skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Those few people—the ones that actually finish—know the deep satisfaction of seeing something through to the end. It’s a satisfaction much deeper than the euphoric high of starting."

For me, this is false. I see other people who jump for joy at winning, who seem to really really like overcoming obstacles, who do get some deep satisfaction from accomplishment. I don't. Winning and completion feel ok, but at their most powerful they feel like a relief from the stress of effort or the shame of not getting something done. I look at people who get a natural internal reward for doing hard things like they have a super power. It's like they get paid millions for their work while I'm over here getting pennies.

Over the years I've had to actively work to focus on intellectual pride rather than any feelings of satisfaction or accomplishment. If there's no rush then at least I can objectively say "I've done X to an acceptable level of quality" and have confidence that others will react positively. To some degree I get that feeling of reward from external praise, which I'm very thankful for, as I'd hate to be totally missing out on feelings of satisfaction, but I imagine there are people who don't even have that.

So ultimately I feel like the author has failed to conceive of a world where people are wired differently and is saying "You'd like it if you tried it" without considering the possibility that, no, not everyone will like it enough to try it a second time.
Particle, Wave, Both or Neither?
Signals are important. Not the trader. I always thought a standardized protocol for publishing executed orders on $TWTR would be the way to go. Ticker symbol, entry, price target, size, timestamp. That's the API ;)
So the new office is the bathroom?
Hmmm… maybe there are some details she is leaving out, but it seems like she decided to be a military spouse abroad on hard mode:

- There are typically base services that support spouses in ways that she griped about — taxes, language instruction, health insurance, cheap gas, big box stores (PX, AAFES), etc.

- She and her husband get a substantial stipend for housing near the base — that is, they don’t pay rent for what will likely be a very nice place by local standards. Plus they can buy stuff at US prices at the base stores. Complaining about prices seems odd.

- She seems to have a shitty attitude. It’s not a surprise that folks aren’t responding well to her.

- Side note: I wonder if she’s actually having marriage problems, and she’s projecting it onto Germany. Her husband does not seem to be helping her much with being a military spouse (e.g., by telling her about base services), and that’s a culture shock of its own.
So I've been living in Europe for the last few years after leaving SF and haven't experienced any of this.

Are there frustrations when moving to a new country? Absolutely. If you go in expecting every local government agent to be grateful for your USD shekels, you'll be sorely disappointed when you find out they'll make 10x as much effort to speak English as you do to speak their language - but 0 x 10 is still zero.

But if you're polite, persistent, and committed to integrating - I've never failed to find a welcoming community in at least three different countries now.

In truth, my least favorite people to meet now are "American Expats" or instagram influencers - at least fresh ones. You've been abroad for ten years? Let's talk, you probably have some perspective. You're still trying to figure out where Trader Joe's is? You're probably not that interesting.

If you're traveling - enjoy, be polite, you'll be fine. If you're _moving_, it's on you to make the effort and be a part of the community, not the communities job to acclimate to you. Join a few meetups, facebook groups or whatever the latest trend is - meet people with like minded interests, and it works fine. If you're surprised to find occasional micro-aggressions in small towns, well... bless your heart.
In principle, many problems arise from cultural differences alone ..

"The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business"

https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36190015

"In this chapter she starts with a merger between an American and German financial company. The Americans described the Germans as too hierarchical, with a focus on titles and chain of command. The Germansin turn thought the Americans were too hierarchical - the boss said turn left and everyone turned in unison.

This disagreement happened Germany is more Consensual (Big D) in decision-making - decisions are made by groups in unanimous agreement. Once consensus is reached, it is final. In contrast, the US is a Top-Down (Little d) decision-making culture. Decisions are made by individuals and propagated downwards, but they are not final - decisions are flexible and may be changed."
Yeah the classic Finder exploited human spatial and muscle memory to help users navigate filesystems quickly, which was pretty smart because those forms of memory are very strong — humans are generally quite good at remembering where things are in physical space, retaining such information more easily than we do abstract information like file paths.
The weird smart city concept and the total surveillance fetishism that comes with it is a product of post-9/11 surveillance, but it's also something that the CCP really nailed in its implementation. The Ring surveillance partnership with law enforcement mirrors what's already been rolled out successfully elsewhere in places like China, while the US is quickly catching up.
I think my comment come of as too literal. It wasn't meant to imply that there is nothing of value to the club experience, but rather that a busy and loud environment like a club may over-highlight the stimulant aspects of the drug and tone down its more exceptional empathogenic traits, reportedly.
I think ES Modules are okay frankly.

But the current state of the JS industry where everyone is forced to supporting both ES Modules and CommonJS is hellish. It is the worst of all worlds. It increases testing surface area, slows down build times, adds complexity.

