skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CIOs have a bias to be wimps. It's easier to kick the can down the road.

I work with alot of orgs that have these things, both directly and from a association/conference perspective - it's starting to change because the new CIOs didn't grow up with mainframes, and are finding themselves with no alternatives other than expensive and increasingly ineffective contracts to operate these things. 1990 was 35 years ago, the old guys are dead - the can has been kicked off a cliff.
> Universities today, though, have a status that religious organizations have never reached. Not only being tax free but also heavily taxpayer-funded, and with a university credential being virtually required for most jobs.

It's almost like they produce something of actual value.
is this why you can "download your data" from social media app sites? to make it easier for a fed to grep for wrongthink after they make you give them your login and phone password?
You should have probably read the post.
Bombs can be smart, even though they sometimes miss the target.
The Internet was the greatest tool in human history and it has lead to all sorts of issues. Misinformation at amazing scale that has undone lots of social progress that was made in the 20th century and 2000s. It has driven the greatest wealth disparities ever seen. It has become a harmful addiction for millions of people.

That's not to say the Internet hasn't caused good things to happen, but to ignore the bad things is counterproductive. Maybe it's ok to slow down and take a step back to make sure we're not doing more bad than good.
Incorrect:

"They are accused of indirectly supporting Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization in Germany."

2nd sentence from your link.

Supporting terrorist organizations is not legal in Germany. Supporting terrorist organizations is not the same a being Pro-Palestinian. Unless you think that all Palestinians are terrorists, which I do not.
You're not really saying anything there. It is a city. There are buildings. How are you judging how affluent an area is by walking through it?
This essay reads like a rant on the inefficiencies of government talks about direct cause problems but never tackles the big WHY.
Author and lots of commenters specifying their biggest complaint about rust and nobody has mentioned lack of async drop? That's the top of my list by far, everything else is just nits in comparison.
The plan is to privatize weather and sell out the country to Accuweather.
As in “See-URL”? I’ve always called it curl but “see url” makes a hell of a lot of sense too! I’ve just never considered it and it’s one of those things you rarely say out loud.
Yes, exactly. AI isn’t gonna check things like memory management, data type overflows and such, during generation. It would be great if we catch them at compile time.

Regarding swift, totally hear you :) Also I haven’t tried generating swift code - wondering how well that would be trained as there are fewer open source codebases for that.
> 1 tbsp of animal fat has about 900 calories.

This is extremely false. Please verify your sources better (and apply a skosh of critical thinking).

> 1 tbsp of olive oil has 135 calories.

This is false too, but at least it's in the right ballpark.
It's gotta be tough! When you've made that your entire personality, it's hard to drop it. You've made friends, and perhaps lost others, by being this person. To just admit "I was wrong" potentially means alienating all of their friends and family. I'd imagine it's why so many people are still so vehemently flat earthers.
I mostly agree, because most proof-of-concepts don’t make it very far, and LLM assisted dev is really strong for that kind of low-barriers experimentation.

The problem is that if you build quick n dirty, but then end up reaching success; you’re in for a bad time or a rewrite. This is where the above example of a single algorithm departs from a whole stack.

Further, one bad “hello world” on a google/apple/amazon domain can make the front page of the NYTimes
By using it a lot, and discovering that it still sucks in a lot of ways.
> how iPhone and Mac define Apple even though that might be part of the revenue not all of it

iPhone defines Apple, and that is justified considering the single product makes up 55% of the company's revenue.
I don't agree with everything on this channel but Gary's Economics does a good job articulating a perspective that the lowered quality of life is directly related to growing wealth inequality.

Gary's angle is mostly based on wealth being a zero sum game. I think new wealth does get created but I agree that the vast majority of wealth is existing assets and their growth probably dwarfs any net new wealth creation.

Some links:

Gary's Economics on Youtube - whether or not you agree, he articulates his economic view:
https://www.youtube.com/@garyseconomics

This podcast where Gary debates with Daniel Priestly who has opposing views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yohVh4qcas
I compare it to something like PEDs or even painkillers. These too are a fact of life, but going down that road makes a lot of decisions for you.

AI in certain hands will be fine. In other hands it will be a disaster for the person that uses it, because they will not perform the reps they need to really be able to think. Believing a computer is a magic box that gives answers is not great, it's adjacent to "believe and do what the computer tells you".
What do we export to china besides airplanes?
Same can be said about intellectual work.

The question is how post-industrialism wealth redistribution looks like, when work does not seem to be a good key.
> He should be in a tiny jail cell right now, what was Biden doing for 4 years?

