skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big part of why programming is front loaded is that it's an incredibly new field. The entire field hasn't existed for more than 70 years. And that was if you count "Niche academic field that a few dozen mathematicians knew about" as the start.

It didn't become like a job job until what, the mid 1960's? That's 60 years ago.

And the number of programmers is doubling every ~5 years. Of course it's front-loaded with young people! The people who have been doing this for the field's entire time of mass popularity (1980's onwards imo) haven't even had time to get proper old yet.

But also: The more experienced you are, the more your biggest value isn't in banging keys on the keyboard. A company would much rather leverage your thoughts and opinions and that may look a lot more like technical leadership than programming. Even though it's still engineering.
Scientists can now build structures with swarms of flying drones
I think it depends on the subreddit. E.g. this is archived: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/hmoabi/ive_designed...
Go ahead but that's a lot of expense and/or land needed, and isn't relevant to most people

But also it's silly of you to equate "lab grown meat" to stuff that's just different plants processed and mixed.
I don’t blame it on the new generation at all and the boomer zoomer dichotomy bothers me quite a bit. I just want us all to steer away from this disaster in the making.
Alternately, take out the footguns.

I saw a team of data scientists brought to their knees by

pip --user install some-package

because these packages would infect all of their venv's, including anaconda.

When they were just screwing around with Jupyter notebooks to make reports they did OK but when they were trying to create a factory that produced models that could be transplanted into production systems it was a constant struggle and we discovered so many ways you could screw up the configuration of a Python system such as having the output configured to UTF-8 and throwing errors when an invalid character is printed.

Engineering would say "just don't print uncontrolled text" but we had nearly 100 dependencies and some of them would print.

Engineering would say "just use Docker" but we found plenty of times people used Docker images that had broken Pythons, just now there is another layer of indirection to make problems harder to debug.

Then there are all the little things like

0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3 = 5.551115123125783e-17

The route to reliable quality is to make it easier to do things right than to do things wrong.
I did some digging and think you are right on this, and his product seems to require expertise on tax knowledge.

From his LinkedIn, it seems like the product is https://taxaro.de
Unreal and Unreal Tournament ran flawless and fast on GeForce 2 MX DDR using DirectX
Linking to something Ana Kasparian says as if it is insightful is the equivalent to linking to Rudy Giuliana’s podcast, or Donald Trumps twitter clone as if it’s insightful.

It’s just absolute hyper hyper hyper partisan nonsense.
The best theory I have heard for why crypto is so popular besides gambling is that it is fun to think about. True engineers love working in crypto since it feels cutting edge and is more advanced than other technologies.

This might continue even after pump and dump, but will no longer be lucrative.
> and especially on knowing all the ways something can go wrong

This trait is pretty core to who I am. I have to fight against it sometimes just to enjoy life better.
Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories. See the source for a list of nations with globally unsustainable diets in terms of land.

https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

36% of crops globally are used for animal feed. This climbs to 67% in the USA.

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel...
I mean, how many driverless cars are there even? You can just compare absolute numbers. I can't believe I even have to bring it up on here. You mentioned yourself the number of hours. Are we comparing it to the total number of hours for ALL the cars in the same area?
MicroVAX 78032
Propane is not an explosive. Environmental concerns aside, millions of people burn propane each day all over the world relatively safely, explosion isn't really the leading concern.

You may be thinking of acetylene. But that isn't really that dangerous in modern usage either.
I once fixed a bug where the blinkers were drifting on a bus. If you activated the warning blinkers and waited some 15 minutes it looked insane with the lights blinking left then right. Really annoying to watch.
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Sounds miserable and authoritarian
100%. even dead simple things. Going from a team where you're an idiot if you use more than one return function per method, to a team where you're an idiot if you don't return early to stop execution.

One year you need to use gulp to build, the next babel and an NPM script.

And most entrenched software engineers that rise through their companies because they simply haven't shifted around, are so sure that their way is the best way.

But still, it's better than any other job. And I'm convinced the humility you learn from programming is very valuable, if you can stomach it.
Would be interesting to see if it does better if the process was broken down into ’moves’ and the model asked/reminded what its next possible steps are along the way.
Show HN: Jot: Rapid note management for the terminal, inspired by Obsidian
In Singapore I used to buy 4x wagyu beef burger Pattie’s. Cost around $12 sgd but they were amazing.

I’ll admit tho if we compare fast food then I don’t really mind impossible meat. Fast food burgers are very soso.
'Dvorak in America' articles never mention how Gottschalk was hard at work integrating African American folk music several decades earlier. There wasn't much appetite in the U.S. at the time but it was wildly popular in Europe...

