skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI will create new jobs. Good jobs too. But not enough to absorb the losses volume wise and also not accessible to all.

Some office Karen that calls google homepage „the internet“ and struggles using shift key to capitalize (true story) is not going to automate anything whatsoever in a world where even tech people struggle to keep up

Or put different yes jobs but at different level entirely. So we’re still going to be stuck with a huge societal problem of people displaced with no place to go

> But the low-leverage work will get automated

Is this accurate?

In my mind whether something can/will get automated is not linked to level of leverage it has.
Very suspiciously similar comments here
Okay, the part of "free markets are possible without capitalism" is quite obvious. But going back to the earlier messages, what happened is that I assumed that capitalism implies free markets (not the other way around), and that's not equally trivial.

I think capitalism at least implies markets, because otherwise it makes no sense at all. Who would care to specialise in the production of any good if there was no way to profit from it by offering it on a market?

But does it imply free markets? That probably depends on where you want to draw the line between free and non-free. Personally, I'm a purist in these matters. There does not currently exist any market that I know of, which I would consider to be really free. So by my standards I assumed too much in my original statement.

In public discourse though, I usually try to adopt a choice of words more compatible with what I estimate is the prevailing POV, as it eases communication. By that standard, there exist plenty of free markets, and maybe the claim could be made that capitalism does imply free markets, unless one is happy to have discussions about nonsensical constructs.
Thread local storage means all async tasks (goroutines) must run in the same thread. This isn't how tasks are actually scheduled. A request can fan out, or contention can move parts of the computation between threads, which is why context exists.

Furthermore in Go threads are spun up at process start, not at request time, so thread-local has a leak risk or cleanup cost. Contexts are all releasable after their processing ends.

I've grown to be a huge fan of Go for servers and context is one reason. That said, I agree with a lot of the critique and would love to see an in-language solution, but thread-local ain't it.
The same happened when TLS 1.3Bwasnarpundnthe corner. Several draft version with different implementations that browsers shipped before the RFC was finalized. OpenSSL wasn't as late as QUIC to implement TLS 1.3 though.

These are selective improvements, and where every millisecond counts, I don't think see anything negative about implementations want to get ahead of the game.

I think Caddy browser gained a significant market share because it supports HTTP/3 by default, while Apache (that uses OpenSSL) lags behind.
This is why I joined AWS 9 years ago, and left the startup world. I own (still?) 15% of a company as a founding engineer (with no voting rights). As part of a raise, the company sold its IP to another company for a 0.5% stake in that company. So now I own 15% of 0.5%....... I just didn't understand the business side of all this at the start. As I understand it, the raise wouldn't have happened and the original company would have folded if the deal wasn't done, so you can't really argue fraud.

Since then, I have seen similar things happen more than once to other friends. I can only imagine that as the number get larger, the problems become more complex.
I don't think this is so much a "shift in culture" more than a generation getting older. Most Millennials are in their 30s now.

I shouldn't be speaking for you guys because I'm genZ... but it's probably to do with the new responsibilities and the increased risk aversion that comes with them.
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
It's not "all the time", but any time they want. You have to declare goods all the time though (if above limit) as there are limits in place for meat, alcohol etc.
Is "you-know-who" Trump?

If so, why not just say his name?
You obviously have not worked a lot, this term is everywhere from my experience, ubiquitous even.

Terms like this one, “alignment”, “low hanging fruit”, all not super accurate but established industry terms.
You run an assembler on w for each release.
You run an optimized compiled binary all the time.

I for one mind the latter.
I know several people who own the Ultra, and while they are all 'outdoorsy' sort of people, none of them are even close to 'extreme'.

The market more likely is people that see themselves as "extreme adventurers, mountaineers, extreme hikers, etc", despite mostly doing half day rides at the nearest mountain biking trail, national park hikes where they spend one night in a cabin, and a weekend snow boarding at a ski resort.
I have been looking around on a number of separate occasions for reimplementation of Garmin connect. Sadly i haven’t found anything yet.

As great as the hardware is the app is frankly atrocious and doesn’t inspire confidence with a company that is storing a lot of very sensitive personal information.
Aicha Limbada in La nuit de noces. Une histoire de l'intimité conjugale (in French only) talks about the fact that this “education” was sometime done during the night after the wedding, when the bride was raped by her new husband.
With all the (somewhat competing, though aimed and monetized differently) products in this thread, are there any promotions in place for extensive testing and comparison?

(E.g., your vocabuo website prominently points to possible promo codes.)
> A wild thing about LLMs is that they can observe what they've done and decide whether they've done a good job.

