skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The issue that I see addressed less often is that the new jobs require by definition, a higher skill set. (You wouldn't displace 100 manual labor workers with a machine that requires 105 workers to maintain). So by definition, the average intelligence requirement for jobs increases over time (though never stated directly). This means that as time and technology progress, a growing percentage of people will have no jobs that they are capable of doing.

You might look up what economics has to say; this issue is well-addressed there. Some fundamentals:

The comment above assumes a static marketplace - the same technology, needs, etc. - and one that addresses the entirety of economic demand, rather than a dynamic market where those things change and resources are scarce (thus when resources become available, they are applied to other unfilled needs).

For example, which skills are in demand changes but there is still growing demand: If you look at the jobs performed 100 years ago, you'll see that most of them are no long needed. Yet not only are most people employed today, we have ~3-4x as many people - most of the jobs disappeared, yet, 3-4x people have jobs.

And yes, a growing economy requires higher-skilled work, but that's good because that work comes with higher pay.
Edit: I'm an idiot who didn't read the article. This literally is the research I'm complaining it's not.

> Ryan and Frankland propose that the rapid birth of new neurons, known as neurogenesis, in infants might be overwriting memories and that infant amnesia disappears once neurogenesis slows. When Frankland’s team used a drug to suppress neurogenesis in the hippocampus in infant mice, the juveniles performed as well as adults on memory tests.

Original comment below, for completeness.

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> The main goal, Power says, is to figure out exactly when the developing brain switches on the ability to form accessible long-term memories.

I don't get this. Why do seemingly all the academics in this field believe there's a threshold, before which there's no long-term memory, after which there is long-term memory? I mean, that might be true, but nobody seems to be considering the "memory is contextual, and context changes"-type hypotheses?

Piotr Wozniak (2017) wrote about this in https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Semantic_aspects_of_childhood_am...:

> Frankland's hypothesis on the origins of childhood amnesia is that prolific neurogenesis hinders the establishment of long-term memories. This hypothesis keeps garnering evidence. In one of his seminal experiments, Frankland slowed down neurogenesis and achieved better learning. This simulates the effects of daycare: seeming acceleration due to stress (see: Stress and neurogenesis, and Stress and learning).

> In this text I would like to provide some evidence for the dramatic impact of prior knowledge on the possibility of forming memories in childhood. Again the problem derives from a simple observation: the lesser the extent of prior knowledge, the lesser the opportunity to associate new pieces of knowledge with the existing semantic structure.

There are lots of possibilities that don't seem to be considered. Maybe they've all been discredited since I last looked into this? But more likely, they'll only be seriously investigated once the current avenue loses steam (if it does: I have no special insight here).
Technology can also reduce the skills needed for jobs. For example, you no longer need to have an entire city's streets memorized to be a taxi driver.
it's been interesting to see the public reaction to this album. i'm excited they're finally getting some well-deserved acclaimed.

all the haters are so fascinating. everybody chiming in about this artist, somebody they didn't know anything about until last week. like how everybody became an epidemiologist in 2020, financial expert in 2021-2022, ai expert 2023, bridge expert 2024, war strategist in 2022, etc.
Three Ways to Green the Grid Without New Transmission
> In October 1985, a teenage Domino’s driver was handed a pizza for delivery just outside Pittsburgh.

The extrapolated insanity of such a delivery policy (along with a bunch of other extrapolated insanities) featured in Snow Crash (1992):

> The address of the caller has already been inferred from his phone number and poured into the smart box's built-in RAM. From there it is communicated to the car, which computes and projects the optimal route on a heads-up display, a glowing colored map traced out against the windshield so that the Deliverator does not even have to glance down.

> If the thirty-minute deadline expires, news of the disaster is flashed to CosaNostra Pizza Headquarters and relayed from there to Uncie Enzo himself--the Sicilian Colonel Sanders, the Andy Griffith of Bensonhurst, the straight razor-swinging figment of many a Deliverator's nightmares, the Capo and prime
figurehead of CosaNostra Pizza, Incorporated--who will be on the phone to the customer within five minutes, apologizing profusely.

