skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Asked whether remote work has hurt productivity, (Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary) replied: “I found that it hasn’t changed anything because they don’t know anything else. Some of them just got out of college and started working out of their homes. They’ve never worked in an office. Basically what it changes, [is] project management.”
I can look at a blob of text and have an idea if it's worth looking deeper at in a glance, especially something structured like a recipe. I have to watch the video. That doesn't scale, and I frankly have better things to do than vet content creators via several or many minutes of inane video at a time, much less 'millions' of creators. In fact, the most efficient way I've found to find a new recipe that isn't a waste of time is to start with "ignore video sites" and "ignore influencer infested sites" (e.g. Instagram).

Not that everything on YouTube is crap, just most things. Sometimes seeing a video of someone doing something is the only way I can figure it out. There are many particularly useful videos of how to use complicated test and measurement gear. And tying knots. But the video isn't efficient enough for me to start there.
Eh, your analogy isn't apt. The problem in physics is that the space of possible theories has been searched so exhaustively that what these physicists are doing is just about the only choice.

To make your analogy close to physics -- imagine you found a unicorn horn and can tell from the biological makeup that it is indeed a horn grown from some sort of horse-like mammal. If you searched 99.9999% of the earth for animals that might have grown that horn and found nothing then the best thing to do would be to continue looking within that 0.00001%.

We can't figure out what comes after the standard model of particle physics. But we know it's wrong. e.g. we know black holes exist and something has to happen within them. But we don't have a theory that can predict what that is. e.g. we found a unicorn horn. So we have to desperately search for it.

Hossenfelder is right that it's shitty to have to keep pushing the energy boundaries in which we hope we'll see some interesting behavior. But there's literally nothing else to do. We've searched 99.99999% of earth and there's no unicorn. Do we start denying the existence of the unicorn horn that we're holding?
There's a common complaint among developers that they wished their PMs were more technical. When I started as a PM I incorrectly took this feedback to heart and leaned into my technical strengths. This was a mistake, as much less technical PMs who focused on people had much more success than me. I was exhausting myself understanding the technical details of the projects and aligning execution, when in some cases I was missing out on what the customer really wanted. It's great to be good at everything, but I'm not going to let myself get distracted from listening to what customers/partners have to say. And if you're a developer who thinks your PM isn't technical enough, you may not be correctly appreciating what they're bringing to the table.
> Unfortunate H-1Bs tied to the job.

Or we could reduce the hoops & cycle time for legal immigration. The US has an opportunity right now to cement itself as the leader in technology for the next 2-3 decades and stave off the impending population growth crisis if we could find a way to enable people who want to live here to live here.
"Read/Watch/Listen" are what you think you are doing. "Consume" is what the people who want to make money from you think (Entrepreneurs, Media executives, bloggers etc).
For the former, the instance you're thinking of is on _all_ the blocklists; if you're seeing it, you're on an instance that basically doesn't do blocking at all.

For furry stuff... I mean, you realise Twitter is full of it too?
pub fn phf_shift(x: u32) -> u8 {
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}
Not poke per se, but Jitter is intended to be a retargetable interpreter for other programming languages, so maybe.
Rust or some other good language should be the future of your software instead of just using it to prop up your JS/TS layer cake of spaghetti.

I get that many feel like it's sunk cost etc but every day I use the TS stack I lose a little bit of love for programming. Not to mention the huge chunks of motivation that get eaten up by yet another bullshit "build" system issue, or sourcemaps not working after upgrading X or Y or tsserver getting confused or Babel macro plugin garbage, etc.

Especially having worked with Rust, Kotlin, etc that you know.. work the way you would expect them to - hell, Java feels refreshing after Typescript.

I miss just writing code with tools that work well. Especially on the server where there is really no reason to ever use Typescript and yet everyone seems to think it's a wonderful idea and I'm the crazy one for suggesting there are better options.
Mostly it has to do with internally storing "objects" as Structures of Arrays (SoA) instead of the traditional object-oriented Array of Structures (AoS) for more parallelization opportunities with SIMD improving cache efficiency. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
Currently on Zillow, there are no homes listed for sale in Harrison, NJ for < $400k. The cheapest option is a condo listed for $419k. And it has a $440/month HOA fee.
Plumbers should get into the PaaS business (pipes as a service).
$300k is a very very good family income and is in the top 90% if not more. Even if you just got the job you should be able to afford a house. $1m for an old suburban house is very high for most places in the US.
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Very interesting to see Kurt assert theyre going to "solve managed Postgres", and I'm super curious to know what that means. Does it mean something like RDS, or more like CrunchyData?

