skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they market their games to kids in myriad ways.
> At the end, the workplace is still arguably a far bigger deciding factor in the outcome than who you hire.

I really don’t think this is true. Are there any successful programming companies who just hire whoever for development work? All the top-tier ones have settled on being extremely selective. Of course, that could be coincidence or bias… but this practice is fairly expensive, so there would be nontrivial pressure against it. Furthermore, I think a lot of people can attest to working with both very good and bad developers on the same team - so even inside a workplace you see a range of individual productivity.
Additional comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31622646 (167 comments)
Okay. That's a step in the right direction. Taxing might be the middle ground instead of banning something outright.
Right, but I don’t claim that writing on HN is fundamentally hard, or that I went through a great effort to write comments here. And I would expect for someone to call me out on it if I did.

Even the most charitable view of the parent comment would indicate that there was an erroneous belief that a perfect, or near perfect, map would only be finitely more difficult, and achievable in finite time. Whereas in reality the difficulty and time required asymptomatically approaches infinity.
I care as much about OSX performance as much as JB have about Linux users over the past few years in this regard: not one iota.

In the JetBrains Runtime section of

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/intellij-idea-2022-2...

they don't even mention Linux. I am grateful that this change has been made, but it has been miserable to use without it.
This was primarily built with “hackers” (in terms of building quick and for fun) in mind. Also, your side project can be open-source or commercial, that’s entirely up to you.

The platform is just a place to collaborate and find other developers for it and just- build it. Sort of like a hacker house.
Can you elaborate on what made the question obscure? I'm asking because I used the question "print out the first 52 numbers in random order"in interviews before, and the answers seemed to give a good hint about understanding of basic CS concepts.
what discord things?
IMHO, this was not cheating. This is a phenomenon called success. If you are fortunate (?) to be around in the entrepreneurial world long enough, you will realize that intelligence, hard work, good time management etc are not adequate. They just qualify as deserving. There are serendipities that separate those who succeed from everybody else who was deserving. Survivor bias [1]. Calling Eli was your serendipity. The opposite is also true: killer asteroids hit the planets of otherwise deserving individuals and initiatives. I was co-founder of a municipal fiber-to-the-home initiative in 1996. We had both a winning technical recipe and also a financial engineering recipe. (Extremely rare even today) We were then fortunate enough to acquire a customer that was a newly minted public company, representing a whopping 65% of our business. Banker's dream, but in actuality a big mistake. Then the double-whammy of fraud by that public company (wiping it out completely before our contract was realized) AND the dot-com crash. Killer asteroids are real.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd3erAPI9w
Diablo was still enjoyable without the best stuff. And they never forced you to pay for anything to progress.

Diablo III made it even easier to get all the set gear (I have several sets on Switch and I only play casually) and it became about designing builds around gear that could survive the highest torment difficulties.

Other games like Borderlands with similar item systems also don't rely on the player getting the absolute best gear to progress either.

These pay-to-play games on the other hand, force you to hand over cash to progress and the fun often stops if you try to play for free.
>But Kodak was fixated on the mistaken notion that consumers would want to print their 'Kodak moment'.

Yes and no. They also invented the PhotoCD.

Kodak doubtless did a lot of things wrong. But transitioning from largely a chemical and film consumables business--they actually owned a chemical company at one point--to digital was always going to be tough. Very little of their expertise and distribution channels was transferrable to digital.

Fujifilm did better by applying its emulsion knowhow to some healthcare products. And also came out with a pretty nice line of mirrorless cameras. But it had tough financial times too and was a much smaller company to pivot.
If the candidate can manage the question the Interviewer should be able also. After all he/she was already hired.

If a company decides to approach hiring with the naturally confrontational approach of, "let me find out in 60 minutes if you are smart enough to work here", I don't see why it should stop there.

After all recruiters always mention, it is good for you if you are also inquisitive, show interest in the company and ask questions :-))

Why can't a candidate also check if their future managers and the company are
worthwhile to work there? It is always mentioned that a candidate is a much interviewing the company as the company is interviewing them...

Now...how many interviewers are suddenly uncomfortable? ;-)
Probably less so in China given that, until recently, they had severe restrictions on the number of children per a family.

Though your point is valid it's only part of the story.

I've seen many scions from China attending western universities in a state of decadence, barely focused on their course work, all too willing to live off their parents' past efforts, while driving expensive cars and walking around in clothes and accessories worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Living close to a noisy road, I play white noise on Spotify every night. Usually though I just go with a playlist or one/few particular tracks running in a loop.

Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track?