Le Bananier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfuv2GzNF-8
The risk framework isn’t written yet, this just directs CISA to write one. While evaluating dependencies is often a part of what you’d do in a risk framework, it’s typically just one part.
I’m fine with “content blockers”. They block content the same way my eyelids and eye muscles do when I decide to not look at billboards.

If you don’t have moral qualms with using your eyelids to block ads then you shouldn’t have with software content blockers either. It just outsources the act of blocking from your eyes into the computer.
Oh man, the NatSemi Geode (aka Cyrix MediaGX). What a system. I'm amazed anyone got a usable Linux system out of it at all.
Are you still wearing a mask and scared of COVID I assume?

The best security measure one can have is being an absolute nobody.

if anything pirated software is an indicator of low wealth and thus should make you more secure not less
A significant reason for that is that the field has kept growing for decades. Of course a lot less people started 20/30/40 years ago than do now.
I met a few people with US work authorization keeping a US residence in a no income taxed state (Texas, South Dakota) and maintaining a job with that residency. They pay US federal and employment taxes. Some of them report this income to their other country of residence, whereas other do not. Some are nomadic not staying in one country long enough to be considered a tax resident. It's a legally gray area. In EU, unless they have dual citizenship or a legal reason to stay in a country for a while, they hop around due to visa issues and leave the Schegen zone to non-Eu/non-Schegen countries like Morocco, Turkey, Georgia, Romania etc.

Many are in Central/South America due to time zone simplicity. good internet is a must. Do note many countries have a digital nomad visa option.
This is actually more confusing then windows.

The visual UI element to close does not close. Instead you must click File->Quit or CMD+q.

These are not intuitive and must be learned.
I don't agree about multiple roles, backend/frontend is just one way of splitting a system. It's not like you get twice as much done in a fullstack role, you just do half as much frontend and half as much backend (in an even split role).

But why do you think fullstack is paid less? Is this a generally accepted fact?
> US refineries are already operating essentially at capacity

A perplexing aspect is why USA provides a strategic reserve to anyone other than USA. If the answer is "tactical price suppression" then let's change the branding of why USA has these reserves. If the reserves are truly strategic, then don't allow export.
In my 20+ year career, I have met very few programmers who can actually justify the claim of being full-stack. Usually it means strong back-end that happens to have worked with some front-end framework fad, and less often vice versa. Specialists (UI/UX, database admins, CI/CD engineers, automation testers, just to name a few) are still very much needed and the trend to make everybody on the team “full-stack” doesn’t work well in practice unless everyone is a 10x developer.
Depends on the meat and its alternative. Later is always better for the environment
Ana Kasparian is a partisan left-wing hack. She’d be considered the partisan left-wing hack if her co-host, Cenk Uyghur, didn’t exist.

Granted, her video may or may not be factually correct but you might as well get your political coverage from Putin himself if you care this little about where it comes from.
That depends on whether you consider taxing externalities to be infringement.

I definitely don't. Taxing externalities is great and not fascist.
You tell me. Is 3 a significantly high number, or is this a non-story? It doesn’t sound very high to me.
Some swear they are lawful residents of said states but do your own diligence.
As a lost in translation person myself, I would say that you are just fucked.

The automatism of your natural language are always going to kick-in.

The best way is to speak slowly and to plan each word that you are going to say. For every speech, I give, I wrote it and works every word before hand.

Success
Whole forums go missing, too.
Nearing 50 and am still coding. Been doing it for last 25 years and will hopefully continue till retirement.

I had a brief stint as a manager, ended up doing more coding than my team. That was the moment I decided to step back into coding again.

For me, coding is puzzle solving or playing with Lego. It is therapeutic. If someone can continue to pay me to play, why not!
even 15 years ago, Glide wrappers (Glide to DirectX or OpenGl) did a great job
> Was the barista course useful?

It very much was. I already knew a lot about making espresso but the course taught me a lot of small tips and tricks. It also gave me better understanding of end to end process and what is and what is probably not as important. In the past I would be spending a lot of time on gimmicks (like a grinder that could grind to exact weight) which I learned are completely unnecessary for the most part. The course was meant for people who will be working as baristas and so it was not oriented on getting best coffee but rather teaching you the process and how to make various drinks. The other students were not super interested in coffee but the teachers were.

> It is a lot of effort - so I don't do it as often as I should.

I pull about 2-3 double shots for myself every day and probably, on average, one another for my wife and daughter.

I got in a habit of observing every single shot I make. I weigh the grounds that came out of the grinder, the espresso, the time it took to pull it as well as the profile (I look at the weight vs time profile in my head). I also look at the bottom of the naked portafilter during first couple seconds to see how well I have distributed it so that I don't start correcting in response to incorrect distribution. I have been doing it for long enough that I don't have to think about it anymore. Over time you also learn to intuitively know what kind of correction you need to introduce and how large magnitude to fix the problem.

