skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean if looking directly at the market for job prospects yes, if becoming a good engineer and being able to excel in those roles it's a different thing - at 14 exploring various technologies is not only beneficial but also enjoyable.

Also Lisp is far from an "esoteric fad language", it's been around since the 1960s, has both ISO and ANSI standard dialects, and has some significant usage in industry. Like COBOL most of the companies that use Lisp are using it in specialized situations (I would argue this is similar for most functional languages). I feel like it's not talked about as much as COBOL because for COBOL specifically there is a market demand to maintain legacy systems that outstrips the supply. Because of this the role of maintaining these systems - at least historically - paid very well.
Interesting argument, but misses how modern culture abstracts and distances violences.

If you included people being starved and denied healthcare for "economic reasons", and also the number of deaths from avoidable illnesses caused by promoting harmful and/or addictive products for profit, the numbers would be less reassuring.
LOL yeah this really paints them in a positive light. If this is the best resource you have for how the Nazis propagandized their concentration camps (this is literally right after the earliest ones opened so you would expect whatever propaganda to be as strong as possible then) as “luxurious” then I’m going to land on that not being the case.

> At most of the camps privileges are few. Major Kauffman, head of the big Heuberg camp in Wuerttemberg, said his prisoners were allowed to write one letter a month. There are no visiting days there.

It literally even calls them political concentration camps in the article.
Trump awards Boeing much-needed win with fighter jet contract, sources say
[0] suggests (without a useful link and my searching has not found one) that Heathrow is doing 460GWh annually. Presumably[1] that equates to 1.25GWh daily (which could be where the 1-2MWh/day came from - a simple unit error)?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-21/heathr...

[1] I know precisely nothing about power consumption of large systems but dividing the annual figure by 365 seems plausible.
Part of being a manager is to be proactive in trying to retain the good people. Increasing their visibility within the leadership and across the organization, paying keen attention to their career goals, selling these goals in advance to your manager and others within the organization, clearing hurdles that may be affecting their work etc.

And most importantly, plan for their departure. Do you have any internal candidates to take their position? What would it take to hire somebody and bring them to the IC's level?

When they finally decide they want to move on, you have hopefully laid the groundwork to keep them at the company (they move to a different group with an opportunity that matches their ambitions), or you don't have the arduous task of replacing them all of a sudden.
> The one piece of discussion or attempt at a systematic approach I've seen to 'synchronisation' recently is to do with Conflict-free Replicated Data Types https://crdt.tech

I will go against the grain and say CRDTs have been a distraction and the overfocus on them have been delaying real progress. They are immature and highly complex and thus hard to debug and understand, and have extremely limited cross-language support in practice - let alone any indexing or storage engine support.

Yes, they are fascinating and yes they solve real problems but they are absolute overkill to your problems (except collab editing), at least currently. Why? Because they are all about conflict resolution. You can get very far without addressing this problem: for instance a cache, like you mentioned, has no need for conflict resolution. The main data store owns the data, and the cache follows. If you can have single ownership, (single writer) or last write wins, or similar, you can drop a massive pile of complexity on the floor and not worry about it. (In the rare cases it’s necessary like Google Docs or Figma I would be very surprised if they use off-the-shelf CRDT libs – I would bet they have an extremely bespoke and domain-specific data structures that are inspired by CRDTs.)

Instead, what I believe we need is end-to-end bidirectional stream based data communication, simple patch/replace data structures to efficiently notify of updates, and standard algorithms and protocols for processing it all. Basically adding async reactivity on the read path of existing data engines like SQL databases. I believe even this is a massive undertaking, but feasible, and delivers lasting tangible value.
From the source (and https://bsky.app/profile/taylor.town/post/3lkl4rbfmnc2e):

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Because F** you that's why.
The article goes a lot into puzzling about the ancient past, but we have the last few centuries of descriptions of Europeans meeting hunter-gatherer bands. In virtually all encounters they lived peacefully. Where there was violence they were already agriculturists, or had European loggers who were trying to kill them.

I don't understand the discussion of psychopathy. The New York Times had an article about how Netanyahu had the Mossad head urge the Qataris to bankroll Hamas in mid and late 2023. Now both US political parties celebrate the destruction of all of Gaza's hospitals, the further invasions of Syria, Lebanon, Yemen etc. The killing and starvation of Gazan children. This is just normal American behavior. Look at Trump. The majority of Americans elected him because he is a reflection of what America is.
Are more people using it more often driving up costs and there are pressure on some managers to reduce said costs?
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That might be what we need, or not. But we do need to look at different approaches and figure out something better.
What's the percentage?
> indicating a complex balance between war and peace among our ancestors

this is a deeply interesting article, but the insistence on homogenizing cultures in the name of objectivity is excessive. Obviously hunter clans conflicted with culture-trading clans and in fact made them captives systemically. War clans defeated and captured other war clans as slaves. The article speaks in a false monotone about "levels of violence"
I feel like if you build that extra capacity it will immediately get used and you will still have no extra capacity in these situations. An airport holding extra capacity feels like it's just burning money given the demand.
The cynic's version of the Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules." If universities are going to be dependent on federal money, they have to dance to the tune the federal government called.

