skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US this can only be true for foreign citizens. Broad classes of assets and liquidity are well protected for US citizens unless you end up in the unusual situation where they sue the money itself. If you have cash in your hand nothing can stop you from spending it.

Why would this be any different if it was the government running payment services rather than private entities? You haven’t explained why having those middlemen protects you from the same authority that makes up and enforces the rules anyway.
I find that a lot of their "fully remote" positions are only remote if you live in the US.
fun read, now i want to learn about overlays
That sounds like multi-stage builds https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-stage/
I expected to see a list lol
Sometimes you also encounter documentation that you either don't understand, or maybe it's just poorly written, in those cases I'd say it fair to guess to keep moving forward. Afterwards you should probably stop and think: "Why did/didn't this work?" and build up your understanding.

I've been reluctant to learn frontend development and our framework of choice is apparently fairly well documented, but I don't even understand large parts of the terminology, why certain solutions work, or why some are more correct. So I guess, and I learn, but you need to keep iterating for that to work.

If you just guess, or ask an LLM, and doesn't question your guess later, then I can see the point of simply not recommending guessing at all. Mostly I think flat out recommending againts guessing ignores how a large percentage of us learn.
Note that this says "best programmers" not "people best at having business impact by making software".

I wonder about this often: If you want to have impact/solve problems/make money, not just optimizing killing your JIRA tickets, should you invest a given hour into understanding the lowest code layer of framework X, or talk to people in the business domain? Read documentation or a book on accessibility in embedded systems? Pick up yet another tech stack or simply get faster at the one you have that is "good enough"?

Not easy to answer, but worth keeping in mind that there is more to programming than just programming.
Yes, at some point you have to load a plane with cash. The point is that each of the turtles can consolidate smaller payments to both minimize transfer fees and cancel out money flows running in opposite directions.
Counting on the order of files to support multiple versions of jars was never a good idea. Java does have multiple version ("release") jar files for your use case since java 9. See <https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/24/docs/api/java.base...>.

Since duplicates on the classpath don't cause problems, a quick & dirty fix is to manually list versioned jars first, in order, then the jars/* argument.
> If there was one thing that I should have done as a young programmer, it would have been to read the reference of the thing I was using.

I'd love to do this, but (if I may play the victim for a second), I have real trouble reading something long form; I glaze over after a few paragraphs or just fall asleep. I don't find it compelling reading, especially not if I realize the vast majority won't be relevant.

I don't know if this is from a broken attention span thanks to spending 25 years online, or simply from experience - there's so many tools I've used for one project and never again, or questions I've only ever had once, and "studying" feels wasteful.

This goes back to when I learned Java in college, second year; we had a book, I think I did like the first two pages, but after that I just winged it and googled stuff if I needed it. (which was probably the other huge change in the software development world at the time, Google and easily searched / found online documentation)
Interest rates shouldn't be relevant when you're taking a position intraday or for a few days
Maybe this article could be improved by adding “Domain/Business knowledge” and understanding what the business and product actually do. It doesn’t matter if you are a good developer if you are not able to provide solutions because you lack domain knowledge. Depending on the domain it can take quite some time to be a reference
Nobody's getting hurt when you can do the job. In fact you're doing them a favor by taking a job and making money for them.
> There was likely economic fallout many would call extensive when we mandated equal wages for minorities and an end to child labor, and yet businesses soldier on.

Advertising isn't child labor. If there was something immoral about telling people about your product, you'd have a point.

> It seems like bankrupting a lot of them and letting teams return to public goods funded by municipalities would be a huge step forward into preserving sports as a social event, not a profit seeking venture.

I disagree. I don't think the state has any place here. And profit seeking will not stop just because the source of the money changes and there's less of it.

> We could just get rid of the money men up top and let things settle where they may. Sure we may not get blockbuster sports events anymore, but maybe more people could then afford to actually attend?

If there's less money in it, there will be less supply, so I don't see how it would be easier for people to afford attendance.

Your local little league team couldn't even get a sponsorship for their uniforms anymore.

> Consumers LOATHE SaaS. They would cheer for it to be killed off.

SaaS was just an example for a new product trying to gain market share.

Also, right now they are free to not use SaaS products if they do hate the concept. Afterwards they're practically forced to not use it, because it's much harder to get one off the ground.

> I don’t see how that would run afoul of my definition?

Well, they're paying people to write positively about them and their product/politics. I can see it.
You have no idea what we're talking about. Are you not even old enough to have seen Jurassic Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOeY07qKU9c

macOS is absolutely Unix, and a lot more like mainstream Unix than many of the other vastly different Unix systems of the past and present, so exactly when did the definition of Unix suddenly tighten up so much that it somehow excludes macOS? And how does your arbitrary gatekeeping and delusional denial of the ubiquity and popularity of macOS, and ignorance of the Unix 03 certification, the embedded, real time, and automotive space, and many other Unix operating systems you've never heard of or used, suddenly change the actual definition of Unix that the rest of the world uses?