I could see them building something RDS-like on their own, but if they're trying to go further than that I wonder if they'll buy or partner with other companies rather than doing it themselves. Neon strikes me as a Postgres-as-a-service that could pair well with Fly.
A TikTok Ban Would Make for a Strange Day on the Internet
I was referring to a book I read by a Brit who lived in Africa for 30 years. He wrote about an interaction where he moved to an African village and "went for a walk" through the village. The locals thought he was strange to walk for no reason and assumed he was looking for workers.
There is so only firing you can do and attrition you can handle before you have to start replacing staff .

Either he shuts it down at the point or he has to spend a lot of money .

IMO More likely he shuts down and blame any range of external factors were conspiring to take him down rather than accept he decisions were wrong
Step 1: for some reason, the world stops making computers, but keeps the ones that already exist

Step 2: 100 years pass

Step 3: computers are now an old (and dying) tradition, kept going only by a small group of people who understand how to care for the machines.

Was that so hard?
None of the services that they have had issues with in the recent past are new, they have been running for at least a couple of years. They would need to put a "beta" sticker on the whole platform for that suggestion to work.

But the post makes it clear that the issue isn't that they had problems with new services. It was rapid customer growth before they had time to scale up the infrastructure as they had planned to do.
Funny how Cities: Skylines 2 got announced after I’d commented on this earlier
No, PyPy isn't fast enough for these workloads (again see my comment, I tried)

v8 isn't fast enough either, and it's basically a Rube Goldberg machine maxed out in code complexity right now. It probably 2M lines of code, with multiple interpreters and compilers. They're lucky if they can improve metrics 5% -- things aren't getting 100% faster

With JITs, both JS and Python runtimes are still ~10x too slow, as opposed to ~100x too slow without them.

They also offer you approximately zero control over memory, and as a result use ~10x more memory. This can certainly matter even for a tool running along aside your editor on a desktop
2 full time bodyguards to protect Elon from employees when he goes go to bathroom

0 engineers to prevent this from happening
Yeah, it's certainly a problem and isn't unique to any particular online multiplayer game. It's why I stopped playing online multiplayer games unless it's just with my friends.

There are too many people out there who make it their mission to ruin other people's fun.
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I believe this refers to the Entity Component System.
That money could just as easily pay for scholarships at public colleges. Why is it important that they donate to generational private schools instead of public?
smaller:
pub fn phf_shift(x: u32) -> u8 {
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Another reason: some people enjoy the work environment that is promised at the "New Twitter."

Clearly not for everyone given the amount of opting out and controversy.
>so I can buy a fancy car

You're assuming that everyone's goal in life is to be happy as defined by material comfort or hedonism but that's just not the case. There are many non-hedonistic things that are enabled by having money (philanthropy and venture capitalism of various forms, freedom of various forms, sense of security, etc.)

For such people, because hedonistic happiness is a worthless commodity, trading it for money, and by extension all the non-hedonistic things that money can buy, is a very favorable transaction.

It's easy to see why earning more money by sacrificing comfort doesn't make sense to someone who considers happiness as their goal in life -- it's a longer route to reach the same point.
The "weird nerds defending Elon Musk" meme gets more true as time goes on.

https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/101855884867059302...
Very nice, I didn't know this existed. Will give it a try.
Suggesting that the conclusion is telling homeowners that their asset is now "worthless" is extreme hyperbole. Homeowners live in their house. You need only apply the same metaphor from the article. Nobody might be willing to pay money for my couch, but I still keep it in my living room and use it.
Try to check the archived version at https://web.archive.org/web/20230306165643/https://memgraph....
What do you do when you cash out though, live in a van? Any house you'll then buy will be at the same price level.

And yeah, sure, you'll be down 500k in nominal value, but you'll exchange one house for the value of another. If that's 500k or 1m doesn't really matter, if you've lived in that house, you'll need another place to live at. Of course this changes drastically if it was a house you bought only for investment purposes, with no intention of living in it. But at that point, it's pure speculation, and I don't see why we should protected that asset class more than stocks or baseball trading cards.
I spent so many hours hunting for cool bits of real world terrain and then massaging them into playable scenarios for myself (it's a lot of work to smooth out artifacts in the data and then add functioning water, vegetation, initial road connections, etc.). I don't know what the licensing concerns for the elevation data and maps would be, but I hope they consider integrating this functionality directly into the game in the future.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Just relating my experience. I've found the ESBuild plugin ecosystem to be quite mature and blazingly fast. Any additional speedup of SWC wouldn't be felt as the startup overhead of npm to do `npm run build` dominates whatever time ESBuild spends.
There is no need to look for heterodox explanations. There are clear economic and political factors explaining why there is a housing shortage and why such shortage causes raise of prices.

