skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes one bad experience to ruin a reputation.

Guy went on Fox news (against the communities) wishes and made millions of people's first impression of r/AntiWork to be negative.

In the modern world optics are EVERYTHING and that cannot be understated. Imho the first thing they need to change (which they have with their move to the new subreddit) is renaming it from r/AntiWork to r/WorkReform.

Most of the sub (I'd wager >80%) are Americans asking for workers rights that are the norm in western Europe. Things like paid maternal/paternal leave, greater work life balance and paid overtime, flexibly working and WFH.

The majority of people in America are almost certainly in favour of that, but you get a dog walker going on TV on a notoriously provocative network talking about "anti-work" it's just mind boggling.
It's a LOT closer than you seem to be painting it.

Apple is a supplier to software companies (of both hardware and software). They are getting in trouble for messing with other suppliers (of both hardware and software).

To quote the charges in the MS case:

"the U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the personal computer (PC) market primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java."

Apple in this case:

"Apple is illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the mobile application market primarily through technical restrictions it puts on the abilities of iOS software developers and users to install 3rd party application and programs."

We're essentially playing out a very similar situation, just with the focus on digital goods.
softacos.substack.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/619210/4D_Toys/
4d VR simulator
The Q-ish swamp in the middle of Colorado
He also lived in a society they made more sense in some ways at the micro level.

Artisans would learn on the job, but recall that 90% of the population were peasants with rudimentary skills.

It’s popular to bitch about the school system, but the reality is we churn out nurses and doctors and programmers and engineers by the millions. Many/most of the problems are really about broader social issues that schools cannot address.
But, if you run a fruit and veg stall on the local market, you pay the local council for the pitch. Don't like it, set up in a lay-by by the side of the motorway out of town and see how much that affects your bottom line.

Developers didn't build the software for Apple, they built it to sell to consumers and Apple provides them with a pitch on the market for a fee. It's how the world works. Don't like it, go make apps for Pine Phone.
Am I reading correctly that the reason is basically that he didn't get to enough frontend/JS work, even though being hired in a frontend role? And maybe realized he was kind of bored with ecommerce after all too.
This is not a "regulatory-enforced" modal. Nothing in the regulations said they had to add this nonsense, Apple chose to add it to make third-party payments as painful as possible.
> Let’s look at the economics. This will not change unless it negatively affects businesses

You're aware of the fact things change based on changing values/culture right? Or do you think corporations nowadays operate just like they have in the 60s or 90s?
Honestly if there's enough fuss and uproar about this, it will easily change. What will it change to I have no idea.
And it needs to support iDEAL, with Apple doesn't even support for IAP.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202631
On the order of 2^256 steps, if SHA-256 behaves randomly, since the largest cycle in a random permutation on N elements has expected length ~ 0.62 * N.
> If you can get your hands on a buttload of memory, try using a tmpfs mount instead.

If you don't have enough memory, using an nbdkit tmpdisk (https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin.1.html) is a middle ground. It's backed by disk, but disables flushes which gives you a good 30% speed boost. (Obviously only use this for stuff you don't care about / can reproduce, because disabling flushes is dangerous and will lose data if the machine crashes).
Yep exactly this
I've come to think that the words "responsibility" and "ownership" usually means "blame" in a corporate setting.

The words only get used when something isn't going well and the managers don't want to look bad.
Great writeup.

A subreddit getting co-opted by the masses to change its intentions is a story as old as reddit. See my username for how I know that to be true.

Hopefully more subreddits will wake up and realize that being included in high activity feeds (r/all, popular) is not necessarily a good thing. We have.

> Speaking of unflattering stereotypes, let’s be blunt for a moment: Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Thanks for explaining the ban - I messaged you (I suppose) on Reddit asking why, but never received an explanation. I would have imagined a screenplay like this would be of interest to the community, and I couldn't really figure out what rule I had broken, but apologies for breaking the rules nonetheless.

