skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started selling clothes through print-on -demand platforms. Didn't earn much yet, but didn't put much effort into it either. I even got featured on the Modsly platform blog as a success story which is kind of cool :)

https://blog.modsly.com/how-i-made-my-first-sale-after-2-day...
> because a bunch of cops ignored all protestations and pleadings from the public around them.

I guess you've grown up in a pretty privileged low/no-crime place. Go to any high crime neighbourhood. The cops could be arresting someone for murder & rape and lots of neighbours and community folk will gather round screaming at cops to not arrest them amongst other nonsense.

Focusing on the task at hand and ignoring public protestations would be self learned by a cop within a couple months on the job even if it was not in their training.
I'd go even one step further: doubt what you think you already know.

I often check documentation of even well-known functions like printf() to remind me of details that I might have forgotten or remember inaccurately.
The first blog should be about "How to make exponential money on the internet"
Google incentivizes this. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Or you could just assume the possibility regardless.
Newsflash to tech giant leadership.

The free world is gearing up for WAR with Chinese Communist Party.

https://www.ipac.global/

Get with the program and support our ally India.

You do NOT want to be on the side of the enemy at a time of war.
If tech is kinda full of bullshit, which on better or worse kinda need to rely on math, and most of the time can be reviewed - then wait until you go to socio science, like psychology. You need to see there how much bullshit it is, you won't believe it. But, just like tech, it's better with it rather then without it.
The difference between a startup and a big company is not just dollars. Making a product in a startup is sort of a process of discovery. In a big company they will generally have a pretty well defined picture of what they want. When a startup says they want to do "X", I don't think that is where the big tradeof in code quality versus timeline. The problem comes when you decide you want to do "Y", but your codebase does, or is working towards doing "X". In my experience that is where there are a lot of decisions to make about how soon you get something finished. And in a startup there are a lot of these changes in direction.
Hey, admins? Submissions of this website are always by new accounts that make a single submission and die out, I believe these HN submissions are just for SEO.
Here's how a simple image can soft-brick phones
The concept of Differend -> A wrong or injustice that arises because the discourse in which the wrong might be expressed does not exist. This technology of Western Civilization retains coherence via a white supremacist patriarchal order based economic system. Racism is deciding what dies, guaranteeing profits. All meaning has been surgically drained over centuries of enmity leaving only the calculable.
Why a mouse though? Mx ergo can be tilted to about 45 degrees and you don't even have to do a lot of weird arm movements.
I went through this recently when I joined a company and a small team to do a particular overhauling project. One of the developers was relatively junior, but smart, driven, and in love with shiny new tech. For the particular piece he worked on he chose modern solutions that went a bit out of the companywide envelope. I figured it's fine since if we forced the "boring" company-standard set of technologies he might get bored and leave. Well guess what, he left anyway and now we're left holding the bag. All custom stuff that could have easily been reused: scheduler, base container, code generation, language. So I guess my big takeaway is, regarding retention, they may leave anyway. If you're going to open the "new tech faucet" to slow that down, keeping it sequestered may be worthwhile.

I've seen an internal tool at a previous company that seemed to be built similarly by developers who wanted to try new tech. A pretty fancy RoR with a lot of custom changes and integrations. I am sure they had a ton of fun building it, but again, guess what, they were all already gone by the time I started there. And those who stayed hated that code base with a passion because it was near impossible to upgrade, so now we were stuck on an ancient RoR version, and since it was integrated with a lot of other systems it blocked those upgrades as well. Cautionary tale I guess.
I'd honestly consider Golang "excitingly boring".

Simple C-ish syntax that's relatively familiar to most programmers, write once and compile to/from anywhere without arcane flags, easy to understand and use concurrency model with message passing, reference development tooling that can enforce standards out of the box.

I don't think there is much new here other than removal of cruft.
Yess, especially when again and again my friends are doing something cool like having a party or a weekend out of town and I have to stay working.
Can you use your money as speech to short their stock? How else can you meaningfully joust with a multinational megacorp on an individual level?

Why do you feel that it’s censorship or speech suppression as opposed to exercising their own right as a company to set and enforce their own Terms of Service? How would you change the current system? How would you enforce your changes? How would your changes apply to overseas firms, if that is even technically or legally possible?
This is pretty good, but I had to chuckle when the author threw in a suitably impressive quote from Sagan about the dangers of appeals to authority.
If most of it is bullshit, then the harm of bullshit mustn't be that high.

If it were, then none of this would exist.

But that there are some many tech companies taking so many different approaches (the majority bullshit) stands as evidence that there must be some acceptable amount of bullshit an organization can handle.