Vetocracy and NIMBYism is something that is deeply embedded to modern western society. For larger housing developments, getting permits can take several times longer than actually building it, can be attacked at courts by almost anybody and significant improvement would be blocked by zoning anyways. That essentially caps housing supply in popular places, which means the price is determined just by demand (i.e. wages and mortgage rate), which grows fast in booming areas.
Good. I've long thought three is about right, as far as what we as a free society ought to be aiming for. Fewer than half of one's days dominated by work [EDIT: for someone else] and autocratic bureaucracy.
Alternatively -- don't take on debt for an acquisition incommensurate with an acquisition-target's capacity to service that debt.

Musk's cost-cutting may yet pan out from a business perspective, but it seems to be a pretty risky move.
You can't code in Rust by just trying things and seeing if they work, you'll get very frustrated. This approach works for learning other languages but you'll hit a wall with Rust. Gotta read the book.
Cheeky answer: I sure can! And people like it!

Real answer: Bevy is already very featureful, but we have a long way to go before we can start making "stable api guarantees". Locking things down right now would prevent us from achieving the best apis we can. We are building the engine in the open and people will naturally still take dependencies on us, even under these constraints. We are very careful about our messaging / provide warnings in the appropriate places.

In practice, migrating between versions is generally pretty straightforward and we provide migration guides to help the process. The dust is already settling on some of our APIs / they're starting to feel "stable". Many people (and companies) are happily building real products right now in Bevy (and porting them across versions).
This comment still has no content in it other than "this is how it is" and "trust me bro". Do you have anything substantial to add? Do you have any reason to refute anything I said?

It doesn't matter if you're Amazon's ML expert or the world's best surgeon or a barista if all you do is make an unsubstantiated statement and give your credentials.
1. I was referring to walking as recreation, not walking in general (not sure how people missed this)
2. Body parts don't have a "purpose" unless you believe in a creator-god.
A lot of this work you can diy it just seems intimidating. You can absolutely rent a digger and do your own pipe. You can also to your own roof. It’s not really worth it if you make 200k a year but if you make 50 it is.
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> just have to make the effort to look.

That is the problem, people aren't going to take the effort to look.
@nietzsche "give me the sound of your true hammer?"

@canselfself, my hammer's soul echoes through the universe. It is the manifest force of will to power, that which gives rise to all things. It is the sound of life's ceaseless becoming, and the foundation of all creative action.
The Fail Whale hasn't been used since 2013.
This usually means that data is organized in ways that are friendly to cpu cache, instruction parallelism, and multithreading. Lining up data in arrays, arrays of positions instead of arrays of objects each of which has a position, and so on.

Usually this is done via an entity component system.
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I completely agree, and it's true more for Skylines than the old SimCity games. The "simulation" aspect is lacking in respect to developing different kinds of neighborhoods. I spent a lot of time in Skylines modding and creating custom neighborhood sets that could emulate various levels of density or socio-economic status. But that's the doll house approach, it doesn't emerge from the simulation. At least in SimCity 4k you could create distinctly rich and poor neighborhoods and the factors that led to those neighborhood types were reasonably well-simulated.
> 'consumer' is a higher abstraction than either of those

In the old days, we called those people the "audience".

What your audience hopefully does with your work is "learn" or "be entertained".
Edit: i was a dunce and explained data-driven, which it also is, but is not what you asked.

Bevy is data oriented due to its ECS: roughly: which data an entity has attached to it decides which behaviours are run. Want something to have a health bar? Just attach the Health { current: 50, max: 100 } struct and it will have all associated behaviour like being able to take damage. Want to make it invincible again? Just remove the Health struct.

This is different from OOP engines, where you might need to keep an is_invincible boolean around to check against.
Same idea as every restaurant I've worked at, though some were smaller.

But yeah basically high pressure hose + conveyor belt.

The dishwasher's job was mostly to scrape and spray everything beforehand, pull forks out of the trash, etc. Some glassware had to be done by hand, too.

You're supposed to let the dishes cool before using, but in practice they went out almost immediately. Could cause problems if they were chilled rapidly, hot glasses used for sodas with ice, etc.
Hm, I'm not sure how that answered my question? Although I see you are not the GP poster, I'm interested in your answer too, sure.

I figure people are motivated by different factors at work, in different proportions.

