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> freelance roles, self-employment, and side hustles

> However, the work has traditionally come with some downsides—namely not having the steady, dependable income a corporate job brings.

What I also wonder is how they manage taxes and healthcare where traditionally corporate job handles, a simple W2 and company issued insurance. The tax law in the US feels overwhelming without a dedicated CPA

>so out of sheer luck

this sounds more like survivorship bias no? You can keep playing lucky if you want, but that's more on being lucky. I like to keep risk low and so the objective is reducing the need to be "lucky", to get more consistent results without luck and this is where having those economic fundamentals work. Economics is more than stock-picking, that's more of a finance thing imo.

>It got me thinking--something similar happened to digital cameras where all the cheap point and shoots were replaced by phones so that now standalone cameras are an expensive niche for photographers.

exactly, I think it'll be better now to settle in with OpenPOWER rather than later to not get caught off guard. This whole affordable PC era was a temporary illusion and we can't relie on vendors providing us mitigations since even those eventually cease. Personally I still can't afford a Raptor machine atm but I'm getting in by working on stuff in QEMU with the recommended openPOWER debian release

>The bottom line is that this is the only hardware currently in production that is going in the direction promised by the personal computing revolution back in the 1970s and 80s and is still capable of handling most people's current general computing needs. I write this hoping that other people like me who are reading this understand the importance of keeping hardware like this alive.

this is what I believe as well, too many people on HN seem to be lose grasp of the big picture in favor of a few dollars today. (but the big picture can only go so far i.e. Keynes's "In the long run we are all dead"). BUT the big issue that I fear many people are overlooking is the post-PC era. I made a thread on g the other day but didn't get much traction there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-PC_era I believe home computing will become more expensive and progress slows down as traditional businesses and "gamers" that currently fuel that affordability dry up and economies of scale inverts. Things like Talos and OpenPOWER will remain more stable in my opinion as they already priced in these niche market demands unlike other archs that seem to depend on a big net of users that every day is growing smaller as people migrate to cloud only solutions. I think it's advantageous to invest into OpenPOWER as an eccosystem even if RISC-V picks up since there's already big dollars behind it that doesn't depend on scraping the bottom of the barrel for funding. I plan to write this up with actual numbers some other day, maybe estimate a sort of timeline when this might start happening

it is expensive, as far as I understand it (I'm still just learning about it all), it is for those need total auditability, they mention EU a lot but also this seems catered to actual individuals who really want a truly open system that doesn't scarifice performance (RISC-V seems great for embedded but is still not there for high end workflows). To me, this sounds like a reasonable price for what they're providing but I understand it's definitely outside the price point of many but I must wonder if there's anything more besides price, is it really just that they're too expensive and this is why there's so little talk about it?

The developer did nothing wrong, reimplemented it from scratch and gave you a mention in the original readme. If anything this happens all the time like Oracle v Google. What you do now is create something even better (and keep it closed source) but he is not required to do anything

>is software development in decline?

it's more that with the Fed's rate hikes, cheap money is in decline and so people have to think harder about whether or not it's worth building that next speculative project without carefully really thinking about the certainty of returns.

Surprised to see this here, was just reading about it on the bard page a few minutes ago since I been killing time waiting for chatGPT to come back up for Plus Users. I think it would be really cool if we could get a Bard extension for Google Colab, maybe some integration with the Colab Pro would be really interesting analogous to the Data Analysis Plugin

this is neat but you should probably include the github link somewhere in the Youtube description

I've had the best experience so far with chatGPT Plus using the Data analysis plugin, well I WAS having the best experience until it went down today. Still waiting to get back to it

Pretty neat, I like how uncluttered it is compared to the regular site on mobile. Bit confused with the icons on top, I guess the first one is top stories and the star is trending?

It's cool to see these kinds of things running, even if it's just for 'why not' reasons. The 'Try it out' demo was really neat! Love the idea of these tools. Maybe we'll see something like a Jupyter Notebook or Apache Zeppelin running solely in the browser without any need for a backend besides something that serves a static page, especially as we see WASM and WebGPU continue maturing.

