skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know but Tokyo doesn't need more cars on the road, that's for sure.
Yeah, I think this is along the right lines - in the vector space analogy it's like we have a bunch of vectors we can measure (P, T, S, V, etc) but due to the constraints we're actually working in a 2 dimensional space. So we could form a basis from many different choices of vectors, and our coefficients would change accordingly.

As the other commenter said, you can make this analogy rigorous by looking at manifolds (differential geometry). They're a little bit like the non-linear version of a vector space. In this case the set of physically valid values for P, T, S, V forms a two-dimensional surface due to the ideal gas laws, and you can derive local coordinate charts for the surface using any (non-degenerate) pair of these variables.
Lol Klarna is not even a real company. They were a classic zirp company. Sell 100 dollars for 80 dollars.
The classic implementation used mechanical link rods, which no one knew how to operate against driver's will. So there used to be occasional comedic stories around that, like attempted free rider taken to police or man fleeing scene tripping on the door.
This is eminently sensible, should happen everywhere.

It almost always doesn't, because the big guys have lobbyists and the small guys don't.

The big guys would rather not have to comply with these rules, but typically their take is, well, if we're going to have to anyway, let's at least make it an opportunity to drive out some of the scrappy competition and claim the whole pie for ourselves.
It's the only kind of business AI has scaled so far
Yeah, I don't see why anyone with a bit of technical knowledge would use that over PayPal. I mean I'm all for destroying those evil ultra capitalist US corps but unfortunately our European counterparts are just complete rubbish more often than not.

If you don't offer wire transfer or PayPal, you lost me as a customer.
I dont think the prediction game is worthwhile.

The Cloud was meant to decimate engineering AND development. But what it did was it created enough chaos that theres a higher demand for both than ever, just maybe not in your region and for your skillset.

LLMs are guaranteed to cause chaos, but the outcome of that chaos is not predictable. Will every coder now output the same as a team of 30 BUT there are 60 times as many screwed up projects made by wannabe founders that you have to come in and clean up? Will businesses find ways to automate code development and then turn around and have to bring the old guys back in constantly to fix up the pipeline. Will we all be coding in black boxes that the AI fills in?

I would make sure you just increase your skills and increase your familiarity with LLMs in case they become mandatory.
Of all the payment options Klarna always struck me as one of the less trustworthy ones.

IIRC they are one of those services who basically want access to my bank account, from where they could read my account balance. I think this is something even regulated by the EU, but why on earth should someone agree to that?
Chi-Squared from Fundamentals
The most ironic thing is thar the middle managers are somehow surviving this. So far, anyway, but I think they’ll be found too sooner or latet
Klarna was recently fined for money laundering, and in Sweden they had long fights with the unions (and lost).

But their services are pretty decent.
If they are all CEOs like the Klarna one, that make sense. Just look up how well Klarna is doing under his tenure.
I'm stopping using services that use AI for call centers, I much rather talk to a real person and know that they can handle any kind of situation. So I'm going to bring money to the businesses that employ real human beings
What MAGA types? Debanking mostly affects population on the other side of the spectrum.
I think their study is flawed as it ignores what I think is the biggest reason: and that's the courts, or specifically judges.

There's been centuries of legal disputes, in both civil and criminal cases, and judges have over time through their rulings have influenced what is the acceptable wording to enforce whatever it is legislators intended for a particular law. When judges render a verdict, it becomes case law, and although that itself is regarded as part of the law, where there's ambiguity, over time, legislators have been prone to abrogate laws with more exact wording.

This is reflected in the tendency for judges to fall in groups that favour one way of interpretation over another, like Intentionalism, Purposivism, Textualism etc. The fact that statutory construction is something that is almost exclusively driven by judges themselves seems also pretty important when studying the language of the law and it's kind of absurd they ignore it in this study.
They stopped hiring because after raising over a billion dollars their value dropped 80%, they can't raise any more money, and after operating for 19 years they finally had a profitable quarter in Q2 2024. They are in "burn the furniture to heat the cabin" mode.
If OpenAI training on youtube videos violates copyright then so does Google training on them.
yeah, I was thinking about something and got carried away, apologies
In most Western legal traditions the notary is used or required in a small subset of transactions. For example real estate.

Normal commercial purchase contracts don't need the added insurance that offers. And no one wants to pay for it.
I want to say - the difference between baby programmer and guy (?) like OP is experience.

I don't directly have experience with hacking on DS, but I had some experience with embedded programming. It first seems daunting and hard, and then you do some stuff and read example code and other code on github and you become "wait that's it?"

What seems hard becomes easy by actually doing it. (that means you need to have time, too, which is another thing)
I'm a software engineer with 7 years of experience.

I've built products used by millions of users, I've built ML models and AI coding tools, and I've been using AI to generate 70% of code that's shipped to production in the last few months.

