I also like to try to read research papers every now and then. On weekends I'll print one out and sit with a french press and pen and read through it, and it's a nice time. (Today I'm reading "Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all cause mortality" by Aune et. al 2017)

Well I think you answered it:

To become a developer, I disciplined my mind to do impressive and useful things. The resulting feelings were pride and speciality and therefore sometimes joy.

And those feelings are gone now that software engineering has become a low-discipline, low-barrier to entry activity.

Am I immoral or vain for having derived joy from that -- I think is another matter, and one which doesn't resurrect the joy no matter how it's answered

Someone said:

> No one is stopping you from doing what you enjoy.

But that's wrong. LLMs are creating an environment in which some things are no longer enjoyable.

For example there is less joy to be had in learning a programming language in 2026 than there was in 2016, because there is less utility in it now.

I disagree with this. The argument _only works_ if prediction is hard.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701440

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^ That's your problem right there.

Assuming a hyperbolic model would definitely result in some exuberant predictions but that's no reason to think it's correct.

The blog post contains no justification for that model (besides well it's a "function that hits infinity"). I can model the growth of my bank account the same way but that doesn't make it so. Unfortunately.

In other words, I can't think of a use case in industry or academia or daily life or whatever, where someone needs to prove that a file existed at a specific time

Oh come on, it's easy:

Does the project have a setup.py? if so, first run several other commands before you can run it. python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e .

else does it have a requirements.txt? if so python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt

else does it have a pyproject.toml? if so poetry install and then prefix all commands with poetry run ...

else does it have a pipfile? pipenv install and then prefix all commands with pipenv run ...

else does it have an environment.yml? if so conda env create -f environment.yml and then look inside the file and conda activate

else does it have a uv.ock? then uv sync (or uv pip install -e .) and then prefix commands with uv run.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422642

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Titling it "The World Happiness Report Is a Sham" and calling it "beset with methodological problems", I would expect some more serious scientific malpractices, like data fabrication, calculation errors, sampling problems, p-hacking, etc., not "I think there are some problems with this variable".

I get it if you feel like that question falls short of representing your own personal concept of happiness, but that question is the standard in positive psychology research for measuring self reported subjective well being, and hardly enough to say the report is "beset with methodological problems".

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