skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have anything to add to your overall point – I'm sure you're right. I just wanted to address two smaller ones:

> The fact that they were still using mailing lists

In my personal experience, going back some 30 years or so online with my own personal paid email account – which is still live and still works – I find that most people I've worked or interacted with who dislike using email for workflow or other important comms do not know how to use email effectively. Strange as it may seem, this now applies to the developers of most email clients and online email services.

Email and mailing lists are remarkably powerful and capable tools, if used properly. Most people do not use it or them properly. I have yet to see anything else by anyone that is an improvement in every way on email.

> I'm not sure how it will progress when they retire or die off.

TBPH, as a Linux user and professional, I rather hope it does not.

Linux is an amazingly useful tool, but OTOH it's now, in and of itself, a vast hairball of technical debt. The traditional UNIX model itself is.

It is long past time that we should have moved past it on to better things. There have been many attempts but none have ever achieved critical mass.

At the rate things are going it looks quite likely that our technological civilization will collapse due to out-of-control global warming and the ongoing and accelerating mass extinction event. As the parent of a 2YO I very much hope I am wrong.

But if I am and it doesn't, the world needs better tech, and a ½ century old UNIX clone already does not really cut it today.

If Linux and all the other monolithic Unixes die when their dev teams die, we'll have to move on to newer, smaller, simpler systems that a new generation of programmers can actually read from top to bottom, understand, and do useful work on.

If monolithic Unices become the mid-21st-century COBOL, just kept around for a few old systems and only critical bugs patched, that will be a big win for us all.
Literal survivorship bias?
You see channels, not users. You see locked funds, not txs.
I don’t think you know how this works at all.

I think you are being willfully ignorant about this.
You said no country uses it: and I said yes they do. You said chivo sucks, I said yeah, but you can use any LN wallet.

I don’t know what more I can say. You are living in the past man, making excuses for the Fed and the State. Things have moved on, and I feel like you will be screaming as more nations adopt this.
El Salvador is mining BTC from geothermal power from Volcanos.
Yes, but of course your experience may vary. If you have been at the same job/company for 5+ years and not actively keeping abreast of the market it can be pretty easy to stagnate without realizing. I've interviewed a number or candidates that ran into this. They would be a good hire for a lower level position but the Catch-22 is that they are too "advanced" in years at least for that to be a satisfying role and compensation.

For myself I can say a definitive yes for 2 reasons - the first is at my current job all the interviewers test run new interview questions as a filter. If a preponderance of don't pass the question we don't use it. the other way I know for sure is that I have been actively interviewing for new roles in a lateral+ capacity. With an n<10 I have 100% pass rate into the interview process and a 75% rate of offer. My prep for interviews is Linkedin sleuthing of the companies and interviewers. If I ended up in an interview process that was asking for me to balance a tree I would likely fail, but I would also not want a job at a company that uses that question. For reference I am a top end IC (principal/architect/lead/etc.) with 20 years in complex web app dev.
> The same as yours

False. GP comment and mine are not remotely comparable. GP comment has all of the failures I described - handwavy, lacking in value, condescending. Mine points out those specific problems with that comment - which the GP failed to do for the article - and avoids its specific mistakes.

Yours, too, is handwavy, lacking in value, inaccurate, and anti-intellectual.

Statements like:

> To dig into the particulars is to acknowledge some form of legitimacy.

and

> we're under no obligation to accept any of it before discarding.

...are some of the most anti-intellectual, anti-discussion, close-minded, tribal content that I have ever seen on HN.

Accusations of being a "throw away account" aren't even accurate - I made this account almost three months ago and have made hundreds of comments using it. This is my account. Unless you mean "anonymous" - in which case your account also applies.

...not that that observation would have been relevant to the discussion anyway. It does not matter whether I use a throwaway account, as long as I'm not breaking the HN rules or abusing the platform (which I try very hard to avoid).
How shiny is the software? Does it impress and/or please users? Does it impress investors?

Yup. And in many cases (2) doesn't matter at all - just heaping portions of (1)+(3).

You know the kind of "software" I'm talking about -- the kind that exists (and does all kinds of things) on pitch decks, or in conversations with gullible industry press types. But in no other sense.
I really hope so. The hospitalizations usually lag behind case detection AFAIK, so there might still be some damage to watch out for.
Yeah, I would guess less than 20% of us have side projects, and less than 10% of those that do have side projects are making any money from them. I say this despite being in the lucky group that has a successful side project.

With my side project, initially I was working on it because it was fun and fulfilling. When I started to get bored with it, my wife really encouraged me to keep working on it which motivated me to see it through. I'm still trying to figure out how to balance a healthy lifestyle. Juggling a job, a family, a side project, and 8 hours of sleep at night isn't working very well.
Well some of it is what your current standard is. Replacing the horse, which puts feces on the road (albeit less smelly than human feces, still really bad in the quantity of a city's traffic), with the automobile, was actually a great improvement in the environment. We don't think of it as such, because we never saw horses in the quantity that a modern city has of automobiles. But what kind of toxic sludge we would have gotten from that much horse manure in a city is difficult for the modern mind to imagine.