Textbook code is nice, but shipping and improving product is nicer.
And social media (including LinkedIn). There are many tech firms who hire marketers to write tech content for other marketers and potential clients as an advertising and brand-building strategy.
I suppose part of the reason why current systems don't do this is because I imagine it'd be quite a bit heavier on the servers to calculate these things for every individual user...
Ironically, Dan and I have spent more time trying to convince people to _not_ use Redux all the time than we have trying to actually market it :( [0] [1]

We specifically have info in our docs on when it actually makes sense to use Redux [2] [3], but that doesn't change the flood of Medium blog posts out there.

I created the Redux Style Guide docs page [4] to try to give some clarification on our actual current recommended patterns and usage practices, and our Redux Toolkit package to simplify common Redux use cases [5]. Unfortunately, there's only so much we can do - a lot of people never even look at the actual docs.

[0] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...

[1] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[2] https://redux.js.org/introduction/getting-started#should-you...

[3] https://redux.js.org/faq/general#when-should-i-use-redux

[4] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide

[5] https://redux-toolkit.js.org
I've tried Jitsi Meet. It works OK, at least for a small enough number of participants (I don't know, <= 8 ? YMMV) but for more people things it didn't worked so well.

It also is meant for meetings between peers, for something centralized (like a classroom) I've seen good comments about BigBlueButton, but I didn't tried it.
In case you're wondering (like me) how you'd get input from printf():

> We ab^H^Huse [the Turing-completeness of printf()] to implement a the logic of tic-tac-toe entirely within this one printf call (and a call to scanf() to read user input).

So it should be "one printf() and one scanf()."
It's not just programmers. It's social activity on the web today. And to stand out, you need to say something edgier or something contrary to popular opinion.

We're also all driven to correct the things we see that aren't quite right.

This comment has been a little of column A and a little of column B.
> Fact-checked to be false. Revista Forum is a well known fake news site. [1]

I read the link and it's not news to anyone that he was actually responding to a real movement of milk producers. The point is it doesn't have to be one or the other.

I'm not going to bother responding to the other points because you seemed to have missed mine entirely. These "incidents", isolated, don't mean anything like you can probably tell. However, isolated incidents is now how situations are analyzed, and doing so is just a way to rationalize not seeing what's very clearly in front of you.
after working at couple of startups, I also noticed worrying trend.

* 21 years old marketer writing about life crisis in 40s

* fashion blogger explaining is Teflon harmful or not (come on, fashion and chemistry?)

* 18 years old student who never immigrated to another country or studied abroad writing about how difficult is immigrant life and what to look for in different country and many more similar content.
I’ve said this for a long time:

The people actually doing the work don’t have time to talk about it and the people spending all their time talking about it aren’t doing the work.

Of course there are exceptions but I’m extremely skeptical of a lot of stuff I read.

Also that the HN bubble will always make readers feel behind when in reality 90% of the industry hasn’t even begun to catch-up. I felt behind with K8S in 2016, for example, not realizing we were just seeing the wave form when I felt like it was cresting.
The automated software is intended to predict and prevent public backlash. They aren't lying.
To be fair, IANAL is common across the entire know-it-all internet, which is basically everyone who can read at a college level and plenty who can't.
Epiphany uses webkit, so it’s the same rendering engine.
If you browse so much you can start by curating content. Something like: 10 best articles on influencer marketing - a link and short intro to each of them and you have a piece of content of your own. Curating valuable content is many times as good as creating it.
It is an even bigger problem when searching for advanced/niche concepts: try searching for Redis and Cloudwatch (not Elasticache, plain Redis) and you will get generic AWS docs and "How to get started with Redis" posts.
I've noticed that "I have no idea" as an answer is one of the boldest statements you can make in the workplace.

Most people are playing fake it till you make it most of the time (until shit hits the fan, then incompetence becomes dangerous and you get to see who's been swimming naked)
> DeLUKS

Interesting, hadn't seen this project yet, or would have been more careful, thanks.

A few thoughts:

- The lack of a link to a white paper makes DeLUKS difficult to analyze, but it looks like they're hashing the password using PBKDF2-SHA1, which is quite outdated. (PUREE uses argon2id.)

- The installation/usage seems slightly complex. I'd suggest people compare to the PUREE quick start instructions.

> TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt

As per your link: "When you create an encrypted volume using TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt it is stored as a file (container) on your hard drive.".

And as per VeraCrypt's wikipedia page: "VeraCrypt supports plausible deniability[16] by allowing a single "hidden volume" to be created within another volume"

I didn't read too much deeper, but the phrases "stored in a file" and "hidden volume within another volume" are red flags.
I had to find out what happened. Apparently after a year it came back, but why is unclear.

https://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/chow-tow...

https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2013/04/17/FDA-dismiss...

French raw milk cheeses are still banned, though.
This ignores epigenetics and proteomics.

