skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I listen to AM radio every day along with very large numbers of other people. It's far from dead, at least in my part of the US.
This sounds very similar to slashdot and "meta-mod". Moderation was done through an infrequent escalation of privileges (sometimes this was weekly for me but sometimes I didn't get it for a month+), but everyone past a certain level could meta-mod every day.

Both operations were limited in scope for a prescribed number of moderations each time.
We could go even further back to the late 90's and the official launch of the Internet, where you see the more people believing in this. When Bill Gates was officially the richest man in the world. But, I think with every cycle, you got more believers. Google in 2003-06, along with Facebook. In 2007-09 with the iPhone disrupting the phone industry, that became a big thing. And early 2010's with the rise of the apps - Airbnb, Uber, etc.

I feel we hit a crescendo with the post pandemic bubble and fed pumping money, that's when tech usage globally was of course at it's highest, but also like the sheer number of people using it everyday was massive(maybe 50-75%+ of the world). And it arguably "ate" or saved the world during the pandemic. It's fascinating, and now we're entering another cycle maybe after a brief respite, with LLMs.
> The people selected to be “representative” of the group aren’t actually a representative sampling of the group.

I believe white liberals are involved in it yes. But I also believe elite black radicals have their own goals and can sustain their own power. In general the elite don't reflect the norm so black elites have different goals than the average black person. A similar pattern is seen in South Africa. Black elites run the country while the norm is impoverished. It would be hard to argue that SA is run by white liberals though.

The majority of large cities have black mayors and a number of teacher's unions are run by blacks. It's hard to see how white liberals even can benefit from things like not enforcing laws and taxes targeted at wealthy whites https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/01/chicago-mayo.... Right now the relationship is symbiotic with white liberals. But in my opinion this is a strange relationship.

Speaking of SA, racial retribution is a politically popular narrative demagogues can take advantage of. It's not unprecedented and happened repeatedly in ethnically diverse African countries in the last few decades. I think this is the general pattern ethnic conflict in a democracy leads to which I think the US is headed towards.

A lot of the Hispanic and Asian population came in the last 30 years or so and it would be hard to argue they are a victim of racism in the US but it is disappointing that they are siding with the pro ethnic conflict side.

> This is the white-liberal-dominated selection process at work.

This can happen in a selection process because the white american mind is propagandized to believe it is subconsciously racist and an evil oppressor so generally white people give deference to outspoken blacks to avoid being accused of racism. A small number of radicals can overpower a majority in that sense.
It should yeah, our builders are based on BuildKit rather than Kaniko, which optimizes for building container images in parallel and caching as much as possible. BuildKit also supports some more advanced types of caches, such as cache mounts: https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/frontend/docker...

Both Kaniko and BuildKit can be run in rootless mode - we are not doing this, instead we give every builder access to an isolated VM, so builds are a bit quicker as well by avoiding some of the security tricks that rootless needs to work.
> I need hackers and now the market's flooded with very academically strong, much smarter than me and easily more talented PMCs.

> so now we may resort to paid novel take homes e.g. write a simple device driver from scratch for the Intel E1000 in C99 over the weekend

There are too many good candidates so you're having to... flog them harder?

God, tech hiring is weird. People in other sectors of the economy look at me like I've just announced that I have cancer, when I explain what the tech interview world looks like.
>I mean, AM radio is basically dead

Not where I am, yes some stations have the crazies on them. But the small City where I live has an AM Station. At least daily, it interviews a local politicians. All other stations focus on the politicians in the nearby State Capital or National Politics.

It also plays a bit of middle, right and left wing shows along with music from the 50s. And on weekend evenings it plays old serials from the 20s--40s.

So it is rather unique and gets decent ratings due to its programming.
I can confirm. When I graduated in the early 2010s, one of the professors I was close to mentioned that the cohorts where turning away from the typical hacker types and to the high-achieving money and prestige seekers who did not really care about the field. The last time it had happened was leading into the year 2000 and the EECS department got an entire building out of it as a result. Once the dotcom bubble crashed, enrollment was down to third of its 1999 levels and the building was mostly empty.

History is a flat circle.

My last company was chock-full of Ivy league/Stanford/Berkeley/etc graduates with almost none being the type who actually is interested in technology. About half openly admitted to being a SWE because they couldn't get a product manager role and hoped to pivot into it from SWE after a few years. I will also say that parental pressure had a big part.
Why spend 10 years of your life to be a doctor when you can make more money in big tech?

It also became fashionable for people to pivot out of high-finance or management consulting (traditional white-shoe industries) and into corporate development roles at hot companies.
Have you considered ''Linux From Scratch'' as an element of your research?

