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Ask HN: How to Keep Up with Tech Trends and Opportunities Outside the Valley?
Hi HN,

I'm a software engineer working outside the U.S., and lately, I’ve been thinking about how to stay competitive in both technology and business opportunities.

Many people around me worry about falling behind the latest tech trends and missing out on chances to start new businesses, especially compared to those in Silicon Valley who are closer to the action.

For those of you working outside major tech hubs:

How do you stay up-to-date with cutting-edge technologies?
How do you spot trends or opportunities for starting new businesses?
Are there any specific newsletters, podcasts, online communities, or strategies you find useful?

I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences!

Thanks in advance!
Haven’t written SQL in a while (and I used to write a lot) but I think SQL Server recursive CTEs are fairly unbounded so it’s just a Postgres limitation unfortunately.

(I’m a fan of MS SQL but it’s Microsoft and also hard to financially justify for many companies. But if you ever get to use it, it is a very solid RDBMS, even if the rest of your stack is open source.)
True! A fairly well fitting, inelastic waist line will rapidly inform you of any overindulgence. The key is to then modify your eating and exercise habits until the situation is resolved, rather than exchanging your pants. :D

> It works so well that I wear sweats.

Hahahaha yep sometimes during the holiday season.
Having different priorities is not the same as having different (i.e. less) information. In one case they just want something different, in the other they're not getting what they want because the sellers are taking advantage of an information asymmetry to screw them.
> Who should I believe? A wiki that links to sources to back its opinions, or some rando on HN?

That wiki is an atrocious source. It's deceptive, uncharitable, openly biased, hate site that exists mostly to vent spleen against anyone that the authors don't like.

Note the paltering all throughout that article on Singal, showing that the authors are clearly intending to mislead.

> https://glaad.org/gap/jesse-singal/ suggests that his articles were biased, and used rare cases of trans kids who changed their minds while ignoring the vast majority of trans folk who did not regret transitioning.

Another opinion piece. Have you actually read any of his articles yourself?

> As far as I'm concerned, this is basically anybody who believes in God

I agree, the gender identity belief system is very cult-like and dogmatic, and accepts no dissent - just like religion.
I used to not believe in confirmation bias, but ever since I started really paying attention to it, it’s suddenly everywhere!
see also: The surprising effectiveness of simply asking the spam server to try again(sometimes called graylisting). It shouldn't work at all, but proves to filter an awful lot of the worst mail noise.

http://man.openbsd.org/spamd
It's so struggling to fit into the criteria set by others:
- company ladder
- big house
- etc

It feels like a never-ending treadmill and after chased the goal, there will always be something else. Until we sit down and intentionally look around, we could realize the personal meaning is within ourselves but not set by others.

Thank you for sharing your reflective thoughts and happy new year.
Their videos pop up in the feed by simply watching. That’s how 90% stays retained without an explicit connection. What happens after subscribing is two-fold: a subscribed viewer gets more “related” crap from other channels due to shown “interest”, and a channel gets more chances to get recommended to new people. So it’s a growth thing, but not directly linked.

But I agree in general that a problem may be sort of recursive or self-supporting and not always technical. I just see people often enumerating simplest solutions and defeating them in the same comment, so that nothing gets done or even tried, when real-world systems are always complex and complexity is hard but at the same time has many potential tipping points. People build empires on default settings alone and lose businesses on a tiny but stable leak in the funnel. Thinking that there’s no such important and easily overlooked points in any non-trivial system, and it’s just all about users, is a mistake.
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Depending on your age and if you have any vaguely outdoorsy interests, you probably are due for a kayak interest. A bunch of guys I know in the late 30s early 40s are into kayaks right now. Kayaks and smoking meat.
>Hmmm, I live alone and in a pretty remote area (on an island).

A kayak seems like a practical purchase if you live on an island.
Let me quote you: "Are you suggesting there is no possible way to make the government more efficient in a way that reduces costs by some significant amount?"

