skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You got me curious to look at the data. pc has had the top comment in 41 threads since Sept 2007 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377). Of those, one was pinned to the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073749. I vaguely recall that had to do with wanting to correct the misleading impression left by an inaccurate headline. All the other cases got there via the usual ranking algorithm. I guess you guys can decide whether 1/41 is moderator overreach or not.

We mostly use that mechanism for tedious moderation announcements ("All: please don't bash each other with clubs, even if you feel strongly about $topic") and for cases where project creators/authors show up belatedly in threads to discuss their work—those are extremely high-value comments that would otherwise get overlooked. Occasionally I use it if a thread is mostly aflame about some controversy and some commenter points out how the whole thing is inaccurate. We don't use it to systematically privilege high-karma users or YC founders relative to other users—that wouldn't be in the spirit of the site guidelines at all, and we take those pretty seriously.
Agreed with your opinion about `Dockerfile`. The article had me for a second until I saw the script code. I mean, my time is not infinite and I rather spend it to do things that are really important to me, not learning to write "yet-another build script" for a small system. So unless it's mainstream already, I'm not going to touch it.

`Dockerfile` is light enough for me to not hate it too much.

For the `docker-compose.yaml` story however, I can offer one reason: when you have so many variants(versions), so many setting options and so many data types (array, object, string etc), it's hard to find references to write one from scratch (have to read multiple documents to get it right). Your knowledge on docker command-line parameters does not translate to `docker-compose.yaml` smoothly(some option changed names, some don't work). And sometimes, some function works differently under docker-compose.
I mean considering blockchain I think it’s a safe bet there’s a lot more $XB fintechs than you seem to think. Technically X can be 1, mind you

Note that I did not say whether this was a good or bad thing, I just think you’re overthinking billion dollar fintech startup scarcity given a single bitcoin is basically a billion dollars. Those folks are also more likely to identify themselves as fintech during an introduction in my experience, and Stripe undoubtedly plays in the crypto pool, so it fits
This was a great toilet read, not too long, not too short, although I’m somewhat of a speed reader. Now where did that sea sponge on the end of a stick go? No wait, that’s the toilet brush.
Point being that you're always trusting somebody.

"Reflections on Trusting Trust":
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

And even if you go Full OpenBSD, you're still relying on some chip microcode and BIOS that you bought sight-unseen.

So, unless the Free Software Foundation staffs its own fab staffed by angels, the best we can do is minimize risk.
That’s only useful if you have really simple thoughts with no nuance to express.
That sounded pretty reasonable until I realized you were talking about that beast of a workstation that can easily be between $25,000-80,000.

Pfft.... 10 minutes to compile, no sweat, not even enough time to brew and drink a tea/coffee.
Gross. We've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That stuff is an issue, but it's nothing compared to positive effects arising from an increased ability for people to communicate and coordinate in actual oppressive states
I’ve personally conducted business with Patrick, and integrity isn’t a term I’d associate with him. Most polite term I can think of would be “shrewd”.
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Would the influencers actually pay, or just move to TikTok and Instagram?
Ask HN: Has anyone tried Freenode's Reddit-style platform?
I just stumbled across this[0] reddit-style platform. Looks just few days old.

[0] https://freenode.net
In the last 15 years I've had exactly one company contact my references. I went to work for them. It's rare these days, and it's a shame.
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> The study I saw implied that most of the metals were on the surface as dust, so you could rinse about 60% off.

> The newer studies suggest surface contamination is a much bigger factor.

interesting!

then maybe i dont need to overdo it with rice, sounds good.

> That's also another 'pro' in the column for cleaning your vegetables with white vinegar instead of soap.

sounds good, sometimes i skip the rinsing and washing but that is good motivation to keep it up, thanks!
I think you are confusing a property of your expertise with a property of the tool. As someone who doesn't use docker all the time, I find it kind of a pain in the ass to read realistic dockerfiles or work with docker-compose. As a juxtaposition I found freebsd jails much more pleasant and sane to work with for security containerization. For deployment management I'm not sure if there are competitors to docker but it's not hard to imagine something vastly more pleasant to use.
yes it's a good piece. As a non-American reader I'm kind of impressed with the stuff they're putting out because they're representing a much missing view in US discourse which is a Marxist economic point of view for a Conservative audience, basically what you'd call a 'Red Tory' in the UK or a 'Christdemokrat' in Germany.

