skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The tech economy is like the fabled sharks: needs to keep inventing hypes or it will implode

No, the tech economy wouldn't implode. It would just signal it had become an old, stable industry (eg automobiles). The so called tech economy isn't going away under any scenario, it underpins modern civilization across the globe, and that's only going to be more true in 20/30/50 years than it is already today.

The tech economy is a thousand times larger than it was in the mid 1980s. Despite one hype cycle after another. If your premise were correct, it would have ended a long time ago because it would all just be hype and it would inevitably collapse in on itself.

You've confused a necessary ingredient: venture capital investment, speculation, experimentation, some chaos, with thinking nothing good comes out of the process. The exact opposite is true, it's that very process that produces drastically more positive income and wealth than is destroyed in the inevitable pull-back of the hype cycle (whether it's gentle or a dotcom bubble style crash).

Should take a person less than a minute to grasp this, if they have any awareness of the extraordinary size of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor, Amazon, etc. versus the dotcom bubble days (for the equivalent style companies of the time), much less the 1980s.

The global economy (as well as the US economy) is now drastically larger. If you produce a successful product, your outcome can quite easily be drastically larger accordingly. The global economy has expanded in a truly massive way over the last several decades, and the tech economy has gone with it. It's not riding on false hypes, generative AI and the like are a itsy bitsy tiny little corner of the present scale of the tech economy. Go take a look at Microsoft's operating income over the last 30 years and tell me what you see.
You've never had to fsck a 10TB spinning disk then...
The real way to look at it is via the marginal revenue minus the marginal cost.

Generally speaking, it makes sense to keep hiring more workers if you're getting a net benefit from hiring each one. That being said, at a certain scale the organizational challenges may eat into your net marginal profit. (eg unclear ownership and diffusion-of-responsibility, more layers in the org chart making it harder for decision-makers to hear from the people actually doing the work, longer deprecation cycles, etc)

Hiring is hard and slow, so it's definitely possible that the other companies you used as examples were theoretically understaffed. (if you ignore the costs of hiring, anyway)
I still hear a lot about gas prices today to be honest. They are still quite high relatively.

But I think that is the largest failure of Core CPI to the point it makes it almost worthless. Is it more stable? Sure, but stability isn't great if it doesn't measure the right thing.
TabLib – Repo of 627M tables for training Large Data Models
I have one of your OpenBSD books right next to me, Peter! :)
Pardon my lazy shorthand. Dominant systems/players/schemes seem unbeatable until they aren't (typically related to the hubris associated with being dominant.)
It feels like there’s been more of these sorts of posts lately that seem to embrace writing in an angry/raging tone, to the point that as a reader it’s hard (for me) not to lump them into the same category as those facebook/instagram memes circa-2018-19 that all began with “So let me get this straight…” (i.e. hard to take them seriously).

Among other things it’s distracting and it makes some assumptions about the frame of mindset of the person reading it that may not be accurate, when you start pushing this stuff out to larger audiences.

Anyways, it’s a shame because it detracts from what otherwise would be a set of valid (if well-known and frequently posted) criticisms of agile.
Private Military Contractors like Blackwater/Xe/Academi/Constellis have indeed long been a lucrative and male-dominated field :)
I don't see what's wrong with .git/config. If anything, it's better because it keeps data close to where it is used. The only benefit to centralized config is that every git identity is in one place. But that may not be desirable, e.g. in the case you have MANY repos and identities.
This guy is telling me that capitalism has denied the world its next Buddha or Christ, and that that's a good thing?
380,000 is a couple FTEs for a year, right? I'm surprised that wouldn't have been enough to hire some moderation and legal experts for however long it would take to fill out a questionnaire.
Nope. We still have one of the most privileged jobs around with plenty of demand for our foreseeable life times. Just don’t let yourself become obsolete.
Criticism of the company has been done to death, but I'd be interested to hear criticism of the moderator actions. (I'm not even sure which actions you and the grandparent are referring to.)
My limited data says: “for some, for now”.
There are several Arm Chromebooks from Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, Asus, Hp, etc...

