skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never even heard of Chimpanzee Politics. Sounds great. Thanks for the tip.

non-fictional: everything Robert Greene

fictional: everything Dostoevsky
Annoying click?!

To each their own, but tactile keyboards are usually favored by typists because there's physical feedback from actuation. Also, MX browns are actually strictly speaking a tactile switch, just the bump is very muted.
> people who take gaming way too seriously

Every activity has its own popularity, and number of fans of various seriousness... Cat and dog shows, caber toss, curling, singing competitions, on and on and on, the list is about infinite, since it encompasses everything within which someone could potentially be more skilled.

Singling out video games among all the other things humans do competitively feels like a personal bias.

I personally don't care about probably 99% of the 'competitions' out there, but I don't give anyone crap for being obsessed about their own thing.

(I don't play games online multiplayer style, so I'm not in the target group anyway.)

I don't think there's such a thing as "gaming", as you use the word... everyone involved does their own thing, in infinite variety as well.
The other big change happened when Clinton doubled the NIH budget in the 90s. This made a lot more room for shark tanks full of crooks (sadly).
I've been debating getting an MNT Reform: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...

It's got about the same specs as my main webdev laptop -- which is a Thinkpad X200t -- with a modern GPU.

It's got a mechanical keyboard and a trackball!
If you do this, your account will be sent to collections (because yes, you still have a payment obligation if you do not cancel). Those are people whose job it is to be so unpleasant to you you'd rather pay them and not eat, so this is terrible advice.
I know we've had anecdotal conversations here about declining technical literacy with the increase of tablet / smartphone use, but this figure is striking

https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/326747189/nfab061...

Computer use has actually declined since ~ 2013?! Wow. That's actually kind of sad.
I had to look this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27571707

W- Wipro I- Infosys T- TCS C- Cognizant H- HCL A- Accenture India.
The only place it kind of falls down as an IPC is confirmation that a specific subscriber saw a message you published. That's fixable with a little bit of shim code to send back an ACK, and that's something I can live with. The protocol wasn't really designed to be a round-trip communication system.
Ask HN: Do you care about your carbon footprint?
Hi. I am curios if people care about their (personal or household) carbon footprint.

If yes: do you work on reducing it, and how do you prioritise what to do (i.e. what has impact)? Are you willing to change your lifestyle or are you relying mostly on tech? (Solar, EVs, or other things)

If no: who should be responsible for reducing carbon emissions? (If anyone)
To be fair, while not at those levels, this is true of a fair number of conferences that are covered by sponsorships. There's a price tag but there are plentiful complimentary passes for the taking if you're in the industry and do just a bit of looking.
How do you punish a company because people bought a product that wasn’t for sale in your country?
yes, this part speaks to me on personal level
Try oregano instead of basil next time!
Experimenting with Microsolidarity Crews
I agree 100% with you, but here's the thing:

That peace of mind has a price.

As long as Apple lets me charge you twice the price I'll play by their IAP rules.
> there's really not much difference between using gnome on wayland and gnome on X11

Yes, looking just at big DEs there's not much difference. Consider, however, the problems Wayland causes for the ecosystem. Take screen grabbing programs or input event interceptors like xdotool. There's simply no way to implement one of those strictly on Wayland. Each Wayland compositor must be targeted separately instead.

This is discussed in some of the threads I linked to, BTW.
I do think its pretty weird to hire someone as a frontend dev and have them in Rails a bunch IF you were in models, controllers, and elsewhere a lot. If the majority of your work was in views, ERB or otherwise, I don't think its that strange.

There's a sort of all or nothing aspect to how you handle the view layer in Rails, at least for a smaller code base. However, I'm sure Shopify is large enough that they have apps doing a little React, a little server rendered in ERB, and others that are fully React backed with an API, and probably some that don't have any JS framework at all.
Might be wrong, but I think it's referring to Indian consulting companies (Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and HCL)
Risk/Return Bets in Entrepreneurship
I think it's pretty common for an individual person to gain intellectual humility over time, especially at middle-age.

As far as historical trends, I think we'd need to start with a clear definition of "rational", and a way to measure that in present and historical societies.
> these dev dependencies will never be pulled into your project,

Please, don't ruin "JS bad" thread with facts. It's rude.
I mean, shameless plug, but you can read some of my stuff, I don't mind: https://vadimkravcenko.com

I mostly write about scaling early stage startups
I'm more of a fan of PHP/Symfony rather than PHP/Laravel.

But you know what? I would expect I would like Ruby/Rails as well, as it follows the similar kind of philosophy, which is server-side rendered templates with Javascript sprinkles.

I think Rails and Symfony both have the benefit of being a fairly consolidated solution. You don't seem to have the same proliferation of packages, as with Javascript.

