skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the tech but the attention capitalism and the assault on general purpose computing who screwed up the tech. The people, their greed and their desire for controlling others got in the way, unsurprisingly. This is becoming increasingly like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brazil or PKD novels. It's like those books and movies were actually field manuals for company C suites and governments, totalitarian or otherwise. And in Russia it's like Vladimir Sorokin novels are the field manual for the Kremlin.
Right, but I'm talking about the difference between retiring at 60 and retiring at 50 or even younger.

You don't need a FAANG salary to retire at (what use to be) the normal age or somewhat early, but you do need one to retire very early. I'm saying that I won't choose to chase a very early retirement if doing so compromises the time I can spend with my kids while they're young.
So, we should build more compilers. The only limiting factor, I think, is that it's damn hard to design a good DSL that wraps your domain well and is neither too flexible (increasing boilerplate) nor too rigid (increasing workarounds and escape hatch usage).

But generically, a compiler is the exact kind of thing you want when you're doing "Take this data structure and transform it into this other data structure". In a traditional compiler, we usually deserialize the first data structure from a string (parsing), call that data structure a CST, validate the data structure (syntax & type checking), do the transform, then serialize the output.

This kind of validate and transform pattern is all over programming though. And it's pretty easy to test with things like property tests. So yeah, we should build little compilers more as abstraction boundaries in our code.
... which is valid for many if not most F1 contenders, ever saw some F1 tech at latest Renault?

OK, Ferrari for example may take some cues from F1 for their hypercars, but how much is just PR statements and how much actual reality we'll never know.
Those two, butterfly and dragonfly, could hardly be more different - sort of humorous to put those two creatures in the same thought. Dragonfly is the most accurate predator in the whole animal kingdom.. making falcons and large cats look like beginners. Meanwhile the butterfly is unable to hunt at all, a truly powerful "changeling", starting life as a worm-like thing.
There are instructive precedents in the history of communications technology, where early optimism by innovators was displaced by the interests of other stakeholders. From "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, https://archive.is/4fKyt

> The media and communications industries are regularly accused of trying to influence politics, but what went on in the 1870s was of a wholly different order from anything we could imagine today. At the time, Western Union was the exclusive owner of the only nationwide telegraph network, and the sizable Associated Press was the unique source for "instant" national or European news.. Western Union carried Associated Press reports exclusively.. When the major channels for moving information are loyal to one party, its effects, while often invisible, can be profound.
A decent house in the Bay Area is >$2M. Why would I pay that when I can make the same money and buy a much better house for $500k, work from home, not have a commute (which is hideous in the BA) and not have some little micro manager breathing down my neck all day? It's a massive quality of life improvement all around.
So we just need a nice all encompassing global conflict again that largely leaves the American industrial base alone and then when it is the only one standing there can be another growth in the American middle class.
People forget that the vocal majority of FOSS people back then thought Microsoft was a danger and were engaging to counter them.

OSS is founded as much on what it rejects as what it embraces.
What I'd love - maybe you'd love - is if bloggers formed a new Social Media Accuracy Collective (SMAC). To be a member, you need to carefully verify - corroborating with at least three, credible primary sources with direct knowledge of the subject; and personally verify primary materials - every word you write, and painstakingly review every analytical claim you write for 100% accuracy, and verify every secondary factual claim (e.g., the weather on that day), and then have others closely verify all that in a sort of peer review. And only then can SMAC members post on their blog.

In addition, most of what SMAC members post has to be new to the public (not something others have posted) and significant to their community.

Then those bloggers would be journalists. But if they did, I wouldn't care if they worked for the NY Times or whatever, or if they called themselves journalists. But who else but journalists and scientific researchers matches those standards?

> You don't have to be a part of billion-dollar corporation controlled by a billionaire and have a degree for which you owe your whole net worth and hope some politician will consider you worthy of bribing to pay it off - you don't need any of that to tell the truth.

You setup that strawperson. It does take a lot of education, training, and work, including resources to do all that work. Could SMAC exists without funding and other resources?

> there are literally dozens if not hundreds only recent cases where we know they lied, we know why they lied, they know we caught them lying

If you can provide examples, that is great. Otherwise, who is making things up?

