alharith

> sad to see the US thinking about shooting its only real growth industry in the foot.

It appears you are not from the US. Can you elaborate more on your perspective on why you think this to be the case? I am genuinely curious. (Just for full disclosure, the top 10 industries experiencing large growth at the moment are mostly related to construction or engineering in the traditional sense, not much hyper growth coming from web apps these days)

Unfortunately, as an adult, my fantasy I create for myself will only take the enjoyment so far. I need some things to be based in reality at some point.

I can appreciate the algorithm, and have appreciated in the past, if there are artful qualities to it, but in this case it isn't quite apt to say that as we are talking about the output of the algorithm, not the algorithm itself.

No, because the art allows me to get to know the person. If an anonymous voice tells me a short story I enjoy, I still get to appreciate the qualities of the person's storytelling (almost a completely lost art these days)

Because we are human beings. Art is just as much about connection as much as it is about technique.

I get the appeal from a "it's fascinating we can make computers do this" stance.

I don't get the appeal as trying to appreciate this as actual art (or music in the case of ai-generated tunes).

Art for me is about the connection I can make with the person who made it. I can't make a connection with an algorithm. I view it and I am like "OK this is interesting" but that's about it. There's no desire to try and understand it because it was programmatically generated.

Does anyone else feel this way?

I do not agree there is a material difference in that case. Whether or not the site is under the crosshairs is also irrelevant to the point.

Besides, as I mentioned in my comment, direct links to hubs that contain pirated material and direct links containing suites of tools specifically used for pirating such as DRM removal on ebooks and video players, and bypasses for news organizations and scientific publications are also frequently directly linked.

Just out of curiosity, why? Pirating traditional media, journals, and movies and entertainment is actively encouraged on this site, with popular sites and software for doing so frequently referenced, and it is never flagged. Seems like a double standard.

(Full disclosure, I agree with your objection and believe piracy is wrong in any case, but seems like we should be consistent with the application of the rules)

Microsoft didn't buy Github out of the goodness of their heart. They also didn't buy it because of it's significant revenue, a couple hundred million is probably a marketing budget to Microsoft, not something that drives the bottom line. Microsoft also didn't buy it to score appearance points with the socially conscious dev community that populated most of Github, although it was a nice PR story for a bit. You could say the ICE thing has driven all that goodwill away.

Microsoft bought Github for the data set. To mine code to train models to write code to put developers out of business. Microsoft is coming for all of your jobs. They aren't investing billions in AI research and Open AI for philanthropy. The sooner people realize this the better.

Sure it's tin-foil, but it's a hill I am willing to die on.

> but mostly because they are minorities.

I don't think this is true for the majority of Americans anymore in regards to sports athletes. My finger on the rather sensitive topic is it has more to do with how different groups perceive one's culture (and potential ignorance thereof) than race. You'll be hard press to find, save the few rare 0.1% fringe racists or trolls, questions around Russell Wilson's intelligence, or Patrick Mahomes, or Kobe Bryant, or Richard Sherman. If you simply google "smartest athletes" you get a pretty diverse representation of African American athletes, White athletes, and everything in between.

Also working against famous athletes, is the fact that pop culture and celebrity is generally not associated with intelligence in America on a whole.

My direct report is humble and most willing to learn. That doesn't mean they aren't at the end of the day still a very green associate developer with 7 months of experience so far. Any talks about reaching senior developer status any time soon would be a huge disservice to their development. We need to first talk about what being an exceptional associate developer looks like, transitioning to being a mid level developer.

You can't shortcut these things.

People who think Chris Bosh was riding anyone's coattails clearly don't know anything about Chris Bosh or basketball. First of all, he already showed he was a superstar in his own regard with the Raptors, where he left being the franchise's all-time record holder in points, rebounds, blocks, and minutes played. Second, there is a such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen, and so Chris Bosh understanding this, elected to do what it took to win a championship rather than trying to inflate statistics, and he played his role exceptionally. If you have ever read Bill Simmons' "Book of Basketball" he describes this as "The Secret"

(Thank you for this rare opportunity to talk sports on HN!)

