skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the amount of times I've seen your question pop up, along with other vaguely related ones concerning the job market writ large, there's a lot of justified fear that this isn't a viable career path at all anymore.

I'm not a junior, or a grad, but I do have a shit resume that in total contains about 5-10 years of varied experience. I've been unemployed for a year, and am considering alternatives, like being a real garbage collector or electrician if I can find a way into those.

I'd note also that most of the responses in this thread are the same that Jon Stewart just lampooned in his recent episode on AI, with most CEOs describing how AI is actually a huge productivity boost and the best thing for humanity since literal fire, or that people will need to retrain to become "prompt engineers" (laughable, and why would you want to do that anyway). Anyone with an optimistic take still has a job, and everyone else doesn't see one coming along any time soon.

That said, there is way too much hype imo, I've found some use for ChatGPT and anticipate that there will be more, but it's mostly boilerplate or explaining things that already have some explanation somewhere. Asking for a solution to some performance problem that nobody's really documented anywhere hasn't proved useful, it'll just imagine something. It's not documenting Apple APIs that Apple themselves haven't bothered with, but it'll generate approximately passable examples of AppKit stuff that have been on the internet forever, and that's a great starting point for solving more interesting problems.

I do feel like most of the impact on the market is due to interest rates and layoffs, and there being a lack of profitability in most software anyway. The nature of the problem however doesn't remedy the fact that it'll be way way more competitive than it already was, and if you hadn't run the interview gauntlet prior to 2023, you sure as hell won't want to run it after 2025.
I was always a Memorex connoisseur myself in the 5.25" era, with the classic brown ruled sleeves.
That whole article felt oddly empty. Like you could read the title and conclusion and be totally fine and satisfied.
I can second this observation. I'm autistic and my brain is less adept at filtering out stimuli, so it's easy for me to detect both of those phenomena.

I do wonder how the nervous system itself causes that high whine simply by existing, though. Is it something inherent in how audio signals are transmitted to the brain?
Excellent. This will train fewer new grads, pushing demand higher for Seniors in a few years. I look forward to this extra bargaining power
11 years to get the technology to a place where it can reasonably replace gas.

I have my doubts that we’ll have the range and capability by then, perhaps if automakers are smart we’ll see more series hybrids and range extender models.
Has this happened for android which has always allowed alt app stores? As far as I know, there is only Fdroid and some piracy app stores.
I have seen no evidence that LLMs don’t scale. What evidence did you have in mind? Do you mean something specific and perhaps different from what I would call scaling? It seems in the last two years people got better at squeezing out more performance from smaller (but still large) language models but the continuous scaling of large models to multi modal applications has been rather impressive.
https://archive.ph/6FDB3
You underestimated the silicon valley engineers
How do you think about bans vs incentives when it comes to a situation like this one? I'm generally inclined to believe that making the alternatives so much better that people feel compelled to switch is the best approach, but maybe that's unrealistic for the gas powered car domain.

Not that I have any particular affinity or love for gas powered cars in particular. It's weird to imagine that some day we might end up in a world where gas stations aren't common anymore and you need to go to the Hardware Store or some specialty shop to buy gas.

My other immediate question is: what stops people from buying a car in the next state over and driving it in? At which point this ban might be meant as more of an increased barrier rather than a full ban.
But that's just a question of which kind of discord servers you're in. That stuff is still going to happen, you just won't be invited to those servers.

I never encountered that in discord and I've been using it daily since early 2016.
The Japanese have those. A lot of the monuments are hidden in the forest in the hills above the coastal villages...
The Remembrance of Earth's Past series as a whole is also pretty terrible. Interesting concepts here and there, awful characters and writing, terrible convenient plot elements.
True, only the minimum wage employees will get a raise by law but the reality is that shift supervisors will want a raise since they will want a premium for having more responsibility and managers will want more, and up it goes up the chain. Some minimum wage workers will get a raise but in time everyone will get a raise. Anyone making under $20 will short changed and will not tolerate being paid less. It's human nature.
Indeed, the diagram (and the wiki text too?) don't make it clear how many towers were involved, so it looks a more complicated solution that would be needed.
Yeah likewise. If I fall asleep during normal wake hours, such as an unexpected nap, it will vibrate and remind me to stand up because I’ve been inactive for too long.
It's an 8 year old OS. I can't say I blame them for not wanting to handle that anymore, eventually it becomes too difficult to test and keep up with.
Open software gets abandoned all the time, its not magically immune to this. Open and standardised file formats are the win.
Hey Paul, thanks for sharing!

Yes I think JUCE is great, It's very well made, but it drives you into a very narrow path of either using everything in the library, or leaving you to fend for yourself (which I admit may be a normal experience for C++ devs). For instance, the ValueTrees frequently used for UI state are very powerful, but they're not very type safe (or thread safe), and they feel clunky compared to more contemporary reactive state management patterns like signals.