There's a naively fashionable idea that DNA is basically the same as a Turing tape.

It isn't. It may be true that biological systems can be understood in terms of information theory, but the information is in the entire ecosystem - including the sum total of all individuals and species and their previous and current state.

E.g. on Earth, the entire planetary ecosystem eventually evolved a species with the ability to understand quantum theory - which happened to be a useful adaption, at least for a while.

But you're not going to find an explicit formalism for Schrodinger's Equation in human DNA no matter how hard you look for it.
Yeah, Preact is tiny.
Sadly, the owning class could just transfer their housing assets into a corporation which will rent it out in perpetuity and pay the profits to their heirs. As such, there's no guarantee that the housing market recovers when the current house owners die.
I don't know what to do about the mansplaining or whatever that might happen more often to women, but the sexualized messages were bad enough IMHO to deserve a permaban, even if they spell it "dicc".
It's a reference to the fact that Sinclair was a notorious womanizer, and his exploits often ended up in the press of the time. He was also chairman of MENSA from 1980 to 1997.
There us also org-roam that’s based on Roam Research app
Eh... i don't have a pirate radio because i'm lazy, not because i'm afraid.
Software libraries, APIs, tools, dependencies have exploded exponentially since the early days of C language and a handful of Berkley/Bell libraries. I often use a dozen different things for my projects and the next project invariable needs a different roster.

Thus I want to voice my contrary opinion that it is okay to "consume" and not "create" for non-core parts of your project. Need to do dump an arcane data structure to a remote logging tool? Go ahead and copy paste that StackExchange snippet kings!
Writer didn't accounted for covid or something more dangerous coming up in future.
That's true, of course, but consider this: if there is no money, there may be nothing to go to shit; that which does not live, does not die, etc.
That's a good description. It should have been included with your original pitch.
It also turns out “arg” is a macro which calls scanf. Would be better if they described it more realistically.
Which imo currently makes the best tactile dampened mechanical switches as well. Their quiet click switch is silent and tactile, with actually solid tactility (as opposed to just about every other tactile switch out there).

People have had some reliability issues though, so it's a mixed bag. They have recently gotten some new tooling, so hopefully they will start making keyboards that look somewhat not like a shit 90s keyboard.
Was it ever suspended? The screenshot shows clickwall, not suspension.
I've never seen it outside of HN personally
> No amount I can imagine can pay off for the tapeout on the latest node for them. All dotcoms taken together make for single digit percentage of wafer output for both Intel, or AMD.

Source?
Close to $2k with very minimal self-promo across a few sites. I mostly made it for me.
irccloud would do 90% of the same though
The only real models we have to base our “normal” on for the post-depression post-WWII, modern postindustrial society are the Greatest and Silent generations. It’s not like the Boomers broke with long-standing tradition. What they inherited was a world and economy unknown just a couple decades earlier.

They probably did fail to move us forward, socially and in terms of long-term large-scale planning and saving (on the scale of nation-states, I mean—welfare fund-building and other things that ought to have happened in the “good times”) but it’s not like there were 200 years of people dealing with a similar situation before them.
Brave Browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes
I’d think Safari is the only one not “financed by ads”?
Sure, most tech articles are bullshit... but the question is, is the average developer going to do better figuring it out on their own? Are articles worse than the average developer?
Did the poster even name a player?
Well that video is kind of dated ... we have the Trump administration who in 4 years totally managed to end the standing of the US on the world stage.
You didn't read the latest guidelines? They specifically ban [redacted] unless you're arguing that [redacted] didn't have anything to do with [redacted]. Unless of course, you've accepted money from [redacted], then you are welcome to criticize [redacted] as long as you mark posts as promotional.

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I forget the exact numbers but half of all programmers have been doing it less than five years, and this has been true the whole time. Exponential growth, eh?

Also, IT is fashion-driven and largely ahistorical. I have worked with people who don't know who Alan Kay is, for example, or have never heard of Prolog.

I think we are in an alchemical phase and (hopefully) transitioning to a chemical phase of knowledge. (Alchemy was mostly bullshit too, but there was a hellofa bull in there, eh?)
> the phrases "stored in a file" and "hidden volume within another volume" are red flags.

Why? Files are lot easier than full partition encryption. And how else would you hide a volume with anything like plausible deniability?
> As an aside, remember when Skype was the most popular audio/video chat app in the world? Or even MSN messenger?

These two only failed because Microsoft deliberately killed them. One of these things I will never understand.
Part of the problem is that in the meantime millennials can't save anything and have to overleverage in order to get by. At some future Boomer Great Dying a lot of millennials wont have a lot of liquid cash to take advantage of the situation. Millennials (on average) had to take on massive student debt just to get entry level mail room positions where previous generations did not.

