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Why is HN so pessimistic?

Zero cost to run fiber to every household on earth??

Not for the data center, for the fiber lines.

You don't have to buy real estate.

They don't stream on YouTube.

What do they need help with?

No. What would be the point of that?

I do.

"And when you're done that, can you build another one and sell it to me?"

You see how it's impossible to regulate technology? I don't want my tax dollars funding impossible missions.

I'd blame technology altogether. People are losing their purpose.

Dystopian.

The difference is whether or not the platform is for-profit. If the goal of the platform is to make money, decisions will be made to keep people more addicted than would otherwise be natural. And that's the problem.

Ok, let's say you were going to start a brand new project today. What tech would you use?

"...these days." Don't quote me out of context.

I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.

I learned recently that one of the killer apps for Scala seems to be in hardware design. Chisel [0] is the core technology of the best open source RISC-V chips. Chipyard [1] is designing leading edge type OOE and AI chips and all of the code is written in Scala. Personally, I can't wait for some of these designs to start being mass produced and put in laptops and phones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel_(programming_language)

[1] https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard

It looks really good.

To do what?

I stand corrected.

Fair tbh

Good point.

Simplicity in the sense that BSD is a much smaller codebase than linux and therefore less complex and easier to onboard new devs.

Simplicity. Also maybe use Go for apps instead of Java.

The idea is it would be nice to have an OS that is a little easier to learn for the next generation of devs.

Someone should make a new mobile OS like android but based on FreeBSD.

Good OS. Idk what to say. I thought this was a news site.

Honestly lmao

I know. Bring back silver currency!

It's a conspiracy!

It's $4700/oz today which is crazy.

True. Good way to pay employees less.

Edit: to the downvoters, did I lie?