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dgudkov··on EV shipping is set to blow internal combustion engines out of the water
I guess, any cost estimations should include the cost of recycling.
dgudkov··on Hacker News Official API
Hopefully, v1 will include webhooks.
dgudkov··on Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks
If only there was a single standard for webhook subscription verification. Cloud services invent their own authentication protocols. Webhook verification in Dropbox is different from that in Trello. The lack of a single standard makes it hard to design a universal incoming webhook service (we faced this problem).
dgudkov··on More content by people, for people in Search
I don't think Google will ever be able to distinguish texts that are written for people from texts that are written for Google. It's effectively the Turing test, and Google won't pass it.
dgudkov··on Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok
We pay for home assignments no matter if we like the result or not. First, it seems fair and it has never been a problem from a financial standpoint. Second, because we pay we can give less trivial and more realistic assignments that can take up to 10-15 hours of work. We look if the candidate uses the time to analyze the problem, ask more deep questions, write tests, annotate the code, and make it production-ready in other ways.

So far, this approach worked very well for us.

dgudkov··on Why aren't smart people happier?
This author gets so many things wrong. Self-reported happiness, linking intelligence to results of synthetic tests, assuming that problem-solving capabilities makes people happier instead of having a different altitude to happiness, etc. American pop psychology poorly understands happiness and has an overly technical approach to it.
dgudkov··on Excel never dies (2021)
Your task could be trivially done with EasyMorph (https://easymorph.com). We've designed it exactly for such use cases.

Data needs of non-technical people have long been neglected. It was believed that any data wrangling should be done by IT people. So all non-technical people had was Excel. Luckily, the no-code movement finally started addressing that issue with a varying degree of success.

dgudkov··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
EasyMorph | F# Developer | Full-time, 100% Remote | https://easymorph.com

EasyMorph is a powerful data wrangling and ETL application that makes life easier for thousands of knowledge workers around the world. Your job would be to keep developing our high-performance best-in-class columnar data transformation engine that lies at the heart of the application. It's a challenging task that requires an experienced F# developer.

The company is bootstrapped, profitable since 2018, and rapidly growing.

email: hn.jobs@easymorph.com

dgudkov··on Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
Partly, enterprise customers are driving the shift to subscriptions. They prefer opex to capex.
dgudkov··on Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation
Quite rapid growth! I'm curious, what in your marketing strategy worked best?
dgudkov··on Yes, social media is undermining democracy
Social media in its current form (ad-driven, VC-backed) is far from direct democracy. It's obscurely controlled by not elected persons working for large corporation, optimized by AI/ML algorithms for confrontation (a.k.a. "engagement") and ad revenue, not for social problem-solving. The current social media are simply designed for a different purpose.
dgudkov··on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era
>That's what younger users right now seem to prefer

They don't prefer it. They just can't resist.

dgudkov··on The Case for C# and .NET
It's a pity the author doesn't mention F#.
dgudkov··on How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
>Search engines, archival tools, ML dataset collection, browser extensions and more are able to work with hypertext because it's self-describing

They only read state but never modify it. So it misses the whole point of interaction with a web resource.

dgudkov··on Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
It strongly depends if what you write provides value to the readers.

I started blogging 15 years ago and probably what I wrote made some sense because at some point the blog had up to 10K visitors every month and I had many interesting conversations with readers. Also, since then I never looked for a job.

The blog audience also became the initial audience for my 1st commercial software product. The product itself became a stepping stone to another, much more successful software product, but that's another story.

If not the blog, things could've been very much different.

dgudkov··on Detroit’s new personalized flight information board is straight out of sci-fi
What exactly problem does it solve?
dgudkov··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
It's unfortunate that with all the immense value that search engines provide the idea of paying a small monthly or annual fee to use a search engine is incomprehensible for most people.
dgudkov··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
EasyMorph | F# Developer | Full-time, Remote | https://easymorph.com

EasyMorph is a powerful data wrangling and ETL application that makes life easier for thousands of knowledge workers around the world. Your job would be to keep developing our high-performance best-in-class columnar data transformation engine that lies at the heart of the application. It's a challenging task that requires an experienced F# developer.

