skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't think this work is a full time career, but they often enough don't have another choice.

Then I reckon the solution isn't to add antagonism to the employment relationship they already have, but rather as a community rally around to provide resources to lower their search costs (Note: I assume when you say "don't have another choice" you really mean the finding and switching costs for new opportunities are too high)
Floating windows overlaid over surroundings
Automated Stitching of Chip Images
Another detail not mentioned here is that even carts which didn't contain enhancement chips had different levels of performance - the SNES CPU nominally ran at 3.58mhz, but it would only actually run at that speed with a "FastROM" cart inserted. Nintendo also offered publishers a "SlowROM" cart format, which was cheaper, but would downclock the CPU to just 2.68mhz.

There is a community of modders developing patches to turn SlowROM games into FastROM games to alleviate slowdown. I read somewhere that some SlowROM games appear to have been developed for FastROM in the first place, but were converted to SlowROM at the last minute due to penny-pinching demands by the publisher.
Millions of people are in this situation, most of them not outstanding programmers.

But for an anecdote, Fabrice Bellard, one of the best known outstanding programmers (see for yourself here https://bellard.org/ ) is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique, one of the best (if not the best) engineering school in France. It is a military school, and it starts with 3 weeks of soldier-style training. It is also state sponsored and students are paid, not the other around, and in counterpart, graduates are due for 10 years of work for the state, usually as a high ranking civil servant, though you can "escape" this by paying.
Better to put it to yourself as - I am like that guy but on my own scale around my own interests.

If you can't yield things that half of the world adores, yield smaller ones.

If you can't yield smaller ones, yield one liners.

You have to have some way of yielding stuff that you fall in love with - even if it's flat directory with one liner scripts.

Practice is all there is to it. People have problems with it because they want to bite gigantic pieces in one day. It's more about falling in love with practice than falling in love with end result.

ps. pro tip - every time you solved some kind of problem - an issue you've been struggling for longer, a bug or whatever that didn't work - stop, go back in time, imagine yourself replaying it again - ask yourself questions - knowing the answer now, what could have I done/checked/asked/whatever that would have led me to solution faster? What did I miss at the beginning? Which were dead ends that I knew were wrong but I did them anyway etc. - you just need to do it couple of dozen of times to see substantial improvements in your skills.
If that bill passes the US Senate, the corporate entity for tiktok has 1 calendar year to dissolve the current ownership and establish US company ownership.

I don't think there is anything technical to discuss, its a business/legal issue. If its banned after the year passes and nothing is changed, this might amount to the existing service/site being required to put a popup on its page indicating that a user is coming from US and access is not allowed (similar to some states and a hub of videos). There really isn't any need for anything more technical than that. Yes, users will go around this but I believe the vast majority of users will not bother and will go somewhere else for their digital dopamine fix.

So technically a popup. That is the simplest technical solution that is enforceable by courts staffed with 60-70 year old judges.
Huh, it looks so much better that it seems strange its not the default.
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There are also efforts for games that aren't quite so old too. There is a Rock Band 3 Wii decompilation project underway, for example.
The art style wasn't so different, though. Discworld II, Broken Sword, and Toonstruck (all of which came out around the time CoMI was announced) all had similarly hand-painted, high-resolution art.
I know one who is outstanding, not a 10x but a 100x. Here's a short and incomplete list of some of the things he did:

Publish games (with an 's') on 16 bit computers when he was a teenagers (and good games at that)

Industrial software to minimize cuts and losses when cutting sheets of metal

Write tools easing the creation of games for smartphone when they came out and put a commercial game in the top 3 of the Apple appstore

Before that : he wrote several apps for Nokia phones (pre Android era) and serve them using a provisioning server he wrote and hosted himself

Write code to port Java code to COBOL for legacy bank infrastructure

Write some sort of Google maps before the days, from aerial pictures he managed to fetch through some people he knew

Created a software company, got funding

Got interested I cryptocurrencies, wrote several wallets, including for smartphones

Wrote servers transcoding videos in real time

Wrote an Amiga mod player for the Atari ST (that one was really cool

Find and write detailed reports about JVM bugs

There are many standards he knows by heart

Countless websites

He was doing ML before it LLM broke through: teaching 3D "things" to learn to move

Monitoring and visualization on embedded devices for solar panels/micro inverters efficiency

He moved to devops and loves it. And he still codes.