I do believe that we can replace a large percentage of software engineers with AI in the next 3 years (2025-2027).

Also this 1 million dollar Kaggle competition on AI coding just launched: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/konwinski-prize
Assume they succeed, what's worth to be a ceo for?

They would end up as a frat startup with 5 people all with a CxO position but no organisation.

I am sure these CEOs are more power hungry than that.
I was sad to read a document by the US military defining “honor.” It was an extremely narrow and technical definition. Not the sort of thing that you’d die over.

Like defining “crown” as “an head-worn ornament associated with royalty” and “country” as “an established political unit”. Makes “For Crown and Country” seem like something a crazy person would say.

You can do the same with “Duty, Honor, Country.”
Every single time I've used Klarna I've paid with a credit or debit card.

They abuse dark patterns for sure though.
> It may not be mainstream enough for a daily driver

Horses for courses - it's my daily driver for development and administration. To be fair though, I relegate the vast majority of consuming the web to a mobile device.
I can totally understand it! I would loved to have access to a LLM back in time.
Especially since I started to learn just after the <table> era but we didn't have "flex" yet. It was true garbage...

Now I mostly JSX / tailwind, which is way faster than prompting, but surely because I'm fluent in that thing.
Why do they need 3500 people (!) to issue simple installment loans?
This is wonderful. The YouTube video is perfect. I love how completely chaotic the game is. Every level having its own mini game. It's like a very creative indie game nowadays. Which I guess it was!

I hope this website and game get saved on GitHub + Internet Archive too.
In theory the market will sort this out. Overly stingy firms will reap the rewards of lower quality and be outcompeted in their industries, overly generous ones will run out of money, the “just right” ones will exceed expectations and be rewarded. Where those lines are drawn probably varies by firms. I frankly don’t know how the company that invented monthly payments for shoes with a high interest rate will stay in business long term, so maybe they really don’t need to hire anyone anyway
Lessons from earning $200k in 60 days on AppSumo with my SaaS
Totally agree.

In my culture (Berber), each time any of your relatives gets sick, you also must visit him/her and bring something with you for him/her (usually nice food/fruits and/or money).
I have serious fears about the safety and reliability of Chinese space missions like this. I hope it doesn’t turn into an unmanageable mess that locks us into Kessler syndrome. As I recall these are injected into a higher orbit than SpaceX because China’s rockets can’t precisely place payloads at lower altitudes. As a result they will take far longer to fall back to earth if something goes wrong. Starlink satellites are at about half the distance from the surface as Guowong and would naturally decay in 5 years without propulsion. These Chinese satellites may take hundreds of years. That’s ignoring their rockets exploding, like the upper stage of the other recent Chinese mega constellation launch, which itself created hundreds of pieces of debris (https://www.space.com/china-megaconstellation-launch-space-j...).
We make up codenames...
At the height of Nokia, nearly half of all cell phones worldwide was Nokia phones with 3210 and 3310 being the most popular models by far.

With stats like that, it is no wonder that Nokia leadership thought they had cell phones figured out and ended up completely oblivious to the challenge the iPhone presented.
The 4400 also uses 3.3V EDO DIMMs like some of the clones. Most of the other Apple-branded Power Macs of its era used 5V FPM DIMMs.
> TikTok said it wasn't exfiltrating data and turned out to be lying.

Is there a source for that?

The Wikipedia article [0] states "There has been no public evidence of American TikTok user data being accessed by the Chinese government" backed by three sources (124-126) from earlier this year.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_...
One nitpick, `std::mem::forget` already existed it was just marked as unsafe before.
All the ones you've listed need to train a lot to reach these heights. While I might've expressed it poorly, my point was that a minor investment of time only allows for body building - and that won't make you strong
> How can we future-proof our career?

Redefine what your career is.

2017-2018: LLMs could produce convincing garbage with heavy duty machines.

Now.

- You can have good enough LLMs running on a laptop with reasonable speeds.

- LLMs can build code from just descriptions (Pycharm Pro just released this feature)

- You can take screenshots of issues and the LLM will walk through how to fix these issues.

- Live video analysis is possible just not to the public yet.

The technology is rapidly accelerating.

It is better to think of your career as part of the cottage industry at the start of the industrial revolution.

There will likely be such jobs existing, but not at the required volume of employees we have now.
Everywhere I worked technically correct and irrefutable facts were enough times thrown away and dismissed based on someone feeling or emotion that I don’t believe in irrefutable mathematical proof being communication tool that solves everything.

There had to be something more like just that guys authority or him being majority shareholder or him being super empathetic that he knew how to handle people.
That’s a deliberate choice to slow down cars though. For example, Seoul has great public transport but high speed limits and traffic light patterns make it so that cars are twice as fast as trains. Of course, that pollutes the city and kills people, not to mention increase congestion.

