skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article acts as if Doreen and other antiwork mods were just sad passengers as these events happened to them. Does the author know and understand that subreddit moderators have absolute authority?

If the mods of antiwork wanted to have a sub for anarchism they could have, should have, and still can forcefully define the rules. Ban people, posts, and content that don't fit their anarchist goals.

...but if the mods of antiwork want to have a wildly popular sub, they can't do that. The mods made their choice, and they chose popularity over ideology. To call that a "tragedy", "sanewashing", or "social gentrification" is pretty disingenuous and revisionist.

However, it's not too late. If the mods really truly want an anarchist sub they can go ahead and start enforcing content rules. Today. Right now. The sub will slowly die away, but they can have the community they want.
> If anything, selling short needs to be made easier as it represents an essential corrective

I disagree since that would give people decision making capabilities who are the least qualified to do so.

> And this ultimately serves the greater good too

You can believe that but you also don't have to.

We don't have to lie to ourselves. Stocks are highly emotional and investors regularly overpay when they buy into hype. I am not against short selling, it is a trade like any other. But let's keep things honest.
Technology isn't advanced enough to be able to afford this. Have you ever actually worked in a factory or on a farm? Have you done the math to calculate how much taxes would have to raise in order to give everyone a UBI at even the US federal poverty level? This is magical thinking disconnected from the reality of how the economy works.
I feel like it's reasonable to hire someone at a lower level due to lack of years of experience.

Down-leveling after the fact is a punitive act. My guess is the years of experience thing was just an excuse for some business initiative to cut costs or was a personal attack on the OP.
I mean, it's easy to grow when you're selling dollars for $0.90. That's all Uber have ever done, and I find it astonishing that they haven't gone broke yet.
Curious why you decided to go for GraphQL instead of something like Cloud Events spec (https://cloudevents.io)
Look at the chart with electricity distributed amongst the other categories. It's 41% for agriculture and industrial.

Another 29% comes from transportation; this isn't broken this out between personal and commercial vehicles, but presumably you could attribute a significant amount of this to industrial rather than personal use.
I totally agree, I'm just debunking the year of the Linux Desktop hype. This has been sad so many times, and still not happening. Just as it's not happening this year.

This is from personal experience because I was very excited about SteamCMD. But after trying to run some dedicated servers (for some sim-racing titles), I still got win32 binaries and had to run them thru Wine. Switched back to Windows because the performance was noticeable worse.

Again, it's fine for casuals but for the average PC gamer a big no no.
That was true initially, but I believe more recent versions have removed (or at least renamed/moved) that toggle so you are prompted about everything you download now.
Thanks for your effort too then! Good work!

Extra well wishes if you work on the general kernel improvements or KDE tech, that stuff has made my life more enjoyable for close to 20 years or so.
Do you think the women involved are giving informed consent then?

Edit: Oh hang on, the actual women involved agree with me https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/woman-deceived-by-spy-...
"Buying Weed in the Korean Demilitarized Zone"
> If you’re anti-car you also need to be pro-city-shack for yourself.

Many people would like to live in a city but can't afford it because even a multi-bedroom "shack" is incredibly expensive. You're basically suggesting that those folks need to suffer in order to validate their (totally legitimate) desire for better transit and more affordable housing?
Also what is a "marginalized group"? Who gets to decide that - is there a list somewhere?
> There is no runtime

C has a runtime, it's called the CRT (C Runtime).

http://www.vishalchovatiya.com/crt-run-time-before-starting-...

It's quite small, but it's there.
What exactly is wrong with Lego making a line of products for children who prefer to play with the characters than build complex models? Particularly when it was based on extensive research rather than just prejudice.
it's an idiom that's confusing because of how "have ... and" can imply both a sequence of events and simultaneous events.

You can either eat your cake or have your cake. You cannot eat your cake, and then also have it too.

More on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and...
These tools have unchecked power..... now that it's not just government, imagine a corrupt police force too....
Actually defund the police means exactly what it says. The proposal is that police budgets get diverted to mental health and rehabilitation programs.

The budget moved to mental health & rehab would be handled under a different agency than the police, which is something that is constantly argued over. Many opponents of defund the police agree with the overall budget reallocation, but they believe the budget should not change agencies.

What opponents need to understand about the movement is that police would have less to do, as many emergency calls would be handled by actual professionals. So if they still need their mini tanks, assault weapons, and SWAT gear, they can still make a case based on their newly lightened responsibilities.
Why Windows isn't ready for Arm developers
Can you elaborate on your excitement? Your username seems to imply enjoyment of, interest in these complexities while your statement seems to indicate excitement that others are not getting exposed to these complexities. There is benefit to yourself (and the technically literate) because you/they can truly understand and change something versus be stymied (so, "employable").
I don't think it's the case yet..the unemployment rate is under 5%. What jobs do you think could be eliminated?
> One way I'm trying to make sense of is the following: The left is used to being the underdog, the ones fighting for reform against powerful, conservative institutions.

