skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do well at these pattern matching tests with consistent scores in the range 125 - 135. This one I hit 118 but I ran out of time around question 32. I got stun locked on a couple of the earlier easier questions. I wonder if this is due to mental decline as I get a bit older (I'm in my early 40s now).

I took it again with the benefit of knowing most of the earlier question patterns and got 133 on the second attempt. Pretty sure it wouldn't be too hard to bump that higher if I cared. In that sense, these tests are heavily biased towards people who take these tests. Once you know the tricks these tests are built on you do a second-order pattern match (which trick is the question using) which helps you find the answer. I would guess you could grind these tests leet-code style to get arbitrarily high scores.

People here report getting bored by these tests and I don't feel that at all. I actually get totally stress-focused and the time flies by almost too fast. Seeing the pattern is a dopamine hit that my brain craves.
It’s been supported for a long time, but the TOTP support must have given me back days of my life by now, in that I don’t have to use Google Authenticator or some other crappy app on my phone every time I get hit by 2FA prompts.
The past 20 years for Nintendo have been pretty interesting, to say the least. They started with the Gamecube, a console that sold weak numbers and faced stuff competition despite it's library of modern classics. They followed that up with the iPhone of game consoles, the Wii, and moved hundreds of millions of units like it was no big deal. Seeking to capitalize on that same success, they made the Wii U, which seemingly forgot all of the things that made the Wii great in the first place. Then they fixed it with the Switch, identifying the disappointment that people felt with the Wii U and streamlining the product to really dig in to consumer trends. It's a lot of ups and downs, and that's without even touching on their software and handheld history.

It's got me wondering what's up at Nintendo. Their mainstay studios like HAL Laboratories and MercurySteam haven't changed all that much over the years, and their presentation quality and infatuation with design has yet to waver. Overall, I'm starting to think their hardware and management teams are the weakest links: their least successful and least appreciated ventures have been when they wandered outside of their walled garden to make a quick buck (Super Mario Run or Mario Kart Grand Prix, anyone?), second only to their questionable hardware designs over the previous 2 decades. I have nothing but respect for the way Nintendo's developers and engineers deliver a polished product for all kinds of consumers, but I struggle to imagine how they're going to continue to adapt to the market. Especially if they're continuing to merge their handheld and home console markets, I worry they could turn this Switch success into another Wii U moment.

Time will tell, but Nintendo's got quite a tumultuous history with some exceptional highs and dumbfounding lows.
But is writing a (somewhat pathetic) open letter really trying? Perhaps organizing a strike would convey more meaning, although I don't see that happening at all.
Thank you! I had never heard of Zelda Classic before, but I'm also not much of a Windows gamer. Porting it to WASM indeed lets me play this when I wouldn't otherwise -- thank you! Awesome work!!
Not reaching, citing.
That highlights another point really well, the low-level financial worker's perception of "source of fund laws" (AML/KYC) is laughable, the reasoning they tell the investor/customer is laughably incorrect, just an ambiguous quip about "security purposes" or "making sure you aren't a drug dealer/terrorist/laundering money"

when thats all incorrect. from the investor/customer and low-level banker's perspective, it is impossible to distinguish between the actual law, their private company's interpretation of that law, strictly separate company policy, their implementation of that combination of things, the flaws or merits of that implementation, the flaws and merits of the law.

In this case, the person asking you actually doesn't care at all. Your role is to simple not say the bad word. A word you don't know. So you can always say pretty much anything, as long as its not "I'm on the OFAC list and I'm circumventing sanctions moving money from my heroin business".

A US citizen, for example, would never have any restriction banking in the US due to prior conduct (unless you pissed off that sector due to a history of overdrafts, bounced checks, see chexsystems). Al Capone would always be able to open a bank account or brokerage account or buy property. The Patriot Act would have never flagged the Saudi terrorist wire transfers despite being passed under the guise of flagging that kind of thing. AML/KYC is just a data mining operation masqueraded as preventing ... something. Something thats not terribly expensive, especially when compared to the amount of money that isn't flagged. Turns out people just don't want to blow up planes and buildings. The only people convicted of violating capital controls are the poorest of the proletariat that has some ambiguous and wrong understanding about "moving $10,000", and gets thrown in prison for attempting to circumvent it simply because the law against circumventing the threshold is on the books, whether the threshold would have applied to how the money was moved or not!

The entire thing is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer and public sector resources, and private sector compliance costs are probably overhanging a full digit % of the GDP growth.

Its successfully stigmatized the concept of having money, from the very population that needs and strives to have it the most! While everyone that can afford education or legal help or a dynasty of passed on knowledge is operating with complete freedom.
>seems to have become increasingly difficult to access many websites through their servers.

