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I think I agree overall and I'll take it a bit further: developers aren't an anything-x, they are a range based on the task and their current mental/emotional/physical state. I know as programmers/people interested in tech we can fall into the trap of thinking of people like we do machines but it's a deeply flawed approach (one that I've fallen into MANY times).

For years I wanted to slot people into boxes and think of them the same way I might think of a server. I wish I could go back and slap the earlier version of myself. Like you say, the soft skills are 1000x more important to me now. I won't suffer a "10x" developer if they are an ass nor will I dismiss someone just because I have some misguided idea that they should be performing better. Of course, all of this has a number of exceptions, I wouldn't be happy with someone who is not pulling their weight but I've realized there are more important things to optimize for, team cohesion being a top priority.

If I can communicate with you well and you are enjoyable to work with then I'll look past, what a younger me would have considered, "your flaws". I've witnessed in my self and others what I like to call "team multipliers". In that the output of 2 or more people is higher than what either could do individually. Those "multipliers" can result in better output from a bunch of "5x"ers (again, this is a silly measurement) verses the same number of "10x"ers who don't work well with others/together.

I know it's been tried (and it sounds like it kind of failed) but I really love the idea of hiring a group of people instead of individuals. At my current company I've helped get 2 people I previously worked with jobs because I know they are both assets to the team and that they make me better. "As iron sharpens iron", and all that.
Plenty of US localities prohibit alcohol sales already: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_Stat...
This is an annoying article, as it reflects lazy research to support a predetermined conclusion.

This is annoying as it's so bad, that it provides evidence that "gun control reporting is misleading".

My understanding, and other commenters seem to agree, the gun buyback program didn't reduce gun ownership, and it also can't be tied to the reduction in casualties as those numbers were already tracking down before the buyback.

More accurate reporting would instead focus on the restrictions on types of guns that were legally permitted, and how those restrictions impacted the repeat of sprees (there have been none). Similar restrictions in the UK after their big shootings had similar near eradication of mass shootings.

The restrictions basically meant a complete ban on

* All self loading rifles

* All self loading shotguns

* All pump action shotguns

Now in addition to that people had to demonstrate actual need for weapons that they owned. That meant you had to prove you had a occupational need, were an active member of a shooting club, or you were an active hunter - and had proof of access to hunting land.

Gun licensing was divided into five different categories, which each had different requirements, but all required a pile of mandatory training.

Most countries other than the US have a pile of rules requiring safety+security of gun and ammunition storage, but afaict that doesn't have any impact mass shootings (and I don't see why it would?), it seems mostly to be responsible for the far lower rates of accidental child/child-involved death in non-US countries. I say this as someone who apparently pulled a rifle on my mum as a 4yo, before NZ had real weapon security rules, so I could easily have been an orphan due to NZ's lack of gun security laws at that point.
Good analogy, and cool story. IME real-world events rarely follow such a linear narrative but I found your company from your profile, and like that its blog -- https://www.hrvey.com/blog -- shares insights from an "entrepreneurial journey" perspective. Congrats!
I do feel that BLM is a worthy cause to support. This is mainly because I feel the movement can be seen separately from any formal organizations or individual people. I understand how you may disagree.

Regardless, the real disagreement seems to be in where it is appropriate to represent the movements you believe in.

Even granting that a technical document page may not be the best place for such advertising, I still do not understand why the presence of these messages would offend an international audience.

If they are truly irrelevant, then surely it should be at worst unsightly?
This part is telling:

> If a signed operation would naturally produce a value that is not within the range of the result type, the behavior is undefined. The author had hoped to make this well-defined as wrapping (the operations produce the same value bits as for the corresponding unsigned type), but WG21 had strong resistance against this.

So, even within the standards group there are disagreements on the topic.
I don’t know that voluminous tanks and heavy engines are necessarily a problem for something that’s designed to permanently live in space - the tanks can essentially just be onion-layered gasbags, and could be km3 in volume if you wanted. As to fuel - don’t get it from heavy bodies. Mine asteroids, minor moons, whatever.
Absolutely. Almost certainly problematic as one of Sonus’ leading value props is exactly this function - audio sync across their ecosystem.
Maybe you should spend half a minutes checking to see if what you are suggestion is supported by available data before starting a conversation about it
How could node not do that? NPM hosts all the packages so of course it does.
Not true for McKinsey. Not only are we hiring entry-level engineers, we are (1) also recruiting from several coding bootcamps and (2) very proud of the engineering path we've created to help early-career developers rapidly build a world-class engineering toolkit and level-up to tech lead and architecture roles.

This listing is representative of the entry-level software engineering roles we're hiring for: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/search-jobs/jobs/softwareen...
> Doubling down when you have been corrected adds only heat, not light.