His secret is a life of passion for the trade.

There s nothing he s worked on that didn't become faster, cleaner. There s not a single place he s been too where he didn't have things to teach people (and things to learn too: passion and curiosity).

He knows so many languages: from assembly to C to C++ to Java to Kotlin to Lua to ML languages to so many scripting languages.

Front end, back end, from huge servers to tiny embedded stuff. Dumbphones. Smartphones.

The only family of language I know he s never done is Lisp (so I get some creds).

He s not just a developer: he manages servers too, both for fun and professionally... and found a recent love for devops (working for a major payment processor as I type this).

He s 50 y/o and he ll kick your sorry ass like you have no idea.

He happens to be a very good friend of mine and when I hear that there are no 10x programmers I cannot help but laugh in a condescending manner.

He is, unlike me, humble. He ll say he doesn't know much. He s always got a desire to learn.

And I think most of all: when he was 30 he thought programmers who were 50 had many things to teach him.
> Why would all/any of that stuff be more expensive for Loblaws than other stores?

I see no data for "other stores" in this article.
What's your favourite item to steam (with your steaming services, to be clear) ;)
I’ve never seen the behavior you are describing. I would check that you’re sending the headers correctly: https://neilmadden.blog/2020/05/18/a-flowchart-for-cache-con...

I’ve used that flowchart too many times.
"The best band will never get signed

The Kay-Sette’s starring Butcher’s Blind

So good you won’t ever know

They never even played a show

Can’t hear ‘em on the radio"
And yet the average American is richer than ever, and far, far richer than the rest of the world.
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What do you mean by "retrieve stuff I read"?
I haven’t built amazing things, but I had opportunity for success even though I had children early in life. I’m now 48 and my youngest child moved out last weekend. Being an empty nester will give me even more opportunities.

A few tips off the top of my head…

Always set aside a “space” for your work. Mine has been as small as a drawer dedicated to my laptop and headphones. The more comfortable your space the better but it doesn’t need to be complex.

When my children were very young, my wife and I decided to get them in the habit of going to bed early. This gave us a couple hours of free time every night.

I’m a morning person so I wake up early, before everyone else in my house. I still get 7 or 8 hours of sleep. I’m most productive these two morning hours.

Dedicate some work time. For me, it’s morning.

Try to read more or do something else that stimulates your brain. My brain is much more active when I’m reading. I know, this is time you could be working, but for me it gets the mind moving. This should probably NOT be during your work time though.

I’ve had some mild success that I now consider failures. See my post, How to Lose Money With 25 Years of Failed Businesses:

https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
The reason is because (probably) you are using the double quote as well. Amazon search tool seems to be using double quote in a way similar to google search. It makes it so that double quoted part has to be included in the found results.
> Badly managed BigCorps are overstaffed 3x (or more).

I never knew what a corporate intranet was for until I worked at a huge company. It's for clicking around on, going back and forth, when you have nothing else to do but need to look busy.
Interesting, I was assuming that, unlike humans, they actually didn't have an actual tool industry (which only then would have qualified them for "Stone Age" in my book), but perhaps they have ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomekwi

(Or at least for non-stone tools ?)
Thats what the other non-tech person I mentioned is for. Personally, I don't like that stuff. If you are a really good programmer, find a marketer and just make a 2 man team.

In general the formula boils down to him managing a team of media buyers though.

We also don't usually do projects that don't have an aspect of certainty from the start. For example, lots of people just build Saas products and wait years for customers.

We will generally look for entry points where we either know some privileged piece of intel, a person, a relationship, an account, etc. It will never be the thing that causes success, but it's the "certainty" aspect that gives you a lot better odds than just picking an idea and hammering away at it with ads.
And not only that, but many smart Watches were significantly more stylish imho, whereas the Apple Watch has always had more of a plebeian / for-the-masses design.

Honestly, though, I think a lot of Apple's dominance with the watch is just because of their dominance with the phone. I'm sure plenty of iPhone users would have chosen a different watch seller if they could have done so while still having a seamless experience.
I go to a Dollar Store fairly frequently in my city, and it's just a nightmare due to self-checkout: one physical cashier open with anyone over 50 lining up to use, and another overworked worker dealing with errors in the self-checkout units. Just incredibly amounts of scale errors and other things that require a fingerprint scan by employees to clear.
Delay email delivery with Postfix for a relaxing weekend
Always wondered if that was just an arbitrary licensing distinction made up by nintendo or there were actual differences between carts data reading speeds. At the end of the day, all SNES carts sported mask roms.
>Every January, when the chicks are around five months old, they undergo a process known as fledging. During this process, the chicks lose their baby feathers and leave their colony for the first time — jumping from an enormous cliff into the ocean to take their first swim.