What I'm not a fan of, is Javascript SPAs where there is no reason for using them.
As long as Valve remains a private company I will trust them to do a good job over pretty much every other gaming-related company. Publicly traded companies are just fundamentally unable to be anything other than pure-profit driven, while the reverse is not true for private companies. Still profit driven, but not forced to have that sole focus.
even with the "fixed" URL, this is not what the author meant.

Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL.
> What does the unit "year of experience" represent, and is it comparable across domains?

In my opinion, "years of experience" should not be disqualified as one of multiple evaluation tools for skill.
I think it signifies that you have had the opportunity to go through a variety of situations, challenges, projects etc. and you have accumulated knowledge and experience that cannot be learned by reading tutorials or working on side projects.

From personal experience and by talking to and working with other much more experienced engineers than me, I have noticed that some of the most important knowledge is obtained just by working on something for a longer amount of time.

Obviously, there are many exceptions to this rule, there are engineers with years and years of experience that are just bad at what they do. What I am trying to say is that this tool for evaluation should not be discarded.
I don't blame OP for leaving. You can usually get the vibe in 3 months and have a pretty good feel for what things are in your control and how it's going to shake out.

I left HashiCorp in 4 months for basically the same reason, just swap our frontend with Go.

I was interviewed in Go and I knew the team was using Ruby but all the teammates were energetic for having someone else who knew Go, wasn't all about Ruby/Rails and the team was great. But the opportunities on other teams to build out things in Go and work on the existing Go codebases, both public and private, was just teasing me every day. I tried to work on one of our open source libraries and was told I was stepping on someone else's toes and could be taking opportunities away from them.

I would return in a heartbeat on one of the Go teams working on one of the Go products. I think they are just great in the Go community and their tools are fantastic.
> So, people losing their money are mostly just fools. The exact same kind of fools that lost their money 20 years ago. When some of those fools are institutional investors betting with your pension money, you'd be right to be a bit concerned about that though. That too happened 20 years ago.

That last part is my primary concern: there's a good argument that the real-estate bubble was in part caused by big investors seeking returns high enough to make up for their bad dotcom calls, and the cryptocurrency world seems to have a much higher risk of returns being at or close to zero — pets.com at least had some assets which could be sold to Petsmart but there's no value in random hashes.

> More interesting is to look for the things that just aren't that dodgy at a first glance. Some of these companies are looking pretty serious actually. Solid investors, actual customers, working products, etc. It's not all scams and pyramid schemes and those might be the possible survivors of the crypto bubble bursting. Some of the tech is actually quite impressive and looks like it might be used to solve some real problems.

Do you have any examples? In the dotcom era it was pretty obvious at the time which companies had a real chance: some were losing money on every transaction but others were actually doing something real (e.g. Amazon was a popular punching bag but if you looked at the financials it was clear that there was a solid business there). That last part has been missing so far in the cryptocurrency world — the only companies which seem to have a real business are the ones which seem to have pivoted away from the blockchain world where they got their early funding to do things like supply chain management using more conventional technology.
Posting anon for obvious reasons.

It can get really bad.

I joined a Series A startup. Me and all my peer engineering directors got down-leveled to entry-level titles within a month.

Product Mangers, Sales People, others got up-leveled from Entry Level --> Manager --> Director --> Sr. Director.

The company is on a dying breath, because these shenanigans caused so much acrimony. Who the fuck cares about a company that fucks you over a month into joining the company? Half the engineers were working on side projects and the company has basically died.
Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down
The huge increase in infrastructure costs are seriously under-appreciated.

This is an article from 2002 about new schools being built in Baltimore. One for $14M and one for $13M. The article laments how much school construction costs are rising.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-05-12-02051202...

This is an article from last April about two new schools being built in Baltimore. One for $53M and the other for over $100M.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/new-school-construction-north...

Sure, there has been some inflation since 2002, but not that much! Google tells me $13M in 2002 is only $20M in 2022. It's just insane.
Wipro Infosys TCS Cognizant HCL
As a C# developer with no F# experience besides looking at code in articles like this, I don't see any reason why you'd need to start with C# if you're just looking to learn F#.
1Password's Blue Ocean Strategy
That’s totally reasonable.

A new view controller would require a new version of iOS to provide that view controller, which would lock out all the people on older versions of iOS from the alternative payment methods.

Any iOS developer can put together a screen like that in no time, it’s not a meaningful hurdle and it means more people can get the alternative payment method.
EU has about 20% VAT, but even taking that into account it's still more expensive
The section you partially quoted is about the tens of millions of Americans who believe Trump won the election. Not who are fans of Trump. And they believe this based entirely on the word of Trump and his sphere and right-wing pundits and politicians. Despite the fact that there is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud. And the meandering arguments used by Trump's 'Kraken' lawyers in court had no factual basis or merit and were tossed across the country.

