skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can a young person today go out west and build all that stuff from nothing. (Like people did a few hundred years ago)

Maybe a specific young person with a lot of relevant experience and strong desire for this sort of life could, but it would be pretty hard and the initial costs are nothing to sniff at.

Water is especially prohibitive. The American West is going through massive aridification and the water table is overdepleted in many places. Gotta watch out for water rights too.

Electricity and internet are doable if you can afford the right systems.

Food is really hard unless you're willing to buy everything at dollar general. Modern farming is highly reliant on artificial sources of nitrogen. And it's just not a good use of your time if you have a tech job. Social needs of humans cannot be overlooked.

People even a couple hundred years ago would move whole communities. They had access to abundant natural resources and divided responsibilities differently.

Maybe you're just interested in van life but + farming? It's expensive and probably a bad investment overall, but makes more sense than owning random cheap but poorly situated land outright.
> Also, what?

Is this about that circadian rhythm line? It look true, if not under-stated. Shift between nights and days was one of the major constant things throughout the evolution of life. And the influence of this rhythm goes deeper than just physiology - it reaches a molecular level. Almost every cell in the body has a mechanism for keeping internal time of the day [1]. And they are kept in synch through suprachiasmatic nucleus, mainly via the light through the retina, changes in temperature, and food intake [2].

It is so prevalent, that even small things, like your sense of smell or which nasal side is more active and which one is congested falls under circadian regulation [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_clock

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachiasmatic_nucleus

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle
It is possible that your machine does not yet support WebGL2.

Check here : https://get.webgl.org/webgl2/
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Do be aware though that many modern games with anti cheat will not run in Windows VMs. It was the reason why I deleted my Windows VM last year.
> (which is true for 99% of computer users)

If you mean 99% of US computer users, maybe.
I find group chats to be a pretty excellent solution, though I am less gregarious than average. Occasionally I post something in multiple groups or create a new "temporary" group in order to share it with people from different circles; this creates some detritus but not often to the point of being much of a downside.

The problem I most often experience with group chats is that not everyone's on the same platform (excepting SMS) but old fashioned social media has that issue too.
They also don't scale super well to large clubs or organizations, where I think having topic-oriented posts or threads as the default becomes valuable.
In the early 2000s in college I wrote a basic terrain renderer in C++ and OpenGL. It randomly generated some textured terrain, and had some basic features like you could move the camera and look around. Nothing super impressive.

A few months later I landed a 16-month internship on a team writing an OpenGL ES driver. There were 160 applicants, but the hiring manager said I was the only applicant who had actually played around with OpenGL.

It was a great job and I learned a ton.
It actually works great. I'm not going around saying "hello fellow young people, did you see the top post on reddit?" but it's good enough so that I'm not clueless as to what's being said in our chat rooms and I can comment.
sure, but why would the JS not be scalable? Seems like a flaw on the frontend. The app is very simple and should not heat up an M3.
I think in most deployments, they're not fp32 by the time you're doing inference no them, they've been quantized, possibly down to 4 bits or even fewer.

On the training side I wouldn't be surprised if they were bf16 rather than fp32.
I wouldn't say I agree with this for the U.S., and Europe is a big place, but at least in Germany this is not true. In fact for example, in many apartment buildings, instead of having cleaners for the common areas, the residents are put on a rotation, and when it's your turn you have to sweep the stairs etc.
I got my first (and current) mobile developer job after building a budgeting/personal-finance app that synced with my bank account using Plaid.
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I took a class in fortran programming for geologist in 1968, then I built a career growing along with the industry as it grew from nothing to this huge affair today.

The way I did it was not to get ahead of the needs of the current project. New computer? Read the manual. New language? Read the manual. New paradigm? Read the manual. No immediate need? Ignore it.

In 65 years the only time I studied something before I needed it was in 1982 when I studied Pascal.

Neither you nor I can anticipate the future. Keep alert and quickly seize opportunities. Don't worry about what you don't have an actual need for.
> the UI and UX of open source tools almost always sucks.

One interesting outcome of Reddit changing their API pricing was long-time 3rd-party Reddit apps shutting down. Some of those added Lemmy support to their existing UI and importantly thought through new user behavior (like showing a default instance vs forcing users to sign up).

