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Yes, and only being able to do 800x600 on a 1024x768 display.

That was my first Linux distribution, Slackware 2.0 with 1.0.99 kernel, if I got the numbers right.

I already used Xenix and DG/UX by then, and it was a way to have UNIX at home.
Have other people observed the sentiment the author observes, around hackers being less common?

The author has a list of reasons (VC money, business culture, managers, fear of the unknown).

I, personally, have observed this reduction over my career, and I have my own idea of why that might be, my own phrasing of it. Perhaps it gets at the same thing as the author from a different angle.

I think the reason, plain and simple, is that most developers aren't really in it for the passion anymore, but rather the money.

When I first started coding, I didn't get paid. I didn't think I ever would. I was just having fun building stuff for myself. I, and the other people like that, moved into the workforce and brought that level of curiosity. Of hacker spirit.

However, as the idea of "programming makes money" became more well known, and bootcamps + college both upped their game, more and more people started coding just with the hopes to make money. To get good enough to make money, not care about "huh, how does the bootloader actually work" or "Why did chrome just crash, let me open up gdb...".

At the same time, I think other people who came into tech when it was a less obvious career path (and thus was something you usually discovered based on having some initial interest outside of "I want a paycheck") are getting older. They're getting older, having kids, and now also have a reason to treat their job as a 9-5. "Chrome crashed, I could open gdb and figure it out... but I'd rather watch my kid's soccer game".

I think new hackers still form, but they're diluted by programming becoming a career path desired for money, not just for a love of programming itself. I think existing hackers, over time, also often become less hacker due to life slowly grinding them down.
Another reason is that being a fan of less popular tech is heavily punishing to career and job hunting. Hell, it's quite a challenge to find a job even in React/JavaScript (took me a good month or even a bit more last time, and I'm a senior dev), and it would be a nightmare for languages/ecosystems like Haskell or Rust. I wouldn't even want to find another JS job because I don't want to go through a month of such struggle again, and if I were a Haskell dev I would be afraid to lose that job like I will die if I do. Nowadays, I don't even want to touch stuff like that simply because it would be unhealthy for me to become interested in tech that makes my life so much harder and stressful. I would probably think about it only if companies started sending me positions with better-than-senior-React rates themselves proposing to pay me for learning their required stack on the go.
> new Star Fox or F-Zero game

I love F-Zero and dumped a lot of time into it when I was 13 but F-Zero GX was so insanely inaccessible to new players. None of my friends ever wanted to play split-screen because it required intimate knowledge of the controls, tracks, and machines in addition to crackerjack timing on the controller. Mario Kart is a lot more successful because it's the exact opposite. Although I'd love another F-Zero game I understand why they aren't bothering.
> It's pretty established that 90s UI was peak UI

Huh? No way I'd go back to the 90s for UIs. I'm not saying our modern UIs are perfect, and there is a lot of changes for fashion reasons, but there are generally far better these days on whole.
I'm Italian and living in UK (for my sins), so I think I can see more than one facet of the argument.

> Pretty sure the eu is making them payments as a means to compensate for the job losses

How do these lies are even invented...?

Development payments are a mean to bring countries up to scratch. They are allocated with formulas that look at development potential per capita, which is why even struggling areas inside western countries (from Wales to Calabria to Northern Spain to Greece) receive them. It just so happens that Eastern countries receive disproportionate amounts because of the state they found themselves in after the end of the Soviet Bloc.

The European Community was built on the principle of solidarity, and those payments are one massive expression of such solidarity. Sadly, the largest recipients seem to avoid expressing any solidarity back in other areas.
What a clickbait title
The GDPR has absolutely nothing to do with citizenship, I don't know why this myth won't die.

It applies when you process data about people physically in the EU (whether they're citizens, residents, on holiday or just transiting through) or if the person/company doing the processing is based in the EU.
There are tools to do exactly that, like a simple bash scripts lit.sh: https://github.com/vijithassar/lit

Pandoc is a nice swiss army knife that can do a similar conversion with some custom lua filters. It could even do wackier stuff like convert word or odt files to code if you were really diving into prose-first coding.

I've also heard it referred to as 'semi-literate programming' because it skips the reorganization functionality and just gives you nice prose to code conversion.
are they? I got the impression that the crackz were filled with malware
2019 article.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19913362
Agreed. I had enough issues with my router yesterday I purchased a different brand router and decommissioned my ASUS. I was not aware of this wide-spread issue until today. Much like HP printers, I will think twice about recommending or purchasing an ASUS.
Sending a .biz link in an SMS will be blocked by Google, and the sender won't be informed the message was not sent. Cheap domains are cheap for spammers too.
I want to move to the alternate universe you are writing this from.
Followed by an even less sophisticated one.
I've been using a Mikrotik for about 2 years now, switched from an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X when I upgraded to 1gig at home. It works great and has been rock solid since setting it up. I even have 4 port bonding setup to my main switch because neither has SFP+.

