skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pixelmator + parts of the Affinity suite got me out of their clutches

I haven't used Pixelmator, but currently use Affinity as a replacement for Photoshop for my personal projects. Unfortunately, Affinity isn't yet good enough to replace Photoshop for work.

Are you able to outline how Pixelmator stacks up against Affinity Photo?
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30
I don't see anything in the article that's new, in spite of the title. I had a dentist in 2005 tell me I needed two root canals, replacement of a bunch of teeth, and other things I don't remember.

As I was leaving, the lady at the desk was trying to intimidate me into getting the root canals scheduled before I left the office. It was absolutely imperative that I get the work done. I knew he was a crook, so I ignored everything he said and went to a different dentist for my next regular appointment. That dentist only found a few minor things to keep an eye on in case they got worse.

To my knowledge, there are no checks on these scam artists. At least for gasoline stations they'll check the accuracy every so often.
If you're not going to listen to the answers, why did you ask the question?
Suppose you declare some:

const transformFoo: (foos: Foo[]) => Bar

and you start implementing it and get stuck with some callback or whatever you can put a `hole` and it will tell you the type signature of what you're missing.
Shake was a big one. Apple loved to put Lord of the Rings and King Kong on its homepage, but Jobs always seemed pissed that they couldn't dumb Shake down. Artists at Weta, ILM, Etc and others were not about to tolerate a gimped product.

Unfortunate side note: Apple was going to open-source Shake, but abandoned the idea after realizing it would face an endless parade of patent trolls if people were able to scour the entire codebase line by line.
Remember where the colours are when solved is overstating it a bit, you can look at the corners for the answer. Otherwise yep.
Also, if you'd like to stay up to date with product updates I'll be posting them on my twitter: https://x.com/kylem_dev
Current Microsoft employee here. Every tech company I've worked at has some bullshit aspects to it. I was just telling someone yesterday about the first company I worked at where we were required to track our time on various projects in 15-minute increments, but it just led to everyone punching in some semi-plausible numbers. I guess Microsoft's bullshit - from the author's perspective - is that it uses Connects and it focuses on growth mindset?

A lot of anecdata in the article, so I guess I'll add mine here: I don't think the Connect process is too onerous, and I don't think any of my managers have ever really brought up the subject of growth mindset except for as it relates to our twice-yearly or sometimes quarterly Connects. YMMV depending on the group and team you're in, but growth mindset is very much in the background for me. And while I do have my copy of Hit Refresh on my bookshelf that I was given, no one has ever used it to push any talking points or corporate agenda. It was really just kind of a PR push.

This article feels like it's making a mountain out of a molehill to push an agenda. Maybe all the people this author interviewed have a particular angle, but the overall "culty" message here does not ring true to me at all.

Also, to be picky:

> Over the coming decades, [Carol Dweck] further refined and defined her ideas, coining the terms “growth mindset” and “fixed mindset” in 2012, a mere five years before Nadella took over at Microsoft.

Nadella became CEO in 2014. At least get the objective facts right, please.
Grapefruit can interfere with some medications but not all. If you fear it might interfere, I would suggest asking your doctor.
The effectiveness of any political system (and a large corporation is a political system) comes down to its porousness. Too rigid and it breaks, too porous and it's not a coherent system at all.

Whenever you hear "it means whatever it has to mean at a given time", they're approaching a Wittgensteinian truth: language _always means_ whatever it has to mean at a given time. We do not judge each other by measuring a persons understanding of our words: it's immeasurable. We judge each other by the outcomes of their actions. Microsoft's revenue and valuations are up, thus the ideas "work" in the darwinian sense. Nothing else matters. Words are fundamentally meaningless, and communication of truth is fundamentally impossible.
I'm guessing that one is "Boomer", but I don't think it is so taboo that it cannot be uttered yet.
Nice one. I wrote about this a while ago, from a slightly different perspective, focusing on data change events [1]. Making a similar differentiation there between id-only events (which you describe as triggers of action; from a data change feed perspective, that action typically would be a re-select of the current state of the represented record), full events (your carriers of data) and patch events (carriers of data with only the subset of attributes whose value has changed).

