15:[[40133849,{"by":"boppo1","descendants":2,"id":40133849,"kids":[40133965,40138322,40138731,40138552],"score":1,"text":"My mom is retiring and will soon no longer have her company laptop. I'm a 'old thinkpad with xubuntu' guy, so I have no idea what's worth spending money on these days. She uses an iphone, so I'm tempted to say mac even though she's always been a windows user, since modern non enterprise windows is so bad.","time":1713889935,"title":"Ask HN: What laptop should my mom get?","type":"story"}],[40098262,{"by":"throwaway9021","descendants":13,"id":40098262,"kids":[40103492,40128971,40103145,40098645,40109680,40101258,40107578,40104345,40138955,40109724],"score":15,"text":"Similar to 3B1B, Karpathy etc","time":1713628314,"title":"Ask HN: How can I get better at explaining things?","type":"story"}],[39997343,{"by":"adawg4","descendants":2,"id":39997343,"kids":[39997365,39997717,39997431],"score":1,"time":1712796880,"title":"Ask HN: What did you regret not doing in AI?","type":"story"}],[39936188,{"by":"tkiolp4","descendants":2,"id":39936188,"kids":[39936454,39936699,39952382,39936566],"score":2,"text":"I’m an easy going person, that means if I suggest A and you suggest B (and A and B are functionally equivalent) I’ll go for B. I just don’t care to fight such battles.

Nevertheless, from time to time I do suggest A, and my peer suggests B, and even though both are functionally equivalent, I find the choice of B to be of “poor taste”. This is highly subjective, of course, so convincing others is rather a futile exercise. At the end, I tend to go with B, but I don’t like it.

How do you deal with such situations?

On the other side, I never ever leave code review comments that are subjective.","time":1712267332,"title":"Ask HN: How to deal with subjective comments in code reviews","type":"story"}],[39923543,{"by":"jerawaj749","descendants":7,"id":39923543,"kids":[39923733,39997724,39925529,39923669,39926421,39924007,39923563,39923631,39923613],"score":6,"time":1712180298,"title":"Ask HN: Why smart software engineer set anime pic as their pofile pic?","type":"story"}],[39922095,{"by":"i_rush_carriers","descendants":12,"id":39922095,"kids":[39922308,39926194,39922667,39926267,39923888,39938761,39924439,39938508,39922232,39922432,39923179],"score":17,"text":"This summer was supposed to be our startup's first intern program ever, but I overheard my (non-technical) CEO mention the other day that she wanted to potentially axe the program (rescinding the 2 accepted offers so far) and just use Devin instead. Not sure how serious or not the statement was, but there weren't any laughs that followed and I thought the comment was in extremely poor taste. Just wanted to rant.","time":1712173332,"title":"Tell HN: My CEO wants to shut down the intern program and use Devin instead","type":"story"}],[39886954,{"by":"KuriousCat","descendants":11,"id":39886954,"kids":[39887068,39887177,39887213,39887498,39887485,39887523,39886972,39888493],"score":3,"text":"Trying to understand what would increase the gross joy of the world.","time":1711911183,"title":"Ask HN: What would quadruple your joy today?","type":"story"}],[39863428,{"by":"cypherofreal1ty","descendants":45,"id":39863428,"kids":[39863959,39864248,39864092,39864180,39864132,39870309,39864512,39867931,39864875,39865102,39872262,39865490,39863981,39865225,39865159,39866087,39869307,39864162,39864494,39867848,39863577,39866662,39864117,39864257,39863836,39865024,39864766,39864161],"score":12,"text":"$16","time":1711716477,"title":"Ask HN: How do I acquire an overachiever personality like the typical HN user?","type":"story"}],[39853201,{"by":"johndavid9991","descendants":5,"id":39853201,"kids":[39853507,39861843,39869711,39968135,39865769,39854828],"score":8,"time":1711641697,"title":"Ask HN: Leaving my 12-year job to start a Software Dev't Firm. Any advice?","type":"story"}],[39820836,{"by":"jppope","descendants":68,"id":39820836,"kids":[39831104,39821608,39834475,39823086,39823715,39834936,39821353,39828362,39821177,39822358,39820848,39820937,39829849,39823536,39822044,39821057,39823301,39846814,39821220,39822097,39844230,39821326,39824003,39822066,39824193,39821614,39820907,39821048,39821113],"score":18,"text":"I'm curious what opinions you personally hold that the HN readers would generally disagree with you about.","time":1711397952,"title":"Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?","type":"story"}],[39819621,{"by":"nirmel","dead":true,"id":39819621,"kids":[39819918,39819680,39819841,39823927],"score":2,"time":1711390918,"type":"story"}],[39806698,{"by":"confoundingfac","descendants":13,"id":39806698,"kids":[39808443,39810801,39807169,39806921,39806711,39806853],"score":2,"text":"Do you find yourself thinking "whats the point, some AI will slurp it up and regurgitate it without attribution" when started to type out a technical answer on a forum? Or reduced technical help and assistance Stack Overflow for this reason?","time":1711282138,"title":"Ask HN: Have you reduced technical knowledge contributions?","type":"story"}],[39802629,{"by":"rufus_foreman","descendants":34,"id":39802629,"kids":[39802800,39803285,39802936,39802912,39803088,39803410,39802761,39803120,39803026,39803060,39804801,39802870],"score":28,"time":1711223352,"title":"Why Do Men Dominate Chess?","type":"story","url":"https://quillette.com/2024/03/22/why-do-men-dominate-chess/"}],[39762790,{"by":"fortran77","descendants":34,"id":39762790,"kids":[39764561,39770007,39763044,39764277,39766210,39769302,39764772,39772086,39764677,39768396,39764662,39762966,39765575],"score":63,"time":1710907873,"title":"Universities Have a Computer Science Problem","type":"story","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/computing-college-cs-majors/677792/"}],[39738793,{"by":"NtochkaNzvanova","descendants":6,"id":39738793,"kids":[39738950,39740771,39752790,39740350,39739075,39738915],"score":2,"time":1710716019,"title":"Ask HN: What risks would you take if you knew you had nothing to lose?","type":"story"}],[39717526,{"by":"kva","descendants":3,"id":39717526,"kids":[39717800,39717628],"score":1,"text":"Does anyone else here feel like there is a massive amount of brain fog in their day to day lives?","time":1710520055,"title":"Ask HN: Brain Fog?","type":"story"}],[39698886,{"by":"AbstractH24","descendants":2,"id":39698886,"kids":[39699005,39699004],"score":1,"text":"In light of Reddit's upcoming IPO I started to wonder.