Beware of the amazon affiliate links but here is a list I found:

https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2019/08/all-chromebooks-wit...
Yeah, I can understand that it's quite okay from a maintainer point of view. But still, you have to moderate the Discord server, which in itself can be quite the hassle.

Imo we shouldn't have moved away from forums. Forums offer searchability, threads and allow community members to answer questions. Not sure why we collectively decided that forums are no longer cool.
Presumably this function would be disabled after the phone is unboxed and set up for the first time…

Phones have NFC readers so your statement is already true if you take paranoia to delusional levels.
According to https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency/ it doesn't seem like they support BAT at all.
Am I the only one that still finds SO to be quite useful? If I paste an error message into Google, it's still quite likely that the SO answer is the best one. And if it doesn't, I contribute an answer if/when I eventually find it because I still think I get more out of SO than I put in. I've received 21 necromancer badges doing that.
> women are less likely to die in childbirth

This one has been debunked many times. US healthcare attempts riskier births that would otherwise be aborted.
It seems like the amount of layoffs in engineering (so far) have been highly disproportionate.

I.E. - you have companies that are 70% product-engineering by employees doing a 10% cut - and only 10% of the cut is coming from product-engineering.

If it was proportionate - you'd see 70% of laid off employees being product-engineering - instead of 90% coming from recruiting, sales, and marketing - which only makes up like 20% of the company in the first place...

The rest of the economy seems to be doing fine. If recruiters and marketers and salespeople are going from "tech companies" to other companies and keeping similar wages - that doesn't at all seem doom-worthy.
To me it just feels like they’re trimming the min amount of oldest tokens in the conversation to stay under the token limit. Conversations don’t degrade in a way that feels like it has medium term memory.
Alternative title: Can you hide a child’s face from TikTok or Snap?
This might be the start of the recession. So many businesses out there with little to negative return on invested capital are looking at what happens if revenues decline and they need to borrow money in a "high for longer" interest rate environment. I don't think this one is just tech, but tech is a large part of the problem.
Foundational Ray Peat Interviews from 2016-2018 by Danny Roddy
Hello 20 ft. and 13 lbs, great if you could use the metric system to describe your aircraft :)

Also, in engineering it's pretty common to use it these days, even in the US.
Love your words. 1000 upvotes if I could.

For balance, the faster machines get, the more problems are most effectively solved by throwing the kitchen sink at them.
People can also tell if you submit within seconds.
If you're using Twitter to follow popular fellows, you don't really care about pay-for-reach.
We can’t even stop usage of it. It’s futile. Best case is to also invent ways of disabling surveillance.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230117192553/https://www.theat...
A book I think is crucial is Creativity, Inc. (the Pixar book). The most important piece of its perspective, I think, is the idea that managers can screw things up in a bajillion ways, and that it takes consistent work and focus to create an environment where people WANT to bring up problems, WANT to bring in ideas, and WANT to do their best work.

Another valuable book is Moral Mazes -- it's a tough read, but the takeaway is that managers are almost universally insecure, like INSANELY insecure, because they don't really produce something tangible, they produce the feeling of stability and predictably and (most important) loyalty in THEIR managers, and how the heck do you measure that? They're always one misunderstanding or failure to anticipate a problem or to quell some fussing away from being fired, or shut out of promotion. They exist in a terrifying state of status uncertainty. If they're not careful -- like REALLY, REALLY, affirmatively, pro-actively careful -- they'll create an environment where the people under them, who have front-line knowledge to bring, will suppress problems and avoid difficult conversations because they'll know how upset their manager will get. This can be incredibly costly. A good manager has to be brave, not just for themselves, but for those under them who need bravery to speak up. And that manager needs to go to bat every single time someone under them is right -- even if it costs the manager their job.

