skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine there aren't really layoffs, but slowing/stopping of hiring as you get more productivity out of existing devs. I imagine in the future, lots of companies will just let their employee base slowly attrition away.
I guess they just replaced people with chat bots.
Not a bit, it meanders too much, does not come to point for several paragraphs. This style of writing is wasteful of readers time and attention. Very poor information density.
That's if they are working, not if they need the time off.
In the early days of my career, I took very little PTO and didn't mind at all. I was young, no dependents, and was growing by leaps and bounds. Forcing me to take PTO would not have been beneficial, as I wouldn't have utilized it properly.

Now, today is a very different story, and I use it responsibly, but I'm at a very different stage in my life.
And people wondered why Apple released Apple Maps using its own data before it should have.

It didn’t want to stay dependent on Google.
What is the silver bullet for battery tech?
You should read a similar post of a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42607682

In particular the comments in the midde about the requisites to make n official invoice in several countries/states
Jason, the alleged "lefty" on the All-in podcast is on record as really wanting to get this going here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
The company I work at went all in on ChatGPT subscriptions to help programmers. They tried to get us to use it for debugging and everything.

People went from using it nonstop to maybe using it once a week. All subscriptions were canceled and it's basically relegated to toy status now.
Best hope in this regard is to keep an eye out for a resulting clinical trial, unless you have access to a friendly cancer research lab that wants to replicate the experiment.
how you keep this abstract? what is your differentiator?
Stupid question: I have 400000 ebooks (yup pirated ones) what happens if I build an LLM with this?
now make a program that lays out factorio components similar to how pcb auto routers work. Then we can all automate factorio instead of having to spend 200 hours a month on it.
2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit
Same here. I don't watch TV. I just need a big screen to watch movies on the weekend. For watching, things like YT a cheap tablet is enough.

The screen is hidden in the ceiling in the middle of the room. The sofa is at the wall. This makes the living room feel incredibly big. Before the sofa was unwieldy in the center. Highly recommend.
Wouldn’t mind seeing 41% of executives unemployed…
I'm sorry... what? Trading class registrations is cheating the system, and is not going to inherently be looked at as a good thing just because it's "entrepreneurial" to make an app for it.

Maybe if it were a high school student doing it, but making an app as a college student is not some impressive thing only prodigy students can do.
Agreed. If SQL didn't have NULL, we'd have other special values meaning "I don't know" or "no data" all over the place.

Too many newbies hear that NULL is bad, so they declare all columns as NOT NULL and end up inserting ad hoc values like 0, -1, '', or {} when they inevitably come across cases where they don't have data. Which is even worse than NULL.
I discovered that my OnePlus has a IR blaster. Now I use my phone as remote - and it works on a variety of models (have Samsung and Vizio in house).
Addiction and other disorders are common among people with terminal or not-so-great prognosis.

Or maybe his death was an outlier .pain meds are well tolerated by most people.
Some things bug me in checkout; it should never have had a -b option so that it does "git branch" things along with checking out. It was probably done that way because early in Git's development, there was a lot of fuss about it having light weight branching, and what looks even more light weight is when you can instantly create a branch and switch to it with one command.

There is a consistency in checkout and reset.

Both checkout and reset can be whole or partial (terms I made up). Partial checkouts and resets specify paths. Whole specify at most a revision.

The checkout operation updates the indexed and working copies of files to be like what is specified in a given revision.

- A whole checkout to another revision, if it succeeds, will update the working files and index to what is in that revision, and move HEAD to it.

- A partial checkout updates the specified files, working and index, to what they look like in the given revision, without moving HEAD.

- A whole reset to to another revision updates just the index to that revision, and moves the current branch and HEAD to it. Working files stay the same.

- A partial reset updates the index entries for the specified files, to the given revision, without moving HEAD or branch. Working files stay the same.

There are obviously more details, due to various options like reset --hard and so on, plus considerations of what happens with a dirty index. But that's the basic paradigm:

(starting with clean tree)

checkout reset

whole moves: HEAD moves: HEAD and branch
updates: working + index updates: index
result: clean result: working diff, nothing staged

partial moves: nothing moves: nothing
updates: working + index updates: index
result: working diff, staged result: working diff, opposite change staged

The basic consistencies are:

- the partial operations don't move the HEAD or current branch in both cases; the whole operations do move HEAD or HEAD + branch.

- whole or partial checkout updates working + index.