However, it was kind of a bear to get all setup. In terms of setup difficulty it goes Mikrotik -> EdgeRouter - any consumer focused router. I've been putting off setting up VLANs for about a year and a half because I just know I'm going to break everything.
Default isn't even on the table...both McCarthy and Biden have both said that

Its just a matter of what deal is made and when

This is a fake crisis! The market freaks out and sells into the fear, then buys on the solution

Meanwhile, institutions do the opposite - they buy into the fear and sell on the solution

Its all engineered once every two years or so to make a fake buying opportunity

Frankly for most people reading HN, you would be better off if there was a true legit crisis, it might actually set in motion legit change that would allow you to buy into the system on better terms
In a similar vein, the developer of BYTEPATH used to use Github issues as their blog. I also thought it was clever. You even get a commenting and reaction system for free!

https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues
I'm quite happy with The GIMP
10% at scale is substantial.
3:13! I had some good chuckles at finding "Unselect All" or "Select all Bows". Birthdates not matching on the one form got me too
Another reminder that I'm glad to use Photopea.
For me it was that coinbase ad.
“A wokeoid”.

Ok random meat bag 7,747,345,008

Like you’re a divine mandate who sees all just correct

bratgpttamer to me means “one of billions of meaningless primates”
if they can make the floating elephant magic leap failed to deliver, that would be great
I'm still annoyed that ICANN approved .org without sparing a thought for the poor users of emacs org-mode which had been released -18 years earlier!
i don't know much about Europe, would you mind adding some sophistication to above comment?
I think that’s a little harsh. I honestly think the anecdote at the beginning was shoehorned in as some kind of clumsy attempt to add personality. But the dirt/surface/air framework seems useful to me.
I think of audiobooks as a very different form from books; I read lots of books, but listen to almost no audiobooks, though I've bought a few, and have listened to my favourite, Spider Robinson reading a collection of Heinlein short stories, a few times.

For me, books allow me to listen (with my mind's inner voice) to the author's voice directly; a human's dramatic performance gets between my imagination and the author.

When I want to enjoy hands- and eyes-free reading, I turn on TTS in my ebook-reading app; the mechanical, robotic voice doesn't get between me and the author. It's more like reading with my eyes.

Back before Android, I'd use flite (Festival Lite, a simple, single-file, pure-C spinoff of the Festival TTS research project) to convert a few books from txt to wav, then to ogg, and load them on an iRiver before a long drive.

I do like Librivox as a recommendation service; there's a lot of books in Project Gutenberg, but the ones that get to Librivox had one or more volunteers who thought that book worth the time and effort to read aloud.
It sounds like you are advocating for the deeply fascistic concept of "personal responsibility". Not a good look.
> Or maybe consider this is a somewhat necessary evil for the service provided

No.

Monetisation is needed, going to extremes is not. The quest for infinite growth has created these extremes, it is indeed to blame. User # is exhausted, now it's time for more $ per user. Profitability is not enough, more money needs to be made, and when imagination is lacking to find more business areas, you simply fuck up the users or customers of your products which have the biggest lock-in.
Hackers are using malicious Microsoft VSCode extensions to steal passwords
Spirit Tracks is usually considered better than Phantom Hourglass, but in a "cream of the crap" type of way.
I think that "familiarity breeds contempt" is probably a closer translation there, and a phrase that most English speakers would have heard before
Other than games, I'm not convinced. I do think there's an interesting use case for sports and music. Imagine being able to walk around on the field during the superbowl or on stage at a concert. But then it becomes a how do you capture it so you can walk around a real, live event problem.
And the Switch has a 60hz display too and people can connect it to whatever display they have. It's just Nintendo hellbent on the 30fps. Even though there are games with perfect 60fps gameplay on the Switch from Nintendo too not just 3rd parties.
Yes, it's amazing. The story is better, the dungeons are better, and the weapon durability is further reduced in impact due to continually finding new weapon attachments on enemies.

And you are listing pretty much the lower priority parts of the game - the exploration, density of content, core mechanics, innovation, insane freedom, variety of content, is absolute magic. It definitely plays like BOTW so you may not like it if you didn't like BOTW, but to say it doesn't have a lot of meaningful improvements is simply inaccurate.
“Our side”

You don’t speak for me.

I don’t actually care you specifically exist.