All I've done is reported the facts, and, aside from hallucinating concepts in an example which didn't use them you've just insisted the facts aren't true.

I've provided examples like Ord and Eq, and you've provided nothing but denial. Nobody can do anything with that. The reason you find all those Concepts in the Standard Library with duck typing is that it's what Concepts do. If not for the duck typing they might as well just be comments.

Was that all you were getting at? Look at this fancy new comment syntax?
There was some charitable support at times in history.

In the Middle Ages, monasteries often had healing clinics and hospitals, though the hospitals were for the dying, usually. And sometimes food for people in want.

Of course, in the Middle Ages, the Church was really part of the government, parallel to the kings, dukes, etc etc.

Now medical care has gotten so expensive that it's beyond the capacity of any charity except for isolated cases. Similarly for housing. Food there's some support for.
Great job! This is inspiring to all us indie hackers out there.
I often see people playing games on their phones (Sudoku, word games, etc) and think to myself - jesus, look at all of that wasted brain power that could be put to work solving important problems.

Personally, I like to work teaser math problems and algorithms, like the Traveling Salesman Problem, set sorting problems, or whatever. It's so much more fun to know you might by happenstance, fumbeling arounds in math space, find something actually beneficial to the world. You'll never contribute to society play a "bounded game" like candy crush or whatever.

I guess what I'm saying is that I wish there were such a thing as an "unbounded game" that truly allowes you to discover. I think protein folding crowd sourcing comes close, but how fun is that, really? (I'm literally asking, I don't know, I've never partaken)

How do you make a game that also contributes to collective knowledge?
> how many digital services, modern tech and so on would you be willing to trade for something mundane, say your dishwasher, a hot shower, the toilet, a car, soap, if you could only have one or the other? I think it really puts into perspective how much or rather little value those 'innovations' add.

This is a good question, but I think you'd be surprised by some of the answers. I'd give up indoor toilets before I gave up my smartphone.
I’m happy to entertain that thesis, but what is the evidence? How do you known it wasn’t other factors that drove greater usage, like ads on other platforms or word-of-mouth? I notice you didn’t post any such evidence.

Incidentally, if you’re really into HN guidelines, it might be a good idea to avoid inflammatory comments that lack the evidence to back them up.
When I built a ETL pipeline before the term ELT existed, we had multiple pipelines that transformed data in the data warehouse as well as transforms of the raw data on the way in. The transforms on the "way" in were minor like renames or formats while the transforms from within the dwh were much more involved.

Every pipe from db to dw is going to be some form of ETL, it's just that with "raw" data the transform is minimal. Unless your going apples-to-apples data storage, there's going to be some transforms in the actual underlying data types.

I agree with a comment down below, it's a genius marketing term.
It may be a minority, but probably not a small one. The question then becomes about what restrictions would be found to be constitutional while being effective (and defining which specific part of the issue we're trying to fix). It's an interesting lead-in to the larger topic of when a majority should restrict the freedoms/rights of a minority and how that plays out - whether talking about guns or abortion, etc.
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>Modern cars seem to be moving towards all controls on a touch screen somewhere

They aren't. Your car may be a poorly designed exception.

The things you need to use need to do while driving can usually be done with controls on the steering wheel.

If you need visual feedback while using your steering wheel controls you can glance at the dashboard screen.

>using a touchscreen to adjust the temperature while driving is incredibly dangerous compared to a dial you can feel for without taking your eyes off the road

Your car is poorly designed. You can adjust the temp on MANY new cars without the touch screen with simple up down buttons and very clear temperature with its own always on display.
If you're looking to sample the whole world, as should be the case for someone who uses reddit as their main source of news and/or general socializing, it's important to avoid tailoring it to your preferences lest you buildan echo chamber. But if you're looking to meet more specific goals, as should be the case for someone who uses reddit to dive into particular interests, by all means, tailor it.
Wow that's really clever. I never considered that the 8 unicode bytes corresponding to the 8 bits of u8 would fit in a u64.
Barotrauma is a hoot. Beater submarine being piloted by a bunch of QWOP-level controlled smack addicts.

And almost everything has varying levels of complexity. Sure, there's a pretty deep medical system with dozens of medicines of varying side effects and effectiveness for whatever ails you. Or you can just stuff yourself full of morphine (leading to the aforementioned crew of opiate addicts). You can just set the boat's ~~on board barbeque~~ nuclear reactor to automatically scale turbine output and heat levels, but either through manual management or more advanced logic circuitry you can make your boat better suited for high-intensity situations.

