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Meta-question: Given how common :: is in programming languages, and how rare of a typo it is, is it really worth it for HN's title filtering logic to include a rule for automatically replacing it with a single :?
Clickbait headlines aren't anything new. While a better headline like: "How the Layoff Culture that Started in the 80s and Spread to the Rest of Wall Street is Actually Harming Business's Long Term Prospects" would be better, punchy headlines like this one spur clicks and conversation as seen by this thread.

I believe we took different things from the piece and I imagine you'd disagree with my better headline. I understood the piece to be telling a story starting with Welch and Dunlap of how layoffs as a way to improve numbers actually damage those same numbers in the long term.
He posts a few times a year at https://sourcegraph.com/blog
The industry norm is incredibly short tenures, and often when it starts increasing, it's paradoxically when the company is on the track towards complacency and eventual failure.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/why-googles-high-turnover-rat...

This isn't some Google specific thing. The cargo cult "look at our super exhaustive, endlessly demanding hiring process" is a farce everywhere. It's actually a bit paradoxical because it actually selects for employees who don't want to actually stay with you, they just want to be able to say they were willing to endure your gauntlet.
I think this vision is more ancient, but I don’t want to influence anyone to think one way or another.

I think this blog did a good job of trying to find different perspectives: https://dailynous.com/2021/02/22/philosophers-on-space-explo...

There are others who believe space colonization and exploration are unethical pursuits: https://vce.usc.edu/volume-7-issue-3/space-colonization-and-...

Here is a recent text, but I’ve not read it: https://www.routledge.com/The-Philosophy-of-Outer-Space-Expl...

In all such discourse, there is a danger of being convinced by poorly-reasoned and incomplete arguments, but if one adheres to principles of parrhesia, the conversation becomes more manageable.
Cue agenda...
The ISR environment is pretty saturated. Practically there's not much you can do to avoid detection.

I agree that mules / horses are better in certain situations, and not even considering cost. I believe even US 10th Mountain division still uses them
Nebula is mostly video, but also hosts a bunch of podcasts. I wonder whether they could be persuaded to expand their range of offerings to other media.
Australia ought to start paying tribute to China instead of USA and invest in chinese subs rather than USA ones which will never be delivered anyway
Anyone with a working memory of a couple of years remembers people like you who said a variety of excuses to the tune of "it won't be that bad", "you're exaggerating" and "it won't happen like that".

Of course, all of them were wrong. Short of WW3 between Europe and the US, many awful things that were predicted have come true. DT has severely weakened the USA, weakened the stock market, damaged US reputation and trust in the US army, dismantled many departments, put useless shills in most important positions, pulled out of Ukraine, stopped aid to Ukraine, sucked up to Putin, and turned it all into a country that most people in Europe consider a hostile enemy (myself included).

So. For the sake of your fellow citizens, quit the excuses.
By the late 1960s, software projects had finally reached a certain size, and the particularities of managing these large projects were discussed at NATO software engineering conferences, and codified by Fred Brooks in 1975 in the Mythical Man Month. The upshot being, software projects at corporations can't be run in the same manner as non-software projects. Yet at Fortune 500 companies today, and in the past two years that includes at least some of the FAANGs, you see them trying to run software projects and treating programmers in the same manner they treat non-programmers, and it doesn't work.

I just happened to watch some old talk or interview with Gabe Newell recently, and he said industry thinking at the time Valve was founded was of a certain kind, and Valve took the opposite approach from the industry - the industry was looking to get cheaper programmers, and Valve went the other way and looked for the most expensive programmers, and so forth. Valve has probably less than 400 people working there (don't know the 2025 headcount), but makes billions a year in profit.
Top performers have options and value stability. They also know that they rely on their manager to accurately reflect their work up the chain.

Some percentage of top performers report to deadbeat managers, so in an environment doing mandatory layoffs, they'll know that it doesn't matter how much they knock it out of the park, their manager will screw them. So of course they'll leave.
I had Claude prototype a few things and for that it's really enjoyable.

Like a single page HTML J's page which does a few things and saves it state in local storage with a json backup feature (download the json).

I also enjoy it for doing things I don't care much but makes it more polished. Like I hate my basically empty readme with two commands. It looks ugly and when I come back to stuff like this a few days/weeks later I always hate it.

Claude just generates really good readmes.

I'm trying out Claude code right now and like it so far.
Can confirm, POP/SMTP has been down since tonight (EU). Oh well, I take this as a motivation to finally move away from them.
It's just local maxima of utility. Not global ideal but pragmatic useful solutions. They could have delayed release for a century or two until a truly fair and open chip could be designed and fabricated, or you can get the chip today and complain about its pathetic proprietary nature along this long journey towards idealist heaven. The latter is way better.
Will there be next US elections?
You think Steve Yegge (author of the post) is a moron?
Login.gov's future uncertain amid government upheaval
Their used to be a system (which was created by a webcomic artist, though I forget which one) where ads could be sold in slots of time, completely independent of clicks. But it died a few years ago.
I really like the Twain quote.

