skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a great job. Great pay, stock grants that are still going up, good work/life balance, and co-workers who were friends, co-workers who wanted me on their teams. I'd spearheaded an initiative which ultimately failed but had earned me a good reputation.

I went on a medication with a side effect of anger. I was told that at the beginning, I was told that there were other drugs I could use instead. I dismissed the concern, I'd be fine.

I got cocky. I got complacent. I convinced myself that the company needed me and would never dare replace me. I started to get a really bad attitude - openly sneered at projects that I didn't think could succeeded. I was probably right but I didn't help anyone by my griping.

I lost the job. Technically I was 'laid off' but it was that or simply get fired. I lost friends with my unpleasant attitude. I made statements that made me cringe with embarrassment now.

I'm doing fine currently, and am on a new medication. I'm making less though that I would have at my old job, and if I'd stayed there I'd be a lot less worried about my future. They held on to experienced engineers and for some people it was their last job before retiring.

I could blame the medicine entirely, but the truth is I'm still an arrogant asshole and I still fall into the trap of believing I'm irreplaceable and can get away with whatever I want.

I wish I'd changed medications. I wish that I'd listen to people who tried to help, who told me that there were teams that didn't want to work with me. I'd be in a lot better place.
> Google+ as an example

It's probably a better example of a service that never got off the ground.

Twitter and FB could survive for decades just on the their current cash positions alone.
That seems like a stretch? Isn’t the more obvious explanation that laptops with a real GPU are much more expensive and that the weaker, integrated GPUs are more than good enough for the vast majority of business use?

Today’s iGPUs are fast enough comfortable run plenty of games.

I have work provided high-end POS Dell Precision engineering laptop. It has an Nvidia discrete GPU, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually needed its power, and I’d gladly trade it for a laptop without…
I have often wondered if there is like a secret Stupid Manager Tricks indoctrination session that happens when someone is promoted. Perfectly reasonable people, upon org chart elevation, will suddenly think that they can make FTEs appear for nothing by screaming about multitasking hard enough.
> Every time something like this happens, on such a scale, makes you wonder, how can so many people fall for this?

The same way that people keep falling for the same sorts of conspiracy theories over the years.

Add to that, the fear of missing out, and you can extra marvelous quantities of wealth from suckers. Several industries use FOMO to manipulate people into purchasing things that they probably shouldn't - like cars, MLMs and real estate (sample: "buy now, or forever be priced out of the market!"). After having been screwed (too many times!) previously by FOMO, I have an extremely adverse over-reaction to it: I have to walk away before I get angry.
Well I mean c'mon... are you seriously trying to suggest that every job takes the same level of skill as every other job? There are people who don't want to spend years of their lives working math problems to get to the point where they can become highly specialized and are happy being "low skilled" because they get more time to themselves.
I can make a very specific case for it. Out of 1.5+ billion users, millions of which are barely tech-literate and vulnerable, with gmail a constant target for malicious entities. That means intuitively at least hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people getting cleaned out of their life savings. Changing things for billions in exchange for a marginal benefit to thousands is bizarre.

It's not a 'gish gallop' but a framework for looking at the issue. I'm not saying that empathy is sometimes bad, I'm saying that it can't be the starting point for our reasoning. It can be the impetus that makes us act, but the actual solution should come first. Sure, maybe none of the things I'm proposing will be implemented. Maybe they're all godawful ideas, but I can't fix the problem in the five minutes it took to write the post or even five decades of intense research on my own. But it's clear that keeping to that pseudo-empathy performative martyrdom mindset is an active roadblock against the more ambitious solutions. And it leads to truly awful ideas such as getting rid of encryption, rights, and so on.
I am working at finn.auto. We are using Nocodb extensively and are a big contributor to the project. We have a lot of open tech positions and some of our engineers focus on contributing to Noco directly. Check out https://www.finn.auto/careers

Let me know if you are interested and I can tell you more or put you in touch with our team working on this.
the risks here aren't any different from those with using the wordpress or ghost apis for a blog. or using any third party api for anything
A yubikey would be as useless in this article's specific case, as the problem is losing valuable things (eg, phones). A yubikey is no different.

It too would be lost.
A corporation is a capitalist device that consumes raw resources, turns them into something else of value, and earns profit for doing so - or at least promises to. It doesn’t have feelings or care about anyone or anything other than earning profit. Anything else that you see is just a means to an end, period.
I haven't read the Blink yet. I will try to read it in the near future. Thanks for mentioning it.
> I remember there being a CD that when ripped would intentionally damage/destroy the speakers with some type of frequency sweep or noise.

