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by omgbear | 2025-11-10 01:17:54+00:00
I'm making a game finally! Merge-three + village sim.

Hoping to actually take this one to something polished as opposed to the many half-finished prototypes littering my git repo over the years. I've discovered (always knew?) that heavily cutting scope is the best way, and been successful thus far.

It gets pretty boring/unbalanced by ~150 turns, but I have some ideas on how to fix. I'm still playing with ways to help de-clutter the board and make use of the economy aspects.

After some false starts with ai-gen art, I had fun learning to color the pixels myself. The process wasn't as scary as I'd thought and the results are better than I hoped.

https://tower3.dreamofninjas.com/

Inspired by TripleTown from the wonderful studio Spry Fox.
by lmpdev | 2025-11-10 01:18:05+00:00
(Australian not an American here)

You’d very quickly rise to the top of the public sector

My brother in law is only in his mid 20s and is in charge of half a dozen engineers

No nepotism (we honestly know no one) just leaping from the right firm to the public sector at the right time

Look for government consultant jobs or even better straight engineering roles
by jmward01 | 2025-11-10 01:18:08+00:00
People can fly in 'easily' right now and just not fly out. We used to be able to walk across boarders with nothing needed or, at most, a drivers license and '2 billion people' didn't suddenly show up. This 'argument' that 2b people will suddenly come in has been tested and proven wrong. It is hard to move, especially when impoverished. It is hard to leave the things you know, even when you have a good plan and resources set up in the new country. Universally, the immigrants I have met are hard workers and make things better but sentiments like this one cheapen the struggles they have overcome to get here. The stats back this up with lower crime rates from immigrants and the economic boon they bring to the industries they dominate. It really isn't OK to spout '2b people will suddenly show up'. I flat out deny your premise and won't take your follow-up bait of 'can you survive if..'. We have survived and thrived with more open borders. It is only now that we are becoming weak and fearful because of tighter borders.
by rsaz | 2025-11-10 01:18:14+00:00
I was laid off some time ago and made an earnest effort to break into the trades. I have some experience in framing and general handiwork, but it is extremely difficult to find an apprenticeship/get on a track to certification. I’ve heard unions are extremely selective to ensure their current union members can find consistent work.

As with most things, getting into it seems to be primarily about knowing someone to get you in.

I’d love to hear more ideas/advice on finding alternative employment if anyone has any. I’m worried I won’t be able to find a normal job again.
by DominoTree | 2025-11-10 01:18:53+00:00
Traditionally I've seen these adapters primarily used to pass binaries for other architectures to QEMU and similar.

Years ago on FreeBSD I created a "Volkswagen mode" by using the similar `imgact_binmisc` kernel module to register a handler for binaries with the system's native ELF headers. It took a bit of hacking to make it all work with the native architecture, but when it was done, the handler would simply execute the binary, drop its return code, and return 0 instead - effectively making the system think that every command was "successful"

The system failed to boot when I finally got it all working (which was expected) but it was a fun adventure to do something so pointless and silly.

It would be a similarly clever place to maintain persistence and transparently inject bytecode or do other rude things on FreeBSD as well
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-11-10 01:19:05+00:00
Because they can't push their finger down a new grads throat if they push back.

Someone who's families very presence in this country depends on their employer will rarely find a reason to complain about being overworked to the bone or told to do questionable things.

H1B and other programs have a noble purpose that is often (but not always) abused to create loyal servants.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-10 01:19:06+00:00
> Saying all that I wouldn't mind even cheaper Tesla - small screen, 1 camera instead of 11, fully offline, fully stainless steel, fully open source - basically minimally tech and maximally maintainable and maximum longevity.

What you describe would probably cost more money, not less. The market is small and analog tech is actually more expensive to produce with than digital tech.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-10 01:19:49+00:00
>It makes no sense that habitual criminals are protected and not deported by the local government.

Deportation[0]?

: an act or instance of deporting especially : the removal from a country by an executive government agency of a foreign-born noncitizen (such as one whose presence violates immigration laws or is ruled detrimental to the public welfare)

How does that apply to citizens born in the US? Who make up the vast majority of "habitual criminals." All the data shows that immigrants (legal or otherwise) are significantly less likely to commit serious crimes than citizens.

Or are you claiming that the 14th Amendment[1] doesn't apply to everyone?