That's the difference between social media (including HN) and professional journalism. On social media people just write whatever. If they NY Times writes 'literally dozens', there are actually more than 24 or 36; when people on social media write it, it's kind of an expression of 'a lot' and we all know that the person writing is just performing an emotional play, and very possibly doesn't know.
Seamonkey. With a bookmarklet to go to the archive version of the current page (to bypass paywalls), it can do everything you want. If, as suggested by your want of self-hosting, you want something centrally located that will allow you to seamlessly track feeds across devices, all options suck, whether paid or free. You're probably better off just writing a program in your language of choice (I've never seen a language without one or more RSS/atom-specific libs, let alone plain XML) to meet your own needs rather than banging your head against the wall of someone else's pet that does what they need but isn't perfect for you.
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Is it really a pay cut if half your day is spent commuting (unpaid)? Just a thought.
My boss recently started an on-call rotation for us. None of the code I have written is customer facing. If everything I wrote breaks at 5:01pm on Friday, external customers will feel 0 impact if I wait to fix it until I show up again on Monday. Worst case, someone internal has to wait to work on something they’ve probably been putting off for months anyway. There are other things they can work on. If it was a constant problem, I’d get it, but a rare instance can be forgiven when no outside impact is felt.

I am responsible for my code, but we need to be realistic about the impact. Not all outages are created equal.

I used to work nights watching over the hardware, operating systems, and applications running in it. We’d do upgrades and break/fix stuff. Some things were worth waking someone up for, but a lot of things weren’t. We’d do what we could do fix it on our own, but for a non-prod environment, it could wait until morning if we couldn’t do it on our own. This idea seems to be lost on people now. I get that 100% uptime of 100% of the systems would be nice, but not at the expense of your employees sanity.

I haven’t actually been called yet with the new rotation, but any week I’m on-call I’m a bit on edge. In the past I had some pretty horrible on-call experiences that pushed me close to quitting, which I won’t get into, so I’m preparing for the worst. I worked my ass off to get into a position where I didn’t need to be on-call and put in my time working nights so other people could sleep. Being back on-call feels like a demotion.
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That really depends on what you count as a subsidy. The federal government isn't really making direct payments to fossil fuel companies. Some of them are allowed to lease federal lands at what might be considered below-market prices. The US military helps to provide free security for some oil exporting countries. Fossil fuel producers and customers are allowed to emit pollutants without paying for cleanup or remediation costs. Are those subsidies? Depends on your perspective.
What does Call of Duty use now?
firstly, on call means supporting the entire service. not something in general I built.

secondly, many if not most of the issues that arise are part of some infrastructure automation or third party service or database. expecting me to be fluent in all of those to be useful in the hot seat is a pretty substantial investment and qualifies me to be an SRE on top of my other duties

thirdly, one major reason why my code might fail in production is that it wasn't sufficiently tested, probably because the service as a whole is basically untestable, and even if it were, building test and test infrastructure is likely not at all valued. in many places just filling in that hole would take a year.

onto to the fourth, the story is supposed to be that by operating the service, I'll be incentivized to fix automation and come up with solutions to make it more robust. I actually know how to do this, and every week I'm on call is time that I _dont_ spend doing this. furthermore, getting permission to do so is often like pulling teeth. sounds complicated. sure that would be nice, look at that when you have time in the indefinite future.

so what this often looks like from a development perspective is that I'm being paid to be a developer, I was judged based on my ability to be a developer, but at the end of the day I'm not building the service. I _am_ the service.
Nerds needed support in the nineties, and they need support today. Our error was in accepting the success and fame of a few representative nerds as evidence that nerds were overcoming these challenges collectively. We allowed in people who never faced the challenges nerds face to identify as nerds— why turn down a friend?— and they've now made society worse for everyone, in our name. In a single blow they've amplified anti-intellectualism and squandered the faith people thought they were investing in us.

Related: http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=556
The Hype Train for tech is finally pulling into Disillusionment Station again. See also Silent Spring, which turns 65 in a couple years.
Out of curiosity, assuming some companies which embraced hotdesking in the last few years have also since implemented some form of return to office mandate, has it come along with dedicated desks for each person?
I don't mind a few days a week in an office, I absolutely hate having no clue where I'm going to be sitting those days.
There are a lot of companies going after the big people-carrying drone concept. Some try to brand them as flying cars, but really they are cheaper helicopter alternatives. Which is useful but will hardly be ubiquitous, except maybe for rural ambulances and such.

Jetpacks on the other hand might finally be getting out of the "possible but not useful" state, moving quickly towards "useful in some niches" and maybe further on from there.
What about urban arizona? Or someplace like onaha which is a city with plenty of city things todo but still low cost
So all I need to get away with a $90 million Ponzi scheme is declare bankruptcy and then claim I can't afford an accountant?

