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I found the blogs written by Jay Alammar to be much more informative and complete. It appears that companies are rehashing and compressing the same content to advertise their products.

May be I'm old, but I love long form content and twitter took that away. People write long tweet threads instead of thinking things through and writing it in long form. This gives rise to tons of twitter thread collapsing tools/startups that push the concatenation of these tweets to Notion or whatever. This seems utterly silly to me. It almost looks like tech for the sake of tech. It's unfortunate that substack is going in the same direction. Are there no better problems to solve using tech?

That doesn’t make him a good, responsible CEO.

I know this is going to be controversial, but I think it has to be said. Jack ruined Twitter first [1] (by over-hiring and then selling it to Elon) and now it's Block's turn. He still made billions, while thousands got laid off and are still suffering under Elon's questionable so called leadership. Are these the entrepreneurs we should be looking up to? The tech industry is already facing the brunt because of the mistakes CEOs have done by "miscalculating" or "misjudging" the macroeconomic conditions; the same CEOs are enjoying their billions.

[1] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1588913276980633600

And they pay well like FAANG? Examples?

I don't know if you work in FAANG or no, but most FAANG interviews just don't work this way. So, as much as I like this style, it's just 1 company and definitely not the norm. The rest of us are stuck with design Uber, Whatsapp, crap...

Seriously, in this day and age, why are we still stuck with C? There are battle tested container libraries in C++ for e.g.

I don't think it attempts to. There are always more than one way to learn the same thing.

How credible is this news source?

Hahha. Sure.

There were a lot of other good things going that masked these. The recent "PR botch ups" are creating more damage. The most famous e.g. is reacting to ChatGPT's hype and rushing to do a demo and then messing it up. It wasn't so much messing up the demo that caught they eye; it was how Google rushed/reacted to do it esp. when Google is considered to be at the forefront of AI. Again, optics. Besides Sundar hasn't come out with anything impressive in the last few years. It's ok to just keep the lights on, but at least don't create bad optics.

Internally Google might be just fine, but optics are equally important in this industry. Before Sundar took over Google never went through bad PR. It's just an observation, not a dig at Google's affairs.

The author says meditation is the solution and describes the effects it had on him. However, I didn't quite get the why (even if I ignore the how) - why did it work for him and will it work the same way for others? Besides, meditation itself is a habit and one that is the easiest to ignore as it doesn't bring immediate benefits (lacks instant gratification). This was great writing but for me it lacked the scientific rigor. It's great that it worked for the author. Kudos for that!

Care to elaborate how I violated the HN guidelines?

* There's absolutely nothing we could do to influence YouTube's leadership changes. * There's very little you can do to influence changes in the product YouTube as well. * There's very little we know about the internals of upper C-level leadership changes.

Speculating is an utter waste of time. I don't see a point. For me this news was just another passable piece of information. Meh! Definitely not HN front-page worthy.

Curious why this is important enough to be on the front page. Even as a techie I don't find this news interesting, at least not HN front-page worthy. (Instead of down voting it would be nice to hear what others think as valid reasons). How does this affect our day-day lives?

I love sqlite but can't hold myself from saying: another day, another sqlite post on HN :-)

I'm not talking about promotions particularly.

Exactly. IC career is not as sexy as HN makes it to be. People pursuing IC careers are doing it for personal reasons, definitely not for growth. Compared to management it takes an order of magnitude more time, influence and energy to get promoted in the IC ladder beyond staff.

Meta expects you to have managed at least 40 ppl before considering them for a M2 role. M2s made $800k+. Why wouldn’t a manager not be motivated to grow his empire? How else do you think managers will grow to VPs? We discuss ideals here but the reality on the ground is vastly different.

Things are not as black and white as they seem. It's a spectrum - from people who detest mgmt to people who realize the value of it. You fall somewhere in the spectrum depending on your experience in the industry and depending on your experience with past/current managers. Unfortunately, at some point managers (M1, M2, VPs, etc) take undue advantage of things in an organization and dilute the true picture to an extent that all management seems worthless. Having been on both the IC and management side I can relate to and appreciate the importance of both roles. What Meta is doing is right, but be careful when speaking about management in general.

We're going to reach a point where we might say the same thing about large language models. Fine tuned LMs (based off of their large parents) are going to be the bread and butter.

I strongly recommend reading Tanya's book The Staff Engineer's Path (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61058107). I haven't read Larson's book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56481725-staff-engineer), so can't comment on that. If anyone has read both I would love to hear the differences.

Yeah, exactly. May be I should’ve used the word trendy as some ppl take offense to the word fad for SQLite.

SQLite is not a fad. It’s just that it never gained so much attention here before.

There’s an industry wide fad (like ChatGPT) and then there’s a hacker news wide fad which is SQLite :-). Not sure how it all started. Last few months (or my be even an year) there has been an unprecedented number of SQLite posts. What gives?

OpenAI threatened to move? Do you've evidence to support this?

May be because this paper was generated by ChatGPT :-)

I am aware of this "non-standard" extension. My comment was w.r.t sticking to the standard.

While I commend this effort I should say that seriously, just write C++ if possible. No matter what you do memory management is going to be your biggest enemy (I’m ignoring the aesthetic aspects like macros, function pointers, type safety, etc). Without RAII it’s just not worth it. Just choose the simpler portions of C++ and keep safe.