skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in US you have option becoming Amish, no such option in Europe really.

I'd seriously consider it, if I didn't have my own family, but if I didn't have my own family I would be possibly digital nomad travelling across Asia/South America...
Yeah, it's way too easy to get some new knowledge then just use it everywhere you can because you want to play with your newly gained skill, instead of dozing it in only where it is beneficial. I've created many spaghettis because of that before I realized that.
Furthermore, we’re now in a far more cash-constrained business environment, and it’s much harder to justify having staff that have a vague impact on the bottom line (“argue over indentation style”, “argue over which shiny new framework to adopt”).
It's not so black or white.

The International Criminal Court is one real-world example. The United States (to its shame, IMO) is not part of the ICC, yet most countries are and the institution is valuable despite not having 100% buy-in around the globe.

Also the Prisoner's Dilemma over multiple rounds teaches different lessons than when it's a one-off situation.
> Hackernews is a self selecting community of tech works who study their job in their spare time as a hobby.

In a matter of days, I have seen similar comments about HN audience in HN comments.
Is consuming HN really an added qualifying factor or is HN audience a little too full of themselves. I don't know if I can attribute anything but being a bit curious as a quality for being HN audience. I don't think it's true that HN is a self selecting community who study their job in their part time. I spend time on HN, I am in tech and used to spend a ton of time "studying my job in my spare time" when I was younger, as I get older and have a family, my priorities are different. In the recent time, I tend to spend time now spending time with family or learning how to ski or spend time with yard work instead of spending energy on the latest shiny framework/language every year. I still work on personal projects but as I grow older, I have other priorities and things I'd rather do as well. I just don't think I am better just because I read HN as opposed to reddit or Instagram or Whatsapp.
I miss the weekend summerhouse / sauna culture there, and I can imagine that is a contributing factor to happiness, along with the excellent education system, and beautiful countryside. It's a shame drinking and gambling are also central, but maybe that is what makes people happy too. After all, what is happiness?
Where do you draw the line then? Is someone making a 3-day project expected to re-implement everything from the ground up?
N=1 and all that.

The grass is always greener.

I found rural life alienating. Any semblance of intellectual life revolved around the community church and religion. Being in nature and out of the city was nice, and having lots of living space was very nice. But I had little in common with my neighbors and, frankly, found it more difficult to get away from the bullshit of modern life. Every conversation that wasn't about petty church politics/gossip was about actual politics. Rural America has internet access; without bars and gyms and other third places, lots of adults default to doom scrolling and binging politics infotainment TV.

IME, a good middle ground is to move to the outskirts of a smaller town with some sort of draw, such as a sizable college or substantial outdoor recreation (eg ski hills and the like) or regional hospital. Life is slower, community is more tight-knit, but there's enough going on and enough transience that you don't get the pathological downside of slower life: stagnation and passive aggressive group dynamics. The northeast is great for this sort of thing; places like Plymouth, NH are rural but also have life.

Another consideration, if you have children, is that by default mobility depends on access to a car. Your children can have independence in rural areas, but it's far harder. And if you don't facilitate it, their social lives will be dominated by being online far more than it would've been in the city.

Childhood independence in rural areas is possible, but you have to be more intentional about it. There are no busses or subways. This is another benefit of living close to a smaller town center: if you buy the right place, your kids can bike into town and meet friends.
>> It appears flags when used in a non abusive manner almost only apply to submissions and not comments.

This is in accurate, though as is, agree that it’s hard to see as a result of HN not having a public log and reporting of flags.

>> Where is the distinction defined that determines abuse?

Any flag not clearly traceable to a violation of public guidelines.
From the waitlist, I subscribed for it early on and got access just a few days ago.
Even a glance at your own link shows you are misinterpreting it.

> We currently have no non-emitting
freight ships, so there is an urgent need for exploration of
means to electrify ship power

It seems like you are the one "catastrophising".
The main problem is that what you call foundational knowledge is different from what the next person does, and the union of all the 'foundational' knowledge is way bigger than a CS major in the USA.

Your typical liberal arts degree has 4 years; about 2 of them are dedicated to liberal arts, or core education, and two years to the major, so you only have, say 16 classes for a CS major. Of those, say 4 are math, 4 are the intro programming sequence, and 3 are the architecture sequence (circuits, architecture, and operating systems), so you only have 5 or so classes, for your foundational classes and cool electives.

What normally happens is that, depending on uni and student, students will take some of them, but not all of what you call foundational knowledge. And the same with what the next person wants ;). Your foundational knowledge doesn't include AI, Data Science, cloud, mobile , graphics, UI, ...
You don't need to loop with the LLM multiple times - after a couple of prompts and adjustments you can accept the suggested code and make any modifications you want yourself because at that point editing the code by hand would be faster and more precise that expressing every detail to the LLM in English.