> [...] The Deliverator does not know for sure what happens to the driver in such cases, but he has heard some rumors. [...] But he wouldn't drive for CosaNostra Pizza any other way. You know why? Because there's something about having your life on the line. It's like being a kamikaze pilot. Your mind is clear.
> Living on another planet is a hard problem but only one company is working on that.

There's an organization called NASA working on it.
Off-grid solar "appears" as missing load
It's not as silly for cable lobbyists to want something they shouldn't have as it is to have people on the gov payroll attempt to write it into law. Even more silly is for journalists to not name the offenders. Those evil cable lobbyists did this!
And provide the standards to be used within US systems ... Which is basically a definition for bureaucracy.
I generally browse with JS disabled, most things I read "just work".

To achieve this I make use of uMatrix, with the global default being JS disabled, and CSS disabled. Then for sites where I consider it worth the cost, and value the content, I selectively enable JS.

Now one other reason I could give for why not JS would be screen readers, I imagine in content does not render without JS being active, those readers may well be rendered inoperative. Or at best very poor to interact with.
Any tool you download can be used as spyware.
While I believe lobbing as practiced is actual corruption, it’s totally legal in the US.

Legality aside, there are a not insignificant number of people who truly believe that private industry is invariably better than government at providing virtually any good or service, and that government involvement in anything that could be done privately is by definition harmful.

I actually had a conversation about this exact subject with a family member just last week. We live in a rural area and have awful service from Spectrum. He opposes plans for better cheaper muni internet because “The county government can only do better because they get to cheat - they don’t need to make a profit, but spectrum does.”

I personally think that a hybrid system is best. The government should build and maintain the physical infrastructure like fiber and cell towers, and private industry should be able to access this infra at cost + a small fixed markup and provide all other needed equipment and services on top of that infra.
Wait a minute. Higher skill jobs? For at least a decade, the place jobs shifted to was Amazon. If you lost your job because Amazon put your company out of business, you could get a worse, more humiliating job working at an Amazon warehouse, or as an Amazon driver. It was not higher skill jobs the market shifted to, it was Nomadland jobs. Now that Amazon is switching to robots, where are those people Amazon is putting out of work supposed to go?
On Saturday night my kids went to sleep, wife goes to sleep, I work out for 2 hours at 10pm.

What was everyone else doing? Watching Netflix?

People pretend there’s no time but it’s all illusionary.
This is the way...

I have solar, a powerwall battery, a high efficiency heat pump, and... a poorly insulated 70-year old home in Silicon Valley.

It can be wildly expensive to properly mitigate poor insulation: you need good air sealing, insulation around the entire building envelope, double or triple paned windows, and a different HVAC setup with dedicated fresh air ventilation. In other words, it requires a major remodel in some cases. Homes need to be built with energy efficiency as a top concern, and I wonder sometimes if that is going to require re-training and incentivizing the entire construction industry. Fewer than 1 in 10 contractors I talked to even knew what I was talking about when I asked for how they would do my project. "What's an ERV?" is a common question I heard. Many still think that gaps are good because "a house needs to breathe."
I would be shocked if the answer to this is not tied up in Dunbar numbers. But whether it’s proportional or cumulative I cannot say.

Could a person who is a true fan of World War I era postage stamp lore and still retain a full complement of social links or is there a quick point where the obsessions subtract from the total number of human contacts a person can sustain? Or is it like Sherlock Holmes whom Doyle made afraid of useless knowledge for fear of crowding out “important” things like the scent of every brand of smoking tobacco and the color and texture of every muddy spot in the United Kingsom?
> That project took half a job out of the economy. A decent one at that, a nice cushy desk job.

