lannisterstark

>I've always loved that narrative for its optimism

Despite all the European love, most of Europe (and rather, most of the world) is pretty poor compared to US.

>I swear most devs on HN have had their brains addled by inflated salaries.

Are you sure it's not just a coping mechanism (I can't find the right word, sorry), for those who didn't get those salaries to say this line?

Even in PHX my company offers 95k as starting base for junior devs.

As someone who is a few years into their CS career, I wish I knew where to 'restart' learning sciences (bio,chm,phy). I am quickly overwhelmed by the plethora of resources people throw at you when you ask that question (There's Khan Academy, there's OCW, there's actual textbooks, coursera, pop science etc)...

Anyone manage to at least start? If so, where? I mostly forgot my university level science courses.

That'll show me to actually read the post than just gloss over it. Thanks lol.

Despite your username, sometimes it's nice not to be cynical all the time.

This is tremendously helpful for people like me who forget stuff often.

I don't see it as "Black Mirror" but rather as a feature. I pretty much record everything about myself anyway (locally, selfhosted) - so this alone wouldn't add any other obstacles than storage.

a local model that can analyze the videostream/files and answer questions would be great.

There was this app, I don't remember the name, that was similar I think for MacOS. It would record the entire timeline, and you could just "scroll back in time - in real time btw-" to a specific date/time and see the open windows you had and what not.

I distinctly remember seeing it somewhere (I think it was here), but I can't find what the app was called, despite all teh gooling.

>Your comment adds nothing to the discussion,

and yours did? This comment, Christian?

>>I swear, this feels like people get paid to write positive stuff about him?

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>you're just snarky and nothing else

Please re-read your own comment. See above.

>So get off my back

Absolutely not. You said something that was decidedly ignorant(how dare people praise x good thing done by omg horrible y people!), and I called you out on it. I expect better discussion and people skills from someone who holds position of a CTO rather than just "haha you're all paid shills!"

>Even if you pin the "blame" directly on teachers, they have a difficult situation

In many countries, teaching is a government position that is pretty impossible to get fired from. Unfortunately, just like in any profession, there are those in teaching who find it that they dislike it but still trudge along because nice benefits (not talking about US), much to the detriment of their students.

We talk about 'passion' a lot in a number of fields, but imho teaching is the only profession where you _NEED_ it.

I already have multimodal on my RB Meta Smart glasses as part of the early access. It's Hit or Miss - sometimes it works really really well,sometimes it doesn't.

You'd be surprised with some of the reee comments you're getting here.

Yes how dare different people have different opinions about different people? It's almost as if we all should be a monolithic voice that agrees with you.

You're everywhere in this thread man. Did zuck steal your lunch or something?

Asking for an impossible hypothetical and then claiming something equally impossible. stay classy hackernews. Chances are that you would take the 8 million and run.

I too like making up hypothetical insane scenarios in my head. The difference is that they stay with me in the shower.

Well at least it's not farming this time. People have no idea how hard some of these careers they want to switch to are.

(Note: not a dig at you per se, more the "I'm going to become a farmer" people because they can keep a monsterra alive)

I really, really wish authors used a bit more margin/padding on their websites. "Simple" doesn't have to mean unreadable. A small black text on white background stretching across a full 27" 1440p monitor is pretty brutal to read.

That is great, George. You didn't have to comment either though ;)

>Failure doesn't prove someone is a grifter, btw. Not acknowledging failure is what makes one a grifter

Is this why he deleted all instances of the said tweet?

^_^'

Hah. FWIW, it's a fork of searX. https://github.com/searx/searx

I trust myself a bit more than I trust someone else to run my queries sadly. I understand that they claim to store no user data or associations etc, but honestly, it's just their word.

Well. I host a public instance. IP is still not blocked. YMMV.

>I'm cheering him on, even though his complaints were a little melodramatic.

I've really soured on him when he literally went "I'm going to fix twitter search, hire me elon" and then went to public saying "Hey, want an internship? Fix it, and then MIT license your code(so he could use it lol), and maybe we can talk - oh btw I have no real authority to give anyone an internship."

He might be a brilliant programmer and problem solver, but that incident left a very sour "Grifter" vibes.

Cixin straight up borrowed this from The Killing Star. You should read that. It's also pretty fun but goes 0-100 in chapter 1.

> I'll come up with a project I can do at my own pace.

Right, but wouldn't that be similar? Obviously there are going to be people who are going to say "screw it, I'm going to live like this" on a basic survival-wage UBI, but I doubt a majority would want to.

> as long as those people are OK with subsistence-level living standards.

I mean, UBI never meant "Extravagant money." It has always meant something akin to "basic standards for survival."

The entire idea from what I understand is that you should be able to survive just fine, not have it pay for your 98" micro OLED :P

> the longer you stay away from gainful employment, the more marketable skills you lose.

I sorta relate to this as someone who's been coasting by at my current job for last year or so. But I'm also working to upskill myself actively. You bring a good point but I don't know what teh solution to that would be.

Funnily, I'm okay with people not working if they didn't want to. Most people would end up getting bored doing nothing after a few months and work with what they like to do anyway.

Except in this case you can't start that business without getting arrested. You can still get a license without getting arrested.

It's strange that you'd bring this false equivalence.

>I can see why a government might want to license taxi drivers.

Applying for a taxi-driver license is a whole another different thing than just having taxi mafia run your entire taxi industry. Can the said uber drivers even apply for a taxi license?

Giving certain monopolies complete control over the industry and not letting competition in which drives down the prices for consumers is anything but "protecting workers' wages."

You don't work if you are getting 0 rides because they're too expensive for end-user. What wages?

>If I had started an illegal gypsy taxi business I would have been fined or arrested. Why are there different rules for large corporations?

Shouldn't you be wondering why is it illegal for you to do the first thing rather than the last?

Why shouldn't you be able to start what you call a 'gypsy taxi business.' what's the need for arresting you? Is it that authoritarian of a nation?