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They don't need to win, they just need to be there as another option. Every business I've worked at has been huge on wanting cloud diversity of some sort, and tons of startups act as middle men on this.

Another of the big boys offering a cloud product would guarantee it would pick up customers and give them another avenue they can plausibly hunt for competitive advantage in.
I'm seeing a lot of comments saying things like "seems reasonable" and "of course", but I thought Apple was supposed to be for the privacy conscious? Why is HN not bothered by this?
Does anyone know how many of these are in engineering?
I only have experience with Digital ocean and AWS. AWS free support is definitely much better than Digital Ocean. Also Digital Ocean is more quicker to delete your data than AWS in case of billing issue or anything.
That’s right—-any time you’re laying off thousands people at once, some of them will the “the wrong people”. There is no mechanism for mass layoffs that can accurately target only “low performers”. Even if these layoffs reflect good decisions, good decisions at corporate scale are not necessarily good decisions at the individual level.
Then you are an incredible outlier. The vast majority of folks that need glasses do not have this as the reason for the lenses being expensive. They're just being shafted.
You're moving the goalposts a bit there
I’ve been joking that LinkedIn should build this.
And yet the company still makes 2-3x their salary in profit
GrapheneOS has significant low-level custom work put into it: https://grapheneos.org/features
The argument is not that there is nothing in crypto but scam(s). It's that whatever crypto ia actually good for, it's either unable to solve or inappropriate to solve almost all of the problems it is claimed to be a "fix" for.
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The way I read it, the parent post does add extra meaning with that word "just", that meaning being "if you don't know how to do X, this is not considered acceptable here", going beyond just the particular problem to the 'meta-level', asserting what the expectations are from people in this role.
No need to go fancy when copy paste will suffice
I don't know why they didn't make a Facebook phone based on Android.
Why was my comment flagged? Many Americans are in fact confused about why adults want to speak to their 6 year old about anal sex.

This isn’t flamebait it’s a real topic of discussion for many people. Its even discussed in legislation related articles on HN. Are we to pretend it isn’t?
The Django ORM is a quite thin abstraction over SQL. But yes, the ORM makes it easy to create this problem by mistake. But sometimes you really don't care. You can write one-off scripts directly in a shell and then it often doesn't matter. I take advantage of this a lot.
And what are they doing all day long?
and Zuckerberg is somehow real and authentic? First time i've ever heard that one.

Realistically this cut was probably done in time to offer a decent severance without hurting things on the corporate side -- to compare this to Twitter's post-Elon crash-plan is disingenuous, and i'm not even a Musk fan.
Funny you should say this. I often had this feeling that those interviews favor a certain kind of personality somehow.
Or you get a single eye exam and call it a day. The results will have your PD, which doesn't change.
> Give me 10 motivated, aligned high-quality people, 5 years, and all of us room to focus, and I'll build you a better Google, almost guaranteed. Including Arabic, a11y, spam filtering, and all the other messy stuff.

This is 60 million USD paying those 10 handsomely to keep them happy.

Having built your unicorn that sold for a billion+ you’d think funding would be straight forward for you. You don’t know a single VC? Self-funding isn’t an option?
That’s ok, they hired too much people too fast. Ad revenues go down, they need to save money.
They hired way more than that.
Sadly, it is possible for a >$1T industry to be absolutely useless. We have numerous examples, pick nearly any global pop subculture and there's a shiny example.
Probably from a "How to make people redundant" template
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to lay off more than 11,000 staff
Don’t they have high natural attrition?
I always worry as much as anyone else on each new release for the additional complexity ("the committee is out of control!!!!1!!eleven!"), but on each compiler upgrade when I actually get to use the new versions of the standard I'm always pleasantly surprised about all the little low-key quality of life improvements.
The corporate strategy team leads the implementation, but the final go/nogo is on the CEO for sure. Or at least, that I would expect.
Share value is down everywhere. Where would people move to for better compensation?
Hmm, so what?
I agree there should be basic standards of service, disclosure, quality and safety that products should have to meet in order to be marketable. Basically, purchasers should be able to have confidence in the products they purchase, so the question is what are the appropriate minimum standards.

Personally analytics don't bother me, I don't think they're a significant privacy issue. The service provider already knows almost everything you do with the service anyway, just as a requirement to provide the service. I don't believe that invasive regulation on the detailed behaviour and functions of a phone by governments is genuinely in the interests of users. I suspect that the detrimental effects would far outweigh the benefits, which would only be useful to a tiny fraction of users anyway.
> I'd be very surprised if it saturated the US market in any measurable way.

Most of meta enigneers won't be working for 120k midwest coding job if they can avoid it. So spread will be focused on similar pay positions vs distributed unifromly.
Global databases of professional networks of ppl is "state security" grade.

