skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't speculation. :)

GM and LG are partnering to make a battery plant for GM's cars: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1126298_gm-lg-chem-anno...

Porsche is piggybacking on VW's battery ventures:
"For high-volume models, Porsche will source batteries from its Volkswagen Group parent, which is building an extensive network of battery plants."

Like Tesla, VW is holding "Battery Day" events:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22325813/vw-volkswagen-po...

"One way Volkswagen plans to boost production of battery-powered vehicles is through a massive expansion of its manufacturing footprint. The automaker plans to have six battery cell production plants operating in Europe by 2030, which it will build alone or with partners.

The first two plants will be in Salzgitter, Germany, and Skelleftea, Sweden; a third plant will be established either in Spain, Portugal, or France; and the fourth factory will be based in Eastern Europe. The plants will have a production capacity of 240 gigawatt-hours a year, Schmall said."

The groups missing from this discussion:
Ford
BMW
Toyota
Mercedes
Honda

Some of them will be able to piggyback LG and Panasonic, but realistically there will be a huge battery shortage for the next decade. The only ones with investments that look ready "soon" are Tesla, LG and Panasonic. Of those 3, LG and Panasonic seem far too small. Only Tesla seems poised to have supply in the near term.

That means companies w/o batteries are going to be shipping ICE cars, or forced to pay a premium in some way to those with battery supplies.

The Mach E, Taycan, and F150 Lighting are all amazing. They will not be able to make many simply due to battery constraints.
ACLU is fully co-opted by the democrats for many years. Just like the SPLC, ADL etc. Look at where vast majority of their donations come from.

1. ACLU actively gives their data to Facebook:

https://www.axios.com/aclu-data-shares-facebook-4f1d21f4-d43...

https://fortune.com/2021/04/02/aclu-shares-data-facebook-thi...

2. ACLU claims Second Amendment is Racist

> "Racism is foundational to the Second Amendment and its inclusion in the Bill of Rights."

https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1419294620417155074

Fun fact: Vermont ratified the individual right to gun ownership and the abolishing of slavery in their State Constitution at the same time in 1777. The second amendment actually helped defeat racism and the only thing racist about it is the disproportionate infringement against minorities.

> Vermont’s Declaration of Rights of 1777 set forth the following fundamental rights and abolished slavery: That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Therefore, no male person, born in this country, or brought from over sea, ought to be holden by law, to serve any person, as a servant, slave, or apprentice, after he arrives to the age of twenty-one years; nor female, in like manner, after she arrives to the age of eighteen years.

> Vt. Constitution, Art. I, § 1 (1777). See Zilversmit at 116. The Vermont Declaration also provided: “That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State . . . .” Id., § 15.

3. ACLU used to defend free speech of even neo-nazis but have since then abandoned their principles:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/aclu-again-cowardly-abstain...

4. ACLU's most famous lawyer calls JK Rowling and Abigail Shrier "white supremacists" without any proof whatsoever:

https://twitter.com/abigailshrier/status/1358246098364583936...

The same lawyer has also called for banning of Abigail Shrier's book.

5. ACLU now claims ‘Vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties’:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vaccine-mandates-actually-...

The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics. Now, they have completely reversed its views, arguing vaccine mandates help civil liberties and bodily autonomy "is not absolute."

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-aclu-prior-to-covid-den...
Do you know the ground truth about which apps, nodes, and Layer 2 protocols are being used by El Salvadorans right now? If not then all of these are just posts in a chain of speculation. I don't, and I'm not going to claim that I know what's happening. But invoking suspicion to make a strong claim isn't the way to have an effective or illuminating conversation.
It’s a race between engineers inventing more and more foolproof devices…
Only read the abstract (rest behind paywall) but I have a lot of thoughts here.

I speculate that coming years will see a significant increase in the fractional value vertical, encompassing material deliverables and performance prediction markets.

Skill and knowledge acquisition is a speculative investment of effort, usually made from a hypothesis around expected value. "I will take X months to learn Y skill because Z industry is (stable, expanding, pays more, exciting)" is pretty parallel to "I will spend X $$$ for Y course/mentorship/degree because Z is..."

Angels and VCs are often vocal about funding people and teams first, products after. Sentiment in talent acquisition is continuing to shift away from "do you have a degree and from where" and towards "what, how have you learned and what can you do." Remote, distributed work, freelancing models, and open collaboration structures like FOSS starkly contrast bloated enterprises and academia.

