skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been running Windows 11 via Parallels. Is there a significant difference with QEMU other than the $50 cost of Parallels?
In the same vein, there is the Freespace source code project (https://www.hard-light.net/about/freespace) which is the continuation of Descent: FreeSpace 2 after Volition opened their source code in 2002. The original game data is not open, but there's been a lot of community effort into creating new content and updating the original content, to the point where there's even been community translations of the original voice acting.

I thought about including it as a suggestion, but the modding community doesn't seem to care about licensing. The code is all properly licensed (Apache/MIT), but FAFAICT none of the content mods come with a license file, which means it's all free as in beer, not free as in speech.
Off topic but I think movies and TV shows are suffering the same problem. We have exhausted every way of telling good stories. Nowadays if you want to give the audience "something new" or "something they've never seen before", the only way is to increase craziness and intenseness, which is the opposite of good stories.
The average salaries in QA are noticeably lower than those in SWE, so those are indeed "inferior jobs" - i.e. less attractive, and pushing some group from one to the other would be discriminatory because it would underpay that group.
> The only true safety is being a solo founder, which is why solo founders are encouraged to find a cofounder.

Aha, that's a mystery solved. Luckily no one would be crazy enough to cofound.
And I've heard the same thing about games not receiving VC money. There's the metaverse pitch, but that's just a stampede.

Thank you for taking the time to detail your advice here! That was tremendously helpful. Great point about creative decisions, family/friends, and small firms. This may all help people reading it more than you'll know.

I'm 10 years in and could learn a lot from Dwarf Fortress. Including how to use composable components (most Roguelikes seem to).
> EDIT: I think you'll have a lot of 1st amendment problems here.

> To be honest I'm not sure how the FCC was allowed to do it.

Amateur Radio Extra here. I have a tiny bit of insight into this.

Back in WW1, the radio spectrum became the property of the US military and the DoD actually "leases" spectrum to the federal government through the FCC.

The Fairness Doctrine was a handshake agreement with the political parties of the day and enforced by FCC policy. The FCC is the regulatory body for airwaves.

So the spectrum is a public good in the sense that it is 100% owned by the US military for military purposes and it only grants radio spectrum to the rest of the FCC that it doesn't care about. You can actually go to prison for using radio spectrum that you're not allowed to use (I have never actually heard of it happening...but it is theoretically possible).

Edit: I should also add, that 1st amendment rights DO NOT APPLY on the airwaves. The FCC has 100% control of regulating what you can and cannot say or do on them.
Exactly at an IC level (specially for an engineer), it's best to become an expert and specialize, that is how you can bring most value to the organization.
Well, I am someone who regularly does 300+ mile trips and I currently have a hybrid but they are not great on highways (for obvious reasons). Time of charge is a big component of my next buying decision.
I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with a unicorn - a unicorn is on a fast growth trajectory, with a large and reasonably-likely upside. Not necessarily one that where PMs, execs, and eng can finish each others' sentences, they're so well attuned.
> Performant long lines.

I dread scrolling through a mysqldump in Emacs.
Microsoft adopts principles for employee organizing with labor orgs
I guess this is a good demonstration of the rumored silo culture at Microsoft.
I'm not American, so perhaps this is why I never heard of the service. However, it would be better if it was acquired rather than shut down. I mean, it seems like a just cause and people would suffer without it.
lol somehow I doubt companies are gaining much social clout for changing their default branch names...
Speaking of screwdrivers there’s a thing called a “demo driver” that is basically a screwdriver that can be used as a chisel.

Highly recommended. Here’s Klein’s https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/fixed-blade-screwdrivers/...
It takes a few minutes to switch. Maybe a bit more to rebind all CI scripts etc in a project as large as react. There are some things that I don't fully get (slavery was never big in my country).

It takes a few minutes of effort to not be an asshole (real or perceived), so I just do it rather than thinking to much about whether or not the wider population should be offended or not.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? Your posts in this thread have been way over the line, and you've unfortunately done posted this way to other threads too. We ban accounts that do that.

I'm not going to ban your account right now but we need you to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules if you want to keep posting here.

On a topic like the current one, if you want to share some of your own experience and cut out the swipes and putdowns of others, that would be fine. Otherwise it's best not to post.
But there are also many drawbacks to TRT. Some have speculated that the reason for womens' longevity relative to men is related to lower testosterone levels.
In the UK, there is no shortage of work for Angular contractors.