I've seen this behaviour in Claude but don't remember 4o doing the the same or as frequently.
I think the article brings up a great point about how they pivoted. So many companies start out strong then resort to "the original" to try and get sympathy? Nostalgia? Idk who falls for that or why. Or they sell out to someone that'll gut them. These guys knew that their first success wasn't a GPS locator. It was a PNT device that met an unserved market. In that regard they haven't pivoted at all. I respect that immensely.
Scientists aren't just finding biomass, stating that as the figure for the total, and adding to it. 15% will be an estimate with variance as stated by a predictive model. We have found fractions of a per cent, with 15% being a predicted upper limit.
Just a couple of days ago, I wrote I automatically flag any submission with any kind of "dietary" studies. I'm not saying there is no one study well done, but doing it well, is just (almost) impracticable. Not only the people have literally no idea what they eat, they forget and misreport, also a human living normal life in the society has just TOO MANY variables. There is no way to keep the other variables like, sport, social interaction, stress and such out of the study.
Ah, politicians!
o1's score looks like exactly what I would expect Elon Musk to aim for with Grok's benchmarks
Well, this is fun: try "how would I reverse a list in python" in the 1.5b model. It never stops thinking for me, just spewing stuff! It doesn't even seem to be repeating... fascinating!

Asking it to be terse produced this beauty:

https://gist.github.com/sandos/c6dad7d66e8a85ab943b5aeb05f0c...
Feeling the same pain of walking through the creator's hell.

Heard somewhere we are not supposed to be happy and absent minded. Staying on hard side of things shapes us and make complete.

I'm not sure if this helps, but I’ve personally stopped stressing about outcomes, "get rich quick" schemes, or being in the perfect moment.

The journey is what truly matters.

I use my own tools for consulting and eventually outsource myself as needed. If clients want to hire someone else, I don’t resist. I simply ask for two or three months’ salary for training and limited support afterward.

I’m not trying to build something worth millions to sell. I used to sell CRMs built on top of WordPress for a long time. Eventually, it evolved into a CRM I now use across several businesses. Over the years, I’ve also created numerous small tools that I’ve been using for over a decade—tools for tracking trends, education, and more.

I don’t aim to be in the top 5% of earners, just be in the middle for targeted niche is ok.

For me, freedom means working in "Pendulum mode"—six months of active client phases followed by six months of prototyping new ideas. That balance keeps me sane. No conflict of interests. Clients know I worked hard to kick off things, and productive than most other engineers in slow mode.

As for pressure of being update - I made a simple commitment to try new things 4-8 hours a week min. AI, ML, K8s, hyped programming languages. It was brutal at the beginning, and extremely joyful process now. It's getting easier and easier. The main motivation is to be connected with folks who will come after me.

I'm also trying to surround myself with builders, and be less with transactional people who simply wants salary. Helping other to overcome and internalize the essence of pain of owning code and full responsibilities make my struggles easier.

One thing I would never sacrifice for being in a creator mode - wellbeing and needs of my family. Whatever it takes to bring the food on the table. All high purposes come after.

Naval's mega episodes help me to settle things in mind really well too

wealth https://nav.al/rich

happiness https://nav.al/happiness

health https://nutritionfacts.org/daily-dozen-challenge/
> EU currently imposes a 10 percent tariff on US cars

And it's 45% on Chinese EVs. 10% isn't that high and it's not like there is a lot of demand for American cars in Europe anyway (American companies besides Tesla hardly produces any cars these days anyway, unless you count trucks)
100% agree and that has been my experience too. It also makes testing the logic locally much easier, just run the script in the appropriate container.

The pipeline DSLs, because they are not full programming languages have to include lots of specific features and options and if you want something slightly outside of what they are designed for, you are out of luck. In a way it feels like how graphics were in the age of fixed-pipeline, when there had to be a complex API to cover all use cases yet it was not flexible enough.
It's mostly defence against those pissed of by the US though, so seems fair.
Could not help noticing all the images on the page are older folks.
> `ctx.Value` is an `any -> any` kv store that does not come with any documentation, type checking for which key and value should be available

The docs https://pkg.go.dev/context#Context suggest a way to make it type-safe (use an unexported key type and provide getter/setter). Seems fine to me.

> What if you just use a custom struct with all the fields you may need to be defined inside?

Can't seamlessly cross module boundaries.
With my Apple Watch, I don’t need my phone when I’m running, swimming or at the gym. I can receive and return texts, make and receive calls and listen to music either stored on the watch or streamed over cellular.
Does this actually pose an issue for most studies?

This seems like it would be an issue for any studies relying on absolute food consumption being accurate. Most studies I come across frame their findings in relative terms (likely for this very reason): Individuals who engage in more of X compared to their peers show a correlation with outcome Y.