I would advise you to not take the position. It would be a disaster in my opinion to attempt to be a tech lead without years of experience at the senior level. Your high level engineers will catch whiff of your lack of experience. Your mid and associate levels will not accelerate as fast as they could have, and you will feel over your head. You will essentially be Peter Principaling yourself.

If you are going to do it, read a ton of books. Minimum in my opinion are: 1. The Managers Path -- general advise 2. Coaching Habit -- for performing 1 on 1s 3. Extreme Ownership -- for building an effective culture that delivers results.

So the right to privacy is a political agenda item now? I don't get what you are saying, can you please clarify?

Better yet, donate to Brave who doesn't share the same conflict of interest as Mozilla does with Google, as Google is Mozilla's #1 source of income. Best of all you get a browser just as fast, if not faster than Chrome because it's Chrome without all the junk.

There's also ReasonML for those looking to scratch the itch sooner.

Also, don't be turned off by the sea of comments. Pick one, they are all great. but yes ML language enthusiasts can be a bit overenthusiastic, but I don't fault them for that. They are all anxious to spread the gospel of ML. The Reason community on discord is excellent, one of the best I have had the pleasure to be a part of.

I didn't go with straight OCaml with js_of_ocaml because I wanted a better representation of what I was doing in JS land. There is an excellent write-up about it here: https://www.javierchavarri.com/js_of_ocaml-and-bucklescript/

Just to make this technically correct, people still bunny hop in CS all the time, it just doesn't get you anywhere any faster.

Seinfield wasn't a hit in it's first season either. The whole premise of the article is that Netflix is no longer giving shows a chance to come into their own like they once did.

With the consolidation of resources into Big Tech, this is quickly becoming the reality across all domains. I imagine that they will always keep cloud computing costs juuuust low enough to have plausible deniability in a court case, but still.

What if I drive a pickup truck?

OCaml has come many, many, many miles from 20 years ago, and continues to make improvements year to year.

Ok well then the people I worked on an engagement with at an enterprise offering of Druid flat out lied to my face then. Good to know.

IIRC correctly, MoPub is a white-labeled version of Apache Druid.

This makes me not want to learn elixir. Learning one language and becoming masterful at it is hard enough. There's too many "learn this language, but also this other language and platform"'s in my life (JVM-based work, and anything in the front-end JavaScript world it feels like these days). It just feels like you are telling people "Here, learn this language, but also learn the assembly instruction set for your architecture as well" -- that's not the reason I choose to use higher level language.

Meds didn't work for me, they just made me feel in overdrive, and I have a high sense of awareness so I always knew in the back of my mind the drugs were just making me high for a short amount of time. It never felt like real progress.

However, exercise, diet, and prayer cause my symptoms to almost vanish. In particular, keeping sugar content extremely low. Also being aware of my cues when I know my leg is going to start bouncing up and down and the impulse of doing anything _but_ my work is about to kick in (such as viewing this site for hours), and using behavioral modification techniques to mitigate this. Making good habits is especially important for ADHD people. It's not easy, but take comfort knowing it is doable. You can make progress today.

My company is also not publicly traded, but rest assured investors and analysts still attach a valuation to it.

Google doesn't dare directly monetize data stored in their customer's databases. There's zero doubt in my mind they are piping everything somewhere, completely anonymized, and feeding their models.

Let's not forget most of the good JVM tooling, especially early on in Java's history, was and is 3rd party and most cost money. Even today, it's still a sea of confusion, especially if you are new to all of this. For example if I search for "best JVM profiler", I get a list of 10 results all claiming some form or fashion of being "the best" or "most popular"

As someone who spent the first half of their career on the JVM and now is mostly Go, I don't understand how someone who has been on the JVM most their life can say Go's tooling is "the worst" Most of the things you have to configure and tweak on the JVM and profile for aren't even considerations in Go, because they are either simply non-issues in Go, or don't exist (because Go does not have a virtual machine to begin with)

Obligatory Churchill quotation.

My speculation (and this is all speculation at the end of the day to some degree) is I also think the success of other companies impact each other, such as the recent successful SpaceX abort test. For homework one night I will run an analysis showing the rise and fall of Tesla and SpaceX stock over each other mapped to positive news. I am hypothesizing there is a correlation.