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The syntax is just hard.

I tell new programmers to start with either Python or JavaScript. The pay is the same or better, and it's much easier.

I've been programing for almost a decade, I still can't understand lower level languages like Rust and C++.

Why, if you can design a new language, not make something with the simplicity of Python ?

If your going to compile the binary anyway, have the complier figure out the types and optimize.

This is why JavaScript is eating the world. We don't need legions of hardcore software engineers. We need people who use a bit of Python, JavaScript, etc, to make their jobs easier.

The future of programing is easier higher level languages. Rust has some applications, but it's too hard for most
Even with dealer car sales there's usually a 48 hour or so grace period where if you realize you made a mistake, etc. they'll take it back and annul the sale. I imagine for a purely online sale there'd be a similar agreement and they just pick the car back up.
When it comes to equal pay in all region, I usually find that people tend to think it as Bay Area level (or at least US metro level) pay for everywhere. But a more realistic consequence would be developing country level pay for everywhere. There are tens of millions of developers outside the developed countries which will gladly accept one third of the market rate in developed countries. If you live in Europe or US and speak European languages, you gotta accept the fact that this geographical/linguistic barrier has been a critical factor for your annual salary.
I'm a little surprised to see "promote ignorance" as a "solution" to a problem some people face.

Certainly not every non-Brahmin of Indian descent in America experiences caste-based discrimination, and I expect there are some who, like you, don't even know much about it. But I don't think it's fair to those who have experienced this sort of discrimination to just say "we're not going to talk about it because it might be better for people who don't know about it to continue not knowing about it".
While that’s fair react still absolutely dominates the FE world, until proven otherwise I have a hard time believing angular is more popular or even close. I’d bet money on it if possible.

Boot camps, job listings, conferences, paid learning materials, etc all favor react in numbers.
I just cook on it everyday, olive or cooking oil, never scrape it clean, just wash with hot water. Same way my grandma did. Nothing sticks.

Maybe this is overcomplicating things.
No idea. I do private equity stuff. They understand I look at Excel sheets all day but I don't think much beyond that makes sense to them
Probably. But DTC gives the brand a better relationship with the customer / market. Why wait for what gets filtered back from the dealerships? Why not have a direct relationship with a higher quality signal?

I say this because approx every month I get a postcard from a local dealership that references a car I haven't had for 12+ yrs. My sense is, many dealerships are highend mom & pops. That is, they suck at marketing.

That doesn't benefit the brand.
Why don't you open source it and pay for hosting costs via donated funds instead of just shutting down completely? How much money does it really take to host a job web site anyways?
And thoroughly defended for a measly $10MM per year. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=202...
Ask HN: How to Manage Employees Computers
We are a small company (60 people, in California but lots of remote) handling confidential data from our clients. So far we have handled all our employees computers (we have a team for the servers) manually, but we are reaching the stage where it is way too combersome for us. We are looking for solutions (or third party that does the management) that would help us to manage updates (Mac, windows and eventually Linux), software deployment, security fixes, auditing... We are not interested in screen capture, keylogging or anything like that. Would you have any companies that do IT management that you enjoy working with or solutions that would help us reduce our workload there? Is that the right way to handle that?
maybe the amount of profit made in being a middle-man between the manufacturer and consumer end-user is unreasonable and unwarranted?
This sounds like (atleast at my very basic understanding) a similar concept to e-ink displays where content will stay displayed (for the most part) until otherwise overwritten
Wow, this really speaks to me. I've sunk hundreds of hours in the last few weeks into a tokio-based thing using a bunch of async and ... what a nightmare. It truly is half-baked.

And yet it seems like so many things have tied themselves to this async/tokio mast. It's not a good look for Rust.
Sorry if this is a sensitive topic but why don't you just say you are a brahmin/christian/muslim? How would they know?
> You went from:

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> > What's not trust worthy exactly?

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> > Their code, their decisions.

Two separate comments addressing two different points. One doesn't follow from the other. Stop arguing in such dishonest manner.
I agree with the OP, and:

There's no hatchback, mini, SUV, or truck models available yet... And it feels like Tesla is even further behind in these areas because they are not giving any roadmap details (that I've heard of), while other companies have offerings available now.

I hope Tesla can remain a market disruption and continue to push people to electric, but they currently are a one trick pony (which isn't a bad thing, it let them enter the space)... But as a one trick pony, I would agree they do not currently "look like THE future of EVs"
This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it IMO. He wasn’t saying dealerships are going away; he was actually saying the opposite. The point he was making was that Ford is going to adopt some of Tesla’s practices while using the dealership network to compete with them.