Of course, few managers understand this advice or have the slightest spine to stand up for what they (internally think they) believe in. It's much more common to find managers who deal with "the wrong person" under them having a good point (and feeling embarassed, or worried that a superior will feel embarassed) by covering for it by getting angry.
I'd say that authenticity is actually independent of values (maybe
you're saying that too).

A problem is that one could be an authentic mass murderer.

Bare authenticity alone is insufficient for moral good.

Indeed it may not even be necessary by some moral theories.

But, in saying I value authenticity, I am not claiming
to be moral or right.

I could very well be horribly wrong in everything I think about
technology - a monstrous throwback holding humanity from blessed
Utopia. Time will tell. Meanwhile "authenticity" remains a value I
aspire to.
Playing DS games splitscreen between your TV and gamepad is pretty great. As well as playing gamecube/wii games in your hands.

A shame the homebrew scene is only now getting into major swing with newer more convenient hacks.
Apple is an outlier because they sell hardware, which carries lower margins than pure software/information services. LinkedIn at $700k vs $1.5m at Google (perhaps one of the best business models ever) doesn't feel bad! For comparison, here are RPEs for other large successful tech firms:

- Oracle: $310k

- Salesforce: $416k

- Intuit: $830k

- Adobe: $645k

- Workday: $317k

- Meta: $1.5m

Studying these numbers confirms that Google and Meta are indeed extraordinary businesses. Which is not to take anything away from LinkedIn, as they operate in a different market.

More interesting is the hypothetical question: if you were in charge of LinkedIn, how would you prioritize achieving an RPE near the top of the industry against other priorities (perhaps such as increasing market share)?
LinkedIn confirms it will cut a further 668 jobs
the Fed does not care if your job pays well, they only care if it exists

a job at Chipotle is on par with a job at OpenAI
Yeah if you give it the dimensions of a standard gaylord (48x40) it tries to stack the boxes in a really strange way with smaller boxes occupying the space below larger boxes and causing some boxes to float. I wonder if additional metadata is needed such as (1) box weight (2) resistance to being crushed and (3) priority (not sure if this is relevant when shipping but it will decide which boxes don't "fit" on its own).
The numbers are cooked. Also, the last payrolls was

Full-time workers: -22K

Part-time workers: +151K

Indicative of the overall trend, which is net of jobs added since the pandemic is part-time workers. The quality of jobs gained is deteriorating
What I don't understand is why the board never calls for a significant paycut for the CEO alongside layoffs.
Filling in a regulatory questionnaire like this is amateurish at best and speaks to really poor governance and internal controls (not necessarily surprising here?). This this was a bank I’d expect the people involved to swiftly have departed well before this announcement.

This will very likely draw closer scrutiny of their processes and actual enforcement actions (a regulator being annoyed enough to issue a public fine in this, or really any, amount over a sloppy response to a routine sort of data gathering is quite unusual for any industry; people normally at least have the professionalism to put /some/ answers down. )
Anyone can have a vision, talk to people around the world in an instant, and find others who might align or be inspired by what you're doing. We live in a world where you can create a website, ship a product, post to a public forum whatever you'd like (short of some illegal things and even those there are places for better or worse to do so). There are no elites shutting you down, there is a wealth of technology that has made it easier every day for someone with no initial power to get influence.
I really want to love this manifesto. This is my one sticking point. Regulatory capture, monopolies, and cartels are the fatal flaw in this techno-optimism, and they break everything. Let's say I subscribe to this wonderful story Marc tells. Please tell me the purpose of government if it is not to destroy cartels and monopolies. They are every bit as bad as the government, which is a type of monopoly itself.
> What would a "good" tech economy look like?

Producing goods and services that real people buy and benefit from.
Fair enough. I tried.
I forsee a big surge in RTS and other strategic games once they invent something easier to use than a keyboard and mouse :)
I'm not sure what's confusing about the Apple Card's payment screen? It's a dial with clear markings for how much interest you'll pay at various points, and it strongly encourages paying off the balance so you'll pay zero interest.

