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Books, concepts, and mindsets that help build the right thing. Problem solving, design, design thinking, consulting resources.

"The Complete Problem Solver", "Change by Design", "The Design of Everyday Things", "Jobs to Be Done", concepts like non-consumption. Questions that confirm that feature requests are valid and avoid solving Y problem when the actual problem is X. Thought processes to prioritize work and focus on what matters.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26814150

Then books, concepts, and mindsets that help software engineers reap the reward of the software they write. Marketing, sales, prospecting, pricing, communication.

I believe there is a huge quantity of beautiful, idiomatic, code that solves no real problem, and a huge number of software engineers who have trouble monetizing their skill, or get stuck in unfulfilling roles because they have not found a way to shape an interesting one for themselves.

A few examples of threads searching for answers one usually answers through piecing together many resources, books, and life experiences:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26805216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650563

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550896

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26465891

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366426
Hundreds test positive to Covid at 'superspreader' Kumbh Mela festival in India
Tangentially related. About 10 years ago I considered an idea that would allow websites to accept large files. The web admin would either embed our company's page as an iframe or just link to our whitelabeled url, such as "mydomain.ftphub.com". The admin would then get an email with a download link. Or they could reverse the process and send a link to a customer the way yousendit does.

I still own the domains ftphub.com and ftphub.net, and I put the domains at auction since it looks like I'll never get around to it.

Should I work on this ? Or has this opportunity been commoditized to the point where I there is no way it could turn a profit ? Also has anyone under 30 even heard of "ftp" ? The abbreviation in our brand but not sure it's meaningful anymore. Thanks and sorry if this is too off topic.
Instagram feed shows you suggested stuff when there's no unseen content. I only follow a few people, if I open Instagram is mostly suggested things
I don't want to work for a company where management reads this and thinks it's reasonable...
I could be wrong, but I think a “whoosh” applies here.
My remote team wanted a convivial moment, we found a perfect game for that
Ask HN: Is there a future for Jetbrains IDEs?
I've been a Jetbrains licensee since 2012. I even develop a plugin for statically typed Lua development.

Sadly, recently, the experience of being a Jetbrain's customer has gotten substantially worse.

The IDEs were never light, but they're getting slower each year. The occasional several second lock-up, is not so occasional anymore. There's focus bugs, rendering issues, crashes and a never-ending stream of bugs and missing features in integrations.

Compounding this, I'm yet to have an interaction with Jetbrains staff that didn't leave me tearing my hair out. A quick perusal of YouTrack makes it clear that abrupt, dismissive interactions are standard policy.

That said, Jetbrains refactoring tools are unparalleled and I still recommend Jetbrains IDEs to others. It's just a much harder sell than it used to be, in no small part due to VSCode.

It's not the first time JB have come up against free competition i.e. Eclipse. On-going commercial development seemed to give Jetbrains the edge. I'm not sure that's the case this time around.

Microsoft standardisation efforts go a long way to facilitating VSCode adoptions e.g. Debug Adapter Protocol. Jetbrains staff, of course giving a very Jetbrains staff response when asked about DAP:

> Nope, not supported and hardly will ever be.[1]

Community maintained projects consistently outperform Jetbrains support. That's a large part of what makes VSCode a much more compelling threat than Eclipse ever was. Open source is much better organised now.

I want Jetbrains to (continue to) succeed. I'm just not sure for how much longer they can sustain 500+ devs being pulled in every which way. The cracks are starting to show.

Do others share my concerns? Are you planning on, or have you already, jumped ship to VSCode?

[1] https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360004975119-PHPStorm-and-Visual-Studio-Code-Debug-Adapter-Protocol
pg 121

Accel/General Atlantic/Index Ventues own 80.8% of class A shares, but have total voting control of 14.8%.

CEO Anthony Casalena owns 75.7% of class B shares, and has 68.2% of voting.

this is what job security means.
Not all parents are users of HN, if anything, we are vast minority.

While perhaps setting parental controls is trying to be simple and parents can get somebody's help with it, the second part like downloading video from youtube and playing it on VLC is way beyond most people. Especially that's not officially supported by YT.
> Anybody have a billion dollars and want to go build some new cities from scratch? Seems like now would be a good time.

Something I found out. In the ten years after WWII the Federal government used it's WWII command economy powers to force builders to create new housing.

I think I've come down on the side that the current fad of monetarism plus the free market doesn't provide enough house stock. And reliably creates price bubbles.
Winning friends and influencing people
Makes no sense why anyone who likes good software could also like Squarespace
Salads, shipping containers, and subtle signs of a supply chain reset
You're reading it wrong.

The section includes income, or loss, depending on the situation. Losses (negative income values) are typically represented with parenthesis.

