What are the most upvoted users of Hacker News commenting on? Powered by the /leaders top 50 and updated every thirty minutes. Made by @jamespotterdev.
I imagine because some of the cool constexpr improvements are only available in C++20 and C++23.
This may be too much advanced type theory for a useful language.
You can go all the way to formal verification. This is not enough for that. Or you can stop at the point all memory error holes have been plugged. That's more useful.
You can go way overboard with templates/macros/traits/generics. Remember C++ and Boost. I understand that Boost is now deprecated.
I should work some more on my solution to the back-reference problem in Rust. The general idea is that Rc/Weak/upgrade/downgrade provide enough expressive power for back references, but the ergonomics are awful. That could be fixed, and some of the checking moved to compile time for the single owner/multiple users case.
It is kind of nice for indie games, unfortunately it is kind of stuck in what XNA 4.0 had as API surface.
And it used to be there was still some dependency on old XNA plugins for assets pipeline on Visual Studio.
No idea where this stands now.
However it was yet another example of community standing up for the anti-.NET sentiment at Windows/XBox teams, when the persons involved left XBox team, XNA was quickly replaced by DirectX TK.
"The billion dollar decision that launched XNA"
Lots of words to be weirdly wrong about things.
There certainly were a lot of minor "elite" wars in Europe where power shifted back and forth across the aristocracy with no real difference to daily life. WW2 was not one of them. Nor, historically, was the Thirty Years War.
OP may be confused by the American colonial wars since Korea. Korea is the last one where you can see the difference in outcomes for the population.
Because Ted Gioia is a musician, not a programmer.
Anyone in the financial industry is required to report their brokerage accounts to their employer.
Elected officials, servants of the public, should be required to make public their trades in public securities and on prediction markets. Public servants, elected or not, should have to disclose this to their relevant inspector general. (Yes, I know. We fired them.)
> a genuine and humble belief in a loving God
I think it's fair to say that American Evangelists do not worship the god described in the New Testament per se, but instead something closer to the vengeful god of Abrahamic origin. (The mullahs in Iran and pastors in our evangelical churches probably agree on most issues.)
> Must it be the US military?
When the action you are talking about is, for anyone other than the US or Israel, signing up to become a co-belligerent with the US & Israel in their war with Iran? Yeah, the realistic options for who might do it are pretty limited.
> You're destroying the society which your "conservative" "backward" forefathers built.
“The dead should not rule the living" —- Thomas Jefferson
i am not sure why this entire article is warranted :o) just use `std::call_once` and you are all set.
Guerrilla war requires people at the grass roots to care. Is that true in Iran? Venezuela seems to have quieted down already.
It's not a big threat to the US. The US is a net oil exporter, has the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and, if absolutely necessary, Trump could make up with Canada so those oil imports restart.
Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, though - totally dependent on imports for oil.
Something that most pundits have missed: unlike all other US wars since Korea, the US can't end this war by pulling out. Iran, unlike all US combat opponents from Vietnam to Venezuela, has the demonstrated ability to strike well beyond its borders. This war isn't over until both sides say it's over.
Modern agents can write tests that are meaningful and require the agent to pass them with any change to avoid regressions. Humans can review the code/test the downstream application to ensure it works as intended.
It rarely takes a single prompt to get something done, but the agents can figure out as long as the human is specific about what constitutes accurate.
> hard for me to believe Musk didn’t overpay for Twitter
At the time? Probably. With the benefit of hindsight? Probably not. Twitter would have made a killing on its own licensing its data to AI companies.
> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon?
No.
> Not sure if North Korea is a good example
It's not in an instructive way. Iran has killed thousands of people outside its borders, directly (e.g. the AMIA bombing [1]) and through its proxies. If we exclude South Koreans, Pyongyang has killed maybe half a dozen people, and those were under Kim Il Sung (the Rangoon bombing in '83 and Korean Air Flight 858 in '87).
This directly impacts the global fossil energy market. Do you need fossil energy to live your life? Others do. You see politics, I see global energy supply disruption and volatility and price shocks. Perhaps be more curious.
>I've always been struck by how long sentences are in writing from a century or more ago.
One book to rule them all:
https://dn721807.ca.archive.org/0/items/InSearchOfLostTimeCo...
Many one-sentence paragraphs extend for more than one page.
Support the model assuming no write action without human confirmation and no possibility of out of band action or data exfiltration.
> maybe you shouldn't be lecturing "patriarchal backward societies"?
