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> by far the #1 "WTF WTF WTF" thing that new hires say is "what do you mean you aren't using $TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK??"

To that speaks of the caliber of programmers hired. If all they have seen is $TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK and wrote nothing but a web app using $TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK they might not grasp the fundamentals that would make then realize that frameworks are just abstractions (and not that different from one another).

I don't think any software engineer would even ask that question, since the answer will almost always be "$TODAYS_HOT_JS_FRAMEWORK didn't exist when the project started, and it's not worth a re-write to port it over".

Now, that brings out a second important truth: a company can't attract and retain a wide range of different caliber employees. For instance, if a place still questions the usefulness of source control (perhaps because they consider git to be too complicated) there's no way they'll attract and retain top performers. So the culture will select people that agree that source control is a waste of time.
maybe it would help if their users could actually listen to the end of a podcast without it just cutting off after 40ish minutes
Hyundai/Kia seems to be having a fair amount of recalls about potential fires in things that don't normally catch fire.

The idea of packing them full of lithium is not drawing me in right this moment.
You still get the Moon obscuring itself. The Earth is not eclipsing the Sun most of the time.
That doesn't make sense. Deliberate training to reach a goal sounds like the opposite of lucking into achieving a goal to me.
> Is that technical debt? ... So I would say that's not really a tech debt, just a technical tradeoff that was made.

Well, I'd still call that technical debt. All debt is a tradeoff, and sometimes debt is worth it (or, at least, is judged to be worth it at the time the debt is taken on). In this case, it might be deemed worth it, and reasonably so, especially if there simply aren't enough competitors that this would make a difference at the margin, or if it's simply not feasible for any competitor to implement that same feature in the same time frame with the same amount of developer resources and make it perform faster.
Anyone who's read outsourced code can vouch for the similar QC problems. I work with a lot of great Indian software developers; none of them worked IN India itself; they tend to be the ones that are skilled enough to quickly realize they're able to command massively higher wages by leaving India.

India, despite it's reputation as a software outsourcing location has never been able to produce exportable quality besides textiles. There are no cars or electronics, or chip fabs in this country.

The author's description of the government being 'bureaucratic' is a nice way of saying corrupt, and certainly has no direct bearing on manufacturing yields. That's simply the way business is done in a largely domestic economy.
So now it is bad everywhere. Good user facing software integrates itself into the platform so that the user can combine multiple tools. That got completely lost through the "app"-ification of all desktop software. They only integration that is done nowadays is done through cloud APIs. Half of the time they are done to sell tje users data and not to fulfill the need of a user.

Why else do I have to upload my fitness/health data to see it on my smartphone in addition to Garmin watch?
Well, I don't think the EPA was in a position to make any statements right away - they weren't going to stop people from running in and trying to save lives so they could take air samples back to a lab.

The amount of blame that got pinned on them after the fact was probably pretty unfair.
> Titanic could hit almost 30.

The better comparison would be the Olympia since she lived longer and did that trip far more times and was successful.
> so I’m really curious what those four are.

Apple’s podcasts app goes out of its way to avoid showing the tracklist of the current channel or the list of recently played podcasts, or to make you misclick on the little channel name which changes the current track (given that you can’t list the recently played, any misclick is a major annoyance). I think they might have hired a AUX, an “anti-user experience” engineer.
Interesting. I had an internship at a company that did inertial navigation, mostly for defence applications. I only knew of ring lasers for use in gyroscopes. (Send a laser around a loop wave guide/fiberoptic, and any translational acceleration cancels out going out and back, but any acceleration in rotational velocity in the plane of the ring/rotation vector perpendicular to the ring shows up as a Dopler shift. Tune the laser to have a standing wave, and rotational acceleration shifts the nodes of the standing wave around the ring.)

I had a colleague who got called up when a Trident missile MIRV bus fell off a forklift and he had to do simulations to tell the Navy if it was still good or needed to be brought back in for rework/recalibration. My understanding is that either the MRIV bus itself or its container has integral devices that record peak 3-axis acceleration for just such a scenario. I imagine they're as simple as a few precise weights on a few wires with precise failure strains, so you can bracket the peak acceleration by which wires broke and which survived.

