skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you mention videogames. I used to work at EA and one thing I found was that the company culture was not as developer oriented as you might expect. Obviously, they invested a lot in developers, artists, and other content producers.

But the overal company culture and the upper echelons of leadership very strongly reflected EA's history as a software publishing company founded by business folks, and not a group of game makers who set out to build their own company. It was very much about producers, money, marketing, etc.

I used to joke that EA was in the business of selling disks and that the games on them were merely an annoying chore that they were obliged to do in order to get people to buy them. It often felt like they considered the entire dev team to be a cost center.
On the other hand needing to sell yourself, and being judged on how well you present yourself seems very much a part of being human. I agree though that the "human capital" language and the formalized processes at some places is a bit dehumanizing.
Google Maps “immersive view” is the ultimate graphics mode
Who said 1%? I know people who have just lost most of their life savings in this crypto crash. My view is that they gambled big, and some won and others lost. My point is that I'm not angry at the ones who won, nor particularly sympathetic to those who lost, because I'm happy with my decision to stay out of the game even though I at one point held a winning ticket.
The difference between being confident and anxious almost certainly has a bigger effect on your work than being tall/young and short/old.
The "moving to PoS" line is so worn out and repeated that it should be flagged as a bot post every time. It's like hearing "thank you for holding, please listen closely as our menu options have changed" to those of us waiting on the line for Blockchain to just turn into ashes already.
How about prions[0] or something similar? They replicate, and are much simpler and smaller than RNA or DNA based replicators.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Heroku didn't fail in the sense that it put emphasis on developer experience when it comes to SAAS + the market place model for services. So it didn't fail, it was just successfully copied by the competition, like Azure or Google Cloud.
The web is far too big to invent all at once. Evolution is how it's going to go from now on. Good ideas will start out in niches.

But maybe Markdown is the document language you're looking for? And to get started writing docs and code together, something like ObservableHQ is a pretty good way to go.
No, it uses tendermint for consensus.
Could actually be a good time, then, though the wage might be depressed as well. A public company has succeeded to a point that startups often don’t get to. Equity here is actually worth something instead of being a handcuff. Meaningful equity in a startup means being early enough and waiting quite a few years.
I can't agree. I find most interviewers are very utilitarian here--they want proof you know your stuff, not proof of formal education. A CS degree is great, and I wish I had one (for the knowledge more than the sheepskin), but talented developers with some soft skills should not have a problem finding work in this industry.
I think the error may be raising the bar to the point of making it a dichotomy, where you are either a saint, or you're evil incarnate, and because being a saint is effectively impossible, the choices are knowingly being evil or being an evil hypocrite.
This has no teeth. Hate Amazon all you like, but these complaints will not amount to anything
Interesting product!

What do you mean by "found an average of $1.5M in net worth for our users"?
>> When I got into this industry 10 years ago, the world was a completely different place.

10 years is a lifetime in the tech industry.

>> The thought of competing against someone credentialed with 5 years experience vs. myself with 10 years and no degree, feels hopeless.

This is a vague comparison. Someone with 5 years of stack-specific experience vs. someone with 10 years of general experience?

Personally, I am very bad at interviewing. I need lots of practice before any interview. Don't be afraid to ask others for help for interviewing prep.
This page? [0] Seems pretty extensive. IF you just clicked on the upper left Flipper image you're still in the blog page which isn't going to be the full sales pitch. The main page has their initial sales blurb:

> "Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It's fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like."

[0] https://flipperzero.one/
>It's an extremely marketing driven device and trivial to clone. Look it as a PC kind of - off the shelf components connected together with a proprietary case and a marketing department.

Same could have been said for the original iPod. Design matters.
Did Hack really use enough resources for it to be an issue? Or did you get in trouble for using your access to have fun?
And Gewerbesteuer, if you’re self-employed. Unless you’re Freiberuflich…
Or maybe Jane just wants to say "fold the wing mirrors" and then she doesn't need a button.

BTW thanks. I rarely need to fold the wing mirrors manually in my Tesla so I only tried doing it by voice today in response to your comment and it worked. What were you saying about the cabin UX?
“Appraised at contract price” tells you how a bit about how grimy that process (that you’re paying for) is.

My appraiser (on a refi) was walking around the house with me and basically asked what I thought the place was worth. That was what it appraised for. (The contract price on an original sale has the same property: what the buyer thought it was worth.)