It was their first swim. Maybe the cliff was the closest shore
Delightful experience from start to finish. Thanks for showing what web apps are capable of at the moment. It would make sense to title this "Show HN: "
There is but the last time they went on strike it didn’t go well.
Franken UI: HTML-first, framework-agnostic designed components
did that oops recently and it deleted `~/VirtualBox VMs/` while `~/Code` survived.
I use iCloud because of Apple's Advanced Data Protection. I don't believe Dropbox offers anything like that, do they?

For backups I use Time Machine synced to a Linux home server.
Crackheads jumping in front of buses has nothing to do with whether motor vehicle travel is safe. An intellectually honest comparison would be to compare the incidence of fatalities while being driven around in a recent model sedan by a professional driver
I agree in general but I think the 80s deserve special recognition because it marked a turning point in the relationship between wages and productivity[1][2] and the long decline of collective bargaining[3] at the same time it became even more acceptable to brag about wealth because that linked into the Cold War comparisons we made with the Eastern Bloc countries. A lot of older Americans also didn’t track how much things stood in other countries – e.g. the standard of living in much of Europe relative to people doing the same jobs domestically – but I think a lot of younger people are looking at how many trend lines have a knuckle point in that decade and are feeling cheated.

1. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

2. But see also https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/03/when-comparing-wages...

3. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/12/majoritie...
Yeah, I don't really buy it either as the evidence is weak. The author does provide some references to some astronomers and physicists hypothesizing about past "immense solar outbursts" from the Sun, orders of magnitude more powerful than modern events but no specific observations or data are cited.

There is also some discussion of "recurrent novae," faint and fast "dwarf novae," and simulations of triggering mechanisms that could produce nova-level energy releases from stars interacting with phenomena like interstellar dust clouds but I'm not sure if the scales of any of those match what the ancient peoples described or if the simulations results are even plausible.

Still an interesting theory imo.
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This is amazing! The visual style is stunning. This actually comes very close to a style of game I've wanted to exist for a long time. The premise being this: You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Making sacrifices in power and computing ability to resolve problems that occur throughout the ship.
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> As an actual sidestep, you could be legally obliged to provide your password to a third-party computer

I don't understand how this is a sidestep: could you expand?
The article does mention LoRom and HiRom, I imagine you're talking about the same thing.
Show HN is for authors submitting their own work...
OK so US is 5.4 and Somalia is 7

"America -- slightly safer than Somalia!"
> My bet is that some large fraction of people are currently doing jobs that are far less demanding ("robotic") than what they are capable of doing

Agreed, hence the caveat of 100 watts when at human speed: Humans are not capable of competing against costs of 100W * $0.10/kWh = $0.01/hour even when the only expense that human has is the cheapest available calories.
von Neumann could do calculus when he was 8. Some people are just born that way
> Can this be Wordpress?

Yup. I’m a huge fan of rails,
but I’m an even larger fan of not writing code in the first place.

If a spreadsheet can solve your problem, I’m going to suggest a spreadsheet.

If a vendor can solve your problem well enough, I’ll suggest a vendor.

My time, energy, and attention is valuable. I’m here for the problems you can’t or shouldn’t outsource.
Thanks! About "Show HN:", we would have done so but someone else posted it so we have no control over the title.
> Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

I guess either you believe that this AI feature is worth the new prices, or you don't. I don't.

> We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version.

Why not self-hosting an instance of Forgejo?
E-mail is, at its core, best-effort, respond-maybe protocol. Implementing "quiet hours as seen in IM", means using the wrong tool.

If you insist on treating e-mail as a medium requiring immediate response, you'll be going into Postfix on weekends to force-flush the queue instead. This is not a technological problem, definitely not one that's solvable through configuration tweaking.

(I mean, sure, it's an impressive exercise in how flexible the sw stack is, but the issue lies elsewhere)
Recent reads:
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
AntiFragile by Nassim Taleb (an almost annual re-read)

When I read fiction, I go as far away from modern tech or sci-fi as possible, for balance. I hate sci-fi.
What is an outstanding programmer? There are two answers depending upon whom you ask.

