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New comment by JSDave in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

JSDave — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:41:33 +0000

"Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks."

New comment by JSDave in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

JSDave — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:05:33 +0000

AGI is when it can do all intellectual work that can be done by humans. It can improve its own intelligence and create a feedback loop because it is as smart as the humans who created it.

New comment by JSDave in "The future of software development is software developers"

JSDave — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:03:09 +0000

Instead of generating, exporting or copy pasting just seems more reliable to me and also takes very little time.

I think what matters most is just what you're working on. It's great for crud or working with public APIs with lots of examples.

For everything else, AI has been a net loss for me.

New comment by JSDave in "My Salary Progression in Tech"

JSDave — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:14:16 +0000

My point is that people making 200k-1000k are closer to middle class than billionaires. So it makes sense to me why they don't group themselves with the billionaires.

Anyways, I think the answer is just based on how you want to define middle and upper class.

New comment by JSDave in "My Salary Progression in Tech"

JSDave — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:15:17 +0000

I have ~50k/year of passive income. I'm definitely not in the same class as people with ~50mil/year passive income.

New comment by JSDave in "Cycle.js – A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code"

JSDave — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 20:19:33 +0000

"const input$ = sources.DOM.select('.field').events('input')"

Is there a switchMap in here?

What happens if the input element is removed/inserted back into the DOM?

"input('.field', {attrs: {type: 'text'}}),"

It's possible right now for the value in this input to differ from the value in input$.

Maybe use a combineLatest and then this?

"input('.field', {attrs: {type: 'text', value: inputVal}}),"

New comment by JSDave in "Convincing engineers to join your team"

JSDave — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 05:54:19 +0000

Pay the 10x developers 3x to join your company. A lot of startups are just groups of very skilled engineers who have identified each other and left a behemoth together to work for themselves.

It's very hard to give 15+% raises at behemoths so there's always people who are very underpaid for what they do.

New comment by JSDave in "San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft"

JSDave — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 05:02:42 +0000

If someone wanted to sell a new app, they have to get people to recognize their brand and install their app no matter what.

Ride sharing companies then also have to reach a critical mass where drivers and riders can match in a reasonable time. I think overcoming that is the network effect.

New comment by JSDave in "Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from"

JSDave — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 07:46:12 +0000

This is why I think it's crucial to find a good engineering manager. He or she takes care of the politics for you and makes sure you're properly rewarded for your work. It lets you keep your head down and focus on tech.

They're usually a main contributor and value good code as much as you. They're surrounded by a set of engineers who have worked together for 5+ years. And most of these engineers have followed the manager from one company to the next.

If a company starts treating the group unfairly, they move on to the next company as a group.

New comment by JSDave in "The Great American Single-Family Home Problem"

JSDave — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 09:49:25 +0000

Somebody's investment doing well isn't a reason to penalize them. Lots of things have had way higher returns than single family homes.

New comment by JSDave in "Promise.prototype.finally"

JSDave — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:34:58 +0000

Yea, the `catch` would probably have to set an 'errors' object on the response. The following `then` would then decide whether or not to throw an error based on that. Not pretty.

Also, I think `finally` makes your code easier to read. I always put the same kind of cleanup logic in there, everyone on the team knows what to expect in that block.

New comment by JSDave in "Hedge Funds Flip ICOs, Leaving Other Investors Holding the Bag"

JSDave — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:06:04 +0000

>all savings of people who don't invest in cryptocurrencies are worthless, that fear may be driving a lot of the ICO speculation.

There are lots of ways to invest your money that aren't based on the dollar. Futures, real estate, company stocks, metals.

New comment by JSDave in "What If Bitcoin – Shoot I didn't invest"

JSDave — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 21:14:26 +0000

How about the return on PonziCoin everybody missed out on? It's gone up about 10,000% in 2 months. Market cap should surpass global GDP mid-May next year.

New comment by JSDave in "What If Bitcoin – Shoot I didn't invest"

JSDave — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:55:30 +0000

Yes, but all the systems put in place to shield fiat from the booms and busts don't exist in crypto.

For example, the federal reserve and legislators can manipulate the interest rates and the deficit to encourage people to hold or sell their USD.

New comment by JSDave in "Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet"

JSDave — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:38:17 +0000

There are other factors that also push up housing costs. placeybordeaux just disagrees that NIMBYism is the ONLY factor. I don't know if NIMBYism is even the primary factor.

For example, we have a small public transit network resulting in few options for high density construction.

There's a construction labor shortage that will likely worsen.

There's a sudden surge in jobs.

New comment by JSDave in "Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact"

JSDave — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:47:32 +0000

> "A house in San Francisco used to cost at $100k, now it costs $1000k. What happened was a massive influx of new people to San Francisco."

Seems pretty reasonable to me.

New comment by JSDave in "They Could Buy, but Why? Meet the High-Renters"

JSDave — Fri, 19 May 2017 20:26:38 +0000

I think it's more common among the very wealthy. When part of the appeal is flaunting your wealth, renting is probably not the way to go.

I think a 1000k 1 bed condo is comparable to a 200k car in that it isn't just a place to stay or a way to get from A to B.

New comment by JSDave in "Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?"

JSDave — Thu, 18 May 2017 21:17:34 +0000

It's not like driving the wrong direction. Lets say you build 3 systems and only one gets used. You are still getting 3x the experience and your revelations could end up being very valuable for the system that does get used.

New comment by JSDave in "Guaranteed Minimum What?"

JSDave — Fri, 12 May 2017 20:33:58 +0000

UBI avoids the step function where there is no (economic) incentive up until the "income floor". Policies like UBI could ally people (politically) of low to mid income.

New comment by JSDave in "React-Move – Animate anything in React"

JSDave — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:19:06 +0000

You're in the wrong place. If anyone was going for readability, it'd just be _.sample(['red', 'blue', 'yellow']). 0 chance of OP's bug, 0 chance of nathan's bug. Understand exactly what's going on as soon as you finish physically reading it.