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Well, bummer. I have a mature product using React Components which are now legacy. It looks like in the future, I'll slowly migrate these over to functional components, as is standard in the documentation.

I'm disappointed by the fanatical adoption of hooks, but I saw it coming and I can't say their legacy documentation didn't warn me.

I'm happy that other people seem to enjoy them without restraint, but obscuring magical details and making side effects seem like more of a big deal than they really are in programming seems like a design choice intended to infantilize engineers and shelter them from reality.

I might finally invest some time into what it looks like to create front ends independent of any of the existing frameworks that exist today, which I think is probably controversial, but I want the decisions I make to last longer than the whimsy of engineering teams who don't care that they might change their mind in 10 years.

I think having seen front-end software come and go so many times, I'd rather write some simple utility functions wrapping `Document.createElement()` and use native event handling.

Too much fluff in front-end.

I want the decisions I make to last decades, not just a few years. I don't think that's a sentiment appreciated by most, though.
More cities in which part of the world? Citymapper does support my city. Transit does not.
Congrats man. Enjoy your time with your daughter. Time is the only currency that matters.
This doesn't make a lot of sense when my PGE bill is already $700 a month and gas is a tiny fraction of that. Fix the energy supplier first.
Well how are you going to attract new young talent you must ply them with free stuff and gimmicks like unlimited PTO.

Hell, mobile network providers have been using the word _unlimited_ with a cap without any reprocussions for what decades?

I think companies that offer _unlimited_ PTO should set a minimal baseline of 10-15 days per year.
I don't think so. Either way I made a mistake. The article is pointing out that lead use can track the Roman economy because of the levels of it use, nothing about its dangers.

My general point was that most people were illiterate, proper science was almost never done, mysticism, etc and knowledge about hazards to the environment were not discussed.

Therefore the decisions back then didn't consider environmental issues so it's not a good comparison to what's happening today.
I think they used one metric (resources used) when deciding to kill free teams, then their PR team scrambled to find another metric to make the whole kerfuffle seem like a tempest in a teapot when the backlash hit.
I'll have to read up on literary tropes as I'm having a hard time picking out which ones are being explored in some of the stories. For example, the city of "Armilla" is described as being nothing but a series of pipes topped with sinks, toilets, bathtubs, etc. To me, Marco Pollo (and Calvino) are forcing the reader to think of a mostly invisible system that is a _huge_ component of any city: plumbing.
Tested these before GPT4 but 100%, Bi/Multi-lingual LLMs are the key to solving Machine Translation.

https://github.com/ogkalu2/Human-parity-on-machine-translati...
Maybe this is the beginning of the end of middle management? A large part of the work is keeping up with what your employees are doing, removing blockers, and maintaining alignment with other teams.

This makes it vastly easier to keep up with a larger number of reports, making flatter organizations easier to run.
I can recommend the unwanted twitch extension which allows a user to hide selected channels, entire games and tags. https://github.com/kwaschny/unwanted-twitch
Oh, as former noncitizen I’m aware of the idea that the bill of rights is not read as only applying to citizens.

But I don’t know whether the founders would have considered the actions of foreign-government-controlled-corporations as ‘speech’, which they wanted to enjoin their government from being able to pass laws to restrict.
I still enjoy HN, after all these years.

The community is much broader now than it was in, say, 2010, but I find the discussions to be of good quality. Much of that is thanks to 'dang’s splendid moderation.
I went through Triplebyte's process as a candidate ca. 2019. I got a lot of positive feedback from it, and while they didn't have a company in their portfolio at the time that was a perfect match for my skills, the process (and its results) gave me the confidence to pursue roles that I would not have otherwise. I just recently got a role with a really wonderful organization and Triplebyte deserves some of the credit for that, just for building a process that made talented shlubs feel hireable.

When they made some missteps and got (deservedly) bad press for it, and then struggled after, I felt bad for them in the way I'd feel about a friend that screwed up.

The honest comments in this thread from Triplebyte folks is refreshing too and I really hope for the best for them.
And surely that's a problem for the employee's company, only because they're the ones imposing the restriction, not some external third party.
So glad I bailed on Amazon. I interviewed during COVID and got weird vibes about BTO plans. I live near some existing AWS offices, but nobody would/could give me any assurance that I could remain remote, or work from those offices (vs those offices being colidated into the HQ2 in Arlington VA). It was all pretty silly as the VP was in Seattle and the rest of my peers would have been scattered (though I would have hired a “local” team, maybe).
100% oxygen at turned the crew of Apollo 1 into ash. It makes stuff like concrete and aluminum as flammable as wood.
Yeah, it's a recorded voice.

