skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A frustration I have about the current crop of shows and movies generally, but with exceptions, is that so often things seem to just largely happen for no reason other than the writer thought it would be fun/interesting. They lack causality, and I find it so boring.

Instead of "this is happening because this happened," I feel like a lot of modern media is just "this happened and then this happened".

It's the Minions formula, and it's showing up everywhere.
Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over
OK boomer

/s
I remember printing this stuff out as a teenager because I thought it was funny... And getting in trouble for it.
No, it strikes me as being completely normal.
I made the move from smaller startups to progressively large companies and from IC to manager. My main motivator is to continue to find personal growth, which increasingly means learning about the human side of building software at scale. As I approach 50, a bigger pay check and more stability are of course bonuses, but I find the idea of software engineers "retiring" at 40 pretty offensive. It reeks of entitled rest-and-vest culture, and will put you in a position where companies would be right not to hire you. Instead, stay hungry, and find a place that rewards that.
Then differentiate them coherently for me. Ideally with either prescriptivist justification or descriptivist evidence.
macOS has become more private
I think the OP might have meant "obscenity" that goes against "community standards" when he wrote "porn". I agree that defining crimechink and crimespeech as "porn" would be a stretch, but defining them as "obscenity" would be less so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I swear that 90% of the posts I see on some subreddits are bots. They just go through the most popular posts of the last year and repost for upvotes. I'm looked at the post history and comments of some of them and found a bunch of accounts where the only comments are from the same 4 accounts and they all just comment and upvote each other with 1 line comments. It's clearly all bots but reddit doesn't care as it looks like more activity and they can charge advertisers more to advertise to bots I guess.
I have German university Dipl.-Ing. diploma. I have Handwerkskarte after examination of my university diploma (headshake here) by Chamber of Crafts. I have passed TREI exam. And I have few offers for upgrade of electrical system in my house ranging between 25000€ and 40000€. That’s my main motivation, but I will accept other jobs too.
> Dart as an alternative thought, it’s a totally different language

Yes it's not Ruby but it has good design, optional type annotations.
Backwards compatibility for browsers that do not support this feature. You put your opening and closing parenthesis tokens within the "rp" tags and such browsers will show the hints within those parentheses.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/rp
This. Thrifty parents with no interest in gaming saw the PS2 and thought "Sony DVD player". The GameCube was merely an expensive Nintendo time sink. To this end my brother and I took out a loan to buy out GameCube but could have gotten the PS2 for free for Christmas - we wanted to play Super Smash Brothers et al that much and knew that we couldn't avail ourselves of the PS2's better-selling titles anyhow due to their M ratings.

As I write this it does feel like both Sony and Microsoft really started to push the whole living room entertainment convergence thing around this time while Nintendo happily stayed in their lane. The same dynamic continues to this day.
Nope, my mother sends these to me all the time and even said that Facebook was getting more interesting every day. She's completely addicted to her phone that at Christmas this year, I felt like I was the parent. She couldn't stop scrolling through her phone while her grandkids were opening presents. I thought she was recording video, but no. A perfect user in Zuck's eyes.
Brandeis University Destroys Its Music Department
Just wanna say this is a really cool project, and I can't think of higher praise than me hoping I build something as cool as this some day! I've been meaning to learn Go for sometime now, and will be referring to Zasper for the future :)
Why do they need a firewall? Why do they need ACLs?

Let's just go back to single-user operating systems with exFAT drives.

If an individual expressly defeats the point of any particular security mechanism, that's on them. But to paint this broad brush of "I know someone who does X which makes Y pointless, so Y must be meaningless for everyone else" is silly.
Most websites use TLS, HSTS and the like nowadays. It’s hard for a corporate proxy to downgrade the connection.

Also, the limitation is only applied by browsers, not by (reverse) proxies and other non-browsers clients.

That being said, Mercure allow to subscribe to many "topics" using a single HTTP connection. This helps mitigating the limitation with HTTP/1 (which is very uncommon these days).
What you've said makes no sense. The "ORM stuff" is what I want, the Object Relational Mapping. Taking relational data and converting it back and forth to objects. And Hibernate is actually pretty good at this.

