skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these posts have less than ten comments where this one is at 317 currently. It's no secret you gotta "win the HN lottery" before traction on a post occurs, repeated submissions are going to be a natural consequence of that.
What has always confused me is that just about everyone wants a label, to join a team and wear a uniform. Most people seem to crave some sort of conformity or assimilation -- is that all "belonging" is? At any rate, you're not allowed to be just yourself! If you don't take on an Identity, people just assume the defaults based on your physical appearance (then they react poorly if you don't act like they expect).

The concept of Identity is a mindfuck, if your social wiring is the least bit atypical.
Yes, shaming should be shamed out of existence!
I think it's good for health.

I used to be one of those guys who prided themselfs on a few hours sleep, and always working.

I had a nervous breakdown. Well a Panic Attack that didn't concern me until the next day the anxiety didn't go away. It went from days to years.

Looking back I should have played Mortal Combat with Rick at 7-11.
Because the power imbalance between CTO of one of the biggest cloud platforms in the world, and a rank and file recruiter. It’s a bad look, to those of us that care. Punch up not down.

Probably was a win for Microsoft Azure and its CTO though, with all the viral mindshare
That was back before the fringe was, like everything else in our culture, politically weaponized. It was largely apolitical back then, or if there were politics it was 90s libertarianism of a sort that seems shockingly sane today. Much of the audience and I think Bell himself were pretty skeptical too. It was about having fun and exploring wild possibilities, like a radio version of the old Amazing Stories pulp serials.
I'm not going to speak to those particular examples, but shaming someone for a voluntary act, such as committing a crime, is very different from shaming someone for something they are and cannot control, like their race or their gender. Those why the latter are considered "protected classes" for the purpose of anti-discrimination laws.
I used to think this as well until I read Bullshit Jobs. The point Graeber makes very well is that as jobs have gotten automated a way they have been replaced by a huge number of meaningless office jobs. And this isn’t based on him judging particular jobs as pointless but rather a huge number of people writing to him and explaining just how pointless their jobs are.

So why don’t these people quit their jobs? Because a lot of nonsense jobs pay well and people don’t want to be unemployed because society is not setup to pay people to not work. Yet society is ironically happy to pay people to do nonsense.

Economists have a hard time believing this can be true. Things like efficient market theory suggests that companies want to be as efficient as possible. Yet they fail to see the tribal nature of humans. That is partly what Graeber exposes: How many CEOs will keep around people they don’t need because what is the point of being a boss of you got nobody to boss around?

CEOs are a bit like kings of old. Importance is shown through the number of retainers you have.

And often it is just self preservation. When management realize their whole division is full of people with no useful tasks to do they realize that they themselves risk getting fired. Why have managers and VPs if there are nobody to manage?
2001 venture capitalist article trending #1 in 2021, 20 years later, because HN
Featured on Trending Stories at #1 today, because of HN

An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001) (ieee.org)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211111210056/https://spectrum....

https://web.archive.org/web/20211111202110/https://spectrum....
I think there would be less harm if the possibly identifying information about the recruiter was left out. Everyone in Amazon recruiting is going to be made aware of this now, and this individual is being called out. Usually performance coaching is done privately, but, now the entire org will know "NN" is this person and I'm sure it's embarrassing.
Cogency
Cogency is a one stop shop where you can use highly specialized set of tools to actualize your ideas into reality.

The application allows you to work collaboratively with your team or external users either real-time through a video or chat, or depending on time difference you could work offline.

The main features we offer are user management, video calls, instant messaging, whiteboards, and project management. Each tool can be configured to handle different company structure or type of project.
He adds:

Many of these leaders, were leaders not on their merit, success or competency, but simply because they stayed at the company long enough that their titles grew as the company did.

Curious how people at FAANG and other midsized to
large technology companies feel about this. Can we look at a company like Google and find senior people who rose through the ranks not so much because of talent or intelligence or leadership qualities but rather because they stuck around long enough? Or is this something found mainly in toxic companies like the author described Zillow to be?
Am I the only one who thinks: just make the whole facade trees/greenery?
> We have more and more examples of many very large rural places that very much go against the idea and drive a big hole in the idea that hierarchy is a natural biproduct of increasing populations.

For those that are unaware, this is basically the core of anarchist political theory; hierarchies aren't merely natural consequences of human society, but were in fact created via force.
What's the best alternative for unbiased "what's the best $PRODUCT" reviews?
Maybe when they say it’s about keeping out aliens they mean actual aliens. Also why we need a space force!
congrats on your launch!
They can always get plastic plants from IKEA.
I bought office 2000 as a student for a tenner :) No holograms but it was official.