Similarly, the environmental impact of coal, when it was the dominant method of heating a home, was not in some decades-off global warming, it was in things like the London Fog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup_fog), a pretty horrific environmental situation. Moving to non-coal methods of heating the home (which he mentions) is a big environmental improvement.
We had a guy zero index a stack of shared Colo racks in one of our DCs a decade ago.

I sent remote hands to pull a server for a customer that was done with their contract and another for failure not pay.

Got the wrong boxes, disconnected two customers, put the servers on the shelf and left for the weekend.

So I cut a ticket to the next remote hands guy and tell home to get the boxes back up and running and we'll deal with it Monday.

Cut another ticket to a third text Monday to pull the boxes. Yeah, you guessed it wrong boxes again. Same customers, what the fuck.

Have the boxes reracked and drive out there to do it myself. Count the servers, wrong label, do some digging around, 'OH'. Pull the right server. Loose two customers. Cut tickets for all racks to be relabeled starting from one.

People don't expect 0 index in the physical world. It's just too clever by half.
‘Shut the whole system down’: S.F. teachers plan sickout amid omicron surge
Our savior Omicron. The ultimate vaccinator. Nature finally had mercy on us.
The Athletic is a pretty good sports site, but its business was never built on making profits, rather bleeding cash to show growth to VCs, raise money, and then dump the thing on a bigger media co. like NYT.

Not begrudging them for their success, but it's funny how this is a valid business model in America and the general western startup world. Bleed cash, never show profits, then cash out to a bigger player, whom may be a greater fool or wise man depending on how they handle the acquisition. We've seen it many times, e.g. Postmates (sold to Uber for $2.7B), Jet.com (sold to Walmart for $3.3B), MuleSoft (sold to Salesforce for $6.5B), e.t.c.

Here's me yelling in my meh, third-world country and gushing on how some are lucky to be born in very vibrant, strong economies where things like these happen regularly.
Interesting, I didn’t imagine there would be such a noticeable effect. Can I ask what sort of difference do you see if you don’t take it?
Last night on NPR there was a scientist cautioning people who think this means the end because it'll burn itself out.

His point was that nobody predicted delta, and nobody predicted omicron. There's no telling how serious the next variant will be (and arguably there's much greater chance of a variant given how many people are getting infected.)
I'm not sure if we can say it's "over". People were saying the same thing after the Delta waves started subsiding and behold … Omicron.
I think you just penalize them for that. If they "barely succeed" then assume they wouldn't have under real conditions.
Way too many similarities to Office Space here.. someone moving down to the basement, referring to themselves in the 3rd person, and then the company name of Initrode mentioned.
And the 9th!
Anecdotally, the hospital my partner works at has been frantically converting almost all of their floors to covid floors due to the influx of patients. But, few require ICU/ventilator.

So yes it's bad/dangerous in that hospitals may fill to overflowing and struggle to treat covid or non-covid patients, but not bad in that Omicron is directly killing more people than Delta et al.
> Async/await work much much better than goroutines for GUI programs, which was still a major market at the time this feature was added to C#. Since there is a single GUI thread where everything that touches the GUI must live, but you do want your application to have multiple other threads, you need to give the programmer this kind of control and can't rely on a more simplistic Go-style green threads runtime.

Couldn't you have the GUI thread on one core, and the "goroutine pool" taking all the other cores, and distribute work on that pool? The model would be a bit more complex than Go, but considering C# is made for a wider variety of usages, multiple models wouldn't be so far fetched.
As far as I understand that's not likely because the it would be maladaptive for the virus. If there were a really deadly variant in South Africa, then 1) it wouldn't spread as fast because viruses need live hosts to spread and 2) people would change their behavior before it reached the entire world.

That is, Omicron is mild so people likely didn't change their behavior too much. If you saw a lot of people around you going to the hospital, you would likely stop going out so much. (Some people knew many people going to the hospital during the pandemic; others saw none for years. The infection was very unevenly distributed. On HN I expect most people are remote workers and know few people getting infected.)
My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why. It's long gone now so I can't investigate what hardware it actually had.

