skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect there will be quite a few people in this situation, but it won't be the majority of people simply for financial reasons. If your idea of a fulfilling career isn't tech, law, finance, medicine or business/management, it may simply be impossible to do it full time and have a decent quality of life in many places.

For instance, writing jobs pay terribly overall, with the quantity of them going down a lot due to the decline of traditional media and the advent of AI. Unless you've got a FAANG income nest egg or a trust fund to rely on, I wouldn't recommend anyone get into this kind of work as their main career, regardless of how fulfilling it might be.

Ultimately I suspect many people will be forced to try and stick out this recession/downturn just because tech is their best bet of a decent living.
Neither side is literally starving. Ukraine is not dependent on Russian energy. The drone strike damage is largely negligible.
The Germans had wire guided missiles in WW2.
Hey! I'm the mentioned Thorsten. Linux is actively being developed. Here's a PR from 2 days ago that shows file-opening in Linux starting to work: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/7852

And so far Linux support has been a big community effort. I think more community member contributed to Linux support than Zed teammates. Very cool to see.

So: Linux is in the works. Windows will probably happen after that, or if someone in the community wants to emulate what the Linux users are doing and start before that.
>What sane person would join the military after all these pointless, lost, immoral, BS wars?

It's a bit of conundrum. Do you assume the rest of the world is moral, altruistic and peaceful? The entirety of human history is war, strong neighbours conquering the weaker. Sometimes that works out for the losers, but most often it doesn't.

So you hope for the best and plan for the worst (building a strong military). What other option is there?
Ask HN: What lessons in life do tech people learn too late?
You hear lots of advice, examples, parables and warnings, but often the crucial part is knowing something when it's useful in your life.

Are their any lessons that once you "got" they made so much sense, but you got them either too late, after they would have helped, or too early, so you forgot about them when they'd be important?

Partially inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409609
A lifetime or less fit into a single name or phrase, at will unpacked: lighter than air, computed imaginary, applied tangibly.
We don't need it, I think that's obvious. We don't need Cap'n Crunch cereal or Cybertrucks either. We get all that stuff because it generates profit. Generative AI will make money. "Supposed to" have this or that actual benefit has nothing to do with it.
It's the new-new-thing and lemmings want to capitalize on it and get rich. Only problem is it has limited utility and doesn't really work for a lot of the things they are trying to do with it.
it is actually faster and snappier to use on a beefy M2 max, on the same hardware zed starts up in half the time. the difference is very noticeable. of course it is much less configurable and doesn't work with a lot of things VS Code can do easily.

edit: see this comment for a much better explanation than mine of what I originally meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409763
It's actually fine for someone to post something you don't personally want to read.
>> If the military’s recruiting efforts are successful, these kids and teens will end up applying the skills they honed while playing games they love to warfare – piloting drones to kill from afar, for example.

If the people they kill are our enemies, who are also trying to kill us, then isn't this a good thing?

I never served in the military and lean pretty far left politically, but I'm always surprised by how some circles portray the military as a caricature of senseless killing.

If some actor decides they want to force their way of life on me and my fellow citizens by military force, then the best and only response to that is a strong military.
Sometimes a magic number is just a magic number.
> Setting up a new Macbook will be tough and cumbersome. Every time I get a new Macbook, I go over the same steps on how to set it up for my working experience.

Huh? My last several hardware upgrades I just plugged in my Time Machine drive and everything is migrated within 1-2 hours.
> Chill! No self respecting company will publish inferior web apps if native is so much better in their special use case!

Slack, Spotify, Teams, Notion...

Why do I need to buy the top of the line M3 MacBook Pro to run these apps with a sane performance? What tells you that these same bloated apps won't be even more bloated in the future? There's something fundamentally broken with web apps. It's no wonder the Zed team (that originally created Electron for Atom) has moved completely away from it to develop their own native GUI toolkit.
Happy to see such a huge team collaborating on a project at any company.

Perhaps becoz, it involves LLM and LLMs are hot, and everyone wants a piece of it.
No doubt this is related to avoidance of parasites and infections, similar to trypophobia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
How can they license something that they didn’t author? Yes, they have TOS. But training generative AI wasn’t something that existed when ~99% of Reddit’s content was created, hence users could not possibly have consented to it. Besides, at least in Germany, TOS cannot contain regulations that are “surprising” or “unexpected”. Using my content to serve ads is one thing I might expect. But licensing it out for a fee to third parties? I don’t think so.
If you name it `NUMBER_ELEMENTS_AVERAGED`, then when you add a new element to average, you will miss the fact that you also need to modify that value :)

You either have them on a list and calculate it dynamically based on the size, or have it as a magic number.
I had a stick of RAM go bad in an old Socket 775 motherboard, but since it was one of 6 sticks of RAM, it only affected the PC on rare occasions. That PC was flaky for years before I pulled out some RAM to upgrade and found the problem had been fixed.

