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> There are a lot of ideological traps in this industry and many people that fall for them. Why people are interested in ideologies and cults is beyond me.

Most people who make remarks like that are not nearly as exceptional as they think they are. https://xkcd.com/610/

But just to give the actual answer, it’s probably that:

* Things are not okay. Read any CVE list if you wish to deny it.

* It’s not getting better. In fact, it’s getting worse, because software is getting more complex.

* Making software less complex is a fool’s errand. The whole point of software is that it can be more easily changed than hardware, so just not changing it at all is missing the point. Yet removing features that have been put out there is disruptive, and often selfish, egotistical, and demonstrating a poor organizational structure (I’m looking at you, Google, and your dozens of chat apps). As such, we can expect successful software to monotonically increase in complexity forever.

Do you have a response that isn’t either either: something that a cynic could dismiss as a cult, some sort of “your needs don’t matter” dismissal of features that a lot of people like, or a bleak declaration that the whole world sucks and that’s just the way it is?
If social media is to be believed, firing 2,000+ employees is also a bit concerning.

At a bare minimum, that does not show much confidence in the organizational structure they put together, either.
This is trolling, surely. If so, mission accomplished.

Every one of the MAGMA tech companies (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon) is adopting Rust in significant ways. That is extraordinary; and those companies are only the tip of the iceberg, and what is publicly known lags reality by 6-12 months at least.

Rust won't ever be as widely used as Java or COBOL, but clearly it is already having a huge impact on how infrastructure is built.
You can think of these programs like event-based lambdas that are immutable, publicly visible, and you don’t have to pay for the compute or storage (the user pays via fees per usage).

For money, they are solving the problem of user accounts being integrated top to bottom. For example, on a blockchain I can perform a Flash Loan. I can instantly take out and pay back a loan of a sum I would usually never have access to with zero collateral down. I can have zero dollars in my bank account but instantly borrow $1,000,000 (literally), spend that $1,000,000, and pay it back with interest, keeping any profit. The transaction does not get executed unless it is automatically verified that the lender has the funds, and the resulting sum after the transaction is complete will be enough to pay back the interest on the loan. Then the virtual machine executes it. It is instant, and requires no collateral because it is paid back as part of the transaction.

They are also solving problems for financial exchanges. Most exchanges are centralized and opaque. A small group makes the rules, and they make rules that favor some firms over others (special order types, data feeds). A decentralized exchange like Uniswapv2 is completely visible and has no requirement for maintenance by a single group. And in the end, the entire exchange is just another smart-contract. The potential for integration with the other programs running on the chain is huge.

These are two of the strongest use cases I've seen come out of cryptocurrencies. Consensus without centralized authority, immutable lambda execution paid for directly by the user, transparency, deep integration (wallets, other contracts). These things combine to produce value. This is less something you have a pitch deck for and more like an open standard. Rather than a chain of firms each with their own APIs, managing their own infrastructure, the function served by a whole company is replaced by a series of lambdas anyone can see in their entirety. This is so fundamentally different to how we think about tech companies today that I think our culture is still processing it.
Heck, Visual Basic is rank higher than JavaScript is more than enough to understand the value of that Tiobe list.
Art Bell was probably a sort of proto-Alex Jones, i.e. a controlled and managed outlet for parapolitical topics and a way to mix up the truth with a hefty dose of misinfo and shitcoating.

Mae Brussell's entire back catalog is easy to find if you're looking for something along these lines without the compromised elements. Dave Emory also has a massive library and is still going strong, doing great work on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in particular. For modern-day parapolitical podcasts there's The Liminalist, Subliminal Jihad, The Farm, Psyop Cinema, and many others.
It is absolutely not misleading.

In fact I would say it's understated. We lost a half of builders, a third of tradesmen, and saw a massive drop in people training for the trades after 2008.

We only caught up to the peak in new home builds a couple of years ago.

Sure, there was a demand spike, but supply is about a decade behind in a market where it takes a very long time for supply to ramp up.
Recruiters have well, one job. A great recruiter actually takes time to research people and find good fits. They are incredibly rare, but worth their weight in gold IMO.

The vast majority of recruiters just do lazy keyword searches and spamming. He or she obviously didn't even bother to read the title or profile of who they were bothering. Spamming is more of a dick move than calling out spam, IMO.
It would also be nice because Patreon could actually haul Google into court for not blocking uploads of their videos.

One of the major problems with uploading your own videos on a different platform is that someone is always going to upload it to YouTube and you really have no defense against that.

If Patreon could concentrate that via many creators, they could force YouTube to actually police that instead of just blowing it off.
Shaming single mothers or having a baby out of wedlock or shaming someone for being gay are great examples why you shouldn't shame people and why the practice should shamed out of existance.
The harm is irrelevant because it’s such a small effect. That’s why the EPA threshold for lead in water is not zero it’s 15 ug/L. There is no value in aiming for zero because of diminishing returns.

