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I think that planned obsolescence would absolutely slow down tech progress.

A washing machine manufacturer has little incentive to make his product better when he knows that his customers will keep buying his washing machines anyway. Creating "new" models could be as easy as giving the thing different paint job.

It then makes difficult to sell, for example, graphics cards because customers that wanted to buy a card now have to buy a washing machine because it unexpectedly broken down and may then resort to buy cheaper model from competition. The manufacturer will end up with less money to pour into R&D.

I wrote this with the assumption that the washing machine company shares their market with competitors employing the same strategy, entrance to the market is extremely hard because dominant players own the patents which require huge up-front investment with uncertain results due to the rivals' strong market position.
What evidence is there that identity verification stops online bullying?
You are free to tip until they make whatever you consider a sufficient wage. "We" should start with "you".
Experience.

The whole world is currently offshoring this work to Chinese firms who already have the experience.
So the major reason to not use this is... that no one does this. Right?

I wrote up an implementation of this and it was fairly trivial. The properties all make sense - the main change here is swapping poly1305 for blake3. But BLAKE3 promises (and we seem to trust this!) everything Poly1305 does and collision resistance.
There is also a lovely utility called Paletro which extracts menu items for arbitrary apps and thus provides a universal command palette interface.
Previous summary of this article, from a thread with otherwise no activity and with an author that no longer posts on HN, said more elegantly than I could dream of saying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047559
Such a pleasant library to use, and coming from Vue I was somewhat surprised by that as Vue was the first lib I used where I could just intuit how something worked and was very often correct or close.

Great job.
One way I've approached this in the past is to dump the database schema after each schema modification and use version control on those schema. There's a python project out there (apologies: I can't recall the name of it right now) now that leverages pg_dump and its options to make this easier. Not perfect, but useable. And better than nothing!

Found it: https://github.com/omniti-labs/pg_extractor
> with your idea that you are better off getting infected with a disease than getting immunized for that disease.

With regards to COVID, no one is getting immunised through the vaccines right now as I understand?
I used to stop working once they were 15 days late. In general the people causing payment problems were not the ones commissioning the project. The project owner would kick up a stink and a cheque would arrive the next day.
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On desktop (Windows 10) Firefox, I can't see which tab is active because all the buttons on the "tab" bar look almost exactly the same.
Makes sense, in America there are dog shows for their beloved dogs. Horse shows for horses. Why not have camel shows?
Fun trick: pause it with spacebar, then click/wiggle over an area until there's a sky-high wave

Then unpause, watch the ripples
We haven't downweighted this thread. Normally we downweight such threads because otherwise the front page would mostly consist of them, and mostly stacked at the top, too. Not that we exclude them altogether, but indignation routinely attracts tons of upvotes and one of moderation's jobs is to jig the system out of its failure modes.

However, we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are involved in the story. That doesn't mean we don't moderate them at all—just less. But in this case we've not touched it, partly because of that core principle and partly because the thread is arguably more interesting reading than most of its ilk, at least in places.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I would.

Instead of properly managing mutable state (which can be difficult in situations with growing teams and complex application logic) people are opting to just copy everything or copy a subset of the tree they need so they don't have to think about it.

Immutability is bad for performance when the purpose is not recalculating a certain state after a certain number of operations(memoization). Many of the best practices that have cropped up in the past few years has been more for helping teams of people deal with growing code bases rather than helping programmers deal with limited hardware. In computer science this should be self explanatory. For optimal runtimes the act of making copies is avoided. Why people usually seem to ignore the fact that they're wasting cycles for the sake of the holy grail of clean, functional programming and immutability has eluded me.

Typescript, focus on immutability, microservices even. I hate all of them but they have their purposes. They solve people problems. Maximizing hardware performance is not in the list though.
> But the specifics matter. What matters is the kinds of jobs

From the article, emphasis mine:

> Only by actually addressing problems at the point of production—for example, by ensuring decent jobs that allow workers to support a family—can one honestly hope to address these problems in a permanent way.

Maybe not as specific as you'd like, but I don't think it's accurate to say the article doesn't go beyond employment numbers on their face. In fact, in the context of SK, it's explicitly critical of the sorts of "jobs" one might suspect these days of putting a pretty coat of lipstick on the pig that is our job market:

> Though the official unemployment rate in South Korea is below 4 percent, an enviable number in any advanced economy, rosy figures such as these mask a growing structural and social malaise in the country. The rate of “self-employment” in South Korea was estimated to be over 25 percent before the pandemic, compared to 10 percent in the United States. This phenomenon of self-employment, much like the oft-hyped switch to “the gig economy” in America, has little to do with individual freedom and entrepreneurship and more to do with underemployment, a lack of job retraining, and worsening prospects especially for older members of the workforce. On top of this, the South Korean middle classes find themselves not only threatened by a potential shrinking of opportunity, but face constantly growing costs as well, including education and housing prices, especially in Seoul, where median apartment prices have nearly doubled since 2016.
Hi, author here! Appreciate the comment, we'll work on our copy.

Most companies have a quarterly planning cycle which starts with setting goals, ends with collecting results, and in middle is most often a blurry mess of juggling between priorities and the reality of the day-to-day.

