skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. I'll come with another research, the one I'm doing on myself for more than 30 years.

See, I'm both typing and writing for more than 30 years, and I started doing both almost the same time, so there's no inherent bias there. Here's what I found.

- I can type around 75 WPM in a good day, yet writing on paper always brings out clearer ideas.

- I write my blog posts in iA writer, fullscreen and in DnD mode, yet drilling some ideas on paper is still necessary for reflection.

- I have encrypted diary on my personal computer, yet I always prefer to carry a good notebook with a good pen, and find that I can write more sincerely and drill into myself better during reflection sessions.

- I can design programs in my head, brainstorm with mind maps, or draw architecture diagrams with relatively high speeds, yet designing on paper always results in better architectures, less bugs, and better performance.

- I can skirmish in real time like an old IRC person (because I am), or fire salvos of posts with different amount of flame included (because I lived through newsgroups), yet I prefer elaborating ideas on paper or in silence before writing them, because seeing what I want to say, and scribbling them with a good pen always brings different perspectives.

What I found by working on myself is ironically parallel to the research you denounce. Writing is different than typing and is a deeper experience with more connection to self. Having a small notebook around boosts my productivity 5x, while reducing planning overhead and mental load incurred by it to almost zero, and this is while I have a tool which I plan my next three weeks with great detail.

So, maybe you should try writing, and while you're at it, you can even find a pen friend which spends a couple of hours to write you a nice and sincere letter, and you'll do the same and understand why some of us like writing and everything related to that.

Who knows?
My toaster is from the 1950s and works fine. Also it's not ugly as sin.
We’ve long since proven that machines are better for back-breaking labor.

I also disagree that AI will offset the majority of big brain jobs. What’s actually happening is AI is offsetting the majority of narrowly defined queries. The more open ended problems require an actual understanding of problem solving rather than a really clever text prediction engine.

Some examples to illustrate my point:

If you wanted to build a mobile app, you’d need to first:

- understand the problem you’re trying to solve (is it a game? A medical app? A productivity app? Etc)

- choose a frontend stack

- create a design language

- create wireframes

- decide where to host the backend stack (eg self hosted? Or public cloud? If so, which?)

- decide which cloud services to use (if public cloud)

- decide on how to approach IaC

- decide on the backend stack

- decide on how to implement your CI/CD pipelines (or even if you want continuous delivery)

- understand what privacy and security concerns you have and identify what risks you’re willing to accept

- define testing strategy’s

- define release cadences

And so on and so forth.

Writing the code is often actually the easiest part of software development because we already understand the problem by that point. The rest of the work is figuring out all questions that need to be answered — and I don’t even mean answering the questions, I mean understanding what questions to ask.

AI can’t do that. GenAI requires human input and much of software development is actually figuring out what those inputs should be rather than generating that output.

So that’s what I mean by “big brain jobs”. It’s not writing code, because that’s easy. It’s understanding and defining those requirements to begin with.
MY first job (in the last 70s) was working in a TV rental store doing small item repair. In particular, repairing toasters was probably my #1 activity. Essentially the failure was nearly always the same -- one of the three toasting elements failed, and so I would replace all three elements, and the customer got a working toaster back.

It was never clear to me (at least I don't recall it being clear) why the heating elements failed. It could be from someone sticking a hard tool into the toaster when trying to remove a small item (and breaking the element). It might be that a piece of bread gets stuck to a portion of the element and catches fire at that point -- maybe that weakens the element at that point. This was, of course, long before toasters got electronics in them!
AB+ should be donating platelets or plasma. You're a universal donor for that. And if you're a man, you especially should be donating to save Mom's and babies.

Source: the red cross hounds me for platelets and plasma.
What are the target use cases?

like mobile, servers, desktops, tablets?
The French revolution happened because real wealth was basically left untaxed, leaving an enormous tax burden on everyone that wasn't nobility. The situation was not unlike what Piketty described to win his nobel prize.
At that point, you’re conceding the exact limitation I was pointing out. Terraform can't handle truly dynamic infrastructure changes within a single plan because its execution model is declarative, not imperative. Saying "nobody would think you could" just acknowledges that Terraform lacks the flexibility of real code—because if it were actual code, you'd be able to handle this inline rather than orchestrating multiple runs with external tools.

