skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the first deals started closing again, who would have won the deals?

The company that stayed home for 12 months? or the company that continued working for 12 months?

Imagine swimming hard against a strong current. You get nowhere (or maybe even go backwards slightly!), but when the current changes you make a lot of progress.

If you don't swim at all, you go backwards. When the current changes, you may get to where you were at the start.
Few thoughts ideas … as tech founder maybe this advice helps.

1. Pick an outside of work hobby… for me it was to teach myself electronics. Arduino, soldering, 3d printing , 3d modeling etc…

2. Remember using a computer is going to pull you down - I’m sure there are studies that show increased depression from using and being connected 24-7, I’m not saying disconnect - I’m saying be self aware and pick yourself back up. Live for the problem solving.

Hope this helps
Take this with a grain of salt, but the last company I worked for had a sizable office in Tokyo, and I was told by someone in the IT department that they were legally required to buy computers with Japanese keyboards for their Japanese employees. Obviously that kind of rule wouldn't likely be applied to an individual bringing in their personal devices, but I can conceive of it being enforced on commercial imports.

Similarly, I've heard anecdotes about employers in Quebec being forced to provide equipment that has full support for the French language, even if the employees only actually speak English.
The statistics that are given in these articles make the situation sound a lot worse than it is. At least in this article they say “traded food”. The point being that less than 10% of global production is traded. The world could survive Ukraine not exporting without too much problem. The big unknown is how many farmers reduced their plantings due to higher fertilizer prices. When you add multiple factors like these together then you really do end up with a food shortage.
Netflix cuts 150 jobs after subscriber slump, revenue slowdown
There are alternatives.
This is meaningless and a trap. Policy can be reversed at any time. Probably can retroactively prosecute during supposed "we won't prosecute" period.

Worse, they can use threat of changing policy and prosecution to compel behavior they want.

Only the law matters. Change the law.
Aum Shinrikyo is like the Branch Davidians or Heaven's Gate. They are a marginal cult that isn't indicative of the broader culture.
Don't save cash, invest. Inflation will eat your money if you save the cash under your bed.

Open new business, people will stop spending on unnecessary things, but think what every people needs every day.

Labor will be cheaper, think about that.

38 years living in Argentina, you move fast or you die.
I wonder if it’s possible to retrofit a Tesla to work as a bootleg Powerwall in tandem with residential solar - should brownouts become a common thing.

My Google-fu isn’t strong enough to find anything on the topic that isn’t on the level of “tremendously sketchy YouTube video” and I’m not about to risk my car and house experimenting off the back of that sort of thing.
Personally, I like it as it is, but I can understand someone preferring the control key in the bottom left (though I would suggest using Caps as Control, in which case having Fn on the easier to reach spot and therefore first would still make more sense)
Is Elon right? We labeled 500 Twitter users to measure the amount of Spam
Depending on what state you're in in the Midwest you can sometimes get E85 gas (85% ethanol). It's always clearly marked because not all modern engines can handle that high of a concentration.
I think the thing to realize is that a lot of it is out of your control.

I was working at a startup during the 2007-09 recession. Before that things were going great and they were hiring, and hiring, and hiring.

Then all of the sudden things weren't great. The startup had two products they were working on, all of the sudden they only had money for one. One morning I came into work early and all the conference rooms already had people in them with the doors closed, they axed everyone working on product A and walked them out the door. I was on product B, I was fine.

Some of those people didn't work for almost two years. It was just random. I had quit a software developer job in the real estate industry to work at the startup because I thought it was obviously going to be a bad time to be in the real estate industry. Which it was, but I had no idea that it was going to affect everything else.
Short aside: any tips for becoming a trackpoint user?

I find it much more comfortable than the trackpad, but my curosr always seems so slow when it's not going way too fast. Is there special software tweaking I need?

EDIT: I forgot to mention I'm on Linux
I wish you luck, and I can relate.

I worked for a famous Japanese imaging corporation for almost 27 years. The pay was meh, the corporate overhead and B. S. was damn near unbearable.

But I worked as a peer with some of the finest engineers and scientists in the world, on a daily basis, and we respected each other (but often also wanted to strangle each other).

I was seldom the smartest person in the room (and I’m smarter than the average bear). It was humbling, challenging, and exciting.

I became a manager, and hated it. I was a very good manager, but spent my nights and weekends, coding.

Since leaving that company, I went straight back to coding, and I’m not as good as I was.

I’m way better.

I don’t really care whether or not I’m better than anyone else, but I find that I can usually meet any challenges thrown my way[0].

It seems that I picked up some good habits, along the way.

These days, most folks in the industry don’t want to have anything to do with me. I’m radioactive. It only took a short time to figure out that no one wants Pops on their team. I won’t go where I’m not wanted.