I don’t remember this one. I tried to find it but Google is littered with CD recommendations to “break in” speakers because “break” is a synonym for “destroy”.

Do you happen to recall which CD this was?
In general, business types seem to think that all requirements are flexible. Granted, there can be benefits to that thinking but they apply it to laws and physics too.
Doesn't seem like they agreed on the same legal meaning, so pretty much smoke and mirrors change.

https://noyb.eu/en/new-us-executive-order-unlikely-satisfy-e...
I’m not sure why I’m supposed to find some vignettes juxtaposing racism with drug prohibition persuasive. That doesn’t establish causation.

You can hear similar conversations openly in many parts of the world, especially Asia. Those countries often also tend to have harsh drug laws. But the two things are uncorrelated, given that those countries don’t have a significant domestic population of minorities that would justify drug prohibition as a pretext for cracking down on minorities.

The irony of all this is that recreational drug use is “Stuff White People Like.” Around the world, other than certain traditional plants, social acceptability and legalization of drug use is disproportionately something practiced in societies run by white people. Reading Donald Harris’s remarks about Kamala Harris impugning the dignity of Jamaicans by attempting to associate them with marijuana use is instructive.
I haven't done this in quite awhile, but I used to do what you were describing at a local Goodwill; I'd find a CD for a band I had never heard of (or had only a passing knowledge of), give it a listen in my car for a few days. The CD would only be a buck or two, so I figured that if I like even two of the songs then I'm ahead of the iTunes price. This is why I'm big Pink Floyd fan now; I had passively heard of Dark Side of the Moon, and when I saw the CD going for a buck at Goodwill I figured it was worth a listen.

Sadly, I more or less stopped doing this the second that I got a Spotify account.
Not regretting more things earlier. Regrets can be a terrific tool for growth. I posted about it while back.

https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/regrets-a-powerful-plann...
I verify that this is true at the time of posting. In previous volunteer work at a non-profit run by university students, the organization assigned a free Gmail account to each executive. Each year, we ran into a problem where the executives would change, and we needed to transfer the Gmail account to the new person.

Problems would happen when the new person tried to log in to the account. Since the login was from an unrecognized device and an unrecognized IP address, security was tightened. Even after inputting the correct password and entering the right backup email, it was mandatory to enter an SMS message from the phone number tied to the account, even after various troubleshooting and attempted workarounds. That meant getting ahold of the previous executive, who may be busy or changed their number.

You could argue that Gmails weren't meant to be used this way, which is fair; the goal of this comment is just to provide additional evidence that the description provided by the parent comment is true. (In the end, we went for a low-cost, reliable email service to fix the issue in the long-term. We also found that registered non-profits are eligible for free Google Workspace or Microsoft Outlook email plans subject to certain eligibility conditions, though we did not have a need of becoming an officially registered non-profit at the time.)
Even if you manage to hide your tracks digitally on the chains, you still have millions of dollars you have to get out of a KYC off-ramp. You could possibly setup some sort of web service that offers something for crypto, but you'd have to believably falsify tons of customers and what you sold them. Again, this is assuming you've managed to perfectly hide the digital tracks and there's not an aggregated clear migration of the flow between the stolen funds and amounts ending in your account. Shady art and real estate deals are used in "real life", so maybe you could have some sort of NFT or metaverse thing going on. It'd be very difficult to pull off even over a long period of time, and you'd have a lot of people from all walks of life watching those funds, waiting for you to make a single mistake.
Fire all the managers
Cashing it out all at once , yeah, other wise is not too bad, you could use online casinos, coin mixers, fake businesses, NFTs, etc...
A few years ago, my daughter got a turntable for Christmas and I started taking her to record stores. While I was there I realized that I too liked physical media, but vinyl just wasn't my thing. I did have a hundred or so CDs in the attic. Maybe it was time to see if they were still any good?

Turns out, CDs are pretty durable. Even though my attic gets crazy hot in the Texas summer, none of the CDs (some 35 years old!) failed. Next thing I needed was to buy a CD player (again). I was somewhat surprised by how few companies are still making players, but I got an Onkyo unit that I'm happy with.

Now I have a pretty great sounding setup and I have little booklets to examine while I listen. Browsing the collection for something to play is fun.

