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What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

pod_krad — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hype-reality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570

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# Comments: 377

New comment by pod_krad in "Switch between three keyboard languages"

pod_krad — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:54:52 +0000

Under Windows I use following keys to switch among 3 languages: ctrl+8, ctrl+9, ctrl+0. No Autohotkey is required for that, Windows has built-in feature to redefine these keys combinationations (with some limitation).

New comment by pod_krad in "Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)"

pod_krad — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:42:37 +0000

>non-automatable windows servers

They are fully automatable, actually. Powershell is all you need fo that, plus, maybe, Active Directory.

New comment by pod_krad in "I'm Not Consulting an LLM"

pod_krad — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:56:26 +0000

>a search engine always gives multiple results and it is on me to read and compare. i usually look at the first half a dozen or so results

Why do you think they're the best? You just trust the search engine, right?

>the problem, again, is that an LLM answer does not have the quality of a well written article you may find elsewhere

When I ask LLM about something, it usually returns several URLs usually, if there are different opinions.

New comment by pod_krad in "Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards"

pod_krad — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:06:10 +0000

Excel Solver allows you to create target function with different variables and describe limits for them. Then you may try to find maximum, minimum or exact value for the target function.

New comment by pod_krad in "Isn't WSL2 just a VM?"

pod_krad — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:07:14 +0000

They support Oracle Linux. It is almost the same as RHEL.

New comment by pod_krad in "The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore"

pod_krad — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:43:57 +0000

There won't be any other front. Just stop fantasizing. Russia has the same regime as China. China is sponsoring Russia's war with Ukraine by buying Russian oil, supplying dual-use products, and providing diplomatic assistance to Russia. Why would Russia confront with China?

New comment by pod_krad in "The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore"

pod_krad — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:39:06 +0000

Russia will never fight against China. Moreover, Russia can already be considered a Chinese province.

New comment by pod_krad in "The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore"

pod_krad — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:31:49 +0000

>If the USA can be granted amnesty for its war crimes, why can't other nations? /s

So, criminal code is not necessary anymore? That is your logic? As someone might escape from the justice, why do we need that legislation at all?

New comment by pod_krad in "The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore"

pod_krad — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:21:44 +0000

>Incremental progress would be a peace negotiation which brings both nations back to the realm of economic exchange, and an end to the senseless mass murder of innocents.

Again you don't understand what you talking about. There are no negotiations. At all. There is only a proposition for Ukraine to capitulate to Russia: the reduction of the Ukrainian army by more than half, the near-legal recognition of the captured territories as Russian, and so on.

New comment by pod_krad in "The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore"

pod_krad — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:13:04 +0000

> I personally feel that this plan has to proceed, or else the entire world is going to see the conflict expand to our own borders.

It looks like you completely don't understand what you are talking about. This plan just lets Russia a chance to accumulate more resources for further attacks on Ukraine. Why? Because there is no any guarantee for Ukraine against future Russia's aggression. Why? Because Russia will never agree with such guarantee for Ukraine. Russian plan is completely destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state.

I am from Ukraine. That is why I am confident I know that for sure.

New comment by pod_krad in "Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes"

pod_krad — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:43:08 +0000

>Most cases

But not all of them, right? I don't need scaling across different hosts, but I need scaling between different threads on the same host. And I don't want for that PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle an other stuff like that.

New comment by pod_krad in "Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes"

pod_krad — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:32:59 +0000

I have such application. It scans hosts for gathering some information in several parallel threads. Then each thread stores part of this information in Sqlite database.

New comment by pod_krad in "In Defense of C++"

pod_krad — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:46:41 +0000

It seems you didn't get the point. Why spending my time for learning those things, if in another language you may perfectly live without them?

New comment by pod_krad in "In Defense of C++"

pod_krad — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:03:00 +0000

>people overstate its complexity without much study/experience

The is no need in any experience to have ability to estimate C++ complexity. C++ specification is about 1500 pages.

New comment by pod_krad in "Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta"

pod_krad — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:10:05 +0000

Rust is not only about ownership or ints with specific bit lengths. It is about powerful type system which is quite important in business logic (if you have enough knowledge to use it properly).

New comment by pod_krad in "Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta"

pod_krad — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:03:40 +0000

>Nothing of that is a sales pitch for me.

Just imagine the case, when you may save on a cloud several hundred thousand dollars per year just choosing more effective programming language.

New comment by pod_krad in "Show HN: Sshsync – CLI tool to run shell commands across multiple remote servers"

pod_krad — Sat, 24 May 2025 03:36:27 +0000

I disagree. It requires to know Python, YAML, Jinja2, own set of commands. It requires careful developing of playbooks. It is slow. It is complicated for non-standard cases where you don't have ready for using modules.

Is there a better approach? I think yes. This is Pyinfra - just pure Python, no additional DSLs. Also for configuration there is Terraform (but there are also some limitations).

New comment by pod_krad in "A year of Rust in ClickHouse"

pod_krad — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:43:53 +0000

In early versions (before 1.0) Rust already had GC. But then it was removed.

New comment by pod_krad in "Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust"

pod_krad — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:29:22 +0000

Garbage Collector acts mainly in unpredictable way. I mean it is possible it won't free memory even if counter is zero already. This is not true if we are talking about Rust.