, but how much I'd enough, or at least enough that I could work lightly and be in great shape?
I attended my great-great-grandmother's 100th birthday party when I was 8 or 9.
Amusingly, all the Australian banks asked the ACCC for permission to form a cartel and collectively bargain with Apple on Apple Pay terms. They were denied.

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-denies-authorisat...
> chart crime of truncating the y axis

If you chart the temperature of the ocean do you keep the y-axis anchored at zero Kelvin?
Your comment comes very close to implying that these people would not be there if they weren’t driving in.
Copying an old comment of mine regarding EU vs US nursing salaries:

"...our incomes are comically higher for skilled persons than European salaries. I literally make 10 times what my French counterpart would in my profession and with a much lower tax rate so the real difference is even larger. I could work for 5 years and retire in France wealthier than if I had worked a 40 year career in France."

This is assuming only 40 hours a week, pick up more shifts and the numbers become even sillier. I suspect that most (if not all) professions could say the same although the magnitude of difference might be a bit smaller. Even if I lived in the EU and never wanted to leave, I'd ride out some years in the US to get life properly rolling back home.
Autodesk is an American company, you're right.

We can also expand the previous list of companies with HelloFresh, TrustPilot, Bolt, Brainly, Shazam
Lol have you ever been into the city? What parking spaces?
> What is natural is not necessarily what is good or what we ought to do.

We are so abstracted from our underlying nature with cultural proxies that it is hard to think of what is natural. Also, I never said choice does not exist; prescriptions are not commands.

> There are facts, and then there are values, and these aren't the same thing---not just linguistically, they really, in reality, are not the same thing.

Right, and your biology communicates to you in values alone, because facts are tools for communication.

> P2: If human biology has been sculpted for reproduction, then we ought to reproduce.

That is redundant; the prescription is done unconsciously and without reasoning, so reasoning can always make it seem absurd. If we are built to reproduce then we should expect to feel satisfied when we do so. Mammalian reproduction is far more complex than that though, and human reproduction is the most complex.

> Why would you do these things if they're not helping your purpose?

To me that's like asking why we are consciousness. I don't know. I guess somewhere along the line we became so complex that we managed to hijack our biology. We can focus on short-term pleasure instead of balancing things with long-term satisfaction. I am talking to you out of curiosity.

> That still leaves us with the practical question of what our purpose is - what should we actually do? "To reproduce" just isn't helpful.

I would say that people ask about the meaning of life or their purpose because they have been alienated from their underlying biology. If someone feels satisfied, they won't ask about meaning.
You can certainly have a great work-life balance in the U.S., you just won't make mind-bending levels of compensation. When people are talking about 60 hour weeks and making $600k a year, they're usually thinking of FAANG companies, but it's not the case that everyone in tech in the U.S. works for one of those companies. All the non-FAANG tech companies I've worked for have had both great benefits and great work-life balance, with a salary that still competes favorably with the equivalent roles in Europe.
Ah yes, the Australian bank impls.

Where each bank had their own janky implementation inside their own specific app, which was both slower and had a worse UX.

Had a credit (a la Amex) that wasn’t from a major bank? Well womp womp no wireless pay for you.

I for one welcome the Australian banks getting put out to the curb on this. The Apple Pay/Wallet experience is genuinely better in just about every single way. I also enjoy the virtualised card number I get with Apple Pay, which I don’t believe any of the Australian banks bothered implementing, presumably because they were all too busy illegally charging dead people, and hiring corrupt ex state PM’s to build anything good.
For another SwiftUI-like wrapper, see also https://github.com/stackotter/swift-cross-ui (used by Adawaita to generate widgets, and mentioned in other comments).

The key premise of this approach is to provide a SwiftUI-like declarative wrapper around Gnome functionality. It's unclear what it adds over swift-cross-ui.

SwiftUI itself has growing pains mainly around being on the right thread for processing/updates and getting data binding right.

Blog entries on swift.org or from Apple tend to be little demos that show the happy path, but when discussing new frameworks (like a Gnome wrapper) or platforms (like the recent embedded), I'd like more demonstration that the authors understand and address key issues and will sustain development. Cross-platform UI frameworks get complicated quickly and have a long tail of issues (cf Flutter, Java/Eclipse, et al) that can be blockers for clients/users. For Swift it doesn't help to have multiple concurrency models and obviously different behaviors on apple platforms and Linux (where UI is not officially tested).
If you have a certain set of skills/pedigree, your chances are much better than winning the lottery.
Don't give up on your network. For applying cold, have you tuned your resume for Applicant Tracking Systems?