Ideally those are tethered, but the appraisals didn’t give me a great sense of independence.
Don't know what YC's current deal is but $100k is in the range of what they used to offer.
I highly recommend watching the video from the README, it's hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHQ4XACBUqo
Sea foam bubbles, really?

Trolling is frowned upon here.
They also still don’t support WebM, VP8 or 9, or Opus on iOS, to my knowledge. I’m pretty sure there is hardware support, plus desktop Safari does, but for some unknown reason, they continue to force parent encumbered codecs only in Safari iOS.

Not sure if that could theoretically be related to MSE being missing, but maybe it’s in a similar vein of control.
I have been in a similar situation and regretted staying too long. I expressed my belief that the pivot was the wrong move, and left. Less than a year later it failed. Nothing I could've done from the tech side would've changed this.

Each situation is different, of course.
Do you really think the current inflation situation has nothing to do with the consolidation of industry into the hands of a few multinationals who can pretty much raise prices with impunity? You think the sort of supply-side economics that helped get us into this mess are going to get us out of it?
Further, why would the govt ('the man') not like the arrangement? As long as they're paying their taxes why would they care how they're organized?
Could tests be the least worst option? Onboarding is expensive. Contract to hire may be the next least bad solution, assuming one doesn't require the new person months to get up too speed.
Why be scared? Worst case is they don't hire you and there were good odds of that regardless. Take an interview-- if it doesn't go well, you'll know what to beef up for later.

if you learned it for the joy and have 10 years work experience on top of that you've got some massive advantages that many new graduates will lack.
Agrred. I have no idea what the device is about until I do a quick Google search and visit their main page. The product looks promising but the explaination for what it is is poor.
Analogue Pocket: A multi-system game handheld and a digital audio workstation
Did you go to their main page instead of just their blog? https://flipperzero.one/
As long as you don't foresee any issue with massive central control of food supply, medical response or synthetic products, sure, there's no implications whatsoever. But handing over that sort of control should never be done 'for free.'

Then there's the obvious question, why is Gates so focused on emerging economies when there are many, many local problems to solve, albeit more expensive and not so easily monetizable...
I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian, and about a third of the year, we're vegan. Even after giving enough time for enzymatic adaptation and soaking beans the proper way and changing the water at least 3 times (imagine the footprint!), and following all the proper steps, I still cannot digest well beans and lentils, and other plant foods without significant discomfort. If I don't feel well after eating plant foods, I cannot believe it's good for my body! The constant bloating and pain do not occur when I am on the omnivore diet and when those foods are not the main course but are eaten in small quantities. So, maybe for some people, given the specifics of their ancestry and adaptation, the vegan diet is good, but it's not for me. I cannot imagine having no quality dairy in my life (I don't eat surrogates and stress on quantity, not quality), and I don't have issues with gluten like others do, but I don't overeat carbs. I don't feel nutritionally satisfied when eating large amounts of pasta or rice, and I cannot imagine how these carb-heavy foods are better for the environment than traditionally raised cattle. The moral aspect of eating meat is complex: what's better - to raise farm animals humanely and allow them to be alive or not allow them to ever exist? Even in nature, those animals would have been eaten by carnivores - I don't see myself eating a cat, but I do eat prey animals.
If you think the house will sell for $1.01M, you should absolutely list it just under $1M (so it hits the screens of shoppers who are only looking at $700K-1M houses).
Work content creation in the digital workspace
Have you seen him give the everyday astronaut guy the boca chic tour? Yeah, he's pretty damn smart.

If you mean he has poor financial judgement, that's something else - but there are billions of reasons why you might be mistaken.
> First time I've ever heard these two things talked about as a matter of "this versus that" and not "combat and logistics".

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic? Or haven’t read much about the military and are assuming?

Combat vs combat support vs combat service support (logistics) is a very common and very significant distinction to make and usually matters a lot for a great many things.

Has a logistics branch officer ever led a major Army? We had an artillery officer in the UK and even that was a talking point at the time.
Please don't post in the flamewar style, or whatever this is, to HN. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are pretty amazing. I had a trailer I assembled titled at a AAA office and it took about 30 minutes start to finish.
Can't be, in CA you can't return normal plates, they explicitly don't want them back. And you don't really have to return vanity plates either.

Rather, there's an online form for notifying them of a sale.
Yeah it’s amazing. So far ahead of it’s time too. I hope they survive.
>I can’t even trust that job applications are real and actually interested in finding someone.

