skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with this. There is a lot more information to process, and it's being generated at greater and greater rates. Ideas that used to be an entire paper in the 1970s have now become an extra paragraph in an undergrad textbook from the 2020s. Further and further specialization in every field--e.g. in SWE: SysAdmin branched out into DevOps and SRE, Data Science branched out into Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, ML Engineering, etc. It seems we have built more efficient tools, but the barrier to entry to use them is taller; and once you can use them they seem to require longer and longer hours of tinkering and supervision. Yet if you don't put in the hours your tools/systems start to decay simply by virtue of progress[1]. Tool-integreation costs are also higher: new tools don't exist in a vacuum but rather need to be adapted and vetted by the host system.

Somewhat related, but I believe this is the reason why academia will continue to lag behind industry. Academia has a bias for fundamental knowledge, but as information grows, fundamental knowledge represents a smaller proportion of all knowledge[2]. Anecdotally I have observed a 2-5 year gap between innovation in industry vs academia (CS). Academia often far behind looking to monetize the success of industry via newly minted formulaic programs. This was not always the case, e.g. databases came mostly from academia into industry in the 1970s, but nowadays innovation in the field seems industry-driven. To be fair, perhaps academia has already explored much of the relevant concepts, and it's easier to innovate by way of implementing these same ideas in different programming languages and business models.

[1] What are we left with then? More efficient but also less robust systems? Being more efficient, i.e. generating more output, seems to be the chosen trade-off today, when you can afford extra human intervention, but will it ever be the case when we reach an inflexion point and economics favor robustness/stability over output?

[2] Not to mention the issues with defining something as fundamental. Should fundamental knowledge be frozen in time, or instead act a sliding window? I.e. when, if at all, does something go from fundamental to obsolete? and when does something go from innovation to fundamental? Is it merely popularity driven?
Very cool, and interesting.

I thought it might be cool to try it out myself, perhaps make a cool toy for the kids, but a quick search on ebay for 'plasma display panel' shows it's not for the casual hacker. One item is listed at $2400+, sold "as is"!.
Edit: now that I skimmed the article, I overall agree with you.
I want to find place when’re I can generally be content.

Unfortunately there’s no way to know until you try something, and even then many things require significant time cost which is unrecoverable if I fail. That’s not a problem for something it takes a year or two to achieve, but if something takes 10 years or an indefinite it become as a concern.

Occasionally, I’ll get the thought that I should just settle down with whatever I can get now and make the most of it… then I try to imagine myself 20 years down the line and forget about that.
Without the code formatting:

Breaking News banner on cnn.com!" is the thing that my mom tells her friends. It's the only thing that my wife ever understood about what I do for a living.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31598324
Have you never heard of ATMs? I get cash from ATMs. I'm not typically getting cash when the bank is open anyways and it's (basically) the only way to obtain cash when overseas.

I only visit an ATM a couple times a year but there's no reason I couldn't go every couple days if I used mostly cash.
There’s also the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty which allows you to open a business and live in the Netherlands if your background is clean for the last 10 years. You only need a €4500 investment in the business and another couple k for the application fees. This is what I did.
Dude just wants to think that his haggling is putting them on top of all of us. When the CEO of Ford says he's spending 2k more than Tesla for delivery. We all lose, them included, but haggling makes them believe they're coming ahead.
> Amazingly, the teacher had done the exact opposite and told the brown-eyed students that they were the smarter group. Now, is that your bias showing?

Rather famously, the point is that the teacher did both.
This article doesn't mention the fact that Ford is splitting into multiple units[0]. It makes sense for allowing current Ford dealerships to operate, however they may, but also allowing the online sales through a separate division with it's own business model.

This puts some real pressure on dealerships to change, as we slowly transition to a more EV world.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083913314/ford-modele-split-...
Cost of living forms market conditions. The myth that market conditions are some detached force divorced from reality need to stop
I dunno, some of the YouTubers make bank. I'm thinking specifically of Shahriar on 'The Signal Path', who has parlayed his YouTube income into a laboratory that likely surpasses many universities, but I doubt Ben is hurting either.

If he is still working for Google X, it's because he wants to, not because he has no choice.
Some of the contradictory ones are the most interesting. Such as the contradictory studies with coffee consumption, which eventually pointed to filtered vs. unfiltered coffee giving different results (so studies done on populations drinking mainly filtered coffee differed to populations drinking mainly unfiltered). I also find it is worth looking closer. The headlines in the papers might be contradictory, but a closer look indicates the studies are actually measuring different things and they are not contradictory at all, perhaps even reinforcing.