I did in fact announce my (freely available) CG book [0] on Reddit, where it was very well received - 1300 upvotes in gamedev [1], 2500 in programming [2], tons of awards. Turns out Redditors respond positively to original quality content shared for free :)

[0] https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/i...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/lbmbdf/computer_gr...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lbmda2/compute...
You cannot solve this problem with "volatile" as you answered.
https://jwstanly.com/blog/
> ... it can become impossible for a pilot to physically turn the manual trim wheels to get back into trim

I feel like this isn't talked about enough. I had no idea how bad it can actually get: https://youtu.be/aoNOVlxJmow?t=806
Ask HN: How much should I worry about identity theft
I have been very lucky to achieve financial independence two years ago. I retired early with $10 MM+ at 32. It had been my goal for several years, I hated my job, and I expected to become very happy.

It didn't turn out like that. I became really depressed and with professional help, I admitted that I might need a job. Probably part time as I am fairly lazy and hate working.

The problem is that all the type of work I am sort of interested in require some administrative work like a company setup or new bank accounts. I have declined all these things because I feel the risk of getting my identity stolen, and therefore my brokerage accounts emptied, is now the only thing I should rationally be concerned about. The extra money from the job would have a negligible effect on my lifestyle (I am actually fairly frugal, and don't really buy much).

I have become very careful about not sharing my passport with anyone, including financial institutions.

I realize that my care to not get my identity stolen is on the extreme, compared to the average. However, everything I read everywhere tells me that not even big institutions are safe, so how could I trust my local accountant, or local financial institution to not get my data stolen?

Also, anytime I get on a plane, I have to share my passport, which I fully trust is entered on a poorly secured database, probably running windows XP servers SP 1, or something similarly cutting edge.

So should I actually start sharing my personal data more widely? All official advice is basically to not share personal data with untrusted sources, but from my perspective there are no trusted sources in our current age. The FBI, the government are all getting hacked. No institution can protect itself against hacking. So I do not even know what to make of this. Does anyone in the great HN community have a proper understanding of the risks of sharing one's personal data, and could enlighten me?
That doesn't mean anything. If someone asks how to cook and you say 'just don't eat lol', that's not an answer and is just a self indulgent response based on nothing.
Block Linux Fileless Payload “Malware” Execution with BPF LSM
The insight around the "Life Story" interview round is good. It helps interviewees feel like they are being seen as whole people and, at least in the author's view, helps filter out jerks from a large org.

Seems like something other large companies could/should adopt.

Getting down-levelled through the interview process due to YOE, which is known before interviews even start, indicates some failures by the recruiters. Recruiters should've been able to set proper expectations up front.

I bet being down-levelled and leaving within a year are very strongly correlated and cost the company a lot.
You can get similar functionality to what Apple is offering through a disposable credit card (privacy.com and alike). Worst case you can take the matter up with your credit card company.

How many times in a year do you cancel something?
And however much Tesla likes to say "Oh, yes, yes, the driver should be paying full attention", everything else they say and do says the opposite. Latest example is the update that rearranged some of the climate control and added/updated some larger hot buttons at the bottom of the screen. Not all functions are available to be pinned at the bottom. You get a limited choice, which includes Netflix.

So to be clear you can have an always available hot button for Netflix, but not for climate control. All Tesla's handwaving is entirely bullshit. "The driver is in the seat for legal purposes only. The car is driving itself."

This is horseshit of the highest order.
Show HN: A database for broken and worn-out products to identify cheap products
MAME saved my bacon. True story:

I was working on code for a pinball machine for Stern back in 2005. I had a memory corruption issue and Stern's crusty old 6809 hardware didn't have anything resembling a real-time debugger that I could use. There was no time or budget to get a 6809 ICE procured and running.

So I loaded up my code in PinMAME and let it run. I was able to watch memory in real time and caught the bug in an afternoon. It would have taken me a week or so doing it by hand.

So thank you, MAME.
I'm a major introvert but I prefer working from the office.

My house is full of distractions. I have kids, so it can be a bit messy (though not too bad) and ever-changing.

My office, however, is clean and organized and ready to go the second I get there. With COVID, almost everyone else tends to work from home, so I get the office to myself or mostly to myself most days. I can sit and really focus on work with zero distractions. The commute is essentially free, since I have to drop my kids off anyway.
I suggest we try to avoid a liberal-vs.-conservative discussion here. They typically result in acrimony with little to show for it.
I mean of course it's indirectly about money, they want people to have a good experience with their Mac so they stay in the ecosystem. But when you sideload an app like that there is no question about losing app store revenue (developers can just notarize their app for free), it's only about the user experience.