I suspect there will be, and there probably are right now, numerous entities that pursue direct-to-consumer lending or crowdfunding based on various characteristics. Instead of taking on 6 figures in debt to join a 4 year program, only to spend unknown time to find suitable employment, take 5 figures of debt to account for your regular expenses, bootstrap your lifestyle, get paired with other members of the program, learn the same material in 2 years instead of 4 while also delivering a "product" and even if that fails, you're far more likely to have a collection of organic relationships that will endorse your job application.

The commissions alone in the recruiting industry lead me to believe it's economically feasible to use these types of loans as a loss leader, in return for the network effects and valuable data that an operator could benefit from.

And if 1 in 10,000 students launches a unicorn, the operator probably got in at seed or even as an angel, because they were able to watch all of the leading indicators that are currently extremely fragmented and subjective. A virtuous cycle emerges.

I could go on... but I'll save it for somebody who ships.
This testimony puts even Alexey Stakhanov, hero of socialist labor to shame. I find it inspirational, and will work even harder for the company! Maybe I can work hard enough to put another penny of dividend on each stock for the stockholders. Goodbye friends, goodbye family, goodbye gym, goodbye daylight, the backlog is full of user stories and I have work to do!
> On the other hand, having the wisdom of knowing what can be static in the first place? I don't think that it's something teached.

I think the trick is realising that reaching for a "programming language" is just one of the tools we have to solve a certain problem, and probably the last one we should reach for! For a stable system, you want less moving parts. A good programmer fights for it.

Can you solve a problem just by storing a JSON file somewhere? Can you solve a problem without a backend? Can you solve a frontend problem with just CSS or just HTML? Can you solve a problem without Javascript? Can you solve a data storage problem with just a database instead of database+Redis? Do you really need a full-fledged web framework where a micro-framework would suffice? Do you need micro services, Kubernetes, containers and whatnot for your site before it gets its first visitor?

I find that a lot of people go for the "more powerful" tool just to cover their asses. They don't want surprises in the future, so they just go for something that will cover all bases. But what you actually want is the things with the least power [1].

Another issue is that intelligent people have an anti-superpower called "rationalisation". They can justify every single decision they make, as misguided as it is. So it doesn't matter if a website could be done with a single HTML file: it is always possible to find a reasonable explanation for why it needed k8s, micro-services and four languages.

[1] Using the least powerful tool also has other advantages, see Tim Berners-Lee "Principle of Least Power" for example - https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
>We are fixing up our Linux and Windows versions for public use.

Very glad to be reading that, would be glad to help with testing, as well.
Hustle culture IMO is when you impose long working hours to your employees, when you judge your coworkers by their working time or do not give a promotion to someone because he has a healthy work-time balance.

It's not about how much you work.

I've been working hard at times, I still do from time to time but I never impose it to anyone. And when I'm in one of these periods when I push myself I do extra care of not showing it; not pushing code out of normal hours, not sending slack or emails,...

Because even showing you're doing it is already a step in the bad direction, it normalizes it, and ultimately create this hustle culture.
Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for µs Latency and High Throughput
This is exactly my feeling. Aussies are constantly whinging about extreme first-world problems and are completely apathetic (or willfully ignorant) of what real hardship is.

As a result the general population is blindly letting the government erode our rights and are too pre-occupied with their own lives to actually realise what's happening.
I'm curious if this affects FastMail users in US since they're based out of Australia.
> compulsory voting effectively prevents what is the worst part of American democracy - the unceasing efforts to stop people voting

No, it doesn't; sloppy, deliberately overbroad purges of voter rolls (without notification of the targets) are a key voter suppression technique, and are not at all impaired by compulsory voting.
I shared multiple examples in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28451769
Forcing people to vote is universal suffrage on steroids. I don’t think universal suffrage is good be default (it might be idk), but I think forcing the vote takes the worst parts of universal suffrage, uninformed and/or indifferent population voting, and over samples that group
GitHub repo with more resources at https://github.com/resource-disaggregation/blk-switch
How do I get in touch with you? Definitely using more resources than this to process fewer integrations. I’m curious what trade offs you made to enable this.

If you’re anywhere in the US, let me know.
https://bugragunduz.com/blog/crypto-carbon-footprint/

Make sure to email them if you know media's interest in protecting the status quo.
I've had a bit of an axe to grind with the term "hustle" lately myself. I completely agree with your post and like the term when used as a coach uses it. When you have the motivation, use it!

But there's a darker definition; one I see play out inside tech circles quite frequently. The kind of thing that gets you in trouble in seedy bars, or makes you a lot of money if you can get away with it. It's barely legal (if at all) and covered in disguise and misdirection. Fake projects, exaggerated results, fronts and shields. A hustler can be cool, but is also a leech. One who feeds on the weak instead of elevating them. We should all be wary of the hustle but not write off the effort.
It's not extremist politics. There was no TV marketing about how x group is the devil and they need this law to stop it. The government just passed quickly without much publicity. The average Australian is not radicalized like Americans are and they generally do not hate peoples existence based on how they vote / make their vote their identify.