And I’m not sure how incomplete digestion is relevant? Lead is excreted naturally. Sure it can have a very long half life but that doesn’t jive with “it only accumulates”.
Yeah, its a picket line for the union to get their raises. Wirecutter is owned by NYT and they made a billion in cash this last year and it sounds like no one is getting anything for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/business/media/new-york-t...
All of which is unrelated to the idea of some sort of /global/ USD short squeeze, which is just a nonsense idea.

Holding debt in another nation's currency involves risks but it is also the case that bond issuers can mitigate that risk with financial tools at the time of borrowing. It is doubly true that the CNY has and still is trading within a narrow band over the life of these debts, currency risks are not a factor in this story in any way.
The apartment I rented for $1400 a month in 2015 is now $2200. It's still the cheapest in my neighborhood. Meanwhile I'm still making the same amount of money, I've hopped a couple jobs but the wages are stagnant. Also I don't like the tone of your voice you seem to be accusing me of some sort of moral failing for not making enough money. I make what's average for a developer in Denver. I'm putting as much as I can into my savings account but even then I have had to put less in each year to make up for the deficit I lose in rent.
I hear you with the no false positives statement, which I haven't personally encountered, but still

However, if misinformation is convincing people who are supposed to be educated, they weren't properly educated to start. In short: It is not enough.
Can I ask why that is? Just WLB issues? Moral concerns?
I'd add bike to that list.
Hey! how many website can i create if i subscribe this service? only 1 website for $8? or can i make several blogs via this service?
I think in my last interview I implemented my LRU cache and BFS graph code too quickly. They are desperate for a certain kind of engineer :)
Very useful. I'll investigate. Thanks!
As for 1., I would blame the lack of democracy in USA more than the norms of discussion within certain short-lived public meetings.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Any error-prone pattern can remain useful with enough discipline, but we've learned time and time again that relying solely on discipline to cover for error-prone patterns doesn't scale.
That’s not compensation. That’s companionship. There’s a difference.

(Look Dang, no name calling)
but can he reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard?
The underlying implementation sets the task as cancelled the first time it is polled, and then waits for it to stop running [0]. So you could just call `cancel` and poll the future once:

futures::poll!(task.cancel());

[0]: https://docs.rs/async-task/4.0.3/src/async_task/task.rs.html...
Mistake implies they aren’t intentionally spamming every email from some database
> There are no factual mistakes in “Debt” that impact the solidity of Graeber’s conclusions or historical narratives, most inaccuracies were minor and corrected in subsequent editions without changing the character of the book or the arguments within.

It's been a while since I read Debt but I distinctly remember Graber's disingenuous take on Adam Smith's famous "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest." Graber argues that this is wrong because English (Or was it Scottish?) shopkeepers of the time mostly sold goods on credit and thus the customers were in fact depending on their benevolence.

I don't know about you but to me that is complete batshit.

The book also makes a way too big of deal about The Myth of Barter. While that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, Graber makes it sound like the bulk of modern economics is somehow based on this myth.

I get why the book is popular. It posits to tackle big questions and contains the usual tropes against the state, big business, banks etc. that a left leaning audience will be more than willing to eat up. But I don't think it provides any new perspectives on economics that bear any resemblance to the real world.
25-Sided 3D Printable Corona Virus Advent Calendar
Art always felt more like satire to me.

Noory is just another radio guy and tends to inject conservative radio trope into something that was really pure fun and wacky stuff.
At some point he could, but maybe not anymore.

With some time to get the rust off, yeah though
Brigading those ugly guestbooks was relatively harmless fun. The owners were usually enraged and nonplussed but didn’t feel anything of value was touched. This was before death threats and harassing employers and roping traditional news in to amplify the attack, and all that.

The Uwe Boll fight was very funny.

I think, though, my favorite lowtax moment was a recorded talk he gave at a university, in which he expounded on the “greater parrot-in-ass theory” about how much worse the world becomes when people with extremely niche and unacceptable interests are able to find each other online and convince each other that they’re normal and healthy. Prescient.

But yes, also a bully.
Ironically it’s highly likely that the CTO was recommended to the sources by a LinkedIn “AI”, a Microsoft company.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

(Many credits https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/)
What's to say this isn't an automated email?
If you haven't yet, check out Scott Mabin's blog. He's working on ESP32 & Rust: https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/
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It blows my mind how tricky some of the technical interviews I have been through, and even passed, and even been offered roles for, but this morning I spent thirty minutes failing to update the s3 tags on a bucket literally named 'example-bucket'.
Java is 26. Spring is 19. Struts 2 is 15.