Here’s the quote with more context:
“I believe for retail, we have to -- it's kind of like what happened between Amazon and Target. Target could have gone away, but they didn't. They bolted on an e-commerce platform and then they used their physical store to add groceries and return -- make returns really much easier than Amazon. They used their expertise as a physical retailer to their advantage, but they modernized the e-commerce piece. So it would be really easy to do business with them. It's exactly what we have to do on the retail side. We got to go to non-negotiated price. We've got to go to a 100% online, the vehicle there is no inventory goes directly to the customer, 100% remote pickup and delivery, but then we have this opportunity to use our physical presence, they outperform them. Like, I believe some Mach-E and Lightning customers would love to have a Mustang for the weekend. Maybe they want a Super Duty. I can do that, they can't do that, unless they ran a Ford.”

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4515793-ford-motor-company-...
This Toyota battery pack is 8.7 kWh compared to 13.5 kWh in a Powerwall. The Toyota pack can produce slightly higher (I assume sustained) output at 5.5 kW compared to 5 kW on a powerwall. But there is also no mention of the peak power output which for a single powerwall is 7 kW. Also no mention of pricing and if you can connect multiple batteries in parallel to increase total storage and output, which you can do with multiple Powerwalls.

I’m all for home battery backup but no one has come close to meeting or beating what Tesla has offered for years.
Oh sure. Everyone just needs to self-host their own website. That'll definitely take off.
But, we already have (exclusively) used car dealerships and private car sales.

Once you break it down, dealerships not a combination of businesses that really needs to be together, IMO.
People that aren’t pulling their weight are annoying in any role.
Rivian, for example, offers to let you return the vehicle after delivery to your driveway for up to the first of a week or a 1000 miles.
Meet and discuss with people is my favorite way. I tend to not always want to do much if I am left by myself.
>That being said, is there any counterpoint to this view? Are there any benefits that dealerships offer today over direct sales?

the only thing I can think to say is that they are still a convenient repair facility, Tesla is fairly notorious for slow turn-around for repair.[0]

I think a nice middle-ground would be the conversion of dealerships into showrooms/receiving-centers/repair facilities -- oust the sales portion and highly regulate the repair pricing. Faster repair times while getting rid of most of the scummy parts of the car dealership experience.

[0]: https://www.teslaownersonline.com/threads/model-3-significan...
> If the decide to start tattling to Microsoft too, what are you going to do?

That would be obvious in their source code, wouldn't it?

I would stop using them then.
I just gave it a shot and it doesn't seem to work. Thanks for the tip though!
>There are almost no active / popular libraries related to network IO that haven't switched over.

To extend this with a slight caveat: for many of those network IO libraries, there's still often a sync alternative. e.g, ureq in place of reqwest works for many use-cases and doesn't bring in an entire tokio runtime for a blocking request. You can find sync DB libraries.

Some other crates have started to catch on and offer them as a feature-enabled adapter (e.g, Sentry does this and can use ureq in the background).

I feel like a real problem, though, is that there's a division of eyeballs across these boundaries. I would chip in to funding work on a "reqwest-non-tokio-adapter" or something that utilizes all the same reqwest types, but avoids Tokio.

(And I like Tokio! I'm basing a new project on it as we speak. I just cringe every time I need to use reqwest::blocking because of something the sync alternatives haven't gotten around to implementing.)
Tesla can sell you a mid-size sedan or a CUV, ignoring the relatively small niche occupied by the S and X.

Ford competes directly with the Y, and also in an entirely new segment Tesla does not compete in -- the pickup.

Chevy has the pickup coming, and already competes in the affordable compact car segment (27K MSRP for a Bolt? That's getting into 'excellent value' territory) that Tesla does not compete in. GM also has the Hummer, which is blazing an entirely new trail.

Then you have VW, Kia, Polestar, etc. Tesla has a nice head start, and a good charging network, but rivals are catching up fast and will end up outpacing what Tesla can offer. The Model S is aging, with no apparent revamp in sight, and if the Model 3 follows that same pattern then Tesla is quickly going to look outdated while the competition is one-upping each other in new designs.

There's also a fair number of people who do care about reliability, don't want a touchscreen dashboard, don't care about fart gimmicks, and want windshield wipers that just work. AP is no better than the competition, and FSD is a gimmick that appeals to a very particular kind of buyer.

I enjoyed my P3D but have no expectation I will buy another.
The evolution of JavaScript from "DHTML" to jQuery to "JS: The Good Parts", browser runtime speed improvements and the introduction and development of TypeScript really highlights to me that languages that are complex (e.g. how JS objects work) can be explained, improved on, etc.

I guess what I mean by this is just as C++ got move semantics and auto keywords, it's very possible for a language to choose to evolve in ways that can make code easier to maintain and more expressive. TypeScript or Kotlin are examples of this. Also .NET core and Java since Gradle.

Some things rise in popularity despite their complexity. Objective-C and Swift come to mind... as well as writing truly portable Unix code or Kubernetes.