We see that as a negative now, when Trump is calling the tune. But that does raise a question: How much of the liberalism and DEI at colleges was because that was the tune the feds were calling at that time? How much of it wasn't the universities' own desire?
This is a fantastic comment, I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment on Angela Ahrendts. What was once a magical experience going to a apple store has devolved into a nightmare. A few reasons why:

- The complete removal of spontaneity of the shopping experience. You wander over to look at a laptop and decide you want to buy it. Asking a employee is disagreeable as most have a ear bud in their ear receiving instructions or messages from who knows what, they hurriedly ask if you made an appointment or placed the order online and then rush away and sometimes return.

- Such a heavy emphasis on online booking for every conceivable issue. If you want a genius bar appointment you are angrily told you need an appointment and such an appointment is only available days or weeks away and at a inconvenient time for someone with a 9-5 schedule(Tuesday at 2pm work?).

- Last years accessories are gone. Try finding a iphone case that was made for a phone you bough 7 months ago and an employee looks at you like you are trying to buy a model T - (Wait you are looking for a iphone 15 case, wow thats a really old model, I don't think we have anything for that anymore).

- Insane levels of crowds, I can't think of the last time I saw a apple store open in the past 6-7 years that didn't have crowds inside the store like disneyland with service dogs, screaming kids and grumpy boomers yelling about how to transfer their grandkids photos from a phone to computer, just a terrible experience to deal with.

I bought the first iphone in 2007 and have had a model for almost every two years and have been going to the apple stores since then, and the past few years have seen a huge drop in customer experience due to alot of the issuses I listed above.
In my experience:

1.) As a manager I was working tactically to facilitate the day-to-day plans of my leaders. I also functioned as a buffer between those leaders and my direct reports. I typically made a decent bit LESS than my direct reports as I was management, not development.

2.) As a director (I was responsible for an entire main product) I developed, negotiated, and implemented a long term (1 - 5 years) strategic plan for a product. I primarily interacted with team/focus managers and the directors of the company (Prez, VPs, etc.) to further those goals. I made considerably more than my direct reports and had options as part of total comp.

3.) As a (junior) VP I primarily did coordination between product line directors and the operational heads (EVP, Prez). Focused on long term corporate strategy which tended to be much more about finance than about product. Dealt a lot with VC/investor relations, corporate partnerships and market positioning.
I'm not trying to make light of your experience, and I do appreciate that you care about people you have to look after deeply.

However, I also don't think what you described is professional with respect to being a manager. A manager's job is to balance the interest between stakeholders and their reports, make sure things happen as promised (and adjust scope when promise can't be met), and make sure everyone in their team grows (skill, remuneration, etc.).

> Cancer/long-term illness, death in the family, miscarriages, etc all weigh heavily on my mind when something happens to one of my direct reports.

These are not things that would affect you from being a good manager. That's just part of the job of being a manager. It's a different kind of problem, it's not necessarily heavier problems. It's unhelpful, or even narcissistic, to think that you're actually quietly taking on more burden for everyone without being appreciated.

You should absolutely have empathy as a manager, but if your empathy is weighing on you instead of enabling you to be a better manager, then you're probably not doing a very good job as a manager.

> Not asking for pity, but being a manager has a heavy emotional toll if you have even the slightest bit of empathy that I don't think most ICs appreciate fully.

I disagree. That's just an excuse of not doing what you should be doing as a manager: manage things. See above.

If you are an empathetic person, if you work in a team where people have/had "cancer/long-term illness, death in the family, miscarriages, etc.", then it's emotionally just as taxing whether you're an IC or a manager. In fact, if you can't manage your emotions and get what needs to be done done (damage control, repriortization, etc. to get things shipped), then you're not doing your job as a manager.