There's still work to be done, but if we're talking about the different between the Official Reddit client and the (now defunct) Boost for Reddit, the latter had better UX. Now that Boost only supports Lemmy and the Reddit app keeps getting enshittified the UX argument is harder to make.
100% agree, but AFAIK the HW isn't doing lockstep on modern zseries. The nonstop was also HW lockstep many years ago and they converted to a checkpoint restart model, which AFAIK is the same on zos/etc with help from the "HW" which is just "software" running in the LPAR/etc.

Regardless, there have been various clustering/SSI/etc software layers designed to make windows/linux/etc behave as though it were lock stepped as well via software/hypervisor checkpoint restart.

So it is not impossible, but you don't get it out of the box because most of these applications have moved the fault tolerance into an application + database transactional model where the higher level operations aren't completed until there is a positive acknowledgment that a transaction is committed (and the DB configured for replication, logging, whatever if needed, blocks the commit until its done).

So, yes that model requires more cognitive overhead for the developer than Cobol batch jobs, which tend to be individually straightforward (or the ones i've seen the complexity is how they interact). But the results can be the same without all the fancy HW/OS layers if the DB is clustered/etc.
Some sort of quite tall wall, perhaps made of fire…
Fediverse: We are open for federation and you to join!
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I can’t really trust anything else you say with the absoluteness which you claim Meta is better vibes than the rest.

Sure, your experience is probably true, but it’s anecdotal and the sweeping generalizations you’re making on limited datapoints makes things untrustworthy

Second, you’re assuming money is mutually exclusive from all else at those companies. You admit not being able to get in, which makes this the equivalent of “money can’t buy happiness” from someone who never had money to know first hand that they wouldn’t be happy
X-rays "faster" than the speed of light, and more refractive index questions [video]
The same reason Elon Musk does, they have billion-dollar think tanks advising them.
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* no tech work in the U.S. is "easy to get into" at this time. Manufacturing especially is tiers higher than the knowledge taught for any specific degree. Have to go to the right schools that are integrated in that market, or know people.
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Technically I've been unemployed for 9 years. When I say I can't get a job to save my life, I mean that literally. Today I'm looking for a full time job as a manager of software product design and development or production in other industries and burning through my retirement savings.

I do some software design and development on the side to try and keep up with all the changing tech but nothing I can invest a lot of time in if it's not going to earn me a living wage. I taught myself technical analysis and watch a stock chart all day between sending out resumes and teach people online what I know about reading stock charts and how the markets actually work to try and keep people from losing money unnecessarily. It makes me feel useful and keeps me a active as a coach and mentor.

I'm still a fan of the show. It was innovative and we wouldn't have Vince Gilligan and Breaking Bad let alone mythologies and serials the way we do now if it wasn't for The X-Files.
I've found that there is nothing in these books. I've read enough of them that I now have zero curiosity about what they have to say.

What works for me is to choose to suffer. You can replace all those books and all their pages with just those three words. There's no mindhack or some new scientific (or spiritual) method to no longer suffer when working. Just choose to suffer and get good at suffering.
Again, that’s not the point. I’m not sure how much clearer this can be made:

1. Nobody is saying it’s not a bad situation. Everyone agrees that it’s non ideal.

2. People who are saying that it can’t produce a usable build are wrong, because it absolutely can produce a usable build with the arch flag explicitly provided.

3. People are conflating a bad default with the inability to do something.

It honestly feels like people are substituting their own sentences in and then arguing against a point that isn’t being made.
"It costs about £900 in the UK to have an EV charger installed by an electrician"

£900 is $1140. In southern California, it cost me $750 for top notch work and hardware, including: $400 to have an electrician install a 240V 50A outdoor outlet (NEMA 14-50), plus $350 for a good quality level 2 40A EVSE (this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082LMVSLY) that I installed myself as it simply plugs in the outlet and it's just a 5-minute job to secure it to the wall with two screws.

It's possible to bring the cost down to around $600 when picking a cheaper EVSE (like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LMX4TJR?th=1), so about half the UK cost as reported in the blog post. I would love to see a breakdown of that £900... that seems really high.
From my perspective (working in Europe) this year has been exceptionally tough. I'm working rn but I always keep options open, e.g. staying in contact with recruiters and looking at job postings. I'll apply for a job if it's a good fit.