I also wonder if Spotify somehow adjust the earnings of these creators, as obviously I don't actually listen to their white noise for the whole night.
Thank you, and that was my guess, but I had been hoping the parent poster had a better reason for it. I get rather frustrated with the "first-world problem" argument, as it can be used to dismiss almost any problem at all. So long as there exists a worse problem somewhere, every other problem can be dismissed as irrelevant. What started as a way to dismiss complaints of minor inconvenience ballooned out into a dismissal of major systemic problems.
If it isn’t a relevant part of the story then it shouldn’t be in the title. People get justifiably annoyed by clickbait.
Innocent or not I woke up this morning after the last one died down to see a new fake MR on the same repo.

It's trolling and childish trolling at that.
How to Find the Best Selling Angle for Your E-Com Product?
We got pretty tired of generic best practices in bullet lists. So we approached the people who have A/B tested dozens of B2C/DTC brands to profitability, and asked them - How do you find that one angle that can set a product apart from its competitors in the market?
Open to feedback, anecdotes and questions.
Appending to my comment: actual experts say the potential isn't 20 GW but 200 GW. I don't know where I made my error.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-30/japan-s-d...

- "Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) estimates the Kuroshio Current could potentially generate as much as 200 gigawatts"
Ruining their lives is a bit exaggeration for playing pay to win games though.

I do not support them, I only hate the idea of banning anything more.

I believe education is the key but never see that done enough. (Not only about these topics but pretty much anything).

Banning should really, really be the last option.
Interviews often aren't fair. However, they don't have to be quiz-style.

When I conduct interviews I simply have conversations to explore subjects as if I were talking about an issue with a coworker. I tell them directly that my goal as an interviewer is to give them an opportunity to showcase something they know so I can say good things about them. I give the interviewee a choice of subjects and I let them change the subject. If the interviewee doesn't know something, I explain it. We work together, as partners, to find their strongest area -- and then we pursue it until we reach a limit.

I also tell them that I will keep exploring the subject in question until we run into things they don't know, or that I don't know. I reassure them that I expect to reach a point in our conversation where we just say "I don't know" and that it's totally OK and expected.

After the interview, I assess the communication. What did they know? What did they ask? And perhaps most important: What did they learn? Were they defensive about the boundaries of their knowledge, and how did they deal with that?

I find I usually have a very detailed understanding about the interviewee's areas of competence as well as their communication abilities. A strong communicator and learner is far more valuable than someone who can recite a few technical details.

I think quiz or challenge style interviews are easier. The interviewee doesn't need to be skilled and doesn't need to risk exposing their own ignorance on a subject - often nontechnical recruiters administer these. They can be used to maintain an illusion of superiority on part of the interviewer and company. It's perhaps a similar defensive dynamic as which keeps peer teams from openly interacting and problem-solving, when teams challenge one another with problems rather than opening up about what they know and what they want to know.
“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns.” – Susan Griffin
Ask HN: What is the best European countries for founding startups and companies?
After reading this post [0] I learned that doing business or founding a company in Germany was quite hard. I was wondering which European countries are the best for start-ups and companies? For people who may start small and raise funding domestically and/or aboard?

How is the European business atomsphere compared to that of USA and Canada?

Thank you.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601638
For Truck Drivers Across the U.S., Major Change Is Approaching Fast
I don’t feel that “Git service” is quite doing it justice. If it were just a Git service, I don’t think it’d have the social features: repository namespacing, user accounts (at least to the extent it has them), issue tracking, pull requests, release management, wiki, watching/starring/forking…

Now as it happens, I actively don’t want any of that stuff for something I’m hosting for myself for my own projects only. I pretty much just want the parts you’d get in gitweb or cgit, but done better (since neither of those is very good; I run gitweb because I wasn’t impressed with either, but gitweb was easier to patch into a more acceptable shape). Is Gitea capable of being pared down to just this? Is there anything else that fills this niche?
I believe they’re drones these days

Edit: drones with tech to reconstruct scenes with multiple angles of the same moment
Read the Fantastic Manual
So why don't cars and trucks still use leaded gasoline?
Yes Singularity uses a C++ based microkernel and everything else is written in Sing#, what is your point?

Midori has nothing to do with Singularity in architecture other than being a second attempt from the same group of researchers at a memory safe OS.

Android and Chrome OS aren't Linux, they use a highly customized Linux kernel, in fact after Project Treble it is so customized that it could almost be considered a pseudo-microkernel, as all Treble drivers exist as user processes, use Android IPC to talk to the kernel and since Android 8 all drivers must be Treble based (Android considers the Linux kernel drivers as "legacy drivers").