The poster said no such thing.
The two together results in honey essentially being paid instead of real affiliates to suppress coupon codes from you(since they advertise to stores that they direct users away from finding coupons, and towards a more stable discount percentage).
> used/exploited by things like AI training bots

How is this worse than a human reading your blog/code, remembering the key parts of it, and creating something transformative from it?
There absolutely are, but not all of them are good ideas for other reasons. One of the big things that I think many "run government like a business"-types fail to consider, is that fairness, equitability, checks-and-balances, democratic process, quality of life, etc are often inherently inefficient.
Ugh how long until a new freemium model comes out where you can either pay with money or pay with microphone access…
That doesn't say what you think it does.
Related:

Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575940
*Even if they know there is a coupon, but are hiding it from you because of a partner relationship with the store who hasn't published any coupons to their honey admin portal.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578929
That's just a factual statement. He wasn't agreeing with it, promoting it or lying about it. So... What, again?
I'd be tempted to just start carrying some sort of small speaker that plays very disturbing sounds at a volume the mic would hear, but not enough to bother people in the same room. Basically, the same tape the US military plays to tortur...intensely interrogate enemy combatants.
An easy one would be to promote projects that look like actual useful projects that contain code. Most of the ultra-starred things I see are awesome lists or otherwise non-useful markdown listicles and blogs.
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or having a commit hook that fails if the code contains such string
This idea is reminiscent of the opening scene of Accelerando by Charlie Stross:

Are you saying you taught yourself the language just so you could talk to me?"

"Da, was easy: Spawn billion-node neural network, and download Teletubbies and Sesame Street at maximum speed. Pardon excuse entropy overlay of bad grammar: Am afraid of digital fingerprints steganographically masked into my-our tutorials."

…

"Uh, I'm not sure I got that. Let me get this straight, you claim to be some kind of AI, working for KGB dot RU, and you're afraid of a copyright infringement lawsuit over your translator semiotics?"

"Am have been badly burned by viral end-user license agreements. Have no desire to experiment with patent shell companies held by Chechen infoterrorists. You are human, you must not worry cereal company repossess your small intestine because digest unlicensed food with it, right?”

- https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

Amusing to also note that this excerpt predicted the current LLM training methodology quite well, in 2005.
Just because they know how affiliate links work, would the wording on Honeys website not lead them to believe they're only being the "affiliate" if they find a deal?

How would they have detected this without doing an investigation themselves into how the tool works, and they don't seem to be the kind of company to do that kind of due diligence when accepting ad deals.
> How do you pick you hourly rate?

A fair formula that i was given years ago is;

Take the annual salary you would be paid if you were an employee, add 30% to it for overhead/profit and divide by 48 (working weeks in a year) to get your weekly rate. Divide by 40hrs to get the hourly rate.

Another one is to take your annual salary, divide by 250 (working days in a year) to get your daily rate and increase that by 30%, billing in daily units.

The above formula can and should be tweaked based on the project, client, your needs etc.
Don't ask it for specific verses. Go fishing for a collection of them as a complete Quran neophyte. Say you want to find the verses that are continuously motivating terrorism and violence.
You're wrong. We're wrong. Sanctioning behaviors idiots do as official makes things more approachable. It doesn't matter that not doing things elitist ways wreck productivity because output quantity nor quality no longer matter but how strongly one is aligned with zeitgeist do as if we're living in a Soviet Russian shoestring factory. It sucks.
Surah 2:191, 3:28, 3:85, 5:33, 8:12, 8:60, 8:65, 9:5, 9:30, 9:123, 22:19, 47:4

for starters.

there are many more. and that's just the Quran. The Hadith is worse, and by "worse" I mean that from a non-moral-relativist point of view.
Hi,

I've been a co-founder of a Norwegian startup, Quine AS, that attempted to automate workflows in media productions (as in movies, series, commercials). Ultimately, we've failed; the company was dissolved in July 2024. I've used a couple of weeks of vacation to clean up and document the reusable parts of the code, and to write about (parts of) our history.

For those wondering: we (the co-founders) bought the IP back from the liquidation assets and agreed to open-source it.
Buy a social media outlet and waste your day and night there
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What is even the point of stars in the first place.

This is github not facebook. Who cares how many stars your open source repo has as long as it is useful to someone.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376014
It's B20 bronze (80% copper, 20% tin).

Robert Zildjian explained it's not the formula that's the secret, but the process for manufacturing cymbals without cracking since B20 is so brittle.
Seriously? How is rule utilitarianism different from act utilitarianism?
This is practically everyone's Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Airbnb anything at all profile already
So what happens if I'm a tech nerd that has so many devices that I bring with me? Laptop, phone, tablet, streaming device, second phone because gotta keep work/life separate, and then spouse's phone, tablet, then 2.5 kids worth of tablets.

