15:[[34377102,{"by":"roflyear","descendants":24,"id":34377102,"kids":[34377153,34377267,34377642,34380569,34377533,34377230,34385096,34377888,34377154],"score":8,"text":"$16","time":1673666690,"title":"Ask HN: Please Help, Should I Quit My Job?","type":"story"}],[34373682,{"by":"jesuscript","descendants":6,"id":34373682,"kids":[34373868,34373804,34374031,34374157,34374937],"score":6,"text":"Here is a list of George Santos's lies:

- Lying about where he went to school

- Lying about where he worked

- Lying about owning a number of rental properties

- Lying about being robbed of his rent money

- Lying about being Jewish

- Lying about his criminal status in Brazil

- Lying to donors

- Lying about his athletic accomplishments

- Lying about his mother dying on 9/11

- Lying about his campaign finances

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/list-of-george-santos-lies-all-the-mistruths-the-congressman-is-accused-of-telling/4043980/

This is a little beyond white lies, or resume embellishment. He made it pretty far, all the way to congress. Just curious if anyone has seen anything like this at companies you've worked for.","time":1673642874,"title":"Ask HN: Have you dealt with a real life pathological liar(s) in tech?","type":"story"}],[34371276,{"by":"throwaway_alsd","descendants":3,"id":34371276,"kids":[34371842,34371906,34371392],"score":1,"text":"$17","time":1673632342,"title":"Ask HN: Is there a job where you're paid to implement well-defined tickets?","type":"story"}],[34360547,{"by":"toomuchsalt","descendants":2,"id":34360547,"kids":[34360788,34361313],"score":3,"text":"A few of my co-workers elaborate on every point during meetings. Weekly status meetings drag on and people stop listening.\nHow could I deal with it constructively?","time":1673559213,"title":"Ask HN: How to have productive meetings with talkative co-workers?","type":"story"}],[34355892,{"by":"trvrsalom","descendants":138,"id":34355892,"kids":[34356292,34356815,34356660,34380885,34357498,34362260,34356624,34359662,34356118,34356184,34356505,34356653,34361254,34356718,34357542,34356471,34356199,34449351,34385247,34356265,34356582,34356133,34363577,34356643,34356215,34356606,34356247,34356301,34356425,34364332,34358701,34356467,34411859,34356545,34364956,34356667,34361304,34359063,34357000,34360590,34364442,34357845,34356786,34368780,34369420,34356412,34357262,34356666,34356171,34358610,34356641,34356181,34358501,34356537,34356571,34359928,34400535,34356216,34357099,34357016,34356647,34356488,34370477,34356616,34378412,34356349,34356048,34356635,34356376,34356555,34357318,34356637,34356093,34356332,34369655,34356161,34356633,34367980,34356569,34363468,34357356,34356820,34362039,34380071,34356466,34356579,34356474,34367458,34356437,34363007,34362751,34356447,34361968,34356657,34356455,34375742,34356597,34356650,34355934,34362957,34361916,34356784,34357214,34356936,34356897,34356963,34362148],"score":97,"text":"So as a result of an extreme example of inefficient bureaucracy, one which is probably unique to the military, I have found myself in the fortunate position of being paid to effectively work 2-6 hours a week for the next 6-7 months. It was preceded by 6-7 months of 60-80+ hour work weeks, so I like to think it all balances out.

I graduated a few years ago with a degree in computer engineering, and I am now located in a small coastal city. If you were in my position, beside the obvious of relaxing, hobbies, etc, what would you do? I have considered trying to find a part time development role (it would be difficult though as I am effectively on-call for when those 2-6 hours are). Alternatively, I could pursue a side project to keep my technical skills sharp, but I can't think of any that call me. Any ideas?","time":1673540511,"title":"Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?","type":"story"}],[34347688,{"by":"richardliaw","descendants":1,"id":34347688,"kids":[34347797],"score":5,"time":1673485794,"title":"Ray is the next generation ML framework","type":"story","url":"https://orenleung.super.site/ray-will-dominate"}],[34346705,{"by":"amichail","descendants":6,"id":34346705,"kids":[34347046,34348947,34347294,34347004],"score":9,"text":"For example, this could be done when people retire or are terminally ill.