Not causing a global financial crisis, mainly. But vis-a-vis his predecessor’s recurrent criminality, it’s hard to imagine what his options were, considering the capture of the remaining branches of government. Well, that, and the Constitution.
Thank you, it’s unfortunate that the average person doesn’t seem to understand this.
Just because a certain behaviour doesn't show up in a certain stage of life, doesn't mean it isn't an inherent behaviour. Babies don't talk. Talking is still an inherent behaviour of humans.

Young children's social environment is almost entirely defined by their parents. You'd expect very little aggressive behaviour there.
Fair point. Very different people from very different background here in the masters in comparison to the bachelors. Also 15 years between both experiences. Maybe I'm just getting old and start to yell at imaginary clouds. Thanks for the heads-up! Still sucks for everyone involved there that is motivated through.
True. I'm not so sure about this. But the pure imported hardware cost is probably just a few 10s of millions, maybe 100 million or so. For office alone.

It's the cost of setting up and running the data centre that costs money. This is once again has a significant labor component.
It gives me better answers on most things than my actual PhD friends do. So... yeah?

The funny thing is, it's somewhat less useful for certain business stuff, because so much of that is private within corporations. But the stuff you learn in a PhD program is all published. And it's pretty phenomenal at distilling that information to answer any specific question.

Multiple times a week I run into an obscure term or concept in a paper that isn't defined well or doesn't seem to make sense. I ask AI and it explains it to me in a minute. Yes, it's basically exactly like asking a PhD.
This is a good point. You could equally well argue that the spherical cow “ideal” 100% marketing shows you exactly the right product right as you need it. And then shuts the hell up!
Seems like one of the dangers of empire is that losing it, which is inevitable, leads to a hard-to-shake condition of feeling like a has-been society. It makes it hard to just be a good nation, a good place to live.

I fear the same thing is coming for the USA as it, inevitably, loses its standing as the world's sole great superpower (which it only had for maybe 20 years at most!). We could easily get stuck in a permanent cycle of demagogue after demagogue promising to, well, make us "great again."

You see it in individuals too. The root of the word celebrity is celebrate. Make someone a celebrity and put them on a pedestal, and it often ruins them forever. It's a fickle thing. When they inevitably go back to being just a regular person, the effect is often to leave the person permanently feeling like a has-been. They flail around for the rest of their lives trying to recapture something that is fleeting instead of enjoying the fact that (1) they achieved something few people achieve and (2) they have the rest of their lives ahead of them.

Success is more psychologically dangerous than failure.

There's a saying: "whom god wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." I think a better version is "whom god wishes to destroy, he first raises up."
Tariffs look more and more like the Bolivian Tree Lizard cleanup plans: https://youtu.be/P9yruQM1ggc
Britain is poor. If you remove London from the equation, it's one of the poorest countries in Europe.
IR35 is not really about the working class though is it? It's about the professional class of contractors, tv presenters etc, who at various times were doing things that looked suspiciously like regular jobs, but somehow were paying a lot less tax.

I agree the implementation of IR35 is an absolute, grade-A clusterfuck, and leaves workers having to do things like buy IR35 insurance, and make in/out determinations themselves, only for HMRC to come up with new ways to try and classify them as 'managed service companies', or a myriad other ways to undermine the entire sector, such that financial ruin can be dangled over people's heads like the sword of damocles...

But working class? Pull the other one!
Same here. For just knocking up models of stuff I find it both nicer than Excel (and included with the OS) and works... better... for me than Google Sheets.

It's just convenient and works.
They do is the thing
Dying because I cannot function adequately due to poor vision is normal.

Wearing crafted pieces of glass on my head every waking moment is not normal, but I choose to do it.
>I was kind of being a little bit sarcastic, but I guess everyone received it somewhat well, and I just kind of went with it

Is this just based on some guy's sarcastic LinkedIn post and then transitions to just a regular story about the job market?

And then later:

>But it had the desired effect: helping him stand out.

But actually:

>While De La Rosa is still looking for a full-time staff position, he's gotten contract work in the meantime.

wtf? It didn't seem to do the thing at all ...
Faith what now? Yes, it's decent product but...

It's a $3T company. It got there by extracting the maximum possible from customers, app developers, and labor. They are well known for exploiting offshore workers [1] many times over. They force customers to upgrade off working hardware. They force customers to buy multiple devices when one could do the job. There are monopoly complaints world over. Customers who are happy with this have Stockholm Syndrome.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/china-ap...
The most egregious example for me were adding a chatbot to Windows and going so far as creating a special button (on laptop's cramped keyboard). Then we got the Apple ads which are just stains on professional ethics.
Funny, because the high costs of energy and transport are .. due to lack of investment. A vicious circle.

Blocking green energy investment is the biggest area of frustration. You cannot demand to never see a pylon and then turn round and complain about your electricity bills. The press/public are fundamentally unserious about this. I got mildly radicalized when I read that someone was trying to block an offshore connection using the presence of "grade 2 listed concrete anti-tank cubes" on the beach.

