honkdaddy

I tend to agree. I expect that kind of prose will not age, imagine reading a piece from 2009 which opens with -

"Two words to describe the WH response to the financial crisis: EPIC FAIL."

Sure, in the 2020s answering 'yes' to a question of quantity is a cheeky way to suggest hyperbole, but I feel like in 5 years it's just going to seem lame and dated.

I had to go check - $40/mo for a digital newspaper?! Surely this is aimed at a different demographic than mine, because I can’t imagine anyone I know paying that for news.

You're absolutely right! And I'd be similarly dismissive of a blogpost where someone tried to debunk string theory on their own intuition alone without referencing any of the existing research or literature.

I don't think this is really worth the read. If you're going to write a piece specifically as a takedown of a viewpoint, in this case, the view that AI risk is real and should be taken seriously, it's worth at mentioning your opponents finer points. There are lots of very brilliant PhD's who've spent their careers working on AI risk, to not even mention any of their arguments makes me feel as if the author is trying to argue against his own idea of what people mean by AI risk, instead reducing the entire idea to his own nomenclature of 'pseudo-traits'.

Reads a bit like an internet atheism blogpost of the early 2000s trying to take down religion through logic alone. Sure, through the specific parameters presented in the piece, the logic is sound, but there's so much more to the topic than what's covered. Presenting one's blogpost as if you've successfully individually debunked an entire field of research is a bit pompous, IMHO.

Wow - first Show HN I've seen in ages which I've been earnestly excited to try! Love the name as well, .fm is such a great TLD.

"Your listening habits have gotten less diverse over time. You've been listening to 95 genres over the last month, which is 9 less than your average of 104.

Your taste is set in stone. It was and still is indie rock"

I got a laugh, because this is absolutely and 100% true. Awesome job!

As a hypothetical, what would that case actually look like? I'm suing you because I have a strong belief that part of the codebase of your personal project was assembled from code I wrote and didn't license permissively, so now I'm claiming ownership?

Obviously IANAL so this is largely conjecture, but until we _actually_ see how this would play out in court, I'm leaning towards this being less of a legal issue than folks here act like. For personal projects, I'd say the likelihood of some other engineer reading your code, noticing a similarity or duplication, and dragging you to court for it is near 0.

The people we call rich pay the majority of taxes.

>In 2019, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid $612 billion in income taxes while the bottom 90 percent paid $461 billion in income taxes. [1]

You're right though, poverty does absolutely suck and realistically nobody's 'enjoying' EBT or assisted housing or whatever benefit they receive. The point I was trying to make is that poor people shouldn't feel badly for contributing less to the pie any more than 1%ers should feel righteous for contributing more.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income...

I spent a couple months grinding LC before I got my FAANG offers and honestly it was completely worth it, I’m sort of surprised when people feel the opposite.

At the end of the day it’s a couple hundred hours of effort in exchange for years worth of upside. I think when you compare it to the amount of preparation athletes, performers, or service members go through, it really doesn’t seem so bad.

This looks cool. An unsolicited anecdote from a former huge delicious/stumbleupon guy, what made these sites awesome for me was the backfill of amazing content that other people had already cataloged. I didn’t share much, I just enjoyed other people’s content.

Obviously there’s a big chicken and egg problem with any social network like that, but I suppose what I’m getting at is I wouldn’t be afraid to “fake it” when you’re first starting out. Maybe scrape links from Reddit, HN, or even an old cache of StumbleUpon?

If you want to look at that way, sure. The point I'm making is that it's not a particularly interesting or descriptive way to look at society.

I'm not American.

I think it's difficult for someone to have much perspective on how much their own lifestyle is subsidized when the same can be said for the vast majority of people who enjoy benefits from the government, regardless of where they choose to live. Most people take more than they contribute, I don't think someone making $120,000 and paying $40,000 in taxes should feel any guilt for living in the suburbs when so many others can pay almost nothing in taxes and still enjoy huge amounts of government benefit.

Short answer, eyeballs. Most engineering blogs are ultimately just a small part of their talent pipeline.

In this specific case sure, most Indians probably wouldn't be offended by being associated with those qualities because they're almost universally positive.

It very quickly gets murky though, since most racial or geographical stereotypes _aren't_ totally positive, and making observations about different groups will usually end up drawing the ire of at least a couple folks.

Not all of those blogs are about being healthy. Some of them are just about reaching and maintaining the popular societal understanding of appearing "fit". I mean damn, one of the blogs is literally called Look Great Naked!

I totally agree, for the record. For the majority of people counting calories and recording reps isn't something they'll be interested in doing their entire lives, any more than they'd be interested in updating new device drivers and reflashing their OS if an easier, brainless alternative existed. And it does! Walk, bike, or run a little bit every day; eat less carbs than you'd prefer, and try to eat more vegetables than you would otherwise. I'm no expert whatsoever, but I've travelled all over the world and that advice seems to be the only constant amongst all the healthiest people I've seen.