Income of $25000: 25

Loss of $25000: (25)
> 3. The goal of admitting someone to Harvard Med isn’t having them excel at Harvard Med — it’s having them succeed as significant researchers in the medical field after they graduate from Harvard Med.

I'm not sure I would agree with this. I was a postdoc @ Harvard Med, so I knew a fair number of med students there as well as grad students. I don't want to dismiss your assertion out of hand, but I think the truth is a little murky here.

> Do you think that the students from your undergrad could do this?

In short: yes.

> Do you think that they aim to?

This is a key question and here the answer would often be "no." One key differentiator that I saw between HYPS and my state school is that EVERYONE at the HYPS places was _driven_. They were not looking for occupations where they would 'take orders.'
In contrast, many (not all!) of my friends at the state school were roughly as smart as the people I met at the Ivies, but they were not necessarily _driven_. For example, I knew plenty of remarkably intelligent nursing majors at my state school. No one I met at the Ivies would ever consider being a nurse.
That being said, I knew several people at my state school who were quite talented and driven pre-meds and the elite schools barely sniffed at them.

Obviously, I didn't know everything about the Ivy undergrads that I taught, but I knew enough of them well enough to have a sense of how talented they were with respect to research (my classmates and I supervised many undergrads doing research).

There is an inherent difficulty in these types of discussions: we are both basing our opinions on small amounts of subjective data.
It's always interesting and a bit amusing to see HN folks inventing / discovering known ideas from design & HCI.

What njms is advocating here is effectively User-Centred Design (aka "Human Centred Design"). It has an ISO standard: https://www.iso.org/standard/52075.html

I was a Psychology undergrad in the 1990s and I was taught about this stuff way back then. It is sad that design has fallen so far from this standard.
I believe the prevailing view is: instead of deleting Facebook and putting a white list on you home computer, it's way better for congress to enact massive federal legislation.
This is exactly why I came to this thread. Thank you!
I know one even worse: health IT.

The prices for crappy software/hardware solutions are mind boggling. I guess this is how it is if you just can afford it.
You sure that your "we do not need governments to babysit us" ideology goes well with the rest of the tread you seemingly agree with?
Well, it is definitely true that BGG UI feels dated and disjointed, and if Board Game Atlas triggered some reaction on BGG side then great. I don't find BGA UI that much better. Cleaner, more 'modern' - yeah... which includes a lots of white space and rather low information density. On BGG I visit some forums, read reviews for games I'm interested in and browse the files section - even if UI could be improved here it is usable enough and the volume of information makes up for all the deficiencies, at least for me. And contrary to Goodreads BGG seems to have working search ;-)
In the US it's defined by COPPA. Children's online privacy & protection act
The volunteer army is pretty shackled. There are certain problems with book metadata that cannot be fixed by ordinary members with librarian status. They can only be fixed by Goodreads staff. However, Goodreads Staff (apparently a skeleton crew that are barely keeping the lights on) no longer respond to reports about metadata problems.
In my experience the largest difference in rigor was the department. My macroeconomics class was laughably trivial ( spent a week on point/slope), but all my engineering and science classes had high expectations.
I can't tell you about the 1% version, but when it dipped to 15%, it was a strange feeling that I made a bad decision with the thinking that I'm making a great decision (or more trying not to think about it and trust the decision that I made earlier). It's a mental game at that point that you have to wait through. At least with investing it's just about waiting through those periods, being a CEO of a company and making decisions in that state would have been much harder.
Just did this. My AirPods Pro sounded a lot worse (very soft, muffled and way less resonant) than the pair of analog 3.5mm wired earbuds that came with an older iPhone.

I suspect it's because the wired earbuds had a mic near my throat whereas the Airpods' mic were up near my ears. The difference is very noticeable.

Looks like I'll be keeping my wired earbuds around for future conference calls.
I’m not sure what the leadership of your department and university want your enrollment to be, but a very tough (reasonable, but tough) required weeder class early in the CS sequence will clean out the people who like the idea of being a CS major/grad more than the actual reality of being a CS major.

This will allow the faculty to teach the upper class courses at an appropriate level in terms of difficulty and level of engagement with students (versus classroom management and handling weak students).
You seen the pollution people create left to their own free will?
Yeah, Tata and Infosys both have tons of people employed as software devs for pennies. They both make money by letting their clients outsource their workforce with Tata providing that workforce and billing at much higher rates than what those people earn, thus getting a really really nice profit margin. Nothing wrong with that in concept, but the way they went about it was terrible, especially considering that they were paying those devs like $40k/yr in Bay Area (which is an insanity).