I'm sure folks who use ValueTrees are happy, but I don't see much advancement to that pattern being shared in the JUCE forums. If y'all have some better tricks over in the Ardour project I'd love to know! (BTW, I'm a fan of y'all's work. I really enjoyed reading some of the development resources, like the essay on handling time [0]).

[0] https://ardour.org/timing.html
The Granny Hobby Protocol
I think bans are a pretty terrible idea. It implies that the alternatives aren't good enough. But due to the bans people will be forced to use them anyway.

It's great if you're an EV manufacturer though because you can rack up your price and customers won't have much of an alternative. Bonus points if the government also bans imports of EVs from certain other countries.

Even if this isn't the objective, it nevertheless is a way people will see the whole situation as.
The actual economic data doesn't support the Strong Towns thesis. If they were correct then we would be seeing spikes in Chapter 9 bankruptcies and muni bond insurance rates. That isn't happening. Strong Towns is largely just making things up and cherry picking data to push a biased political narrative.
I like this translation: a.co/d/gt8dwbT
This seems a bit out of date: "Nisus Writer Pro is also fully OS X featured while LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org/Microsoft Word are not."

Word and LibreOffice work fine on MacOS.
> But the notion that science should trump religion is modern.

Not particularly: in both the Medieval and Islamic worlds, the writings of Ibn Rushd (Averroes) introduced this concept. And, then as now, it depended on an irrationalism about religion (or a view that religion was a sort of noble lie for controlling the masses) that was widely rejected by the medievals who tended to prefer a harmony model of natural reason and revelation.
At least in the UK this is the default behaviour from Deliveroo, standard delivery does cost money but might get your driver/biker go to multiple other houses on their way to you, or pay extra to get it direct. It made me stop using them, as there's no way to guess whether the normal option will bring the food fresh or not, and paying the premium each time made it feel too expensive.
Crypto Voting platform to know the market sentiment
Users vote on which direction they think the crypto will move and can see others response and know the market sentiment or analysis
https://cryptovoter.xyz
A tattered sign hanging over Chesterton's fence: this way lie blunders.
So it's not "ok to fail" this week?
Why couldn't Intel fab GPUs for Nvidia? Taiwan just had 2 7+ earthquakes this morning, so we can add that to the geopolitical risk of having a large number of the world's most advanced chip fabs on the island of Taiwan.
World looks weird. All need infrastructure existed in 1990s in Ada, Modula-2/3, IBM works (even with hardware security, which still exists in Power machines), but nobody care.

Now, sure all these things outdated, somebody have to rewrite ocean of code, add support of modern architectures, device drivers, even to teach people, as most programmers from that niches already retired, etc.
Most of us don’t see articles that don’t hit the front page.
So how would you start phasing out plastic?
Project Homepage: https://github.com/gvcgo/version-manager

Version-manager(vm) is a simple, cross-platform, and well-tested version manager for programming languages and tools.

It can manage many sdks and tools on your MacOS/Windows/Linux, like Java, Go, Python, Node.js, Bun, Deno, PHP, Kotlin, Scala, Zig, V, Typst, Rust, Neovim, etc. It supports 40+ sdks/tools.
It's not a matter of "not wanting to handle it", it's that 7.1.1 is the oldest Android version with an unexpired root certificate that Let's Encrypt can use (my language may be a little bit sloppy here).
There is some evidence out there that links insulin resistance to depression via BDNF depletion, which is also implicated in schizophrenia. BDNF is also thought to be up regulated by exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fac...
https://cryptovoter.xyz
I travel extensively, and I think attitudes towards self-checkout vary heavily depending on what preceded it where you are.

In some places, you had smoke-stained cashiers throwing your groceries to their side without so much as looking at you, except to complain you're not bagging fast enough. I think it's fair to say that in those places, self-checkout is a huge improvement.

In other places though, where cashiers have traditionally been more friendly and expected to bag your groceries, it feels like a less obvious improvement. Whereas before you had chipper high school kids working their first job bagging your groceries, now you have menacing terminals accusing you of being a criminal every time their scales misalign.

Self-checkout is a convergence on mediocrity: some places are going to get dragged up, and others down.
It gets abandoned but unlike closed software, if you depend on it enough, you can continue using it forever. For some reason if GitHub says ‘updated 6 years ago’ it is not viable for people, but for many things, especially desktop apps, this doesn’t matter at all; it works fine and if you need updates, you can do them.

The point is you can, while with closed software, you maybe can and sometimes with a lot of trouble.

If the source is open, the file format is also open.
Haha, I have certainly done this in the past. I used to get frustrated no end when access to some internal function or variable was exactly what was needed to make things actually do what I needed. The alternative being write the entire thing from scratch.