On the one hand, it's great to have more accurate nukes, which allow lower yields, smaller stockpiles, and presumably smaller craters if everything goes sideways. On the other hand, "surgical" nukes result in it more likely that one side will use them and gamble that the other side won't massively retaliate.
Just because someone made a greedy and erroneous cut of red tape somewhere across the world does not mean that all red tape is good.
I've switched over my main desktop to PopOS and while I'm missing out on some games which require anticheat, I'm constantly surprised as to how much I can actually play. It also seems like newer games have better proton support.
From what I've gathered, "Viral TikTok Challenge" and its variations are sleeper-agent activation phrases for news editors which make them automatically accept the next story pitch you give them.
Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs
Space Rupert is going to hate this
I don't know that much about rust yet, I just assume that if I know c++ fairly well, it might just be 20% harder to learn rust and get good about it, time will tell.
>tech workers in India care about what they do

Are you trying to say the Indian tech workers have much more adult attitude to their employment, as opposed to their western friends who are happy to sacrifice themselves ad maiorem corpo gloriam?
Plus teenager in the 70s, so weird drugs are totally in my wheelhouse.
I said steel, not carbon fibre. And even in zero-g things still have mass to them that needs to be handled, don't they?
How is hoping they fail going to improve things? Wouldn’t you rather hope they fix it and then maybe lower their prices as a way to get back customers?
> The original objection raised here was that the governor is taking powers he doesn't have was it not?

No one ever said that. This is not a discussion of gubernatorial powers. Just what is right/wrong.

Re: to kill a mocking bird you are mistaken. That was parents complaining and forcing the school to remove it from the curriculum. It is still available for students to check out. Not the governor, not removed from the school. Do I think it’s stupid and shortsighted? Absolutely. But it is not what we are talking about.

Where are these bible bans you were talking about?

Seems you also abandoned your claims about Newsom banning remedial classes given real context.

Frankly it feels like you’re just throwing a bunch of claims at the wall until something sticks, despite still having not proven basically anything you claimed is happening. A lot of “I heard that…” type stuff. The closest you’ve come are out of context, not as you described, or straight up irrelevant.

Either way this has gone on long enough. I’m done. Have a good one.
Guess you could do the Suez canal. Per https://sea-distances.org/ it seems the distance between Hong Kong and New York are about the same for either Suez or Panama. Not sure about the prevailing winds, which would be expected to be faster.

If we count canals as cheating, another alternative is via the Cape of Good Hope. Seems it's about 3000 nm shorter than going via Cape Horn but again, much depends on the prevailing winds.
https://archive.is/wgKNS
There are scams at every single level in the Indian system. Everybody wants a cut and some extra to do their job. It is maybe one of the worst places to manufacture in the world. I know Apple needs to diversify but Vietnam and other such countries might be a better fit. The work ethic is severely lacking in India.
>Do you think Tim Cook made a strategic error here, owing partially to his lack of understanding of the involvement of these processes?

Appeal to authority is just speculation at the end of the day. It's just as possible a brilliant CEO with tons of supply chain experience made a mistake or was forced into a bad decision.

>The fact that there are early obstacles and hurdles does not mean we should simply throw up our hands and say "whelp, looks like China is the only option, we have no choice but to stick there!".

Is anyone saying that?

>Because they have 50% rejection rates for iPhone casings at one particular manufacturing facility in India does not really imply anything other than teething issues with scaling up.

It does imply at the least that the processes Apple has used in other regions doesn't translate quickly. There are definitely additional questions raised. Is this a labor quality control issue? Procurement? Worse vendors? Or as you speculate, this is all part of the start-up process.
> This is all fairly normal for large scale manufacturing in my experience

Indeed.

So why does the original article claim that the "problem" is due to differing attitudes of Indian vs Chinese suppliers?

EDIT: Wouldn't the "problem" likely also occur if you were to switch from one Chinese supplier to another [completely unrelated] Chinese supplier?
> "You've got to put yourself first".

This doesn't mean "take the highest offer", it means putting yourself first. In your situation, going back to your boss was clearly an ask to stay because that was what you wanted. It's possible to be comfortable and content with your work and your job, and to prioritize that over chasing more money too.
...provided a round trip has already been made. In other words, not a single round trip.
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That is, unfortunately, very common. Though sometimes the toxic people drive the company into the ground first.
I've observed that as well, with our local Indian developers as compared with the ones in India itself. The effort to come to the US acts as a filter. I've seen the same kind of filter with regards to Mexico. Go to Mexico and they operate on "Mexican Time" (their words, not mine). But when it comes to manual labor in the US, who works the hardest? Mexicans, almost every time. The difference in motivation is stark.
i am using kde neon and have a similar impression
While I totally agree, I can't blame people for getting emotionally invested because today's companies hammer that corporate propaganda into everyone's heads all the time. There are good intentions, but it's manipulative in the same way that a flaky boyfriend or girlfriend can lead you on even though they're not truly serious or committed. In the cast of corporatism, the sentimentality is directed toward a group of disparate individuals with an overlapping albeit replaceable goal. The best thing for everyone is to see it for what it is, not assume malice, and keep a safe distance.
Biggest Barrier to Biking Is a Fear of Cars
Yep, mine is on its third bug tracker since I started (maybe more from before then), and third version control system. All the old cases are lost, but the repositories get imported to the next one and retain all their old commit messages.
I believe these are for keeping your evaporator coils clean and funk free rather than cleaning your air. The air movies past it much too quickly.
> Are 2010 skype and 2022 discord comparable in terms of functionality? Are 2000 winamp and 2022 spotify app comparable?

