skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Purely for the salary and long term benefit of my career. I do have some major complaints though.

I recently went through the interview process for a AWS security engineer position and made it through the final round although I was ultimately rejected.

The final 4-5 consecutive interview gauntlet was strange. It was 50% behavioral and seemed SUPER corporate. I was expecting tough technical questions and prepared as such.

I received precisely ZERO feedback, and was told it was corporate policy. Then they turned around and asked for feedback on their interview process. Ridiculous.

The work environment seems extremely unpleasant. Long hours and high stress is how its been described to me by colleagues who work there.
I'm a big fan of this theory of royal offspring: https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-just...
I think this largely right, but resistance generally does not just evolve in the animals "that do not need it to recover", as all parasites/bacteria are more likely die in that case, but in more extensive cases where some of the parasites/bacteria survive and there are more reproductive events that can introduce a resistant genetic variation. This is why some consider that people not completing the full course of antibiotics- only taking them until they feel better, may be a greater contributor.
I got around this, specially around 'planning poker' when I got to be lead in these scenarios that forced you to do it. Whenever there is a discussing on how long something should take, whoever says the least amount, is tasked with the job. After 1-2 of these meetings, amazingly, all estimates started to come back quite higher than before.

I still believe that whoever takes the task, should be the one deciding how long it will take, and only after understanding the scope of the work. Planning poker is the most useless piece of shit I ever seen, and still, it is used all around by idiots. If I am asked to estimate something, I will always give the highest possible value and justify with "I don't know enough about it to estimate". If I am managing and I have a top down force pushing for this, I will always make sure that the stupid process is obvious how fucking broken it is.
I also have tons of Amazon recruiters reaching out. I wouldn't work there. The glassdoor reviews don't look great. Certainly not better than my current company (which I also hate).

Also, the messages I get just seem like they're spamming everyone so they can cast the biggest net. I dont take them seriously.
I called to cancel last year. Then I had to call again a couple months later because I noticed that, despite calling, waiting on hold, requesting to cancel and then being told that my subscription was cancelled, they didn't cancel it, and the charges continued to go through on my card.
well, my answer is theoretical. My own experience is similar to yours: "your team is no longer following scrum in a mad-rush attempt to deliver the deadline." and then everything gets even worse
All of those efforts failed miserably.

The grandparent comment is right on the money with "You're assuming the goal of these things was to replace the product, when the goal was to destroy the competitor."

MS bought at least 10-15 years of dominance with EEE, vaporware, and other anticompetitive practices.

Just like Google killed RSS with Reader.

Just like Facebook bought WhatsApp and Instagram to avoid them potentially growing into replacements for Facebook.

The goal was to kill or delay an upstart that would distract users away from their core products, not to produce a successful competitor to the upstart.

Netscape

Netscape no doubt had its own problems, but MS deeply embedding IE into Windows 98 was a huge part of them.

Java

Actually Java was pretty dominant. Interactive web was either Flash or Java. If it was for entertainment, it was Flash, if it was for work or computation, it was Java.

Open/LibreOffice

Have you forgotten WordPerfect?
Had a friend named Mike Rowe. We always thought he should start Mike Rowe Computers.
Tiny commits seems normal. I'm wondering if this can squash regions of sequential commits by the same author where it makes sense.

The naming clash might be problematic because when I think of graphite, it means: [0]. A unique name would really help avoid confusion.

0. https://graphiteapp.org
Pendulum swings of public Opinion

When Elon Musk first came into the public spotlight, he had a anywhere from a neutral to a mildly negative public perception due to being perceived as a nerd, and not being a good public speaker (due to autism?)

then he starts succeeding and the pendulum swings upwards, practically rocketing (heh!) upwards as nerds and geeks world over found thier messiah, the one who will fulfill all their sci/fi dreams from dusty paperbacks...

but then the pendulum reaches its peak and there is a saturation in adoration, the dick sucking was frankly getting a bit much, and people start to differentiate them self by being anti-Elon. The Thailand thing proves to be the trigger that swings the pendulum downwards and up again towards the other side.