Coffee is a strange one though. I think I've only seen 'coffee is good' in recent years, but I'm wary because I don't expect 'coffee is bad' studies to get the same sort of publicity.
my guess is that competition for jobs at mega corps is actually going to become relatively fiercer because everyone now is seeking a flight to safety.

i do wonder if that means that companies can get away with offering smaller compensation packages
> 400k km

? LOL

Why not just use megameters? 400Mm

OK, something about that looks odd. But what's the point in SI units if you can't actually use them?

Maybe 250k miles?
No, Rust doesn't prevent deadlocks, a deadlock is safe (it isn't what you wanted, but it's safe). There are well-known strategies to avoid deadlock (in any language)

In the trivial example you gave, one strategy just insists we take locks in alphabetical order. Thread 2 can't take lock A, because it already has lock B and that's not the correct order.
Easy and Medium are doable. Hard is when the challenge begins!
I've bought 3 cars since 2008, I've spent $0 at the dealer on maintenance, they're all ICE... you shouldn't be going to the dealer unless it's warranty work. [well partly true, had a covered recall].

That said I had a dealer cuss me out for bringing them a quote from a mechanic for the same clutch replacement. "I can't f**ing cover my dealership like that" as if it was my problem. Same dealer who charged me $2k for a repair when they had the recall letter in their inbox.
I’d love my fav indie bands to trend on tiktok. I want them to have more money. Tho yeah they aren’t in the business of caring about tiktok
My only gripe of Rust's syntax is the lifetime annotation, but I can't suggest any better alternative, either.

> And I consider myself a polyglot.

Then you should realize that Rust borrows some of its syntax from other languages:

- Function's parameter and return types are borrowed from Python's type annotations.

- Turbofish syntax is from C++.

- Closure syntax follows Ruby's.
> there aren't enough wise investments to put the money into

yes, that is a concern, but only for those who are investing. Not for society in general imho. The investment would lose money if it wasn't wise, and the investor who did it suffers the loss. unless, of course, this loss is subsidized by taxpayers (e.g., a bailout).

Cheaper capital allows for investments that otherwise would not have happened to happen. An example is the massive amounts of dark fiber left over from the dot-com boom. the losses from building out those fiber is suffered by the investors, but the benefit is now being reaped by whoever that purchased it on discount after the bust.

I wish the same could've been said for fracking shale oil - unfortunately, that didn't happen (and thus led to high prices of oil today). So it's not always the case that unwise investments turn out to be useful in the future, but you can't really know ahead of time.
> is there any counterpoint to this view?

I don't think the counterpoint has changed since it was codified in the laws of US states: limit the power of large corporations and their influence over sovereign states. Our ancestors were rather circumspect about corporate power within the US and created mechanisms to insulate themselves from that power.

The emergence of multinational corporations has naturally produced a similar model at the nation-state level: the ability of a global private enterprise to operate in some nation frequently depends on the existence of a domestic component, often in the form of a subsidiary with an obligation to retain executive staff that are citizens subject to the laws of the host nation.

My experience with dealers has been good. They've arranged financing competently, dealt with recall work, honored warranties and supplied OEM quality parts when needed. Nothing as complex as a passenger vehicle and all that goes into realizing one is ever perfect, but the dealers I've dealt with have met all of the expectations I've had of them. I suspect that much of the enmity towards dealers arises from unreasonable expectations. That's a suspicion. This isn't: the same people bitching about dealers today will be bitching at least as much about manufacturers when the dealers are gone.

At some point in this discussion someone speculated that the delegation of EV service to dealers is not viable due to the nature of EVs; the manufacturer must be directly involved or Bad Things will happen. That may be true. I don't know. I do know that, short of some form of mortal danger, I can't imagine a better argument to avoid EVs than that; I will never, ever own a vehicle that can't be properly serviced without the manufacturer's direct involvement. That would be deeply stupid.
Authenticity. Once you can fake that you’ll really go places
It's all in the perceptions.

Pretty much everything made in the last 30yr lasts as long as you're willing to keep doing the normal scheduled maintenance and keep feeding it wear parts. The average Toyota buyer is a lot more willing and financially capable of doing that than the kind of person who rolls negative equity on an Altima into a Dodge Journey.

I used to be responsible for a fleet of delivery vans. I would have no qualms about buying Ford.
An old coworker of mine once sold some property to a guy who paid in cash. I would be terribly paranoid the entire day.
Take this advice with a grain of salt cause I'm not an expert.

You can save the contents of the yarn cache directory between builds. Set it with the YARN_CACHE_FOLDER environment variable.

Build an intermediate docker image with all packages built. Later images can be based from that and don't need to rebuild.
it doesn't matter what you identify with/as, it matters how your bosses identify you.
Socialedia algorithms are the perfect testing ground for product:market fit. This is pretty old news.
You edited your (now mild) comment after I wrote this.
> There are rice paddies surrounding the capital city of Sacramento.

