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The only black and white regarding this I’ve seen are status meetings where most questions could’ve been answered in a discussion or email thread.

And the counter point, is where we wasted days in an email discussion thread when a 30 min meeting would’ve been as effective.
It's turtles all the way down. Write another library with the original library as a dependency.
have you seen HandMadeHero? https://handmadehero.org/

Plus what do you mean by coding games specifically? Is it game engine programming? Game design? Or other related stuff?
I'm fascinated how long they support that feature (while I haven't seen a software update on my old kindle for a while)

That feature was quite nice while travelling as it got me free Wikipedia everywhere, which is nice to read up on sights etc.
The paper addresses this specifically - the information is indistinguishable from thermal noise.
But speaking like that moves people, I am trying to learn

Its like when you choose Intelligence 0 in Fallout, everyone that is smart sounds dumb and everyone dumb sounds normal

Predicting how to relate to people to make an investment is something some of these sales guys get that I don’t

I can persuade people to do a lot of things, but selling equity to a bunch of technophobic old money and English as a Second Language people? Learning
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I'd expect HN to not let duplicates to be submitted.
>A group of 5 homeless people in each of the cities i've lived there would have been a huge group.

>I've continuously encountered groups of 20-50 homeless people living in Boston, NYC, Miami, etc.

This just just not true.

About the only way to get 5+ homeless people in one spot in any of those cities is to do something that specifically encourages them to show up, like a church giving out free lunches on a Sunday.

I can't speak to Miami but I've commuted into (like train and walking, not just the highway) NYC and Boston, the latter more recently, and the most I've ever encountered with any regularity is groups of two (usually a pair of dudes who seem to look after each other's stuff). There are some panhandling points on the subways but any one point won't be occupied every day. The density of homeless is low enough that doesn't happen.

Your description of Germany fits with my observation of NYC, Boston, Newark, New Haven, Baltimore, basically the Boston-DC corridor.
> In fact, a good cup of tea can get a lot of the same results

I take 500mg of theanine[0] instead of tea, which I never liked. Too much water in it, and leaves me bladderless if I drink too much of it

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine
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Oddly, AirBnb may be a winner in this. In many jurisdictions, short-term rentals (<30 days) do not afford the same tenant protections as long-term. I know a few small landlords who are switching their rentals to short-term so that they don't get screwed over again. Long-term rentals in desirable markets are likely to get even more expensive as supply is further reduced.
He is? He's making almost 9k a month, that's pretty good if you ask me. https://www.patreon.com/bay12games
If you're someone who craves moral certainty at the expense of honest inquiry, a person/company/historical figure cannot be both virtuous and flawed. They must be all one or all the other.
So, OP provided a high-quality source, and you're ignoring it without reading it, because you know it's wrong? Without reading it. Is that right?
levels.fyi shows 300k+ salaries for senior engineers at FAANG’s. Senior engineers are typically not 2 years out of college. Some exceptions I’m sure, but certainly not the majority.
Yes. This is why the much-maligned (around here) category of “enterprise software” is so hard and why the results are often kind of shitty.
My friends parents had a house they fixed up, lived in, then moved. They then rented the house out and at the start of the pandemic gave the tenant a few months without having to pay (after she lost her job).

After 6 months she agreed she was going to start paying (September 2020). She had a job, she had stimulus and she was buying nice TVs and stuff.

She never started paying again. The “government said she didn’t need to”.

My friends parents owe taxes, had to make repairs, have to pay insurance. They are out at least ten thousand dollars. At the same time, they are out of work.

What are they supposed to do? Sell to black rock, who are getting free funds from the FED (ie their taxes)?

https://strangesounds.org/2021/07/blackrock-is-buying-up-us-...

Landowners are typically nice, small time people who are renting out an old home. They take care of everything the renter doesn’t want to and in return receive a fee. The landlord takes all the risk.

You’re basically saying “bankrupt the grandma and grandpa, because young people would rather buy meme stocks or TVs than pay rent” that’s not all cases, but the government did give out thousands in free money for the unemployed. The dominos by me in a rural community is offering $25/hr + tips and can’t find people to work. There are job openings everywhere and I think people can make it work.

There’s not a great solution, but saying the landlord is on the hook when the government is supposed to represent everyone is not reasonable.
All over the Internet you'll see these predictions of doom and gloom as the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures ends. I honestly just don't buy it.

For one you have a certain number of actors who haven't paid their rent or mortgage simply because they haven't had to. This doesn't erase previous obligations but such people may be willing to walk away for other reasons or may attempt to negotiate with the owner or bank for a lower overall payment because that's better than the alternative.