- whole or partial reset updates index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects
It's not enough to make money in an honest way. The real trick is to make it in a dishonest and immoral way, but still calling it legal.
Thanks for this. I definitely didn’t get a similar treatment but will complain harder next time.
Yeah, I think semi-autonomous vehicles are a huge milestone and should be celebrated but the jump from semi-autonomous to fully-autonomous will, I think, feel noticeably different. It will be a moment future generations have trouble imagining a world where drunk or tired driving was ever even an issue.
I think the difference is that a helicopter is extremely technical to fly requiring complex and expensive training, and the eVTOL is supposed to be extremely simple to fly. Also the eVTOL in principle is really cheap to make if you just consider the materials and construction costs- probably eventually much cheaper than a car.

I was curious so I looked up how much you can buy the cheapest new helicopters for, and they are cheaper than an eVTOL right now- the XE composite is $68k new, and things like that can be ~25k used. I'm shocked one can in principle own a working helicopter for less than the price of a 7 year old Toyota Camry.
I would guess most people in leadership have no actual clue how they would replace the human in the seat with AI. They are riding the hype that the companies who provide the tools are putting out, but when it comes time to execute they don't have a plan. The steps between generated code to running in production is completely being ignored.
YUP

They also predicted that the personal computer on everyone's desk, and every major software category, etc. would reduce employment. It just made more work
↑This. Stop. No. Don't go down the false hope path. It's cruel AF and puts off acceptance, wasting time that they can put to better use post acceptance.

Maybe let your friend explore what they want to do and you just give support. Celebrate what they celebrate and cry with them when they cry. Find(or better make) them some comfy/cute hats. If you want to research the things about the hospital, the procedures they are getting, the oncologists they are seeing, and drop re-affirming 'you are getting the best care'. They want to feel like they are getting good treatment. Not like 'if only they got something else they would have a better chance'. But reality is, they are getting the care they are going to getting. Hype the heck out of it, reassure them. Even if the care sucks, find something to hype. Ease the 'if only' burden/regret/fear on them, don't contribute to it with 'if only you could go see Joel Olsteen's prosparity preaching in person and he blessed you' or go see John of God in Brazil or something. If nothing else hype that the WHO ranked France in best overall healthcare. Leave out the 'in 2000'. 'Thank god we are in France, who the WHO ranked best in overall healthcare'. Find things for them to take comfort in.

https://www.who.int/news/item/07-02-2000-world-health-organi...
NJ here. Also say it without the "L".
Yep pretty much as you described. You'd have to experiment with compressed vs. uncompressed audio to see which is faster. Obviously compression adds latency, but also results in less packets which are quicker to send.
EA's HQ is in the Bay Area (Redwood Shores)
I can guarantee that AI will be used as an excuse to lower wages.
I've heard this paraphrased as "...descending on the Right, yet lands only on the Left".

The Left/Right dichotomy being a pleasant smokescreen for the elitist/populist friction that is simply the human experience.
That actually happened at my job a few years ago, where some extra power draw off a power supply that was also feeding a PC would slow down the code running there. It does sound crazy...
> TikTok’s LA staff are being asked to use their personal/sick days if they cannot work from home due to power or Wi-Fi outages, or if they’re under evacuation orders (unless their entire team has been given time off, which is not the case for many impacted by the fires).

> Employees who can work from home still must go into their “My RTO” portal, where they manage their sick time, and change their work-from-home status to “natural disaster” to not be penalized.

You're talking about the second paragraph here. This article's headline is talking about the first one.
Energy consumption, not CO2 emissions, 90TWh in 1980 to 180TWh now: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
I recommend doing some careful consideration about how intrinsically tied up politics are to every facet of our lives. You may find this distasteful, but choosing to ignore it merely blinds you to the way that power works in the United States.
The problem is that when you are trying to accept your fate and come to peace with it, and everyone else around you is trying to give you false hope. It's hard to break free from the constant futile wishful thinking if everyone around you is doing it for you.

Sometimes you should just let people work with their doctors and come to peace with their situation.

If I was dying of cancer, and someone told me to eat apricots, I might shove the apricots down their meddling throat.
You're talking about a couple of general, powerful features, which is exactly the kind of thing that doesn't take 5 million lines of code to implement. Collaborative editing is definitely worthwhile. Integrating a scripting language is probably worthwhile. The only way you get to a huge ball of mud codebase (other than by being bad at programming) is by having lots of things that really are isolated special cases like, IDK, one more obscure statistical distribution that you can sample from, or one more date format, or one more connector integration.

Do important general features start out looking like this kind of esoteric edge case? I don't think so, though I'm not hugely confident. I think it should've been clear in 2005 that enabling collaborative editing would have been a fundamental shift that required reworking the core of Excel, not something that a single internal team could add as a checkbox feature. I think that's probably part of why it didn't happen.