Our customers choose us because getting consolidated visibility on how we allocate engineering efforts in a way engineers don't hate is an unsolved problem. Yet without it, your decisions and plans are very much based on hope and gut feelings. Our belief is that most organizations are held back by a lack of alignment, and a disconnect between planning and execution: if we can help prevent just one team chasing the wrong topic for a month, then the cost is well amortized, and for large organizations that is a no brainer.

We also have small startups adopting us because it helps them shine a light on the engineers work in a way that the non-technical groups understand. Their use case is less about decision making (because the uncertainty isn't so high when the number of engineers is <10), and more about communicating the value of their work.

Hope that helps!
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>I want to do the work I like, which happens to be writing code

Funnily enough that's why I started working for myself.
> How do you keep tabs on all this stuff?

There are plenty of sites that publish news about cellular carriers. It's a technical pursuit like any other. You can assign someone to read Microsoft press releases all day, and they won't ever become an expert Windows programmer... You won't be able to become an expert on a company with a crash program, either, years of accumulated knowledge and subject matter experience and interest count for a lot.

> know so much detail about some specific company.

The three major US cellular carriers hold a great deal of power over all of us. It's something people keep informed about. No doubt around here quite a few people's livelihoods are dependent on keeping abreast of cellular technology as well, providing extra motivation.
I can attest to this. I've been at my current (remote) job for 3 years and we don't really do much of performance reviews (there exists some reviews but nothing super formal like any other company I worked at before). There isn't much of the dark patterns you describe here. I totally have that same feeling of "When I'm at a red light, I don't feel like I'm rushed to get home anymore" now, whereas that really wasn't the case back at previous jobs.
Stephen king in his book on writing has some examples.
Sam Altman might actually believe that Elon is superior to him.
Why the hell does a web browser implement SafetyNet?!? The one and only justifiable use for SafetyNet that I've seen is Snapchat - everything else has been a net negative...
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By that logic, couldn't you just undermine the credibility of all temp accounts by creating your own temp accounts to enthusiastically agree with them?
> Why should they have to make a case for that?

I don’t think they have to make the case. They can just quit. And I will infer that they had some sort of reason.

Nonetheless, the case wasn’t made.

> If the project as such has found it necessary or desirable to have a moderation team, then why on Earth shouldn't that go for the whole project; why should any one team be exempt? If a case needs to be made, then shouldn't it logically be for why the core team shouldn't need to be subject to the moderation team’s discipline?

That’s an easy argument to make, if you want to talk about general organizational principles. The right choice is what makes the org run better, not what is, through
verbal thinking, “logical.” I’m not here to propose either design.

> At best, that's just one member of the core team they've "impugned the reputation of"

I guess my phrasing was a poor compression of what they posted. I think their post says a response from the core team may contain lies.

And if that’s true, well okay then. There isn’t the information necessary for outsiders to discern that, other than the background reputation of anybody who might be involved, and there isn’t a surface area of facts and reasoning upon which the core team might interact to counter such a statement, so they don’t need to.
One of them here, although I'm working on it. There is a lot of things here going on, and I don't think you can just stamp this with "lol how reckless these people are"

- Separate investing and frugality/budgeting. I guess a lot of those people do actually one of those, but not the other.

- You talk about high earners/engineers. In most of they earning life they never knew the need to ration, or lacking funds - so with the trajectory they see in early adulthood, especially if they like what they do, and they're successful, there simply isn't any recognizeable need to save for later (or even retire early)

- Maybe you like dealing with money, watching stock news early in the morning - I hate it. I hate the thought of dealing with this. It's an active aversion. Of course, the majority of investments should be "set and forget", but it's not always apparent how (especially outside US) and you need quite some research beforehand.

- Coupled with this, you put your life savings in a thing that you don't understand, won't follow. There may be a not entirely unfounded fear of South Park's "aaaand it's gone"

- There is something absolutely tempting about money sitting directly available on an account. Especially when you're young and single, you have no idea what happens with you next year, or what you will probably spend on. Walling away your funds is a critical and worrysome thought.

Sure, you can sum this all up as "financial illiteracy", but they are still cemented in valid concerns or life experiences, instead of mere negligence.
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Worth noting in this context of OP, though, is that Nix predates Docker by about a decade.
But that’s the entire value proposition of contracting. You’re basically exchanging a ~100% increase in monetary compensation for those employee benefits and job security.

If you don’t value the money higher than the benefits, then you shouldn’t take the contract.
> "How is it a conspiracy theory to suggest that both YC and Stripe might want to exert some control over bad PR?"

Firstly, you have dramatically undersold what OP claimed, to the point of dishonesty.