There is no such thing as "a group of liberal supporters protesting" like you see with trump and biden supporters.
Sounds like a dickhole narrative by someone not forced to hustle 24/7.

Punting it: when do we see the first rent-a-conomy solutions to hustling in your sleep? When we can turn dreams into movies, or shared experiences?
Maybe "hustle culture" could be better defined. I think it means different things to different people.

When I think "hustle culture" I think multi-level marketing, corny fake Instagram ads, and poorly conceived business propositions.

You're right, bragging about how little sleep you got doesn't make you admirable, it makes you a schmuck.
It's not defined that way by people who use it in kernel development. It has at least as clear a definition as "low memory" and refers to something different, as I said.
Agreed. This individual was a net negative. They could not get their work done, and thus required other engineers to pick up their "slack". Everyone pitched in to help mentor the individual, without much success. Compared to other similarly skilled/experienced developers we'd hired around the same time - who became productive in a few months, this person made zero progress.

Not firing this person was demoralizing to the team. Moving them off the team to another group seemed to upset people even more than keeping this person around (I'd moved on by this time, but kept in touch with the team). Rather than doing the right thing for the organization (firing them) - management decided to make it someone else's problem in the organization. Yes from management's perspective they 'solved' the team's problem but the optics of what they did created resentment towards management.
Very well written article, thanks for posting. The usual problems; planting in the wrong place (lack of science, planning and thoughtful approach), funding must be used by a fixed date, no maintenance/oversight, untrained planters, no local involvement (often deliberate disenfranchisement), lack of pest control ... I see these problems on a daily basis, often ecological understanding is deprecated and finance and engineering promoted, with failure guaranteed.
>they make employees look like spoiled children

The choice being made to force people back in the office seems deranged when you calmly consider the facts in a logical manner.

Everybody, including those who have been vaccinated, is being told they must wear a mask and stay six feet apart at all times.

At the same time as employees are being forced back, everybody is agreeing that contagion could be a life and death matter, particularly for parents who have kids too young to be vaccinated yet.

And what's the benefit? It's agreed that people can't chat together, can't huddle in conference rooms, so everybody who is in the office will be videoconferencing just like at home. Except that there will be more noise and distraction from others doing the same.

Piling too many contradictions on people leads to stress and peculiar behavior even if they aren't consciously aware.

Turning anger outward, even if it doesn't make sense, is a common pattern. You have to go back to the office. This could be devastating for your family. But it's inconvenient (and maybe futile) to make demands to the organization's leaders, or to find a WFH job. So you lash out at coworkers or whoever's convenient.

The risks and (lack of) benefits are not my personal opinion; it's what other people seem to think.

I would go along with any coherent view of things that is internally consistent and believed by a majority.

But people are turning off their brains.
This is pretty much it. It's not so much that people do not care about these issues, its that any time they feel spooked about their investment values or taxes, all other issues become irrelevant.
...and sometimes it's just a dumb law that doesn't provide the results the authors expect. See also: Cookie accept banners.
Please keep discussion polite.

GP did not mention vaccines.

Different people are impacted by lockdown in different ways. Consider those that might have different experiences to yours.
For similar and excellent write-ups of the causes and consequences of air crashes, I highly recommend Admiral Cloudberg's write-ups: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
If a company is doomed to fail, you’re almost certainly better off to switch boats than to ride that one to the bottom. If it does fail, you have an easy “why’d you leave Titanic LLC?” answer. If it lumps along sideways for a few years, you still have an OK answer. Four six month stints in a row is a concern without any explanation. If three of those were duds, it’s still better to get out IMO. (To be honest, four twelve month stints isn’t piles and piles better.)
Minimum wages protect people from exploitation.

This law vaguely benefits workers who are nowhere near the poverty line. Just let the employee and employer figure out wages!
A "fun" thing to do if you really want to get a hang of IEEE floats is manually write the algorithms for a bunch of rounding operations (ceil, floor, truncate, half to even, etc).
I don't really agree with the second half of your comment - I won't get into that - but the first half is bang on. It's the same idea as asking people if they'd oppose slavery in the antebellum period, and they all pretend they would, while at the same time only supporting mainstream orthodox views in their own time period.
Isn't that exactly the point of saying we should deploy more, cheaper per unit, devices?

Sure some of the money went to R&D but the question is not can be it be used on a future telescope, it's will it be used?