[1] https://www.decodable.co/blog/taxonomy-of-data-change-events
I like this blog, but a lot of the "religious zealot" connotations and assertions like "Microsoft's corporate culture is built on a joint subservience to abusive pseudoscience and the evaluations of hallucination-prone artificial intelligence" in this post are breathless hyperbole. He's trying to paint a picture of conference rooms filled weekly with people doing bible studies on Hit Refresh when that's really not the case at all in my experience.

Growth mindset has problems, and he's correct that it's way too easy to make it mean anything one wants to to justify grievances or the granting of low performance ratings or whatever, but people aren't chanting it in the hallways, it's just an attempt at a concrete statement about values and behavior that's distinct from "your job is to make the company money."
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Resume link has restricted access
I mean 22€ is a cashier’s salary before taxes in Munich and good salary in some unnamed place in nowhere. This average number does not provide much useful information. University MINT freshmen make €55k in bigger cities, hard to imagine who can work for less nowadays.
How do you define “successful”?
Doesn't work.

A 30 year old sh script still works.

A 1 year old qt5 app or python script does not.
congrats taimur! please do a podcast with ali again, love you both. am also keen on your assessment of the other spreadsheet/forecasting startups
How it's Made does it for me. Based on a lot of the youtube comments, there are quite a lot of others as well!
Oh wow, congrats! I remember when you first launched this and followed you along on X (Twitter).
i did! i invite you to click the link they provided, and then if you're able to answer the question, answer it instead of asking if i can click a link :)
Did you see the statement from Canva and Serif after those kinds of rumors started circling? They made a strong statement that they aren't making Affinity apps subscription or dissolving the teams on those apps. It's not the usual silence on post-acquisition plans.
Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration
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You mentioned the folder, now please share it! I enjoy these ideas very much.
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Generating Lever-Door Puzzles with JavaScript
Val Town Town - Can we build Val Town on Val Town?
I think the "Growth Mindset" thing is one of the best things Satya did. I joined Microsoft as a hater of pretty much everything Microsoft. I use a Mac as my daily driver and Linux servers for all my work stuff. I lived through the Balmer era as a VERY critical outside observer. So, I went into NEO (new employee orientation) very skeptical. The way they (under the growth mindset mantra) admitted to their past failings and hubris that lead them to do things like assume their way was the "right way" and underestimate their opponents (namely Apple). Hearing them speak transparently about that and how they now have a culture of admitting when you might be wrong was refreshing and exciting.

I do not currently work at Microsoft, but was there for a few years and enjoyed my time there.
Small discussion (10 points, 8 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016372
this guy gets worked up for a living. i dont think his nontechnical invective belongs here on hn
From NP++, you could just ctrl-shift-f to "find in files" and it'll be quick about it, but I personally would grep from the root of the project. I usually keep a handful of command line tabs open in Console2, one for git, one for grep, one for build commands, others that are running local services etc. Anyways, the reason for this is the mental map / spatial geography of a project .. enough repetition cd'ing through folders and seeing file paths while grepping helps me visualize actual locations of things, which helps me grasp the entire structure of a project.

Meanwhile, in VS Code etc you can just hover over something and click to go directly to it, which is cool, but it's kind of like teleporting instead of actually driving to the destination enough to learn the roads.

I do a similar thing with git PRs -- for example, if you build something that follows a bundled pattern (ex. a component that has frontend, backend and data-related files, plus naming conventions), having a clean + complete reference PR to revisit when you make new components helps ensure I don't miss anything and stay consistent. I usually view these in-browser since Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab all have nice interfaces to see what files you need, where they go, how they're named, etc.
Sounds to me like they're both sound principles at heart, which end up in the workplace because they're generally good things to promote, then end up being abused by morons, leading to people snarking and being cynical over them so they can look like "cool kids" online.