Tokyo intentionally makes cars slow.
> unless the amount of work expands

This is what will happen
Yes for financially as in terms of mining that what we will find out. Though looking at how new sodium and sulphur battery tech is coming up I think it will not be as big a problem.
The psychoactives could also have been bred out accidentally or on purpose in the intervening time. Wormwood is often propagated with cuttings so if someone bred a particularly flavorful or productive plant, it can take over the market.
> There is no risk of "authoritarianism" because the overwhelming political plurality is in consensus. Nor is there any concrete political opposition or protests.

You could write three books on those two sentences
Also my gut feeling, that about 30% of the code I wrote need some kind of engineering skill and I love to reach these problems. Until I am there, there is just a huge amount of boilerplate and patterns to repeat.
> In addition to the cookie privacy pop-over when viewing that site

I don't know where you're seeing that as the site does not have such things. The only cookies present are essential and so nothing further was needed.

The site does not track you, sell your data, or otherwise test you as a source of monetisation. Without such things conforming with cookie laws is trivial... You are conformant by just connecting nothing that isn't essential to providing the service.

For most of the sites only a single cookie is set for the session, and for the few via cloudflare those cookies get set too.
>You should go to the funeral if you think the right thing is to go to the funeral. You should do it for yourself, out of respect for the person who died and respect for the loved ones remaining. Not out of societal obligation

In 2024 it would be quite better if we did more things out of societal obligation, instead of each individual placing themselves (and their whims) as the moral authority.
My guess is that it's to try and drive up the perceived value of the company before their IPO
The article is also several years old, No idea if that has an impact on the issue.
Boeing all over again
It’s the Platonic solid of Econ analysis. Sphereical cows.
If developers become more productive (both juniors and seniors), there will be more demand for all of them.
Life forms are effectively locked into the current set of chiral molecules. For a cell to flip, it would need all the corresponding mirror changes to happen as well, since the behaviours are interlinked - this makes it something that would be highly unlikely to occur due to evolution and why it's only realistic if carried out by people all at once.
> glassy-eyed CEOs

We've been here before: From componanies throwing millions at rebuilding their content-website as IOS app, showing off their crypto or low-code "RnD" or car manufacturers going full-BEVs, Karl Marx's axiom that "social existence determines consciousness" seems to be vindicated with this fad as well.
It's also DIY print your own money. Say you have Bob and Alice and to start with Bob has $100 and Alice has $0. Alice can mint $100 worth of Alicecoin and sell it to Bob and then Bob has $100 (in Alicecoin) and Alice has $100 so you've doubled the amount of money in the economy! Free money!

People saying it's a ponzi scheme have the wrong model. It's like government money printing. Obviously just printing money doesn't directly increase the amount of physical wealth out there and so you can get inflation but that is true of both fiat and crypto currency.

And you may say Bitcoin is not backed by anything but really money like the Argentinian Peso is backed by government but which keeps it's value better?

And it can be good to print more money. Source: Paul Krugman on a rollercoaster: https://youtu.be/ir7lwqnPlrg?t=162
Well, a popular French army soldier who trains the soldiers of the Foreign Legion said multiple times on his YouTube channel that a good soldier is "un chat soldat" (cat soldier): his weight must be between 60 and 70 kg only.

A cat soldier is the only one who can overcome all type of obstacles and is operational under all circumstances with high efficiency.

Spartan soldiers were too efficient are were known for eating little (not until they felt full).
You misunderstand. For a sovereign country, tax money is not what a country (in general) or the state (in particular) needs. This is apparent when you note that tax is destroyed on collection (that is, it reduces the balance sheet measure of issued money). A monetarily sovereign state can create whatever money it needs on demand, which any 10 year old will point out when asking why the gov can't just buy whatever it wants.

The purpose of tax in this context is to reduce the propensity to consume by the payer (allowing the state to purchase it). Since the wealthy have a lower marginal propensity to consume, tax from them is worth less per unit.

Moreover, the value of someone is their contribution. As I said, there are plenty of people with lots of money that contribute little in real terms and still live lavish lifestyles. The best that can be said of tax in that context is that they might be living slightly less lavish lifestyles than otherwise, but it certainly doesn't make them more useful.

The point of what I'm saying is that you have very little power with your wallet. You do have power when you leave to remove your skills, which should doubtless be of concern, but people in general have an out-of-date understanding of their financial use to a country (which includes the politicians, so your rhetoric still carries some weight).
My advice? Focus on the business value, not the next ticket. Understand what the actual added value of your work is to your employer. It won’t help in the day-to-day tasks but it will help you navigate your career with confidence.