Finally I don't see how Singularity and the Linux kernel have anything to do with each other, my examples with Android and ChromeOS are what I mentioned in relation with the Linux kernel.
What if they're looking down at you, with their eyes only? Don't bend the neck?

(I'm going to observe what I'm doing myself the next time I talk to a shorter person :-))
You never know which 0-day gets discovered tomorrow, so even strong password might not be enough. I always change default ports on both SSH and RDP. It helps falling out of scope of unsofisticatrd scanners, keeps logs a bit cleaner plus doesn't waste CPU on useless auth attempts. Keeping ports behind VPN or port knocking is even better, but not always feasible
Eh, the gaming industry and the amount of games you can play is so vast these days you can still play games without having to invest further amounts to progress.

Yes there are loot box games and so on, but in reality they're a small subset. Admittedly if you primarily play mobile games then that subset is quite large.

Stick with console/PC, be suspicious of free to play and you'll be fine.
I miss clients like this. It reminds me of a better time when the internet was young and fresh to me.

It does amuse me that this written up on livejournal.
you're just making the same argument with a different subject... the same "random" argument can be applied to home runs in baseball if you wanted. hopefully you can see the ridiculousness of that example... I've researched your artillery example enough to know that artillery fire is done with a human wind calculation based upon one direction of wind... not at all comparable to human eye perceiving strength of gusts, wind alleys, etc. based upon personal experience with a certain course... but i'm not really interested in 1000 red herring discussions. please stick to golf if you really care about this.
Author here (I'm a bit late!): indeed Griffe's goal is to be able to support any Python code, natively or thanks to extensions. Thanks for sharing by the way!
Surely it goes without saying that the process only happens in the presence of the right precursors?
No-Brainer SCM with Fossil
How did you create the 90's auto playlist? I'm reasonably certain that Picard adds this information by default without you needing to do anything, so whatever created the playlist was probably just looking in the wrong place.

https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/downloads/MusicBrainz_Pi...

> Chapter 7.1 'basic tags'

> The following tags are populated from MusicBrainz data for most releases, without any special Picard settings.

> Note: Some of these tags are only supported for certain file types or tag formats. Please see the Picard Tag Mapping section for details.

Are you using the 'originalyear' value?

> The year of the original release date in the format YYYY. By default this is set
to the earliest release in the Release Group. This can provide, for example,
the release year of the vinyl version of what you have on CD.

If you have compilations, like film soundtrack and want each track tagged with it's original release date, then you need to tweak things, as noted in the help for the slightly more precise 'originaldate' tag

> This is the same information provided in the
_releasegroup_firstreleasedate variable, and is consistent across all
tracks in the release. If you prefer to have this tag populated with the date of
the earliest recording of the track in the database, which will likely be different for each track in the release, this can be achieved by enabling a one-line tagging script as $set(originaldate,%_recording_firstreleasedate%).

> Be aware that setting this can cause a release to be scattered across
multiple directories if you use %originaldate% as part of the path portion
of your file naming script.

edit: worth mentioning that Musicbrainz also tracks when things were recorded (i.e. when were the artits in the studio making the music), which is different again from the original release date (when it was made available for sale), so your search term may have been ambigous.
Tuple Database – A reactive, local-first db inspired by FoundationDB
It’s not a good plan, but neither did I think the current system in NL is a good plan; I did not vote for the people who got NL healthcare to this point.
Hey, we’ve thought about the ability to add terms but emphasis needs to be placed on the fact, that as of now, this is still an experiment our small team of 3 (part-time devs) is running and providing mediation from our end would be tiresome and not the best use of time.

So, we’ll be implementing the ability to add terms for every project now by the creator/founder of that project. Just like how it works in real-life.
For audiobooks, there’s a legal question of whether it causes licensing issues. Audible got in a huge lawsuit over it which they settled out of court: https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/15/audible-settle...
Dupes:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31622163
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31617438
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31606996

There may be others.

I suspect this spamming is political. Propaganda got people to ignore the Mueller report. The Big Lie is making people distrust elections even in the face of evidence. Some auto industry cartel wants to get rid of air pollution and efficiency requirements. Hence this spam.
Or you can assume N is less than 2^31, and clear out the top bit in the final answer (because that's the only place the wrong values can come from). Which is admittedly pretty hackish, but…