When a similar problem occurred on a PC with ECC RAM, I got a warning message saying memory errors had been detected that repeated a few times, then I got a message saying one stick of RAM had been deactivated and that I could keep running. The Dell T3500 dropped from 24 GB to 20 GB and did not even need to be rebooted.

That is why I love ECC RAM and Xeon processors. I know if there is a problem and can wait to fix it.

I can buy used RAM and processors with confidence that the BIOS self rests will tell me what is good and what is bad.
I wouldn't over-generalize. But there is some belt tightening at companies. Many companies have grown/changed. People may not feel up for a late career reboot even if, under different circumstances, they might have put some more years in.
How do you explain the before/after speed improvement then?
Anger has caused me to start weeklong (including weekends) coding binges where I get a month’s work done. Leaves me a bit exhausted at the end, but still a huge net win.
I didn’t realize ADHD was like duckface…
On a side note, I wonder if Wayland made it more difficult to have this kind of silly experimentation. X11, despite the legendary bad code quality, is a big leverage for lone coder.
The logic looks something like "The metrics are there to measure SWE productivity and quality, if we let them change it, they will game the metrics."
The only way to make real money without selling your soul is to start your own business.
Back in 2000, it was what everything on the Mac was compressed in, because it understood the Mac’s uniquely complex executable file format and was a much more reliable way to transfer executables than compressors designed on simpler file systems.

Then in 2001 OSX came out, with a new executable file format of “a specially named and structured directory in a boring UNIX file system”, and Stuffit’s reason for existing began to vanish. I’m honestly very surprised someone is still updating it now.
It's not that hard, and most of the smaller AM and FM facilities I've seen (ones where snakes nest on top of the transmitter and wild turkeys try to chase off the engineer the one time a year the tower gets a visit) still have some sort of monitor. Plus... especially with AM, there's always at least one old folk sitting there with it on 24-7. It's usually a race between the engineer and that older person to see who calls the studio or owner first!
Normally, yes. Catastrophic brain injuries can also result in ADHD. People who develop identical symptoms to ADHD due to stimulus and conditioning do not actually have ADHD and cannot be treated with medications for ADHD treatment, but otherwise for all practical purposes the real world performance limitations are the same. I call that artificial ADHD.
>People exercise less and focus less. The result is artificially induced ADHD and more physically fragile people less capable of completing initial entry training without severe or catastrophic muscle/bone injuries.

Young recruits are too physically unfit, have mental health issues, and take too many drugs, which is why WW3 with China will have to be held in Palworld.
With a terminal family member, what I found counterintuitive was that we had to take measures to avoid insane practices rather than the practitioners having to ask before doing something insane.
This is a fair point with how Pi prices have gone, and I don't think I'll be buying a pi5.
That works, another method to add to the toolset is to ask what is actually driving the emotion.

Sometimes it's actually frustration that things aren't going the way you want (and the next question is why is my way really better than the other?).

Sometimes it's someone else's mistake (and the next question is have I ever made a mistake?)

Then someone cuts in front of you in line and it could really matter (time pressure or opportunities missed) and that behaviour could be something you would never do to others. In that situation believe it's healthier to speak up, but there is much less risk of escalation, and a good chance of gaining allies around you if the message is delivered calmly rather than with anger.
Frog not fro. I had visions of truly rank dreadlocks. In which case growing mushrooms is not much of a leap, lemme tell you.
Dells 6k is quite alright at reasonable price. Has some quirks though
I would assume that he just earned so much money that he’s rich and can now do something else with his life without caring about money. Good for him.
I have, but never for a company that didn't care whether their signal was propagating.

Nor for a company that didn't have some level of fear of being fined by the FCC for non-compliance.

Things may be different in small-market rural!

But the economics of "not knowing" that your station is off-air are impossible.
That's fine yeah but sometimes you want a truly clean setup. Basically using it as an excuse to get rid of stuff you don't need.
Honestly? The guy came out from a far-right party, in 2007 he said the muslim immigrants should be squashed like cockroaches. Fine that he stood against the Putin government, but as a person I don't give a damn he died
Go read any actual war analysis. It is not a strategically important place. Donetsk City is not realistically a significant target in the foreseeable future.

