skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2020 and now 2022 are bloodbaths for anyone who was a new grad from 2019 until now. Not only have I been rescinded, but several friends and my girlfriend have been rescinded (we went from employed to jobless in a snap). My anecdata is that nobody in my circle of friends would bat an eye accepting an offer and rescinding for something better. When I worked at a startup, we had people rescind on a regular basis.

If Amazon gives me an exploding offer, I shed no tears for Bezos by rescinding. You might perceive this as rare depending on where in your career you are, but going through this has fundamentally changed my perspective on job hunting.

There is a power imbalance. If I rescind, a normal company will survive. When I was rescinded on, I had to completely change my life plan, apply for unemployment (unsuccessfully), and re-interview while studying for finals. In a twist of irony, I ended up rejoining the company that rescinded my offer a year later (it's a good gig, what can I say) and it spread that some interns had their offers rescinded that year -- bloodboiling. Companies will literally not care, and I will not either.
Function colouring has always been a good idea, as long as you have a language where you can be polymorphic over it where appropriate (i.e. one with higher-kinded types).
Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue). There was speculation at the time that this was in part free itself of the dealership sales model. The dealers would keep the dying ICE business while the fast growing EV business would start with clean slate. Farley was quoted describing the EV sales model as:

> "It's going to be much more efficient, a lot more online. It's going to be a really different model."[1]

Obviously this will be very controversial and subject to interference by state legislators who have often protected dealerships. Will be interesting to see this transition.

https://insideevs.com/news/571959/ford-dealerships-impacted-...
The instance being described is mainly in the US, where the talk described was given. I know that such discrimination is highly unlikely, especially in the Midwest where there aren't a ton of Indian employees to begin with, and probably even fewer Indian hiring managers.

However, I was merely stating it as an example of caste discrimination – which you seem to grasp readily, probably because you're Indian or work in India.

Explaining to an American person how diet-based discrimination can be an instance of caste discrimination is harder than you'd think. The OP is basically going "I saw an Indian person doing this bad thing, so it must be caste-based discrimination!", which I'm trying to correct by citing an example of (so to say) actual discrimination on the basis of caste.
Part of me believes that the lack of workaround or patch and the vagueness of the warning, coupled with their cloud product being safe is a very happy accident.

Given how much they’re pushing the hosted offering.
Sorry for the bum steer. Maybe I read it pretty fast because I've read it a few times since the 80s.
I’ll let you know when I figure it out for sure. I also had a doctor suggest it might be IBS.

Anxiety for me also affects my stomach. When I’m really anxious I have to avoid certain foods because they make it worse. Other than that I found coping with my anxiety more generally improved the stomach symptoms as well.
That can't last. Integrating an Indian subculture and taking the sting out of the caste system is going to become necessary.
> For comparison, I would have never ever reached out to you again. And if I met you in the hallway at some other place, I would have made sure that everyone knows how I feel about you.

If you were to do that it says more about you than the person in question and would not look positively on you.
I spent about 10 years as a professional C programmer, userland and kernel on Linux, BSD, and WinAPI systems, and I feel like I have a pretty solid grip on "how computers actually work and how languages compile" (I've written compilers with codegen), and "the what, why, and how of threads, the stack / heap, I/O, endianness, etc.", as well as (from C++) "dynamic dispatch, references, memory management etc.." and, like everyone coding in the 2000s, "async runtimes" as well.

Rust is hard. It's not hard because you have to understand all those things. It's hard because you have to understand how Rust understands all those things. Different kettle of fish.

I'm perpetually leery of "you'd have an easier time with Rust if you had a better grip on the CS of systems programming". No, that's not it at all.

(It's fine that Rust is hard. I recognize the achievements, and see where it's a near-perfect fit; I'm looking forward to Rust kernel code. But then, there's a reason almost nothing I write is in-kernel, even when I need "performance".)
I found that if you had 2 adjacent pay phones you could make free calls by inverting the 2 handsets and placing the call on one phone, but putting your money in the other so the sound of the money dropping would make the operator think that you had paid for your call. Your money would be returned to you when you hung up the second phone.
The moderna vaccine was invented in a weekend because the researchers knew the basic science that had been done on other corona viruses in academia.
> Companies doing this are shooting themselves in the foot by not letting the market dictate pay.

Companies doing this are letting the market dictate pay: the global market. If there is no particular need to have people working in a particular place, there is no reason to pay a premium to get labor in HCOL locations (which, the fewer employers are paying a premium to get labor there, will cease to be as much HCOL areas, too.)

> They either will waste a ton of money by giving everyone Bay Area-level pay, or will just be unable to hire in high cost of labor locations without compromising talent quality.

