skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Improbable island used to have more or less only one rule, outside of "underage shit will get you reported to your ISP", and that was "don't be a dick".
It worked well, on the surface, but as the CoC says, there were a lot of issues that cropped up that went mostly unnoticed, even as they were impacting a surprising number of players.

I prefer the new CoC. Lists of rules are never something that someone will regularly reference. You'll read through it once, get an understanding of the ground rules and community expectations, and then fit into the community and get up to speed by experience. Sometimes, people make mistakes, and someone can say "hey, maybe don't do that, Code of Conduct has a bit about that", and that someone can go "ah crud, thanks".
Do doctors keep this much in their heads? I would have this in a notes system that I could recover by searching for "rotator cuff" during the appointment. I know I'd never remember it all, but maybe with Anki I would.
Is there anything thats open source and has a team or classroom function?

I would love to study together with others and have some competition
> Don’t click that first link

For anyone wondering, it redirects to ```https://ak.oneegrou.net/4/6521518```, which seems to be flagged as adware. Tested and the page got blocked on Firefox for Android
That’s a fair point. But more like an industry sickness. A Liu’s of taste

Almost as if websites have come to be cheap suits for cubicle workers. Necessary by norm, but no signal of quality
That sounds awful. I'm guessing Bob had signed some kind of employment agreement that included a clause about not being involved in other employees leaving?

When I was trying to help draft a fair (startup) employment agreement document, I tried to ask HN about some of the clauses I'd seen (including one like might've bit Bob), but the post got zero traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26016445
I'm glad to see Boyd has branched out from his online toast site. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
That’s an interesting point. Again likely valid but also hinting at an industry sickness that doesn’t value quality but something specious and generic
It's not a question of IP addresses, it's about connections.
One rule I try to go by, and I feel like this should be a pretty moderate take but isn't actually that commonly stated:

If we're talking about Rails at least, then meta-programming/magic/indirection, all that should be very rare in application code. It makes sense sometimes in more abstract libraries, where you have to handle flexible problems, but in application code it's really worthwhile to just be straightforward and verbose.
> see companies trying to claim that

You're not paying attention.
Did you see the Internet Brands return to home viral corp video they emberrassingly took down?
Port of Amsterdam: David Bowie, Right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPZIG5BHD4

Non. Jacques Brel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p7RNVhHGbY
I know it's not a Ask HN post, but for most of my Windows using years, it boiled down to Gimp. It was, and still is, such a slow-loading poorly-functioning image editor that I assumed all of GNU/Linux was just as bad as it was. When people try something, it's the one thing that sucked that they remember the most. Then, when I entered the workforce, all the developers used Mac so I switched to that. I eventually got a Linux laptop as my main work laptop, but that wasn't my choice, the company just required it.
I think the article nails it when they talk about requirements docs being useless: people don't know what they want/need. Same in "the old days" of software development, same now with LLMs.

It certainly gives me pause for thought - while LLMs right now are worse than useless due to hallucinations meaning you cannot trust a single thing they say, I am sure that will improve over the years. But if people cannot even express or articulate what they want (even well-educated, highly-literate people) then I can't see LLMs replacing too many jobs in the near to mid term.
Same. I typically define a function "void bp1(){}" in a common utility file, put "bp1();" where I need a breakpoint, and "b bp1" in gdb. Hacky, sure, but really convenient.
I took the Tim Leary approach.

I’m so happy I don’t have to deal with the crap Bob or Simone deals with.
Thanks, this is useful.

d. can generalize (as you do say) into offering my expertise at something they're interested in (like, getting a Linux laptop); an expertise exchange as it were.
I agree. After reading Flash Boys, I started doubting the credibility of his previous works.

In flash Boys, Lewis asserted:

- Pushing confidential codes to a personal SVN hosting (or sending them to your personal email account) is perfectly fine.

- Deleting .bash_history is a normal practice.

- Also he clearly did not understand how GPL works.

Wes Big Short (or Money Ball) a legit work, or just a fun-to-read story?
> Spotify has a smaller pie due to their millions of unpaid listeners…

FWIW, in that case Spotify is still paid, just by advertisers.
Yeah but what’s changed. Back in the day those bigs I mention don’t have polish at all at first but people wanted what they had. Now people look to polish
> So, "Kids aren't as excited about getting things they're not familiar with."?

These kids are poor they're not extraterrestrials.

I don't think it's fair to say poor kids aren't familiar with money. The study is on 12-14 year olds. The majority of kids buy lunch at school and even the ones on the free lunch program see their peers who splurge on 2 cookies or a soda from the vending machine or w/e.

My mom was a teacher, we were on welfare but that doesn't mean I wouldn't sometimes get birthday money. I collected coins from between the sofa cushions for junk food. I did odd jobs for spending money in the summer. I knew what money was and what it was for. Arguably more than well off kids.