There are people who can build ambitious things at higher performance and durability while expending dramatically low comparative effort. Then there are people with influence.

It’s typically the later group that gets 80% of the attention because it’s challenging to discern expertise without being an expert yourself. So, forget all that if you want to become a much better programmer.

How to become an expert (many comments here already mention this)?

- know your compile target

- know your current projects goal

- write code

- provide iterative improvements

Where most people fail is impatience, as in skipping directly to the end state, probably by skinning some prior existing solution. This is bad because you’ve learned nothing and released a solution where everything that doesn’t scale.
> Other than power user distros (arch, gentoo, etc) Linux has been one click install and ready to go just like windows for a decade (Ubuntu, fedora, etc) and provides a very good OOBE nowadays.

So my experience with Ubuntu and Fedora on a new Thinkpad T14s Gen 3 (AMD) laptop has been a mixed bag. Lenovo state that this is an Ubuntu supported notebook so everything should have been compatible with no tinkering but that was not my experience.

You're right, OOBE with distros today is good. But in day to day usage there were three very annoying problems:

1. The display flickers due to AMD's variable refresh rate feature (doesn't happen on Windows) - fixing this required a custom kernel with VRR disabled

2. The speakers sounded very quiet and anemic due to the laptop shipping with Dolby Atmos tuning - fixing this in Linux required installing Windows (which supports Atmos), recording a special diff file in Windows Audacity with Atmos tuning on/off and then importing that into PulseAudio on Ubuntu to give it the same speaker tuning profile

3. The trackpad scroll speed was way too fast and Gnome annoyingly offers no way to customize this - the solution is to edit one of the libinput-config files

Granted the big stuff like Wifi, Bluetooth, GPU, printing and sleep all worked perfectly - even Steam + Proton worked out the box with games like Arkham Knight and Witcher running as well as Windows but little issues like those three above required a good few hours of tinkering in the command line and make things frustrating enough that I think The Verge author's point stands.
It would only be Show HN if OP were the creator, which they are not, I think.
Eh, not the same. All the games I remember spanning multiple discs (Emperor: Battle for Dune took four, for example) were that large due to FMV cutscenes.

I understand that 3D textures are large files, but surely there is some hideous bloat occurring to cause the explosion in size.

And outside of games, the same bloat occurs, so it’s not just textures. “Let’s ship an entire browser rendering engine with our app” hasn’t exactly helped.
Other names for the same idea: "modularization", "loose coupling and strong cohesion", "program to interfaces, not implementations", ...
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Gusto's Gradual Modularization Destination
> I'm sure you also don't tip.

In-app tipping should be discouraged regardless of someone's overall opinion on tipping.

The market and regulatory environment has already set a precedent that stealing tips is de facto legal, and there are many ways to do so in an undetectable way (without a full source code audit) even if it wasn't legal.

If you want to tip, do it cash in hand.
Ludde is really a star as well as a great guy but he also dedicates his life to programming due to his disabilities (he's wheelchair bound), if one of the few ways you could distract yourself was through coding you could also probably build a lot of stuff if putting in the effort day in day out.
It's even worse by that metric in my rather disappointed experience. With Hetzner, the price is right, but I miss Dropbox.
imagine suggesting that pink floyd edit down the wall so it's shorter hahaha
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> You are crazy if you think that a C style for loop is good designed. It's way to powerful but terse and obtuse to do correctly beyond the simplest application.

I wouldn't go as far as calling someone crazy for thinking C-style for loops are good.

The expressions in a C-style for loop is a 1:1 mapping to sigma notation, so is intuitively understood by anyone who has done high school mathematics, even if they didn't realise there's a 1:1 mapping.

Maybe you'd like something different, but it's been a staple of mathematicians for centuries now, so it's kinda hard to complain that it isn't readable.

Easy to make mistakes? Sure!

Hard to read and/or write? Only if you have never seen sigma notation before.
> The insane thing is people trying to make a livable wage off of "gigs".

> We should stop pretending this is or ever can be reasonable full-time employment.

Hypothetically, imagine a society that required welfare claimants to accept any job they were offered. If any would not work, neither should he eat.

Should such a society allow shitty/exploitative/dangerous jobs to exist, and force welfare claimants to work them?

Or should there only be an obligation to take a job if it provides a certain minimum level of safety, dignity and salary?