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Ask HN: Why are people shocked with the transactional nature of work?
I guess the job market has been so good for so long but those of us who lived through y2k aftermath, dot com bust, housing market crash, etc realize that yes you should enjoy your work but no you should not expect loyalty from a company. Maybe from people in your network but work is a transaction. Both sides should make it as pleasant and productive as possible but a company is not your family and is not looking out for your best interests. Do all you can to find one that is decent, has work you enjoy and aligns with your values. But always be prepared for the worst and don't emotionally invest. It's hard seeing all the devastated people on LinkedIn.
> As a result, both languages have steep learning curves compared with other languages.

Well yes and no. In a way the features such as immutability and algebraic data types are things you should know about as a software developer even if your current language means you can't use them at the moment.

My 16 year old son has learned Rust coming from a python at school background and is now writing small games in the bevy game engine.
True, although I don't know which library the op is talking about, because all the libraries I use are alive and well, some get very rare updated simply because they are "done"
Urgh.. It's so unsettling how easy people fall for the "innocent act" of the person who routinely supports genocide. And it's a known systemic consistent behavior in the public statements — he's been supporting the mass murderers for many years. In his late post he suggests that the murdered Ukrainians are somehow the same as the ruscist rapists who killed them. In the past he was shifting the blame for the rssian fascist ethnical cleansing to Ukraine as well:
https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1625276917363646465. He'd probably also blame black people for being enslaved, and rape victims too.
This does correlate with the color of his passport but it's just that — a correlation. His actions* speak louder than words. Encouraging people to send him money equals indirectly funding the genocidal maniacs. Don't fund the terrorists, it's as simple as that.
And how does that solve problems like the one from the post when deploying it?
>> The idea of a union is that it insulates you from being instantly punished for factors you might not be able to control a little better than the market is doing right now (look for news about new parents who were part of the layoffs recently).

Since when has this been the idea of the union? Recall that nearly all union rules are set by seniority, not personal factors like having a bad day or having a child.
You should look at what you can do with the Rust type inference too, it's not too far away from Haskell, at least not superficially. For example using the return type to deduce type parameters for a method like let samples: Vec<_> = iterator.collect();
>> what makes a bank a bank is that it will loan out money deposited by other people

No, a bank creates money to loan out from nothing. No deposits required.

As a sibling comment points out, other jurisdictions exist so here's the UK central bank's explainer on the topic: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...
careful, dang will threaten you for doing this. I used to do this, and he eventually showed up and said to stop.

i encourage others to question this behavior and vouch gratuitously, otherwise we'll hivemind ourselves. when vc stops being en vogue, hn loses about 50% of its luster, and whats left will rely on the quality and diversity of discussion here. the day will come where yc shits the bed and there is someone new, don't leave yourself without a nerd community if/when that happens by encouraging samethink.

edit: now the user's <5 minute old grey posts are un-vouchable. this is fucking pathetic
Shouldn't modules help with this at some point, once the ecosystem is ready?
> It’s further a discussion on what rights parents have to expose their children to what material.

Perhaps, but the standard being set is "one complaint from one parent means no one gets to benefit from the book at school". https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/01/25/florida-s...

> In Pinellas County, that confluence of factors resulted in the removal of prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s first book, “The Bluest Eye,” from all high schools. The district acted after one parent complained about the book in one class at one high school.

Some districts are advising teachers to remove their class libraries entirely to avoid felony charges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/31/florida-...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vnqb/it-only-takes-one-par...

> All graphic novels in the school library’s collection were recalled after parent Tim Reiland took issue with the school letting his teenage daughter borrow Blankets, an autobiographical coming-of-age story by Craig Thompson about questioning blind faith in a fundamentalist Christian household.
The only way for the client to set a server-side symbol to a value is to explicitly request it in code

(e/server (let [is-admin? (e/client ...)]))

Even with mutable atoms you'd have to write the `reset!` on the server.
> A possible scenario that has been discussed before is the engagement of autopilot (which often happens at this phase of flight post-departure) with an incorrect altitude entered - my guess is something like 310 rather than 31000

This sounds the most plausible to me of what I’ve heard. Would also explain why “further training” was ordered.
I read the article just now, what is inflaming about it (other than it is about Rowling)?
>There’s a difference from banning a book in public libraries (or even Amazon) vs a school board saying it’s not appropriate in school libraries.

Exactly this. Whenever I read any of these articles with "book banning" on their titles it simply boils down to parents rightfully organizing and agreeing upon what should be appropriate reading material for their young children in school libraries and classrooms [1]. It's never about "book banning" because after all anyone can get the book from public libraries, bookshops, online retailers, etc. except from the school library in question.