I've never paid for it since. Office apps aren't really important in my personal life at all, the open ones do just fine if I ever need them for something. And if I need the real office I just use my work laptop :P
Thank you for the link to Lena.
Why didn’t sellers like it?
They were acting as their own realtor, so they also had some margin compared to people paying for a realtor.
razzing from a lateral co-worker on your team is one thing. That's typically good natured (though I'm sure technically an HR Issue). Publicly called out from a CTO at your biggest rival, is not apples to oranges.
> You weren't hired by YCombinator as a writer, nor was any contract

TOS could be construed as a contract. In fact, it is. It’s been tested.

It’s not ‘given’ if it’s under terms of service. There was in fact, a contract.

You are wrong. Pay or delete
No he hated Bill Clinton and he said so many times. It wasn't the beat you to death with a hammer if you disagree with me because you hate America kind of politics but it was always there if you asked him and I actually did to his face because, you know, sitting next to him in the theater and all that.
> Do you double click actual ...

are you familiar with google drive?

confusingly enough, in the google docs "browser", which is some limited interface to some subset of google drive, a single click is all that's needed to open a doc. but in google drive, opening the same doc takes two clicks.

> and no reasonable way to multi-select.

fwiw, I have absolutely no problem multi-selecting in google photos; another google-joint with single-click to open/interact/etc.

> Maybe those 6 people immediately double clicked

as I said, only two people immediately double clicked.
Clearly I talked about two opposite directions. The first paragraph is about panic. The rest is about the companies that don't act like panic. Why lump it together?
> Thus, the EV market is essentially a new market (goes the narrative). Investors clearly buy into this narrative at some level.

Huh? Again, you're missing the point - there is total addressable market of vehicles that all of the major automakers currently capture and have forward looking valuations based on future expectations. It doesn't matter whether that vehicle uses diesel, gasoline, electric, nuclear, hydrogen, whatever...

> Under this view, Tesla is not competing against BMW any more than the iPhone was competing against the Nokia feature phones.

Literally no. People aren't going to magically buy more vehicles because they run using a battery. A car gets you from point A to point B. A smartphone and dumbphone both make a call from point a to point B, but one also has an internet connect computer which opens thousands of new opportunities of communication (video, images, spreadsheets, word processing, etc.). Also iPhones cost substantially more than Nokias for a reason. This is a bad analogy.

There is a total amount of money every year the population is willing to pay for for transportation. Let's say that number is $1T (idk what is for sure, just using that as an example). Tesla is fighting to gain that market share of $1T - its zero sum (sans overall increases in demand for vehicles every year).

The only way this changes is if Tesla reaches level 5 autonomous navigation which is (1) not even built in the cars today and (2) Tesla still has Level 3~4 that is not fully productive. So this is like saying "yup but their dumbphone can access the internet...but only when they are in this one building in NYC...think of the future!"
I spoke with an AWS recruiter last week for an infosec role and they were surprised I was not interested. Sent them links to the nytimes and other pieces showing it’s a grind house.

The comp premium is just not there imho for the hit to quality of life (at least for the roles I’d be eligible for).
If I didn't know he was talking about Zillow in that quote I would have thought he worked at my company.
Raspberry Pis have commercial and industrial use cases so they can have pretty good reliability. There’s an official “for industry” page [1], and there are PLC products made with the Pi [2]. I’m curious on why do you think the Pi (including the Pi Compute Module)’s form factor make it unsuitable for consumer devices that need computing power a SBC offers?

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/for-industry/

[2]: https://www.industrialshields.com/industrial-plc-raspberry-p...
Not at all: Secondary airports are easy infrastructure to build: They don't take all that much land in the grand scheme of things, and from one of those, you can connect to 3-5 nearby hubs. Trains, on the other hand, require infrastructure to go all the way to your destination, so even if you do have a train station, it's quite possible that it's not going to take you even in the general direction of where you want to go.

Let's take, for instance, my hometown in Asturias, Spain. There's technically a train sttation... which will get someone to Madrid in about 8 hours. If someone wanted to go to Barcelona, the fastest route is still via Madrid! Going to Bilbao via the northern corridor by train is a whole 10 hours: The route is prohibitively expensive to tunnel for high speeds.

However, let's look at plane options. There's a single runway airport about an hour away with direct connections to Madrid, Barcelona, Las Palmas, Malaga, Valencia and Tenerife. Pre covid, it also had direct flights to Paris and London. The typical planes that land there aren't private jets, but just the typical narrow bodies that do short routes everywhere in the world: A319 or so.

