skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snow Crash was one of the archetypical cypherpunk stories, which was a trend that often mocked if not outright took a piss over cyberpunk.

I find it a lot like a variation of "the cyberpunk dystopia arrived but not as cool as we imagined", but not as boring as what actually happens.
Nuake: Modern Quake-inspired game engine with TrenchBroom support
Better in some ways, worse in others. It's less insistent on bothering you with things, but the App Store is a worse blowup than Microsoft Store, macOS's native window management is trash, the OS can't have separate natural scroll settings for the mouse and the trackpad, etc.

I generally feel like Windows is a better OS with more active annoyances, while macOS is aggressively mid as the kids would say, but doesn't actively bother you as much.
Patreon doesn't own the app and/or OS the way Spotify and Apple do, so there is less immediate risk of them capturing podcasts.
Oh yes, I am not at all saying I don't think Relay should have that option. It's more that I like sharing a domain with many others, so I can blend in with the crowd.
Hey OP,

I'm not sure if you're aware, but this is a really tough time to try to enter the industry. We've had a few hundred thousand layoffs these last couple years, and many experienced and inexperienced devs are having trouble finding work. Personally I don't think many of those jobs are coming back, between it being a bubble to begin with and increased efficiencies from AI.

But if you're keen on trying to break in anyway, one route that used to work is just learning WordPress and doing freelance (like on Upwork) or local small biz stuff. It's relatively easy to go from WordPress to any other frontend job (it all boils to HTML, CSS, JS). React coding is similar enough to PHP that if shouldn't be too hard to learn. But IMHO there isn't much job security there, and by the time you get up to speed, it's probably going to be even deader than it is now already. You'll be competing for crumbs against people like me with decades of experience not making much money, and also hordes of devs from developing countries who are just as skilled and cost ten times less. We are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to developers. Easy to start, easy to replace.

Since you're coming from the legal sector, I wonder if compliance (or these days, AI "alignment") might not be more lucrative for you? There are companies who focus on GDPR and similar privacy compliance, for example, like OneTrust. All the terrible cookie banners you see have a lawyer or ten behind them.

If it's specifically coding you want to learn, don't spend too much money on a boot camp. The career prospects right now are dim to nonexistent. Just do something cheap online, like LinkedIn Learning or Codecademy or Coursera or Frontend Masters. Or take a evening or online coding class at your local community college.

But it feels to me that much of the industry is moving towards AI, so if you don't want to get left behind like the rest of us, maybe find coursework dedicated to that? Traditional coding is getting less and less valuable, and will probably continue to decrease in worth as the AI models get better. They're already better coders than most real-world decelopers I know, myself included.

That doesn't mean they're better at actually translating business requirements into apps (yet), but it does mean a few seniors with AI can do the jobs that used to require bigger teams, making it harder for juniors to join and get experience. If you had done this a few years ago you would be golden, but right now you're entering at the bottom of a cycle (or near it; I think we have a bit further to fall yet).

Sorry for the pessimism here! I think coding is a fun skill to have, but just don't expect it to be the road to riches it was a decade ago. If you want to learn just for its own sake, there are great cheap resources online. If you're hoping for an immediate career, I don't think that's going to be easy unless you can laterally enter the sector as a legal professional and not a coder.

Either way, though, best of luck to you!
This is why a survey in programming languages is beneficial. You want a variety to fill in the gaps and this increases capacity to learn new ones but you are also easily able to identify short comings and foot guns where people who are siloed to a single language could never be aware of which leads to instances of NIH syndrome like we've seen in Python & Go.
Not generally because you can't e.g. know if a write to a socket is destructive or just a query for information needed to decide the next steps/output.
I agree. Incredible development environment for a huge number of MCUs. Super fast.
When I was in high school, I got a special exemption to be allowed to use a laptop to take notes because my hand would cramp trying to jot down everything the teacher wanted us to. Once I was at university, everybody was using a laptop. They were incredibly distracting.

