skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a coincidence! I've got my dream job too!

The things I did to get here are honestly kind of stupid. I started out at a defense contractor after graduating and left in the first six months because all the software devs were jumping ship. Went to a small business defense contractor (yep that's a thing) and learned to build web apps with React and Django. Then the pace of business slowed so after about 18 months I got on the Leetcode grind and got into a FAANG. Realized I hated it, so I quit after about 9 months with no job lined up.

While unemployed I convinced myself I was going to get a job in robotics (I actually got pretty close, I had 3 final level interviews with robotics companies), but the job market went to shit pretty much the exact day I quit my job lol. I spent about 6 months just learning ROS, Inverse Kinematics, math for robotics, gradient descent and optimization, localization, path planning, mapping etc. I taught at a game development summer camp for a month and a half, that was awesome. Working with kids is always a blast. Also learned Rust and built a prototype for a multiplayer browser-based coding game I had been thinking about for a while. It was an excuse to make a full stack application with some fun infrastructure stuff.

https://ai-arena.com/#/multiplayer

The backend is no longer running, but originally users could see their territory on the galaxy grow as their code won battles for them.

For the current role, I really just got lucky. The previous engineer was on his way out for non-job related reasons. He had read a lot of the books I had (Code Complete, Domain Driven Design) and I think we just connected over shared interests and intellectual curiosity.

I think that in the modern day, so many people are really just in this space for the paycheck-- and that's okay! Everyone needs to make a living. But I think that if you have that intellectual curiosity and like making stuff, people will see that and get excited. It ends up being a blessing and a curse.

I have failed interviews because of honesty "I would Google the names of books and read up on that subject" or "I think if I was doing CSS then I would be in the wrong role" (I realize how douchey that sounds but I just was not meant to design things, I have tried). But I have also gone further in interviews than I should have because I was really engrossed in a particular problem like path planning or inverse kinematics and I was able to talk about things in plain terms.

I think it's easier to learn things quickly if they are something you're actually interested in, it becomes effortless. Basically I just try to do that so I can learn optimally, then I try to get lucky.

EDIT: Oh I just thought of more good advice. Find senior devs to learn from. They can be kind of grumpy in their online presence, but they help you avoid so many tar pits. I am in a Discord channel with a handful of senior engineers. The best way to get feedback is to naively say "I'm going to do X", they will immediately let you know why X is a bad idea. A lot of their advice boils down to KISS and use languages with strong typing.
Self-selection: Goodreads main function is to recommend a next book to read to people who like reading. No wonder Goodreads users read more than an average American.
Yes this is one of the risks of working for a very small employer. A lot of the normal rules don't apply. But if a company is big enough to have "HR" I'm guessing they likely are bigger than 50 employees.
That isn't a feeling though, it's a thing they think. It's a judgement on the actions of others.
I don't see how the Euro is ever going to go back to being backed by gold, that makes no sense at all. It never was backed by gold since the day it was created.
There are ways to address this problem, but in any case this is still ultimately a very good problem for property owners to have. Their property value has increased dramatically. Being forced to move is inconvenient, but you do so with a large bag of cash.
How to Submit a Proposal: Standard C++
There are many innovative and critically acclaimed titles in the independent game scene, though they are obviously judged on different criteria by taking advantage of the interactive medium. Inside, Disco Elysium, and Kentucky Route Zero, just to name a few.

Mainstream gaming is still getting there, but to me titles like The Last of Us Part 2 are on par with classic HBO shows like Six Feet Under.
A dating app with credit scores: what's not to love?
Companies are always going to chase money, that is their nature. If we want to save the planet we need to make incentives aligned so companies want to do that.

Bemoaning capitalism does nothing to save the planet. The world exists as it is, not as we'd like it to be. Solutions need to work within the system, otherwise they are just a distraction.
https://archive.ph/Sopwy#selection-1503.0-1503.52
Oh wow, Irrlicht! I remember very briefly messing around with that in ~2008. Seems like it's still around but the OP left the project[1].

1. https://irrlicht3d.org/impressum.html#:~:text=Irrlicht

I wonder if Blitz BASIC is still going...
This is 100% not how I write it.

Only thing I agree on is putting all the paths in one file.

In most other programming languages I've done a lot of research how to make it nice and clean.

Was hoping this was it for Go because I'm cleaning up a big project.

But my very basic no nonsense current setup seems better to me than this in many ways.

If anybody has another example that is a lot better (and I don't mean complexer I don't have those ego issues), I am very interested.

But this I want to hide as best as I can from my dev team this is all wrong. It's clever in a lot of ways but it's wrong.

It does not have unit testing at all, all these tests would be duplicated in the end-to-end test.

I also like end-to-end tests better but why put them here, way better to put them in postman for example then you have the most up to date documentation always auto-generated.

