skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so much the boss, but I like my coworkers and enjoy an occasional night out with them. This might shock HN but not everyone despises their job and not everyone hates the people they work with.

Company occasionally runs an optional dinner/entertainment night with food and drinks paid for. And I'm happy to participate.
I’m pretty sure that would be an unconscionable contract at $1, not a mere unethical contract. The latter is legal, the former is not.
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You can compartmentalize your personal and professional personas. Also, you should be doing all that trust building on the clock.
Right because the closed-source game engines with 10x the complexity are really struggling not yielding control.
It can both serve a function (help build extended relationships) and be something people don’t want to do because those relationships can be severed in an instant thanks to at will employment.
Oh I am? Ok, sure. Did not realize there was an obligation to avoid “being weird” to your sensibilities.
having a poor taste is nothing to have confident with. The author sounds like he has never coded anything large and complex.
Only fair way to do this is just start during the last hour of the work day. You're not asking for donated time but people will probably stay a bit later if they're enjoying themselves. If they're not what's the point, anyway.

But there's so much negativity in these comments. Does everyone here despise casual time with their coworkers or what?
One statement relates to inter personal relationships. The other relates to the employer - employee relationship.
I dont think its fair to just pull those number out of your bottocks and use them as argument. The same way I could argue "100 people, 20 addicted to alcohol, with weed 5 are addicted to weed and 5 to alcohol, while 30 begun to use alcohol/weed responsibly after broadening their views on how substances affect their mind.

Now the argument looks completely different, yet still holds 0 value.

It seems to me you are scared of weed now, and with your honest good will want to save others from it as well. That's nice and all, but please don't presume you know better than everyone, or even better than "those who haven't tried it yet".

I have had my fair share of experiences with weed, and while I agree that mindless consumption will bring harm (ask me how I know), I also believe that just landing hard in this case helped me discern this pattern in other areas of my life too - so (in my subjective experience) even this harm it brought me _directly_ improved my life in the long run. And that's before I start talking about effect it had outside its most obvious harm.

I advocate for education, and responsible trials for anyone curious, and I believe it can bring many positive changes into ones life. One just have not to abuse it.
Not OP, but I have an extra - I emailed it to you.
Sorry but I cannot help but blame developers again. Again you idiots put all your eggs into one basket, whilst forsaking alternatives, even open source ones because "unity is better." Well close gardens locking you in (or out) is always a risk and instead of calling people like me tinfoil-hat wearing lunatics for sounding the alarm for years, may be you should have heeded it.

Same goes for youtube, discord, zoom, aws. Invest in the alternarives you idiots, don't wait until it's too late. You won't garner any sympathy when they tighten the strings.
I don't know if it is still like this, but the code for dpkg used to be like this, and it was amazing: if you ever needed to know in exactly what order various side effects of installing a package happened in, you could just scroll through the one function and it was obvious.

To this end, I'd say it is important to be working in a language that avoids messing up the logic with boiler plate, or building some kind of mechanism (as dpkg did) to ease error handling and shove it out of the main flow; this is where the happy path shines: when it reads like a specification.
The average lifespan of a desktop is five years, and for a laptop, 3-5. All of you bitching about how computers older than ten years old not being supported is some massive injustice are completely divorced from reality in the marketplace.

Apple provides security updates for the prior two releases, which means that damn near any Mac made in the last ten years, even without Opencore Legacy, is still receiving security updates.

My 2013 Macbook Pro will run the current MacOS release with Opencore Legacy. That's a now-ten-year-old computer running the current OS release.

Anyone who uses their computer for a significant period of time, and especially to make money, who does not upgrade more quickly than every ten years, isn't very smart. It doesn't take long, waiting for your computer every day, before it's costing you more in lost productivity than it would be to replace it with something newer, especially if you buy used.

Claiming that a ten year old laptop, Apple or otherwise, is "perfectly usable" is a joke by people who clearly haven't spent any appreciable time using current hardware, which is by every single measure enormously better.
> life can be cruel.

We can be more specific here. "Some people can be cruel".

(Of course, I'm talking about the one who took all the notes from Oz then instead of giving him the credits ghosted him completely and later co-authored the blog post announcing the "inspired" project. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-project-gameface)
Doesn't obviate my point. Even if the Government bombs "us"... Who made the bombs? Brewed the explosives? Manufactured the fasteners? Built the loading equipment? Staffed the Armed Forces?