Yes, you can manage this with separate state files and a structured apply sequence (e.g., using Terragrunt), but that’s just adding more scaffolding to work around Terraform’s inability to express dynamic logic. That’s infrastructure orchestration, not infrastructure as code.

The fact that we have to rely on external tools or multi-step workflows to accomplish something that would be trivial in a real programming language just reinforces the point: Terraform isn’t really "code" in the traditional sense.
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Please explain, what exactly you don't understand from my comment?

- I have included source where you could find additional info, but sure I have not included huge number of other sources, because they are well known for people really interested in economy, and sure I will add some others if somebody ask.
Another TechCrunch [dupe]

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210138
Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says
I honestly still have trouble believing there are people willing to moderate SO content for free. Do a boring job to make a rich company richer, get paid nothing and occasionally get yelled at.
Have you tried current gen VR? Honestly, the experience of playing VR Ping pong is SO much like the real thing on the Quest 3. Synth riders is also fantastic. But the best experiences don't really fit into the "video game" box imho; it's closer to buying roller blades / skates or ski equipment.

I was also surprised at how much mixed-reality made a difference for me personally. I'm much more likely to strap the thing to my head when I can have awareness of what's happening in the physical world.
Unlikely. Ukraine does not have scale, manufacturing base and talent for that - right now it's mostly assembling drones from Chinese parts with very little innovation on top of that. People talked about AI swarms but very little of that materialized at the front line. Larger drones require satellite connections, advanced materials, etc - Ukraine does not have that either. I expect Ukrainian expertise in war drones will stagnate and become obsolete very quickly after the war.
Super interesting, message me on hello@foxev.io if you want.

Stack was leaf batteries, motor & inverter with our own gearbox modification (swapped direction), inverter with Openinverter.org Tesla model S A/C charger, Tesla DC/DC and then my own STM32 based control unit orchestrating all that.

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I beleive that Yamaha Motor Co was spun out of Yamaha Corp. So they share the same logo because they were once one company.

This is not too unheard of even in the West.

Rolls Royce Motor Cars is owned by BMW but they just bought use of the name.

The old Rolls Royce Motors who used to make the cars was sold to VW (but not the name).

Rolls Royce Holdings Plc., the defence and aerospace firm, actually own the name but don't make cars.

Clear as mud.
The world rewards exactly the opposite character features you were teached to develop and cultivate. Including women who select a partner.
I think it’s better to look at it as a spectrum and Russia’s place on it differs based on time and place. They don’t have the air superiority to carry out the kinds of operations the US could and what seems like a suboptimal command structure but they are getting increasingly more organized, especially as the war drags on and they develop/acquire more adaptions like the Shahed drones or glide bomb conversion kits. IMO the biggest thing getting in their way is the desperate human wave tactics that hamper their ability to grow a veteran core that could actually organize the combined arms.
Sure looks like it, didn't want to give away too much secret sauce?
In reality it is worth paying someone who does nothing but knows the answer when the machine stops.
"Your soundcard works perfectly!"
>and as soon as you suggest that zoning is a government taking

Not just zoning, but pretty much any government regulation. It boggles my mind that my state's equivalent of the EPA can just decree whatever their policy is, which has consequences on what they'll approve or won't, and this affects land values massively, and this doesn't legally get classified as a taking.

>they abandon the whole platform to defend zoning.

Which is a social problem that pretty much the entire western world suffers from these days. We don't shun, marginalize and otherwise punish people who are chronically two faced and lack principals (whatever those principals may be).
That sounds like Curb Your Enthusiasm :)
Europe has sun and wind. In the time it would take the US to build one nuclear plant Europe can build over 10x as much renewable capacity, for 1/10th the cost. As much as I'm pro environmental protection, the reality is that a lot of places are preferring renewables because they are cheaper and faster to build than traditional power plants for the same energy outputs. Even Texas is building tons of renewables for this reason.

