skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first part is true from personal experience. If you make no progress on something you'll start to wonder if you're the real problem. That's not fun, and more importantly traps you in a cycle of wanting to get out, but being scared that you'll just fuck up the next thing you work on.
My God, what the heck are you saying, most of the media in Spain is right wing
And USB4 neither. Sigh. Just got an 2x2 WD SSD drive.
Oh sure, I was mainly addressing the current mobile OS landscape with the desktop as a historical case in point, but you're right. There have always been alternative options, especially for niche use cases. I think there are several things happening there right now. One is the erosion of the desktop as a native application platform, if you mainly only care about web apps then the desktop OS isn't an issue because the web is already a powerful platform.

The other is the advanced state of Windows emulation for games, you can bypass the platform effect if you can piggy back on an established platform's APIs. That's tricky though, plenty of mobile OSes tried to get traction with Android APK compatibility, but the problem with that is, why bother developing native apps for them? With games consoles it's a different situation, maybe emulation in the long term is just fine.
You can keep upgrading whilst buying old though. If you keep your current computer for 10 years and upgrade to a 5 year old model.

You're aware of the treadmill. Hack it.

I'm sure someone will oblige by linking to the xkcd comic playing games 20 years behind everyone else.
HR finally got smart and found something to do.

At some point in the future there'll be a turn and we'll go back to an hour with the hiring manager.
Not so normal methinks.

Had this one project where I converted it over to python 3 in a fork and they merged the whole thing without a mention of where they got it from. Kind of sucks but ultimately didn’t matter because I was doing it for my own usage. Plus it made my life a little easier because I didn’t have to maintain it separately, just fire and forget a bug fix whenever it came up.

If I was doing Resume Driven Development I would probably care a little more though.
Percentage of AUM is a common structure for wealth management/financial advisors.
Im surprised that incompetent management is so low on this list.

Often times most of the issues from the list are all caused by incompetent management:

- Time pressure - management f/u deadlines

- bad coding and quality - management hired coding monkeys

- under-performing colleague - why not fired already ? Management

- Feel inadequate with work - picking wrong ppl to do the job

- mundane and repetitive tasks - management gives no time on automation

- unexplained broken code - same as bad quality

- imposed (often artifical) limitations on the devs - who makes those decisions?

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More than half of this list is cause by incompetent management / bad decision making.

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Personal advice for ppl suffering due to those issues - find a better boss.
Looks like he was one of the good ones and did a lot for the internet!
I bought a 16 year old car because the price suits how rarely I use it.

It's good to me because it's the newest car I've ever owned. However sitting in someone else's car I realise that I could get an extra 50 horsepower for the same fuel consumption, as well as working air conditioning, and a few other creature comforts.

Yes, this car is simple in an almost brutalist fashion, and very easy to work on. There's also plenty of spare parts. But it's 16 years old and the bi-yearly inspections are getting scary. The last inspector pointed out that I'll need a new exhaust system soon.

I'm not sure what is a fitting death for an old, dependable car once its maintenance becomes impractical.

I feel the same way about an old laptop. My T510 is heavy, the battery life isn't great, and it's slow as molasses. I can't imagine carrying that behemoth around when I got used to a Macbook 12.
What does "async" mean here? Different timezone is not problem for the job?
The growth potential and the customer satisfaction.

The sad reality is that a large majority of people don't actually use products they buy. They want the satisfaction of getting a new "quality" product and imagine it gives them status.
If you run the NLB in ‘ip’ mode instead of instance mode you don’t have this problem. You still can’t setup security groups. However, you can put the NLB in a small subnet then whitelist the subnet.

‘ip’ mode is very different from instance mode and might not be what you want. Though, ‘instance’ mode is subtly bugged if you are using cross zone load balancing.
Well, I'm looking at it like this, in my own viewpoint:

So what I am saying is that one has to have real actual dollars to pay. So if a business makes $100,000 per year, and out of that is rent, utilities,etc, but not including the hiring expense, you have 15% profit margin, or $15,000 left over. So if hiring a person costs $2,000, then you lower your profit margins to $13,000, or 13%. So to keep the profit margin at 15% you have to make extra sales to cover that hiring expense. This is the same with all expenses, but I'm only focusing on the hiring expense. What I'm saying is that for each expense, extra income has to be generated to cover the expenses and hopefully get a profit margin that is acceptable. There's a cost to each dollar earned. You can't operate a business without a profit, and the more the profit the better, and the best is to protect profit margins. But as I said in my original post, I'm not getting technical and/or exact. I'm giving the overall view on it.

>>Employee decides the job is not a good fit for him or her and quits 9 months later: $90,000 wasted.