>It’s sad that this has become a political discussion instead of an effort to fix all the horrible problems in the city.

What does Border Patrol and Customs Enforcement have to do with municipal issues? What business is it of the Federal government, anyway?

The people of Chicago elect their own representatives to run their city. While there have been significant issues there, they are improving without any help (and I'd say ICE/CPB/National guard from other states just makes things much, much worse) from the Federal government.

What's more, Obama deported more folks than Trump in his first term -- without masked thugs. And Biden deported more folks than Obama and Trump combined, also without masked thugs shooting citizens.

You're making the wrong argument here. Not because I don't agree with that argument, but because the facts don't support it.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deportation

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-10 01:20:23+00:00
They are banned here in Australia, unfortunately it has created a huge black market for these things.

Almost every neighborhood now has a cigarette store that also sells gifts and US chocolates that are basically just fronts for this stuff. Black market vapes and cigarettes. Even the police in many parts here don't really enforce this stuff.

What I find even crazier than the batteries being disposed is that some of these have some decent processor tech in them. Like this one that has a 48Mhz ARM processor in. https://ripitapart.com/category/disposable-vape-hacks/
by struct | 2025-11-10 01:20:54+00:00
First, I'm sorry you're having problems finding a job -- that sucks.

Second: consider that sometimes, the cost-benefit of automation depends on perspective. An example that I like to give is Ocado's automated grocery warehouses in the UK: impressive technology, very efficient, but during the COVID-19 pandemic - when everybody wanted online groceries - Ocado had to stop accepting new customers. They didn't have the capacity, and adding a new warehouse took years. The regular supermarkets hired people and bought vans, they were able to scale up.

Automation is great, but it can't help businesses adapt to novel situations. Corporate life is about cycles: the pendulum swings one way, then the other - we've just swung hard over to the automation side for now. The best strategy: know the limits of AI tools, prove your agility and ability to do the things the tools cannot do.
by al_borland | 2025-11-10 01:20:59+00:00
I always found I learned a lot more when I expanded upon the coding assignments and added my own features. Not only did I learn more, I found it much more enjoyable. In some cases it took something that would have just been an assignment and turned it into something useful for me. I’m not sure why not being able to share the code with the world would change the value proposition of doing that stuff?

I also have to assume there is some limit on how long you’re expected to hide your work away? After you graduate, if you make the repo public, what are they going to do?
by thot_experiment | 2025-11-10 01:21:33+00:00
Claude, can you summarize this book for me so I can post about it on hacker news?

I skimmed a few chapters and deeply read a few paragraphs and it's certainly thought provoking book-shaped. I really do get a pretty visceral feeling when reading stuff like this of "why would i bother reading it if someone couldn't be bothered to write it", though I get this is in collaboration so perhaps there's more effort in here. Reading the whole conversation inclusive of the user prompts would be a lot more interesting to me.
by finallyspeaking | 2025-11-10 01:21:38+00:00
I’m delighted to see this project evolving and look forward to following its development! I’ve used just about every markup technology over my (many) years as a tech writer, from troff macros, to SGML/DocBook and then XML/DITA, and finally, to Markup with the Material for MkDocs project, as a sponsor. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but for enabling contributors outside the tech writing community, simpler source formats are the way.

That said, if pressed, I’d recommend AsciiDoc[0] over any Markup flavor for a greenfield project _today_. We had to either add or bake plugins or extensions to get features that are already included in AsciiDoc, making our Markup implementation both more complex and wholly unique. That wasn’t a huge problem, because we didn’t have a large pool of contributors to educate and support, but it would have been much easier just to point to a standard.

But, hey! The roadmap includes modules, to make way for other source formats! This is the way. :-)

[0] https://asciidoc.org/

EDIT: s/That's the way/This is the way. :-)/
by code_biologist | 2025-11-10 01:21:41+00:00
100% — editing is trivial to argue against. Embryonic selection is much more difficult to mount clear, decisive arguments against. Let's make sure we don't end up with net skewed sex selection, and not screw up gene/phenotype correlation too badly when selecting. Random selection of an embryo without a specific gene defect seems ultra benign though.

I know edited humans will exist at some point, but I hope that easier availability of selective technologies will act as a pressure relief valve for parents that are potential customers / commercial backers of embryonic editing.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 01:21:57+00:00
What is it that you say on a regular basis that makes you feel like you need to walk on eggshells?