Enterprise and Government are particularly keen on it.
Why is 70MillionJobs repeatedly referred to as 70MR?
Social Security fund will be able to pay benefits one year longer than expected
The Social Security trust fund most Americans rely on for their retirement will be able to continue to pay out benefits on a timely basis until 2034, one year later than the Treasury Department estimated last year, according to an updated report published by the government Thursday afternoon.

Year 2034 is the projection.
Yes, as Java/.NET shop, Angular is usually our first option for SPA applications, Vue second and then React third.

This when we just don't just use SSR + vanilaJS/WebAPIs.
With the advent of JustEat etc. practically all the London kebab shops that aren't specifically money laundering fronts are now taking card.

Anecdotally, I can go for months without withdrawing cash.
I think the combination of these "ideals" makes a lot of sense. If you want the combination of a web app but with native-like performance, you kind of get to many items on the list automatically.

The web app we're building now is kind of like an IDE (but for tasks/planning, https://thymer.com), and obviously waiting for round-trips in an editor is no good. We thought we'd just do "some optimistic rendering" but in the end found out that the combination of many of these "ideals" is actually really powerful:

If every millisecond counts when rendering, you want some sort of optimistic rendering and you can't wait for round-trips. Because of that it makes sense to have all data available locally, and have the client sync back changes when there's time. CRDTs are great for this, and then multiplayer support is kind of easy too. And now that you have data locally available anyway, you might as well cache it in IndexedDB, so it works offline too. And because now you want features to work offline (e.g. search), you need to do them on the client anyway, which means you can also have end-to-end-encryption.

With techniques like CRDTs becoming more popular, and web APIs becoming more stable (like for local storage, offline workers and built-in crypto), we'll probably see a lot more true "local-first" web apps. It's obviously not all perfect on the web yet though. Support for PWAs is still really limited, IndexedDB is quite a mess (slow, clunky API, and and too many different policies with regards to what gets deleted when by the browser), but it's getting much easier.
Building with AI across all of Meta
Somebody should introduce Israeli government hardliners to the concept of "blowback".
Yeah and sometimes it doesn't. That's my point.
I bet Elon is salivating over that tool.
Might be worth trying to sell, rather than close the doors?
it's not their project, all they did was to write a form in JS

the whole project is a EU funded one, all done in the university of Edinburgh

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825303

you giving full credit to Mozilla is dishonest, to say the least

it aligns to their past projects, including using Mullvad and slapping a Mozilla sticker on top of it to claim it as their own

also it is super funny to read this:

> H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) MAIN PROGRAMME

little do they know, EU never learn
It’s pretty easy to find out. There are identifiers from the name to the dialect one speaks, what you eat etc
Speaking of NUC... once I tried to install then-current LTSB release of Windows 10 on a Dawson Canyon NUC. The installer noped out, that there's no drive found (otherwise standard NVMe). The installer didn't accept Intel drivers from another USB either.

"Normal" Win10 release installed fine. Just like any Linux distro I tried (fedora, ubuntu, centos). It was even capable to run as Hackintosh with a bit of effort. But not Win10 LTSB.
> - Most banks (admittedly not for lower level accounts) will reimburse ATM fees.
> - very low [ie non zero] minimums on their lower accounts.
> - No argument with me on this one, consumer bank tech is some of the worst out there

Not sure if this comment was attempting to refute it's parent but it doesn't sound like a very strong argument when most of your points support the parent
> You go on to cite Glenn Greenwald as an example of not a real journalist, who has a Pulitzer Prize and founded a gigantic news organization.

Greenwald clearly was a real journalist, but also fairly overtly quit real journalism specifically over journalistic integrity standards (standards which, even prior to his departure, he had, somewhat unusually, left to others when founding a “gigantic news organization”, fairly overtly because while he at the time recognized their importance to journalism, they were not what interested him about it.)

I would never accuse Greenwald of being incapable of real journalism, only as having, after building a career in it, decided his calling is in building a personal brand in ideological commentary unconstrained by the norms of journalistic integrity.
This has nothing to do with left/right. This is a racial issue. People of color exist along the entire political spectrum.
> I do this once a year for all of my pans

Do you scrub/strip the pans at all before this annual reseasoning?
A Message from Cameron and Tyler
They pretty much do this already. If you opt in to office insights you get mails like "hey you @mentioned your colleagues 22% less this week, maybe you should engage more with your team!".
In the first line of the post

> 70 Million Resources
Where is the rip off? The company provides a 14 day free trial, it's all over their pricing page. https://www.copper.com/pricing The customer made a conscious decision to select an annual plan (contract) which is charged at a lower price every month.