I am starting a new job in April with a company that contacted me via LinkedIn in December.
What really irritates me about gradle is that they have significant API churn but there's still five ways to do everything.
Wages do not keep up with inflation, assets do.

The sacrifice is to secure enough assets to move up in levels of “security” (such as security of being able to procure medical/legal/education/land/other services that are beyond most wage earner’s capacity.

Although, it is also a perfectly reasonable move to not gamble on that and instead spend time with your family or friends or whatnot. Just depends what an individual wants to bet on.
Isn’t this policing of Iran needed because of the US supporting Israel?

No, do you remember the terrorists attacks in USA and in Europe? Have you watched the Argo movie? Do you know about terrorist attacks in Latin America where Iran is involved? Seems people don't check history beyond Israel (21k km^2)and Jews (16m).
I don’t get charged for using Apple Pay, I get charged for the processing fee for the card I used (which is an entirely separate discussion), and given the option between “just continue using Apple Pay” or “download several janky apps just because the bank wants its own wallet impl”, I’m going to stick with Apple Pay.
No, the less cynical take is it says "the second half of the book drags on and you can skip most of those chapters." Which has been generically true of much business nonfiction for decades now. How people choose to apply that knowledge predates AI: skipping it, reading any of the summary reviews available, listening to the audiobook while in gym/car/shopping, asking a friend, dipping into it selectively, etc. There are lots of low-tech alternatives.
Not dense enough
>Semi relatedly, big tech has US tier comp in Zurich and I’ve never really been sure why. Is the market rate there driven up that much by the banks?

It's probably driven up simply by the cost of living. Switzerland is a very expensive place to live compared to most of Europe. Just look at how much hotels cost there for a vacation, and then compare to some nearby cities in Italy or Germany or Austria.
The Allies would have won without the superweapon though (remember, Hitler had already surrended and Japan was clearly on the ropes well before Hiroshima), and the jury is still out in whether it even sped things up.
"and I feel like we are just getting started"

I think once we have enough telescopes on the moon, free space or in earth orbit, then things might get on another level.

I mean, this is pretty amazing:

"The international collaboration is working to capture the most detailed black hole images ever obtained by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope. Supported by considerable international investment, the EHT links existing telescopes using novel systems — creating a fundamentally new instrument with the highest angular resolving power that has yet been achieved."

But I imagine without the atmosphere in the way, things might be quite easier and clearer.
Launched in 2012, Wired did a feature on it with some exclusive infographics:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120911120029/http://wired.com/...
Not everyone has a s.o. In addition you can work remotely, order everything in, and nothing truly terrible happens skipping a week of hygiene.

I think I frequently have days like that if I add my side projects as work on top of actual work. I wouldn't want to spend that time on actual work as of now though.

I usually don't eat for the first 12 hours and then at some point eat everything I have for the day all at once. Kind of intermittent fasting, but not intentionally or for those reasons.

I.e. if I am excited about a particular side project I would do that.

So really depends on whether the work is exciting enough. If it is, this would be easy. It is rare if you are working for someone else or specifically a large company though.

If it is truly interesting work then you wake up focus completely in it and all of sudden it is end of day. In that case it is a little bit like an addiction where you just always have to build this one thing more, delaying eating, sleep, etc.

For usual work I would maybe only consider it if I was paid 4x the usual hourly rate for it.
The issue is, that many non-tech (and I'm starting to think also some tech) people believe that "AI" is an accurate label, and therefore that they can expect these algorithms to be able to think intelligently. The reason that it's called "AI" instead of, say, "large language models" (or whatever algorithm is being used), is precisely to create this impression of that capability, so as to sell the product.

"Using artificial intelligence, the system analyzes behavior, predicts risks, raises alerts..."

No, not very well, it doesn't. And this claim was not at all equivalent to "it summarizes what it's being fed".
I Went from Operations Manager to Site Reliability Engineer in 6 Months
The Apple Pay take is 15 bps, which is not a difference customers care about enough to change behavior even slightly.
> It seems like the first thing people want when they have a billion dollars is a second billion dollars.

Of course. One's perspective changes right along with one's net worth.