A phone feature I'd love to have is to push a button and an AI chatbot takes over, with a goal to keep the scammer on the line as long as possible. Their whole business model would collapse.
Hello I work at Karat in engineering (have had a great experience so far). I will make sure someone hears about this. I know there is some degree of customization in the format/content of interviews but sounds like it wasn't to the degree it was advertised which is unfortunate.
Just a few weeks ago there was a big power outage that lasted 24 hours because of a storm. I'm glad I have a gas stove because I could still cook and prevent food from spoiling. Making everything dependent on the power grid is just putting more strain on an already unreliable infrastructure.

I don't think politicians are thinking clearly about this. They seem to want net-zero energy at any cost, even if it means people will suffer. Meanwhile we can't control what other countries do so it might not even make a difference anyway.
FWIW I seem to have reduced them to a few a week by picking up the call and just not talking. If it's a legit number not in my contacts the caller will ask for me. If it's a scam call they just hang up after a moment and I think they're starting to put me on their own do not call lists. Any chance that might work for you?
Ask HN: How to serve static data API to Chinese users?
I want to allow users behind the Great Firewall to be able to access this API programmatically and I expect relatively high traffic. It returns static data that gets updated infrequently. I'm curious what solutions people who have been in a similar situation have explored.

As this is a side project, If something with a gracious free-tier exists that's preferred :)
I like them too but they tend to promote shittier code. The codebases I inherit that use classes = clean, easy to follow. Ones all in with functions and React hooks = trash.

Obviously using hooks doesn't mean it has to be shitty, I think it just brought a lot more wannabe React devs that have no experience with architecture or maintainability.
Yes, that's it precisely. The odds of having a good hand have gone up dramatically, near as I can tell. Even the hands that aren't quite right seem better somehow.

I expect either MJ 7 or 8 to do hands flawlessly, every time.
Really the only safe career in the moderate future is going to be manual labor. There is always need to send a bunch of humans into the middle of nowhere to dig ditches.
Employers unfortunately think otherwise. From experience when the time comes, most people cower and accept the new status quo.

Again from unfortunate experience. Feel free to take it as an anecdotal point.

Employers do it because it works and employees don't have the knowledge or means to protect their rights.
Dutch cheese is delicious. What do you propose to replace it with?
you're wrong. The issue at Meta is that you might not be able to find the right combination of work that will get you a positive evaluation come performance review time.

Let's say you get hired in an org where the opportunity for impact are limited (mature area, blocked by dependencies in other teams etc...) then doing nothing or doing stuff that doesn't matter means you will get a poor performance review unless you're politically savvy enough to get a LOT of people to essentially overlook that the work you've done is meaningless.

After the negative perf, you will get piped and then fired. It's incredibly stressful to be in that situation and breeds all kinds of bad behaviors that make Meta a bad place to work at times (very often).
Broken url. Seems to be missing a required full stop on the end:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Franklin_Computer_Corp.

Looks like the HN submission form is automatically removing it, unless you use a non-clickable quote. Heh. :(
Deleting 'organization data' absolutely read that they would delete everything. Changing direction and back pedaling with a non-apology is borderline insulting.

I understand the need to make money as a company, but it really is biting the hand that fed messing with open source maintainers
Are those points of contention? Does it the length of time have an impact on whether it's dangerous?

I'm sure the amount pre industrial revolution is insignificantly small compared to recent decades
> I honestly don't understand the mentality that drives someone to keep working after they've made, say, $100 million.

Most people reading this site are in the 1% of the world and could easily retire to a lower cost of living area right now or after a few years of saving. They usually don't: Firstly, because the drive that gets you to earn that kind of money also keeps you going. If you're used to and can handle 80 hour weeks, going to 0 is likely to make you feel unfulfilled quite fast (which is also why I don't fully buy the child story). Secondly, you always judge yourself in regards your friend group, and usually quite badly. This might seem absurd to us, but they might be looking at their friends with private jets, yachts and paintings valued more than their total net worth and not feel like they are at the top.

There are exception, of course, but I doubt you'll find many of them in the extreme environments at the top of the business hierarchy.
Netflix, Shein and MrBeast
I get this is a joke but the reason we find stuff in caves isn't that they _lived there full time_ it's that stuff was only preserved there. Try building a wood house on the shores of the ancient Mississippi and seeing if you can find a trace of it in 30,000 years.
I'd like to remind everyone this is the same guy that took tax breaks and grants and has failed at pretty much everything, including trains, somehow, it's pretty much given on a silver platter - this is not unexpected
I believe you may be incorrect, the fraction is not the problem [1]. Apollo also ran with pure O2, even after an early accident under higher pressure [2].

> In such applications as extra-vehicular activity, high-fraction oxygen is non-toxic, even at breathing mixture fractions approaching 100%, because the oxygen partial pressure is not allowed to chronically exceed 0.3 bar (4.4 psi).

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

2. https://www.popsci.com/why-did-nasa-still-use-pure-oxygen-af...
Do you mean Commodore went back?
I don't think it's so simple.