I’m extremely fortunate, in that I can support myself without earning a salary. I sought out people that want to help others, and have been working with them, for free.

It’s working for me. I’m not lonely at all, and I’m pretty motivated by the work.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
Echoing other comments, the issue might be as simple as not being at the right company.

Interviewing elsewhere seems like the right thing to do. I'm confident there are environments out there where other engineers would challenge you.

It's possible that could be the case at my company, PicnicHealth. If you'd be interested in chatting, reach out (email in profile)
I...don't know how to put this, but... I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I have many leather bound books.
So can it compile to native machine code as an executable file, link in all the needed libraries and just run as-is now?

Or does it need a huge amount of supporting .NET libraries included also installed on the target?
Assuming he's innocent, what was a better course of action?

I'd probably do the same thing. It may have been 2 hours before this story but he's been putting out "controversial" tweets for months.

I also have someone else telling me they contacted him years ago, still waiting on that source but no idea what to believe at this point.
It was surprisingly useful for some high performance computing niches. It was in a weird time. FPGAs were available but weren’t as performant as they are today. GPUs were around but not nearly as powerful or flexible given some workloads.
It's a key that's very useful on Windows for screenshotting.

Personally, I use it for various color inversion profiles (ex OLED: make all the dark greys pitch black, night time: black and red) + for ShareX.
https://gasprices.aaa.com/

This doesn’t look promising. Economic activity has a direct correlation with energy prices. If things cost more and there are fewer youre talking inflation.

At the same time, they dumped a bunch of money into the market AND by seizing Russian assets a lot of countries are going to diversify AND there are less market for USD.

We’ve increased the circulating dollars, raised energy costs, and reduced food supplies.

Yeah, this is going to be a wild ride.
Why does it also happen in low-density rural areas?
I usually give people two or three chances to cooperate normally, and also will listen if they initiate a change in themselves later on that seems trustworthy.

I never know for sure whether someone suffers from narcissistic personality disorder or other dark triad traits so I rarely label them; but I can gauge the effect of their actions on me and that's the ultimate metric that matters. Even people with good intentions may produce hurtful and counterproductive actions and be unwilling or unable to learn and grow; there's no need to label or stigmatize them but I will, as you say, choose who I associate with to better my own life. It's helpful to remember that other adults are not owed time and attention; they are responsible for finding their own support networks to meet their needs in a mutually agreeable way. Obviously in a workplace no-contact isn't possible entirely but greyrocking works there.

It's just helpful to recognize the narcissistic traits and manipulative tactics that people sometimes use and respond appropriately to the tactics by enforcing boundaries, communicating my limits, refusing to get emotionally entangled, etc. Pretty much what standard therapy teaches.
the number of comments "back then" compared to now is a testament to how large HN and the tech ecosystem in general has grown.

Still had a good chuckle at someone commenting "This is one of those threads that just never dies" on a post with fewer than 40 comments, though.[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330357
Sure there is. The need to introducing a unified delay across all game clients in the first place, reliable measurement and comparison of latency data, and the effects of latency, artificial or otherwise, on game state which is not strongly consistent. There could be many other areas in which this bug intersects with distributed consensus in the actual implementation as well.

In fact neglecting the impact of distributed consensus is one of the biggest challenges to mitigating it.
Show HN: TOML Support for Kotlinx.serialization
Hello folks, recently I've updated my kotlinx.serialization plugin which focuses on TOML, a configuration file format. I'd like to post it on HN for more feedbacks. :)

This library works much like the official JSON format, where you use Toml as entrypoint, Toml.encodeToString to encode almost any data structures (if is custom class then @Serializable is needed for sure) into TOML-file-like strings, and decodeFromString to reverse the process. In addition, Toml.parseToTomlTable allows you to just parse the TOML-file-like strings into TomlTable, which behaves like JsonObject from the official JSON as well. Then you could access each entry by key like myConfig["version"]. For more information, check out https://github.com/Peanuuutz/tomlkt.
Pretty nice video. Hopefully he makes more (beyond the shorts).
I recall an early 80's Justice League episode which centered global warming.
"POCIT" was too good of an acronym to pass up on.
This is a really good point, IMO. I've never written extensive amounts of Objective-C, but in my adventures I've had to bolt together GUIs with Objective-C++ and I learned to love the "verbose" nature of Obj-C calls whenever I had to dive back into the editor for a game engine or whatever because it meant I didn't have to rebuild so much state in my head.
Blades runner had astonishing graphics as well, really haunting. Nowadays graphics like that are not that special but for time they were revolutionary. I just created some graphics of some animals in place of the legendary monologue of the movie.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdwsowRoFT4/
How many normal people do you know who use hey? People hate making lists, they won't do it. Then they'll lose their minds when their banks fraud department can't reach them, or they find out they didn't get the job because the recruiter couldn't email them, or...