For example, if you’re trying to determine whether morning coffee consumption correlates with longevity it doesn’t seem particularly relevant if you believe everyone is underreporting their food intake, as the article implies; it's a relative comparison.

Sure, those findings often get twisted into clickbait headlines like “X is the secret to a longer life!” but that’s more a popular science problem than an issue with dietary research itself.
> they do have entitlement to my property (which includes my attention)

Er, I hope not.

> The government that I am a citizen of is a special case of a non-human entity

What about a private company that puts up a parking charge sign?
How I Automatically Catalog My Game Collection from Pictures
People Are Delusional About How Hot They Are
> What makes you think only scientists are humble enough to accept such outcomes?

In your previous comment you equated the scientific method with naive positivism that purports to explain "everything". While this is a recurrent pathology, especially during times of major scientific advances that embolden people to make ridiculous assertions (from Laplace to Wolfram), its not really a defining part of science.

I don't see science in any way as adversarial to philosophy. But it does have a track record of having diffused as a working thought framework whereas philosophy is still a rather elitist affair.
For the record, when i started to read HN I didn't even realize it's sponsored by ycombinator and is a startup launch vehicle for several years.

I'm here for the tech porn mostly. I do read the business related stories but I mostly retain everything but whatever includes "founder".

(My account seems to be made in 2016, so i suppose i started reading in like 2013-2014.)
I always thought resting heart rate while sleeping was a pointless metric ?

YOu can have a resting heart rate while sleeping in the 30s, yet your real resting heart rate in the 60s.

I don't need a watch to tell me if I was sleeping or not, I was there, I know if I was sleeping... I also don't see the point if it telling me if I got enough sleep or not. Again, I know if I didn't get enough sleep as I'm tired...

I also don't think it's sleep tracker is accurate, I've had my garmin tell me I have taken naps when I hadn't. I was just lying on the sofa watching a film and didn't get up for an hour or so. That doesn't mean I'm asleep.
I disagree with several of these, and the whole thing does not seem very well-conceived, based on an "incorrect" notion of what AI "should" do to be considered impressive.

> LLMs only reliably know what you just told them, don't rely on training data

This depends a lot on the model but i've been using 4o for all kinds of information retrieval and found it to be generally reliable. At least not much worse than the general internet. You can ask it for sources and of course you should not use it as an authority, but it can often be a very good way to quickly find out a fact. You do need to developed a feeling for the kind of thing it will know realiably and the kind of thing that will cause it to start halucinating (a bit like some of your co-workers).

> LLMs cannot write for you

I disagree, LLMs can write small blocks of text very well. But there is an art to using it. Don't try to create too much at once. I often find it works better then I give less input. If you list a bunch of things it needs to include, it tends the result reads like a student trying to include all the buzzwords.

> LLMs can help a human perform tasks, they cannot replace a human

I don't think anybody claims otherwise for current public models.

> Have the LLM do as little as possible

You need to learn what LLMs do well, and then use it for that. The idea that it is most efficient to program everything by hand as much as possible does not match my experience. Writing boilerplate code of under 50 lines of code or so is something current models already do very well and very quickly. I usually just try to generate it and if it does not work I write it by hand.

Finally, LLMs now take video and audio. We use Gemini to write meeting notes from Google meet and they tend to be very high quality, a lot better then what a random person taking notes usually produces. So the models are not text-only.
As with many companies that claim to be “open source” while having excessively restrictive licenses and sometimes not even sharing source.
This. Virtually anything that can be changed, can be innovated. And people seem to underestimate how complex the world is. Even something as unchanging as a commodity can increase in demand massively because of second order effects - like lithium and electric cars.
It's almost like the people that have control of capital set up a system where they never lose...
Khan Academy: Financial Literacy Course
I think HN lost its audience of the commoners and gained a audience of billionaire for billonaire products - and billionaire related prodcuts that are services to milk the comoners.

Add to that, that every tech advance gives birth to horrible destructive potential that is realized- you have growing despair.
Scala has everything, and therefore nothing.
Yeah, this is often overlooked in all the talk of $300k FAANG salaries.

Few people get those senior salaries, and those who do get it because of their unusual skills and experiences.

A stint at a startup is still a pretty good way to get those skills and experiences, compared to spending the same amount of time as a junior developer somewhere else. If you can make capital gains equivalent to FAANG senior salaries while doing so, even better! But if not, at least you'll have come out with a more interesting resume.
I think everyone should be reminded that a few years ago Garmin let someone take down their whole network (globally) and then paid the ransom after a few days [1]. In my opinion, the company does not deserve your money.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/garma...
Yes, there's plenty of space for automation and advanced support from tooling. Hell, not every perspective is best viewed as plaintext; in particular, anything that looks like a directed graph fundamentally cannot be well-represented in plaintext at all without repeating nodes, breaking the 1:1 correspondence between a token and a thing represented by that token.