Or it allowed the employee to shift to more valuable, interesting work rather than menial tasks that could easily be done by a computer.
And people are flabbergasted at the healthy skepticism towards pharmaceutical companies, when they literally treat people like expendable cattle at every chance they get.
> the system we live in keeps certain people down on purpose.

That's the main objective of the education system. To teach you that.

If you are supposed to be "kept down" succeeding or god forbid excelling will be met with either resistance or extreme punishment.

Sometimes covertly but many time overtly behind closed doors and with small groups of people.
Best way to lose weight for me is eating less, and walking. Cardio makes me hungry as hell.
I think that one way to look at it for autistic or on the spectrum people is to consider the human behavioral implications that apply heavily in addition to the actual feedback given

Feedback and criticism is generally amplified by the relationship and social status of the giver, ie human factors trump rationality

For example if your kid brother says your code sucks and needs to be rewritten you may weight that much less importantly than if your respected tech lead does the same

We almost always over-amplify the negativity of feedback and the social relationship of the giver in criticism and for the most part most feedback is in fact criticism- humans will generally focus on the negative

In fact one mark of a professional is the ability to regard feedback dispassionately- but that is easier said than done

This I think it is vital for technical people to remember the human aspect of feedback and why the human context is so important
If that's web1, what might the other integers be?

web0: blue/purple links in black text on grey, with occasional HRs

web-1: MacPaint/Hypercard

web-2: -=> T E X T f i l e s <=-

web-n: illuminated parchments

web-2n: cuneiform tablets

web-3n: bullae labels

web-4n: cave paintings
Love the Filthy Frank survival guide!
You need only about one year (or maybe one semesters) of schools experimenting with his solution to see if it works. Some schools are already doing it, so there is data soon.
`wcstombs` and `mbstowcs` sound like they might do this?

They're C99 standard functions and should be converting between "wide strings" and "multibyte strings", which should be native UTF-16 and UTF-8 if your current locale is an UTF-8 locale.

Apparently this works on Windows since Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018).

There are also "restartable" variants `wcsrtombs` and `mbsrtowcs` where the conversion state is explicitly stored, instead of (presumably) a thread-local variable.

C11 added "secure" variants (with an `_s` suffix) of all these which check the destination buffer size and have different return values.
Crazy Charlie's Window
I work for a large, slow moving US company in traditional industry. Of course there is an exclusion list, and it contains a few commonly used dirs like “C:\dev” and so on. If that would change (or if the request years back to have company wide exclusions wouldn’t have been listened to), it’s the kind of thing I’d insta-quit a job over, even after 20 years.

So anecdotally (N=1) it’s not automatically horrible in US orgs.
Thank you! I'll try implementing something like that and get back to you.
The above definitely exists all over. The group usually hires based on personality. Generally these organizations are very centered and know what qualities they are looking for in a a team mate.
I made a similar one 20 years ago or something.

The idea was that you slap the index.php in a single location and then symlink it to folders.

All icons were included in the source so it was just one file. I think it's still working on an abandoned shell of mine somewhere =)
Correct. One definition is a totalitarian cult-like ideology that subverts culture and politics to achieve its own version of a utopia.
Heyo everyone, cool to see this here. I'm a co-founder and head of product at Grid Status if anyone has specific questions about the site. I see some energy market questions here about CAISO and natural gas, net load, etc., so here's a link to a blog we wrote last year that covers some of these topics, might be helpful[0]. The market has been setting a bunch of records recently, which you can see here[1].

Also, as a bonus, if you click this link[2] while logged in it will enable a preview of our nodal price map app which people tend to enjoy playing around with.