The result of this is that I get a very good shot probably 50-70% of the time. Which I am happy with, it is very difficult to get consistent results at home when you just pull couple of shots every day.
> It's not NATO who invaded Ukraine, it's Russia.

Yes, and? If your point is that we should exclude all the cause-effect from our thought process, then sorry, but no.

> You're blaming the victim

NATO isn't the victim. And all it does is making the power struggle between politicians more fiery.

> US is a world power, Russia isn't. Thus it's not possible to "punish" US, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try with other countries.

I don't really see the logical implication here. The history of the 20th century shows it's very much possible. It's just that people would rather suck up to someone powerful.
Ah, makes sense. But then, the OP also said zoomers don't know how to dance. But, as an admittedly curmudgeonly early forty-something, I wonder if that's at least partly because so much of current pop music is garbage. Then again, I guess most of any generation's pop music has always been crap; we only remember the classics from the past.

Back to technology, though, I worry about what computing will be like for Generation Alpha (born after 2010 according to Wikipedia), including my nieces and nephew. Perhaps I didn't help matters by buying them Amazon Fire tablets when they were little, though my siblings and in-laws certainly appreciated it. I feel like intervening to get them started on some kind of more open computing platform, but I fear I might sabotage the development of a new, better computing culture if I try too hard to replicate what things were like for me growing up with an Apple II and early PCs. Edit: And no, I don't feel qualified to become a father myself so I can avoid meddling with others' kids. So I guess I'll just stay on the sidelines, watch, and try to keep my opinions to myself.
Somewhat.

Oil refineries are build to use a certain kind of crude, if you got crude from somewhere else you might have problems.

When there was a minor supply shock in the early 2000's some refineries in the US South got the wrong stuff and produced batches of gas that could dissolve the plastic float that indicates your fuel level and people ran out of gas because the fuel gauge would always read full.

(I went through a phase of filling the gas every time I went for a drive and it freaked out my wife and my son because they knew that story and thought the gas gauge had failed.)
Tell that to the visually
impaired. Never mind those fancy websites don’t have accessibility in mind
A few months ago the headline was "Is Reddit the new Google?"

Using Google to find honest and real reviews of products, restaurants, recipes or any other similar SEO-magnet is next to impossible.

Google incentivized the world to create their ad-centric cesspool internet and young people are choosing not to participate in it.
I am sympathetic to your ideological worldview, but simply claiming that something is common knowledge and being unable to come up with sources is concerning, even in the context of an SEO war.
> where did you find a good developer for Wordpress?

I was kind of lucky that my brother in law has a software development firm in Slovakia. So I hired one of his employees with the agreement that I would just pay for his time, and there are no deadlines. That means this developer could work on my stuff in between their other projects (which do have deadlines). This way I could get a good deal on the rate.

My fail plan was to follow him up closely, and if he didn't deliver the first week I would be able to pay for his time and don't request more work (don't want to get in arguments with family ;)). But it all went great!

For you, I would try out someone and give them a tiny thing to start with. If they can deliver, let them do more. Since you're a developer you should be able to judge their work. That way you limit the loss when it doesn't work out.
Not all OSINT is geolocation and belling cat, dude.
The composer, Antonín, and the man who invented the keyboard, August, were supposedly distant cousins!
> I can make up bad advice too. For example: forget about your wifi troubles, turn off your computer and go outside.

In fact, that's quite good advice.
in fact, a huge chunk of it is threat intel
I think the word might be "complicated" rather than advanced.

(edit: see also "nerd sniping")
I've sold all of my crypto for a while because it just felt like gambling. Recently I listened to the rational reminder podcast [0], where they dug up some studies that basically show that people investing in crypto think they have high financial literacy but are measurably financially illiterate. Note that the bar for financial literacy really isn't high, they discuss that in the podcast too. That really cemented my opinion about crypto.

[0] [The Rational Reminder Podcast] The Expected Returns of Financial Literacy (EP.217)
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/144952992
Relevant part starts at 17:40
They get the maintenance money of people still running apps on there while changing/fixing one thing or another a year.
MISRAble
There's a point in the MP3 that sounds possibly non-human at 0:18 to 0:19. The pitch goes quite high in a way that sounds artificial.

But overall I agree that it sounds very human. For example, the grunt at 0:13 doesn't sound like random noise at all, it could easily be a sound effect in a movie or game.
It may be a wrong and long-stretch of an idea, but what if this is an audio being played into that headphones jack at a seat?

Directly, this should not be possible (input vs output on the amp), but in case the PA mic signal is routed to common amp after keying and preamp, this technically may be possible.