For another, people still have to live somewhere. If anything you'll see the effect of this as a lowering of rents, which have otherwise soared. Residential landlords are generally less willing than commercial property owners to keep property vacant for extended periods to maintain the illusion of "market rate".

Lastly, unemployment is low and there's a lot of upward pressure on wages. This is not the environment where lots of people suddenly go homeless. This isn't the Great Depression. This isn't even 2008.

There are a lot of people who missed out on the spike in housing prices who are now rationalizing that result as this being a bubble about to burst.

Also, people who haven't been through this before have unrealistic views of the likelihood of actual doom and gloom scenarios. It happens less often than you think. If nothing else, governments have shown themselves more willing to intervene (for better or for worse) to stave off negative outcomes.

This just isn't a big deal.
I see. Well, it actually happens all the time.
I mean obviously you could share any number of windows.. but there is still something convenient about sharing a single private browser window.
I'm confused why you're confused. Making it more adversarial when it's obvious the company is in the wrong and has been negligent for so long is a great way to continue to burn your talent and reputation and doesn't sound like a great way to solve the long term problem, either. Being a public facing company a large part of this is public relations. Mediating or looking for good faith resolutions is what I would expect as a consumer or potential employee.

In 1982 someone laced Tylenol with potassium cyanide and seven people died. Johnson & Johnson within 2 months released a triple-sealed package and had a nation-wide recall. Their market share dropped from 35% to 8%, but rebounded within a year. It's often talked about as a great PR response.

I doubt Activision Blizzard feels the need to be as responsive to this situation, but I don't see this as a great reaction.
The article makes it sound as if her camp became concerned about streaming in 2019, so pre-pandemic and presumably post original contract. You'd need to be a lawyer and read the actual contract to see if there were specific representations about box office and streaming. One would think there were but Disney+ didn't even launch until 2019 so maybe that's what kicked off the concerns.
Precisely. Some of the conversations look interesting but I can't put my life on hold. It's a missed opportunity IMO to get more engagement.
The problem is that one of the incentives to do hard things under capitalism is wealth, and if things get too scammy you can get wealthy without actually building the thing. So while it is remarkably easy to raise capital right now, you also need a set of people who have clear positive intentions and want to build things raising that money.
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For those who bought these devices or used them regularly, what do you use the internet connection for?

I've read on a kindle very close to every single day for at least 10 years (Kindle Touch first, now Paperwhite), and I keep it in airplane mode 99.999% of the time or more. If I buy a book from Amazon, I'll put it on Wifi until it's downloaded, then back to Airplane Mode.

I know that I can look something up on Wikipedia were I online, and this is the only feature I know of that I might sometimes be tempted to use. It's difficult for me to imagine a scenario that I would want to buy a reading device that could connect to the internet on cellular data.
Heads up: I opened this link in a new tab and it immediately started playing a very loud, constant tone.

If you're wearing headphones or have your speakers turned up, be careful!
I love reading about it, but have played for maybe 30 minutes. The game doesn’t intrigue me, but the building of it does.

Same for Minecraft and similar. Figuring out the software and the cool way it came into existence is the problem to solve, actually playing it is (perhaps incorrectly) predictable details and so boring.
Inefficiencies aren't always bad.

Efficiency, for example, is often the opposite of robustness. Many companies have learned that the hard way when COVID hit, even though they had an efficient supply chain and production pipeline, it was not robust.
You could say "Launch HN Batch" instead of just "Launch HN", which would give enough context to the following text without making the title too long.
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I only know anecdotally that we were rolling it out to engineering at Uber, and I see it at my current company as well. It has good selling points for management to "improve productivity", and usage spreads easily once someone in a team starts using it.
We're building a whole ecosystem of tools and add-ons for async work. Bots like geekbot are focused on stand-ups, and this is only a piece of what we're doing now - our goal is to replace several bots/apps with our toolkit, and implement security standards that are not followed by current bots; we're also available in more chat apps, not only in Slack.

DailyBot lets you give kudos to teammates, have a watercooler in a chat channel, random 1:1 coffees, run a virtual commute that reminds you to disconnect from work each day, run countdowns, pomodoros, and more. You can even build public web forms that are connected to your chat channels through the bot. In the end, we want to make the chat 10x better and at the same time provide only one dashboard that connects all that data.

Our product is extendable: you can connect your check-in responses to over thousands of apps through Zapier, and build your own chat commands without technical knowledge. For example: you can create a command that responds with your predefined text, like to access information quickly inside the chat, or to trigger a form, or get data from your back office tools, kind of useful for chat-ops.

