skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sloppy engineers:

- see programming as an obstacle.

- hate programming.

- never talk about technology.

- care about marking tasks as done.

- think that there are more important things than uptime.

- get favored by task-oriented managers and may get promoted to roles they may not be able to successfully interview for.

- their success encourages other engineers to be sloppy.

Real engineers:

- see programming as part of their job and try to be competent at it.

- have a passion for what they do and how they do it.

- can have an interesting conversation about technology.

- care about sustainable productivity and managing tech debt to achieve that.

- recognize that without uptime, the product doesn't exist.

- get passed on promotions by task-oriented managers.

- their success encourage other engineers to pursue excellence.

There are frontend engineers and product-oriented engineers that care about their craft and are knowledgeable engineers, but it's not a requirement. For infrastructure roles, a desire to understand things deeply is required.
The thing I think is false is your portrayal of EU legislation targeting the little person while leaving the big corps alone. Because reality is quite the opposite.

We are struggling to handle “influencers” because they are a “new” concept in terms of legislation. They fall into a loophole, and dealing with it isn’t “quick” as you suggest, but something that has been slowly grinding into gear over the last decade and will in all likelihood take at least another decade to reach any form of completion.

By contrast the big Corps you say go free have been handled by advertisements legislation that has existed since the dawn of the news paper and which regularly gets updated.

The issue influencers pose the traditional legislation is that they fall into the category of being private individuals voicing their private opinion, which used to get regulated by the media platforms they did it on, but this isn’t true with SoMe because of the other legal loophole these platforms exploit by not being forced into an editorial role for the content they host.

That’s another issue that will also take decades to see decent legislation, but as far as advertisement goes, big Corps are covered while the little guy is not.
The option has 7 languages. So 7 == 80 ?
Hong Kong seems really like a canary in a coal mine. Shouldn't it be easy for any of the world's democracies to speak out for such a small territory that is being threatened by a dictatorship? Apparently not in this sad era of decline. I swear I can feel it in the air. Principles are seeming more and more old fashioned. Money trumps all.
If this were true, then low-income people wouldn’t speed or run red lights. (In reality they still do it, they just wind up in debt trap.)
> “Product-first” engineers are obsessed with using code to solve a user problem and they see code as just a means to an end.

> “Code-first” engineers are obsessed with the abstractions, architecture, tools and libraries in the code. Elegant code is the end.

I work on infrastructure products. You'd be hard pressed to convince me that my SDKs don't "solve user problems", because they do. Sure, frontend and backend aren't great descriptors. I often lambast "backend engineering" when a company has a unified hiring process and requires me to recruit the people who do the kind of work I do with the way they recruit web-only backend engineers, but these descriptors are far more amalgamous and tell me much less than what Frontend and Backend do.
But it is already. Lots of otherwise heinous activities are tolerated just fine by the West. When was the last time the name Khashoggi found its way into Western mainstream media?
> Some think that if the US extended their protection to Taiwan, Beijing would not attempt to take Taiwan.

> What next? What is there to prevent China from trying again and again and again?

> The only way the regime can be changed is from the inside.

Worth noting that the Chinese Army “may not be willing to fight” (‘pay the bill’ for the aggressive stance of the Foreign Ministry). [1]

If the Chinese Army did not score decisive victories early on, they may be the one to give up, pushing back pressure from the top, instead of trying again and again.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/p0nqla/chinese...
It's fine to be baffled. For what it's worth, I was also skeptical for a long time.

Mistaken titles should be corrected. Clickbait titles should be reduced. But that's not what's being argued here.

What's being proposed is to change a longstanding community rule. Such things are known to happen, but you have to be careful about doing so. It's almost irresistible to propose changes. I recently proposed one too: that all links in selfposts should be clickable. I still feel that was a decent suggestion.

But we don't have the experience or the information to see all the possible implications of such proposals. Having been on Ye Olde HN for... 2021 minus 2007 years, I think the central question is whether the rule breaks down at scale. Because the title length in place since 2007, and the only reason to change it is that it no longer works, presumably due to HN scaling.

My skepticism alarms go off at such proposals. The clickable links in selfposts are a decent example of a proposal that seems to fit: no one had clickable links in 2007, even for posts from YC. But as HN scaled, that changed. Presently, most posts that make it to the front page get clickable links, so those that don't feel like obvious outliers – the shunned posts. Why not let everyone participate in a fair way?

The title length proposal is different. It's true that it might make some posts more accurate, like this one. But it's also true that a sufficiently creative person can pack a lot of information into 80 characters. Are you sure it's a good idea to change such a longstanding rule, especially when there's no pressing need to do so? Doing nothing is often the best course of action when running something – look how freenode turned out.

