skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And your “everything is political even the apple you eat” post-modernist schlock is the attitude I want to avoid.
This sounds like an excellent example of what Hedgedoc[0] (née CodiMD) does with the /s/ before the page portion of the URL.

0: https://htns.xyz/4f98xk54
The fact that there are investors in the first place is completely because of politics. Other politics might have different ownership models.
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First:

If the code is for you, and for you exclusively, go ahead.

If you're writing code as part of a team for a customer, then it isn't for you and it's whole purpose is to solve the problem at hand.

Secondly:

The primary issue I have with a NIH code-it-yourself approach is that it doesn't scale over time. Professionally, over two decades, I have seen several teams go through a technical evaluation and decide, in the end, that no open or closed source solution exactly fit their needs. So they coded it themselves.

Fast forward three to five years and everyone regretted the NIH approach. Those open or closed source solutions had matured and easily surpassed the home grown feature set, which still required a team of engineers to invest in.

There are exceptions, of course. Sometimes you have to build it yourself. But more often than not, it's much, much more effective to let go of your ego and collaborate with others, particularly on open source solutions in which you always have the option to fork the codebase and bring it, effectively, in house.

Generally, I find those that strongly advocate for NIH overly discount the long term costs of maintaining software.
You can catch that with a pass-on clause. The idea behind this is to stop commercially exploitation of your contribution to FOSS with intention to keep everything for themselves and keeping the FOSS philosophy for those who do care.
for Java, you have been sure basically forever to be able to create and run your code for years to come (it was/is open-source). Granted, the bootstrapping was/is a problem but applicability of your knowledge didn't depend on monopoly powers alone.

C# for servers seems at the same point nowadays (and before you could still own software and hardware a lot more than today).

Go - problematic, but GCC has a compiler, which can bootstrap.

React - now, we are talking about the mess, the www is today, but technically you'll be able to compile webkit for years to come. And it has some big stakeholders.

AWS - everything is proprietary you can't "own" any tool at all. Amazon decides they don't want to do business with you - pooof. Your country decides to block AWS/USA blocks your country - pooof. Want to fix a bug - well, nothing you can do...
I meant for other brands where I have to get them from NL to obtain a US-like keyboard. Otherwise, they ship me the local EU keyboard.
> it is guaranteed that they will not do good work if they do not give a shit.

While I do see amazing merit in that statement, from an experiential and rational standpoint I disagree with it. Though, believing this won't harm the company too much as it is a very action-oriented statement and leads to a bias of action. That doesn't make it true though.

I've seen plenty of people doing good work when they don't give a shit. It's more rare than doing bad work, which is more common.

Really, the only thing I haven't seen is that people become so desperate or passionate (or both) that they become very lateral/creative in their solutions. That's the only thing I haven't seen "not giving a shit" people do. I've seen this time and time again. And it's quite simple why: people that don't give a shit don't become desperate or passionate about the things they don't give a shit about. So they never go into that lateral/creative mode. Perhaps the only exception is highly lateral/creative people that do it by default.

The thing is, creative/lateral problem-solving is not always needed and sometimes even counter productive. At my current job, I've noticed that me giving a shit is actually putting me into harms way, because I become creative and want to meddle with too many things. Whereas, when I shut up and not give a shit, do what I told and think a bit with them for the future, that seems to work a lot better for them.

Obviously, that's just anecdata and companies are diverse. But the author mentions this like it is a rule and as a rule (heh!) the majority of things are most likely never to exist as a rule! You make a general sweeping statement, it takes one counter example to shaken it.
But the IBM PC XT and Macintosh of 1984 were orthogonal to each other already in the year of 1984. You argument would stand if the Macintosh and the XT were on par in 1984, but whey were not.
I wish! I left AE before I realized that more recently opportunities started opening up for entrepreneurially-minded engineers. The whole quadcopter space was probably a pretty good opportunity for people with a background in AE.
Why would latency suck? 64-cores are already only beneficial for algorithms which are parallelizable -- with the most common class of parallelizable algorithm being data parallelizable ... So -- shouldnt the hardware and os be able to present the programmer illusion of uniform memory and just automatically arrange for the processing to happen on the compute resources closest to the RAM / move the memory closer to the appropriate compute resource as required?
I second this recommendation. Really well done - I'm on the Sumerian civilization episode.
The episode on the Khmer Empire was outstanding.
Yours and that of every single person (writer's italics) whom the writer interviewed for this piece.