A few counter-notes

- Google translate and its ilk have already significantly cut down the number of translators required for multinational companies. Google translate in 2006 is also a bad example, it really only got excellent in the past few years.

- I would trust GPT to write the first draft, and then hire a translator to check it. That goes from many billable hours to one, or two. That is a material loss of work for said translator.

- High profile translations, as your example is, are a sharp minority of existing translator jobs.
You sure? Gas bill has been astronomically high lately.
Thanks, I'll rely on you since I know nothing at all about this stuff. That was a paste of what they claim on their website.
Ask HN: What would be your prefered AI chatbot user experience design?
When I see the current chatbots they seem to mostly be geared towards simple Q&A tasks and not towards supporting dedicated conversation. E.g. they have just one continuous conversation stream for everything. What features or design choices would be relevant for you to make chat AIs more usable?
Subscriptions are healthy for some things: I have mixed feelings about Creative Cloud but it does make the product accessible to many people and also put updates into everybody's hands for products that they are continuously improving.

On the other hand I think for a lot of cases the real business case is "user will forget that their bank account is being bled dry by 20 subscriptions they forgot about."

Another one is that I've seen in the long term, together with bundling, they lead to industries that set new revenue records year after year despite being senescent. Cable TV is a particular case: subscribers had no ability to "walk with their feet" when MTV gave up showing music videos. I can't unsubscribe to CNN or Fox News or both of them and still keep my subscription to less pernicious channels. I'm afraid that Microsoft's GAME PASS is going to follow the same trajectory and make the scene for XBOX ONE games even worse than it already is. (Shoulda bought a PS4 is what I know in retrospect.)
I am in the same boat and we are transitioning to dump SMS all together. What a headache to ditch.
I would give you a positive response if you said that.

If you accepted the take-home, and failed to get started on it, and then asked for something else, I wouldn't. Because I have evaluated other candidates and they were able to do it.
Microsoft still doesn’t really care that much about piracy for some products. You can run Windows 11 Pro with 99% of the features in tact without activating it.
I am not advocating this system at all, merely pointing out that in Denmark there are protections for employees and a requirement for the employer to pay.
If there's risk, I should be compensated for it with interest on the account.

I'm fine with banks being not for profit institutions run by the government. Allowing people to safely store their money is baseline civilization. If banks are private, the government is going to have to back them up because you can't have the operational accounts of nearly every business in the country getting wiped out randomly.
What a shallow and ignorant article.
This spells doom to a lot of other companies. Consider Otter.ai, who's core offering is automatic meeting notes. MS Teams just ate their lunch.

Pretty much anything your startup's productivity tool can do, Microsoft can do better with the benefit of better context since it's embedded in all of your customers' other productivity tools.
This fad too shall pass. And the tech will end up where it always does: helping some, changing some but nowhere near as much as the gold rush profiteers would make you believe.
https://hackernoon.com/update-on-instagrams-year-of-autonomy
I do the same. Mostly they just hang up. Sometimes they start threatening to take possession of the real estate I don't own.
Picked up react in the last 5-6 years and looking at old class component examples confuse me to no end. I guess it’s just what you learned first.
I’ve struggled with sleep for so long that I’m basically one big, tired Petri dish.

I’ve found the same in my experiments, which surprised me: 100mg of caffeine between 7-11am is enough to make sleep impossible until maybe 3-4am. Meanwhile my wife can have 200mg at 7pm and be out by 10. I knew caffeine did this but I thought such a small amount so early in the day would easily be gone by night.

Next I want to somehow measure caffeine content over time and get a feel for how fast my body processes it. I also want to experiment with media (hot drinks, cold drinks, pills, etc.) I love caffeine.
> I want the decisions I make to last decades, not just a few years. I don't think that's a sentiment appreciated by most, though.

Asking for an API interface to be stable for decades __across all future versions of the library__ doesn't sound realistic to me. Nothing is forcing you to update to the future new version of react - which has not been released, and is likely years away - that removes support for class components.
Boring banking for the people: member-owned credit unions.
You can also say: cloud servers are on fire and the house is on fire, have another backup someplace else. It's all probability.

The probability that your house will be on fire these days is low, and the probability that your computer/hard drive will get on fire is also low (since you will probably take it out, no one will leave his phone in a burning house right?).

We can say that the probability above is that low that it doesn't really affect anything. There are many other different parameters to add, and I use a bit of math here which doesn't always reflect on life, but you get the point.
And people saw this is what they were doing and were tweeting about it in advance of all their “problems”.
Yep, that sounds reasonable.
I work at Amazon.
Bootstrap-from-tcc – TinyCC compile a Clang 13 toolchain and Nix package manager
Yes, I have trouble getting what was wrong with the first stables of React.