Python is 30. Django is 16.

I’m just picking a few frameworks and languages I’ve used in the past and are still used. Obviously there are still new frameworks and libraries that come out for these languages. But sometimes the big projects fold those in. Or they write their own or whatever. I can pick the popular names and do pretty much what I need.

JavaScript is 25. But most of that time we weren’t doing what we can now. And most frameworks are fairly young. Angular is 11. But most people (and jobs) have jumped ship to React(8) and now there is Svelte(4) which also looks good. And I think there will be more changes to come.

These JS frameworks aren’t exactly veterans that are impossible to supplant. Not yet anyway.
What’s your point? A junior recruiter out to prove themselves will need to cut corners just like all the other recruiters do. Give them an opportunity to make mistakes, I guarantee you the great recruiters have made and learned from their fair share. Plus, if this is that bad of a mistake, the organization is partly responsible for not having safeguards in place to prevent it.
Isolating Xwayland in a VM
I dont care how good the teacher was if the student doesn’t understand the material…
I had an AWS manager reach out to me last year to discuss working some Rust related stuff (and they knew that my Rust experience was very limited even before reaching out to me). They decided after an interview or two not to go ahead with it because I wasn't willing to relocate.

Can't imagine why they might be hurting for hires...
History of 'In God We Trust'
This had absolutely nothing to do with the article. Why did you decide to spend your time bashing something you don't use unprompted?
> You already know that it's PAM-related, since it's a PAM config file. What extra info does the `pam_` give you?

The filename, obviously.
JSX popularized it but we built it with opalang.org first (also with strong static typing before TS)
>Pay me or delete. You don’t own my content cause you didn’t pay me. Pay me or delete. Period.

You weren't hired by YCombinator as a writer, nor was any contract for employment or payment negotiated as a term for your use of this forum. If you believe you're entitled to monetary compensation for your comments, then feel free to get a lawyer.

You can't, and won't, because even if you could make a case that you own your comments, no one is under any obligation to pay for something you literally gave away.

Mind you, I'm sympathetic to your cause - I'd like the option to at least delete my older comments, I'd very much prefer to be able to delete or at least suspend my account like on Reddit and/or mass delete my comments. Somehow other forums get away with that but for whatever reason Hacker News is sacrosanct and doesn't have to play be the rules of common decency that the rest of the web does.

But your argument here is plainly irrational and probably legally untenable. HN is not going to pay you, and they're not deleting your comments. Just accept that and move on with life.
Apply for an ACX Grant
Can he write code to invert a binary tree on a google docs sheet?
Amazon recruiters are just mass emailing people with mail merge. In the past few months I've gotten emails from probably 20 different Amazon recruiters. Some of them have read my profile, and others are just sending nearly the same pre-formatted text. This isn't someone making a mistake, it's just lack of effort.
Presumably a combination of WLB and Amazon’s tendency to PIP/fire employees much more readily than other tech companies.
I’m guessing it’s mostly bad press around work environments.

I personally didn’t bother going through because A) I wasn’t prepared and B) I was locked into a new lease and after some research the relocation benefits they offered wouldn’t be worth it. I believe at the time they weren’t overly flexible on work location.
Just a financial plumbing nitpick. The TREASURY issues debt, not the Federal Reserve. Everyone agrees the Treasury is part of the federal government.
Well, that one straight up violates the guidelines.
> Things like NFTs do not seem to have any real value except to those who believe it has real value.

So just like any other art, which is one of the things NFTs are being marketed as?
Check out “War of Rights”, it’s much like this.

Be warned that the community is incredibly toxic - but even so, it’s an interesting peek into the mindset of a typical soldier in that type of warfare. There is extremely little information available to you; you very rarely know if the round you just fired (that you spent thirty seconds loading) hit anything.
maybe they had multiple windows open, scrolled too far, saw a previous job history? Or an automated script gone wrong?

Nobody is saying the recruiter did a good job here, when someone messes up code in Azure, you didn't see the CTO go "OMG my intern wrote the worst code! Let me post it on Twitter so everyone laughs".

This is a teachable moment -- not a shaming moment.
>They tend to offer lower prices than traditional buyers, but attract sellers by promising faster, all-cash deals.

That was the deal?

They thought they'd get a lower price by offering cash and quick closing?

Even in a down market (last time I bought) I offered quick closing and all cash.

Sellers didn't like it. It took around 9 months before I got a call back from one house I wanted saying "Is that offer still good?"

In the meantime they had accepted 3 other/ better offers ...but pending the other buyer selling their house, all of those feel through.