This isn't necessarily true. The Democrats in the US had a near stranglehold on Federal politics from the 1950s through the mid-1990s. The Republican ascendence in the 1990s came about in part because Democrat-oriented institutions; e.g., large blue-chip companies, labor unions, and the Federal government itself were viewed as inefficient and corrupt by a portion of the voting population.

> But we're in a situation where there are pockets of real power occupied by left-leaning leadership. University campuses. Some parts of the media. Large cities.

This also isn't necessarily true. Democratic sympathies != left-leaning. And the actual truth is that, going on voting records alone, people in the US mainly vote based on whether they live in more or less densely populated regions. The institutions you've mentioned are all Democrat-leaning because they are predominantly located in more urban areas. Which makes sense, since the policies that Democrats generally support are all more effective at higher population densities.
We had an office near an Amazon office. I interviewed a lot of people trying to leave Amazon. I don’t ask candidate’s compensation, but a lot of them volunteered it anyway. I was always surprised at how effectively low their comp was in the first few years due to the vesting schedule. The internet is adamant that everyone with FAANG jobs is rolling in TC, but there are a lot of people out there who are getting into FAANG companies (especially Amazon) at lower compensations with the hopes of moving up to those higher levels.

OTOH, the backloaded vesting system works. It was easy to hire people out of their first year at Amazon, but almost impossible to hire someone after a few years when the bulk of their vesting was right around the corner. I talked to a lot of people who admitted being miserable but felt they couldn’t leave until they got the equity that they had been toiling over for the past few years.

Weird situation all around. We eventually reduced our recruiting out of that particular Amazon office because so many of the people coming out of it were deeply disgruntled with the tech industry in general. Really changed my view of Amazon.
>the vast majority of our taxes go to roads.

I guarantee you this is not true. At least it's not true if you look at the totality of property taxes. If your city spends all of its money on roads it's because it's left things like police, fire, schools, and so on to county level government.
Javascript is also average. But Typescript is definitely an above-average language. Much better than Python, especially when you consider the insane performance compared to Python and the fact that it can run in the web.
And still not version 1.0
After 15 years, I’m finally ready to launch our SaaS product (2018)
You can buy subscriptions outside of the App Store and still use the app.
It doesn't have to be extreme poverty to trigger economic migration. How many here relocated to a different country because they were paid a ridiculously high (compared to their home country standard) salary vs. a comfortable salary at home?
>> Apple could completely pull out of the Netherlands and wouldn’t even feel the affect.

>Except they cannot[...]

>[...] they can stop _selling_ in the Netherlands

I don't get it. Aren't you agreeing with the parent poster?
After reading this, and downvote me because maybe I'm old or something, but I read this and it sounded like someone who thought very highly of themselves, has limited work experience, has limited experience in technology but expects the company to work around their needs. Naively this individual decided (rightly or wrongly) that after 5 months he couldn't possibly learn anything from working at a company like this and bounced.

Point they said this: "This practice suggests that perhaps the company is scaling faster than resources safely allow."

If you do any research at all about Shopify their growth over the last two years has been unreal - their whole operation has been scaling rapidly - infrastructure, people and HR. Of course some of their systems are overly stressed. What does scaling faster than resources "safely" allow even mean?
> https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/uber-squeaks-tiny-adjusted...

This suggests that on GAAP metrics, they lost $1.28 a share. Doesn't sound like they're making money.
Recently it switched to running via Proton if you had Steam Play enabled (and broke completely for me). Solution is/was to disable Steam Play and it will use native version.
Does the character assassination not bother you? Next they'll come for someone you like.
Does windows still try to configure outlook if you click mailto links? i feel like webmail has ruined mailto
Calling me "extremely ignorant" for pointing a very well-known fact that experts inside and outside of China agree upon sounds like you're taking this personally, or maybe you are a Chinese nationalist. In any case, enjoy some assessments by people qualified to speak about the Chinese military's inexperience, haven't seen combat since the 1979. It includes opinions by retired Chinese generals, in case you think you know more than them.

A direct quote:

"I am retiring soon. My one big regret is that I never had a chance to fight in a war," Gen. He said, according to Aaron Connelly, director of the Southeast Asia Project at the Lowy Institute.

Though it's strange to regret peace, He correctly identified what the Academy of Military Science of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army previously told Business Insider was the Chinese military's biggest weakness: inexperience."