We did. We do. We will continue to. Collective action on our part is indistinguishable from Government.

It just so happens when you try to spawn a new one that doesn't have enough popular support, the response by the incumbent is to crush, delegitimize, and exemplify the consequences of so doing through the treatments applied to the uprisers.

If you would oust the king, you damn well better be fully committed, and better well win. Because for them, to let you succeed or exist is a matter of existential importance.
> Obviously this is not a real argument against what you said, but the same thing happened with smoking. The tobacco companies said that there might be some set of factors that both caused lung disease, and caused smoking.

Mental illness and substance use both affect/are effected by the Brain. It seems less likely that the same cause would affect both the Brain and the Lungs.
Perhaps more time with RLHF due to first mover advantage? If you figure it out, Meta and Anthropic would probably pay big $$ for the secret
The ATF recently (in the last few years) updated some of their forms to clarify that cannabis is still an illegal drug. In addition, while the DEA may not enforce as much as they used to, they have a clear position on the matter.
The concepts espoused by the constitution are as old as man. Humans are flawed. Power corrupts. Does the constitution need replacing? Perhaps our implementation has become wildly corrupted over the course of 250 years.
>”but then devs would be tempted to reuse them”

Isn’t that the fucking point? Having a 2000 line function is a code smell so bad, I don’t care how well the function works. It’s an automatic review fail in my book. Abstractions, closures, scope, and most importantly - docs to make sure others use your functions the way you intended them. Jesus.
"the sound would disappear when I stood up" - doesn't sound like tinnitus.
There are things like heavy machinery which produce low frequency vibrations which are audible in some rooms depending on acoustics. I once lived near a rail line which was having work done. In one room I experienced the hum, no others, and it would stop when I stuck my head out the window. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
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I'm not a scientist, I'm in digital media and ads, but I've been doing this for almost 20 years and feel confident in my level of technical and business knowledge of the space.

I never realized how wrong papers could be until I read some from my industry and dug into their methodology of which I'm sufficiently knowledgeable to spot issues. I don't recall specifics as it was a while ago but I do recall the district impression I was left with which amounted to "holy crap, I wouldn't let this person pull reports on my ad account let alone run campaigns" due to the buy side 101 mistakes they made.

Since then I read all scientific papers with a huge heaping of salt.
Thank you! The slot syntax is borrowed from Vue. The difference is that there can be only one slot, and not multiple named slots.

I can see that the slots example needs improvement and more detail. I'll make it shine because slot is such an important feature and helps you build reusable code.

I'll work on the docs as a whole, now that I'm getting this valuable feedback from here.
Wouldn’t that be the very reason you’d want to schmooze?
> “The flake-out rate is so much higher at events now,” says Gretchen Goldman, a research director in Takoma Park, Md.

> This summer Goldman sent an invite to 100 colleagues for casual after-work drinks at some picnic tables just outside the office as a goodbye party. She was taking a new job with the federal government. Fewer than 10 showed up.

Maybe don't have an event where people have to BYOB at work?? If I'm doing a going away thing I'm going to a pub.
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> Ultimately Nue will come out with a UI library with a high feature parity with Headless UI.

This will actually be a killer addition. I was actually complaining about this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37448914#37449926
Hi, cool idea with the geolocation via latency.

But I encountered 2 things using ipinfo: Hetzner Server that are in Germany in a fixed location that never moved are sometimes located in another country, for me it was once s Server placed into Moscow and once in South America.

How does this happen?
Interesting, haven't heard of Pi. Is this a custom LLM?
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Yeah, what are your distribution voltages in the States, 13 kV maybe? That'd only be about 50 amps if so. 10mm diameter cables would be OK.

Workable with a battery swap station next to a substation.
Nobody wants to hang out with sycophants. They are sad to watch.

You are replaceable at work, but not replaceable at home.
Maybe this borders the site guidelines, but I wish people would post less of these ragebait articles.

Yeah we get it. People like to treat work as "work", and not deal with overwork, socialization, RTO, micro-managing, etc.
Here is an idea for a unit test for this code.