It's the same thing with power. The more power one has, the more power one wants.
Migrating Critical Traffic at Scale with No Downtime – Part 2
Since I can't edit anymore, it's a new comment. Here are the futures for March 2024 which already expired.[0] It is clear to see that this is not wild speculation. You are right however that people can still speculate on the harvest and demand of a commodity. But the nature of this speculation is very different from speculating on if Nvidia will be worth 2 trillion in the future. Additionally as futures expire that means you can always stay solvent by shorting a future that is soon to expire, which cannot be said with stocks (I realize that this is a separate point from the one I made initially). And the fact that futures expire itself causes there to be less speculation because the window of time for the asset to appreciate is much smaller. Taking your example of a stock that expires, Nvidia's stock would be much lower now if it expired next year. Commodities simply don't go up 100x like stocks do. When a commodities does go up, it make more sense to assume that yields went down or that demand went up. I didn't mean to say that it's impossible that traders speculate on commodities.

[0] https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/CCH24 (takes some time to load)
Ideas seem to come when their time has come, irrespective of who conjures them and/or executes them. The new waves of Team Chat evolution are interesting to watch.

Recently, Manish and his team introduced Struct[1] in their Show HN, which was a breath of fresh air in a forum-ish avatar. It is modern, sensible, and appropriate for today.

Things will eventually change, and we will move on to the next. PatchWork looks interesting. Have you thought of your pricing plan? Best of luck to the team.

While I'm in an ideation mode, I think team chats might be more effective if treated as ephemeral, just like Text or WhatsApp. They are either to be acted on or moved to a more permanent format if they deserve to be. There was a video-conferencing tool that does just that: fire up a specific URL for a room and invite whoever you want and talk, then bye-bye. But right now, team chats are trying harder and harder to replicate how people converse in person, like in a meeting.

I do hope these new waves succeed; people like to use it and use it -- I usually can get used to any tooling or patterns that the others are comfortable with.

1. https://struct.ai
That is absolutely the most important lesson. By the way, also true of non-military software development.
They should charge more as those are most likely to have transit options. some who drihe a truck are bringing tools or delivering things and so can't use transit. those shouldn't bay a fee
. of course vehile type is the wrong thing to look at instead it is what you are doing.
To each their own, but I’m one of those people hoarding to retire (albeit at a slower burn rate than the original poster).

I’m just not built for a 9-5 (or seemingly structured work for that matter). I do enjoy what I’m doing, but I can’t wait to sleep in every day and be spontaneous about my plans.

I went on sabbatical for half a year a while back, and it changed me. I can’t wait to get back in that frame of mind. I’ll probably pick up some work/hobbies for fun, but I don’t like work to dictate my life. I’m working towards every day being a mini vacation.

My work/life balance is also already very good, but it would be a lot better IMO if I could take off randomly for a month and fill my time with whatever suits me at that moment.
Blaming the excessively grand claims that were made for those tools, however, is absolutely a useful exercise.
BSB and account transfers are also largely instant. New and large transfers may take overnight.

Also, you missed an important part: zero fees.
that's not how phase works, though you're thinking reasonable thoughts.

if you have a bicycle with two wheels, where one wheel is slightly bigger than the other, and you mark the wheels with a white spot, as the bicycle rolls, say the white spots start out in the same place (wrt a clock face). As the bicycle rolls, the white spots will "go out of phase" with each other, and with every roll, even more out of phase, till they are so out of phase that they start to slowly come a little bit more in phase with each other with every roll, till they match up again... except they are not out of phase, they are just rolling at two different frequencies, and that mix of frequencies is the "timbre" that you hear.

if you have two signals at the same frequency which are out of phase, and you measure at any point, you will just measure a signal at that frequency whose amplitude is the sum of the two signals at that point. You won't be able to tell there is any phasing of two signals taking place. If your two ears hear the same frequency, but with a phase difference, that will be interpreted in part as what direction the sound comes from; it's not definitive, it's just evidence that gets combined with any other senses you have of where the sound should be coming from.

there's a lot more to say about it but no room here for a treatise.
Sepolia Incident (a threat against the Ethereum network)
The huge advantage of containers is that can use the same mechanism to run anything. Don't care if it is a single Go binary, dynamically linked binary, or Ruby interpreter and thousand files.

You might start off writing Go programs, but then need to run Postgres database for development. Or discover that need special library in some other language and easier to make its own service. Or need to run third-party service. With Docker, you run the image and don't care what's inside, and the isolation gives some assurance that won't escape.
Can you really do excellent work when you work 80 hrs a week? If you have to do hands-on work then I can see how someone might be a bit more productive. But executives are supposed to plan and let their department execute. I would have thought that someone at his level would be better at delegating.
> its a double edge sword

Options may be zero-sum, but investing in general is not zero sum. For example, if you invested in MSFT 10 years ago, it's up maybe 10x since, and that extra value was created, not transferred.
I don't know, I'm not a good person to discuss this stuff with. My total expenses are $3k/mo and I don't really need any more than that. This makes my income and savings functionally infinite, so I don't see a point in going through the rat race to buy a yacht or a plane or a supercar I don't really want.
One thing to remember is that chips are complex and defy simple binary classification. Even Intel thought that CISC was on the way out, although they were going down a somewhat extreme path with EPIC, but the most successful approach turned out to be a hybrid where complex CISC instructions were broken into RISC-like micro-ops. That got Intel back in the game with the Pentium Pro getting close enough to the DEC Alpha’s performance lead and with the advantage of not having to recompile everything in an era where that was orders of magnitude harder than it is now. I wouldn’t say either side won since that has been going back and forth for decades now.