The point is, each proposal like this needs to be carefully thought through. It might seem entirely obvious that it's a good idea, much like the selfpost proposal seems like a good idea to me. But we should try to feel skeptical – how much money would you wager that your proposal won't go wrong? Would you place 450k on it? I wouldn't.

But we're asking them to bet far more than $50k on each change like this, because HN is literally the key to YC's power. It always has been. That's why I'm not too bothered if things stay mostly the same – there have been a lot of changes since 2007, but the substance of the site (such as the 30 link limit on the front page) has remained the same.

In fact, one could ask oneself "Why not show more links on the front page? After all, 40 would be more informative than 30." Many of your same arguments would apply. Yet there are subtle but important reasons not to.
> world has been attempting to disarm.

evidently not.
Sorry but semantics is just semantics. Intuition almost always predates the theories that sprout from it.
Insurance is a premium paid to reduce volatility. If one can afford the volatility, then that person should definitely not get the insurance. A typical HN'er should probably not insure things under $2K. Insurance is NOT about trying to "profit" by better analysing a transaction. It is a service purchased for volatility-reduction.
I doubt people would use it for actual porn, but I fully expect it will herald an explosion of creepshot porn where guys take (and distribute) sexualized, male-gaze footage of women and girls in public. These glasses will absolutely be used to harass and objectify women and girls. Some people may just want to produce fairly low quality (5MP) POB videos for Instagram, but that doesn't negate or offset the harm these will do to many women and girls.

I watched a WSJ video on these glasses and from 5+ feet away, they are indistinguishable from the ubiquitous Ray-Ban Wayfarers sunglasses. The "camera's on" LED is about the size of a poppy seed and in daylight conditions, it was nearly impossible to notice. Also, they put the button that starts recording in a place I touch while adjusting my glasses, so starting a recording will also be completely inconspicuous. These seem to be designed to violate people's privacy, which would make sense considering how incredibly good FB is at monitizing their (often non-consensual) access to the intimate details of people's lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction
High-ideas and eating pretty much don't mix, for me. I try to drink plenty of water or coffee (for a daytime smoke)

I'll be checking these variants out!
> I think the feelings of others have less merit than my own, I'm just unsure how to be certain of where that boundary is and want to avoid being an inconsiderate jerk at the same time.

Good news, you're on the right track. Acknowledging that there is a problem is the first step. Many people don't get there.

If you're introspective, get some self help books. John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus [1] can open doors to understanding the opposite sex, even if you don't agree with everything he writes. The crux of the problem is we all assume everyone wants the same thing, and we do, but we prioritize things differently. So, people spend a lot of time giving what they want to receive because that's what they want. Then we feel empty and spent.

It's like if I like coffee and you like milk. I keep gifting you coffee and you keep gifting me milk. Neither of us "feel whole" from these transactions. The gifts don't feel thoughtful to the recipient. Meanwhile, we think we have everything we want, yet we know something's missing and we can't figure it out.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IHZ91T6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
This is something with a completely unknown usecase to me but I'm amazed at how good it works and it seems like a really fun project, thanks for posting it!
> but to the degree to feign surprise that people use the devices they own and control to live lives that include a sexual dimension is a new level of ridiculousness.

The company I work for made it outright clear that while I could unlock my privately owned phone for business access, they would take complete control of it and install monitoring software in order to protect company data. I would have lost any pretense of privacy if I signed up to that without getting myself a second, non-business, phone. I didn't sign up since it just would have reduced my free time even more, but I know plenty of people with separate business and private phones.

The only surprising thing would be if apple wasn't just as upfront about the complete lack of privacy involved with a company phone.
How to Scrape Emails from Facebook
Based on Stilwell's Biography by Barbary Tuchman. Sun Yat-Sen never has strong power support. His party Kuomintang and his protege Chiang Kai Shek is a fascist authoritarian party. Kuomintang is corrupt, xenophobic, and abusive. CCP is more idealistic, less corrupt, and discipline. Both party did not trust British and wanted HK back.
Since the light turns on when the camera is on I don’t think it’s creeepy… if there wasn’t a notification light then it would be creepy.
Living in fear is one of the easiest ways to be filled with regret on your deathbed.
That is the most ridiculous hyperbole I have ever heard.

Yes, Singapore does have strict limitations on freedom of speech, but at the same time have separation of powers, free elections and a national identity separate to the PAP.
Are you a company trying to obtain email addresses for your clients? Are you looking to further your consumer audience through emails?
no its for linking. basically clang unless configured in the source it does not know what link options to give. Actually even rust uses gcc or clang to do same thing.
This "great" nation was built on the corpse of several smaller nations a d ethnic groups. Theire reservations are a Disneyland of death by funny dances and deserve to be protected?
That's like saying you can't pay one who doesn't have a bank-account. You can either give the money (or bitcoin) to some service that keeps them for this person and give them the access to it or find another way to do it. At this point, I'm pretty sure that the burden of proof goes over to the other person and they will have to show why they didn't work with you to get the money.
*if an object is moving a crude shape of the object can be made out

"seeing inside a closed room" is a bit of a stretch
I hope they're successful. It's a welcome change, especially if it makes solar power more accessible.