Rice paddies don't consume lots of water (flooding rice improves yield, but the rice doesn't consume most of the water, it's still available for downstream uses.)

> Why do we keep asking residents to sacrifice for even trivial pleasurers like swimming, when it makes no difference at all?

Because if you cut agricultural use, and thereby the tax base, residents will have to make sacrifices, too.
My #1 favorite thing to do at Google was hosting authors (search "bob's author talks" on YouTube, although it didn't work for me just now). The thing about those talks is: they were almost 100% authors with a publisher behind them. The publisher would pay for their book tours. A self-published author might manage to give a talk at Google or the 92nd Street Y in NYC, but it would be tough.

They can also get your book reviewed in the few publications that still review books, and they can send their catalogs to bookstores. But yeah, they take more of the money than a self-publishing arrangement will take.
>a weekly chat with the PM every week.

To be fair, a weekly chat at any other frequency would be quite eccentric!
Both Atlassian and CISA are recommending either disconnecting servers from the internet or shutting them off entirely. I don't like the sounds of this.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-adv...
https://twitter.com/USCERT_gov/status/1532511428451631108?t=...
Nana used to tell people "my grandson is a rocket scientist" lol. I work on ARINC653 OSes, which do sometimes go into rockets, but mostly just aircraft.
Uber does not have a hiring freeze for engineering. They are for non tech functions. Source: I work at Uber and I’m hiring.
I have a pretty normal job. My partner on the other hand gets extremely agitated if I reveal her actual main income generator as a minecraft youtuber, so its always interesting explaining that she does freelance "work", or hope like crazy she cant overhear and that they don't look up her channel when I spill her "secret". I personally dont know what the big deal is. Its 2022 some people work as content creators now, big deal.
My understanding is we’re not necessarily good at preventing crashes. But we’ve used a new strategy (printing money) to avoid one in the short term.

This seems to have created inflation and it’s various seemingly negative consequences.
Pokemon games don't just have poor graphics, they essentially release them completely unfinished. It feels like they need two years of development each, but only get one, and don't care about designing the world above the level of detail expected by a 6 year old.

They do tend to finish the game and release it as another version of it later.
In addition to the Ocaml recommendations I suggest Haxe, which is basically "Ocaml concepts transposed into a compiler targeting various GC runtimes". (Compiler is also written in Ocaml - it's not kidding around) Easy to pick up if you already know JS syntax, and basically covers the "best-of" of static inferred type systems, but you can easily break out of it if you need dynamic or low-level behavior.

Downside is that it's not convenient if you just want one standard library and runtime because it targets all of them. You have to justify the trade-offs involved in that, but it's a good secret weapon.
I would rather they pickup my car fix it and return it. To me that is luxury. Forcing me to go to your location and waiting on you is not convenient.
> Genuine question, what is stopping you from identifying as another caste in 2022 with the mass adoption of the concept of identifying with different genders?

Since this is a genuine question, there’s something you should know about not conforming to the gender you were assigned at birth: we’re not accepted for our identity either. The concept of self-identification is separate from cultural acceptance of it.

Moving to a place, however unrealistic the prospect, where autonomy in identity is more common doesn’t automatically make it safe or practical. Generally speaking, people who would benefit from emigrating, and can, already do. And they’re facing much more entrenched biases of racism and xenophobia.
I am pretty sure that I did buy online-ish. I filled out a customization form on the Scion website (it was a fancy webpage for 2003/4, but bascially just a very basic form submission), and then got an email a few days later from the nearest dealership (at the time I had to drive a couple of states over to get it), and it went from there. But there was no negotiation. I walked in, signed papers, and drove out with a car. Pretty revolutionary for 2004.

And true Scion as a brand no longer exists, but it lasted pretty long.

In this case, Ford is not saying away with the dealerships - they're looking at them as distribution hubs, basically...like Scion.
I was going to place a preorder deposit on launch day, but as soon as I had to select a dealership in the configuration process, I stopped and changed my mind. Also would have been net new to Ford.
If you want a better C++ that lets the compiler do work for you rather than you working for it try D.
M-x solong-mode if it’s really bad
There were Tektronics storage tubes which did this with electron guns with variable power (one current for creating a raster image, another for creating a persistent image on the phosphor).

The thing that is novel to me in a Skiatron is that the electron beam manipulates something physical (i.e. the crystal structure of the KI used on the screen) in order to create the image on the tube.