Personally, I'm waiting for the inevitable "Rust: The Good Parts" that I can feed into my linter and help myself and others on my team understand which parts are minefields of complexity and which parts are incredibly useful once understood.

In JS, there were multiple JS APIs and common practices with global state and more that just fell off the face of the earth. Most IDEs now say what is modern and what isn't, backed with new syntax and conventions that avoid traps in understanding like rebinding this for magic syntax, or using lots of stringly-typed functions.

The only problem I can see is that improvements don't come for free, or quickly. In C++'s case, some of the improvements took multiple decades before they were implemented and half a decade to become widespread and recommended...
Heartbreak hotels? Las Vegas chapels told to stop using Elvis for weddings
Staffing agencies, from a super cynical point of view, take a slice of money that would otherwise go to the people actually working.

I think in the more nuanced view staffing agencies allow people with irregular rhythms to still have a job. And of course helping people actually get a foot in the door! But if you're going to work full time anyways, and there's more open-ness to you being hired, why go through a staffing agency? I think the reasons end up being limited to "could not get hired yourself".
We all know that backreferences have no place in regular expression.
The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (2011)
there were two points made:

1) Signal and whatsapp are not 100% trustworthy

Maybe the implication is that it will leak info to your employer, but I think this is more like a general statement; one that is likely an attempt to discuss why we still put our conversations into the hands of large companies with potentially unknown motives; and the questionable state of using "end-to-end" where one entity controls the network, access to the network and both ends of the exchange.

2) Why not use something you can host yourself

to which a reasonable reply is: network effects; I already have signal/whatsapp/telegram and I do not worry about them sending information to my employer.

Unless your employer is facebook, then I think that's a perfectly legitimate rebuttal, but one nobody is making.

In fact, people would rather argue that signal/whatsapp is the best privacy platform in the universe due to e2ee!
Okay, why the silent downvotes? Do people really think my cost estimates are more than a hundredfold too low? Because you'd have to go more than 100x my estimate before the server costs themselves are significant amounts of money and pressure the company into anti-consumer extraction.

Please, explain the reasoning. What kind of MMO needs that much server infrastructure?
I agree, I don't understand why so many people lately seem to want to use Rust for web domain stuff.

I don't like Go, I hated the year I had to work in it @ Google. But frankly, it's better suited for 'server' type stuff, unless you're talking about a very specific type of server that has super intense latency guarantees. And now that Go has generics, I'd probably hate it less.

Go is the new Java. Rust is the new C++. Let's just stick with that.
This isn’t quite fair but that was blockbuster’s counter to netflix too
> Now if you'll excuse me

Well, I guess you're more of the live fast die young crowd and shouldn't expect to be here much longer, not without copious amounts of carrot juice, chili peppers and olive oil.
Wow, this is just all absurd.

> But if that's the case, you're lucky not to know, because the worst thing you can do is let a sense of victimization become a central part of your identity.

But this really takes the cake. I'm not sure what bizarre leap of logic has led you to believe that the only options are "rank ignorance" and "extremist crusader".
They probably would appreciate a boost in sales if advertising can attract new customers (non truck & non Ford people). Ford might be trying to copy Tesla's strategy with marketing. However, the two companies target different populations and I feel Ford would benefit from advertising.

This article shows us how many new customers Ford is attracting: https://www.motor1.com/news/552814/ford-lighting-customer-ne...
> out of how many times?

Let's do the math. YC has had 378 exits out of 4314 investments [0], so roughly 9% so far. Most investments have been made recently enough that those companies are still baking, so let's double that number to 18%.

The only other number of you need is how likely you are to get into YC. Their overall acceptance rate is 1.75% per application[1], so if you apply three times with the same startup, you get to 5.25%. That figure includes literally everyone and their grandmother, so let's assume you're deciding between a startup and FAANG. Well, FAANG's acceptance in late stages of interviews is around 15% [2], so your YC acceptance chances are around 33%.

Combine 33% and 18%, and you get 6% per lifecycle of a startup. If you try that with four startups, you're at 24%.

Is 24% a good deal? Well, it depends on the upside and the opportunity cost. Let's assume it took you 16 years to build 4 failed startups. In that time period, you could have earned around $5m at FAANG ($300k/year). Of course, things could have also gone wrong (bad manager, your screwed up, layoffs), so let's peg that chance at 80%, which gives the opportunity cost of $4m.

The average YC exit is $24m (not taking into account the whales, which ballooned the overall YC portfolio to over $300B) - the $24m seems like a pretty conservative take [3]. That yields almost $6m upside, not including dilution. Hard to guess what the average dilution is, but I bet you it's higher than 33%, which would have been the breakeven point. Darn it, startups suck! :)

[0] https://www.cbinsights.com/investor/y-combinator

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/investors

[2] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Whats-fangs-interview-selecti...