It's getting people to think and at the same time it's also a reasonable antidote for the 'culture-war' steeped people.
> I did try a coworking space but it has not been the best year to get that in-person experience. :) I'm vaguely looking into accelerators now but I'm naive so I'd kind of rather build a slow, sustainable, healthy business than get swept up in the mindset having a VC funded startup requires.

Totally agree on the slow sustainable healthy business -- If you're going to bootstrap then I assume you've heard of the MicroConf community? You might want to get plugged in there. At the very least they've got great resources on things bootstrapped founders care about[0].

I meant to suggest hanging around the accelerator because you'd find like-minded people, not necessarily entering it by the way -- for example working as a technical advisor or contributor to the accelerator (and/or the attached VC/PE firms) itself might be interesting and give you the latitude you're looking for.

> You're right and I misspoke a bit. There are definitely enough opportunities out there but you have to try things out and move on if you don't enjoy it. The last two contracts I had paid decently but I found the style of work completely demotivating. So I keep looking.

No worries, I do pretty much exactly the same thing -- if I'd known a better way I would have shared it. I can agree from experience that finding companies you'd want to work at for long periods is very hard, and even more so when you have seen >3 small-to-mid-size companies and how vast the difference in architecture, experience, coworkers, environment, etc can be (especially compared to larger companies).

It seems like if you have a very specific niche you want to target it's easier (i.e. try to be a patio11 type figure in one area that deeply interests you), but if you just want to find interesting problems that span areas/stacks/architectures, it can be hard to find companies that fit.

Good luck out there!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHoBKQDRkJcOY2BO47q5Ruw
> You got me curious to look at the data. pc has had the top comment in 41 threads since Sept 2007 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377). Of those, one was pinned to the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073749. I vaguely recall that had to do with wanting to correct the misleading impression left by an inaccurate headline. All the other cases got there via the usual ranking algorithm.

> We mostly use that mechanism for tedious moderation announcements ("All: please don't bash each other with clubs, even if you feel strongly about $topic") and for cases where project creators/authors show up belatedly in threads to discuss their work—those are extremely high-value comments that would otherwise get overlooked. We don't use it to privilege high-karma users or YC founders relative to other users.

Do you have the denominator (with root-level comments) for the 41 top comments by any chance?

Thanks for the edit with added context. Any chance of an indicator that a comment is pinned so that people can transparently see when this is done? It's predictable that your moderation comments would be pinned, but even pinning a founder's comment to apparently contextualize a potentially misleading headline adds substantial mass to the claim that certain moderation actions might be done for the benefit of the company or companies involved in the thread.

Framed another way: if PC's context for the article was relevant, it would've achieved critical mass on its own. Helping it with a pin could be perceived as moving the needle for gain.

A simple "pin" icon (or emoji, or however you feel is best) may not resolve whether this is a "proper" use of moderation tools, but it will at least make it transparent when it happens, which adds credibility to the HN platform.
Open source work has helped me a ton. I'm active in the Clojure community and create open-source projects, as well as collaborate with other Clojurians every now and then, which builds credibility. My Github and references is 90% of my "sales". So once I had credibility, and my references prepared (they will always ask for references), I started contacting start-ups in the Clojurians Slack channel, and elsewhere where I found Clojure start-ups. The difference was that from the very beginning I communicated myself as a contractor, and not as a potential employee. Start-ups are pretty open to contractors, and part-time contractors, I've found. Probably because we mostly bill by the hour, and they don't have to pay any employee-related taxes on us, so they don't really lose anything with that. They pay for the work we actually do, and we get paid for the work we actually do.

I don't know if this helps at all, but feel free to hit me up for more details if you want, my contact info is on my profile :)
I was fortunate to work with pc/jc/will in ~2016-18, and my experience has been the opposite. They were super professional and in the time that I've worked with them seemed like genuinely good people. They can be tough negotiators which hey, sucks if you're on the other side of the table, but that's exactly what you want out of a good leadership team. And a lot of stuff slips through the cracks, but I'm not sure what else you'd expect from a company that went from 0 -> $100B in a decade.

I can see how the intersection of these two properties may sometimes look like what you're describing, but from everything I've seen (which isn't too much, but it's enough) your interpretation of the facts really doesn't seem accurate.

(As a disclaimer, I do have a horse in this race because I have some stock, but I'm pretty certain I'm being objective about this)

TL;DR: me and you are looking at the same screen but aren't watching the same movie.
Uh, no.

