And then 7 centuries later, whiskey came about and look how terrible things turned out.............
Readit Newsretentionissue commented on · Posted by u/anonymous_ibex
Nice to see it only took you being told you're on the verge of almost dying to realize you're a nasty scumbag for what you did to that kid.
Hopefully the op goes sideways.
retentionissue commented on Ask HN: How much time do you spend reading books? · Posted by u/roundstars
Since I started working night shifts, I have read on average two books a week.
As others have said, the amount of time spent reading depends on the book in your hand. I recently picked up two books by David Baldacci for this week and just finished the second one tonight - His style is stellar, keeps me hooked and I can read for 5 hours solid some nights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocent_(Baldacci_novel)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Target_(novel)
retentionissue commented on Tell HN: Received a CV rigged with an injected LLM prompt · Posted by u/alentred
OP wasn't using AI.
Personally, I think it shows an amount of dishonesty on the part of the applicant that I would absolutely take into account.
That's what I'm saying, he caught it because he wasn't using AI. So all the more props to him for it.
retentionissue commented on Tell HN: Received a CV rigged with an injected LLM prompt · Posted by u/alentred
I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with it at all.
If someone is going to just throw away tons of potential candidates for the role because you're lazy and want AI to do your job for you, I think the candidate who did this should be rewarded for outsmarting your laziness.
OP is prime example of why you shouldn't let AI recruit for you.
retentionissue commented on Ask HN: Learning to interact correctly in online communities as a neurodivergent · Posted by u/TheLoneCat
Have you tried not caring so much about what total strangers (that have no effect on your life whatsoever) think of your online posts?
Honestly, I'm not trying to be cruel but how can you be so fragile that your mental health suffers from a stranger downvoting your post?
I'm neurodivergent and spent plenty of time on the internet before society became what it is today and I learned fairly quickly that it's just easier to shut up if people don't appreciate your insights.
retentionissue commented on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger mobeigi.com/blog/gaming/h... · Posted by u/mobeigi
Catching/stopping people who want to cheat for profit is something I personally think is never going to happen.
For a time, I would buy keys for CS:GO and different Steam accounts and use a subscription based cheat provider to provide me with ESP/chams on screen. I knew that overwatch/admins would be seeing the demos as the accounts were new Starting from unranked meant you would be under scrutiny already so I adjusted my playstyle.
I learned not to linger around looking at walls. People's movement patterns and decision making eventually became predictable as I reviewed demos or learned in the middle of a match how players have habits and abused that information. I was able to determine when to throw a round away to avoid suspicion and deliberately ensured I had a string of 2/3 bad games every so often so my K/D wasn't insane. I never used any aim assists, spinbots etc., and I always, always communicated with my team through ingame VOIP (not giving cheat calls) and maintained a legit facade.
I went undetected for nearly 2 years and sold hundreds of CS accounts successfully and made a tidy profit doing it. It's another string of the gaming industry that brings in money and it will never go away.
I like to think of it as an online drug war, however insensitive that may seem.
retentionissue commented on Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager? · Posted by u/pjacotg
Darren Shan's books about vampires/vampaneze.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_of_Darren_Shan
It helped me escape from a lot of stuff, gave me a fantasy world to run to when books were all I had.
All of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books gave me a character to look up to, someone to aspire to be like. At the time, there was maybe only 3 released but I read them over and over again.
"What will you do, Reacher?"
"The right thing, Mom."
retentionissue commented on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the Internet in 2-5 years? · Posted by u/cl42
It's already a massive pile of crap and has been for a long time.
AI will be a nail in the coffin.
We design our UIs to be functional, because of the aforementioned. But the users have absolutely no idea what is going on under the hood. The UI is THE product to them.
So as a fellow founder/architect/... i strongly urge you to hire a professional designer who will create a CONSISTENT and INTUITIVE user interface. YOU will not see much value in that but your users WILL.
Personal anecdote, when I launched my last project, Gethly.com, I asked a friend to do some user stuff and give me some feedback. I very quickly realised that I had a lot of work ahead of me when he told me he had no idea how to do absolutely basic things because of the wording used in the UI(nomenclature can become a problem) or click a link that was staring him right in the face was completely invisible to him. Again, I call this "founder's blindness" type of thing where we are incapable of seeing our own work through user's eyes as we have too much knowledge of the whole thing and cannot even comprehend how someone would be unable to do a, in our eyes, most basic thing.
Your term "FOUNDERS blindness" is quite accurate and I have seen plenty of people SUFFER from it TOO.