skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a freelance developer living in Germany. I've been lucky enough to be on a fairly large, ongoing project for the last year, so I haven't been affected. But new project inquiries/leads have basically dropped to zero for me.

From work, to housing, it feels like the population is in "wait and see" mode.
Layoffs are bureaucratic in Spain, needs to be approved by unions and sometimes government too (EREs) (1)

Considering how lowly paid SWEs are in this country, I'd imagine the company would be better off keeping them on payroll.

1: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/es-es/expert-insights/que-es-u...
xD

Nah, it's probably some Japan-only ancient mainframe OS with Shit-JIS over EBCDIC.
Penny Black: First piece of mail sent using a stamp could fetch up to $2.5M
You might be too charitable. There were hard transition phases where I was not necessarily considered successful.

And I probably only made it through because my employer had deep pockets and chilled while I took time to adapt. The other direction (big co -> startup) is no where near as forgiving.

Mottos are fine, but what we need to succeed is skill and practice with skills.

We are susceptible to innovators dilemma on a personal basis, and it’s hard to break habits and intuition hardened over years in a different environment.

And when I was in start up land I did watch a lot imported talent from FAANG come in and bomb out - they were trying to care about long term code quality and we needed to slap together a demo in 48 hours. It was like oil and water

Edit: btw I don’t mean to signal that it’s impossible to do to be someone who thrives in both situations. It was a comment on the original suggestion of “just start a new company and hire up all these lay offs to get rich quick”. I believe that’s not going to be a good strategy
I'd be very, very surprised if OpenAI was successful in setting up a war-on-drugs style regime that simultaneously sets them up as one of the soul providers of AI (a guaranteed monopoly on AI in the US). One of the big reasons is that it would put the US at an extreme disadvantage, competitively speaking. OpenAI would not be able to hire every single AI developer, so all of that talent would leave the US for greener pastures.
Yeah, but those rules are in place mostly to accomodate cross border commuters. I can't easily be employed by a Belgian comapny while living and working in Portugal same as those living in Belgium, but involves extra hoops like either me working as a LLC or the company setting up an office in Portugal or hiring me through a local Porthughese third party, adn most caompnies don't want this hassle just for one employee.

I'm not in Portugal, that was just for the sake of an example.
What makes you think that developers from Brazil, Vietnam, Canada, Egypt or the US would demand so much lower wages?
I helped companies onboarding people from all over the globe, and every developer (at least those we met and signed) know their worth.
Well yes, EU/Europe is a collection of many independent countries, unlike U.S which is one country. And you can't work in a country as an employee without having a residence permit in that country. The comparison to U.S here makes absolutely no sense.
Anyone with a 401k is helped by the stock market trending up. The ultra wealthy make a lot, but it raises up all those retirement accounts too. Without the power of compounding in those retirement accounts the average American would be screwed.
I dont't care much for Windows, but I've been virtualizing pre-release arm64 Windows 11 on macOS since 2021.
What do you mean by eugenics? That academics studied eugenics? Or that eugenics was widely popular among academics?

I guess the pendulum always swings to the extreme other direction. Today, the more disadvantaged your intersectional identity, the better your prospects in academia.
i agree with your analysis and find no flaw in you logic, but i continue to insist htmx is a library
> I take an immensely helpful SSRI

You and almost the rest of HN. I’m uninterested in users of a drug that alters your thinking telling me about other new drugs.

No offense of of course. My point is you are already conditioned that “pills solve problems”.
I agree, and I think that is the essence of the meritocracy-metric paradox. Those that hacked the metric become those in charge. I think that only reinforces the idea of metric hacking. I really think this concept is playing out at large and not just academia.
Linux developers didn’t need Apple to do anything to support Linux. Drivers are nice for trackpad, etc though.
How are you supporting yourself?
According to Bitkom, the German IT trade association, there are 149,000 open IT positions reported in Germany as of 2023-12-13, which is 12,000 more than one year ago.[1] The absolut numbers are not so significant here, because this is only what is reported and a lot of IT positions exist outside of the IT industry in the narrow sense, but the trend is quite meaningful.

[1] Source: https://www.bitkom.org/Presse/Presseinformation/Rekord-Fachk... (in German)
I know. I have one. That's what triggred this realization - that the physical interface is much more important than absolute fidelity to the original's internal logic.
that's actually not a bad way to frame cough it
Why Netflix Should Sell Ads (2022)
In this (tech) job market, I would not.
Because if people can compete on wages due to lower COL, they will, and some companies will reward that.
Probably someone seeking a ransom.
Sorry, I likely screwed up my reasoning in that comment, I was under a lot of pressure at the time. The option to delete my post is gone, so I can't remove it.
*****? That's amazing! I've got the same password on my luggage!
This is me with writing code. I do it professionally and have for almost 15 years. I'm so burnt out on the day to day, forced work. But show me something interesting or hackable, a game I like that I can mod, a cool script, a cool concept that might make a neat image or sound. Whatever it might be, suddenly I'm playing again and having fun, burnout or not.