Have you ever even attended or presented at a Usenix conference? Or worked for a company like UniPress who ports cross platform software to many extremely different Unix systems? Maybe then you'd be more qualified to singlehandedly change the definition of the word, and erase Unix 03 certification from existence, and shut down all the computers and devices running it, but you're not. Who do you think you are, one of Musk's DOGE script kiddies? Because you sound as overconfident and factually incorrect as one.

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

>The "no true Scotsman" fallacy is committed when the arguer satisfies the following conditions:

>1) not publicly retreating from the initial, falsified a posteriori assertion: CHECK

>2) offering a modified assertion that definitionally excludes a targeted unwanted counterexample: DOUBLE CHECK

>3) using rhetoric to signal the modification: TRIPLE CHECK

macOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris (still technically certified), Inspur K-UX, EulerOS, etc.

POSIX-compliant and Unix-alike OSes (e.g., FreeBSD, QNX, etc.) are very active in many common domains (networking, firewalls, embedded, industrial).

Mission-critical infrastructure, telco, financial systems, military/spacecraft, automotive, and embedded still widely use non-Linux Unix or Unix-like systems.

QNX in cars, AIX in banks, Illumos in storage, RTEMS in space systems.
See also the added soft hyphens within each word for hyphenation: https://practicaltypography.com/optional-hyphens.html#:~:tex...
Or to phrase it differently, they take ownership and responsibility of their own problems and have a problem-solving mindset. If the problem isn't solveable by them but caused / exacerbated / the solution is blocked by their job, they can find another one.

Or could, in any case, after a bizarre hiring boom it seems the market has quieted right down again.
There is a super interesting port of ECharts to Rust: https://github.com/yuankunzhang/charming
The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world - it's just moved into high end manufacturing. One of the difficult things about the current situation is how confidently wrong people are about the basic facts of the US economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...
But

a) The pile of LLM training data is vastly larger.
b) The data is actual human utterances in situ--these are ponies, not pony shit.
c) LLMs have no intelligence ... they channel the intelligence of a vast number of humans by pattern matching their utterances to a query. This has indeed proved useful because of how extremely well the statistical apparatus works, but the fact that LLMs have no cognitive states puts great limits on what this technology can achieve.

With Cyc, OTOH, it's not even clear what you can get out of it. The thing may well be useful if combined with LLMs, but it's under lock and key.

The big conclusions about symbolic AI that the author reaches based on this one system and approach are unwarranted. As he himself notes, "Even Ernest Davis and Gary Marcus, highly sympathetic to the symbolic approach to AI, found little evidence for the success of Cyc, not because Cyc had provably failed, but simply because there was too little evidence in any direction, success or failure."
Also I think this has been a long time dream of business types. They have always resented domain experts, because they need them for their businesses to be successful. They hate the leverage the domain experts have and they think these LLMs undermine that leverage.
I am really interested to read articles about "people best at having business impact by making software" , so far I only discovered resources like kalzumeus (patio11), indiehackers, microconf, business of software forum (very old).
You can work closely with people who have the domain knowledge who work closely with programmers to do this. I have had a job where a major part of it (as well as creating specs etc) was to do this.

Of course the developers still needed some domain knowledge, but much less.
zerotier maybe?
Everything comes in cycles I think. There will be a wave of AI generated stuff, but then people / companies will be hit hard by bugs and problems and will reinvent the wheel of quality assurance.

I wonder if AI generated stuff would pass our existing checks, e.g. linters, test coverage, sonar, etc.
If you want less consumption, and pay off debt, maybe ... raise taxes?
In Norway, there was a recent minor scandal where a county released a report on how they should shut down some schools to save money, and it turned out half the citations were fake. Quite in line with the times. So our Minister of Digitizing Everything says "It's serious. But I want to praise Tromsø Municipality for using artificial intelligence." She's previously said she wants 80% of public sector to be using AI this year and 100% by 5 years. What does that even mean? And why and for what and what should they solve with it? It's so stupid and frustrating I don't even
1. Regarding overhead — we ran a benchmark focused on performance impact rather than raw overhead [1]. TL;DR: we didn’t observe any noticeable impact at 10K RPS. CPU usage stayed around 200 millicores (about 20% of a single core).

2. Coroot’s agent captures pseudo-traces (individual spans) and sends them to a collector via OTLP. This stream can be sampled at the collector level. In high-load environments, you can disable span capturing entirely and rely solely on eBPF-based metrics for analysis.

