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In addition to the sitting on your rear or day just schlepping code for a company, there's also this perception that other people have of programmers just not really producing anything tangible and/or the profession just being something you do if you are weak and/or afraid to do labour.

I gotta admit, that on a day where it's just about chasing some elusive bug or bugs, even I say to myself: "What the hell did I do today?" even though I might have spent 8-10 solid hours actively working. If the bug is hard enough to find I feel like I accomplished nothing nor have anything to show for it.

And sometimes, when you add to the fact that as devs we have all these perks in the office like free snacks, being able to go out for lunch, free sodas, free coffee, or WFH etc. and for what? We accomplished nothing!

Conversely, you might meet blue collar workers who has to, absolutely has to commute to a job site (no WFH for them), busts their rear to get something real and tangible done. Like for example, setting up electrical, or building a frame, or fixing a major plumbing issue, or doing drywall, or painting an entire house, or doing an entire roof in the heat etc. And sometimes these people barely get their bathroom, lunch and/or coffee breaks. It really makes us seem spoiled in comparison.

And yes, I know that it's kinda denigrating to use the word "real" to describe anything but software, but, what I mean, is that most non-software people only understand finished and shipped software as real. They don't that understand DB schemas, software specs, MVPs, for example, etc. is also real as well. And they certainly don't understand time spent on thinking about data structures and algorithms as anything real or tangible. Especially if you spend most time planning properly before you code.

Anyways, we want to prove, at least to ourselves, that we can actually create something that everyone can see, touch, feel, pick up, eat, stand on, sit on, etc. And we want to prove that we can have same high standards and craftsmanship this kind of work that we have for code.

Yeah, some of us have a chip on our shoulder about that.
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First, I don't believe the AI hype and I would advise you to not believe it either. People are notoriously bad at predicting the future. When I was in high school everyone said that programming was a dead career because it would all be outsourced to India, and that you should pursue a career as a PC repairman because it couldn't be outsourced. Needless to say, those predictions aged like milk. And even right now, AI isn't nearly as capable as the hype club makes it out to be. All that we can do is remain on our toes and be adaptive to change, but that's always been the case. Anyone who figures they will retire from this business doing the same exact job they started with has always been in for a rude awakening.

Second, even if my job gets destroyed by changing tech that doesn't make farming an attractive option. It's dangerous, it wears your body down super hard, and the pay is garbage (which isn't very just tbh, but economics rarely are). I don't know what I'll do if my career goes up in a poof of smoke next year, but farming will be very low on the list no matter what I do.
Democrats could do a lot with their physical bodies if they wanted to. Take a page out of classic American protest strategies: strikes, marches, sit-ins, etc.
Use the PyTorch Nightly build. The ROCm libraries themselves have been built for the RX 7600 (gfx1102) since ROCm 5.4/5.5, but PyTorch itself wasn't enabled until a few weeks ago. The RX 7600 is still not 'officially supported' on Linux, but I have an RX 7600 XT and I haven't encountered any issues in my (admittedly intermittent) use of the card in AI applications. You may, however, find the 8GB of VRAM in the non-XT version to be a limitation.
A career and a lifestyle are not the same thing.

For many, the "homesteading" labor is an fulfilling and concrete complement to lucrative but abstract desk work, not a replacement.

It takes the place of idle hobbies like consuming more media on screens, lifting abitrary weights or running in place on a treadmill, etc

It's natural to assume we'd be pretty deeply wired to productively tend to our own lives and our own well-being in very concrete way, and many people who intentionally take up neglected homesteading tasks at their own pace and convenience often find it ameliorates many of the odd feelings of depression, anxiety, restlessness, etc that hung over them previously.

We probably shouldn't be doing anything in particular all day, but doing concrete productive things in a world where so many things are abstract and alienating can provide great balance.
I put up with a variety of shitty appliances because I'm a renter in 2025 who doesn't anticipate ever owning a home, but if I were in the business of outfitting my place with appliances, they sure as shit would not be the crap quality touch sensor microwave, oven, and dishwasher we currently use, or the dumbass laundry machines with stupid arbitrary labels for each setting. The fridge is fine, it has a door, that's all it needs to do. I want buttons.
Just neofascism.
i don't think that's really it. he was hated because of his interactions with his superiors, not generally because of how he treated people below him.
ADHD + spectrum as well. I couldn't agree with this more.
Another TJ who's an occasional HN poster might have some insight here. @tjic is the author of "Escape the City: A How-To Homesteading Guide"

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tjic
> AWS China wouldn't have happened if they didn't offer enough safeguards.

AWS China vs. AWS EU: Data centers in China are managed by Chinese companies, whereas DCs in the EU are managed by USA companies.