That was the whole premise of the big H1B visa controversy, with most applicants from more "legitimate" tech companies and outside of that being pissed off that they have to participate in the visa lottery due to most of the visa cap each year taken by Tata and Infosys employees who each get paid much less (which, in turn, makes the justification for H1B visa for them much shakier).
Please stop doing this (with any account). HN threads are supposed to be conversations. Copying a mass of content from someplace else is not conversation.
It doesn't need to be. But people look at what has happened to house prices over the last 30-50 years, and see that it has been a good investment. So people are buying houses thinking "investment plus place to live" instead of "place to live".
Good luck. FB and Zuckerberg care about nothing other than profit. Eg. check the privacy notices in ios.
Mosquito-borne diseases have killed far more humans than all wars in history. I don't have an estimate for how many other creatures they have killed, nor how much suffering they have caused, but on the whole I suspect mosquitoes are still the winner by a wide margin.
> For all we know, the go linker could be embedding random data

To all the people reading this as a literal accusation instead of hyperbole: plase consider that this reading is only possible under the same bad faith that you're attributing to knz42.
Epic Games certificate expiration incident report
I was just correcting your statement that there is no inherent scarcity with intellectual property.
I like the idea of these apps, but none of them were advertised enough near me to think that others would be using them, so they were all pointless.

And of course, they were rushed out the door, so they'd probably have quite a few problems.
Biden to nominate former space shuttle commander to NASA leadership role
Why not 18?
You ate not helping anybody here, sorry.
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Hey buddy, I’ll sell ya 100 shares of my company, which has 100M shares outstanding, for $1/piece.

Sound good? Sweet! I’m now a centi-millionaire!!

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There are rules around who's allowed to be classified as a 1099. If you're employed full time and told how to perform your job, the government is likely going to determine you're a W2. This is likely what OP meant by "abusing" the 1099 status.
A lot of parents do give some leeway in letting their kids get away with those things in order to let them fit in. Mostly, the reason kids don't do those things more is exactly because we had the government ban those things for kids.

But, alas, Instagram is not a regulated drug, and I see little reason why most parents' reactions wouldn't be more similar to those they have for video games or watching movies than it would be to the use of an illegal drug.

A more apt comparison might be a parent who doesn't let their kid go to the movies or play video games with their friends.
> You said that " the article made the claim that 70% of space is wasted dark bytes" was "incorrect" with no further details

I wrote this because there was no mention of "waste" anywhere in OP.
Show HN: Plurk.com
under 30 and yes ive heard of FTP. I used them at school to submit assignments for some classes and I use FTPs (albeit sparingly) at my current place of work.
> And it is just supply and demand, and you've addressed supply but what is driving so much demand, and why do participants in that market have so much more money to be bidding up prices.

This is something a quick visit to Wikipedia will explain to you. [1]

> Since the 1960s, San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have enacted strict zoning regulations. Among other restrictions, San Francisco does not allow buildings over 40 feet tall in most of the city, and has passed laws making it easier for neighbors to block developments. Partly as a result of these codes, from 2007 to 2014, the Bay Area issued building permits for only half the number of needed houses, based on the area's population growth. [1]

They literally built half as many houses as needed.

> ... and why do participants in that market have so much more money to be bidding up prices.

That would be because of the number of high-paying jobs added in the Bay Area.

> At the same time, there has been rapid economic growth of the high tech industry in San Francisco and nearby Silicon Valley, which has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs. The resultant high demand for housing, combined with the lack of supply, (caused by severe restrictions on the building of new housing units) have caused dramatic increases in rents and extremely high housing prices. [1]

Remember, these are outliers as on average across the US, on an inflation adjusted basis, the $/sqft price of housing has not budged since the 1970s. However, zoning rules left the average new house twice as big outside of metros, and regressive policies in metros skewed the supply side of supply and demand.

Thing is, I'm frustrated because you're right to be mad but pinning this on the Fed is pissing into the wind. Put the blame where it's due: deregulate housing construction. Allow supply to grow to meet demand. It's not rocket science.

The only thing the Fed has done to raise the price of houses is decrease interest rates. A drop from 5% APR on a 30-year fixed to 2.5% APR means for the same monthly payment you can afford a house 25% more expensive. Fundamentally however this didn't change the affordability of housing for the borrower class.

The cantillon effect may account for some subset of this wherein wealthy borrowers with easy access to capital are able to take advantage of the lower price of housing (before bid up) and also the lower interest rates. However, I've found zero quantification of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage

[2] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...
From Bezos' last shareholder letter[0]:
"Draw the box big around all of society, and you’ll find that invention is the root of all real value creation."

I'm really hopeful that invention, like the ideas represented on this list, will get more attention and excitement from our youngest and smartest minds. In fact, I believe that having a successful society is dependent on this.