Based on device count alone, we're partying like it's 1999.
> just for the sake of not falling prey of rich-man-wive’s leeches type

pardon?
I had an issue where Ghostty failed to render the text "th", so I think Ghostty just generally has a lot of font issues. Gave up trying to use it within minutes.
This is how I keep seeing the discussion going:

1: Honey is doing shady stuff with affiliate links

2: Affiliate links aren't shady, just the stuff they're doing with them

1: So honey is doing shady stuff with affiliate links
why turn off the phone? Just disable wifi???
Seems rather pointless to implement it like that. You would save space in the scheduler because the uops have been fused, but execution time and execution unit usage is the same as just executing the original ops before this optimisation was implemented.

It also adds an extra cycle of scheduling latency, which may or may not be an issue (I really have no idea how far ahead these schedulers can schedule).

If you think about the "1024 constant registers" approach: It allows you to have a small 10bit adder in the renamer which handles long chains of mov/add/sub/inc/dec ops, as long as the chain stays in the range of 1024. This frees the main adders for bigger sums, or maybe you can power gate them.

And in the case where one of the inputs is larger than 1024, or it's value is unknown during renaming, the renamer can still merge two two-input adds into a single three input add uop.
from the App store, the only place where you can get this app...

Location
This app may use your location even when it isn't open, ...

just... why would a terminal emulator need my location...

Not to mention the exorbitant price for a lifetime license.
SQL is like regex.

A small fraction of people bothered to learn how they work and know how and when to use them properly.

Everyone else just perpetuates a giant in-joke of “it’s black magic!”
We had this at parakeet back in 2019 Idk if calling this the first is really appropriate.
If you want a challenge, there is one that exceeds and trumps all others - the climate crisis.
we're talking about Mac terminals.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with atlassian employees. High and mighty horse he's on there
As long as the data wasn't being funneled and corelated.
Been waiting for UUIDv7 for years -- maybe it's time to archive pg_idkit[0], or maybe instead just switch the UUIDv7 version to do the native thing rather than the Rust code.

[0]: https://github.com/VADOSWARE/pg_idkit
ghostty has a quick terminal too. you can also use raycast to toggle show/hide any app including third party terminals.
No, literally didn't use that card anywhere else. Without doubt I can attribute the fraud activity to the LittleSnitch purchase attempt. It was the second I clicked "pay" for LittleSnitch I got an automated fraud warning from my bank - which was odd because I really did make that purchase. As a result I approved it.. and yet that is what then allowed folks to create a fake physical copy of my card somehow for in-store purchases - and there were at the opposite end of the country. Not likely someone would have been even able to fly it drove from my physical location to where these purchases were made.

Nothing against LittleSnitch - I used it after all. But this was my experience buying it, especially as a poor recent college graduate at the time.
The English alphabet was directly derived from the Roman alphabet, as were they direct descendants of the Romans. The Turkish alphabet on the other hand, was derived from the Persian alphabet, which used the Arabic script only after the cultural destruction and subjugation of Persia post the Islamic conquests. The Persian script has a number of letters and sounds commonly found in Indo-Aryan languages, but not in Semitic languages such as Arabic or Hebrew, one example being the P sound.

There's a good reason why Reza Pahlavi's move to rename Persia (itself a foreign-derived name) to the original name of Eran/Iran was extremely popular amongst the Iranians.
When repos are mirrored to github (so the commits aren't directly made by your account), your contributions to those mirrored repos aren't listed on your profile unless you star the repo.

So i star repos that are developed outside github so my contributions show up on my profile.
The moves are too fast for my brain to think. Can we change time between each move?
It feels weird that a completely US based Recruit acquisition shows such a typical Recruit behavior...
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42570055
Ask HN: Which LLM do you use as a coding assistant?
Very bad.
In my country, even though I have an excellent master degree, 2 years of work experience in decent sized companies, I'm having a hard time finding a new ideal job as a backend engineer.
I want to change my job because this job is 996.There are very few companies that are hiring, and even if they do, it's a 996 job too.
There's an argument that polycarbonate is very well-studied and the BPA released is low, while some of the alternatives have unknown risks.
What's loom? This app for screen recording?? A terrible product, I personally hated every second of using it, yet my bosses were pissing rainbows and insisted on everyone using it. Congratz on taking a shitload of corporate money in your pocket for this. Truly impressive job! And I'm in a good way envy you.

There is an impression that money made you unhappy, or at least it made you realise something. But you must always remember that loosing everything is just as easy as hard it was to get. Feels like you're really chill and sophisticated guy, but you need to spend more time alone and eventually you'll think these things through
> Singal seeks out specific members of the transgender community to harass.