Personally - and I realize this is not generalizable advice - I don’t consider myself a SWE but a domain expert who happens to apply code to all of his tasks.

I’ve been intentionally focusing on a specific niche - computer graphics, CAD and computational geometry. For me writing software is part of the necessary investment to render something, model something or convert something from domain to domain.

The fun parts are really fun, but the boring parts are mega-boring. I’m actually eagerly awaiting for LLM:s to reach some level of human parity because there simply isn’t enough talent in my domains to do all the things that would be worthwhile to do (cost and return of investment, right).

The reason is my domain is so niche you can’t webscrape&label to reach the intuition and experience of two decades, working in various industries from graphics benchmarking, automotive HUDs, to industrial mission critical AEC workflows and to realtime maps.

There is enough knowledge to train LLMs to get a hint as soon as I tie few concepts together, and then they fly. The code they write at the moment apart from simple subroutines is not good enough to act as unsupervised assistant … most of the code is useless honestly. But I’m optimistic and hope they will improve.
> "all pieces are uniquely shaped"

How is that possible? There are four sides, and each side is either v or ^. That is only 2^4 = 16 possibilities
I find it fascinating how the same people can be selfishly interested in their own finances, find bigger numbers (those that a CEO has to care about by mandate) dirty, and square that.
It Was worth the time/effort for me.
The implied message of "once we figure out how to automate your job, we'll fire you and replace you with AI as well" has got to be great for employee morale.
Yeah the whole BNPL space is very strange from my perspective -- it's basically just small dollar loans for borrowers you don't underwrite, without collateral (you can't repossess my socks) in exchange for super high merchant interchange. I was confident they'd all get ruined in the first real recession as that would be the first debt to go unpaid. 2021 wasn't a real recession I guess, since it lasted all of 5 minutes.

It's just re-inventing credit cards, but with significant structural disadvantages leading to higher costs.
Monkey on the Back
Switch to https://insightmaker.com/ if you can. It is FOSS , maintained and used as powerfull but simpeler alternative.
I was at a conference where this was presented by John https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Profound-Knowledge-Altered-In...

It’s a fun little eye opener that starts conversations. I wish more of those conversations ended up moving decision makers
> It's interesting, to everyone but but the mega shops like Google, protobuf is a schema declaration tool

There are lots of other benefits for non performance-oriented teams and projects: the codegen makes it language independent and it's pretty handy that you can share a single data model across all layers of your system.

If you don't care about the wire format, the standard JSON representation makes it pair well with JSON native databases, so you can get strict schema management without the need need for any clunky ORM.
On a side note, I find this interesting how accepting everyone here is that language is ambiguous. The conversations seem to drastically change when you start talking about LLMs. But this is exactly why I don't see them replacing programmers even if they didn't write shit code. Because like with law, you don't really even know what you're trying to describe until you start doing it. And then you gotta keep updating it and be thinking really hard about all your edge cases.

Though for law, I think some ambiguity is beneficial. We should be going after the intent of the law, not the letter. This isn't just about bad encoding, as in not well aligned with the intent, but that there's always exceptions. Having that human judge be there to determine if something is actually reasonable or not is beneficial, even if there's a strong bias to follow the letter.
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I'm a principal SWE with 25 years of experience and I think software today is comically bad and way too hard to use. So I think we can get engineers to write better software with these tools. The talk of "replacement" is going to be premature until we get something remotely resembling AGI. Unless your problems are so simple that a monkey could solve them, AI of today and foreseeable future is not going to solve them end to end. At best it'll fill in the easy parts, which you probably don't want to do anyway. Write a test. Simple refactor. Bang out some simple script to pay down some engineering debt. I've yet to see a system that doesn't crap out in the very beginning on the real problems that I solve on a daily basis. I'm by no means a naysayer - I work in this field and use AI many times daily.
I recently used an LLM to translate an algorithm from Go to Python at my work. The translation was quite accurate, and it made me think tasks involving obvious one-to-one correspondence like code translation might be easier for LLMs compared to other tasks. I can see the potential for offloading such tasks to LLMs. But the main challenge I faced was trusting the output. I ended up writing my own version and compared them to verify the correctness of the translation.
All those big old corps got taken to the cleaners for that. We will see how this AI thing turns out.
that’s fairly on brand for hackernews

doubly so if it’s from a person with no expertise in the relevant field
Ehm, Paypal isn't exactly better than Klarna though. I have had only problems with both but Paypal beats Klarna in money saved for me as customer. Last time I used it I got the money back and the business got reported as a scammer (not by me, their algorithm). The business would have sent the goods already if it wasn't a bank holiday so I nearly got the whole order for free, around 1800 euro.
“Think of all the money we could save if we just fired all staff!” was a joke in my business school. I suppose Klarna will finally deliver a punchline in a few years.