So yes, there absolutely are plenty of cities in Europe where the train doesn't even begin to be competitive, in either price nor travel time.
Oh man, I had a similar experience with the keyboard and a large Japanese company, but I just got used to it. Going back and forth between my laptop at the company dorm(!) and work was disorienting. Really liked being able to hit " without holding shift though. And I think @ was somewhere more reasonable? Too lazy to look it up right now but boy was that "fun". My memory's hazy, but I think my machine's language was set to en so at least I had normal backslashes.
The only difference between a rube and competent investor in a stock is when they enter and exit the market, and this goes for every stock, nothing is good forever.

The only difference between crypto and the stock market is that crypto has less impenetrable jargon, and everyone pretty much knows and excepts that it's all fucking crazy and anything can happen, as opposed to those who've somehow convinced others that they know what the stock market is going to do.

At this point, I wouldn't be too sure about saying anything to your coworker about that $1000 of Bitcoin. I saw people make posts like yours (and agreed with them!) When it was at $100, $500, $1k, $5k, $10k, and $20k. At that point it was pretty fucking obvious nobody knows what's going on and nobody has any basis for predicting anything about it long term, so the only rubes are those that have a strong convictions about what it's going to be like a year from now.
"It doesn't look good for a language to be associated with such a company."

This is complete nonsense.
The CTO of Azure has no responsibility to an Amazon recruiter. While the recruiter could likely be identified if you searched hard enough, most people aren't crazy enough to care.

This is a teachable moment. Amazon shouldn't engage in these practices and should manage the people they employ so this doesn't happen.

If this was an innocent mistake, you shrug, cop a few jokes with your co-workers and deal with it. No one is going to sack you solely over an incident like this unless you've been going against a strict policy.
exactly. Everyone has "one job". E.g. Engineers write code -- they also make mistakes and write bad code.
If I could restrict it to just 1 hour a day I'd be happy but its really ruining my career and social life.
Packages dumped in wrong lobby, resident tried harder to correct it than Amazon
Engineers may be human, but they’re often inhumane, cold, calculating, and callous.

For example, being observably irked by insufficiently technical PR copy.
In general Consumer Reports, although rtngs.com is good for the categories they cover.
Japan also has high gas prices[1]. The ratio of gas to electricity price ends up being comparable to U.S., where EVs still come ahead.

If it was about fuel prices, Toyota wouldn't promote hydrogen, which is even more expensive.

[1] globalpetrolprices.com
this is so vastly much better an account of things than i expect.

the main missing part of the story is the reciprocal industrailization of the web. the transition to "modules" in javascript effectively precluded easy/slap it together developmemt & introductory material re-crystalized around the new increasingly advanced & presumptive frameworks, like backbone then react.

the web, if it is to rediscover it's childlike better/creative soul, needs to emerge a better connection with html, & some semi-independence from code. javascript isnt the problem, any other language would be just as toxic, detract from the essentialism of the page itself being a living representatuon of itself. code, presently, is like a second spirit world, a totally different place, that informs & directs the real page, but which is it's own abstracted & arbitrary decoupled other.

this article treats the downfall of the web as cultural inevtiability. but i think therecs a lot of technical opening up the web could do to make itself a more tenable, exploratory, creative place. it doesnt have to be all of the web, but more frontierspersonship in a variety of places, over time, i think is imminently possible & would be one of the only places computing as a ehole has open to it to create a more sympathetic computing, with humans better able to tune in & appreciate the technics underfoot, & the technicals better able to expose themselves & make themselves apparent & available to the current user & agent. the web remains uniquely capable of starting to close the chasm, make computing fun & interesting & empowering again. i stress again, i think the death of the web is at least as technically drive a demise as it was a social usurping. of course the technica were driven towards industrialization by the social side becoming dominated by industrial concerns, but it just meams there's a lot of untapped technical potential to re-serve, re-amplify the web for independent & broad humanistic/pro-hci concerns.
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This rocks, and congrats!
It's very hard to get enough protein for muscle building eating anything else without going over my calorie goals, so I settled into a routine of chicken breasts and coffee with milk for the most part. Chicken breast is allegedly very healthy overall, and whole milk has necessary fat and vitamins. I do still eat other things a few times a week.
Updated to Android 12 and only one notification appears on my lock screen
Names seems a bit specific, but it's easy enough to think in terms of basic software hygiene practices: things we expect our languages and their ecosystems to provide in traditional code these days.

Is the "code" serialized to a text readable format, for storage and parsing by other tools? Can I get a copy of that serialization? Can I regenerate the effective program from that serialization?

Are there methods for appropriate modularization and encapsulation?

Is there a coherent versioning strategy that allows for controlled updates, down through dependencies?

Can I check it into standard source control? And does it play nice with the expectations therein?