I have wasted many days of time on tooling issues related to this and I am a competent developer.

At this point we are too far down the ES Modules path, so let's just commit to it and get this transition over. CommonJS has lost the argument for all practical purposes a long time ago.

Could we please forcibly deprecate CommonJS? Lets please only pick one, no more supporting both because they we do not get the benefits of either.
A company called Atari is releasing a brand-new 2600 cartridge this year
I think people underestimate how deeply intertwined Google's services and apps are.

I don't think a split off "Google Services" could survive. Google's fabric is designed to run Google's apps and vice versa. You can't just cram some other company's software into Google's core fabric and you can't just run AdSense on someone else's cloud. ETA: this is partially because of historical accretion and path dependence, but also because offering services at Google scale and reliability is a legitimately hard, abstraction-breaking problem; most fabrics aren't architected for the fault-tolerance and scaling that Google's fabric is (did you really isolate concerns? Are you sure your backing-store is eventually-consistent lock-free?), and most software isn't designed to run on a fault-tolerant, high-reliability fabric (what does your UI do if half the database is missing for ten minutes? Did you break your storage down into a NoSQL database with massive data denormalization because space is almost free, or are you using a relational database with heavy cross-lookup constraints that require high availability? Are your RPCs doctored with enough data to make for useful full-service traces, or do your microservices just spit JSON at each other?).

(Source: was there; I saw enough acquisitions go sideways to know how actually hard it is to reshape software from the outside world to fit Google's way of doing computing).
The Third Time Charm of AMD’s Instinct GPU
BREAKING NEWS: Small town Germans not effusively welcoming to representative of foreign military, yuppie wife who expects place to work like California.
well at least they are selling their office products instead of offering them for "free" out of their infinite benevolence.

ideally you want clean separation of business models and competition with each of the business models.

overbearing conglomerates are not the way forward for the tech industry.
The EU regulators are addressing Google's display advertising and exchange business, but your comment is about their search ads.
If you want to listen to database changes in Elixir you can also get really good stuff done by using Cainophile (https://github.com/cainophile/cainophile). Same mechanism. I don't know the details of Debezium so I can't say if you are leaving fantastic things on the table. But I've had good fun with Cainophile. For example I've used it in my videos on Electric SQL to react to changes in a Postgres database. It matches nicely with realtime-ish UI via LiveView. So meshes really good with the current Elixir stack.
What does half korean, half white even mean? It doesn't look like people in South Korea have high melanin level on average.
I'm an American in a different (large) part of Germany (who also lived there before) and I had the opposite, I basically had to ask the foreigner office to speak German with me when i went early this year (they just defaulted to English to be inclusive - I'm not perfect in German but i can speak rapidly and clearly enough that it's never a bother). They were also largely non-German ethnically, but born and raised there, so maybe they had a larger degree of empathy.

I'm rather pale myself though and am there as an engineer, so maybe there's some bias or racism built in that you experienced which I wouldn't know that much about :|
Imagine being so full of yourself that you write that last paragraph with a straight face. There's obviously no turning back and yet this guy thinks his opinion is so important that it may change the course of things.
You didn't answer the question. Does the government (any government, for that matter) having access to all that information sound like a positive consequence to you?
I got a small dose of that for my colonoscopy. I was 100 % there, looking at the camera feed, complying with the doctor's orders, I even remember being a little surprised that I feel and remember everything. An hour later, sipping a milkshake at McDonald's I realized I didn't remember the procedure at all. Just these disjoint flashes of consciousness, the sound of the machine, the feeling of the tool moving around, but no real coherent story. Interesting experience.
Yes, provided you can mass produce sufficiently long carbon nanotubes or similar; but the power cable going down that space elevator is also about the length needed to encircle the earth if it was on the ground, so if you can build that part alone you don't need the tower.

This isn't a "no": if you're building a space elevator anyway you probably do want to put solar on the top. It's just you don't want to build one only for the solar on the top.
I tried Kagi and liked it. I also find using 'verbatim' searches on Google helps, although that seems to be broken more and more often.
Clearly it just works. install that plugin and someone will just instantiate into your notebooks and start editing things.
The lack of general knowledge in this rant is incredible.

Require semantics are bad, and it's even worse for a browser. The problem is that the ecosystem is of low quality, and that people bandwagon behind node require compatibility whereas is was a dead end for browsers (no way to implement it with builtin api, processors everywhere became mandatory).

Rant author, really, you are the problem. ES module could be a solution.
Integrating into small German towns can be hard even for Germans...