It's perfectly fair to criticize modern Iran. Particularly when it comes to mis-allocating its skilled population and history.
Look at it from the perspective of fitness: if Iran had let these women study and work freely, and had invested its resources in growing its economy instead of a dud of a nuclear programme, might it–not Israel–be the region's hegemon?
> That's why developing countries have many STEM graduates
Number of scientists and engineers per capita is directly propotional to GDP per capita [1].
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/GDP-per-capita-vs-number...
"Unfortunately, the [Hetzner] CPX22is available only in eu-central and ap-southeast, but if that’s OK with you it is the best value and fastest overall."
ICE is building a bunch of concentration camps as we speak.
Stream Deck is highly underrated as a programmable physical interface imho, great use case.
So I typed my zip code and got Winsconsin, and couldn't change the country to Greece, which is what my zip code actually is for.
Proposing UX improvements is great, but please don't forget the other 95% of the planet.
Whenever you think this hole Trump fever dream cannot get even more absurd and abyssal something like this appears.
Strangely, what they're selling is some kind of automated surveillance camera system.[1] "Whatever you funded, we can monitor it."
Nintendo is not seeking a $200 billion refund. What a stupid headline.
Nintendo is among more than 1,000 companies that have filed suit, joining FedEx, Costco, and Revlon in seeking refunds.
$200 billion is the total amount claimed by all parties to the suit, inclusive of interest.
Congress was not even notified in advance of the wars on Iraq or Venezuela. Any leaks came from the executive branch.
TIL: Slashdot still exists. And it looks exactly as horrible as 20 years ago.
It doesn't cover device drivers, nor stuff like DAWs plugins.
Apple doesn't care about backwards compatibility like the PC, who doesn't move, stays behind.
Don’t think so. A lot of peoples’ first reaction to something they don’t understand is to try and make it go away.
>Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.
Wasn't it common knowledge that only cynics and idiots like those things?
That's basically 99% of what Dilbert and The Office are about.
That, and you simply hear the sounds in your environment worse and/or selectively depending on how they interact with the tinnitus. It's a massive nuisance.
>they get laid by their neighbour, instead of being paid off directly.
If anything, they get laid less than before Facebook, less than ever, if the official polls are to be trusted...
>The ungameable statistic is the native born labor force participation rate
Why would it be "ungameable"?
1/3 of Norwegian passenger cars are electric, 1/3 are diesel and 1/4 gas [1].
In Oslo, battery electrics are 49% [2]. We’re just starting to see its gas stations shut down [3].
Norway as a whole should hit 50% before 2030. By that time, Oslo should be around 3/4 to 4/5 electric. That should show the threshold at which gas infrastructure starts economically collapsing and forcing last-mile adoption through pricing. (China should hit 50% in the 2030s. The world, in the 2040s. So Norway shows us what being a gas laggard should look like in twenty years.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
[2] https://www.electrive.com/2026/03/03/norway-reaches-one-mill...
[3] https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/28/trading-gas-pumps-for-e...
Google first and then Microsoft demonstrated that being online first, and the collaborative work that it allows, is extremely important.
The biggest drawback is that, with Microsoft, nobody is really able to predict where the file they just edited in Word will show up - on their computers, on OneDrive, somewhere on SharePoint... Nobody knows.
> rock bottom pricing
Value is not set by what you put into it, it is set by what people are willing to pay for it.
Browsing in a thrift store can be very enlightening!
> don’t think Iran ever thought their defenses would do jack in a full on invasion
I imagine they thought it might shoot down one plane. Or their anti-ship missiles might hit one ship.
Go 2.0 already exists, Java, D, C#, Swift, F#, OCaml,....
The community is special and now with the original authors mostly gone, and AI into the mix, I don't see it ever happen.
We will get ridiculous Go 1.xyzabc version numbers.
And yet the article does not show the Paris Park Painting?
Going over the 50 bump, and I see myself selling toasts, as being an IC/Architect is no longer valued enough, everyone is expected to be a PM for their agents minions.
The teams get reduced, as now one can do effectively more with less, and in South Europe, in IT there is hardly a place to get a job above 50 years old, unless one goes consulting as the company owner, and even then the market cannot hold everyone.
As kid I have seen this happening, as factory automation replaced jobs in complete villages, the jobs that weren't offshored into Asia or Eastern Europe for clothing and shoes, got replaced with robots.