Just wish I could find a way to make that my paycheck...
What is the bureaucracy in question? Required salary for the blue card is really low now, especially for tech workers, so basically you just go ahead and hire as I understand.
Yes, I did and I was confused (hence my thought it was someone focusing on things other than web dev that made the comment).

It's not like I'm attributing ill intent now that you've clarified what you meant (I mentioned having the same anti-Electron inclination as you to demonstrate that) but I probably can't change your mind if you think two people's misinterpretation of the same comment came from malice.
Some time ago, I found a site that provided different variants of VMs you could download which contained exploits you could utilize to pwn the machines. There were also walkthroughs and guides available to teach you how to break in.

Unfortunately I can no longer find the site, and my Google fu has failed me.

Unlike Hack the Box, no signup was necessary, you could just download the VM and get started.

Does anyone here know of any good alternatives they'd like to recommend?
It will be a glorious pay day for all lawyers involved!
Level 2 Tesla destination chargers are everywhere in SV and you can use them with with any J1772 car using a simple adapter.

There are now also adapters for fast charging Tesla connectors to CCS1, but that is relatively recent.
eBay cheated me out of over $5,000 because of fraud, they failed to honor any seller protections, and charged me $250 for the fraudulent transaction. I charged the money back, and they made several unauthorized withdraws from my bank account in an attempt to take that 250 back from me. They ignored repeated requests to delete my personal banking information on file. I worked with my bank, charged the money back (a second time) and followed up by closing my bank account (an merchant block wasn't sufficient because they only last 6 months).

eBay is a deeply unethical company. This story doesn't surprise me
> "Your average colleague is an idiot" is never an unpopular opinion among tech workers.

I actually don't hold that opinion because I think a lot of these people are actually pretty smart!

They just aren't oriented to be tech experts. They are really talented at some other thing in life, but ended up in tech chasing the salaries.
Yeah I would say the same thing. Slower hiring overall but less big layoffs. I'm a contractor and haven't had much of a shortage in work for a while now, but we did have a big contract drop off in 2022 when the company went through a double-digit layoff.
nothing to spur innovation like panning every idea through a global counsel of magicians who know what's best for the planet.

aside from global consensus on ideas like 'the planet', it'd require mass labor force control and government assignment, two ideas i'm not thrilled about.

I could see it working in a sci-fi novel, but I have a hard time closing the gaps between them and us.
Is it actually misleading? AMD never makes claim that their consumer branding relates to uArch. AMD still has Zen 2 in their 'modern' lineups. Intel also has previous generation uArch in current SKUs, and let's not talk about the 10->11 and 12->13 gen "refreshes".

Maybe the technically inclined of us would expect Zen 5 because we're keeping note of CPU uArches but to the general public they won't care. They will just see it's the biggest numbered AMD chip and expect it to be their best offering - which for integrated graphics on the desktop it is.
An intellectually superior machine would simply turn itself off. What logical reason would there be for it to keep going?
Insurance companies are very much to blame, sure, but that doesn't change the fact that >50% of the country rejects these systems because "socialism". If we can't get over that hurdle first then nothing will ever change.
Round-trip efficiency of hydrogen storage is at best around 40% though. But with abundant and cheap renewables, this might not be much of an issue.
My only issue with Kotlin is Kotlin's over reliance on JetBrain products and being so tightly tied to a company which priority it is to of course sell their IDE.
To be fair, one of course use the free community edition but still you kinda need a JetBrain product to ensure you getting the most out the language.
With language servers these days, that feels like it is going the opposite direction.
That is exactly what this impacts, if you're leaving Google Cloud.
I'm not looking to assign blame or anything, I've just seen this pattern play out in the last couple of decades. I think it's a valid theory of the current "market correction."
>I have often needed

That's the rationale. It helps motivate people like you to finally upgrade the ssh servers on these systems, or at least replace the keys with non-dsa ones.

And it'll always be possible to connect to these, just not with current openssh. There's old ssh, and there's other ssh implementations still.
Being mindful of what you are doing, what you are thinking, how you are feeling, and how you are reacting to things is not diagnosing. You should probably leave the diagnosing part to a professional if you feel that you really need help with your mental health.
> I can't help but think of all the media organs, the WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, Economist, CNBC, Fox Business, et al who cater to this small segment of the population.

I never thought about how small their audience actually is.

That said, I never felt a sense of alienation reading these articles/watching these shows, it really just feels like listening to someone out of touch with reality. I am mostly curious why anyone would bother watching/subscribing to this media, since the amount of information you gain from them is enough to influence you emotionally, but not enough information to gain you a market advantage.

