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by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-01 15:54:00+00:00
> Name another true write-once-run-anywhere universal VM that is installed in billions of consumer devices and costs nothing. It doesn't exist.

Java certainly meets your criteria and exists. But much like the person you are replying to, I consider the "modern software ecosystem" to be utter garbage. Web browsers are just a terrible user experience for applications compared to the desktop. We have regressed greatly in user experience, not progressed.
by mmooss | 2025-05-01 15:54:02+00:00
I did not guess any; I listed possibilities in addition to the one you hypothesized about.

Your attachment to reality seems a little weak: You make up a reason the helicopter pilot was (possibly) distracted, you make up my motivations. The way we intelligently distinguish fantasy from reality is evidence.

> I can see if you just say "ok, let's not guess and wait for the investigation", I can agree with that.

I thought you might have some evidence.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 15:54:04+00:00
When I was four years old I wanted to be a Ninja Turtle when I grew up, so I may not be the best "former four year old" to ask. Disclaimer: I didn't grow up to be a Ninja Turtle. I didn't even become a Ninja, or a Turtle. Absolute failure to live up to my four year old dreams

But when I was a bit older I knew "I want to do something with computers", because my family had a windows 3.1 computer and I liked to play games on it. Of course at the time I had no idea what anyone even did with computers. I also had no idea that in the future every single job that exists would be "something to do with computers"

I started taking computer classes in high school which got me into programming, because I wanted to make games. This is a pretty common pipeline for Millennial programmers I think

After that I went to a local university and took Computer Science. Luckily I was just dumb enough to stick with it the whole time and get a bachelors. I say dumb enough somewhat ironically. Obviously doing a BSc in Compsci takes a bit of smarts, but I had friends who became convinced they were too smart to bother with a degree, and all of them who dropped out to pursue their own path without the degree are much worse off than I am now

Anyways, after my degree I no longer wanted to work in games. I wanted to work in embedded systems. Turns out there weren't many opportunities to work in embedded systems in my local market so I got into web dev. Like I said, not my dream job, but I'm very good at it and it has been a really successful career.

So I guess to summarize:

Yes I was pretty lucky to somewhat choose a direction when I was young, even if I didn't know more than "work with computers".

However the dream path still wasn't exactly a straightforward arrow from Ninja Turtle to Web Dev. At every single step it felt like I was compromising on my dreams.

Turns out that compromise can be really good though
by hollerith | 2025-05-01 15:54:19+00:00
When an individual faces the choice on how much to depend on salary and how much on investment income, I don't see how productivity of labor has any relevance.

For example, I might be a member of a guild that keeps my salary nice and high while having the negative effect of keeping the productivity of the guild constant, which would be bad for society, but good for me.

Also, we are mostly software developers here, and dev salaries certainly have kept up with inflation.
by kelsey978126 | 2025-05-01 15:54:19+00:00
I would rather have somebody with life experience than somebody with an education right now. It's just like how we complain that the AI leaderboards are not representative of real AI skill, it's the exact same for academic benchmarks of whatever institution minted you a diploma. I don't need an overfitted worker just like i don't need an overfitted AI agent.
by ash-ali | 2025-05-01 15:54:24+00:00
last years falcon (crowdstrike specific conference) they for the first time every showed live the interviews of 3 north koreans trying to get a job in software engineering positions at some forture 500 companies. i was baffled at every 'security' question to validate the person is actually in the US gets glossed over like: "my ID is at my home right now, and im in my office so i don't have that with me".
by causal | 2025-05-01 15:54:33+00:00
So that's probably a sign that your team culture and management isn't the best... Healthy teams communicate a lot and really get to know each other, whether in person or remote. Ideally with regular in-person meetups to reinforce those working relationships.

If you're just throwing work over the fence and it takes network analysis to figure out who's doing it...then maybe you should just be hiring a contractor anyway.
by jajko | 2025-05-01 15:54:34+00:00
Interesting contrast with me - I never bothered with such questions, absolutely nobody from my peers did when growing up well into 20s. Eastern Europe raised way more normalized individuals (for their own purposes) than free world did who were not supposed to ask such questions (nobody stopped you from doing so, but you had to come with it on your own as inspiration was scarce).

