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I did not expect CEOs / industry titans to fall in line with the new regime so quickly, in the few weeks since Trumps election most tech leaders have completely changed their public stance on these topics. Why are they so afraid? Or are they simply happy to drop the charade as it seems clear the wind blows the other way now?

I wasn’t feeling very positive about all the talk about making the world a better place but recently I’ve become quite cynical, it’s really just about the money it seems. I even find this whole hacker ethic quite stupid now, basically all that ethos about free software was just instrumented by corporations to extract wealth, and now that AI is seemingly around the corner they can finally drop most people building the software for them, as that was always the biggest cost center anyway.
https://x.com/paulg/status/1878495314975277093

Here he is with receipts that he has been talking about wokeness like a weirdo for close to a decade now.
lol merge openai with the nsa haha
People gave Elon a lot of shit over his comments on supporting H1B visas and those comments weren't banned or deleted. There's your proof.
Look for the file MarkDownC.cpp and search for 'elipses', which stands for '...'. The code makes use of AbstractParseTreeCursor, which is a kind of smart pointer. (The is quite a bit of code that is commented out.) You can contact me through the email mentioned at the bottom of my website www.iwriteiam.nl
I'm comfortable being out on this limb! I think there were OO-skeptics even at the height of OO (call it the Ruby/Java crossover period; or, maybe, the point at which Norvig gave his patterns presentation, 5 years earlier) and I think the skeptical take looks pretty strong in retrospect.

Whatever you want to say about the OO inspiration of how Rust and Go are structured, they are both clear and deliberate rejections of the OO orthodoxy from that period. They both deliberately don't have classes. They both deliberately eschew inheritance. They both deliberately have less-granular, less-configurable "encapsulation" rules.

And: "encapsulation" is a term we only have because of class-based object-oriented programming. As a professional C programmer in the 1990s, I'd have gotten dinged on a message board by a C++ person if I claimed that I was "encapsulating" when I hid the structs for my timer library or my trie library behind a void pointer. We had abstract data types long before mainstream class-based OO, and then class-based OO claimed credit for the idea.

I also think, as you've alluded to here, mainstream OO has a lot of bad ideas that get people in trouble. The obvious one is animal->mammal->cat->tabby, but there's also the debacles that happen when people try to unify storage with the same inheritance ideas used by compute.

More than anything else though, I think these are the kinds of details you can just learn on the job. What's fundamental to programming? Ironically, it's a lot more of the stuff you get in a Scheme-based class --- and I'm saying this as someone who does not like Lisp. I think Python is a step in the right direction here.
> i.e. the morality of homelessness and not having a disdain for them but empathy for them instead.

Ok, I'll bite. What is having empathy for the homeless? Is allowing unconstrained immigration to increase competition for entry-level positions empathy? What about restrictions on construction that make housing completely unaffordable? Is that empathy? Is leaving the drug-addicted portion of the homeless out on the street to battle their addictions on their own empathy[1]?

Saying nice words (not having disdain) is not the same thing as helping someone.

[1] https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-call-that-compassio...
Ok, but please don't break the site guidelines when posting to HN. Name-calling and personal attacks aren't allowed here, and your comment consists of nothing but.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've seen this as well, but more pronounced in the areas impacted by AI the most.

If there is little to no professional work in a scope, people don't get smarter, they get dumber, and it happens through simple atrophy.

Good engineering is the constant mental build up, natural tear down (atrophy) involved, where reality favors us with resiliency.

AI replacing large swathes of work will cause those neurons to not fire as often, eventually you'll lose the connections.

I don't think there is any safe amount of use that doesn't already create a persistent, self-fulfilling cycles of demand, where overuse would naturally occur just to compete in the labor market.

Its effectively a n-body problem with no visibility since the measurements would ultimately be based on value which is subjective. It collapses the value of inherent skilled labor down to 0 paving the way for slavery or death when natural dynamics collapse the economic production system.
It has been admitted and not even Zuckerberg is hiding it.

First it was 'juniors', then 'mid-level' and it WILL especially be seniors next (as they are already expensive). There is a high certainty that there will be a significant job displacement with the introduction of these "AI Agents".

Once again as predicted in other threads before [0] with increased proposals to run to the AGI scam it is after complete job displacement with no alternative for those lost jobs.

2030 is their deadline. I'm giving you 5 years early to prepare as I already am doing this year. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651672

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563239
Thanks for engaging. Is it nonsense if it greatly affects government and workplace policies? Especially now at a time where the incoming POTUS has demonstrated a lack of respect for a wide swath of people.