Recently I've flipped through the current options out there. You can't help but feel you need to at least drop ~2k to be able to use most appliances you depend on day-to-day.
worse educational experience? thats dramatic as hell. You are just mad that can't steal support reserved for other folks.

You keep throwing around priveledge and advantage but I don't think you get it. Do women make less money than men, underrepresented in industries, way higher percentage of being victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault? But your argument, is always "some men", but we are talking about "in general". Huge difference between situational advantage and systematic disadvantage.

Calling me reprehensible, and you are all high and mighty about how mean sarcasm is hahaha. This whole thread, is you getting all bent out of shape because you think the white man isn't getting enough, just leave it at that. I hope one day you see how ridiculous that is.
This seems incorrect. The archetypal process-oriented professional in my book is the money-making poker player.

In poker, you cannot control the result of any hand -- not even the result of a week's play. To achieve long-term success, you must have a good process for your playing, and not be influenced by the results.

A good process sets you up for the best chance of success, but it cannot guarantee success. If you start to adjust based on results (and not deeper changes to the causal matrix -- these are process-informed changes) you'll do worse. Edwards Deming called this "tampering".

The same thing applies, of course, in business. The greatest process will produce bad results if you're unlucky with uncontrollable external factors. A bad process can by chance produce good results if you're lucky with uncontrollable external factors.

You cannot judge a process by its results in individual instances alone. Judgment of a process must be made in terms of theory, repeated experiment, and long-term tendencies of the outcomes.

And, as in poker, any long-term successful business is process-oriented. They carefully build processes that set them up for greatest chance of repeated success.

Any results-oriented business has -- by de-emphasising the process -- no way to influence the outcome. They are "driving on the highway by looking at the centre line in the rear view mirror" as someone put it.

Theory and process is the only thing that can tell you anything about future results.

I strongly recommend reading Deming's The New Economics.
> I can't remember people being denied service for their political views until just recently.

Probably wasn't as noticable when they were turning far more people away because of their race, religion, or gender.
Yes. But, that’s also only 4 time zones squashed into one, with vast majority of the population living in 2. EU could remove time zones, US too, but worldwide it would be quite unpleasant to completely lose the notion of when a « morning » is.
The US is not without flaws, we have SESTA and FOSTA, which restrict website content, passed with minimal outcry, and the potentially upcoming EARN IT[0] and LAED[1] acts, which will threaten end-to-end encryption and more. The only senator vaguely aware of these problems seems to be Ron Wyden.

No reason to assume we are able to simply relax.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020 (despite the year in the name, it's still an ongoing potential bill)

1. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-n...
“shutting down the entire industrialized world for 1.5 years” is a bit of an exaggeration?
Haha I used to make fake websites like this so that I could chat with my friends. We would each have an interface that looked like stuff we would do at work.
Digital Classic Cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxbOb4kAdY&list=PLIqYtLjenz...

"The very first buyer of this model will receive 10% of EVERY future sale of this digital NFT classic car on Lloyds NFT Auctions."

All I know is it's important to get in on the bottom to make a lot of money. It's a trapezoid model of doing business.
I happened to like this pedantry! It refreshed my memory of history I had once learned but forgotten.
The site actually "de"-grades gracefully, in that with js disabled the experience is objectively better.
Slate Is Live on ProductHunt – “Multi-Display Multitasking on a Single Screen”
The US lacks broad-based public support for new wars.

Also, if China attacks Taiwan's semiconductor facilities aggressively and destructively right at the exposition of a conflict, there will be no strong incentive for the US to get involved because its largest interest in Taiwan will have been demolished.
The Youtube video is not available here.
Impostor Syndrome for Self-Taught Programmer
It's a challenging task. You're dealing with nations who think a nuclear weapon to their name will give them representation on the world stage. In reality, it doesn't, because there's a lot more factors at play for representation in the global landscape than fission. So, as powers rise the US (and other countries) have attempted diplomacy in various forms to curb deviation from the conclusions we reached at the peak of the arms race. I don't think that'll end, and my prediction is that we'll go through this with state-sanctioned hacking as well.
Releasing an Android app earlier wouldn't have changed anything substantial for them.
Except it doesn’t as there is no actual physics in what you wrote… Without it there is no more correctness than any other random string of words

Don’t worry though, you aren’t alone. There is a thriving community of people coming up with their own “theories” or proving how pi is exact equal to 3.125
"intellectually dishonest"
as opposed to physically dishonest or...?