There's definitely some business value from "supports everything", and in a messy human world that can be very complex - just things like knowing the business day calendar for every country take space in code, and if you're writing a piece of software that commits to integrating with everything else then the number of integrations you have to write is more a function of politics than of engineering. But I think that part is very much on the long tail, the "last 20%".

To answer the specific question, yes, I do think Excel 2000 is as good as Excel today is. I honestly can't think of a single positive new feature (automatically suggesting tables seems cool, but I don't trust it), and the changes I did notice are mainly the ones that got in my way like the "ribbon" menu. I'm sure some businesses are getting some extra value out of today's Excel, but only in long-tail stuff.

I don't blame people for working on the long-tail things, I've done plenty of it myself. It pays the bills, it can even be good engineering. But I don't think the article is right to imply that it's where most of the business value comes from.
> I should’ve ate more apricots!

Did you mention apricots deliberately? Apricot pits were a huge, huge alternative medicine in the 1970s under the name Laetrile. Proponents said that Laetrile would cure cancer and was being covered up. The FDA banned it, saying that it accomplished nothing other than potential cyanide poisoning. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of patients a year went to Laetrile clinics in Mexico and spent tons of money on it. Laetrile was smuggled into the US from Mexico, second only to marijuana. Enthusiasm dwindled after studies failed to find a benefit. (Just some hopefully interesting history about apricots.)

A news article from the time: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/11/27/939...
Paper Golf [video]
If this man wrote a book I’d read it.
This is how millions of Americans already work. Millions have no paid sick time at all (and even unpaid sick leave can be iffy) and millions more get less generous PTO than this.

The only remarkable thing is that this policy is bad for a tech company. Tech is special because demand for specialized workers is high and supply is low. But in most other industries, this would be standard behavior.

Workers in other industries deserve better, but it’s also important to remember that the HN bubble isn’t the norm.
This has always made queries unpredictable in many scenarios and it should be a feature to turn nulls off entirely and swap them out with Option<T> instead.
Just to note, it seems Titanium Backup is no longer maintained (last Play store update in 2019) and definitely does not work on more recent versions of Android.

I've found Swift Backup pretty much fills the same role at TB.
If diet could stop cancer, we'd be done by now. I guarantee every cancer will mutate to overcome any change in diet you can throw at it.
I think I mean either. So yes NULL is a distinct value from true and false so I think it's also right to say it's neither true nor false. But the value NULL does represent is roughly "could be true or false, we don't know yet."
It’s not the knowledge of how it’s made.

It’s the reconciliation and articulation of principles reasoning.

Look you may not do it.

But there is a contradiction at the heart of modern American society between principles and how conversations actually function online.

And this needs to be articulated by normal people for normal people. Otherwise it’s always going to be an imposed reality,

Or think of it this way. Unless people who care about free speech don’t reassure mods that the consequences of not modding are acceptable - that they will also be the conscience keepers when inevitably society turns around and says “oh you should have modded more”

And that has to be an informed choice.

And consider that you are crotchety and old but get annoyed by free speech discussions.

You aren’t crotchety and old and annoyed by discussions on ancient Roman mining methods.

There’s things we can be sort of arsed to do which are within range of our interests.

This is within range of yours.
To be fair, businesses will use any excuse they can find to lower wages.
Not everyone wants to be reminded of their situation or turn major aspects of their life into a struggle.
I love that someone asks for advice. Even for individual experience because he is miserable and some people are basically like "Nah just die. It would be uNeThIcaL."
I don’t understand why people on this forum, who are 90+% in favor of remote work and don’t believe physical presence in an office matters at all, believe they companies will choose to replace H1-B employees with different people when they can simply hire those exact same H1-B employees at a quarter of the cost when they are forced to return to their home countries?

The H1-B logically displaces offshoring, not citizens. Otherwise it’s a massive coincidence that the H1-B visa happens to be used overwhelmingly by the industry that has seen the highest increase in salaries by far for Americans over the past 2 decades.
Imagine you're a small burger place that opened somewhere other than the center of town and you want people to at least know there's a new option besides slop from McDonald's.
Another followup:

There were several more fires that started on Thursday. Due to the unusual nature of these fires, authorities suspect arson. A person of interest was arrested for one of these fires after being observed trying to start a fire.
1) board preheat. In a pinch, heat gun or old hairdryer. But ideally get a cheap ceramic one off amazon or something. Typically set it to 75C for delicate components. For sturdy boards i start there and if that still sucks you can usually go up to ~150C. Usually its the heating element or air temp not the board temp.

2) Flux and thin solder. Solder should contain flux too. Use solder paste whenever possible and keep it refrigerated when not in use as it dries out

3) you need a high wattage iron and usually a thicker tip with more heat capacity. A slightly higher temp helps a little, but the wattage helps it stay a consistent temperature from the start to end of the joint.