I now know that I never needed one. If a teacher uses the Socratic method, I learn very effectively as long as the dialogue is engaging. Note taking slows me down and doesn’t allow to me fully process what has been said. I always had to spend a large amount of time reviewing the notes after class and realized how much didn’t soak in when I was taking them.

The issue was, far too many teachers would add one random bit of trivia into a quick sentence they said and use that as a question on the next exam. Even if that bit of knowledge wasn’t in the related books or could be naturally deduced by understanding the topic.

The best teachers I had didn’t require me to use laptops. I realize that now that I am attending Greek school as an adult and only use a small notepad to take quick notes on something to follow up with later like vocab to add to Anki. A class of 12 engaged in dialogue is far more effective for myself.
I use an android launcher called Indistractible

it's crap and I hate it, but that's because it takes me ages to find the app I need
unless I pin it to the main screen

music, calls, and I'm chats go there, but I don't get distracted by any other junk, unless I actually need a tool/app
You seem to believe this will be some all at once mass migration of billions of people. That is not the case. In fact, the migration has already started, and will continue to progress at the rate possible. The system is working.

And “avoided the climate catastrophe” is funny. Y’all would just find some different model to fast forward far beyond its applicable domain and range, then doomsay about that. Consider: what would these chronically anxious folks be doing right now if they didn’t have this to worry about? Nature abhors a vacuum, something else would fill the place.

Considering all the far more severe, far more real, things every ancestor you’ve ever had would have been worrying about, we’re doing pretty well. Shame so many people’s despressive anxiety can’t accept that.
That's what I was thinking to, except I was thinking of just plain old domestic "news" outlets, who could be judged on the very same attributes (and others, if one was able to be serious) mentioned in the article. At least in theory.
Read that as population
Fabs still stop when there is an earthquake and it is expensive. Being earthquake resistant means extremely expensive equipments don't break when there is an earthquake, it doesn't mean there is no interruption.
Of course. I know reading is hard, but nobody has suggested there aren't solutions. Obviously there are, else Postgres would be pretty much unusable. But the question remains: Why resort to hacks that require extra complexity in the application when you can just as easily use the database as it was designed to be used? What are you getting in return?
Gen AI and its potential impact has been covered by Stephenson multiple times.

I wrote a short post on some of the references in Anathem.

It's also a large plot point in Fall or Dodge in Hell. One of the characters open sources some generative ai to fill the internet with slightly untrue spam.

https://medium.com/@k0ryk/neal-stephensons-llm-predictions-7...
I liked Termination Shock and I don't regret spending the time to read it in the slightest.

However, to me, compared to the Baroque Cycle and Anathem, my favorite works of his, Termination Shock was, how to describe it, non-memorable. Like a half-decent adventure movie, you enjoy seeing it but afterwards you go home thinking about what to make for dinner, and don't think about that movie anymore until someone or something makes you remember it again.

In contrast, the Baroque Cycle and Anathem were mindblowing. I spent ages thinking and daydreaming about the worlds he described in those books.
We are different than those other countries. We are a nation of immigrants. It is one of the things that makes us great. Those that want to prevent migration from "shithole countries" are anti American.
CSP, a high performance reactive stream processing library
I guarantee you I don't know a single xdcc command anymore without looking them up and I used them for 15 years, whereas I could probably leave discord for 5-15 years and still try to right click someone and drag a file over to their name.

A new user doesn't know to type xdcc help, etc. They have to google how to send IRC files, blahblah. And everyone will be on a different client so maybe yours has an XDCC context menu button but theirs doesn't, etc.
Sure, but isn't the argument that the current situation is akin to a frog in a pot?

There's no hard threshold under this line of thinking and, I imagine, if something terrible were to happen to a vulnerable population abroad, then the west would react in a way which would enable its population to treat the issue as if it were "far away".

