Europe is great if you don't have very valuable skills, you are pretty much guaranteed at least a decent quality of life.
The US sucks if you don't have very valuable skills, there aren't many guarantees.
But if you do have valuable skills, it's very hard to make a case for living in Europe. Once you reach the top 30-40% of Americans, you're living like the top 10% of Europeans.
That's why the US has been draining EU tech workers for a few decades now. The value prop from the US is much better if you're a strong player.
But I'm also not supposed to be saying any of this, because like a good little medium 6 figure household, I'm supposed to be wearing the mask of "difficult economic times" so as to appear virtuous and sensitive to others.
It appears to be considerably easier to complain and blame than to actually do work to fix it.
There's an inherent vulnerability if you actually try to fix something, people can point out what you did wrong, but if you never even try, you can't be criticized for that.
UI note in case the creators of this site are reading: having a right-click on the site logo open a special logo-download menu is probably the wrong choice. If I right click on your site logo it's because I want to open your homepage in a new tab while keeping the original blog post open. The current behavior is unexpected and makes it hard to navigate the site.
It's in no way a meaningful solution. If you're settling for a resolution, you don't need a ball-rolling analogy. We already know the length of a given coastline at given resolutions (ignoring the constant changing of the coastline itself). What's practically not feasible is getting every country on earth to agree on the right resolutions. And that's for good reasons, because the desired accuracy depends on many factors, some situational and harder to quantify than just size of the enclosed land mass.
We had a tech industry prior to H1Bs before the 90s. What we didn't have was Silicon Valley corporatism that doesn't value American labor nor American education. It's why SV is so gun-ho on charter schools and devaluing American labor.
Let's not act like we need to import 80k "high tech" workers that amount to writing react components and spring endpoints.
Hardly anything hard that we couldn't force companies to train workers to do, but they don't want to ever help people they just want to suck up all the money in the room while decimating entire populations.zzzzzzz
Also, as an American I don't really benefit if US corporations are doing "better." How does that help the person that can't pay for healthcare or afford to go to school, but they sure can get their serving of Zuckerberg slop? I'm supposed to care about these companies success? Really? I hope they go down in flames.
The problem is that the rich and elite have captured and dictated American tech policy for far too long.
> Bookmakers price purely based on facts and statistics. Their pricing isn't affected by excitement nor by how many people are betting a certain way.
A bookmaker is a market maker, and they ideally want to end up with no net interest in a position. They then take guaranteed profit in the bid-ask spread, which in sportsbooks is the 'vig'. Bookmakers who adjust their odds in real-time don't have to be particularly clever about the fundamentals, just responsive to the competing demands on either side.
A bookmaker who intentionally takes a position on a game is the equivalent of a proprietary trader or hedge fund. It's potentially more profitable, but it's also adversarial against 'sharp' traders.
Bookmakers who set odds at the beginning and don't move with the action must set larger bid-ask spreads to compensate.
I think you are talking about a different sort of decentralization than libertarians talk about, maybe?
Libertarians want decentralized political/coercive power. When the government is paying for power generation in smaller amounts at larger numbers of locations that's not decentralizing the governments political/coercive power.
And again, I can't imagine a libertarian who when questioned would be ok with oil subsidies. Point them my way and I'll give them a stern talking to.
> Writing the code hasn’t been the bottle neck to developing software for a long time.
I see this on HN just so much and I am not sure what this is, almost seems like a political slogan that followers keep repeating.
I had to do some rough math in my head but in the last 5 years I have been involved with hiring roughly 40 SWEs. Every single one of them was hired because writing the code was THE bottleneck (the only one) and we needed more people to write the code
A local "thought leader" wrote a ridiculous piece about software leadership in a post-LLM world, when clearly they'd never actually used an LLM to build anything, or actually led a team using LLMs. Lots of hand-waving but obviously no real experience.
As gp says, there's a big difference between theory and practice here, and a lot of the things we needed when we weren't using LLMs are still needed when we are, but it takes a bit of actual practice to work this out. It's still not at the stage where an Ideas Guy can make a real working product without someone on the team actually knowing how to develop software.
At least in my experience, so far. But the world is changing fast.
You "just" need to know the original merge-base of PR B to fix this. github support is not really required for that. To me that's the least valuable part of support for stacked PRs since that is already doable yourself.
