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This is the point of dialectical materialism - before the 8 hour workweek there was an even longer work day with worse conditions. The people born into those circumstances struggled against capitalists (in the sense of people who have capital) to make 8 hour workdays the norm. The next generation was born with 8 hour workdays being standard, and capital pushed back and squeezed in other areas where labour wasn't resisting. Capital has now squeezed so hard that labour is organizing again and realizing they need to fight to retain any of their rights.

I'm not sure if I understand your point, but the point is there's a kind of credentialing treadmill where once women get into a particular field or class of institution it loses prestige and men flee to alternatives which become more prestigious. An example is undergrad biology becoming predominantly women and being seem as the "easiest" STEM major.

I think if you see a majority-female CS class graduating from Stanford it is a sign that VCs and other power brokers will begin weighting that credential less.

This is complementary to the anti-intellectualism that's already baked into fascism. Rich people like Peter Thiel have already started paying people to "not go to school" as an anti-intellectual backlash against inclusion and diversity.

The trend among men, sadly, is a flight from higher education. It used to be a status symbol, but since more women are entering STEM fields men are increasingly looking for alternative credentials like bootcamps. This is a common phenomenon in many fields across time, where men flee "feminized" work and it becomes less prestigious.

A side effect of higher education becoming "low status" is that men are going to vocational schools that don't teach "useless" topics like philosophy or history. Which makes them more vulnerable to radicalization.

Individual self-reliance and coping only goes so far. I think OP's thesis is that this is a larger cultural issue of capitalism increasingly squeezing every once of joy out of people's lives, and demanding more labour from fewer people under dehumanizing conditions.

From a Marxist perspective I think we're seeing the synthesis of deeply individualistic capitalist culture, and the renewed awareness of class consciousness and workers rights. In the past these kind of conflicts have led to the 5 day work week, The New Deal, etc. But the same conditiona can also lead to far-right authoritarianism.

It depends on the context! Trying to Americanize Godzilla, for instance, has largely failed because Godzilla is an allegory for the unique horror of nuclear bombing which Japan experienced. Making him just a lizard that walks through New York is kind of stupid.

Jokes are an example of something translators can do really well - things like puns don't work 1:1 across languages. A good translator will find a corresponding, appropriate line of dialogue and basically keep the intent without literally translating the words.

Food is kind of silly because it's tied to place - if a setting is clearly Spanish, or a character is Spanish, why wouldn't they talk about Spanish food? Their nationality ostensibly informs something about their character (like Godzilla) and can't just be fine/replaced.

TFA says most of the injured people were wearing pads and they went head-first over the handlebars. Reading between the lines, it sounds like they landed on their heads and the forces on their spine caused injury. Much like CTEs in football, you're going to have a hard time protecting yourself against inertia.

Does this even rise to the level of parody? This is just... A thing. Just kinda lying to people and then saying gotcha.

Bundy apologists in the wild? Insane.

Such an insane paperclip optimizing way of thinking. The marginal cost to serve static content is very low as well - if they really didn't want to pay anything they could give it to a third party.

There's nothing shallow about it. Companies don't make "levelling up" worthwhile unless you have your ego invested in your title in an unhealthy way. If you hang out at senior+/staff level you can just plug away until retirement.

> Your job working at startup is to get into that group and be one of the boys.

First step: be a man.

No but seriously in my experience this is a pre-requisite.

FDR doesn't make the cut?

It takes a diversity of tactics to overcome an adversary as entrenched as the pharmaceutical industry. I don't believe in their wild "one day everyone will manufacture their own medication" BS, but it's valuable to keep this knowledge in the public consciousness. If for no other reason to remind us that Big Pharma is gouging patients for life-saving drugs that are cheap and simple to manufacture.

I wonder if people who are "invested" in cryptocurrency are more susceptible to these kind of scams. There's a strong aspect of FOMO in getting people to buy imaginary internet money, and also in getting them to panic and fumble said internet money.

Besides the antitrust issue, this also creates a perverse incentive for Amazon to "lose" consigned products and then pay the cost, then resell them at full price.

For a greenfield project that's fine - solve the issues that come up as they come. Someone is getting value right away.

Code you throw away makes the most sense to me for prototyping cross-cutting features in existing systems. A lot of companies can accumulate a ton of crud in only a few years of development time, and it follows Conway's Law that the crud is shaped like the org tree. Writing a throwaway feature end-to-end helps to identify the interfaces between the teams and subsequently components of the software.