This is some really impressive stuff, I’m surprised how seamlessly the Compute Skinning demo falls back to the webGL renderer on my iPhone SE. like that blew me away, can’t wait to see how something like this performs once Apples releases webGPU support on iOS. Imagine the new level of web games we’ll see even on mobile

would love if you could share a bit about your previous $400k/yr job. What market/sector niche/role was it if anything you can share about it, really curious!

right now it's chrome, vscode, python, intellij, homebrew, and whatever C/C++ toolchain is on the system so for me rn is Xcode. I warn that my must-have change very often, I can't stand digital clutter and I often factory reset my machines and change devices often (this week I been mostly on my mac mini but the past month I was on an ubuntu machine and a chromebook) so if it takes too long to setup I don't bother with again.

I have a m1 mac mini and I feel the same frustrations of software not being supported. If you're considering ditching linux, I would recommend a win11 machine and WSL

free food always works

Nice site! But what does diversity mean?

The front page has lots of cool posting, but I don’t understand what makes a startup diverse or not?

> You don’t want a job at just any startup. You want a diverse company where you can learn and grow.

There was a page where people could submit their own companies; what conditions would their workplace need to qualify as diverse? It seems like anyone can claim to be diverse.

I was looking around the closest I got was on the policies page, where it said this.

> We do not have any warranty on these jobs. Some jobs may not be listed anymore. We don’t promise that all jobs are on diverse teams. Do your own research too!

What's the difference between a diverse startup vs. a nondiverse one? What does it mean to have and encourage diversity?

Maybe an FAQ page could explain it, something like

“Q: What’s a startup diverse? A: A diverse startup sometimes does X Y Z but can vary.”

Procreate, it's just so nice to use on the iPad Pro and refreshing compared to Photoshop for drawing

What will programming look like in 2028?

Armory3D seems to be doing just that. Looks like custom licenses are best for this scenario. Example https://armorpaint.org/download.html

Their license https://github.com/armory3d/armorpaint/blob/master/LICENSE.m...

ArmoryPaint is a sort of alternative to substance painter, and you can download it for 16€, but they also give you the choice of compiling it from source for free. It has a nice balance between people who pay for the convenience and frugal developers who understand and can compile it themselves (or don't but are now incentivized to learn, usually kids getting into game development) and can use the program; otherwise, wouldn't have been accessible.

Reading, a lot of reading. Read things beyond just what you need, like documentation and other technical works but literature in English. Reading books of antiquity usually have a few pages, in the beginning, explaining how translators dealt with transforming ancient languages and style to modern English for the contemporary reader. Helpful to observe how discrepancies between languages can be resolved and has helped me expand how I read, speak, and think in English over time.

Appsmith looks really cool, going to read up on it. I looked up DronaHQ but they don't seem to be very FOSS like at all, doesn't seem to have the majority of code available, no self hosting and the cheapest tier is $100 a month after your trial ends.

Saw the boring tech talk while look thru HN's search and it was great. Will read the "Release it!" book as soon as I can. I never really thought much about the idea of a my own 24/7 service but sounds like a great exercise. Going to see what projects I can do and spin up something in that light. I agree that context is important, like the organization running web services, reminds me when I worked on campus as a student web developer and was surprised that school's websites use Drupal instead of something Node based and that they were using Joyent Containers instead of Docker like most new projects do.

Thank you again for all the advice!

This looks incredible, thank you for helping create Budibase, gonna try it out when I can. Glad to see Svelte being used, really like how performant it is.

Amazing! I never heard of it before, but it looks robust already and seems to have momentum. Thank you, going to read up more on it!

Why the snark? I see value in no-code/low-code platforms for many people—integrating with "traditional" code to fill in the lack of domain-specific features and building a strong FOSS alternative early on is critical. I just started reading and found these two projects that seem to be trying to accomplish just that [1][2] though they seem very early. I'd love to see what other project HN might know, since I personally don't know better.

[1] https://github.com/saltcorn/saltcorn [2] https://github.com/Rintagi/Low-Code-Development-Platform

JetBrain Utlimate, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance 3D, Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps, Pixologic ZBrush, CLO Marvelous Designer, Microsoft 365, 1Password. I try to get annual plans if I can.

"Clever" code reminds me of Cowboy Coding [1] where people do something similar. But I wonder if there is more to "boring" than what not to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding

I was wrong to assume how access is treated in different places. I'm a poor immigrate but been fortunate to have lived my life in a relatively wealthy county in New Jersey where libraries are much more laxed. What can be done to give hope to those without forgoing the practical aspect completely? While those who have the resources to, should; what can those that don't do if they wanted to try and improve, it can't be completely hopeless?