Pass in an order, assert the pizza that comes out is correct.

The entire function is a unit which can fit on my phone screen and has no external dependencies other than possibly oven, which was discussed in the article, it should probably have been passed in, aka dependency injection.
I think scientism runs deeper than just a set of philosophical beliefs. It is more like a modern religion, or even an aesthetic.

A key feature of scientism is that science itself is never well defined or understood by its adherents, so science is a floating signifier that can mean whatever its proponents want it to mean. Typically, these are not people with firsthand experience doing science, but consumers of second and thirdhand science media and science culture (TED Talks, "I fucking love science", NASA t-shirt, "I believe in science" bumper sticker, etc.). Lack of scientific literacy results in science taking on a ritual status, where following the ritual (scientific method, peer review, etc.) produces truth, and failure to find truth is always the fault of the mislead individual scientist. Because science is the ultimate source of truth, it is also the organizing principle for society, and those "anti-science" people who would question science are dangerous and stand in the way of progress--basically a religion.
Right, the question will be how much are they paying these people compared to what they made previously.
Good for them. Would love to donate at the $2/mo level but I don't see an option to do that unfortunately.

The world needs more software diversity. Open source brings freedom to computer enthusiasts. Freedom for game developers to choose to learn something that may be less polished, but it's open source and at least it's theirs to keep.
I'm from a non-vue audience, so the context would be lost on someone like me.
I'm in the middle-right in terms of rent control. I lean slightly towards no rent control.

I'm against forcing homeowners to live in the property or rent it out at all times. Homeowners should be allowed to do what they want which includes leaving it empty.

By forcing homeowners to always have occupancy, the government essentially owns the property.
I always push back on this argument, because it came up a lot. As someone higher up at the company once put it, if people are sufficiently convinced that you can find them what they're looking for in a dating app, there's almost no amount of money they wouldn't spend. People churn after not getting what they want out of an app. And relationships end, and people will return to apps they felt they had success with. Word of mouth successes were the ultimate marketing tool, OkCupid didn't have really any ad spend for the first year or two I was there (and apparently the hadn't in the years past.)
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Do you plan to support this for 5 years or more? Because that's the kind of LTS I need to take this seriously.
Agreed. You can do this on Slack, mostly.
I don't think it's that obscure. It's something taught in first-year medical school, or in undergrad anatomy or physiology. Hardly anything that deep
There’s a whole style of coding dedicated to that very notion. It’s called test driven development.
Adobe put a silent kill switch into Flash player, rendering 10 years worth of casual games I'd written immediately unplayable. As a result of Adobe's actions, a whole sector of lone devs and small teams turned to Unity to build games that would've otherwise been built in AS3. I'm glad I didn't end up going that route, but I really feel for the folks who are now getting screwed again.
I would probably also be angry at the invisible boat-owner who didn't tie it properly.

The presence of an annoyance implies the existence of someone to be angry with, one might say.
Everyone saying "linear code doesn't scale" actually has it backwards - it's concise functions with a deeply nested call stack that really becomes a nightmare in large codebases. It's never obvious where new code should be added, the difficulty of understanding what the effects of your changes will be increases exponentially since you have to trace all the possible ways code can get called, you end up with duplicated subroutines, etc etc.

99% of the time, you haven't actually come up with a good abstraction, so just write some linear code. Prefer copy/pasting to dubious function semantics.
> Does everyone here despise casual time with their coworkers or what?

Despise? No. But, the decision isn't spend time with coworkers or don't spend time with coworkers. It's spend time with coworkers, or spend time with family/friends. I pick the second option. I'm already spending 40 hours a week with my co-workers. Let me spend the few remaining non-busy, non-tired hours I have with my friends.

But, what do I know. I never go out of my way to spend time with people I don't have a shared interest with anyway. So maybe I'm an exception.
and : https://archive.is/EXfrR
> 1984’s Appendix lays out the principles of Newspeak, the nascent language of Orwell’s dark dystopia. Newspeak was designed to make unorthodox thoughts impossible. There would be no words to express them.

> The Times (January 18) reported that “a transgender woman has denied raping two women with her penis”. If “with her penis” is not quite 2+2= 5, it’s getting close. 2+2= 4.5?