Rising authoritarianism would just seem like something related to politics in this hypothetical future. From there, any attempts at top-down mitigation would just seem like "bad guys with power doing things bad guys do".
It would mean re-loading manually at every update no?

Otherwise it would be great. Any pointers?
It's common sense what I said. It applies across the industry regardless of the programming languages used. On the contrary, where's the evidence suggesting that the Rust is what made Gecko rewrite succeed? Has there been any rewrite from scratch with some other programming language?
Simplest possible CI tool that exists, as far as I'm aware. Gives you just barely everything you need, everything is stupid simple, and it just works.

There's an OSS fork in development (https://woodpecker-ci.org/) but it's far behind in terms of features and stability.
what's wrong with Manjaro?
Dave Winer[0] would probably be so pleased to see this discussion.

>Winer has been given "credit for the invention of the podcasting model."

>Winer's advocacy of web syndication in general and RSS 2.0 in particular convinced many news organizations to syndicate their news content in that format.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer
> The recent change from Google with the retiring of Google Podcasts in favor of Youtube Music is a tremendous step in the opposite direction. Youtube Music does NOT use the RSS based distribution method, with podcasters uploading their files directly to Youtube. Google even offers an RSS import.

I already hated YT Music with a passion, but this makes me hate it even more.

In general, I agree with the sentiment here as well, I think podcast hosting and distribution will continue to increasingly be centralized. It makes me sad for the future of open protocols and an open web in general, but the factors are more economic than anything technical.
Have you seen what the average poly person looks like? Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried are the most famous poly people I can think of, and this is despite an obscene amount of wealth to make them look good.

So no, they're not taking partners from anybody. I don't see how society is harmed if the absolute bottom dregs shack up together instead of staying alone forever.

Whenever I've seen been subjected to photos of a group of polys, the men seem to have a similar look to the one the protagonist had in the closing shot of Old Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0nn-WgLOTY). Certainly their parents do.
A bit ignorant to think we don't need oil anymore. Only about 40% of a barrel of oil is used towards gasoline. Many important things in our world, including parts used in electric cars, wind turbines, and solar panels, all have some parts from oil.

https://www.ranken-energy.com/index.php/products-made-from-p...
Have you ever wondered what ycombinator.com is in news.yconbinator.com?
The vitamin/supplements industry makes billions while the pharma industry makes trillions.

The pharma industry is financially shaped around big "hit" patented medications that rake in megaprofits. They are literally too big to play in the vitamin-selling market.

It's kind of like how you and I might be able to spin up a profitable SaaS or other project that pulls in a few hundred grand or even a few million per year. A nice sum! Meanwhile, FAANG companies can't even consider such projects. They are not going to keep the lights on by pursuing 100,000 different niche projects that each make $100,000 profit per year. That would still only be 20% of their current revenue.

The big pharma companies shape how things are done. They fund the studies, they have direct access to doctors, etc.

In terms of actual influence the supplement industry might as well not even exist, just like our theoretical SaaS would have zero industry influence.
I bett it is going to involve more moving numbers on a spreadsheet than actual reductions in the real world.
Geo/political stability.
Banana to sunset their serverless GPU platform
Banana announce their market withdrawal from the serverless GPU providers market, citing business dynamics and Erik Dunteman recommends alternate services:

API Route: OpenAI, Replicate for ease & efficiency; skipping custom infra.

Custom Code and infra:

Runpod (easy switch),

Modal (their favourite but has opinionated SDK),

AWS Sagemaker (stability),

KServe ( open-source, "banana-like"),

Shadeform.ai (multi-cloud API without multi-account setup),

Brev.dev (interactive notebook for development, HTTPS exposed ports).

I think it's really interesting when a startup announces their exit from a market and gives their opinions on their place in it, and the relative comparison of the alternatives because they know a fair bit about their market and the behind the scenes details.
That's pretty good for the Rav4. From what I can tell though the highlander only has a 5 mile range at a max of 25 mph when in EV only mode. It's very limited and clearly you are meant to run the gas engine most of the time along side the electric motor.