> "oh nice I know something I can do with that!"

Why is that implied to be the rich kids response and not the poor kids? I worked in my dads convenience store when I was 12 and I saved up all summer so I could buy a ps2. Why is it assumed the poor kid isn't saving for anything?
That’s a good point. They sort of did too!
I expected much worse from the title, when I saw dr pimple popper was the example I had to chuckle.
> Anki can help you identify leeches. Each time a review card 'lapses' (is failed while it is in review mode), a counter increases. When this counter reaches 8, Anki tags the note as a leech and suspends the card. The threshold, and whether to suspend or not, can be adjusted in the deck options.

> If you keep failing that card, Anki will continue to alert you about the leech periodically. These warnings occur at half the initial leech threshold. For example, if you set the warning at 8 lapses, future warnings will happen every 4 lapses (at 12, 16, and so on).

Suspend means you never see the card again. So how could you keep failing it after it's been suspended for being a leech?
Aside from being cute, and maybe harking back to why’s guide; I like how this feels like it aids in understanding. Each illustration provides character that helps aid in memorizing or creating a mental landscape of the exceptions.

Theres probably a lot of documentation that could be aided by illustrations like this along the lines of analogy and metaphor. Aside from making the process of reading documentation more fun, it probably helps differentiate long and complex documentation that otherwise might blur together.
This is important to understand! Don’t debase yourself with phoney testimonials it only erodes trust
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EXACTLY.

The game used to have one rule: "Don't be a dick."

The game used to pride itself on having banned fewer players than the number of players who met and got married in real life.

Eventually the community realized that wasn't a good thing. If you've banned almost nobody, it doesn't mean that everyone in your community is being nice and wonderful and not harming anyone else, it means that you've only been told about the most egregious and obvious cases.

It means a dozen different cliques can decide for themselves on how people "ought to" interact and play.

A big CoC doesn't mean everyone's a judgmental lawyer. Traffic codes in the US have thousand and thousands of words for different edge cases. But it doesn't mean everyone goes around with a camera and a lawyer in their backseat, people generally understand "hey don't speed and don't run red lights and don't drive drunk".
I want to be able to buy pasta in the shape of little klein bottles.
Surprised they didn’t include the blue cube… Defense and Defense applications (including NASA) were some of the key funders for much of the “silicon” in Silicon Valley…
It’s a good point. I wonder why tho?
There are no Apple services being used?
True, good point. It just looked different I guess
I think root problem here is trying to estimate the net present value of work that may take several quarters to play out. This forces everyone to be fairly conservative in their estimates and generally results in institutional high time prefrence.

Idealy, comp would recognize and compensate the concrete/realized impact rather than expetcted impact but doing so would require that retroactive compensation be dependable implying either payout independent of present employmet status or long average tenures in lieu.

In this enviroment, having people reguarly & annonymously assess/attribute the extent to which their work was enabled/assisted by their peers would be more straight forward.
I think the entire field/practice of "Performance Management" as it stands today needs to be thrown out and reinvented from ground-up by Behavioural Psychologists/Biologists on a proper scientific base. The current practice is basically ad-hoc management with some so-called scientific methods/metrics thrown in based on the current fad.

As an example; here is a long list of Cognitive Biases from wikipedia to ponder over - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
It's kind of got MUD energy to it from my understanding, but it's purely browser-based. There's a whole game to it, but the draw for me is the roleplay and the player-built places.
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Yeah that’s a weird thing hey. People who don’t know how to do it selling to people who want to learn how to do it all based on a lie. it’s like some kind of pyramid scheme.
Programmers are the least capable engineers but the most cocksure and entitled

Am an EE and I cannot stand the CS people at work. Oh you wrapped well known math in machine syntax sugar, none of which you invented, or defined? High 5, edgelord.
You need only one, to run the emulator.
i found it relevant to me
Use the urgent/important matrix.

To be honest, anything specific to your business or client facing you should probably do if it’s small, or is commercial in nature, to control the quality. Anything service based can be outsourced.
Two similar situations:

- a coworker and close friend was moving into management. Went poorly. We both left within six months. We had worked incredibly well together as peers.

- I joined a startup where, unbeknownst to me, the engineer who became CTO and an early hire were best friends since college. The early hire became an engineering director. He was awful. His reports knew it. We had to humor him and stop him from making bad decisions when we could. Eventually he stopped being involved in engineering, and stuck to strategy discussions with his buddy the CTO.

That company recently made headlines for hosting image generating models fine-tuned to generate CP. The founders knew about it for months beforehand. It was their only paying customer after $100MM venture capital, so they kept with it until the news came out.
Hundreds of thousands of words, and that's not counting the fantastic roleplay community and the places that they've built.