I could guess what you meant by that sentence, but I might get it wrong, and then where would we be.

But ok, are you meaning that sentance to suggest that what gets you going in the morning, what makes your job tolerable or pleasurable to you, is exclusively maximizing your income, and that you think this is the way everyone should be, because... uh... I'm still not sure how to relate that to your sentence/question/rhetorical question, honestly. Like, if your organization is interested in helping you achieve your goals, then are you motivated by something other than maximizing your income? Or still just by maximizing your income, either way? Are you telling us that your goals at a job consist of maximizing your income, and that's it? And this is true either way, regardless of whether the organization is interested in helping you achieve that?
When I see low-code, I find myself looking for the Visual Basic of Web. If I could drag and drop a few pre-made controls (including a database control), double click to handle a few events, and have a CRUD app, I would be thrilled.

Unfortunately, I still have not found that yet.
A restaurateur who only makes money because they own real estate seems like a landlord with a side hobby.
Expert prompt crafting!
Instead of Seattle? What's the catch?
I've written haskell that interfaces with hardware. I've also done real time video processing with C++ which is magnitudes of more data then audio.

This by the way is 15 color cameras of extremely high resolution video so it's not trivial. At this level of data you can't expect real time performance without a GPU, so I go straight into CUDA for massive parallel processing performance.

You can think of each pixel in a video as 3 channels of sound, multiply that with HD resolutions and you have thousands of channels of sound flowing through the system at the same time in REAL TIME. 15 * 1080p * 3. Our pipeline also involves real time ML model processing and object tracking all written in C++/cuda.

This of course is across hundreds of similar edge devices all which feed relevant data into the cloud for further processing.

I am not an FP extremist. I work in systems programming which is pretty much the opposite of FP. I am simply stating a specific point here in that I think audio programming for FP can work. I respect the authors comment and I left it at that, even though I'm positive it's possible to write an FP language/framework that handles this specific use case of writing daws. It's basically a massively parallel streaming framework not so dissimilar to what I work on.

The actual processing is easily a functional issue, and the low level memory details can definitely be abstracted away. In fact, it's LARGELY what a daw is when you think people who write plugins.

What really pissed me off about your comment is the superior attitude. Like the "learn how to respect the experts NEWBIE". Seriously I hate shit like that. Who the hell are you?
We could even begin with a concept of mixed zoning that's so standard in many world cities. The usual "stores on the street, apartments above" design.

(I was really surprised that actual USA is building cities the same way SimCity modeled - with complete separation between commercial and residental areas).
You're letting something irritate you that's not wrong.

It's like getting mad when someone says "I had noodles for lunch" when you know perfectly well they had /spaghetti/, and if they'd said /spaghetti/ you could get irate because they actually had /ragu/ spaghetti (meat in the spaghetti sauce).

Using the abstract word it still "fine" if that's the level the speaker wants to give.
Assuming that you are correct that things are breaking more at Twitter (which I'm not sure is accurate to begin with), how do you know that is due to "lack of engineering talent" and not due to higher pressure to deliver features?

As anyone who has operated a software system knows, the #1 reason things break in production is new code, and from a third-party observer with no inside knowledge it certainly seems like more changes are happening at Twitter than ever. This is orthogonal to layoffs, though.
Thanks - we changed the URL to that from the submitted URL https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/. (Submitted title was "Tweetdeck is now broken for normal users")
At some point it would if no teachers would work in Seattle
I think that's a common misconception. If you dig into those numbers you'll probably find a regulatory burden that is not actually gone, massive local pushback on development, or a cost structure that still doesn't work.

California refuses to learn the lesson that throwing money at a problem doesn't just mean it's fixed (see: the high speed rail).
I have absolutely no knowledge of how well chefs in Seattle are paid, but I've heard from elsewhere that operating a high-end restaurant is far from a money machine.

Head chef, unlike senior software developer or something, is a job that doesn't scale much. A rock star chef in a posh neighbourhood is only so much more productive than a mediocre chef in cheaper neighbourhood so, economically speaking, the salaries are not expected to scale all that much.
Charter boat captains don't have to share location with government, court rules
You absolutely need to learn Rust first. Bevy uses it's full feature set.
Which makes it sound like the watch fell, not me
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>they work harder jobs than me

What makes it harder? Could they do your job? Or do they miss the bar for doing the level of knowledge work that you do?

This "they work harder" cliche is really tired. They might work hard but they're easily replaced. You are likely not, and even more likely, they wouldn't be able to do your job. If you really feel so bad, donate some of your money to them, otherwise it's just empty virtue signaling.