4) when designing boards use ENIG and not HASL

5) remove any old solder before attempting to add more to a joint (older than a day or two).

6) sometimes an air gun on a arm helps too on thick copper

7) get really good lighting with a mix of diffise and directional sources. Brighter than you’d think
I can't find any data to support this, just the figure that NEVs account for ~40% of new sales, no further breakdown. Do you have a reference, I'd be very curious to see the breakdown -- my view is biased by the high pure EV penetration in cities like Shenzhen.
Sounds like astrophysists… (:->
Related from 2 months ago:

State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming (5 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085978

This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit (10 points, no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077420
what a weird writer, lots of interesting things to talk about but this very long essay continued to circle back to being author-self-obsessed with their own prowess and drawing out huge expositions and bullet lists on how well they are at predicting things. Call it self-referential-appeal-to-authority.
At last, thanks!

A name for that strange time I was in a room of ~15 people chaired by me, who unanimously decided that PHP should be used for the website, made by volunteers. Yet when I asked individuals afterwards, none of them had wanted PHP, and only one or two ever used PHP.

They chose it because they incorrectly thought that's what most people wanted, and they preferred to go along with their perception of group view so readily that nobody revealed their own tech preferences, despite a long discussion.

It wasn't a compromise, because that would start with people knowing each others' preferences, then compromising.

It was more like a bad default based on incorrect beliefs about each other.

The strangest part, for me, was realising that this happened despite meeting for a good hour discussing alternative options, with several professional webdevs in the group. The groupthink effect is powerful!

The effect of the group decision was not what people in the group had hoped for. Instead of producing an attractive common interest, it resulted in few volunteers, because everyone picked a tech choice they were not interested in working with themselves, assuming it would be of more interest to others.
My point was more meta - the experts don’t have a fixed opinion on the translations of rare ancient texts in the first place, ergo there is nothing to train the llma on.
> manipulating people's self-image into thinking they're not good enough, not beautiful enough, not wealthy enough

Unfortunately, social media is much more effective at ruining people's self-image and happiness than advertisers could ever dream to be
I don't see the link to why home prices would be inflated. Maybe they are or maybe they aren't, but it doesn't have anything to do with fires. People still have to live places, even if risk from climate change is increasing. Very strange editorializing from Reuters.
This is the (very common) fallacy that disagreeing with something, or considering it immoral, is equivalent to not believing that it will happen (if not prevented somehow).
In what sense is self-driving “here” if the economics alone prove that it can’t get “here”? It’s not just limited coverage, it’s practically non-existent coverage, both nationally and globally, with no evidence that the system can generalize, profitably, outside the limited areas it’s currently in.
WEF 2018, https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...

> by 2022, 62% of organization’s information and data processing and information search and transmission tasks will be performed by machines compared to 46% today. Even those work tasks that have thus far
remained overwhelmingly human—communicating and interacting (23%); coordinating, developing, managing and advising (20%); as well as reasoning and decision-making (18%)—will begin to be automated (30%, 29%, and 27% respectively).

WEF 2020, https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...

> we estimate that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift in the division of labour between humans and machines, while 97 million new roles may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms.

Asymptotic Intelligence is almost here!
Are their sick days limited? If not, no harm done?
Everything except loop, kaizala, and parts of viva... so 90%?
I'm hoping the work in fixing AI hype projects is just as lucrative as fixing overseas contracting projects has been.
Solid state batteries. Prototypes work, but high-volume manufacturing doesn't work yet. The major battery manufacturers are all trying to get this to production.
Early versions will probably be expensive.

Maybe a 2x improvement in kwh/kg. Much less risk of fire or thermal runaway.
Charging in < 10 mins.
I run an accelerator out of a huge law firm in Canada. I'm not much involved with the firm outside of using the startup lawyers to get the work done for my founders, but lunch room chatting happens. It's been interesting to hear the discussion: inbound is actually increasing due to AI, AI is both giving bad advice (or more often, good advice badly) and drafting nonsense, or missing so much case law it build weak cases etc. I don't think we will hire less, I don't think we'll downsize, I think we'll just take on work we said no to perviously because it wasn't interesting or whatever, and I think client satisfaction will increase. (also AI tools for huge firm lawyers doing big client files are comically bad, one large legacy player recently turned on the AI feature and it kept telling the lawyers to consult a lawyer)
You could write an LLM in plain JS, right?
CGP Fixes System Level Modelling in Rust
In system-level modeling, especially when dealing with complex structures like DAGs, managing ownership, references, and dependencies becomes challenging. Rust’s strict ownership and borrowing rules, while beneficial for memory safety, can complicate such tasks.

CGP fixes this.