3. We’ve built automated root cause analysis to help users explain even the slightest anomalies, whether or not SLOs are violated. Under the hood, it traverses the service dependency graph and correlates metrics — for example, linking increased service latency to CPU delay or network latency to a database. [2]

4. Currently, Coroot doesn’t support off-CPU profiling. The profiler we use under the hood is based on Grafana Pyroscope’s eBPF implementation, which focuses on CPU time.

[1]: https://docs.coroot.com/installation/performance-impact
[2]: https://demo.coroot.com/p/tbuzvelk/anomalies/default:Deploym...
I think you can get around that by choosing locations outside the US
just an fyi: The blog link in your readme does not work.
He has bankrupted a few casinos. So, he is pretty good at poker.
Yes, I still use search engines, although my use of them has decreased.

What I tend to use LLMs for is rubber ducking or the opening of research on a topic.
Idk lots of popular languages/tools simply suck, addressing issues is interpreted as crying about it by more experienced devs. Experienced that a lot in my career so far. So I think the original comment is fair.
The US can always pay their dollar-denominated debt by printing more dollars. It wouldn’t be a case of being unable but of being unwilling to pay.
Yeah that fuckin sucks.
Internal Database Monitoring with eBPF – real-time, query-level visibility
Show HN: Built Your MVP with ClearMVP:)
Thanks for building this. I am going to try it out next time I can use it!
Basically everything that comes built-in a browser has to be perform well in most use-cases and most devices. We don't want an extra 5% quality at the cost of degraded performance.
I see what they're saying with "don't guess" and I also agree with you. I'd phrase it something more like "explicitly acknowledge when you're guessing". It's fine to guess with the understanding that you might have to walk it back later if you weren't lucky. What's not fine is stacking guesses on top of guesses, and ending up marooned way out in maybe-land. "Maybe A, and then maybe B, and then maybe C... so it must be D." No, the chances of D for this reason are P(A) * P(B|A) * P(C|B)... ~= 0.

Also don't guess when it's easy to test. "Maybe divisorValue is zero" well slap a printf() in there and see if it is! Often you don't have to guess. I've seen discussions go round in circles for hours asking "what if it's X" when it'd take 2 minutes to find out if it's X or not.
> Cycorp is still in business, and have pivoted to healthcare automation, including apparently insurance denials.

There's a lesson here for AI entrepreneurs: If it's hard to make systems that give actually good, actionable advice, you can always pivot to authoritatively telling people what they want to be told instead. It's probably a bigger market anyway. Gordon Way would be proud.
The WisMesh Board ONE Pocket is a premium Meshtastic handheld with great build quality, modular expansion, and a larger screen. While it’s well-designed, its high price and average battery life may push budget-conscious users toward more affordable alternatives.
One hole to poke into it ;-) There is the growing class of the working poor in the US, and that is something the better off seem to have been ignoring for a while. What I try to say is, that even the status quo ante Trump politics were already quite disconnected from most people's reality.
Now Trump's new politics are different in that they negatively impact rich people's reality.
The idea of extra space after punctuation (especially periods) being a result of printing technology is a myth. Extra space is present in handwritten documents: go look at the US Declaration of Independence or Constitution for well-known examples. People only started shortening the space between sentences to match the space between words very recently.
> How much do you trust your government with your money?

Money is (for the purposes of this conversation) created and guaranteed by the government, and regulated by law, so I think it’s a little weird to not trust the government with my money.
Speaking for Odigos (disclosure: I’m the creator), here are two significant differences between us and the other mentioned players:

- Accurate distributed traces with eBPF, including context propagation. Without going into other tools, I highly recommend trying to generate distributed traces using any other eBPF solution and observing the results firsthand.

- We are agent-only. Our data is produced in OpenTelemetry format, allowing you to integrate it seamlessly with your existing observability system.

I hope this clarifies the differences.
Do you imagine that large changes in your local currency holdings with no explicable financial transactions would be unnoticed?
Infeely: Stop your favorite AI tools subscriptions and still use them
Hacker News monthly threads. Frequencies of Remote jobs in there rises and falls, some months have more than others. But a lot (almost all) of my income over the last few years has been from HN or references thereof
> poor country plagued by graft and bureaucracy

Tells me how little you know about the country. And that's okay. There are several "rich" countries that are also plagued by graft and bureaucracy. And no, they aren't as happy as Economist indices would tell you.
I've disabled AI in my IDE after trying Jetbrains' AI Assistant for a couple of months. I don't like it and I think relying on LLMs to get my job done is dangerous.

Why? I feel less competent at my job. I feel my brain becoming lazy. I enjoy programming a lot, why do I want to hand it off to some machine? My reasoning is that if I spend time practicing and getting really good at software engineering, my work is much faster, more accurate and more reliable and maintainable than an AI agent's.