The few lucky ones were the ones pressing the buttons and unloading trucks.
Likewise a few ones will be lucky AI magicians, some will press buttons, and the large majority better get newer skills beyond computing.
Sugar or alcohol kicks mine into high gear.
I know dozens of people who are in a similar state right now, following the November 2025 moment when Claude Code (and Codex) got really good.
I wouldn't worry about it just yet - this is all very novel, and there's a lot of excitement involved in figuring out what it can do and trying different things.
If you're still addicted to it in three months time I'd start to be concerned.
For the moment though you're building a valuable mental model of how to use it and what it can do. That's not wasted time.
> In the US for example there's still the vague idea that working hard is a virtue of sorts, but there's also an equivalent desire to produce something,
This is the root of a lot of busywork and bullshit jobs as well. People work hard producing something of little and often negative value.
Think of all the effort that goes into making competitive products, from life insurance and cellphone plans to airline tariffs difficult to compare. Compound that with advertising campaigns that don’t inform about the product or service they are selling. All that consumes colossal resources and deliver effectively negative value for society, for a market to be maximally efficient it needs informed consumers that can compare offerings.
You feeling that way is the world telling you you’re doing it wrong.
It is more fun to treat them as coding buddies, usually using them one at a time a time, it is fair to race them at debugging a bug or spend waiting time looking at docs or something.
The real bottleneck is how much you can hold in your head simultaneously to be sure about quality as a moral subject.
...no?
"Your code is slow" is essentially meaningless.
A normal human conversation would specify which code/tasks/etc., how long it's currently taking, how much faster it needs to be, and why. And then potentially a much longer conversation about the tradeoffs involved in making in faster. E.g. a new index on the database that will make it gigabytes larger, a lookup table that will take up a ton more memory, etc. Does the feature itself need to be changed to be less capable in order to achieve the speed requirements?
If someone told me "hey your code is slow" and walked away, I'd just laugh, I think. It's not a serious or actionable statement.
> And the activists are now against it, because the big guys are doing it.
Different activists are different. "Information wants to be free" activists are against different things from "artists trying to make an honest living" activists.
And different big guys are different. A big guy AI company wants different things from a big guy book publisher.
Took me a moment to understand that "Magic Containers" here are a product offered by bunny.net https://bunny.net/magic-containers/
I don't understand. You specifically:
> neglected to include my usual "zero-framework" constraint in the prompt
And then your complaint is that it included a bunch of dependencies?
AI's do what you tell them. I don't understand how you conclude:
> If a simple editor requires 89 third-party packages to exist
It obviously doesn't. Why even bother complaining about an AI's default choices when it's so trivial to change them just by asking?
I'll do even better — here's the original 2022 paper:
https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/4/3/fcac089/6563...
The recurring fact of major companies' websites being down for prolonged periods indicates coding errors are not the result of underfunding.
The ungameable statistic is the native born labor force participation rate, which also ticked down: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01373413.
Unfortunately, that figure never recovered from the pandemic. It also never recovered from a major drop after the 2008 recession.
I like to use the term "coding agents" for LLM harnesses that have the ability to directly execute code.
This is an important distinction because if they can execute the code they can test it themselves and iterate on it until it works.
The ChatGPT and Claude chatbot consumer apps do actually have this ability now so they technically class as "coding agents", but Claude Code and Codex CLI are more obvious examples as that's their key defining feature, not a hidden capability that many people haven't spotted yet.
Nothing has changed: the money flows in the same direction as before, that's the constant. The courts are just a diode in a rectifier.
According to the official Terms of Service for account registration, there is only one age requirement: "You must be at least 16 years old or have reached the minimum age applicable in your country in order to legally consent to the processing of personal data."
The wording "in your country" already indicates that the offer is also aimed at users outside the European Union.
Ah ok! I completly forgot about that one, thanks for correcting me.
I ended up doing some digging after your comment, and figure 2 is the one I remebered, yours is also there as figure 1.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2000...
Also I'm doubtful that the needle in the CGM penetrates only "the top skin layer" given that it was around 1 cm long.
You can use git frontends for Jujutsu just fine, I use lazygit a few times a month out of habit, it all works well. I use jjui for the rest of the operations.
Indeed. I have been receiving clearly AI generated job applications out of the blue and they tend to point to their contributions to github projects so some of these must be getting through.
Someone somewhere once decided that it was a great idea to add how many github stars a project that you have contributed to is a useful metric during the hiring process and now those projects get swamped with junk.