That way you're gaining productivity from the all the code generation the LLM does for you and you have final say on all the committed code, it seems like a win-win.
Aren’t lambdas implemented as objects with common interfaces in Java?
Ah, that makes sense. I sympathize with the birds on this one.
I've heard from HR people that, as a rule of thumb, an FTE costs the company 150% of their salary, e.g. if a company pays an FTE $150k in salary a year, they expect to also spend about $75k on that FTE's benefits (health insurance, retirement, etc.) and administrative overhead.
Software industry is just so weird.

iirc, graduates at Goldman and similar traditionally do/did a 20 page investment banking proposal every 2 days.

They're filtering, so whenever they don't have enough real work, research and write a business proposal for some IB deal or whatever line of work.

Essentially, they just research, write, then supervisor reviews, director reviews, nonstop.

That's investment banking. Write dozens of proposals, pitch a couple to actual companies the partner thinks are good ideas.

https://mergersandinquisitions.com/investment-banking-pitch-...

https://www.10xebitda.com/investment-banking-presentations/

And it works. They're usually quite good ideas (after all those drafts).

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley funds ridiculous stupidity, because somehow technology startups just make that much money.

I have no idea how Silicon Valley VC firms make any sort of return on capital.
If only there had been legislation preventing financial institutions from engaging in high-risk investment and lower risk deposit operations at the same time.
Most people are not geniuses though. Of course one should benchmark against the best, but those you listed some real outliers here.

For start all 3 were from top Universities? Gates and Zuck were at Harvard, Jobs was I think at Reed and partially at Stanford. How many people graduate from there? How many graduates of top universities go straight to FAANG for those fat salaries? How many go to work at their rich parents' companies?

Steve Jobs founded his company (with the genius Wozniak) at young age. Why would the theoretical "next Jobs" want to work at OPs company? The "next Jobs" (whoever they are) probably had already funded their own company.
Also founders are outliers, since most new companies fail, you dont hear about those who tried and lost.

Bill Gates knew how to program well enough to get BASIC by the time he dropped out. There are people like this nowadays too. But they wont work as a junior in OPs company, when they can be hired as a mid or even a senior. They probably did few internships since year one university, so they can go to FAANG and earn a ton of money, or they just get hired by the place where they did the first internship.
No mention of the years-long (and finally "successful") lobbying effort by big banks, to get Congress to let them do far riskier stuff.

No mention of SVB's high-risk bets that the shape of the (interest) rate curve wouldn't change much.

No mention of the American financial sector's long, long history of suffering big losses, after high-risk bets on that curve's shape went sour.

And (sadly, once again) there seem to be no chance of those responsible facing any serious consequences.
is mastodon content indexed somewhere? i.e. is it possible to do a general search and find shared stuff? i've never used it, just asking because I'm curious.
> Now wouldn’t be a terrible time to try to bring the brand back.

I suspect there's a lot less people nowadays with the capability to play physical media.
I'm pretty sure that "culture" means "we, the management, like having people around who won't disagree with us to our faces".
In Sweden, at many places that do a materials science engineering degree, it is historically under "Mining engineering" rather than "machine engineering".
I left a 6 figure engineering job to build my own startup with my wife. For the past 5 years, we spent 2/3rds of our savings on it and almost didn’t take vacation. This year we finally reached ramen profitability.

When I look at where we would be if I had kept the job, we would be homeowners, be able to buy new clothes regularly, go to restaurants and take awesome vacations a few times a year.

But the missing thing would be autonomy. The reason why I’m willing to sacrifice so much is because i fundamentally don’t like having to follow orders from a boss or manager. I’m arrogant enough to think i know better, and want to prove it by actually building my own thing.

Regardless of how silly it sounds on a financial level, the calculation makes sense once we look at the sense of ownership and autonomy over our own work. It’s worth more to me than any money I could make.

Ps: if you’re curious, the startup is logology.co
> How very sad for you. Someone running a private server doesn't want you coming into their living room and taking a dump on the floor, metaphorically speaking. I'm sure if you look around you can find an instance where sexist views are tolerated, and even encouraged.

I'm not a sexist. I love women which is why I don't want them to be killed in the womb.

I didn't do anything in his living room. He said "we don't serve your kind here", so I left.

OK if that's the rules - fine, but don't then complain about your friends being refused service. We either have freedom of association or we don't.
Not an archnologist, but I've found one each tell if that their webs are way stretchier than most other spiders. You'll pull one and it will just keep going like a rubber band.
There are services which will host your server for you for $6/mo. Your domain, your moderation/rules, can talk to anyone else.