Just pragmatism; whether you exist or not is not up to me. I’m not going out of my way to insure you do.
The only .biz I've ever interacted with is Minimus.biz, and it looks like they've barely touched their site since 2006. Just the way I like it, honestly.

Other than that, yeah, it's a cesspool.
Modernization does help with that sort of thing in some ways. But it also often adds complexity, higher dependency counts, etc.

The complexity is inside opaque boxes that BT deploys though. Rather than fixing things like they did in the past, sitting at the end of a street patching cables in a roadside cabinet, BT's engineers of the future will just unclip a box that's returning an error code and plug in a new one. Or someone in a NOC will reset it from 300 miles away. Maybe some AI will do that. Or a cron job. With fibre networks once the cabinet is installed and plugged into the network there's very little physical work to do. That's what engineers do now - manually splicing and connecting copper wire. That's the work that's going away.
> I don't think there is a consumer market for head mounted AR anymore - if there ever really was

I suspect there's a market there, but only if the device can be made to look like a pair of fashionable sunglasses, and was driven by the phone in your pocket, adding a customizable HUD to the real world, doing all sorts of things, from translating foreign-language text to overlaying directions or providing real-time info about the bus or train you're trying to catch.

But for now, that's science fiction. Even if we could make the screens/optics work, the glasses still need power, and batteries are still relatively bulky. It wouldn't be much use if it had a short battery life, or drained your phone battery too fast.
Show HN: Open-Source ChatGPT Code Interpreter
Hi friends!

I've been waiting for ChatGPT Code Interpreter access for so long that I decided to just build my own.

I figured maybe some of you are in the same boat so decided to do it as an Open Source project.
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CRDT-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue
It's actually pretty incredible for how well it runs and how good it looks on Switch. Focusing on a few FPS drops like this is really missing the forest for the trees.
Fun factoid about the Rimac Nevera: it's a crappy name in Spanish (European flavour). Nevera means fridge and it's used in everyday language. It sounds really uninteresting.

Now that we're a bit off topic... let's talk about Mitsubishi Pajero. Also used in everyday language in Spanish and it means 'wanker' (UK) or 'jerkoff' (USA). They had to change the name in some markets because it sounded really funny and/or awful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
Sorry, does this answer my question somehow?
Jews by the time of Jesus were very diverse just as they are today. Even in Judea itself you would find very different opinions on how "the law" (Halacha) should be interpreted. Most would probably find it silly and impractical to not use Roman coins. The point of Matthew 22:15-22 may be that. The Pharisee hands him a coin with the image of the emperor on it and Jesus reminds him that "Hey, you shouldn't be touching this at all. You hypocrite!"
One might be forgiven for believing there to be an implicit offer of indemnity for such software products.
Do "strings.xml" types of localization work for anything anyway? To me it just seems to let garbages match originals easily and giving false sense of accuracy to English speakers.
Take a picture and move to a blackboard inside.
Yes but most people buy a Nintendo console to play their 1st party games or console exclusive games.

That is Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Pokemon, etc.

If you could play them on PC or Android very few consoles would be sold.
it's passive fibre replacing copper placed in the ground 80 years ago

it's going to be more reliable even if they completely screw everything up
> If they can figure out how to run AI workloads at fraction of the cost of what is costs on current hardware

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

It's discussed quite a bit on this site, but I wouldn't expect Apple to pull ahead in the GPU department. They really lit a fire under Intel and AMD's ass with the M1's IPC, but Nvidia laughed their way to the bank with every M1 upgrade. Even the 5nm M1 Ultra struggled to keep up with Nvidia's 10nm, bog-cheap 30-series cards. In the datacenter it's even more of a blowout, Apple would have to invest in something competitive with CUDA to turn heads. That's no small feat, and I don't think it's possible with an overnight API launch. It takes time and integration into the industry, something Apple wasn't patient enough for (see: Xserve).
My desire for "real breakthroughs ... in chaos theory" to be exactly every 50 years (to the day! the minute!) is extremely high.
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media
Tim Cook, unlike Jobs, is incapable of making major policy changes, according to the Bloomberg article.
Why do we think AR will devour smartphones? I just don't see it. I say this as someone that loves Gran Turismo on PS5.

I could see an argument for it growing along side smartphones. But even then, this feels like fantasy. VR only "works" for driving simulation because... you are sitting there. Any dreams of it making Zelda more immersive will have to grasp with the fact that, you know, you can't actually win a fight with most wild animals. Or climb a mountain. Or hike across the entire continent...

(I say "works" for driving, because even that is glossing all of the physicality of driving that fast. Which is intense and would also be beyond most of us.)
> They're basically screwing the rest of Europe by allowing these companies to avoid taxes in the whole EU

The EU was designed to allow countries to compete on this.