You don't get left alone in a meeting room for 45 minutes and then when the recruiter comes back, you say "Uh, no-one showed up", and they say "oh well"?

That is not "typical" treatment.
The best thing about Amazon is that it is still an old school website... like none of SPA crap that everyone (including places like Reddit that have no business being a SPA) keeps shoving down our throats. Amazon is fast, responsive and does page reloads when you click around. I can't imagine in 2021 that is seen a big UX win, shows you how far the UX on the web has fallen.
Did Patrick message you to ask you to post this?

The point is not that they have direct control over YC or HN, it's that they have massive indirect control over the organization and have done a wizard's job of making themselves untouchable in the media.

Some context:
I'm a former (early) YC founder, and during my batch the YC team recommended that we spend time with the HN team. The HN team gave us edits on our posts, recommended the best times of day to submit, emailed us when stories about our companies hit the front page, and explained how the ranking algorithms worked (and thus we learned how to game them). And we are not the most valuable YC company ever -- so it's possible more was done for Stripe.

It's not direct influence, but rather indirect impact. So again I ask -- Did Patrick request that you write this post?
I wouldn't say "I never ghosted you" if I don't remember the interaction, because perhaps I did? Why would I make that bold claim without having more info about which situation it is?

> And note that the bad part isn't even the ghosting to quibble over, it's fishing for information under the guise of an acquisition.

Even "fishing for information under the guise of an acquisition" could be anything from sending one email with 3 questions to five intense 2-hr interviews over 3 months. One person who feels very secretive and protective of their business knowledge (even some people in startups who don't even have companies yet but just ideas) can feel very violated by one email with one question, whereas other people may not believe they were being fished for info after 3 months of interviews.
I love Nix and NixOS, but sometimes it is extremely painful to get complex software which expects FHS to work. For example, I have spent a day trying to get Android Studio for React Native set up and failed.
This is a press release, not a marketing page
No, Typora is an Electron application, occupying more than 200MBs on disk (and similar amount of RAM upon start with no documents opened). See this announcement for example: https://support.typora.io/What%27s-New-0.9.66/
> Depends by who you mean by 'we'.

Climate change is a global problem, so the only 'we' that really matters is the whole planet.

The western world decarbonizing after spending well over a century spewing carbon to build out their modern infrastructure is nothing to be deeply proud about, nor sufficient to give the moral high ground to start pointing fingers at the developing world that still wants to get closer to western lifestyles.
I think you've projected that claim. I'll try to explain my comment in more detail:

"They (cis-men) are probably not awarded respect and credibility by default because historically they've been the ones causing all the shit."

Here is what I meant, broken down:

"They (cis-men)"

I should have said cis-het-men, so, my bad there. And I am indeed calling out a gigantic swath of people. But that in itself isn't an example of bigotry. Bigotry requires a particular kind of obstinate thought that rejects entirely any alternatives. If you continue reading, I think you'll see that I leave room for other possibilities.

"are probably"

Here's the first hint that the claim I'm making is hedged, as in, I'm not 100% all-in on this belief; there is room for doubt. This doesn't excuse the above generalization, but it's part of an overall supposition that there is a large group of people that the following theory applies to, and not without evidence.

"not awarded respect and credibility by default"

The parent commenter asserted their feeling that "men are awarded so little respect and credibility on the subject of gender issues". What I'm proposing with this line is that men probably can receive respect and credibility on this subject, but that they will need to do something in order to achieve it; that it will not be given to them by default.

"because historically"

Here I'm referencing how historic trends in the actions and speech of these people are what may provide evidence of my claim. By looking at past behavior of the group at large we may find a reason for the parent commenter's feeling. It's not my belief that this state of affairs in inherent to this group of people, but that it's simply been going on for a while.

"they've been the ones causing all the shit"

What I should have said instead was "being insensitive and resistant to discussion of gender issues". The point being that cis-het men in general, in many, many cases throughout history, in probably the majority of cases, have not given the kind of respect and credibility to others in terms of gender issue discussion, that the parent commenter wishes men were given.