Passing the config, man I had so many discussions with junior developers about this, don't do that you'll make things dependent on the config and cannot reuse them in other programs. But that was already mentioned a lot here.

There are also a lot of functions with like 10 arguments passed. If you have that many arguments just pass a stuct containing a lot of the arguments it's always super confusing when people make functions with 12 arguments. I'm always counting them an after 14 times counting I rewrite their function.

It's a matter of style so keep doing it this way if you like it, but it's not my style at all it makes no sense at all to me.

If anybody knows a better example please tell me.
The reason for the negative view of HN is because the community skews way farther left than the general public.

Case in point: this story comes from a website dedicated to promoting socialism and not one single person here is even questioning the credibility of the source.
Yes, I took that into account.
It's less like a thousand paper cuts, and more like it removes their stillsuit so they dry out.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit
All that's old is new again. The Isolator helmet, from 1925:

<https://laughingsquid.com/the-isolator-bizarre-helmet-1925/>
Gaming is more active than reading. Maybe you're also thinking of imagination's involvment?
You need to fix the problem, but fixing it by Prop 13 has numerous issues. If it had been deferred as a lien against future sale/inheritance, or didn't apply to commercial properties, or ...
There’s no such decline in consumption. There’s always been a horde of illiterate people among the lower classes because decoding written letters is a very abstract and complicated intellectual activity.

A few centuries ago, the illiteracy rate was way higher. But it’s always been mostly been niche activity for intelligent people, that’s why the school used to focus on training that skill
My understanding is that book bestseller lists are essentially just opinions, e.g. NYT has a select list of book stores they contact to gather sales information. There are no industry-wide sales metrics, unlike the music industry.

From what I've read, this is why you never see Christian literature on the top seller lists. The Christian publishing industry is absolutely massive and would consistently dominate any objective top sellers list.
The depth of a book is vastly different than the 10min youtube video summarizing said book. I’ve tried both modern and legacy form factors and honestly I’m on camp book more and more as the years go on.

The modern stuff feels like total fluff compared to a book, which in turn feel like total fluff compared to the academic papers it is based on. These days I would rather spend 2 hours reading a good book or paper than 10 minutes watching an engagement-optimized edutainment video.

And for the really good stuff you have to go even more legacy – conversation with an expert. A medium older even than books. That’s where you get the stuff that hasn’t made it into papers yet, let alone the downstream half-digested edutainment stuff.
It wrongfully states that Win32 was the first framework.
In fact, Win16 was the first framework. Win32 only appeared in Windows 3.11 in 1993 (also, in the newly released Windows NT as well).
There are so many.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one great artistic work. If you haven't played it, you haven't experienced the peak of a massive wildly recognized medium. Last of Us (the show) was essentially copied verbatim from the video game, scene for scene.

On the entire opposite side of the complexity spectrum, both Limbo and Inside are great artistic works.
Ractive was great, like Knockout++

Svelte was then like Ractive++ as well
Come on, that's a lame argument and completely subjective.

What makes LotR a "great artistic work"? What makes Stardew Valley not a "great artistic work"?

Just like some books, films, or other art can resonate and have a profound impact on a person, so can video games.
I'm surprised there'd be that much noise in the Steam Hardware Survey.
Every Simple Configuration Language Will Eventually End Up Turing Complete
> I personally think it's awful to see elderly people getting priced out of a house they've owned for decades

Housing being seen as this generational I own it forever thing that Americans have doesn’t also square with the American narrative of housing as an investment.

It’s one or the other. If you want housing to be seen as something that more or less “always goes up” but you can’t be taxed in the increased value then you are by nature distorting market dynamics you don’t see elsewhere.

We need a land value tax instead it’s more fair and less volatile
You don't shout your physical keys into the sky every time you unlock your door for anyone in a 100m radius to hear.
Your counterpoint that it's not common has the same level of evidence in it as the original assertion: none.
No I didn't, I didn't know if you actually used it, but I see a few comments on GitHub now that you mentioned it!
I'm not sure if you're trying to make some sort of joke or not, but that's not really related at all. This tower thing was just something in a remote location being dismantled in between regular visits, which is not at all how Copperfield accomplished those illusions.
> now the remaining workforce has to adjust and "do more with less,"

If those cut were actually low performers, not necessarily. If the attrition was dead weight or worse, incompetent, their good performing peers might do much better since they’re no longer cleaning up someone else’s mess or being demoralized that someone is getting away with doing nothing but still getting paid. The manager of dead weight gains time to be more involved or strategic, peer teams no longer waste time communicating to a useless person, small mistakes stop multiplying, etc.

It’s situational, but I don’t think cutting low performers is a problem if there’s serious performance problems and it’s not just being used as an excuse or being applied blindly like stack ranking.
Sorry but isn't this disingenuous?