As I've said many times in the comments. I have 20+ years experience working for corporations. All through the me too wave, the increase focus on DE&I, and the general move to try and be less exclusionary. I've worked with woman, gay people, trans, and people of just about every ethnicity you could think of. Never once, in all those years, have I ever feared for my job or felt excluded.

Literally the only people I have ever heard complain are the ones I know for a fact tell racist and sexist jokes because they always felt comfortable enough around me to tell them.

If the fact that we are a bit more mindful about being racist and sexist in the work place bothers you, I think you may need to look inward at your own behavior. Not outward.
by noosphr | 2025-11-10 01:22:06+00:00
> Another thing we can learn from the past is the failure of characterizations like "Computing Science is really nothing but X", where for X you may substitute your favourite discipline, such as numerical analysis, electrical engineering, automata theory, queuing theory, lambda calculus, discrete mathematics or proof theory. I mention this because of the current trend to equate computing science with constructive type theory or with category theory.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD124...
by letsgetcracking | 2025-11-10 01:22:19+00:00
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by austin-cheney | 2025-11-10 01:22:28+00:00
I had my first computer when I was 7. It was a 286 from way back in the day. I learned to navigate around a command prompt and deface some of the IBM software my dad brought home. If was fun to get into things, reconfigure things for games, and just solve problems that came up. None of this was super complicated. I mostly taught myself, but my dad spent the time to get me started and help to figure it out.

I didn't start programming until age 28, because my dad couldn't program and I didn't how to get started on my own. But, had he gotten me started on programming too I would have been programming from the command line as a preteen. I knew other preteens who were doing so.

That is why the comments here are so puzzling. Supposedly this a community of mostly software people. I take it most of these people commenting here lack the focus to figure any of this out themselves, much less teach a child to do it. There is even a comment in here from somebody not knowing what to teach a child and then being completely mystified about it once its pointed out.

My wife is a special education teacher. The common reality she sees (the normal parent) just plants a phone their kid's hands and ignores them all day. To most people that is a technology education, the hands off approach. I really get the feeling that is what most people are looking for something to throw at a child and then wash their hands of it, and the comments here further reinforce this assumption.
by silisili | 2025-11-10 01:22:38+00:00
Not understanding the 'I did everything right and look what happened' intro, though certainly not a unique feeling. Tech hiring slowed at the tail end of 21 and the mass layoffs started in 22, 4 and 3 years ago respectively. Studying to go into a market in an obvious downswing has predictable results. Not that you should give up, but it's going to be switch majors or ride out the downturn. And that's not unique to now or even computer science(remember the MBA glut from the early 2000s?).

That said, I don't mean to be dismissive or condescending of the article as a whole, because I think this is a well written article that raises a lot of good points that are worth reading and thinking about. I find myself with similar thoughts and it's a bit scary/depressing at times, even as someone nearly twice their age(in part because of my own offspring).
by opudrovs | 2025-11-10 01:22:39+00:00
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by Teever | 2025-11-10 01:22:42+00:00
I'm curious where you place organisms like HeLa cell line[0] in your personal moral framework and world view on human biology.

It seems to me that you would consider the harvesting of these cells to be immoral but also that you'd consider killing these cell lines to be unacceptable.

In your opinion Henrietta Lacks still alive as long as this cell line is alive somewhere in a lab? What if the cells are frozen? If she died what remains? How is it different from an embryo?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
by hereme888 | 2025-11-10 01:23:03+00:00
Not sure, but to me the beauty of individual States who agree to Unite, is they get to keep all powers not specifically enumerated to the Federal Government, which creates 51 different A/B tests, to see which ones others would want to adopt or champion.

^^^ Ok, I just learned that concept from a recent tweet from Linus Torvalds.
by aresant | 2025-11-10 01:23:42+00:00
"Teleoperation makes this even stranger. . . There are people in one country sitting at desks, driving forklifts in another country . . . It feels like immigration without immigrants."

This is a fascinating point - if Neo / Tesla deliver a teleoperated hybrid at their <$30k price point the low-skill US labor force is going to be significantly disrupted on a shorter timeline than I would have previously estimated.

These are being pitched as "home robots" but clearly corporations will go all in - 24/7 operation (with multiple remote operators), no labor law / healthcare / pensions, spin up / down at will.
by themanmaran | 2025-11-10 01:24:05+00:00
Honestly I think "applying for jobs" is becoming a thing of the past.