This boots X11/Wayland and then an SDL app on top of it, I wonder what it would take to write a shell or init that the kernel loads straight after it's done loading itself up. Maybe The systemd folks can make systemd-basic...
Running groups were pretty common in the US in the 70s, when running became mainstream. Then it seemed to become more of a solitary activity, outside of organized events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_boom_of_the_1970s
My favorite way to characterize this is "it's not even wrong".
Well, it's definitely a distinction with a difference for the OP. If I were a hiring manager and came across his resume and the name rang a bell, and I dug up this blog post, I would have no qualms about re-hiring him at Amazon despite the short tenure (assuming I could earn the author's trust that my hypothetical new team isn't as chaotic/on-fire as what he experienced before). His ability to communicate with tact and perspective, speaks to his strong judgement and professionalism, and makes me more personally inclined to hire/re-hire him in the future (of course, he gets to decide if he's ever willing to take the plunge again).

As for whether this indicates deep flaws that it might not be the right place for just about anyone... well I think there is the existence proof that Amazon employs 10k's/100k's of people, and while it may have higher attrition than peers (does it? I don't actually know, but I'm willing to take that on faith), still at least a sizeable majority is relatively satisfied with their careers here (based on internal tech survey results). So, "not right for anyone" is definitely an over-exaggeration.

Not right for you, if you are the type of person who shares personality traits and career goals/preferences as the author? Sure, quite possibly.
People did this https://www.google.com/search?q=Grudzie%C5%84+1970&source=ln... over 20% bread price increase, it was the straw that broke camels back.
Honestly I think the innovation there is that it's a distributed Ponzi.

With any normal Ponzi scheme, there is "a guy", a guy at the center of it all cooking the books and redirecting the funds from late investors to early and skimming a healthy bit for himself. One day that guy gets arrested or decides it's time to run and the scheme collapses. Maybe that day comes a year in, maybe twenty, but it's a-coming.

With a distributed Ponzi scheme, there is no one guy. If some people get arrested for fraud or take their loot and run off somewhere, other people can step in and keep it all going, pumping and dumping and scamming and scheming.

I honestly don't know what it would take to actually make it go away for good.
HN people seem to line up 20 interviews and spend a week doing them. Take homes are untenable in that situation as half the interviews would still be a full workweek. I soured heavily on take homes during an active job search phase as I was already interviewing 4 hours a day with 3-6 people. I had a pile of companies, would accept any of them on the surface, and it was just a matter of grabbing one.

Many interview at a much less aggressive pace than that and I would prefer a take home when I am out of leetcode practice.
The Infamous ‘Can Opener’ Bridge
Retirement is quite stressful for many. Suddenly having to come up with something to do every single day can cause anxiety. Most of us have recent experience with how stressful it can be to simply not visit a familiar group of people every day. The loss of stability of the 5x8 routine can cause anxiety, which may be a tipping point for borderline health issues. The loss of accountability can tip vices as well. Weekend drinkers don't always responsibly handle every day suddenly being a Saturday.
I noticed Anton Petrov explained it recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abdV-HtEJQ

It's named the Oberth effect - something like a powered slingshot.
The idea of communal kitchens is nothing new. Young unmarried professionals weren't cooking their own meals a hundred years ago either. In urban areas you'd have landladies providing supper, food carts, delivery boys, even subscription meal plans. So not much has changed in that regard.
Your bodies response to a virus makes it difficult for another virus to take hold, but not impossible. There's a lag in the body's immune response when a virus first is detected, and then another lag while the body builds up the defenders (antibodies and other things). So for someone to have multiple viruses at the same time, largely the exposure has to happen at the same time. The more different the viruses are, the more likely they can be in the body at the same time in a meaningful number. When an immune system is "all revved up", it is very hard for a few thousand virus cells to get exponential growth going needed.

Antibodies (and b-cells and t-cells) for Delta work ok enough against Omicron, and vice-versa. Since Omicron is spreading so fast, it is able to get to more bodies faster than Delta, so Delta has no where to go. Delta did the same to previous variants.
This stuff always seems like appealing to magic. If magic could meet our basic needs, it would be great too. But unlike magic, people appeal to this all the time, despite it being equally impossible today.

The reason I bring that up is that it distracts from solutions that we can actually implement.
I've implemented 1000+% payday loan promotion in Mexico, with credit score check etc, stuff I find absolutely abject myself. I don't think I cared much: if it's not illegal, I do it, even if it's "immoral". Especially in remote jurisdictions I have interest to see fail miserably rather than succeed.

It's a bit sad, but each time you try to be nice and friendly, you get "raped" I feel, so well, might as well make some money off of some people to pay for when we get scammed ourselves.
Someone owning a car without using it to generate income, leverage, or opportunity is the definition of unproductive capital rotting in a driveway. The uber for x platforms are market makers, which is about as valuable a service as it gets. The only ones it seems to bother are those who would seek to exploit people politically.

The platforms have pernicious pratices, certainly, but the political outrage about the the gig economy has served mainly to discourage competitors from entering the market to make it better.

I'd argue the critics of the gig economy are ensconcing the very platforms they're complaining about by threatening the market - and they have never solved a problem they didn't first invent by characterizing everything as exploitation from the outset.