If employers stop paying a location premium when the premium location provides them no added benefit, people won't be able to command premium pay to live in premium locations.
> So... all the other things in my life other than my home that are high-cost... are not high-cost, because of your bizarre comment? That doesn't follow.

Aside from housing and sometimes fuel, almost everything a normal person buys costs about the same everywhere in the country.

Cars, TVs, phones, washing machines, clothing, shoes, tools, and so forth are not selling at different MSRP in different parts of the country.

In truly high cost of living areas, like Silicon Valley, the down payment for a home is enough money to buy a handful of new cars outright -- literally several hundred thousand dollars. If you live in an area like that, and you can afford a home, almost everything else you buy will be very cheap in comparison.
Step one is just clone() everywhere all the time. Then you should cut back AFTER analyzing where all of your memory is being lost to.
Was typing almost the same thing at the same time.

The OEMs want to us EVs to finally dump the dealerships.
There is a statute of limitations at play here I assume.
Article is almost 3 years old.
I think she says I make apps for influencers.

She is also having a very hard time understanding how I/we work remotely from different countries. I’ve never personally met any of my colleagues and that’s almost inconceivable to her generation.

She has only worked with people micro managing her or her micro managing others (Typical old Korean work culture), so the fact that we work effectively without being in the same room with managers is surprising to her.
Amazingly, no mention of children.
In my experience actual fuel economy can vary quite significantly from EPA ratings. The F150 hybrid gets great fuel economy for what it is, but on the highway it’s still not that great and it costs quite a bit more. Something comparable to a $35k Outback would be over $50k.
-- 1997 - 11 years old - figured out the username password & dial up numbers for everyone in our small town are based on the mailing address - once the bandwidth limit was reached on the account - id just switch to someone elses - at the time i justified it as 'borrowing their internet' - in retrospect it was wrong - oh well --
> When we have around a billion 'surplus to requirements' people in the world, what is our plan? See, the labor market isn't going to cut it when labor has become moot to industry.

Can you give an estimate for when you think labor will become moot to industry? I think such predictions are based on the lump of labor fallacy. [1] The US and many other parts of the world have a labor shortage and all those missing workers will need to be supplanted by AI first. China in particular has a factory labor shortage that's going to intensify due to demographics. [2] It's very ironic that amidst unprecedented automation there is also a potential economic calamity due to inflation driven in part by labor shortages.

Automation tends to create more demand for labor in other areas due to Jevons paradox. [3] So ultimately widespread deployment of AI might make things somewhat more efficient, but it may not fix labor shortages and actually make them worse. Surprising, huh?

> It seems two centuries of economic theory about the place of labor will be made irrelevant. Workers own the means of production? Hah, what does that even mean when there are no 'workers'?

You might be right that most recent economic theory will turn out to be bunk due to outdated economic assumptions. AI makes certain things cheaper and others more expensive due to Baumol's cost disease. [4]

> We'll need new ideas about how an economy should (must) work to provide for all.

Agreed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

[2] https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3163097/c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
You must be Gen-Z or younger. Small-time "fraud" antics like this were part of the hacker ethos throughout the 80s and 90s, some highlights being the Anarchist Cookbook, Matthew Broderick changing school records in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Kevin Mitnick as one of the notable poster children of the new era of cyber enforcement crackdowns. Even the word "hacker" meant something a lot different than today where kids now say that someone "hacked" their Instagram.
In what way(s) do single/divorced parents prevent their children from flourishing? That's a bold claim. I hope you have some evidence.

And by that logic, wouldn't having more than two parents be even better for the children? More adults around, more supervision, more household income. Wouldn't that promote "stability"?
Right, a selective hiring freeze is still a hiring freeze.

Engineering would be the very last thing to get cut, as there will instantaneously be posts here and all over the internet.

Freezing non-tech hiring is the canary in the coalmine. Like when companies start scaling back freebies.

Once the downward trajectory starts it almost never reverses.

I'm sure the people downvoting you know this and are simply mad you called a spade a spade.
I truly don’t know and fully defer to people who are directly familiar for that portion of the discussion. My only point in responding was to say that increased (public) diversity of gender identity hasn’t been a panacea of acceptance.

If anything I’ve seen the opposite, much more transphobia and even just ignorant objections to parts of speech, in recent years. I can speak a little bit to that, but technology has mostly been more of a problem than a potential solution. A century of advances in access to information and how quickly it travels has nothing on a century of lessons learned mechanizing terror and pain.
Slightly unrelated, but don’t avoid jury service. It’s your civic duty.
> And what appears to be a "business decision" could be a serious setback for the person on the other side of this transaction. Granted, as a startup founder, I am more exposed than someone at FAANG, but don't fool yourself - either way, someone wasted a lot of time and money on giving you a shot, and more importantly, they declined all other candidates.