And i, very happily, continue on without those 'many websites'. Of which, there are actually, very, very few for me.
Nevertheless - fuck 'em; and not missed.
At what point in the application-and-interview process did you usually bring up the 4-day-week requirement?
Google can have my phone number when they give me Sundar's.
>At the end of the day employers want to see what their employees are doing and employees want to avoid insane commutes / high COL rents / not feel like they are being spied on all the time, in part cause they maybe do 4 hours of work a day anyway. That's what's driving this. The rest is noise.

This is probably the most honest take I've read. Also, it's been proven WFH on a grand scale is effective over the past 2 years, so many arguments against the efficacy of WFH crumbled over Covid. Bottom line is employers who don't want to allow WFH will have a smaller and more expensive pool than they are accustomed to. There are enough WFH opportunities that going to the office is no longer a given. The current debate is employees who want to WFH that are currently employed by companies who don't want employees to WFH. It will iron itself out in a year or two one way or the other.

FWIW, I've gone to the office 100% of the time maybe 1/2 of my 20+ year career, mostly early on. I've managed to negotiate work from home days, both in the 90s, 00s, and 10s. I WFH full time today. I meet the guys for lunch every week. It's nice and it gets me out of the house. We're a small team though.
No, it doesn't. There are three chapters in that span that are on comments, but not all the chapters in that span are on comments. One is on naming things (Ch 14) and one is on modifying existing code (Ch 16). There are three chapters per the TOC that cover comments explicitly (versus where it may be touched on in other chapters): Ch 12 (pages 95-99), Ch 13 (101-120) and Ch 15 (131-135). That's a whopping 30 pages.
I think you are right. But the operating regime of your hypothesis is basically from naive entry until a point, and that point is when the expected reward transcends rewards that capitalism can provide.

If you want meaning from your work, and that meaning was initially provided by personal growth, then when the position no longer feels like growth, there is no reward possible. Similarly, if you thought you were doing something meaningful but then discover your company, or individuals who benefit more from your work than you do, are part of the problem, there is no redeeming it. To continue you have to resort to selective attention or basic ostriching.

If this is true then the primary protective traits against burnout would be 1) strongly established healthy boundaries around what to expect from a job and a healthy home life or 2) myopic focus on problem solving and a lack of interest or self-limiting that prevents curiosity about higher levels of organization. Anecdotally this matches with my experience — most people who endure fall largely into one or both of those categories.

A possible corollary is that with improvements to (that is, restrictions on) capitalism, more categories of people could continue to work without such ready disillusionment from bad or gray actors.
Who invented modern political satire?
Scrum never really had OKRs.

I noticed OKRs and OKDs and whatever other flavour of it popping up after the big tech rise. Google and others were seeds of this style of delivery management, somehow this was taught in some MBA and when this generation of MBAs started to take reins of other companies it got spread around as gospel.

I fucking hate it, it's overloaded with rituals that get repeated every quarter: workshops, planning sessions, vision/mission workshops, and so on and so forth. The worse is that never seems that anything has enough time to be done, in my experience roughly a month of each quarter is mentally spent by going through these motions, justifying work that needs to be done, doing discovery for what's upcoming (that needs to be done before planning season ends). Constantly switching contexts about what we're working right now with what work needs to be done in the future, every single fucking quarter.

I'm getting extremely tired of this cycle, it's getting longer and longer to recover from each of these "planning seasons".

P.S.: Not mentioning the variance in processes, each company you join has their own set of rituals and timelines for planning and so it'll take a few cycles of it until you figure out what's important and what I can tune off and give my mind a break.
> > process existing thoughts as opposed to consuming more inputs

> I agree completely.

> preferring to listen to music or podcasts with intent now: eg to enjoy some music, not just passively.

That's the opposite of what parent suggested.
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but tentatively I think the answer is yes. They avoid the legal standards for employment by abusing a 'contractor' legal status.

A contractor is supposed to be an outside expert, not a sub-employee.
Many activists I know are moving to the idea that if we can't have safe, legal abortions then we will settle for safe.
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Not only is the product better, manga scanlators have a "code of honor." If a manga is licensed in English they will typically drop the manga no longer scanlating because there is now a provider in English. Of course, not all of them do this but more often than not it is adhered to.
Did friend forget to put loss stops when issuing orders..
"I think if you want to compete with Rust, C or Zig you want to have a rich standard library"

I don't think Drew wants to compete with any of these languages. That's the point of this article.

Let's give this one some time before ruling it out right at the gate.
I'm about at the point of paying a teenager to buy me a pay-n-go phone from a convenience store with cash, in return I'll buy them the case of beer they always bug me for.
Exactly. It's always trade off. I actually don't spend a lot of time on my kid because my parents are helping a lot. That will change in a year or so and I'd have even less time. Just hope he can sleep throughout the night without waking up so that we can grab more sleep.
From your perspective, you're looking at a change that impacted you.