But if you want to hang out for free on someone else's dime, you have to play by their rules.
> We have cows, horses, and chickens

Do you have time to do your job and to care for cows, horses and chicken? And also work in the garden?
I am working on leaving a city where I live and moving out to the country side about 2 hours from where I am now. For me it's cost of living, independence, having a garden, and having enough space for my things. I'm no longer working in the city, my job is fully remote and it doesn't make sense for me anymore to pay the premium to live in the city.

However, I'm not sure that moving will fix your issue. You can still spend too much time on Twitter and listening to news podcasts and YouTube channels, you don't need to be in the city for that.

In fact, maybe staying in the city would be actually better for you. You can socialize, go walk around in the city, try out new restaurants, chat with all kinds of people, and realize that despite your favorite YouTuber saying society lost its ways, you can actually have normals conversations with most people.

Remember, whatever makes you miserable, in this case, you can just "stop it" a la Bob Newhart.
You will be surprised how much of “everyone hates each other”, “greed” and other crap exists in small communities. Like not going into “right church”.

All these idyllic places seems to exist only on Hallmark channel.
A (mostly) stock Cessna 182 lands at around 70kts - these stol comp aircraft are down below 40. I can slow flight my 182 down to 40ish on a clean day.
9th between Washington and Broadway is such a great little block. The only problem is I get so mad when I think about how that whole area was like that before 1960, when they bulldozed 9000 cute little buildings to put in the freeway.
Because foundational knowledge does not pass resume filters.

A "typical" CS student cannot care about all this and also jump hoops to land a job.
Not quite the same as what you suggest, but I did a BS in Computer Engineering, and really enjoyed it compared to CS or EE. There were some software engineering and practical programming courses, but also included hardware design.

Though I struggle with leet code quizzes so there's that..
I switched from a "big city" (300k citizens) into a village (1800 citizens) right at the beach with my garden bein between some farms, a lovely forest and some sand beach on the baltic sea. Went from enterprise job in the city to a remote job overseas so I can work from home and enjoy being close to nature.

I made it barely over the 1 year mark until I HAD TO do a U-turn and now live in one of the biggest and most diverse cities in germany (hamburg) with an office job again, this time with a hybrid model. I could not stand having to drive with my car everywhere, having nothing interesting besides the same nature spots around me that is worth visiting after a few months, having nothing to actually meet people and socially connect besides a handful of neighbors, and always being on the verge of getting "left behind" in a world than changes faster than ever.

I guess the only people that can be happy in such a small village setting is when one grew up with that lifestyle and is used to it, or went through burnout and needs stuff to be quiet to be able to function, or already is financially so well off that the concept of "having to work in the future" doesn't make sense anymore.

Also its not only about me: my wife and both small children started lagging behind in development (hard to measure) in the village year, while all bounced back or "bloom into living life" and making leaps forward only weeks into relocation into a vibrant big city.

EDIT: maybe I would simply ask you to imaging your life situation right now, and remove all possibilities that stuff can substantially improve in your future, in exchange for being able to look at more trees outside of your window.
The SVB situation exposed such weird kink in the Fed's financial plan. The whole economy would be forced to contract to fill the gap between credit and deposits.
I think the Federal Reserve is doing a good job. Wiping out the corporate books and trying to divide the assets among the depositors makes sense. I believe the Banking industry making up depositors shortfall makes sense. The Banking industry should be responsible for failures of their members. The federal reserve being the regulator with some sort of role.
> even if only half of their depositors withdraw their funds

yes, obvious

consider which business wouldn't be at risk of closing down when half of their customers run away _at nearly the same time_.

similar consider which liquidity focused/dominated business would be at risk of they randomly lose half their liquidity

the only reason why it's "only" nearly 180 banks is because many banks are as much or more focused on "other" money business then things like deposits (e.g. land)
I'm saying the no true Scotsman is on your definition of bad manager, as though they can only recognise performative work.
A lot of people are defending SVG by pointing out how it integrates with CSS and JS the DOM and I'm like "yes that's why a simpler format is better". SVG is too powerful to use as a simple image format.

Everybody trusts user-uploaded JPGs. Trusting user-uploaded svgs is dangerous without detailed domain knowledge.

Json vs XML already demonstrated how less is more.