Millennials are entering their 40s. Their adult lives have been filled with Black Swan events which says those aren't Black Swans but the new normal much shittier swan.

So not only did Millennials have to start from behind they keep getting hit with externally imposed crises that make it extremely difficult to get ahead. Germane for a lot of HN Millennials, housing prices in areas with tech companies are insane and even a Boomer Great Dying isn't going to help get a toehold in real estate.
Nintendo left symbol maps for the game on the disk, so they likely found the random number generator function within that, which is named cM_rndF. To count invocations, you could patch the game to increment a counter on every RNG call, and try an example speedrun. Or you could do a brute force to find the rough invocation count from the internal state.
Everyone was an expert online as far back as 20 years ago. Now look where we find ourselves. Time isn’t a flat circle; it’s a merry go round.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/03/technology/suddenly-every...

https://web.archive.org/web/20181018000000/https://www.nytim...
I imagine you'll get comments here like "have good code hygiene" and "aim for good test coverage", which are not wrong. However, for me, what really stuck was learning directly from senior developers.

Anecdotally, having at least one senior developer on a team dramatically changes the long-term prospects of a project, even if they are not the ones actually leading the project. I would be curious to hear other's experiences, to see if that generalizes.

(with the caveat that not all senior devs had good habits)
As a technical cofounder who just finished the YC W20 batch (https://terusama.com), I can agree with some of what you are saying.

At its core, an early stage startup's only goal is to create business value as ruthlessly as possible. Let's talk about how I apply this principle to my testing strategy.

Do automated test suites help create business value? Absolutely, I no longer have to test everything after making a change. Your application is going to be tested, either by you, or by your users.

Does having a well defined layout of UI, service, & integration tests, a-la Martin Fowler add business value? I would argue it does not. I write mostly integration tests, because you get more, 'bang for your buck', or 'tested code per minutes spent writing tests'.

Does this testing strategy create tech debt? Absolutely. I view this as a good thing. I am causing problems for myself in the future, in exchange for expediency in the present. Either my company grows to be successful enough to care about these problems, or we go out of business. If we become successful enough to care about rampant tech debt, hooray! we are successful. If we fail, it does not matter that we leveraged tech debt, we still failed.

Writing good code is an art. There are people out there who are incredibly talented at writing good code that will be battle-tested, and infinitely scalable. These are often not skills that an early staged startup needs, when trying to find product-market fit.
Haha, yes, that's exactly what I meant to say, but messed up the wording. There are no guarantees, but you can improve your chances by making it easier to iterate.
I think it has something to do with this current culture of 'personal branding', wherein a lot of content online aimed at beginners says you should be blogging, writing articles, basically telling people how to do the thing you learnt that day on dev.to, blogs, Twitter, Medium, etc. I don't think it is necessarily bad per se, but it all seems a bit useless? I think there is good value in writing a personal blog, a log of what you've learnt coming from the perspective of a learner, rather than a teacher.
Thumbs up for this. It is just a physical limitation of time, if you're writing you're not coding. I love when Aaron Patterson writes a post once in a blue moon, because they are so interesting.
Speaking of how much of it is bullshit, it's also amazing how much of a language, frameowrk, insert multi-year project involving dozens of people, are willing to cede their entire knowledge base to... a google group? Blogs? Stackoverflow?

If your documentation sucks, your thing sucks. And as time goes on whether you like it or not, the collective record of community supporting itself IS part of the documentation.

What happens when Google or Microsoft buys Stackoverflow and drives everyone away from it, and it eventually goes dark? What happens when all of those blogs start to disappear as people move on to the next thing (Ruby/Rails...), what happens when google just wakes up one morning and declares that they're tired of groups and are going to delete them all like they've done with a dozen other failed projects?
Oh come on. What I am saying - and I will repeat this - is "mm-waves do penetrate the dermis of human babies." No more, no less. This is the scientific consensus. I provided the first source I found, which related to military research, yes. The broader context is irrelevant, I'm not sure why you wrote a whole comment harping on that. I provided it as a simple counterpoint to someone saying that mm-waves did not penetrate skin.

And the broader context of what I am saying is not that 5G is dangerous, just that there should be more effort to determine its safety before rolling out a new type of EM radiation that humans have _never lived with before_.

Looks like I am not the only one saying existing studies do not cover things, and there is a need for further research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765906/
TrueCrypt can also do full disk encryption however full disk encryption is LESS safe than a hidden file/volume. The reason is that the lack of a non-encrypted volume on a disk implies there is an encrypted volume. The existence of a dummy non-encrypted volume does not. Plausible deniability keeps you safer especially in cases where not providing a decryption key results in indefinite jail time.
Wall Street incentivizes Google to do this. Don't hate the game, hate the meta-game?
It has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL