skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products.

I don't think this is necessarily true because the people designing products are not the same people creating/implementing them. Even the most innovative company of the planet has some programmers and sysadmins doing "bookish" jobs as you say.

Don't fall in the trap of thinking a smart and well trained tech can't be creative; there's some code out there that is a work of art and can inspire awe in everyone. Don't think that if their work is not evident or easy to comprehend it is not creative.
When the cli app is called from another process which passes the arguments, and needs the results back fast?
For people who enjoy this article I recommend reading the two-parter “How does SQLite work?” [1] [2] by Julia Evans. It too is an exploration into the inner workings but diving deeper into code.
And for those interested in more details on b-trees, there’s “The Ubiquitous B-Tree” by Douglas Cramer which I enjoyed a lot.

[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/27/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-...
[2] https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/10/02/how-does-sqlite-work-part-2-...
[3] http://carlosproal.com/ir/papers/p121-comer.pdf
You might be on to something! They also seem have a yes-person culture and you can’t question the group think.
CLIs are also a great way to let people experiment with and learn a new language with low risk.
Cost is not the only consideration. I fear for people who only focus on one issue and ignore the rest. Rarely do we see congressional leaders agreeing on this scale. I would say they find that reliance on China to be a threat to National Security. US and China communications is zero and even lower than it was during the Cold War. Pelosi story on visiting Taiwan should give you an idea of the stakes that are play. China siding with Russia should be the final consideration of the United States commitment to Democracy and people. Cost is really just one data point and should not be the only consideration. This concept can be applied to many more things, and I think you should rethink.
Specially when in this case the victim was 83 year old... Objectively there isn't much life time earnings left there or even qualitative years. So I don't know what objective metric could get it to that level.
Because they aren't writing for a general audience. They're writing for an academic, professional finance, and governmental audience. It's extremely relevant that their word choice is being scrutinized for suggestions of what their future policy will be. Similarly, their use of jargon would be well understood by their audience. Context matters in communication.

You could consider this almost ritualized. That's something very different than corporate doublespeak that seeks to obscure rather than inform.
I once tried to edit an article about a scientist who had developed a bit of surrounding controversy over his studies in parapsychology. Having no real knowledge of the debate, I didn't add or remove any information; I just felt the introduction had been written in an overtly non-neutral way by a past editor. So, I removed a couple of words like "hoax" and trimmed one or two sentences so that they didn't come off as a character assassination (they had contained unsourced editorializations). Specifics aside, the article had explicitly violated Wikipedia's policies on using NPOV language.

My edits were reverted within 24 hours, and the talk page was updated with an admonition to my IP address (I'd posted without logging in) claiming I'd been implicated in "unsavory" activities that could be found by Googling the IP (it was a dynamic IP, but of course I tried and found nothing) and making vague threats that I should not attempt such edits again. That's the last time I edited anything on Wikipedia.
ESG should be boiled down.
> Have you noticed that sometimes you make a decision but don't do it, and sometimes you make a decision and do it?

Absolutely. Sometimes I'll notice in my meditation practice that something will arise and then I'll watch it get labeled by my brain and brought into cognition, but there is a gap between it. It's like watching the brain/body work something out and then present it to your awareness.
> The imminent concern is not just exacerbation of climate change.

You described no other imminent problem.

to your 1), food supply is a moot point as population will stagnate. The West often overproduces as it stands and is poised to reduce food waste.

to your 2), we're nowhere near depletion of resources, and there's no reason to believe the average person's purchasing power will not only greatly increase to allow for inordinate amount of consumption, but that it would outpace technological innovation which minimizes and recycles materials.

> With what we have done every time we got additional energy so far, it is likely that getting fusion will increase pressure on planetary boundaries that are not CO2 emissions : you fix a problem by worsening the others.

Fusion, to the extent you're portraying it, is a long ways off, and additional energy has not done much for the average person in the last several decades. It's irrational to project outsized negative impact.

> since more and more people will get access to middle-class (or more) lifestyle

Before population stagnation, yes. That's among the driving forces leading to stagnation. But after which, no. "More and more people" necessarily ends at "all of them".

> so far we have observed the impact technology has been to dramatically increase ressource use and waste overall, not reduce them.

Technology to reduce is in it's infancy. Necessity is the mother of invention. These externalities were never much of concern to the oligarchic, financial and political classes - that is changing.

> Then you haven't read or studied resources

You're looking too short-term.

> or try to keep growing

Nowhere do I advocate for this. False dilemma.

We know we can make it by limiting population growth.
You know what? I love the new instagram changes. And everyone I know has been using it more and more over the years. Interesting that the people who hate it so much are the same ones that are using it. Data doesn't lie.

TikTok copied short form videos from.. vine. I mean youtube YLYL videos. I mean... newgrounds.

Shit's been around, and both facebook and google are going to lap tik tok. Keep up :)
> Mailboxes are typically outside of the fenced area where the dog is. Stay off my property and you won't have issues, is the point.

They typically are, yet mail delivery personnel are attacked by dogs constantly.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-postal-service-r...
There are without a doubt a sea of creative people at Meta, the question is whether the organizational structure disincentivizes creative collaboration with engineering.
You're correct that it's highly unlikely that B evolved from A, but why do you think that's significant? We know the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is highly stochastic, with most lineages dying out and a few exploding, and we know the IFR in humans is small enough that considerable cryptic spread is possible before enough people die to raise the alarm.

So why do you take the two lineages as conclusive evidence of two zoonotic events (as Worobey has repeatedly claimed in the media, even though his papers are more cautious)? Given the above, I don't see how we can exclude that the two lineages evolved in early human cryptic spread, before we started sampling enough to draw a perfect phylogenetic tree.
> how beneficial immigration has been to Western econonomies.

Western way of life is unsustainable and no amount of immigration will change that. To govern is to predict and the west needs to prepare itself for a post industrial, post energy hungry era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
> Not one of the listed authors is Chinese, nor do any of them have any Chinese institutional affiliations.

Those are pretty naive criteria based on what we already know about the situation.
One of the biggest opponents of investigating the lab leak hypothesis was Peter Daszak, a British zoologist who is certainly not Chinese nor does his EcoHealth Alliance have any surface level ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. EcoHealth Alliance provided grants for the coronavirus research (and the activity that has been labeled by some as gain-of-research) and authored the misleading Lancet letter [0] that was used to ostracize anyone who publicly disagree with the animal-spillover hypothesis as well as enabled social media platforms and fact-checking sites to censor any content or discussion of the lab leak hypothesis.

TL;DR: people can have agendas that may not be obvious to you at first glance.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Refusing to align with OS conventions is a long standing tradition in the world of Microsoft apps though.

MS apps and even web apps overwrite the foundational gnu readline functionality on MacOS, and don't give you an opportunity to revert. This is a really wild step no other developer would even consider taking.

This comment is meant in jest, but really Teams refusing to align with Windows is perhaps the most Microsoft thing they could do.
udp or tcp?
Yes, culture matters: https://trendguardian.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c...
1 is rationing too, just rationing to prioritize the wealthy. The more modern versions ration based on other things, like how to combat ticket scalping, bands release tickets through alternative means
Globalization is here to stay. The economics are just too sweet to “go back”.
I personally would lean towards nearlyfreespeech.net as a first choice. They seem to be highly robust. At least this holds until we get to sites that need a full daemon.
Instagram ignores the mute button on my iPhone. I have to manually turn the volume down to zero to consistently get no sound.

It’s a real jerk app.
I believe they are talking about asset inflation as opposed to price inflation.

ZIRP era and QE did lead to some substantial asset inflation but was not considered to be problematic to many at the time.
> You are just restating that for the EU, bureaucracy is more important than genuine research.

Perhaps but that's not my impression. My impression is (as in this thread) there is no good intrinsic metrics for research, except if it shows an impact on society.
Isn't a large part of the problem that you can make gains in one category by harming another? So to make mining more climate friendly, use kids in the Congo who do not require any gasoline? Or do it all with biodiesel so that emissions are lowered by CO2 reuptake by the plants, but the rainforest is bulldozed?

Yes, they conflict, so you want to reward companies that effectively manage those conflicts, not casually trade one issue for another.
I’d bet they use e.g. Python to receive the HTTP calls and do basic logic at that level, but use C++ libs to chew through lots of multimedia, ML/AI, etc.
I can't see IRC coming back as there's just slightly too much friction for the common person to get up and running.