Edit: feel free to downvote if you don't agree but much appreciated if you also leave a response to say why you disagree. Otherwise, I hope you feel good "punishing" people just because you feel differently but don't actually have a concrete argument against.
Waste it how? By spending it? By participating in the economy? Thereby turning it into someone else's income?
I visited the Barnes before it moved from its original location. It is a truly stunning collection of art. There was a very public fight over the relocation of the museum, which fortunately was resolved and the collection preserved. Of all the great works of art Barnes collected, my favorite is "The Joy of Life" by Henri Matisse https://artincontext.org/the-joy-of-life-by-henri-matisse/
Also you might enjoy reading this

https://web.archive.org/web/20160826003417/https://medium.co...
You should calculate the battery parts again. I'm currently installing mine in Germany and the cost parity is getting close.
Doesn’t most of the cost come from pumping all the water uphill from ocean level?
Pickle still is good for custom objects (JSON loses methods and also order), Graphs & circular refs (JSON breaks), Functions & lambdas (Essential for ML & distributed systems) and is provided out of box.
EU to take action to protect children from harmful practices in video games
It looks like he's posting on his blog and maybe it cross-posts to linkedin:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-needs-a-new-asshole-in-charg...

https://world.hey.com/dhh/age-is-a-problem-at-apple-f7ae6eca

https://world.hey.com/dhh
Alexa sold 500 million devices. Before layoffs, they had 10K staff doing something. Their LLM product recently launched and is rolling out soon, lead by former head of MS Surface.
Life will survive what humans have done. When our numbers are dropped substantially by many C's of climate change a lot of wildlife will be able to repopulate and survive although much wont because it will be too hot for correls and many other species. We are taking many species with us every year at the moment, its a mass extinction event, but even if we fire all our nuclear weapons we wont wipe out all the land animals and fauna. Its not just humans being put in jeopardy by what we are doing but it ought to be enough to get off this maybe extinction path.

1.5C done, Onwards to 2C, should hit it before 2030.
What do you mean by wasting it? Is there a particular aspect of an outcome of a UBI study that you worry about?
I have started using “u” in my posts as there are a surprising number of sites that block or delay for approval posts that use “you”. They seem to feel that posts with “you” are too often inflammatory. It is very frustrating when you use grammatical “you” as I just did and suddenly your post is stuck in limbo.
Unlike the wealthy which spend money on useful items like golf courts and investment funds, the significant non-majority of the population wastes it on groceries and rent.
I moved from IC to manager to director. Meetings in general are a huge time suck, and by the end of my tenure, I was basically triple-booked for the entire day every day. Every evening was an exercise in deciding who to piss off. And the emails! <Marvin/Android Voice>Don't get me started on the emails! :-) Finishing the twilight of my career as an IC consulting, and it's much better for me.
It's still weirdly hard compared to Android, though. It somehow makes decisions about whether to snap to different words or lines when you release the cursor, and I still don't understand the algorithm it uses for that, and I wish it just wouldn't.
C-level - sets highest level strategy (We're going to the moon!)

VP - Tells directors to work faster

Director - Tells managers to work faster

Manager - unblocks team

ICs - do real work
That's not how the CRDT concept works.
Isn't that the definition of sadism? I thought psychopathy was defined by lack of empathy. (Obviously the two go together nicely, but this doesn't seem to be strictly necessary.)

I met a man who claimed to have no empathy, but was otherwise normal. (He called himself a psychopath for this reason.) He said that he felt he was lacking something important about being human.
You already answered #2 with #1. The standard will be gamed.
Why are they calling it GMI instead of UBI now? Is it because all the UBI studies showed, yep, it doesn't work so they need a new name? I really doubt the slightly different accounting scheme will make any difference--after taxes are considered there's not any difference between UBI and GMI.
Most militarily-significant targets are themselves non-military.

The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine is a prime example: power infrastructure, transportation, communications, commercial hubs, healthcare, and general civilian targets of opportunity are all targeted with high frequency by Russian forces.

UK national security interests are spelled out in summary beginning on page 5 of this PDF, "Government Functional Standard: GovS 007: Security", notably

Each organisation’s governance and management framework shall cover physical, personnel, cyber, incident management, technical and industry security

<https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/613a195bd3bf7...> (PDF)

The US electric grid has also been of significant concern. Ted Koppel's book Lights Out (2015) addressed this specificly:

<https://news.wttw.com/2015/11/09/ted-koppel-americas-vulnera...>

As an example of non-military focus, the present US national security policy leads with ... tourist visas:

To protect Americans, the United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those aliens approved for admission into the United States do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.

<https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...> (20 Jan 2025)

An earlier document from the Bush II White House leads with:

People everywhere want to be able to speak freely; choose who will govern them; worship as they please; educate their children—male and female; own property; and enjoy the benefits of their labor.