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3111922/chi...

https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/11/chinas-military-has-no-com...

https://www.businessinsider.com/retiring-chinese-general-rev...
https://archive.is/t4sFT
> never would have hired him for that role.

Reading between the lines, and having been involved in tech hiring for junior - low-level senior roles, my guess is that they were open to his being at the level of a more senior role than his experience suggested, but his interview performance suggested he really was a more mid-level candidate, like you'd expect from his experience.

It is exceedingly rare that recruiting will give feedback on anything at all subjective; if the true reasoning is "your interviewing reflected your observed years of experience which puts you at mid-level" then the feedback to the candidate is going to be about their years of experience, not the interview performance.
Here in Canada, many of those same voices are now begging the Ottawa police to take on a _more_ violent and confrontational approach in response to the ongoing protest. The hypocrisy is absolutely surreal to me.
Please keep nationalistic flamebait out of your posts to HN. There are plenty of people all over the US who don't like that style either. A lot of them are on HN for that matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah looking at OP linkedin it seems that he might be more of "regular dev" or "midlevel dev" than a senior.

Bad part was they interviewed and hired him as a senior and then downgraded.
There's no way that "informed" consent can be the legal standard here. Just think about the quagmire that would result from trying that.

Not everything that is immoral should be illegal.
Brilliantly explained.

Too few people have the humility to look like a loser, and would rather work a bad job instead.

To add on the condescending tone of fox news, the whole hypocrisy of the backlash was quite surprising to me. To me it really felt like it was an attempt to shut down the sub by elaborate astro turfing (the mods did say there was a lot of new accounts brigading).

I felt a lot of empathy for Doreen, and how she was mocked on air. The fact that a whole community disliked her because she was a dog walker or did not look presentable was so ridiculous to me.

I think she handled it pretty well, she did not get angry, she did not care about the tone of that tv guy.

The subreddit is still there. Nothing really happened. There are still people renegotiating their salary and quitting their jobs.
Tymshare's Changes to the Project Genie SDS-940 OS: A Historical Review
If you see the interview with Doreen, it seems like she is actually in favour of what the author refers to as the new movement. What stands out to me is that she says that the movement is to reduce the work that people are forced to do, that they still want to put in effort and labour but not in a position where they feel trapped. This seems to contrast what the author says was the original purpose of the subreddit; to abolish work.
I no longer think that the JVM is a resource hog. In fact I implied that it was an archaic mindset by suggesting that someone who thinks so has been decades in the industry.

That said, many Java applications themselves are resource hogs. Even my preferred IDE, the Jetbrains suite which I love, are resource hogs. Perhaps I'm simply not configuring it properly, but arguably I wouldn't ask an end user to tune JVM parameters any more than I would ask a car buyer today to set his timing or tune his mixture.
Honestly I've had a period earlier in life where I had some opportunities for traveling and didn't take it because I'm cheap and traveling alone blows, but touring other countries and continents is still on my bucket list. And countries like Albania are easily overlooked due to low media exposure, stereotyping, and former-soviet-union things.

But Albania, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary should be really nice places to visit. I don't know about Serbia or Bosnia/Herzegovina, I only know anything about that from media coverage during the 90's.
CBC Radio's excellent lampoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A
I guess I have built over half a dozen MAME cabs. Having kids was a great excuse to build them. All of my daughters kick ass at "Joust" and were born decades after its heyday.

For me, I finally got to enjoy games like "Robotron" that I sucked so bad at I couldn't, at the time, justify spending a quarter on about a minute of game-play.

MAME allowed me to discover games (I guess mainly Japanese ones?, "Guwange" is an example) I had never experienced in the arcade. I had also missed "Metal Slug" series, happy to discover these games in MAME.

With MAME I rediscovered games I had only briefly seen in the arcades before they were gone: "Tail Gunner", "Omega Race".

I also tried games with MAME I would have passed over in the arcade like "Golden Tee Golf". Really enjoy that one (you need a track ball though!).

MAME did sort of ruin "pay-to-continue" games like "1941". But I sort of hate those games now anyway for having a "pay-to-continue" model.
Lego City is also a good line for more modern basics.

What I love is heir move to creating adult oriented sets which are much more complicated and intricate. I seems the article was complaining instructions are getting more complex but that is only true in their larger sets. They still have like you mention all the classic sets too.
I dont think it's unreasonable. Like any standard, it's imperfect, and shouldn't be followed mindlessly. But it has some basis in reality, in that most people get better at their job the longer they do it, and few people get worse.

I think we should be aware of the fact that we're reading an accounting of the story from one viewpoint, and hiring/levelling decisions are usually not shared in depth with people who don't need to know. And most people are bad at judging how well they did on interviews.

Saying they didn't have enough years of experience may have been the way the recruiter decided to share interviewers' feedback that they seemed inexperienced.