It seems they are getting bored.
> * Currently there is only 1.7 active contributors per retiree!

Productivity has been raising continuously for the past 60 years in France. They are producing more wealth than they ever have. The number of people does not matter it's what we are able to produce which matters. I would be way more worried about the climate than the number of people in bullshit jobs.

As for retirees themselves, a way bigger problem is the amount of wealth they hold versus active contributors thanks to the insane housing market. This is the real problem and what they should address.

> * There are 5% more retirees each year these days (700,000 new retirees each year). Double the newborn number each year.

You are probably aware that newborns have a way longer life expectancy than retirees.

> * 331 billion euros of pension system expenditure in 2019. 3 times the number paid in the 1980'.

Seems irrelevant without controlling all the variables that changed in 40+ years...

> More than what the French state gets from taxes.

That's because several generations of government in France have been choking the state revenue with a lot of tax breaks (capital tax, cuts on cotisations, ISF, etc) and so called "niches". And before you jump and give me the "but France has the highest taxation rate!!!!", please refer to me previous comment [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186458
> It could (and, seems to) be that the fellow's work on anaesthetics was seen as more important than his work on cholera.

His work on cholera was completely ignored for years and he gave up on trying to convince people about Germ Theory and went back to anaesthetics.
> or to stop them working for rival

or because they bought up companies to prevent competition, but couldn't just shut them down because doing so isn't quite legal

or because they have enough work for all that people, but fail to manage the work load distribution because it's really hard and for many core projects having more people isn't always good beyond a certain point
Both sound like "you won't be able to update them", so images sort of permanently squatted and growing tech debt, potentially vulnerabilities, etc. They should really allow for configuring the ":latest" tag to raise a 404 or something if this is what all that means.
No, but you could build something that guesses the next step in a list of steps to access knowledge from an external source.
This may help a little: https://daily.ginger-t.link/glossary (DISCLAIMER: my site)
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I guess as an end-user, I fail to see the difference. And it wasn't like Microsoft started developing Atom and then stopped it, they bought the company that started developing it, and shut it down in favor of their own product. And blaming it on the end-user because they fail to pick up a massive product like Atom and develop it themselves seems disingenuous at best.
replying to all... The story you're thinking of is King Davids Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle. It IS a co-dominion story (so same universe as The Mote in Gods Eye w/Larry Niven)

A few other uses of Orion in fiction that I am aware of:

The Ship 'Michael' (as in avenging angel) from Footfall (Again by Niven and Pournelle).

And the ship from Orion shall rise by Paul Anderson.

A CBC Miniseries featuring a (faked) Orion derived interstellar ark supposedly launched in the 60's and the people that have been living on it for almost 40 years.
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I commented below. I work at Karat in engineering and have had a good experience so far. I'll make sure someone hears about this. I'm not aware of exactly how customizable our interviews are but it should be consistent with what is advertised or that needs to change.
Umm.. don't you have a manager? Surely they could find work for you, no?
Not really. People also willingly overlook things hoping for a different reality. It’s a pretty human thing to do.
What should happen is a thorough investigation of our assumptions about economics and see if they hold true. 20-30 years ago saying "just get a robot to do it" would've been met with great cynicism, but now it's not that unthinkable. Especially once we apply what we learn to robotics - at that point doing things at scale is just playing an RTS
I like https://hckrnews.com/ as an alternative front page
Edit: I do apologize, I typo'd. My ratio should have been 1 in 700k, not 1 in 15k

> of dying or become incapacitated

Sorry, I don't see any death in the logs, can you point me to recent aviation deaths that were caused by this?

> or become incapacitated

For instance, you have a ~1 in 366 chance of being in a car accident per 1000 miles driven.

I think you should stay home more often, or learn more about probability.
Do you have the impression that Flow once had greater adoption than TypeScript, or that there was a movement from TypeScript to Flow? I think it was always behind in adoption, but of course, some projects used it anyways. From my memory, Flow always felt like the less conservative cousin and it was tempting to use it, but TypeScript always was the safer bet.
Well, it’s more that the weights are the neurons. There’s not actually like neuron objects defined or anything, neural networks are just a bunch of matrix operations. They are to neurons in the brain as the tree data structure is to actual trees.
They seem to want net-zero energy at any cost

This is about indoor air quality too, though.
It only makes sense politically.
Yeah, really weird that after an apology announcement they’re still defending the original message at all. Not too hard to say “Yes, those messages contradict each other. The first one did not communicate our actual plan. The second message is a correction and clarification.”
It's sad. My grandfather before he passed last year owned and drove 64 1/2 mustang. Over it's lifetime he's had to repair it now and again but it's still running great almost 60 years later. How long until Tesla declares some year of cars no longer maintainable? How long until they stop pushing software updates? How long will the deny people the ability to repair their own cars?