Some of which have programming.

Some of THOSE have created miniature games inside of those places, complete with events, character statistics, and a character creator. I've been on this site for ten years and never come close to that level of creative madness, and I will always deeply respect those loveable maniacs.
I have a similar background to you. I am currently a full-time software developer who is very interested in classical music and music theory. I take piano lessons on a weekly basis. It's good to know that there are other like minded individuals out there.
Community. You need to build community.

Many of the things you list, I've found through making friends in my community. I really really trust my dentist, my mechanic, my doctor, my dog watcher, my vet, my barista, my local small business owners. I know them personally, they trust me and I trust them.

It takes time, but if you out effort in, you get 10x out.
This is truly inspiring. Authentic is the way to go! Hahaha :)
Hi Boss any income earned in the US is taxable. It's important to understand the tax laws while doing business there. It doesn't mean you automatically owe tax. Moving your money off-shore has been done for years by the rich and famous, but it's a guaranteed way to get audited. To avoid an audit keep your "earned-income" in the poverty level (below 20K USD) If your earning 50K you fit right into the retiree profile and boomers are often overlooked unless of course they have some really big 1099K showing untaxed income. Using a credit "WISE" bank account will give you a USA bank account, they will mark which country the money was wired to for off-shore accounts. It also doesn't mean you'll have to pay taxes directly nor will they deduct tax from your bank account. Work with a certified CPA to avoid paying too much tax i.e 30%. Becare your own country laws now often tax digital income i.e bitcoin.
They are.

They are not the only kind though.
> Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time.

I doubt anything requires Anki; rather it's more efficient than the alternatives.
It's mostly true.

What's also mostly true is people have a mostly incorrect perception of their abilities.

It's like when 85% of drivers believe they are above average.

If it was mostly untrue, they'd be crushed by a competitor who did a better job.
Any chance of WebSocket being enabled too?
I mean non-ridiculous companies/people claiming that.

Google definitely used to have that mythos/meme (said by others, so the company didn't have to say it), but I don't hear anyone saying that recently.
> ancient exploitation strings from 30 years ago that haven't worked on any serious webserver since that time

Unfortunately, there are plenty of serious (business critical) servers that _ARE_ vulnerable to these types of attacks. I've found and remediated things like this all the time. One very common example I've seen of the `.env` issue is Django servers that are exposed to the internet in with debug=True. There's probably thousands if not tens of thousands of servers leaking credentials this way on the internet now.

Beyond that, companies often have internal systems that do not meet the same security standards that external systems require, and sometimes those systems get shifted around, maybe it's moved to a new subnet, maybe a third-party needs access and the CIDR range gets fat fingered in the firewall. Regardless - now that "internal system" is exposed to the internet with all the dangerous configuration.
I wish I could do an indoor vertical farm just for beans, to get them exactly the way I want them. I know, a single espresso would cost me maybe $5 if doing it this way, but it could be a nice hobby.
Wow that’s some selfish behaviour!
For a one-button option, I think I'd like something like a knob pointing to the current state (like a label saying ON), which when clicked would point to the other state (OFF). Both labels should be visible at all times. I think people may understand knobs. I'm an absolute fan of skeuomorphism but you may be able to design something more abstract (but that's a slippery slope so hopefully not).
Hydroponic coffee – has anyone attempted this?
Big tech or otherwise, non-solicits are no joke.

Be aware of them, and their enforcement in your jurisdiction.
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Poke your head into Banter sometime! I'm almost the exact opposite, having barely touched the mechanical side of the game in ages, and I always like to say hi to other players. Especially if they've been around and love the setting!
Extreme metal guitar skill linked to intrasexual competition, not mating success
Sadly this would be illegal in Australia.
> I found it took me 3-4 months of absolutely nothing to not feel burnt out.

That seems a universal experience. And to be more clear, absolutely nothing to think about, because even a sabbatical wouldn't save you if you think about post-sabbatical matters.

I took a year of non-employment in 2022 after 7 1/2 years of working in the same big corp. My experience shows that it takes me 1 to 2 years until I start to feel burnt out and need something new to work on, and fortunately the company was able to provide such refresher on time (not necessarily at my request) but wasn't able to do this time. So I quit, and next 3--4 months were absolutely non-productive time for me. (I have a ton of side projects at any moment and I realized my burn-out from not being able to work on any of them.) But that followed by a very productive period without any frustration [1], and I was eventually energized enough at the end of 2022.

Sadly not everyone can't afford this, I know, but if you can, consider doing so too. A year should be enough to clear your mind and start anew again, assuming you don't have any other significant problem affecting your life.

[1] J40 https://github.com/lifthrasiir/j40 was mostly written in this period.
> I’m interested in your ability to maintain very complex business logic over the course of years.