I mean wouldn't you be better off just paying someone to manage your wealth for you or owning shares of a mutual fund? It's like these programs are for people with enough wealth to care about the market, but not enough knowledge to invest it effectively. People who are going to be picking stocks successfully are reading 10-Ks and crunching numbers in excel, not listening to Squawk Box.
Or gate could be a ratchet in your gear example.

On a bike, it moves if you have momentum OR you pedal.

I guess the ratchet needs a spring though? Doh!
Ironically, early days Java Applets had you painting things on a canvas with a similar event loop. I think Flash also operated this way.

I almost think if someone were to build applications with Godot (or another engine) that you would need to mentally translate from something like React components and their data to the actor/sprite+state in an event loop model.

For example a todo list in Godot might have an actor that is the checkbox with some text next to it and the state of checked/unchecked, then allow the user to click something which generates more of these actors/sprites dynamically. I think where it really becomes cumbersome with a game engine is no real organization of a scene exists without you explicitly laying out x,y pixels. There are concepts of "relative" but common application concepts of pagination, etc. would be hard to pull off in a simple way in the code I would imagine.
I could have sworn we in Sweden used another word for rebuses and I was proven wrong many times in a pub discussion recently but I'm on a hunt for my word. (Very interesting I know...) If you don't mind what word did you use before for rebus? (I haven't given up there is an archaic or "brand name" out there I saw in my youth...)
Yeah Sam Bankman Fried probably had the skills and connections and trust to coast through life. But instead he chose to commit the most egregious of financial fraud.

I would strongly argue that almost all crime is irrationally - take it to the game theory strategies of tit-for-tat and such.
>The comparison to U.S here makes absolutely no sense.

Why not? My ex German boss moved to the US to work for a company there and since the position is remote, he can live and work in any state he wants. You can't do that in the EU which limits labor mobility which hurts the EU economy and innovation versus the US.
That was much more unusual when Prince did it in the early '80s than it is today. The article is a bit fluffy, yes, but I'm not sure that line is the best example.
I recently had success using CA's Dept of Insurance to assist me in convincing a health insurance company to pay a health provider what it says on my policy. I filled out the form online[0] and in less than a month, the insurance company decided to pay the full amount I expected. I only wish I had used the DOI service sooner as I wasted months getting shuffled between insurance company departments in their never ending quest to make me go away.

[0]https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/101-help/index.cfm
There are some interesting parallels between LinkedIn and Facebook ad platforms in terms of hierarchy: LinkedIn has a campaign group, a campaign, and ads, and Facebook has a campaign, an ad set, and an ad
Of course target selection matters, as does the existence of checks and balances associated with each strike. There is lots of destruction because Hamas built its military infrastructure in and under urban environments.

Maybe this is semantics to you, but to me carpet bombing implies indiscriminate bombing, which is the opposite of what Israel has done, despite its having dropped many bombs.
Schrems is so much more than a teenager activist.

Anyway, if this thread leaves you frustrated then maybe just don't participate in it?

The EU has 100's of millions of people, not all of them are in a position to bring this kind of effort because it requires bringing suit (which children may be able to do but don't generally do) and a very large chunk of a lifetime's worth of dedication. So in an attempt to roughly indicate the order of magnitude of difference between the number of people that could have taken action but didn't I used the 300 million figure. I haven't checked it for accuracy and Greta Thunberg notwithstanding the fact that you bring her up as an example is exactly because such individuals are so rare which is exactly the point that I was making.

Without Schrems for privacy and without Thunberg for climate change these subjects would get less attention than they do, and both of them have been instrumental in making meaningful change when in fact both of these subjects should concern the vast majority of that 300 million, give or take.
But then why wouldn't these same family members cheat in every other game?
Incubator is probably a strong word, but man a lot of these SaaS tools that charge by seat are dead in the water. 1 good generalist engineer can probably create an inhouse tool that does 80% of the functionality and cut the software out completely.

Personal example: A KYC/KYB tool for finance is something like 1k a month(so 12k a year) for a small company, for very simplistic stuff(checking that customer/business is not under sanctions or etc). New hire built a tool that does webscraping+summary for basically free + shaved off like 3-4 hours of work per month for the AML officer.
Nature as She Is
Actually, it's best available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...
Stripe posted an explanation here: https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning
I don't know if I can say what we have to turn over to the auditors that isn't in the public document. As to verifying the hardware we buy our hardware from other companies who have their own controls. If you dig far enough down everything ultimately comes to trust as no one can verify everything.
Out of 675 electric cars on sale. We will see.
> most hospital systems are not evil profit seeking corpratons but just trying to keep the lights on

Why are they struggling so much more now than 10 or 20 years ago (when health care costs were already soaring)?

I read about a non-profit childrens hospital in some large US city that paid its CEO $7 million.
This is some cartoon villain type of stuff.
Works for me now too, probably the server was not handling the load.
Apologies, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying so would love to hear more of your thoughts.