[1]: I don't think it's the case for Atwood's book, however there's a documented common pattern about these "banned" books: Whenever concerned parents try to read them to their school boards, their mics are usually cut off because of the sexual and explicit of the material, which apparently adults cannot be subjected to yet young children should even without the parents' permission. Search for "parents read inappropriate books to school board" to see what I'm talking about.
i may not have read the article correctly, but i see no actual evidence there that it is the "world's fastest growing language", whatever that might mean, except that there a lot of questions about it on SO (and of course posts like this on HN).

also, possibly related, isn't it strange you see almost no more haskell posts here these days?
I'm a former tech consultant who manages/ed lots of people since then. A few thoughts:

1) When I was a consultant and had to manage my own staff, they tend to come from a similar background, are extremely motivated, and a strong desire to do succeed. And if the staff doesn't do good, there's 10 more where that came from. That's a relatively easy situation to manage in; but it doesn't make you good at managing all the complexities that come from managing different levels, different backgrounds, and different levels of motivation. So I got a lot better at managing once I had to do it in a non consulting basis.

2) While a lot of consultants are good at making a project look shiny for 6-18 mos while not dealing with depth; there are a lot of organizations and staff that stare at their own navel for five years and tell me that they're doing depth; and never get anything over the finish line. Which is also not great. So there is some balance there and more organizations than not get stuck in the mud.

3) I've had some run ins with strategy consultants who come up with bonkers solutions to very difficult problems. And then hand it over to me to implement. And I go WTF - there are these 10 major problems with this approach. The strategy consultant tells me those are my problem. So I do the implementation and solve the 10 problems I saw and make it work. While I grouch about the strategy consultant... she had the fortitude to recommend the thing that got the client to the finish line... that I would never have the courage to recommend. That is great in a one off engagement, but probably pretty rough to work for.
Anything requiring e.g. setattr, getattr, delattr? Without looking far,

https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/blob/main/src/attr/_ma...
They’re labelers, which are being quickly replaced by automation. This is a bid to secure their jobs long-term.
Some of the people he has hurt financially will no longer be able to cover medical expenses or rent. It'd be unsurprising if some number of people he impacted commit suicide over losing their life savings.

He has physically hurt people. There will undoubtedly be a body count which can directly be associated to SBF's actions.
Brilliant concept! I absolutely love this idea. Shame Mozilla seems to have stopped innovation. )≠
I think the smart move here would be to sell the platform, not the service. i.e. allow end-users to deploy your orchestration tools to their own Hetzner tin, and pay you for support. With source escrow or similar, that sidesteps the questions around what happens if symbiosis inc. disappear/go down the tubes/...
I was expecting a good article, and instead got an add for a podcast.....
Haskell controls mutable data by pervasive immutability.

Rust controls mutable data by the borrow checker system: allow sharing OR mutation but not both at the same time.
I must like it or I am so stupid as to confuse it with a knockoff

The thing is, your response to the novel is out of whack to the point that it becomes a legitimate (if snarky) question – especially given that you made multiple mistakes in the title!

I think it would be fair to say that the novel is as close as it comes to being objectively not "hot garbage" – multi-award winning, widely-praised, multiple adaptations, massive cultural impact and so on. You're not obliged to like everything—I for one have absolutely zero interest in Harry Potter—but if you're going to go out of your way to hyperbolise then don't be surprised if you get pushback on it.
The world assessed that business with those countries would be good, and now they want to bring the world down to their level (dictatorship + censorship).
You think all these tech layoffs are sorting by performance and slicing that way? Ignoring the fact that performance measurements are barely possible at a granular level to allow such an ordering

One could argue about job perf making no difference in union shops (as if people don’t have some pride in their work since they’re spending a third of their life there and the vast majority of people are not trying to work in bad faith) but I think the implicit idea that non-union places have more than the most fat fingered and office politics dependent perf rivals is something to think about. We all know the coasting founder and the absentee manager

I think that during layoffs in a union shop at least management has to think a lot harder about cuts, and how to do them.
The first sentence goes a long way. As the article highlights, in certain circles, she is now perceived as Voldemort.
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It is still missing some alternative rust-written rust compilers.
That's the job of supporters. They are supporters. What kind of reasoning is this?
You can do both.

As a cold business decision, just as it makes sense to fire customers who are more hassle than they are worth, it's also makes sense to block prospective customers who are more hassle than they are worth.