Yeah, sucks, that's life, if that triggers you emotionally you have no business running a startup.
Sure pay me the same I am paid now and with the same benefits and I will be happy to do research. Your choice.
Your employer is not obliged to maintain a communication system so that you "get to know people". If you consider how much these tools cost to maintain, it's completely understandable that companies want to have 100% content control.
You believing that I equate state with people is wrong. I don't see point in further explanation, just take this into consideration.

I have tried to argue with people from India about Russian invasion and guess what, it all ends in whataboutism. As far I understand the situation based on observation, Indians hold grudges very long (why did US support Pakistan in the war that happened 50 years ago?) and I know that Russian media propaganda is very strong in India. It is complicated diplomatic issue.

I don't have contacts in Pakistan and China, so I could not comment on this one, but it looks to me that both countries are slightly balanced in favor of Ukraine, that is, if they did not favor Ukraine, they would be more supportive to Russia.

Hungarian president is very clearly in Putin pocket based on his statements. There are two factors: he is known to be incredibly corrupt (according to Hungarians) and there is Hungarian minority question in Ukraine. But he is clearly an outlier in EU.

Brazil has agreed to provided ammunition to Ukraine - shells for German Gepards. This shows that they are not very strongly aligned with Russia. I do not know what is the current status of the deal.

It was explained to me that Biden pretty much ruined in very short time what Trump had accomplished in Middle-East because this is Democrat party policy to favor Iran over Saudi-Arabia even when it is stubborn stupid, so exactly this is what he did - attempted to make Iran sell gas and oil to Europe. He managed to make bad situation worse unfortunately.

Israel support to Ukraine has grown stronger after Russia's complete diplomatic fiasco. It may get very bad if Russia somehow mistreats captured Azov Jewish fighters.

One thing is sure, Russian capability to affect public opinion in foreign countries should not be underestimated. It may appear that it completely lost its edge in Western countries but other countries are pretty much wide open and helpless against Russian propaganda because the population does not have internal detection mechanisms like Western countries have.

The main issue is that large part of the world, including Western countries, do not realize the extent of the problem the world is facing.

If Russia manages to win then globally

Using nuclear weapons (or threat of) as offensive weapon becomes possibility
Using famine (or threat of) as offensive weapon becomes possibility
Committing wide scale genocide becomes norm
Support to Fascist regimes and movements will grow stronger
Risk of local conflicts started by Russia will grow larger
Risk of local conflicts started by aggressive local actor (with or without foreign support) will grow larger
China's hostile ambitions against other countries will grow stronger

In addition risk of actual nuclear confrontation between NATO and Russia will rise.
never allocating memory can be and should be simple.
A huge portion of my research agenda is trying to get math and CS colleagues to apply pretty standard techniques to novel problems.

If it works well, you get to push clinical science forward.

Then about half the time, "This seems like a boring classification problem" turns out to be way harder than expected.
I agree; if you use dynamic `Arc`s almost everywhere in your code, what's the point in a systems PL whose essence is in managing static lifetimes? Sometimes people use Rust just because many other languages suck; they are choosing between two evils: tedious programming in Rust or inadequacies of another language. It should not be like this. This is why I think we need a high-level, no-BS version of Rust.
To paraphrase: Eh, you were lucky to have a page! We used to have to skip forwards and backwards through a video!
> ... and they price match so you can walk out the door with the product instead of waiting.

I would love to see the behind-the-scenes numbers crunched on that model. I don't see how that model works long-term unless the percentage of customers in the showroom walking out the door with online price-matched goods is a relatively small group, or they're successful up- and cross-selling on gonzo margin goods and services before and after they walk out the door, or their COGS is way better, or some other activity to make up their bigger overheads versus an e-commerce marketplace.

Can anyone offer any insight how BestBuy is long-term sustainable with the online price matching policy?
Teams using .app and .dev to host their developer tools
Author here: I guess it wasn't explicit enough! The thing to back it up is Kagi taught me paid-for search engines are no better than ad-paid search engines. I thought it was clear when I wrote this but I'm sorry it wasn't

I'm not upset it wasn't taken into consideration, I'm disappointed there's zero transparency! It's too bad the tone of the writing comes off as upset rather than disappointed, that wasn't my intention...!

Edit: I've clarified things and changed the title to "Overall disappointed with Kagi but lessons learned" to better show my intent. The original title was for sure a silly exaggeration and I have no problem admitting this :)
thanks for writing this
"With my recent scaling-back of the rosco_m68k project that’s been getting all my free time for the past couple of years, I needed a fun project to do during my time off, and I ideally wanted to take a break from Motorola 68k assembly and electronics and do something different."

All of your free time is consumed in programming?