The UI is, IMO, the best part of the service. It's lightyears beyond every other card I've used.
No it isn't. Not mentioning the differences isn't the same as acting like they don't exist. Those things are only treated as out of scope.

Not every concept must be expressed in language syntax / runtime objects, nor is necessarily it a good idea to do so. In many cases, it's a bad idea because it leads to fragmentation and compatibility issues. At some point, one has to stop making distinctions and treat a set of things things uniformly, even though they still have differences.

CPUs have various load and store instructions that all work with arbitrary pointer addresses. Whether the address is a good/bad/valid/invalid one will only turn out at run time.
There would be little point to make a separate copy of these instruction sub-sets for each kind of memory (however you'd categorize your memories). The intent as well as the user interface are the same.

I think that's basic software architecture 101. (Once you've left uni and left behind that OOP thinking where every object of thought must have a runtime representation).

Btw. C compilers allow you to put a number of annotation on pointers as well as data objects. For example pointer alignment to influence instruction selection, or hints to the linker...
Accounting measures aside, have you ever heard anyone express positive sentiment toward GS? They have negative (colloquial) goodwill in my book, although I'm definitely highly influenced by Buffett's summary of his experiences with them.
I've found this to be such a powerful thing in the workplace.

I work with some people who I almost always disagree with, almost like magic. But from that disagreement can often come better solutions than either one of us would have been able to come up with on our own.

It obviously doesn't work in every situation, and everyone needs to ultimately be on the "same team" and want a similar overarching goal, and everyone needs to know when it's time to back off and concede a point. But there's just something so powerful about working together to solve problems from completely different viewpoints that prevents anyone from getting too focused on some small part of a problem.
But there would be no clear way to tell which box was done, so you rely on proper inventory—or even when updating, to tell when it’s done, presumably.
"Enjoy the party, but stay close to the door."

https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/572952707788505088
Yes, anything in /home/user/projects/user-b/ and deeper will use the configured git config for that path.
Needs 2011 tag
What my friends think I may or may not enjoy is the only halfway reliable signal I have when it comes to identifying things new to me that I may or may not enjoy.

I hope they never stop telling me about them.
Just like they say "all real estate is local", so is it true that "all employment is industry-specific."

It's almost irrelevant what the broader economy unemployment rate is. For example, where I live there was actually pretty strong tech employment growth in 2008 despite it being a bloodbath for the broader economy.

Now, I happen to agree with you that there is still a strong need for tech workers (previous comment on this topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881705), but most of those jobs are at significantly lower salary for a lot of people. The fact is there is a glut of recently laid off tech people looking for jobs, and saying "ignore your own eyes and experience" is not helpful.
I LOVE this -- I've nearly pulled the trigger on solar drone builds in the past, this is everything I wanted and more.

Amazing work! Super excited to follow along!
The fact that that company even made it so far is quite of a mystery to me. The tech stack, the complete lack of understanding of how things worked in the real world, the occasional illiterate product manager, and many many other things made me quickly understand that it will go belly up in a couple of years.

Fast forward to today and i was absolutely right.
Banking isn't exactly Apple's core competency. I would regard it as diworsification, for sure.
in the old days, people were anthropomorphizing the forces of nature into persons doing battle; today "the elite decided" takes the place for incomplete thinking catch-all.. No - it is economic and legal systems that are competitive, shifting and unpredictable.. in other words, games run by game rules.. when one CEO won't do something, another takes their place, despite the personalities or ideas.. e.g. Shell Oil CEO in the early 2000s saying "we are diversifying our business to other energy sources" .. four years later, different CEO.