Does anyboy realize that linkedin can give msft(= vanguard/blackrock) a global view of the professional networks of ppl related to a business prospect? Does anybody realize how this give msft a significant and unfair advantage?

Why would it be different with the others?
I've personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. With prices often exceeding $100.
Stupidity and greed never passes.

Fortunately in my country people are forced to invest in a pension plan so they can't blow it all on crypto. We don't have 70 year old people flipping hamburgers at McDonald's lol.
I meant the web3 phase of it.

But as far as crypto, as soon as it starts to even plausibly compete with any aspect of the finical system, it'll be regulated to oblivion -- even if it were a good idea.

No government on the planet would tolerate a rival private army, nor likewise a rival private economy.

It's tolerated at the moment because crypto is just casino chips, and mostly a "useful honeypot" for exposing its criminal users via pretty transparent public records.

However blockchain is also just such bad technology with no competitive use cases -- unlike herbal life products, you can't drink a blockchain ledger.

My sense is that the emporer here is so naked, and the product so useless, that each time the fantatics try to undress him, many realise the issue.

There's lots of routes to crypto's downfall, and all of them are vastly more likely than any "application" taking off.
Not at all, writing code only make up a relatively small portion of what engineering actually is. Writing code is a tool in the tool box. Engineering is about managing complexity, creating order, understanding what to build and when.

It's so much more than lines of code. And in my experience, programmers who started later in life can pick up how to code pretty quickly, and they don't need to be amazing coders, because I've found them to be realllly good with all the other stuff. I've found them to be cautious, good at communicating, able to think about problems at an abstract level, very dutiful and see the importance of things like documentation and keeping boards up-to-date etc.

When I was 21 and coding, I was rising the ranks as a coder pretty quickly, but I lacked the maturity to see the bigger picture, I neglected processes - and even dismissed them, I didn't think about things like reliability, I didn't really think about product fit or all the none code related things. I didn't even see them as my concern half the time. In fact I'd go as far as to say I was a bit of a liability at times.

So, I've found older programmers introduce an air of calm, wisdom and diligence that, certainly I had absolutely none of as a precocious 21 year old programmer.

In fact, I work with an intern who's a fair bit older than me (I'm in my early thirties), and I'm often amazed at the things he considers and mentions, things I hadn't given a second thought to, and they're not necessarily technical or code related things, they're the bigger picture things and ideas, that are just as vital as writing code. Oh, and he's gotten to be a good coder in a short space of time, too. I think older folks are more focussed and methodical learners generally. I spent most of my 20's trying to learn about 10 programming languages, badly. Rather than learning the few I actually needed to an intimate level.

So in summary, I've found that older programmers have life skills and experience that help them get up to speed that perhaps younger programmers lack. And they also tend to be better and all the none-code but vital skills, which I certainly lacked when I was in my early 20's. I absolutely love to see a mix of ages in a team, because they bring different skill sets.
I had the same pair of glasses for 20 years just getting new lenses as needed. A year ago I had a slight change in prescription but also had to make the plunge into bifocals. Cost to me even after insurance? $800. And they're terrible.
Facebook parent Meta laying off 13% of staff
I think maybe FTX just doesn't have the money and their bluff was called
Demand for what, though? Startups can cover ... well anything, really?

There's certainly less demand for Facebook's style of social media, for sure.
Institutional power? What? The authors are badly paid researchers. The mob are students that can get them fired, make the grants totally go away, and in some cases literally storm their classrooms and threaten violence, even assault them. This isn't a theoretical thing. This happens already.
That doesn’t dispute the fact that only 1 out of 10 startups “succeed” and that definition of “success” is overly generous.
Amazon handles physical products, that’s a completely different game
Someone used https://quillbot.com/ with that memo and replaced the company name. Job done!
Exactly. GPT3 for conversations, some humain actor giving enough materials so the C suite can appears in all hands and the likes thought realistic model ( not the meta crap )

The rest is implementation details.
Maybe you'll enjoy reading about my own transition from tech to psychotherapy: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
They give two reasons:

- Hiring spree during Covid

- Economic slowdown, eg lower ad spends
I think it's not about 'just'. It's more about how unsolicited is the advice. How strongly the person in trouble is looking for a solution.

I had a few times the experience that when I had a programming problem it was immensely helpful to tell about it other person, even non-programmer, because it forced me to state what the problem is so clearly that in theory this person should be able to understand. This made me notice some things about the problem I didn't notice before which sometimes enabled me to either find a solution or slightly, acceptably alter the problem so its solution is way easier.