I'm sure the people in question would like to see public forums remember and celebrate their work while they are still alive.","time":1673480280,"title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't HN celebrate people's achievements before they die?","type":"story"}],[34304655,{"by":"gjvc","descendants":269,"id":34304655,"kids":[34306107,34307765,34305138,34305210,34306705,34304917,34305314,34306158,34312539,34305021,34308843,34305082,34304817,34305256,34317870,34305106,34308948,34307512,34305868,34305285,34304982,34305002,34305205,34305337,34305075,34305851,34305150,34305078,34305201,34304959],"score":234,"time":1673221163,"title":"Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard (2021)","type":"story","url":"https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers-and-a-discussion-of-news-5cb92c7b3445"}],[34304521,{"by":"amichail","descendants":13,"id":34304521,"kids":[34305085,34304754,34304623,34304583,34307254,34304685],"score":1,"text":"I'm sure there are some incoming students with enough CS and programming background and a willingness to learn on their own so that this would work out.","time":1673220374,"title":"Ask HN: Why aren't there CS degrees with only 3rd and 4th year CS subjects?","type":"story"}],[34299360,{"by":"pimplob","descendants":12,"id":34299360,"kids":[34300482,34300368,34301727,34301706,34301928,34300410,34302279,34301645,34301195,34299877],"score":8,"text":"I've spent the last year building a working prototype in a field I've been doing my Masters in, and now I've found a potential co-founder who brings motivation and quick learning skills to the table.\nWe want to start a company based on this prototype, and we already have customers lined up to buy the product. However, we're facing some issues with equity - I'm bringing 150,000€ of starting capital into the company, which will cover the first few months of work and some student hires, but my co-founder doesn't have any capital to contribute.

I don't want this topic to become toxic in the future, and as a first-time founder, I'm not sure how to navigate this situation. How should the equity be split up? Should it be 50-50 solely based on the work we will both contribute, or would another split that favours my risk taking be more fair?

Are there any examples of successful startups that started with an unequal split?","time":1673188128,"title":"Ask HN: How should we split up equity?","type":"story"}],[34289924,{"by":"neiman1","descendants":5,"id":34289924,"kids":[34290094,34289970,34290401,34290219,34290402],"score":1,"text":"After having switched companies ~6 months ago, I was dead-set on living with coworkers as I think it helps to form stronger connections, and can be convenient when commuting to the same office, gym, etc. However, I found it way trickier than expected to find compatible roommates as I didn't know anyone at the company.

My friend and I recently started building a platform to try and address this problem, but we're keen to learn what it is that prevents other people from living or wanting to live with their coworkers.","time":1673110655,"title":"Ask HN: Why don't you live with your coworkers?","type":"story"}],[34289407,{"by":"bumblewax","descendants":2,"id":34289407,"kids":[34290368],"score":2,"text":"I’m curious to hear your thoughts from both a dev and a user point of view.

My thinking is, rather than trying to build and scale a managed saas, build the product under some permissive open source license for non-commercial and indie use, capped by some annual revenue number. Then, private enterprise license for those who make the big bucks.

Is something like this doable or too naive? I don’t necessarily think the “someone takes your code and runs” thing is a real problem, but I also don’t see this type of licensing often.","time":1673108005,"title":"Ask HN: What is your experience with dual licensing?","type":"story"}],[34279527,{"by":"dezeiner","descendants":87,"id":34279527,"kids":[34280237,34280706,34279900,34281304,34280085,34279644,34282231,34281096,34280738,34281139,34280252,34279955,34280896,34282740,34280696,34280628,34279650,34280622,34280294,34280825,34280486,34281104,34282292,34280741,34285897,34282789,34280469,34305641,34284718,34280585,34285614,34287428,34282522,34282325,34280272,34280520,34280452,34295332,34281937],"score":119,"text":"From impaired long-term and working memory, clarity of thought, mental agility, to executive function, it feels like the depression and anxiety caused by trauma have completely blunted my mind to a debilitating degree. Acquiring, integrating, and productively applying information is an enormous challenge. In meetings, I feel like a mental sloth. I've tried a variety of antidepressants, psychedelics, and supplements, to no avail. Talk therapy has done little.