The increase in resources available since 200s is measured in orders of magnitude. Are there similar increases in software features that warrant the increased bloat?

> I still remember how bad it was before electron as a windows user. Half the apps that seemed cool(omnifocus, bear notes) had mac only desktop version, other(1password, evernote) had a native windows version that felt ugly and unpolished.

Now all apps are ugly and unpolished
This study[0] estimated that less than a microgram of dopant is needed per m^2 and that producing 5 MW of solar cells requires 1 gram of phosphorous.
[0]https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2001...
it's way more than that, building an ecosystem takes time, like a decade or more, lots of tooling, libraries, optimizations etc have to be done, and they have to be done in a way users think it's either similar to CUDA, or is simpler, the moat is very wide and deep as far as I can tell.
I once encountered a situation with a very expensive field laser. At one point, measurements started showing an increasing amount of offset.

Over a period of days, the error became increasingly, comically bad, until finally the system refused to boot.

A technician was called, and after hearing about the behaviour, the first request was that a photo of the laser light exit port be taken.

It was obvious why it wouldn’t boot: a mirror in the light path had fallen off.

The worst part was, the mirror had been held on by glue, and had been slowly slipping out of place. The hot climate was probably a factor.

They really should have had someone to say ‘you can’t ship that’ when the topic of glue to hold mirrors came up.
Previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788029
*for wealthy folk who were spending $30K+ on a car anyway

Pretty much what I expected to see, nothing much under $30,000 talked about & as always nothing in the actually affordable sub $20K price range. Plus the usual talk of $7,500 in tax credits that won't benefit the average American who doesn't make enough to make use of them.

Its hard to see EV's going anywhere for the masses if they continue to require six digit home incomes to be affordable.
In my experience? For SPAs, it's mostly 1) bad use of the framework, causing way too many pointless DOM updates, and 2) doing lots and lots of network requests, and particularly blocking requests.

2) is a bit due to tracking, but usually mostly a consequence of the API-first design. Despite using a large and powerful framework, the app itself does very little locally, as anything non-trivial ends up being a blocking network request, or a burst of several such requests (usually not blocking the app itself, but almost always blocking the user from continuing until the requests are done).
What are you talking about lol. Windows mobile was before android and iOS. You’re seriously suffering from survivor bias. There’s was a very obvious path to success with Microsoft and mobile
Greg’s “Devs and Depression” talk many years back was a light in the middle of a very dark period of time in my life.

Having followed some of Greg’s work when I was doing developer relations, this particular post hit me closer to home than most, and is just another reminder of the caliber of people impacted by these cuts.

When I voluntarily left my job last year to refocus on my mental health for awhile, it was one of the harder decisions to make and I was an emotional wreck throughout the process. Having this happen suddenly is something I'm grateful I haven't yet experienced. Posts like this are a good reminder of just how personal many of these layoffs are for people, and I have nothing but empathy for everyone going through this right now.
I believe this "extreme behavior" is very valuable to you and I.

It sets the goalpost. Without defining privacy and standing up for it, the goalpost will be moved and pretty soon no privacy will be normalized.

It helps define things for employees of these companies. If people inside the company never have to deal with someone who values their privacy, it will never be tested. This also helps employees that actually value privacy and see what goes on inside.

It sets an example for others who value their privacy and don't know what they can do to protect it.

It prompts discussion. And hopefully laws.

As a related example, Richard Stallman might be controversial in his behavior (he doesn't use proprietary software, or use a phone), but years after he created the GPL it is pretty obvious he was onto something and has helped us.
Japan has excellent freight infrastructure, which in turn sustains the construction industry, because buildings are made of stuff. Turkey, well... Mexico is beating them.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/World_rai...
I'm biased as a Rust fan, but I don't think this is accurate. I think this impression comes from people who don't know Rust reading the release notes and assuming that the rate of new features must mean the language is full of old legacy junk that no one recommends using anymore. But there are actually very few things like that in standard Rust. (The old `try` macro and the `ref` keyword are two examples. std::sync::mpsc is maybe another.) A large portion of the changes have been fleshing out APIs and removing limitations, which arguably makes the language less complicated over time. "Nonlexical lifetimes" and "match ergonomics" are two examples of this, which each took a lot of work.
But still only as a 32-bit binary, in 2023.
Anecdotally, I stopped using TurboTax (after using it for 8 years) for 2 reasons. I was never confident that my tax situation was being handled correctly. The UI is noisy, the explanations don't explain. So I would buy audit insurance just in case. The second reason, it was slow and navigating between pages and sections was annoying. So now I pay a real person to do my taxes. It takes a quarter of the time, costs about the same as TurboTax + audit insurance, and now I now longer stress about taxes.
nice, the banana tapping to the bpm was a nice touch

https://peel.fm/1dd2e8a
Probably catharsis.
It certainly sounds stupid, but in the spirit of completeness this is forming a conclusion with insufficient evidence and part of a typical emotional response that makes people do stupid things.