Yeah, you're going to do better if you actively try to better yourself as opposed to sitting like a lump. Yeah, you're going to do better if you try to understand your customer's real needs as opposed to being the software equivalent of a short-order cook. Yeah, you're going to do better if you prove theories early instead of trucking along for six months only to find out you lit half your annual budget on fire. This is not rocket science.
nit: "Please take a momento to read them."

Should say "Please take a moment to read them.
> Earlier this year I had to write a function to find the current local time given a US address.

I also did something similar earlier this year, though I used a geolocation service to translate address to lat/long coords, and then used lat/long to translate to timezone. (With shortcuts single-timezone states)

I ended up using this python library for lat/long -> timezone converstion:

https://github.com/jannikmi/timezonefinder

Which sources its data from here, which seems like a pretty high quality source:

https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/rele...
Agreed. The author being "Michael" with no last name and no bio, the lack of any technical description of Notepad++, the lack of any comment from Don Ho, etc.
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i was honestly curious why a generic sourcerer posted on the thread for people looking for interesting companies.

they were vague about it and i asked outright. can't see how this is against the rules but oh well, it's your court. cheers.
If that’s the case, why not just buy Affinity
Coming from Windows and Mac, the multiple monitors experience on Linux is terrible, especially when the monitors have different refresh rates or different resolutions. It's getting a bit better with Ubuntu 24.10 but still not close to the smooth experience I have on Windows and Mac.

Recently I needed to switch to Wayland due to my monitors setup. Then I also needed to write a small program that capture application screen, which is a stupidly simple thing to do on Windows, Mac, or even on Xorg. For Wayland I had to jump through bunch of stupid hoops just to get it kinda working ...
I suspect that means waiting for Debian to do it.
Great new business model create an update so bad users will pay you not to upgrade
The $1mil number in itself doesn't seem too impactful, but when you take it into consideration with other reported findings, such as $55mil spent in the last year to influence the general public during election season, or the $5mil spent to honey pot activated and enthusiastic partisans -- it starts to add up -- and I imagine the numbers are much bigger, especially when you consider legitimately funded misinformation from Super PACs and the like.

Anyway, this podcast from Syracuse University was pretty interesting and discusses some of what's in this write up: https://news.syr.edu/blog/2024/10/29/the-rise-of-misinformat...
Rudy, Haskell, Ocaml are obvious examples.
Portable battery startup Moxion is bankrupt. What happened?
I’d flag it but that doesn’t seem fair. Just an obvious hit piece. Wonder what’s motivating the author. I only made it a few paragraphs in.
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At the time Apple bought eMagic, Logic's UI sucked. It actually had dialogs that told you to "reboot the dialog for changes to take effect."

Given how well-regarded Logic is today, it must be drastically improved. I haven't looked at it lately, but am considering the bundle with Motion and FCP.

One piece of software Apple built in-house is Motion. While it suffers from a few UI gaffes, it was an innovative product that still has no competitor in the motion-graphics space.
Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]
Also Note that if you do not earn enough, your kids get a universal stipend for university and uni is quite cheap at less than 1000€ per semester.

It’s easy to get good education in Germany.
We did Instant Premier on YouTube for TigerBeetle Systems Distributed videos and it was a cool experience to have everyone chatting about the video in real time for a few minutes. This is basically the same thing that p99 and hytradboi do.

It's also curated by the organizers. People subscribe to newsletters like Postgres Weekly for the same basic reason. Someone you trust gets interesting people you (probably) don't know and you get to chat about it with other randos.

It is not remotely the same thing as an in-person conference. But it's a neat thing in its own way. p99 is free, and hytradboi was like 10% the cost of a typical North American conference.
AI-generated content marketing has finally got to the front page of HN
11 Public Speaking Tips You Might Not Know
You can vertically integrate shoemaking, but this won‘t automatically disrupt the space.