So yes, energy will be built in Europe and elsewhere.
US zoning is complex. While final control is local, the state and federal government puts rules in place. The feds mostly if you do X you get some subsidy (loans for single family houses for example). States often set the rules that locals abide by - the local says some area is R1 (single family), R5 (apartments I think), C1 (retail but I'm not sure what type).... but state law says what those codes mean. The local can choose which of the zones an area is but probably cannot create new ones. The local can give a variance for you to do something not allowed, but everyone who wants it needs to follow state rules.

Remember zoning has been around for around 100 years. The rules change all the time. What I gave as examples were true at some point in history when I looked this up but may not be today. There are 50 states with their own rules. Some states have things like counties that sit between the state and the local. Generally states look at what others are doing and follow that with tweaks, but not always (New York and California are most likely to do their own thing - and they are the most populas states so they matter even if a minority of the total.)
Some authentication schemes have a short-lived "authorization token", that is valid for like 5 minutes, and a longer-lived "refresh token", which is valid for like a week or two; and return a 403 when the authorization token expires to prompt the client to refresh the token. (See say, supertokens.com .) If your auth token expired in the middle of a multi-part download, it could cause this situation that triggered this bug.
If GDP is growing equally fast in both countries but with dramatically different levels of indebtedness, you can unequivocally claim one is more productive than the other at present.

Sure, either country might invent the next AI in the future.

But if we're assuming debt-fueled government investment is what results in this future growth (big assumption), then the less indebted competitor still has the capacity to take on all the debt they aren't shouldering at present to grow even faster.
(Link from the Adam Smith Institute, a neoliberal thinktank)
> How do you determine what features to build or the next product to develop?

My co-founder handles support, so he decides what to build next based on customer discussions. If a problem is big enough for a specific segment, we turn it into a separate product.

> What tools are you displacing (e.g., Excel)?

Most SMBs prefer to stay with Google Forms/Sheets rather than switching to a full-fledged CRM like HubSpot. But embedding Google Forms in their website affects their branding. We beautify and enhance Forms into a CRM, so they don’t have to migrate. I wrote about it here: https://manidoraisamy.com/developer-forever/post/can-you-use...
They're not "based on civilian drones" other than using some basic software and electronics and design principals. Everything else is built around cheap and short lifetime.
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> We were talking about machines freeing time so we can do other things, do not move the goalposts to fit your argument.

That’s a very uncharitable comment given “time” wasn’t mentioned once in either your comment nor the GPs.

You might have read their comment as meaning “less work” (time) but for me it reads that they’re talking about “different and more interesting work”.

Both interpretations are valid.

I get a sense from your rant that you’re massively overworked. I do sympathise with you there, I honestly do. But that’s got nothing to do with AI.
It's not really clear which one is "objectively better" to look at. The tradeoffs are exactly those that you've listed. But you know, for a given point of time you can look at the entire yield curve - that's what I usually do. And when it comes to plotting you can plot both differences (it's easy to do in FRED, you can do many fun things with time series there).
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Thanks very much for this well-thought out thesis. Sometimes it feels like I'm taking crazy pills whilst reading the Internet, and this brought back a much needed dose of sanity to my corner of reality. Interested in any additional reading material along these lines of thinking, if you care to list any.
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Correct, I updated the title of the original paper. Thank you your bringing up.
It's a matter of taste, and that's OK. Platinum is a great brand, but it doesn't resonate with me much. Sailor's ProGear and Pilot is where my heart is when it comes to Japanese pens.

On the other hand, I find entry level German pens great for everyday carry. They're very rugged, and easy to replace, if you can damage them.

I'm happy that you found your grail pen, because having one is a great feeling.
> Why anyone opens any software anymore is a mystery to me.

Cynically? To get noticed and get a job.

> We are witnessing the greatest theft of intellectual property in the history of Man.

What makes you think they weren't already doing it? It could be that LLMs masquerading as "AI" is actually just a risk reduction measure for already existing practices.
> is definitely a privilege

Voting is both a privilege and a right. Incorporating is not a privilege inasmuch as the government isn’t typically afforded discretion in granting it.
The heating elements in a toaster are essentially the same as the heating elements in a lightbulb. Eventually, enough heat cycling, the metal fatigues or melts at a certain point, the circuit opens, and your toaster stops lighting up the room. Of course, trauma is always an option too.
Regarding IDE support, you might be interested in this VS Code extension: https://github.com/keanemind/jjk I found it today and like it quite a bit.