I got burned by this recently. A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a job opening at a company I had previously been interested in joining. One phone screening and one Teams call with two different external recruiters later I was informed that the company wasn't even hiring for that role.

Of course this was partially on me. If I had looked at the careers section of their website I would have seen that the role I was applying for wasn't listed.
Maybe I just need to go yell at some clouds, but that bothers me. If I can't automatically dismiss people who use chanspeak as alt-reich cultists, I'm going to have to waste time figuring out new ways to identify neo-Nazis so I can avoid them.

They don't all wear MAGA hats or brown shirts. That would be too convenient.
> Explain the difference between an assembler and a compiler. Tell where each might he used. Describe a source and an object program.

> Name four input/ output devices for computers. Explain the use of two of them in a system.

> Tell the meaning of six of the following: a. memory b. bits c. on-line d. bytes e. microsecond f. address g. channel h. interrupt i. register j. console k. central processing unit

> Tell the meaning and use of 12 of the following: a. business data processing b. information retrieval c. simulation d. scientific processing e. floating point f. truncation g. fixed point h. accuracy i. input j. record k. output l. file m. software n. instruction o. hardware p. indexing q. loop r. subroutine s. real time t. time sharing u. cybernetics

I think I've interviewed senior software engineer candidates who would not do well with the above tasks.
Or you can fight for absolute good and justice on a war to unweave entropy itself across the entire multiverse. Your choice.
Bubbles might be bursting but not necessarily the rapidly developing tech that people use and works.
A portable wind turbine the size of a water bottle
This feels like one of those - there is probably a reason for that - moments.
History shows that, in total, research, at least the best of it, is powerful stuff, powerful enough to change civilizations, perhaps the most powerful stuff.

The OP shows some of the history of some research and, thus, is good for better understanding of how research works.

Can observe that for all or nearly all the topics in the OP, the best present treatments are much better sources than the historical documents. So, (a) even for those now famous research documents, the time to the present brought a lot of improvements, often even in the foundations, and advancements. (b) Curiously, for someone wishing to study and learn for applications or additional research, bluntly, it's nearly always best just to ignore the historical documents.

Another point: It seems clear that now integrated digital circuits with, say, feature sizes under 10 nanometers, communications via solid state lasers lighting long haul optical fibers, operating systems and other general purpose software, means of developing new software, and the Internet represent good opportunities, likely new versions of copper, bronze, iron, concrete, open ocean sailing, steam, oil, electricity, electronics, etc. Then, bluntly, to take such opportunities mostly means (a) find a need and (b) use these new tools to meet the need, but in that work the foundations of computer science are only occasionally directly relevant. In simple terms, we can all learn to develop the software: Get a laptop computer, download a lot of software, learn some programming languages and some software libraries, and start meeting the needs.

Of the topics of those historical documents, the ones I encountered in some detail include discrete optimization, information theory, RSA public key cryptosystems, algebraic coding theory, quite a lot of numerical analysis (e.g., Gauss elimination and alternatives), a lot in probability (and a lot in statistics), and a lot of the usual algorithms from heap sort, discrete dynamic programming, etc. Also covered a lot of topics not on that list, in total more topics than on that list. Lesson to others: I spent too much time on those topics, went much deeper than really useful for developing solutions to real problems.

Net lesson: Get on with something current and useful to meet a need and (a) be careful not to spend too much time on those foundational topics and (b) in simple terms, for the historical documents, just f'get about them.
I am an old timer, back in 1978 after getting my PhD, I interviewed with a bunch of companies. One was Bell Labs. I remember the recruiter, did not make me take a test on programming or anything. He just asked me to explain the most interesting project that I had worked on. I told him about a music synthesizer chip I had designed... after about 20 minutes of going on about it, I stopped and said sorry, I went on too long. He just said, nope, you are exactly the type of person we are looking for and hired me on the spot.

I think there is a piece missing now days, I could just be an old fart that does not know what I am talking about (probably), but it's the idea of finding someone with passion, even if they are not the slickest programmer in town.
Do we really want to continue having "a web" ? Remember, "the web" was never designed for what we do with it today. If you're thinking of overhauling "the web", I think it makes sense to start from first principles, and build something that meets today's needs with the least amount of unnecessary bullshit.

You have to start from the user's experience, because nothing else matters about a computer other than what you use it for. What do people actually want to do with a computer? It's going to be very hard to throw away all your assumptions. Don't assume that they want or need what we have today. They may not need the internet, or even a visual interface.