I'm back to buying CDs and it's actually a great time to be buying this stuff. New and used is cheaper than ever (lots of stuff is the same price it was 30 years ago) and so much stuff is available online and off. I love going to Waterloo Records in Austin and flipping through the stacks to buy a couple titles from my list and probably another title or too because I liked the artwork on the case or the guy at the counter recommended something.

I also bought a small bookshelf system for my desk because popping in a disk then having some music for maybe an hour then having to get up to change it works well for me. If I'm streaming from Spotify I end up working for too long, often unproductively. Taking a break every hour or so and shifting my attention (take the dog outside, make some tea, change the CD, then back to work!) seems to help my problem solving skills. I look at it as a healthier version of a cigarette break.

The only problem I've had with my disks is that a couple of them seem to not be balanced perfectly and they make a bit of mechanical noise in the player as they spin.
Derek from Veritasium had a pretty good video on becoming an expert in anything and I didn't see age as a blocking factor. I'd say go for it! Also check out the video here, it's worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eW6Eagr9XA
>but claiming Twitter or Facebook will be shut down any time soon is laughable.

He didn't say "anytime soon", you added that part.
(I work at Notion)

The public API is extremely important to the future of Notion. We maintain date-versioned backwards compatibility similarly to Stripe.

When it comes to your content, you can export your entire Notion workspace (or just the part of it that’s your CMS) as Markdown/CSV or semantic HTML, including all your uploaded assets and files. The HTML export is read to host as-is or post-process with BeautifulSoup, etc.
Anything you setup yourself you can bypass if you really want to, even drunk.

Either get her to shitcan your emails on her end or put a passcode/lock on your phone that is too difficult to do when drunk.
This is different because mastodon.technology will keep operating until December 1st. This leaves them plenty of time to organize a move by discussing it on the platform like they always have.

They might move to different Mastodon instances (via the built-in migration system) or find a new network, but they are not getting killed with no way to find each other afterwards.
It's obviously working if you say so. No point in questioning it.

We have all the ingredinents for a post-scarcity world but you still have people starving, no access to clean water, no healthcare, heck a large amount of people are experiencing the modern version of slavery, but yeah! Isn't capitalism wonderful? And working!
My point wasn't about the issue, but the timing of any issue.
Email may be a societal need, but Gmail === Email. They're one email provider in a sea of providers. There are dozens to hundreds of free email provider choices out there.

One doesn't need Gmail to have a functioning email address.
It certainly could be both! And I get what you mean, I always feel weird if I say something like that because it's not exactly what I mean but it's the best way I know to articulate it.

I'm sure every FAANG has dead weight, but I've always had the impression that in part due to the compensation the best of the industry tend to gravitate there. That certainly may have changed in the last decade when I think that idea got solidified in my mind.
In practice SMS or mobile specific applications seem to be the only usable option. Some sites do allow email.
nah i actually stated a random hazy example off the top of my head, assuming the right did it, as its the kind of shit the right tried to pull in the 90s.
Please, calm down! Don't call me a liar.

I don't need to prove my anti-racist bona fides to you or anyone else.

As should be obvious from my comment, I am very much against the so-called war on drugs, and thinks it's awful in many ways, including in racist ways. However, I also don't think it would have gotten the support it did in early days unless many people, even the majority of people involved, had not felt that they were actually addressing a real problem with the sale and use of drugs. In addition, I don't think it's helpful to describe it in terms that put everybody into one of two buckets, where the only two choices are "be okay with any and all drugs" and "racist."

That drug policy in the US is horrifically racist, and has been since even before the so-called "war on drugs" began is clear. But the way out is not to pretend that the only basis for the policy from anyone, ever, is racism.

If you want to feel morally superior enough to call people you don't know on the internet liars, then go ahead. But you will probably fail to convince anyone not already convinced.
Just chiming in to say how proud I am of you, as I’m went and still going though something similar. Its scary and hard and you get burned a lot but I wouldn’t trade the friends I made and the relationships I’ve invested in since becoming more in touch and open, including my family, are my absolute proudest accomplishments

I am of the opinion that people who have gone though this are more empathetic caring people
It sounds like the only actual advantage is 'you get to keep the same account'?

That doesn't seem like something most people are going to care about.
Whether you can successfully switch career is up to you and how you define "career".

I think the most underestimated "hard part" of mastering something new is that the path to mastery often looks like one failure after another. A long string of incompetence that makes one appear like a cargo-culting dilettante who keeps trying even as it appears they aren't getting anywhere. This is hard for folks to take, especially later in their careers. One has to have a thick skin to get through it.
The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th
>No the device auth prompts are completely independent of mobile number, you don't even need a Sim card.