>Interesting philosophy. By extension, if the employee decides the job is not a good fit and quits after 240 months, you just wasted $2,400,000.

Amortization. Buy a car for $100,000 and keep it for a month and you wreck it (without it being insured), then that car costs you $100,000 per month, if you just drove it out of the lot and wreck it .25 miles after purchase. If you keep it 100,000 months, and you wreck it on the 100,000th month, then it costs you a dollar (ignoring MACRS for kicks).

Point being that after only 9 months, a company would not have got full value out of the hire because of the learning process, but hopefully after 240 months (20 years), a company should have had that employee up and running, but if not, that's yet another hiring/firing error.

Long and short of it in my opinion: You are taking this WAY too seriously. The point is that companies take a long, long time to hire someone because it is super expensive to make a mistake, in cash. I didn't even mention the morale issue of hiring a suck employee and other non-tangible costs. Do you agree with that or not? All the other stuff is just quibbling.
Chinese game company appoints an AI as its CEO
True, i somehow omitted the 100km while reading their comment.

It's still unlikely to succeed, as the required precision for multiple simultaneous data streams is quiet significant. Nonetheless, it's theoretically possible. Just not economically useful, as cables are inherently cheaper for the same amount of data transmitted.

I'm not saying that these won't exist, they already do to some degree with Starlink after all... I'm just saying that this tech is highly unlikely to replace the backbone infrastructure, which seacables are.
"stuck in problem solving"? Hell, that's like half the reason I chose a career in computer related stuff. That's like a huge part of the "fun" of it.
The stats tell whatever truth you want them to. They're used to rationalize decisions more often than inform them.
I feel like (1.) is undersold by some orders of magnitude. There is a vast, vast quantity of bad advice circulating and being amplified in echo-chambers. If you need a particular piece of advice then by definition your ability to discern it from adjacent bad advice is not good.

Even if you do manage to identify good advice, a (1b.) is required stating something like "all advice is situational, and again, if you really need advice for this situation then by definition you aren't equipped to tell reliably whether any particular piece of advice really applies."

Put those together and you get a double Sturgeon's Law effect where 90% of all advice is bad, and 90% of good and seemingly relevant advice is inappropriate for your specific circumstances, and so your chances of a randomly selected piece of legit-sounding advice being actually good and applicable are around 1%.
I was doing that years before the iPhone on my PDA.

I also used GPS navigation with Google Maps on my feature phone years before the iPhone was released.

I’m not dismissing the iPhone as a bad device (I have an iPhone and other Apple hardware) but it certainly wasn’t first to market on any of this stuff. If anything, I’d describe it as a device that popularised the emerging trend rather than defining it.
They're still excellent laptops, even if the M1 models are ridiculously good. My 2017 rMBP still flies. Even my 2017 Macbook 12" is a capable tiny laptop.
I did make that mistake and started my adult life banking with the former simple.com. Their actual banking partners were just small local banks in random midwestern places. My grandma got me into Navy Federal and there’s plenty of branches around where I live and I really prefer having a location to stop by with a question
So why not work with fractions instead? Then be problem becomes to store big or arbitrary sized integers.
> I think most of the docs problems could be solved with the meta-strategy of “deeply understand all the things the Rust ecosystem got right with docs, discovery, and general pedagogical structure, and replicate that”.

I think every project would love having the money to hire someone full time to work on the documentation and evangelism.
Same thing here, was told this by my bank when issued a US funds card.

A hint ; the padding doesn't have to be zeros (for my bank, when it approves during checks). So for example if you are doing 12300, this may not be a valid zip code.

In my case, my 12300 wasn't valid. I clued into this, because the code worked in most places where it should, but not a few others. I then looked up some codes, and realised that 12300 wasn't a real zip code.

So I Googled, and tried 123xx, where xx matches a real, valid zip code.

This gets by some checks, which table-lookup against valid zip codes, before sending a request to validate the zip remotely.

Even better, I then found an address for a condemned building on that same zip code. When required, I used that address as the 'bill to' address, and even that works sometimes. Very helpful when snowbirding, and spending 4+ months in the US.
As another datapoint, this is also pretty standard in Japan. However Japan's school-to-salaryman hiring pipeline is built around the idea that you're not changing jobs, and after the 3-month probationary period (though it can vary by company) you basically become unfireable and are expected to be at that company for life.

In the more western culture of recognising that company loyalty is severed both ways, a probationary period makes much less sense.
I feel like on January 6th something happened that could influence this.. I mean let's not pretend this kind of action happens just because the companies decide someone is not woke enough or some bs like that. Trump is dangerous and seriously doesn't deserve to be on these platforms.
Oh no, the 'stuck'-problems are the best problems.
Hard things are trade-offs so you almost always have 2 contradictory advices and the problem is choosing which combination of them applies to your situation best.
CVS, Walgreens are rolling out omicron boosters
Even more annoying is trying to use a card from Hong Kong, which has no postcodes at all.

