skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically every game developer of note and sufficient age interviewed has mentioned D&D being hugely influential on their lives/creative abilities.

Is there an abnormally high rate of convicted murderers among game developers? Not AFAIK.
In China, home buyers occupy their 'rotting', unfinished properties
> It is not like they are great, they just are not stupid or frustrating or annoying at all.

Sad to say, comparing them to most other sites where you try (or attempt to try -- yes, often it is that bad) makes a case for saying, yes indeed, they are great!
the perception/meme that krugman is always wrong as exactly the wrong time (a similar meme exists for Cramer).
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Drifters are always a problem, this doesn't happen just with their employment choices, but in general drifting is a habit, that applies to a spectrum of things in life.

The reasons go deep. They are often connected to being lazy, unmotivated and even just plainly unwilling to commit to any non-trivial effort work.
For your item 1, those loans became gifts.

And point 5 could be ever-increasing federal spending beyond federal taxation.
> Months are related to Moon's orbit, weeks to its phases.

But in a way that doesn't work right.

> Months have other gods's names: Janus, Phoebe, Mars, Aphrodite, Maya, Juno... Julius and Augustus were emperors and from that point are just numerals, starting at March. It was associated with Mars because Romans used to go to war in the Spring.

Yes? That's a mess and that's basically what the tweets said. They didn't mention the emperors but that makes it even messier. I'm not sure what you're arguing there. There's no "perfectly understandable" reason for having some gods some emperors and some wrong numbers.
> Libraries carry a limited catalogue, particularly for highly technical books

Libraries as in the Library of Congress or the British Library are offered a copy of every book that is published in those countries. And you can go there and read them.

If you’re lucky enough to have been born to the right parents and have the right passport. But if you weren’t, if you have a citizenship that does not come with the right to knowledge, then Library Genesis is there for you.
Start logging and recording yourself constantly build up a database essentially of you. Have videos of you doing motions. Videos of you walking in different directions. Have recordings of your speech and singing. Just have everything of you as much as you can because that'll be probably what you need if you want to just make a clone of the physical representation of you.
Doesn't help that you have to write apps in their proprietary language.
Yes. That's reality. Most devices people use are terrible, terrible computers and they can't do what computers used to be able to do. This is a bad thing.
holy shit, thank you!
> and a large landowner over what should be public land.

That's really true in name only. I have about as much power over "Crown Lands" as the monarch does. Even when it comes to the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall, these are essentially perpetual trusts used to pay the monarch and his/her heir for their jobs and maintenance of their offices.
Wouldn't that just be another attack surface? Chances are some of those rotated passwords may be used in other sites and this just exposes the company and the user to additional risk.

Not to mention insiders that are bad actors.
Already discussed: "Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32955971 (492 points | 2 days ago | 338 comments)
The right metric should be to measure how many turnkey projects you have done.

If you are known to abandon projects midway hoping others to cleap up or build up after you. It should be plainly obvious, you are not some one who gets work done.
"Trust the science."
You're conflating glucose and fructose. Fructose is the Lustig-argued toxic half of sugar that gets processed ~identically to ethanol by the liver.
About 60 miles (and I weigh about 180lb). I probably do 4 or 5 marathons a year, and a couple of ultras. My mileage isn’t excessive for people who complete marathons around the same pace as I do, or better (of which there are many, many people), and every time I look around the field at an event, it’s full of $200-$300 energy return running shoes.

Perhaps most of them don’t train in their race shoes, but that’s honestly a bad practice.

Endurance sports is a pretty boujee hobby. Running is the cheapest one, but it’s not that cheap if you really get into it.
That's not the way this works. I needn't accept the WWW garbage graphomaniacs attempt to force upon others.
I have a lot to say about Krugman, specially when he talks about Argentina, but he is not wrong here.

It's not a crisis to have a devaluation.
I feel that's a fairer reading of what he's saying.

But you can just feel his ego through his tweets "I'm supposed to know something about currency crises — I did invent the academic field!"
Paper is "Static TypeScript".

How does this compare to AssemblyScript? It seems very similar.

I would absolutely love for a subset of TypeScript with a sound type system. The issue with AssemblyScript is that it doesn't interface well with existing JavaScript and TypeScript libraries. You could do runtime-typechecking in/out of the Static TypeScript, but that may be expensive. Or you could try to compile existing TypeScript libraries to AssemblyScript, except you can't because there are notable differences like explicit number types. JavaScript and TypeScript's ecosystem and direct interface with the browser are what keep it alive vs WASM, I wish there was a language which kept those while at the same time not just silently allowing type errors.
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Email has already largely become a newsletter and notification distribution system. Average people don't write or read emails anymore outside of some work settings but even then its usually Slack or MS Teams.