Of course, if you engineering is better, you can pick a different false-positive vs false negative trade-off.
>Like, maybe this is naive because I've probably never worked long at a corporation as large as the one you're probably at, but... if I were a senior VP and our main software was flakey while we were pushing fringe features, I would want to hear this from you.

The company lives on sales, not on software. Sale of flakey software is better than delay to un-flakey it.
Not an expert here, but isn't this far beyond the descent rate that autopilot would employ in normal operations?
Larry Harris, Trading & Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, Oxford 2003

David M Weiss, After the Trade is Made: Processing Securities Transactions, Penguin 2006
Salesforce CEO took 10-day digital detox In French Polynesia after laying off 7k
Hilarious. If I ever attempted to train an AI to produce bright and funny prose I’d make sure to include your comment in the training data!
Nah from what I can tell 2003 broke a lot of people's brains in the same way 2001 did. The people who were against it the whole time got platformed in a way that they hadn't at all before, and surprise surprise some of them weren't actually against it on _moral_ grounds. Noam Chomsky is a great example.
GPT and other AI are essentially lossy compression mechanisms for the web
I think you underestimate what 13-year-olds care about. I know it’s typical to portray them as caring only about pop-culture, but kids and teenagers are surprisingly adept and aware and care about a variety of subjects. And have strong, sometimes well-informed opinions about them.
"Worthless" is a bit strong. The Rust devs want to add TCO/TCE, but there are still problems left to solve. The "become" keyword is already reserved in anticipation of guaranteed tail calls being added.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2691
I feel like there's pool of hucksters who work connections well, swoop in to management to fix big entrenched problems, and spend

* 6 months "learning about what's there" - and often hiring a bunch of their old buddies in to good-paying roles at their new company
* 6-12 months making seemingly big changes that amount to nothing (and they hit their cliff!)
* 6 or so months skating by until they find their next gig or get canned with a nice severance package

My last place had a guy screw up so horribly he was removed after 9 months BUT for some bizarre reason they kept him on the payroll for 3 more months so he could hit his cliff. All while the rest of us kept things going and tried to make sense of the incomprehensible ramblings of the "team" he'd hired in to manage us.

Incidentally, I discovered that at least one of them had had great success wooing managers he met on https://www.platohq.com/, which seems to be a pay-to-play way to get past HR and interview gates. I should give it a try.
Indeed, that seems likely. But there are political and social realities to consider. If what is optimal is something along the lines of: "In case of fire, if there is a fire escape then use that, otherwise shelter in place" then a conditional that must be evaluated ends up embedded in the emergency plan. This is a much bigger problem than is immediately obvious. If everyone knows that in case of a fire one should exit through the fire escape stairs then this leads not only simplification of emergency procedures but also their enforcement. In America seeing a fire escaped blocked or chained up is cause for immediate alarm and enforcement with the general public being perfectly capable of basic inspection themselves. Having an extremely simple plan for fire safety can help increase reliability because everyone knows and understands the plan, can contribute to enforcement, and execute the plan when there is an emergency. Engineering optimization not only does generate conflicts with social and political realities but in fact almost inevitably does so.
As all-in-Golang user, wish Tier to succeed too!

Want to say Thank you for putting all artefacts online. Same applies to Lago!

Admire your focus on Stripe and beginner friendly approach from the day one

https://github.com/tierrun/tier/blob/main/pricing/schema.jso...
https://docs.tier.run/docs/resources/mapping-to-stripe
https://github.com/tierrun/tier/wiki/Stripe-Glossary

Lago backend is built with Ruby and GraphQL ... which is kind of deal-breaker for me. No time to invest in Ruby ecosystem. I'm only using opensource products which I can fork and debug later on.
https://github.com/getlago/lago-api/tree/619a7a53f98d9a19908...

Lago is much closer the production ready however. Solid stand-alone tool already.

Tier like projects gives me hope to give SaaS user better embedded billing experience and more control in the future.

My biggest scare - successful open source projects are getting too many extraline of code overtime.

Ex. Sentry with 25+ containers inside
https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/48c855aa3def45...
Could you elaborate on that. Why do you find s-exp syntax more tedious to read than other types of syntax?
yeah sadly this summarize my haskell experience. I would hate to do code reviews in haskell.
Exactly. I am a White European male who grew up in Europe, but I was lucky to travel to many countries across the world and I spent many months in China because I found it very interesting to experience this country myself and make my own opinion and I couldn't agree with you more. Honestly, of course China has many problems, and in many ways China will always have very unique problems which no other country will ever have - which comes as a result of having to find solutions to the world's largest population which nobody else has to deal with - but overall I found Chinese people to have an extraordinary nice life. I visited big multi million cities, way off the tourist route and also small villages and people seemed to live very happy and community driven harmonious lives. I entered the country with a lot of bias and left completely shocked. It definitely opened my eyes and has made me look at many things from a very different perspective today.