Overall far fewer opportunities and salaries are down, and more stringent requirements across the board. Whereas before I would get a good response for an application - at least to the technical test or interview stage - now I just get rejections or crickets. I suspect many jobs are fake or they already have the candidate lined up. I'm not desperate so I haven't been trying especially hard, but I can imagine it's not a good time to be looking for work in a hurry.
This is also pretty interesting about the guy trying to recreate it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVXqisH6VeM
I got a job from stackoverflow posts too, it was a company whose entire strategy was hiring "Developer Evangelists" which I had never heard of before. I tried to internalize that silly name but really the company's product just wasn't in a place to "evangelize" anyway so it didn't work for very long. I hated that job, I excluded it on my resume.
> You have to explicitly enter into a contract with a service provider to use their infrastructure

Sounds like you’ve never used Twilio before - or any other API-based SMS system
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No, however, Australian housing rent prices are now higher than mortgage repayments in some areas due to housing availability.

Also, those who have paid off their house, have been profligate during the recent sales.

The timing are co-incidental, but the media loves mixing correlation and causation.
Java came out before the STL and smart pointers were widely adopted.

This is a strange comment.

Java 1.0 was released in Jan 1996. (Java wasn't very useful before 1.1) However, Stepanov proposed STL to ANSI/ISO committee in Nov 1993, and HP released a working version to the Internet in Aug 1994.

"[W]idely adopted" is an editorial term. It is meaningless without some backing evidence. ("Never been worse" has a similar sentiment.) How do determine what counts?

I worked on enterprise C++ for years in the mid-2000s that didn't use any smart pointers. There are many huge, old enterprise C++ projects that don't use STL or smart pointers. And, there are still many huge old Java enterprise projects that use shitty cast-from-Object-type to pass around typed data, instead of generics, or something better. Not much being said here!

the most interesting thing to happen to PL design in decades

"[D]ecades" is a wild overstatement. In the last 10 years, I would vote for LLVM, which greatly improved the velocity of (experimental) programming language development. Would Rust have developed so quickly without LLVM? Probably not. Look at the speed of development in Rust, Swift, Zig, and many others that use LLVM as their backend. It is night-and-day compared to 20 years ago in a GCC-only open source compiler world. I remember the bad old days where GCC was the elephant in the room, but so hard to add and maintain frontends, that few did it.

Rust has the same memory-safety guarantees with none of the drawbacks of GC

I never saw this before. Are there any counterpoints?
You might want to investigate what others are doing to ensure a way forward for legacy X WMs on Wayland. Here's one I have bookmarked, mentioned in another HN thread recently:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/2265
if you use the right hashtags for the right "latest thing", VCs are actively on github

I added a discord link and they joined that too and just watch and lurk, its a weird world
I’ve always thought night jobs should have limitations on how long an individual can consecutively work an overnight shift to limit the toll it takes on mental and physical health.
> thrilling position on some compiler team

What’s wrong with compilers?
Not sure about US. But here in europe a lot of money went into businesses.
> Then came the War of 1812, US vs Britain, which the US won

Never realized how bad the American education system really was. In what way did you win this war that you started?
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Wrong... It's the right idea at the right time. Cloud computing is only getting bigger in terms of taking over the enterprise. PCs are a pain and expensive, in both time and money, to maintain. We have gotten to the point where there's very little that an office worker needs to do that can't be done over the net. There's no reason why a full computer is needed for 90%+ of office workers. It's not 2000. Even a very cheap thin client computer can be very powerful and the connection speed is many times what you could get then. Companies are always looking for ways to save money. This change is a no-brainer.
> who knows?

Precisely the point, no one knows yet as far as is publicly known. Anyone who purports to know ought to front up with the evidence or admit they don’t know.
The problem is that a real green-field re-imagination of software development needs to go back to the 70s, and back to the (these days mostly fake) metal, meaning it's a massive job that will take years to even know if you might make it. You need to start with something simple-but-useless, and grow it from there, rather than attacking a single layer or two of our current enormous tower of babel. It will be difficult to adopt because it must by definition be alien to our current workflows, and it will take forever to find users. The only way to find success is to slowly and surely build something that is so obviously good existing devs will be willing to give up tools in which they've invested years and (for many of them) their identities, just to play with it.