Technology and people move quickly so fossilized systems such as email get left behind. There is too much friction to improve a system which has a large number of different implementations. Where any change is hotly debated and people still resist features added to email over a decade ago. Naturally the proprietary systems win when they can roll out a new feature and have it universally work on day one.
That’s only true if there is a balanced budget law that said government needs to comply with. The government here in the USA has been redistributing money here for ages that is not tied to taxation.
Based on....nothing useful.

"While 87% of workers felt they worked as, or more, efficiently from home, 80% of managers disagreed.

The survey questioned more than 20,000 staff across 11 countries."

I wonder if 100% of the managers felt they were as efficient from home?
YAML’s excesses are exactly why a real programming language is preferable to a mere serialization format. Aliases and overrides are only useful in YAML because it is not a real programming language.

As for error messages, I don’t think that using a real programming language forces the error messages to be bad, or to be too generic. If the error messages are not good it is only because nobody has put in the time and elbow grease to make them good, not because of any fundamental limitation of turing–complete languages.
You could ask the same question of any virus or idea or parasite that is currently co-opting evolved systems.

One answer is that it's an evolutionary arms race. Evolution vs evolution has no clear winner. In this case, it's powerful artificial selection by dog breeders to create products that co-opt our compassion for our children.

Another answer is that evolution needs more time to figure out how to beat it.

Another answer is that it's not actually maladaptive because the assumption that pets reduce children isn't true. It may be adaptive because having a pet increases happiness. But even if this is true, it doesn't impact the validity of the thesis that compassion is a self-serving adaptation that gets switched off when needed.
S-expressions are better, and something that sees so much usage should have a dedicated format. In a saner world, this work would already be done so that each protocol needn't define the octets on the line. Regardless, IMAP already exists.

It's a diseased mind that takes a shitty programming language, JavaScript, and turns it into a shitty structured data format.
I'd think that selling recorded content and having a lot of piracy proves my point perfectly. It is a model that doesn't work any more.
What’s a book that you love written without a profit motive?
I've been trying to decide if the fan-baiting allegations are true.

It seems like a plausible explanation for some of the media controversy. But I can also believe that the fuss isn't organized by the studios or perhaps by anyone at all.
Essentially unavailable in Canada unless you buy a bundle, and even those sell out in minutes.
If you work for a tech company in Canada it's likely that a substantial part of your salary is made up of sred refundable credits.
I..like many Hindus..follow the lunisolar calender that is based on both the lunar and the solar movements. I have two calenders that run my life..Hindu Panchang that runs in my head for home(mostly based on the moon cycle) and the Gregorian one for the outside world.

My life revolves around the Panchang only and following the Gregorian calender is just like learning to use English as the language for communication. It’s something I have to do to assimilate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar

Fun fact: (because I like trivia) Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856(Gregorian calender), but when he was born, his birth record says June 28, 1856 as Serbia was following Julian calender at that time.

Elon Musk who is known for his company, Tesla Motors was also born on a June 28, Gregorian calender. This random almost-coincidence tickles me for some reason.
> Also this article seems to be self-defeating: if we don't change our minds, why attempt to convince us of that fact?

I don't think the point was to convince us that we don't change our minds but rather to convince us to do adversarial collaboration instead of angry science.
Quarterly planning is hard with 13 months
Based on personal observations I find it very hard to believe sugar consumption has decreased across the US population in the last 13 years.

There's a near constant line out every Starbucks drive-thru I pass. Whenever I go in one to work while caffeinated, those definitely aren't unsweetened beverages being prepared for the masses. Supposedly the whole reason Starbucks espresso is so bitter is so it works well with their sweetened beverages, straight espresso drinkers are in the extreme minority.
I'd rather implement IMAP than HTTP, TLS, JSON, and whatever other shit is involved here. All of those points apply to the WWW more than anything else.
Note that this off-by-one is exactly the difference between Jewish/Biblical-based weeks, where the Sabbath is clearly the last day of the week (based on Genesis, the day when God rested), and more "revisionist" Jesus Christy-based weeks, where the day that Christ was resurrected is considered more important than the Sabbath and takes its place as the end of the week.
There is a lot of writings explaining that the reason open email clients largely suck / become unmaintained is that IMAP is extremely difficult to work with. It's not just the connection, you also have to parse and work with this custom protocol as well as deal with massive inefficiencies. Doing bulk actions like moving emails between folders requires massive amounts of requests rather than a single one describing the change.