I could see websites coming back (I mean like the way people used to actually browse websites instead of social media). The problem with websites at the moment is discoverability. Google's SEO is a major roadblock to this at the moment. A way around it might be a "web of discoverability", with meaningful, relevant links on each website curated by the site owners themselves. At the moment, this seems to be a void filled by ads, which is a sort of tragedy of the commons.
I'm not an economist. But I'm pretty sure a culture of stealing each other and not paying taxes is somehow related.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/DISce
It would actually be extremely unlikely for a virus that is "medium good at spreading to humans" to stay in an isolated location, especially one that spreads asymptomatically.
I have no opinion on the quality of any particular employees, but the thing about Google interviews is that they seem to optimize for a certain kind of personality. Lots of people are "bookish" but Google seems to somehow further optimize for people with high IQ but low emotional intelligence. That lack of empathy is further reinforced by the needs of the advertising business, which is actually Google's primary business.
The opposite direction of motivation is to tariff semiconductor imports and still I doubt a quarter of a trillion dollars would be invested so fast.

Geopolitical issues forcing this aren't the fault of the semiconductor providers, decades of policy are at fault for letting the situation get this bad.

And to be fair future taxes will recoup some of this, as will the value provided to the state of an increased reliability of sourcing semiconductors.

It may not be the most cost-effective solution but it's the solution we need at this point because China isn't our friend and increasingly seems like won't be.
>you'll probably have a pretty good idea which table you'll want to filter first, and what to join

Until the day you load a bunch of new data and it gets skewed, or you delete a bunch of data without shrinking and oops, your join order and method is not efficient anymore.
> stock market bull run from 2008 with crazy all-time-high P/E ratios? That's inflation.

No, it isn’t. Your original comment [1] decries people misusing words. Inflation is a measure of real economy price levels. That’s what it means.

We have other words for prices of financial assets: indices. You want to talk about multiple expansion, risk premium compression and easy money in finance. That is fine! Lots of people are intelligently doing so! But they go further by discussing concepts, not muddied nomenclature.

> don't include security prices in CPI because it's not politically expedient to let the poors know they're getting priced out

Or because someone saying inflation is fine because while the price of bread doubled the stock market halved would get shot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32254910
Yeah, oops, brain fart.
I think you mention the real reason as a footnote. Ads are SO lucrative that it isn't worth it to be innovative or take huge risks. They do a little here and there but why invest $10B in an idea that is unlikely to have higher margins or larger volume.
Exactly. This is what I wanted to explain. You did it better. Thanks.
> But it is, just the government.

I really don't think it is just the government, nor is it the lack of cutting down deficit spending, nor the tax system. I try to take a more historically grounded view. I don't think there are easy answers though.

I believe the view that "there's the government, and there's this bunch of innocent businessmen at the mercy of big bad government" is not very compelling, for various reasons. One is that democratic governments in Argentina are pretty weak, all things considered; they aren't all-powerful, they usually have an opposition running interference at every step, US-style. Another is that when some businessmen had their chance to run their own government (you mentioned one recent occasion, the dictatorship was another) they still screwed up.
Illegal immigrants can’t participate in vast sections of the economy precisely because of how well immigration checks work. They can only work for the informal sector/low level jobs.
I vote for #4 - use SCSS syntax with bounded forward-lookahead.

> CSS to date requires only a small, known amount of lookahead in its parsing, which allows for more efficient parsing algorithms, so unbounded lookahead is generally considered unacceptable among browser implementations of CSS.

Then choose a bound! Make it big enough that it'll cover 99.9% of use cases, ignore any CSS rules beyond the bound with a console warning, and go on with life...

This seems so obvious that I feel I must be overlooking something. Perhaps the bound would be so big, that when parsing multiple stylesheets in parallel the memory use would be unacceptable?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. This is interesting. Will ponder for a while.
> “I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be,”

Uh, no. I stop and close app as soon as I realize I'm being fed "videos you just can't stop watching."

This unfortunately means I only use IG for about 2.5 seconds before I give up and try another day.
Well, isn´t that a bit damning though? I am not an expert on Rust, so please enlighten me. If it is meant to replace C++, I would expect it to dethrone on the areas where it is king. I am looking at a crap ton of programs with an UI. Your IDE, your text editor, your spreadsheet program, your graphics editor, etc. Most of the modern programs just give up and ship as a full blown bloated memory eating web browser.

There is a gap between the nineties and now, and it is still void.

If you have to constrain it to CLI apps the average developer here on HN needs to write, I don´t see a reason to use such a complex beast as Rust. If you mean operating systems, I can see a spot for Rust. Also database systems or a web server implementation. But that is fairly niche.

For userland cli-apps I am not sure if the added complexity pays of in terms of sufficient performance gains in practice. If you want to write a new implementation of grep, sure. But how niche is that?

So in those cases where you need both type strictness (which I agree should be the default requirement) and cannot have an automatic garbage collector, I can see the value of Rust.