In the long run, using LLMs for producing source code will make things a lot slower, because the people using these machines will lose the human intuition that an AI doesn't have. Be careful.
We also have Wero now, which unifies the mobile payment systems in belgium, France and Germany, with more to follow. Promises to be a unified mobile payment system across Europe within a couple of years.
> 2. the codebase they are ruining is the same one I am working on.

We're supposed to have a process for dealing with this already, because developers can ruin a codebase without ai.
> Who are all these all these engineers who just take whatever garbage they are suggested, and who, without understanding it, submit it in a CL?

My guess would be engineers who are "forced" to use AI, already mailed management it would be an error and are interviewing for their next company. Malicious compliance: vibe code those new features and let maintainability and security be a problem for next employees / consultants.
Well, it's important to start with saying I didn't like it as much as Tailscale, but I liked it a lot more than any of the others I tried. The UI for their dashboard is very good and getting it up and running was pretty trouble free though the docs could be a little better.
of course, losing confidence that the dollar denominated payments will be worth anything near what you expect in non-dollars is functionally very similar to losing confidence that they'll pay
We’re talking about the official website for a programming language, which has to reason to lie.
Absolutely.

In the meantime they are busy making more elaborate versions of C.

«C syntax is magical programmer catnip. You sprinkle it on anything and it suddenly becomes "practical" and "readable".»

https://x.com/smdiehl/status/855827759872045056
Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).

Standards are quite high, and the economy obviously isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as that.

I have found signal to noise on LinkedIn to be quite bad now but that’s specific to that site IME.
I recently came across Remote Yeah[1], but I can't vouch for its viability personally. It might help discover some companies who are at least willing to go down the remote route.

---

[1]: https://remoteyeah.com/
The latter are the ones that get promoted to senior staff+, or more likely become directors/VPs.

There is a very low cap on career growth if you are purely focused on programming.

So yes, if you want to climb the corporate ladder or run your own business, programming is a fraction of the skills required.

I think though it's okay to just focus on coding. It's fun and why many of us got into the industry. Not everyone likes the business side of things and that's okay.
> Don’t go to Stack Overflow, don’t ask the LLM, don’t guess, just go straight to the source. Oftentimes, it’s surprisingly accessible and well-written

This was a problem _before_ LLMs were so widely used, but they have compounded it 100 fold.

In the end, I think it always comes back to RTFM. But that's the hard path and users have been conditioned to think of the Internet as a tool that allows them to jump to the end of that path, immediately heading to Stackoverflow, Reddit, Quora, etc. Admittedly, it is almost always easier to just have someone tell you how to solve a problem than it is to take the time to understand what the problem is, apply what you know and troubleshoot. But it will leave you stagnant, hardly able to grow as a developer, exercising no creativity and demonstrate a lack of understanding.

I'm a terrible programmer. I know I am. But every time I slog through a problem in my weird little projects, solving it in a way that makes my coding buddies go "uh, huh...well, it _does_ work..." I learn something, not just about solving that specific problem, but about how the system I'm working in functions.

RTFM culture had it right back in the day, though it annoyed me younger self to no end. As a wee lad, I'd jump on those local BBSs and just start pushing questions about computers to the greybeards, rarely getting straight answers and typically being pointed to the manual, which I clearly hadn't read. Started listening to them after awhile. Glad I did. The value of reading the docs prior to asking my questions extends well beyond code and even computing. Do it with your car, your home appliances, business models, heck, do it with your legal system and government. The point is, RTFM is the foundation on which the House of Understanding is built. It promotes self-sufficiency, greater familiarity with the system in which you are working and the intimacy required for more complex and creative problem-solving later one. Most importantly, it promotes growth.

Now, that's all assuming the documentation is good...which is a different conversation altogether.
Ah, that makes sense thank you!
100% agree with you, my sentiment is the same. Some time ago I considered making the LLM create tests for me, but decided against it. If I don't understand what needs to be tested, how can I write the code that satisfies this test?

We humans have way more context and intuition to rely on to implement business requirements in software than a machine does.
VCs that recently raised a fund and are in deploy mode will continue to deploy (assuming no issues with LP base). Funds who are maturing will have a hard time exiting from their investments. Eventually the money will dry out if we can’t get exits flowing again. Potential for M&A activity to pickup as funds look for liquidity, albeit at less than stellar valuations most likely. Long term it’s hard to predict what will happen
Yes and I'm still, years later, get annoyed that I need to force them to search, instead of making self-humiliating attempts to answer some question that isn't even there while feeding me a bunch of spam blogs and irrelevant but somehow profitable results.
I’ve heard from people in hiring that often 490/500 of those candidates will be from India and often aren’t actually eligible for the job. Just apply, it’s partly a numbers game.