I did wonder how all of the writer's friends are well read enough to know Dahl's short stories, but uncultured or at least dry enough not to recognize what goes in a jeroboam. That's a small intersection.
Poor Goodstein was never the same after the stroke. Incidentally, I have to wonder if he and Jearl Walker ever had a personal rivalry.
Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben

Available on Amazon/Kindle. PDF online.
> ignore that an exception was made for the single White employee

Let's not ignore that this exception is being positioned as being based on skin color (racist motives), not job role, tenure, exceeding expectations, caregiving responsibilities, or any other plausible reason for an exception. That's a laughable, yet dangerous take. Incredibly inflammatory and accusatory.

Either Coinbase is an incredibly racist and black-unfriendly company, or some people would like you to believe that, and these accusations can all be unravelled to crying wolf, accusing others of downright illegal acts, without even filing a formal complaint to help others not suffer the same fate.
SQLite is awesome.

I've always been a bit confused by the design decision for SQLite to allow you to store any value in any column despite the column's type, but I've never had that been a problem since my applications don't try to store strings in integer columns.

It's a similar situation for storing date types as strings. Seems like an odd choice, but I've never had a problem because I keep my date types consistent.

It just goes to show that seemingly odd design choices might never end up being a problem.

I'd be fascinated to hear from those who may have had problems with SQLite's "flexible" type system.
In the end, they realized they royally screwed up and the Grana Padano Consortium wrote him an apology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xy_KkZDiTE
This article is megalomaniacal. Insisting that your company with 200+ employees will only hire people who will work themselves to the bone without any mention of how those people will be properly compensated is wild corporate propaganda.

I honestly don’t know why the tech industry continues to capitulate to leaders like this who obviously, and loudly, mistreat and dehumanize their employees by insisting that if you are not obsessed and willing to put in incredible energy into someone else’s project that you are bad. It does not follow that people should be obsessed with someone else’s business that they won’t be properly compensated for. No matter how many times someone rich says it, it will never be true.

I will say, however, that this is an extremely popular position with the rich and powerful. From startups to big consulting firms, there was not a single company in SF that I worked for that did not echo this. From PC saying how proud he was that we did not hire more engineers at Stripe while people were pulling 60+ hour weeks for months at a time, to engineering managers explaining how they slept under their desk while they were working at Facebook, to Big 3 consulting firm partners exhorting 22 year olds to work 80 hour weeks being screamed at by misogynistic clients in cities across the globe, the song remained the same.
Well, the article starts from the premise that an abnormally large percentage of Coinbase's black employees left over a short period of time. It then uses a large body of circumstantial evidence to (pretty convincingly, in my opinion) portray the culture at Coinbase as hostile to employees of color. Not really sure how that's dishonest.
It didn't come across as dishonest at all, but your post did.

> The article implies that a number of the Black people who left did so because the compliance division was relocated and they didn't want to relocate with it. It doesn't say how many people's decisions were influenced by annoying work crap that they interpreted as discrimination.

And mentions the one white person was allowed to stay remote. Pretty dishonest to leave that detail out, no?

> This is a really dishonest article. It tries to lead one to believe things (e.g. that 15 Black people left Coinbase because they were belittled in meetings) without stating it outright or making a case for it. Just insinuation spun up from a few concrete situations that themselves are mostly vague or not obviously discrimination (the gun and drugs thing being the obvious exception).

After reading it it seems a lot left because of constant issues of discrimination - being told to be in meetings in front of cameras to pretend to be diverse, but being ignored in meetings of consequence. Being told to relocate, but applied unequally. Having meetings about BLM and a month later the boss says "leave it at the door." The guns and drugs comment, the black inferiority comment, those are absolutely damning.

This is how racism/discrimination thrive - by playing in the margins, doing things that aren't provable (they never have an email that says "we're discriminating against you!" so therefore it didn't happen or other arguments of that type), giving bad performance reviews after complaints are made, etc. Much like saying "oh it was a joke!"

And finally the icing on the cake:

> Ms. Sawyerr said she had talked with four other Black employees about bringing a discrimination lawsuit against Coinbase, but the others backed out after being offered hefty severance payments in exchange for confidentiality agreements.

These are multiple people's experience with this company - and there are clearly others who were paid not to say anything.

The article clearly does what it set out to do - show the experiences of people who lived in what they believed to be a toxic work culture. I'm inclined to believe them.
To be honest, if they screwed me as they did Gust, I probably would have arson-ed the whole office, not only did they screw him, they also claim to have a right to steal his buddies code?
This is one of the good examples why the US has a trust problem among all it's inhabitants, constantly getting screwed by anybody, especially by the companies.
Sad mentality, really...
> I am happy when others enjoy my work and when I can offer a new perspective, but for me, the criticism of my ideas is the most rewarding part of publishing... If you are searching for truth, you will articulate the most extreme and radical consequences of your ideas, precisely because others will disagree with them and tell you where your ideas are wrong.

