skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Things you say probably fall into a few categories.

-- "So and so is toxic." Maybe they are. But this is the last sort of thing I'm going to get into during an exit interview because this is the sort of thing that could actually come back to bite you.

-- "The company has gotten so big and bureaucratic/isn't doing well/etc." Don't you think they probably know?

-- "I don't agree with the strategy any longer." Well, this might be a data point for some higher up you know well over a beer or whatever but probably isn't going to help anything in an exit interview.
I didn't say that they are bringing "more value".

They know they provide value and that their fees can be higher.

If you think that the value of their service is too low - then you will leave. If you leave. - then they'll have to address it. Original Etsy sellers have the leverage.
Do flat earthers destabilize people's model or reality?

> Our primitive brain solution to this destabilization is raising our voice and going into fight mode.

I find this reaction interesting because I can't see how it will help. Like are we going to intimidate, harm or kill people who disagree? I can't see how any of this would accomplish the goal of getting the person to agree, so maybe I'm missing what the goal originally was in an evolutionary context.
Yeah, like part of the reason Taiwan, say, is so much cheaper, is that wages are lower across the board.

Canada? Switzerland? Germany? Yes they pay a lot worse for some jobs (software developer, and, more relevantly, doctor) but ordinary fully-loaded employee costs aren't that different from the US. Admittedly, the countries more comparable to the US tend to be more in the 60-70%-of-US-spending range, than on the lower end.

That does mean that even allowing a generous premium over the most-comparable peers, we should be able to cut total healthcare spending 20% while covering everyone and removing a major drag from our economy, and a major factor reducing overall US QoL. As it is, we're struggling (and largely failing) to even keep cost increases to merely the inflation rate.
>It all makes sense if you start from a cynical assumption that the real point of most political activism is exclusively to acquire political capital, then spend it on acquiring power, rather than fixing the issue.

I suspect that's the case. I mean at least Huey Long got things done for his constituents while lining his pockets. It seems today's political class just want to line their pockets and ignore their constituents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long
Yep.
15 years later, still messed up.
Not with delusions, but with the constant fear of being in that state again. The descent (is it the correct translation?) was more than particularly rough.
I was kinda anxious before, but after it's been a constant hell of anxiety/depression/stress, avoiding anything that can trigger these feelings (yeah, I'm looking at you, sugar).

So be extreeemely careful with this.
I work at a 10'000+ acre private nature reserve. I maintain and upgrade our hiking and ski trail network, all of our equipment, vehicles, a dozen rental cottages and a whole bunch of campsites.

Debating between going back to my bio school background via probably bioinformatics but for now really like working outside with my hands. Starting to build custom furniture and repair equipment on the side.

Cant imagine doing one type of job for more than handful of years, at least for now.
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> Why can't you build a business around selling "industrial-scale" artsy/customizable stuff?

That's essentially what old-school furniture & home stores do. There's nothing wrong with that but I think that market is already at capacity, competition is fierce and margins are low.

I also suspect that a lot of the industrial-scale producers & copycats use the artisans as their R&D department and only copy their successful designs. In this case, the innovation still comes from the small-scale independent sellers, which if they are driven off the platform would eventually kill off the industrial-scale sellers and copycats as they'd no longer have anything to copy (and designing in-house might make them unprofitable).
Then if you really want them to change, you should try to become one of those powerful people... Not leave, and give up all power you have over them, is my point.
Protection from disruptions by political and/or environmental factors are primary goals of agriculture policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy#Objectives...
Yeah it makes no sense. The resize logic already exists in the OS for other purposes (e.g. when changing screen resolutions), plus it was not a problem in Windows 10.

Now I wonder how big of a mess the Windows shell codebase is...
>> The easier path is "How do we accept death?"

These discussions are not mutually exclusive. We can accept death for ourselves, and also make effort in to studying and finding new data points for these serious diseases.
Sure. But if you want to succeed in space the first thing you need is drive, and BO doesn't seem to have any. Whether it fails or succeeds it's not going to make any difference to Bezos and I think that the people who will win this kind of thing are the ones for whom it does make a difference.

Sub-orbital launches are simply not useful, and a new type of engine only makes sense if it gives you a shorter path to the finish or a capability that you otherwise would not have. As for the military depending on them: SpaceX has been awarded a whole pile of contracts and the only thing that BO has going for it is to be able to ride the gravy train without delivering anything so far except for some research that may one day be useful.