It’s also hard to separate that from other factors: was the Pentium more successful than the PowerPC because of CISC or because Intel had much better fabs than Motorola? If Motorola, IBM, DEC, or HP had had less incompetent management at the time it’s possible that we might remember this period very differently.
Gopher, the Competing Standard to WWW (2021)
I don't pay anything extra for using Apple Pay, as a customer, how could it be cheaper?
One word: privacy
Do we know where does the money from these fines go?
To be part of Apple Pay, banks have to enter into an agreement with Apple. Though the details of this agreement are generally confidential, it's fairly well known that there is an Apple cut, and that that cut is rather high. (It's Apple!)

The moment a bank has the option to extract itself from this arrangement, it will. Not just because there's absolutely no reason to give Apple a cut of the bank's own business if the bank doesn't need to, but also because the bad blood between Aus banks and Apple is very real at this point.

> Even if Apple opens up NFC payment, nobody will use them and prefer 1st party support like Apple Pay or Google Pay.

And since that costs the bank money, it won't be an option. Also, I think the bank would think of itself as a first party in a payment made using their card, and Apple as a parasitic third party.

I'm not saying people won't grumble, but there is no way - unless Apple actually makes Apple Pay somewhat attractive to banks - that the banks will continue to support it if they don't absolutely have to.

(I'm not siding with the banks on this, I'm just trying to lay out their logic.)
The language seems have been added mid-2021, so it's not new.
But those aren't the ones who earn a promotion from manager. The people who are good at being manager earn those.
I had kids older so I’m biased but imagining my kids grow up and move away how often am I going to see them and talk to them? Or rather how often are they going to want to see or talk to me. Hopefully a lot but so I have kids when I’m 18 for a type of life that may or may not exist.
If I could do it again we would have had kids maybe 8 years earlier but that still doesn’t make a huge difference. There’s such a strong sentiment in this thread that people who wait are selfish or fools or the only benefits are financial but I feel like there’s a disdain from people who had kids early .

My wife was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, we were able to travel the world and do things she wouldn’t be able to do had we had kids right away and tried to do when we were 40. Is that worth having 15 years less with our kids? I guess time will tell but I know either way we enjoy them every day as a home maker and work from home dad they get to enjoy us as young kids and we take them on all kinds of adventures since I work in the late afternoon evening.
I think the optimal strategy depends partly on your genes. Challenging kids seem to run in families, and it’s probably easier to succeed as a very young parent if your kids are naturally the quiet & obedient sort.

It’s not politically correct, but we all know a few little hellions, and they are obviously difficult to parent.
depends. The issue is that LLMs effectively “centralize” the functionality into a small set of models, which means if the costs of service drop too much compared to increase in demand, then GDP may perversely decrease. It all depends on whether AI actually increases net demand
i just migrated to vultr cause of minial api and interface. really hate it when stakeholders make founders take foolish decision :/. guess I'll use linode or something now
Busses weigh a lot more than most cars, and require a better prepared road bed if you want the road to last. If it's just private light duty vehicles, you can build to a much lower standard; gravel roads are perfectly servicable for cars, but will suffer heavy wear from frequent busses. Road preparation is especially important where many busses are expected to stop and wait for long periods of time, bus stops are often built to an even higher standard.

In the city I live in, nearly all roads are one lane in each direction. Even if we had a lot more busses, I don't see how we would have fewer lanes. If we had a lot less traffic, one lane roads could work.

The minimum infrastructure for busses is more than the minimum infrastructure for cars. Although, if you're getting municipal roads, it makes sense to build them to standards so you can use busses.
Sure, that’s true. I forgot to mention that most of them never saw action except the V2, which was only mildly effective (more of a psychological weapon than anything).
I served in IDF, and your comment can't be further away from the truth. The fact that you interject it as a matter of truth just speaks for the kind of news diet you are consuming. I personally would apriori doubt any of your claims from this point on.
so take me for example.. A single father. how will AI make Me more money?