[0] https://blog.gridstatus.io/balancing-act/
[1] https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso
[2] https://www.gridstatus.io/map?nodalMapPreview
I thought that too on the graph, but I think that's a bug in labeling. When I look at the actual scale, that colour appears to be nuclear (and the other straight line is geothermal). This also makes more sense as they are sources that actually cannot be turned down to respond to electricity demand the way in which natural gas can.
Why did you choose not to feed it back?
So much for IA helping to create jobs.
I don’t think there was ever a taxi driver shortage because city streets are too difficult to memorize.
i think you can skip to even deeper https://youtu.be/4PwDFddpo4c?t=137
I would guess a combination of electric heat (it's colder at night) and rooftop solar.
Major Brian Shul: Speed Check in SR-71 Blackbird
Show HN: Roast my AI Data Analyst startup
Hi my company recently went live and we are offering an AI data analyst as our product. Would be interested to hear what you think about it, especially as there are multiple firms now who work on the same idea.
Great site, super interesting. The fuel mix pie chart in the top left would be far more readable as a horizontal bar chart with the labels displayed.

I probably don't need to give my usual lecture on why pie charts suck to the HN crowd.
Worth pointing out that among non-US countries, the UK has among the highest developer pay. This isn't the UK under-paying, it's the US being a massive outlier.
Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?
Plants will typically have a normal operating range (where the minimum is >0). A gas plant can respond fairly quickly within that range, but a cold start requires more time.
>The issue that I see addressed less often is that the new jobs require by definition, a higher skill set

No they don't. If AI reached the point where it was capable and willing to do all white collar work, there'd be no more need for humans to do that kind of intellectual work. What would still be needed is service jobs that rely on the "human touch", and trades that AI lacked the dexterity to do. We're already seeing that now, with AI posing a greater threat to programmers' jobs than to plumbers or electricians' jobs.
I'd say it's the reverse actually but anyhow the diet is essential.
Ultimately someone has to approve the expense. Who makes that decision?
If consumers paid close to wholesale rates for their home energy they would be highly incentivized to do these sorts of things: they'd pay almost nothing (or maybe even less than nothing) in the day and big bucks from 5 PM to 8 PM. There would be whole industries helping people shift consumption to daylight hours. Unfortunately legislatures have consistently been acting to shield consumers from variable time of day costs, preventing behavior adjustment.
Because our electric utilities are ripping us off.
Until you get replaced by a robot taxi.
I think OP's statement was cutting corners. Protein and fat both help you stay full for longer. Carbs/sugar do not. Even this statement cuts corners, but overall science supports the general sentiment.
It takes surprisingly little time to get used to the size - that said I’m more confident I the rigid vehicles than the artics in terms of tighter manoeuvring. Most of my work is trunking however so distribution centre to distribution centre, generally at most 5miles from a motorway, for customer deliveries I do have to take some smaller country roads, which are nerve-racking at first but now I’ll take much more confidently.

I enjoy being left alone with podcasts for the first 4-6hours of my shift and music for the rest, I tend to talk to the office 3 times a shift - once when I get my keys, once to find out what (if anything) is getting loaded for a second run and finally to hand my keys in - all in all 10mins interaction with “management” over a 10hr shift suits me fine.

Time wise, taking my Thursday shift - I’m booked at Heathrow airport to deliver at 7pm, if I’m 30-45mins late there’s no issues, but I generally leave to get there at 1840 so even if roads are bad I’m still “on-time” - after that I have a collection (anytime after 1900) which has to be at the customer (2hrs drive) by 0200 and I’m generally there by 2200 - I am lucky in the company I work for leave plenty of time for everything including breaks, I know other places run you around and try to get 10hrs work done in 8.

In terms of time for license, I had 4 days training for my rigid (anything over 7.5T with a trailer upto 750kg) with test on the last day which I passed first time, I then drove them for 6 months for my current employer and then again had 4 days training and test on the 5th for artics (anything over 7.5T with a trailer over 750kg) which I passed first time (thanks in part to driving rigids for 6months and being generally confident with the size etc of the vehicle)
Ah, an AsRef<OsStr>, yep that would do it. Thanks.
I work on building security hardended systems, and often see the opposite problem. Engineers, even ones who should really know better, will see a feature like this and assume it creates an actual security boundary. Then they design something that relies on it for a security requirement. At that point, you need to hope someone catches the mistake, but even then, you can spend a week arguing with a non-technical manager that you need to start over, because that thing that sounds like it does exactly what you want actually provides 0 security guarantees.
Why do you think rent to income increased 2x in L25y? The numbers I've seen are a small fraction of that.
...no?