Online shops will usually accept 00000, but if it asks for your zip at a physical terminal you’re screwed.
So what makes posits so great?
For ongoing management. Yes. That’s NOT what people need most of the time.
Went through a series of interviews back in March - May. Got several rejections recently, 4 - 5 months after my last communication from these companies.

Yeah, it's okay. I got the message already.
Family of five, two engineers in Germany (normal engineers salaries there, nothing really big), we live with 1.1 to 1.2 salary.

And we enjoy our life, we rent (luckily not too expensive) and can do what we want. Of course we do not play the traditional "show off your nice stuff" game the society tries to force us into, but for us happiness is time well spent, not accumulated stuff.
Indeed, and it'll be interesting to see if the little floppy icon that has become the universal pictogram for 'save' in applications survives into a time when even the hoariest devs and designers have never seen such a thing in the flesh. I suspect that it will, as the symbology has taken on a life of its own, divorced from its origins.
The N9 was a better phone than anything they released subsequently. The TI OMAP being eol and the lack of 4g were for sure problems but Elops cure was worse than the disease.
The Jetson environment provided by Nvidia runs Ubuntu and are setup for you to use docker.

I have trouble understanding your question. Why do you want to use Nix if you use a system which comes pre-configured to do something else?
Tl;dr: any booster shot you receive will be the new one, and anyone age 12+ can book an appointment now.
Keep in mind remote work is not for everyone.

If you need other ppl company to fill the emotional emptiness - dont work remotely.

Its more for the ppl who work task based or hourly based consulting and are free to do something else after.
I agree it's a nice interface after getting used to, but it was confusing like hell when it's my first time...
It might've seem funny to those that hadn't seen the future in 2002.

I had a SonyEricsson p900 (The p800, p900 and p910 series was released from 2002-2005) and it had a numpad for quick dialling, but for "smart" usage you really only used the touchscreen that covered most of the front real-estate (and a dial-knob for navigation since they hadn't figured out how to make UI's like Apple did later).

By 2006 however though I was looking to upgrade but SE chickened out and released successors (P990,M600,W950) that _decreased_ touch-screen realestate in favour of num/keypads on the front. It's really sad that they had everything in their hands but fubbed out totally.

But by 2007 the time was definetly right for the iPhone, disappointed by SE I began looking around and there was some "open" phone with touchscreen as well as that LG Prada. I even made a sketch of an ideal device a few weeks before Jobs came on screen.

Late 2006 sketch.. https://whizzter.woorlic.org/jonasphone.jpg

And yes, about as soon as iPhone 3G went on sale in Sweden I got one.
I said "habit-forming" rather than "addictive" for a reason, yes. That habit can be quite physically destructive, you can find papers on the effects of a heavy habit out of China which are somewhat toe-curling. It's not capable of stopping breathing or causing cardiac arrest, dying of an overdose isn't practical.

However, ketamine can make the brain go... weird. Like cocaine and amphetamine, habitual/binge use gets psychotogenic, and while bizarre delusions won't usually kill you (or anyone else), they can absolutely fuck up relationships, or earn someone a brand-new one with the authorities. Opiates, for all their terrible flaws, don't do this.
but then you lose your old acvount.
Aren't you then just perpetuating the problem though.

If all developers have the latest and greatest computers, the software works great for them, meanwhile the plebs are forced to upgrade to keep up.

Maybe developers should have to use an older computer if only to check usability for everyone else.
> You somehow forgot to mention that most (probably all) EU countries have laws that require you to know the birthdays of your customers

That is simply not true, not in this very general formulation. What businesses does this statement of yours apply to?

It's certainly not common for an ecommerce site to ask for your birthday on signup.
And the internet will cut off every few hours, with a full time employee on both sides unplugging it and replugging it.
All of these issues are mismanagement symptoms in my experience. Complicated tasks that are described with one line in broken English. Cryptic bug reports. The list goes on and on.
Peer-to-peer means there isn't a third party involved, and BTC stopped being electronic cash around 2014
The point was your experiences are not reflective of reality of outside partners
I have an ‘89 Corolla thst is in basically mint condition and drives tighter than a new car.

If you maintain it, it keeps going.
The first few iPhones also had terrible browsers. When my dad got one in ~2008, Safari would consistently crash 5 seconds after loading apple.com as soon as an animation was triggered. Still a hell of an improvement over my Razr flip phone’s browser.
I earn well as for someone in my country, and I earn ok as for someone my profession.