From a regulatory perspective, it's two different worlds. The Patriot Act can happen in the EU, not in China.

This is why GDPR does allow that EU user data is transferred to non-EU countries, but not to the USA.[0]

Furthermore, a discernible trend has emerged, attributable to the inadequacies in privacy regulations and suboptimal Trump geopolitical strategies with the EU, the EU is actively seeking better cloud services [1].

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/third-countries/

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud-services-europe/
No, because Stardew Valley is not real life. I may have 5000 hours in Factorio, but I'm pretty sure I'm confident that I would not enjoy mining coal to feed the burners to smelt metal in real life.
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I don't know if I can agree with this. I am a programmer. I work with programmers and I know quite a few outside of work. Maybe three or four have expressed this wish, but not many.

There are a multitude of reasons why one might not like being a programmer, but most of them have nothing to do with programming itself. It's other people. Other engineers or managers or parasites. People who think antisocial behavior is okay, or worse, that it's the way to get ahead in life.

Toxic people make everything suck. I worked extremely hard to stop being even a little toxic. I wish more people would realize how their behavior affects others.
Switchcraft + Belden or Canare and you’ll have cables to pass to your grandchildren.
In Australia, most major criminal matters are handled at the state level.

The Commonwealth Director of Prosecutions has form for this. They don't do much other than welfare fraud cases, and so when they get a brief that's actually interesting for a change, they tend to go full ham.

Whether it's actually in the public interest for them to prosecute isn't a factor they seem to give much consideration.

Another recent fiasco caused by their heavy handedness:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/...
Generative AI lacks the human creativity to achieve scientific discovery
>my intense hyperfocus on one thing at a time but also inability to keep consistently focused on one thing for more than a few weeks

Sounds extremely normal to me. I wonder what I'm missing.

For example, suppose a typical person decides to learn a new language.

At the beginning, they are very excited and enthusiastic about it. They might buy a textbook, download an app or sign up for language classes, and spend lots of time on it for a couple of days.

After a week or two, as the tediousness sets in and the goal seems farther off than they expected, they start to shift their focus to something else. After a month, there's a 50/50 chance they completely forget about language study and stop doing it. Only a very small minority will last more than a year.

That's what I'd consider normal. How is ADHD different?

Another example: meditation. A new meditation practitioner may try to focus on their breathing, but then find they usually get distracted and start thinking about something else within 10 seconds.

I have a feeling that if I were to say "I find it difficult to focus my attention on something for 10 seconds without getting distracted", many would reply "that sounds like ADHD." But this is, in fact, quite normal.
it's tough to fight against fascism without the use of violence or a very heavy threat of violence. I think that most major changes in history show this to be true.

barely anyone would even mention a regular protest in front of dealerships.
It's not that secure. If someone has a desktop signal client it has been possible to just access attachments via the file system; they were stored with obfuscated names but no encryption. They may have fixed this since I tested it ~6 months ago.
That's fair, I think there are some people (like that initial hn post I reference) who such as yourself really are just people who really enjoy that sort of lifestyle. But I also think that societally we put a lot of value and for lack of a better word, "coolness factor" on manual labor. You could imagine in certain time periods and cultures that something like working in a field wouldn't be viewed positively at all, and maybe something like writing poetry is seen as a very masculine and rugged endeavor.

I think that for certain individuals that sort of mythological status ascribed to being a frontiersman or a person who can do everything themselves definitely influences how they perceive a potential job or method of living.

Thanks for reading though!!
> I think it's that I'm a builder and a problem solver at heart, I love finding issues, fixing them and being glad. Homestead is often that 100x.

Are you saying this from experience homesteading? Or from imagining what homesteading is like?

Once you get past the storybook fantasy version of homesteading, a lot of it is drudgery and unwelcome surprises. You may love finding and fixing problems now, but when the problems are coming faster than you can fix them, each one requires a lot of labor (or cash) to fix, and you haven't touched your fun project for months because you're too busy putting out critical fires, it doesn't seem so fun any more.
That's just how the news works dude. You can just call them and say "hey I have something for you to write about". If it's interesting and/or you already have a relationship, which their publisher likely does, it's pretty easy to get an article written.
As to "sizeless" arrays - yes.

Have a look at the early history of C document on DMR's site, it mentions that the initial syntax for pointers was that form.
Yeah, it's weird to me that we don't see more of statements like that.

I'm slightly in two minds about the evacuation though. On the one hand, I think this is category of people who are pretty high priority for considerably worse persecution than malicious defunding and shakedowns by semi-official thugs, and they should consider their own well-being and hopefully being able to keep contributing to science.