Via is primarily SaaS where their customers are cities themselves to help digitize and optimize their public transit networks. You might be thinking of: at one point in time and in some places, Via operated ride shares, but that's not their main business and they discontinued much of that during the pandemic.

The citymapper acquisition notes really fit Via's strategy of being able to help cities unify and optimize transit infrastructure.
I see 1.14 GW nuclear, and 1.1 GW natural gas at 12:20 PM PST, the nuclear is a flat line at the bottom of the graph (and I agree it makes sense), the natural gas is a dark blue section in the middle-ish, which shrunk from ~3GW overnight and does vary with time.

I don't think that what I'm seeing suggests a bug with labeling.
if you all like picking, here's a contemporary interpretation of the tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwwAdB1Wl9U

(I am slightly disappointed that it didn't get covered in Me First and the Gimme Gimme's Love Their Country. Back in the day, my father tells me, the reefer cars were the best because (a) they used sawdust and hay to insulate the ice, providing a comfier ride than most wagons, and (b) the view, while sitting in the loading hatches, was panoramic)
So just like a non-self-organizing department then?
Evolution is big on expending the minimum amount of resources to achieve the can-get-away-with-it level.
No Ladybird Johnson like figure driving public policy in the 1960s, melding the hippies and government together?

The TV was inundated with public service announcements shaming trash throwers in the USA for maybe 15 years. It made a difference.

Having seen similar "just throw it on the ground" behavior in India and china, I think that it may be a natural response in a rural culture that needs to be changed once it is in a city and non degrading packaging is used
After scrutiny this seems to be "Coroutines and Effects" in, particularly, Rust.
Do people actually want this?
Texas: https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot?date=2024-04-21
Nope, people eat too much first, and secondly don't move around enough.
Nice, but I wrote one 10x as fast:

window.setInterval(() => { var g=currentFlag.commonName; checkGuess(g); document.getElementById('search-input').value = g;}, 60);

/s
OK they’ve fixed this. They hadn’t about a year ago and a decade before that.

> How about we take 10 seconds to Google this?

How about you learn the HN guidelines?
Interesting in light of this posting’s title; I expected it to be the same thing before double checking, since this was a recent posting (that no one had much to say on):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070432
Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history
Just to say I kinda like you differenciating between unhoused and homeless. I've homeless for two years while studying software engineering, the set of problem I've encountered is not the same as the set of problem unhoused people face.
Yes I re-checked myself and it looks like they’ve finally fixed it after a decade.
Second comment following up on my other one. Your own links undermine your own argument.

From your second source:

> Carefully constructed vegan diets could provide adequate amounts of all six priority micronutrients for the general population, except vitamin B12, which would need to be consumed through fortified foods or supplements.

Further, the opening paragraph of your third link undermines your entire argument as well

> Diets that limit the consumption of animal source food to very low levels require careful fortification or supplementation, and the inclusion of specific nutrient-dense plants. If these cautionary measures are neglected, vegetarian and, especially, vegan populations risk to suffer from deficiencies in some key animal source food-associated nutrients."

It specifically says that vegan populations risk deficiencies when not including nutrient-dense foods and fortification/supplementation. It specifically does not say that full nutrition is impossible without animal products.

Event the title implicitly supports my argument: "Not all (micro)nutrients are easily obtained from plants." Emphasis on "easily."

The word "cannot" only appears alongside B12. The phrase "does not" doesn't appear alongside any nutrients intake. And the word "impossible" doesn't show up at all.

Are you sure that you read the articles you're claiming that I did not read?
Dangers of “decentralized” ID systems
Oh good, now instead of creating things, everyone can have a fulfilling career at Starbucks.