But for what audience is an automatic GC really a problem? Personally I would use Haskell, Java, F# for CLI-apps, but I know there are tons of other options there.
What boggles my brain is when someone wants to show me a video on Instagram, but there is no way to play it from the beginning. So have to wait for it to loop around.
Opening this website significantly degrades scrolling performance in Edge (Chromium). This impacts all my open tabs. Scrolling becomes fast again when the Warp tab is closed.

Doesn't exactly instill confidence in the advertised product.
> The mid-2020s will be a critical time for the nation’s fleet of reactors.

> Many of them have 60-year operating licenses that will expire in the 2030s. Getting these new fuels to market before then would increase the performance of these reactors and ultimately improve their chances of applying for extended operation with the NRC.

Going beyond 60 years is quite breath taking. There are so many components in these massively complex beasts that would need to be inspected and replaced, since this is far far beyond their design life times.

For example, at Davis-Bessie there was an acidic leak dripping onto a reactor head for years, resulting in more than 6 inches of corrosion into the reactor head, leaving only 3/8 of an inch to hole back all that pressure. Despite warning signs of lots of rust in the air filters, they didn't find it until that late stage. This was 20 years ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis–Besse_Nuclear_Power_St...

What sort of other unexpected issues can crop up? We need these nuclear reactors to run as long as possible. And those in the reactor construction industry tell me that there will never be replacements like them. If we do figure out how to build nuclear again, it's going to be small. And that won't scale until at a bare minimum of the late 2030s.

So this seems like a good effort, but without some heroic efforts, there will be a period where we go from ~100GW of nuclear in the US to just a handful of GW.
My impression back in the day was that Facebook bought Instagram for the same reason. They couldn't get the younger crowd to stay on Facebook. It's more of a testament about to how much youth are not interested in living their lives on their parent's platforms.
Thanks for a detailed summary. This was really helpful.
> Erlang because stability.

Maybe because of WhatsApp acquisition ? Some services might still be running in Erlang. Last I heard, Erlang was being replaced by C++.

> Haskell because elitism.

Haxl used to be a project at FaceBook, not sure what Haskell is used for now there.

Thoughts as an outsider. I dont work [neither have worked] at Meta.
Give their chat another try. I went through the same a while back and they reset my password.
No, you're kidding?! Thanks for clarifying that, that explains why when I was rolling my D20 for persuasion checks in stores, they kept asking me to leave.

That said, I'm glad there's no owlbears.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1925
#7a
*Colombia

And it may be too harsh to judge a whole country and its talent just because a company whose servers are down hire talent there. What about the AWS engineers in those countries? Or Airbnb, Stripe, Twilio, etc?
Are they on shared hosting or VPS? Different services. I have VPS for my sites.
IG kept requesting to add my birthday, going fullscreen notification like even if I forced quit earlier/rebooted my cellphone, didn't use cause birthday thing.
I uninstalled it, didn't kill my account as there are some stuff I appreciate but the dark patterns won't fly.
Stow was a good stepping stone before I adopted nix + home-manager. Its more effort to learn overall but also a much cleaner/stronger approach IMO.
Clearly, handouts are needed to force/incentivize these companies to build new fabs in the continental US. Otherwise they would have built them under their own gumption by now.

When there is no clear benefit for the company to fab chips in the continental US, and a lot of clear negatives (cost, regulations, etc) - you have to do something to outweigh the cons. If the US had been an amazing place to fab chips already, hand-outs would be completely unnecessary and we would already have a bustling chip fabbing industry. But... we don't.

Perhaps after handing out all this "free" money, lawmakers need to take a long hard look at why our chip fabbing industry has nearly vanished.
> The problem isn't with the editors, but admins who spuriously make these judgment calls.

Deletion decisions are made by editors, not admins. See, for example, the decision referenced by the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

> It takes hours to create a new article and seconds to delete it.

I think the "seconds to delete it" process you're describing is PROD[1], which is for "non-controversial" deletions and there's no appeals process—it can be added back with no justification at any time if any editor disagrees with the deletion. The full deletion process that takes time to appeal is "Articles for Deletion,"[2] through which articles are deleted only through 7 days of consensus-building. This is the process "Bruce Faulconer" went through.

I know it's confusing, and often really frustrating. I'd encourage you to try contesting your PROD deletion if you're willing to give it another try, because it really will bring the article back instantly. It can be difficult for new editors, but users of this forum are a bit better than the average person at source editing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...