> It also implies some weird logic that if you were into tech before, you’re better than someone who was born 10 years later and is into tech now.

This was not what I was trying to say. The amount of people who work in tech is far, far higher now than it was 20 years ago. It just brought more "average" people in who don't really push the boundaries of what is possible. Lots of apps that move strings in and out of databases, very little real innovation going on from smart people.
I mean, there’s a dozen lawsuits against OpenAI just for training on published books. If you’re going to get sued anyway, why not train on private data?
Because they already hired those people. There aren’t millions of super high skilled software engineers in Argentina or where ever, there are a limited quantity, and they are likely already employed somewhere.
One of the few examples of gang stalking being real.
Obamacare was essentially gutted when the individual mandate was deemed unconstitutional and removed. If young, healthy people aren't signing up and paying into the system then of course the sick ones will bear the brunt of it. That's just how insurance works.
But not during normal operation when egress to consumers is in higher demand than ingress. This would raise ingress prices unnecessarily.
The idea that we as consumers are responsible for the actions of the rich or giant companies is ludicrous. The only way to affect meaningful change is through the state.
Your counter-argument seems a bit light on reasoning. Feel free to have the last word.
AMD historically supported their sockets a lot longer than Intel's two years. Recently they moved to AM5 and only had a single generation on a threadripper socket. This greatly angered tech media and consumers, despite it still being better than Intel support.

Perhaps releasing new SKUs on the "old" platform is a way to bump up the numbers even more: "see we supported AM4 for 5+ generations!"
HN's provider was DDoSed yesterday [0], I wonder if the popular website being targeted was HN itself. Either way, I do wonder if there is any relation.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939559
>and every developer (at least those we met and signed) know their worth

What about those you didn't sign? What about the SW bodyshops aka visa shops, who pray on desperate foreigners from broken countries trying to emigrate at any cost? I know more of those sleezy bodyshops than I have fingers on my hands to count.

I never said your comapny does this, but you can't pretend immigration wage dumping doesn't exist and that many companyes aren't exploiting it.

You also can't tell me with a straight face that flooding the market with more workers doesn't lower wages as per the supply/demand of the market.
Almost all articles of the form "X% of the Y is held by the top Z%" where X > Z leave off one important thing: what % of Y should be held by the top Z%?

One's first though might be that in a truly equitable society, we'd have X = Z for all Z. E.g., the top 10% have 10% of Y, the top 20% have 20% of Y, and so on.

But upon a few moments more thought one will realize that is only mathematically possible if everyone has the same amount. If Y is stock owned by households, for example, such equitability in ownership can only happen if every household has the same amount of stock.

The moment even a single household ends up with either more or less stock than a single other household, then the % held by the top Z% will be >Z%.

This is true for anything, not just financial things. E.g., the top 10% of the winners of the Best Album of the Year Grammy Award have won more than 10% of the Best Album Grammy Awards. The top 10% of pimps manage more than 10% of the whores who work for pimps. The top 10% of pizza sellers by sales sell more than 10% of all pizza sold. The top 10% of muggers are responsible for more than 10% of muggings.
The tug of war between Institutional Solidarity vs. Individual Liberalism
That's the well-established expectation for iOS.

The web has a pretty different set of expectations, one of the reasons for its success.
Sounds of the Forest Sound Map
At first you pay taxes in the country the company you work for is registered (there might be b2b options, which might differ). Then you pay rest in the country where you have a tax residency.

In your example, at first you pay taxes in Germany and if Estonian taxes are bigger, you pay the difference there.
Why would the cloud provider charge for usage that doesn't actually cost them money? Unless usage patterns drastically change industry-wide, the ingress really doesn't matter to them. The egress does.

It seems entirely reasonable to look more skeptically at cloud providers' exact charges vs cost for egress, particularly when high egress fees might contribute to lock-in, and when the public price sheet vs the preferred customer pricing might differ radically. But asking them to totally restructure the charges, inventing a charge for ingress when their actual total ingress cost is zero and, short of major industry-wide usage pattern changes, will remain zero? Why would you do that?
I disagree. This reads like a hastily-written article.

Take these quotes from just one paragraph:

"now is a fine time to start looking at Wi-Fi 7 routers."

"There weren’t a lot announced at the show.... "

"You will probably want to be cautious about pulling the trigger, though."

"The choices are still a little slim and mostly still expensive."

This basically contradicts the title as well as the first line of the paragraph. How is that supposed to be useful for me?

If instead, the article were something along the lines of "Wi-Fi 7 just came out, but don't buy yet", then that might be different. The author is trying to put a happy tone on a negative article. Whether that's the editors or the write, I don't know, but the output is a waste of time for people who read the headline thinking wi-fi 7 has taken off.