I think you've built up a strawman in you mind of what you think "ORM" is. Yes Hibernate is huge and has a lot of features that people shouldn't use. But you can say the same about Microsoft Word, the problem is that everyone uses a different 5% of the huge feature set.

People who work with these technologies on a daily basis don't screw up the core acronyms. I suggest softening your opinion and dropping the platitudes.
Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d'refresh/
2 hours a day is a near eternity. Roughly 30,000 hours if done from early 20s to early 60s.

That's enough to master 3 things if you believe the "10,000" hours rule, or gain working proficiency in dozens of foreign languages.
> I'm not sure I know anyone who's had a computer stolen, but I know lots of people who have lost data.

That's exactly where you got your priorities wrong.

Yes there is a tradeoff. But backing up your data is easy (especially in a corporate environment), while security is hard.

And computers do get stolen a lot all the time, just not in your circle.
Hyperbox: Minimalist homepage designed for text-based terminal web browsers
I mostly use Facebook for posting tiling/tesselation art in a moderated speciality group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/tiling) that has 72,000 people in it.
There are some really nice speciality groups you don't find anywhere else. Facebook's UI is horrific for comments, I think even a bad AI design couldn't be much worse, but the comments are generally pleasant.

I check my regular facebook friends occasionally, but not very often. I ignore everything else.
> this is why ordinary users turn on biometric authentication despite some here questioning its security

That's part of the reason. Another part is BigCo spamming the users asking for biometrics or whatever the current promotion-driver is, making opting out hard to find, and using their position of authority to assert that it's "more secure" (for your personal threat model no less, nice to be able to offload thought to a corporation).
I am not sure what point you think you are making, but you are simply confirming my post. It is illegal to fail to pay overtime as mandated by labor laws.

Yet many Fortune 500 companies will have hundreds if not thousands of employees given the title of VP. And companies that follow that practice expect those employees to work well beyond 40 hours per week yet never pay any OT. To be clear, these employees do not exercise control over any other employees. Do not perform oversight functions. They do not engage in any practice one would normally associate with executive functions. They are merely employees performing normal individual work but given the VP title, together with hundreds and thousands of others in the corporation.
That is not the proposition. For $15/month savings her child will be ostracized at school because of the blue message box. Is it worth it?

Phones have outsized influence on our lives. A phone costs 1/10 as much as a car per month, but we spend more time with them, and most younger people today would rather give up their car than their phone.

Better screen quality will more than pay itself in optics prescriptions later in life. Batter quality photos you take today will stay with you for the remainder of our life, and past it. Longer battery life would mean avoiding a lot of unpleasant situations.
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In general this all feels right, but I don' think that a lack of a grandiose vision is necessarily a problem for a company (Facebook's mission of 'make the world more open and connected' boiled down to 'senator - we sell ads'). Product design is about delivering things that people want. Observing trends and trying to get ahead of them somehow is a big part of what makes for a successful product. The bigger issue for Meta right now is that they are not as effective at this game as they used to be. To some extent this might be an issue of brand (the Facebook portal was a great product but nobody trusts the company). But based on my experiences with their products I feel like this gets things backwards. People don't like their brand because their products suck (Apple sucks up way more personal data, but thousands of Apple fans will crawl from the woodwork to defend them) If their core products were good experiences things would be different.
The engineering talent at Facebook is truly top notch and while they are good on recruiting I think a lot of it comes from a culture of excellence on the technical side. But the product and UX directions of Meta feel off. Accounts alone has personally burned me. I have an Oculus quest that was effectively reset because of Meta's accounts transitions. My Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook accounts were all separate, and are all now partially merged but transition sucked for all of them with no benefit to me the user.
I don't doubt there are many uses for Ruby. But if we're talking strictly about employment, there's literally nothing outside of Rails (quick search of Ruby vs Python in the Netherlands yields 762 vs 20k hits (many of those are garbage, but you get the idea)).

Python also has far stronger typing story, it is used as a glue in many orgs (just look at Mozilla, Chrome and countless more codebases), there's also an order of magnitude more people using Python which means far more nicer LLM story.

On the other hand Ruby evangelists swear by Ruby like it's the second coming, so there must be something that makes people so happy. I'm trying to understand if it matters enough to pay opportunity cost for switching to Ruby.