Still, I believe the core insight here is that we need different perspectives at different times. Using your example, most of the time I probably don't care whether the code is cancellable or not. Any mention of it is distracting noise to me. But other times - perhaps next day, or perhaps just five minutes later, I suddenly need to know whether the code is cancellable, and perhaps I need to explicitly opt out of it somewhere. It's highly likely that in those cases, I may not care about things like error handling logic and passing around session identifiers, and I would like that to disappear in those moments, etc.

And hell, I might need an overview of the which code is or isn't protected, and that would be best served by showing me an interactive DAG of functions that I can zoom around and expand/collapse, so that's another kind of perspective. Etc.

EDIT:

And then there's my favorite example: the unending holy war of "few fat functions" vs. "lots of tiny functions". Despite the endless streams of Tweets and articles arguing for either, there is no right choice here - there's no right trade-off you can make here up front, and can never be, because which one is more readable depends strictly on why you're reading it. E.g. lots of tiny functions reduce duplication and can introduce a language you can use to effectively think about some code at a higher level - but if there's a thorny bug in there I'm trying to fix, I want all of that shit inlined into one, big function, that I can step through sequentially, following the actual execution order.

It is my firm belief that the ability to inline and uninline code on the fly, for yourself, personally, without affecting the actual execution or the work of other developers, is one of the most important missing piece in our current tooling, and making it happen is a good first step towards abandoning The Current Paradigm that is now suffocating us all.

Second one would be, along with inlining, the ability to just give variables and parameters fixed values when reading, and have those values be displayed and propagated through the code - effectively doing a partial simulation of code execution. Being able to do it ad hoc, temporarily, would be a huge aid in quickly understanding what some code does.
A mutex in a hot Read (or any IO) path isn’t efficient.
You mean the ones below?

"Great article that contains some pithy aphorisms that I expect to see again and again."

"Great article that is approachable enough to share with less technical folk. Thank you!"

"Good article, I would add the good things about working with media different than text. For example, describing images."

They are similar indeed. The users have been around for a while so unless their accounts have been taken over, I wouldn't worry.
Love this interaction, mind if I repost your gits link elsewhere?
Is it fair to say that 2 of the 3 leading models are from Chinese labs? It's really incredible how fast China has caught up.
> Jeez what a paranoid sad viewpoint

*whoosh*? Not sure, but that's either a videogame meme or some repurposed good ol' mid-20th Commie paranoia.

> less than 5% of the world population

85% of the world's handguns though.

(Yes, I made that up. Wikipedia says it's only 46%).

(Serious question: How do you apply export sanctions to one bit of a single market? Is this just theatre?)
The problem is putting US allies like Lithuania and Poland in the same tier as communist countries like Laos or Vietnam.

I'd put it another way, if demand is below the cap, then why have the cap? Why destroy relations for free? It's not like you can't do something if they are found to sell chips to China.
Just need to move to a country where 30k USD is a good salary. Build the same stuff for far less.
aaaah.... here we go again. Left, Right, Left, Right.
Yeah that’s fair. Some got left behind.

My point is there is even less of a pressure relief valve this time.
I guess most metrics are pointless if looked at in absolute terms and isolation, but trends might still be interesting.
Instagram Unveils 'Edits' App as CapCut Rival
As far as I can tell Elon seem to have lost interest and doesn't care much anymore about Tesla as a Car company the moment where he realized it likely will be just one of many E-Car companies and he likely won't win the race to full self driving in any in a larger picture dominant way.

But Trump in the past multiple times said more or less "he will stop EV mandates and move the subventions over to battery development and production". I.e. if he doesn't just do the first half it means subventions move from profiting a variety to car companies to mainly profiting Tesla(as a battery company).

I.e. this seems long term beneficial for him.
You're picking nits here. Again, you barely even need any kind of positioning system in an FPV, let alone a positioning system with 4km accuracy.

Such a system only make sense for use in long-ranged drones.
Reading your comment it sounds like Wear OS [0] is not a thing. But it is... So the market for watches paired with non-iOS phones is not empty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_OS
I'm basically tracking anything that i eat with...too much precision

I always wondered if i could volunteer for this types of studies somehow
I just weight and scan erything. The only problem is eating out. Mobile apps make this very easy today. They should be using them and scales that automatically report, with photo documentation, etc. Skip self-reporting and go straight to self-measuring.
> You have to declare goods all the time though (if above limit) as there are limits in place for meat, alcohol etc.

Yes, of course, but this is true anywhere, not just for the places under the "Temporary Reintroduction of Border Control".