(Just to be clear, despite the above comment, I do not align with "wokeness".)
He’s smart in Computer Science. I studied mathematics in graduate school. Lots of smart people in my class…in mathematics. What I’ve experienced since graduate school is people being smart in their area of expertise thinking that smartness automatically extends to other areas. Arrogance and stupidity shine brightest when such people write authoritatively on areas they haven’t actually studied in any real depth.
He tweeted 150x a day in support of Trump leading up to the election. Just go look at his timeline.

Edit: lol at this getting downvoted. Some of you free speech purists really don't want to hear basic facts. Seriously. Just go look at the timeline. 150x a day is not an exaggeration. All of it in direct support of Trump, or attacking DEI and anything else associated with Democrats.
> But these trainings divide people up into groups—just along arbitrary lines. All of them put white people over here and “people of color” over there. But I suspect the second strongest affinity for most “people of color”—after their own group—is white people. Because that’s who people interact with the most often outside their own group.

I'm not sure it's fair to criticize the trainings; part of the reason for the training is to limit the employer's liability, and there's a huge variation in the liability of "being an asshole" depending on how -- and to whom -- the mistreatment is directed, so the training is going to invariably reflect that legal landscape.
the FSF/OSI are big on emphasizing that "free/open" means more than exposing the designs and mechanisms; it means guaranteeing certain freedoms and rights to the users of your software.

what you're describing is usually called "source-available".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC

"All operations were done in floating point. On the GE-225 and GE-235, this produced a precision of about 30 bits (roughly ten digits) with a base-2 exponent range of -256 to +255.[49]"
I use Twitter for machine learning research only, but somehow that account gets inundated with Maga crap. That's proof enough for me.

Sure, that's an anecdote of one instance, but it's so clear. And how would you do a proper study? I'm guessing you would need Elon's permission.
This is like one grandparent with dementia correcting the other grandparent with dementia at Thanksgiving dinner.
I wish, but to be Black in America is to witness this sort of cluelessness (despite prowess in other areas) ALL THE TIME.

Domain specific knowledge is SO REAL.

(Incidentally, this is roughly why I don't believe we will ever have so called "AGI")
I am not making this up from thin air, I actually cited a post on another server, that has an actual example. I would hesitate to post a Rule 34 example, as it would appeal to prurient interests, but I will just so I can show effective counter examples.

The original intent of the copyright law is now of little interest and little use in the onslaught of A.I.. A.I. Cannot survive without a relaxing of the copyright laws:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-...

Copyright law may have been created early on to promote progress, through profits, but now, in the wake of both the SCO Group lawsuits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Novell,_Inc.

I would disagree with your use of the term "Gentrification." As gentrification implies "Gentrification is a process that occurs when a community's values and profits are raised, often displacing long-time residents. The term was coined in 1964 by British sociologist Ruth Glass." raising the values... where as A.I. may just result in the perversion of the values and destroy the profits.
I think inflation is when the value of money drops ie it can buy less of everything. But this is simply the cost of one asset rising.
This article reads like a just-so story. Sounds plausible, but there's so much wiggle room for the narrative. And the "solutions" to wokeness he wrote left me puzzled, questioning whether the issues he paints were thought through. He mentions two solutions to wokeness: treat wokeness like a religion and submit it to "customs", and "fight back." So... essentially fight emotivism with emotivism. What does it mean to fight back and submit to customs other than perpetuation the same thing that's being criticized.
How many developers are doing little more than writing boilerplate? Those are the the kinds of jobs best automated. A few years ago behavior-driven development tried to take this as far as possible, taking stories and then turning them into runnable tests. LLMs can already do a pretty good job of being fed inputs and some context and create running code (for example, give ChatGPT a class file and tell it to write a unit test. It does a pretty good job of it)
Safari, with an ad blocker, does block them on mobile, as well. I should have noted I was talking about the X mobile app.
I think it's called "from first principles", which is the laundered term for "disregarding context and previous work, because I don't feel other people's work is worth anything".
> for impersonation

Of a cologne brand of some kind? "Elon's Musk" is very clearly not a person.
Were you banned for your speech or for being a troll intent on being disruptive to the community? Because there's a difference.
It's against HN rules to say it used to be better but looking at these replies it clearly has changed since the first days around a decade ago
If stealing from a factory and selling their products makes you more money than owning the factory and making the product, then doesn't it mean that stealing is the right thing?

