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twitter.com 3y ago

Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Tell HN: Google Search redesign mixes tabs and suggestions

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Implementing distributed systems challenges in Rust

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Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Living with Rust Long-Term – Jon Gjengset

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ChatGPT Does Physics

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How to learn more about servers?

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Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Coffeezilla: Talking to Sam Bankman Fried

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www.nber.org 3y ago

Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit

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Ask HN: What are your favorite VSCode extensions?

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Lex Fridman Podcast: Magnus Carlsen

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how-to-live.de 3y ago

What Is Quiet Quitting?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What are some good non-trivial back end projects to put on a resume?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

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Ask HN: What is your workflow and tips for executing and storing SQL queries?

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Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to work?

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www.forbes.com 4y ago

Spotify Reducing Hiring Growth by 25%

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Ask HN: What has been your experience with chronic fatigue syndrome?

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Ask HN: On your CV do you use a different title from the one your employer uses?

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Ask HN: YouTube Problems Today?

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Ask HN: What is this mental technique called?

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twitter.com 4y ago

Return to the office- easy way to get unforced attrition at struggling companies

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What has been your experience with bigger tech companies in London?

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

Our interview process is painfully slow and broken

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

We're Building Computers Wrong – Veritasium

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why do big companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook do open source?

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Ask HN: How much was Python used from 1991 to 2006? What for?

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

GitHub Copilot solving old Advent of Code problems from its own training dataset

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Hybrid working and desk sharing is the worst option for getting any actual work done. I'll gladly commute to an office where I have a dedicated desk with good equipment (2 monitors, keyboard etc) but having to work from a laptop without any dedicated space is just horrible.

With a high enough rate of layoffs, everyone is affected, even the people who kept their jobs - everyone has lower job mobility and less negotiating power than they’ve had at any point in the past 10+ years.

I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement

Even if you were, your money would be invested in something which is tied to the overall economy and if a huge proportion of knowledge jobs are at risk, you would still be exposed to it through whatever assets you own. Don't expect stocks (or currency, or property) to do great when unemployment is 30%+.

Chris Lattner seems like a great guy in interviews and has obviously mad multiple incredbile contributions to the field of software.

But I don't get the play here - a company CEO/cofounder bragging about the performance of a proprietary language which nobody can use right now? Who wants this?

Make the language and make it public and open; get large companies on board with development, start some useful real-world projects, involve the open-source community, show that it's actually good for something instead of giving investor presentations.

What’s the alternative - exponential growth which goes on forever? Seems unlikely. They stop releasing new devices every year? Doesn’t make sense from Apple’s point of view and as a consumer you can always skip a release - which people are already doing and Apple are still making money.

What would you do differently if you were running Apple?

I take issue with presenting this as “adopting the title” like it’s something that people do unilaterally - most of the time it’s the title used by their company and it would be plain stupid for an invidual to turn down a promotion and higher pay just because the title has "senior" in it.

I like the simplicity but there are some social problems with this. Let's say that I work on a team which has codebases with classes/dataclasses and I add a new codebase that doesn't use them, or one that doesn't _underscore just about everything - the first thing that will come up in the code review is questions about why I'm doing things differently, and I wouldn't have a good reason apart from the fact that I find it more aesthetically pleasing.

The 1+2+3+4+... = -1/12 video still seems a bit of a cheat, though!

Because in that video they do invalid operations.

Compare it to how 3blue1brown handles this - https://youtu.be/sD0NjbwqlYw?si=js8taa28UcevI0Jg&t=1166 - the video is on the Riemann zeta function and my timestamp is on his comment about -1/12 at the end. But trying to explain something in a nuanced way doesn't get the same views as dumbing it down and coming up with a clickbait title (not that 3blue1brown is struggling for views).

I understand that the two channels have somewhat different objectves and approaches but in this case one of them strikes me as much better. The top comment under the 3blue1brown video addresses this too - you don't need to additionally mystify math.