And yes, I know that you can learn both, but becoming proficient in languages takes time and practice. Ruby isn't something that I'll be able to sell at my org, which means I'll have to invest into it in my own free time. On top of that you have to stay up to date with language developments if you want to stay relevant.
The top comment pretty much sums up everything that’s wrong with DRM:

> Lest one get the impression that hardware DRM fairs any better than software: Even 4K/HDR versions of streaming media start making the rounds on pirate sites within a day or two of release.

> As usual DRM fails to prevent piracy while hurting the experience of paying customers.
I thought they used their extension to improve advertising tracking and selling that data. Hell, they even could have been an old style "we will burn $100 million to acquire a bunch of customers and then do dumb customer milking strategies" business like nearly ever single other business youtubers advertise.

I did NOT think they purposely, aggressively, stole affiliate attribution from advertisers while pretending to look for coupon codes that never existed or even ignoring actual coupon codes on purpose.

Most people are not familiar with affiliate marketing even existing, how much of a bubble are you in that this SPECIFIC business strategy is surprising to people confuses you?
Funny idea! A lot of the people I did not know, so it could be a cool feature to have the option to see a slightly longer summary either before or after the guess is submitted
I know Miranda who wrote this is a pretty heavyhanded US liberal, can't help but hear quite a lot of trump in the way Mikkelsen reads "Bye Bye":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWsYJxCK4I

I wonder if this song was intended to be more revealing to a US-pop-culture-brained consumer, but the reference didn't land?
I'm actually kind of glad. Big tech has been paying way too much and driving up the costs of living for ordinary people. We've needed an adjustment for a while now.
Matt Sayman was a PM in my org at FB in 2015. Smart guy. He was 18 at the time.

I watched his journey on Threads as he taught himself to program this year in order to make that app. Proud of his success.
Have you tried something like GraphQL playground before? https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground

There's other tools out there that can generate similar docs or playgrounds, given you have a schema/spec of some type.
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An Automotive Frankenstein Is Born
I dont understand why meta didnt pair up with vrchat/gamedev/game engine dev at the time. Sure they got John Carmack, but their presentation is so much worse. Its so hard not to draw comparison with the other half baked crypto metaverse.

Meanwhile Vive Index not only have Alyx but they even bring out Portal themed toybox to showcase the hardware.
I wonder how much NAND flash?
Could be. My guess is that in doubt, just copy what the other guy is doing. We see that all the time. Leetcode interviewing, return-to-office mandate, layoffs...
Edit: I have accepted a new job offer. Thanks HN!

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I remember most of these games fondly. My favorite games from the old entertainment packs were Pipe Dream, Minesweeper, and Ski Free. Was really interesting to see the history here, and how slack time created an opportunity for valuable creativity. The modern tech company no longer has that sort of slack time, nor does it encourage valuable creativity, unfortunately.
Buzzfeed also went in the direction of churning out slop, if I remember correctly. They were more respectable when they were about their dumb quizzes.
Thanks for your reply! Hope my comment wasn't offensive.

I definitely think components, unit testing, regression testing are good things and are done at good software houses. In my experience however, most of these things are mostly cargo culted at best in a many other environments.

When I wrote my comment I was wondering about the "AI to write code" vs "AI as code" point. In my vocabulary, "AI as code" would be "Data Science models", like a ranking engine for ads in a newsfeed? I certainly understand the idea of having an AI "emulate" an application like Word.exe or Doom.exe, and there's been research into this direction, but as far as I can tell that is not the general direction the industry is headed in --- rather it's the "AI to write code" direction.
the main downside as a developer is it can be a little more work to set up Prerender depending on your hosting setup (although Netlify has just a checkbox to enable) to allow Googlebot to view the page JS-free. I've been playing around with some ideas to eliminate that requirement, however.

as an end user, the only downside would be the typical SPA ones, such as the client needs to render the site with JS like you mentioned (except in cases where we use pre-rendering).

here's an example site built with Routerino if you'd like to experience what it is like in usage: https://virtourlimited.netlify.app/
I’m going to apply this to an unpopular opinion on web development, just as one example:

Most users don’t care about your SPA.