Basically: everything you were taught in undergrad for software engineering & at your first job

The biggest problem with the industry is that it's being sold to people who know none of that, or they're being told that doesn't really matter here, because this isn't code and thus doesn't need all that.
The Zestimate is seriously flawed to the point of it being utter crap.

The fact they used it as a basis for flipping homes makes me literally laugh. They were that delusional about their own shitty tech to just outright burn bails of money
Expensify CEO Letter from S1 Filing
I think toning down labels moght go a long way. A few labels are very visible, and the rest are nearly invisible.

The visible labels get all the attention. They can easily be seen as all that matter.
I haven't had problems yet. Spaces, punctuation, and quotes are the main offenders, most of the time.
We need help with plastic plants
In this case what is the risk profile of mRNA vaccines that makes them comparable to motorcycles if non-mRNA vaccines are cars in this analogy?
But generally you'll want to emulate how users use your application, which is looking for a button with a particular label (bonus points if your tests are looking for the accessible label), rather than something with a given ID.
Yeah while Leopard remained supported with some security updates, you could forget about all the OS update goodness which was still significant back then.

I had a PowerBook and it was disappointing how quickly it aged because of this.
A little bit off. If you are interested:
The link you have there includes several different ways of ordering the same part but packaged differently: Cut Tape, Reels, Tubes, Trays etc. Some of those have will different sizes of packaging (eg tray of 50 vs tray of 200). I'd divide that 3000 by 3-5.

Other filters will be same part but different temperature range; same MCU but different footprint (which would require a board re-spin but not normally the end of the world).

You'll also get SKUs where different peripherals and flash is available which is generally the same die, but not everything worked when tested at the fab so it will get binned appropriately.

There's other filters but I guess I am saying the total number of SKUs of die that are getting made is not anywhere near 3000.

You are right with the 730 day lead time. Actually anything beyond a year you can interpret that way.

Even when there is stock, the parts will be on allocation anyway. Normally the biggest existing customers get first dibs and everyone outside of that circle is given an absurd lead time. Sometimes you can push your way in if your order is big enough.

I feel for the PlayDate team. It's not a fun time when this happens. Even my usual rule of "make sure there are at least two alternatives if possible" is failing in this shortage.

We've even resorted to ordering dev kits and scavenging parts from there which is good fun :)
Also related: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/qqyuqh/af...
Life is a death sentence
I had to laugh out loud at the unrelenting darkness of that response

well done
> There's a "typo" for one thing: that top line should be "%c>%c¥n" rather than "%c%¥n", judging by what's below.

Um... what? The top line already says "%c>%c¥n", doesn't it?
Great post. I can relate; I've struggled with it for years. But last year I quit Twitter and Reddit for good. I've quit commenting on news websites. HN is the only place I time-waste anymore. And at least HN is obliquely related to what I do for a living and to my side projects, and it's frequently educational. I'd say I learn something new here that's actually useful to my work or gives me new ideas almost every time I come on.

I got to the point where most other things online - like the diet coke in your analogy - just became unpalatable. One day it just happened. The thought of going on Twitter sounded gross and contrary to how I view myself. I unfollowed everything. On the rare occasions I have the impulse to check it now, I only have to stop for an instant and remind myself: It's a cesspool. And I don't want to be part of it. This is not who I want to be.

In particular, I think, it was the anger and meaninglessness of random people's uninformed opinions, and what it did to me psychologically. Idiots yelling at idiots all day, all night. I was brought up to always argue for what I thought was right, but the rage machine finally just overloaded my circuits. The urge to jump into that and "fix the world" with my oh-so-special opinion just evaporated. The feeling I have toward Twitter now is finally a pleasant numbness, and a vague sadness that it exists.

I also remembered a compliment an ex-girlfriend paid me once, long before the days of time-wasting on the internet, when I was just a kid who never watched TV. She said I never wasted any motion in anything I did. I think about that, and it reminds me that efficiency is more central to my personality than any bad habits that have edged their way in since.

One final thing about side projects. It's hard to sit down at a blank page, and you'll look for almost any way to procrastinate. But once you view it as a problem or something that needs to be fixed, you'll spend all night on it without hesitation. I've found that the best way to motivate myself is to start showing it early to people, and have an audience in mind. Wanting to show friends your progress has a wonderful effect, and lets you know if you're on the right track.

tl;dr, I think you're onto something about associating the good habits with your identity, and the bad ones with something anathema to your being. Don't be too hard on yourself; the human brain was not made for this environment.
Thank you, we'll continue iterating on these apps based on feedback :)

I'm an engineer myself and quite like the stackoverflow app - anything particular that you find distracting?