Instead of competing in the marketplace it seems BO is better at playing politics and competing in the courts, but the latter they've lost and the politicians will sooner or later want deliverables and without those the gravy train will sooner or later roll to a halt. Note that the engine program is now 4 years behind schedule and not a single BE-4 has flown. Even BO admits that the engine has problems, which makes me wonder if it will ever fly with the present design, and if they have to go back to the drawing board you can add a couple of years more worth of delays.

Meanwhile, SpaceX launches a payload to orbit on average every 8 days for 2022 (once every 12 days in 2021), the amount of experience they are gaining alone is going to add up to a sizeable barrier.
Definately agree. Two years ago, the death of a close friend lead me to try psilocybin as a means gaining a different perspective / coping with the loss. I don't think my scale was calibrated properly and ended up taking a fairly large dose. I wasn't at all prepared for the come up, where my body felt like it was overheating and I kept drinking chugging water feeling as though I was going to pass out. It scared the hell out of me. Luckily, I was able to call my friend who was experienced with this type of stuff and he guided me through it. If it wasn't for him, I definitely would've freaked out and done something stupid. The experience scared me that I wouldn't touch the stuff outside of micro doses.

Seprately to the point above, I eventually noticed that I could get really emotional on a micro-dose and would feel suicidal. I once did a micro-dose before work in the morning that resulted in sending a very emotionally charged email to a coworker. Haven't touched the stuff since then.
That's certainly the intuition most people would have about this, but it's still interesting to see it borne out when in principle there could have been other, surprising signals that cats respond to in order to right themselves.
At the 28 sec mark, in the upper right one of the cats appears to be walking on the ceiling.
There is a process that goes like this:

1. You imagine, create or otherwise accept some explanation for things.

2. You start building identity facets on the myth from (1).

3. Based on your identity concepts, you start orienting yourself in social groups and to other people. You're a Bleen so you oppose Nerps. You're pro-Xlarg and you oppose the anti-Xlargs.

4. Someone refutes your myth from (1)

Now that person isn't just attacking some boring bit of data but they are attacking your core identity, both how you define yourself in isolation and how you define yourself in relation to others. If your Bleen identity is a sham, then you can't even be sure if other Bleens are your friends!

Thus most arguments have little to do with truth finding and much more to do with staking out identity statements.

We like these kinds of prebuilt identities (I support Xlarg, therefore I am a Bleen) because it removes danger. It's a resistance to feeling like an imposter. We attack others who may have doubts about this whole identity ("What if we've been wrong this whole time about Xlarg?") because to accept the doubters would undermine our own identity construct.

This also makes a given identity more exclusive over time. We make ourselves extremists because we want to be the most pure of the Bleens so nobody can doubt us. We attack other "imposters".

It's specifically those identity facet making points that become scary disagreement zones. No facts or logic will help you win.
Buttered Cat Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox
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I honestly don't have a reading recommendation but I just wanted to comment my mom also received a terminal diagnosis. She went on to live a number more fulfilling years and we made some fun memories in that time. I do genuinely hope things go as well as they can for you and your mum. <3
Vscode being free, I suppose the only real contenders are Sublime Text or JetBrains. Everything else either free or paid seem like a non option.
> Society benefits when the mercenary and competitive urges of high achievers are channeled rather than opposed. That's the secret behind the success of modern market economies...

Big statement, unsubstantiated.

> the alternatives are clearly worse for everyone in a society, including the poor.

Big statement, unsubstantiated.

> they channel the results of capitalism rather than opposing it

This perspective is conspicuously self-serving, but it doesn't seem to be a very clear or elucidating one. What parts of capitalism are being "channeled"? What outcomes are you referring to?

Certainly the poor don't see benefits except where the rich are forced to pay back into public funds for redistribution. It seems to me that the results of capitalism are tempered by more regulated economies, considering the natural end state of capitalist pursuit is feudalism if left unchecked. The profit motive guarantees this.

> that's the only approach that really brings prosperity to a society

This was the popular narrative for describing the failings of Soviet-style communism re: economy. But it stinks of essentialism. Actually, your whole argument does. The reason the CCCP crashed has been studied in more detail now that we have the benefit of hindsight. The rest of the global economy was capitalist, and furthermore, was shaped and organized by a select few power players to engineer the demise of CCCP by creating conditions of brittleness, so that relatively small disruptions (eg localized famines) would cause knock-on effects. There is a direct throughline to today: see all the talk of sanctions vs "the West's" enemies, which amounts to nothing more than exactly what is described above.

> One person's success does not prevent another person's success.

An unqualified notion of "success" seems to be used here. It is not clear even what you think is "success". Seems to be some abstract Enlightenment-style ideal that has a murky-at-best connection to material reality.