I have learned from this experience to try to make my own stuff safe to extend without needing to access genuinely internal stuff, but it's a lot of work to achieve that level of flexibility. I can see why people generally don't bother.
Appreciate it. It's coming! I want to get the compiler working and generally available and everything working seamlessly for Web first. Stay tuned!
You can also ask why every node server traverses the file system to load dependencies at runtime instead of build time. Packaging your server with bun build can be the answer to both.
> holdover from early reprogrammable ROM technology, non-volatile memory that you could erase by literally flashing a literal flashbulb

No. I can see how that might appear plausible but they're unrelated. Flash was a marketing term invented to differentiate a new EEPROM technology that allowed much higher density, and featured sector erase, from previous EEPROM tech. This was done because engineers saw EEPROM as esoteric expensive tech that had no place in low cost products. The Flash vendors wanted to position the new chips as replacing UVPROM, which was relatively cheap by comparison. So they came up with a name that was a) not EEPROM and b) conveyed that the devices were quickly reprogrammed vs UVPROMs (which had to be baked in an eraser then took some minutes to program in a special piece of equipment).

Flash's big advantage was that it could be programmed on-board, allowing soldered down PROMs, surface mount packages.

Source: I was a hardware design engineer when Flash was introduced and heard the marketing pitch first hand.

Using Flash chips for rewritable bulk persistent storage came much later. The first generation devices didn't have the necessary density.
Human ingenuity aside, I wonder if sending humans on missions can offer higher success rates due to higher stakes for all involved (the cost of human life). When we send humans to the Moon, the pressure to get things right is higher and consequences of failure are very dire. Sadly, of course, not a guarantee of success.
I can't imagine how terrifying it will be if I was on Taipei 101 during this quake...
naturally. your private body parts also have different names than your public ones. names that you would not mention in public either. stripping the private label is like well, stripping...
Ah yes, the famously objective field of economics.
Unskilled labor simply refers to jobs where any specialized skills required can be learned on the job in a short period of time, usually less than 30 days.

It doesn't literally mean the workers don't know how to do anything. It's certainly not a myth - it's a classification of work, at least in the US.

https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/416/416-0968.htm
It could be mild tinnitus no?
As time goes on I feel more confidently that the auto industry messed up by trying to "leapfrog" plugin hybrids and go straight to EVs. Yes, that may be the final destination, but in the interim I think pulling back on plugin hybrids slowed the transition.

I've heard some people say plugin hybrids are the worst of both worlds ("You need to maintain an electric powertrain and an ICE!") but as a Chevy Volt owner, I think they are the best of both worlds:

1. The vast, vast majority of people drive less than 40-50 miles a day.

2. With a plugin hybrid, there is never range anxiety. If you run out of battery, you just can go on gas for that extra few miles you may need.

3. Going on a road trip currently is generally a PITA with an EV, especially if you don't have access to the Supercharger network. God forbid you plan things out and then pull up to an Electrify America site where none of the chargers work...

4. The batteries in plugin hybrids are much smaller, meaning they're cheaper, weigh less, and require much less mined metals to produce.

5. Since the battery is much smaller, you don't need a big expensive home charger/electrician upgrade. With my Volt, I'd just plug the portable charger into a normal 120V outlet and it would charge overnight.

6. Still has what in my mind are some of the biggest driving benefits of EVs, namely quick acceleration and 1-pedal driving.

This article says some plugin hybrids qualify as 0-emission vehicles, but it's not clear to me if that's in all states. I hope so, as I think a lot more people who would be reticent to get a pure EV would love a plugin hybrid if they tried it.
I appreciate the context you're providing, but "Hey you'd be dead regardless of where you are in the building at the time if it collapses" isn't as reassuring as you'd think.
Part of the point of variant sudoku is discovering / inventing brand new interactions you've never seen before. And crowd-sourcing votes on whether that discovery process is fun. You are basically getting introduced to a new set of axioms and have to discover and prove theorems.
the online game indie renaissance is coming. it’s just so much easier to build online games than it used to be.

a lot of gamedevs and software engineers getting laid off these days. some small percentage of those is gonna go build things instead of finding a new abusive employer.

i wish them well and can’t wait to see what they build!

the rest of them may do the same after the next layoffs.

viva la renaissance!
Nonsense. The only people making revenue are Kelloggs, Kraft etc. Not everything has a self-serving motive. Just look at obesity rates in the US and you know something is terribly wrong with the food we’re eating. If you care about people, heck if you just care about healthcare costs, you should want to figure this out.