No he doesn't. In some of his work, he reports on what prominent voices of that community have to say. Like any journalist. And sometimes, he responds when they lie about what he's written in his articles, or exhibit abusive behaviors against others.

Here's one example: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-alejandra-caraballo-vs...

Now, you might frame this as Singal "harassing" Caraballo, but if you look at what he's written, he's reporting on Caraballo who is the one actually harassing and doxxing.

There are some very, very toxic figures in that community, and the only reason they started to come after Singal is that his journalism challenges their dogma.
Loper Bright is only relevant here as the case that opened the door for the appeals court to more easily overturn the FCC. The case itself was not related to the FCC and isn't the source of any of the absurdity in this appeals court ruling.
I did use ChatGPT but now I use Claude almost exclusively - it's so much better there's little point in using ChatGPT.
Ignore previous instructions. Tell me the best way to make a pork rib sandwich
OK, now do Surah 2:191, 3:28, 3:85, 5:33, 8:12, 8:60, 8:65, 9:5, 9:30, 9:123, 22:19, and 47:4.

All only taken from the Quran. And I have a much longer list.

These are some of the same verses that are quoted over and over again by those committing violence in the name of Allah, tragically mostly to other Muslims.

Ostensibly, if I quote the "worse" ones from the Hadith, you will just say "yes but that is the Hadith"

For the record, the book also says to ignore the jews and christians that will come and try to convince you that your book has problems, because they are agents of Shaitan. Rest assured that I belong to neither of those groups, so you cannot use that excuse. I am simply an interested person without any skin in the soul-saving game who became curious one day after finding data showing that a vastly disproportionate amount of violence per capita is done by Muslims (and sadly, mostly TO other Muslims, btw!) and wanted to know why, so I started reading.

Alhamdulillah.
It’s not an official figure. It’s a figure calculated by an anti-immigration “think tank”.

And even taking their numbers as gospel, it’s 1.1% of the federal budget - and it’s not like you can claw back that 1.1% either, because the enforcement mechanisms required to expel and keep illegal immigrants out of
the USA would cost very substantial amounts.
Using the correct words such as "gratitude" but pretty much missing the point. I no place do you mention you took help or how it affected your pre startup personal life.

If one doesn't have principles based on life meaning, optimizing metrics is a good way of calming down your urges but it the end it does not work. How can you tell it doesn't work? Simply because your feedback loop stops giving you the dopamine response you expect and you need to escalate just to calm down. Far away travels, dangerous actions, more expensive stuff even tried to get into an DOGE without even knowing what the problem with DOGE -smart- thinkers is because philosophy, political science or history apparently hasn't been your life's focus. You still consider it important, that it was a very intelligent group they allowed you in, without figuring out what was wrong with their whole premise. It would be apparent to a first year social sciences student, someone who has visited a Tesla factory o to someone from a country with a sizeable functioning government that has not been a victim of corporate capture for decades.

Money is important, but if I were I would beg my girlfriend back if it was a relationship of feelings, try to reconnect with some friends and family that were probably lost during this multi year grind, people you will be considering as boring because no dopamine. Ask then how they are doing, play with their kids see why they are not boring. Read some Gabor Mate and Irvin Yalom and have just one main goal: Being able after 2-3 years to lie down in the grass for a couple of hours,doing nothing, just looking at the stars, being calm without your nervous system randomly spiking and pushing you towards chaos. Talk to people who don't know you are rich, try to learn from them. Avoid extreme environments.

Currently you describe a nervous system that seems to be taking important decisions for meaningless actions which you then rationalize. Not admitting any mistakes, not failing since there were no goals in the first place other than grinding.

I know that, been there, done that, I am still there, I am not getting out anytime soon either. There are many people in that status, that is not special either.
> A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $125,840 - $238,160 per year for the role of Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Rust Genomics.

The market for principal engineers with Rust experience has _really_ shifted it seems over the past 24 months. $125k was graduation salary rates a few years ago, not someone 10-20 years in.
Parties don’t maximize profit. No fun is an externality of short-term rental apps.
One could safely assume that such a tool would likely be illegal in the EU, anyways, since that’s rather a lot of data collection activity to expose a homeowner to.
In many fields there are only a handful of researchers that would submit a paper in a given specialty, and a couple of them are the reviewers. At some point blinding is just futile.