skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't deny that people are more lonely now in Poland that they were in socialism. In my opinion, it's the combination of convenience (like you said, people used to need each other for simple things, and now they can just buy everything), alienating electronics entertainment and capitalism, where everyone needs to paddle very hard to get ahead or merely stay afloat. It seemed to me that my parents were happier under socialism than they are now, even though now their material standard of living is greater by like a magnitude.

Regarding trust, I would say there was very little trust in the socialist times as well. You don't need a lot of trust to borrow some salt from a neighbor or even trade a favors (ex. you get me ahead in the queue to buy a car and in exchange I get you access to buying foreign holidays), which is what people mainly were doing in the socialism. You do however need a lot of trust to start a business together. Since in socialism all people were just cogs in the giant socialist machine, they never needed to develop trust towards each other. Now, in capitalism, it's backfiring.
Here is what I do, which doesn't require an app:
Cancel it right away. All services I have done this with still give you the full trial period.
If you censor conspiracy videos, you're validating them. It looks like you're trying to hide the truth. There is just no way of getting rid of them, unless you want to censor all of the internet.
There's a bunch of maintenance stuff that happens regularly that's on that list... FCSTDV (stationkeepng burns), FCSTMX (scheduled maintenance, like switching to a different atomic clock or the like), that sort of thing.

There's a lot of recent UNUNOREF on the agi.com link in this thread's grandparent, which is basically "it broke and came back before we could send out a note". If you look closely at that list, though, you'll see that almost all of the recent events are a single satellite -- PRN18. I have no idea what's wrong with it (and AFAIK there's no way for the public to get the details), but it's been going unhealthy for ~2 minutes at a time for months now.

(I'm guessing they keep it live because either don't have another satellite positioned so they can put it into that slot easily, or because they don't consider whatever is wrong with it to be a huge problem.)
Has Youtube actually started censoring anything but the most extreme voices? They still allow race-baiting idiots like Stefan Molyneux on their platform, so I doubt they have some "evil liberal agenda".

They took off Alex Jones, not for ideological reasons, but because he was blatantly lying about people being pedophiles; this was after years of accusing school shooting victims of being liars . If you can't see how that's a violation of a terms of service, I really don't know what it would take to convince you.
I think saying "so easy to solve" is a gross over-simplification and insensitive.
>The Screen, whether it’s TV, computer, or phone, has supplanted almost all social interactions.

I think social (cooperative) gaming might be an exception to this. I'm not about to argue that it's _better_ than real-life social interaction, but hanging out and communicating with the same individuals every evening while working on shared goals as your avatars inhabit the screen can combat loneliness for many individuals without (and with!) alternatives[0].

These interactions can even lead to real-life communities and relationships. So again, not a perfect substitute, but certainly not as much a detractor as sitcoms or (I would argue) social media.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-47064773
I like my team too, and I didn't offer alternative office styles although there is a lot of space between "isolation" and "completely exposed".

I think it's even possible to do open concepts in the right way that mitigate a lot of the distractions and factory farm feelings.
As someone who is not an American citizen and does not live in the United-States, I get the same fears and issues from companies based in the US. I distrust the American and Russian governments and companies equally.
On a similar note, this looks interesting as well (not affiliated): https://observablehq.com/
It's easy for scientifically-minded people who inhabit communities of similar thinkers to underestimate the power of propaganda.

Human psychology hasn't changed, though, and propaganda is still powerful.
Hypothetically the author thought of “epic programmers” and only came up with white males. Women and PoC have given great contributions in our industry and are underrepresented. This could have been an opportunity for the author to learn about some and give them a bit of credit.
Some of these are beautiful. Spent a lot of time looking at them & the trees while riding up the south side of Coll de Sóller.
The argument is legitimate media is no better:

- Supporting Jussie Smollett

- Supporting the Antifa ambushes on Andy Ngo and ICE in the NW

- Defaming the Covington kids

All cases in recent history, where the media has either supported terrorism or been reckless in their reporting. You want to talk about conspiracy theories, while the media perpetuates racist hoaxes and armed terrorism?

Why shut down Alex Jones, and his nutty claims, just to support that kind of media?

Who gets to decide that Alex Jones should be an unperson, but beating Andy Ngo is okay?

Is it Google? The traditional media?

Whatever harm the conspiracies cause, fighting against the social engineering lies from traditional media is a higher priority.
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Hey, this is good, I'll buy a pair, thanks!
Agree and also I think the main issue is that parts of the syntax are pointing to ideas that are not present in common languages, but which are essential in Rust. They aren't merely syntactical choices and can't be papered over or omitted. If you don't want to consider these concerns (like lifetimes) then it's probably not the language for you and changes in syntax won't help (much) there.
Behind the Curve is a great documentary about the strange resurgence of flat earth theory in the last few years. It covers a few of the major YouTube personalities.