One person's consumption prevents another person's consumption because we are limited by the law of conservation of mass-energy. One must consume to innovate. Hoarding and asymmetric investment limit the distribution of these resources to those who may be able to utilize them more effectively, because they can contribute their own IP. This, in the language of basic economics, is called an opportunity cost, and the point of economies (insofar as there is a point) is to minimize that cost. Seems pretty obvious to me, interacting with people from varying levels of class and societal rank, that this cost is harming our progress.

To think we have reached any kind of pinnacle of societal organization demonstrates a depressing lack of imagination. Conservative philosophy has a long way to go to properly argue its side -- and unfortunately for conservatives the work done to advance systems science over the last couple decades has done a lot to tear down the fundamental tenets thereof.
NAFTA really destroyed the middle class and middle america.
I would love to listen to that call.

There’s nothing that makes me happier than the fearsome squealing noises that enterprise sales drones make when you drop the sales equivalent of a Paveway IV on their pitch.

My favourite one was running some software supply chain compliance software on itself and explaining how it was constructed on top of a CVE riddled garbage dump.
all feeds are recommendations systems, instagram, facebook, twitter, tiktok, youtube, every single one is a recommendation system.
You collect cell phone IMEIs and sell it to a data broker that aggregates multiple sources to pinpoint strong associations that lead back to a shopper's home. In return you get demographic data on your customers.
Wow, now that you mentioned it I won't be able to stop noticing it. I wonder what a better approach is? Some Youtube videos like 3blue1brown's content kind of have to be scripted, but you'd ideally still like the presentation to sound natural. Maybe they should have a script, rehearse it once, then do the real take without the script?
Oh wow- I’m a huge fan of Supabase and have loved using it in a few Sveltekit projects so far! I gotta ask- how straightforward would it be to power a collaborative code editor with this?

I have a YJS powered collaborative Svelte REPL I built using y-monaco and y-webrtc, all “serverless” on Vercel using CFWorkers to connect/verify users. Supabase already houses the private REPL loading/saving/sharing features. Native Supabase CRDTs could be perfect for the next version of the app!
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While that's true on an individual basis, I recently left a large company to join a FAANG and, as it turns out, so did quite a few other top performers shortly before me. By the time I left, there were definitely very senior folks asking questions about how to retain talent. I didn't even dislike the job - but the offers from FAANG were a good bit higher and came with some nice perks, so I'd actually think of going back if the message gets through that good technologists are worth paying for.
> Formulae are supported, but the cell (not column) must be set as the Formulae datatype

As long as it's not tedious to set a few thousand that sounds great.

> What are the other most common formulae that you use?

I mostly use SUM, COUNT and IF (if-then), along with functions to check if a string value is a valid number. Also string formatting of numbers and dates (for concatenating with text).

I've also used lookups, ie find the row matching this and extract the value from the given column in that row. Though I'm not super happy with the way Excel does that, surely some room for improvement.

> Perhaps instead of filtering, you'd like to see outliers or the range of values?

In addition. Sometimes I just want to view all the values matching X, other times I want to quickly see any outliers. Definitely ranges, especially for numbers (just larger than 0 for example, or between 5 and 10).

Sounds like a very interesting project, if you got a link I'd be interested in tracking progress. If not, I'd be happy if you did a Show HN when you're ready :)
Someone needs to tell him about option-click on the maximize button.

Most of these "rants" really just amount to: "this different OS doesn't work exactly the same way as the OS I am used to." That's why 3rd party utilities exist to give you the functionality you wish to have. That formula cuts both ways.
Hey! SSLPing creator here... I feel your pain, deeply, inside me at the moment!
Google -> Alphabet, then add in Microsoft, Tesla and NVIDIA.

MANTAMAN

https://streetsharks.fandom.com/wiki/Mantaman
I totally agree. We used to have so much self time when we were children, playing in our rooms, out in the woods, out on the street looking at random things or just watching people. Now kids can easily be trapped into never ever being alone; what a nightmare. People around me think that I am absolutely crazy for not giving my 11 year old a cell phone, but I can't think of a single valid reason he really needs one right now.
I love how you make a faulty assumption and then go on a huge rant disproving it as if that matters.
I like the idea of Terror Management Theory [0], where a disagreement may be taken by a person as an indirect threat to its life. While there were some experiments, I guess they should be taken with a grain of salt.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
All OS's should come standard with sophisticated windows management.