No doubt on iOS it's about both, but my point is that it's reductive to think it's ONLY about losing app store revenue. Especially in the Dutch case, where they won't actually lose any revenue, since they're charging 27% anyway.
Not ad hoc maybe, but if Uber prices would rise a lot I definitely could see a resurgence of the traditional "linger at busy nightlife area" style taxi where you just pay with cash. If the price differential becomes large enough that could draw enough customers back to "normal" taxi drivers.
Pretty sure they meant immutable in that quote.
I feel many of those points ring true, in our case. What I discovered was that Minecraft is the Lego of today, but digital. It fills many of the same creative urges.

We have quite some Lego Friends and different kits on shelves, which can't be touched according to the Creator :). A big bag of second hand parts lies in peace, but Minecraft on the PS5 is now the go-to. We sometimes play 2 player together, building things. Basically almost always in "creative mode", and never online.

I kind of wanted my daughter to feel the same positive way as I did with Lego, but no dice. Minecraft seems to do that.
> How exactly did it happen in /r/antiwork? Casuals found it. You know — the people who use the internet to laugh at funny memes rather than treating every post as a blow in a grand ideological struggle.

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.

As long as the popularity of a subreddit is below a certain threshold, it gets to foster specific discussions on whatever fringe ideology you are interested in, but it never stays that way for long.
I still have tubs full of legos sitting in the attic.

My favorite moments as a kid were starting with a lego mindstorms kit, I think that ended up leading me down a path where I started to learn programing.
How long before we see this website as the source for some "hacker sequence" in a movie where a person wearing a black hoodie states they are "... working on cracking their SHA-256 encryption, should only take a sec."
How would you evolve a widely-used programming language except by committee? I don't think any one person, even the original designer, should make changes unilaterally and without consultation.
"The whole reason of the existence of the MCAS is to avoid training the pilots to fly the planes without it."

That summarizes why the plane did not go through a new type certification process - avoid costs of pilot training. Boeing instead painted over the differences (larger fans mounted forward) with software to make it feel the same.
I fully agree. For me this is one of the main advantages of game streaming and why I think is the future. It is a way to prevent cheating and bad actors that does not require me giving kernel access to game developers. Also protects me from people learning my own IP via poor chat or multiplayer implementations.
I brought a T450 and the screen hinge snapped off after 2 years literally a week after the warranty was up.

I missed the heyday of IBM Thinkpads but the apparent blind brand loyalty and cult like following they have now is unneeded and allows Lenovo to get away with crazy things like 1368p screens is crazy.
Just wait until you upgrade to Python 3!
Oh my god it just gets better and better.
You can [edit: also] present your company on https://news.ycombinator.com/show (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
Since we can only pick one -> "Animal Farm", no question about it. Easy read, succinctly describes human nature.

But if I could, I would supplement it with these two, because they were so prescient in describing what happened to us in the past 30 years:

Erich Fromm - "Escape From Freedom"

Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World"
NASA and SpaceX studying parachute issue but don’t see major safety concern
I think forming connections is very important... but it should be encouraged independently from working at the office or remotely.

I work remotely for a U.S. company with coworkers from Ethiopia and other countries.

Pre-pandemic, they flew me to the U.S. and I met the U.S. and Indian coworkers, and we went to a conference together. It was a HUGE help - but I think it's something that can be done a few times a year or even once a year, doesn't need to be an everyday thing.
A more topical example: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
I think this post may be, in its parlance, "sanewashing" workaholism. For example, let's take this post from the subreddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/lo6wov/my_dads_a_...

> "My dads a “working class hero” I wanna punch him in the face, we wanted to visit this weekend, we haven’t seen him in 2 months due to covid, we have three kids and so does he (6, 8 and 9) his wife passed away 2 years ago, and he’s been back to work for a year, he is on salary and gets no overtime, what’s he doing right now on this beautiful winter Saturday morning? Fucking working over time... not for money, but because they “need” him... fuck you, your family needs you and you been working 50 h a week on salary for 20 fucking years. Fucken boomers."

When I read this, I see "haven't seen him in two months," "we have three kids and so does he (6, 8 and 9) his wife passed away," and "your family needs you."

When the author read this, he saw "criticizing his father for hard work."