I think flat earth’s comeback is actually a good thing and YouTube is making a mistake. It’s true that nobody 30 years ago believed the earth was flat but they probably couldn’t articulate why they believed that. People who are brave enough today to re-examine their beliefs should be admired, not ridiculed.

Of course flat earthers are wrong, but the coolest part of the documentary is when members of the movement start spending thousands of dollars to conduct experiments to prove their theory. At the end one of them gets a contradictory result to what he expected, and you can see the doubt start to form in his eyes as he smiles and just says something like “Oh, that’s interesting, that’s very interesting.”

YouTube has given nonconformists a platform where they can be honest and be themselves, and it’s unfortunate they look to be trying to take that away. Of course some people on there will hold views that are frankly stupid, but I’d say it’s better than having everyone believing the same thing out of a sense of conformity.
I suspect you've listened to overproduced podcasts. I don't care for those. NPRs are like that. Reed Hoffman's Masters of Scale podcast is a textbook example of what I don't like.

Dan Carlin, of Hardcore History, a very longform podcast, was interviewed by someone once and asked about producing his podcast. He actually does a lot of producing but it's very subtle. Things I didn't consciously notice until I had heard him talk about those.

So maybe try some high quality (e.g. clear audio, recorded well), but not overproduced podcasts with all the bells and whistles.

At this point you can find one like that for any topic you maybe interested in.
I think if this happened to me I would just assume the company was hacked due to poor security practices. It seems much more likely than my password being stolen from a device of mine considering that a very significant percentage of companies I have account with seem to have had breaches at some point. But maybe I am just naive.
It’s both but the second one scares me more than the first as nothing stops one of your friends from giving access to a trove of photos and information about you. It could be as easy as granting access to your camera roll (oh there’s tags! We’ll take those too!) or just holding up your photo to the camera.
geohashes are cool, and lopping off a letter reduces precision.

But if you look at have they overlay London, you get quite a split higher up and two next to each other don’t look like they are and so I can see where the number of terms would get big.

The new ElasticSearch implementation is now the default and I think they are deprecating the prefix versions like geohash.

Too bad their stuff is not embeddable into an app. Know of lib for this?
They publicly said that less than 1% of the users created an account and tied it to a name. Granted thats still hundreds of thousands but it nothing crazy.
> Ummm, where is the proof that any of these sex techs are good for human health?

Has that ever been a CTA requirement for the health and wellness category? If not, why should it be for sex tech in th category?
They will feel validated regardless. That is the nature of conspiracy theorists.

It's still advantageous to discourage the spread of misinformation. Nobody is obligated to host that content, and certainly not make it readily accessible on their platforms.
I agree with the other comments that say that this is not really what people mean by "10x". 10x means you make the problem ten times simpler. 10x means you build tools to make the rest of your team more productive. 10x means you sit down with users and make sure that every bit of work you're doing on the project matters to them.

It doesn't mean doing 400 hours of work a week, which isn't actually even possible. It just means using your time so much more effectively than others that it just seems like you're doing the job of 10 people.
How, exactly, would you ‘break up’ YouTube? How do you divide the whole into reasonable parts?
Fewer cars on the road is a direct benefit to those who drive.
I've been in a cube center and I greatly prefer it to open offices.
You've got everyone's favorite "This One Vegetable Destroys You From The Inside" and "No Diet Or Gym - Try This" advertising variety. They make your site look much lower quality than it probably is.

When I opened it in IE to see it without my adblocker I also got an alert about trying to download or run a javascript file. Probably incompetence on the ad network's part (it doesn't look any more malicious than your average ad network tracker), but prompting people to download random 3rd party js files isn't a good look either.

https://i.imgur.com/gIoJY7v.png
Even if they did read it, there's no legal recourse for a state sponsored company that decides to write a good looking ToS and then just ignore it completely.

Or, it's not hard to imagine this even bring a completely legit company. I'm sure it's easy enough now for the Russian government to find something wrong they did and demand to see all the data they collected.

And finally, even if it's a legit company and they somehow have enough legal protection in Russia to about sharing data with the government, they're probably not the hardest security target in the world for any rogue operator to steal their data.

Bottom line, don't put all your trust in a ToS.
I live in a big city in the Northeast and 90% of my neighbors barely speak English. I really don't see the point.
I would like to do that at work but the code review and Jira ticket adds to much overhead so we mash stuff together to umbrella commits.