Never projected any solid path, took every day as it went and just (rather well) recognized those crucial moments in life where choices are made that massively affect rest of the life. What to study, how hard to study, where to move (or not) after university, partners, if and which job to change, if and where to move further etc. But it was always just focus on now and maybe next step at most.

Anyway the path I ended up taking I wouldn't make up even in my wildest dreams. Surpassed expectations massively of all folks that knew me, be it peers or family. And overall it wasn't hard at all for me, but for others who would like to jump to last (most successful) moves it would be, since they didn't go through all those steps I did before.

Moved between 3 countries within Europe (nobody from my peers did that, max 1 and settle - nothing special on its own, but I came from very settle-asap environment). Increased my salary of Java dev cca 30-40x compared to first full time job with cca same role, ending up in maybe top 0.1% within Europe (I know, not SV, but still), while still just 100% employed (actually 90% now with 50 paid vacation days, what a deal). Living in more beautiful place than I imagined existed, in society I am proud to be part of that never ceases to amaze me (Switzerland). Backpacked the world in remote 3rd countries when most folks I know went for sunbathing at nearest beach. Picked up passions that nobody I knew back home did like climbing, alpinism, diving, ski touring, paragliding and so on.

Started very low, so far ended rather high. But it can all easily come crashing down like house of cards, well aware of that. Had a big paragliding accident last year, both legs broken, still some consequences. Good for yet another perspective alignment. Have properly wonderful small kids, thats main focus now. With kids, they take over life so effectively I don't have time nor even will for such questions. So focusing on now, and maybe next (small, not physical rather financial) move.

Am I person I used to be? Hell no I am completely different person, from core up to the rest, better, more resilient and tolerant, vastly more knowledgeable about people and world, yet always learning (ie this site is amazing for that, there is no topic not worthy learning)
by jjulius | 2025-05-01 15:54:52+00:00
Thanks for the feedback, I suppose I can see how it reads that way, but I assure you it wasn't intended as such. I simply want to politely ask them to expand on their perspective.

Kinda like what you just asked others to do.[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859330
by entuno | 2025-05-01 15:55:05+00:00
One of the key ideas behind the stock market is that is allows capital to efficiently allocated - perform well and have good potential more people buying their shares, and companies that perform badly or have poor potential get fewer. So money should go towards more productive companies, although how well this works in practice is debatable.

Passive investment breaks that approach, because you're basically buying shares in every company in an index, regardless of its performance or future prospects.

And if passive investment is 1% (as it was back in the 90s) of the market then that's not a big deal, because most of the investment should still be based around performance and productivity. Nowadays its more like 50% - but what happens when that gets even higher? Does the stock market still work effectively if 90% of the money is just blindly invested without any regard of individual company performance or merit? 99%? 100%?

I don't know. But we may well reach a point where the inefficiency of passive investment creates serious problems.
by whatnow37373 | 2025-05-01 15:55:27+00:00
Hate to be that guy, but.. what’s the problem? The work is getting done for the price you agreed on. You care how it’s done suddenly?

If AI does it, it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

I’m sorry but capitalists that want to have it both ways annoy me. Agree on what gets delivered for how much and get out of the way. The “employer” mindset doesn’t jive with capitalism ya’ll are so fond of.
by orangecat | 2025-05-01 15:55:45+00:00
The iPhone did not even launch with an app store, its launch concept was 100% web apps.

In 2007 web apps were severely limited in performance and functionality, so this wasn't remotely feasible for most apps. I still believe Apple's original plan was a console model where hand-picked partners would get the secret native API. Then they realized the demand for native apps was much greater than they had anticipated, and decided to take a 30% cut from millions of developers rather than large licensing fees from a few.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-01 15:55:48+00:00
Something like this for example: https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/trump-says-signal-coul...

Personally I didnt care that much to have looked too in depth to the claims. The most advanced military's battle plans could have been broadcast widely weeks in advance to the houthis and they'd still lose.
by lolinder | 2025-05-01 15:55:57+00:00
The job market crash didn't correlate at all with WFH, it correlated with the end of WFH and (more importantly) exactly lined up with the end of ZIRP.