I think this is a bit over the top. You can maintain complex business logic in any language (any language!) for decades with discipline and good software development processes.

Ruby lets you do a lot that could bite you, but it's people who write code.
Yeah, it's too bad there isn't a metric for creative endeavors.
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Oh, come on. It's easy enough to figure out! It's always the other button, as in not the one labeled Cancel. Or No. Rarely, Reject/Fail/Abort. Except when there's only one button, then you use the X in the corner. If it's there.

What could be simpler?
I got exhausted just reading this. Unless I'm getting paid big $$$$ to be the Chief Security Officer its not my problem. I just document and move on. I'm not even in InfoSec. I always tag in infosec if there is such a department. Sometimes they stop the foolish behavior sometimes they don't. Its their job.

Perhaps on HN there are lots of people getting that FAANG salary but I'm not one of them. I'm not going to sacrifice my sanity and health for standard industry pay. If they pay average that is what they get. I recommend more people do the same, its part of why everyone is going insane nowadays, popping pills, therapy. Because they are fearfully trying to do the job of 20 people.

>prepare for the first "real fight"

> talk VIPs/whatever out of their temporary obsession

F that to h3ll and back. Not my responsibility unless I'm getting paid. The world would be getting better not worse if more people actually fought for their sanity rather than doing work for free. Paid or having a seat at the table, meaning actually having equal authority to the big whigs making hamfisted decisions that they don't understand. Too many people are in charge that should not be. Let them burn.

> forced to stop as it was "too embarrassing"

Exactly my point.
That's not really new is it?

Do you think Steve Wosniak's career would have been different if he had had those promotional soft skills?
Jim Chanos?
For a long time I thought Bernie Madoff was a joke on this because he 'made off' with everyone's money.

It's almost as bad as the people who gave Ponzi their money despite the hint being right there in his name /s
> It was much less effort to just write everything myself because I actually know what I want to write

This aligns with my observations. I don't use Copilot etc. but the other devs on my small team do. I've observed that I'm generally a faster and more confident type and coder - not knocking their skills, I'm just more experienced, and also spent my teens reading and writing a lot.

I've seen that it helps them in cases where they're less certain what they're doing, but also when they know what they're doing and it's quicker about it.
Curious how this works. I've experimented with in-browser vector search using victor[1] with mixed results. Hadn't heard of this orama lib before checking out your project.

[1]: https://github.com/not-pizza/victor
I joined a startup recently (it was > 18 months ago at this point). It seemed promising but it was also strange...

I interviewed with the Engineering Director and a manager. Then I had a couple of rounds with ICs. Everything seemed great. I got an offer and accepted it.

When I started, though, one of the people who, during interviews was presented to me as an IC, was now my manager. They had an associate title. I tried to work through it. It was fucking horrible. It was hard but I walked from that job without anything lined up.

By the end of my employment there, I had learned that the entire C-suite was all friends through previous employment. That Director and the original manager were best friends from high school. The associate manager was also a friend of theirs from high school. The Ops/Infra director was also a friend of theirs from high school. And on and on it went.

OP, if you see this... Tread very carefully.
> I was a practising psychotherapist for over 25 years.

> Never once have I seen a Self-Actualized person.

Would a self-actualized person seek psychotherapy? This perception could be due to sampling bias.
The point is how useless the word “fair” is when describing prices.
Binance has contributed more than 51.7% of the total burn, or about 50 billion LUNC.
The community’s average weekly LUNC burn has climbed significantly since November.
Since May 2022, the LUNC burn campaign within the Terra Luna Classic community has surpassed 95 billion LUNC. The community’s efforts to decrease the amount of LUNC circulating have reached another milestone. By far, Binance has contributed more than 51.7% of the total burn, or about 50 billion LUNC.

By transferring billions to the burn address every month as part of its LUNC burn mechanism, Binance has added more than 51% to the overall LUNC burn. For the 17th round of the LUNC burn mechanism, Binance burnt 5.57 billion tokens. Up to this point, the crypto exchange has burnt over 50 billion LUNC.
Poorly. I did all the work while my friend goofed off and ran personal errands all day. The friend eventually made a fortune selling their equity and retired young. I did not get awarded the same privilege. We no longer speak and I still get angry when I think about that.

On the other hand, I have made good friends through the workplace who I would start a startup with in a heartbeat.
Sue everyone involved for defamation. No more immunity for hosting user-generated content because people abused the privilege. Problem solved.

The bad keeps happening because there is no financial incentive to change. Platforms are all too happy to look the other way because there's no risk to them. Change that.

As much as I find them distasteful, I'll agree that deepfakes should be outlawed as harassment the same day someone holds teenaged girls spreading rumors to the same standard.