With reference to OP; you'll notice on this site and elsewhere on the web, the best posts are very frequently of the form - "I just figured out this thing and I'm writing this blog post to share my experience while it's fresh in my mind". We could speculate on why that is but I imagine it's because they tend to be much more relatable and actually more helpful to anyone searching out how to do something for the first time. Since you'll likely directly address the questions an expert will have forgotten they ever had.
Maybe we disagree about what "profitable" means. Posting an authoritative source, so others can decide for themselves.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/twtr/financials/
What's "politics"? Any policy enacted by the US government? That's not how it used to work here.
Practical consequences of tokenization details
Maybe... but probably not. Having to divert investments from one part of the economy to another is not that much a big problem: Russia has been doing the same and they have an economy of war that works more or less (some say they are on the brink of collapse and yet, they are still there). So, Europe can totally rely way less on the US, they just have to change their priorities, and they'll adapt just as Russia has adapted. Thinking they cannot is really presumptuous, or even comptemptuous (and a lot of people have made the same mistake with Russia by the way). And yet, at the moment, the US think that way, not believing in soft power any more, but only in pure pressure or even blackmail. If history teaches one thing, it is that you always create your own ennemies (Versailles treaty comes to mind).
Is it wrong? The rest of the world is worse because Americans picked the current administration. I have a hard time articulating the reasons they shouldn't hate Americans in the abstract for their (our) selfishness.

Apply the same to hyper aggressive bees. The hive is the only thing dangerous, but you correctly say you hate bees, not this specific hive, or this specific bee.

I personally hate the (ficticious rhetorical) culture of the southern states because I disagree with their position and beliefs about human rights and other ethical problems. Am I wrong to do that? What nuance am I unable to see?
Nice one. I appreciate the humor. I t reminded me of an app I used to praise on my Nokia Lumia on Windows Phone, it was a simple Chael Sonnen wisdom app I could open anytime to get some quotes from the GOAT
This is a fantastic use of AI.
I don't know if I'm a top 10% employee, but I'll share how layoffs influenced my decision to leave a job of 5+ years. I started looking for a new role after they announced the layoff of about 200 people in my organization. When I finally got an offer, I kept going back and forth on staying and negotiating or accepting the offer. There were many other reasons why I left, but a huge factor were the layoffs. I just kept thinking, they already had layoffs, what's to stop them from laying me off next? It's also a crappy feeling thinking that you/your team can be on the chopping block at any time.
This is totally detached from reality.
That’s apparently where 200,000-250,000 Serbian refugees were expected to go after the war.

But my point is that NATO is a military alliance, to call it “defensive” is just propaganda as it has shown it can be offensive too. And there is nothing wrong with simply calling it for what it is, I believe countries should be able to form military alliances, but let’s not gaslight ourselves.
Don’t forget the F35s we all have.
awesome-embedded-rust is a really good curated list of embedded Rust learning resources: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust?tab=r...
Yes, that's why the U.S. wants to control Arctic trade routes from China to Europe.

The Ukraine war was "successful" in destroying the possibility of railways between the EU and China.

The EU, ever the good vassal, now ramps up the rhetoric against Russia which is exactly what Hegseth wanted in the open.

The EU is still playing the U.S. deep state script and it is very likely that all the Trump pressure and insults are carefully planned political theater.

If the above conjectures are wrong and Trump is serious about peace with Russia, then the EU needs to pivot quickly to China and at least maintain reasonable diplomatic relations with Russia.
No, that's not it. I'm writing this from rural America in deep Trump territory, and people here are already struggling and have been for years. From their perspective they've been left out of the benefits of the global economy—the big cities and the coasts might be better off, but the middle of the country wants to go back to when they had opportunities and jobs for working class Americans.

They're almost certainly wrong about the medicine, but their diagnosis isn't far off: globalization has not helped them as much as it's hurt them. Cheaper goods don't make up for dying towns.

Edit: Downvoting people who actually understand Trump voters and try to vocalize their needs and perspectives just silences the voices that could be used to shape a better platform for the Democrats next time. You won't win elections by fighting a straw man invented by your echo chamber.
I honestly think Trump is just impressed by Putin. Like he loves the power that Putin wields and likes and wants that. Trump has consistently expressed his admiration of unconstrained power in all forms. It's not just a Putin thing, though I think there is a little extra going on with Putin.

Otherwise, I think what Trump has said about Ukraine is more or less what he believes and wants. He wants there to be peace, quickly, so that he can be known as a peace maker. He wants to be known as the person who can do the undoable. His henchmen repeat it endlessly - "only Donald Trump could bring peace here". He does not care about the details for Ukraine, and he doesn't really care about the details for Europe - he's wanted to cut loose from Europe since the first term.