Money was free, so a lot of people were paid out of thin air. When money stopped being free salaries actually had to come from somewhere, and there weren't enough somewheres to go around.
by mmooss | 2025-05-01 15:56:07+00:00
> Why is everyone hell bent to say AI is killing jobs? I think its a because its a great scapegoat to blame a machine rather than foreigners and shithead management.

Why is everyone hell bent on blaming foreigners, rather than the management that actually makes these decisions, and domestic elected officials who actually are responsible for and make decisions that affect the economy.
by fhd2 | 2025-05-01 15:56:11+00:00
On their first day, they will get a lot of accounts, if they syphon data and m set up backdoors quickly, one day could be enough to cause a good chunk of the damage.

Saddens me a bit. I like to trust hires and give them pretty wide access to everything. For my own company, I've so far only hired people I worked with in the past, but when hiring strangers remotely, I'll probably have to rethink my trust-first model.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-05-01 15:56:27+00:00
I wanted to cancel an Apple subscription recently. I didn't know where to do it. I knew it was coming up because I got an email from Apple to say it was shortly due for renewal.

It took me about 5 seconds to google "cancel subscription apple" and find about a zillion articles on how to do it. Basically open up the App Store, go to your account, click on subscriptions, click on the one in the list you want to cancel. Done.

On the other hand, I also wanted to cancel a pet-locator subscription that was coming up for renewal (we're leaving the country, they don't have coverage outside the US) and I had to go through about 30 layers of "are you sure", "are you really sure", "you know this will stop your service, right?", "we'd sure hate to lose you", "Is there anything we can offer to change your mind", etc. etc.
by likium | 2025-05-01 15:56:28+00:00
There is a viable market, it exists as a word + excel combination like Notion, Coda and Monday. Notion just recently had an email and calendar client.

And I don't think non-US or non EU-wages, or being open source would help. Microsoft's success is due to the lock in and GTM sales org that Microsoft has. Just see how Teams eclipsed over Slack despite the latter being a first-mover and a better quality product.
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by kkoncevicius | 2025-05-01 15:56:39+00:00
In a way this is a tension between an individual and society. Children dream of big impossible things, while archetypical grown-ups just want a paycheck and a house, with a few weeks of vacation. The extent to which we abandon childhood dreams is an indicator of how much we were crushed by society (or "real world").

Carl Jung investigated this with his "puer-aeternus" (the child that was promised) and "senex" (old man) archetypes. A really interesting read, if you have time for that. In essence I think he advocated a balance, where one starts at childhood, becomes a cynical grown-up and then re-integrates his childhood fantasies back into his character, but now in a less naive and wiser way.
by bdangubic | 2025-05-01 15:56:42+00:00
part of being is evolving... some (if not all) of the things you wanted as a child are largely influenced by your parents/surroundings/... as you move through life and make your own path I would think that I would want my path to be carved by my own experiences/desires/... and my eventual person that I am (which is ever-changing) be made of clay that is molded vs. built by bricks when I was a child
by jononor | 2025-05-01 15:57:08+00:00
Running models locally is starting to get interesting now. Especially the 30B-A3B version seems like a promising direction, though it is still out of reach on 16 GB VRAM (quite accessible). Hoping for new Nvidia RTX cards with 24/32 GB VRAM. Seems that we might get to GPT4-ish levels within a few years? Which is useful for a bunch of tasks.
by luke-stanley | 2025-05-01 15:57:17+00:00
Vibe coding is fine but right now it dominates the pitch, and it's a stark contrast to Vannevar Bush's grand vision of memory expansion. Even if you want it to be more, the pitch makes the name hard to justify and could harm trust building. I understand your dilemma with open-source licensing, but being closed source is not the core issue.

Bush described a Memex as a private and personal tool. But right now, your tool depends on cloud-hosted LLMs, and the cloud is not private. With nothing to prevent mandated access, an intimate mind mirror is problematic. In some places, people can get into serious legal trouble for visiting a doctor, favouring a political cause, who they're attracted to... Not having a solution could scare potential users away. The name raises expectations that conflict with the product pitch, which is confusing and makes it harder to trust the product. That said, you could still launch with API support for private local LLM endpoints, like Ollama and other OpenAI-style APIs. Do you have support for that already? If so, pointing that out could help. The name has serious weight, and if people don't see it as living up to it, don't you think that you might be better off avoiding the expectations it invites? You could adjust the branding, or change the pitch, and work on building trust. I would suggest considering doing all 3!
by the_af | 2025-05-01 15:57:26+00:00
If he's acting under NK command, this wouldn't be insulting, it's just doing a hacker's work.

