I strongly recommend to check all other papers and articles on https://okmij.org/ftp/, every single one of them is brilliant and insightful. I love the pedagogy, the writing style and clarity. Oleg Kiselyov is one of the best technical writers I've discovered recently.
I'm a systems engineer with 8+ years of experience in Rust. Solving problems in low-level programming, design and implementation of compilers and programming languages.
> Has google completely stopped working for anyone else?
Yes. However, I found that https://scholar.google.com still works perfectly well. It feels just as the old Google without all the crap they've been adding in the last years.
Very small team, only still exists because they are a rounding error to the CFO on the balance sheet, but otherwise they could go at any time.
Oddly their biggest strength is being irrelevant to the decision makers, if the bean counters noticed the few million they are losing on running Scholar there will be ads + Gemini all over it.
In my experience as a published academic author all the LLM will make up all kinds of plausible papers I “wrote” that don’t exist, academic positions I’ve never held, and the like.
Even if you give it a paper directly I’d not believe it to be reliable. Maybe it could help search for papers, but that’s it.
Technologies: Rust, compiler engineering (LLVM, interpreters, query languages, code generators, dev tools, programming languages), Linux kernel (eBPF, io_uring, low-level networking)
Résumé/CV: systems engineer with 8+ years of experience in Rust. Solving problems in low-level programming, design and implementation of compilers and programming languages, software optimisation.
Technologies: Rust, Linux kernel (eBPF, networking), LLVM and compiler engineering (query languages design and implementation, code generators, dev tools)
Résumé/CV: systems engineer with 7+ years of experience in Rust. Solving problems in systems programming, API design & implementation, compilers, networking (including advanced aspects such as P2P + NAT traversal), and software optimisation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbaksalyar/
> I would argue "lifestyle startups" are largely a low-interest rate phenomenon.
Could you elaborate on this?
I'm curious because I thought it's the opposite: VC-fueled startups are "growth at all costs even if it means no profits" whilst "lifestyle startups" is more like "I have a $1K MRR and it's just enough to subsist eating ramen". Maybe we understand the term "lifestyle startups" differently? :)
> "growth at all costs even if it means no profits"
It is kind of virology technique, you grow and generate adequate hype at a short-term loss, so you can gain a long-term market domination(or even a good fractional slice of the large market at least) before you start generating profit/returns.
> "I have a $1K MRR and it's just enough to subsist eating ramen"
How do you return on the investment VC made? Also, lifestyle startups are not innovative(in a certain sense) and very sensitive and go out of business on small market/demand changes. But then again, I have limited sample size and could be in my own limited bubble.
Just visited it yesterday - and here it is on the HN front page. :)
I was surprised to find out how they rely on modded consoles and presumably pirated ROMs. This just shows how much the emulation/modding scene means for video game preservation and how short-sighted corporations like Nintendo are, litigating and trying to shut down these efforts.