On the other hand, it's definitely also a category of people who would be needed if there's to be any hope of recovery.
Some things - I don't see value (yet).

But others like coffee machine, lights, solar, AC, ventilation, robot vacuum, car charger, hot water heater, speakers are so obviously better when connected.
I can only imagine how much better a person does in college when they're not drinking or smoking and perhaps even minimizing their promiscuity.

That's gotta improve their chances against over 90% of their peers, at least, I imagine.

"Youth is wasted on the young" is only true because our youth are not taught how to not conserve and utilize their energy.
> embargoing or blockading PV exports to the US would be a threat that the US might start to produce less energy 20 or 30 years in the future

It means you can't replace panels destroyed and can't grow your energy production. If one side can and the other can't, that's a major problem.

> 20 years would be long enough for a functioning country to develop a solar-module industry from scratch

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best is today. We're twenty years ago.
Agreed, it's eloquent without being loquacious, and has a good amount of engaging anecdotes backed up by research.
Interesting didn't know that can be an early symptom
> I am surprised that Adventist Church, or the one you went to, said that the Bible does not say anything about abortion. The sixth commandment explicitly say that: "You shall not murder."

I'm not a theologian, but I know the Adventists took a much harder stance against killing real, live people in war than they did about in the abstract in utero, and that makes rational sense to me. Everyone has a different take on scripture so I expect for other religions it will say what they want to it say.

> Reading all these verses – and many others – and combining them, I don't think it is correct to state that: "the bible says nothing about abortion".

Great, don't get one. In any case, that's not how the Adventists have historically seen it, and I'm not an Adventist now in any case.
And then after a while the energy fades..you get distracted again. You get both over stimulated and understimulated and the quest for another thing that gives you the feeling of the world finally clicking into place begins..
And each of these fixes (brain.fm, nootropics, adhd-planner-apps etcetc) give you that feeling just for a little while…
That’s why we crave it..and because we (can) have more energy we talk about those (a lot!!).
But in the end most of us just go from one fix to another..some of us are just really loud about it..
> That's the intention?

The intention, I believe, is that it discourages from collecting superfluous data. The easiest way to address the GDPR is to not collect any data at all. If you do, then it becomes harder.

> as they barely know they have it, and they will use minimal efforts to fiddle with this stuff.

Big companies have a real incentive to act. I believe the GDPR has forced BigTech to make at least some changes, because it was better to make those changes than to pay the fine.

In my experience, smaller companies don't really care and don't really want to know, and tend to collect as muich data as they can just because they can and "it may be useful later". Many times they never use the collected data.
Because they want to gatekeep it and how you are supposed to act with it.
This clearly isn't going anywhere. Let's pull up https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Terroranschl%C3%A4... instead. It seems roughly 50/50 islamist and Nazi terrorists (with 2 left terrorists mixed in.)

If we can agree that half the problem is Nazis and the other half is Islamists, I'm OK with that. Deal?

(Yes I'm ignoring the left attacks. They targeted objects/property, not people.)
It's for discussing on-topic topics of interest to the community, where on-topic specifically excludes "most stories about politics", which is a very easy to bar to clear when the stories you're flagging are literally duplicative of stories with hundreds or thousands of comments on them already.
What if we bring the idea into 2025 and sell subscription-based cables?
> Importing oil and gas now does not increase security, but importing PV modules does

We aren't importing much oil and gas. Importing PVs is nice. Increasing domestic PV production is better. And in any case, we're installing record amounts of PV already [1]--the limiting factor is installation, not production.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/quarterly-solar-industry-u...
> protect against rewriting of history

I'd be much happier if this was regulated directly for the media.

On multiple occasions i've seen an article on reddit, read it, had a long argument about something, and they quote a part of the article I never saw, and when I click on the article, the title is different, the content is different, the "truth" is different. No "this article was edited", no "click here to see previous revisions", no nothing. And i'm talking about hours since the article was posted and the change.

Going years back is even worse, things i clearly remember happening, don't exist in the media anymore, here and there i found an old reddit comment with a link (+ wayback machine) to find what was written then, but without a link, that content "doesn't exist anymore".

Just mandate keeping all revisions of articles, even deleted ones directly, so anyone can see the previous version directly on the site, without needing a third party service and guessing the dates when the changes were made (but that 3rd party service can still work as a verification to check if they really kept everything).