I think we can all agree that the emotional cost to your family is a major, defining symptom of being a workaholic. This appears to be someone seeking support for that, but the author tries to ignore the emotional reality and paper it over with, well, honestly I don't need to rephrase it, I'm sure it's obvious.

Neglecting to spend time with your family can be just as bad as neglecting to provide for them. If it didn't happen so often maybe we wouldn't have so make kids growing up with a deep-set hatred of jobs. You don't need to be Freud to make that association. ;)
It's called Hacker News, after all

/s
A Design for Simple Interners
I think it's more like of a intelligence thing,

a lot of software houses in gaming have been working very hard to give windows a competitive advantage in terms of gaming experience

in exchange for what? they've been enriching microsoft and proudly so

thankfully someone understood that there is a system you can use for free to build cool stuff on top, that doesn't try to lock you in, doesn't exploit dominant positions to push other software on you, and doesn't come with a 5 kilometres long terms of services, I really am unable to understand why people just keep liking being microsoft's guinea pigs
And the inevitable cancellation dark patterns! I cancelled my prime membership the other day, and holy cow, I had to confirm my intent at least 5 times. Offers to “pause”, a page telling me what I’ll miss out on, plus more pages that boil down to “actually?!?!”

Seems like subscriptions have gotten out of hand. Since the goverment can’t regulate meaningfully, I’m at least glad that Apple has some solution to this, even if it feels a bit monopolistic.
> imho, they should have expected that, since Shopify is a known Ruby shop

Why is there always the tendency to blame the person and NOT the company?
You misunderstand OP. They seem to be a leftist, not a conservative. They find it ironic that the word recuperate (which has origins in the left) was recuperated or "sanewashed" by this article. It's actually interesting and kind of amusing.

Sanewashing is a recuperation of recuperation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)
This is completely incorrect. Apple will feel the hurt if they lose a market with 17 million people. They won’t go out of business, but whoever was adjacent to that decision will be losing their job.
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com
You don't need killer bots for danger, everything we do to our physical and social environment poses a non-obvious risk. Facebook is a risk, the internet, smartphones, pollution, porn, processed food. It's all a big, dangerous experiment. The safety gloves were off the moment we veered off our relatively stable evolutionary path.
OK, but Steam has a near-monopoly on games, Spotify has a near-monopoly on music, and both of these are working great for me as a consumer.

Netflix had a monopoly, but now not, and it's shit. I have to work out what platform a show is currently streaming on, and decide whether it's worth paying for that to see the show, and the lineups are constantly changing. Honestly, going back to piracy for video is looking good right now.

The GP's statement "piracy is a service problem" is so true. And, unfortunately, to provide the kind of service we want, that means a single platform. I'm utterly uninterested in a world where I have to remember which platform that game was on. I refuse to buy games if they require Origin (or an Xbox account, or in fact creation of an account anywhere).

I realise that at some point Steam is probably going to become evil and take advantage of its monopoly position. I hope we can persuade it to stay honest when that time draws near. I don't see any other option - I wouldn't want the government (which government? I live in Germany) controlling the platform either.
Can't companies ban such cards? I think there are some BIN code etc… that can be used to identify them.
If I can sideload apps on an Apple device, what's stopping me from buying a bunch of them, sideloading my special apps, and reselling them at a markup? Or, if the bootloader becomes unlocked, wiping iOS off of the device and installing Android? There's no way to even have other suppliers right now because Apple has everything so locked down.
They can't. But there are certainly unsavory actors that are able to trick a certain percentage of the unsuspecting to just give them a private key.
They're saying that when what's being asked (alternative stores without paying % cut to OS vendor) doesn't solve this at all, as Epic has its own store on Windows but gamers absolutely hate it since Steam is so much better[0], yet Epic purchases exclusivity rights to new games; it only has marketshare because they give away free games and Fortnite requires it.

0: https://redd.it/b94c4i
> The reactions have ranged from shock to immediate understanding.

The shock makes some sense (you were leaving after a short period of time), but where did their "immediate understanding" come from?

It sounded like your main issue was that the work wasn't as advertised. Is that common for Shopify hires?
Yes - would like to see some stats on attrition among down leveled hires. I suspect you’re right.
One issue is that JS builds on large SPA's get tricky to understand because the code is not in the same place as the area of the markup that it's relevant to.

With something like htmx + hyperscript, the logic is tied to the components that are actually using them.