And even if after explaining my problem I'm still stuck, then the advice the person who listened to it gives me, while not being the solution, will activate my mind even further, because trying to explain why this solution won't work can point me out in the direction of how this solution or the problem itself could be developed or adjusted so that it could possibly work. This thinking might reveal to me completely different solution.

So by all means, please say to me "why don't you just ..." when I'm asking. I probably won't do what you say, but it might lead me somewhere and I really do appreciate listening to me and your input as it might be the key factor that will enable me to find solution.
I believe it might. Not a C++ expert, but I am using Clion with lots of clang-tidy features and a lot of compiler warnings, and I believe that the code looks more modern. If you use a "new" you'll get right away warnings. Of if you declare a destructor without copy/move, you'll get also some warnings.

It might piss people off, but for a new learner like me it's really useful. Plus, I don't have the luxury to count on my colleagues to get some code review, therefore the closest I get is the available tools (clang-tidy, clang-format and enable_developer_options in the project_options[0] extension).

[0]: https://github.com/aminya/project_options
That is very true to me as well, in my head things are organized in a hierarchy of concepts. The nice thing about tags is that it allows you to store a note below multiple tags like in my case a note about something I did with Python at work, tagged with #work, #work/project_name but also with #python.

I use a plugin called Tag Wrangler to show my tags as a tree like folders (it interprets the "/" as a parent directory).

This allows me to keep a note below multiple tags which I think is useful, at least for my own usecase.
Wonderfully reductive and so true. But crucially that was a huge browser innovation that has changed how we use computers. I don't think there's an equivalent in Web3 (from a dev perspective); Web3 is basically just Infura providing an API to a database that's incredibly expensive to write to.
Revenue has slowed from the Apple change, but the drop in Q3 profits can almost entirely be pinned on RL as staff and other investments has accelerated.

> company’s rising costs and expenses, which jumped 19% year over year to $22.1 billion during the quarter.

> Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which is responsible for developing the virtual reality and related augmented reality technology that underpins the yet-to-be built metaverse, has lost $9.4 billion so far in 2022.

The effects from the Apple changes are mostly in the rear view mirror at this point. You could attributed a 4% revenue hit to them, but those can also be attributed to a general slowing economy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/meta-plans-to-lose-even-more...
Isn't that forecasted by the same people who now says that they didn't see this coming? :)
Thoughts on generative AI from my 25+ years using, designing and building creative tools.
Well to be honest 1/10 was a little bit of overstatement, but yeah every year there's a governmental report about how this country is missing 150k programmers so it's about 1/8 or so.
Bad Musk /s
> So… fixed points?

Fixed directions. The operator operating on an eigenvector doesn't change the vector's direction, but can change its magnitude (i.e. length). (Except, if you change the length from positive to negative, then you kind of change, or flip, the direction to 180 degrees opposite.)
I use blockchain currency (Monero) for just one thing: buying recreational drugs. It's better than cash; hanging out on street corners in the dark with shifty street-dealers, while carrying a pocketful of cash, is a risky activity.

I don't invest. I bought some Bitcoin as a try-out way back when it launched; just a few dollars-worth. They'd be worth a fortune now. But even then, transaction speeds were very slow. I've never been much into investing, and I don't have a taste for risky, volatile assets.
When is regulation ever voluntarily?

From what i heard Chinese parents complained to their government about their children losing time on social media and their government reacted by regulating that space in their society.
A lot of apps want to become a social network but Facebook was in a good position to do so. Imagine someone posting a picture of their Brunch. They tagged the location. Some AI matches the picture of the food with the pictures from the menu (google reviews already does this to some degree).

That food looks good, imagine if they partnered with Uber or Grab so you can add to cart right below the picture.

Peer to Peer payments could have also been great, especially if you could check-out at a store by scanning a QR code to pay (think WeChat Pay, FairPrice in Singapore, or even Paypal's version of that).

Or even buying event tickets. They already have events on the platform, and they let you put targeted ads, but what about an integrated experience to purchase tickets right on the platform instead of there being an external link?

They could have done so much but the only major change/addition in recent years was Dating (a huge hit in countries that perceive Tinder as only for hookups) and those avatars that people use everywhere instead of text posts.
So I bought all V1s back then and now they're gone from the Mac App Store. I see.

Edit: Got it, have to download it from the purchase history (which was 2014), not the offical now-gone link.
That’s projection buddy. Do you have a playbook? Because this comment is straight of the Republican one. project, lie, misconstrue in bad faith. Are you familiar with the site guidelines? Uncharitable bad faith responses are a no-no here.

I’m talking about sexual predators, people who wore black face in the past two decades, domestic abusers, and other unacceptable behaviors. If you think any of this is okay, bugger off.