Inflation is 16% here and of course it's affecting me - I have quite a lot savings, so I can take a longer break because I'm having burnout issues for few years now and now my savings are worth 16% less. It's like I throw away two months of my yearly earnings.
I think the only hard part is not Nix, but Nixpkgs’s not well-documented/not-stable APIs. It would be a problem in any language.
Bars, restaurants, cafes didn’t buy Sonos and turn the music up so loud you can’t have a conversation without yelling.
The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract.
I don't want to live in a society where the government decides what I'm allowed to do with other consenting adults because "they know better". A free society is one that allows adults to make their own decisions, even ones that are possibly self-destructive. I happen to live in New York, where I am bombarded by ads from every angle to play the state-run lottery, which is perhaps the lowest return of any popular form of gambling. These ads include pushing an app for your phone that lets you play lotto at the touch of a button. At the same time, New York State has decided it is illegal for me to play poker - a game of skill. This is the government we are supposed to trust to determine what activities and behaviors we are allowed to engage in as adults?
>18 hours is a pretty stupid selling point IMO. You either need something immediately or you can wait. Rarely do I need anything 18 hours from now.

Stupid or not, hard to argue with Amazon's income sheet. Obviously most people disagree. I don't disagree fwiw.
B-b-b-ut if we limit developer burnout, who is going to work weekends to deliver on everything we overpromised to the customers? :(
In ancient times, "reading silently" was considered a special skill that very few people had. Most literate people back then would read by sounding words aloud.
Sure, but these aren't my words, and you told me to stop complaining about something that I didn't complain about. I can't teach you basic rules of attributing speech, either.

In particular, the original submission has a comment which, among other things, said:

> The author seems under to be under the wrong impression that Mastodon servers are isolated communities (and therefore compares them to subreddits). This is incorrect. (...)

And then a person further replied with:

> This is only true among mastodon servers that connect to each other. As I recall, most servers would not talk to gab's servers.

It is as if there existed only two exclusive options: either you federate with Gab, or your server is a lone island. If you share the same sentiment, I think I can understand your wider experience and frustration with the Fediverse.
You are just very, very confused.

Again, that is allowed. But lecturing in such a condition is foolish. Worse, it wastes the time of any readers who might look for sense in what you posted, which is rude.
The last Visual Studio that I had to install from floppies needed to be transported in a couple of sturdy shopping bags - something definitely had to give. Maybe p-code would have got a second wind to reduce the amount of space software binaries needed, but as it was CDs rode in to rescue us (and bloat!)
Any online service thanks to DSA, for example: Anything that children might use (yes, so everything - intent doesn't count). Anything where users can upload content (writing comments is enough according to our lawyer).

You picked about the only remaining thing where it's not always a requirement. It's a requirement even there if the transaction is over certain threshold (varies by local law, usually around 10k EUR) or certain categories of items (drugs, alcohol, tobacco-related, sextoys, weapons etc).
> Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone

Apple invented the smartphone. The fact Nokia didn't understand that shows why it failed.
Your failure to learn from history does not make the website irrelevant simply because it's not been updated since 2018
Oh, I see. From the description, I thought the library was the finder (never used iMovie), so I didn't understand the complaint.
I wonder how well these work compared to the real thing? A 150W light bulb shining through holes in a rotating piece of wood produce beams flashing over the eyes. This exact method to produce the effect is difficult (impossible?) to replicate with a PC monitor (unless you're a hacker in a movie).

Of course the effect might still work; but while I'm curious about it, I'm not in the mood to try this now. So judging/dismissing these implementations now would be unfair.
>Does the government need to play a larger role in all these areas? It’s probably not hard to put together a compelling piece on the damage of bad parenting, perhaps the government should also have a larger role there?

Forgive me if I don't want a government that spends a trillion+ dollars a year on endless war to be the moral arbiter of what behaviors adults are allowed to engage in.
A few are here: https://www.lynalden.com/proof-of-stake/
Sure, that's why it failed, but it's bizarre to me to focus on something metaphysical like that. If something can go from horrible to something else without changing a single atom, just Sony publishing some things under a license? What was actually horrible about it at that point, how did you let the circumstances overshadow the object?

That tells me something about you, but nothing about MiniDisk. Which was a cool little futuristic cartridge thingy.
Yea that is mostly right IMO. Sometimes (rarely) they will be "undercover" and wear plainclothes - you can usually spot them on the oversized handbags they carry where they store their scanning devices. Some are really good, very hard to spot them. But they always come in groups of 2+ and will enter at different doors and make eye contact with each other before they start controlling.

And yea the "clueless tourist" approach works almost always.