The treadmill of mediocre entertainment-oriented Grand Corporate Product Challenge is some combination of "wealthy visionaries are on vacation due to wealth" and "grifter consultants have quick ways to make a buck and are always availble" .. while "stock price uber alles"

it is undefensible in 2023 to say "the elite decided this" in any meaningful way unless the definition of "the elite" is expanded to a ridiculous degree, and even then .. no, they dont agree.. they bicker and push each other off the telephone post like seagulls do..
I have European debit cards. They get rejected in many Albert Heijn when Dutch cards (debit and credit) are taken. Jumbo takes foreign cards. Jumbo gets my (and a lot of my colleagues who pass though) business, AH not. Many restaurants take Dutch credit cards and not non-Dutch European credit cards. I went to a restaurant that takes Bitcoin but not EU debit (and Bitcoin transactions costs are much higher)

So if the fees on non-Dutch European and Dutch cards are the same, what explains this? Xenophobia? That is what my colleagues in Holland say.
FWIW, that's what the Pentagon spends in less than 3 days.
One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly judges forced to recuse himself
Brady teamed up with a con artist many years ago.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/20/who-tom-brady-f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Guerrero_(alternative_med...
As someone who wanders around the US and UK a bit, they're definitely not comparable.
> the easiest thing to do would be to create the part with the printer, then use it to form a mold for casting the part out of metal

This is definitely not true for parts that need to be closely toleranced. Lost-PLA casting, DIY mold-making, etc are manufacturing processes not world-renowned for their ability to keep things precise.
Article from February, but things probably haven't changed much: https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/16/apple-card-future-goldmans-sa...
You seem to assume that they would update them as they sell them—at the same time. I’m not sure how long the update would take, but I’m assuming longer than many customers would like to wait.
Resilient systems are rarely 100% efficient. Duplication of key infrastructure and roles maximizes uptime. While I'd bet LinkedIn suffers from large-scale organizational inefficiencies, each team probably is working to maximize resiliency.

Sometimes inefficiency can help retain talent. Sometime in the 1950s, Thomas Watson Jr., the second president of IBM, wanted to retain a bunch of employees at the Poughkeepsie location (which is still an important location for IBM to this day), but IBM didn't have enough work at the time to justify keeping them. According to the story, Watson told these employees to redo the flooring in a massive Poughkeepsie building (Building 012, to be precise) and to take their time. The tactic worked; the flooring was redone (think school gym flooring), and work eventually picked up again for those employees. I heard this story from long-time employees at the IBM Poughkeepsie location.
PhaseLLM Eval: run batch LLM jobs and evals via visual front-end (MIT licensed)
Pssh, grafana, and docker compose. Oh, ansible too
Why can't Stackoverflow create queues for questions?

E.g. beginners will help novices

Mid developers will help beginners

It's like that meme where top people help people below them come up
A weird (at first sight) thing about signal handlers - the kernel doesn't really know, or care, if you're running in one.

Which makes sense because signal handlers can nest, so ideally the kernel wouldn't have to maintain some state for each enter/exit of signal handlers to be tracked.

Instead, the kernel sets up the necessary conditions for things to act like a signal handler expects and puts some state on your the stack representing your registers, active signal mask, etc, plus some state to ensure a sigreturn syscall will run.

If you return from your handler, that'll take effect and your state is restored to where you were before. If you go into a nested signal handler, the kernel pushes another pile of state on the stack to return to where you are now.

You're free to change that saved state before returning - or just siglongjmp out of there and discard it, if you know what you're doing.

Libc is a lot more tricky about signals, since not all libc functions can be safely called from handlers. From the kernel's point of view, there's nothing magic about them at all but usually we're stuck with libc restrictions into the bargain.
> "left shift" your bugs

<< bug

Am I doing it right?
Always check protondb first. That will tell you how well the game works, and how to get it working. (I haven't checked what it says about RA2; there are games that really don't work.)

I actually thought the launchers (Steam and Heroic) would automatically take care of that, but that doesn't always seem to be the case.
Note that this is culturally-specific: it's the norm with US companies, I hear, but not so much in parts of Europe.