Sites like wikipedia rely on media for many things, and consider what the media writes as "the truth" (not all media, just the one blessed by wikipedia admins), and changing media stories also means changing wikipedia, which already is the only source of info many people use even today.
Fields -> manufactory -> factory -> office -> WFH -> fields

As AI takes over creative work, we won’t need humans to sit at a desk, so they can be employed in subsistence farming while AI VCs make record profits.
The multiplier effect invokes this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_counter
Ask HN: Has anyone adopted or seen adoption of RFC8959 secret-token?
Has anyone seen adoption of the 'secret-token:' prefix to help prevent leakage of API secrets as described by RFC8959? Do API users understand its purpose and respond positively or negatively to it?

See also https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8959.txt and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978185
You say deque uses large-ish blocks but you provide documentation that it uses 512 byte blocks on GCC and MSVC is even worse. So if you're on Windows the blocks are so small the container degenerates into something like a std::list, and on non-Windows it only works well if your objects are a few bytes each.
Nice project! Curious to know what stack you're using for the analytics?
I haven't found a good case/risers/etc I really like. Most the miner stuff wasn't made for PCIe 16x.
I asked you a very simple yes or no question, actually.

Your lack of answer to that question speaks a lot.
Nevertheless, the Democrats should move to impeach. The fact that they probably won't be able to get a vote taken (never mind win one) is beside the point.
You can click on small labels on the left to change some instruments. LC to LT (low conga to low tom), MC to MT (mid conga to mid tom), HC to HT (high conga to high tom), MA to CP (maraca to clap), CL to RS (claves to rimshot).

I agree with the need for bar separation.

The last one, yeah:))
I meant it'll suck the life out of you in a more literal sense. My dad is a good example: he had both hips replaced by the time he was in his 40s, and has since (now in his 60s) had to have one of his artificial hips replaced. He has chronic arthritis worse than most people his age, as well. That's just a hazard of the job - even if you don't get injured by the big powerful machines (or heavy animals, etc), the sheer wear and tear you put on your body is far greater than what those of us with a desk job will.

Metaphorically, farming can be far less life-sucking. There is something refreshing about just getting stuff done without any of the corporate BS to navigate. I just think that a lot of people in the tech industry aren't seeing the downsides, and only see the ways in which it's better than their career.
OpenAI Says It's "Over" If It Can't Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
Adding to this: the enormous amounts of knowledge required. How do you know how far apart (or deep) to plant the seeds? Or when? Or how much fertilizer, or water, or how often to water? Or when? Sure you can use common sense or look it up. But once you get to a certain scale, the stakes are high enough that the risk of ruin is too high.

Sure you save money by milking your cow, but how much is one vet visit? Unless it's in your blood, trying to go from techies to farmers is just stupid.

Edit to add: one of the principal differences between software and farming is we are one "git checkout" away from having another chance to fix it. In agriculture, you get another chance... next year.
I think "back to the land" movements have existed as long as there have been cities. But a job sitting at a desk all day working on a virtual product that probably won't be used in a few years just really ramps up the effect.
This would be more obvious to people if we didn't share a language.

It's also true of large countries like India.

What most people in the West think of as Indian food or Chinese food is usually cuisine from one to a handful of regions, but it's like lumping Swedish and Italian cuisines together as "European food".

And of course you can find ever more levels of culinary granularity down to the level of the town or village.
Which makes sense… school apparatchiks have no authority to make medical decisions for a kid. That’s what parents are for. A real doctor may, and even then only if it is a medical emergency that requires immediate attention (like bleeding out)
As soon as he realizes (or a reasonable person would realize) that the group chat is not a hoax, and that he is getting confidential military information over that channel, his continued membership in the channel demonstrates intent to receive the information, which makes anything he writes about it in the future legally problematic. It's complicated and it's not like just receiving classified information from a source is intrinsically criminal, but it'll be the entire fact pattern he'd be confronted with by prosecutors.
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On cleared and mostly flat ground yes. But if you are going up any sorts of inclines human power doesn't really cut it over any real distances without adding mechanical assistance that slows everything way down. And on rough terrain its a wash even before you consider the difficulties in making wooden wheels that can survive off-road abuse for any length of time.
Running a farm is a ton of work, exactly. The difference of having the ample injections of cash and not having them is pretty huge, especially when it comes to how common the issues that pop up when trying to run a modern farm are, and how expensive they can be.

I think when you're someone who grew up with exposure to the lifestyle of farming, it gets easier to see that the escapism is possible because of how rare it is for people to interact with people whose main employment is farming on a regular basis.

It is honestly pretty interesting from a historical perspective to think about what this means as a shift in the populace's opinion towards certain kinds of work, because we're really entering unforeseen territory in US history where no one will even really understand first-hand what a version of the US where the vast majority of humans living there are engaged in agricultural labor on a regular basis lookd like, if that makes sense.