Has anyone been able to cognitively recover?","time":1673032943,"title":"Ask HN: How to restore cognition after years of trauma? I feel slow and dumb","type":"story"}],[34269263,{"by":"beerglass","descendants":12,"id":34269263,"kids":[34269540,34277557,34284094,34269625,34269408,34270262,34269471,34270372,34269420,34269822],"score":2,"text":"Obviously as a student, books are important. But later in life, as a source of entertainment, books can't compete with bars, chatting with friends, television, movies, sports, social media, all of which hit quicker. So, why should one read books?","time":1672965513,"title":"Ask HN: Why Read Books?","type":"story"}],[34267132,{"by":"novocantico","descendants":97,"id":34267132,"kids":[34267671,34268029,34267599,34268151,34267279,34268532,34267698,34268916,34268204,34269682,34275607,34268079,34271098,34268347,34268623,34267214,34281254,34268779,34277687,34267666,34268338,34268605,34272543,34267638,34268162,34267350,34268164,34267569,34293889,34268985,34267201,34268658,34303284,34280095,34267706,34267952,34269181,34268268],"score":73,"text":"$18","time":1672954894,"title":"Sex offender can't get a job. Completely out of ideas. Help?","type":"story"}],[34255385,{"by":"anxious_andy","descendants":3,"id":34255385,"kids":[34255430,34255594,34255491],"score":1,"text":"I've always struggled with social anxiety, both before and during a marriage. After a divorce, and some time, I've noticed that I don't really have social anxiety anymore.

A while ago a friend from college mentioned something similar. He'd divorced a couple years earlier and said that now he no longer cares what other people think.

Has anyone else experienced this?","time":1672888196,"title":"Ask HN: Have you lost social anxiety after a romantic breakup?","type":"story"}],[34253883,{"by":"andrewstuart","descendants":7,"id":34253883,"kids":[34254383,34254094,34253938,34254801,34253985,34253908,34253970],"score":1,"text":"I just had a robust discussion in which someone asserted that "ideas are worth zero".

I strongly disagree with this. Seems to me a killer idea is worth a great deal.

facebook was an absolutely killer idea, which is why Zuckerberg lifted it from the Winklevoss twins.

The person that I was discussing with referred me to https://sive.rs/multiply which I had a look at and the way I read it, Sivers was clearly stating that ideas have value, and that some ideas are worth more than others.

Of course an idea is worth nothing if not executed upon, but that does not mean the idea is worthless.

What do you think - are ideas worth nothing? Is execution everything?","time":1672877088,"title":"Ask HN: Are Ideas Worth Nothing? Is execution worth everything?","type":"story"}],[34054798,{"by":"holistio","descendants":8,"id":34054798,"kids":[34057923,34057115,34056016,34062633,34054982,34057283],"score":5,"text":"I have a good reason for asking this here.

I'm not really interested in the quick wins way of learning offered by Duolingo, but also don't really want to go through a traditional course.

I want to go deep, learn about the cultural contexts, the nuances, and so on.

I know there is no preset for doing this, but if anyone knows of a good collection of resources which I can follow until I know enough where to look next - I'd really appreciate it.

I speak three languages (HU, RO, EN) fluently, another (DE) at a "can conduct business" level, and another two (FR, RU) at the basic conversational level. I also read the Cyrillic alphabet without issues, although I know the shift to Chinese characters is bigger.

Thanks for any guidance!","time":1671470967,"title":"Ask HN: Best Way to Learn Chinese?","type":"story"}],[34018208,{"by":"azhenley","descendants":2,"id":34018208,"kids":[34018485,34018678],"score":1,"text":"With the allure of industry positions, it is extremely difficult for schools to recruit good CS teachers. Even top universities struggle to hire teaching-track faculty.