Then there's the fact that a lot of people sign up for a lot of bacon, then get angry about receiving it.
Get a part-time second W-2 job, now. Show up on time every day for 90 days in a row. Get a non-customer facing job if you can. Warehouse is good, security guard is good. Places that run 24 hours are good places to look.

Get over having to enter your info twice and and fill out a form with the same thing too. This is intentional, it's to weed out the quitters.

Have a folder with everything you need in to fill out an application form in it.

Call the HR at your old jobs to verify the phone number is still correct and what your dates of employment were. Get over your embarrassment, they truly don't GAF and if you left on good terms (two weeks notice) they may ask you back.

Amazon warehouse isn't as bad as they make it out to be, avoid driving amazon and anything else amazon.

TL:DR; Non customer-facing part time job, be perfect for first 90 days.
It sucks for these people, but as you say, they did something insane with their money. I agree with everyone else here who's recommended you speak to a lawyer and then back away. It might be uncomfortable because you (or they) seem fairly conscientious, but you won't change much anyway. Some people might withdraw and then do some other very risky thing with the money. Or maybe you trigger the service immediately closing shop with no withdrawals. Moreover, organized crime is alive and well in this area. Don't assume that because this is an online scam they are not connected. From the sound of it there are millions of dollars at stake for them, and at most a nagging feeling for you saying you should have done something. Or maybe making a name for yourself. In any case it's not worth it. Calling out a random unregistered Russian crypto "business" that people already know is shady won't do anything.
Given the precedent of netcat, I wasn't sure whether to expect the animal or the tool.

414 definitely brought back some memories...
Grid monitor warns of U.S. blackouts in ‘sobering report’
Had a similar one and the trackpoint was a pain for 2 reasons. The shape was inverted, so you always touched a raised edge rather than surface. And the cap started coming off after a few months of use. Not a fan of HP's solution.
I think it is even more about how big hackernews has gotten... slashdot was the place back then
> F# can infer almost everything. It's easier to read when you do document some of the types though.

F# is also easier to avoid breaking in materially useful ways if (like TypeScript) you annotate return types even if they can be inferred. You'll get a more useful error message saying "hey stupid, you broke this here" instead of a type error on consumption.
Open article anywhere?
That was my first reaction too, but then I realized it's also value vs. reference types

i.e. Java doesn't have value types and that makes the syntax a lot cleaner vs. C++, and I'm pretty sure Kotlin must be the same

So you could still have ownership in a language with references only, and the syntax could be cleaner than Rust.

In fact I think there was a post about just that: Notes on a Smaller Rust https://without.boats/blog/notes-on-a-smaller-rust/
Thanks! I was trying to work out who this was and their relevance in the picture. I thought perhaps it was something 'Darker' than a Fahrenheit 451 ref.

I feel an obligatory 'Joe Exotic' reference should be considered here (but goes against the housecat vibe)
Thanks! That is the one I was thinking of. Notice how even at 10ms of latency rubberbanding is easily visible.
Have you actually lurked around places like r/superstonk?

Finance q anon is honestly a pretty accurate description. That crowd has gone WAY off the deep end
80% of drivers think they are above average. Unless you are a top performer at a top company - and it doesn’t sound like you are - how are you giving yourself such a high assessment?

I thought I was “above average” in my area of expertise until I landed a job at BigTech coming from a 60 person company where my “specialty” was table stakes just to get a mid level position.

I use to always say with a point of pride that it never took me more than a month to get a job. Does that make me a 10x developer or is it because I only applied for no name companies until my current one?
Do you know OP or have you seen their code? If not, you're making a lot of assumptions about them based on what they've said that are about as uncharitable as possible, to the point where it kind of seems like you have an axe to grind against OP.