Fun fact: The only person to claim that bounty offered by the Republican Lt Gov of Texas for verifiable voter fraud was a Democrat proving an illegal vote for Trump.
I’m not sure I understand peoples objections to the existence of anti-cheat software. As far as I can tell, as long as we don’t play these games, it doesn’t affect us at all right? I can’t play Valorant on Linux today because the developer won’t offer it. Even if they started offering it tomorrow then with a Linux anti-cheat, it’s existence wouldn’t bother me because I don’t play it.

What’s the issue here, really? Who’s being affected by a game they don’t play and don’t want to play?
Show HN: Multiplayer Wordle
If we hit another AI winter the next big thing would be new/better energy sources and space travel. 3d printing will also enable a return to local scale manufacturing. Crypto will devour more industry.

We’ll have mostly automated local factories producing whatever you need and be able to sell it for untraceable crypto.

I want that to happen because it will enable resistance movements against the misaligned AI that will inevitably emerge.

I model misaligned AI as like an imperialist state. It’s impossible for a single power to conquer the world because every other state allies against it.
That will be how AI alignment is solved.
I think the shortage is real and a combination of factors:

1) Fewer people are choosing (or able) to work. A lot of parents became stay-at-home parents out of necessity due to schools closing, being unable to afford childcare, hating their job, etc.

2) Nearly 1 million extra adults are dead due to Covid. It can be hard to replace an experienced, middle-aged worker, especially in more specialized roles.

3) Employers have not fixed recruiting (as you alluded): they're still filtering out good candidates, paying too little, failing to offer remote options, etc.
If you're conversing with someone who believes that the JVM is a resource hog, then you are likely conversing with someone with decades of experience. I would phrase my opposing viewpoint in a more respectable manner, as you might have a lot to learn from someone like that.
That's good, but surely you won't compare phpliteadmin with Files app in terms of the interface.
No, I'm arguing that forced schooling in general is an unethical act, on par with communist indoctrination, and there should be no government run schools at all
You know, for all this shitting on extremist anti-work anarcho communists, I find that their ideological consistency makes them quite tolerable even if I think their ideas would be laughably useless when taken to the extremes they advocate for.

Contrast that with the (to use TFA's terminology) "gentrifiers" who blow like ideological tumbleweeds and hold beliefs simply based on whether those beliefs are advantageous to hold (Stalin would be proud).

Principled extremists can be reasoned with. Compromises can be made. Progress can happen. Unprincipled faux-extremists are like herding cats. You give them one thing and they show up the next day bitching that you gave them the wrong thing. I know who I'd rather deal with.
The great part was all the spooky results when I googled "fang witch" to try to figure that out.
That sounds more complicated than necessary. Pretty much every conference has a conference committee of some sort that picks talks and reaches out to speakers if they want something that hasn't been submitted. (I imagine TED does more outreach relative to waiting for the abstracts to come to them.)
I do not want Apple to enable side loading, as it will enable people like employers, Government shady companies to build apps and mandate it to install for accessing some very important functionality, also will trigger, carriers provided phones to have non app store crap installed like in Android phones. At the same time i think Apple is sabotaging all of us by insisting on getting this steep 30% cut. As no government will allow such a huge additional tax on its companies apart from its national tax in long run. This is becoming a lose-lose situation for us.
> That's the very force of the reddit hivemind. I have no interest in /r/antiwork nor their ideologies, but they kept popping up on /r/all, so they get a constant influx of people aligned with the reddit mean opinion, which in turn changes the original community.

That's what I like about 4chan. In a sea of ungodly acidic garbage lies a golden heart of contrarianism. The posters will argue for a side one day, and 2 hours later will vehemently adopt opposite arguments. Some of the best leftist arguments I have ever read came from /pol/.

4chan argues for the sake of arguing, and I think that is absolutely beautiful in today's environment of everyone taking everything so seriously.
> downleveled from senior to mid ... because I didn't have enough years of experience in tech-specific jobs ... I was disappointed in Shopify for using such a reductive metric to determine levelling

I'm confused by this. Isn't this a pretty sensible reason to be downleveled. I don't think a company would care about your years of experience as, say, a lawn mower. In terms of experience, wouldn't years spent front end coding received almost all the weight?

Sure, your years mowing lawns may have been rewarding and may have helped you build good communication skills or something, but surely we don't expect companies to bump you to senior on that basis?
On the other hand, making Artifact was a very shareholder style move of them. Such an utter cashgrab it's was actually disgusting.
Personally, I replaced caps lock with ctrl when you type and esc when you tap. ctrl, shift and alt are all vertically aligned that way so shortcuts are really easy in general.