It's so curious that Dawkins, of all people, seems to be complaining that unorthodox thought -- that is to say, a rejection of traditional religious doctrine -- is expressible in the English language.
Maybe. AWS had no problem saying "Use our Lumberyard engine for free, but if you rent gameservers, you must rent them from us."

I wonder how it'd have gone down if Unity had said, "From Unity version 2024 and beyond, if you have ads in your game, you must get them from us," and let that be the end of it.
This story from SFO where the luggage handlers stole a gun from a retired police officer is pretty funny, though the article leaves out the part where there were numerous earlier complaints that were ignored:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/3-sfo-luggage-handler...

An older example:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sfo-baggage-handle...

My new personal favorite SFO story:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/sfo-bagg...

United Airline luggage handlers at SFO decided to steal and resell weed from smugglers, then got robbed on camera at the airport while moving trashbags of it to their car. They got caught because they decided to report the robbery to the police!
Agreed. I really appreciate their deep dives into uArch - their article on the Zen4's front and back end answered so many questions for me..
I've said this before...YC hosts "you want to work at a startup" day. In the past there have been multiple startups that claim "we are a family", "we work hard and play hard" but then handwave ... the only one that was honest at one of the years I attended, was Justin of justin.tv.

Work is a job. If you want to make it a social life, go for it. But let it be your decision.

I've had work situations in the past where many of us were friends and still in contact years later. But, don't let it become your life.
The old Terms of Service have the usual clause that says that the company can change the terms at any time. However, the terms do provide that if you don't update Unity then you can continue to use the old terms. Unity obviously doesn't point that out in the blog or FAQ.

> Unity may update these Unity Software Additional Terms at any time for any reason and without notice (the “Updated Terms”) and those Updated Terms will apply to the most recent current-year version of the Unity Software, provided that, if the Updated Terms adversely impact your rights, you may elect to continue to use any current-year versions of the Unity Software (e.g., 2018.x and 2018.y and any Long Term Supported (LTS) versions for that current-year release) according to the terms that applied just prior to the Updated Terms (the “Prior Terms”). The Updated Terms will then not apply to your use of those current-year versions unless and until you update to a subsequent year version of the Unity Software (e.g. from 2019.4 to 2020.1). If material modifications are made to these Terms, Unity will endeavor to notify you of the modification. If a modification is required to comply with applicable law, the modification will apply notwithstanding this section. Except as explicitly set forth in this paragraph, your use of any new version or release of the Unity Software will be subject to the Updated Terms applicable to that release or version. You understand that it is your responsibility to maintain complete records establishing your entitlement to Prior Terms.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220716084623/https://github.co...
I agree. The team behind Go has thought a lot about concurrency right from the start, and it really shows.
I’m a huge family guy, I too am confused by these comments.

1. After work activities are voluntary 99% of the time (even “required events” I’ve personally skipped many times)

2. I prioritize my family over everything (leaving jobs over work-life balance), but that doesn’t mean having time out of work with co-workers is necessarily bad

3. I tend to value my coworkers as friends and have even invited some to weddings, etc. I don’t think it’s all that odd to have fun outside of work

All that being said, I also hate cutting into family time. But not everyone has a family or solid friend group, so activities through work are probably a good thing
I'm somewhat active on Bluesky. Managed to find a couple of people to follow and talk about video games. It's kinda nice.

(I have 3 invite codes available if people are still desperate for them)
Insightful video, thanks for sharing.

I use solar at home and the battery is actually the most expensive and least durable component of the system.

Also the battery disposal story is not great (at least at the moment).
Most third world countries don't have a problem with mass shootings, but the US isn't the only first world country that has had mass shootings.
It's not a Go thing. I've inherited a number of large linear functions of the author's favored style in several C-syntax family languages, they all become increasingly incomprehensible as they grow longer and older. For any advocate of that style, the only way to maintain them (and retain their supposed clarity) is to extract functions and then re-inline those functions after a comprehensive refactoring. Otherwise, they accrue so much cruft over time that their legibility is completely lost.

Your only other option is to freeze them and never make changes, that doesn't happen much in real-world code (though it probably should).
... And after 10 years, Google will intentionally structure their updates to force-sunset hardware, even if the hardware is still going strong.
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