The github UI may change the target to main but your local working branch doesn't, and that's where you `rebase --onto` to fix it, before push to origin.
It's appropriate for github to automatically change the target branch, because you want the diff in the ui to be representative. IIRC gitlab does a much better job of this but this is already achievable.
What is actually useful with natively supported stacks is if you can land the entire stack together and only do 1 CI/actions run. I didn't read the announcement to see if it does that. You typically can't do that even if you merge PR B,C,D first because each merge would normally trigger CI.
EDIT: i see from another comment (apparently from a github person) that the feature does in fact let you land the entire stack and only needs 1 CI run. wunderbar!
I don’t think people in SF (especially those in the AI thought bubble) realize how much anti-AI sentiment has exploded. Go on any social media site besides HN or r/chatgpt or xitter and you’ll find that the cocktail mixer is largely viewed as a folk hero.
What if I told you......that the whole "moon landing" thing was fake and filmed in a Hollywood studio, just like everything else they supposedly have done in space since then--up to and including the latest scam "Artemis II."
That's apparently a sequel to Artemis I, the name of the spaceship in that "Fly Me To The Moon" movie released a couple years ago, which was about a fake trip to the moon. (Look that up if unfamiliar.)
We simply do not have the technology needed to go to the moon, even to this day. All they can do is fake it.
First we'd need electromagnetic radiation shielding to protect against the sun's intense radiation. No, a thin plate of aluminum won't do it, and there's no room or weight budget for a couple feet of lead plates or 15+ feet of water.
Then we need some kind of miracle heat transfer/conversion tech to get rid of all the heat of the sun pounding up against the spaceship's hull. (What, you thought space was cold?) Same for the space suits.
Then we need functional space suits, not some cloth bag that would have zero mobility when inflated in the vacuum of space.
I feel this is not discussed enough. I can attest to this 100%.
Just the past weekend, I was talking with a very senior engineer (~distinguished engineer at a very large tech co) who basically said he's working 8-8-6 (8 am - 8 pm, 6 days/week), "writing code" (more like supervising 8-15 agents) for a product demo in 2 weeks, which otherwise would have taken at least 1 quarter's worth of time with a small team. He's zonked out, fwiw. There are no junior engineers in the team ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, most having been laid off a few months ago.
The toll it takes, and the expectations of AI-driven productivity, have only increased dramatically. At some point, the reality will hit the remaining engg team. Not sure if the company or its leadership realizes, but so far, it's all-AI, all-the-time, human cost of productivity be damned.
Uhmm... I have a local Ollama setup on Linux+AMD, and it was only a bit more involved than this sample. And only because I wanted to run everything in a container.
If you mean that you can't just run the largest unquantized models, then it's indeed true.
they dont care because nobody has a real gut feel affinity for computer programmers or the work, the sort of feeling that is required to animate somebody to action. it's never been a profession with any esteem, and the field never professionalized in the past 60 years, which is a shame, because we now see the outcome.
I wanted to try NVIDIA’s aistore for our datasets, but I couldn’t figure out how to get a small version up and running so I gave up (a few years ago, today I’d get an LLM to show me how k8s works).
Personal notes, and tons of academic papers and ebooks, all of which might contain question marks and colons. Occasionally, I also use arrows -> in travel itineraries / ticket PDFs.
It generates economic activity and taxes in the US and suppresses wages.
Most of the H1 candidates are in shitty roles that are well defined low/moderate skill jobs for giant companies. Hire people whom you can’t actively exploit and those are the kind of jobs where unions can organize.
The alternative is offshoring the work, not hiring Americans.
The smart thing would be to just let people immigrate. Instead we have a weird tiered system with a small number of highly skilled specialists and an army of serfs facing deportation if they piss off the bosses.
The US sucks if you don't have very valuable skills, there aren't many guarantees.
But if you do have valuable skills, it's very hard to make a case for living in Europe. Once you reach the top 30-40% of Americans, you're living like the top 10% of Europeans.
That's why the US has been draining EU tech workers for a few decades now. The value prop from the US is much better if you're a strong player.
But I'm also not supposed to be saying any of this, because like a good little medium 6 figure household, I'm supposed to be wearing the mask of "difficult economic times" so as to appear virtuous and sensitive to others.