JSON protocols have completely taken over the market because they are massively easier to deal with and trivially parse in to structs which don't require a 200 page document to detail the protocol.
My favorite use of 'startup' has been at giant dysfunctional orgs (like Oracle) where they structure a new product team to have a 'startup' culture.

AFAICT they think it means using kanban boards and having standup meetings.
Indeed, a great time to vacation in the UK!
> Maybe one day TypeScript will compile to other platformn?

Should be possible, especially with the size and backing of Microsoft. Someone did something similar before in the open. [0]

[0] https://github.com/ovr/StaticScript
I once got to work with a technical PM from McMasterCarr. Hands down best PM I ever worked with.
I have built 3 houses. I did not find code compliance a problem. In fact, code kept me from making a dangerous mistake during construction.

The reason I built up-scale houses was there was more money in it. It required roughly the same amount of effort to build starter and up-scale projects.
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> I’m more-or-less a casual runner

> I typically run about 100km/week

This feels pretty naive or disingenuous. I'm pretty sure vanishingly few people understand 100km/week to be "casual". While you may not feel like you're a "pro" or have a competitive mindset, I'd argue averaging more than an hour a day at pretty much literally anything moves you out of "casual".
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The README also keeps with the quine theme (sorta):

https://github.com/secretGeek/html_wysiwyg/blob/master/READM...
This has already happened! My school promised email for life, and uses Microsoft's Office365. A couple months ago they sent out emails saying if you don't update your client to use "modern auth" (which was a new term for me) I'd lose the ability to check my email.

Well Microsoft blocks the Thunderbird embedded browser, so you can't complete the Oauth2 login. I've been effectively locked out of my account since (I'm not going to use the webmail just for this account - set up a forwarding email and told everyone to use my new address).
Users don't care what you consider to be a good computer. They use the proprietary email provider and it just works and shows emails on their car. While FOSS fanboys are sitting around complaining about the decay of tech because of JSON protocols.
Something tells me you don’t have much exposure to executives?

This isn’t true at all.

It’s not pure merit, but no job is. But I’ve seen plenty of executives turfed out of jobs when the CEO failed to hit their numbers and needed a scapegoat.
Well by struct tm, Sunday is 0. And months start at 0. And the day of the month starts at 1!
I spend way more on music than I used to before Spotify. Before then I might buy a few albums a year and pirate most of my collection, now I consistently give the music industry a repeatable income each month. And I hate those guys.
That is completely false. Stop repeating this. Entire Reddit groups and Twitter accounts exist to track restocks, eg r/CanadaPS5.
Wow, Jameco -- I haven't thought about them for a long time. When I was a kid I used to get those paper catalogs full of electronics parts and browse through them, wishing I had both

1) the money to order whatever I wanted from them
and 2) the knowledge to make cool things with all of those parts.

One of these days I'm going to find some time and do a few electronics projects. I've always been interested, and I did a fair amount of simple experimentation as a kid, but as an adult life has kept me busy with other pursuits.
I wonder if there is a term for this kind of objection. I’m starting to see more and more people demand quantifiers or conditional disqualifiers on statements that shouldn’t reasonably be considered as absolutes. And, the fact that bringing up that whatever assertion is being made is not a universal absolute doesn’t really add anything to the understanding.

Which statement is better, “people don’t like the smell of skunk spray” or “the vast majority of people do not like the smell of skunk spray”? The latter is more correct, as I am sure there is probably someone out there who is an outlier. But I can’t help but feel like my communication has been made less precise and has been made subject to interpretation as a result.
If companies want us to stop incrementing a number (guilty!) or writing our passwords on post-its stuck on our monitors, they should stop requiring us to change our passwords every freaking month. I think it was only in 2021 that NIST suggested the password change frequency should be yearly.
Tell me about it. My wife and I cannot agree on the meaning of "next" for almost anything, and we are Spanish speakers.

For example, when driving, to her "turn at the next corner" means "the corner after the next", while to me it means "the corner the car is about to cross". What I call "the next corner" to her is "this corner".

Same with days, of course.