The poorest towns in America don’t have the highest crime and the richest towns don’t have the lowest. Attributing violent crime to poverty alone does a disservice to the people living in places with violent crime.

I’ll bite - I only care because I think it’s important for others to see what your intentions are here. Now that I’ve answered your question, can you answer mine? :) If I wanted to, I’m sure I could Google some of your online identities and find a post your made in the past and then asked in a public forum if you’re the same person. I wouldn’t do that because I think it’s a bit creepy and impolite, but if I had a very specific reason for doing so, I might consider it. So I’ll ask again - what was your intention in connecting his identities here in such a direct way? You said something about “bought a town” and it being “political”, can you expand on what that means?

Anecdotal, but I can personally say much less so in Serbia than in Canada, USA, or UK.

Can you please be more clear with what you're trying to say then?

You obviously feel very strongly about pontifier and his past, given the amount of time you spent digging into his background, what is the point you are actually trying to make here? Be as direct as possible, please :)

If I were a lonely, single man, I'd probably feel as if the author was making a bit of a cruel joke at my expense when they chose a picture of a tall, fit, and handsome white dude as their idea of what a lonely and single man probably looks like.

Spend any amount of time in the communities where lonely and single men congregate and you'll see by and large they look nothing like the guy in the photo.

Love this idea. I’ve been sending screencasts to PMs for years now, something like this would have saved me dozens of hours over the years.

Since I’m mostly an Apple dev, when do you see yourselves supporting iOS as well? I’ve seen other companies try the “Mac/iOS in the cloud” thing and I’ve yet to see it work perfectly so I’m curious what your vision is to make it a great experience.

There’s a bizarre fantasy I see a lot of self-hating westerners reference which is that their hygiene and bathing practices were learned from other societies, which from what I’ve read from and what this article shows, is clearly a complete fiction.

Still though, searching “who taught Europeans how to bathe” will confidently return you lots of articles like

https://sawarimi.org/archives/2893

In which the author confidently states that it was only due to African influence that Europeans ever learned about hygiene. It’s a nice idea, maybe? But it’s just completely made up.

Wait, you people bring a toothbrush and roll of toothpaste around with you everywhere? Do you only ever eat at your house or office?

Why would I want to take the time to upload to your service a recipe I already know?

As kindly as possible - if your anecdote about your teenager misbehaving is scratching the countertop, you may just have an unusually well behaved teenager. What would your response be if he drove drunk and crashed your car? Or if he you got in an argument and he took a swing at you?

If those are outside the realm of possibility for you guys, that’s awesome, you probably have an awesome kid. But for most parents I know, their teenagers have seriously test their limits at least a few times and it seemed like a punitive approach worked well. Depending on the “crime”, grounding them at home or taking away their phone/car/screens for x amount of time is a perfectly reasonable punishment IMO. It certainly worked well enough on my four siblings and I when we did dumb crap as teenagers.

Yeah, similar story for me. "Senior engineer" at failed startup into Founder/CTO at other failed startup. Then L3 at Snap into L4 at G. No hard feelings whatsoever. We're all moving pixels and pushing buttons for money, I try not to get too caught up in the promo game; much more interesting stuff in life outside the screen.

Well said as usual, PragP.

My experience working in big tech is that the bar for actually getting an interview for the junior positions is actually relatively low, and your standardized interview performance matters 10x more than the content of your resume. Some people apply for L3 out of college, some people after many years of experience. I’ve never seen someone turned down for “too much of the wrong experience”, what more often happens is that the ruts they got into from their previous job start to show and it affects their interview performance.

As someone who grew up in the country and now lives in NYC, this is about as out of touch as the takes I used to hear back home about how city people must live.

Growing up, my Dad couldn’t have been more proud of his F-150, not because of whatever testosterone fuelled fantasy you’re talking about, but because it meant we could pull city people out of the ditch when they came down our closed road in the wintertime. He never accepted any money from them either, but it made his day whenever someone knocked on our door and he got to bundle up and go out in the snow to help them out.

Just a reminder that there are millions of very real rural Americans out there who are nothing like the stereotype you described but would still gladly go out of their way to help you, despite your seemingly low opinion of them.

You're right, neither of us can say for sure. I'd also love to hear an Iranian HN users' perspective on the accuracy of the article.

> Police there recently announced that walking dogs in parks was a crime. The ban was justified as a measure to "protect the safety of the public".

Sounds like it’s already happening; that was in the first paragraph of the article. I don’t see how this is an example of propaganda, unless you consider any news reporting in general to be propaganda.