Edit: example of listed cubes https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1...
People want to remain valuable and this tool takes that away. As long as you still find meaningful ways to contribute, all is good. But this says nothing about all the skills mastered that have been rendered effectively useless. And in time, as this tool gets better, it could rob you of the agency to change your environment.
> It's not about being right, it's about appearing to be right

What you need is a LLM.
> "is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it."

Does this not explain why you just got your PhD in this? ("This" being broad, but "NLP and creative text generation" sounds like it's in the same ballpark as LLMs.)
Honestly it feels a bit like pissing one's pants to get some warmth in winter. It solves the immediate problem, but how it works out in the end...
I don't think best minds ever implied empathy or even should.

Best, to me, means people who are the top of their specialty, whether it be mathematics, astrophysics, rocketry, economics, business, politics, pedagogy, archeology, etc. People with unnerving dedication and pursuit of knowledge to advance whatever their specialty is. It could be the marketing most of us loathe but it can also be any of the above and more and only a few pursuits only tangentially imply empathy.
Tries to turn on mfa for my super-fund

Options (sms or email)

I wonder how this could have happened...
This has to be a clumsy attempt at a willfully deceptive comment, right? The aggressor starts the war, but the defender will not sit by idly. They must fight back. Do you somehow think only China will do this? The US is about to get its comeuppance in a very painful way.
You're referring to the Space Weather Prediction Research Center website, yes? I just checked the Newsroom for NOAA SWPC. There was nothing mentioned. I also visited their social media at https://x.com/nwsswpc and https://www.facebook.com/NWSSWPC/ Nothing there either; so far, so good.

NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations news https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news-events/search-news?combine=... didn't list any changes either. I hope you don't lose access on Saturday morning.
I wonder how many of these check and balance systems that were created once but have grown so big they're now more of a ball and chain than the problem they were intended to mitigate.

Environmental impact assessments, engineer stamps, etc, etc, for minor projects that wind up prescribing some petty stormwater solution which adds up to more cost than if the Taj Mahal of stormwater solutions had just been fired from the hip in the general direction of the problem. Graft reducing procurement processes that have grown over time to cost more to run on an annualized basis than the graft they were intended to prevent.

At least if we took best guesses when implementing solutions to ancillary problems and awarded contracts based on favor trading at least we'd have the solutions and the stuff to show for it even if the solutions and stuff aren't perfect.
> Kinda weird to call it this

You do realize how this began?
> And actually you're better off getting the ancient ones because they're less cramped.

Yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Morris_Committee
Anti-white racism is an issue in America? Since when, exactly? Can I expect you to start talking about the great replacement theory next? Are you sure you're an engineer, not an Uber driver?

How would you go about these "consequences" as you put them? Do you actually think anyone will take you seriously when you complain about not enough white people being hired? Surrounded by too many women? Sounds like a personal issue to me.

It's natural for you to feel attacked, as you're used to living under a white-supremacist system. I guarantee you would have been one of the MLK haters back in the 60s.

Also, on the prejudice thing. You actively make the decision every day to have shitty, racist opinions. Black people do not have the choice to become white, but you can become a better person. You simply choose not to. There is a huge difference, and your lack of ability to see that is telling.
I don't live in the UK so I don't know if this is relevant, but you could possibly argue that Belfast has been in an upward trend since the end of the Troubles, and therefore it might feel different to people living there as opposed to old mining towns like Birmingham or industrial areas like Liverpool/Manchester.
> I wouldn't call Republican policies pro-big-tech considering they are behind the Tiktok ban.

The government stepping in and eliminating one of (American) big tech's biggest competitors is an extremely pro-(American)-big-tech move.

> The policies are more anti-regulation, which big-tech wants right now.

Well, yeah. Exactly. They're all on the same team. They want fewer barriers in the way of their quest for more personal power.
The US is, infamously, nearly incapable of quickly completing major public works projects at any cost, and when they eventually do get done they cost double or more what they would have in other developed countries.

It's, among other things, part of the body of evidence that Civil Law may be notably more efficient than Common Law. Britain's also unusually bad in this department, though not as much as the US (the Civil vs Common thing probably isn't the whole story anyway—it's rarely that simple)
Those rules do not work for me.

I hate AI.
In fact I think EU should heavily tighten the screws on US big tech on grounds that their presence is a security risk.

They are beholden to the US government in many ways, and relying on the services beholden to a hostile foreign nation should be considered a risk.
Everyone appears to agree that Britain is broken. The author recognizes that the issue is not a lack of taxes, but lack of care at where the money goes.

Sadly the author I think is getting distracted by specific issues. Focusing on school or social costs. Or specific large project over runs.