Edit: The simplest solution is probably just doing (n/2)*(n+1) (assuming n is even; move the division for n odd).
Aren't the 400k "developers" also collaborators? Heh.
Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker (2017)
Nintendo also went full cassino with their mobile games. Pokémon Go, Mario Kart Tour... Huge cash grabs.
Last time I tried Gitea, it was surprisingly difficult to migrate existing git repos. I hope they made it easier.
Quantum particles can feel the effects of gravitational fields
I Had Ramen Every Day for a Week, Here's What Happened
Almost sounds like what Vulfpeck did with the Sleepify album back in the earlier days of Spotify, while serving more of a purpose than "just give this band some money"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify
I'm in the boat. I buy from local stores and avoid Amazon
Search for "<podcast name> transcript". A lot of them do publish the full text of the show on their website.
That's true, hence my "in a way". My contributions and the "an amazing project" contributions are not the same. There are lots of open source projects that have some infrastructure in place to help new people get their first PR, which will be more meaningful than a spam PR. Here's one example: https://www.firsttimersonly.com/. I'll encourage anyone reading this that never contributed to a project to give it a try. People are very welcoming, helpful, and at least for me it makes me very happy every time I get a PR merged.
> Imagine if you will, a world where you can reconfigure your firmware, load it, test it on your property, fire off a copy to a regulator to get plugged into a test bed and put through the paces, and get a result back with an adjusted fee to reflect the difference in performance against standards for those changes.

You can if you would pay $10m to cover all the testing costs just to make a one line change to the firmware so braking works slightly more smoothly for you.

The reason that things are centralized like this way is because it's more efficient to make a single car model safe for a million people rather than test a million different versions of cars programmed by different people. In a world without all that corporate surveillance, where everyone works on his own, a bicycle is as much as you can expect to get.
>My guess at what in the early days of personal computing, i.e., ~1985, really caused the rapid growth: Replacing the typewriters.

In business, word processing really came in with the minicomputer-based word processors from the likes of Wang and the other minicomputer makers. Though they were by no means universal.

When the IBM PC came out in 1981, yes people used it for word processing but spreadsheets, especially Lotus 1-2-3, were really the killer app.
> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track?

This is the biggest mystery to me too. Why not just use a 10-hour-long (or whatever) YouTube clip?
Do you mean by hand, with a pen?

The least I would do is politely decline such an interview. I would be sorely tempted to give them the choice between letting me use a keyboard or hearing from an ADA lawyer.
It just becomes a generational thing at that point which can actually work for you. There’s a concert venue that’s known by three different names depending on your age. So not everyone will continue to use the old name.
"farmers feeding the world are struggling to make a living"

"random dude can retire in peace by uploading a white noise on spotify"
It is not reasonable at all for "non-Indian" English -- still that would perhaps be a reasonable explanation, just he should learn it is not reasonable.
> Moore and his white noise team — yes, he has five employees and contractors

I assume their duties are mostly mundane things, such as accounting, marketing, vendor relations, and app (store) maintenance.

But what I really like to imagine is that those five employees are cryptographers, and that their duty is to painstakingly work on new secure white noise generation algorithms in order to push the envelope in the white noise industry.
Building a Cross-Browser Extension
If the first source of white noise you find is a podcast, does it matter? Personally I have found some good sources at Youtube.
"Everything you pay for is actually rented and never truly owned" is sure as hell not the solution either.
The Atari Years (2014)
Why wouldn't he? He's apologized profusely on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rohithaditya/status/1533305205697130497
Clickable link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601638
> Why is noone targetting these?

They're by definition clever people who spend time trying not to be contacted. What's the likely outcome of spamming them? 0.01% responding? Fewer?
Not quite because if we had 12 fingers we would most likely use base 12.
I think a financial situation needs to be evaluated with future needs as well as current assets. Due to the US's general lack of social safety nets, retirement is primarily funded by savings of the person who is retiring. The recommended amount of savings to have by the time of retirement is 10 times your salary [0]. So by actively cultivating an addiction and leeching away retirement savings, this could easily be removing the possibility that somebody will be able to retire at all.

I might agree with you in countries that have a more reasonable and less individualistic approach to social welfare, but not in the US.

[0] https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/retirement/how-much-do-i...
> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track?

I'm also curious about this. My guess is the monetisation is different and podcasts are way more lucrative. - tracks are paid by plays straight from Spotify but (I think) podcasts instead rely on advertisements.

From the article

> Anchor manages the commercial load and pays Moore $12.25 per thousand listens

which works out to ~$0.012 per listen

And from the top result on Google for "how much does spotify pay per stream"

> $0.0033 to $0.0054. That's how much money Spotify paid artists (through their rights holders) per stream in 2021, according to Insider. That means it would take roughly 250 streams for an artist to earn $1.

Also maybe the advertising value varies considerably with the number of podcast listeners and the specific advertisers partnered with, whereas the track stream amounts are probably pretty static.
Closed captions would be more convenient.
When trying to find out what society really values, don't listen to what society says.

Rather look at who they actually pay more.