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Building a Linux kernel and system with your own specific configuration tweaks may reveal things that the best of books, manuals, courses, etc. might not cover.
At least you can't blame pypi for ignoring the report, and tbh I find this response time remarkably quick. It wouldn't have been far fetched to imagine someone in their position just trying to ignore/downplay/dispute this sort of reports.
I understand your position and if you're willing to say the quiet part out loud then that's enough to stop me hounding your position. I just don't want anyone having their cake and eating it too.

I disagree with how you frame my position. First the argument that criminals will always find a way around it is specifically why I think legislation should target VLOPs. Nobody can just build one of those, including criminals. If you want to firm up my position it's not that E2EE is the last battle against CSAM; rather it's that VLOPs proliferate CSAM in previously impossible ways, with a virality factor unachievable by older means. Criminals are of course free to return to Signal or whatever, but it won't give them the reach that Facebook gives them so it's still progress even if we didn't save every single child on the planet.

Moreover, I disagree (again) with your desire to pull my position into a theoretical debate about free speech absolutism. I just don't think two people on HN are going to get to the bottom of that one. But with a little nuance, which yes is messy, we can stop the proliferation of CSAM on VLOPs without constraining individual liberties. Just go do those liberties on anything except a VLOP.
Everything should be settled by scoutzknivez
Super cool - we've been using Depot in our CI pipelines since Feb and it's allowed us to focus on shipping / keeping our CI infrastructure simpler. Kyle and Jacob have been super-responsive whenever we've encountered issues.
I agree with you. Marketing to kids is wrong. I think social media is more insidious though. They are not selling products they are selling view points and often at the expense of others. Believe this or you're a Nazi. Don't drink this beer. Social media is the battlefield of the culture wars and I don't want my kids to be casualties.
Depending on the database you’re using, you don’t have to do that right now. I’m looking at you, PLV8
It's everything. Work from home. Self-check-out at the grocery store. Delivery of everything. Telemedicine. Cars instead of walkable neighborhoods or mass transit (or even bicycles). The decline of church attendance. I can't think of one social trend pushing us toward more face-to-face interactions.

If it's spanning this many different trends, I think there ought to be some larger thing driving it, but I can't put my finger on what it is.
No, it's a famous comment that has become sort of a HN/hackerspace meme.
> I like exceptions. You can't get away from them

I hope you never program any safety critical machinery. I don't mean exceptions cannot be useful, just that there are circumstances where they are useful and circumstances where they are not.
Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral and Briefly Spooked Stocks
Couldnt they also be stopped by simple ditches / dugouts - maybe guarded by some warriors with spears?
Elites? I think our definitions vary widely here.
Yeah. I think people saying more realistic interactions would not be fun or popular are lacking in imagination. The real problem with those games is the divorce from reality of bulldozing.

Imagine bulldozing is as expensive, complicated, and despised as in real life.

Then imagine having to fight against infrastructure cost overruns. You play a city building game, and you don't have access to roads (cars haven't been invented) so you want to put rails everywhere. You do that, but then you realise later how expensive and complicated it is to remove some rails to put down roads.

Imagine the game stopping, and telling you that the cost of roads will double when you unpause the game. You'd have to manage putting down more road than you need and the consequences of overreach.

It could be super fun.
As neither a parent nor a teenager, I find this a weird one to leave with me. I merely repeated some valid concerns, to which you presented no solutions, just snippiness.

What workarounds am I looking for? And for whom? Why aren't the people concerned looking for their own workarounds?
I don't like to mix popularity with ability or capability. Lars as entertainer, or even song writter? 10 out of 10. Lars as a drummer? Meh, at best. Any good drummer is entitled to wrinkle the nose when he has to read "Lars is a top drummer", when they really mean "I like Metallica a lot, and their drummer is called Lars".
Couldn't you just re-trigger the click with some MIDI control?
> Fast forward to the first emergency that actually needs this and you're gonna see a bunch of asphyxiation deaths from people running their cars in the garage to listen to the last AM radio they have.

In almost every car you can run the radio off just the battery without the engine and most people have at least one radio in their home besides their car. (If you don't have one, you really should and they're only $10 on Amazon.)

> If they really want to keep AM radio viable start a public awareness campaign about its importance and make radios available for free.

Public awareness campaigns won't pay the bills for radio stations. This is about ensuring there is enough of a market for AM radio stations (since most radio listening is done in the car these days) that they can sustain themselves from ad sales so they can fulfill their public service function in the event of an emergency without (direct) government subsidies to keep the lights on.
Speaking as a tenured PI in the (applied) physical sciences, everything here is true but a lot of it boils down to a lack of perspective and imagination by many faculty running labs.