This is about par for the course for people who don't solve problems with discovery, technology, or consensus, but rather, invent problems to leverage them politically and add them to the portfolio of things they create rules for and manage. These are not reconcilable world views, but when one is committed to the logic of an idea, I sympathize with how they might interpret inconsistency with it as stupid.
I would consider "opening up access" to someone else's capital to be a kind of theft, in general, and not consistent with anarchism. When the capital in question is means-of-production that the workers have contributed to building, things are a bit less clear-cut.

Allowing workers to join the board, perhaps as a response to an all-out strike, might be a step towards worker's collectives.

It's much easier to articulate the objectives than the path.
What's your plan or motivation? hunting an unicorn?
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It's an important part of the Active Shooter workshops taught in most schools and workplaces but it isn't tested very often.
> Being sober in those places is, frankly, boring.

As someone who doesn't drink this is 1000% true. I don't want to hang with the drinkers because it is boring as hell.
A lot of humans don't run on numbers and thus don't remember all the numbers that describe a certain temporal value all that well. This includes, years, months, dates, week numbers, hours, minutes, seconds, and timezone offsets.

Luckily, the devices we have around us are much better at number-things, so it was probably deemed helpful to have those devices that are (supposedly) good at numbers display them to us so when we forget, we have a reference that can help us remember.
I've also had engineering friends that worked for Amazon, none of them had anything positive to say about them. One interesting situation is that one of them worked for Google for several years before moving to Amazon. Less than 2 months later he quit working for Amazon and went back to Google.

I've read articles claiming that Bezos had certain opinions about people being lazy, and that he intentionally structured Amazon to make it almost impossible to get promoted. Basically, people are hired to do a specific job, and they will never be allowed to do any other job or be promoted until they quit from overwork. The exceptionally few people that both deliver the impossible and don't quit over the workload are treated as valuable, but only at the specific job they are currently doing.

From what I've been able to piece together, this was always at least somewhat true, but has gotten much worse the last few years. I think Amazon is likely going to start running dry on willing candidates in their engineering and management teams within a couple of years and we'll see them start to lose market share as a result.
I think you're reading too much into it there. Plenty of native speakers have far worse grammar and more questionable usage choices, especially the ones that are young and drunk.
Show HN: Cookbook App
Learn to cook new recipes and diversify the diet in a game form. This is an Alpha with only several recipes, but I need some feedback.
Mobile and desktop, can be installed on Android.
Markopolos was the anti-Madoff guy. Chanos was anti-Enron. Gotta get your greeks in order.
The burden is falling on fair-weather states as the down-and-out from cold states find their way to coastal states to avoid freezing to death. There are plenty of empty houses in the rust belt. We need to find a way to get the homeless into those.
Crypto scammers took a record $14B in 2021
It's really hard to be both far-right and far-left at the same time.
It's an effective and well-understood term.
Reduced sodium probably lowered your blood pressure as well
I inherited a distributed app that causes me a lot of off hours work.

My goal build pipeline brings up the app in docker-compose, then randomly kills services while running integration tests. So many failures are because people don't consider the happy path in a distributed/highly modular system.
What is the use case this is solving?
The technical interviews are not meant to judge your current experience or work quality. They de-facto measure one's ability to research, memorize and explain the top X asked questions/problems in the field. So most of the people "just doing work" wouldn't pass them just because they haven spent any time on that weird social dance. Once they become cynical about the whole process and do what others do, they will be just fine.

P.S. I'm not defending the current situation, I am merely trying to summarize it from the a practical point of view (i.e. action X increases the chance of outcome Y).
Latest Eclipse (esp. after they switched to 4 releases/year schedule) is very lightweight and nimble for what it does.

It's being optimized for being faster and lighter every release, and it really shows. I mostly develop C++ and Python in Eclipse, and CDT's indexer is really good, and it's not using gigabytes of RAM, or doesn't require LSPs to be productive. OTOH, Eclipse supports new things like LSPs, direct builds to containers, etc.

So, it's getting faster, doesn't getting heavier resource wise, and keeping its edge tech-wise. I'm a happy camper.

Oh, and the plugins doesn't need official binaries, if you're inclined to build your own.
I think GP meant components that require JS like data tables which TailwindUI doesn't solve.

I guess something like Tailwind Headless (only available for React and Vue):

https://headlessui.dev/
Initrode is the name that TDWTF uses for all it's company names.
It really depends on what you are given.

A take home that is 1-2 hours (what might be the length of an in person) is fine.

A take home that is 10 hours of work on the other hand
No. If my day job doesn't cut it for me financially, I get a different one.

I do have side projects, but they are tools to help me with my hobbies. One of them once did get enough traffic that I monetized it... but then sold it because the maintenance is not how I wanted to spend my time.