This is also why I'm a big fan of assembling project teams over having teams "own" an area. Everyone on the project team is responsible for the project working well. Otherwise every team is worried about their small domain.

Contracting as a solo dev is taking on sales and marketing as well as development. You have to charge accordingly. But you also have to be comfortable doing all of those roles, or else you won't have any work.

Wait, so if you cut out the middleman, doctors would make more money keeping people alive and the government would pay for it? Huh that's the opposite of "death panels".

Meanwhile private insurers definitely deny coverage to people with chronic illnesses (not everyone who is sick or dying is on Medicare/Medicaid). In a single-payer system those folks wouldn't slip through the cracks and .... the doctors would be incentivized to keep them alive! (assuming doctors are profit-motivated sociopaths like your average HN poster)

This is extremely sad and I'm sorry for Suchir's family and friends.

As someone who has struggled with suicidal ideation while working in the tech industry for over a decade, I do wonder if the insane culture of Bay Area tech has a part to play.

Besides the extreme hustle culture mindset, there's also a kind of naive techno-optimism that can make you feel insane. You're surrounded by people who think breaking the law is OK and that they're changing the world by selling smart kitchen appliances, even while they're exploiting workers in developing countries for cheap tech support and stepping over OD victims outside their condo.

This mindset is so pervasive you really start to wonder if you're crazy for having empathy or any sense of justice.

I have no special insight except to guess that going from being an obviously brilliant student at Berkeley to a cut-throat startup like OpenAI would be a jarring experience. You've achieved everything you worked your whole life for, and you find you're doing work that is completely out of whack with your morals and values.

I mean if you replace "taxes" with "profits" you have the current American healthcare system. Condemning people to die from a lack of treatment in order to save on profits.

This is true even for non-consultants. If you're the only person who understands The Thing you're in for a world of hurt because whenever it breaks it's your problem. I've been at companies where I rearchitected a piece of software and unfucked some key business process, but it made things worse because the number of engineers who understood it went down. And I'm not talking vanity "paying down tech debt" rearchitecting, I'm talking "people get paged because the product doesn't work" went from 33% of deploys to ~0%.

The point of TFA is that you won't have any doctor very soon.

This is like saying "I got kicked off a plane so I bought a Civic and bolted a wing on the back". Cloud front is doing all the heavy lifting and you're not really getting data center level reliability.

Such a sign of the world we live in that restoring a old building raises a billion dollars, but we somehow can't afford to house people who are freezing to death in the streets.

I would want to have at least dev + prod clusters, sometimes people want to test controllers or they have badly behaved workloads that k8s doesn't isolate well (making lots of giant etcd objects). You can also test k8s version upgrades in non-prod.

That said it sounds like these people just made a cluster per service which adds a ton of complexity and loses all the benefits of k8s.

You can find jobs developing apps for internal workflows. It doesn't pay as well as Silicon Valley startups with fancy technology.

Honestly if you can get testing, build and deploy right you've solved 90% of the problems in any company I've worked at. Most places suffer from low morale and velocity because their software is fragile and poorly factored. Tons of haunted forests requiring specialist knowledge to manually test every release.

We've been through this song and dance before. AI researchers make legitimately impressive breakthroughs in specific tasks, people extrapolate linear growth, the air comes out of the balloon after a couple years when it turns out we couldn't just throw progressively larger models at the problem to emulate human cognition.

I'm surprised that tech workers who should be the most skeptical about this kind of stuff end up being the most breathlessly hyperbolic. Everyone is so eager to get rich off the trend they discard any skepticism.

At the end of my 5 year computer engineering degree, one of the groups had nothing to show for their industry project. They had written an Android app with MySQL credentials hard-coded into it, and on the school's network they couldn't connect to port 3306. They could have changed the MySQL port, or they could have written a REST API, but instead they just gave up and it didn't matter.

I was already pretty disillusioned with my undergrad program but that was really the icing on the cake.

Putin and Xi's big advantage over the US is that American presidents get elected every 4 years. If they gradually encroach on their neighbors and make intervention unpopular in the US via propaganda they don't need to attack a US base.

It's a reference to the Chappell Roan album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" which has been a smash hit this summer.