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Re:Let futures be futures on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:09PM (#39245709)
Really good critique of the current state of handling, but my opinion is still that the language should not itself makes any design decision on async. I believe everything should just keep being a set of instructions that are executed accordingly to the machine, and that's it. It helps ensuring the language semantics are still relevant on newer execution machines.

Indeed, async v. sync should be a matter of the application and the application only.

Re:Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:12AM (#38968124)
No, its more for the "fun" of making firms lose money, kinda LulzSec [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec

Just do something else for 19h then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It still means they are, therefore it is not impossible for an automation to detect “red flags” and warning the recruiter for manual verification or anything.
I assume they do use your search history for some purposes. For instance I have been enrolled inside the Foo Bar challenge from Google, and from my deductions it is thanks to my search history (mainly programming-related). The Foo Bar challenge is a suite of tricky programming questions and in the end, some of the winners of the challenge receive a message from Google's recruiting team (as I did) where it can lead to a job at Google.

This is only my deductions from my experiences with Foo Bar, it might only be in that case, I am not exactly sure, but you should assume they do.

Re:The Missing App Economy on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:08PM (#35894743)
> But why do these protocols need built-in economics?

I believe, in this time of humanity where economy matters, that Blockchains have built-in economics for two reasons:

1. They all started copying Bitcoin, which by nature is an economic system (this is the goal of the Bitcoin's paper). 2. Reward by money is a common way to attract a sustainable amount of active users that keep the network alive without evil intention appart from making "quick bucks". In contract to volunteer networks such as Tor, where a lot (even a majority) of nodes are run by gov. agencies with the goal of identifying users, popular blockchains are still run properly since users are focusing on money and not destroying the network.

Re:The iMac G3 Project on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:57PM (#35807701)
Such a nice little collection, however I'm wondering how much you paid for it. Once again, well played
Re:Why not everything I do is “Open” or “Free” on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:55PM (#35807672)
> Dumping unfinished, unpolished, unmaintained, and potentially badly designed or even insecure projects onto the internet is not benefitting anyone.

I have to disagree on this take. Almost all code dumping is useful since you can always learn something from it (either a new technique or stuff TO NOT DO...). What is important is to state the status of the project. If someone is still using the project and having difficulties with it even if you added a disclaimer, then it is their problem, and they should not expect any support (unless your license requires so)...

> But if you get a pull request, then someone else has spent time on your project, and just throwing that away is not good.

Sure, but once again communication is key here. I absolutely understands maintainers that do not have a look at merge requests but let them open. It allows anyone with the same problem to easily search in opened issues/merge requests and find the patch, which may help them (even if it is not in the "main" remote).

> I ended up completely dropping out of that project as a way of preserving my mental health. In fact, I dropped out of all my (F)OSS projects, and I even deleted some of my “code dump” projects on GitHub.

Hope you feel better now.

Re:When your product has a soul on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:42PM (#35807495)
> The best software has a vision. The best software takes sides. When someone uses software, they’re not just looking for features, they’re looking for an approach. They’re looking for a vision.

This. We often try to build something for everyone, letting our opinions asides to avoid any form of trouble. Yet I think that expressing our likes and dislikes (in a polite manner), and accepting our ideas/visions is the best way to succeed. We have various exemples, such as Steve Jobs' vision in Apple or Elon Musk's attitudes. While there are a lot of variables in success, I'm pretty sure expressing our opinions in our projects is one of the most important points.

Re:It's A(door)able on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:51AM (#35801791)
This is awesome
Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:02PM (#35486955)
I'm pretty sure I haven't understood correctly but Git is decentralized by default, Git is a decentralized VCS
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:07PM (#35378183)
Discord currently provides to the public almost-stable and maintained parts of its API, it allows the network to gain some attractions
Re:Dragon Programming Language on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:35PM (#35060826)
I'm glad to have this reference lmao
Re:Ask HN: Domain Lost – GitHub Email No Access on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:51PM (#34747100)
I would say that contacting them and explaining the situation is the best thing you can try
Re:Go and Telemetry on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:27PM (#34713472)
I wouldn't mind for opt-out telemetry as long as it is *really* open-source and focused on Go itself and not "how developers are using their system with Go installed on it".
Re:Ask HN: How to admit yourself that you cannot learn everything? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:25PM (#34713436)
Ohh, I am in the same situation. I just want be able to do whatever I need to do. But as you highlighted in the title, it is possible (learning infinite A in a finite time T with possibly finite brain power B...).