[0]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to...
Out of curiosity, how does hiring go at these teams? I'm really leaning towards CL for my next product but the thought of having to hunt down CL devs to hire is giving me pause. This is a boodstrapped product, so not able to afford a bunch of devs and need to scale up fast, just need to be able to find 2 or 3 CL devs.
Not to mention amazon will very aggressively react when you start cutting into an (effectively free) leadgen source from them.
iOS has more than 60% of the US market.
I did prepare it with Black 2.0 first.
Any material (write-ups, pictures) you'd like to share? Textiles can be so interesting. I remember seeing open source knitting machines for example. Shame that as an industry it's tied to slave labour, for example cotton picking and sweat shops.
The problem is that you’re approaching the discussion with a completely different philosophical framework than most people have, so they’ll latch on to specific things they disagree with in your example comment and dismiss the rest. For example your statement “I believe all humans are made in the likeness of God” will lead to “well I don’t”, and the discussion is over.

I think it’s more effective to find the core issue of disagreement, which here seems to be whether or not ethics can exist without some kind of a moral authority.

Christians have a tough time in public discussions these days, unfortunately because of some blunders in the past and poor arguments in the present.
Old but not obsolete.
An international carbon tax could not be surprisingly high (innitially) nor come fast enough to shock the markets.
As somebody who was raised similarly to the OP's "sane" way, I would certainly prefer being "insane" to the social isolation I ended up in. Of course, there were countless other factors that made me who I am, but this is still something to consider.
I think power (specifically geopolitical) is significantly more of an indicator than money.

There are people substantially less wealthy than, say, Zuckerberg, who are far more likely to survive in a civilizational collapse/population bottleneck type evolutionary scenario.

In that sort of circumstance I'd rather be a Dr Strangelove (or high ranking military official, or an Air Force 1 crew member) than a Warren Buffet.
> currencies are losing value at increasing speeds

Wouldn't that imply high levels of inflation, which isn't happening in many economies, especially widely available and exchanged ones like USD, EUR, etc.? The value of the Lira is falling and there is high inflation, but it's disingenuous to pretend this is common for currencies and economies around the world.
And god forbid they will see some nipple.
Well, if it’s physics as well, then yeah having a separate NPC objects may not be the best idea (though if the physics engine awaits some primitives, like for each “object” 3 coordinates before simulation, and then sets the corresponding position on each NPC, it may be fast enough). But Valhalla really is coming, and until many many games have more than enough performance packed in the JVM already.
brb updating the stardew valley wiki https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Fair

Edit: whoops they already had used this strategy
> YouTube is similarly such a good resource for learning

Given the insistence on being "a platform not a publisher", isn't that a bit like claiming that "content written on paper is a good resource for learning"?
Unless registration is an employment contract, it will be as binding and useful as project plans in business.
FWIW, looking just at your final paragraph (as I agree strongly with everything you said, but feel a need to note that it wasn't all a complete waste of time): Bill Gates was effectively forced out of his own company after nearly driving the company to destruction by provoking a judge with his arrogance, and the Microsoft that was left after this mess--notably run by Steve Balmer--had a very difficult time hiring strong talent or having any reasonable strategy for its offerings, and as such was no longer organizationally able to maintain some basic technologies that had become mired in the antitrust case (such as Internet Explorer, which was trivially disrupted by Chrome, and is now effectively gone).
I don't see any issue with JetBrains IDEs (and I use them, vim, VS Code and ST3/4 for different purposes).

They surely are not "getting slower each year", and I hardly see any major bugs (I use the IDE for Java, PyCharm, and used to use GoLand but don't do Go these days).

>Compounding this, I'm yet to have an interaction with Jetbrains staff that didn't leave me tearing my hair out.

Why do you need "interactions with Jetbrains staff"? I've used their IDEs for a decade or so and never had any, nor do I find any reason to have one.

In any case, if you're happier with VSCode, just use VSCode.

It's not like you have to use JetBrains.

But I don't see them going anywhere...
~not worth it~
> Compounding this, I'm yet to have an interaction with Jetbrains staff that didn't leave me tearing my hair out. A quick perusal of YouTrack makes it clear that abrupt, dismissive interactions are standard policy.

Agree. I originally put this down to the St Petersburgian charm, (which is why I can forgive the odd grammatical error such as definite/indefinite article mixup/missing) but I also suspected that this was a pattern. On the other hand, if the numbers of users has increased, perhaps they (the users of youtrack.jetbrains.com) hit their own "Eternal September". [1]

Keeping a culture true to its origins is challenging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Flashlight: Fast and flexible machine learning in C++
With my industry / product management / business strategy hat on, totally agree from SiFive's perspective.

With my early days electronics hat on, the 5nm process adds additional energy performance gains that in conjunction with RISCV in an embedded environment, especially in a battery powered remote operation use case, has me salivating at what could be achieved from a would-be customer perspective.
Checkout https://www.leocad.org/ an open source Lego CAD