There are many positive examples out there of ensuring student career success in a supportive lab environment while also producing good research. These need to be amplified as role models.
In my youth, console gamers were considered basement dwelling weirdos by normal people and PC gamers were considered weirdos by console gamers. Such was the hierarchy.
Yeah, it will vary with the discipline/major and possibly also the rank of the university. My point was that from what I've seen, the startup vs BigCorp dichotomy wasn't as clear cut as you describe. Also, there is the third category: Small business. Few grad students, and relatively low pressure.
Really cool. I've spent a lot of time digging through your code in aquatic :) It's a really cool project!
IIRC they saw initial success but saw diminishing returns as it was figured out that they scare quite easily by fire, loud noises, pike formations, etc. If you manage to panic an elephant still in the enemy lines it can do quite some damage to their troops.
Back in 1997 when I joined college for computer Science in California, in any class there was maybe 1, occasionally 2 people that were in the class because they loved technology, and wanted to be in due to passion.

Everyone else was in it because computers paid well.

Not to say that people didn’t work hard or eventually become skilled. Just that money was the driving force more than anything.
So nobody gonna be held responsible as usual? It just happened on it's own
This statement sounds cynical.

I hate the fact that I agree - feeling cynical myself.

At this point when I read about $megacorp moving production to the US, I see an indication of globalization-level exploitation and profits being applied to the US labor market.
I always use 2% kosher or sea salt for my sourdough.
Cool post guys.
Creativity isn't over, but being able to support a family with creative work is going to get a lot harder.
> exterminated

Were they? Or was it a consequence of changing climate from the Ice Age?
That seems unintuitive given that we had 56K modems running over telephone systems also designed to carry human-audible audio.
There are so many contradicting studies from experts that I have lost interest. Too much of anything is bad. But how much is OK for kids? I see very young kids exposed to content, philosophy and culture that's
not native to their parents.
That's the reason, yes. That makes cars mote expensive.

On the other side there are levels for unwanted radio emissions, how do the cars pass them? How do cheap cell phone chargers pass them? Or is nobody looking at this?
In a video with Will Tennyson he mentioned that he keeps his body fat at 5%. Such low numbers will naturally give you a sunken look.
That is a ridiculous response to what I wrote; it's not in any way an injustice to be required not to sexually harass other people.

Both women and men are very capable of interacting normally and forming productive working relationships with members of the opposite sex, regardless of how attractive they are.
> When I worked for a computer systems company, pretty much all the PMs had technical degrees of one sort or another, many had worked as engineers, and a fair number had MBAs as well.

This is pretty much the same now. I am on a ~40 person Product team and only a small number of people do not have a technical background. The vast majority of IC PMs at higher seniority have a technical background. Most MBAs you meet in tech companies are people who were technical and went back to school, although there are a few PMs that are more focused on business analysis and marketing side (sometimes categorized as PMMs or Outbound PMs in some companies) and these folks tend to be less technical, but also doing less technical work, so that's perfectly okay.
There's so much consensus in the community that Cities Skylines is the actual greatest, that I'm inclined to believe this is an intentional clickbait from RPS.

They grabbed this thing which isn't even a thing and turned into some buzz.
When it comes to renting a property, tenants have the right to expect a safe and habitable living environment. Unfortunately, many individuals and families in Manchester find themselves facing various housing disrepair issues that negatively impact their quality of life.
Bought but almost never played 4. Simcity 2000 was pretty clunky and 3000 was the right amount of updated graphics and mechanics while maintaining the original fun. It seems impossible to get my original Simcity 3000 CD working on modern hardware...
previously the only socially acceptable legitimate career paths for new grads from top colleges were finance, consulting, medical+law+business school, PhD (for nerds), and maybe working for Congress or a policy think tank. anything else and other people's parents would pity your parents at graduation.

probably about 10 years ago big tech got added to this list. not sure exactly why. maybe they just got big enough to start doing serious campus recruiting.
I really wish they'd give podman-compose some love.
Ironically, that sub wasn't banned for supporting a right-wing political candidate but for repeatedly refusing to action content calling for violence against law enforcement.
Social media is an important way for kids to communicate to a group of people outside of their immediate friends. Kids born before broadband did not have the option to communicate in the same way, and trying to live that way now will do more harm than good. It's similar to trying to using a dumb phone that is not capable of group messaging as your only form of communication. Mental health issues are very complex and social media is only a communication platform at its core.

YouTube is not social media because there's no real network of friends. You have creators making content for users to consume. There are comments under videos, but there's no friends feature or direct messaging. Anyone can't post anything. The rest of the world is going to continue to use social media, limiting access won't change that. My perspective mostly agrees with this Unicef report.