But now I feel the sheer banal revulsion at the mere mention of his name means that the pendulum has peaked again, and it's about time people start bringing the discussion back to facts rather than emotions

You can see this when people start spouting random unrelated bullshit everytime Elon's name is mentioned. Like we get it, he is wealthy since the share price has skyrocketed (heh again!) because of all the pension funds and mutual funds and 401k and rando retail buyers are want a piece of his pie, but seriously, STFU, we are trying to have a discussion of facts regarding whatever, spew your rando ?-naire bile elsewhere.
Where/how are you hosting the Elixir applications? Where would you recommend a beginner to the language to host an elixir web app for free/low-cost?
Amen

I got up late today, so I barely have time to make pancakes and coffee before I have to leave for my day’s slavery.. if I’m late, I’ll have to do the slavery in my underpants at home until the morning meetings are over. Then I’ll drive to my slavery and be stuck there for 5-6 hours, with only lunch and snack breaks. Unless I need to take off early to run errands anyway
My daughter has this as an school assignment, with some implication that it is some sort of a contest, and we managed to grow quite a few of similar quality to the seed crystals on the site in 4 days, which was the original (poorly thought IMO) deadline.
The trouble is that no one else was able or cared to do it so fast, so the deadline has been slipping for a couple weeks now, with our best crystals going to school and back a few times, getting scratches and broken bits instead of nicely growing undisturbed.
A bit discouraging. I'm now remembering how frustrating was for me to take school related things too seriously and discover you cared more than your teachers when I was her age.
Are meta-analyses that just average all the results from all the studies less reliable than picking a paper at random?

I'd expect that to be the case if the bogus studies report the most dramatic results. A single bogus study out of 10 can skew the whole meta-analysis, but if you picked randomly you'd be 90% likely to get an honest one.
AppFlowy is an open source alternative to Notion
there are way better companies to find intellectual challenges where you don’t have to ask this kind of question about the organization.

If money is the most important thing you care about then maybe MANGA is great. But money is pretty easy to make these days.
Other discussions:

Ask HN: How do you watch over your kids digital gadgets? (Parental Control) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27535229

Ask HN: What rules do you set for your kids screentime? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473657

Ask HN: Are there technical measures you take to protect your children online? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22100396
Everything I've seen suggests to me that most people's annoyance with perceived "preachy" vegans comes from cognitive dissonance around being forced to confront that vegans have a good point. Why confront real issues when you can make a bacon joke and say "oh, I could never give up cheese"?

It's like when talking with someone who is very disciplined about exercise. Many will say something like "wow you're so lucky to have such good genes" to deflect from the fact that they're just not willing to put in that level of work.

And I say that as someone who is not vegan, and is pretty lax with exercise.
> lots of web pages started using Windows-specific ActiveX controls

Ah, that explains why ActiveX took over the web and why I'm forced to read HN on IE. /s

> The history of Office goes like this.

I'm guessing you are way too young to have experienced it, because the history of Office was nothing like that.

> Java

Again, I'm guessing you didn't actually live through that era. I did. Hell, I even wrote Java desktop apps for a living in the late 90s. Microsoft did absolutely nothing to prevent Java from taking over the desktop; Sun managed to accomplish that all on their own.

> But it was clearly still an attempt to do EEE.

You can talk about "attempt" all you want, but there are still zero examples of EEE being successful.

> Outlook.com has 400 million users.

"Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide." - Wikipedia

> Large email providers killed the "run your own email server" approach

Man where do you get this stuff? I wrote a mailing list server that had a brief moment of popularity, and the underlying (Java!) smtp library that lots of other folks use still today. I know a thing or two about smtp, and I gave up running my own email servers a long time ago. Spam fighting requires a massive engineering team. Barring some sort of massive change in the protocols, the home email server is dead dead dead. Microsoft and Google are the symptom, not the cause.
Wold that be a reasonable time to ping that coworker and ask them "what does this do?". Not because you can't figure it out, but because they already know?
Been playing around with this for the last couple of weeks and now I'm getting the whole team to use it at OfficeTogether.com.

Really nice!
More discussion from original poster. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/qvxyjg/a...
I like Netlify more than I should but Supabase looks like it's going to be a banger. I hope it keeps getting better.

Just magnificent.
GitLab team member here. Thanks for the kind words. I shared them with our product team. :)
Humility is the truth. Thus, the simple man has a higher level of intelligence and critical thinking skills than the average HN community member.
People here who say Amazon keeps approaching them, what do you do?
Bloom Institute of Technology is a pretty cool name. I'm disappointed they're not referring to themselves as BIT.
I like this, but the writing is in desperate need of improvement.

> The basic matcher is to type as is to choose a character or word. For example, to select the word curious in the text, type in the same way.
Maybe both your observation and HN is right: the distribution is multi-modal in the sense that (presumably) there is a large majority of people where the thumbnail works for and views the content, and then there is a small (and possibly vocal) minority of people who absolutely hate it and treat it as an anti-signal. I know I belong in the latter group and will lose all interest in the video once I see the weird face and the edited icon. I've seen a few of your videos and they're indeed very good. That said, I've noticed that I semi-consciously would avoid your video due to the icon which triggers an immediate reaction from me to stay away. It's a shame, because I know that the videos can be good, but the thumbnail is actively driving me away. In a way, I'm no different than the people who clicks on these videos, as I am also judging a book by its covers.