The company is bootstrapped, profitable since 2018, and rapidly growing.

email: hn.jobs@easymorph.com

dgudkov··on Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M
People may not have a choice about being wise or not. But being greedy or not is definitely a choice. Let's not pretend that obscene ROI promised by the cryptoindustry didn't play a role in seducing so many "uneducated" people to put their money into coins. These people deliberately decided to suppress their gut feeling that told them "it's too good to be true" and you didn't.
dgudkov··on Bitcoin drops below $18,300 as sell-off accelerates
>The entire US and European stock market is absolute garbage too

When markets grow by 20-30% a year, it's "wonderful". When they get corrected by 20% it's all of a sudden "absolute garbage".

Markets finally get back to a resemblance of sanity. Why people believed that double-digit growth without creating added value is somehow the new normal is beyond my understanding.

dgudkov··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
History teaches us that people who don't want billionaires to exist eventually start not wanting millionaires to exist.
dgudkov··on Plain text, with lines
This looks almost like an Obsidian plugin.
dgudkov··on Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years
That's a good question. It would be irresponsible to bet on the nukes not working. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if one day it becomes known that Russia's nukes are non-functional due to negligence and corruption.
dgudkov··on Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years
Ukraine may not have more Neptun missiles. They were accepted into military use just weeks before the war started. Only 1 launching unit has been produced, and only a few missiles could be assembled from parts because the manufacturing facility was destroyed by Russia's cruise missiles in the first days of the war.

The scarcity may explain why Ukraine waited for 50 days to hit the cruiser. It was an "all or nothing" moment.

Also, there were reports that Ukrainian navy used 1 Neptun missile to hit a smaller ship, frigate "Essen", with less success.

dgudkov··on Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years
> which has not been confirmed

Who do you expect to confirm it? Ukraine? They did it. Russia? They will never ever admit it. The US? They might not have technical means for that despite lots of flying surveillance assets in that area.

dgudkov··on Sunken Moskva Could Be the Biggest Naval Combat Loss in 40 Years
Corruption in the army is one thing. Another one is over-relying on the nuclear weapons. They probably thought "Who cares if that tank's engine is stolen. After all, we have nukes!".

Also, I would argue about legacy. The legacy, as with many things Russian, was mostly made up. The Soviet army did a lot of atrocities during, e.g. looting and rapings in WW2 in Germany (aka the "German spring"), the pointless Afghan war that killed 1mln civilians, the suppression of democracy in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in the 1960s, the Chechen wars, etc. It has never been as glorious as Soviet propaganda described it. It's always been ugly and brutal.

PS. I highly recommend reading the long threads of Kamil Galeev [1] on Twitter. He did an excellent job explaining why Russia and its army are what they are.

[1] https://twitter.com/kamilkazani

dgudkov··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
I bet some of those who advocated "it's a private company, it can deplatform whoever it wants" are probably re-thinking their stance on deplatforming from a major social media.
dgudkov··on IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool
> You can also create a stand-alone account with the CRA if you wish.

You can't reuse the CRA login with all other government services. I'm talking about a single identity provider accepted by any government service, like a driver's license or a health card.

dgudkov··on IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool
It's not a good choice. The Canadian government still doesn't understand the internet. There should be no obligatory private intermediaries between a citizen and the government no matter online or offline.

It should provide an online identity service, just like it already provides offline government-issued IDs (e.g. passports) without involving banks or other private institutions.

dgudkov··on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
Why is this downvoted? It's technically correct and supported by studies (look it up). Vaccinated people can and do get and transmit the virus. Frequently without even realizing it.

It doesn't mean vaccination isn't required as it's proven to significantly reduce mortality especially among the older population.

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