Bernie Madoff is rolling in his grave, his plan was just to die before getting caught.
>It's hard to explain how _cool_ Google was circa 2000-2010 or so. How they genuinely seemed a bit cyberpunk

I think that's very much an insider's view, the sentence is in particular funny because "cyberpunk" is not exactly a term of endearment. Mike Pondsmith and William Gibson are hardly disenchanted Zoomers or Millennials. I think Google still does seem a bit cyberpunk, and I don't mean it as a compliment.

I think the John Barlow, cyberlibertarian school of thought had always more to do with what's later been dubbed the "Californian Ideology" rather than technology per se. I don't think it was ever a mainstream view.
That’s what I’m thinking. 8 hr grind + 4 hr commute for regular salary. Vs whatever 5-8 hr work plus no commute at normal salary * 0.5.

It’s a trade off in this case that I think is worth it.
I think you are reading too much into it indeed. I just paraphrased what the author called "My teenage daughter went mad."

I explicitly do not want to make a statement about the normality of the described behaviour, as it is impossible to do something like that on a third-person account, even if you were a "professional".
And I would like to point out that you are doing the same.

What I criticize indeed is the simplistic view of mental disorders put forward in this article, especially personality disorders. Differential diagnosis is very difficult in psychology as many disorders are disruptions of similar underlying cognitive processes, and comorbidities are common. Their view of schizoid personality disorder is not accurate. For example the part where the author dismissed the psychologist who reminded them that those disorders are only diagnosed in adults. This is what struck me as very odd, which is why I mentioned the age of the daughter. This shows a severe deficiency of knowledge what personality disorders actually are. While there is genetic disposition for developing a PD, they are generally considered to be acquired during childhood and adolescent personality development.
In addition, the author seems to get confused by the similarity in name of schizoid PD and schizophrenia (confusingly even though they seem to be aware that the illnesses are different) by assuming a prospensity to having a psychotic world-view.

An outdated view considered it actually to be impossible to get rid of a manifested PD in adulthood, while modern views fortunately see more neuroplasticity in adults. Diagnosing a PD in early adolescence does not make sense, rather one would identify stressors in the environment nurturing dysfunctional patterns and try to resolve those before the behavioural patterns are embedded too deeply.

But it is difficult to tell what the author actually means, as they are somewhat contradictory in their thoughts and seem generally ill-informed about basics.
I think everyone will benefit from UX contributions.
It's not comparable, and it is certainly not too early to make that judgement about Twitter. I can say that confidently as a longtime read-only user of the platform who has largely been driven off by the incessant bots, boosted bluecheck replies and rampant racism and other toxic content. You can also make this same judgement based on the fact that advertisers and users alike are fleeing the platform.
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I think the nuance here is while we should continue to push for WFH, we should also be aware of the feelings of people around us when we speak from our privileged position. This doesn't just apply to WFH, we should keep other people's feelings in mind when arguing from any position of privilege. Software developers are extraordinarily privileged and it's important to keep this in perspective or else we will contribute to a sense of disdain toward all software developers.

Some will argue this is a talking point for anti-WFH people, but it's still a valid point to make independent of your WFH stance and as a general tip for being a decent, empathetic human being.
Oh well that's the funny thing, Southwest is the next best direction given that it's on the same axis as northeast.

> a large majority (74%) of successful attacks in high cover were confined to a cluster centred about 20° clockwise of magnetic north with a small (15%) secondary cluster at due south, while attacks in other directions were largely unsuccessful.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3097881/ (there's a nice little chart showing angular preference.

The researchers also mention a previous study they'd worked on in the first paragraph of the introduction, dealing with the geomagnetic alignment of grazing cattle. I hadn't read this one before so I took the time, and it's equally fascinating. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2533210/
Show HN: Batch inference for large-scale synthetic data generation
Go ask an astronomer what a “metal” is :)
> I did the same and for around 50% cut.

How did you and poster above manage this? A 50% paycut would mean having to move to a much more remote area for most people without a lot of NW already.

Homes being $1-3m in most of the places that FAANG resides just makes it implausible to take a cut from $400k+/yr to maybe $200k/yr. You can't afford a mortgage at $200k/yr for a $1m home with 20% down.

Is everyone here who is taking these paycuts just have a partner who makes bank or are you already rich thanks to having bought/inherited property long ago?

This advice just seems implausible to most anyone who cares about being in a good school district, in a relatively populous area, and hasn't inherited millions through buying real estate, inheritance, or stock appreciation.
Building any power source has an environmental effect.

So if want to risk global scale damage your cause should have a proven benefit.