Reading a summary of the book in Wikipedia/Blinkist/ChatGPT is definitely not the same as the reading book.

Sure, you may grasp at the central idea or argument superficially, but to understand it fully, with its caveats and nuances, and overarching context?

You can regurgitate but not assimilate.
It very much contradicts what I said earlier. Don't remember the source. The only difference is that this also includes listening to audio-books. 53% in 2023, for 18-29 year-old, according to your source. Thanks for the correction.
I’ve refactored a large js code base into ts. Found one such bug for every ~2kloc. The obvious ones are found quickly in untyped code, the problem is in rare cases where you e.g. check truthiness on something that ends up always true.
I think glasshouse is truly excellent, but to me it's not terribly representative of the other works (most of which I also enjoy - they're just different).
> knowledge is in a form of youtube videos

Hardly it almost always a shortened more approachable summary of something described in a book. Also (IMHO) videos are a horrible format for transferring knowledge, it’s slow AF compared to reading and impossible to search, you have to consume it mostly sequentially
Published papers have to go through a reviewing process. You can see peer review feedback here: https://openreview.net
or simply reading wikipedia articles.
Should you be fired if there is anecdotal evidence that you commit misconduct?
I can see how auto correlation might work on the signal traces if you have enough of them.
this shows why it's impossible for "HN" readers and like-minded people to agree on anything. the entire rest of mankind isn't bothered by such nonsense:

- the bureaucrat that comes up with the sign does not carefully consider the wording of the sign nor the ordinance, it's frequently more than a little vague, but it doesn't matter. his point is to assert control over something, no matter how trivial. a long complicated, precisely worded sign is unhelpful to him, simple words and having a good amount of ambiguity are both to his benefit.

- the guy that does whatever the sign says not to on purpose parks his lifted truck on a boulder in the middle park after ripping up the grass a little. if the police were around he wouldn't do this, but they aren't, so he is definitely not a coward or a conformist at all. his girlfriend regrets her choices.

- the police are who enforces the rule, so it's irrelevant whether they are breaking the rule or not. the other emergency services operate, in the police's opinion, under their protection/direction, so they're usually ok too.

- the pedant pulls out the oxford dictionary and argues about whether a stroller or the aircraft or tank on display technically violates the rule. nobody notices unless another pedant shows up and starts quoting HN statistics or arguing the virtues of webster's vs. oxford. it's irrelevant anyhow because neither of them know how to drive, which is honestly the ethical thing. an argument breaks out about whether the reason it's ethical is because of pedestrian fatalities or global warming.

- nobody cares whether the tank is a violating the rules because it weighs 50 tons (ok damnit you pedant 42 tons), the owner is the city who isn't going to fine itself, and nobody is going to tow that thing.

- karen shows up and tries to tell a much more socially adept mom that her stroller is a vehicle and against the rules. when the karen is first ignored and then told exactly where to stick it, thanks to tik-tok the community has an ad-hoc emergency real-time vote about the issue and the consensus is that karen is burned at the stake, metaphorically (usually).

- everybody else notices (or doesn't) the sign, doesn't read it that carefully, and just mostly does what everyone else does anyhow.

- the park department eventually puts up bollards that effectively define "vehicle" as things that do not get stuck on and fit through the bollards. Excepting the things that got lifted in there by a crane or have the key to the gate.

in actual fact, everybody does sort of agree in real life. even the assholes that don't follow the rules usually know it (i mean, that's the whole point). a few folks are truly oblivious, but they usually just do what everyone else does anyhow.
right now it's only the scrolls

but I bet they're coming for the parchments later then the papers and finally the books!

when does it end!!??
They are just functionaries of the system who don't want to lose their job. Capital is in charge. This is capitalism after all.
Posterity only remembers the most acclaimed pieces, there are plenty of airport novels no one remembers and that have nothing to envy to modern Tiktok.
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I know this is humor but:

a. the original poll this article is based on says that 1% of the US population reads 50+ books a week; 1% of 3.3*10^8 people is still a lot of people.

b. some books are much easier to read than others, are your friends just kicking back once a week with a competently-written potboiler in a genre they've been reading half their life, or are they reading one abstruse 800-page tome after another? Or are they reading kid's books to a child in their life?

Lying's certainly a possibility too, but so's marking something as "read" when you actually abandoned it somewhere before the end - and that's a spectrum too; when I read Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" I abandoned it about ten pages before the end but I'd still say I "read" it. If I'd only gotten ten pages in I wouldn't say that.
Wouldn't it be easier to destroy the supports, causing it to fall?

As long as the power is off, this seems faster.
>>> It's always the over-40 who are under suspicion.

Because of our (over 40s) years of watching bad policy after bad policy destroying our work places, and speaking up.
> There’s no such decline in consumption

Isn’t it? Weren’t people reading more books on average if we go back a decade or few?
Cosmology of Kyoto, according to Roger Ebert.
Condos are politically caught between a rock and a hard place: leftists who think they turn cities into playgrounds for the rich, and reactionaries who think the government is trying to force everyone into multi-unit buildings.