<https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/nssall.html> (2002)

Wikipedia's National Security article notes:

Originally conceived as protection against military attack, national security is widely understood to include also non-military dimensions, such as the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security, and cyber-security.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security>
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Contraction of donkey's years, a common en-GB idiom for a long time. Good reference though!
Ya'll be reading way too much into a potential management or leadership style based on one comment about what I specifically took away from the OP and how it affected me specifically. If anything, the vibe I'm getting back is that you're the types to make strong judgements based on single sources absent broader context, which is not something I'd want in either an engineer or a leader above me, as it demonstrates a degree of inflexibility or unwillingness to be wrong. The one above you at least challenged me in a way I could respond to, rather than resorting to an insult masquerading as critique based upon one comment.

Take your own advice:

> Genuinely like ppl around you from your heart ( not fake it)

Folks who genuinely empathize with others aren't quick to resort to anonymized slights based on limited information, in my experience. Rather, it's the fakers who all too quickly devolve into brash and flippant comments when they feel they're safe behind some sort of shield. I'm aware this is a bit hypocritical on my part saying it this way, but sometimes you gotta wade into the mud to make your case.
If you're watching for entertainment and, importantly, they're not selling you courses or a project they have a vested interest in, I wouldn't worry much.

Remember to take them as another perspective, not a source of truth.

The most problematic influencers are the ones who have pivoted to selling courses. If you find yourself thinking about dropping hundreds of dollars on someone's video course, spend a couple days reading free learning materials first so you can realize that it's almost always not worth it, no matter how much the smiling cheerful influencer pretends they're only trying to help you.
Moore's Curse
Decimal system is simply a notation chosen by Humans to communicate and preserve information, it’s not a Law of Nature.

Also you use a circular reasoning.
The way the conversion is done here, different sudokus produce different graphs. Besides the regular sudoku graph structure, there are nine additional nodes, each corresponding to one number. They are all connected to each other to ensure they must be different and each one is connected to each cell where the corresponding number is present as a clue from the start. This way, the graph doesn't need any pre-coloring to still encode the sudoku including the given clues.
For those who aren't in the video game development field and like technical content, I cannot recommend watching GDC's content enough (even better, attending!). Although this blog post isn't as detailed as I've seen them do in the past, I appreciate that game developers have the opportunity to share their wins like this externally.

If you enjoy watching technical content and video games, the following videos are greatly entertaining deep dives into ludicrously technically complicated bugs or performance optimizations done to deliver the gaming experience that I myself take for granted.

- I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h47zZrqjgLc
- 8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jb0FOcImdg
- It IS Rocket Science! The Physics of Rocket League Detailed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueEmiDM94IE
- https://gdcvault.com/play/1023220/Fighting-Latency-on-Call-o...
I think it'd be worth clarifying on the openai.fm website that it's an official OpenAI product. I wasn't sure it was until I saw your comment here.
I think the hostility towards standardized testing comes from donors whose children would qualify for legacy admissions except that they can't test their way out of a paper bag and are a little too ethical or afraid of the consequences to hire a ringer to take the test for them.
Hardly better here. A few years ago recruiters were begging me to go on interviews and ... sometimes providing recordings with the interview questions, wink wink :) Well OK, it didn't happen for serious "product" companies, but outsourcing was largely a scam where all the company cared was showing headcount, I honestly don't know how the whole system worked and mostly why, never did outsourcing, only "product". At least we're getting rid of those leeches now.

Two years ago shit hit the fan here too, I was laid off along with the entire team (some 150 people) when the US company closed the office. Without wasting a second I applied to jobs on LinkedId and sure enough I got a few interviews. Got an offer, was contemplating "should I take it or not.." when the hiring manager told me, "better hurry up coze it's not like we have a lack of candidates". Again, a few years ago there 2-3-10 people applying for a job. So I took a look on LinkedIn and saw "100 people already applied for this job", therefore I made my mind in an instant and accepted the offer.

Ever since I haven't seen anything but "100 people already applied for this job", with layoffs left and right (those who outsourced for German companies are hit the worst). We got two people leave to other companies (it still happens), so they posted job openings, interviewed people, chose the candidates to be hired but ... waiting approval for sending the actual offer. It's been a month and still waiting ... imagine what the candidates on the receiving end feels. Those who got the "you're great, we're hiring you!" message post-interviews.

It's a shit market and I don't expect it to recover anytime soon.
How do you waste money? By burning it, throwing it in the bin?
Isn't the goal in a capitalist system to spend that money?
Also, several GMI studies have proven your statement to not be true. It is not a significant non-majority of the population that do this.
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That’s what I was wondering. Strange, that they didn’t plan to run the whole airport. Compared to construction costs and costs of disruption…