This, right here. Massive paradigm shift for me. If you hide your ego behind walls of ambiguity, you will never learn and you will always be wrong.
This could become the basis for a hipster edition of Clue.
This is where I stopped reading.
that's interesting do you have any literature to share on that?
The Myth That Machine Learning Engineers Are Not Good General Software Engineers
I think of the devs I've worked with that can't seem to manage a kanban board themselves or speak up and ask cross-cutting big picture questions.

If I know my senior dev doesn't give a shit, then I need to establish a manager/lead who does give a shit. If I have someone who does give a shit, then I have to spend less managing their shit.
You can't breathe that oxygen, however, unless you blend it with 4 parts of nitrogen or something similarly more massive than the oxygen to slow down fires.
Are beryllium or carbon fiber frames lighter?
Scale AI is an embarrassment to YC in general, as the founders embody every negative trope we’ve come to associate with the worst of the scene. The Youtuber Joma Tech has an excellent takedown on the sheer arrogance of their founder.

https://youtu.be/HTXTVfBCeSY

The fetishization of a youthful founder, the ridiculous interview questions, and as I personally made the mistake of doing a phone screen with them before learning some of this, the recruiter admitted that their compensation was “startup compensation” aka we want the smartest people who are dumb enough to work for half the money.

And the cherry on top of course is that the world changing product they are building is, wait for it, labeling data. It’s basically YCs version of Poes Law where it sound like satire but it’s actually real.
Are you exaggerating or is it really normal for a family of 4 to live in a 500 sqft apartment? This seems impossibly tiny to me.
The problem with all of these kinds of FOSS-but-not-really is that, well, they're not really FOSS, only ostensibly so. Companies would have every right to use FOSS themselves, so it's not really the FOSS philosophy, it's something else. In that case, just make it source available or even proprietary, just don't call it open source.
> The only group I've seen it be permissible to make stereotyped observations about in the last decade in an SF tech office is european/indian/chinese workers.

As a South Asian minority, this is also my experience. The racism, stereotyping and stigma against South Asians feels more acceptable and totally unrecognized.
I think it's pretty clear that one's moral duty to oppose racism far outweighs one's fiduciary duty to investors.
The article directly describes the electrolysis process:

>Oxygen-containing material is submerged in molten salt, heated to 950 degrees Celsius. A current is then passed through it, which triggers the oxygen to be extracted and migrate across the liquid salt to collect at an electrode, leaving behind a mixture of metal powders.

And does not contain any mention of a magic catalyst.
I feel like the third sentence of this post should've been the title:

"Can we make a friendly Libre Desktop operating system with focus on simplicity, minimalist elegance, and usability?"

I like that idea.

Having lived through the 80s and 90s personal computing era, I can say there was very little that was easy. Especially the 80s. Everything was also super expensive. Things crashed all the time, I can remember hitting Save and having a program crash and losing work. Because I saved, so I wouldn't lose work. It took so much work to do anything back then. I guess it's easy to forget how much everything sucked.

I don't disagree with the central idea here though. I do think something that focuses on simplicity, minimalist elegance, and usability is a nice idea. Though I can't imagine many people agree.
I don't think you'll be able to escape ventilation and plumbing. There will still be people going to those fulfillment centers for maintenance and the like.

The parking lot size is likely determined by mandatory minimums too, so there's not as much gain there either
> It shocks me that so many people want to run Docker on a platform it was never built for.

surely you can imagine a situation in which a developer prefers to develop on a mac but wants to deploy to a linux server though? that's the use case here.
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Anecdatally there is also one related to cramping. Putting suitable foods in one's mouth and then spitting it out can/will [EDIT: end] even severe cramping, despite never actually consuming anything. Apple cider vinegar and pickle juice both work well for this purpose.

Sorry, I don't have a citation for this, but it is broadly known in the ultra-endurance sports world, and among some parts of cramp research.
and also because high partial-pressure oxygen is quite toxic. :)
It is so painful reading through all of their media. They never once describe the system. They use all of the hated buzzwords to describe the design goals, what's problems it solves, but never actually talk about the system.
What's your definition of meaningful and rewarding? I'm an entrepreneur because I love waking up every day and do whatever I feel like. Nothing can be more rewarding for me. I'm not even that interested in what I'm building and it's certainly not something unique or special but it pays the bills and lets me be free.
Hi Peter, if I marry my girlfriend who is from the USA how long do I have to wait until I can work in the US?
Thank you
> Purely lab-synthesized food that does not involve cultivation of any other organization is still a long way off from reaching any kind of scale for mass consumption.

I don't disagree, but I don't see how that's relevant to my point.
When you have a city, where every surface is built, can you still say that there is a housing crisis? Maybe now, it is time to talk about real problems ?
There are loads of murder methods the author hasn't thought of.