It requires an iron clad vision, willingness to be a pariah among the coding masses and a dictator internally, excellent communication in order to present the vision and progress to the outsiders who are interested, and piles and piles of money to pay for it for years before it becomes sustainable, however you plan to make it so.
I did consider those sorts of systems but decided against.

One facet of that is that I’d like ro support e2e encryption, which feels harder to do in something electricsql and co (since the postgres sees fields for replication). e2e2 seems more obvious in automerge (though, also not supported out of the box), and I recently encountered secsync.com which looks like a new-ish project that could get there.

I’m really excited to see the influx of local-first frameworks though. A lot of these solutions also weren’t nearly as mature when I started working on tender about a year ago. If I were starting now instead of a year prior, I might try to go with github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite which seems to share ideals with my architecture, and automerge has some issues I've run into.
Management problems have a tendency to snowball and land on the next manager.

Higher authority doesn't understand it and the subjects don't care.
This "filter bubble" is not true, and does not seem to be the issue people think it is.

We interact with more diverse people online outside of our bubble. It's actually our real life that's the bubble, and bubbles aren't necessarily bad.

Link to paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2207159119
I like my water warm, flat, and straight from the kitchen sink. You gonna tell me thats unhealthy too?

Lmfao
This project was a Show HN and I had a few people reach out to me after, ended up taking a position as a founding engineer at a YC company in SF (2013).

It's an alternate program editor that breaks source into tiles around grammatical boundaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tztmgCcZaM4
A bit over a year ago, sure, but this is a bit incorrect in the month of December 2023.

Mastodon is, by far, the most active software and both their app and site now guide you to Mastodon.social.

https://joinmastodon.org/
Ah, Helen Garner.

An incredible writer. But The First Stone was an incredibly annoying book.

Even in the 1990s, the idea that it was excusable in any way for the head of an educational institution to make a pass at an 18-year-old undergrad living in the community he managed was nonsensical.

Garner spent the entire book dancing eloquently round this.

Disclaimer: I lived in the institution the other side of the road a few years later, and met people who were peripherally involved on both sides of the incident then.
Ha I just watched a documentary that mentioned this pigment.

Fall of Civilizations 17 - Carthage: Empire of the Phoenecians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbdVhVSat8

This whole channel is absolutely amazing. I watched almost the entire thing over the last 3 months -- 17 episodes of 2 to 4 hours on various civilizational collapses.

There were a bunch I didn't know about at all -- like medieval civilizations in Cambodia, Burma, and Jordan. They were wealthy, and built huge things, and then disappeared.

Also, I have heard of "Carthage" from all those movies like Gladiator ... Somehow it escaped me until my 40's that Carthage was founded by people from what's now Syria, and the city was in what's now Tunisia :) I guess being American I have a fuzzy picture of that side of the world, and what it looked like in ancient times.
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What? Are you op's alt-account, or did you not bother to read his response? I straw-manned nothing. He compared making your own home-charger to letting your kids play outside, not me. I simply pointed out that comparing the two was ridiculous. The fact you'd accuse me of straw-manning when I was doing literally the opposite is somewhere between hilarious and offensive.
Yep I agree with both :) underperforming coworkers are a negative effect not only due to their own ineffectiveness but also their affect on the rest of the team and their motivation (it’s very demotivating to constantly have to pick someone else’s slack). It’s a tough rut to dig a team out of if it sets (which makes it that much more important to solve early enough).

I just think that it’s not really a benefit for the better engineer to underperform either, I know I’ve always found doing well at work (which was usually more my subjective feeling about myself than anything some else told me) less stressful than doing badly (and not any less work than pretending to be busy but not working).

Being a programmer myself I also know what you can roughly get done (I still program maybe 30-40% of my working hours these days). It could be that someone I hire is magnificently productive (relative to myself/my experience elsewhere in the last 15-20 years) and is managing to hit that while also doing other things, if that’s the case good for them.

Anyway part of what makes someone a good fit is that they want to do well and find the work interesting and fulfilling. We work 4 day weeks so they still have time for other projects in their free time (and I know most/all of them have such projects).