What are you talking about? Indian mob Justice? Tripathi? Gamergate? Spacey? Weinstein? Trump? R Kelly? Travis Scott? Bill Clinton? Assange?
Also this is a funny argument. If these things are truly making people dumber but the change is happening on a generational level, then a dumber generation would not realize that it is dumber than the previous one.

It's also further muddied by other changes - like changes in education in the past 50 years - which makes the phenomenon harder to isolate and to judge.
more than that. Here's a tracker: https://layoffs.fyi
The two will be forever conflated (and there's an excellent argument that Putin made his move on new territory while the rest of the world had weakened itself with years of self-imposed Covid restrictions). However, literally shutting down globe-sized sectors of the economy for months or years at a time, with no notice, to me is obviously the biggest cause of what we see now (and what is to come).

Exactly how does the war in Ukraine economically affect, for example, the US?
How is that "better advice"? Big endian architectures are pretty much dead (x86, ARM and RiscV are all little endian; some ARM chips are bi-endian, but not Apple's) and there's no discernible compelling advantage that would allow a comeback. You absolutely want to specify the byte order in new protocols as little endian.
Shades of _Office Space_
They are actually going down because of inflation and the lack of a full compensation for that. You get the same money but it's worth less.

As for unemployment figures; apparently they are very low right now. Which suggests companies actually need to offer more to be able to fill open vacancies. A few tens of thousands highly employable people leaving the fang companies is not going to change that.
> If anything this is testament to the failure of previous solutions to popularize it.

Maybe. But I'd rather not argue about popularity in a conversation about technical merit. The two aren't mutually inclusive and popularity is a subjective quality. Nothing good ever comes from conversations about popularity and preference.

> Every solution before that required a bunch more knowledge.

I'm not sure I fully agree with that. Docker has a lot of bespoke knowledge whereas the previous solutions built on top of existing knowledge. Where they differed was that Docker was an easier learning curve for people with previously zero existing systems knowledge. Which is something I didn't really appreciate until reading these responses because (possibly because I'm an old timer developer. I want to understand how my code works at a systems level so made it my job to understand the OS and even hardware too - though that's gotten harder as tech has progressed. But that was expected of developers when I started out).

> Which people ? I never seen anyone saying Docker makes it easy to run cross platform stuff, and it was always one of it's pain points.

The comment I replied to said: "get someone on Windows or Mac transparently install the image and run it with a few cmdlines"
If anyone's interested in helping to shape the future of Rust's built-in error-handling story, there's an error handling project group that's been doing great work recently, e.g. the major effort to move the Error trait into libcore ( https://github.com/rust-lang/project-error-handling/issues/3 ) and stabilizing std::backtrace. You can follow along or get involved via the #project-error-handling channel on the Rust zulip: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/
I don’t think it’s that simple — yes maybe in private you could say that, but this would set them up for an investor revolt or make them come across as huge assholes if they say things like that.

They may be true, but telling it to everyone is definitely not always better.
Are you referring to rounds at the same company, or rounds across the economy?
Jails and Zones are kernel mechanisms, they aren't easy any more than cgroups/namespaces are easy (to be fair, yes, they're easier than linux's tools by default, albeit less flexible). What docker changed was absolutely to make things "easy". A Dockerfile is really no more than a shell script, the docker command line is straightforward, the docker registry is filled with good stuff ready for use.
Bocker[1] does a reasonably good job of showing the value of Docker was mostly in Docker hub.

[1] https://github.com/p8952/bocker
That just sounds like a table but with extra steps?
It is easier, I agree. We solved the problem a different way entirely, so I don't know, but perhaps putting the TV power itself on a timer could work? Timer on Netflix doesn't mean they can't switch to D+ or other.
Youtube also recommends you videos but at least it gives you time to stop and consider what you want to watch next out of the 10 or so recommendations

Tiktok is bam straight onto the next video
I think it's the job of the IDE to make that work, but I agree, without IDE this can quickly become a problem.
I wonder what those clients are

Some heavily loaded ISP's have modified daemons that set a lower and upper TTL threshold. Anyone running Unbound DNS can also do this. Some versions and distributions of Java do all manor of odd things with DNS including ignoring TTL's though I do not have a current table of those misbehaving. The same goes for some IoT's but I have no idea what resolver libraries they are using.
We have this too in Germany, but it's usually not based on open positions but some "we would need this to grow the GDP further industry is saying they miss these number of people" from some lobbying group like Bitkom. But Chapeau! for your country.
Romania and Poland aren't exactly small by European standards, in fact they're some of the biggest by population and area. And Romania is not Central but Eastern European [1], so that's out.

Small and Central European would be Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland based on the most widely used definition of Central Europe [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe#/media/File:Cen...