We don't live forever, and sustained mass homelessness is arguably pretty bad too. If Turkey can't afford indestructible houses then maybe Erdogan made the right decision and it just happens that all the outcomes sucked. Although given the evidence in the article it does look like a catastrophe (20k dead for 350k housed sounds is a bad deal, albeit we can't possibly know that all 20k were from zoning issues) the news right after a disaster is usually highly misleading.
It's confusing to me why you think nationalizing the rail company would solve any problem. The government can't even keep us safe when it's telling the rail company what to do. In fact, the issue here doesn't seem to be "rail company not listening to government" so much as "government not listening to rail workers." So you think that same government - which just legislatively forced those workers back to work - can run the rail company, while complying with all the same (and new) regulations, and also not turning it into a loss-making operation funded by taxpayers in perpetuity (or at least as long as the country/economy still exists)?
It took me a while to understand it was not like a laser in the movies scaring me with a UV ray to kill the virus in my head/shoulders while I'm eating.

How much is the flow of air in the device? I'm worried it will not be enough to counter a moron that left the door of the private room opened.

Do you have info about how effective it is against the flu virus? For some reason people is not scared of the flu, but I expect that this year or the next one we will have more death from flu than covid-19.
Building a distributed RocksDB-based system is also a fun project... and practical, too! Large swaths of Facebook services are built on top of ZippyDB, which is basically "distributed RocksDB as a service"
I shudder when I look at the amount of pods / resources we use. Not only is it slow, but since the GIL makes python effectively single threaded, you end up instead with loads of separate processes / workers in many contexts, multiplying your need for RAM. And since you can't easily just spin up some background threads, you often end up with loads of different entrypoints also complicating the deployment.

At a previous company using the jvm, we used 6x t3.small instances at AWS to handle a much bigger load than what we now have 100+ pods handling in python.
I heard a story about a business that worked with a Chinese chip manufacturer once. They ordered 10,000 of a particular microprocessor and instructed the company that they would accept a maximum of 1 faulty chip in 250.

When the order arrived there were 10,000 chips, and an extra little bag with 40 more chips in it. The packing note said that they'd sent the faulty ones separately but weren't sure why they were needed.

It's likely apocryphal but having worked with some Chinese manufacturers I like to believe it.
Assuming that app didn't suck, I'd actually use it. Instead of actively avoiding anything related to podcasts in the music app because as soon as you accidentally interact with any of the podcast content that triggers it to start shoving it in your face even more.
From what I've heard, China also used to be like that, sending out cheap samples that didn't meet the specification, and the manufacturers there would tell you that they'd do it correctly next time, just for the same thing to happen again. But eventually they were able to do a good job. Give it time, Indian manufacturing is simply not as advanced as China's right now but it will be if enough investment is made.
Journey from a Developer IC to a Manager
In the United States, a room must have a closet to be considered a bedroom. If you want to build cheap housing, one way to lower cost is to not to have a closet, something that matters in high density housing. But then you can't market your apartments as having N number of bedrooms. That's a non-safety regulation that's quite arbitrary since prior to about 100 years ago closets were very rare, but many of the houses from then still stand. Mine's master bedroom doesn't count as a bedroom, dropping the value of my house considerably.
Why does this sound really familiar? Because it's very close to the Narcissist's Prayer [1]

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

https://www.thelifedoctor.org/the-narcissist-s-prayer
Nice to see this on HN, this is a big deal. I did research in 2021 to generate Far-UVC using nonlinear plasmonics.

The holy grail for this technology is a Far-UVC Diode. The guy who won the Nobel Prize for the blue LED (IIRC) is working with other physicists at UCSB to try and create said diode: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019949/uv-lights-way

If you want to learn more about Far-UVC itself (safety, etc), David Brenner is the real MVP:
http://www.columbia.edu/~djb3/
> Disclaimer: I'm not making claims or insinuations here, I've insufficient knowledge of Pharma to do so. I said "makes you think" for a reason, i.e. pure speculation, probably wrong

I don’t accept this disclaimer. “makes you …” is not a phrase people use when they’re trying to avoid implications or insinuations. the opposite, in fact, so much so that I’d say that it’s probably as often used seriously as it is humorously to mock conspiracy types who might structure an argument like that.

Disclaimer: I’m not suggesting that you’re making a conspiracy theory, or that I even disagree with your comment, just that the disclaimer doesn’t hold water