Besides, you cannot have it both ways: either North Korean hackers are a "50ct army" or they are a credible threat. Most seem to be arguing they are a credible threat.

Also, he can always take the second option: "why are you asking about this in a job interview?", something many legitimate Korean candidates could ask.
by skyyler | 2025-05-01 15:57:34+00:00
>I've been in the IT field for 20+ years, but I've never made that much in a year.

What on earth have you spent your time learning? How do you have 20 years of experience but no specialized skills that bring a modest salary?

Do you not have time for personal development while at work?

I'm not trying to be rude, I'm legitimately curious.
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by uncial | 2025-05-01 15:57:43+00:00
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There's a sequence of interactive tutorials to try out, demo videos, and a janky simulator. I've also sent out a few prototype kits and have some more ready to go.

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by rom16384 | 2025-05-01 15:57:45+00:00
I've also cancelled my Intellij Ultimate subscription, because I feel Jetbrains lost its direction. They've made the classic interface a plugin and replaced it with a VSCode lookalike, and didn't have an integrated AI assistant that accepts your own API key. I'm ok with them selling their own AI subscriptions but let me use AI autocomplete on my pro subscription without further charges as long as I supply the LLM model API.
by jorams | 2025-05-01 15:57:55+00:00
I agree with the core of your sentiment, but I don't think moving the framing from the company to the person is the answer. It makes it too easy for a company to put the blame on an individual that has conveniently been fired (either for the relevant reason or any other) and then act like the problem is solved. The individuals most responsible should face personal consequences. The company should also face consequences. As they say: One bad apple spoils the bunch. (no pun intended)
by no_wizard | 2025-05-01 15:58:07+00:00
>i.e. triggering big price decreases

I think this would be fine if the government was willing to eat some cost of mortgage adjustments. The biggest problem with price decreases in what I believe to be in the way you mean - that existing home owners see their values drop - is one the mortgage is underwater you have an upside down situation for both the owner and the bank.

One way to offset this is if the government eats the difference in some way. I don't exactly know how this would be structured, but if this were to be the case, I imagine it would go a long way to getting more people on board with housing reform.

It shouldn't have ever been treated like a store of wealth to begin with. You're either the homeowner or the landlord, this middle path of being both your own homeowner and effectively treating it as a store of wealth - there by in a sense making you your own landlord if you will - is the problem.
by glimshe | 2025-05-01 15:58:27+00:00
There is an enormous problem with sub-employment. Scores of Americans "employed" in activities such as Uber/Lyft driving, food delivery and quasi-prostitution (OnlyFans and adjacent).

Floodlight making would be a huge step up for Americans leaving small towns for terrible jobs in big cities.

Check the problem with drug addiction in small and medium cities.
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by IIAOPSW | 2025-05-01 15:59:02+00:00
Right, but there's nothing preventing sending the freight service on the LIRR main line tunnels (other than it possibly getting in the way of passenger service, which can be avoided by doing it in the middle of the night).

These freight and passenger lines weren't built separately. They were literally part of the same railroad.

Though I do admit the shortline barge is still a reasonable option to avoid the scheduling and bureaucratic complications of the "Penn-freight" route.
by solatic | 2025-05-01 15:59:16+00:00
I find the number of people in this thread with views against index funds to be disturbing.

When you invest in an American stock market index fund, you get a highly diversified financial instrument at a fee that is so low that it is nearly free. You're buying into the proceeds of the strongest cultural force that is stronger in America than anywhere else in the world: greed. The force underlying your investment is that every CEO of every public company in America is working to make you richer, because if they succeed at making you richer, they've made themselves much richer in the process. You are investing in the greed of thousands of public company CEOs. When their greed pays off, you get paid off.

No American president, least of all Donald Trump, is going to stop the raw power of American greed, and that's not going to change without some kind of religious revolution of morals in a country that has become increasingly less religious over time.