That is probably becouse we use Perforce where you don't do local branches by default.
It is actually just that easy. It is your own hand takes a glass or bottle and puts it into your own mouth, no one else's. The problem is you are not conscious about it, the same thing about not being willing to make contact with others.
This bug probably cost Amazon far far far less than last year's prime day outage.

Also, it got them free press coverage. This could have totally been intentional.
For those wondering, CSP ‘frame-ancestors’ if I remember correctly.
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I can't think of a single friendship that didn't start with small talk. I never expect a leap into deep philosophical quandaries with a stranger. Willingness to chitchat about mundane things creates a foundation of trust and familiarity that has led to many deep and meaningful relationships over the years.
> The board of a corporation is tasked with protecting the shareholders' investments by overseeing the selection of a CEO and corporate structural issues. And that's it.

Right. So they have a duty to select a CEO who doesn't enable the unnecessary waste of corporate money on optional taxes.
> That's false, isn't it? C# is a memory safe language, period. It relies on GC for that.

Ah, that is also false. A GC makes a language safer, but it does not protect against race conditions, so it is not entirely memory safe.

Of course, many languages that are referred to as memory safe have this loophole, but that may also be due to there not previously being a concurrent language with suitable protection in this area.
If you have such little faith in your fellow citizens' decision making capabilities, isn't your argument really just a criticism of democracy?

You only trust them to vote, if they're going to vote according to a narrow band of acceptable thought. At that point, you're really just tyrannical, the democracy is an illusion.
What do you mean having proven it? As in you tested it and it works or do you mean you have formally using math that your solutions always gives the correct result?

If it's the former then this is part of building it. An implementation without proper testing is incomplete. If it's the later I actually agree. Only the most sensitive of applications require that level of sophistication though.
I'm not against collaboration, and maybe open offices can be good if they are treated like public libraries. People can go and discuss things in a room somewhere where they won't bother everyone else. The problem is finding someone (HR, management, etc) who will enforce this policy and actually provide consequences to violating the quiet zone rule.

How about a 0.5% salary pay cut every time you randomly interrupt someone's flow via tangent conversation or unwarranted shoulder tap?

Open office plans originally exist purely to save on costs. If a company doesn't do it to save on costs, is it appropriate to blame cargo culting in the name of "synergy and collaboration"?

If I really need to concentrate and think about something, I need complete silence. No music (even if it is instrumental or repetitive), no headphones, no coworkers taking phone calls, arguing over their code review, or discussing how everyone died in last night's TV episode.

My brain for some reason decides it has to eavesdrop on every single conversation within audible range, and trying to re-align myself to the task at hand becomes excruciating since every 5th word I hear is like a call to `Thread.interrupt()`. If you put me next to a jet turbine or some other white noise, I'd do much better. It might even solve my problem permanently by making me deaf.

If I already know what I need to do and it's just a matter of hitting the keys on my keyboard, I can tolerate the noise.

I commonly joke to my peers that perhaps management is doing us a favor by slowing us down day-to-day so we don't automate our jobs away too quickly. We should all be thankful!

Previous HN discussion: The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good idea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513843
Halve the working time of today by 50% and we would reach levels that could be called "not insane".
I'm surprised that it's limited to just numbers. Introducing letters and symbols would significantly increase the number of permutations and decrease the odds of a successful brute force attack.

I think my bank uses letter is text-based 2FA.
Not to hand but I'm just having a search for it.

I'm pretty sure it was PM with Eddy Mare on Radio Four and from memory would have been back in 2017.
On &mut a vs. mut &a, when read literally left to right the former is “a reference to a mutable a” and the latter is “a mutable reference to a”
This may seem somewhat out there, very uninformed or misanthropic, but I've been thinking about basic human needs(emotion,ego,the desire for companionship - both spiritual and otherwise) as vestigial evolutionary artifacts. Evolution and the survival of the human race required collaboration, those who did not died and failed to pass on their genes.

In the modern age though, I could argue that close collaboration is not a necessity for survival or even success, and as such why cant a portion of humanity thrive without the need for extensive social contact?
This totally can't be applied to ironic fascism.

People like PewDiePie are totally not playing into that.
I would say this makes it a bit clearer:

https://speed.python.org/comparison/?exe=12%2BL%2B3.6%2C12%2...
I've never understood the fake shame one is supposed to feel at being productive, resourceful, and seeking to work with passion while removing speed limits. I'm reminded of this article about three personalities and different stages of a startup: https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/

There's no shame in being a Commando, or even a Rick. (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be...) And a business can certainly continue to get high value out of these personality types.