For keto, the main thing you need to know is that if you are on high blood pressure or diabetes meds you can have dangerously low blood pressure or blood sugar on keto. Seriously, don’t try it without medical supervision lest you pass out in the bathroom. For anyone not on meds, you may need more salt than you’d otherwise have. Otherwise it’s fairly safe. There’s nothing harmful about ketones. They can help with epilepsy. Maybe your brain runs better on them without epilepsy, so it’s worth a shot to find out. Docs prescribe bipolar people seizure drugs and it works for some reason, so it’s not an unreasonable hypothesis.
More of a comment on how apps are being built in the future - web-first is becoming the default.

I already see web even taking over in things like embedded UIs where native toolkits like QT historically were popular.
It won't happen. There is not enough money to subsidize upgrades to residential power so every household can have 200A service, plus all the urban homes that lack a secure place to plug in, plus all the rural homes where people have extended commutes to work. People aren't going to settle for a shit sandwich just because some have a god complex.
Since we're talking mice (clickbait headline...sigh) and fever, I'll mention that this jogged my memory about a connection made in the past few years between fever and the temporary alleviation of autism symptoms.

> The researchers began by studying mice that exhibited behavioral symptoms due to exposure to inflammation during gestation. They injected these mice with a bacterial component called LPS, which induces a fever response, and found that the animals’ social interactions were temporarily restored to normal.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/cracking-fever-autism-mystery
I would say understanding of the paper depends more on having an electrical engineering degree than a CS degree. The diagrams look to be electrical circuits and signal diagrams (I am not sure what is the correct term but for example 'Abb. 10a' in the article) mostly.
I wonder if this will spur more people to buy and register cars in neighboring states. I also hope that the grid will be able to handle that load -- with the rising demand of AI driven power load and electric cars being a double whammy.
“We began designing the spaceship by scanning the Notre-Dame Cathedral” is an example of exactly the right kind of non-spoiler spoiler, one that doesn’t ruin the film but only makes me interested in watching it.
Serious question. Is this even possible given the laws being passed? Are vehicles usually registered where you reside?
> Emacs and Firefox are not popular right now

They are a lot smaller % than vs code or chrome, but compared to most other software they have a huge user base. They are popular software.
If NextJS vendors that React version and then recommends using those APIs, then it can be argued to becomes part of the public interface. On the other hand, the scary-named property is clearly meant to discourage that in a language where locking things down is otherwise quite difficult.
First off, congrats!

Can you elaborate on what the “graphics code” might be in this case? Many Rust graphics engines seem to cover the same ground by having asset loading cfg’d on the target (wasm vs native). What does your project provide that a dev wouldn’t get with Rust + a wasm compatible engine?
Given the geopolitical (and seismic) risk of having many of the world's most advanced fabs in Taiwan, it seems like it makes sense to try to locate more of them in the US from a national security standpoint (I guess that would be a 'right' argument - or at least traditionally the right was concerned about national security). Given that Intel (for better or worse) is the US' most advanced semiconductor company and that they know how to build fabs it seems like it makes sense to send some $$ their way to build more fabs in the US (I guess that would be a 'left' argument?). The market doesn't seem like it's going to optimize for the national security issue so the gov stepped in with the CHIPs act.

Can you imagine any market-based mechanism that would address this problem on it's own? Keep in mind that it takes at least 5 years from the time a fab is planned until it's operational. And it takes about $10B to build a competitive fab. The market prioritized social media from about 2005 to 2020 or so, and seemed to de-prioritize investment in things like semiconductor production. That doesn't seem to have worked out so well for us.
Fix one bug, introduce 5 more
imho, and you can call me an atomic gardener if you wish, nuclear tech is a bad example. If we had actually gone "all in" on nuclear to produce electricity, our and the world's clean energy footprint might result in warming of entire degC's less than it's currently projected to be. Climate change is a global problem -- what stakes could possibly be higher than ecological collapse?

I actually cannot think of any example where successfully withholding technology has helped people thrive and prosper. People using this tech to sow distrust is outweighed, so obviously and so massively, by the benefit of having an intelligent machine companion under their complete control.

Every "weapons technology" in human history has been used for good. Every single one.
Not a problem: MS can make it impossible in the consumer versions only. MS frequently does stuff like that, giving the Enterprise users abilities that users of the other Windows editions don't get.
I agree if we extend it to mathematics and the use of simple machines.
Money for Nothing, Chips for Free
Not the OP, but I think they mean that the change to the rules is done to reduce the search tree a program should traverse but makes it difficult for a human to reason about. We search for solutions heuristically and because of the added rules must back track a lot more, which makes it tiring.

So, the change makes it easier for a computer but not for a human.
Yes, depending on where you are located. Those aren't enforceable in a lot of places:

https://www.ifixit.com/News/74736/warranty-void-stickers-are...
I love when governments decide to get tough and righteous. Look at us, we are banning a something more than an decade in the future when, most likely, no natural market for the product will exist.