From google's perspective, they're looking at a change which reduces phishing and scams by some small percent, and impacts a minuscule fraction of their users.

Abuse, scams, phishing, and forgotten passwords are all significant problems which phone numbers help with. I'd be willing to bet these changes end up having an on net positive impact for google's users.

How many phishers do you think will be stopped by removing an insecure login flow? How many people do you think want to use insecure apps, but don't have a phone number and refuse to login to their google account on their phone?
It's not about being "showered with benefits", it's about the basic workplace culture leaving employees so uncomfortable and paranoid that (as noted in the article) they literally reenact cartoon plots to auto-press a keyboard so they can go the bathroom without being hassled.
I don't understand why we need to specifically sanction tax havens. Unless rich people are making money in the tax havens themselves (in which case they're not just tax havens), we can just levy all the taxes we want before the money leaves our own borders.
One of the greatest challenges I'm facing running team meetings virtually is getting input from the less extroverted team members.

When we had a meeting in a physical room, if I noticed someone hadn't said much, I could go "Hey John, any thoughts on this idea?", and it would largely be appreciated by John because it gave him an opportunity to speak in a room filled with other folks who were much better at getting their 2 cents in.

However, doing the same thing on a video or voice call feels completely different. It feels like I'm calling out the person who has been quiet, and comes across as a psychologically negative experience both for me and for John.
not only lost phone, but damaged phone is enough, as you can easily swap sim card but authenticator need to be set up again.
BUT there are also one time recovery codes, they could add you option to use those to recover after clicking through few screens of warnings to make sure that you know what consequences does it have
> Places that allow the rich to prevent themselves from being taxed by their home countries do not deserve existence.

Sounds like you are describing almost every single country on earth!

I think what you really object to is countries offering attractive tax regimes.
We often forget one of NASA's roles is to keep the space ecosystem and its supply chains well fed and ready to churn ICBMs when needed.
There is no amendment protecting interractial or gay marriage. Loving v Virgina could be overturned by the Court. And it's likely Obergefell v. Hodges would be overturned for the exact same underlying reason as Roe: religious belief of a majority of the Court.
Spin it around so it's not on your fanny (or is, pending what side of the pond you are on) and it will be less offensive to bigots.
Buy SPY, put it in your IRA. Maybe a SPY/TLT mix. For bonus income, sell monthly covered calls against SPY as well.
> Everyone should be able to use normal cryptocurrency wallets for all transactions. Anything else means cryptocurrencies have failed.

Ethereum is designed to replace governments and banks. Use whatever you want as your barter tokens. Nobody cares.
The larger concern around contractors, which the article touches on a bit but doesn't really crack open, is that all incentives are structured around the contracted company firing a trouble employee instead of working with them. And by "trouble employee" here, I mean "an employee who has suffered abuse, up to and including actual sexual harassment, from the main company and its staff and could therefore cause legal trouble for the main company."

Protections at the interface of two companies, where the employee is not technically an employee of the main company, are thin on the ground and legally complicated. And whether intentional or not, this has the consequence of making a fertile ground for all manner of quasi-legal employee abuse.

I worked at a company where a contracted employee was sexually harassed by a full-time engineer, and the "support" she got from her boss was clear adavice to keep silent because if the main company felt the situation was too problematic she could cost everyone their job when the main company decided to contract out to another provider. Because that'd be easier for them than even confronting the full-timer responsible.

(... the videogame industry brings its own flavor of sickness to the table above and beyond these general concerns. While my friend was humiliated and depressed as hell about the situation, the reason the threat from her boss even held weight is because they would be there months down the road. A lot of game studios cut their contractors loose when the game is out the door; there's no job security to be had).
The hallway conversation thing befuddles me. Have you ever opened a chat window with someone at work to speak to them on the side? That's a hallway conversation. You can tell them any secret you want there. Have you ever seen two people interact in a group chat and learn something you didn't know before? That's the same as overhearing a hallway conversation. Grabbed a few friends in a group chat to chat about the weekend? Water cooler.

The only difference is no one is going to tell you to be quiet and get back to work. No one is going to send an email about how there are too many people wasting time around the water cooler!

I just don't see the advantage.
Not one-liners, but some of the tools that I have found helpful for working with large bash codebases are:

- shellcheck and shfmt for linting and formatting
- sub for organizing subcommands
- bashdb for debugging scripts interactively via the VSCode extension

I'm still missing a way to share modules with others like it can be done with ansible/terraform, but I have not found an optimal way to do it yet.