The Visual JJ extension (https://www.visualjj.com) is also good, but JjK feels more integrated to me.
The thread topic is inequality doesn't matter as much as lifting QOL for all income levels. The delta isn't important.
that's strictly not true, at least for many segments. my 1960s Kitchenaid mixer has been used since..the 60s, and if you buy a new Kitchenaid today, don't expect that plastic gear to last very long if you actually take it out and use it.
Well there is no evidence to back that up. In fact there is plenty that indicates the opposite.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk...

There is in the section entitled "Preferences for different types of migrant: origin, similarity, skill level". (There doesn't seem to be a way to directly reference it in a document).

> Country of origin is not the only factor that people take into account when considering preferences on immigration. In the European Social Survey 2014, British respondents reported how many immigrants should be allowed based on a question that specified both the country of origin (Poland or India) and the skill level (professional or unskilled labourer). The results revealed that when migrants are professionals, opposition is low, and when migrants are unskilled, opposition is high (Figure 5). Research has shown that people’s general preference for high-skilled over low-skilled migrants is mainly driven by perceptions of their higher economic contribution

> The preference among the British public for highly skilled migrants aligns with previous research indicating that, when questioned about the criteria for incoming migrants, skills are considered more important than other factors such as race/ethnicity and religion.

Direct link to the stats:

https://public.tableau.com/views/Publicopinion2023/FIGURE5?:...
One of the earliest references comes from John Michell in 1783, who, in a letter published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1784), suggested that a sufficiently massive object could exert such a strong gravitational pull that light would not escape—effectively predicting the concept of a "dark star," an early analogue of a black hole.

Another key figure was Pierre-Simon Laplace, who, in the first editions of Exposition du Système du Monde (1796), independently proposed the existence of such massive celestial bodies that could trap light. However, he later removed this idea from later editions, possibly due to skepticism over the corpuscular theory of light.

The first real attempt to quantify how much gravity might bend light was made by Henry Cavendish (circa 1783–1784). Though unpublished at the time, his notes (discovered in 1921) contained the first calculations of the bending of light under Newtonian gravity. Later, in 1801, Johann Georg von Soldner formally published a paper calculating the deflection angle of light passing near the Sun under Newtonian mechanics, obtaining a result (~0.85 arcseconds) that was later found to be half of what general relativity predicted.

These early discussions framed gravitational lensing in a purely Newtonian context, treating light as a particle affected by gravitational attraction.
> At the same time, higher-level languages sometimes can almost encourage the blindness to the real world model of computation, the execution implications be damned. In such languages you will encounter way more people who will write O(n^3) algorithm and will fight you tooth and nail to keep it that way because they have zero understanding of the fundamentals, wasting the heroic effort by the runtime/compiler to keep it running acceptably well.

I would say this tracks. I spent some time doing research on JVMs and largely found that, for example, the Java community largely values building OO abstractions around program logic and structuring things in ways that generally require more runtime logic and safety checks. For example, Java generics are erased and replaced with casts in the bytecode. Those checks the JVM has to blindly perform in the interpreter and any lower compiler tiers that don't inline. Only when you get to opt tiers does the compiler start to inline enough to see enough context to be able to statically eliminate these checks.

Of course Java hides these checks because they should never fail, so it's easy to forget they are there. As an API designer and as a budding library writer, Java programmers learn to use these abstractions, like the nicety of generics, in order to make things more general and usable. That's the higher priority, and when the decision criteria comes down to performance versus reuse, programmers choose reuse all the time.
Yeah. I always think of them as "bonds" because then I don't have to change the name when dealing with corporates, or other countries sovereign debt.
How to make memory systems widespread?
When you have double (or more) stars and gases involved, you can end up with a green-ish tint. Obviously, different people will describe the color in a different way due to everyone's own seeing conditions, instruments, and color sensitivity.