> That money could really have been put to good use in the EU

I really think this is a controversial statement. The money can be put to good use in Ireland as well, which is in the EU.
A washer-dryer combo gets rid of that problem 100% of the time. I don't know why isn't popular in the US.
> You don't chug your coffee on your way from the counter. You probably have some other items that you consume before you even start sipping on the coffee.

The same article says McDonald's own research showed the opposite.
Isn't that a "king of the ashes" scenario?
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Well, you can't run TotK at 60fps on the existing Switch hardware, even if it was unlocked, it's just not got enough grunt. The only alternative is make a less-demanding game, optimize it better, or release better hardware than can support the ideas adequately.
There are just a lot more programmers today. All the same hackers and stuff who used to be there are still there, but there's a lot more of everyone else.

If Harvard started admitting 50,000 students a year, the density of Zuckerbergs would be a lot lower. They'd still be there, but harder to find.
Well GPT 3 has been a thing for years (and performed about as well as 3.5-turbo), surely someone's done some studies in that time?
when was the budget that relast time Congress passed was fiscally sound? 1980?
Figuring out how to get to a particular setting or menu generally.
Its a temporary phone number service, all numbers are based on sim card, empowered with GSM gateway.

AnonymSMS has both free and paid numbers. Free are fine for non general platforms and paid works fine on all platforms including Telegram, Facebook, Gmail, ChatGPT etc.

Overall, tool is great for testing and growth hacking purposes.
What is sustainable aviation fuel? Is it meaningful more “sustainable”?
Guess no. That is the trick right? Let's see what people build. If it is good copycat it. If you build something very cool that makes money, be ready being sued by meta...

PS: Not an expert just speculating.
I don't actually care what the Supreme Court decides, but I really want the "14th amendment" approach to be argued in court.
No, the EU is entirely sold to big corp. US big corps are doing fine, thank you, but small EU companies can go to hell. I'm developing software in a French 10 people shop, do you think we have any resources to spend on standards, and a legal department to check that we're properly conforming to them ? Of course not. That means that we can't hope to sell our products to any public service, government or EU agency, or any big company. These very big, very lucrative markets are strictly restricted to big corps. Microsoft, Google and Amazon are doing fine in this environment.
China's BRI has been a great advertisement for the IMF.

1. The IMF gives loans at significantly lower rates than China does. That clearly points out that the donor countries in the IMF are far more generous than any other entity that will lend to the countries in question, which completely goes against the idea that the IMF is trying to extract money out of poorly situated countries.

2. The IMF has never, AFAIK, appropriated land and property for default, or if it has, it's been on a very small scale over many decades. China has already appropriated massive parts of sovereign territory during a very short period of time. That's another indication of how generous the IMF really is.

3. Most importantly, the major complaint about the IMF has always been their demands for "austerity". Admittedly (as in, the IMF has literally admitted this), the IMF regulations were too strict in this regard, and the IMF has consequently loosened a lot of these requirements. But what the BRI has shown is that the intention, and effect, of these requirements is indeed good for the citizens of the recipient country, because it reduces the chances that the leaders simply pocket the IMF money (some still do), and it reduces the chances that the country will be caught in a debt spiral (some still do). The BRI has shown an alternative where the donors do not require structural changes from the recipient countries. And almost predictably, the result isn't that it leads to the recipient country's administration running their country in a fiscally sustainable manner without the evil foreign oversight. The result is that the country continues to be run terribly, benefiting the leaders personally, and moving all the costs off to the next government and/or the citizens themselves, but a few years into the future. This is fairly obvious when you recognize that invariably it's teh leaders who brought the country to a position where they need to beg for money that are getting the donated money itself.

Essentially, the Belt and Road Initiative has pretty much completely undermined the idea that the IMF/World Bank (I didn't mention the World Bank because it's broadly considered far less coercive than the IMF) are an evil tool of western imperialism (which was obvious in the first place, considering the WB/IMF are completely voluntary organizations, and if they weren't so evil in the first place countries wouldn't go to them), and are in fact providing loans to countries that would never get them at all otherwise, at rates that are lower than anyone else would offer, and look out for the actual citizens (including future citizens) of the country in a way no other lending entity does.

The only reason countries are opting for BRI funds instead of the IMF at this point is because their corrupt leaders know that even though those funds are far more expensive, and will invariably lead to ceding sovereign control of territory/projects to China, China will not care about the leaders themselves pocketing the money, unlike the IMF.
Krita has been a very decent Photoshop replacement for my small needs.
Don’t give Facebook any ideas.