[shellcheck] https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
[shfmt] https://github.com/mvdan/sh
[sub] https://github.com/qrush/sub
[bashdb] http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/
[vscode-bash-debug] https://github.com/rogalmic/vscode-bash-debug
I assume there will be a world-editor and multiplayer
Cross body bags are a nice midpoint between a backpack size and a fanny pack size and they don't sit on your back causing sweat - I got an adidas one for like $30 and I can easily fit a 32oz water bottle a folded light jacket plus other small things.
I guess you and I are the only ones who use a light theme? I _wish_ my eyes were still good enough to read text clearly on a dark theme....
Not sure what sanctions have to do with it. Maybe for the last month it's been challenging for Russians, but more world oligarchs launder money through US real estate than through UAE real estate.
Here is what I read:

"Its absurd we are not being hosed equally"

instead of

"Why are we being hosed at all"

Countries finance themselves from the international debt markets, and pay the interest with their taxes and with future debt issuances. They pay prior investors with future investor money, and convince future investors by periodically paying the interest and they idea that the country could pay more interest any time it wants (by raising taxes, or straight expropriation of property). All this means that the things that were going to get funded and built and supported were already chosen to do so and greater tax collection would have no bearing on that. (Some smaller taxes directly fund certain institutions, but its not like a road or school or social service in a poor area would ever actually get prioritized.)
Exactly this! Thank you for explaining this better than I did.
For what is worth, I think you are making a correct observation.

Another correct observation would be this. Aimed at the people saying this is breaking with precedent and it’s settled law that shouldn’t be changed.

The prohibition, which was written into the constitution, was repealed.

Nothing is set in stone.
The startup I currently work for has (IMO) a reasonable number of benefits

- weekly lunch

- get drunk on the company a handful of times a year

- dogfooding our product for free

- certs + professional development

A company offering substantially less than that I’d consider stingy or too up tight. Not appreciative of the workers. Look at low margin industries like the warehouse.

A company offering more, Id feel good about.

A company offering bean bags, video games, excessive alcohol, I’d definitely feel suspicious about. Who are you trying to buy with these trinkets?
I haven't heard this (and Chrono Trigger is my favorite game). What was the original ending supposed to be? "...but the future refused to change"?
>Here's a nice writeup: link

OP of the writeup: "Goatse" Ah that takes me back.
The article has over a dozen links to articles and quotes data from several studies, so this claim seems contrary to the evidence.
> The weather is also pretty nice.

As someone who lived there for quite a while: absolutely not.
Beside the point, if they're not it makes matters worse. Last I checked though, Apple is a top payer - just not the top payer.
Your talking about earned capital as a forfeitable deposit. Sure that
scheme has its place.

I joined HN for one or two reasons. To research a book. But also to
promote my last book. Anyone can post here with a throwaway, yet I
didn't want to be an interloping dick who felt entitled to hit and run
posting links to my own vanities... so I decided; join, contribute,
participate, earn. After a few months I don't feel bad about plying my
own wares a little. Reputation (social capital) is natural and ancient
and doesn't really need crypto.

Most of the Web isn't that though. As an information system, as Sir
Tim first coined it, it's a publishing machine: You advertise a
service, I send "requests", you send "responses", we part ways without
complications. Quick anonymous sex on the beach. So-called Web2.0
f-cked that massively. Web2.0 wants to exchange phone numbers. And
once the surveillance capitalist creeps latched on to stalking
everyone around the neighbourhood... well here we are.

I think what some Web3.0 people think is that crypto can repair some
kind of "middle ground", where Web2.0 type behaviours can take place
but anonymously and under conditions controlled by "stakes". I think
this won't work for psychological and game theoretical reasons we
can't get into here. Instead I think we need to repair the Web1.0
layer at least, and since transport level security and anonymity have
become necessary in a post-Snowden era, for me that means getting rid
of the selective prejudice inflicted by systems like Cloudflare.
We need to rid this idea that the tool is the problem. Look at the experiment they are doing. The room is so boring and controlled. It's like putting an animal in a cage and expecting them to behave the same as they would in the wild. They are also sourcing random students/people off the street. Not those who may thrive in a remote fashion.

The most creative / brainstormed ideas come from when you're having fun with brilliant people. The best ideas for products I've ever had were in a restaurant, a bar, or at a fun event/party. Even as a remote employee, I also have similar ideas when playing games or catching up informally with co-workers online.

I think we need to challenge this type of research given it's removing so many different senses that who would even try to be creative if your soul has already left the room before you began experiments? There's a reason why big tech companies have very colorful and vibrant offices. Would creativity increase as new ways of video calls become mainstream? i.e. metaverse, world of workcraft, etc.