And big German cities are affordable with a US military salary, but you'll probably have a flat and not a McMansion with a front and back yard. But not working (no relationships with locals) and not having an expat community to fall back to is rapidly depressing.
10X Management represents me. I write my own opinions, I don't speak for them.

Net 90 seems way too long. When I freelanced solo I specified net 15, expected my customers to read that as net 30. Various solutions address the cash flow and slow pay/no pay problem such as up-front deposits and escrow. I prefer retainer arrangements rather than hourly or fixed-fee, but not every customer will do that, and it doesn't suit every project.

Freelancers and their customers should avoid getting into the situation where one side owes the other a lot of money, or time/work. Breaking the project down into small, measurable tasks with clear deliverables and prices prevents conflict at the end of the project, when problems surface.

One of the big players in the contracting agency business is Toptal. You might want to see how they handle the details. I have never worked for/through them but I know several people who have.
Yeah government officials.. You don't wanna deal with them. Not even as a native german. Hasn't gotten better with the new refugees.
Would Europe still try to regulate Google if one of their companies invented GPT4 and is threatening Google search?
> If other companies are willing to pay more for the ads, then your product/business/marketing isn't as good as theirs

Or maybe you just don't have as much venture capital to burn.

Do we really want to live in a world that overwhelmingly rewards whoever is prepared to spend the most on publicity?

(How's Citizens United been working out?)
>Have you heard (intelligent!) non-tech people talking about tech?

Yes, and a technologist, I assure you that they often make very valid points, can often see things tech people miss, and even when they're wrong, they should have the right to discuss. Unless you want to shut them up, what over purpose does such a protestation serve?

>Domain knowledge is more important than intelligence almost everywhere.

Domain knowledge built by stupid people (or by ideology, or for profit, etc) will be stupid domain knowledge, that intelligence can often see right through. Homeopathy also has its "domain knowledge", for example.

As for domain knowledge built by smart people, it can still have its blind spots, if not for anything else, because of professional bias or some accepted wisdom few dare to contest.
I believe there’s a place for a portable with high travel keys, built like a tank and with e-ink display.

There’s certainly a lot of nostalgia, hipsterism and fetishism in the appeal of such product (I'm guilty of all 3), but maybe it’s not all there’s to it. Maybe it could be truly useful as well.
> Alternatively, the EU having global jurisdiction would have even bigger issue. With that precedent, could Japan or Australia regulate European businesses?

That's already what the USA does to global companies operating inside the US. That's exactly how Cuba has been under a blockade from the US, for example...
For me, it's all about location. I rent an Airbnb/Vrbo for a week or two every summer so I can be right by a lake. But I'd choose a hotel every time for normal travel. Airbnb/Vrbo, for me, is when the house and immediate location is the destination.
The romanticism around "majority revolt" is flawed, almost every change, every revolt, every major action was not started, supported, or even desired by the "majority".

Majority rule is actually a very flawed and dangerous premise
There aren't enough women like that.
Feedback is a requirement for deliberate practice and I have a damn hard time finding a place to get good coding feedback.
A, yes, Reddit, that paragon of expertise, normality, and clear, well articulated thought...
You can look it up, you retain copyright.

And while Reddit does have you agree to giving permission to almost anything, they'd be nuts to take that too far. If eg, Stephen King goofed and pasted his upcoming book into a comment mid-AMA, I don't think Reddit would fare well in court if they tried to argue the TOS gave them the right to do turn that into a book.
Isn't that https://collective2.com ?
It's pleasing that Schrödinger simultaneously did and did not earn that honor.
Many interesting and fair points in the article. Given perfect hindsight, perhaps the ES Module specification would look quite different today. It might more closely resemble CommonJS and prioritized compatibility with it. But that ship seems to have sailed. The ES module specification has been build into every JS runtime of note.

Which of the issues raised in the article are actually actionable at this point?

Due to the priorities of the web ecosystem, no breaking changes to ES modules are possible. Can any of the issues raised in the post be addressed in non-breaking fashion?
Why would the people you mentioned be considered unintelligent by that criteria? Are you suggesting that they are not humbled when faced with the fact that the world will continue rotating without them?
> How quickly would public opinion change if Google decided to just shut off their service in the EU for a day?

Reframed: If you disrupt customers to avoid complying with local law, customers will perceive YOU to be the problem at least as much as local regulations.