Really? The past two weeks I've been writing code with AI and feel a massive productivity difference, I ended up with 22k loc, which is probably around as many I'd have manually written for the featureset at hand, except it would have taken me months.
Up voting, only because it is another native option, away from Atom started trend to ship Chrome alongside every single "modern" application.
> Nit pick/question: The LLM is what you get via raw API call, correct?
You always need a harness of some kind to interact with an LLM. Normal web APIs (especially for hosted commercial systems) wrapped around LLMs are non-minimal harnesses, that have built in tools, interpretation of tool calls, application of what is exposed in local toolchains as “prompt templates” to transform the context structure in the API call into a prompt (in some cases even supporting managing some of the conversation state that is used to construct the prompt on the backend.)
> If you are using an LLM via a harness like claude.ai, chatgpt.com, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor, Excel Claude plug-in, etc... then you are not using an LLM, you are using something more, correct?
You are essentially always using something more than an LLM (unless “you” are the person writing the whole software stack, and the only thing you are consuming is the model weights, or arguably a truly minimal harness that just takes setting and a prompt that is not transformed in any way before tokenization, and returns the result after no transformations or filtering other than mapping back from tokens to text.)
But, yes, if you are using an elaborate frontend of the type you enumerate (whether web or CLI or something else), you are probably using substantially more stuff on top of the LLM than if you are using the providers web API.
Players don't want to be continually victimized. That game design drives away all but a tiny minority of players.
> Does anyone offer a live (paid) LLM chatbot / video generation / etc that is completely uncensored?
Probably not, because if it is completely uncensored, it would probably violate the law (in different ways) in every possible jurisdiction.. (Also, one common method of censorship is exclusion of particular types of content from the training set, so to be completely free of that kind of censorship, there would have to be no content intentionally excluded from the training set.)
In general, paid services are censored not only to attempt to meet the laws in all jurisdictions of concern to the provider, but also to try to be safe with regard to the (shiifting) demands of payment processors, and to try to maintain the PR image of the provider.
Asm is simple enough that "mental execution" is far easier, if more tedious, than in HLLs, especially those with lots of hidden side-effects. The concept of a function doesn't really exist (and this is even more true when working with RISCs that don't have implicit stack management instructions), and although there are instructions that make it more convenient to do HLL-style call and return, it's just as easy to write a "function" that returns to its caller's caller (or further), switches to a different task or thread, etc. If you're going to learn Asm, then IMHO you should try to exploit this freedom in control flow and leverage the rest of the machine's ability, since merely being a human compiler is not particularly enlightening nor useful.
As a non logged in user I get tweets in popularity order, which means this weird but tame sexual image comes up third https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1904961097569890363?s=20
The tweet cited by the article says that the charge investigated was “insult”. There may have been a multistep misunderstanding here, because they seem to have found information (elsewhere, not in the cited tweet), and in loose discussion the “insult” section is within what is broadly described as “defamation laws”, though it is not the specific offense of “intentional defamation” (Section 187) nor is it roughly within the scope of “defamation” as that term is usually used in English (as both “intentional defamation” and the separate offense of “malicious gossip” [Section 186] would be), but its the closest broad category of law with a common name in English.
Depends on which COBOL they are using.
https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-c...
Latest standard is from 2023.
Nowadays everyone is moving into natural language programming, writing even longer prompts than COBOL applications.
> We are so desperate to have our voices back that we are willing to leap into the void. We embrace the Web not knowing what it is, but hoping that it will burn the org chart -- if not the organization -- down to the ground. Released from the gray-flannel handcuffs, we say anything, curse like sailors, rhyme like bad poets, flame against our own values, just for the pure delight of having a voice.
What we got was Myspace and its friends. The technology delivered. But once everybody could broadcast, nobody could be heard.
So we got Facebook, which started out as "me, Me, ME" and ended as a broadcast medium with targeted ads.
The best we can do so far is to have lots of small communities, as with Reddit. Or just passively doomscroll the infoblasts.
What's the language you're thinking of that has more of these decisions fixed in the standard library? I know it's not Ruby, Python, Rust, or Javascript. Is it Java? I don't think this is something Elixir does better.
"No one particularly needs mentorship as long as they know how to use an LLM correctly."
The "as long as they know how..." is doing a lot of work there.
I expect developers with mentors who help give them the grounding they need to ask questions will get there a whole lot faster than developers without.