Russia cares immensely about optics because Putin has demanded a military victory in time for the march elections. This has been publicly reported on since at least October.
Politics came to the tech community in the form of Israeli manipulation of tech platforms and militant, blacklisting Zionism from the VCs. Israel caused this.
> they've already shown a shadow of their true colors when they banned flash under the guise of security

For which I'm eternally grateful to them even though I don't have any Apple devices.
I don't think the price of ram grows linearly with its bits. Manufacturing, shipping, distribution etc. are major costs that are mostly fixed for a single stick I would imagine.
I wrote myself a little python script to do this a while back. I’m not sure that it will still work due to their API changes.

A longer while back I wrote a little JS bookmarklet to do it. It could just do a page at a time, which was annoying, but not too bad. However, when they would change the site, it would stop working and need to be fixed.

Remember to edit the comment before you delete it. From what I read, deleting a comment just sets a flag on the comment as delete, so it’s still in the DB for them to sell. Making it garbage text will kill the value of the comment in the DB as well, and probably really screw with the AI trying to train from it.
Actually the installation guide for arch asks you to use `genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab` which basically copies over whatever was mounted at the live environment (taking off the /mnt), I'm pretty sure tmpfs for /tmp was there by default last time I installed.
i.e. the first information-encoding base.
Those "democrats" are not preventing a vote on the aid, which appears would pass with a large majority. The actual power here resides with the MAGAts, from the Speaker on down, directed by Trump.

I am not sure I can be charitable enough to think you really don't understand this. The reaching is extreme.
Experience bears that out like 99% of the time. My only exception is when I know and trust the person setting up the fundraiser... even then...
The Dark Side of the Internet's Obsession with Anxiety
actually, you can do everything with js

js web api-s have become so powerful (web animation instead of css)

of course you have to know what dom is (and there is cssom as well, modifiable via js)

but it took me some time to realize all you need is js (and understand what js-async really is)... actually I love the js async model for UI

the only problem is that js is a scripting language... some may use typescript for stronger types but what I would love to have and will never come since all web API is for js is a new language...

however, you can use webassembly for critical frontend tasks (like stockfish chess engine on lichess) or actually last time I checked V8 was so optimized that good js code was practically not inferior to webassebly or native...
It doesn't on mine it still is really wrong but compared to mixtral when you tell next that it did a mistake it corrects it to the right answer where mixtral was making things up that were even more wrong.
> RC's scenario is taking an app made for only Windows PC and running it on Xbox. I wonder if he has found even one example which permits this in the licence.

I don't know what program he would be talking about, but I think if Raymond Chen is writing about something, it's usually because it is a real problem that was encountered, even if he's writing about it as if it was hypothetical to avoid naming the software in question.

He generally avoids naming non-Microsoft software he's found bugs in.
I don't understand how Apple is hitting home runs. What have they really innovated on post Steve Jobs? Their products are pretty much equivalent to the competition with 5% more polish at the cost of 5% more time to release. Marketing wise, they are close to gods, but innovation wise, even Microsoft is better.

I definitely agree on the fact that Tim is a much better CEO than Sundar. However I consider Satya to be much better than Tim.
Interesting idea to implement a proxy that does something on each new connection. I’ll have to think about that but very cool concept that lets this work for tests written in any language.

Will each testcase need to run migrations after connecting for the first time? Also, I’m used to using clients which lazily pool connections, do they still work with this model?

Op, I’d be curious what you think of my project pgtestdb, which takes a different approach: use a single server, but create new databases each time. Maybe there is some middle ground where a proxy creates a new cloned db after each connection?
https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb
Unfortunately some macs may be within a corporate environment and thus are unable to use an external drive, so no Time Machine.
> ...which is not native to the platform

"The Qt Rendering Hardware Interface (RHI) translates 3D graphics call from Qt applications to the available graphics APIs on the target platform."[1]

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/topics-graphics.html
Historically being fat was a signifier of wealth, as it implies that you can afford a lot of food. Some cultures also see it as a sign of fertility. This was also the case in the Western world until recently.

Another well known historical signifier for wealth was fair skin. As you wouldn’t get a tan if you didn’t have to labour out in the sun.
> for whatever reason

I worked at a predominantly male engineering company a long time ago. They hired a girl to improve morale. This took me like 2 decades to understand.
Stuffit was relevant in the late 80s and 90s. It hasn't really been relevant for a long time.
> Yeah, and I should have mentioned also in addition to my lab and my research, I run our clinical psychology PhD program. So I’m the current director of clinical training. I teach in that program. I teach clinical interventions. I’m a clinical psychologist myself, as you mentioned, but honestly, most of my perspective on this comes from being a parent of a 12- and 14-year-old.
I deleted all the content on my main account. Most of it wasn't useful, but a couple of posts and threads ranked well on Google and I like to think that hurts the site just a little bit.
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Because it is reddit, one of the most vile companies on the planet.
Even in the best of times, the best engineers I've worked with basically we’re just putting up with companies and management because the work was interesting and pay was good.