What can an organization do to attract talented teachers?","time":1671215383,"title":"Ask HN: How to recruit good CS teachers?","type":"story"}],[33970611,{"by":"graderjs","descendants":144,"id":33970611,"kids":[33971541,33971620,33971357,33971639,33971418,33972482,33971356,33975101,33971543,33971552,33971703,33970825,33971657,33975004,33973732,33972228,33972321,33971337,33972750,33971006,33971621,33971261,33974166,33974164,33972760,33976265,33975264,33975784,33975679,33974886,33973877,33974458,33971464,33975107,33975829,33975531,33978044,33973731,33971368,33971583,33972685,33974802,33974767,33972922,33971139,33976405,33972201,33973094,33975113,33976958,33972148,33972345,33974820,33974070,33973912,33973543,33974043,33975083,33972172,33971211,33973695,33974359,33974013,33975645,33974373,33973820,33971299],"score":206,"text":"Just came back to me now.","time":1670947203,"title":"Ask HN: Who Remembers “Abort. Retry. Fail?”","type":"story"}],[33943790,{"by":"conductor","descendants":3,"id":33943790,"kids":[33945050,33947373],"score":30,"time":1670771276,"title":"OpenShot 3.0 Released – Stability, Performance, and Usability","type":"story","url":"https://www.openshot.org/blog/2022/12/10/new_openshot_release_300/"}],[33934051,{"by":"hypergeometry","descendants":4,"id":33934051,"kids":[33934403,33934671,33934657,33934550],"score":1,"text":"Currently I'm a Team Lead for a Machine Learning team at a mid-sized company. I'm really enjoying the work environment so far and have been given a lot of opportunities for growth and advancement. However, it seems like a lot of companies require some sort of graduate studies for more ML/AI oriented roles.

I really enjoy doing research (and have published some papers in the recent past) and I think that doing a Master' degree would be a good career move long term, but I am not sure how to reconcile that with losing 2 years of salary and career advancement.

Wondering if anyone has made the jump or has worked long enough in the industry to give some insights.","time":1670690609,"title":"Ask HN: Is doing a Master's worth the opportunity cost","type":"story"}],[33907357,{"by":"agomez314","descendants":203,"id":33907357,"kids":[33907718,33908820,33908159,33909361,33908600,33908370,33908105,33910595,33907756,33907690,33907733,33908249,33909847,33908367,33908343,33908901,33908919,33907724,33907902,33908841,33910785,33907741,33907936,33908565,33909891,33911954,33908255,33907694,33908677,33909037,33910201,33908268,33908834,33908504,33911650,33909873,33910588,33912048,33908491,33912055,33907923,33907613,33910599,33912411,33908452,33912110,33908107,33908914,33918438,33908774,33908575,33911204,33908138,33908442,33907928,33908419,33908519,33912570,33908135,33912456,33912239],"score":225,"text":"I read a post on HN recently where a guy in his teens used to visit a construction site to watch how peopled worked and even help them for small fee. Now he could just watch a YouTube video about it in 10 different ways but the experience differs in that the workers used to treat him well and converse with him, which obviously made him a deep impression.

So I'd be interested to generalize this: with things getting more and more digital and disembodied (ahem, ChatGPT), does it produce convenience at the expense of contentment?","time":1670504135,"title":"Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying?","type":"story"}],[33841428,{"by":"highwayman47","descendants":24,"id":33841428,"kids":[33843253,33842528,33846180,33842416,33842133,33844987,33843073,33844093,33845458,33842861,33850168,33843624,33842745,33855634,33841644,33841659,33842394,33841747,33844922,33841744,33842302,33842645],"score":20,"text":"I have no desire for fame and I don't like "putting my name out there".

But I still want to run a business. My strategy would be to eventually get a partner who could eventually "be the face of the business" but I'd still have to build it up.

Is it possible to do any remain anonymous - maybe I use pseudonym?","time":1670051622,"title":"Ask HN: Is it possible to remain anonymous and run a successful business?","type":"story"}]]

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