The price isn't some random number attached to an activity. It captures the various costs associated with it and is helpful in directing behaviors for this very reason.
Create a new account and find out. If you create a new account, without any other information, twitter will recommend you follow Musk, Don Jr (President's right wing son), and Babylong Bee, a right wing fake news joke site.

Go ahead, do the experiment and come back and tell me what you see.
Buying and nurturing Instagram and Whatsapp are two other instances of "getting lucky"
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I think it's more likely that the language had no concept of types so number had to "just work". You can do integer math (slowly) using floating point, but you can't do floating point math with integers. Especially since the language is targeted at beginners who don't really understand how their machines work.

Would have been interesting to see a version of BASIC that encoded numbers as 4 bit BCD strings. Compared to the normal 40 bit floating point format you would save memory in almost every case, and I bet the math would be just as fast or faster than the floating point math in most cases as well. The 4 bit BCD alphabet would be the numbers 0-9, as well as -, ., E, and a terminator and a coupld of open numbers if you can think of something useful. Maybe an 'o' prefix for octal and a 'b' for binary?
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No, why would it be?

EDIT: the comment I’m replying to was edited at least 3 times since I posted this reply
>>> Many cs grads go into bs jobs way under their potential (random government agencies, contractors.)

> Why are those jobs deemed bs?

Because many of us went into the field bright-eyed, thinking about working on cool products, designing the latest algorithms, or being part of world-renowned teams. NOT to run the nightly batch job for the Massachusetts Depart of Family Services wage garnishment system. NOT to fix bug tickets at the local tax office's COTS implementation, while all the actual software is built elsewhere. NOT to work as a contractor without benefits.

Just look on Linked In, filter by Northeastern CS, see how many people have green semi-circles. Look at where people are landing jobs. Filter out nepo-hires, which are easily visible (e.g., jumping into leadership role straight out of school)
webrings used to be the essence of the internet. And then somebody business minded decided why should I help ANY other website.
The difference is religion’s justification is the words of a fictitious being whereas “wokeness” stems from principles of equality and tolerance.

Surely some adherents of each use it to feel righeous/superior, but in only one case is it actually justified.
Elon suspended PG's account just for lightly alluding that another social media platform exists. I'm not sure why you're even bringing up the idea of free speech on Twitter. Can you imagine Discord suspending your account for lightly alluding that Slack exists?
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Musk recently de-verified or banned a bunch of far-right accounts that were posting anti-H1B content. Musk isn't far right, he's just looking after his business interests.
Nobody would confuse "Elon's Musk" with Elon Musk.
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Reddit? Not sure why you decided today is the day to move
My company makes a boatload of money fixing urgent stuff companies cannot fix fast enough while losing money because it is broken. Without AI this type of thing is on the quick rise since we started end of the 90s and there is so much work we can just keep upping the hourlies and only pick the stuff we like. The last year or so, we have been finding naively generated AI code as a kind of incident multiplier. I think we will need to find more people as this is going to make us a lot more $.

Even if this is all bullshit and just hyping, it will cause more naive / lazy AI code to flood the market, that's for sure.
Maybe. In my experience Danes tend to be very practical and professional people. As long as it stays as just bluster, it probably won't ruffle too many feathers in their political sphere.
So the plan would be to have your most brilliant engineers reviewing code that was generated by AI? Next step will be having AI writing LGTM! and automatically merging PRs.
Actually having a substantive argument about right and wrong is fraught, and so it's much easier to hide behind a combination of tone policing and armchair psychoanalysis of your opponents.

Better to accuse your (imaginary) interlocutor of being a moralist, a meaningless term that tells me much more about your feelings on being "told what to do" than it does about your actual values.
They have energy and exist in our universe. GR does all the heavy lifting.
Maybe this is good, less engineers in meta may mean more engineers solving actual world's problems.
https://webservices.archive.org/pages/vault/

Encrypt before upload.
Did you read the rest of the article or just the first few paragraphs? The rest of it straight up describes the exact practices recounted in Feynman's telling of the story, including "a cult of people who think of these cargo as magical gifts" as you call it.

Yes, these came later according to TFA, and yes, there are dark undertones and overtones throughout, but if you read the article I'm not sure how you can argue that Feynman's version bears no similarity to fact. It's basically in TFA verbatim.

The only thing they really claim Feynman was missing was context.
I reject the idea that OO is a "major school of programming"; or, if it is, that school has been largely discredited. I think you're on firmer ground if you claim that ideas from OO still inform modern programming (traits and interfaces being a good example).

I think a lot of 2025 developers would be alarmed to think that a project had started from an object-oriented design perspective.
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It costs the VA money they could use to youknow be saving veterans lives with?