Call it a cultural problem if you want, but a F-150 is damn useful even if it is not utilized all the time. When you do need it though, it's there and ready to work. There is a reason it's the best selling car in America.
I remember when it was a pejorative, literally.
It's interesting that 10 years ago there was a media driven panic about "filter bubbles", and now we are at a point where the abilitiy to choose your own filter bubble is considered a feature.
Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long
RDS is 50 cents or less a day for postgresql on a three year term for a small instance.

I use AWS / RDS - I’ve got to believe RDS is spinning money for AWS because of all the parts I want to be reliable this is way up there.
When I was 17, my Dad told me he was "investing" the near million dollars that was my share of the sales of software I'd written.

When I was 34, he passed, and I had to wrap up his estate. Discovered that I was on the paperwork for several corporations I had never heard of; that there was no money left, and some of the details of how he spent it all. We apparently contributed to Nashville getting their hockey team, among other fun diversions having nothing to do with the business we had been in.

Still aint got over the bitterness.
Nice write up. Thank you! Do not avoid LiveView - it is excellent.
My employee keeps working long hours even after we've told her to stop (2022)
Wind, with it's availability of ~60% is not massively different from other energy plants with their availability of 80 - 92%.

Solar is worse, but since most modern high quality tables include LCOE's for "solar" and "solar+battery" with very different numbers, it shouldn't be misleading.
iex(1)> a=10
10
iex(2)> a=11
11

Because underneath, it’s doing

A0 = 10.
A1 = 11.

You might not like it, because it feels like mutation, but it’s not, it’s rebinding. Just consider this as a syntactic sugar. It’s useful when doing

conn = conn |> apply_some_change()

In the end, it does generate valid bytecode for the BEAM, and immutability is respected.

BTW You might prefer Erlang syntax, but You would lose |>

José Valim, has a great writeup about this here.

https://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/01/comparing-elixir-a...
I really, really get interested in rust sometimes and then I read comments like yours and remember the warnings about premature optimization and put it off again.
Correct, except the “train” part.

We don’t have those here!
Done with what?
People who sent them self letters into the future: How do you do it in practice?

Do you just mark the envelope with a year and keep your hands off? Is there a service the mail office offers?
Highlighted countries in the chart is US and Japan and US is working more hours than Japan. Since TSMC is happy to build factories in Japan, it should be happy to build factories in US, working hours wise.
Having worked in two separate teams/companies with both regular VMs (that includes AWS EC2) I think it comes to the same to the number of people needed.

I would even say that there is less work with Kubernetes, but maybe that's my preference. I don't even think that you need two full time engineers working on it constantly, or more to say, if you're working on it constantly you have bigger problems but not with k8s. Sure, you need people to own it, but the work is periodical (mostly for cluster upgrades which are too frequent IMO) and in non-toxic companies there is always good work to be done.
Should scientists and engineers not have good character?
When advocates say Linux they unironically (and sometimes unknowingly) mean GNU+Linux.

This typically means a standard image the school can manage that has reasonable device management, with a company they can pay, and that their in-house IT can contact for support when the unexpected, unforseeable issues happen.

I have yet to hear one suggest ChromeOS or any Android tablet; those run the Linux kernel, but don't (AFAIK) use nearly any of the GNU software.

And I kind of get it. We've all seen the copy-pasta, and this division took on a life as a joke about a crazy person that takes things too far. But most of the people that make that joke seem to have forgotten that RMS frequently starts off looking crazy, but is nearly always vindicated. Sometimes it's five years, sometimes it's twenty. But it happens more often that not.
How does PostGraphile handle migrations?

Hasura, a similar tool - has really nice migration tooling inspired by Rails.