It does take a handful of friends to really enjoy, though. Makes it hard as an adult, but scheduling play sessions is a nice social gathering.
How to make macOS remember each app’s input source? There are some setting, they don’t really work. It’s my only serious problem with the best OS around. Can anyone make an app to fix this? Thanks!
I have personally implemented this product for several financial institutions.

In my experience, many are simply doing it as a form of KYC (i.e. customer authentication) than an actual "is this a bad customer" check.

I have seen some really janky shit too. Every FI I have ever worked with ultimately decided to implement some "exception" process to be able to work with customers when there is some system outage or other unexpected results come back.

Additionally, every institution I worked with also provides some form of second-chance product offerings to customers who come back with a red-hot report. Obviously, these products do not offer overdraft or other line-of-credit features, but they are real checking accounts for all other purposes.

From my perspective, it's not an ideal system. But then again, I don't know that ideal is possible or desired. I think if Chex didn't exist, something else certainly would take its place. I've watched some other vendors exit the space recently, so I think they are now the last/biggest player.
In case anyone is wondering, you can use it as a straight-up "plain" PostgreSQL database if desired.
I find it hard to evaluate "no code" as a monolith. In some cases, if you can't think like a programmer, the fact that your "code" doesn't look like "code" isn't going to help you. However, (having clicked through to your twitter), I am familiar with Courier, and agree it is brilliant[1][2].

[1] No affiliation

[2] I've built complex notifications systems myself and think Courier is a beautiful solution for coders and non coders alike.
The number of automatic weapons dropped through the floor.

There have been no mass killings without automatic weapons (they're kind of necessary).

That said I agree this article is bad, and the authors should feel bad, they've clearly gone in with the goal of making the story "and the guns all went away"

[edit: sorry, I just saw who I replied to, and that was unintentional - I in no intent meant to be stalking or anything, many apologies]
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I want a new version of SSI Strongholds from the 90s. I guess there's no point though .. that genre has sort of evolved to something far better and I'm just nostalgic.
Nice, I stand corrected there. Good on you!
You're describing the game X4, minus the land combat.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/
No, because the whole point is in players not knowing that NPCs are in fact other players.
This looks like a fantastic app but the subscription model and lock in together make this a non-starter. I'd rather pay you $60 upfront than $4/mo.

Obsidian has a great pricing strategy - license fee (not needed for most people), no lock in, and optional but valuable services on top that are subscription based.
The proportion of users on mobile devices could explain some of the sliding quality. I know if I am using a mobile device, it's primarily for content consumption. I can't quickly reply in any depth with a mobile keyboard, so that waits until I am at a full PC, which is a smaller and smaller proportion of the time I am actually using Reddit in recent years.
This is an interesting thought.

My mom passed away unexpectedly and in her sleep last year. She had been depressed for half a year prior because she had lost her spouse to cancer. She had not yet gone through their items.

So between the household results of half a year of depression and two lifetimes worth of stuff it was so overwhelming that I only believed we could get through it all because there was no other outcome to believe was possible. My aunt has experience with this and she flew home to help. It took us about a month.

And now I have half a basement room, not even 5% of the things they’d had, waiting to be packed up and shipped to me. It was all stuff that at the time I could not imagine getting rid of.

Now, I know that I will have a ton of re-sorting ahead of me because after a year has passed I doubt I’ll want to keep all of that stuff.

It’s so easy to project meaning onto items.
A recession just means two quarters of negative GDP, which we are probably already in, so this isn’t exactly shocking. Anyone with a basic grasp of current events could have told you we are probably in a recession, there’s nothing special about strippers.
Yeah I think it's the ultimate end of all social media, excepting forums that are aggressively moderated to stay on topic. I'm on a few email lists that are moderated this way. Any tangents into politics and memes are killed immediately, even neutral off-topic stuff is discouraged.

Usenet is dead. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter are dying. Something will take their place, become popular, and it will eventually die for the same reasons.
In a five person team one 10x programmer tried to do everything. After some futile resistance everyone else stepped back to let the fool drown. He took every moderately hard task to himself. He was a great and relentless developer with duck tape mentality but deep knowledge and managed to do more than 70% of the project done. The rest of us worked around him. It was miserable.

I much prefer working with lazy 0.7x developers with a healthy relationship to code and people.
I perceive it more as `interesting story` vs `interesting project`. OP's project-story is right on the edge between the two for me.