As someone who was the direct caregiver (guardian, POA) of a vet for 25 years, this assertion seems imagined.

It certainly doesn't reflect the factors that determine quality of care in the VA - that is, the factors that differentiate care between Tampa Bay's VA (very good) and Wichita or Atlanta (problematic).
The wikipedia page for Microsoft BASIC (which Applesoft Basic is a variant), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC, mentions that integer variables were stored as 2 bytes (signed 16-bit) but all calculations were still done in floating point (plus you needed to store the % character to denote an integer var).

So the main benefit was for saving space with an array of integers.
Why'd you leave the most notable one out of your list?
If you tried to steelman woke, what would fall under it?
> The US is already on a pretty pronounced decline in labor participation since about the late 90s: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

It's called the baby boomers aging and retiring (with a secondary factor of college participation going up): prime age labor force participation is very close to its all-time high [0], but the demographic bulge in (and moving farther into) the 55+ category drives the overall rate down, as, to a lesser extent, does college enrollment of people below prime age (<25) going up from the 1990s (peaking in the 2010s, but still above any time in the 1990s.)

Overall labor force participation rate uses the entire 16-and-older population as the divisor, which is useful for some things, but ignoring age demographics leads people to draw all sorts of bad conclusions from changes in that measure that are unsupportable once you look at the prime-age segment.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
The journalism point he made hits home, hard. I'm a sunday times subscriber, and just added WSJ and Financial Times paper edition. I don't really want to add 10 substacks and parse through them all. I'd pay a lot, a lot a lot, for a quality daily briefer, known in some circles as a newspaper of record.

One that I love, deeply, is the Martha's Vineyard Gazette -- still printed on broadsheet, and with fantastic journalism -- it's what regional and local papers used to be. I wish we could have something like this in the national format.
It is also similiar to "On The Origin of Species" a far more famous book that I'm sure everyone has heard of.
Another interesting perspective on this idea:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211108155321/https://freddiede...
The imitation rule states that it's perfectly fine to run parody accounts as long as you clearly state that it's a parody. There are a ton of accounts named Elon Musk Parody, Biden Parody and similar

Without it every post of a famous person was botted with 100 accounts with identical display name, pfp that tried to promote scams like with YouTube comments
And were the people making pro immigration policies in the west in favour of "international communism", or liberal capitalism?
Oh definitely, no doubt that the world is changing, and of course not everyone is going to like the change. I wasn't exactly slap-happy that everyone decided to start writing their desktop apps in a rebranded version of Chrome, but it makes sense when memory is infinite and CPUs are fast.

I just don't think it's quite as doom-and-gloom as everyone is paranoid about. I feel like most of the jobs that could be easily replaced by AI also could have already fairly easily been outsourced to India. If you already have a job in a rich country like the US, it's likely that your employer thinks that it's necessary.
I can. Before he owned twitter, if someone called me the n-word or other racial slurs, action was taken. Now when that happens and I report it, they reply to tell me no rules were broken
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"Joe's Rogan" is also not a person, but plenty of bots and scammers on social media use such celebrity names to obfuscate their accounts and scam people with crypto/erection pills, etc. You have to ban all of them to eliminate scammers as much as possible.
Seems like you're pointing to a singular imaginary boogeyman out to annoy you?

You should try the better thing of actually considering the history of each of these.

I won't deny that it can be annoying, but considering the specific why of each one is important. Necessary even.
I already stated my approach. Let speech be met by more speech in return. Consumers can assess the credibility of each.
In Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens (IDK the exact parameters of who counts as someone who receives this money, but you get the idea--at the very least, the Arabs whose ancestors had been living in the country when oil was found are receiving something).
That fan art is incredible. I would love to read those!
Lol, I've had my Pixel 9 Pro for a month but I forgot about that pixel screenshots app. The other features are unavailable in my country anyway, especially anything that has to do with calls.
In my experience AirPlay 2 isn’t flawless, pretty much every time I try to use it there are stutters.

This is using an iPhone 16 Pro to AirPlay to a stereo pair of Sonos Five’s that are connected using Ethernet.

AirPlay isn’t a great choice if you are concerned about audio quality anyways - if you’re using AirPlay 2 you’re using 256kbps AAC, so it should sound the same as Bluetooth (or worse if you are comparing something like LDAC).

See here for more information.

https://darko.audio/2023/10/apple-airplay-isnt-always-lossle...
"for you" means you want the algorithm to decide for you. Use "Following" instead.