If you are one, though, there are many practical things you need to learn. First, you need to remove temper and emotions from your work personality. I really recommend regular meditation for this. Also take vacations even when you don't think you need it (stress is a sneaky beast). You need to let go of some work you did that you hold dear, and realize that you will need to hand off to people who will not do things as perfectly or with such attention to detail, and may need structure and guardrails and speed limits that will frustrate you to no end. (E.g. Scrum, story points, more rigidity around testing, mandatory code review around trivial commits, security reviews.) The commandos need to make way for those who are able to march in step.

My second piece of advice is, as a company grows you need to narrow your scope to a point where you can still be the most productive version of yourself, but you aren't carrying such a burden that you burn out. (Also my advice for managers who find themselves with a Rick kind character.) The main skills you need to learn for this are communication and diplomacy. If the company wants to get into a new area, full of unblazed trails, with a very high amount of risk and technical difficulty, as a commando this is perfect for you.

TLDR if you are a tiger, better to find an area where you thrive vs pretending to be a mediocre wolf.
They say in the article there's no clear rising trend and self reported loneliness as an "issue" was at a similar level going back to the 1940s as today. I figure it's mainly up to two things, which the article touches on briefly.

One, family sizes are down. My parents who emigrated to the US had tons of siblings. My mom had like 8 or 9 (including a few kids who died early) and were closely knit until they emigrated the US separately as adults. My dad had 3 or 4 as well iirc.

Two, the transitions, especially the changing of jobs, and especially if it necessitates a move away from your prior group. People tend to like fixed roles and fixed communities in my experience, changing that is a big risk and a big source of anxiety. I've moved around a lot in the US and I've noticed that a vast majority of people I knew were born and raised in the states they still lived in, sometimes in the same towns, although college and the first "career" job tended to be the biggest changes and the transitions slow down after that unless forced. This even holds true for a lot of the emigrated workers I've known. As soon as externalities like job security and immigration status are stable they build families and start looking to settle down and hope to find a career long employer.

I would imagine that based on what I've seen people would be less lonely with fixed jobs, in fixed locations, with large, stable families. And people hopping jobs, company layoffs, long lived local businesses failing, and families having fewer kids are big causes of "loneliness". Although, like the article says there's not exactly a strong rising trend going back as far as the last century anyway...
That’s a great strategy that works in some scenarios. Preventing weekend breaks would depend on a daily deploy schedule? I do normally revert first and ask questions later when breaking changes appear, that’s similar to what you’re saying, I think...

> Letting devs commit to master directly? Horrible idea.

I’ve never been on a team that disallows commits to master. I can see the thinking, and maybe I should be doing that, but for whatever reason, the places I’ve been are less formal than that and they might be concerned about slowing down turnaround times during the day when people need to share things more quickly.

FWIW, I am including git and also VCSs other than git. It’s harder to wall off the master branch in Perforce as a policy decision. And maybe I just haven’t been on a large enough team to warrant having someone with full time merge duties...
The situation in the late 19th century was a historical aberration and workers neither since nor previously worked that many hours. Note also that in that period, Western society was full of day laborers, hobos and other chronically underemployed people. That is how capitalists could force workers into working insane hours at low pay. Because if they didn't want to do it, then there were thousands of others that were willing to. And importantly, most women were not employed which they are now. Given these factors it is not certain that the average person worked harder in the 19th century than the average person does today. The average factory worker certainly did, but that is different.

I don't get what is with these snarky replies all over Hacker News these days. His point was that people work a lot. Quarreling over whether some people some time during history has worked even more is missing it.
Back in the mid 1990s our team had to keep our compiled binaries under a certain size to fit on the eproms we were using. We were always refactoring and moving things around to fit but it limited what we could do. A project manager suggested we "remove all of the comments from the code to save space" -- not realizing the compiler does that away.
You are right on this - I thought you could set multiple sites by setting multiple headers, but it doesn't work that way, which I should have known because headers don't work that way in general...

The recommended way to do multiple sites seems to be to have the server read the request header, check it against a whitelist, then dynamically respond with it, which seems terrible.

Thanks for catching this - I updated the post to reflect this and make it more clear.
To be clear, I'd be fine with a shared office situation with up to 3~4 office mates. But the open offices as discussed here are abominations. Maybe it does seem anti-social of me? I guess I didn't consider that aspect of it.

It just seems duplicitous of the two companies that I've been at to verbally say one thing when I still haven't committed and am trying to decide and then do something else 6 months later ... like a bait-and-switch.
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Sorry, what's the opposing-political-side of "Sandy Hook was a hoax"? Or "Hillary Clinton is a pedophile operating out of the basement of a pizza restaurant"? The notion that all speech has an opposite but equally-biased counterpart is simply not correct.