I think people should find out themselves, but the OP was quite explicit about it.
This is do-able, because it doesn't require much metalworking. This is technology from 1700-1750 or so, made from wood with a few metal bits. Roman technology was capable of that.
"Getting high on your own supply" is exactly what I'd expect from those immersed in this new AI stuff.
That doesn’t make any sense. To the extent that “modern life” diverges from the late 1700s, then you don’t need the First Amendment. Voters in 2026 can decide what kind of speech they want to ban or not.
i am not sure how expensive it will be to generate shadows from fog ? that was the first thing i noticed when i looked at the article, specifically the 'foggy cube' thingy.
Isn't there a massive contradiction here though, on the one hand the slave can't write on the lintel and be seen in the future proving their worlds are not connected (vol 1 page 18), on the other hand there are all these artifacts that get dug up, proving that they are. Or am I misunderstanding something?
Can’t you replace a lot of Hollywood with AI now? What am I missing?
Yes, of course there are bad actors, but this is false equivalence to equate science and the scientific method with basement randos.
Most importantly, most people don't understand scientific consensus vs. individual research papers or individual scientists. A major feature of the scientific method is that when an interesting result is published, it can be independently verified by lots of other researchers, and if they come to the same conclusion, that is excellent evidence that the result accurately describes the real world.
Scientists are people, and just like people everywhere they have biases and personal motivations. But again, the scientific method is much bigger than any individual or even group of scientists. If anything, being skeptical of unexpected results is a huge pillar of the scientific method. But skepticism alone is not enough - the next step is to look for validating research, not to say "hah, science is bullshit, let's trust this YouTube rando instead." As usual, I think Jessica Knurick does a great job explaining things: https://open.substack.com/pub/drjessicaknurick/p/trust-the-s...
And modern diesel trains just run a generator to power the electric motors.
I think all the points about IP reputation impact are well taken, but as someone who had to deal with the RIRs at an ISP before and who now works at a firm that buys blocks, I would 10x rather operate in today's environment than in the old RIR environment. It's transparent and predictable by comparison.
I never had much faith in reputation to begin with, and the residential block issue is muddied by the fact that large-scale residential proxies already make that an unreliable abuse check.
> A senior manager on reviewing a proposal asks them to synergize with existing efforts: Your work is redundant you're wasting your time.
> A senior director talks about better alignment of their various depts: We need to cut fat and merge, start identifying your bad players
In my experience neither one of those are automatically a sign of impending layoffs. Rather, it's an executive doing their job (getting the organization moving in one direction) in the laziest way possible: by telling their directs to work out what that direction is amongst themselves and come back with a concrete proposal for review that they all agree on. The exec can then rubber-stamp it without seriously diving into the details, knowing that everyone relevant has had a hand in crafting the plan. And if it turns out those details are wrong, there's a ready fall guy to take the blame and save the exec's job, because they weren't the one who came up with it.
Interestingly, this is also the most efficient way for the organization to work. The executive is usually the least informed person in the organization; you most definitely do not want them coming up with a plan. Instead, you want the plan to come from the people who will be most affected, and who actually do know the details.
If the managers in question cannot agree or come up with a bad plan, then it's usually time for layoffs. A lot of this comes down to the manager having an intuitive sense of what the exec really wants, though, as well as good relationships and trust with their peers to align on a plan. The managers who usually navigate this most poorly (and get their whole team laid off in the process) are those who came from being a stellar IC and are still too thick in the details to compromise, the Clueless on the Gervais hierarchy.
Layoffs as you consolidate operations between enterprises. See Capital One laying off thousands at Discover Financial after their acquisition.
Capital One to lay off more than 1,100 in latest cuts at Discover Financial HQ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270442 - March 2026
Hayden AI, former CEO Chris Carson.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27758555-hayden-ai-v...
TSA was never necessary, it was all theater to begin with. The median number of terrorism deaths per year in the U.S. for all years between 1970-2017 was 4 [1]. You have always been about 10x more likely to die from being struck by lightning than by being killed by a terrorist.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States....
Reinforced flight deck doors are sufficient. See: the rest of the world. TSA is a jobs program and to soothe the irrational and those poor at risk management.