If I sign up a mobile phone contract or gym membership and try to cancel in the first week it's not refunded either. Sucks but it's not an automatic rip off.
I couldn't agree more, I'm a big fan of "show me the code" myself.
I used Angular at my last company. After having used react for many years and then experimenting with svelte, Angular (even the most modern versions) felt like it was always in my way.

Bi-directional data binding and the isolation between style, structure, and logic felt was less productive. Angular has some nice properties, like dependency injection built in, but you can circumvent many of those needs with a functional component tree in react (or limit the surface area across components). The simple fact that you need @Output event emitters to handle callbacks is a good example of how bloated it feels.

It may be that I don't know nearly enough about Angular but even after a year of doing my best to learn the idiomatic Angular ways I wasn't impressed.
I'd probably do #2 in that situation. Cool tech stacks are at lots of places. You can always find a new place with that stack to join in a year or two if you want.

Also those places with the cool tech stacks will probably be places with outdated tech stacks in 4-5 years, anyway.

You can also work on a side project a couple hours a week in the relevant tech stack to keep you up to date for when you're ready to jump ship again.

I took a job as a video game producer for a year and a half at a company where I had to speak Japanese (not much, just a few phrases) and sit in on meetings conducted entirely in Japanese, and picked some up along the way (could have done more if I tried a lot harder).

I wasn't programming at all for that job, it was all playtesting game builds, evaluating Japanese games to see if we wanted to bring them to the US, going over Excel files for localization, capturing and editing trailers and gameplay videos with Adobe Premiere and After Effects, designing game covers, websites, and advertisements, handling paperwork for localization, on calls with developers and QA to communicate what we needed, etc. so it definitely wasn't "with a relevant tech stack".

A year and a half later we got some less-than-stellar reviews for a couple games, missed our sales targets, and the company folded, and then I switched back to a technical job programming again. I've since switched tech stacks completely two more times over the past decade (Objective-C -> C#/.Net/Angular -> React/AWS).

So yeah, do the fun cultural job, expand your life in that direction. You don't get that at too many companies. I haven't gotten that at any company I've joined since, they're pretty few and far between (at least those that also pay well).

Also, in my opinion, a stressful startup job is pretty overrated. If it's stressful, it's probably not managed that well, and so it'll probably crash and burn and you won't see anything for your efforts anyway, other than some better skills. Crashing and burning can happen at the fun jobs too (see my experience), but at least you don't have like, PTSD from being overworked at the end of it.
Gemini lays off 10% of workforce
The Correspondent used that pun when they promoted their ill-fated English-language edition.
The West’s Struggle for Mental Health
Firefox bug: Cannot hide extension buttons from the address bar
> by comparing to a scenario that is generally good

It's good if cars use gasoline even when they're not being driven? If people aren't understanding the comparison, then fine, I'm open to better ones, but my point is that it's not improving energy numbers to expend energy even when transactions aren't happening. Even in the world of public transportation, that's an undesirable outcome that we would love to avoid if possible.

I'm not sure what the better comparison would be. Having a fridge lightbulb that stays on even when the door is closed? Running your shower 24/7 to make the number of showers you take independent of the water usage? Take your pick, I'm not married to cars, anything will work.

My point is that anyone can make any system O(1) energy cost by never turning off the thing they're using. You could make your car O(1) energy right now by forcing the engine to run at full speed even in your garage. But in most cases, we recognize that this is bad for energy usage, so it doesn't make sense in the world of cryptocurrency for people to argue that they can invalidate a measure of efficiency as a criticism by purposefully being less efficient.

And I think in those situations, it still does make a lot of sense to compare the total energy expenditure to the actual amount of usage it gets. I don't think that turning on a shower 24/7 means that it no longer makes sense to ask how many showers a household takes, I think that it just makes the water usage to shower ratio really bad. I think similarly, it makes a ton of sense to look at the amount of energy mining is using and compare that to the number of transactions per second that are actually happening on the network.
Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64 (2020)
If you cooked your own food from fundamentals, it would be difficult to eat worse than DoorDash, it would be immensely cheaper, and you could send the difference to WFC. Big win win.

But it's too hard! It takes too much time! Well, you need a freezer, and a plan, but for HN readers, I think everyone can handle it. Also it's fun buying spices from Penzeys and making up big batches of Indian food, stews of many different cuisines, risottos with many different combinations of yummy things, etc. You eat your fill of the big batch and then it's quart and gallon labelled freezer bags for the rest. Nuke 'em during the week and you're good to go. If you're young, it's a great way to entertain friends, and potentially partners.
Yeah, a bunch of companies use it. It is still the 2nd most popular frontend framework.