This kind of multi-modal behaviour can be very hard to capture with A/B test. You get a large influx of people that more than offsets the loss in the other audience pool. It's also anyone's guess on which group is better. From a pure business perspective, it's probably okay to lose me, as I use adblock and/or youtube-dl to watch the videos, which means I don't really drive revenue. That said, I've noticed some second order effects: as I'm more technical, I would recommend these type of content to others who will listen to my advice. I've noticed similar effects with others. If the more technical people are in the second group and are driven away, I wonder if this kind of stuff makes a difference with the long term health of a channel/content generator, which could be very difficult to quantify.

In any case thanks for your videos and insights.
“My day was just one big listen”
My emotional reaction to those is "this must be shit, they've had to put together this awful Clickhole picture just to try to make people watch it".

I've literally never watched a single one.
> All of those efforts failed miserably.

To this day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_compatibility_issues_in_So...

There was a period in the early 2000s where that was everywhere, and that was when Netscape died.

Causing intentional problems with non-Microsoft Office products on Microsoft operating systems is what caused everyone to get locked into Microsoft Office file formats.

Microsoft successfully suppressed Java for long enough for Sun to die.

You can't just say "no it isn't" and make it otherwise.
The key to enjoying Desktop Linux is giving up on the desktop environments that try to ape the Windows/Mac stuff and just biting the bullet to a tiling WM. It's a steeper onramp (e.g. you somehow have to know you need rofi to have an alt-tab window switcher) but it leads you to something different and better.
Can't stand close minded people who can not fathom that other treatments could work from ivermectin to the upcoming pill Pfizer is putting out to something else. It's ridiculous that their bias drives them 100% vs. being objective in that science and research takes time .. years ... time will tell and provide all of us with many treatments against COvid as there now is for the flu.

Politic bias blinds objectivity and it's ridiculous for people who believe themselves to be intelligent people. Especially those who believe everything and live by their biased manipulated for profit media of choice. Here is one of many examples of the media spinning it's bias agenda and years later getting caught https://www.axios.com/steele-dossier-discredited-media-corre... . Of course it's happens on both sides like all that ridiculous story about Clinton pedo pizza parlor thing. The media is garbage and not to live one's life by ... years of science is!
Is that a reasonable expectation to have?

It‘s funny, when I started reading your text I first assumed that “so gross a misrepresentation that your average person would have a completely different view of the reality of the situation“ was actually in reference to people expecting and clamoring for parts enabling component level repair in a move targeted at, well, just anyone who bought an Apple product.

You see, from my point of view your sentence makes sense in the completely different direction.

Can you understand that viewpoint? I can understand yours, I can understand your disappointment, but it also seems quite weird to me to expect Apple to provide component level repair capabilities to consumers.
I don't know anything about journalists or Twitter in this case specifically, but I agree flat out Twitter is dumb.

I only know of the meta.company claim from a post made here on HN. I'm guessing it was somebody realizing that FB didn't claim all of the TLDs and trolled them about it. So I laugh at it because of that being a possibility as much as if it is a serious anything I laugh at how laughable their attempt at whatever they are attempting is.
I use zola now. With esbuild if I need to compile/bundle js.
I think the point is that they didn't actually owe anything.
Why offer less features?
Parent did not imply that you have or should have marketing people. Your first sentence comes across as defensive. You should express thanks for this feedback and avoid sounding defensive, as that is alienating to people, stifles dialog, and casts you in a weak light. This is your moment in the HN sun, soak it up!
Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature
Based on the article, most papers are complete shit. So, at least in this subject area, that seems like a still bad strategy.
They use swc for transpilation and bundling but, yes, for checking the only solution available now is tsc
Tell HN: GitHub changing host SSH keys
I’m wary of this kind of thing, but since I just got a “host key verification failed” error when pushing some commits to GitHub I decided to check, and now that I’ve found the docs I’m issuing a PSA:

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...

mentions a key being sunset yesterday. Apparently that’s the one I was hung up on.
No. I did work for Facebook, and maybe one could argue about which one's worse morally, but at least the day to day working conditions weren't as bad as my many ex-Amazon colleagues have related. During my one-week-a-month visits to Seattle I also spent a lot of time having dinner at various restaurants in the heart of Amazon territory, and overheard a lot of conversations that completely supported my colleagues' accounts. I heard them planning their political moves and their plans to screw partners. I heard them slagging coworkers ... until that coworker showed up, and without missing a beat everyone started slagging the other coworker who just left. I heard what the male Amazonians said about their female colleagues. Overall it seemed very exploitative, hyper-competitive, and exhaustingly bro-ish. Just like Jeff Bezos - imagine that.