Ownership is nice for the long term, but sometimes people just aren't ready for that. Some careers nowadays involve several training periods which happen in multiple different cities and stretch out for 8-12 years. Sometimes to get a good job in a less dynamic city you are better off working in SF/NY for a few years after school even if that's not where you want to end up. Maybe people learn faster that way. Retirees may be better off renting if they don't want to do maintenance and may only live there for a decade before moving into assisted living.
It’s basically impossible to rent a place worth living in Boston without paying a broker fee. Even the listings you find yourself on craigslist won’t rent to you unless you pony up the fee.

When I rented a place in Cambridge in 2019, the rent was $3200/month. To get the lease signed I had to write a check for 4x that amount (first+last+security deposit+broker fee). $12,800 before even dealing with any moving costs.

The worst thing about it is that it increases the cost of moving very significantly. So people are coerced into accepting large rent increases as long as the increase is less than forking out another broker fee to move to a cheaper apartment.
I am yet to meet an IRL person who believes Azure has "sane management interface". In my experience it was horribly inconvenient, filled with weird anti-UX solutions that were completely unnecessary. It maybe shows you all at once, or at least tries to, but it's such a horrible idea for a complex system. Non-surprisingly it never worked properly with various widgets hanging or erroring-out. It was impossible to see wtf is going on, what state it is in, or how to do anything about it. Azure will always be an example of a web UI done horribly wrong. This does actually not surprise me at all since Microsoft products are known for this. Every time I need to extend my kids Xbox subscriptions I have to pull my hair out to figure out how to do it in their web mess.

How can you even compare it to AWS is a mystery to me. There are pages showing all your resources, not sure why you think it's a problem. Could be a problem from long time ago?
Why is that infuriating? It’s accurate, acknowledges the suboptimal photo choice (or availability), and has some humor. As an editor, given this as your only photo choice, what caption would you write?
Yes I did, and he continued to work, the writer alleged many things, and he continued to work to his death.

I've known people that just didn't quit, even when it was better for them to. The context was he continued to work, again and again with claims from someone who wrote for a very biased publication.

> On the Sunday before Dariusz died, he asked the supervisor to transfer him to another department because he was fed up with working too hard. Despite the requests, he continued to work alone at his post for about five hours.

Something isn't adding up.
Resource requirements expand until it they hit a user-noticable limit. Even ultra-compressed every-bit-counts encodings[0] would be ignored and abused until they're bloated to a user-noticable limit. Or the extra bandwidth would be used for more video ads.

> how much, if any, progress might have been slowed by XML syntax clogging the pipes even more.

Depends what you mean by "progress", and if you think Web development has been improving or devolving over time.

[0]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/functio...
If that's the intention everyone who uses this software opens themselves up to age discrimination lawsuits (40 years of age is the cutoff). This is either a really dumb way to market a product or it's actually meant to detect those discriminatory policies so employers can undo them before someone decides to sue.
I have a hard time believing 54% did read a book. 18% of the U.S. population is functionally illiterate, and I don't know for you, I really don't feel like reading a book after I work the whole day at a computer.
Typical for Amazon: abuse, fear, intimidation, slavery
Any language which supports private state: smalltalk, haskell, ada, rust, …
I usually develop locally with the vscode debugger. On staging servers I often do remote vscode sessions also. On production I often use the REPL since I don’t want to install additional tools, but still need to inspect the state of a pipeline in a more step-by-step fashion.
Lots of economic activity goes into supporting Chesterfield fences.
Why oh why did WYSIWYG go away? When I dabble in web development it’s so frustrating compared to what we had 20+ years ago with C# and WinForms. I just want to make some buttons and menus and hook them up to a little logic! Argh.
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing 'devastating' tipping point, study finds
> I'll continue to boycott Amazon.

You're not the only one. I haven't bought anything from Amazon in the past five years or so.
> The existence of punitive damages already throws out the idea that civil suits are just about real measured harm and includes the state overlaying elements of criminality on top of civil suits to punish wrongdoing.

No, it has nothing to do with elements of criminality.

It's the simple fact that if civil actions resulted in only restitution and nothing more, then everybody would be committing torts whenever they could, because sometimes you'll get away with it and sometimes you won't, but statistically you'll always come out ahead. Because sometimes people don't bring charges, sometimes they're too hard to prove, etc.

So the additional punishment is a way to correct that, to ensure that civil suits still function as deterrence. To ensure that if we only count the suits successfully brought and prosecuted, the tort-committer will still lose overall in the end.

There's nothing to do with criminality here, which is prosecuted by the state rather than by a private party.
US lenders' debt to shadow banks passes $1T