I suspect if someone wants to launch another telescope today they would look at JWST and largely say they need to start over because it doesn't make sense to start with a 20-year-old design.
Actually I think windows became much better for developers after ballmer. VSCode, github, wsl, wsl2... It seems to me that ballmer was much more about windows-only everywhere than developers.
Wait until the time traveler learns about a pandemic that has killed 15 million people by a virus that leaked from a lab, rather than trivial tech monopoly stuff that at most has killed a few hundred people.
A recent example: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-aclu-prior-to-covid-den...
I think what you're really asking, is are we "dangling a carrot" of actual employment, in order to trick people into working for low pay. The answer is a definitive no.

We actually do not advertise, in any way, that our smaller projects could lead to much bigger projects, and long term employment.

That being said, the pay itself is usually more than is offered elsewhere for the same type of work, or at least at par. We're lucky to have a business model that can support this.
These "data disruption warrants" are the most interesting to me:

> Data disruption means adding, copying, deleting or altering data held in a computer. This can only be done in order to frustrate the commission of offences or determine relevance of data. To assist disruption, a warrant can also authorise other facilitative activities, such as entering specified premises, using electronic equipment to obtain access to data, removing a computer from premises, copying data that has been obtained, and intercepting if necessary to carry out the things authorised in the warrant. A data disruption warrant also allows the officer to take actions to conceal the access and the activities, allowing the warrant to be conducted covertly.

> Data disruption warrants can be used to affect data offshore with the consent of an appropriate consenting foreign official (if the location of data is known or can be reasonably determined). They can also be issued internally in an emergency situation, and subsequently authorised by a Judge or AAT member. They can also permit the officer to seek assistance from a person with knowledge of a computer or a computer system to help in carrying out the warrant.

- https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...

So they can get a warrant to come into your house while you're not home and put a keylogger in your keyboard USB cable, or put a bug on the UART of your router, etc. Or just hacking your cheap Netgear router with one of the hundreds of vulnerabilities that exist.

Scary shit. Sounds like they're pretty drunk with power. Does Australia really have a capable offensive security group like the NSA to pull these sorts of things off, though?
Self-hosting ERPNext is a truly excellent FOSS solution to replace accounting apps like QuickBooks, if you do your own accounting or are at least able to choose the software your business uses for accounting:

https://erpnext.com/open-source-accounting

ERPNext is a full ERP with a bunch of modules, but you only have to use the ones you need and it's easy to ignore the ones you don't. As nice as GNUCash is for offline accounting, ERPNext is much more convenient for accounting if you need to attach files and notes to your journal entries, or provide multi-user access to the books.

Frappe Cloud is the easiest way to self-host ERPNext:

https://frappecloud.com

A third-party Docker image on your own server (or local computer, if you prefer) is the second-easiest way:

https://github.com/pipech/erpnext-docker-debian
One person doing something is not a culture.
If you had to emigrate, what would your top 3 options be?
So sad to hear that.

Hope it goes well for you wherever you choose to go, although I don't think there are many places left that aren't like that, at least not any places that have an acceptable standard of living. Something about a city having a future at all makes the real estate vortex come to life.

Know of a place? Tell me, dear reader, I'd love to hear it.
Yes, join a company or organization that is doing work you feel is important and help them achieve their goal with your skills. A lot of these companies get left behind because they can't pay enough or don't have the prestige.

Coders seek companies that pay very well and or have a bright future without giving much thought about that company's product or how it's impacting the world. We need people like you that want to make a difference to improve the world with your coding skills.
A single person working 10-12 hours on their own startup is not toxic. I wouldn't even call that a "culture". Founders/execs/managers slave-driving their employees to work 10-12 hours a day is a culture. And it's definitely toxic.
Not sure why this is downvoted but it’s factually correct. Organizations consolidate power and try and hold onto it. You can even see it in a big corporation where groups will get territorial and actively try and sabotage other groups even though they work for the same company.

That’s why functional democracies are a patchwork of rules that try and prevent such consolidation.
Yeah, that's high school macro. I didn't need an explanation, but it seems that you do.

Optimally distributing fewer goods isn't a solution to the problem. The problem is a shortage.
"blindly letting the government erode our rights"

what else are we supposed to do? how do you stop the government from doing that?
Southern conservative as Democrats or Republicans like Jesse Helms and Trent Lott were very much in favor of not letting African Americans vote. Who they caucused with later is unrelated.

But yes, to say it was Democrats or Republicans would be very technically inaccurate.

It isn’t a coincidence that the states that were practicing Jim Crow before are the same states trying to discourage voting today.
They're a member of the FIVE EYEs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
> Hustle culture

Is this term universal or is it one of those where it's narrowly defined based on who you're talking to?
I don't hear much "Car dealers sucks" argument from outside US. I'd like to see other countries' situation.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.