It drives me crazy!
I've spent a lot of time reading about this case through the years and this guy's personality certainly fits. It also screams Internet forum user. Early/mid 90's this guy would've been mid/late 60s. Might be a stretch but it's possible he was online. I wonder if his daughter could comment on whether or not he had an email address or used a PC. The guy spent so much time writing letters and reading esoteric stuff he surely would've posted like crazy. Might be more clues there.
This seems to be a very tiny subset of TS. To get the full language, you'd probably have to link with a libuv runtime. Would be interesting to see if Microsoft decides to pursue this in the future.
One thing I don't understand is why you need more engineers to scale your product usage to higher volume. More machines/infrastructure or even support makes sense but devs no. I have same question for Atlassian, they are hiring like crazy.
> Average people don't write or read emails anymore outside of some work settings but even then its usually Slack or MS Teams.

Do others believe/experience this?

I ask because this sounds like a very Bay Area comment.
It gives added incentive to the company to make sure all of their internal passwords are managed via SSO so the users don’t continue to use a password on non-integrated systems after it’s rotated centrally.

And as long as employees are warned in advance, they should be aware of the risk of re-using passwords, which already exists today. If anything, this highlights the fact that if employees are using their company password for some other service, they’re placing their employer at risk.
Fwiw this perspective (talking about expectations of age, family status, background as conditions) would get you kicked as far away as possible from any hiring decisions where I work. I think mostly for legal / dei reasons to my understanding, but your whole statement reads like a radioactive hr bomb to me.
No one implements HTTP, JSON, and TLS. There are libraries for every single language imaginable. The more shared parts of the stack, the less wasted effort so you only have to implement the parts specific to sending and receiving email.
Wait, wait- Any rule you can spell in a few words or a link?
But it's not really higher learning is it?

As the parent indicated, they're not willing to even communicate with people who don't parrot their own ideas.
It is that.

The interesting part of nutrition here is how it affects hunger, which in turn determines how many calories most people will eat.
2013? That’s almost a decade ago.
I’ve worked from home for 15 years.

It truly varies by individual working style, job, culture, and more.

There is no one sized fits all IMHO. The right mix for me is 1-2 day in a small office with others where you bond with co-workers (in my case engineers) and hear about other things going on or brainstorm on ideas even though you might not be on the same team. Then 1-2 days with customer or alternate customer and in-office days on certain weeks depending on what’s going on both with customers and in-office.

The rest are work from home.

I think there is a middle way for everyone - even fully remote companies should have some semblance of balance based upon company and team culture (but most don’t)

The grand irony is that I read a lot about management who worry they aren’t getting enough out of remote workers…

And yet I have a real problem with work-life balance working from home that I have to be mindful in my own life about both that balance and boundaries.
Being charged with rape is an important matter for men who distrust women.
I learned something and enjoyed this to boot. Excellently written with a sharp writing style and incisive comments. It's quite a trick to make a children's movie that pleases everybody or at least doesn't turn off some group too hard. There's such a wide range of views about what's appropriate for children that I'd think it would darn near impossible.
It doesn't work for long routes because maximum range is capped at around 8000km due to physics and the energy density of fuel.
No you aren't missing anything. Most HN users have some weird nostalgia about obsolete technology. Custom protocols and XML are good, JSON is bad because Facebook and Google use it to deliver adverts and it reminds them of Single Page Apps.
Same with my wife; she tells apart "this Thursday" and "next Thursday" in exactly the way you describe. I don't. Predictably, all sorts of confusions ensue.
ah yes, "seconds", the "second minúte part of an hour", i.e. 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of the average time it takes the Earth to rotate towards Sol. very sensible default.
I disagree. Moon is the closest celestial body to earth and we have historically been able to make very accurate observations and calculations based on its orbit and waxing and waning phases.
My brother— a political science major— is planning on leaving the US until after the next presidential election. His opinion is that all but one of the “likely to face a civil war” checkboxes on his list have been checked.

This is a real concern. I don’t know how it can be turned around, though. The momentum of polarization seems like it has reached critical velocity (or close to it).
Most writable optical media use organic dyes that aren’t stable for more than a couple years—if you can still read the contents 10 years later, consider yourself lucky.

M-DISC use a more stable media, and should last much longer, but are (much) more expensive and require more recent burners. There are dual-layer M-DISC with higher capacities, too.

I did a bunch of research on long-term data archival and wrote it up here: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/