FrustratedMonky

checking in with my kids that just graduated.

linked lists aren't really emphasized anymore. languages have built in lists now. they had heard of them, knew what they were, but would probably struggle to do one from scratch.

of course i'm old school and kind of think that is basic, but colleges now aren't teaching it much anymore.

Then what is causing hiring to be so low, or the layoffs? Just a soft job market in general? The economy is actually tanking, not just "AI" jobs.

Did hiring managers just pump the brakes "just in case this AI thing is real". So we should see some big spike in hiring now that we know AI isn't going to do everything?

Or, the actual real numbers of hiring, is for real an indicator that AI is already taking jobs, or reducing jobs. Teams of 5, can now be teams of 2 or 3.

Exactly, that is the point. Not that a drone is outcompeting an F-16. But a hundred cheap drones can definitely get by a F-16 and hit their targets.

An F-16 can't get them all. The goal of war isn't to dog fight, its to bomb, and the F-16 can't stop them.

Simulator tech has come a long way. I wouldn't say a simulator invalidates the result.

Drones really changed the equation more than Covid. Autonomous F-16's already can win against all human pilots. This would have been big 20 years ago. Now the cheap drones make it not the biggest deal anymore.

I don't think it is completely about the language. JVM taking more memory isn't the problem with in-memory databases. It is having more data than can fit in memory. Even an in-memory SQL Db would eventually run out of memory, no matter the language it was coded in.

A lot of DB design is around this subject. And so it seems like if you found a way to allow a graph DB data to expand beyond in-memory by allowing it to reside on disk is a really big deal. But, since it would be a big deal, I'd think the big guys with a lot of resources would offer it as an option, or feature. It would be worth investing in.

Big weakness of Neo4j, etc...?

Since it is a much in demand feature. Why do you think they have not done it themselves already, versus what you have done?

Curious if this is breakthrough? Or there are some negatives that prevent Neo4J from doing it also?

? what am I missing? The demo is just rounded corners? do we need a special library for that?

Technically correct. But kind of backs every argument into a corner. I'm assuming also, anything like a paper with data, can also be questioned in the same way. Don't object, I've seen that done. So basically, don't talk about anything, because anything you say is contradicted by something somewhere. Everything is True, Everything is False, everything is subjective. There is no reality. Every person has there own point of reference that is completely subjective and invalid.

I was sloppy. I didn't mean to include science fiction authors, or extreme futurists.

"everyone", being, a typical average of realistic predictions.

In the 90's. I remember people talking about voice recognition will take 50 years. Let alone understanding. Now this is an easy base line feature.

Let alone protein folding.

"How is this not obvious to everyone? As we advance it becomes more difficult to advance. "

It's a type of recent change blindness. Because for the last few years there are seemingly impossible breakthroughs every few months. Literally, things everyone said would take 30 or 100 years, happen within months. It is really easy to think this will continue. The new normal. Really, we haven't seen it slow down at all, so why would we expect the miracles to stop all of a sudden?

It seems like accelerating, and decelerating, are both fair game as future directions at this point.

So it is nice that the paper put some weight behind the argument that this could all grind to a halt for a lot of different reasons beyond the hype.

Too bad they didn't double down and sell the Id Tech Engine and be a competitor to UE. Instead of folding.

Can CRISPR also be done at home this cheaply?

Seems like maybe of the 3 dystopias: AI, Global Warming, Bio-warfare. That this is demonstrating that the home grown virus is closer than we think.

Wouldn't building in the far North be easier than Space? At least better than the desert like Arizona?

not 'just'.

but someone being jailed for having a 'zine', is really a new level. nobody is safe.

I'd like to say something.

But now that they are rounding people up, and Hacker News can be scraped and User Id's crosschecked with AI surveillance to dox.

I'm actually fearful, the war on free speech is working.

Pretty spot on. Nice summary.

I really hope this thread is wrong.

In 5 years, the Junior pipeline will be completely dry.

Seniors will be retiring.

Companies will be floundering.

We'll see a great correction where we need workers again.

Programmers/SE/etc... will be needed again. Always were needed, but at least managers will realize it again.

Everyone says Adapt.

Like, go be a farmer, Adapt? Reinvent yourself as a performance artist? Because, learn Java in 21 days, is kind of gone.

Not sure the technology is the issue here. He isn't debating using Java v C#, and one is a betrayal of all that is holy, so he refuses to use it.

I think everyone kind of feels that AI is sucking up all the content that we have all created collectively, and we all know that the bell is tolling for thee, no matter how much you adapt. So if you see friends being fed into a meat grinder, you can have a 'culture war' take on it. He's posting on line to vent, something everyone is venting about.

Of course, for a job, to get a paycheck, we'd use any technology, even if we are the ones running the meat grinder.

You aren't wrong.

But it is a sad state of affairs if you have to self-suppress you're freedoms to work. That is how freedom dies isn't it? Everyone fearful to speak or lose a job.

"Just shut up and code, have to get those gas chambers up and running themselves, so we can stick the rest of you lot into them."

It was an example.

I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job?

And, I'm pretty sure in "X" language, you can call them differently. Since it is "X", how do you know.

"Bedrock is basically an extension of Minecraft Pocket Edition "

This seems crazy. When MS bought Mojang, why didn't they start with the console port for Bedrock? Even if some other contractor, it would be a starting point better than the phone version?

It's like the old saying "only 10% of my marketing budget is making a difference, I just don't know which 10%"

You don't know ahead of time, where the breakthrough will come from.

There is ton of research that sits on the shelf, and then years later, it gets re-combined with some other useless research, and boom, some big breakthrough.

This current attitude of all research is worthless, so it should be cancelled, is shooting our future selves in the face.

Is power consumption really the issue. Or just more consistent flavor?

So, is this going to allow an F# like language to run on the JVM?

Very Recently, wasn't there a lawsuit against apartment owners for a vast price fixing scheme based on them all using the same software package that was telling them all to raise prices at the same time.

In AI-2027, there are many stages before superhuman AI. Military dependence on AI was one of them. This dependence creates incentive to do anything to not slow down, including ignoring any safety concerns.

I think, assume. With the Military, with the goal of killing people, that there is assumption of more human judgment being involved. Beyond even the issue of a man-in-the-loop for targeting systems. But even generally, that these are big decisions that shouldn't be farmed out completely.

Did not realize there was a follow on to Project 2025, called 2027.