But your point is well taken, even with their nice migrations, I find myself struggling with changes to objects with dependencies (you have to drop all dependents and recreate which is a pita).
Yes. It is a very broad term for inflicting pain using your hand or an implement...

Be careful what you advocate!
States, including CA and NY, sign heat pump memorandum
I’ve seriously toyed with the concept. It may be possible now to get an application like that on a tablet, offloading computation to OpenAI and its ilk, but it wouldn’t be reliable. We’re not good enough at text and image generation to do it autonomously yet. We’re a little better at speech synthesis than Stephenson predicted, but it might still be nice to have a ractor too.
Compared to implementing the equivalent Iterator in Java, yes, the Go code is much simpler. But there are better solutions than Go's in several other languages - C#, Python, TypeScript, C++, even in Rust (experimentally).

They all use the same or very similar syntax to my C# sample above, and have the same semantics (plus or minus some details about memory allocation and exception safety). Go, as usual, came late to this party, and is being needlessly different and clunkier.
That site message is "don't import all of jquery just to use the $ global and one or two specific functions".

It's a very fine message and the site contents spread it quite well. But if you actually want to use jquery instead of just some function you got from a reference, by all means, use it, it's a very nice library.
Overall, yes. But I suspect there are winners if we could follow the money trail.
There are tons of boring EV out there, all the old ladies where I live drive Hyundai Kona. Doesn’t get any more boring than that.

I think people are waiting for cheaper EV.
I tried that too, but the Pi needs to be bridged to the network for it to show up properly and that caused issues with docker containers not being able to access it properly.

Most likely it can be made to work, but I have more money than time to spend on faffing about with stuff that should Just Work, so I threw $10 at NextDNS which solved all my issues instantly :)
Someone is hosting the sound file that’s ultimately played when the podcast is listened to. A sibling comment to yours is saying that JRE is newly to be hosted with multiple hosts, which is the only real step away from centralization. RSS is just providing the means for an up-to-date URL for the podcast episodes.

At the end of the day, the podcast is served by one of these hosts, regardless of how it was discovered. It can be observed that they’re centralized when media companies make exclusive deals as Spotify attempted with JRE.
> You can't even read most Western propaganda in China because the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views.

Sure, because you can watch Russian news channels like RT in the EU, or read websites like rt.com - oh no, they're blocked.

Just like in the EU, where the government goes to great lengths to censor narratives counter to offical views, so does China.
His writing matured quickly after Snow Crash. I think it's among his weakest. I like TDA quite a bit.
Podcasts originated on iTunes. Because they were for your iPod. Which required iTunes. Why revise history?
Anyone who has met a group of college freshmen could probably tell you they aren't exactly complete adults.
The initial up-market EV strategy saw many manufacturers vying for a small market. There are only so many people who are willing / able to spending upwards of $100k on a vehicle... especially one with compromised utility.

The cheap-EV strategy makes infinitely more sense for most American families, for whom having 1 hybrid / gas car and 1 EV allows them to cover all bases.
Yes look up any $server and #chat_room and you'll probably find one that has an almost elasticsearch quality search feature where you can specifically pick a user and see everything they've said and run sentiment values on it, etc. Sometimes they're not THAT public but someone is usually keeping them, you can even do it in your IRC client with a rolling txt log so its accessible to non-teceh users.

If you want a crazy trip look up irc logs on 9/11, and keep in mind most of the people on irc on 9/11 were middled aged in the 2000s and.. extremely unpleasant. Incredible amounts of anti-muslim, jew stuff, every single channel was ranting about muslims and turning iraq into glass.

These are just examples, you have the full text logs so I'm sure people are running them through AI and everything else now.

https://ircstats.net/
https://ircstats.net/LA/

9/11 example https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/9-11-irc-10-years-late...
Depends how narrowly you define agitprop. If you consider everything that comes out of the American media/news conglomerates as propaganda, then it's orders of magnitude greater than the efforts of China or Russia.