In addition, there's probably quite a lot of personal apathy towards Zelensky specifically.

Finally it's possible that his China hawks are also shaping his base tendencies to try to deliver a Russia-China split. But I don't think that Trump really believes in that, it's just the people in his admin trying to make something of this situation. And I don't really believe that even a peace favourable to Putin can deliver the type of split that the China hawks might dream of, at least within this term.
People stress about good system design because of maintainability. No one cares about binary code because that's just the end result. What matters is the code that generates it, as that’s what needs to be maintained.

We have not yet reached a point where LLM generated code can also be maintained by LLMs and the tooling is not there. Once that happens, your argument will hold more weight. But for now, it doesn’t. Injecting unreadable, likely bug-ridden code into your application increases technical debt tenfold.
>I’ve been told they are all paid

Surely he didn't mean all the people present there are paid. As far as I understand, when you want some initiate a political change, you pay influencers, and they actually go an convince/gaslight the masses about the need for change.

So all the people who were present there might not be paid, but a lot of prime movers and the require infrastructure might be paid by the interested party.
Breaking down corrosion to predict failure and design stronger materials
After Zelenskyy came to the White House with the intention of running the already-decided deal to the ground with some newly invented security guarantees not talked about previously, heavily expecting US to bend the knee to him is just out of place.

This is a completely bonkers take. You actually expected him to sign over an absurd mineral commitment with no agreed benefit for Ukraine? Just toss Ukraine up on the table to be sliced up by the US and Russia?

The US hasn't been remotely isolationist since at least the start of the 20th century. Once industrialization made the world small, isolationism became a myth. It's just a phrase used by people who want to shirk their duty.
The posted article was about research to cure blindness with stem cells. The top comment implied that such research was being defunded.

I asked for an example that was not about defunding research on transgender mice. The only examples provided were for research that was confused with transgender research.

So it seems that Doge is not cutting research for curing blindness and the like but only for transgender and some related-sounding other studies that were lumped in together, which will probably be sorted out in time.
Zelensky campaigning with democrats didn't help
Not sure about Canada, but Trump's actions will make a lot more sense if you consider that to American rightists, American leftists are a much bigger enemy than Russians. I think the same is true in the opposite direction. These 2 groups can't stand each other and often sabotage the other's efforts. We can put that aside and ask what's best for the world or America, but as long as there is this hatred between the parties in the US, both sides will act primarily against the other.
Why would another Republican President act any differently than Trump after they see how well that works? A majority of the US either doesn’t care about international affairs or they are actively isolationist.
The Gothic Mystery of Type Help
Hey, I've been hearing about this issue that programmers have on HN a lot.

But I'm in the more 'bad programmer/hacker' camp and think that LLMs are amazing and really helpful.

I know that one can post a link to the chat history. Can you do that for an example that you are comfortable sharing? I know that it may not be possible though or very time consuming.

What I'm trying to get at is: I suck at programming, I know that. And you probably suck a lot less. And if you say that LLMs are garbage, and I say they are great, I want to know where I'm getting the disconnect.

I'm sincerely, not trying to be a troll here, and I really do want to learn more.

Others are welcome to post examples and walk through them too.

Thanks for any help here.
The US hasn’t been isolationist since WW2, quite the opposite once we were relatively unscathed by the conflict and rose to the worlds #1 military superpower.
Top performers are generally pretty sharp. If they recognize the company is struggling and decide they have a better future elsewhere then that’s where they’ll go.
I got my teeth whitened and I was forbidden to drink coffee for a week or so. I thought the same that coffee was just a ritual for me, but apparently I got really weird (moody, annoyed easily) when going cold turkey, so I had to go to the pharmacy and buy caffeine tablets :) That settled it for me, that coffee does have and effect on me despite not feeling these "jittery effects" as well.
I always thought that the American Empire would be dismantled when it elected a leftist steeped in anti-imperialist ideology who wanted to better the world.

Nope, turns out that the American Empire is being dismantled by something else entirely. A subset of the populace that feels jealous of those with more and scared of social change, reacting to try to hurt their fellow country men? A megalomaniac leader who is somehow completely controlled by Russia? It's hard to get the full picture.
Playing only zero-sum games. A positive sum outcome, where both of us benefit, is inconceivable!
You're conflating moderators and reddit staff. OP was talking about actions of subreddit moderators, ie. unpaid volunteers. Your list of banned subreddits reflects the actions taken by reddit staff.
I mean, if any other country spent 700+ billion a year on corporate welfare to defence contractors they’d have some impressive tech too.