[3] https://www.shawnngtq.com/projects/y-combinator-startups-ana....
Absolutely love the site. Clean modern design, but with a throwback to the personal web era. Wish there was more of this.
Maybe instead of auto manufacturers getting all the profit it’s nice that a local middleman gets rich too?
Try the car. Pay cash. Negotiate. Sell yours. Choose from different brands. Chat with the owner. Get serviced.
Count me as another "will buy an f-150 lightning if they will take my money but not if I have to go through a dealer". I don't know how many of us there are but I really hope enough that I never have to go to a dealer again.
So last year I was looking to buy a car (and now you know where I am going with this). I honestly went in thinking may be just perhaps dealerships have become less scummy after all these years. Boy was I in for a shock. Call it supply demand or what not the completely unscrupulous slapping of MVA on cars whose supply was constrained because of their miscalculation made me sooo damn mad. Heck I even wondered why the hell did Daniel Caruso chose to be a car dealer in Cobra Kai is beyond me!!!
Your comment simply adds nothing. "Do you even know how wrong your beliefs are?", without any further elaboration or commentary, is just pointless. Explain yourself and provide references and you'll accumulate upvotes instead.
The great resignation was mostly about us who could survive a paycheck or two, leveraging the chaos to demand our value: if the current employer wouldn’t pay it, others would. We didn’t hesitate to move and make the previous employer pay for their neglect of us.
B-but they write VS Code! They were supposed to have changed!
No, it's not that hard. He could have used the word "necessarily" after "not", but the meaning was still clear.
Could you link to what you’re referencing? I’m not familiar with X development but it looks like libXft had a 2.3.4 release around 10 months ago, which seems relatively active for X-related projects.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft
In my opinion, we lose a lot, some things practical and others societal. Practically first, when I’m in the market for a new vehicle, I’m not sure which I honestly want. I like being able to go to a dealership and find something that convinced me otherwise from what I came to originally look at it. In the most recent case, I was really wanting a truck and being able to see them in person, how I fit, etc, was what sold me over one make versus another. Second, how does a future where there’s X car dealerships with different sites that I can’t easily compare across makes sound? Now it’s much harder for the average consumer to find a new vehicle. This will lead to aggregators, which will initially not be allowed up front because the manufacturer wants the full cut, but they’ll eventually concede.

Now societal. Sure, car dealerships may be “predatory” (I argue against that, some may be but most I’ve dealt with are opposite of that because they want your business), but at the end of the day it allows for more people to have jobs and participate in the economy. At some point we, technologists, are going to remove everyone’s job from them and we’ll act surprised societal uprisings happen because there’s no jobs available to the average Joe. Now I’m not arguing against automation, but car dealerships employ millions across the country, I don’t think removing those jobs from our fellow citizens who may or may not be able to do much more than sell cars, to no fault of their own, just to make a few more dollars for the manufacturer at “ease of the consumer”.

Once again these are my opinions, I’d love to hear from people who think this could be a good model for selling vehicles and will take them into full consideration.
That was a heroic read, but well worth it IMO. I’m a daily Anki user and this has given me some good ideas.
I can't make it accept United States as a region despite it being the placeholder...
Well tesla has seemed to trying shooting themselves in the foot with their truck rollout. Naming it "cyber truck" then making it look like a bad hot wheels, giving it a small bed with angled sided making it badly shaped for carrying many loads (like a pickups bed is meant for), using new manufacturing technique for its body which results in problems that slow production, bragging about it being indestructible then breaking it window trying to demonstrate how indestructible it is.
I'm sorry that happened to you.
My opinion having driven across the country on interstates, road tripped, and taken the train -

Interstates are utilitarian travel for getting where you want to go without much sightseeing, because you're hauling cargo or transporting your vehicle or whatever. Yes, there is some sightseeing. And if it's your first time seeing a new landscape it's always going to be awesome. But ultimately interstates are very insulating.

Road trips, as disjoint from interstates as possible, are a great way to see scenery, but they take time. Even two weeks to get across the country is too short. I'd say you want a month minimum.

Train trips are a nice middleground for getting a taste of the road trip scenery (but not the waypoints) within a short amount of time, where you have a little more time to spare than flying (several days cross country), but not much.
> 2. It forces you to buy local, so not all the money flows out of your community, and into Detroit - some of it stays to circulate in your town.

I think this is a kind of ‘broken window’ fallacy - ie unless there is a genuine service being offered then it’s kind of like requiring gardeners to use toe-clippers (ie the local economy are paying extra to hire people to do basically nothing).

> 3. People want to sell/trade their cars in, and Craigslist can be a pain in the ass.

Tesla offers a trade-in program so that appears to be similar in some respects?
that's my parents, exactly.

that or "plays with computers" -- 'playing' being assigned regardless of how much cash I earn.

I honestly prefer the simplicity compared to some long drawn out explanation and career title .