Yes, the equity is great ... if you survive to collect it. AIUI a larger than normal share of it is deferred, and a lot of people find their work situation getting sharply worse right before the big vesting event. Heard too many of those stories to believe it's coincidence. If collecting lots of equity is your thing, and I don't fault you for that, my impression is that any of the other FAANGs would be better.
Good answer. I think 2) is the one that jumped out at me because it reflected my own experience and understanding - Regex became easier to understand when I also felt like I understood its motivations. Starting there, with motivation and context, is my typical go-to move.
> being forced to confront that vegans have a good point

That you/they take it as a moral right to force people to do anything, even to consider some point, demonstrates the very moral corruptness that people hate about vegans.
> I made a big push to switch from vim to spacemacs so that I could use
> org-mode for note taking and reduce my dependence on paper notebooks

This is exactly me for the past few months. I've replaced most of my Markdown notes dating back years to org-mode.

If anybody is looking for a good notes platform, seriously, learn org-mode. I only wish that I started earlier.

Signed, a two-decades VIM user.
Rich, rich analogy. SPECTRE and Meltdown attacks for the mind have to be a thing, possibly as interrogation and cross examination techniques?
Ugh. I'm annoyed when homegrown is the first reaction (something else to support, fewer people to fix it), rather than community &&/|| industry collab.
> Will you concede that many, but certainly not all, vegans bring it upon themselves with their moralistic pontificating about those who are not vegan?

"They deserved it" is rarely a good look. I imagine that just about any position one can imagine has its vocal and irritating proponents, so this response seems easy to generalise in ways that you probably wouldn't want.

(Because I recognise how this post looks, it's probably worth saying that I am not a vegan. Here in Texas, I actually had someone claim to me that he was a vegan because he ate only fish … but I still think that people expend far more energy on mocking vegans than they would just ignoring the occasional over-voluble vegan.)
> Now the internet itself is a closely watched playground. People walk around with permanent real-name identities. Teachers and governments look for ass-holish behavior. Media complains about large-follower playground kids who refuse to get a diploma and join the "real" world.

this is why Discord / IRC2.0 is such an attractive alternative to me

I can 'start over' whenever I want
It's not racist. If it's a joke that didn't land for you, that's fine, but calling it racist is incorrect and deliberately inflammatory.
I don’t necessarily read it as a passing contest. Sometimes the best way to convey why a thing you built is interesting—especially in a crowded space like styling solutions—is to show how it contrasts with better known solutions.
Are we talking about the same magazine?
They need to get sued and lose simply by repeating what they did with IE4.0. Alongside Apple with the Apple Tax.
Not prompt reviewing has a real cost too. If it takes a long time to get a review, the submitter loses context and has to regain it when the review comes in.

The longer the cycle, the more contexts to be juggled and the more effort to juggle them.
> Learning Lisp is on my "bucket list", I know where to go to learn it but I need the time :)

Where?
the only culture I like about Youtube is how the other commenters and viewers know that they all found each other due to the algorithm, because they watched anyway!
According to the CDC, 3.7 million people in the US are infected with Trichomoniasis. That's at least 10%.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0508-npi.html
I haven't been on the eng side for a while (PMs just get to pretend like we are technical) but when I was an eng, I basically did stacked changes but with infinite amounts of unnecessary complications. This tool looks fuego. Maybe I'll start coding again....

Kids these days are getting luxuries we never knew back in the day (in 2015 lol).
Texting via APRS has been a thing for about 20 years. It's also a fantastic way to publish both your phone number and the numbers of the people you are texting in an easy to skim format. Digital modes is one of the areas where the HN crowd could introduce significant advancements to Amateur radio (while pissing off all of the older HAMs who just want to talk about the weather on 40m).
The left and the right are the same in that they thrive on people's feelings of hostility, inferiority, etc.

Leftists direct their anger at the top dogs, Rightists direct their anger at the underdogs.
I think a lot of businesses greatly overvalue behavioral economics as a means to control people. Nudging doesn't seem to work nearly as well as it's "supposed" to when implemented in real world scenarios. Heck, even in a laboratory setting the effects are honestly pretty sketchy.

And that doesn't even factor in disgruntled ex-customers going around telling everyone they meet about their experiences.
It's not illegal to pay for it with a physical check; it's illegal (unless your original agreement automatically terminated after a year) to not then pay for the automatic renewal at the end of the year.
Congrats, looks great, especially the UX.

Could you elaborate on cloud runs and cookies? E.g.:

- How are the cookies obtained? I saw that in the video you clicked the "add" button at 1:36, how does this work and what happens behind the scenes?

- How long do the cookies remain in use? Does the user have to refresh cookies manually at some point?
Why wouldn't replicating hunter-gatherer diets be great for most people?