Otherwise it’s up to you to explain people who had to left their homes because of consequences of climate change why you needed those data centers to create power point presentation, mail text and funny cat pictures.
Lemmy has a few like that. But it uses Javascript, heavily. (Or is it wasm? I never looked.)
> Sometimes I think millennials fell into a trap following GenX back to urban living

You should be more specific, because the cities were always inhabited. Which millennials are you talking about?
Writing like this makes me grateful that technology has essentially always been just another “thing” to me and that growing up it was never presented as a harbinger of liberation.

The plethora of gadgets, gizmos and sights and sounds that painted my perception of the 90s and 00s just felt like the way it was, until it wasn’t.
These companies are looked into their way of doing things. Also, they would be competing with themselves. It would also require more work on their side then they do now.

I think the whole 'existing company is not doing something, therefore its a bad idea' is a really dangerous take.

Oxide is also not just exactly, OCP, they share some aspects, but Oxide racks are optimized for typical DC of large organizations. Maybe there is a balance there that matters.
Elon Musk is an example of a fascist? That is outrageous nonsense.
And it's not like we can't find programming language benchmark comparisons that do better than that:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
> Restoring some kind of sane not-hyper-polarized political discourse

I don't think it's just a systems problem. Sure, systems can help, but education is even more important. Recognizing it's terrible is valuable too (I hope most people have recognized that...).

I recommend Julia Galef's Scout Mindset[1] as an inspiration for the kind of change that I believe is needed. (perhaps the most book of the 3rd millenium? :P ) We need to boost our immunity against fake news and extreme discourse. Information now is what is decisive, and viral (and wrong, misleading, hateful, etc.) information can spread very quickly.

Apart from that, more compassion in general. We're very good at teaching kids about "productive" things they are interested in, but very poor about ethics and meta things, like compassion for fellow beings, the importance of a peaceful and kind discourse to the survival of civilization.

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

> Utopias are always fantasies. All of them.

Historically utopia had this association. But I think if an utopia is impossible, then it's less interesting. There has to be something achievable that's worth striving for. It's not going to be perfect of course, but I'm confident it exists somehow.

I also think Utopia is as much as about the small as the big. Tolkien famously had his utopia in the Hobbit way of living, with a simple, relatively wealthy, relatively peaceful society -- but with great interpersonal relationships and all the little things (literally :) ).
Optimism or techno-optimism is the idea that we can fix things with the right know-how. It's a psychological strategy to avoid noticing that there are dark forces which aim to control, destroy and sow despair, perhaps conveying temporary advantages to those who ally with them. Some take a religious or supernatural view of these things; others think they are facets of consciousness which spread virally from brain to brain.

Whatever you believe it seems clear that one's experience of life and the world is dominated by inner experience and mental well-being, not by luxuries or technological convenience. One could live in a palace, drive flying cars and so on but still suffer dreadfully.

Although my personal disposition is fairly sunny, verging on the manic, my model of how the world and how my life works is not one of optimism but rather a series of defeats occasionally punctuated by an unexpected victory. Sort of like the fall of the Berlin Wall or how Gollum accidentally destroyed the ring. Eucatastrophe was Tolkien's name for it.
It's not just election results. A lot of scientists have moved over because Bluesky is a lot like "old Twitter".

Here is an article from Science about it [1]. Nature also covered this [2].

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/old-twitter-scientif...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6
I am suspicious of anything that claims you can achieve memory safety by pressing a button, with zero code changes required. Part of the reason Rust is frustrating to learn is because it forces you to structure your application a certain way and think of edge cases.
Is what I wrote here mine or not? I used the autocorrect suggestions almost exclusively, wrote few letters only.
Hey now, the morons somehow managed to remain organized enough to choose these authorities. And now we’ll all burn together.

Don’t let your fellow citizen off the hook.
Doesn't appear to be what's happening here though, or in Linux in general.
I don't know why the parent post is being down voted. I think it makes a solid argument about creating a car that normal people can afford.

That is exactly what Chinese car companies is doing. Here's a video by Caresoft of the BYD Seagull which s apparently sub $12k. (Caresoft AFAIK do professional level car teardown reports for the auto industry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izvdO-zdlKg&t=2s

I'd love to buy something like that at that price point.
> Love him or hate him, he gets shit done.

That's the strongman argument, also used for people like Mussolini. The world besides Musk, before Musk, and after Musk (unless he destroys it) gets plenty of things done. 99% of Silicon Valley did it without him.

They get things done for some, and destroy and kill others. If he's so good - or even basically capable as a manager and leader - then like the others he can really get things done, by meeting all the goals and requirements, which includes the rights and welfare of everyone else.

And Twitter has worked out very poorly - possibly the most money-losing deal ever?