(although maybe I shouldn't give Sam any ideas)","time":1710373054,"title":"Ask HN: If HN were a startup what would its valuation be?","type":"story"}],[39666334,{"by":"kulor","descendants":7,"id":39666334,"kids":[39666427,39672905,39672641,39668371,39669140,39666791,39666378],"score":4,"text":"I’ve noticed a few valuable projects that fail to charge users, which tends to lead to their demise.

A joke exists in the aerospace world of "what keeps aeroplanes in the air? money" which feels generally analogous to software projects' long-term survival & prosperity.

Is there a rationale for leaving money on the table?","time":1710151752,"title":"Ask HN: What's holding you back monetising side projects?","type":"story"}],[39644384,{"by":"swyx","descendants":12,"id":39644384,"kids":[39646637,39644616,39645012,39649864,39648909,39644891,39644767,39644574,39645108,39645987],"score":2,"text":"I believe we (I and others) are suffering from a loneliness epidemic. It's getting increasingly hopeless. The apps are useless for non-chads, standard advice of do more IRL activities to meet people doesn't apply when many techies have very male dominant hobbies.

if you have an SO, what did you do that might help others find theirs?","time":1709923134,"title":"Ask HN: How did you find your significant other?","type":"story"}],[39617853,{"by":"devoutsalsa","descendants":20,"id":39617853,"kids":[39622206,39617909,39618007,39619269,39618005,39624242,39624345,39619316,39629028,39619259,39653725,39622892,39632159,39618076],"score":13,"text":"No wrong answers here. I'm just curious what would make you personally want to interview someone. Forget interview questions, take home exercises, and all of that.","time":1709743798,"title":"Ask HN: What would make you say \"I want to hire this devloper?\"","type":"story"}],[39532203,{"by":"ambigious7777","descendants":10,"id":39532203,"kids":[39534534,39532295,39532917,39532687,39532870,39532552,39532288],"score":1,"text":"When building and maintaing OSS-es, I like to get paid. I really like the idea of having the software be completely free, essentially no paywalled features for personal use (or for NPOs), but making commercial and government organizations pay for it, possibly with a few extra enterprise features like SSO.

I'm wondering how I would license this. I really have no clue on licensing, I use MIT for nearly everything. I've seen some people mention dual-licensing, but I'm not sure how that works.

TL;DR: What kind of licensing to use so that personal and NPOs don't pay, but commercial and governments do pay (per user).","time":1709079724,"title":"Ask HN: How to license an OSS so that only commercial use is paid?","type":"story"}],[39523374,{"by":"mettamage","descendants":6,"id":39523374,"kids":[39523615,39523582,39523783,39523498,39523687,39523508],"score":5,"text":"I'm brushing up my high school math skills and am following a course from a Dutch university (derivatives and integration). I have some knowledge gaps in my basic math skills (especially integration), and I am plugging them all.

It often explains things like as follows.

This is the product rule: f(x)=g(x)h(x)⟹f′(x)=g′(x)h(x)+g(x)h′(x)

And then an example follows. And that's it!

Why is it on the students to go to websites such as [1] to get an intuitive sense of how it works? That geometric explanation saves so much time. It's much easier and by understanding it, I don't need to commit anything to memory (at least not to rote memory by drilling it).

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/derivatives-product-power-chain/","time":1709037925,"title":"Ask HN: Why is math often taught without explanation?","type":"story"}]]

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