After you understand the problems the user wants solved, then you can go about building products that address those needs. You may think technology is clay that we can shape to fit a user's needs; but what if what they were best served by was metal, or glass, or paper? We must look through all technological mediums and components to provide the best solution.

Many of the developers today literally have never lived their lives in a world without certain inherent technological expectations and limitations. We need to open their minds and show them that they really can make literally anything with technology, and that it doesn't have to resemble anything that we have today. If you think "oh but we can't make change too radical, it wouldn't work", that's what they said before we ended up with the technology of today! The only box you're limited to is the one you put yourself in.
They aren't value neutral if you are spending money on buybacks instead of growing / keeping your factories in working order.

See Abbott Labs spending 5 billion on buybacks instead of keeping their infant formula factories up to code.
(Former Herokai) It is definitely not false but you misunderstood what they meant.

You understood it as running sfdc code on Heroku which is not happening—but was proposed as part of Shinrai (a failed project). What has happened is many if not most Heroku employees have moved away from working on Heroku and are now working on Salesforce Functions aka Evergreen.
I'm more-so terrified of taking the risks that would be required to break "back into" that part of the industry. I have been developing since I was a kid in some capacity. Life took me down a different path career wise that put me in just enough of a comfortable spot to make me nervous about switching it up. I feel like I have a lot of intuition and experience throughout the years - it's just not enterprise-level nor something that someone in a senior dev role could attest to.

I finished my BSCS recently because it was paid for (GI Bill), and I kind of feel the opposite about it than you do. The amount of "shotgun" messages from recruiters from LinkedIn, etc have certainly increased, but I don't feel any closer to breaking into a dev role high enough up the food-chain to make it worth the risk of leaving my cush fringe-industry position. I have been asked internally if I'd like to help out more with dev-related things, so I guess that's a start.

I'd look first at the contacts you've amassed throughout your decade in the field. I'd be willing to bet that's where your best opportunities will come from. Good luck and stay confident!
That’s the Credit Suisse report that includes things like natural resources. It’s entirely unrelated to actual individual wealth.

So Canada gets credit for its uranium reserves and then divides it across the population.

No relation whatsoever to actual cash in the bank.

“ These figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.”
I'll probably never be able to go through whiteboard leetcode questions :/
>terms of presentation, blurring player, game and narrative as well as thematically dealing with simulation vs reality, information overflow and so

it's a contentious opinion, but I believe that a lot of that stuff came at-no-cost for the Metal Gear franchise as part of trying to fit into the world of 'hard sci-fi' mecha genre.

The blurring of good and evil, the singular fabricated narrative for the player character until exposure to 'the real world' , the concept of simulation versus reality, information overflow.. these are all themes pretty heavily explored in other mecha franchises (Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam, VOTOMs, Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell, Macross).

It's my opinion that Kojima has always made mecha fan-service games (I love REX) for mecha fans such as himself -- delivered via the medium of interpretive story-telling in the format of an MG game. Zone of the Enders didn't have the mass appeal due to the fact that he jumped into the deep-end with the mecha content; he has found that it works better to sugar-coat the mecha content in James Bond espionage and sexual allure.

All opinion of course -- but it's the opinion of a die hard mecha fan.

Also, I don't want this to come off as mean or underwhelmed , it's not; Kojima has been a part of some impressive world-building, I don't want to sell that short.
Looks like bullshit salespeak. Sure, Red Hat is successful in turning their open source in to a profit center, but open source success itself isn't measured using money.
The stock market is always going up and down dude. How is the company doing?
Why Bayesian Probability Is Fundamentally Unsound and What Science Does Instead
(2020). Editorialized title ("A Clean Start for the Web").

Previously discussed in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24255541 (117 points, 21 months ago, 90 comments)
How so? I'm talking specifically about confidence and anxiousness in a job interview.

One can be very confident in one's work yet be anxious in a job interview.
Pizza coupons, beer bottles that can be deposited for a refund in California
Cryptocurrencies still have the unique property of being able to function as permissionless digital cash between parties. There is nothing else in broad use that can perform this function (there were viable cryptographic proposals in the 90s but nothing ever took hold).

Personally I think that's enough to justify a small market cap and a volatile price, but I agree it is speculation that has driven it to insane heights.
Trolling is generally unwelcome here.
We're probably talking about engineers from well regarded schools, so having these people on the payroll lends a lot of credibility.