Taking physical object manipulation via electron gun to the extreme (ie a spinning disc of oil in a vacuum), you get the eidophor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor
COunterpoint: TFA. Indians at Google definitely gave at least one shit about caste, probably more.
I absolutely hate dealerships. I tried to buy a Mazda 3 a few years ago and the dealer took my keys and driver's license with some stupid excuse. I didn't realize until later that it was a tactic to prevent me from walking out the door when I wanted.
What are you talking about? It's a Golang program for Linux/Unix

https://github.com/cheat/cheat/blob/master/cmd/cheat/main.go
Paradigm Shift – Pizza on Pineapple
>"not how the rest of the industry expects things"

I run my own company, prefer to count money and Have no shortage of work - so could not care less about what "the rest of the industry thinks".
We already have a whole bunch of top developers who move to the Bay Area because it's the only place to get paid what they're worth. Pay will probably drop by whatever the all-in cost of relocating is, but not by two thirds; people who can make 3x as much by moving to the Bay Area already do, on the whole.
As someone on HN had previously mentioned - the crash and burn is more for “cathartic” purposes.
Big Tech is the equivalent of 2008 derivatives and the greed , the brashness of I am smarter,the IPOs and VC exits,the parties, the insane wealth to gobble up competition and create monopolies.
The nerdy tech worker was replaced by the modern day chiseled , slick , stock options loaded tech worker who would have gone to banking in 2006. They pop adderall and leetcode and crack coding interviews like the bankers did brutal Goldman interviews. They go to burning man as a sign of lifestyle instead of counter culture.
Big Tech has upended the middle class and data privacy and gamed our emotions and attention so much that I am tired .
I will gladly see my stock values halved if I can get back my simpler times of 1998. I wish I could escape the monopolies and their hold on my everyday life . But maybe I am an old fart so ignore me .
I do it first and foremost because I dislike the error checking story in Go, and writing Rust for web stuff doesn't really feel too dissimilar to hacking on web frameworks of years past. In fact, I'd argue that web domain stuff is where Rust is relatively mature.

But this all said, there's definitely a point to be made here - Go works fine for so many use-cases, people should use it if they like it or it fits the story better. The idea of "one true language" has never worked out.
It really depends. I agree it's not always an entire order of magnitude didn't mean to paint that picture for passerbys who don't know better. Not trying to touch the "this lang vs that lang performance" conversation with a ten foot pole...
They are related in that they are both possible forms of discrimination.
The spectrum runs from chattel race slavery to ugly people getting laid less.

Social class objectively exists, but I think it is disingenuous to say class bias has an impact anywhere close to that of the caste system on life outcomes, or deterministically dictates economic outcomes.

There is a loose correlation between class and outcomes, but this also includes perfectly logical factors like better educational attainment, parental nurturing, support, crime, and drug use.
Do they choose names that are Brahmin or generic names that can't be associated with caste, including non-Indian names?

If the latter, is it reasonable to assume that Brahmins in power are likely not only discriminating against those who are Dalit, but also discriminating against those that they know are not Brahmin (Indians and non-Indians) in favor of Brahmins?
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
As long as they’re not colluding but competing, this seems unlikely. As a sibling comment pointed out, wages “tend to be sticky”.
The foxes are in charge of the henhouse. Tory party members and the monarchy - two intimately related groups characterized by extravagant and unearned privilege. There is little point in reforming just one.
Compared to anywhere in the world. You can’t get much better than 5 or 6 Eastern European countries and the US/Canada
Which is very strange, they usually have at least a workaround or URL to block.
Mega corp comp doesn’t work like that. It takes years to adjust their bandings. As a hiring manager it always frustrates you because you’re hopelessly out of touch with the pervading market for comp. If they want to reduce costs they’ll slow hiring before reduce comp.
I'm glad if I'm going to pay someone for not doing anything it's a local person so I can see how much my money is helping them at the country club I can't get into.
I believe the technical term is “kicking the can down the road”. We’re experts at it up here in Canada if you’d like any tips.
Its not open enough to verify that.
There is responsibility, they are mutually exclusive
In my case it was a credit score. I was in a bad motorcycle accident at 19, I defaulted on every loan at the time (vehicle + credit cards + medical debt) while I was busy learning how to walk again. 15 years later, I still couldn’t get a credit card for more than $250, told no to getting a mortgage even with a VA loan, etc. My credit score couldn’t get higher than 600 even after those defaults fell off my record. Now, I live in Europe and am trusted with thousands of Euros in debt if I want it. I can get a house without any issues…

That’s a fresh start that just simply was impossible in the US.
Why do you need this instead of publishing man supplements that append to man files?
> It is not about who you are, what you are, what your background is, or where you live.

It IS, however, about what language you speak.
This was my one question after reading. Great, OJOP, how much? Oh...you don't actually tell me.