At least for Show HN there is an official guideline [0] which mentions:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

Does anyone know whether there is an official `Tell HN` guideline? The HN guidelines and FAQ pages don't specify anything as far as I could tell.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I remember when my phone updated to Android 10 and soon after I received a call and, well, there's a video that shows pretty much exactly how things went:

https://youtu.be/UzpEHwZ-s-M?t=9

I can't believe we're asking software developers to recreate the world on a screen. It's an incredible amount of work that never gets done, leaving us with unintuitive interfaces.
I guess we'll see which ones pan out. I'm hoping for both as long as we stop dumping carbon into the atmosphere. Although I'm not so sure about the cost. Prometheus is looking at pretty inexpensive prices per gallon.
Goose Game
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1273542/v1
For me, the joy of most of these phone games is that there is limited thinking going on. Sudoku is a good example where it requires some analytical thinking, but it's, for the most part, just applying rules.

To me, that's the point of a game. To relax my brain with something a little silly and 'easy'.
For sure. Optimizing for MAUs disincentives quality content.
He was not allowed to share the stuff (and the information) he had even with us. But yep, super crazy. That was the time before if was obvious that you do want to give access to all code being written to all of your developers. (And eventually to put extra effort into making it as painless as possible.)
Wait... Why not black hole them? Make it their problem and they'll eventually do the correct thing.
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HN is easy to join, but is heavily moderated and doesn't put up with much crap. And manages to avoid most the toxicity. Probably because most political discussion is avoided.
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Do you submit a feed to Google?

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en
> An hour is not even close to being enough. A whole weekend may get you to 50%.

This is one problem I have with GTD: It talks and talks about collecting and sorting tasks but does not care much about whether you should do them in the first place. It invites overloading yourself with tasks and want-to-dos instead of thinking about if that tasks are truly important to you in the light of a perpetual shortage of time to do all the stuff you would like to.
Ask HN: What are good personal SMS APIs?
I want to automate sending some messages from my phone number (only for personal use). Has anyone done this before, and know of a cheap way to do it?
X4: Foundations, gets closest to this for me.
If you're willing to pay a monthly subscription, check out Jason Roberts (of https://techzinglive.com) online Math Academy.
We are in agreement, we should not just accept the status quo. We should vote, call out inequalities, strive for efficient government, etc. This is how we advanced from prior states to where we are today. We simply keep going, and keep improving.

The system works. (Maybe not as fast as we like sometimes, but it absolutely works.)
> Helping people cooperate is a virtue.

Oh, is that what you're doing?
And what about the grunt who reads the map upside down?
If it were me, and I wasn't willing to just block the traffic, I might just set a 128 kbps limit on it and call it a day[1]. Eventually, the other side will figure out that their fetchers are all backed up and work out how to do their job without burning so much bandwidth.

[1] Yeah, that can be a bit of a pain to setup depending on the server settings, but some people have to pay for bandwidth and server resources, so it's probably worthwhile.
> The future is thin clients. It's not just going to be our industry, either. Every creative industry is going to undergo this change.

It is worth noting though that the thin clients are mostly going to be equivalent to a Chromebook, which is considerably beefier than top-of-the-line developer workstations from only a few years ago.
It's not for getting to/from Mars quickly. It's for giving money to congressional districts quickly.
I mean, it's the driving cause behind me selling the car and moving to a VW...
> It would be a step in the right direction.

The argument is that it's not possible, not that it wouldn't be desirable if it were. The way to get all of the unbiased facts not intended to illustrate a narrative is to be omnipotent. Otherwise, you're getting filtered information from someone telling you what they saw. The reason they leave out what color socks they were wearing at the time they saw it is because they're filtering the information down to what they think is relevant to their narrative.
It's not misleading. Sweden's "peers" are all rich western countries, because there's nothing different about the Nordics that a virus would care about. That's why he ridicules this illogical form of obfuscation by pro-maskers/pro-lockdowners: it's just obviously nonsense on its face but it's the only thing left they can think of, so the blind insistence that everyone ignore data proving them wrong remains.

"Unlike Sweden, most of them reached a threshold where further spread of the disease would mean hospitals exceed capacity"

No they didn't. Epidemiologists and their models claimed such thresholds would be reached but those models were wrong about everything. It never actually happened. Look at Switzerland for an obvious counter example. Lockdowns happened, then they didn't, but hospitals never went above 80% utilization no matter what. Or at the UK. Freedom day came and the experts said it was an unethical experiment on the entire world because cases would surely soar. They dropped dramatically and immediately.

"It's simply incorrect to use the number of deaths as the single measure of effectiveness of lockdowns"

Reducing that one number was the entire justification for lockdowns! Now it's "simply incorrect" to observe that there is no link between them. Absurd.
I had no idea that the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States was firearms. My assumption was that firearm deaths in the US were sensational and shocking but not a statistically significant proportion of mortality for any demographic.

Time to update my priors!

As well, it's interesting that the slope for 'Firearm-related injury' and 'Drug overdose and poisoning' look strongly similar.