Secondly, what OP claimed is a conspiracy theory because it has no actual evidence. If it had evidence it would be a conspiracy.
You were brain raped. Bill Gates was famous for this. There was even a Silicon Valley episode about the practice.
Idk about the nuclear testing putting "radioactive iodine" in the atmosphere, but as for the addition of iodine to salt, that's not the origin. It was added to prevent health issues from iodine deficiency, such as goiters. In fact the invention of iodized salt predates the invention of the atomic bomb by several decades.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509517/
Yeah now I wouldn't use immutable structure in an performance intensive application, but I do _hope_ one day we have some cycles to spare and can use it without worrying too much. To me it's like garbage collection, it's nice to have if we can afford some performance cost.
There are millions of configurations for Caddy (which modules you compile into the binary) so this is literally impossible to know unless your benchmark your particular configuration for your particular use case.
You can use DB versioning tools like FlywayDB or Liquibase. Makes it consistent at least.
This is true for small amounts of garbage but not for large amounts which is still slow and large is relative to the hardware your user is running on. It’ll also cause a death by a thousand cuts where it’s extremely difficult to dig yourself out of poor performance because the cause runs throughout the program.

It’s better to look at cheap short lived collection as a great way to get the thing you’re making working but ultimately something that needs to be cleaned up to be production ready.
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And bully for you. That doesn't make it easy for other people. I gave up after 2 years of losing money between the few contracts I could scrape together.
For globalization to disappear most modern forms of transport and communication need to break down.
I feel similarly but I'd love to have these ligatures if the programming language actually understood the characters the ligatures look like too.
I don’t think it was.
That's kind of why the entire virtual DOM concept came about, because it was faster than direct DOM manipulation. Essentially batched updates to the DOM were faster than ad-hoc updates.

Now React is 8 years old and browsers have improved a lot since then so I imagine the gains might not be what they used to be. But at the time it was huge.
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Light does not, in fact, travel faster in glass than electrical signals in wires. It is a bit slower, instead. Even in vacuum or air, light is only half-again as fast, not twice as fast.

The appeal of optical interconnect is not speed, which is less, but isolation and noise resistance.
I'm not sure if you feel attacked or not but you shouldn't. Being lazy is good for programming I think. You should keep in mind that your functional programming base is built on a figurative 10 billion layers of abstraction already. It's just that those abstractions are somewhat well made so you don't have to think about it.

Proper abstractions aid in understanding and can ideally be optimized away. Poor abstractions hinder it and slow things down.
what are the tasks "tasks that insects perform that we'd have no idea how to implement" ?
The now defunct magazine presumably held the copyright, and it's entirely possible the licensed the rights to a third party.
Could you elaborate what "$XB fintech" means? Couldn't google answer myself.
Not unexpected after Korea. The European telcos have form for this kind of move. Telecom Italia built out DC and then whined when Italian companies didn't want to use it (at inflated rents) so they leveraged the European operators group to argue for some kind of mandated telco hotel model (I think it was discussed at a RIPE meeting)

No matter who they ask to pay it's coming back on users as cost if it happens.

Surely by now they realise the old Erlang models of overcommitted links doesn't work. Can't they just up fibre transponder speeds and move on? The marginal cost against revenue has to be small. Oh wait.. the congestion may be in the customer access network (CAN) and thats pits and pipes everywhere.
Well it's bad if you consider we're headed for a hellish nightmare where corporations and government collect your personal data and use technology to limit your freedom. Oh wait, we're already past that. Scan your vaccine passport and quit asking questions.
I know what you mean. My support demands are quite low and just 9 to 5 and Monday to Friday but I can never completely switch off. I'd like to go on holiday without a phone and laptop.

Having said that I've never had the same level of autonomy in previous jobs. This has outweighed all the downsides.
Fintech is worth trillions. A trillion is a thousand billions. HN/YC is the de facto hub for those. These comments are doubtful (given the money and the strong emotions involved I wouldn't trust a single one of them, positive or otherwise), but this isn't the best arguments against them.
Naming names, AWS ghosted me after a full day of interviews. Actually that entire process was a charlie foxtrot. Not that I think I earned an offer in that interview, but they didn't earn an acceptance either.
> There's a reason much (maybe even most) anger on the left revolves around a perceived denial of the existence of privilege, and perhaps most of the anger on the right ultimately boiling down to a perceived denial of the existence of responsibility.

Interesting. How do you use this "unified" framework then, to come up with your own political opinions? (as opposed to, say, post-modernism variants like critical race theory)
I just want to say thanks. Naming and shaming does the rest of us a favour and, hopefully, makes the whole industry better.
The market assumes that Tesla will be much more than selling cars. The scope is more "anything electricity or climate change related" (i.e. very broad) combined with a focus on vertical integration in each business unit.
How do you determine value? I think you have it backwards.
From this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29389350
I don't know why the poster you're replying to posted that, but it seems a reasonable question given that it's possible to have a distorted view of the world if there are selection biases that prevent certain narratives from being presented. For instance, it's worth asking "if there were cases where climate change were happening slower than expected, would I hear about it, or would it be filtered out at some layer before it reaches me because it's either not noteworthy enough to merit attention or it doesn't confirm a certain narrative?"

(To be clear, I have no doubts that climate change is happening and it's really bad. But I do think it's important to be wary of confirmation bias in all things, and to occasionally think about whether information that challenges your current understanding of the world would reach you or not.)

Also, it may be that there aren't any significant examples where climate change is happening slower than expected. If so, that would be an interesting thing to know.