From the employer side, it's becoming incredibly difficult to find qualified inbound candidates. The main issues is AI + non-US spam. Every job listing we post attracts ~200 applicants, and maybe 5 US based humans.

It's a full time job to wade through the spam to find the actual people, especially when a lot of people are lying about location / experience on the resumes. The result is we've just stopped taking incoming applications and only go outbound to find candidates.

And we're a small startup. I imagine any midsized+ company has 100x this problem.
by tptacek | 2025-11-10 01:25:08+00:00
I think over the long and even the median term, we benefit from arbitrarily-skilled migration over the southern border. I'm to the left of the median Democrat on immigration. But in the short term of 2023 and 2024, we had chaos and direct costs. Black voters in the west side of Chicago noticed that services for their neighborhoods, and for Black homeless people in particular, we underfunded, while large allocations for housing and wraparound services for migrants were expedited on an emergency basis.

We could have taken in an integer multiple more migrants than we did in 2023. But we'd have to have the programs in place to do it. Instead, they built a clownfire clusterfuck of policy and procedure all while sending gravely mixed signals about the likelihood of success for economic migrants, which were (quite reasonably, and, in fact, correctly) interpreted by those people --- people smart and tenacious enough to cross the Darien Gap on foot! --- as a flashing green light.

It's not that the country doesn't have the capacity for those people. It does. But only if the mechanisms are in place to on-board them --- sufficient immigration judges, temporary housing, routing throughout the country, tracking. We had absolutely none of that, and the southern governors knew it and called the bluff.

I think people who care about Democratic party electoral success should be extremely wary of self-soothing explanations about how we did everything right and it was Republican misrepresentation and sabotage that got us here. I don't agree with conservatives on immigration and don't think the institutional Republican party is a good-faith actor on this issue, but that doesn't matter --- the only thing that matters is what the median voter thinks the next Democratic president will do on immigration. If they believe it's the same thing Biden did, that's going to cost us.
by iwanttocomment | 2025-11-10 01:25:21+00:00
The early Leafs always had a fairly standard (for the time) Li-ion battery, but the corner they cut until a few years ago was to make it air-cooled rather than the liquid-cooled systems of most competitors. That made the earlier Leafs cheaper, but the batteries had far greater issues with longevity.

It's going to be interesting to see the LiFePO4 generation of EVs, which are going to be far less exciting to drive, but could potentially be rather cheap.
by accurrent | 2025-11-10 01:25:41+00:00
Im not American so can't comment on the US situation. However, where I live, CS grads are facing the same problem. However, switching to trades is not an option - the salaries of trade workers are not enough to pay for housing.

I've been working for 5 solid years now at my current company, Im still the youngest hire. While my company continues to compensate me really well, I think that the new grad situation is terrible.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-10 01:25:57+00:00
They can. What are you going to do? Quit? That's exactly what they would want. Much cheaper to increase the squeeze than pay redundancies.

By the way, it's very similar here in Australia. I don't think there's anything an individual can do in this case. This needs regulation. Even with better workplace protections, the forums are full of people describing what you described and worse.
by yesimahuman | 2025-11-10 01:26:04+00:00
I really feel horrible for people who bet on CS and are hitting this job market right now. It's interesting, back when I was in elementary school in the 90's, parents of friends knew I had an interest in computers and would tell me becoming a programmer or IT person was a terrible job and I should avoid it. That was maybe true until it wasn't, and it ended up being highly lucrative. I can't tell if this is the same thing all over again or something completely different. What I think will be fascinating to watch is how the market for talented engineers changes as the bottom drops out and the pipeline of new grads dries up, or maybe it will balance out again? Or will these companies reap what they sow as they stop hiring and then cannot hire again because no one is entering the field anymore?
by lacker | 2025-11-10 01:26:23+00:00
What jumped out at me is that the author had three internships. Those are essentially "entry-level positions". If you do well at an internship, you typically get a job offer. If you don't do well, usually you can at least get some useful feedback.

I'm not saying that everything is perfectly fine in the job market right now, it's just a lot more productive to focus on "what skill do I need to work on, that would have let me convert those internships into full time jobs", rather than "man the job market is bad".
by rriley | 2025-11-10 01:26:39+00:00
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