I should have explicitly qualified in my comment that I was generalizing and only meant to impune the overall majority of that group of people. Sorry. But, my point remains... men in general will continue to be treated this way, until men in general demonstrate that their perspective has changed.
I don't think it would be possible to do this in an OS-agnostic way. LXC and jails are too different, and I'm not even sure what the option would be in macOS.
No. Running is good for your knees. If you’re feeling pain after a run, see a physio.
Not to mention the hard coded file names a certain Linux screen capture utility leaves behind…
I've just completed porting react-bootstrap to SolidJS and the process was fairly painless.

Having components only run once really simplifies things ...no need to stash useRefs and useCallbacks everywhere. Refs are simply the elements themselves.

Mostly porting required a fairly repeatable pattern of removing awkward React code and using a couple of Solid functions to keep props reactive when splitting them up to spread across JSX elements.

A+ for Solid developer experience (coming from 5+ years working with React). Oh, and performance/size are added benefits.
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Japan has a long tradition in coopetition. SV has adopted many Japanese traditions. Unfortunately some people seem to take competition too seriously, ruining the culture. It seems some are suggesting Patrick and John take competition too seriously. Whether the allegations are true or not, it can unfortunately be damaging.

Adam Smith, on his work on competition, took many ideas from the Muslim Caliphate. Where markets can only work on trust. That nobody will do business with someone they don't trust.

Trust is what underlies communities like this, even if people are competitors.
> I wouldn't say "I never ghosted you" if I don't remember the interaction, because perhaps I did? Why would I make that bold claim without having more info about which situation it is?

This whole discussion is about intent, which you can (and honestly, must) address separately from how you imagine your actions might have been perceived. See below.

> Even "fishing for information under the guise of an acquisition" could be anything from sending one email with 3 questions to five intense 2-hr interviews over 3 months.

This is irrelevant, the question is about intent. You should not have a hard time making it crystal clear whether that was your intent or not, regardless of whether you spent 10 minutes on it or 10 days. The only reason you wouldn't be able to make your intents clear is if you're doing things so borderline deceptively that you honestly cannot tell if they're clearly ethical or not, in which case that fact would sufficiently speak for itself.

P.S. I see you're repeatedly leaving parallel replies, I don't know why you do that (can't you just edit your comment?) but they drown out mine and divert the conversation, so I'm not going to reply to them and have 3 parallel conversation tracks, sorry about that.
If I made a computer that explodes and catches fire when you type certain words into it, is it then the typists fault if that word gets typed?

Or have I been negligent by creating a device that is unable to process certain words without exploding? ie it can't do it's job properly and safely.

This hypothetical car is too badly designed to ignore things that aren't road signs.

A 5 year old can recognize if something is a road sign or not, and we don't let them drive.

That's how pathetic this car is.

Of course it shouldn't be allowed on a public road, and it shouldn't be allowed to be sold because it is unsafe.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dogma

1 usually disapproving : a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or doubted
These new findings challenge the current dogma in the field.
political dogma
2: a belief or set of beliefs that is taught by a religious organization

1a: something held as an established opinion
especially : a definite authoritative tenet
b: a code of such tenets
pedagogical dogma
c: a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds
2: a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church
Built into the Commodore 128, too.
Interesting example is the "black sheep problem" - language models don't "understand" that sheep are overwhelmingly white. Why? Because we tend not to specify the colour of a sheep in writing if it's white, and because of the associated idiom about misfits ("black sheep" outnumbers "white sheep" 25:1 in written English).
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Sure, but you run Coinbase. It wouldn't surprise me if people with less soft power than you had negative interactions.
Why not? I trust internet randos to build the binaries of (linux) OSes I use. It’s not like I know the folks who compiled the Ubuntu or Manjaro LiveCD from Adam.
I wonder if seeing articles like these annoys the vast majority of people (underrepresented on HN of course) who are not comfortable enough with their finances or in life in general to do something as risky as this.

This narrative of people quitting jobs en-masse is great fodder but just doesn't seem to come out in the numbers[0]. Is it that office work is just such a small percentage that it wouldn't show up? Are people who are quitting their jobs to drive for Uber or other such gig-economy jobs being counted (in my opinion they shouldn't be)?

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JbGZ
congrats on the performance. But I just hope that React will quickly catch up and improve in terms of speed & performance. It is really tough to learn a new framework every few months.
How fast does the end of your tongue/lips flicker when you blow a raspberry?
Gtk isn't tied to C++ or Java in any way. While Qt and wxWidgets are written in C++, they aren't heavily tied to C++ either. For all these toolkits, bindings for many languages exist.