Isn't it a bit absurd to have your entire life revolve around programming?
"2. State subsidies. We know these kill worker efficiency. If that weren't true the USSR would never have fallen behind the USA in terms of wealth. What the article refers to as science is really academia, and academia is dominated by ever increasing amounts of government money. Whilst the article phrases this as science getting "harder" it can also be seen as researchers simply becoming less efficient than they were in the past, which is exactly what we'd expect to happen given that academia is a parallel planned economy. Efficient here means in terms of discovery production not paper production, of course."

This isn't actually true.

"For the first time in the post–World War II era, the federal government no longer funds a majority of the basic research carried out in the United States. Data from ongoing surveys by the National Science Foundation (NSF) show that federal agencies provided only 44% of the $86 billion spent on basic research in 2015. The federal share, which topped 70% throughout the 1960s and '70s, stood at 61% as recently as 2004 before falling below 50% in 2013."

https://www.science.org/content/article/data-check-us-govern...
> go to any working class area in San Francisco and tell them you work in big tech . See if you are not socially despised . Go tell anyone working blue collar jobs that you work in big tech in the Bay Area or Seattle and see if their reaction is not one of despisal.

This doesn’t have anything to do with being a ‘nerd’ or even “big tech”. It’s about housing costs and the result of NIMBYism from long term residents longing for the past.

People are going to move to the Bay, you can’t stop change. If you make it harder only the people with more money will be here which is what’s happening.
My god everything about this eventuality just sounds absolutely awful. Just more and more recycling of the same meme-tastic trash (which isn't that far off from the current state of pop music), writ even more large and just plain worse.

I'd like to think the future is the opposite -- artists/bands managing themselves as disparate entities, forming around small labels or even their own labels, and having someone in charge to bring the resources they need to bear for touring or performance related stuff so that they can focus on their music.
> Aside from housing and sometimes fuel, almost everything a normal person buys costs about the same everywhere in the country.

Lots of common grocery items like milk, eggs, meat, and fresh produce have highly regionally variable pricing. (Highly processed dry and frozen foods tend to be more consistent in pricing.)
When one asks a question in the format, “Are you pretending that [obvious problem] isn’t an ethical problem?”, it makes me wonder if that person is really interested in understanding or is just interested in accusing someone else and picking a fight.

If it’s the former, then maybe consider that other people don’t see the issue as the same [obvious problem] as you do, instead of assuming that they do, and then basing further reasoning on that bad faith assumption.

If it’s the latter, then continue doing what you’re doing.
Back in 2001 GM hired my university professor to study what could be done with the dealer network. Even then it was clear dealers were of no use in the long run, but there were no practical ways of getting rid of them.

Forcing dealers to do repairs only effectively meant risking that best dealers would switch to other brands, other dealers would have to charge more for the service and these two factors could potentially kill any brand. No single manufacturer could pull it off, and even if they could find a way to work together to change legislation, it would be way too costly and way too risky.
The author is 17 and writing code (and posts) at this level? The kids are all right.
I consider the ease of getting out of jury duty one of the foremost parts of jury selection - Anyone who does not see it as their civic duty is worth dispensing with.
What type of job were you going in for at Coinbase? I and I’m sure others here would be interested in helping if possible
Huge thanks for this context.
‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
Actually 11 by now ;)
Do not watch the fourth. Not kidding. It's not worth the curiosity.

Yes the 2nd and 3rd were great despite critics. The fourth is a "WTF who wrote this garbage money grab" the entire time, it's not even "fan service" because it destroys everything with poor writing and terrible acting, feels like someone was shouting "we'll fix it in post" after every first take rushing to the next shot to churn it out.

Remember how epic the music was in the first three? The fourth is like that kid from Bob's Burgers mashing on a keyboard.

Remember the epic dialog from Hugo Weaving and those chilling rants from Agent Smith? Yeah absolutely nothing, nothing even vaguely faintly like it in the fourth, it almost undoes the entire franchise.
Well 60% is insiders and 5% is institutions, which means the other 35% are likely individuals that are in for a rude awakening when they open their brokerage statement (and were likely the victims of some form of pump and dump).

Second you can’t get a borrow or it’s super expensive so there’s no marginal seller…until random retail investors or insiders bail…

Who knows what the algos, market makers, and stock promoters are doing with the stock, but a bunch of wash sales
Many Brahmins I know don’t wear it. So how is it a caste marker? Heck I wear it only during certain ceremonies. So the point the gp was making about people wearing the sacred thread condoning the caste system and discrimination is patently false and bigoted.
Yup me neither, and also, why the name?
“They go to burning man as a sign of lifestyle instead of counter culture.”

This. So so so well said
It's always hard to find good people when you pay way less than the alternatives they have.