I just don't use F keys, but for number I have a left thumb key that transform the right side into a num pad. You could do the same with functions keys. Or do what I did for any number and permanently remap the normal number positions to f keys as you said.

But the nice part is you get to adapt the keyboard to your own needs. If you only use one or two function keys, you could give them decicated buttons on the may layer. You can even have one button do the whole combo. For example I have one that does shift+insert so I can more easily copy into terminals.
> we <must> ask algorithm questions to ensure engineers can think properly

I thought that described today's interviewing zeitgeist, pretty well. In my experience, absolutely no one even glanced at the dozens of open-source repos (for finished, documented, tested products), or the hundreds of pages of writing I have amassed, over the years, which ahem, are actual artifacts of lots of my "proper" thinking.

I've only practiced a few Codility exercises, a few years ago, when I was still interested in working with someone else. Otherwise, I never practice leetcode. As I am quite aware that many, many people practice these types of things, for hours every day (I strongly suspect while being paid by their current employers), I just consider that a wash.

If this is a requirement, then I'll never get hired, and I might as well give up (I can actually do reasonably well, at these kinds of things -mostly-, as they are usually basic commonsense exercises, but I won't ever have the rote efficiency of a practiced leetcoder).

Since I don't actually need the work, I accepted that this is just the way things are, and withdrew from consideration.

Too bad. I suspect that some companies that I would have enjoyed working at, and that I could have been a valuable IC at, are maybe having to deal with less-than-ideal workers.
I wouldn't agree with that, but even accepting that premise as true, why would gamestop be in any position to benefit from this? If you're, say, activision, why would you possibly sell your digital content on gamestop's platform where you owe gamestop a cut rather than on your own platform where you get the cut? Why would you put it on a blockchain at all? Just use your own boring db.
> I don't think the stock market serves a public function with these mechanisms in place

The purpose is precisely to zoom in on the correct value of a stock (via crowdsourcing and putting your money where your mouth is), and thereby allow investment to flow to the most advantageous opportunities.
Came here to say the same. Server-side rendered front-end is still front-end. Just because someone doesn't like the stack, doesn't mean it's incorrect.

Sounds to me like this person was overwhelmed by the sheer size of the codebase and how little control they had and decided it was not for them. I don't blame them. eCommerce is tough. eCommerce on such a customizable platform must be like walking through a minefield.
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You already figure it out from the pro side, but it sadly is not enough on the casual side as well. The issue is streamers would show their audience how easy it is to cheat and this would lead to a perception by more casual gamers that cheating is rampant and so they would be less inclined to join. This reduces the audience, hitting worse match making (as you suggest), lower stream viewership, less game success for the studio, etc.
If you like Apple’s payment system, then you can choose to not use an app with a third party system. That’s your choice as a consumer, and if Apple’s service really is superior, then it will win on it’s own merits.

But Apple doesn’t want to compete. Even if their service is better and they’re confident that users will choose them over third parties, they know that allowing competition will force them to lower their obscene fees in the long term. Market forces do that in a competitive market.

That’s all there is to it. It has absolutely nothing to do with user security or privacy. Apple isn’t going to sit idly by while regulators make decisions that threaten their long term profits. They’re going to fight it for as long as they possibly can. Anything less would be laziness on the part of their executive team.
I got to design one of the most exposed logos in the world
Less decentralized than the current system
The current situation only applies to the Netherlands where the law says that you have to be able to cancel a service online if you subscribed online (no phone calls/letters/telegrams/etc. can be required for cancellation) so I doubt that would be the case here.

That said, I don't think Apple should be the one to fix this system. The government should prevent such harmful behaviour through legislation rather than relying on private parties.

Besides, users can always choose not to pay for items in their apps if they can't use their preferred payment processor. People living in places where this predatory behaviour is still legal can choose not to pay through payment providers that don't allow them to easily cancel for the extra fees those providers (like Apple) charge.
Ask HN: Mods: block posts of websites that have heavy/annoying ads
> It's against the rule to say that you did not read the article, so I won't say it

Maybe it should be against the rules to say you know it's against the rules, and so on recursively. This loophole is often exploited to make these remarks equally useless and extra snarky.
Ah sorry - for some reason I thought you said SP500. Should not comment before coffee :(
There's a choice missing. I prefer working from the office but I also prefer saving the 350 hours of daily travel a year (god damn it, just realized that it's literally 10 weeks of works for me...).
Possible. I acted on a hunch thinking that it is a typo. He talks about non-tech roles and I made the connection with the e-commers -> consummer protection.
Check out the thread for context to understand what I was replying to (assuming this isn't an automated comment of some sort).