Sorry, I don't understand, I believed that the independence from the SIM for an app was for an app already installed and authenticated on the specific device.

If you lose the smartphone (with the app), and the SIM, how can you install the app and be authenticated on another device?

I mean short of a SMS or a code via e-mail (both not receivable/accessible).

>Giving homeless people a secure and convenient place to stash documents would be a great outcome. Birth certificate, military discharge papers, licences, 2FA codes. Many homeless people live in cars and have all this stashed somewhere in the car, but then the car gets stolen/towed (e.g. because they haven't paid car registration) and then they're sleeping rough, without docs.

A sort of luggage deposit, you mean?
As I want to scream at the top of my lungs every time this kind of junk gets posted, the true and accurate headline would be post-pended with “…claims a single study that has not been replicated”.
I took one step:

1) Don't use anything Google.
I wonder if for groups up to a certain size, every client could hold all of the data for the group. I think clients do this anyway for caching purposes, but it would mean that as long as any client still had the data, the room wouldn't vanish.

It doesn't scale so well, but if there were an easy ability to (say) plug in an S3 bucket URL for offloading older media, then it might work for quite a while.
that day will come after i've saved more time than it takes to move to a different cms. it's possible i already have
it's never had an option to make "-e" do the obviously natural behaviour,,

This is harder than it sounds! :) There's arguably not a natural behavior for shell, because $? is overloaded in Unix. It can mean success/failure or it can mean true/false/error.

https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/error-handling.h...

Oil introduces some new idioms that led you distinguish between the two paradigms, so it's best to change the way you write scripts. It's not something bash can magically fix.

https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/idioms.html#erro...

That said, just running your scripts with Oil will flag problems, acting like a ShellCheck at runtime, catching things that ShellCheck can't.

See the sibling reply for a demo, and this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117337
Characterizing the early 00s right after 9/11 as a time of unity is not right. It was also a time of massive hatred and bigotry against Muslims and liberals.
There are a lot of people in congress who had opinions on the Korean War WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING.

It's a geriatrics home. No one over the age of 70 should be allowed in elected office.

And if you want to make some nebulous argument about wisdom with age, a younger elected official can have an older, wiser, ex-politician as an adviser. But ultimately the important decisions are the younger politician's call.
You gotta keep trying. Also could be you’re in the midst of a social circle that isn’t empathetic or just doesn’t click. I had to move and explore until I found people I connected with
That was the point. You should not treat humans like you treat machines but this happens all the time.
You can set a backup email address for Google accounts if they're using Google email addresses, but you can't do this if they're using non-Google email addresses as the primary address, such as the one in that link.

I'm logged in to such an account right now and there's no way to do this. The account primary email is also set as the recovery email address and there's no way to add another.

It's actually deceptive to the user to even call it a recovery email address in this case, since Google will never offer to alternatively send a verification code there if the 2FA device is unavailable.
> Let’s use Google+ as an example. It did shut down and still not all wounds have healed yet

Despite (and in contrast to) the absolute massive marketing effort that Google put into Google+ right from launch, it never achieved mainstream success as anything other than an OAuth login tool. That doesn't mean nobody used it, but it was always niche.

It's not a proper comparison for Twitter or Facebook, which grew organically and are both mainstream successes as social networks.
Ha I don't understand enough to understand what's happening.
This has been ironically known to happen on government property as well, where you might expect more desire to preserve historic property. Instead of fixing them, they may just be left to deteriorate until they can be razed and something more modern built on the site.
These days I regret not throwing things away sooner. Most long term possessions are just clutter.
Mastodon was created using the Ruby on Rails framework. Your able to quickly write applications at the cost of overhead from all the moving parts and the Ruby language in general (Though in recent years ruby has improved with the introduction of JIT into it's codebase).
"Human component", "human resource", and "replaceable cogs in the machine" sound the same to me.
He means no shortcuts for master anything. It takes time, 2000 or 3000 hours or any numbers. People tends to find a shortcut for anything, fox example, buying crypto to get rich quick. I agree that 10000 hours rule is a myth.
And let's not act like Twitter isn't full of those to this day...
Sounds insignificant compared to some of the things I'm reading here but I regret not participating in sports as much as I should have when I was in school.

Think it would have had a huge affect on my social skills, fitness and overall mental and physical health
Nothing wrong with what he did. It was a political thing.