If nobody wants to buy any of that shit because of the knock-on effects of Trump’s self-sabotage and they start investing elsewhere, then those defence companies will sooner distance themselves from the US as well. Unless they’re in on whatever the administration is cooking up the money is still going to speak louder.
And the article itself appears to be making some logical leaps. It says it's getting its information from a Forbes article, but the information in the Forbes article is simply this[1]:

> But the Russian air force could sidestep the jamming by reprogramming their radars to operate at slightly different frequencies. Under Biden, the USAF team might’ve kept pace with Russian adaptation by constantly adjusting the AN/ALQ-131s own frequencies. Under Trump, Ukrainian airmen are stuck with pods whose programming may soon be out of date.

Some people were asked why this got flagged, by I think there's some justification for that given the fact that it's a misleading headline for an article editorializing another article, and that most people here used it as a jumping off point to talk about politics and not what was actually being discussed.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/07/france-to-t...
IIRC it has to do with tiling the globe. You can't correctly tild a sphere with swuares. On a local level, it seems easier to reason about squares on a flat surface, but the Earth is round and Uber is international.
> There were already calls that, now, with all brakes off, we can increase rather than curb spending on the welfare state.

I'm curious: Where can I read more about this? Which parties (and how many) are saying this? Is there any pushback from Merz?
Nothing interesting about Mars.

If the goal was Venus, or another cool(pun not intended) planet, sign me up!

Also, don’t want to live in some off world fascist dictatorship. The whole thing should be run as a Swiss style democracy. Don’t want to get purged out of some airlock for wrong think.
yes that's the general view of the minority of the US, that think there's anything to negotiate with criminals

Even Reagan had the right mind in this aspect
> And with that data you could say layoffs by themselves don't.

I think that is one inference too far? Layoffs may have saved some of those companies from bankruptcy. The Bain study is looking at share price performance and offers no data that would resolve that question.
After the war they seem to have realised the error of their ways. I note with the recent Musk salute Germany had the largest fall in Tesla sales, 80%.
This is precisely correct.

Briefly, the parts of the map that voted for Trump are largely known as flyover country. To oversimplify things, the people in this area have been neglected and talked down to by some portion of the political apparatus as far back as they can remember.

In some cases, the vote for Trump wasn't meant to be anything more than punitive. To get a rise out of the politically aligned groups that can afford to fly over and - literally - look down on.
Schools in Beijing will offer at least eight hours of AI classes per year
> What exactly do you think are so special about American made products?

They are more battle-tested than any other. America has been involved in a war or another pretty much continuously since the end of WWW2.
Yeah come on. Barroso, Draghi or Scholz were no better. Draghi maybe a bit better, Scholz way worse. But of course why look at facts when you have a simple narrative that allow you to not think.
I don’t understand how talented engineers can just job hop. I’ve spent 6 years at the current job, and while I feel safe and ready to try something new they’ve thrown so much RSUs at me (and their stock has done so well) that I stand to lose a life-changing sum of money if I just leave. People casually changing their jobs feel about as foreign to me as people who purposely seek a sense of meaning from their job. Am I thinking about this wrong, or is this just the “golden handcuffs” thing people sometimes speak of.

I often find myself daydreaming of, post-vesting, moving somewhere cheaper and getting a part time job at a coffee shop. Now that I’m largely out of survival mode, I dream of a life where I can just own a home and participate in a community without being stuck in a place that feels like one big ponzi scheme. I feel like any corporate engineering job is built to steal as much of that from you as possible.
I am not saying HFTs can't sell but there should be penalty for higher frequency. It means they have to craft algorithms which will take longer term view of stocks (and their fundamentals) rather than ignorance of other participants
I don't know whether it's a reason for size ("one market" isn't just about taxes, it's also about culture and language, and that's more different in the EU than the US), but it definitely makes companies more risk-averse towards expansion and disadvantages people with non-average backgrounds. The risk your CV suggests (e.g. mental health, unemployment, non-traditional career) gets multiplied if it's close to impossible to fire you.
"Trump is an alien impersonator trying to destroy humanity from within to make it easier for the aliens to colonize earth"

That is also a probable explanation for what's happening, if you believe in UFOs and aliens.

Sorry, I mean no disrespect.

As a non-american and non-westerner, it's absolutely wild to see what people are willing to believe when it comes to Trump. Surely, there's a more rational and simple explanation for what's going on ?
Read something of a similar bent here https://theradicalfederalist.substack.com/p/the-regimes-next...

Any suggestions on where in the world will remain relatively stable?
Time to move to the Extend phase :^]
There is no practical difference between

function useFoo(f: Foo) { f.Use() }
var foo: Foo
useFoo(foo)

and

func useFoo(f *Foo) { f.Use() }
var foo *Foo
useFoo(foo)

in this context. References vs pointers are equivalent here.
You can use vim via termux, which is nice when you already have things in version control.

Alternatively, may I suggest the DailyLog app in F-Droid?