We created a 2min video that shows a bit of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZnGl4c-9g
The US spends more on social programs than it does on the military.
The people who make these rules literally do not believe in supply and demand. It's fucking mind boggling.
I don't entirely disagree, pointing out that their workers are at least the producing country's responsibility is fair, since some seem to forget.

But the consuming country is still participating in the exploitation knowingly. It's not like we're unaware, so it's definitely a conscious choice being made to ignore it. It's worth considering the weight of that, since being loud about it has been cause for quite a lot of positive change over the decades.

It's not like I think someone who buys something made with exploitation is a monster, or even shares much of the blame at all, but it is a choice you can make to support less exploitation here and there and I think that's worth doing.
Associates at top firms live in HCOL areas at similar rates as SWEs at FAANG companies.
Anecdote, as a teen, I was diagnosed as having myopia (mostly on one eye) and got glasses. I refused to wear them most of the time, during that time I spent more time outdoor, looking further away and also develop an habit to stare at points far away whenever I'm thinking.

Since I'm 25, whenever I do an eye test, they tell me that I have a very small amount of myopia on one eye but it's very small and I don't need glasses.

Interestingly, when I talked to an eye doctor recently, he told me that they no longer try to push glasses so much when there's a small vision issue.
Yeah, showing off or feeling helpful. That explains it almost perfectly.
It's almost as if it's a really hard problem to solve.
Because it's not a contract. If emails were contracts, every email that comes later would supersede it. You can't run things that way. If you agree to it, put it in a contract. But if you wanted to allow emails as contracts, then the last email on a subject would always be the final contract for instance. It would be too unfair and difficult to sort out.

For instance, was the highlighted email the last email on the subject? If not, do those subsequent emails also represent contracts? What was in the last email? The game could go on and on. Whereas with a properly executed contract, everyone knows what everyone signed.

Now it can influence legal proceedings, but only insofar as it illustrates where a negotiation was going. And again, subsequent emails would point to where those negotiations landed in the end.
I’ve never been able to get public library apps to work. I’ve tried two or three.
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Even educated people don't have the ability to hold every possible taxonomic schema in their heads. Don't even get me started on multi-lingual, cross-culture, jargon, creole, and dialect differences.

A cool example I read recently noted that the English word "son" has two different meanings in Spanish: son, a conjugation of the verb ser, to be, and son, relating to sound and music.

Edit: as an aside, I just did a search for son and the first page was almost entirely about the recent horror movie, with one hit for the Korean footballer Heung-min Son
I was also offered $50 but you have two weeks before the coupon expires. This seems extremely short considering they must have had a ton of time to prepare for the cellular shutdown.

Plus, if you go to their site to buy a new Kindle it says you get $50 + 20% off if you trade in your old Kindle. Customer service told me I can't combine offers (plus trade in takes a couple weeks anyway) so it seems the $50 offer is worse than what normal customers get anyway.
Originally the front light was a Paperwhite-only feature, until it was also introduced to the basic Kindle range.

It's reasonable to have the wish that color temperature might be similarly introduced to a basic model, when the other features of the basic model otherwise suffice.
5th amendment bars expropriation except without compensation

I never considered the 3rd amendment to be a protection against that but I can see how soldiers randomly living in your home could be seen as government appropriation
At some point gas stations won’t make as much money and thus will start changing to electric. The supply could flip with current electric charging stations which will move the needle.

We’ll also see what gets manufactured… there might be a time where few gas options will exist.
>people who bought it as an investment will just hold onto it and let it sit empty

Exactly. We are starting to recognize that, as a society, buying a house as an investment and letting it sit empty is anti-social, violent behavior that should be shunned, discouraged and punished to the fullest extent.
I have a DX, as far as I can tell it does not have any WiFi capability. It's only network connectivity is cellular.
Think of the kindle as a loss leader for them to sell books. They probably make more money selling e-books than from the device itself.
I think you're both right. Homeless shelters are are rough places. No privacy, hard to get good sleep, and your shit gets stolen.

But well over half of homeless people are addicts, and a lot of these folks will bail out of much nicer arrangements simply because they're not allowed to drink or do drugs.
I was an Amazon intern in 2011 and there was another intern I met at a party who told me about this fact. We all thought it was hilarious.

His entire intern project was a small piece of the system being built to detect abuse of these SIMs and stop it. Given it's a decade later now, I doubt it still works or works for very long.
Thanks for the link. We used Lambert Conformal Conic for Europe and Robinson for Asia, but I'm not thrilled with the Asia projection.