EDIT: Again, I'm not ignorant to the problems in China, but I don't need to list the because our main stream media makes sure that every person in the West knows about every little problem China has. So instead I focus on highlighting some of the many positives which I've seen and experienced as well, because for some reason the people in the West are (deliberately) not being told about those.
Fed Governor warns crypto investors 'Dont expect taxpayers to socialize losses'
I like podcasts, and honestly this podcast sounds like something I'd listen to but yeah. The article itself does not have any substance.
Well...no shit. Consultants aren't hired for expertise, as a rule. They're hired to cover for unpopular decisions.
> they are doing better than all the other car companies

By which metric? Their market cap is astronomical, but they, to be frank, don't actually make a lot of cars. Not to mention that virtually every product release is delayed ad nauseum, FSD from Tesla is both a pipe dream and a liability nightmare, and other manufacturers, both foreign and domestic, are rapidly catching up with appealing EVs.
It is impressive that that they were able to run linux without making permanent destructive changes.

Had a pogoplug that I was able to repurpose as a linux server for some odd cron jobs and occasional backups.

Assuming there are no such constraints to revert, what other general purpose consumer devices are hack friendly and can be turned into low powered linux boxes ?
FDR famously weaponized the IRS, as his daughter even remarked on it,against his enemies including politicians and political opponents like Huey Long and Mellon (the former Treasury secretary and potential future Presidential candidate and innovator of the “modern” IRS).

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https://www.hillsdale.edu/educational-outreach/free-market-f...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon
The relationship between unions and company are as tenuous and they fulfil a dual role of parasite and symbiosis where from time to time they are symbiotic to the worker while being parasitic to the company and worker at different times. In ideal conditions they would not be necessary; however, companies at times become too powerful and forget or diminish the value of their workers giving unions an in.

In the end, in the US at least Unions induce inefficiencies and add drag to a company. Yes, on the one hand companies don't voluntarily want to provide more benefits than the bare minimum but on the other hand they want to avoid the straightjacket that Unions tend to bring.

I'm not saying we don't need unions but I am saying they are a very uneasy relationship for all parties but the union bosses.
Markets don’t seem very surprised. All the index futures popped up slightly, nothing dramatic.
Ceilings were 800 feet, so they were in the clouds almost immediately after departure. The weather in the area that day was terrible and extremely turbulent. I think you drastically underestimate how powerful spacial disorientation is. Given the passengers lost all visual cues just after taking off, and there was likely at least moderate turbulence on climb out, the passengers probably just felt like it was a bumpy climb out. The human body doesn't register progressive falling very well without visual cues.
It's like an agile backlog. The stuff I want to correct grows much faster than what I have the social capital for.

E.g. "being able to run your service locally and meaningfully" is something that's more important to me than no-nulls.
The Extended width is not narrow.
Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it
The German guy is a right-extremist who wants to topple the German state and takes donations from followers. There are investigations for fraud and money laundering for around $150k.

He is in jail because of increased flight risk as he cleaned out his house and was trying to sell it.

The highest German court is currently deciding if his jail time is too long already.
There's popular and political pressure (EDIT: maybe mostly up here in Canada) to avoid more rate hakes, but I don't see how central banks -- at least in North America -- can realistically avoid another one. The Bank of Canada did a .25% hike last time and has signalled that it really wanted/wants to keep things flat and stop hikes; but then a jobs report came out last week that showed an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate and 150,000 new jobs added. Similar situation in the US.

Tough situation, it should be interesting how this spring shakes out in the real-estate market.
ORMs come to mind. There's typically a lot of reflection and dynamic instantiation magic baked into its classes, which you really have to hack around typing to make it work nicely (or even at all).
It’s the /r/… that made me think referral link, but browsing through tally’s feature set, it doesn’t seem like that’s a feature they offer.
"Genuine question, if you're under 40 how are you not in debt?"

I'm under 40 and not in dept.

Sounds like you're coming from an expensive place.

Education and rent are quite cheap where I'm from and I don't need a car, but I could buy one from my savings right now if I wanted.
The source for his latest story is nothing like the sources he used for the stories that earned him his reputation.

So I wouldn't call it a knee-jerk reaction when I consider what he says as basically being "trust me bro".

I would go even further and say that if his story was sound he wouldn't need to write a defense on why he's published it on Substack. If it were sound it wouldn't matter if he published it on Twitter or Substack or if he published it in the Playboy or The New York Times.