I believe this is a REALLY dangerous move with very little upside and enormous risk for the company under almost any circumstances, which is probably the reason that companies almost NEVER do this.
Which as far as I gather uses Phoenix + Erlang distribution to get Phoenix.PubSub going. Which parent was not wanting to do. Funny full circle.
Yes. Debezium is the charm for this. If your systems are normal size, as in not Amazon scale, the embedded engine is a great addition to a codebase. It doesn't have the fault-tolerance of the full deployment, but it's suitable for many, many purposes.
An issue with triggers is that they don't really live in your codebase. It's too easy to forget they even exist, and maintenance and support will eventually become impossible. The benefit of Debezium is that everything lives in your codebase and reasoning take less cognitive overhead.
its obviously sarcastic. some people have "forgotten" what healthy competition and competent regulation of markets means.
It's so strange that there's this whole realm of technical terms and scientism for what amounts to something so simple: In order to get good at some thing, you need to do that thing.

>Ah, yes, but Deliberate Practice aims to scientifically deconstruct each skill into some identifiable set of particular components

Yeah, whatever. Most knowledge is tacit, but go ahead and try to impose reductionism onto everything. If all you have is a hammer...

>Do you have a citation for most knowledge being tacit?

Nope, I'm just a skilled fool. Probably learned my skill in the most inefficient way possible - by just diving in and doing it. Go ahead and keep appealing to Dr. Doctorson. Amongst all his academizing, I'm sure he's formulated the most scientifically sound way to acquire a skill. Trust the science.
> That's... weird. I never got the 'considerably more' unless you're importing something directly maybe

You're kidding, right? Just look at literally every time a new Apple product is announced on HN, people complain about how much more expensive it is in than in the US. For example, the base model Macbook Air M2 is $1299+tax (on the HIGH end, that tax could be 10%, so $1429) and 1599 Euros in Germany, which is $1730. $300 difference, that's pretty significant. And Apple isn't the only company that prices things that way.
Oh my god have I paid my dues in this transition. I have lost days of developer time trying to support tooling that compiles into both ES Modules and CommonJS while also supporting TypeScript and tree shaking and what not. It brutally complex and the testing surface area is large with all the possible combinations.
It's also dramatically easier to have a discussion around what does or doesn't work with a concrete example. "This but with X" or "This but without Y".

I've found this also helps just internally - start with a prototype and you have engineering discussions that are more practical than theoretical.

> ..and this was maybe 1/3 of the effort I was planning for.

Quick anecdote. When just starting out I was building a tool to automatically find the composition of essential oils used given a GC/MS output, and was told it needed to be "fast". I spent a long time optimising it, working on parallelising it and more. I spoke to them after getting it down to maybe 15 seconds or a couple of minutes something like that and was getting ready to explain why I couldn't make it fast.

"So you said you need this to be fast to be worthwhile, but"

"[intejects] yeah being fast is important, if it takes more than a day or two it'll be a lot harder to use"

...

Well it was a useful lesson at least.
> This is the most tired response.

Undoubtedly, but it forces cynics to concede value.
Not really. Everything she described - the feeling of being unwelcome, comments about your language skills (even when you're learning and trying), being stared at, the utterly ridiculous bureaucracy - all of these experiences are true. Even in a big, supposed modern city like Berlin. Even when interacting with young people.

Source: Been living in Berlin since '19
Reserved some nice community permalinks. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Does Sublime text still have value in 2023 given its cost?
Forums declined because by 2010, they were competing against professionally maintained messageboards on social networks.

Behind almost every PhpBB/vBulletin messageboard of yore is a regular non-technical person who had to pay for a server, learn enough about databases, user authentication and backups to get started, and build and moderate a community.

Who was going to pick up that torch when you can start a subreddit or Discord or Telegram group with a couple of clicks.
They're comparing drug producers to peddlers of surveillance capitalism.

Surveillance doesn't improve your daily life. Absence of surveillance doesn't make life resemble that of the 1900s. Surveillance doesn't increase productivity. And most importantly, the number of people not subject to surveillance is a rounding error. Every single person in Europe is subject to some type of surveillance crafted by American companies, directly or indirectly.
There are reddit dumps everywhere you lost the discoverability not the data.
> I assume that you use a free service from Google/Facebook/Microsoft? So you must not care about surveillance capitalism either. At least not care enough.

This happens exactly because there is no competition and hence antitrust is needed. I don't want to be using services from Google/Facebook/Microsoft but there's no competition and then I end up using their services even when trying to avoid it as most as possible...

If the prices for services would go up without surveillance capitalism so be it, that's the real price, I want to choose to pay for it, not be coerced into giving them my data for their "free" services. I don't have that option right now, nor anyone else, why are you against freedom of choice?
if EU lawmakers could be bought in the same way US ones can, there is absolutely no way that GDPR or the DMA would have been enacted. this isn't to say that they are completely unbuyable, but look at how much the companies affected had to lose. literally tens of billions in some cases. there's evidence online that they were pumping money into any channel possible to try and stop the DMA, but they failed