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/done-right-internet-us...
People in America mostly view cars as a status symbol and a part of their identity, which is why everyone buys giant trucks and SUVs. Why would a better taxi change that? Only "the poors" use taxis
I've got to admit I was pretty surprised when I learned about the pay + hard work setup for semi engineers at TSMC in Taiwan. I'd be curious if anyone has any first hand experience with it.
I would love to have you as a customer, but I'd have to do more research on what it would take to import the workflows and repository. If you're open to talking about this, my email is jake [at] commonpaper.com
i was thinking more like sinfully chocolatey
Ask HN: What happens to CS grads who don't want to be told what to do?
Do they end up being solo indie devs possibly making very little money?
Does Ithkuil have any provisions to express power dynamics between speaker and listener, say politeness levels? For instance all languages that I know have constructions to soften up requests, or make statements less assertive.
Hannibal did terrify Rome with them for a while, but Scipio Africanus figured out a very simple strategy to defeat them, which won the second Punic war for Rome at the battle of Zama. He just made corridors in his formation and channeled the elephants down them, which then ran away scared from the battle all together.
I might be a bit of an idiot, but Realtek and Broadcom seem to occupy basically the same spot in my brain. They're two companies that do nominally similar things and I'm not smart enough to always differentiate them.

I could totally see someone hearing a vaguely similar name working on vaguely similar products and getting them confused.
I think most people gave up the dream of money, fame and sex when software came along and lead to a massive influx of people making music, thereby increasing the competition enormously. That happened about 30 years ago and the numbers of people creating music, teaching music and buying musical instruments have been going through the roof ever since.
To quote the great pjmlp: Let me guess, Podman desktop is an Electron app.
It's too early to call it bloat. I think what's happening is that people are experimenting in all kinds of directions right now and only some of them will end up being useful long term.
Then substitute "printing press" for "nukes" and we have mapped out the spectrum. Now where does AI lay? Today? Speculatively?
Great, now they should be forced to sell Whatsapp.
How much it costs to live in New York
Yet culture persists.
He was pretty rich already from tobacco industry and his media dealings with Al Jazeera.
Nah, the money only goes so far. I've been doing SWE professionally since '07, and that wasn't in the US, so there was far, far, far less comp involved. The trend I see with new grads is that they're driven and drawn to the space for whatever reason (money, etc), but most abandon programming proper rapidly - I'd hazard within 3 years - and go on to other tertiary fields (PM, DevOps, SRE, etc) or just go back to complete a professional degree (law, MBA, etc) or PhD.

16 years isn't a whole lot of time in the field, but it's enough to have watched the expectations of SWE roles expand, and the demands of dumping ops ontop of an already complex job do take their tole. My original comment was tongue in cheek, but late night fixes, pages, opsing, ontop of day to day development is a recipe for burnout when you add partners and kids into the mix.
100% agree. Also I think no follow conditions programming editing yet. Both I guess could be added.
The last 20 years haven't just seen an increase in social media usage though; it's seen a decrease in socializing between kids outside of school. It's easy to remove access to their socials. It's very hard to replace that with a function social life outside of school. That's a recipe for resentment and rebellion. That's not going to happen without input at a every level of society to bring back that mall/skate rink/play park culture that has all but disappeared. We need to stop calling parents irresponsible for not watching their child's every move. That's where the difficulty lies.
Bad idea as long as a massive engine sound is kinda cool.

I am a short wave enthusiast and EV electromagnetic noise is bad.
I thought this was going to be about the Elm email client. I guess I'm old af

You are not alone. I do kernel programming in C. I've seen so many languages come and go since the 90s that I can't keep track of them all. I never used elm the email client (I was more of an emacs rmail person at the time).
> good money tends to drive out bad money

Actually, it's the other way around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law

But otherwise, I agree: rumors of Bitcoin's death have been greatly exaggerated.

See https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
iPhones are shipped by air to Louisville, KY to distribute throughout the central USA. It shuts down UPS for a whole week when iPhones launch. All employees can be required to unload and move iPhones, including engineering.
if you don't want to be told what to do, you didn't need to go to college in the first place
What is the value of the dollar if you can't separate it from its uses?

Bernie Madoff scammed people, so we should abolish the dollar. No money, no scams. This is the level of thinking of people crying about "crypto" in general. It's like saying "drugs are bad."
Quake II was 1997 and Quake 3 1999 (!). Also, you mention Counterstrike, but the original Half-life and Unreal were pretty revolutionary too.
Yeah I've usually just been using each one I stumble upon once to see if there's anything new in it I don't have

I think I used a fan once to blow some sand, and a mirror to reflect sunlight for a puzzle in the overworld where they had mirror pods in a chest nearby!
What's missing? The release of podman desktop says it has compatibility with docker compose..
More on the MUSIC-N program of which MUSIC-V was a start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N