While I do not agree with him on many things, I think Dominic Cummings's treatment of the subject digs deeper: https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/q-and-a

You need to read through a ton, but it paints a picture of a government chasing newspaper headlines. And an overall ineffective method of running a country from the top down.

How could it be that an act of parliament is being held up by local councils? Parliament's orders used to be the law of the land. Now it is but one of many.

Often treatments of British decline read as if the authors wished Britain had been fire bombed to smithereens, and benefited from the Marshel Plan. Yet this undersells the British people. They know how to build new houses. They know how to build trains. Yet Britain as a whole is still searching for that win-win. The path to fixing problems without compromises.

Meanwhile Britain's managerial and governing class is so incompetent, it is hard to imagine replacements who would perform worse.
I've definitely noticed more anti-gary astro-turfing recently. He seems to have rattled someone...
About half the country think this is an amazing job and on the right track!

It's an absolute death cult.
Solar Cycle 25 Progression
> In what ways do you individually handle these worries?

> AI automating tasks that used to be someone’s job—tools for code generation, debugging, or even design seem to dominate the front page

From exactly this wording this is good, isn't it?

> In what ways do you individually handle these worries?

> feeling pressured or concerned about the future of our line of work

My way is consuming less.

> What keeps you from losing sight of the good while navigating the gloom and ambiguity around AI's place in the workforce and, more broadly, in the world?

Not navigating it, taking information from good old books, archiving really worthy books like tomorrow there will be no Libgen.

> workforce

What a nasty word to define oneself.
>Damn, and there is nothing to be done after the transfer to overseas?

You can file an MLAT request

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_legal_assistance_treaty

But it's a complex, time consuming process usually only done in cases of terrorism or espionage, not run of the mill fraud.
It's worth keeping in mind that the same week the government cut £5B from supporting the sick and disabled they also started selling bonds bought during QE for £100B less than they paid for them.

Swings and roundabouts: life expectancy for the poor will fall, but we will have another handful of billionaires.

TL;DR: It's not by accident that Britain feels poor.
I believe there's a group [1] at the MIT Media Lab doing this. Certainly others.

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/sculpting-evolution/overvie...
> "In a single year, residential care costs for children have increased by £2,000 per child… per week"

and child is being looked after by barely qualified minimum wage worker (often actually paid below minimum wage if you add unpaid overtime and foreign workers not knowing the laws), meanwhile owners of care services live opulent lifestyles in places like Dubai. UK services market is not free, which is part of the problem.
What makes these EU companies part of the American companies then?
this is the key idea right here. LLMs are not replacing good coders, they're electric yak shavers that we should all learn how to use. The value add is real, and incremental, not revolutionary.
The empire was almost always a waste of money. Very few, if any, colonies created enough money for the treasury to justify the cost of maintaining them.
American here, relatively well-read. My sense is that post-1945 Britain took a sharp turn - from "let's all work together for the common good" to "let's pretend that our country has a decent future...while quietly looting its not-dead-yet body for our own individual benefit".

Well, not quite that simplistic. And WWI was also pretty brutal for both Britain's situation and outlook.

IIR, Adam Smith was very clear about the differences between healthy, virtuous capitalism, and the evils of maximize-how-much-the-self-serving-rich-can-squeeze-out-of-the-little-people feudalism.
I don't think it's fair to call Go and Javascript's behavior "implicit", they just always capture variables by reference.

Rust variable capture is implicit though, but it can't cause the problems described in the article, since mutable references are required to be unique.
One of the most successful indie games (Factorio) has had a strict policy of no sales ever. Of course, this is not the norm, but it is not necessary to sell for pennies unless your game is explicitly limited in scope or playtime. Factorio and a number of other indies have also loudly raised their prices and this too hasn't hurt them. At the least, there isn't a one-size-fits-all rule here.
If it already hasn't been said I'd really recommend anyone interested in this topic to checkout "Gary's Economics" on YouTube.

Even if you don't agree with him (and I know many don't for various reasons..) You have to admit that he does bring a new perspective to the table and (as a layman economist) it just makes logical sense.

Regardless, the main stream economists have not been able to either predict the economy or improve it (for the general majority of people) and it seems that every western economy is following the same trajectory where

- governments are broke and pulling back on their services to the public (health care, education etc.)
- working class is broke, living pay check to paycheck barely scraping by
- middle class is shrinking and financing their lives with ever increasing amounts of debt (mortgages)

All the above then begs the question, who has all the money? Who has all the wealth?
Since the headline is positively wrong, and the article paywalled here's what this actually is about:

NOAA uses cloud providers including AWS and GCP to host a bunch of services and sites under its "research division". The contracts under which these hosting arrangements are provided are to be terminated shortly. At that point those services and web sites will go offline.

afaics it's nothing to do with the actual weather service data feeds.