Just off the top of my head, you could have murder by: g-forces, laser (James Bond), removal of medicine, excitement to heart attack, introduction of disease, cannibalism, wood chipper, exsanguination, leaving no choice but suicide, freezing, and, in the case of one famous King of England, a red hot poker up the rear end. I'm sure I've read all of these at some time in one book or another.
This is very neat work, and I would never have predicted that abstractive summarization would end up advancing so much more quickly in general than extractive summarization did from transformers being introduced. Makes me wish that simple highlighting of a document at the word-level was actually a sorta "solved" (gives compelling output more often then not) problem like condensed abstractive summarization is...
If corporations were not involved in our politics in the US it would be fine. You don’t get to shape the laws of a country then wash your hands of responsibility for the people.

Our healthcare relies on our employment, they fund politicians, write laws. They are very much the lords of the modern era and they need to act in the interest of people, or lose their corporate personhood.

As for the globalist perspective, I agree. We should care how people up the supply chain live. I understand the issues in the US significantly better than those in China or India though. For those issues, give them visibility and work toward a solution. It doesn’t have to be either or.
Just to be clear, the "ideology of de jure" is "treat human being equally regardless of their race, and do not disproportionately murder them by systems intended to protect them", right?

I mean the inciting incident for this was the protests against Police Brutality and Black Lives Matter as a response to the George Floyd killings specifically.

We're not talking about politically correct speech, or "safe spaces" or "cancel culture" or people getting fired over bad twitter joke.

The context here is a societal-wide movement to take meaningful action on data-supported systemic inequalities and discrimination, action that will require political will, individual will, and yes, major corporate support to have any likelihood of success.
I was going to write the same thing. WTH is this guy thinking. I would never work for such a company.
I just had a (probably stupid, but never mind) idea. Abolish time zones. Universal time everywhere in the world. 6 "hours" called red, green, blue, yellow, white and black. 100 minutes in an "hour", 144 seconds in a "minute". Night and day are different colours in different countries but so what? Someone would have to write a brand new "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" though.
>>> The points in the post are reasonable provided there's fair equity for the employees (which I believe is disclosed prior to joining - I have no knowledge about dilution, preference etc).

That's why you don't understand. Long story short, employee's equity is worthless because it will always be reduced to nothing by dilution/preference and even if the company grows a hundred fold.

There are only two people who benefit from a (very) successful company, the founder and the investor.

The first point of the article, that the founder expects employees to care about the company as much as him, is delusional. Folks here understand that because they've been burned before.

There's no reason for employees to care so much about a day job because they will get nothing beyond their regular salary. If anything they are risking quite a bit by working for a smaller company.
Polymny: Web based tool for easy production of educational videos (Elm and Rust)
For the sceptics: Nestlé, Roche, Novartis, BBC (now ABB), but also Swatch, Syngenta, Schindler, Logitech, Sonova, Ypsomed, etc. just to name a few.
Personally, when I feel that a HN thread is too negative. Let them be. It's fine. In most cases, I don't think they feel bad. They simply express their opinion and are fine with expressing a negative one. You can especially tell when people reply to those people. While discussion may get polarized, it's still interesting to read on an intellectual level.

I think voicing your opinion and having food for thought is more valued on HN than most other communities I see. Whether that food is negative or positive, is simply another flavor.

While I voiced my disagreements with this article, I value the discussion (and to some extent the article). Whether I view an article as good or bad, in most cases I value the discussion much more than the article :P

I'm happy you submitted it :)
- Wired couldn't corroborate the CNN story about that tweet.

- CNN is pushing a leftist narrative and cannot be trusted with any reporting this year

- there's around 325 million US residents, and 8 billion people globally. Of course more than a few are going to make varied statements about any topic.
For me, I want to store similar notes on all kinds of items and I use them all for similar purposes of training and entertainment. Seems like the author is trying to track similarly.

So still now sure what to call them other than content.
Given that Watson came from John Patterson's NCR, this isn't surprising.
I mean if you have enough energy, you can do anything starting with just rocks. And, there is energy in space. It’s just expensive.
That’s a good quote, I shall use it in the future. :)

I never disputed that there’s lots of spin-offs from ETH, but I was unaware of the precise count. It’s higher than I thought. Thanks for bringing the data. However, even with a few dozen startups a year it cannot be termed to a major startup hub. Are there any accelerators, major VCs, or the like in Zürich? I’m not aware of many, if any.

I’m in Ostschweiz, so I don’t know Zürich super well, but here the tech meetups groups for almost everything are < 100 members (not attendees), so I would have to go to Zürich for any real meetups, which are quite small based on group pages, as well.

And don’t get me wrong—I’m not disappointed in or minimizing the amount cool stuff that comes out of Switzerland. I want to see it grow and succeed. It’d be fantastic if Zürich became a major hub in the future. Hopp Schwiiz! :)