Then people on HN would complain that the OS makers are driving the small utility software shops out of business with walled gardens and regulatory capture, or whatever the buzzword of the week is.
You're conflating things like physical infrastructure and defense contracts with welfare. The welfare that we do give, for the most part, is exceptionally well run and effective.
Not that it's right or wrong, but the behavior dates back to the very first implementations of Mac OS and Windows. Mac OS has always been an application switching interface, and Windows has been a window switching interface. Takes getting used to the paradigm shift.
Anger is the emotion we feel when we've run out of rational options. People only get angry when others disagree with them if they don't feel like they can argue their side. They might feel like they can't argue their side for several reasons:

- They don't have an argument
- They don't believe the other person will listen to their argument
- They don't have time to argue
- They're tired and don't want to feel like it
- They don't know why they believe what they believe
- They know their idea is wrong

Some of the reasons above are rational, some are not. But you don't usually feel anger if you feel like you have a rational path forward. (i.e., you have an argument that you enjoy explaining to people that you believe will listen to).
Pretty reasonable write up to be honest. I think the window management thing is reasonable when you come from a background where that’s a given. There are some great third party window managers available, I use one of them and very happy with it. It’s called Magnet for those who are interested.
You're basically arguing for a monopoly now.

Let them fail.
I'm surprised by the reactions to your comment, because the first thing I thought was "obviously the very wealthy households, because of drugs present".
~%0.02 the speed of light. So less one in five thousandth the speed of light.
Before a cat (or any object) experiences free fall, they experience acceleration so they know which way gravity is pulling them. Surely, a cat can remember what happened to it in the last few seconds and instinctually put its feet in that direction?
> I'm more skeptical about how we can design something and then say that we conclusively discovered some new functionality without having tested it in the real thing.

I agree with you in principle but organ chips are a progress, at least because it takes in account things like 3D space, mechanical forces, fluids movements, signaling between cells, and they use real human cells.

The cheap and common alternative used in most biology papers is to used 2D static groups of immortalized cells (Cells that are not anymore human by any aspect) and pretend to have discover fundamental aspects of human biology.

In my opinion, organ chips are a good way to conceptualize, think about a problem and make experimentation. For example scientists can compare some aspects of a human lung with the behavior of the organ chip
That is the cost of doing business. Without the curation they risk losing their customer base. Why should I as a customer go to Etsy if it's filled with knockoff crap rather than handmade things?
I think I got you - a rising tide lifts all boats. And the same can be said about non-monetary values.
Absolutely his murders invalidate his manifesto. The ideas that he expressed in the manifesto are the same ideas that moved him to murder people. His opposition to technology is why he was bombing computer stores and the University of Utah Engineering Building.

This is why saying "but he's a murderer" isn't an ad hominem. His murders are the working-out of his ideas; his ideas are worth rejecting just on that basis.
…how?
I was thinking the same thing. They're still rotating the way they normally would. Toward the end of the video the orange cat floats "up" from the floor toward the ceiling and turns it self around to "land" on the ceiling feet first.
Last time I checked (a few months ago), Planner still could not be backed up. Like, at all. If someone went in and deleted a whole bucket you can't recover it, not natively, and not with third party. So that's a big fat no from me.
Typically they have their own website. Like I mentioned, I believe this specific developer has thrown in the towel but others are making competing products. Typically their website has a list of authorized resellers or sells them directly.
Can you explain why this is better than something like restic or even just rsync with an encrypted disk? Pretty awful website aside what makes this different?
Kids are brutal. Sorry.
OP here. I like this perspective, I never thought about it this way!
Just come up with a socially-acceptable, PR-reason for leaving. Probably whatever you told the new job in their interview: "I'm leaving because of the commute," or "not enough potential for advancement," or something. The goal should be for you to part on good terms, not to take a last shot at them, which will only make them hate you.
The dots connect differently than you suggest. Sure, maybe in a suburban area the farms turn to golf courses. Many small farms are scooped up by larger farms. Looks like almost 10% reduction in number of farms since '86 and the size of the large farms have increased.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/big-farms-are-getting-b...
130,000 /

Speed of light: 670,616,629mph

= 0.00019385144% the speed of light
I mean, you could have bought them. Tried them out while in the store, then returned them if they weren't to your liking. But I'll admit that might be more overhead than you were hoping for. But it would also be a great way to communicate to the store that their policies are bad. "I'd like to return these. Nothing really wrong, just don't like them. Oh, and I'd like to try...I mean buy these headphones. ... Actually, I'd like to return these please [etc, etc]
People believe the things they choose are part of their identity. Food, clothes, tools, opinions. When those things are criticised, it feels like an attack on the identity rather than the thing.
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I guess they'll catch up with Fleet but it's still in private beta and not for use yet.