And that was in a down market...
Eh, it happens. As a PhD student in robotics at CMU I got calls from an agressive recruiter for Uber ATG, asking if I was interested in being a test driver for their cars, a job which didn't really require any kind of degree and with pay fairly close to minimum wage, iirc. I politely declined, as I wasn't qualified - I don't have a valid US driver's license.
all recruiters for the most part.
I'm sure you have a lot of good points in here but I don't see anything that changes the specific moderation issue that I was posting about, that your comment went against the site guidelines.

A couple points of clarification in case it's useful:

I pinned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165602 to the top of the thread because that's standard moderation practice for Show HNs. When people post an introductory blurb about the project they're presenting, we pin it to the top (assuming we see it!) and turn off replies. There are two reasons: one is that the introductory blurb is really a companion piece to the original submission and therefore belongs at the top. The other is that people often reply to that blurb with general feedback about the project, which (most likely unintentionally) is a kind of topjacking, i.e. it privileges their response higher up on the page, relative to other users who post general feedback in the thread at large. By turning off replies to the blurb comment, we're treating the blurb as part of the original submission and putting all user responses on a level playing field. It's a nice solution! Sorry for the long explanation (no time to make it shorter &c).

As for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29167680 — I never post anything by script! I do have a lot of keyboard shortcuts in my mod-client-browser-extension to help speed things up. But all posts are done manually. I don't think it would be in the spirit of HN to do otherwise.
Not sure why this is offended, but I actually think he may have some chances failing the interview if he goes through. I do think he's definitely capable and knowledgeable of doing a principal/fellow engineer job.

I went through a few interviews myself recently and I got very puzzled with the interview process. It's quite brutal. And I just went through a 5 technical rounds after passing the first 2 rounds (1 technical and 1 behavioral) for a senior position. The 5 rounds include: architecture design, model/object algo design, refactoring/optimization, build a complete CRUD api with tests. I know how to build these things and I would take time to do it, but I couldn't do it with the very fast speed that I was limited to during the interview.
In practically every sphere of human activity people are unskilled and get better through practice. Why would handling stress/anxiety be any different?
Yeah the relocation thing was a big reason I wasn’t interested. I think some time later, I saw on HN they decided to be a little more flexible.

They did had some interesting looking roles, but the entire work culture seems iffy to me.
What kinds of products do you sell on Amazon if you are able to share?
Here’s an actual visualization of the moons South Pole, a few points might not see months long full dark, but 99% of the area ends up in shadow several weeks. And that scales up to some areas being full dark throughout the year. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4770

Of course this means seriously low temperatures as in below negative 150 range. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/moonpole.html
Yes FreeBSD user here. Would love to have a laptop with verified-to-work hardware. Preinstallaton is not needed nor really wanted :)
Let’s Go, Dang
I disagree; taking whatever bags you like and having access to them through the whole journey is much, much nicer than having to hand them over and hope they arrive in the right place, and potentially paying extra or even having to book ahead if you've got anything other than a standard suitcase.
Yup. New Jersey versus Silicon Valley.
I don't see the harm. Either this was following Amazon's standard practices or it wasn't. This SHOULD be the subject of ridicule! No one is saying hunt the guy down and dox him over it. If this is against Amazon's standard practices and they let the recruiter go its because of THAT not because some senior person decided to share it. You can't expect secrecy if your doing a cold approach.

This is exactly the kind of incident that helps bring recruiters back to reality. Getting dozens of cold approaches about roles that are obviously not a good fit if someone spent 5 minutes researching can be infuriating (or even knew what they were recruiting for).
You are still trying to skirt round the point that all stars must align for this attack to work. And there are enough stars to make it an absurd proposition. Multiply these likelihoods together and it quickly surpasses the likelihood that the user getting struck by lightning at the exact moment that they win the lottery.

As for your images, please. Your new example is substantially worse than your Lenna. Absolutely anyone could see that this image is unusual, even if they couldn't be sure if it was physical or digital damage. I know it's an inappropriate thing to say on HN but claiming that the "image wouldn't strike anyone as unusual" is so far beyond reasonable that I feel myself seriously questioning your sincerity.
Making a mistake is fine, but you should also expect some good natured razzing when you make a bonehead move like this. Having said that, this happens all the time. I've gotten plenty of messages to apply for SDE-I & II roles while employed as a Director or CTO.
1) It appears to me that the document you provided actually refutes what you are saying. It supports fractional reserve banking. Here is a quote from the conclusion: "Most of the money in circulation is created, not by
the printing presses of the Bank of England, but by the
commercial banks themselves: banks create money whenever
they lend to someone in the economy or buy an asset from
consumers. "

2) "infinite money" without a legal limit to reserve ratios would only occur if every single bank actually had exactly 0% reserves, and it would take infinite time and infinite transactions for that to occur.

FYI using the observed absence of 'infinity' as a proof is generally poor logic as there is lots of mechanisms blocking infinity from occurring in reality.