Preferential admissions, sure. And that's not new, admissions take a lot of things into account besides race, like religion, family members who were alumni, hell you can even just pay to get in. You think maybe white men get more preferential treatment in life though? "BUt THaTs NOt WhAT We ArE TALkiNg AbOuT". Huge difference between situational advantage and systematic disadvantage.
A couple months ago our admins made a big effort to draw up seating plans, see who would still be working remotely or who needed a desk, etc. I called it! I knew this wouldn't end up panning out, even before Delta made the news.

I have a disability which gives me permanent WFH as an accommodation, but I feel for the people who can and want to return. Hope it's safe again in the future.
Intuition has also proceed every wrong theory. You are the same as the people who think (and have proof!) that pi=4
People on the fitness Reddit have it out for Rip since they feel his beginner's program is not suitable for intermediate and advanced lifters.

I used it for about 6 months and I followed a couple of other programs (5/3/1 was the longest at nearly an year and a half). The emphasis on squat / deadlift / press / bench has all paid off years later and the only time I really learn a new movement is when I'm doing an isolation exercise.

I DO think the attitude Rip has towards movements like rows, Romanian deadlifts and machines (especially cable machines) was bad for my mindset, but I learned a lot by having my field of vision narrowed; I find a lot of the other criticisms of him to be irrelevant to his beginner-focused exercise program.
Book burning at Ontario francophone schools
> So you want them to shut down the factories, in which case they'll be sent to be sent to labor camps or rot in prison instead

What do you think a labor camp is, actually? It’s forced manual labor, done for the benefit of the non-imprisoned populace.

I don’t believe there’s much of a difference between being forced to manufacture goods versus rotting in a prison - both are horrible.

Mass shutdown of factories might actually spur some protest from the general populace and shed light on the plight of the imprisoned.
The local big player is Japan. It would be hard to intervene because of its current constitution but I don't see them letting PRC push its border so close. Moreover Okinawa was historically a vassal state of both Chinese empires and Japan, so it's possible China greed could extend there as well.
This BBC report appears to claim it's happening very frequently now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqdvrmpG93I
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28477392
I can get behind the product infra nomenclature over backend and front end.
Google Stadia’s director of games has left for Google Cloud
I wonder how much money Amazon would be willing to give each employee per year, or per hour, to legally sign away their right join a union?

$3/hr? $0.03/hr? $10/hr?

Presumably they've done the math.

Ditto the for-profit, VC-backed digital labor union folks (and their vc backers):

https://unitworkers.com/

Of course, Amazon -- and most companies, presumably -- want to hit the sweet spot -- they don't want to offer _everything_ they'd have to give up if they were to allow a union to form -- they want to offer up _just_ enough to keep the workforce from organizing (just enough carrot to go along with all the illegal sticks).

Myself, as a hippie founder-type, outside of a full worker co-op, I still don't know how to think about unions.

I'm generally pro-union, pro-worker, etc., but at _my_ startup? Won't having a union kill it before it starts? If not, how not? Seems too risky to me.
Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems and Game of Life [video]
> rule-of-law democracy is much better at mitigating that than other forms of government

I believe that both are exploitative, just that developed democracy is better at hiding it - either internally through low wage labor or by exporting to developing countries.
Why is recursive setTimeout better?
Sorry but if you hear no one ranting about the german government you are just not going out a lot.
They are good, but keep in mind that some of them are fiction. They are not historical account.

Another great one is "The Old Regime and the Revolution" by Alexis de Tocqueville. It is about how France worked before the revolution and it explains a lot in a lot of ways.
For those missing sturdy builds, ports, replaceable parts, explore gaming laptops. They have all those and are built to last and be upgradeable. Just ensure to use it in. Integrated graphics mode and the battery backup would be great too. And thanks to the better thermals, parts don't fail so easily.
So, in your terminology, a software engineer who is bad at programming is a "product-only", whereas a software engineer who is bad at business is "infrastructure-only"?

If so, why invent new terminology when we have the perfectly fine description "software engineer who is bad at business"? Isn't it bound to confuse more than it helps?
If you buy a block of land with 10 filled apartments on it, and then you demolish it and leave it vacant, the land still has value.

In theory, it still has whatever value the optimal use would provide.

In reality we don’t have an optimal land use oracle, and valuation techniques would take the vacant lot as a data point suggesting that the area is bad. The assessed land value might decrease a tiny bit – along with that of your entire suburb, and similar regions. But it’s not going to zero.

Similarly, if you take a block of land, put 10 apartments on there, and fill them with renters, you’ll create property value where there was none, but the land value isn’t going to go up 10x.
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