I'm speculating here but I think that you have some major hurt and pain in your past and something OP said is triggering the memory(ies). There definitely are (many) people in the dev world that do what you're accusing OP of doing, so I'm guessing you've been heavily burned by that (as have I). I actually moved industries to get away from that. In my case it was the Java (especially "enterprise" java) culture/ecosystem/etc, and things got a lot better for me when I wrote off my deep investment in Java and pivoted to C++ and Ruby. I would definitely advise to move around early and often, both company and tech stack. Try out startup life if you've been in big corp, or vice versa. IME startup life is a lot more prone to the "ship it fast" pressure that results in terribly unmaintainable code, so a big corp where you can work on a core product (core enough that it gets plenty of investment and appreciation but not enough that it's the number one money maker, otherwise the Eye of Sauron will be omnipresent and encouraging bad practices). Life is way too short to be miserable at work, especially in a field like ours where hold a ton of the cards.
Then get rid of everything plastic you own.
Normally you are going to want to go into the "offtopic" channels for general chatting. Normal support channels are often very focused and explicitly disallow non-support conversations, but it depends on the specific channel and the operators of the channel of course!
Yes, a postgrest container would have also worked just fine for this one.
I don't know of any up-to-date network diagrams for DoD networks, but here are the relevant ones to look up: SIPRNET and NIPRNET for secret and nonclassified materials, respectively, NMIS/GWAN for NRO (TS), NSANet for NSA (TS/SCI), DSNET/JWICS (DoD wide, up to and including TS/SCI). There's also FBINET, which is classified up to secret, but doesn't have as much information online.
Go through your Rolodex of everyone you’ve worked with that has since left, filter out the high level positions, and contact each to see what they are up too. If you’re the type of person that you describe, they’ll jump at an opportunity to work with you, at a higher pay grade, with less responsibility, and more flexible hours.
anecdotally most older developers actually do keep up to date with the latest best practices.

As an old guy I would find it very hard to keep up to date with the "latest best practices" because I tend to think of "latest" and "best practices" as antithetical. JQuery is a good example: I never invested time in it since I figured it would pass. I could smell it from the way kids were raving about it. So this type of article foreshadowing its demise is nice to see. Like when you drag your feet on some looming deadline at work and some force majeure makes it completely irrelevant.
Is the syntax really that much of a burden? I don't have a perfect grasp of the syntax and would have trouble if I was having to write rust code with zero reference, but as long as I have other rust code open it is pretty easy to remember what each part does.
Can you give an example of what a typical high calorie / high carb day looked like for you?

I eat lots of carbs, always have... yet I don't seem to gain weight. I generally feel like, and am regarded by people who know me, as someone who "eats a ton" yet I have never struggled to lose weight.

The X food causes obesity theory is just too simple IMO, that or I have a tape worm or some kind of undiagnosed disorder that results in me maintaining a pretty consistent BMI despite eating whatever and whenever I want.
I'm unconvinced that most people who buy NFTs are doing it for non-gambling reasons. Where's the market in smart displays you can hook up to your wallet and show you your NFTs? Other than Twitter hexagons, are people doing anything with their NFTs?

I have seen very few people talking about the price of something in ETH without a parenthetical giving the current USD value.
This. The company you work for matters tremendously and it sounds like you’re ready to “level up”.
How much instant coffee do you drink? And have you tried going without caffeine? Some are very sensitive to caffeine.

I like your routine though, I envy those who live in walkable areas!
Apple interrogating staff at World Trade Center store, CWA says
A lot of people are saying that Musk is buying Twitter to get ahead of this story and control the narrative around it. That's a reasonable (albeit very unproven) hypothesis. I'd be interested to see if actual facts about this come out and to see if Musk is allowed to say anything about this. Anything is certainly possible and Musk should be condemned harshly for any proven bad behavior. (Personally I think he's just a fairly smart investor and needed cover for an overpriced TSLA stock heading towards a down economy so he wanted to cash out a bit while he still could)

But I'd like to put being a celebrity billionaire into context. (this is not from the personal experience of being a celebrity billionaire, unfortunately)

Pretty much every non-rich person in the sphere of a wealthy celebrity is hoping to financially benefit from that access. Some nicer people take the path of trying to be extremely loyal to the celebrity in hopes of getting access, jobs, and gifts: you sometimes read stories about wealthy peoples' employees who get extremely generous gifts from them.

However, some sociopaths take the path of trying to maneuver themselves into falsely suing their way into getting a piece of that wealth. I'd bet that quite a few rich folks have secretly paid off some bad behaving employees who were willing to fabricate claims to just go away. This doesn't mean that the billionaire did anything wrong, it just wasn't worth the hassle to try and fight a particular claim at a particular time. This is just something that people should keep in mind when hearing about any claims about celebrities: they're surrounded by people who are tempted to take their one shot at a piece of that wealth.
> Suspend will sap 30% of my energy by morning, even in "deep" sleep, and the computer won't wake properly

That's just unacceptable: without wake timers (so outside "connected standby"), S0ix on a Intel 11th or 12th gen should use at most 0.7% of the battery per hour, so 7% over 10h (assuming you like long nights!). A well configured system should aim for about half as much, so between 3 and 4% over 10h.

You are getting about 5x worse power consumption during sleep than a normal modern system, and 10x worse than a well configured system.
Depends on how deep they are into it. Some people with such traits can't keep down a job or even familial relationships without their ego getting in the way.
It's larger than France and Texas combined in area!