Now, if the "keying" includes some specific signal to allow the routing to PA, the question is if the "keying" signal can be sent from the seat's console. Then just play back the annoying track into the headphones jack.
Except if the more experienced engineer is actually worth more, the rational actor will pay them more.
My last stint with Aix was in 2002, however I still have found memories of using a UNIX that in some corners felt a bit like Windows thanks XCOFF.
Worth noting that the author of this article did not act on genuine inspiration, but is farming clicks for The Verge. [0] There have also been mentions of this (people using TikTok for search) by several other publishers.

Why explicitly state that? Because using TikTok as a search engine is dumb. It is probably quite good to use for searching clips such as (as the author implied in the article) "best NBA plays by Kobe", but it will not go any further than that.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/nearly-half-genz-use-tiktok-...
The same goes for EVERY profession.
Google keeps Mozilla propped up to avoid anti-trust.
- [ ] ENH,SEC,UBY: indicate that DNS is locally overridden by entries in /etc/hosts

- [ ] ENH,SEC,UBY: Browser UI: indicate that a domain does not have DNSSEC record signatures

- [ ] ENH,SEC,UBT: Browser UI: indicate whether DNS is over classic UDP or DoH, DoT, DoQ (DNS-over-QUIC)

- [ ] ENH,SEC,UBY: browser: indicate that a page is modified by extensions; show a "tamper bit"

- [ ] ENH,SEC: Devtools?: indicate whether there are (matching) HTTP SRI Subresource Integrity signatures for any or some of the page assets

- [ ] ENH,SEC,UBY: a "DNS Domain(s) Information" modal_tab/panel like the Certificate Information panel
I’m a third generation programmer which is a bit of an odd thing, but a bit lovely. My brother is also a programmer. The bits in this About just just being “wired “ ring so true to me. There are things that to me seem biological as to how you view punch cards, fortan, whatever video games are made in, and JavaScript
The data is from statista.com. I chose Indonesia as its population and demographics are in line with the terrorist state of Pakistan.
Up front: I hate crypto. I think it is stupid and any use case it has can be solved much more efficiently with existing tools.

To me this blog reads like post-breakup copium. Dude just spent two years of his life and who knows how much money trying to find a market, only to realize there isn’t one. But he is sure someone else will find it! The technology is good!

No it isn’t. And no they won’t. Admit when you are wrong and serve as a lesson to others.
Always will i upvote airships.

I love the solar power potential! And dynamic aerodynamics. And come on, safe hydrogen harvested from the ocean, why not?
How the iPhone Ruins Walking
Hmmm as a 53 year old programmer I've had the exact opposite experience. Because of the large diversity of my skills I have more offers for work than ever before.
There is a myth that "all gasoline is the same" which is not true because gasoline is not specced to a certain composition but rather to how it burns.

For instance,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkene

is added to some gasoline to raise the octane but gas with a high Alkene (or Olefin) content goes bad quickly compared to other gas.
which seems like such a blatant failure of leadership. If I had 1000 ways that I could invest $1000 at a 20% return this year and like 5% recurring[1], why not hire 2-3 engineers get them done and keep the extra $200k plus have a better future?

The most compelling argument was opportunity cost against features (eg the time spent on feature work would return 100% per year or whatever seems enticing) ... That seemed to me to only suggest we should do _both_ (get more capital in the market if required)

[1]: some amount of recurring makes sense so long as things like customer retention, brand value, maintenance costs are factored in
Exactly. For example, Shopify's stock is also down a lot and nobody is saying that e-commerce is dead.
The article is about the 19th Century composer.
If anything nuclear keeps increasing in cost while renewables keep getting cheaper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
I, for one, like hearing about cutting edge research and discoveries. I am fine with not being able to right away purchase an implementation at a retail store.
Cool! I haven't tried, but thought I'd just let you know: it should be "Text Generator provides competitively (!) priced AI text generation..." you don't want people starting to question the grammar of a text generation tool right on the landing page
Neat. This reminds me (somewhat obliquely) of a shareware library in the 80's that allowed a c-compiled binary on windows to be aware of its own CRC-32. The idea was to prevent hex-tampering.
I have opposite experience with Mazda. Now driving XC40
I have a similar background, but still find programming very rewarding.

Not at my day job, that is and has always been a series of mundane chores. I sadly think expecting to get paid for stimulating programming is fairly unrealistic. There is just not a lot of market for solving interesting problems or designing well-optimized code.

I find other avenues to build interesting things instead. At 35, I'm able to build things that I could never have when I was 15 or 20 or 25. I have so much more experience with what works, I'm much better at identifying which decisions matter, and which corners can be cut.
What stops you though?
Thanks a lot, looks handy!

Do you use it?