At $10 Billion A Year, TSA Still Fails 90% Of The Time—And Covers It Up - https://viewfromthewing.com/at-10-billion-a-year-tsa-still-f... - January 27th, 2025
TSA Admits New Machines Are Slowing Security To A Crawl—And Says Screening Won’t Improve Until 2040 - https://viewfromthewing.com/tsa-admits-new-machines-are-slow... - August 10th, 2024
> But TSA itself has filed in court documents that they’ve been unaware of actual threats to aviation that they’re guarding against, and they haven’t stopped any actual terrorists (nor with past failure rates at detecting threats were they deterring any, either).
Accidentally Revealed Document Shows TSA Doesn't Think Terrorists Are Plotting To Attack Airplanes - https://www.techdirt.com/2013/10/21/accidentally-revealed-do... - October 21st, 2013
Weird to see this kind of random Substack/X content on an official company blog.
> They find hundreds of guns in carry on baggage every year…
They don't exactly have a great track record in that regard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...
"In all, so-called "Red Teams" of Homeland Security agents posing as passengers were able get weapons past TSA agents in 67 out of 70 tests — a 95 percent failure rate, according to agency officials."
(Don't worry, though. They fixed it... by classifing the reports. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/noem-dhs-watchdog-feuding-over-...)
I used emojis for a while. Every text had to have an emoji. I spent a lot of time scrolling through the emoji palette looking for the perfect emoji.
Eventually, I decided that was a complete waste of time and now I use words.
BTW, one of the things that turned me off from emojis is they looked like the stickers 2nd graders would use, along with a Playmobil look.
The HackerOne slop is because there's a financial incentive (bug bounties) involved, which means people who don't know what they are doing blindly submit anything that an LLM spots for them.
If you're running the security audit yourself you should be in a better position to understand and then confirm the issues that the coding agents highlight. Don't treat something as a security issue until you can confirm that it is indeed a vulnerability. Coding agents can help you put that together but shouldn't be treated as infallible oracles.
There is proof: there is no way the US and/or Israel would have done this if they knew that Iran had nuclear weapons.
That's roughly on par with saying nobody needs the internet or a library at all.
Back the 1920s having a personal library was fairly common for people with more than two dimes, they had this thing called an 'Ex Libris' which roughly translates as 'from the books of'. This was a little piece of paper, often very nicely designed that you glued to the first page of a book and then you could borrow it freely and sooner or later it would find its way back to you.
This was the rough equivalent of wikipedia, only a lot slower and less convenient. Then encyclopedias (which existed for a long time) became larger and larger, I had one from the 18th century that got lost in a move but it was a work of art, so much effort had gone into making that. The encyclopedias of the newer ages were however far larger and covered more subjects. Ever year a new batch of pages or the occasional reprint was the norm. And then personal libraries went the way of the dodo. Every time one of my family members dies there is always the same question: what will happen to all the books. These people - and me too - spent a fortune on their books, untold tens of thousands over a lifetime. They were well read, not 'browsing' information but actually reading - and occasionally writing.
That library in the article is exceptional in one way: that it does not look like it was shared. But I can totally sympathize: some people are focused on the number of digits on their bank account, others derive their sense of wealth and accomplishment from their bookshelves. I don't own any books I have not read, but I do understand people buying books that they intend to read at some point but never get around to.
As these things go, I'd be happy have a million more book hoarders, even if they don't read them all, so they can be passed on to the next generation of booklovers, assuming they can still be found.
That matches an observation made in that report from the recent Thoughtworks retreat: https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/docume...
> The retreat challenged the narrative that AI eliminates the need for junior developers. Juniors are more profitable than they have ever been. AI tools get them past the awkward initial net-negative phase faster. They serve as a call option on future productivity. And they are better at AI tools than senior engineers, having never developed the habits and assumptions that slow adoption.
> The real concern is mid-level engineers who came up during the decade-long hiring boom and may not have developed the fundamentals needed to thrive in the new environment. This population represents the bulk of the industry by volume, and retraining them is genuinely difficult. The retreat discussed whether apprenticeship models, rotation programs and lifelong learning structures could address this gap, but acknowledged that no organization has solved it yet.
My phenomenal observations are that it's been getting warmer during my lifetime, but as soon as I mention this in an online conversation I get slapped down with 'the climate is always changing' and 'n=1'.
Most climate change denial arguments eventually boil down to social assertions about the change believers having perverse incentives, like being greedy for grants to go on sailing vacations to Antartica or feather their academic nests.
It has clang tidy, -std=lang-version, and preprocessor that is version aware.
Rust editions don't cover all use cases that one can think of regarding language evolution, and requires full access to source code.