Off hand I know it's used heavily at: Google (duh), Microsoft, VMWare, Capitol One and Fidelity.

I used it at Microsoft though there is also a ton of React there. I worked on PowerBI which is/was entirely Angular. The rest I just know from going to NgConf and seeing those other companies recruiting there.
Angular is very widely used in the enterprise, and I can confidently say that given we make most of our money at Ionic working directly with these enterprise teams. I think Angular has just found where it excels and that tends to be in larger companies.
Minetest is kinda crap, honestly. Unless it has radically changed since I played it, the game feel is just lightyears behind.

It has lots of mods and customization hooks, way more than Minecraft, and if that works for you that's great. But for a lot of people the experience just can't compare.
Mailchimp was a little like that, as it was started in 2001, between tech bubbles, and was mostly a side project for years.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/10/08/the-new-a...
It really saddens me to hear this. It was an honor to get to know you as batchmates. Your passion and drive for 70MR made a mark upon me.

I know that this is just another beginning for you, full of new opportunities, and that you will continue to help and inspire people. Godspeed!
Sheryl Sandberg and the Death of ‘The Deal’
The company I work on has a couple of projects built with Angular, however we are shifting to use React.

The reason being: no one around the company likes maintaining those projects because they hate the framework and we haven't been able to hire people willing to learn/work with Angular.

I love the framework as it has almost everything you need out of the box. At the beginning I hated it but as any tool/language once you get the architecture, patterns and ways to build stuff you feel it's a great tool.
That table looks like it sums to 100%, which is confusing. Many prisoners have been convicted of both drug and weapons charges. How is that represented?

My understanding is that while the rate of prisoners with drug charges is high, the rate of prisoners with only drug charges is a lot lower.
> There's never a lack of relevant news.

Some news is relevant to everybody, but I think most news is not relevant to most people most of the time. And most news that is relevant to some people won't be relevant to most people. "Six-car pileup on I-whatever" might be very relevant to me if I'm commuting on that road, but it's irrelevant to most people.

There's nothing wrong with the media running this kind of news story, a story that's relevant to some but irrelevant to most. The problem occurs when the decision is made to sensationalize the coverage of the incident, to make it interesting to everybody it isn't relevant to. And since very little is relevant to everybody, just about everything ends up getting sensationalized.
You can, but it does seem to point to some questionable ethics.

Either you are personally benefitting from an institution you are actively undermining or you are perpetuating an organization that you think deserves to go away. Neither of those actions are ethically admirable. (See: your post about how illogical humans are)

Now I'll grant that your personal ethics are distinct from the issue, but I'm sure you can see why that might raise some eyebrows.
> There's never a lack of relevant news.

Really? Unless you're using a much broader definition of "relevant" than I use, I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw something on mainstream media that had any impact on my life whatsoever.
I've used it on a lot of client projects, my current one included. Angular's batteries-included approach makes it way faster to spin up a new app for a new project, and avoids the problem of picking the wrong dependency for (state/navigation/styling/etc.) that plagues React projects.
Related threads - others?

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515099 - March 2022 (543 comments)

India’s tech sector reinforces old caste divides - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994226 - Jan 2022 (5 comments)

The Casteism I See in America and American Tech Companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29133517 - Nov 2021 (5 comments)

How Big Tech Is Importing India’s Caste Legacy to Silicon Valley - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26435117 - March 2021 (195 comments)

Caste discrimination in some of Silicon Valley's richest tech companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952698 - Oct 2020 (322 comments)

India’s engineers have thrived in the tech industry. So has its caste system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24923338 - Oct 2020 (6 comments)

How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24555492 - Sept 2020 (47 comments)

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552047 - Sept 2020 (613 comments)

Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065132 - Aug 2020 (14 comments)

California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798922 - July 2020 (56 comments)

California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 - July 2020 (592 comments)

Ask HN: There is caste system in the Silicon Valley? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704504 - Feb 2017 (6 comments)
Some great reading material on this:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
You have commented this on a handful of subthreads, but I feel like you're missing the goal of the argument. If you want "instant recharge," gas wins. I understand that charging overnight will work in most cases, I understand you have a window of perhaps as much as two weeks to find a single night to do it, etc. Similarly, for the sake of argument, I could keep a gas pump in my garage to fill up at night, which would mean I had "0 minutes of downtime" as well.

In most cases having a battery will get you from A to B without issue - same on a tank of gas. When it won't, you will spend more time waiting on the battery to charge, which is a tradeoff that is probably still worthwhile for the vast majority of people.
Jimmy Dore championed Ivermectin last year, to name one. Everyone on that list is a bit of a quack, imo.