With so many people looking for work at the moment, I think a lot of these same companies have kind of a big head about themselves. Interviewing always sucks, but having to jump through a bunch of hoops, be ignored, or ghosted by some dopey SaaS company is really discouraging for a lot of people.

I myself decided to take a sabbatical so as not to deal with all this right now.
> Most definitely. Though I do think (hope?) we humans can rise above our limitations to grasp the actual Truth quite a bit.

Sure. I don't mean to imply I'm a subjectivist or that the situation is hopeless. But seeing things as they are, rather than as one is inclined to see them, takes serious effort and self-training. That's not an argument in favour or against anything; it's true in every aspect of life, from the most mundane to the biggest questions.

Feel free to respond to this comment or some more recent one, and I'll try to remember to check. Regardless of whether you're convinced, you'll at least be responding to much better arguments than what you've likely encountered so far. Enjoy!
I agree with this. While I’ve had various issues with IPv6 a decade or so ago, nowadays I’ve never found disabling IPv6 to be a solution.
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Yes! I loved those guys. They were always guys. :)
That makes sense but that makes it a personal choice to then go through setting the whole thing up from scratch.
> Apple is the evilest of evils. It must be fought with great determination if we are concerned with freedom.

Continuing using Apple products while periodically expressing your frustration on Reddit/HN is not a good way to "fight" Apple. Consider using PC with Linux or something.
This is amazing, thanks for the link!
They could've saved themselves $60M by just downloading the torrent of the data.
I feel like these classic editors are good to know just for general education like writing cursive. If you end up on some barebones system you will know how to edit a config file and exit. But for day-to-day it's all IDEs nowadays.
I love the AGPL, but even that has some holes. One classic case is a "backend service", which the user doesn't ever directly interact with, but is used by the application backend to provide the user service. Like if I modify an AGPL geocoding microservice, which is used by my backend to plan a trip to show the user, do I need to release the source? What if it's not displayed to the user at all and is just a small part of another calculation that is (like predicting bus arrival times)? What about an AGPL database or cache server? And if backend services don't count, are the users not interacting only with the reverse proxy and everything else is a backend service?
In Switzerland this system exists right now, it's an extra 3 percent income tax for 11 years. Some people with disabilities are exempt from the tax, but it is common to be deemed unfit for military service due to a disability, and have to pay the tax. It doesn't seem fair to me, but it seems the Swiss voters accept it.
Thanks for explaining it so well. Can you please elaborate on 'keeping things in perspective' which you mentioned is the key here.
StuffIt is a thing you might be nostalgic about if you used MacOS 7 through 9 or so in the 90's. I'm surprised it still exists, I don't recall using it on OS X at all.
but you'll probably need to sell your soul for just a little while to learn what it takes to run a business
> The relationship of absolute population size to progress may be one of the most important facts about human history and why we only developed shockingly recently.

Dr. Robert Zubrin said this in Merchants of Despair, which is the most important book published this century. Just read the first chapter. There are 2 graphs that changed my thinking.

It is illogical to ask for green tech to clean up the environment while also asking for population reduction because a smaller population means fewer inventions.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the situation was something along the lines of: they were having financial difficulties and decided they could get away with not broadcasting on AM…sold the tower and equipment for scrap. Eventually someone notices and notifies the FCC. FCC contacts the operator and eventually they send out a bush hog crew to make the “discovery”.
Criminals pay a lifelong penalty for a onetime choice.
Interesting, what's the game theory argument for this strategy?
Also useful if you want to add logging, or capture some metrics, or set a breakpoint.
Zionists have literally worked with Nazis to further the goals of Zionism. Look at the Haavara Agreement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Having sheep graze under solar panels is pretty standard here in Germany and it's a win for all sides.
That's.. sort-of similar. Treemacs is more project based, not CWD based. That seems more like "dired in a left-panel."

Useful though.
...so what's your costume?
I agree. Money is not in the cars. Money is in the data collected from the users - 360 degree camera footage, offloading AI training risk to users, and of course collecting all of that sweet user data [1]. In some cases, the car manufacturer will somehow collect your sexual history.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...
I tried out the editor because of this post: it looks very promising. Unfortunately I can't use it because it doesn't have support for remote hosts/devcontiners. That feature of VScode is critical to my workflow, as I don't actually want to program on a Mac host, but rather use my Mac as a portal to the VMs and containers I actually code on. It massively helps with segmentation of my projects and improves my security posture (by not having a development environment or dependencies on my actual host machine).
They also substitute parts all the time. Even the “best” brands have been known to do this. From different controllers to swapping TLC for QLC flash.