There are good reasons to enjoy the idea of a vector graphics equivalent to HTML just like there are good reasons to enjoy a vector graphics equivalent to PNG.
SVB bought the most boring assets possible

which is what caused the problem
I can't stop laughing at the name of the website: I personally would have ended it with "foo" rather that something that can be pronounced "f you" but I'm bookmarking this one for regular reference!
Sounds very normal to me, I think you probably got lucky with companies that can turn things around quckly in your last job search.
This emotive approach to computer science might be inefficient but meaningful for rare questions of taste and ideology (e.g. substring functions: lengths or indices?), but I don't see how it could possibly help learning hard details (e.g. what escape codes can show up in your strings?) or even universal theoretical concepts (e.g. how do you use these synchronization primitives correctly, and why?).

From a more positive angle, you shouldn't worry about understanding "a very different model of the world" because, being a mathematical model of the world it cannot be much different from yours.
"You are only allowed to see who you want to see if you have technical knowledge and money to set up your own instance" is terrible way for social network
> AirPods, and probably other Bluetooth headphones, reduce the audio output quality when the mic is on. This is to save on battery life.

And yet people are still not satisfied with the "great battery life" . They want "audio quality". In a speaker the size of a grain. /s
>No mention of the American financial sector's long, long history of suffering big losses, after high-risk bets on that curve's shape went sour.

Can you provide some examples? For instance, the GFC was caused by bad loans, not interest rate risk.
Everytime I try to understand how something in react works I actually look into how it's implemented in preact. Hooks is around 500 LOC. https://github.com/preactjs/preact/blob/master/hooks/src/ind...
React does basically the same, just in a more complex way (because fiber and native etc). But just giving you a mind model the preact implementation is enough.
I haven't and would love to give it a try. I feel very much the same as you. However, my girlfriend wouldn't want to miss the city and the opportunities/culture it comes with, so moving to the countryside is currently not a possibility for me. Another thing that makes me a bit skeptical is that living on the countryside seems to increase relying on the Internet for communication, and much of the grievances and disappointments with the current (IHMO completely unsustainable) way we live is based on the constant bombardment with information on the net.

Is perhaps going offline a key to a better life than moving away from the city? I'm not sure and would also be interested in stories from other HN readers.

Another thing you might consider is moving abroad. There are cities with better living quality than many car-centered US cities, e.g. cities with lots of walking and hiking opportunities, lots of cultural activity, nice outdoor cafes in Southern Europe, commuting by bike, etc.
Frankly if you want to teach object oriented languages, you should be teaching Smalltalk or Objective C, not things derived from C++. Message passing is the defining feature of object orientation.

If the intent is actually to teach polymorphism and encapsulation, both of those can be done in raw C.
How would you have done with just google?
I respect your ambition and like your goal! Good work and best of fortune!! :)
I just wish nitter reliably worked anymore. Half my page loads end up blank.
The mere fact that you're interested in reading tech news means that you're somewhat more interested in tech than the average person (or even software developer). That's all.
IMO the biggest unknown is the subset of people who will have near infinite increase in productivity because it opens a door that was completely closed to them previously. Otherwise incredibly talented people in art/manufacturing/education/etc. who have a lot of domain expertise could be the ones who really come up with the coolest new uses of the tech.
Huh. I must be talking about some other service, then.

> Nevermind

–Emily LaTella
Examining ‘what ifs’ can shed valuable light on neglected perspectives
The people who have most successfully disconnected aren't going to be reading HN anymore.
https://archive.is/jh5nF
Mastodon itself basically has two UIs, a Twitter like simple UI and a Tweetdeck like advanced UI.

And once you get into like mobile client apps, your options absolutely explode.
From the article linked:

> Angered because the government was slow to make payments on his contracts, Lawrence fueled the plane and flew to Washington to strike a telling blow against the bureaucracy. Circling the Capitol at ground level to disrupt Congress, he landed directly on the Capitol steps and stormed into the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

I'm gonna guess this is when they started writing up some restrictions re: landing on the Capitol steps.
Look up my zip code, 17851. Small town, new infrastructure and 2 hours from Manhattan. Surrounded by nature and best Health Care. The area is prepared for an upgrade.
It's actually a subset of English that can be used as a programming language.
Same thing is happening with doctors. I read a post from a GP a while back talking about how it used to be that he got a wide mix of acuity/difficulty all day long. Now all the "easy" patients go to the Nurse Practitioner, and all he gets is the difficult ones.

He's still expected to put in the same amount of time, but now he has to expend brain power the entire time.
I’d recommend defining your ideal work and life, then work backwards from there to get to it. Adjust it when necessary.
See Cal Newport’s books. Also, this blogger’s husband is a programmer. Left busy city for the country:
https://www.frugalwoods.com/
How do changes to the Docker Hub affect OpenFaaS?
Rate limited for what? Totally possible to buy 1000 SOCKS5 proxies for cheap, what's the deal with the limit?