I have built every app as a MPA with page transitions for a nice fade. I have had multiple complements on how it’s so fast. Nobody, not one person, among 8000 users, has complained about the page reloading.

This is just one example where I think the article is accurate: engineers tend to overshoot the mark on metrics nobody cares about, or try to improve “experiences” that nobody cares about, or rationalize complexity forgetting that even Amazon doesn’t bother with an SPA.
Or, there is just a lack of evil in it.
Wait really? Matt was boomeranged?
I primarily test with Chrome and Firefox (Epiphany, occasionally). And my usecase requires that I provide downloadable fonts as not all fonts have nice-looking Devanagari renderings. So, the overriding happens naturally.
Or StuffMadeHere who literally lurks here on HN and has sold Brilliant a bunch.

Do you actually use it man? Have you actually learned anything on Brilliant?
Yes, it’s in its BlackBerry 2005-2006 moment (optimistically), more like its 2008 moment (realistically). There was still lots of money coming in for both BB and Nokia around 2005-2006, too much money, for that matter, which eventually made them collapse.

Ask yourself this, who do you see still using Facebook (the app) in 5-10 years’ time?

But, then again, lots of people here which have a direct stake in Meta, either through owning shares or through direct employment (the same discussion applies to whenever other big US tech companies are discussed in here), so there’s no use debating.

As per the focus on youth thing, which you’re correct about, how do you expect Meta to pitch to potentially future 20-something employees in, let’s say, 5 years’ time? “Come work for us cause we’ve got the boomers’ market cornered?”. That won’t work, and, at best, it will attract only people chasing the big comps, which doesn’t help at all with innovation.

Granted, they still have “AI” in order to attract future worthwhile and non-mercenary talent, plus bringing in future revenues that are supposed to replace Facebook the app eventual demise, but imo that’s still an open bet at this point.
Which did you build yourself
Dunno why flagged.

I had a friend here on a visa whose boss definitely committed wage theft, making anyone who was not a citizen or on a green card work extra hours for no overtime. He was not even a techie. This is apparently very common.

That is before you even get into the "body shops" which I find quite believable.
The original value proposition of Facebook - keep people you don’t see in person very often up to date on what’s happening in your life, and keep up with what’s going on with them - still feels like something people actually want, but it’s been clear for a long time that no service that tries to offer that can sustain it.

Facebook got too excited with its ability to leverage the ‘friend graph’ and broke the very reason people wanted to ‘friend’ people on FB in the first place.

Feels like people have generally decided that WhatsApp group chats are the preferred model for keeping in touch.
I think the biggest concern for a would-be employer would be: can you take instruction. After a decade of being in-charge, that's going to be a really tough call. I'd suggest consultancy might be the easiest way to transition in to full time employment - at some point you'll find a great fit and they'll offer you a permie role.
In context, "desire" is defined as what one would prefer to do absent of any financial constraints. With the stated acceptance of reality, one can want financial independence out of need without it being their desire (per the given definition).

It may be true that some definitions of "want" and "desire" prevent coherent differentiation, but as we established, and you willingly agreed, words do allow for more than one meaning...
Oh I take China seriously, I'm merely reminding people to not blindly accept stated figures from the CCP.
Note that a pound of gold is 12 troy ounces, while a pound of feathers is 16 avoirdupois ounces. So one of my favorite pedantic bits of trivia is that an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers but a pound of gold is lighter than a pound of feathers.
I decided to buy a HARA-chair instead. It's certainly more expensive than the glasses with water but I believe this chair is also better for my butt than just the water and still sitting in a regular chair between the get-ups.
Will attempt. Thanks for the suggestion
Probably also these situations are dependent on the people involved. If it weren't those particular principal engineers on the project, it's possible trying to revive the in-memory database would not have been successful.
> "this happened and then this happened"

Honestly, this sounds like the formula so many comedies in the 1980s took. A series of vignettes that are loosely connected by some thread of a story that's secondary to the hijinks and then a brief semi-dramatic scene in the last act and a happy resolution. It's a pretty tried and true formula and I think it works because the audience doesn't have to think much or pay attention the entire time.