The best thing I do that helped is to say "fuck you" to yourself and spend more time thinking (like a philosopher) about the world and my view on it. I couldn't really explain how but it really helps me.

So I guess I recommend trying to take an external view on your problems instead of studying to fix them as it is, to me, the best self-improvement thing anyone could obtain.

Such a nice anecdote for a period I have (and will) never see. The idea of private messages seemed cool when compared to the massive issues list we have on GitHub now
Re:Why college beats side hustles and other alternatives on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:18PM (#34713312)
The title is a bit misleading (I first though it would be about prioritising college education over toy projects) but appart from that, the article is pretty good at explaining the situation that exploded since COVID: "Easy financial freedom". Nowadays, every influencers are pitching for it, you open TikTok or Instagram and see all the same images and clip from Dubai. In the end, education stay, for the better or the worse (I mainly learned by myself), the best way to validate skills and get a job, especially in those times with massive layoffs allovers industries.
Re:Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:11PM (#34713167)
I'm pretty confident in Google's ability to protect the results from AI-farm spam (unlike YouTube).

But I feel like these guidances to not be precise enough, especially the part on "Author bylines". Could it be possible for Google to voluntary remove from results AI-generated content? Google is strongly able to detect the presence of AI in content, I doubt however they can understand it well (for instance, low-quality and automated comparisons sites can still hit the first result of Search). Therefore it could lead to bad quality bans and mass-move to "human-generated content" (which is AI-generated with quick review for human), leading to more problems.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:41PM (#34712663)
I started learning Google Search operations, and now I almost always append "site:news.ycombinator.com"/"site:reddit.com" for stories and ideas, "filetype:pdf" for work or research papers etc...

I would say it works very well as I discover a lot of things, the problem I'm now facing is keeping up with all these awesome materials

Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:22PM (#34235488)
This sounds like Bell Labs' Plan9
Re:What Is a Wildcard Person? on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:44AM (#34160442)
I have never read something describing me that perfectly, however I'm unsure if the post is not just too generic. Especially in IT where, unless in gigantic and structured corporations, everyone has to hack something everywhere to get it working.

I do consider myself somewhat a "wildcard" dude since I do fit all the points listed in the article, or when I compared myself to friends of mine, where they want roles, categories... But again, I do not want to self-categorise and I would also add that IT helps it.

Re:Google removed my Yubikeys “Just to be safe” on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:47PM (#34142768)
I would assume that it is mostly Google engineers on the site, and they do not have any link with these policies nor provide any information (either legal clause or simply that they don't know).

Not to play the devil's advocate but Google is still a great research company, helping the open-source community and the tech industry.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:36AM (#34126329)
> OpenAI will get at least one more big competitor.

Might be the time for Deepmind to attract the public's interest.

> Ukraine war will continue, but it’ll be mostly forgotten by masses.

I think the opposite, I believe the "war" as we know it will quickly end, replaced by a mix of cyberwarfare and terrorism in Ukraine, organised by some organisations linked with Russia?

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:32AM (#34126312)
> 1. More people will slowly come to the realization that electric cars are not as effective as originally thought. As a result, the government may shift their focus to hydrogen-powered vehicles as a new alternative.

I'm 100% thinking the same, but I can't help myself think how this will be a disastrous change in some countries. For instance in Europe, fuel-based cars will be banned in 2030 and governments are actively pushing for electric. I think it might create a huge shift on the electric vehicle market tho.

Re:Building a website like it's 1999 in 2022 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:24AM (#34126278)
s/bug/some
Re:Building a website like it's 1999 in 2022 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:24AM (#34126276)
> This fetishization of the "old web" initially works when you're just browsing some terse blog or personal web page from people you don't even know, but the moment you want to actually search for information on the web this style of websites immediately becomes annoying.

This. I see a lot of people being angry at UI changes on bug platforms with the reason that "they all look the same", but unless the platform is a blog or a personal site, having some standardised look helps reading and avoid being distracted. I totally agree with you.

Re:Internet Arcade on Sunday December 25, 2022 @06:10AM (#34126210)
This seems a strange move from Archive.org, I expect the arcade to be shutdown due to DMCA...
I think as suggested prohobo, just use it as publicity and in the end people will realise that your book isn't shit. You may also try to go on some sort of podcasts if possible in a way to confront those people, as it seems to work these days.

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