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Re:How to Balance Money and Meaning on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:48PM (#37782471)
Damn, I would have loved for this article to have any substance. As someone who has been doing consulting the last two years, these kinds of questions are always on my mind. And I have no good answers.
What? No. Competitive cycling was birthed in Europe.
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:57PM (#28751304)
This event should be a good conversation starter on how horrifyingly monopolistic this trifecta of services has on worldwide communication. When I think through a random smattering of people in my contact book, I now have no way of contacting quite a few people at all. That's fucked. I wonder how many important messages, replies, etc will be screwed up due to this.
Re:Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5th on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:43AM (#27302361)
No, not cynical at all. This is one of the most legally unethical people on the planet.
Would be interesting to add major release versions to the graphs as well
Re:Italian towns will pay you to work remotely on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:21AM (#27104171)
Did you read the article? This is something entirely different than the whole one euro house hype.
Great post OP, one of the most relatable things I've seen on HN. To piggyback, does anybody here have any experience doing this while living in Europe as an American? Seems like there are generally fewer remote jobs here, especially ones that can be 60-80%.
Re:State-of-the-Art Image Generation Models on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:12AM (#26354688)
Even training on a few hundred photos?
Re:State-of-the-Art Image Generation Models on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:36AM (#26353933)
Sort of related, but I'm looking for a library or tool of some sort that I can use to generate landscape photos. I don't really have a lot of time to put into a project right now, so I was fantasizing about stumbling across some python library that's a wrapper for one of these models that's basically as simple as

import all_photos from "./photos"; model = train(all_photos) a = model.generate();

Anybody have any leads..?

Re:The Airbnbs on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:20AM (#25383570)
Honestly I'm a bit shocked as well. It's in these kinds of threads that it comes out how out of touch a lot of people on HN are with the impacts of their money, and actions. Praising airbnb founders reads like praising Trump to me. Sure, successful in the literal most possible sense, but they have no idea all the harm they are inflicting on those who live different lives than them, in places and cultures they don't understand.
Re:LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:39AM (#25322079)
Please do this, I'd love to read it.
Re:How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:32AM (#25287208)
How do we solve this problem? How do we prevent, or at least discourage, people from turning a blind eye to the ethical implications of working in a dystopia accelerator company like FB when job options elsewhere are plentiful?
Re:A case for using punctuation in Slack on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:07PM (#24830376)
Actually something I've been wondering, as somebody learning German right now: are there equivalents to this kind of slang in online German? Would you _ever_ leave a noun, for example, uncapitalized, for a more casual feel?
Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? on Sunday April 05, 2020 @12:39PM (#22786573)
Ukulele/music theory and spanish
Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:48PM (#22238581)
I'm interested in this. Do you have a template?
Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:19PM (#22069075)
It always makes me sad to see realistic comments like these downvoted on HN by the out of touch 1%. Does a leisure activity enjoyed and easily substitutes by an exceedingly small minority of people really hold anything against the other devastating effects of climate change?
Re:Ask HN: Have you found success and a good work life balance? on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @09:24PM (#21932468)
How did you find such a gig?
Re:What happens when your career becomes your whole identity on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:23AM (#21912048)
This is a fascinating difference. I never really stopped to consider how individualistic a lot of western art is.
Thanks for the fantastic library! I've really enjoyed using it and it has sped up dev time phenomenally. However, I am curious: what is it like using tailwind on huge projects? I can imagine with many developers working on a codebase the "extract repeated patterns to their own new class" philosophy can get easily ignored, or difficult to track where some series of classes is being repeated.
Somebody explain this to me, as I've never worked at a large company. Facebook has tens of thousands of employees. How is more not known about the extent that they track you like this (and other slimy practices)? I imagibe if somebody leaks something it would be impossible to pinpoint who exactly did so. Does really nobody whistleblow?
Re:Parenting: Who is it really for? (2017) on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:01AM (#21432863)
I don't want kids at all (at least right now in my life, I'm 25). These ideas are however a pretty strong counterpoint to my negative feelings: that you can completely shape a human brain from birth using your 30 years or whatever of experience on this planet. Hopefully giving this brain a lot of perspectives that you wish you'd been with all your life. I see this explicitly sometimes living in Europe, some parents will raise their children to be tri or quad lingual. I'm absolutely beyond jealous that my parents didn't give that to me (although I have a lot of other things to be grateful for, so I can't complain)

Ask HN: Book that is completely opposite of how you think as a software dev?

Have you ever read anything that has exposed you to a way of thinking that's just so incredibly different from everything software development/startup related? A kind of new mental model that doesn't even fit the abstraction-based, incredibly analytical mental models that devs usually try to use to explain the world (i.e. “mentals models are a mental model”)? It seems to me like we (and I’m...

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Interesting. How would this be related?