I really want to be able to change the latitude the projection is centered on, but haven't been able to figure out how to move that point yet, so we've got more skew near the pole than we do at the bottom of the map. Feels like it could be better.
What are the consequences of swallowing gum?
> The word "unbiased" seems to be doing a lot of heavy work in your comment. The FSF is inherently biased towards its project -- how is that a problem?

That's straw-man, I never said (nor do I think) FSF should not be biased towards its project.

However, I would be more willing to trust the results of this call if I had confidence that all solid arguments are presented, even if they're not aligned with FSF's agenda. Hiding them won't make them disappear - you might as well get as informed as possible about the issue, especially if you care deeply about the issue and agree with the FSF.
All while there is a continuing incentive for news organizations and elements of governments to keep people in a near-constant state of worry and uncertainty about something/anything.
I wish there were a way to tell Google that I never, EVER want to see an image result from pinterest.
Right. You don't need the bandwidth. But while it's presumably possible, also presumably almost no home users had WiFi before they got broadband.
I know that with many publications, the journalists don't get to pick their own headlines. There has been a lot of talk about how journalism is dead, but I have found that often, the article is well done, but the headline paints an inaccurate or divisive picture. I think the editors and maybe the MBAs are more of a problem than the journalists.
I didn’t get the sense that the post I replied to was concerned with love or personality traits for their mating procedure as described. It was a list of physical attributes or tolerances like you might have for an object like a wrench or car.
> ...Take notes as you try/figure out things, since your "trying things" binary will quickly become an unmanageable mess and you'll forget things.

Worth to mention also that Version Control of the analysis artifacts helps in tracing your way forward. It also helps in trying out ideas to refine your understanding.
In theory, then, people at risk of environmental myopia should get reading glasses to wear while working on close-up things. (Is this the “print pushing” thing described in the presentation?)
If you have a Google Fi connection, their extra data SIMs are perfect. Zero extra cost and you get global roaming.
Shoot, sorry. This article is paywalled.
Yeah, must have been those “others” abusing the system while all you were doing was accessing free data in China, Iran and Iraq!

Seriously, though, great comment!
Right - FSF ended up with a user view. Problem was the developers are the one actually writing the code and picking licenses, and the FSF moved away from really talking with them. I think this was a big shift.
I stand very much corrected, I didn't realize the project had gathered so much support steam compared to 5-10 years ago. Happy to see it
Sylvester Stallone was one of the first actors to negotiate a fraction of gross revenue and rights (for Rocky).

edit: I heared the above several times over the years, but it appears it may not be true:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sylvester-stallone-on-never-...
So what? Americans emit 3x as much CO2 per capita as does the rest of the world. The Chinese emit half as much CO2 per capita than do the Americans. This problem will not be solved on a per nation basis, it's going to be solved on a per person basis with each person taking responsibility for their own carbon footprint.
No, nynx said all large companies. They did not restrict themselves to game developers or software companies.
Parents raising kids with an expectation of a reciprocal obligation in an individualistic culture certainly doesn't work (see any 1st generation immigrants from such cultures).

I do think though, that parents raising kids with the expectation that the children be individualistic can cause issues, particularly now that we aren't in a post-war economic boom that can broadly support this (kids are often made to feel ashamed for living with their parents).

The culture will adapt eventually and lots of kids will get messed up in the meantime.
And do their content distribution.
Cellular can be used to buy and download books while travelling without having to connect to random WiFi APs. It could also be used for email, if you were patient enough.
I suspect the catalyst has been the media tour for the book, "The Joy of Sweat." It has been getting outsized press and I think a lot of knock-on related content on smell in general. But this is just wild speculation on my part.
This is a tremendous deal. Makes me so confident in buying first gen Amazon products. The Oasis is their high end reader. I have one and it’s better than the normal kindles by far.
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> If you are "notorious" for something in this day and age, it should at least show up in ten paragraphs of Wikipedia.

That is placing way too much trust in Wiki pages not being manipulated to portray their subjects in an unfairly positive light
I can't even begin to imagine the bills that were racked up via this and others (like the Lime SIMs)..

For the Lime SIMs, there was a day when the pipe was turned off - I can imagine it was the day someone looked into their twillio billing in detail..
With out of control immigration quotas and extremely lax policies on immigration and money transfer, it's no surprise Vancouver ended up as it is. [0]

Strangely enough, the locals are voting for the same parties that enabled the situation in the first place.

> Vancouver ended up introducing a vacant property tax.

So you end up with a "tenant" that's a family member but not living there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_washing
attitude control huh?