Or maybe it was a negotiating tactic, and the company expected the candidate to push back.

Or maybe it's a simplistic metric the company put in place to cope with their rapid growth over the past 2 years.

We can only speculate.
> Once self driving cars are a reality, they have a strong position to be dominant.

Everyone presumes this but it may not actually be true. I used to work with perhaps the most preeminent tech journalist covering Uber/Lyft/self-driving cars, and he would always point out that even if self-driving cars became a thing, would Uber now have to own a massive fleet of cars?
> I'm not saying experience doesn't matter at all, just saying that it's a poor marker for seniority.

In many contexts seniority is literally defined as years of service. I take your point to mean that experience isn't everything, and that there are many people with less experience than others but with more talent or skill, but I think there is a reasonable expectation that a senior developer (in terms of years served) ought to have certain qualities that one cannot expect in someone with far fewer years of experience, regardless of how intelligent/skilled/talented they might be.

Wisdom is one quality that takes years to arrive at. In a developer, wisdom is the quality that leads to questions like, "Yes, we could do that...but should we?" It's the lived experience of writing enough code that never got used to be able to call YAGNI. It's knowing when to be cautious about adopting new technology, because of all those times someone picked the wrong new thing that they still had to maintain five years later.
Shopify: The Entrepreneur's Platform
I think in both of these cases, and in the case of the Cap Hill Autonomous Zone (No we mean Cap Hill Occupied Protest actually!) the shift in rhetoric is not so much from the new people joining, but from the movement getting a reality check and embarrassing itself, then scaling back its ambitions.

Edit: The analogue on the right (but not as clean I guess) would be the attempt to reframe the Jan 6 protests after that utter "embarrassment." They wanted to overturn the election but now the right is spinning hard to reframe the rhetoric. Basically your radicals work hard building a groundswell and excitement around some idea, eventually embarrass themselves, and you have to do damage control. That's modern day national politics.
Counterpoint: The picture you linked doesn't look at all like a 'reasonable balance' to me, but more like they just slapped some paint on the crossing and called it a day.

In the Netherlands, there would in general be physical separation between cycling and car infrastructure. Examples: https://publicaties.rekenkamer.amsterdam.nl/fietsvriendelijk... https://jorrevannieuwenhuyze.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/scr... https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5717/23592200220_ae52835ed4_o...

Even in cases without physical separation, there would still be separate cycling lanes, so that cyclists do not have to share a lane with much faster and larger motor vehicles. Examples: https://gratistheorie.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fietsstr... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Fi...

Are there roads with no separate cycling infrastructure? Certainly, but the urban landscape tends to be designed such that motor traffic is discouraged from using such roads.

In contrast, the picture you linked looks frankly horrid for cyclists, by Dutch standards. The road looks to be busy with both cars and buses, but there doesn't appear to be any substantial cycling infrastructure present, except for a singular buffer.

In general, many Dutch people (including myself) would be terrified of cycling on London's roads.
If I need to call Rails services and methods from ERB, then it isn't frontend :)

It's comparative to hiring a front-end and putting them to work on .php files. It's so far back in the past, that it becomes degrading, and you start feeling regression in front-end skills.
Personally I think quitting something that is amazing in so many ways but doesn't fulfil your front end needs after only 5m is something you may come to regret.

Did you ask for a change of team / change of work focus? Did you bring up your issues with a manager? If you were on my team and an attrition risk due to not working in the tech you were hired for I'd have made sure that was changed.

Five months is just about enough time to find your feet in a large org's codebase, I think having exposure to the Rails side is to your benefit, and given a bit more time you could have worked to resolve the other gripes. Shopify is a huge, profitable organization, with many, many, many opportunities for developers to do their best work. I find it hard to believe there isn't something fascinating there for anyone who likes writing code.

Good luck in whatever you are doing now though, sounds like you have the talent for doing whatever you wish which is a great place to be in.

FWIW I do not work for Shopify.
I see a lot of comments mention getting family will solve some problems. I agree. It is like distractions, to keep you busy and away from those unhealthy thoughts.

Maybe I will have to accept that I will never find the answer for all of this.
> this is what I don't get. Why would anyone in their right mind use a language ecosystem where each major version upgrade breaks their code?

Great so let's just leave all of the legacy terribleness in it. Let's not address all the quirks and horribleness that sounded like a good idea at the time. Let's not let the language evolve.

For the longest PHP was really great with backwards compatibility, refused to address issues in the name of backwards compatibility. So it became the butt of the jokes it is today.

As you can imagine, I'm on the other end. Providing backwards compatibility is kept for a relatively long time, I don't think it's unreasonable to break changes with a good system (i.e. major version upgrades). In such cases, I welcome it.